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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1908-01-23, Page 30 CHAPTER I, "Pear your blushing honors meekly old fellow. You are the hero of tine hour." "Let 00 get away somewhere out of the crowd, away from everybody;" said the other man quietly, but with some impslienee in his particularly sweet and oeutle voice. "Not so easy in town on a May af- ternoon! Let us go to the pails; and there, if the sight of your baking fellow- .1!oaturos does not tempt you to join the solemn throng, w'e'll go and hide ourselves among the trees and moral - 'The park! That is just the place to .nl eet-everybody " "Then why not meet them all at once end get the ordeal over? Face the con- gratulations of your defeated rivals like u man,'; One would think you were ashamed of your victory." "So I am rather," "Ashamed of carrying oft the pret- tiest, wittiest, richest girl in London, the •only good-looking heiress that ever was Born, whom all the penniless bachelors 1 know worshipped from afr, and all those who were running through their own money looked upon as the hoped to: support of their declining years!" "That is just where it is; itisrather awkward to bo marrying a girl so much, better off than one's self. It is not as if I had expectations, or any ]nope of malting money myself some day. 1 ought to have been content to worship her from afar like the rest." "But, my dear fellow, she wouldn't • let you. You are unreasonable; you let strained sentiment carry you too far. Let us get into a hansom and argue tine pint." They both got into the hansom, and, 00 they were slowly driven in the block of vehicles of all kinds along crowded Piccadilly, the younger man continued hi argument: "1 look upon you as the one solitary (MO of merit rewarded, which restores ins faith in a discriminating Providence. The very first time Miss Edgecombe saw you, two months ago, on your return from India, she seemed pleased when some one told ler you admired her, and she asked me several questions about vont which shows that 01( inter- ested er- d fait sit ,s rt ested in you. Well, you 000 guess that the girl has been used to attention and admiration from every ratan she has met sine; she left the school room, and is a pretty shrewd judge of the merits of her admirers. And I never thought so highly of her judgment as I do now." lout then you are the most generous- Irenrted fellow in the world. Why you haven't married for yourself long before this is the most perplexing conundrum I ever ask myself." "I? 011, I never asked her! We've been chums—Doris and I; and I am her adviser and counselor in all matters of difficulty. Of course I give up my of- fice now to you; but it has been a great thing for her to have at nand a man on whose experience and discretion she could rely, surrounded as she is by a thing to do, if one gets n tete-a-tete The young fellow said tltis with all solemnity; but his friend interrupted hni with a laugh. That's rough on other flutterers, Charlie." "Other flutterers! I assure you I never flutter where Miss Edgecombe is concerned. I ani her Mentor, I tell you; her pilot among the quicksands of a cor- rupt and venal society; and, if it had not been for myinfluence exerted in your favor, 1V110 knows but she might have bestowed her hand, not to speak of her fortune, in quite a different guar - ter?" Charlie Papillon twirled his golden moustache with ferocity as he finished this menacing speech; but the other man laughed again. 'It is lucky for me I did not know before that my fate hong in your uu-• compromising lands. 1 should never have had the courage to propose." "But then it is so easy to propose , to an heiress. It .scents the natural giddy unwd of Idle flutterers." with her. She expects it, and is so well used to refusing offers that she knows how to dismiss one kindly with the least possible pain to one's feelings. I think Doris roust have refused 1111 the single men she knows except me." "Whey didn't you try? You would have had a better 0.111111(.0 than anybody" 1 should think." "Horsy could 1? I haven't any money, \Vhat could 1 have said to her? How. could 1 neatly disguise my willingness to share nine thousand a year and expecte. tions with 0 potty girl? :My heart and two hundred a year could have no pos- sible attraction for he'." "Take core—consider me feelings. Yoe are putting nay own case.? "Oh, no, that is quite a different thing! If Altos Edgecotnb lull accepted me of any •o of those other fellows—flut- terers; as you call theta—all the rest of us would have called out in chorus, What on earth can site See ill him'!' while now he all meta ,1 hor'� - 1 rally stop bulk and bow ourselves out, and make way quit,' cheerfully for 'old Glyn.' It is just the right man and the tight woman for once and everybody acknowledges it and says, "Bless you, my children!' 1 always felt myself tint a beneficent Providence had Something nice in stere for Loth of you, and Providence has fulfilled my highest hopes in giving you each other," Charlie Papillon spoke enthraratic- ally; but he was hardly overstating the case either ns regarded his own devo- tion to his two friends, or the estima- tion in which they were generally held. Iliss Edgeco011 was an exceptional wom- an, not only in the fact that she was young, wealthy, and handsonIe but in baring such well-balanced hind that, in spite of the flattery and hinnage, she had now for six or seven years been ac- customed to receive, she had lived to the age of twenty-four with head unturned and, so it was said, heart untouched, Even her best friends could not success. fully defend her from the charge of coldness; but, just in time to save our self from the confirmation of this re- proach, she -had encouraged the otter. toms and accepted the hand of David Olyn; and frienis.tuu! acquaintances agreed that she had chosen well, .David (Aye had passed the age of 30 without realizing any of the brilliant prophecies his _friends. had freely made concerning hint in his early youth. per- haps erhaps there had never been anypartic]dar ground for believing that these pro- phecies would bre realized. The exact foundation on which the esteem in which he was held was built it won})d have been difficult to discover, A hafdsome, high. spirited lad, with a generou§ disposition and sweet temper, he had occupied, even in his Eton days, a high position among his companions, independently of ids at. tainmetts either in study or in sport; which were respectable, but not extraor- dinary. A certain natural reserve, with which neither haughtiness nor sulkiness had anything to do, gave dim itv to;the sweetness of his disposition, tad.perhaps did more to 00eure the respect lit which he w110 hell than his more undeniable merits. The reputation of the boy be- et) 1110 that of the amu; he passed through life making fete enemies and many friends; drifting from the army to the bor, from the bar to a clerkship in a Calcutta bank, from the bank to a Government office in London alwarys stc ads, always reserved, always looked up to us it good mann as well as a good fellow, Ilis.lundsome figure and beau- tiful, grave -face had always attracted great deal of attention from wo!,cn of all ranks and ages, and, together with the fact that he rather avoided their society, had caused him to be 1101 sought lifter by them. The dinI4 10 this wide•'nreadadmiration, of Which bo had 11.0...o. w' bees in the ]test vain, was the in,erest he excited in beautiful 11105 Erigeombe. who frankly eneouagcd bid 80400400944460806044,004 Girlhood and Scoff's Emxci'siopu are 41linked together. 0 0 The girl tato takes Scoff's Enna-, 0 atoll has plenty of rich, red blood; she is I, Io d attentions; without any coquetry, from the first evening of his introduction to her—when site had boos prepared to rc ceive hint graciously—by _Charlie Papil- lon, who mingled with enthusiastic praises of his friend a glowing account of the impression her beauty had node upon hint. After that, it had been plain: sailing for Glyn, and in At fete weeks; obicther 11t hio initiative or hers neither quite knew, he had proposed and been ,it (men accepted. The person who rejoiced the most de- monstratively over this happy consum- mation was Charlie Papillon, who con- sidered that lie was the prime. 100000 fn the matter, and took a more than pa- ternal interest in sot11 the ypling'peoplo.' lie felt quite as much exoitenlent over their love affair as be did over any of his own, which ;were many and varied, ranging from the purely Platonic through all the degrees of light•comedy flirtation, sentimental Interest, serious at-taeluuent, and hopeless pinssinn.- Ile %vile very good 111 111! tilt the last, 10001 lvhicli; in : the ('000)0 of a fete (lays, either" the '>hopelessnes:ir or tire" pesefon would inVarinbby' drop out, 3lothei'slonll chaperons feared him; but unattached oil ladies and matrons without daughtetts to marry petted and tried to convert him, For 1'harlie was an infidel and a heretic "or many points of social and moral ortho- doxy, 0 blue-eyed cynic, a golden -haired philosopher, ''0 most dangerous man, my learn quite an improper companion for young people!'; But there w11', no hand in Charlie, ex- cept that his desperately ineligible caress- ing white hand and affectionate blue eyes would cone in the way of most excellent hatches between pretty girls and nen with big red hands and uninteresting faces, and fortunes' which made poor Charlie's two hundred' a year seen' n poor pittance indeed. But when mar- riage mala a grip in the circle of his loves, Papillon replaced the defaulting fair one 'by another, or he entered the bride afresh on the register' of his heart ipnder the heading "Platonic," and 1111 went -011 ns happily ns over, No 1'us• band seriously feared him, moi' had any husband serious reason to do so; thought ptrluips, had the master of the horse always dcuovn'whntit much more spon- taneous purtaneous smile his wife had for the sunny faced guest than for his less unvaryingly sweet self, he would have wished that young gentleman bark at the office where' ho placed his valuable services, for six placid hours e0ch city, at the lis• posnl of an unexacting government. Papillon wens not a drone, though ht rather encouraged the thought that he was; he lilted to think that lie war quietly husbanding his strength to do great things in that "semi dray" which was to bring 11011 his opportunity. In the meantime mere wailing had its con- solations, and at five -and -twenty he could still afford to let things slide for awhile. To be able to debate each afternoon or vening with himself on which of half a dozen ,pleasant places he should shed the light of his presence, with the certainty that at any one of them he would he warmly welcomed, was in itself it thing to mance life worth living. What he would be at forty 11e did not ask himself, nor did anyone else cohkider; at twenty- five ,he was a social sunbeam, which of itself was not a bad destiny, He had been a small boy at Eton when David Glyn was in the 'sixth form; but they had scarcely 'met since until the return of the, latter from India, since when ,the old ,boyhood acquaint- ance had 000010 friendship, and Papillon had hoisted this friend on to a pinnacle and worshipped hint sung his praises with great enthusiasm. The two men got out of the hansom et Hyde Park corner, and strolled through the gates together. Papillon liked the people, Glyn liked the trees. ]tut the philosopher, the cynic, had an idea that the influence of trees was bad, unless you were with a girl—girls having the power ,to charm away all noxious influences that even' tllreateaed his seren- ity. So he.Iiuked his arnrin>his friend's and, keeping„fhe thoughtstof the latter diverted by a flow of brig - tatter, led hien into the stream of well (essed men and variously dressed women;.:: t throng the m the 110118011. 'Cli' ' h park � had got to tine end of the path whe•ee crowd 111)0 thinnest, when n gentleman w11000 dress proclaimed that he was net'a Lon - dater no' cane up to Glyn and greeted him very warmly. "1 found out your address, nod was coating to call upon you this afte`¢noou," said he. "I met Barrett last night, and b0, gold 100 you had 'conte book from indin and wee• going to be married. So, as 1 min going back to Yorkshire in a day 1,1. two, 1 thought I oust find yon out and give you my good wishes fist. I wish you joy, Glyn!" "Yon (know who tic lady is?" "Oh, I can guess, of coarse! 11 Can only the ohne Which one asked (,lye, in surprise.' "Why, Mrs. Hodson, of • coti(se! I didn't even know her husband was dead; Int I know yon are not the sort to change. owl, its soon.as I heard you were goo„ to be. •nmrt•!ed, 1 guessed who the he mysteriously, ally arts" said v You a.ro wean,;, though," said David, ni umg."Mr, Hodson is olive and in ca} good health; 1111 cyan if 'lies. ll. 1 on VaiIre 11 widow and wnlhn ! to have le, which Is supposing good. deal, 1 on't think 1 could quite reconcile myself 0 becoming the property •of a lady so loch:older than myself. Why, !n a year r two I night have proposed myself as son fn-brw 011, well T beg your pardon!" said the country gentleman,, rather, discon- certed. "Of course I didn't know. When 1 knew you there at llinlruond two eats ago, you seemed -to be always at the house, and people talked, and, until young Taunton turned up there, you seemed to be generally about, and—.13u'. oh, 1 beg 30111) pardon! Er—who is the lady, then °' • Miss Ed tromp, of: Ambleside, I wish • you were going to stay in town should like to introduce yon to her, She' is a great'dell younger and hnui;,soinCr plump, active and energetic. The reason is that at a period when P. girl's digesi:ion is a','iak, a.. -off s Em gl sion op provides her with powerful nourishment in easily, digested form. dr• It is a food that builds and keeps up a__", ° girl's strerlgth. ALL ORUOGISTSI SOc. ANI) 131.00. 1t 0 a } thou the impossible bride you 1vanted to give ale"' "1'01 very glad to hear i!:" said the ptltei.m11m energetically. "Then 1 can con- gratulate you with a free' eons(nnce." Aml,.11fl,lr.a few more remarks, show- ing -mord -kindliness than tact he went on hie, way and left the young sten to• 310(1(0' . ('Intrlle Papillon did rot as usual break Ont at 1(0e into cheerful prattle, but raped for' Ins friend to speak first, Good fellow that—" • "In spite of the cut of his coat. Where (101 you pick hint up." "1' used to meet hint very often at Melon—mid before I went to India, at the Ilodaums'. lou know ]Hodson, the stock- broker, don't you?" "Yes. Gives very good dinners and rides very good horses, and—Do you like him?" "Not particularly but he has n very nice wife. I think people go more to the Lawns for the sake of his wines and his Wife than because they find any great attraction in }Jettison himself." Charlie glanced at his friend's calor face, but there w110 ne change 01 its somew•het languid expression; it was clear that the indifference in his voice was not n.swnned. "Yes. ifo(3001(s stolid enjoyment of his own -dinners is amusing at first; but it is a diversion which polls in course of time. I'm rather fond of Mrs. Hodson; she is the pleasantest spceinen of the mature coquette I know," "That is rather severe, Charlie. She is on awfully kindhearted woman, and I never saw any coquetry about her. She spoke of herself in the frankest manner as an old marled woman still young enough to enjoy the world." "Oh, I don't say anything against her manner; 1111(1 she is a charming woman, I admit at once!" "1 thick so, too, A little unrefined, perhaps, but so genial, so—so jolly. Then she is so ready to show kindness to any one who feels rather stranded, as it were, and badly off for relaxation or pleasure. For some time before I went to India, 1 got most of the enjoyment 1 had in life at the Ietwns. Instead of giving ala a stiff invitation now and then, am showing me that ryas de trop if made my appearance unexpectedly. she nb;olutely encouraged ale to conte w9iei 1. liked and stay as long as I liked, am do just as I liked. There is a sort o cosy-goilouess about 1110 1011010 house lydd, without any stiffness or any wan of order, that makes it quite the pleas tiniest I over was in in England" "I wonder whether itio quite as easy "Well, you had your beaux yens. And you admit you were not so often at the Lawns after Taunton's appearance there " "Have you seen anything of the Hod - sons since your return?" "Yes; i met 110(10011 in the Strand the oilier day, and hr asked me down to dance, and I went. It tray tiro seven- 1ce11i1 of lost month, I think." "Oh, he asked nue to 110 that; but I had another engagement! What sort of affair was if?" "The old style there—not too many people, rooms cool, capital supper. Ma - d:11110 was as charming as ever; but I scarcely spoke to hes )Hissed fay -two print little fronds, Nellie and Ethel— gone to school." "\\ as Miss Edgecombe there?" "No: it was before I even dared to hope Iliad an outside chance with her." "Why, I knew holt things were going (woo thee! Doris is above encouraging n nun; for her own amusement." "Tam save known her longer than I, you see. Besides, her striking beauty,' and her brilliant manner fairly, dazzled me; I cant express the effect she had on me in any other way. Se that I had neither judgment nor power of criticism Mime she was concerned." "1 can understand that. If she were not generally a little cold, we should all be off her hearts about her; when she wishes to please she is irresistible." "Co1d! I should not have called her cold ere be Continued( ECCENTRIC ALFRED NOBEL. How He Got New Pictures for His Walls, Alfred Nobel, whose memory receives its an anal revival in the award o4 his munificent prizes, had little personal knowledge of England, says the London Graphic. He disliked our climate and cooking—in all London he found only one hotel and one restaurant where din- ner w•ae to pussibilit and he qualified even this praise by describing their cuisine as "the least disagre0able" in England, I 'A disappointment thq, he never got I over was that he was' not sleeted a member of the Royal Society, while his lifelong weakness and nervous disposi• I tion and winter bronchitis made first f Paris and then San Remo his chosen • abode on his attainment of wealth. t Only twice did Nobel ever visit the • great high explosive factory which he established in Scotland. In Paris he - was to be keen daily huddled up in his rugs in his carriage, driving to his lab- oratory outside the city. He had an extraordinary knowledge of languages, a distrust of lawyers --he made his own will ---and when heart disease came upon him he wore a sphygmograph to trace the irregularities of his pulse. Tiring of the pictures on his walls one arranged with an art dealer to have his rooms hung with pictures on hire, re. turning them and receiving others in ex- change as often as he liked. He tools Out 120 patents in England, and the in- vention to which he attached most im- portance wee his artificial India rubber, of which few people have ever heard, because his dynamite speaks so loudly for itself, MODERN MEDICINES. 31going, for 111000 two little girls." "Nellie and !Ethel. One sees so little of (diem; they are always in the. school - 'room. Yet, even they add to the citip 1 of the place. They have such print, dei6`ure, pretty little manners, t 1111) one does see then, and have such 0 quaint, old-fash- ioned look, one wonders 101101 they will grow up into. By the bye, they were looking rather tall for their short frocks When 1 trent ,away; 1 suppose they uw0t be almost grown up by this tinier. "Oh, 110, they won't grow tip for a long time yet!" said Clarlie, dryly. "Pretty women's daughters develop very slowly." '"They ought not to 11000 to delay Hutch on that account," said Olpn, inugh• ably, "10 don't consider their mother such a very, pretty woman. If you catch her unprepared and she doesn't seem to mind being caught—site really isn't pretty at all." "Now, I don't agree with you. Ithink her Very pretty, especially in evening: dress," "But her taste in dies is atrocious; she likes barbaric colors," "Yes; but they don't look so ill on her as they would on another woman. And there are gleams of a better nature in her fondness for old lace 8101 Indian muslin. :1 woman who call afford to title herself down with old point and diau,"onds may pass muster ass well dress- ed, however fur astray her individual freaks of taste may sometimes carry bier "A very good defence, Charlie said Odyn, laughing again. "I1owever, one forgave her bad taste for the sake of her good od nature." "I believe lithe is awfully good-natured to yot;ng people at a los to know what to do 1(1111 th(ir time or their money. I know two pi three fellows she has been a nmthcriit 0," "Ye Het you cynical tongue carry you too 1':u', Cham}*, But I don't suppose ye,.tcan unclmwtand such a thing as to ieaolshi l with any woman without flit I ttiou.'' "\1' ell. we wcnl't discuss it; because to twain with, we should not define flir- tation in the sante way. 001 you ever meet 30nl1g Taunton at the Lawns." '"(lie young fellow whose losses on the Derby, made such a sensation last year? Fes he 111)11) 0110111 of Hodson's. 1� didn't care l IllilC'hb a out him, 1111(1 when he begun to corse I left off going there so much." :Un, he was very trill off 01011! : He Was a great favorite of Mrs. 1lodeon's, wasn't, 0? Ills just been through the uptoy Court" -Don't be unfair, Chanties You omit saw be was kind to nicome oceauso I was well off." No sane mother would wish herself treated under the conditions of medicine or surgery of half a century ago. Wiry then should she give her little one the old-fashioned medicines of half a Dar ttury ago, which more likely than not contain poisonous opiates that cannot cure 1110 child, but merely drugs it into temporary insensibility. Baby's Own Tablets is a m011000 medicine prepared with all the care and skill of modern medical science. And the mother who gives this medicine to her child has the 1111010rtee of a Government analyst that it docs not contain one particle of epi- = me o• poisonous soothing stuff. This medicine cures all the minor ailments of little ones, and makes baby 0 healthy, laughing, happy child. Sold by all medi- cine dealers or by nihil at 25 cents a box from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co„ Brockville, Ont. .►8 • THE CRAZE. • Some Facts About the Rise of the Picture Post -Card, Three or fear years ago all the facts about the p10tu0e post 0810 Inuuslry cuu.d bale been retuned (0 a leve Noris, la lack, 0e lar as we Uailal States are «00"0010,1 there was praotleatly 1(0 soma, (0 tell. '1'111(0 1a,U' have 01,11 uu�' anon eel hops 01 the 0.1- a1 0(0110(11 0101•,' p01 0(11 in .1.11(11 01 tela - tun( pact 080080 could 111(8 ,1 smolt .40(11 11.001 w01011 0 (00(1(0 noIoctlon. Originating In 1$nroe', 10000 cards 1100 1001151,0 11010 1 Pima, except 011 the Continent, where they 1)0(10 IL 501001(0(1(1 (0(100 Sal,' 00 1113(1)01111(0 s0uunuala, end this bad been the condition elixirs for 101010 1031 S. bad01lry, 00W- :0 over the tide turned, and, whom mauuf3(- lel 1 teed Labatt) 010(1 unable l0 00/11"00 of it '11 5111,0, ac"y now 100,10 It lay,00�11110 10 rupplY 1110 uon,nnd—.m ltuperath•e cry fu picture post -cards (0:0110 Irian «0000 0011 or the world, 10001 Asia to Africa, as 11 11 a '01)11710, 011110,0 01)011 millions 01 then) are monad v 000)110. hl New dein the aYa( LI lw Y o F , u ales 110 loin City slot. I1. post ala ,h n less than ono buam111 11101.,300 of (ha,o earth, every day, .1101 It is 1110 same story el (( (ro-in 120.1300, San t'rauclse0 New (Incur ruOabo •1(11_ 1111 Ib, other large chits Moreover, 0 1= 1101 m( 0110 United, States x110.0 17-t them: k,o"ditton6 extol. 10' Europe. 100, 1(11 tn. pastel servicos are (101- uall0 10111(03100 With post -cards. 1t is o1ilc- 10111' staled 17.11 110 last 11,111 lire hundred' 10111100 p.weod Wrau611 1110 0011:10 pest0 (100 111(11(11, 71(1;. a 'Hoe are s10perdeun figures, but --this is the point at 1(1111 the lma0111) 100 11110,! 1F 0(11 rend the nu,11001s, but 101 (1,1(101 comprehend 11001, - dust think of at' Ono hundred th0uean8 post (.nods a day—enough, in a. vo r, if tall picture side down, 10 e.c 1 York City o land fromNowy t n point some- Coast, between Salt bake City and the loelfm Coast, Five hundred million—so nanny that me 11110111 matte a belt of post was extend - (00 corupletely around the earth at the; 'x00010 Militia using 10010 than two -tout o7 of them,--Cxom "The Picture Rost,(jp by dohp R.' Meador, 110 The $oa000101 Inc 3paugtaP +3- the oyster will tat*:j in water ;Which contains less than parts of salt to every thousajb, PINK PILLS WILL CURE RHEUMATISM. Every Form of the Disease Yields to This Blood Building Remedy. II is easy to make the statement that ,t medicine will cure rheumatism, but the rheumatic sufferer nest have more than mere statements—he must have both reasons and proof. Dr. Williams Pink Pills cure all forms of rheumatism. Here is the reason: Rheumatism is a disease of the blood. Every dose of 1)r. Williams' fink fills actually make new, rich, red blood—This new blood drives out the poisonous acid, loosens the ach- ing joints, and rheumatism is banished. Thousands have testified to the truth of these statements, and here is further n fresh proof. Mr. Raoel Mo ttii g y, of St. Jerome, Que., .rays: "For ninny, years I was a victim of rheumatism and was almost a cripple. 31y work made it ne- cessary for me to be on fay feet a good bit of the day, but my limbs became so swollen and the pain so agonizing that I was forced to stop work, I tried rem• edy after remedy, but nothing gave 100 relief, and I begat to think I would never get better. At last 1 was per- suaded to try Dr. Williams' Pink fills. In less than a month I noted a slight change in my condition. I continued the ].'ills for three months and at 1110 end of this time the swelling had disappear- ed, every pain and ache had left me and I felt better in every way. I was con- pletely cured and once more able to go about my work with ease, Dr. li'illiarns' Pink fills are certainly worthy of all the praise I can give them" Thousands write giving just as strong proof of the value of Dr, Williams' Pink Pills—not only as a cure for rheuma- tism, but 05 a cure for all the ailments finding their root in bad blood, such as anaem!L;Cheart palpitation, indigestion, kidney trouble, headache and backache, disordergd neves, etc. Dr, Williams' Pink Pills are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a 110x or six boxes for $2.50 from the. Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. • ThE QUEEN VICTORIA .MEhiCP- IAL, LONDON. The wrought iron gates 1vhi'b forst Canada's contribution to the Queen VIa thrill Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London, and which were placed in position some time since, have 'now been practically completed. , -,?rte gilding, which 11110 taken some th14,I,I has added muck to rhe beauty of tbis'',i(esig11, and the appearance of the whole work is now most artistic. The memorial entbr�, cos, -an elaborate . scheme of decorative nrehltecture in the open' space in front of tlfe'Iiing's Lon- don residence. !'nus design 'consists of a semi -cheater terrace of stone,' relieved at the point at which it is interd0eted by roadways by pillars, upon which the names of the Dominions and colonies of the Empire are inscribed, ae;coriligng to , their share of the gift. In the centre of the space thus obtained a statue; of the late Queen, by Mr. T. ]3rock R. "A::,"will be erected. Another part of the memor- ial has been the continuation of theMall from the Duke of York's steps to Char- ing Cross immediately opposite the Can- adian Government offices-whiell wilt open up a magnificent thoroughfare from the Strand direct to the palace, -and the cutting of a road throhgh the Green Park from the Mall to 1'iccad110'. It is at this latter outlet at which the Cana- dian gates have been placed. The space in the memorial that is now occupied by masonry is laid out with grass plots and flower beds. Sir Aston Webb, 11. A., who designed Canada's gift, L, tinss describes ' es bit: The gates were made by the Bromsgrove Guild, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the work being' done entirely 111 England. On the centre gates the complete arms of Canada are designed. On the gates of either side the arms of Ontario, Qum- hoe, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick - ppea•; on the pedestrian gates those of Manitoba and Prince Edward island, The outer stone piers will carry two huge symbolical groups, by 31r. henry Pegram, A. R. A., which will shortly be fixed ! in position." 1 _. LISTENING TIMES. 'That we need above all things in these crowded Y n da s is the setting aI0ut of many listening tines times of quiet. 10311011 we eon hear the heavenly sones that Ball. to us..unregaubed in the busy day. ,God has something to ,stry, to us whipin, in the whirl of our 000101) ambi- tions, we carrot hear andsl-W1M,Sakes the noises of the outer world' to cease that Ile may a : to the soul. Some- times y speak tines Ile "tries us in the night." -inn'. tines. lie "given songs in the Melt." sometimes Ile gives us a 11_i0n nt their', night;" but all of these we will i teal v ` miss if there is no quiet time He cru cone very near to es. 'acre are many, ways of preparing to r, (els blessingfrom on high but on" of" th most essontal is' this. ( :0e awn' your 0,prthear't, and he sfill. Canadian winter sports ar' rbw in full $Vying; and wo are again re011(8 110 the .World that winter, so far from snowing us In, nuts n new vigor in our blood which sndit us out to tbo av !lust ocltoltlta of the veal'• Winter is our season for doing. (1111,01'to Canaria If we lnoe an(thele u,0'0(1n^. 50 hihernntio 1, le mc, ton t e ll nilly enough —In the summer when ala eln,keo nut of - forts, both in bu0oees and In piny, ll eek In a summer C1ls find In1c Tinier torpor, ll