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The Exeter Times, 1923-7-19, Page 2produced i e world is arown n the mountain slooPes of Ceylon and India. These rare tears. � le e p ivc to �;�? ,.. . , f Wrcr beYerld comp TEA EMI JUST—TRY ET. --BY MRS. JOHN atreil1Y. PART I. Toward evening, the wind grew stronger, bringing with it a cold rain. Mrs. Lester peered into the thickening darkness. "Pll. - ut.,, another log on the fire, put -Grandma," Mrs. Lester said, _-"and light upalittle more so that it will, seem good to the family to get home." "There's George now," Grand- mother Lester said, her face bright- ening "It's this: shall' we buy that oriental rug that looks as if -it belonged to us?" "Agnes," said Grandmother Lester, turning to her daughter-in-law, "if you feel that you would like to have that rug, get it. I've no doubt that it's worth economizing for,. or you wouldn't even be considering it. "To be sure, Agnes, let us get it," said Mr. Lester smiling kindly at his Wife. "It's a long.time since the fam- ily has' indulged in anything other than a necessity. To have a thing of "Well! Home for the night and real beauty in our home would be glad of, hie', Mr. Lester was tall, worth more than money. Do get it!" spare and white-haired. He laid his Ina spoke up with' all., the wisdom hand. caressingly across his mother's„ r shoulders. "As soon as'I stepped off of her young; years. W e Lesters. of the car, I caught; the light in the ought to realize that fact. Our house upper tower -xoom and it beckoned so is dreadfully run-down looking and dget home. And et, its been a seat a =! I must have waited on atgleast.mean to: Mother, most of all. I sup - two hundred freshmen and half as pose that they are glorying in the fact many sophomores. Just being with, that they have dozens of Persian rugs, them, makes me feel young, Agnes.! and 'floor -lamps, and half a dozen Are the children borne ,yet”" 'automobiles apiece! But, for my part, "They're coming now, I think. 'Sup -`I d' a great' deal sooner be as poor as per's ready -all of you!" she cried, as we are—and be-decent—than that Myrtle and Ina, rosy and tingling sort of new -rich with the cold, came into the room, fol.e • "Ina!" her father said mildly re lowed by Glen, whose stalwart `form monstrant, "you can't judge. Your almost filled the doorway. mother' would be the last person in Mr. Lester, for years country clerk the world to bait for friendship. We in a small country town, had moved to must nit forget that we` are living in the city a few months ago with his the city and that it is not customary family, so that the ` children might for neighbors to be freely neighborly." have -educational advantages. He had i "You'd better buy it, Mother," said obtained a position as storekeeper for: Glen. "We want to begin to get used the Physics Laboratory at the Uni- to beautiful things—I mean, really versity, which brought him only a artistic ones, for, you know, some day, modest salary, Myrtle hoped to enter I'm going to build the 'sort of houses the University the next year. She had that will neeclthe finest rugs. That is, a position in the office of - one of the if I succeed,", he added, suddenly ern - largest stores in the city. Gren, who : barrassed as he caught the answering had just turned twenty, 'had a position glow in the faces about him. with _a manufacturing company, and Holder's, where Myrtle worked, was saving . his money for a four-' carried the largest stock ` of oriental years' course in architecture. Ina,' rugs in'the city. Mrs. Lester had seen fifteen, was attending high school.'the rug in the window on display and Family, .listen! Myrtle cried,, as its peculiar beauty had taken posses - they were about to leave the table.' sion of her, "Just as if .I had woven Mother has asked me to preside over it out of myself, telling how I feel the de ,ision of an important matter." towards folks" she thought. "I like "State the question," demanded that rug,"she had said tor Myrtle, Grandmother Lester. "better than any I have ever seen be- fore. I wish that we could afford to have one like that. Find out how much it costs." Myrtle inquired of Mr. Chesney, assistant in the rug department, and Mr. Chesney asked to be allowed to initiate her into the respective merits of oriental rugs. Then she too agreed, with her mother, that there was just one in the lot that was peculiarly suit - td to the Lesters. In case they bought the rug,: Mr. Chesney had made a sec- ond and more reasonable price. • "We've conte to buy our rug, Mr. Chesney,"' Mrs. Lester said, following the family decision. "I'm beginning to understand why these rugs take one's fancy so.'They are like some- thing living. This one looks like kindness to me—like an open fire and. hospitality and good friends." "They don't 'suspect that all of my commission goes with that rug but :I, wanted her to have a real treasure," Mr. Chesney said to himself, as he attended to the details of the purchase. That evening, Mrs. Lester spread the rug upon the floor for the family's inspection. It was an oblong, not more than a yard wide, with` a back- ground of deep soft blue, over which medallions of quaint flower -forms merged their variegated, jewel-like colors, the whole subdued with a sheen like summer' haze across shade' v - purpled hills. "It's like poetry," said Mr. Lester. The new rug was laid in the little square room on the ground floor of the tower, It would have been the parlor if the' Lesters had needed one in addition to their living room. Its furniture consisted only of. the 'rug, the old walnut cupboard, the hickory summer chairs, and the wide brick fireplace, above which hung Grand- 'father's sword. I "Surely no one will think that I am baiting for neighbors," said Mrs. Les- ter weeks later as she carefully spread the precious c#ous thing over the railing o$ the verandah. "And yet," she thought whimsically,. "how happy I should be cheerily that I could scarcely wait to that s the reason these rich people pay : d a �e hon to us. Its not fan. I A^.: ' AV..r,aHT,.si`/..1:N+ 4R'71£-- i IFA; :.. �@��'?tw•.*"'Si ..r Take. it home to the _kids Have a packet in your pocket for an ever -ready treat. A delicious confec- tion and an aid to:;, the teeth, appetite, digestion, a Sealed in its Purity Package LC, Here tsThePurr) pYOU Need A TAN ,a11 -41M aouaIE ACT/NO Pumps ,more easily, more iientl.}-and more efficiently than the Wirig type model which it has definitely replaced Repairs easily with made household tools. Can be drained to prevent freezing_ Easily primed. .Ass ABOUT Ar5 T nF.T YOUR F1AROwARC STORE e ;JAl'1ES SMATZT:PLANT BROCKVILLr,ONT, Wk3vazG' >d0.'2 Ab the House THE SUMMER BR,IDE'S KITCHEN FAD. Do the Prides of your neighborhood: have the various fads that,ehange and vary as much as the new styles: and fashions? They do in our section; and a fad that is very popular 'with them here at present is the enameled drop-leaf 'dining -tables. And it is net. only brides who are indulging in this fad, either. Many women e1 v h0 only have small families are investing a few cents and a Iittle time in these attractive accessories.. All of the second-hand stores of our town have been ransacked in. search' of the old-fashioned dining- room tables with drop -leaves at the side, and for kitchen chairs of at-' tractive' design. These ,are selected in as quaint a pattern as possible, and are of soft wood that has been painted, , instead of varnished. Both the table and chairs are well rubbed with sandpaper, until every sign of the paint or varnish hasbeen removed. They are then painted with three coats of paint. Some use ivory for this, while some prefer white, but 1 think the inost: attractive ones I have seen are of a soft gray color. After the paint is applied, a thor- ough coating of enarriel of the same - color is put on. Then they are de- corated with some design, usually a conventional pattern, put on with enamel. If the furniture is ivory, canary yellow and black may be used for *the • design; while there are no colors that look so well on gray as some of the soft pastel shades. Old blue may predominate. The very beauty and attractiveness of such a set as the one I have de- scribed would be reason enough for any, bride to choose it for the main part of her dining -room furniture; but the sinall cost is an added virtue, and has an added appeal to most brides who prefer to start their mar- ried life, living in a frugal way, that it may be easier for the couple to "get a start." -N. Portrey. MAKING THINGS STICK. Besides being of invaluable aid in the medicine chest or cabinet, adhesive tape may be used as first aid in in- numerable cases of household 'emer- gency. It may be made so useful that the housewife should never be with- out it. After - cementing broken" glass or china it may be applied to the out- side to hold the parts in place until they become thoroughly dry. When the glass in the oven door accidentally gets broken a very satis- of them?" This, from always eager Ina. "It was Mrs. Finley, thewomanwho works for the Hardys, the Heatherbys and Pettibrooks." "0 -oh!" Ina's exclamation register- ed disappointment. "How did she happen to come?" "The rug did it! This afternoon, about two o'clock -when I thought that the rug had aired long enough, I went to bring it into the house. It was gond. I walked all around the house, looking everywhere. I decided to call up the police station. Just then, I caught sight of a bit of purple, hanging on that sharp prong of the gate. It was a piece, of the' rug. I walked down the street a way, looking. ' Then, I found another piece, just as if it had been torn out with a jagged fork " "Oh, Mother!" cried Myrtle, "our beautiful rug!" "I thought a dog must have torn it down. Still, I couldn't And any other trace of it. I was sick at heart. About four o'clock some one knocked at the side door. It was a woman, carrying our rug rolled up under her arm. I could see that she had been crying. She was greatly distressed. She in- troduced herself as Mrs. Finley, the woman who washes for the neighbors. She said that her -dog had come home about an hour before, dragging the rug with hint. He was a big St. Ber- nerd, though not muchamore than a pup, and always getting into mischief. "She said she would have got rid of him save that her husband, who is somewhat of an invalid, was greatly attached to him. , he knew the rug belonged to us for she had seen it hanging on the railing.She said that she was willing to pay for the damage, though she supposed it would be a great deal, for that kind of a rug was expensive. She went on, then, to tell about her family: they had had a great deal of sickness and trouble the last few years. 1 told her not to worry but to come right in and we'd talk it over. We looked at the rug—it might have been mutilated worse. It's in the tower -room now. , "As we talked, Mrs. Finley spoke of the neighbors, especially young Mrs. Hardy who has lost her baby; it died a few weeks before we moved here. The poor young mother does no- thing but grieve. Mrs. Finley also spoke of Mrs. Pettibrook as an un- usual woman, 'one in ten thousand.' I' wish I might know her." All the next day Mrs. Lester kept thinking about the neighbors. She Looked across the street, to the third house, the largest and finest. "Such a lonely ?'irl' in such a great house! If I coir only go to her and comforts her?", , .'r 4rr4 r ,r w,..:.> As the ;days passed, Mrs. Lester.'s longing to show Mrs. Hardy that she cared, grew stronger.. How could she , let her grieve alone! In the home town she 'would have known bow to take comfort to her. She must fi:lid way` now, too.' She would have to think of a way. She pondered and thenhad an idea which she shared „only with. Grandmother Lester. (To be continued.) Idinard's L,ninicrst or Corn and Wartp if this rug was really a charm to draw nei hbors!" Ori a fa. re, crisp autumn clay, Mrs. Lester again hung the mug over the railing and stroked its silky surface tenderly. It was such a lovely thing and it seemed as of it silently breathed a message fe endl,,ipess azjd godd Will; " suppose thaFther`e are a food friallYeleeoele who wouldn't' care AliciaAlicialmrxiediatde ln„'eighbors," she thought, "bu13, "somehiit`�V' or other; having friends hail grown to be a part a no and I'm getting too old to change. I wish I did' not think so much about it i» "We had i caller to -day," Mrs. Les- ter said, as they sat together at the evening meal. "I'M so glad that she came 1' 'R) Mother! At last! Which one A NEAT AND SIMPLE FROCT l'OR .A TITTLE GIRL. 4374. Blue and white dotted dimity is here shown—bias' bands of blue organdy form the decoration. This would be pretty in yellow pongee with the. trimming in white or in green organdy, with frills of white. The. sleeve may be short, or, in wrist length, finished with a band cuff. The Pattern is cut in -4 Sizes': 1, 2, 4, and 5 -years.' A 4 -year size requires 21A . yards of 36 -inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 10c in silver or stamps.. factory temporary repair may be effected by applying adhesive tape to each side of the break. If the glass top of the percolator seems to suddenly leap from its proper position and cleaves: asunder upon the floor it may be mended with adhesive tape until another may be purchased. When, paringany hard fruit, or vegetable, protect the 'inside of the thumb and forefinger with pieces of adhesive tape. When ripping seams with a knife or razor blade, wrap the blade with "ad- hesive tape to within an inch of the and to prevent injury to the fingers and fabric. In case a break comes in your rub- ber gloves apply a patch of adhesive tape to the underside of the cut or break. It may be used in the seine manner to mend kid gloves, using a bit of dye or ink to stain the patch to match the gloves. Use adhesive tape to cover the open- ing in the bottom of salt or pepper shaker instead of cork, which is often hard to remove and often slips inside. When., small cuts or breaks appear in the table oilcloth they may be mend- ed by applying; a strip of adhesive tape to the underside. ICE• CREAM SAUCE. For chocolate sauce to be served with ice cream, put one pound of light brown sugar into a saucepan with one quarter pint of milk, two ounces of chocolate, grated, and one ounce of butter. Boil together until it forms a soft ball when put in cold water. Take from the stove and flavorwith vanilla. To make carmel ice cream, pit one quart of milk in a double boiler and when hot add one tablespoonful of cornstarch which has been moistened with milk, yolks of four beaten eggs, and one-half cup of sugar. Scorch one cup of maple molasses or one-half pound of maple sugar. Add a little water to it, then add to :the custard. When cool, add one pint of cream and freeze. . Leave Me But "These, Leave me the kiss of the winds that 'pass, The love that is breathed by the whis- pering grass; • Leave me the friends that the woods do hide, The .joy .that the shingle shares with the tide. Leave me but these! 0 e th en Leave me the vision to' 'sea more clear These that to ire are still so dear Gad, grant me wisdom to recognize The love that is known not to, the eyes. God ---leave' me these! --Ian MacGregor. Have -I not.pia�id.thee'ytet en ugh? Wourd�s�t thou my pain makyet morerough. And blind my eyes to the zings still. dear, • And- chill mry heart to a froz tear? Ah no. not that! , 04, bhe—"Everybodly eibyll You cal hardly keep your head;a.bove Water.' He—"Well, that's only when I'm ori dry 0.0 If you look for a softs p, yon will find hard lilies: Canada's *Love for Great Britain. We love those little'roce-bound isles Whdcb nestle in the sea, We love her towers' and bulwarks grand, Their glorious history. We love Old England's mossY dells; Proud Sgotia's mountains hoar, Erin's' sweet fields of ''living green," Their minstrelsy and. lore. Dear Avou's banks, where "free to roams: Sweet songs sang glorious "will"; "Ye banks and braes' of 'Bonny boon" Where "gab's" gbost wonders still.. Where "Irish Nara's eyes grow dirn,", Where Moore's swee-t songs of love Diffuse their mystibrightuess round, Like incense from above. The cities by""Old Father Thames.," Whence wealth and culture flow; The "Silver Forth," "Dunedin's" towers, Their glamor and their glow. The purple hills of proud Argyle, Loch Katrine's rugged shore, Where 'Scott writ tales of love and hate, .' 'To charm •Us evermore. In 'thought we, fly to Flodden Field, Where Scotia's noblest fell, 'Gainst serried,' ranks of the gallant South; ' As ancient records tell. When ,tartan'd clans fierce . battle fought, With buckler and claymore, Where' Melrose shed her;mys'tic light, Amidst the clash of war. We glory en Great Britain's fame, Brave sons and daughters fair; Her mighty strength, her vast renown, And her protecting care. Let us, -"Thee Maple Leaf Forever," With loyal voices°sing, In union with each patriot's song, "God Save Our Gracious King." Robert Stark, ,op Brains Wanted. The teacher was 'discouraged over one dunce of a boy in the class, At last eno'rdeir to see what the bay would do, he said: " Flere's twopence; go and ask Dr. to give you twopence worth of brains." The lioy, coning back with a dull, alis a,pp'oiin%ed look, said to the teacher: "The doctor wouldn't give me any, brains-. Will 1 go -bask and say they are for you?„ Mlnarc!'s Llnirnen>r for Coughs & Cards The sun gives 800,000 tinies more light than the moon. Light from the Pole Star takes fifty- four years to reach the earth. Lifebuoy may safe- ly used on the tender- est skin. ' It is wonderfully cleansing, for little hands, faces and boc- les. Lifebrwy babies have beauti- ful healthy eautifelI,ealthy shins. LbC9 Two lines of "The Charge ,of- the' Light Brigade," spoken by the late Lord Tennyson, are recorded- Lon a phonograph record owned by a South African. ' E iERYWiiERE. Ii CANADA silent- bt � el octuer!t- TC El va. render, the maximum of helpful service. ALWAYS, ASK FOR:. EDDY'S MATCIiFS is not t I u stow that mustard ,coat did yo more �es8, and flavor to stion'� gives digestion? but also yourstimulates' itaids assimilation it adds Because . nourishment to ,foods. with ��Lil r White"' cuts .down the cost of sthe fin i ---�r.�;C fine Ta preserving—keeps color and fresh flavor oLthe berries, —and prevents "sugaaring". For an your° .Preserving, use -half sugar. and half "L41 White" Corn gy. ru l's ' 4 , At all grocer --fn 2 and 1011. tins. t� 9 arl. THE CANADA, STARCH CO.` LIMITED ' 307 WIITcH-IIE,R - In France, Midsummer E iio to spoiken of as tile 'Eve of i.he Nativity et Saint John- Baptist, and iii Brittany, if you chance to be'-ent oaf doorson Chits nlghtt, a straa;,ga sligfi,!t wii1l meet your Cyea, for:: from evuiy Mill bop a. b'eatcon 1lglit gsarn's and i;tlows. These 'are the Pities of Saint John, and in remote Fitn-iwlteo'e the event is spoken of as the Nlgivt 'oaf Fires. ,In• Provence the villagers assemble, ea-uh carrying samehousehold utensitl,'. widoli they beat, Braking as much, noise as possible, A process bn goes round the Village, Paayers being re- cited at inbi-vada"; for the success of the r,osis, for it is a general '.belief that` upon this nirlglat -depends, the success of the vinoya,rd, 1riut-orchard, and har- vest, Magic Spells In Sussex. Indeed, this belief inn magic spells tributes a 'bundle of firewood to the bonfire built on the Eve of Saint John iso allowed 'ane handful of the ashes next day, and "tftaeeeare strewed about his garden or scatterted 'ever his, field, The Bretons say that crops will flourish, and the harvest wilh be :'suc- cetssful. when this is done. But they take care not to disturb thte .asih'es un- til at least an hour,afer aeckcrow; for on Midsummer Eve bhe fairy folk are abroad, and . who ,can sty what-': will Happen?-' Indeed -.this belief in ;inlaglc spells being liooeedon this night seems pretty general, says an 'English writer. I have Met with it in the Midlands, I Have boe•n: warned in Cornwall'enot, to stir 'out on 'MidGuinmer Ere lest the "little folk" should do ane Barri, and in Sussex an old -Shepherd solemnly told me that on bias, night "spells were, cast and the Phani;etes- were out. -Phas'isiees in 'the Suiso+ox name for fairy talk of the hills - In many pants of Spain thane is a belief that ghosts are set free' on . this one night of the' year, therefore ft is dangerous to stir abroad. In Anrdalu- sea men and women, light bonfires' and sit and drink together, never looking behind thienr "lest ,they see' something that is not good. Where is the "Witch Elder?" Throughout Western Europe, indeed, tinetne seems- to be a mast' of supersti- tion and quaan,teleb end associated With the Eve of Saint John, and univorsal be lef in. the- wonderful porwer of the Were. Folk' on this -nigtbt, so that Woe betideanyoai}e *lie crosses then. ' In North Oxfordshire, whine village folk still believe in' washes, and where quaint tallies are toad of 'spells and charnels, Iles a lonesolme region indeed, and Mere, quite off the beaten track, is a perfect' Druid Circle, '"a miniature Stonehenge, thle hoary . stones having been there' toa deaneries. The 'Roivldirich country, with firs old fdik tales, and .witch stories, is Nv,e11 worth a visit, and- here , witedn the c:nrdlo, it is said., one may see 'fatties 00. Midsummer Eve. - To make doubly sure, however.; one should gather fern steed on the Eve of All Hallow's ,and keep it against tihe Nighh. of Saint John Baptist,iter; Nwithi the fern sieeld tightly held rn.your "lett. hand, It is said� you may' walk invis.- ihbe; Th:are lle a wonderful old legend about this .place, whi-cila tells the stony . of the Witch orf ,the Row,lid'tioh - who cluaniged h arself tnito-"an etdrerrn tragi." Id is• saleni(u1y stated tb1at,, if you find this . elder bush `o,n Midistunnaner Eve and cut it, the sap -will run out as blood. Agahi ana;d again have I hunted far thdts tree, hoping to .dlslcovea: the witch lady; but, as enders grow pretty lvileniti'fu�i�ly thteraa.boalttsy my sle�a,rclli Lae b onn iu vain. Can't You -See Them 2 Seated in that iniagic circle with -the, grey stones, of the Rowldrich • around, with the lonesome pines crooning ,ove>r'- ivead, ft le easy to believe' div elves and falrilels and -lin this sttrrautge,5t happen - Inge. But to feeil its magic- atmospheale, take my advice -and viisiGt the Drrrtd Cuneate roto Midsumaulea Eve, when faee spells are 1sosied and the Wee Folk are abroad; ' Whether you iraveo the :uharnn of tble fern seeds, or the nnagilcal spray' of S'a'itnit John's Wont, wthich i,% sauppnaeal : to ward off all danger, or w'hiatlieir yogi have safely tucked in, your besiom , MVlildlsuninrer rode, plucloed. light Mild.e milliner Day, and Since. laid away in muslin; es' 'whether rola go'as a seep - tic and un:belltovetr, and go umlairrnec with. any of the time•honorad channel, I warrant, you wii[i coque away O,oavilnlced that there its still magic on Mid3anx- mer Eye• Old Lamps for New. "The llldltlle girl across. the' way Turned up -hem 0ps0 at me to -day And, ail becauste Heir daddy's, goit A s 5ct wireless .set, and. Vl�©r blava not; And s:lite -oar .Ikea••Daine Melba; s1in And concerts, and that sort of ;tiling, While, best of. all (or sin she said), She listenls'in, ivlrien she's hi bead, Toraitry tale,,% by Radio -- A gentleman Chador's not'luuow,;awa.y! 1.171io speaks a haindred, miles. "Oh! she's a lucky gia'1, yiou'd1 say. Weill, Yes!, she is, I- think so too, And- yet I don't lre1deve -lo you? That.any wireless tune, can beat, :Oar blackbird stinging clear andisiweet, Or tbruslhteis,. with. 'their /nieirry song Ab!o uff the garden all, day long, Or, when iit'S dlalr'tk,,our atighitllp .ale Anti --talk about a faiay,itit,1le1--- I dlan'i: think Mr. Radio Ilas Muminli.ro'g voai;0a, sin, dear and litriVo And tlrorigh, he's, very rign!alrt and wgaIO, lie•lra�sn'tMunuinle'st sparkling oyes!" - -"G. 'r.'0 ie.c Mdmling POk r!A a1 1!