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The Exeter Times, 1923-9-6, Page 6$434r is the hest at any price y it e BYJ. den The sadness of Merrington's beatti, a ul face had always appealed to Ruth..: Te her he was rather pitiful. Ileought' to have married some woman who wound look after him. Merrington and her husband stood as far apart as the, two poles, Her husband was not the' sort of man who required to be looked after. He had always been in perfect; health and bad never seemed to Bove a care in the world, except the tre znenclous burden of his work. John Merrington., had wanted a woman to "mother" him, . And she was in love- with John Herrington, "You are giving up so much, Ruth," Merrington continued after a pause, "and I—I am giving up so little, If yon did change your mind I shouldn't blame you," }lis humility hurt her more than any words of reproach could have done. "Jack, dear," she said hurried- ly, "1 only meant that it would be safer for you to stay at Mr. Arding- ton's. I could take the train on. to Folkestone. Of course I haven't changed my mind. Do as you like, dear." "We'll keep to our plans," he re- plied. "Difficulties might arise—un- foreseen difficulties. I can't think what,put that idea into your . head, B. HARRIS-BURLAND Ruth. IIe quickened the speed of the car, CHAPTER, II. l She shuddered and shrank from the until the needle of the speedometer her. Wrapped • in her fur coat and t seemed to him. that if he did not sitting closet o the man she loved, and drive furiously something would over- protected by the wind -screen; she take him and rob him of all that he shivered with physical cold, and with had in the world. The little car, too an effort of her will she turned her light to hold the road at this, speed, thoughts backwards to the events of jumped about and vibrated most un - the past few hours. 'pleasantly. l Ruth closed her eyes for a few'min- How skilfullyathey: n had planned zt utes, and then suddenlyopened them all that -, to , P `t h her husbandcould do `� no o thing to interfere'with,,their schemes.' at what seemed to her to be the re - It was curious she though that she port of a pistol. She saw the car lurch ' thought, a to the left towards the strip of grass 'should have troubled to "cover up her bythe side of the road, heard the tracks." Not so very long ago she ginding of the brakes, and . Merring- ton would have Iaughed if anyone had t • 11 t "M God!" Then as his y , Swifter than the car moved through the darkness moved the thoughts of Ruth 13radney, : seated in silence by the side of John Merrington. Far, far ahead they travelled down a long road that seemed to' wind round and round the world—a road that it would take years to traverse, a road over which ' she might move very slowly after the first rush of passion and excitement that had swept her off her feet,. whirl- ed her along like a leaf before the storm, and sent her spinning into what plight not be a new heaven but was most certainly a new earth. Ef Save a packet tri year pocket for ever -ready refreshment. Aids digestion. Allays thirst. Soothes the throat For Quality,Flavor and the SealPackage, get�� with t: Cf: your S and uiiti The same Saplio' Powder that rids your home of flies, mos- quitoes, roaches and other pests will protect your livestock, poultry and pets from flies, . gnats, lice and other parasites. Kowa, protected from flies, give more xaillc : Horses do more work. /lens, free from lire, lay better. Szpho kills tall parasites. ' Startytiag it to -day. 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She had held her own of her seat and flung sideways on to against his coldness and his" art •er,sometliing _ that gave beneath her and even against a streak of brutality ; weight and wrapped her round and that seemed to have come into his held her fast like a network of strong, thick cords. When Ruth, half dazed and cruelly shaken, managed to free herself from the wide, tall hedge that had broken gentles ie,.ned9nri Stlien, cc:it.+ to �, �bnclo�ted f5 mho j,?oitee en e unci,peets• T 1E 1..c411tin tune on Name Adores.. .. Tip 35•-'-'23. nature. It was not until she had actu- ally decided to leave him that fear had begun to creep into her life. And it was fear that had made a her fall she could see ' nothing but cunning woman of her when it came to the taking of the last decisive step. It the white and red tail lamp of the car.It was an' oil lamp, and though the was fear that had prompted her se- electric headlights had been extin- eretly to purchase a new trunk and a ed, , l burnt sShe completely new outfit of clothes, and groped heit_r waytostilit, calledteaoutdily. "Jacky leave the trunk in the cloak -room at Jack!" and then, receiving no reply, Victoria Station. it was fear that managed to get the ,lamp out of its had induced her to tell her maid that socket and flashed the white light she was going to the theatre, and that from the number plate on to the grass her' maid was not to wait up for her. and road And then she had taken a ticket to She saw that which she had feared Clapham Junction, and John.Merring- to see, and running forward, she knelt ton had met her there with his small by Merrington's side. He was lying car. Except that she had not dressed on his back -quite motionless, with for the theatre there had been nothing' arms stretched out and eyes, closed. about her movements to attract sus -His face -was uninjured and so calm picion. Her husband would not return that he might almost have been asleep. to the house until about three o'clock She caught hold of his left wrist andm the morning. He would believe her pressed her fingers against the pulse. to be in bed and asleep. He would not It heat faintly but steadily. The great knownsleptt until the morning that she had fear passed away from her.' in the house. A long time "He has only fainted," she said to would elapse before he learnt the herself. He roust have fallen very, truth, and then she would be beyond heavily on the hard road and have lost his reach. Folkestone, Paris, Rome! ' She must find some She had a sift vision of the flight. water—get brandy from somewhere, He would not follow them farther perhaps. No, she could not leave him than a day's journey. But so long as there in the road. No doubt it would she was in England she was afraid of only be a matter of a few minutes be- lrim. She pictured him as swift to fore some car came by, and she could avenge his honor—a strong; terrible ask for help. They were on a main road, and had already passed dozens of cars moving from the south-east to London. Before a -minute had elapsed she man who would commit murder rather than be robbed of one of his posses- sions, even if he were tired of it. And she had forced John Merring- ton to take the same precautions. saw a white fan of light in the dis- tance. It was travelling in the same direction as she had travelledes She rose from her knees and went forward to meet the car, standing in its path so that it could not pass her by, and waving her arms. It slowed down and stopped within two yards of her, and a man called out, "What's •-the mat- ter?" "An accident—I want help." She came to the side of the car. "My hus- band's hurt," she continued. "He's ly- ing in the middle of the road." "Far on?" "About a hundred yards." "Jump in," said the voice. "I'm a doctor. My name's Trehorn. I only live a couple of miles away from here." She seated herself beside the drivel - and said nothing. She had suddenly realized that she would have to be careful what she said. Already she had spoken of Herrington as her hus- band. There was no reason why she should not have called him "a friend." But the word had slipped out of her mouth unawares. The big car glided on for a few sec- onds and came to a standstill. Dr. Trehorn sprang out of itand knelt down by Merrington's side. Rut:', alighting more slowly, for she was. John Merrington had a friend who lived in Kent fifty miles out of London, and he had told his wife that he was going to spend a couple of days with this man. That had been very simple indeed. "Like a thief—like two thieves," thought Ruth, "flying from justice." That ugly idea came into her mind and asserted itself. There was no get- ting away from it. In the fierce tu- mult of the last fortnight her mind had perhaps not been able to think quite clearly. Love had , obscured everything. But now, rushing through the cold night air, she was more criti- cal of her action. "How far are we from London, Jack?" she asked. "Oh, about forty miles, dear," Mer- rington answered with a laugh. "Are we anywhere near Mr. Ard- ington's house?" "Ardington?" he queried. "Yes, Jack dear—your friend, who lives at Dedbury." "About ten miles farther on, I should think. Yes, about that." "Don't you think you had better stop the night there?" said Ruth, after a•pause. "I' will go on to Falke- stone, and you—you could leave your friend's house early in the morning- in time to catch the boat." Merrington drew in his breath the aching in every limb, saw Trehorn for first time in the glare of the head - sharply and slowed down the car, until lamps. He was a young moan with a • it . was travelling at no more than 'ordinary clean-shaven face -a rather' twelve miles an hour. y of 1 "Ruth, you—you have not changed' and nwith young very remarkable your. mind?" l about his appearance. pat she liked "No, no, Jack—I only though*,—" �� I the look of him. He.seemed capable. If you have changed your mind,"1 "Where do you live?" he asked. he continued—"well, it is not too late." "Far from here?" She was silent. She had not clang- I "Yes'=in London. We were on our ed her mind, but she was moot hor- way to Folkestone." ribly afraid. Her mind had gone for- "You're off the main road," he said. ward into the future and hack into busy all the time with his eyes and the past, and it had travelled in storm fingers. "Did you know that?" and darkness. ut the �iou. AN ATTRACTIVE' NEiGLI. G1aIC. . 4425. Foulard is here portrayed with girdle and bindings of satin in a contrasting color. 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"The adenoids and eye trouble can be cot rected in a short time, if the parents will give the matter serious attention. Take the children to the family doctor, and when he gives advice in reference to these matters, act at once." Statistics covering many years show that nine out of every ten persons over twenty-one usually have imper- fect sight. At thirty-onethe propor- tion is larger. Above forty it is al- most impossible to find a man or wo- man with perfect sight, . For the last 100 years the profession has wrestled in vain with the problem, finding no means compatible with the conditions of modern Iife for preventingerrors of refraction, and no means of reliev- ing them except by 'eyeglasses. It was learned , some years ago by the examination of several thousand school children in one of our large cities that 66 per cent. ofthem had de- fective vision of such ":a degree as to warrant the wearing of glasseq. Quite' recently the examination of 'No." He had not been angry at her sup-' "This" is a by -road to Dedbury," he gestion. "Perhaps," she thought, "he continued. "Luck I came along Not too is afraid." The fact that she laved rneny people go along this road at him did not blind her to his !Wilts- night." She knew he . had little strength . of i "Dedbury;" the echoed, and she 're - character, He had not even been able membered that Ardington lived at to cope with Paula, his pretty, petu- lant, empty-headed butterfly of a wile, i "Yes ---well, you've got pluck, and whose uselfieh extravagance had been you'll keep you,. lame, Your husband the C se o any quarrels over maybe;rather badly hurt. T think i. d money and all ever -widening brei:,c;lz better take him along to my house, Be - in his married life. 1 tween es we cin get him into my car. ' She glanced up at Merril -II -St -01).s I can do nootllint for him here," ,face, dimly beautiful in the faint light Rath fall :'rtad � ort some words' of from the lamp on the dashboard: it gratitude. She could do nothing less. Was the face of ono who soon;:'.• rr Put it seentirrl to her as thou,•h she later wouid give something of extra.- was already it the Rtoyivt ordinary beauty to the World—a1)0001, nets ;she had ^en ---to fa.r, off" an the' a song, a picture, a building,, or a ata- lo'i1 road of lifi. tue. It was almost a contrast to the rra be continued: big, strong, athletic body of the ,roan •, • I ) too small a head foe` such a vii orotls -----,:,-.------- framework of bones and anuscles, Minaret's'- ' - Liniment fbr Dandruff, N Haves u nier Hea ThlslMlitze '' AWarm law aseand acool cellar day and night tare win- ter throe h: And a saviti in your coal bilis of from zc,'sosoZ A KELSEY WA€tel AIR GENERATOR in your cellnrwill ensurathis. 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'.•} N �YG ? hVtblyyf:, ,Y+'+�.�{y ,,,..SCS,•.+s _,f G!!�SiOG,• �rt£.vS,.irr.1+ .+✓f. n ' ...a.;+.,t'6 •. +r.3fc++hd.}:2+�:•; MAKING BATIK Japan and China litre to embroider 'Colora on materials; Sumatra dyes the threads and weaves them. in; India stamps the material, and the South Sea islands -paint it, put Java, writes Miss Minnie Prost Bands in Asia, !ma a method all its own. Batik, as the process 'it called, is a science, an ant, an industry, a religion, a mystery, an inheritance and, a• treasure ',peculiar to. that tropical island. 13atik •-makers draw their desigu in hot wax on white cotton cloth and then color the un covered parts of the pattern by dip- ping the waxed, cloth again all.d again into vats of vegetable dye. ' The batilcer draws by letting the hot wax flow from the miniature spout of a small copper cup, or tjanting, which is fastened securely to one end, of, it short bamboo handle, The Jav- anese invented the instrument, but whether batik was original with them or was introduced from abroad is not clear. AN we know for certain is that the patient Javanese have bean mak, ing this lovely cloth for centuries on centuries, . Uses English Cotton. The Javanese batiker - o1 , modern:" tines, no matter what hoer socialsta.': tion, insists on having only the very finest weave of English cotton. She wants a closely woven material on. 'Which she can write es if on paper, and on which the wax will form a sup- erficial layer- instead of penetrating between the thread's. .Having bought the goods, she tears them and hems the' edges with a fine hen', She needs neither pattern nor scissors. If' the batik is to be a headdress' for her hus- band, it must measure each way forty- two inches; if it is to be a sarong, or skirt, for herself . or for her husband, it . will be eighty-four by forty-two inches; if it is to be a breast cloth for herself ora siting for binding her baby to tier, it will be eighty-four by twenty- one inches. Having hemmed the pied, she is ready to make it mateng, or ripe. The ripening process, which pre- pares the goods far absorbing the dyes, consists in 'soaking and drying it from five to ten tines a day usuallli for a period of from six to twelve days, The dip used` 10 a mixture of peanut oil or castor oil and lye -made from the ashes of rice stubble. The treat- ment, Which in one part of Java lasts as long as forty days, gives the pussy- willow, velvety feeling of Java batiks and changes the original fabric, so that it no longer resembles calico but suggests the texture of silk, cotton and velvet combined. Now,the batiker starches the cloth with sago, aaaSs,va, or rice, flour. Then site irons it and, begins to' lay out the design, using horizonal, vertical and- diagonal guide linen applied with a stick, or ,mereT folding and creasing the goods as • the pattern requires. If the design' to be applied Is, one that she has not yet learned by heart, she bastes the new' material on the 01d' batik and ' by means of the light :that shines through the two pieces] of cloth as they hang over lier bamboo rack traces in wax 'the outline of the principal figures. The details she fills in free-hand. When the drawing is complete on one side she turns the goods over and by means of the light shining through traces the design in wax on the re- verse side. Thus there is no right and wrong side to a battik. Long Tropical Hours. The batik. maker, even with steady application during the twelve light hours " of a tropical clay, must squa4 for many days on her pandan met bei fore her easel to finish a wax painting of fairly intricate design. Of course she waxes her pattern and boils out "` the wax and rewaxes the pattern for every additional pure color. In middle Java, where the most typical batiks are made, the dyeing__. process consists of three steppe the Indigo bath, the aoga bath for the warn] red -brown colors and the cream tinting of the wax -tree goods. The taskof dyeing ins' as tedious a task as preparing the goods. It may ' take weeks. The result, however, is 'color that is everlasting. Batik is a long process; but when it is finished :the Javanese has a ;;gar- meat that after five years of constant wear will :still be beautiful and; if donned only on festive days, will re- tain its magnificence for a lifetime. It is not .unusual to see a Dutch girl in Javo wearing a batik that, though it appears to be in a newborn glory, was worn by lies' mother and her granel mother before lier! 'How Pigeons Find 'Ther ' Find Their .0, WAY. Until recently there was a general .' impretiition that pigeons' found their way home by imsti'nct and not by sight T -his theory hos been desilraved, bow.: ever, as the following incident shows. A pigeon, released from a balloon' a utile and 'a hall above the ground, was tinable to see the earth below on account of a thick blanket of clouds. The bird flew around for some little tir'''e, then, giving up ,a hope of find- ing' RCS' way home, settled down com+. fortahly oat the balloon.' After a time a rift appeared In the L clouds. The pigeon, swooped from the baaccur through they gap in the vapor, and two lours later had delivered Its massage. Letting a plan go wrong because he is your friend is as fo,et`sh as spoiling a child because ha is Clio:,., f