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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-08-29, Page 2THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1910 She could see Alicia. s haughty, snobbish face and hear her saying: •‘Tex loves me. He’ll be embarrassed to death tvhen he recover" his mem­ ory and finds he married a chorus girl when he didn’t know what he was doing. Smoky Thinks of the Future Shamrock could not imagine Tex loving a girl like Alicia Lotteiy. Rude, spoiled, artificial Alicia. No- Tex. with his wide smile and his kind, democratic ways. He had seemed perfectly happy in the little house in Astoria, eating the meals she had cooked and talking witi Clancy. Man-talk about all the things going on in the world, when they sat over a bottle of beer and smoked their pipes. And now they wanted to bribe he.’ to annul the marriage, and send Tex back to his people and his friends. Back in the atmosphere of culture and wealth where he had been born and where he belonged. Even in Smoky’s tortured heart She tried not to blame Tex’s father too much for the way he felt about what had happened. In all fairness to him he was right about the mar­ riage being ridiculous. Even about her having some kind of an ulterior motive. She was shamed and humiliated that the Governor had been so sure he could buy his son’s freedom from her. Maybe she was stupid and un­ modern to feel that way. though. What was a quarter of a million dollars to the wealthiest man in his state? And it would give her se­ curity and all the best things of life as long as she lived. There was nothing but Clancy s insurance and a part of that was gone for Tex’s hospital expenses. His father would, no doubt, insist upon paying all rhe bills from then on. and she would at least be spared that burden. But earning your own living Was a terrific struggle, and tired and sore-hearted as she was it seemed like too weary a road ahead. She was so very young, and had so long to live in this crazy, heart-breaking world. Torchy Gives Some Advice Then she thought of Karl and re­ membered that she could always marry him. They could start all over again and try to forget thete had ever had been a Dagne and a little son. The house that held so many memories was burned to «.he ground. They could build another, somewhere where nobody knew them —and start all over with the money Karl had inherited from Uncle Au- gie in Milwaukee. Perhaps. Smoky, told herself, that was the way out. If she could only bring herself to forgive Karl for what he had done. Smoky met Torchy walking up the street to the theatre and Torchy looked at her closely. “Hey!” she stopped aghast. “You forgot to put any make-up on. For goodness sake. Smoke, you look as if you just got up in the morning.” “Oh.” Smoky sighed heavily, “I don’t care, Torchy. I’m too tired to bother. Torchy said sympathetically, tak­ ing her arm. “You poor darlin '. I bet you haven’t slept a wink worry­ ing about your husband. How is Tex ?' ’ “Very ill. He has amnesia.” Torchy stopped dead in her tracks “You mean he doesn’t even know you.” Smoky shook her head sadly. “He doesn't even know his own father. But don’t say anything.” Tears came to Torchy’s eyes "Oh, Smoke! And are you all alone in that house?" Smoky admitted she was. “Wouldn’t you like to have me come over and stay with you, darl­ ing?” Torchy hesitated at the stage door. “I can’t bear your being all alone. It kills me. I don’t want to butt in, Smoky. But you'll just have a nervous breakdown if you don't have somebody to take care of you. AU alone night and every I All Tired Out Before Day Half Over Women who should be strong and healthy become weak, run down and worn out, and are unable to attend to their household duties. They get ; up in the morning dreading the day’s work ahead of them. Some disease or constitutional dis­ turbance has left its mark in the form of shattered nerves, impover­ ished blood, and an exhausted con­ dition of the entire system. Women will find in Milburn’s Health and Nerve Pills the remedy they need to supply food for the exhausted nerve force, and one that will help them back to sound, perfect health again. The T, Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. rhing.” Smoky ."aid gratefully. “Oh. Torchy. I’d love to have you! Can you come over tonight?” “1 have a date,” Torchy shrugged. “But what’s a date? You can always get one of those,” The News Gets Out Jerry, the old stage-door man at the Larimer, got up excitedly when he saw Shamrock. “Miss O’Toole,” he said, “Chance’s office upstairs is full of reporters and photograph­ ers waiting for you.” Smoky's face blanched. Could it :>e possible that the story of Tex’s true identity had leaked out to the newspapers? She grabbed Torchy’s arm. “Oh, Torchy! This is terrible! What’ll I do?" Torchy had been brought up to believe that pulbicity was the most important thing in a chorus girl’s life. Almost any kind of publicity. She laughed: “A little publicity will not hurt you, Smoke! What’s so awful about your husband falling off a horse and getting amnesia?" Shamrock hoped desperately that that was all they knew. At that moment Jim Chance ap­ peared at the door. “Mrs. Stacy!” Hi" grin was almost as wide as his face. “Come right up to my office Every paper in town is here.” "You come with me, Torchy," she said tremblingly. Torchy followed, hoping desper­ ately that she would get in on a few of the pictures at least. Since she was really Shamrock’s best friend in the show. Chance raved going up the stairs. “This is the biggest story that’s broke in a million years! And if you’re as smart as I think you are. you’ll cash in on it. Anything is pos­ sible now! After this break you can write your own ticket in Hollyood. And. believe me. if I’m any judge, you’ll screentest like nobody's busi­ ness.” Smoky asked faintly: “What are you talking about. Mr. Chance?" He stopped, grinning: “Hey, you little fox! Don’t try to kid me any longer. Taking in a Governor's son for a wedding ring! Actually get­ ting the guy to marry you! It’s sen­ sational. And I guess you’ll hook the old man for plenty if he has the marriase annulled like he says he will. And that cowboy stunt he pulled. Boy, is that a clever publicity gag? Sensational! And we thought he was a cowpuncher!” Smoky Nearly Faints Torchy caught Scoky when she swayed. “Hey!" she yelled to Chance “the girl’s going to faint.” Chance took Smoky’s arm. “Here, don’t do that now,” he begged. “Not with ail the reporters and photo­ graphers upstairs.” Smoky sat down on the steps daz­ edly. "I—I’ll be all right.” Torchy was so excited she was, for the moment, incoherent. In a few seconds Smoky got up. “I—.suppose I’ll have to see them.” She was ghastly white without make­ up. “So I might as well get it over with. “You’ll find 'em under your bed when you get home, if you don’t,” Chance predicted, grinning happily. It was the great moment of his life as a theatrical press agent, and he meant to make the best of it. UHAI’TER XXVIII When Torchy and Smoky made their way through the throng That stormed back after the show. Sham­ rock had her first taste of what it meant to he a celebrity. Outside the door was another mob and Torchy made the most of it, smiling prettily and trying to look sympathetic and helpful at the same time. It was Torchy’s great mom­ ent, too. because the photographers had included her in some of the pic­ tures. “There she is!” some one cried us the girls tried to break through. There was a hum of excitement. Two girls asked Smoky for her autograph, and, because Torchy whispered for her to do it, she sign­ ed her name. Shamrock O’Toole. Torchy told her down the street: “I’d have made it Shamrock O’Toole Stacy. Smoky. Don’t be a sap. If you don’t make the best of this oppor­ tunity, you won’t have another like it come along knocking at your door. Tex's father isn’t showing any con­ sideration for you, is he? Telling the reporters your husband married you when he was in such a state mentally he didnt know about it. Rot! T don’t believe it. What’s the matter with a guy marrying you, I’d like to know? You’re the most beau­ tiful girl in our show, and that’s from the bottom of my heart.” Headlines Scream! Torchy paused for breath and spied a newsstand. Look!” she point­ ed, gasping. “Headlines!” She opened her purse and grabbed for nickels and pennies. Then she gathered up an armful of papers and took Smoky’s arm excitedly: “I’m dying to get into the subway so we can read them.” she jumped up and down with glee. “Oh, boy, what a break for you, Smoky!” Shamrock followed her into the subway with no show of enthusiasm whatsoever. Torchy marveled at her indiffer­ ence. “Honestly, Smoky,” she told her with a puzzled frown, “I don’t get you. Look! You’re in the show business. You want to be famous. Everybody does. With all due re­ spect to you, my friend, you’re not the best dancer in the world and you can’t sing! So what! So you marry the son of a millionaire Gov­ ernor and the world is your oyster, with a pearl in it. And you look like you’ve just buried your best friend.” Smoky said sadly: “I did. Tor­ chy.” “Oh!” Torchy’s hand went to her mouth. “Forgive me. Smoky. I’d forgotten all about your father dy­ ing.” “That’s all right,” Shamrock said wanly. “I know you are talking to me for my own good. But I just don’t seem to be able to see things your way. I wish I could.” They stood waiting for an As­ toria train and Torchy said: “Maybe you really love Tex. Maybe you thought he really was just a cow­ boy.” “I did think so,” Smoky confess­ ed. “And. believe me. Torchy, I’m sorry he isn’t just a cowboy.” Urged To Take the Money "Well.” Torchy shrugged, “I sup­ pose there’s nothing anybody can say to you. You’ll just have to snap out of it and find somebody else. There’s no cure but another man. I know that.” When Smoky was silent Torchy babbled: “Believe me, Smoky, if you don’t take the Governor over for a cool million you ought to have your head examined. You were married under false pretenses, if you didn’t know who Tex was. Now his fathei thinks he can smear you and have the marriage annulled and leave you holding the bag with your broken heart in it. Don’t be a sap! Make them pay for it!” Shamrock said: “Tex’s father of­ fered me $250,000 this afternoon. But I told him if I gave Tex his freedom I wouldn’t do it because I wanted to be paid for it.” | “Oh, >you damn fool!” Torchy ex- | ploded. Who’s going to thank you I for making a martyr out of yourself.' What The Papers Said Inside the train they found a cor­ ner to themselves and Torchy open­ ed the papers. There were screaming headlines: “Broadway Cowboy Son of Gov­ ernor.” “Governor’s Son Marries Chorus Girl While Victim of Amnesia, Will Annul.” “Astoria’s Fireman’s Chorus Girl Daughter Bride of Millionaire Gov­ ernor’s Son.” “William Thayer Stacy, Jr., Mai- ries Chorine, Governor Claims Soil Mental Case.” Torchy read breathlessly: “In the most sensational romance Broadway has seen in many a moon, William Thayer Stacy. Jr., became the hus­ band of Shamrock O’Toole, red­ headed chorus girl of a few days ago. “Miss O’Toole, the daughter of an Astoria fireman who died last week, is one of the Ginger Snaps in the hit musical, ’Snapshots. Young Stacy, also a member of the com­ pany, is at present in an Astoria hospital suffering from an accident received when he was thrown from a horse two days ago. “Tonight, in an interview in his hotel suite. Governor Stacy told the press that his son had married Miss O’Toole while suffering from am­ nesia. He had not been seen by his family since walking off the campus at Harvard two months ago. At the time of his disappearance,. the Gov­ ernor’s son was dressed in a cow­ boy outfit, as he had come from the dress rehearsal of a play in which he was to sing the lead. “With the Governor is Miss Alicia Lowery, beautiful society girl whose engagement to the Stacy scion had been announced just a week pre­ vious. She was pale and distraught and to questions as to wheher she planned to marry her former fiance when his marriage was annulled from the chorus girl, she replied that Governor Stacy would speak for her later. That she was too upset over her fiance's serious condition to discuss the matter with the press. Home Once More Torchy read on excidedly, but Smoky scarcely heard her because of the heaviness of her heart and the splitting pain in her head, When ’ THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE she opened the door of her home and turned on the light. Torchy ex­ claimed: “Oh, Smoky! This is a darling house. You certainly are lucky you don’t have to live in a hotel." Smoky sighed: “I'm so tired, Torchy. Let’s go right to bed." Torchy put an arm around her. “All right, darling. I know you’re just about dead. Maybe you’ll feel better if you get a good night’s sleep.” Torchy took the papers upstairs with her, and while she undressed she gazed happily on all the head­ lines and her pictures. “You’ll feel different when you get a lot of offers to go to Holly­ wood and pose for things after all this publicity. You wait and see,” she babbled. After Torchy wa- asleep, Smoky lay aching with weariness but un­ able to close her eyes. Finally she got up and went downstairs and lay down on Clancy’s bed in the dark, The imprint of his dear head was still on the pillow. After a little while she relaxed because of the feeling she always had that Clancy’s presence was in the little room. It seemed as tho’ her father was reasoning with her, trying to help her, telling her what to do. Smoky Makes a Decision Dawn was breaking the sky when Shamrock made her final decision. She would give Tex his freedom. She would permit Governor Stacy to have the marriage annulled. It was the only honourable thing to do. She was sure her father would want her to. She would go out of his life while he didn’t remember. Later in the ; day she would call Governor Stacy at his hotel and tell him that she I would not go to the hospital again. ! They could take Tex back home as soon as he was able to be moved. “I’ll never, never see him again!” Smoky cried in her broken heart. And she knew that she was letting Tex go because she loved him. She could not bear to have his dear gray eyes stare at her blankly or hear him say: “Smoky? Smoky? No, I don’t remember yon. I’m sorry.” CHAPTER XXIX At 9 o’clock in the morning Sham­ rock called the Harvey-Plaza and told Tex’s father "he had decided it was best for Tex to go home. He could annul the marriage, and she. would give them no further trouble. “How much?” asked the Gover­ nor at the other end of the wire. (To be Continued) (’LANDE BO YE W. I. j i The August meeting of the W. I. I was held at the home of Mrs. Jas. I Paton. The meeting opened with the Institute Ode and Lord’s Pray­ er. Scripture was read by Mrs. David Henry. The roll was answered by “My Favorite Sport.” Lucille Gilbert, Marion Bice and Irene McNaughton gave a demonstration on Club Girls entertain. The remainder of the af­ ternoon was spent in sports: Girls & boys under 6, Joan Wilson; girls and boys 6 to 8, John Simpson and Bar- j bara Simpson; girls and boys 8 to 12, Margaret Bice and Joan Simp­ son; pounding the nail, Mrs. Jos. Simpson, Mrs. James Paton; kicking the slipper, Margaret Bice, Mrs. Wilmer Scott; feeding the blind, M. Bice and Mrs. Rupert Williams; Mrs. Frank Hardy and Mrs. Wilmer Scott dropping clothes pins, Mrs. Cecil Carter, Gwynneth McGowan and M. Neil. Lunch was then served to about 70 people. DEFINITIONS VACATION — Temporary relief from bills contracted last Christmas. CANNIBAL — one who loves his fellow man. PRESS AGENT — a bill poster with a superiority complex. ARCHIVES — where Noah kept his bees. USHER — one who takes a lead­ ing part at the theatre. FLIRT — A liit-and-run lover. ATHLETE — a b'unch of muscles too dignified to -work. CEMETARY — A marble orchard. BUTTRESS—-A female goat. ALIMONY—the indemnity of sex war. CAKE-EATER —• something that has weaned himself from food by eating in tea rooms. MARRIAGE--the extreme penalty of petting. FRIENDS-— those who dislike tho same people. BORE — a man who talks about himself when you want to talk about yourself. STATISTICIAN — a person who comes to the rescue of figures that cannot lie for themselves. CONSULT — to seek another’s approval of a course already decided upon. HUG — a round-about way of ex­ pressing affection. PLUS Goodrich I EQUALS MORE TIRE FOR YOUR DOLLAR MISTER/ the Goodrich Silvertown wipers, the Life- Tread sweeps right and left, it out through deep grooves. tike a battery of wind­ shield Saver water forces the „___—. making a dry track for the rubber to grip. Blow-Out Protection Too, With The Famous Golden Ply! GIVESYOU A DRY TRACK IN WET, SLIPPERY Sunoco Service and Garage Two darkies were discussing an accident to a mutual friend and Sam observed: “Suttingly am to bad Jefferson lost his laigs when de engine come along.” y “M,ought be wuse,” consoled the other, “Jeff had powerful bad rheu­ matism in dem laigs.” R' Facilities Highways Your Next Visit to TORONTO Try Hotel Waverley Located on Wide Spadlna Ave. at College St. Easy Parking Convenient to • Single -Rstes Ooub|°;Four to Room, $5.00 to $6.00 • Close to the University, Parliament Buildings, Maple Leaf Gardens, Theatres, Hospitals, Wholesale Houses, and the Fashionable Retail Shopping District. A> Mi POWELL, president $1.50 to $2.50 $2.50 to $5.00 Johnny Pinktoe and the Picnic Di’. 1). A- Anderson "Uli, Mother, if it slrould rain to­ day I think I shall go crazy.” “Why, Johnnie, what makes you talk like that? Didnt’ you hear your Daddy say only yesterday that the cucumbers were almost drying up for want of rain?” “Yes mother but couldn’t it rain tomorrow or yesterday just as well. Don’t you know this is the day of our picnic, and Daddy has the car all shined up and plenty of gasoline in so that we won’t get stuck on the way out and when we get there we can drive all around the park and see the gillabazooks and bears and all the lovely birds?” “Yes, Johnnie, and then you can lie down on the nice grass and sleep all afternoon while I hold your foot­ ball for you.” “Yes, mama, like fun you will! Now wouldn’t that be a dandy pic­ nic? If it doesn’t rain, and I once get there, you’ll see what I’ll do — but it won’t be sleep. I really be­ lieve the sun is shining this minute and it is going to be a nice day." “Toot, toot, get your baskets and cushions. This is going to be a love­ ly day, bring your ball and bat and ■ your football too, Johhnie.” “Alright Daddy, and I’ll bring my running shoes too." So after tucking the basket and everything into the big car, Johnnie and the rest of the family got in and away they went gliding through the clear bright air and soon they ar­ rived at the park. “Hip hooray” cried Johnnie as he leaped from the auto. “Hip hooray” cried his Daddy in response. Then Johnnie went over to his Mother and whispered, “I think our Daddy is going to be pretty good na- tured today.” And his Mother said, “Well see that you are too my boy.” Not much time was wasted during the afternoon for very soon Johnnie and his Daddy were having a game of football, and soon two other pa­ pas with a little boy eah came to watch Johnnie and his Father play­ ing. And before long Teddy Jones said “I'll tell you what we’ll do. We three boys will play you big men a game of footbal.” “Ha! Ha!” said Mr. Jones, “We will soon beat you boys.“ But they found that the boys could kick the ball over their heads, and then slide thro’ between their legs and get the ball again while the Daddy was wondering where the ball was. Then the other Daddies would laugh and get out of breath and the boys would kick the ball right through the goal and win the game. The boys won three straight. You just should have heard the Mamas laugh at those stiff old gray­ headed Dads. But everybody enjoy­ ed the fun just the same. Then the three little boys played base ball while the three men lay down on the grass and smoked and talked about what they would do if they were only boys again. All of a sudden some one called out “dinner, dinner”. And all of those boys ran and fell over their Daddies and then jumped up and raced them to the tables, .and what do you suppose they saw there? Why all the Mamas had put their baskets together and spread the din­ ner out on one table. They had radishes and onions, ham sandwiches, hard boiled eggs, nice green lettuce, fresh from the gar­ den, apple pie and cream on it, pumpkin and blueberry pie, plenty of nice milk for the boys and besides all this each one had a big dish of ice cream. After dinner the hoys played “hide and seek” while the women were packing up the dishes, and then they all walked around to see the bears, monkeys, buffalo find deer. And everybody said that Johnnie had been a good boy. He never once got cross or said bad things to the boys. And the next time I write I will tell you what a good boy John­ nie is to work. Plant Disease Study In the development of certified seed potatoes, the Division of Plant Pathology, Dominion Department of Agriculture, has made an outstand­ ing accomplishment in the control of virus diseases affecting that crop. 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