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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1930-02-20, Page 6The quality of Salada is the only premium offered EA 'Fresh front the gardens' Wandering Minds no not read a word beyond this sen- tence unless you have a desire to h1• 010110es your power of coneentratlon, If you are going to read on, say to yourself right now, "I am going to hold my thoughts from all diverting Inthteecos while 1 read this article, 1 shall squeeze the last drop of mean- ing from every word. If the door slams, if some one cloves near me, still I shall whip my thoughts along the path of these, words." Now go back and read the first para- graph again—slowly, thoughtfully. You can attain a mastery of your mental processes, You ran gain the nower.te snap your mind to a subject and make it stay there. White light from the sun may be broken into the colors of the rainbow by passing it through a glass prism. The same sunshine, concentrated by a shaped glass, will set a lire to blaz- ing. Your thoughts, regulated by a wise will power, may turn to beauty unbe- lievable, or concentrated upon a rife Problem, tnay light the world with ideas and (110(10111. Are you following the thought of these sentences? Did your imagina- tion cause you to visualize a :rand holding a glass prism to a ray of light admitted to a darkened room? Tho person who las gone for years fixing habits of flighty thought of vague thought, of shallow thought, cannot expect to change overnight, The invalid does not expect to become a champion athlete in twenty-four hours. We know from physical ex• perienee that we must put in hard training for many months before we can bring our muscles to strength and co-ordination. Do you want to generate more near• ly your full brain power? Have you nerve plough to be a Hard taslcmas- ter with yourself. The first step toward concentration is desire. The amount of co centra• Hon you achieve depends entirely upon the strength and continuance of desire. If yor( are In earnest, ask your librarian for simple books on mind training talk occasionally to energe- tic, forward-looking friends, and calm- ly study yourself. Exercises such as follow will help you achieve concentration, 1. Each week read a non-fiction article in a high grade magazine. Read slowly, following last week's suggestions on permitting each word to "explode" its full meaning, 2. Attend a lecture or german each week. Work with your mind until you can listen from beginning to end with no slack in your attention. 3, Each day write an Interpretation of a difficult paragraph or sentence. For example: What Is meant by the saying, "Inattention is voluntary fee- ble-mindedness." Attractive Undies Chic Parisienne Chooses Her Undies With Greatest Pot'etho'tight for Slimness By ANNETTE 11'ha: a girl does when 0110 is par su d is usually around sixty." Worrying over past nlislak00 1)0v00 the fray to permanent failure. The Stcp on the Stairs By ISABEL OSTRANDER CHAPTER I. Professor Semyonov, the celebrated /110111101 wilose profound knowledge of toxicology had 1nmr0 than once been placed at the disposal of the author- ities in the solution 0f crime, tugged at his bushy white side -whiskers and gr.zed at Sergeant John Barry from the Hounicide Bureau. The professor's bend with its shock of white !lair nodded slowly and bis shrewd eyes twinkled. "You tell me that there is now cahro ess upon the waters? No crime of more importance than the average petty misdemeanor engages the atten- tion of your bureau? Is that why you have honored me tonight with an urexpeeted hut most welcome call, and in your civilian clothes?" "You've got me, Professor Semy- onov!" The detective laughen again frankly. "There's no crime wave threatening to break over us that 1 know of, but a rather 11111000 case has come to our attention al head- quarters" The roll of distant but approaching thunder broke in upon his words, "Wo are goi-g to have a storm." The professor rose from his chair and waddling over to the windows pulled IOWA the shades. 1Ie moved with astouishil,g rapidity and vigor. "I do not like to watch it approach; it tills ala with a sense of suspense, of foreboding, It is the electricity in the air, I suppose. You shall tell me all about your case, hut frst you must see my apartment. My lt.boratories are quite on the other side of the city, you k1 -ow, but here on this old square where the aristocracy of forgotten generations lived once upon a time I I lent ringing and pounding, find the absolutely different atmos- I "Perhaps we were mistaken," Barry pheru which brings relaxation," Barry followed his host through a spacious, old-fashioned dressing room and bath to the bedroom at the back. Here, too, the professor paused to pull down the shades and then opening a door at the right displayed a mod- ern. kitchenette. "This house, you perceive, must once have been a feroily mansion but it has now beer made over, an apart- ment to each floor," Professor Semy- onov explained. "A shop of hammer- ed brasses and other atrocities occu- pies the street level, a young gentle- man w::0111 I do not know has but late- ly arrived on the second floor. His apartment is larger, than mine, how- ever, for a1 extra room is built out over the strip of garden but the ex- tension ends on the flcor above his in a studio with a skylight. It is occu- pied, that third floor, by a woman who paints portraits, Mrs. McGrath tells me. "The fourth apartment, that direct- ly below aline here, houses a crotchety gentleman with no ear for music; he raps on his ceiling when I play my violin at unseasonable hours. "Above me in an attic studio lives one of the fee:nine freaks peculiar to the neighborhood in its declining years; a smocked, thin, wraith -like creature with bobbei hair and a pointed chin, She might be 20 or 40, ta,d it is understood that she writes fol the eccentric little 'magazines which spring up sporadidally here- a..out. So now, my dear sergeant, you are acquainted with 0113 home and its surroundings. What do-you'think of it?" Me chuckled as he led the way back to the living room and Barry followed, at a loss what to reply. The profes- sor was known on three continents, his scientific discoveries had made him rich; he knight have lived 10 solitary state in a house of his own, or occu- tied tho most expensive (achelor slightly advanced and a hand of start - apartment in town. Why had he cho-ding whiteness upon awhich a huge crackling upon their ears and both nun leaped to their feet and stood for the fraction of a second staring at each othcl. The professor's nervous (less had fallen from him and he spoke with the calmness of fatalism: "There was no lightning. That was not thunder, but a shot! Come!" The realizatzo'l of the truth had Floated the detective's consdeusneas even before his hoot voiced it and he eprang for the door. As ho flung it open, with the rotund .figure in the tattered dressing gown close at his heels, he heard unmistakably the sound of hurrying footsteps below and plunged for the head of the stairs. The narrow hall was but dimly !lighted and in the unnatural silence which followed the echo of the shot, their own feet as they clattered down !the matting -covered stairs drowned out the lesser sound which had come up to them. The hallw ly direct:y below w110 de- serted and the door leading into the apartine ,e was closed and blank. Professor Semyonov paused to ham- mer upon it but Barry hastened on downward, his eyes striving 'o pierce the gloom. Was that a fleeing figure below hint or just his own distorted shadow advancing before his 'reckless descent. On the third floor he halted, The door of this apartment also, which his host had told him was occupied by a -woman portrait painter, was closed, but from the 1110 of the sill streamed a peculiar, bright :ighl: like a beaus of sunshine. The professor cea0011 his fruitless efforts and rejoined his com- panion just as there came a• soft thud and then from the street level a vio- A slender step-in combination for your new frock of moulded waist and hipline, that will add to the effect of slenderness. The fitted brassiere has the import- ant scalloped outline to wear with frocks of deep V -neckline 01 with the c:Jiffon frock with deep yoked sheer- : oss. It can also be made with straight upper edge for sports wear, It just hugs 'the figure, shaped with deep point at front to keep the flat hipline. It opens at right sine. 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"It might have been a fracas out in the street—" The professor shook his head de- cidedly and then pointed to the line of light beneath the door before them. "Someone is in bene, at any rate. We will knock." Suiting his action to the word, he rapped smarts;, waited and rapped again, but there cane no response, only the steady glare of that garish light and the banging from the en- trance on the ground floor. Professor Semyonov shrugged and turned to descend still further, but the sergeant grasped his arm: "That's only someone who heard what we did—the officer on the beat, perhaps—and wants to investigate. Let hint wait. If ,,n;fthing is wrong in this house it is behind that door! I'm going to assume responsibility for breaking it in, professor. Stand back!" Tho door itself was a massive one but the lock evidently old and flimsy and at his third onslaught it snapped with such suddenness that he was al- most precipitated into the apartment. A single glance sufficed to show the outlines of dahitily carred furniture and cushions sgattercd about in pro- fusion by an obviously feminine hand, but the room wits empty and its only illumination was that strange ray of counterfeit sunlight which streamed through an opened door in the oppo. site wall, a door which led evidently to that studio built out over the strip of garden of which the professor had spoken. The still, heated air was heavy with a subtle, cloying perfmne but mingled with, it was a harsh, acrid odorthat was not new to the detective and he sprang across to the doorwoy of the studio and then paused. Facing him upon a large easel was the portraitof a woman in a gray evening gown poised on the third step of a staircase with one slippered foot son to hide himself away in such dingy, dreary quarters, "You seem to be mighty comfort- able, Professor Semyonov," The detec- tive spoke as heartily as he could and his host laughed outright. "That is the point!" he exclaimed, "I saw that you w01'0 surprised -when you came, but euy warts are simple and here, you see, I ani just a queer, old foreigner nailed Semyonov, who minces his business and goes his way in peace; I am not Professor Semy- onov, the chemist, to whose laborator- ies all the world comes, No one knows of my abode except a few like your- self to whom I have given my t.ddre00, and I an undisturbed, But now you must tell 111e about your case, Is it an affair of poisoning?" Before Sergeant Barry could reply another flash of lightning as keen as a knife thrust swept beneath the edges of the window shades and for an in- stant dulled the electric lights into an angry orange glow. Professor Semyonov started, then shrugged. "That was nearer, eh? I am as bad but just fallen from her hands." perhaps as a hysterical housemaid, but (To be continued,) does it not seen as though the very 1 atmosphere waited for the breaking of the storm?" "It is like the report of guns!" The professor pulled his worn, gorgeously- our kitchen; in the market, the street, hued dressing gown moue -closely he office, the 0,11001, the home, just as faithfully as 1f we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for nlanlclnd de- pended on our bravery, strength and skill, When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world. ISSUE No. emerald blazed rested' on the dark, polished wood of the balustrade. The painting was only half finished, but it was indicated in bread splashes of color and with the bold, sweeping lines of the cartoonist, which rendered the likeness unmistakable to anyone familiar with the lineaments of those in the city's highest society. All this Barry tock in with one darting glance and then his eyes traveled to the foot of the easel and what lay there. It was the huddled body of a woman with masses of tawny hair scarcely dishevelled by her fall and a spreading stain upon t e breast of her paint -daubed smock. Kneeling beside it he gently raised tie head, which rolled backward in his hands and the curiously lag, nar- roe, half -opened eyes stared up sad• denly into his with a dull, unwinking gaze. "Dead!" the professor announced beside him. "She was at work when the shot pierced her breast. See, her thumb is still thrust through the pal- ette and the maulstick and brush have Check Falling Hair with Minard's. • OUR DUTY Let us do our duty in our shop or about' him as he sank once more into his chair. I have heard then h1 my 00011 country many years before the late war and the memory of them is with me always, But let us forget the storm if we can. The case you men- tio ea„.is it murder?" "Frankly, 1 don't know," Barry re- sponded. "It is similar to that.Tudor affair at Sandy Cove last suuuner—" A puddep,, Phar), detopstiptt puxst Christie's Graham Wafers in the new one pound package, are famous for their crisp freshness. Delicious, nourishing — good for everybody. Also sold in bulk. ChriIie!sBiscuits its fze .itariclarlcl ofSea ty ee /8'53 TheVISHIPOOMOIMMIIMISIWIEWIWINEXCIMINIONEINIMINSEMIZEMI Thrift Habit lamp a moment before it was netsall¢, Thrift 1 Habit necessary. And besides the effect on one's' own mentality, it is important to create an Impression of thrift: impression of thrift: A wife mentioned to her husband. the care with which a certain young plan, a friend of the 8011 of the hicuse, always turned off every light when he left 1110 10001, -and how punctilious lied was fu the little tillage about his room' and the bathroom. Tho husband safdl nothing. But when the boy nasi graduated from college be asked hfnl to come into ifs business—In which he 10 now a partner. There are few acts of conduct se; small that they go unnoticed, There: are few so lowly and humble that the eyes of sante one are net upon them., It Is hard to believe this, but it Is 80,1 Just because the late Edward W. Bole picked up and tools home a stray potato, and because a friend didn't bother to save the strings from opened parcels, 311'. Bok is nolo successful, famous and well off financially, and the friend Is only a clerk in a depart. meat store. 0f course, Mr. Bok, who told the stay in Collier's, does not mean that the potato and the string actually determined may one's future. But. 11e insisted that the habit of thrift and economy in con- nection with the small affairs of early Life Is likely to lead m1 to fortune. He told another anecdote in this connec- tlon: An investment opportunity of the kind which conies only once in a life- time was recently offered to a man.. Ile went to a very close friend with whom things had not gone well, and said to hum: "You take this chance. It will ftx you and your family for the rest of your lives. I don't need it. I have saved, I am fixed. After a week the friend cane back, and said bewouldhave to let the chance pass him by. Me would give no explanation, and bo refused as- sistance. "No," 11e said. "It was coining to me. It is a lite -lesson that I must accept" What was back of it? Ile had not sufficient liquid funds or securities for a loan, and the banks did not con- sider his account sufficient to justify the venture. Thrift doesn't mean being penuri- ous or close, says Mr. Bolt; "but it does mean not to live up to an in• come, no matter how small that in - cone may be," As the former ell• for of the Ladies' Home Journal again turned to renlinfecence, When I' earned 50 cents per week, I saved five cents et it. It was toe principle that I respected; it was the habit that I formed. To -day I am just as careful to turn out an unnece0- km'y electric light, event in a hotel, ea I was in early days not to light the 'I've just spanked you because YOU' plc yed truant, Don't ever let it hap'. pe 1 again." "Aw, it didn't happen—I did it on �) purpose." A GRAND CATHEDRAL. Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divlsely pictured windows, Stand!II ittg without, you see no glory,. no' ea possibly imagine any; standing with• 10, every ray of light reveals a hart irony of unspeakable splendours. -4 Hawthorne. MInard's is Beat for Grippe, • eedless Pain • Some folks take pain for granted. They let a cold "run its course. They wait for their headaches to "wear o8.", If suffering from neuralgia or from neuritis, they rely on feeling better in the morning. Meantime, they suffer unnecessary pain. Unnecessary, because there is an antidote. Aspirin tablets always offer immediate relief from various aches and pains we once had to endure. 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