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by Phyllis Moore Gallagher
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CHATTER XVII Thinking of Baby
Peg Whs to remember December
as one of the happiest months’she
had ever known. The card affair,
she had decided with relief, was
oyer and done with, Those men had
pulled a clever ruse on Aunt
Mehalie, had g o t the all-important
card and that was evidently that.
Hewitt was constantly at Aunt Me
halie’s in the evenings for his in
vitations were lulling somewhat as
folks, including Polks, migrated
to Florida and as the fever of en
tertaining the debutantes began to
abate with preparations for family
Christmases.
Hewitt had told Peg that these
quiet evenings in (Georgetown were
really a godsend. “When there’s
a social lull like this it's swell for
tired wits and overstrained nerves,
but it’s fowl for business,” he had
explained, seriously.
is a funny place. I don t know of “For me?” he had said and
any other city in the country where yojce shook a little. ‘Well,
you lunch and dine with those with:be , „
whom you do business, where the,
business conversation flows into the*
social hour, where impromptu con
ferences of grpat importance are
held on drawing-room settees and
where policies of deepest concern
are decided at a dinner table.
“There’s a close tie between the
social and administrative and busi
ness worlds here. That’s one of the
things you’ll have 10 understand
fully when we’re married, Peg. Your
part of the scheme,
exactly
are an
looked
a wife
band in this bqrg.
watched it happen.“
■and An-
you can
to come,
boxes, For Joan, for Peg, for Dun
can and Anthony, Aunt Mehalie,
Hewitt and Uncle Nathaniel,
Uncle Nathaniel had moodily con
sented to spend Christmas Day in
Washington. “But it’s a truce for
just one day,” he had wired in reply
to Joan’s invitation, “You
thony chose your beds and
lie in them, I don’t want
but I shall,” *
'He had come. A thin, tall, heavily
paunched old man. Spoiled by his
money, his power. But Peg knew
that despite the way he barked at
Joan and Anthony, he loved them
in his way; he believed in his puzz
led old heart that he had done and
was doing what was best for them.
There had been a wash of mist in his
eyes as they had all opened their
presents Christmas morning before
the burning yule log and had handed
him, finally, a great stack of‘’Washington and sjiyer noxeSi red
his
I’ll
left that night, carrying
presents with as much
he carried his million-dol-
Those presents had
She
“Care of the
Infant.” She was say-
this book says that a
open place on the top
and when you’re hand-
ment looking around the spacious
living room.
It was starkly modernistic. The
furniture was steel and leather,
wooti and fun glass and chromium.
The color scheme was nearly all
white, severely surgical, with the ex
ception of two scarlet chairs by a
charming fireplacec.
It was exactly the sort of place
she had imagined Hewitt would
have. And yet it was a little difficult
to visualize him in it.
And then she wondered briefly if
Thalia Polk had ever stood beside
Hewitt in this window when the
evening hung like a glittering
drapery over the city — and was
promptly ashamed of herself for the
thought,
CoughingFrom Directorate
Public Kelatipns Army
Bell Telephone
Annual Report
The effect of wartime restrictions
on telephone service is shown in the
62nd annual report of The Bell Tele
phone Company of Canada, issued
recently.
Under the Wartime Prices and
Trade Board’s order issued last Ap
ril, 30,000 applications, mainly for
residence telephones, had to be de-
; pied. The report credits employees
for handling applications with such
judgment and
thirty appeals
Board.
As a result
telephones was
ed with 63,651 during 1941.
the end Of 1942, there were 925,414
Bell Telephones operating in Ontario
and Quebec,
Service Standard High
To safeguard vital war business,
telephone users were asked to avoid
non-essential long distance calls. An
average of 87,000 long distance con
nections were made daily, compared
with 77,000 in 1941.
Despite wartime conditions, ser
vice has fallen only slightly below
the standard of previous years. The
average time of 102 seconds re
quired to establish a long dis
tance connection was 12 seconds
longer than in 1941, and 90 pei’
cent of all such connections were
completed while the caller remained
at the telephone.
Staff ancl Material Shortages
At the end of last year, 1,463 men
and 93 women had left the company
for war service. The company has
also been called to provide men
experienced in communication work
for wartime duties in many parts
i of the continent. Their contribu-
tact that fewer than
were made to the
A fighting Scot from a- fighting
family is Cpl. Mary V; Mackenzie,
C.W’.A.C., of Thapiesville Ontario,
stationed at Wolseley Barracks, Lon
don, She has a'burning ambition to
get overseas and behind her patriot
ic desire is a personel reason who is
a prisoner of war in Germany,
Cpl, Mackenzie was born in Stor
noway, Scotland, She has a sister,
Lance Corpora} I, Mackenzie in the
C.W.A.C., and a second brother with
the Royal Air Force in Africa.
When the call came for women to
enlist she was among the first to ap
ply. Asked her main reason for en
listing, she replied, ‘'Many reasons,
basically because I do not believe in
Nazism.”
Would she like to go overseas? I
would consider it a privilege to take
my brother’s place if possible, or re
lease a man to do it . Above all I
would like to serve with the Essex
Scottish Regiment,” she said. Pier
fiance, Pte. Andrew Cudmore, of
Windsor, 'Ontario, was with the regi
ment when he fell at Dieppe.
As a stenographei’ and orderly
room clerk she had replaced a man
capable of serving in the front lines.
Life with the C.W.A.C. is very en
joyable, she relates. “I think the
chief reason I have learned to like
and keep interested in my job is be
cause -of the interest my officers
have taken in my trying to learn the
difficult angles of the work. All of
us have been treated wonderfully,
and with respectful
manner.”
Since enlisting in
Corporal Mackenzie
has obtained a new view on. life. “I
have made friendships that are last
ing and I know there are plenty of
young men and women who share
my views regarding oui’ future. The
experience of working together and
seeing the commonsense attitude to
wards our social problems proves
that social conscience' in youth is
still much alive,”
“Of course, I realize that we are
all together because our common in
terests draw us into Active Service
but I know that what we learn of
living together in the Army will stay
with us in the very hard days of re
construction to follow.”
Cpl. Mackenzie added, “Our main
idea in- jenlisting was to release men
and I think it is a point too often
overlooked. In my work I see men
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But Maizie didn’t answer,
wasn’t listening. She had .turned
back to the Government pamphlet
she was reading on
Very Young
ing, “Gee,
baby has an
of his dome
ling him you’ve got to remember
that always, It doesn’t close UP un
til he’s 18 months old!”
Peg smiled over the potatoes she
was pealing, “How many more days
now, Maizie?”
“The doctor said about a week,”
and she grinned. “Gee, it’s good
that Donald got the job at the
station zlast week,
about the swellest Christmas pres-] Company, Benedict University, Presi-
ent aii expectant mother ever had,I dent Sutter Hospital. Member Cham-
believe me, That job—and having a’ber of Commerce,
friend like you, Peg. You’ve bccuj
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without you, and if I sound nasty j Chase Clubs. Boca Raton Club, Flori-
about Hewitt it’s only because—I’d da. Methodist. Founder of Bates' In
die if you made a mistake. Honest
I would, honey,”
Bates’
place.
card filed
The card
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5, 1928.
Self-made,
children,
Retired,February
What Peg Found
<0
She found the cabinet on Hewitt’s
desk and Joseph
in its exact right
said: f
Joseph Bates.
Married Louisa Phillips.
No alma mater. Two
Justin, 37; Mavis, 29.
gas (Director the American Trust Co.,
That was just!American Storage and Safety Vault
Board of Trade
You’ve beenj Almas Temple, City, Racquet, Con-
I couldn’t have got along gressional, Columbia and Chevy
trained with understanding a n d
foresight, not only for the present
needs of the Army but with their
own future careers in civil life also
in mind.
I see soldiers leave our unit as
skilled tradesmen apd I realize that
I have helped a little, while they
have been with us. I have learned to
appreciate how big Canada is and
have met men from all parts of it.”
In finishing on her views of
C.W.A.C. life, Cpl, Mackenzie said,
“I think the Army has helped me in
many ways and think we will make
better and more useful citizens for
having been in it.”
ternational Novelties. Interested in
golf, salt water fishing, bridge.
Doesn’t drink and doesn’t approve of
it. Sensitive about size of ears. Dis
likes risque jokes, New Deal, Ameri
cans gadding to Europe instead of
seeing Amrica first. Sensitive about
antecedents. Golf and Jeffersonian
democracy easiest approach. .
There was much more, Peg looked
at the card in sheer amazement., _ . ____ M____
Thn she turned her eyes back on the i tion to war and defence measures
long box and discovered, slowly and ! has been highly praised by the auth-
painfully, that every man of wealth orities concerned, the report says,
and position i n Washington was
catalogued in detail on a card.
She found the Senator Polk’s card, of .suPPHes and the utmost use is
Thalia’s name dutifully noted —■ i
“Dotes on daughter and can be!
reached through her when no one
else could touch him.” She found!
Qtto Nelson’s card, obviously a very
old one, which said: “Chance of a
partnership in this firm if all the
angles are handled correctly.”
Peg sat down at the desk, sudden
ly trembling and a little sick. She
knew Hewitt made a business of his
social life.
He ferreted out information about
people, he discerned
chink in the othOr
and made the most
met him, He was
chameleon, changing to meet any
occasion,
golfer, an
thusiast.
He not
had a dozen personalities.
He had
his little
gravity as
lai' business.
meant something very dear to him.
Gifts when he had. always been the
giver. Presents bought out of Joan’s
slim savings, Anthony’s, Peg’s and
Aunt Mehalie’s. At the airport wait
ing for his plane he had faced Joan
and Anthony. He had said gruffly:
“Well, maybe you’re a better judge
of a bed than I .” He had pawed his
sharp beak of a nose, self-con-
i sciously. “I’ve had a grand time,
folks,” he had said. And they knew
he had meant it.
I I
Wives don’t
dominate the scene but they
integral part of it.” He had;
at her rather soberly. “And
can make or break her hus-
I know. I’ve
Wedding Plans
Peg had remembered that when
slie and Joan went shopping for her
trousseau on
and had let
chases. She
pie ted their
would be in
announcement of their engagement
preceding it by two or three weeks.
“ They would * lfd®eyfnoon oh a
Saturday afternoons
it influence her pur-
and Hewitt had com-
plans. The weddiug
March with a formal
It was on Saturday after Christ
mas that Hewitt gave Peg her ring
A big square-cut diamond, flashing
with small emeralds flanking it. An
exquisite, sparkling, lovely thing
Peg had gasped over it. “Oh, Hew
itt, you shouldn't have, darling. It’s
—it’s much too gorgeous. I—I feel
like Mrs. Astorbilt or something!”
To which Hewitt had said, very
soberly: “It isn’t too gorgeous at all.
! I wouldn’t want you to wear any-
ship’s cruise with a possible stop- thing less for an engagement ring,
over in Bermuda. When they re- peg.”
turned they would take a hotel suite | Sbe bad wondered bKiefly without
not at one of the biggest hotels but realizing tHat she did if Hewitt had
definitely a good one. Hewitt had I bought tbg p.ug fop her QWn perSonal
made her see that the right address. dsl.gfc fQr whafc people woulfl
was vital. Peg had teased Hewitt (thiuk Qf Mg selection.
a little about all this. We sound, j Duncan, coming back from New
she had said, wrinkling her nose at) York> gaw the ripg for the first time
him, “as if we were going into a>
business partnership
marriage.” to which Hewitt had
said, very evenly, “in a way we are.
Marriage is a business. Some wives
find it out and their husbands go
places. Others don’t and they grub
along for the Test of their lives.”
Almost every evening that month
Anthony came barging in from the
State Department or parties he had
been to. He would drop his hat on
th hall table and stay for dinner at
the slightest bid from anybody. He
never stayed long if Hewitt was
there.
Anthony was the only reason for
December not being quite so perfect, peg’s engagement ring,
as it might have been. He was al-* at the office said: “Wihew!”
ways beautifully gay, completely in-j “Gosh!” and “Boy, what a head-
■ - ■ - - • ■ - light!”
Joan and Aunt Mehalie had to try
it on again and again to admire
its flash and gleam. But Maizie
, ■ , J Darton, lying on the sofa in her liv-But Peg knew that he was notliug room ,as :pGg moved about in
happy beneath all that lacquer of (tbe kitchen fixing her supper> said;
gaiety. And there wasn t anything <<peg tbat ring bag an evji gieam,
she could do to take the hurt out of Maybe x don>t like R becauSe it
his eyes. She was almost hopeful 1 makes me terribly conscious of the
when Joan told her that Evangeline holes in my overstUffed furniture
instead of!
terested in the Christmas presents
she and Joan had bought. He took
a part in some of the wrapping and
mailing, came in one night loaded
down with Christmas tree gadgets.
Martin’s father had been sent to
Washington for duty at the British
Embassy. Joan had explained that
Anthony .had known Evangeline in
Shanghai when her father was there.
They had been quite good friends
and Evangeline had called him
promptly on arriving in the city.
He had been seeing a good bit of her.
Cay Party
Off to Thalia
ii
!
some contacts there. “I’ll put!
minute of my trip to good use
there, Peg. The Polks know
one in .the three-bracket for-
1’11 make some very impor-
get a nice
I certainly
her, be back
The introduction of new regu
lations has increased the problem yet comradely
Follow the Classifieds—they save
you money.
and seeme d to have the same re
action.
It was good to see Duncan almost
natural again. Only occasionally
would she find that queer, stricken
look in his eyes. But almost as
quickly as it came it went, for Joan,
seeing it, too, would say something
bright and sparkling and completely
ridiculous,
ment Duncan
her: “Come
go .truckin’.
an orchestra that really knows how
to get in the groove.*. .”
Maizie Darton was the only one
who didn't go into raptures
Three days before New Year’s
Hewitt flew to Palm Beach on busi
ness to see some customers and to
make
every
down
every
tunes,
tant contacts and I’ll
tan besides, Which
need.”
He wouldn’t', he told
until the first of February, or at the
latest February 15. “But you’ll hear
all the dope, darling. I’ll write every
night and telephone three times a
week.”
And when Peg had looked so ut
terly miserable over the separation,
her blue eyes wide and unhappy,
Hewitt had taken her in his arms,
had held her close. With his cheek
against her soft hair, he had whis
pered: “If you're thinking of Thalia,
don’t do it, darling. You ought to
realize that now. No one in the
whole world counts but you . .
And so the days past. All - of
January. One week in February.
Peg got through them somehow.
There was her work, her school and
the plans for her wedding. There
were Aunt Mehalie’s Dames’ meet
ings and movies with girl friends
she had made in the city. Mazie had
her baby, a fine big boy, at exactly
one minute after 12 on New Year’s
morning. He was the first baby of
the year and got his pictures in all
the papers. Mr. Nelson had the flu
and recovered with a disposition
that was just about the rarest thing
Peg ever had coped with. Anthony
was seeing more than a good bit
Evangeline Martin. He came
Aunt Mehalie’s very seldom now.
unerringly the
fellow’s armor
of it when ne
a sort of social
a lover of golf with a
angler with a fishing
only had personality;
(To be continued)
WATERFLOODED
PARKHILL HOMES
of
to
I
And in the next mo-
would be saying to
on, carrot-top. .Let’s
I know where there’s
House Robbed
■F
over
The girls
and
i
Then there was Christmas Eve
itself with a big tree in the dining
room, gleaming with new tinsel and
frosty lights and a glorious gilt star.
Beneath it were stacks of colorful
i
and the windows that need wash
ing, and those red-checked curtains
in the kitchen. Maybe I don’t like
it because I don’t like Hewitt Gill
—much. I hope I’m wrong about
that ,guy, Peg. But I .said my little
say long ago and I can’t take it back
just because you got yourself en
gaged to him. After all I’m a rare
dame. One of those consistent
kinds.”
Peg said, gently: You’re 'wrong
about Hewitt, Maizie. He’s hard
and ruthless at the office, but he
isn’t really like that When you get
to knew him.
But January wasn’t all monotony
for Peg. Dn four different occasions
Aunt Mehalie’s house was broken
into. Twice the place was left in a
shambles, chairs overturned, cush
ions slashed, pictures lopsided on
the walls, drawers hanging open.
Neither Peg nor Aunt Mehalie
could understand it. They counted
the silver. They went through Aunt
Mehalie’s jewel box carefully. They
checked up on everything they could
think of, still nothing seemed to be
missing. Nor could the police un
derstand it. It was finally believed
that a group of Georgetown boys
tough little mugs on the loose who
were raiding grocery stores and
laundries and some private homes,
had broken into Aunt Mehalie’s out
of the sheer delight of vandalism.
This had satisfied Peg for a day or
It seemed likely enough ex-
That is, until she re-
tliat card again. And
thought, “I wonder .
a blank wall. There was
two.
planation,
membered
then she
but faced
no answer for her, of course.
The Parkhill volunteer fire de
partment worked Thursday after
noon and all Friday night pumping
water out of the cellar at the resi
dence of Rev. F. A. McCardle. When
the firemen were first called there
were twenty-two inches of water in
the cellar, the furnace fire was out
and the water poured back from the
drain into the cellar as fast as it
could be pumped out. Several homes
in the south part of Parkhill had
water in the cellars and on Main
Street several furnace fires were out
as the result of the water backing
up in the cellars after the heavy
rains on Wednesday.
It was at first thought it was sur
face water backing up at Father
McCardle’s residence. Then Mayor'
Thomas Browning and Councillor W.
Sturdivant investigated the drain to
see if it was clogged at the outlet,
but still the water poured into the
cellar. The Water Commission
claimed it was not. a broken main.
At six o’clock Thursday night the
cement floor was forced up by the
pressure of the water underneath.
The firemen worked in relays during
day and all through the night in an
effort to keep the water out and the
furnace going.
CHAPTER XVIII
MRS. MUSTARD' IS
A Help Io Those Mo
Are hst Middle Age
When men and women get past middle age their
energy and activity, m many instances, begin to de
cline, and their general vitality is on the wane.
Little ailments and sicknesses seem harder to
shako off than formerly, and, here and there, Evidences
of a breakdown begin to appear
.. Now is the time those wishing to help maintain their health and vigour
should take a course of Milburn’s Health and Nerve Pills.
They help tone up and invigorate tho patient by tlieir tonic action on
the system. ’
Price 50c a box, 65 pills, at all drug counters.
Look for oui? trade mark a “Red Heart” on the package,
Tlio T< MilblirU Cd,, iiinuted, ToroHtd, Ont.
It was on the first Saturday in
February that Peg received a tele
gram from Hewitt. He would return
to Washington on the 15th, Would
Peg please go to his apartment and
get the Joseph Bates card which was
filed in the cabinet oir his desk in
the library? Would she wire him the
information on that card at the very
first possible second? She could get
the key to iiis apartment from the
third drawer of his office desk. Lots
of love, He could hardly wait to
see her again. He was counting the
minutes until the 15th.
Peg left the office immediately
with the key and went straight to
Hewitt’s apartment on Connecticut!
Avenue. She had never been there!
before and she was a little excited)
at the prospect of seeing where*
Hewitt lived. ’ “ ____ ____________
Hewitt’s door she stood a long mo- Forest, of ttovonto.-
BURIED AT BRUOEFIELD
The funeral took place Saturday
at Brucefield of a former resident
ill the person of Mrs. James Mus
tard
week
9 3rd
ship,
When
Mr.
Stahley Township where they were
pioneers in the London Road dis
trict. Later they moved to Bruco-
field, where her marriage took place
to James Mustard, who predeceased
her in 1SH. In 1914 Mrs. Mustard
and her two daughters, Mary and
Annie, moved to iChesley, Besides
her daughters nt home she is sur
vived by one son, James, on the
When she opened!homestead and one brother, George
who died Thursday of last
at her home in Ohesley In her
year. Born in Whitby Town-
Christina Forest was taken
an Infant with her° parents,
and Mrs. George Forest, to
he
19 41. The company
various . governments
the subscribers ad-
amounting to $2,-
ovei’
for
from
taxes
en-
Phone 31w
. Monthly Batea >
j being made of salvaged materials,
while employment of substitutes is
under continuous review.
Gross revenue amounted to $56,-
540,007, an increase of $5,061,967
over 1941.
Expenses and Taxes Rise
The payment of a cost-of-living
bonus to most employees caused an
increase of $1,839,449 over 1941 in
the company’s payroll, which amount
ed to $20,369,030.
Taxes amounted to $10,004,000,
an increase of $2,59 4,000, or 35
per cent
collected
directly
ditional
540,000.
Had the excess profits tax been
in effect throughout-. 1942, earnings
available for dividends would have
been $7.00 instead of $8i.00 a share.
s agin the law
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