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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1932-09-22, Page 7• A child had Wenderediroin the,, se- curity of his mother's! potato patch, The' afternoon was 'a Silent infinity of shimmering heat, brut in the field beyond. the% garden the young grass had begun to : grow sweet again, Often hay -time, making a cool lawn ill the waste of -July. Nothing moved eon* the flat green face of the field except a few flicker- • ine butterflies •electric with. ••sunlight, odd straps of . turquoise and lemon,. tortoiseshell and ivory, soft and light as,flying. flowers. The child regarded thein with apathetic interest; • his eyes vainly 'hunting: them. Once he took off his broad: white sunhat and; • held •i'rpoised, but the s1 allow of 'it .had, scarcely,; fallen'. orf 1'14grLss before °' iitere •was a smocking flicker of yell'o'w' brilliance fat -away ainong:,the po- tato flowers He listlessly pint on hie.::,began to stale the whiteness of his'. "hit: againand • solemnlyadvanced sun -fiat e, did • not. notice it.' He across the field, his hands deep in the; -was drunk' with forbidden bliss. • . �pnrketseaftis-ini iiattr-e-trousers: -The: • , penes su denly that he came atnd the net head fallen ;into useless tangles •among the canes.. .There was; nothing to stop his progress into eeid'! less. ,raspberry. avenues. He walked at iyra't furtively 09.10.1*:to'ligteai,, but the garden was Silent: and safe and e0erted. ' 'Nothing but ' hiinsetf .Moved, and presentely he walked inose. boldy, rustling the' leaves ^cavelessly; awvit�hh., his eager Bluffs,. ` 11, the time he ate He ate as though in a race against time or light. At first he swallowed one.by,"Qne, bee - ries- that . were like .s:great enims.'g,,n thimbles filled, With blood: Tiring of their, 'very magnificence,' he • gathered smaller, ,sharper fruit . and ate it by 'handfuls, tossing back his head and, 'crimsoning"•his lips.. _ There came a: moment when the taste of even the •loveliest f ruit seem - Curiously dead., ?He paused and sighed; heavily and licke eehis lips, drunk wjth fruit It pcurred to ,hint to take, off his ;lief.' • Hebegan. to walk up ariTd dawn the avenues, filling it., There vas i tilt no sound or movement in the .gal en a w� cept' his . •owzi rustl[iigs , among the reeves:" The juice: of nano •r aspbereies sun hat, too large for him, .made him a - the ,end • of --an -avenue •.and -there. 'look like a ' little 'old man walking, ;coked . up. Heyoitd him stretched, an. • across a vast bowling green in Meditation. lawn; deserted and •poppy -sown. tation. The butteri'.ies seemed , xio ,He regarded it wjtI, the brazen lndif , , �. longer to interest •him.. It .visas too.. Clever Young Miss'-' Lastest Findings - . a Ian Science World. study Made ' of "Hunk es t Which Lead to Dl3cov -• eries--Trees; of New York • hot ,for him 'even? to watch them. " • At`the far':end of the fiestood 'a house, .half-lhidden' by ,a . forest of flowerless: lilacs, dim laurels, and clip- - -pethefruit-trees.—The fades yellow: :blzeds of the house , were drawn - against the sun, and 'the. doors stood Shut and blistering, giving it a de. aerted air; The gardeh'was a wilder- ness of treest and sweet brier, untidy hollyhocks with. shabby pink 'buttons • just unfolding, blood -bright poppies'. hint with noises of stentorian rage. ' that, had gown themselves • in thou- ,• The Child ,fled: He darted down an lands about the flower -beds and the avenue of canes with a wild terror in path and on• the front doorstep itself, 'his heart, scratching, himself and run The ,air • seemed sleepy with poppy _ills diii id[ ,._ Alt, the time `he was blazed like signals of danger. odor, butJihe`b�iil art scarlet`-1i_aeads conscious. of pura:uit by tee rename of As the child apoached the house hit. . -He . was.' terrorized. by cries rage and"threats-of an'nihilati'on, He •'he ' began. to talk with a4curiou's non, • d 'd: d •ht's `halt ,and r art mot -stay to--•prclr�•rt-upagaa•n, -. ferenee of reckless confidence: 1e plucked .a ,raspberry and ate it with lips,' as t'hough to defy the last dant gers of the :place.. He turned' to pluck another- and stopped. A pale object, like a'menac- ing • vision, had appeared !over the raspberry canes, behind him. It was. a p' anania hat. He gazed:at it:for one second with giddy .,astonishrne:nt. : It moved. His heart leapt. . A moment later the panama hat bore down upon ch _.., t comet 'n stumbled an rppe g 1 1 ...I • on a most distant horizon, and some- _• ---.-�-trine$she-appeared to -be searching its-- •, Out.. in the field hepaused,' breath. paused for' Be an '' atently for something-"inagonized moms tfto t. the grass or ' th'. sky.. The house might not have hind lam a' rota.. rage was burled existed.' The child'walked towards it like a cannon . shot from among the with perfect, aimless innocence: raspberries., Glancing back, he saw his white sun -hat picked up and • Nevertheless, Q that innocence was brandished angrily."Ile fled ' with SUS • icious for. h ' .: lke L in. keep . t �ghtenad=speea_acr-oss-the fiplri.. lineA'to a point where the, garden fence'The voice of the man pursued him: • had • ,•brakes, making a , gap large _Wee ar•.ed,not-• tan a hack,. HQ 'T. a�i .. H'ed ,g c, enough, for a dog to squeeze through with ' nnres':ing desperation until he under , cover of the lilacs and laurels. As .he approachedcould pause behind his ,mother's, fence gap. his'into an with securit;� again. another's, there ' eeece becanjie ang•`theie. He, steeped to. he could'' not' zest. Fie was trenibling pick a white clo'ierbloom. He, sniff :d and exhausted.. Finally hovv.e i er..he it languidly, plucked another and on Wok a lg breath, and with a great sniffed that also..-; He- wandered in long breetly strolled past the beautiful rings in the grass,'ostensib- efforttatoes,. and, by the raspberries• to - weresearching. All the time his eyes -yal ds the. "douse trying; to look :an-. were upon the house, wickedly furtive gelicalle •at the sky.' ' _ Laverne ;i3urden f ceutly Svc -year-old _piano wonder, of .Ohio xe niade her proud parents prouder still when she was requeste,.d zo. go tom, Chicago to have her playing. recorded. • • Interesting Facts It is not .generally known that the royal family of Great Brittain is not supported. by the nation. Meg George' oth�i•n out •of ublib 'taxation; fists, n g p . , , lie' is -not paid any salany. There are l..rge .'estates • in England which have belonged 'to the .Grown. for centuries.' From George III to. -,George V., 'in- clusive, the .yovereings on their as- on a kind of i'nrtinct or:. inspiration' . • - ._ . . pl _ . e - in ..was-to_he, . cession turned.over he. Drawn estates. o,.me complicated.- ; lay: tl►. g .w__ than.--on--cold-,-logi'ein-=seleCtin :•-the- , g. t. the nation' °in r turn for, a fixed.fo'ond under '"Wall Street,"," Explo- most promising of ' a series of Pas - annual payment called the "eicilo'list." signs," "D,isasters," "Bombs," or 'evert Bible synthetic compounds The The present king's civil, dist amounts . "Reds.." Finally ; they telephoned to man who seemed to...rely most. on to, .£470i000 and the'provisions for she home of the ;former archivist,'' re- launches wiote that.',at. 4 •,P..M; he, members,. of the royal family (which .ti -ed.,• placed the failures.of the day all, be-•' -661-tedes-125700b f-•oretheD:uke=o€-Y-eekl• "Where-•i-n_--the-name-of-the Villard ::fore. -1tim- and• looked---at-=them- "in-- b.ut nothing'foe the Prince of Wales) family," demanded a. frantic 'editor, dividually; collectively,'. ~ 'vigorously to -483;000 `in all --£553-000.: , Tl eesur .'did you file the clippings of ;the'Wall and- generously," Thus, a mental- .plc. •Plus revenue from"the�`Crow_ n estates Street, explosion?" Lure was.created that he' could .•not in the year ending March 31, 192 ,' '• "Ah," sal$' the"old gen"fleman, "leek. escape, ' >.......... -sun ,........ .i._ „ .'Witt 'pa.-. _..,�.. ._s. ...in ' . -. ea •:a..... , ,. ,... «,-e' - was £1,010,00, which was paid infq, in tli'e'T"e'tt M ca�met` YOU �cvill`find- •' The';Uealrcrs. d'o. not stem ;io"'con'. Front this the Brit[sli'Exche u_._, _ tu .enet. it •• under .`Mishaps'." -New York. fain' molecules; but rattier maggots creed -Mg wit -ore 'sum•;no. deductions w re made for ad- Morning; Telegraph, g they .will and out of. ministration. If King' George . had retained the .estates he would have hay. •a net revenue of £1,010,000, so actually he presen'ted.the nation that year,with :3457,000. Discovery of Hunches • The "hunch" or intuitiv.',e flank of, genius received its share of atten- tion at the recent meeting of the American Chemical Society at. pen- ver. A questionnaire sent to. 1,500 re-. search. Workers by . Professor Rose A. Baker, showed that inspiration is highly regarded, 'al'though a minority thought ;it useless, ,Dr:,Robert_ A. Milliken wait 'quoted •as .saying that Einstein's photoelet- "tris 'equation -the: one that is practi sally, applied', ` in designing the cele. "used, in television -sprang froom a mathematical hunch.Oni3,researcli- er ,`in electricity : `confessed that ,the solution of difficult probiems`+came:to hire, on°awakening from a- sounds slee tete 'refr@stied mind 'apparent. • ly' grasping what did not suggest it- :self"'rn 7ioiirs oP ii '` a;'; tion. . A Cornell "graduate announc- ed »to et genial coiripany.'his decision,' reached ,with his professor's 'con- sent,,- to give up ,a problem. .Then the solution flashed 'upon him. Seine of these cliew•ical :Rousseaus confessed'' that hunches. camewhile walking to work, healing,' bathing, dreaming • or relaxing afterdinner: Coffee and tobacco •• were considered ;an--a;ici to inns'ptr'ation; but :not : a-lco= holt Apparently, the organic, chemists were especially • given,to' hunches, their science being so incompletely theoretical that• they must, rely more New 'York Is Wearing 1-3 L ANN°EBELIt W'O'itTHINt TO 4--, tlzyairated Dressmaking' Lesson Fur niched With Every Pattern Mystery of. the Morgue Before the New York Evening Post 'moved' to West Street, it was. known as "the.• old, lady of Vesey Street" . _ ..;- fid- p .. er Everything was print and prop - about•it.' A' few yeees:ago', before the reorganization of the ' filing system, there was occasion in the office to nook hp. 'clippings' of the Wall Street ,explosion. The hunt immediately" be- and longingly alert. :It happened that as he came from He presently sidled sleepily towards l,ehind his mother's raspberry canes :the gap. In• his sleepiness he appear -she' herself .emerged Exon the house. ed• to be not only, innocent but blind: She was a wide, powerful woman, nevertheless, his 'eyes in one swift with a black, suspicious gaze. flicker' took in the sante emptiness of ;feeing her, .'t a stopped. That pause the field behind him and of the gar- den ahead, was fatal. She•.swooped down upon He vanished suddenly through the hedge with •a flash of white, like a rab- bit.. He crawled through the mass of ti ees and'brier on his hands and knees and finally emerged, into open sun M • light, blinking like a an stepping out of • a gloomy jungle:. There te-staggeredeto- hie, feet -and stopped: His eyes had lost their look of • suspiciously angelic innocence. They were filledwith caution and wonder, with guilt and pleasure. They gazed with a new unflickering inten- sity. Before the child stretched a plaza fttation' of raspberries, row after row • of green , and red luxuriance. Seeing thein he .had eyes for nothing else. He seemed for one, moment paralysedby the crimson .Inirden of the tall, thick panes. A't home, side by side with the potatoes, his mother also had plan- tation of raspberries, ripe, thick, and lovely as these. To the child, hoqwever,'the raspber- ries that.his bothdlr grew seemed sue- denly despicable. Moreover, she had forbidden him fearfully to touch then. The fruit before him was larger and more Iuscious than his mother's could ' ever be,and as he caught all at once the strong fragrance' of the fruit an! eaves'ir the .warn sun his mouth was tortured; • He plucked a raspberry: It melted, swiftly in his mouth like snow. • Once s• great fish -net had covered the plan- tation, but the stakes had totted away, hi :•t instantly fle remembered in that moment all 'the warnings she,. had given him about her raspberries: how reer.v 'tinieshad• she not warned him that if he lend a finger on them 'she v.onld flay him? She bore _down on him as' the Panama khat 'hal • borne down an him in the garden. lie wrig- glee --futilely to- escspe, but 'this trhne there was no escape. He made frantic signs of innocence. -'I'll learn you!" she .shouted. "I didn't --I never!" h'e moaned. • • . "Look at your piouth!" she cried. She seized him merciicssly. hits guilt was so vivid on his lips that she belabored him until her arm whipped Op and down like a threshing -flail. The child, as he howled his :inno- cence of a crime he had _never com- mitted, dismally observed across the field an approaching figure. -. It was signalling terrible threats with a white hate -John 0' London's Weekly. • • Y • The American refused to be !m pressed -by London. "Slow kind, o place," he declared to the English- man whO was showing hjnr round; "no hustle like there is in New York.' A minute later the visitor was haul ed on to the pavement as a fire escape 4ashedepast. "What's that?' he asked in a startled voice. "That,' said the Englishman, ';'was just th district windowcleaner working a bi late:` f e t Hay -Fever Relief "==Tile `hews' announced by"Dr: Tsabe'r' heck o1: Mount Sinal Hospital in the, Medical Journal and Record thee hair fever can be relieved at home• by means of ,a fclter which removes dust bacteria 'and pollen from 'the • air is hardly news at all. City hay fever suffeeers have . long• known that the best: place for them is an air -condi.: tinned notion picture, theatre. For the air supplied to the theatres is not only .cooled but washed and there - :fore treated with a' tlin-i.osghiiess_ beyond the powers • of the .much cruder. apparatus ' aescribed •by Dr. Beck, It must be admitted; how- ever, thatit would be asking too muoh of any hay foyer patient to sit forty-eight hours -even if programs were that long -while a Hollywood version of a .gang ter's -career flashes paston the screen. ', And, according to. Dr. Beck, marked relief is actual- ly a matter of fd.rty-eight hours. Although' •dragweed ellen is p 'main- ly ly,responsible • for hay fever, many_,. odorless flowers of weeds and grasses are to be shunned. Dr. Ivor Grif- fith of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy makes the point that the -pollens of . aromatic, flowers are too heavy and adhesive to cause hay fever. They must •be transported by bees and insects in, carrying out the process of cross-fertilization. .It is the wind-borne polies that is to be feared. He finds that by rubbing various•.pollens into scratches on the arm the .one to which the hay fever sufferer is peculiarly sensitive can readily be detected by the welt that it raises.' Alcohol solutions of this pollen in small doses ,confer a fair amount of 'immunity; ' • Logic . "I put hotter on the cat's feet as you suggested, but he's rvii away jest the seine." "What sort of butter did you use, mum2" , Da`As far as I can remember, it' was nish butter." "There you are --what can you ek- Peet? He's well on his way to Den- mark by now." MUTT. AND • JEFF-- By ' BUD FISHER 1 6OT YOU2 ORD SAva,f6 You HAD oee:h1ED UP A LITTLE STORE "SO BEitG `rein& BE'sT Ft2tetvio r't- GONNATOSS YOU SOME, leusneesse HO!u:. Much MaeEGGS? ptereee ADOZCt:1: • CR•RCKED GGTs$ ARE TWENTY celas hboWcN! ee-setCRACKCir GIGS ARE Ftee cemTS A boz N HeArid'•i2. ARE The: QUARTER EGS• of ..?Tel's, QVAu1TY', THE STEP LOWER ; Little Dot came home gushed with excite'inent. ' "Oh, • mummy," :she aid;--alrerly "there's_: a .: nye , ote 'in the town next week! ° Can:. I' go as..:a. milkmaid?' _... _,.... Mother shook her head',` "Nei my pet;" she replied; "you'are much -too •young for that." Dot looked• thoughtful.' • ' I know, mum,rr she said, after a Y, whileee'can I go' as a condensed milk- maid?„ . t • . His Gift- • A man who had not. been very good during his earthly life'died, and went below. As_ soon as he. reached the nether regions he began to give orders for changing the positions of 'the fur- naces and started • bossing the imps around. One of themreported to Sa- tan how the newcomer was behaving. "Here," said Satan to him, "you act as though you owned the place." • "Certainly/" said the man; • "my wife gave it to me while I' was on earth." • . • First Lodge Member: Lrooks as if you had been• dissipating. .Second Lodge Member: I didn't set to roost last night until' near- ly sunset. • A crotchety Yorkshire farmer had a dispute with his neighbor and went to his -solicitor about it. "Aw want thee td write -a letter," he said, "and tell 'rim that all this' nonsense 'as got• to stop." '-Very well," saki the stilic-1 tor, "and }what do you want me to say?" "Just tell 'im." replied the farmer, "that 'e's the blackest, low- downest, lyin'est, thievin' scoundrel on•earth, and then work it oop a bit until tha feels tha can' say summat really 'rude to 'Int." ,my control, he proceeded . td relate. "Then I go home. , By 11: 30M P., the, house is quiet ' and. I •,•hear only the sound of manhole coversT. as autoo m - biles pass over' theme1 . am rested, -rel'ged;... widee n ke see n influence. of coffee apd tobacco. The -picture ,stands: out, . tl .e _inaggots_hee come inolecules and I - have ,a basis for a new day's work." ' :The skeptics were . scathing In their` appraisal :of insbiration. "We Certainly would not. apply 'this method .In uying securities;:' argued one; ` quite forgetting' • that the, -public in general does buy on; hunches. To another, revelations or hunches were signs of an immature mental devel- opment. 7t_is hard to draw conclusions from •the varying experiences; But this one' seems justified: Hunches. inept_ rations,- revelations come only after deep concentration. The machinery of the mind . seems to' have been started to keep on working evett. when we have temporarily thrust the. problem aside.. When ,the solution comes 'a• message is flashed to the conscious mind . that it has been found. - - • 'Hbloie etia Yerk Get°t-S- rees __: _` A study recently . made by Dr: John S. Kimball of the New 'York Botani- cal Garden shows hoviw much we• owe to' the vast glacier that crept down from• the north millions of years ago and gouged out Bruch of Lake Cham- plain ,and the region , south. Not only -did the ice carry. scouring bold- ers ' from the • north, but .seeds' as well. New' York's vegetation, there- fore. •canis from the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. No • •tree, no soil could . withstand that relentless sheet of southward .moving ice. When it melted, 'theseeds from the north sprouted where they had settled in an exotic soil ready for new vegeta- tion. - • - • - "Southerly winds. 'as a result of the cool air front the glacier flowing into take the, places' of the' rising warm air southward and floods re- sulting groin . the lneltiirg• ice-t"Fdtit aft the edge of the glacier both' helped to push or carry the seeds cif trees further south, gradually extending their former ranges," Dr. Kimball re- ports. "The agencies -of migration Were also doubtless• . aided by the birds and mammals.. moving soothe ---Here's.--a-,cute--model with=alb-•the-;-- -� • ' - earmarks of 1Prench .chic '. yet is es.' simple and Smart and • is • practical as e e anytiny • girl. would wish .for., . • • •Light navy; blue wool, jersey made ' the original., ' '. -•--Iaa=,t-the-inset"--yore--.cutin-ing....;tt. is , vivid red jersey. The :circular skirt gives `smart em= ' phasis telithe brief bodice.. ` { t is 'as! simple as falling off a log'. to'4make itl • . .tyle No. 3302 n%a-y.- be -had- in -sizes - -- 2, '4,.6 'and .8, years. .Size 4requires' i% •.yards of 39-inelt-rnaterial, with` x'z yard' of 35 -inch contrasting.. • •A plaided •woolen: in .:yellow •and'"': 'brown with plain brown is fetching, Then =Haiti__ in . woof' chaThs_wit '. White pin dots .and'vieid red. contrast- t ing,• it's adorable. • • • IOW :TO' ORDER PATTERNS. • Write your .Hanle and address glair.- ly; giving,. number and size of such patterns as . ou want. Enclose 20c in s amps or 'coin (coin preferred; wrap it :carefully) ler . each number, and -"addre s your .order to -Wilson Pattern Service, 13 West Adelaide St:, Toronto.-. ward to .escape the advancing '• cool climate." Eventually many of '•these seeds reached --Florida 'and the Gulf States,` Sonde.' of them sprouted there and thrived. • • • As the glacier finally' receded and the' southward -moving agencies of dispersal diminished, the _plant, ',that had, been carried down from the far, North began gradually ' to creep ' northward again. , Some, if they reached the South at all, died there. Others -about thirty important trees -distributed' themselves all the sway between New York City 'and the Gulf States, Those that could not stand •the Southern temperatures doubtless migrated'' all theway hack to the Gulf, • of St. Lawrence, distributing themselves . .plentifully- around New • York: -city an:•,:theeeva3':. ._ _ A TRICK IN IT, - •A.ngus came home from the office feeling in a generous mood. • "Maggie," he said to his, wife, °'to. night I'm' going to gine' ye a treat, Here's a ticket for the Plaza Theatre". "Mon, but that's right -royal o' ye." she said happily, "What's -the show all about?" "' • "There's a conjurer there," replied. • Angus darkly, "and • when he comes on to do a trick in which he takes an ounce of flour and one egg and makes twenty omelets, Watch him very closely and- see how he does it." LiF,E IS HAPPINESS/ ' To exist is to bless: Life is Hap- piness. In this sublime , pause of things all dissonances hate disap peered. It is as though • Creation were but atie.vast symphony, gidrify- ing the God of Goodness with an in:. exhaustible wealth of praise and harinony . We leaye ourselves �I become notes in the great concert. and the' soul breaks the silence of ecstasy, only to vibrate , in unison with' the Eternal Joy' Eggsactly Right mot'Me 612ACKE: G3GS ARS dust AS K i'2C51i AS 'ME Fiivc: