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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1932-06-02, Page 6,t Re Largest Stock in. Ca/Mtda'•?nd tlMer !Boat. Seieotbon Rose Bushes, F towating •Shl bs, !ergreei lunbing Vines, Gladiolus.Bulbs,, Boxwo s. E.verYthlng. to Eeautify Your ssaT ".—Sole _Now ,,Gong - on D. • ULOOR $T. Ctolr i0 'TORONTO Reminiscences Gertrude. Atherton tells aa amusing story about her first meeting with Joaquin Miller;. the poet of •the Sierras —who used to dress the part. • "It helps sell the poems; ,boys!'. he once confided. to friends at'•the Savage a ed 4a bee he. t n n where „Created Club in Lo . do •sensation by .his picturesque appear- ince,""arid;"`h:e--•added; t'itatiekles.••¢the, duchesses.'• ' • • - ' This •in reference to tlao to th,hit he had . made''in Londe a .drawing rooms..'• _ „ Te •get ori with Mrs Atherton's ex perience--related ' in •herreminiscen tea "Adventures of a: Novelist ' One • day, Milier called cat her' hi Sea Flan.. cisco.' '' , e "He wore, a black broadcloth ' suit, • the trouserstucked into..boots-with high '-eels!-that, reached '•almost '-.to. ;the waist,' she recalls. "Hie shirt had • .nocoilar 'but' 'his neck'was encircled, bv• a--lace.-scarf -•On-has=head-.was -a eoioibrero, which he removed with' a '_sw.eeping_baw:aa...i entered,_and 1 saw :that his long hair; touching.'his should= era, was gray on toe,: and ended, in a series of stifi'`'rat tails' thatt .were dyed a .bright orange." • i ate_, ,,,,.. ,� .-.___ The:pact; strtl.:, an attitude said not:,a, woi d but ,gazed„at Mrs:' Atherton. he .told. him how . glad she was to • ` meet him. •Stil1 be: uttered not a• word; She rattled en; growing disconcerted by hie ' persistent ' silence and his. :"round unwinking stare.” .Finally, she .said: tartly; a' ' ."Have you; lost your voice? Suppose you.• say something for a' change." fetched' a sigh the: might have come from,' the soles of his -boots." • chuckles Mrs. Atherton "and then, his voice rumbled forth heavy. laden with ed. �_ - -- -•- trig y '"'What a pity!;' lie groaned What a pityw:e ate both •blondes'.;" Five'mfautes. later he 'shot outwith - • ' out a word Of farewell:. ' • • Joaquin Miller was notthe only+alter- aryl%nreduced-to•-siience-on Meeting Gertrude. Atherton. Later at a"'recep-: !%n „ixn.•. London, she met `Thomas. "the exciting subject of Cable • cars is San .Francisco, - o• •: •* • Later• still, Mrs. Atherton met Sur: gent, the portrait painter., at luncheon at the Duchess of Marlborough's, • y: HA, ,r ,149•$4' IfAIL,Er. 3 ' SYNOPSIS. Old Mrs. Jupiter, wife of a million-. aire automobile manufacturer, gives an erlgageinent ,danne for her" secre- tary and protege, Mary H'arkness,: '",lie did not get Amy name nor I his who is to •marry `Dirk Ruyther, society and we sat beside each .other and.were ;man. obliged'to talk.'. 'we floundered about Mary's .scapegrace brother, isaato ; for some •time.trying to find -a theme calls saying he is in trouble and must; to ar ad of common . interest. '.Finally, how,' see her. The 'bot ri:e is, c sel dingu:�d w.e-hi� -.0 n•x a fib ect. _as Mrs. Ju 'ter'. is wearing her f aano s Zieaaen-knows, t Ilo h, s. .,? � .. a is .`:arran'es fo solicit a of plumbing in Parisi. Then he -grew 'pe Tt'�`'1t1 3! g h - secri• I; . •. • e fi quire animated!" * * CSAPTER.L—(Confd' r Juan after the Armistice, Kra.: Ather-„ , hh ' to iaintitese11 ton- ran 'into Lord Northcliffe,' an old need; in Paris; anWdiiting"a Saik"`with" him,'—'I had christened him Warwick,: as; he certainly bad a -great deal to do with the making , and ninitakieffs. of ° e o •Prime Ministers,”=she. asked him if the side dooshe would Ieave Ward ld ' ted . He u toadmit co, liewas a .that be l with he "were hav:ink any trouble x�ight: up to her 'room, and she,. Lloyd. George.'• ' la "`Oh;" he .replied- gravely, •`I' have to Weald. go later and see what was up. per- :keepm ..hand on him.. He . wobbles! That she had done Wrong in y renting him to' • c me here, to seek He: woi►bles -•sah�nary inwthe:•Ju iter': Ouse; ith By the way, Mrs. Atherton describes'u • out asking their. coilseit, not occ it Northcliffe as "altogether one of -the to .her -at.•the •momept.- •It• was -only most; aritiag-nmen:I have ever -.met;" - • ,afterward as.'she sat thinking -it over,. and ia1-ye that he • was "the 'most popu- lar of all Britons in the. 'United States." _Maas, wife of. John A_, ;Logan,, - epu lican::nominee for. the Vice -Presidency of the United , States in 1884, .was a beautiful woman with great poise; and by rights. a `raven's -wing_ brunette. ' ; l,ar hit ht .. Qttav, .and d. te11. . �a .�,�- 4111%�� 3'tg... •a n asasteaeaseassagsaaa Mr. Jupiter would be ssomew'here• about—he would be better able to tell her what to do than his wife would. Mr. Jupiter absented himself from the social- scene as ' much as possible; she knew she, would:.find :him.outside some- where, roaming around the grounds, •Smoking, listening to the music as it'. filtered, out •to. him,' mercifully mellow:-. ed by 'distance' ,She would- go. out. ay way of the -ter -race•,• and look.alI !round.. the; house.- , As she moved cautiously' along the oval 1, avoiding- the ""heels and 'elbows'i I lI: }tie t xe, in n , r 'of the'swooping: couples as. best s'he. •t c uld, • she: had to pause once to rub .tlie:.dostrraazi, izn, com,�n.S",, and t(t le� Q , , - me i ,':, id Eddie; •' Well, what eonid` r;tende:y ori ankle o which had'been o;• ? told the target' or somebody's •French he31. she �iq . She had to_d him ;to trims - .,, cornea : a ead but to Caine 'paned ,, mAs' she looked , up she, saw just ahead otn h . -.. Hardy 'fie sat down beside• Me; dropped his hands on his ,kueeps,.and stated „in -'her' when she fainted. • to space' . . I'•floundered about, Yet indeed (adds Mrs_ Fo`raker), she broaching one subject after another, but he nester even:Sla-iced'at me, Much less.:made' any response. to my Mahar - /eased efforts: He appeared to'have .fallen late a reverie, quite oblivious •to his surroundings.' • i 0•. "Then, heaved knows bow; • I lighted. Upon cable cars in San Francisco. Ab- straction .fled'. His face lit up He turned to me eagerly. He asked me a hundred questions. In answered them As best L could, for it may be imagined 7iow much I know of'engineering and meohariics:' • But the day' was sav'e'd:' A fortnight. later when Mrs. -•Atherton again met • Hardy . at another reception, he no sooner caught sight et her than• he was •at her 'side, and plunged at once' into that ' sh•e 'thought ' _about , that, Bust, where else could her brother. Eddieage, -if-he' were do trouble:. They had no .home, -,the two:of-tient.;-sheep the shame of; that. • She , got. up and anent , back, ;to • the •ballroom. She must find Mrs. Jupiter, but she went through' some sudden, !them •whatt'she •had done. She did not 'severe shock connected with :tire death really; believethat either of theft of her . father.. .When: slip returned would, mind. home her husband met her at the Afterward, `there seemed to be no train.—i elate:. Mrs, Julia B. Foraker, reason 'for what she did during the in "I' Would Like It Again Memoirs of neat,, few minutes—Or• for w%iat, she a Vivid Life." failed to do. Even to herself, wild "Goodness; Mary!" be .gasped., wi: . "What has happened?" th regretand self-accusation,:it seemed' as if she might have. told some- •. # : ,. body -=-found someone' .to •share' with She didn't know what he meant and her the awful responsibility for what he was_ -too -..,petrified o-m-tain.-__,Ar -maleafter; But at the--ti-me-her r -en' - rived home, the door was opened by ions • seemed excellent. What she did an old servant. Atthe sight of Mrs:' seethed the only thing to . do. Logan she threw up her hands, gave' 'The n , floor had cleared during. a an .Irish shriek, and $ed'. Beginning interval in the dancing and across the now to be •a little irritated, Mae. Logan 'room she caught sighb'of.Mrs. Jupiter, sought ,a mirror. There. it was; her magnificent in gold lace and far a a urns "i- an siugle-liYs= any jewels, seated on ami of :;her, in•`the corner, Dirk:- atid,.Cor- nelia dancing if • they were dancing. They seemed a�rdly: to move at sal. at o lia ' But was .dd was that C me was crying. Mary could see it even though Dirk's back was toward her. •-shielding the-'girl-#-loin--curious 'eyes:- Once •eyes: Once he looked about 'worriedly: and _eke_ saw that he • 'looked . white and strained.. • ' Well! That was a surprise. She. hadn't thought Qornelia cared' ' that- much, enough to. make a spectacle pf -ham f.: What in the world should she do -- go forward . and', •let them :know she had had seen? Her' first . impulse was to rescuer Dirk there rid then. Let .tor nelia' go and 'cry on somebody ease;, there were dozens of riven present -who. • would •gladly - dry the tears .of. -the heiress tat :so many millions., Dirk must. feel an awfiil,briute. And, that wasn't fair. • - 'On second thought, that 'would merely make Cornelia hate her. But, Cornelia' hated her anyhow a, it was - As she ,hesitated, Dirk . evidetrtiy resolved to get Cornelra away'befire. _l rs-'11-. she made--a-compieterfool-of - e e �- holding her arm firnly,•hemoved 'with 'her:toward the wide door. opening 'on the terrace; She reached the dooy just - in time to see 'them. step outside the circle of light -from the doorway and too di to thedark grounds • "Fresh from' the Gardens Act1Ve 1 -Ramblings • bee t • ':fours P t \elf- t0 \ Y takes • It up serovide asnoitgh-gut at s_> ring,pne flFst+ • class-1awn�tenn1s racket, University has. 103 One American to n i a x i .. nto c different slang vroi"ds for i ,although the'�Untted States,is""dry" byl law :s • T""',eaflie flowers .alititi`tatta b : as vs; \vo.• , r � . ' as .etas -niece; attached•to, the ends, • , -' a,. 1?tp . Y ..... 'shoe's es; area : 'fasliiois noveltyt foto P.arit• 1 London bas seventy-seven ancient` t ne tit City, guilds,-., of whom only h y -o :.., have halls of their Owe, . the' ether forty-six baiting to borrow or.' hire. Many priceless rccerds Of the Great War are beginning to ' fade- so badly; that they may 'soon become unread .abieaasT.hie. isaue stath_4 . use.. otr„the , _. typewriter. • . ,..J The smallest workable engine:•in the World has been constructed by•a' Ger- man clockmaker No bigger than a coffee=bean, it.reprT - - esent�s gear-a-ot ; tient work. ' There are , now, about .200- women licensed as air -pilots -in England, five of whom hr -..B certiflcates,'*hlch en - food them to -take •-fare-paYing Passes= sera.' he food consumed by the anlinals • in he London ZOO last year included cwt; of monkey -nuts. 2,194 pints of shrimps, 4;600 bunches of carrots, and •224,904 bananas.. „ Girls- "of to -day are extraordinarily good and much more ; alert and alive than their' mothers \, ere,, in ' the 1 NormaEn Fairish of ' the' 'Los opinion of the�pa3ncipai o: , London's ,. _ ->. - , . - _ _oldest: college -ox. women, Queen's: e Athletic Cub ores � leS g. • � � Trinidad, : of rope climb, ` . Wien en,the inhabitants worl'd's record for the' -.� the British. island, in' the West•indica., thea • pops 'up the rope -again • With were. recently Oven_ the right'to di a pal on his. back: Good •exercise. - vorce,' they. stunt a d9elegaaionLte Lon Mr. Ju' iter was sitting on the run-' don to protest against • having this P,privilege.. ,- sapl?ear into ring board 'of a, limousine, surround- nequins--emg1oyed- by big Lon- van, ed^' •b 'a. group of "his boys:' Some. , � Y don ores �wakers." rangein age from• <' : of them looked as •if they would like six to sixty. The' youngest.,may receive to break away and start a crapi,gatne, . 'much as $5.25 fo: a "parade" last- hut ast but were 'afraid to suggest" it, •• ase could hear his••voice droning on 'andSt, ins a quarter of an hour. on. He was having a good time. ole to ays'iz} British vessels are A big, foreign -looking limousine liable to a maxi um penalty under the ' a second under the.portico, Merehaanppt Shipping Act of a lino not *topped • ex6eedi�hg $100' or tour weeks' impris- then shot 'around the: circular drive cement with or without hard labor. and out again, at a high rate of speed. The record non-stop freight ;train The uniformed drivers all looked 'up run on British railways is stated to ifiterestedly, as it circled, then went belong . to the. L.M.S. Rail\i ay; who' en listening in respectful silence to have .a goods train 'which travels 191' the old man's wards.' • miles between- London and Liverpool' "`Lorimer. Special body," one re= without a stop, marked to anot`:ar quietly. Although aliens entering.or leaving "`Junk," said Mr. Jupiter, pricking Ge Britain are carefully checked, last up his ears. Lorimors •Were his spe- tial antipathy. year twenty-one foreigners out of • a Mary'turned and went -into the total of 11,739 came in on excursion tickets without passports and failed to a house: Mrs. Jupiter was not in the leave again. ballroom any longer; someone said she No•scholars under seventeen will hid gone upstairs. to'change. Mrs. 'take--part-in tugs of- war,- stria under Mary .:could have 'stamped her.: foot with annoyance --if• it.had' :not already -hurt. She could not follow .them out there, even if her errand was looking for .Mr. Jupiter. It would be too much, like 'spying. People would see; and what would they think? She knew: what, Cornelia• would think, .if' she bumped .into them accidentally—that she, was jealous. She ;wouldn't give her' the. satisfaction. No, indeed! They could - have the terrace all to them- selves. • Swiftly she turned into the flagged corridor which ran along the side of the house to the conservatory, and led. into the back hall. ' She hadn't too mud'time. Better malie•her arrange- ments first, and tell. the ' Jupiters afterward. She was so sure 'of their understanding ,that it hardly seemed necessary anyhow. Sd she, intercept- ed one of the maids—Bessie, the come- liest,, and therefore assigned' to parlor dutyi—And told her a man would he coming to the side• door presently,; and to be Sure to let him in. Bessie sal -1, "Yes, 'Miss . Mary," and scurried . en. She ,was Carrying drinks out to the chauffeurs, who -were• clustered about a big car in the back driveway, talk- ... • • Mary smiled—she knew with cer- ta y p It was one of the favorite• occupations. of -the old automobile manufacturer, talking with the men who drove cars. Other officials of the Jupiter Motor Coinpany,Incorporated; were only too well aware :of it. Whenever. they -put forward ideas `about the Jupiter mo- tor which did - not coincide with his sentiments, he was wont to stop all argument by yelling, "And wh:re-did *on get your information? I'll tell you where l' got mine—from the men themselves!" Wandering' Housewives He had been an, automobile me- -American passport statistics show. 'Charlie once'' and it was his boast that that more housentives take- trips - he was still one—just that, and no- abroadbthan ccu- women in any other o thin more. - They might know about tion. In :a list of 31 classified occur stock issues, and the like of that, but pations, ';housewives" received 13.09 he knew carburetors. When he was per cent. of all the .passports issued in i that mood, there was nothing more 1931. Travel writers • foot the list, to be said. with only 0:83 per. cent. of passports His interest :n rioters and- in the. credited to them'. •• men tubo drovL there was genuine -- e:iough; their talk was his talk,• But One frequently hears the expres- his wife,-arn'ong others, thought' he sion that a certain object "moves• at --sometimes darried it too far. - He- a snail's pace.", It' is only recent- judged ecent judged a man by the Way he treated ly, however, 'that this, pace has been a car, for .eicanhple. Many a friend's chartered. 'The average snail chauffeur, and even'some taxi-drivers travels about three _inches a minute he had taken a liking to, were ROW —a mile in fifteen .days. ' holding. geed jobs in iiia plant.' On they came basis, he had never really Warne- ed, up to Eddie,. Mary remembered. l Eddie was known as 'a "wild driver," and that was enough for Mr. J. If it was that agar;' that bad gotten Eddie into trouble--= Mary paused, pinching her lovas. lip thoughtfully iiet'4ecn thumb 'rind finger'. Site resolved, presently that this \\ r a,famii inatte�r; and why bother :,ny- one with it except her;•�if? It: really seemed' the kindest th ng to everyone con, ernec1—just to say statins•' abort it. Later, it might s eni i'cl l different to other peoplct •hut Rhe could not ; ;,know that then. tenons •moment.'.-3ust the. - way the watching the dancing' with a listless thing happened in: novels. eye. At her side, Mary, nojwed just "Like it John?" sbe.Said, carelessly, in time to check; her forwardprogres3, to' Logan; Who had followed •to catch was Dirk's mother; a. pale ;woman in gray chiffon who: seerned'to be think- ing "Rather' a nice party—but hor- ribly overdone!", • ;It would have ,been .easy to go at once to Mrs. Jupiter and' tell her her troubles, :if it had not been for Mrs. Rliyther. She was, Mary had to ad - Mit Us herself, a congenital Snob,. and. a priggish one. With Dirk.fer a son, she would never be able to understand Eddie's• peccedilos, ;or condone .thein. And Maryyielt miserably that she had little enough• to •bring• to her'•union with • the impeccable Ruyther family•. —just herself . and a name that had never been brought -to shame. • .If that. scant dowry was in danger • Mrs. Buy - titer must' not know. - . Mrs. Jupiter -did not look any too happy;' she looked tired and uncom- fortable. The strain of being, nice to Mrs. Ruyther was, telling on ,her na- turally jolly. disposition. From the. grimaces she made from time to tithe, Mary judged' with amusement that her shoes hurt; into the bargain. • No, she would not add . her, own trouble to those from which that: peon OId woman was alrerdy - suffering. ,For- Baby's LA* More than that of any oth member- of • the family, .baby terrier• delicate skin ..needs the greatest care and attention. 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A• ISSUE INO••• 2 Must have been startled .when she saw herself the glass * * As a girl of twenty, Mrs. Foraker heard Dickens give one of his readings `during his last visit here in 1868— sixty-fear 'years ago! , "I cannot think..anyone ever heard a , person read with such inimitable realism and charm- as this 'foreigner' (they called him that) in, a black• vel veteen jacket," she says, "I remember the jacket and the. charm; though of what the author read. only the unfor- gettable • death l of Little: 'Nell, which' provoked sobs." • , * • * Mrs. Foraker—widow-of the late Senator, Foraker oG Qhio—has, at the age of eighty-four, written as lively a book of signed reminiscences' as has come out of Washington in many , a day. One of her stories has Chauncey Depew, at a dinner, describing an even- ing spent with King Edward VII., to whom he told the story of the spinster. taking her flrst.ride on a railroad train. There was a collision; . the dear, old thing found herself.'sitting la splinters. She straightened her "bunnit," looked 'round for' her reticule; then . asked• in- nocently if the train always stopped like that? , ' •• • * Depew happened• to mention to -King was stopping Ed�vai`d neat Mark Twain s pIn g •at -bis hetet. Thereupon -the-16,'rig-.asked Depew to come back for q ner next' night and bring Mark with im. "And what do you think that Man Clemens started on with " said De - pew. "My story! My identical story of the old lady in a railroad wreck! Said he wag there, trio! And of course I had said I was there! -How the King laughed!!!" * , * * A'mong the treasures of Bob Sher- wood, the "last of Barnum's clowns," is an autographed .photograph 01 b1n- and Chang, 'the "original Siamese Twins," who,. with Bab, 'were star at- tractions of the Barnum Shaw for years. "On the back of it," says Sherwood (in "Hold Y'er. Hosses! ") "Eng wrote,. expressing bis congratulations -to me that I' aould live my life alone. Below Chang wrote: 'Tbem's my sentifnents too'. •"TRUTH IN. ADVERTISING, '. 'well; madam," .said the. Easter boarder, as he was about to leave. cern testify that yon. are one of the most 'honest persons I have ever' •met." - The landlady rubbed ' her bawl. hhpply. - "That is very nice •of .'you;" she said. "I always try to please." "Yes,". he tient nn. "your hone:�t. is conspicuous on 'tire very front• of your house. Your sign rays. Board-' era taken. in'!" • P arvelous 4avOiI (TRIPLE Pius) What richmellow flavor of fine old Cheddar cheese you get in eandwichesnnd cooked dishes made with Kraft Velveetat- 'Digestible as. milk itself. With a -nutritional rating of plus, plus, plus! " - 'A delicious treat .for,abl-.tile - famii'y=•-approved by theFood Committee of the American ' Medical Association. (et n 1iaeiiage from your grocer • today. Mcde'in Canada KRAFT e veet The Delicious Cheese se Food had complained- that. her feet hurt and Ruyther had gone' home Mary looked,at her wrist -watch, and hurried upstairs. 'Mrs. Jupiter's sitting room was•at the head of the stairs, Banked `by her' bedroom and her; husband's. Mary's room was at the farther end of the' hall. As she paused on the• top' step to catch ler breath befere turning back along the. int now where Mr. Jupiter pas: corridor, she heard sounds issuing fr • Mrs. ;Jupiter's sitting-room=an an ry, snarling voice, a womhn's loud scream, and then two shots 'in rapid succession. There • was the thud of something heavy falling. Then sil- • ence. ' Mary stood frozen to the. newel -post, too terrified to move. •• • - rSddie,*s siteer ei to , tike closed door. "Eddie, is that you?" • (To be continued.) 4 0. ,. eighteen will be banned from the long ' jump, and cross-country' runs for boys under seventeen will be limited to three miles, if. the, recommendations of the recent. 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