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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-02-24, Page 6You Should Try TEA wlhen you want a cSiang'©. St’s delacicwau ”I’m sorry, but I’m too tired,” eh® suto. "Det us at least show you through the lower part of the house.” He was anxious to keep with her, that was 'clear. '‘I don’t believe you’ve seen your neV domain yet. It’s all fear­ fully quaint and out of date, but in its time it was considered quite grand.” “Not to-night, thank you.” She felt Bowen’s approval of her firmness. He stepped before her, subtly shunting off the Terrances. "Shall I take madam to her room?” he asked. Anne felt safer when she was up­ stairs with Jennie. These two Tor- rances>--they frightened her. There was something so sinister about the young man’s face; his eyes shifty, yet bold. And the mother’s outburst, stifled against her will—-it amounted to an ariack. She didn’t want to be alone with them. After Jennie had gone Anne locked , an-d bolted the door, The great can- ] opied bed was luxuriously soft; the i I ' sheets were smooth linen, lavender ■ scented. But Anne could not, for a ! while, go to sleep. It was all too ■ strange, too disturbing. PART III, I stormy sallow’ face, with haggard, This house, these servants, these "The wrou'flit-iron doors of the tall! eFes> a too-buxom figure, a gown of j varied amusing possibilities that Roy "This is Miss •neck and short sleeves and all that were they but barriers between her | jewelry because she knew I’d not have and all that she had, until now, hoped ’ anything like it. She wanted me to for and treasured? Barriers between feel awkward,” thought Anne. She her and Mrs. Chaner, between her and became more deliberate and alert, on ] Cartertown, and, most disturbing of ’. Now she turned slightly* all, barriers unscalable between her toward the young man. Like his mo-] and Louis Haynes. Louis with his ther, he was in evening clothes; like • fields and his cattle, his orchards, his her, he was dark and sallow’, and there ] square plain house with the prim was something sinister about him that» flower beds before it, his straight and • Anne could not fathom. But he was bowing, smiling, ingratiatingly, agree- 5 + ably. 1 I i house were swung open by a discreet5 calculated grandeur. “Sho put on low' Torrance had painted for her, what and correct butler. Thorne, Bowen.” said Mr. Fink. Bowen kr.cw what to do. With de­ ferential welcoming murmurs he pos­ sessed himsJf of Anne’s suiteases and wafted her into her 1________— what seemed to be a tiny room at the side, of the hall. “If Miss Thorne will take the elevator,” he conveyed as. much by gesture as by sound, "I will, take her to Iter room. Dinner has been' prepared and will c? served whenever Miss Thorne wishes.” '! Anne looked despairingly at Mr. j, Fink. She felt small and lost in the' 4v» c*rs-P olY’r Vv llATl mi • i house toward Fink. 1 wide vastnesses of the hallway. "When will you be back?” she asked. "I’ll telephone about half-past nine to-morrow, if I may, and make an ap­ pointment for Mr. Grayson, the senior member of the firm, to see you. If you should need me in the meantime, here is a card with my telephone num­ ber. And now let me wish you a very refreshing night after your long trip. Good night, Miss Thorne.” As the door shut behind Mr. Fink, Anne felt a moment of panic. Turn­ ing, she caught on Bowen’s wooden countenance a fleeting expression wherein were blended an intense cur­ “We are so pleased, my mother an-d he said, “to meet dear Uncle An- This was plainly untrue, for Mrs. Torrance added with nasty emphasis: "I see you’ve taken the head of the table.” Anne looked at her and did not answer. Not for nothing had she bat­ tled with the unruly Cartertowp First Grade for two conquering years. Whatever she had managed to teach them, they had taught her to be cau­ tious in conflict. But she wished Mrs. Chaner was there—what a glorious set-to she would have with Mrs. Tor- ranee. Bowen was bringing in her soup, de- riicious. Little toasted crackers came ordered life. (To be concluded.) Success. is success; to live beyond de­ ceit, Too big to play the liar or the cheat, Tco big to loan when burdens heavy grow, j Asking no favor from a friend or foe, | Standing to life and all that it may mean With head erect and hands and con­ science clean. The North Ster in History. The mo§t cursory reader Pt history must kuow that from prehistoric eras before Time’s1 dates, the North Star was the Star of. pesttoy. You cannot read history and not see that, IVhen men moved with -liei-ds and, tents up from Ur of Shinar Plains guided by the ©tars in night travel ova’ the hot desert-—what oompass guided them over the chadless sand® to Babylon, from Babylon to Nineveh, north and northwest to Palestine and Egypt and Greece and Rome? When the purple sails- of Tyre blew to tlie winds over ivory rowlacks’ with silver prows- west and weisit to. the Pillars of Hercules, i what star guided them over the chart-1 less seas where the M-e-diten’anean I opened out to a wild unknown world peopled by dragons? And when rough I sailor ph-ato-s from tlio Tribe of Dan i fled from slavery by Persian and Greek ! conquer©:’ *up to the northwest coast of Europe in slipshod craft so fiv.il the hull had to be "trussed” round and round by ropes till Ireland was reach­ ed, or Cornwall, whence came the tin of Cathage traffic, or Dud- (London), where blue-eyed slaves from- Crete could he bought—W’hat star pointed their prows over the billows, which geographers said over a flat earth into the abyss of eternity? And when the navigators defying the geographers- set out from Portugal and Spain and England, and Idter from Boston, to# circumnavigate the globe—the globe* of which the prophets had sung, "His dominion should extend from the rivers- to the ends of the sea,” and the Gent-liles should enter into the heritage of G-od —what star proved better than a pilot would roll them i | This i iosity and an almost human sympathy. ,with it, and tiny stalks of crisp celery' It disappeared instantly andrieft^him ■ wjth savory cheese, and ripe olives. | • n.. -’--1 yo.u have taken the head of* knew he was her ,ally Jf riie needed jthe table,” repeated Mrs. Torrance, leaning toward her and ignoring a warning gesture from her son. “You have good eyes,” said Anne placidly. “Mother’*' exclaimed Roy Torrance; and then to Anne: "We’re so used to seeing Uncle Andrew there, mother and I, it seems strange for another to have his place, you know.” He was oily and obsequious, but his 1 eyes did not smile. Anne began to dislike him actively. "I thought you didn’t come here while he was alive,” she said. Mrs. Torrance flung down her nap­ kin', cracked a dramatic hand on the table, half rose. "This is unbearable,” she shrilled. "Isn’t it enough that we should be paupers after all my years of slavery to that old devil’s whims, but that we should be. taunted and sneered' at-----” "I was neither taunting nor sneer­ ing,” said Anne. "You started this fuss and now . you don’t like it, I think we’d better finish eating dinner without any talk at all.” aW. "You give us le^n§ ln*manners too. You dare—you upstart, you pretender} Let me fell you that I’m having your claim to this estate well looked into and there’s every chance that I can jirQve not the real heir at all.” MrsT Torrance collapsed__into her chair, whimpering, and the scene ended as quickly as it had begun. Now that it was over Anne felt half sick, unnerved. Why hadn’t she had dinner in her room? She must stick this out, hateful though it was. Roy Torrance, glancing at her, divined her uneasi­ ness, and set himself deliberately to talk—a pleasant, light patter of new books, new plays, new music; of peo­ ple whose names Anne had seen in newspapers, movie stars, singers, actors. It all made a picture for her * of the sort of life she might enter, and at the samo time was was trying to find out her tastes, her predilec­ tions. "He wants me to like him,” Anne divined. "He doesn’t want his mother to make trouble.” She looked at his hands. They were white, as useless, as cared-for as the hands of the woman who had sat across from her in the Pullman. “Louis could double him up and. break him in two and not half try,” she thought, and with that there came a piteous home­ sick pang for Louis, his strength, his honesty. This strange, half-rotten pair—they revolted her. And yet there was a certain fascination in Roy '.Torrance’s talk. sand fired self. As "I’m she said abruptly “Oh, but wait—why don’t you come into the music room a while and let me play for you?” i Torrance, "Some of the new things you’ll enjoy so much hearing in con­ certs, later.” "He plays beautiful, like a pro­ fessional,” said Mrs. Torrance, her dislike of Anne overcome in her wish to display her ton., as correctly blank as before, but Anne j one. As the elevator slowly rose, she asked: "Where is Mrs. Torrance?” “Mrs. Torrance will be at dinner, Miss Thorne—and Mr. Torrance.” “Who’s Mr. Torrance?” asked Anne, surprised. "I thought she was a widow.” Bowen coughed. "Mr. Torrance is Mrs. Torrance’s son, madam. Her only child. Mr. Roy Torrance.” "But he doesn’t live here, does he?” "Mr. Roy Torrance has been with his mother a good bit since Mr. Thome’s death.” Bowen hesitated, his hand on the door. Then he plunged into confidence. "Mr. Thorne did not permit him to come here, madam.” Anne got on very well with Jennie, the trim maid who unpacked for her, displayed the resources of the old- fashioned white-marble bathroom, and ministered to her generally in all- seeing, pleasant silence. "It’s mag­ nificent old furniture, but all out of date,” thought Anne. “Ajid it’s mine. It seems ridiculous. Mine—carpet, bej j-ndi all. This whole house is mine, my very pyrn Jbuse. With But before Jennie she tried to ac­ cept everything as a matter of course. She wanted, awfully, to ask the girl pome questions,, butjthought better.. of it "^own, madam. And then I’ll show you the way/’ said Jennie when she “was ready. "I’ll be here when you come upstairs, madam, tco.” "That’s nice,” said Anne, smiling at her. "I wish you would be. I’m find­ ing things’ lonesome and strange to­ night.” Jennie looked complete understand­ ing. She pressed various buttons, then took Anne back to the elevator and ran it down to the first floor. Anne followed her in a fog of unreality, which.was not lightened when Bowen ushered her with majesty into the dining room. The room was empty save for another manservant, but the table, with candles in floriated candel­ abra shining above a mass of richest red roses, was set for tlwee. "Dinner has been announced to Mrs. and’ Mr. Torrance,” said Bowen. "But they have not come down.” He pulled out the chair at the head of the table, a carved high-backed chair, and An© took her place. Bowen was putting before her a round canape of some dark stuff that tasted fishy and good—she didn’t know it was caviar—when the door opened violently and a woman came in followed by a young man. "Oh,” said the woman sharply, "you didn’t wait. I suppose you felt it Wasn’t necessary.” The words were a slap in the face and Anne felt her blood rise hotly. She rallied her self-control, and sat still, turning her head, held very high, toward the speaker. "Mrs. Torrance, I suppose. How do you do? I am Anne Thorne. No, I didn’t think it Was necessary to wait.” She suvz triumph gleam in Bowen’s eyes as ho hold Mrs. Torrance’s chair, 4 and she know Khv had done the right thing. Now that the other woman * was seated, An*w/ <eould see her, a This is success: to live from year to year Not asking always sunny skies and clear, But wise enough to know and under­ stand Life never runs exactly as we’ve planned; Seeking the best, but when the worst is met Taking the blow without too •gret. much re­ play the times to This is success: with all to friend, Willing to give and glad at lend, Laughing and singing whensoe’er you may, But walking bravely through the rainy day, Giving your best throughout the pass­ ing years, Neither deceived, by flattery nor by sneers. A SMART NEW FROCK. This chic little frock is smart every detail, yet very simply fashion­ ed. 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I looked where the Dipper pointed his diamond torchlights through a sky filtered in silver gauze. He seemed almost to toss his flash­ lights into a future top dazzling for veiy hope. He was signaling some un­ known semaphore to the North Star— the Star of Destiny.—Agnes C. Laut, in "Enchanted Trails of Glacier Park.’’ It’s what we learn after we think we know it all that counts. Salo of Electric Motors new now new new used 25-cycle current 110-2$0-volt. Left Electric Co. 316 Grey St., London. Ont. costHubby—-"You say that $60.00. Where do they get the right to charge so much tor such a small affair?" Wifey—"It’s merely a covet charge." Canada a World Leader. In 1926, United States and Canadian newsprint mills were producing 294,- 090 tons of newsprint, per month, an increase, of approximately 50% over 1920. It is of interest to note that this expansion in the industry has taken place almost entirely in Canada, her average monthly production, increas- i ing from 72,840 tons in 1920 to 153,414 tons in 1926. Canada now ranks as the world’s largest producer of .newsprint, the out­ put of Canadian mills having exceeded that of the United States by a wide « margin during the first nine months protested young! of current year i months mentioned; ; print production increased 23.9% over last year, totalling 1,380,722 tons as I compared with 1,260,025 tom? produced 1 in U.S.A, during the same period. For Colds— Minard’s Liniment* He opened a thou- ways to enjoy her new fortune, her imagination in spite of her- the dinner ended sho rose first. very tired; J’m going to bed,” /‘y, "Goodnight.” HOW TO AVOID MOVIE HEADACHES Say T!ie MoyB© Stars So flay all whoso work is hard after they try the deli­ cious, invigorating refresh­ ment of Wrigley’c Doubles Mini. If you eyes aro sensitive and you suffer from eyestrain or headache at the movies, avoid sitting too K-ar the screen. Even if your vision is good, the farther you sit from the screen the Tess your eyes will be strained by any unsteadiness or imperfection in the showing of the picture, or by the strong light. Any one who has been obliged to sit in the front seats' must have noticed that the glare is more tiring, and that any lack' of steadiness is exaggerated, requiring more constant adjustment of ,-the eyes and thus producing, greater muscle fatigue. ~ Bad ventilation is also responsible for •'‘movie headache,’,’ and it may con­ tribute to other symptoms of eyestrain by its generally depressing effect. Eye­ strain deserves more consideration in the case of chTldren, because of the plastic condition of the tissues of the growing child and the danger of the production or Increase of nearslghted- ne‘ss. Athletes use Minard’s Liniment. *'"U' .. A Historic Soldier’s Song. When King Henry the Fifth, after the Battle of Agincourt, made the or­ der that the psalm “Non nobis”—Not unto us, O Lord-—should be sung rath­ er than any song in pratse of himself, that psalm at the official rejoicings. But s-okliers then, as- now, had their own songs, and one of them which was popular at the m-oment was an ancient melody about the King going -to Nor- j miandy, wluich just suited the occasion, j Each adapted the words to his own thoughts until those in authority and some with literary ability got hold of it, and- in place of a rough, half-ribald song, made it a hymn of thanksgiving.1 The King was not removed from the , song, but instead of the prowess of his i arm®, the victory was attributed to1 the fact that "there God for him _ wrought marvelously.” Tradition alone, however, has not kept the song; in existence, fo-r a little later musi-, clans of the day wrote- harmonies to it, of a bare, crude type, with bits of syncopation in the different parts, and ' to the way in which some of the manu­ scripts were preserved we owe the fact that "The Agincourt Song” is known ( to-day as one of the best and most. readily learnt, as well as one of the * oldest of English folk songs. A Wise Policy. When a high-salaried executive left the employ of the Marshall Field store-, some one asked Mr. Shedd, the presi­ dent of the firm, what he was going to ; i do. "Hire another office boy,” he said.; Promoting all along the line and- fill-] ing in the vacancy at the bottom was | his policy, and he found that it helped | to keep his busine-s® prosp-efous- and the morale of the staff hdgli. During the nine Canada’s news- CURSES The Toronto Hoipltaf for Incurnb.ts, lit affiliation with Bellevue and Allied Hoipitah, • New York City, offers n tltrco year*' Course of Training to younji women, havlnj tin required education, and desirous of boopmlnp nurses. This Hospital fiat adopted th# bight. hour system. The pupils receive uniforms of . ilia School, a monthly allowance and traveling txpenica to and from Now York. For further Information write tbs Superintendent ISSUE No. 8—’27. One of the hardest things for the human mind to comprehend' is bow other people can really be fond of a man oi’ wgman whom we thoroughly complain of headaches during Or after ” “ attendance at the movies should have a careful examination of the eyes. In­ quiry will probably develop the fact that some symptoms of eyestrain also ! occur after much reading, motoring or ; exposure to any strong light. If glasses are needed for any purpose they should be worn at the movies, and it is a good plan to close the eyes if the picture is unsteady or shown so rapidly as to„cause distress. It must ho remembered that glasses alone will not bring about the desired results. As many contributing causes* to eyestrain as possible should bo weeded out, thereby permitting the minimum amount of faulty vision to exist. Care should be taken to pro­ vide the best possible schoolroom lighting, both natural and artificial. Light from the windows should be con­ trolled by shades, and the finish on the desk tops should bo dull in order to avoid unnecessary glare. Black­ boards should be placed so that they receive a good light—never between nor unde? windows. It is highly im­ portant to use proper book type. All school-books should be printed in large, clear type on dull paper.' Better Lighting in Theatres. Improvements should not end in schools, but should be extended to theatres. There is much provement of conditions best theatres. It 'has st-rated that darkness usually find in the rnbvie theatre is not necestsary to the successful s-how- ing^of the pictures'. The front part of the theatre- near the screen should be dark. If the light were increased gradually from (lie front to the back part of the theatre It would be intich easier for the observers, and tlio visual result wouikl be just as satisfactory. While such lighting is difficult of ac­ complishment in theatres- already built, it can be done. 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THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION Is given In various trades. The schools ynd classes are under tho direction of AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Application for attendance should be made to tho Principal o? tho school. COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS, MANUAL TRAINING, HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE aro provided for In tho Courses of Study In Public, Separate, Continuation and High Schools, Collegiate Institutes, Vocational Schools apd Departments. * Copies of the Regulations Issued by the Minister of Education may bo obtained from tho Deputy Minister, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. Wearing Glasses, AU childiren who have red eyes or room even been such the the im- in our demon- as we for Rural Sanitation. By C. W. Peterson. i The best "country doctor” that nine out of ten farmers should call are Dio well driller and the plumber, according to A. W. Rothwell, one of the leading sanitary’engineers of th^ U.S.A.'"tn a recent statement on rural health he is quoted as saying: "The country cemeteries are silent accusers of the unsanitary, wasteful and wife-killing water system "enjoyed” by the aver­ age farm home, according to U.S. Cen­ sus figures that show that nine out of ten farm, homes are still without run­ ning water in the home, though auto­ mobiles and telephones aro found in nearly 100 per cent.,of some sections. Such diseases as typhoid and others' that come from contaminated water supplies, as well as diseases originat­ ing with constipation, are practically all due to impure waiter supply for the home and the carrying in of what little water is used. Deaths among babies run three times as high in homes where all water must be carried Into the borne by hand as w-hereThe supply is piped in under pressure and con­ nected with bath and proper sewage disposal, accoi'diing to health officials.” Unfortunately the state of affairs is equally as bad In rural Canada. Health, is one of'the first essentials of life and. yet how seldom we pay attention to important safeguards, particularly if money or effort is required in putting them in force. Better Rural Sanita­ tion is one of tile great needs of Can­ ada to-day. A denser rural population wojiild solve many of tile sanitary prob­ lems of the Canadian farm. Better roads leading to greater social inter­ course would naturally follovz, which would bring in its train a tendency to • study more closely the wisdom of pro­ viding I that tary m an the household convenience® ake tho farm home more sani* d attractive. To Safeguard Poisons. 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