The Brussels Post, 1925-4-22, Page 6PACTS ABOUT TEA SBR EM! AiNO,, F+
Tea Production Today
if the Chinese, who first discovered tea,
had realized the possibilities 'of. the trade
and had studied the nature and require-
ments of the plant, China might still be
the largest tea producing country. Cen,.
turies of neglect, however, stunted the •
growth and caused the quality to deterior-
ate. In the mountains of Ceylon and
India, tea was found to flourish. Scientific
methods of cultivation and manufacture
were introduced with remarkable results. ,
Now tlee finest tea grown in the world and
by far the largest quantity comes from
these countries. `f SALADA" is mainly
blended from flavoury India and Ceylon
teas.
Ze
Q"^°',ur/ skirts sof the crowd with a t stain
calm reserve O dignity, Henryy ltlaraka-
' ^ banks the Cerra l'.'dwarti banker, was
oeten'point d o ati ea the best lean in
tts�eat_eC untryaide, u nieters not sac-
a�zlrfu(lt'fleru Osburne, .of the ICrk-on-the-
CHAPTER .XVIII.
/tin TAKING tie 'tee erne.
;vert" your ways .in,sir," said the;
elides., Steady voice of the Ruling Elder, •
aa sitting waiting for the completion
of the family circle he observed a
visiter stand at hi.. door.
"I have business, with you, Mr.
In the after silence followed the
reading of the word, the story of
Gideon's night surprise and "victory,
and the simple and dignified prayer
ending with these words:
"And keep Thou the stranger within
these aur gates. Console and succour
him, bringing good to Thy cause and
Thy servants from his presence and
THE SLENDERIZING TAILORED
GOWN.
Every woman must include in her
wardrobe the one-piece tailored gown
that has become as much of a neces- inferior popularity. For "banker" in
sity as her house -dress. It gives Scotland beans bank agent, and Mr.
IIII, by general concent the best miter
1 aster, nodded hia head approvingly
when he heard the verdict of the poses,
tar mouth,
Mr. Marchbanks was a fellow elder
of Matthew Armour's, though a man
wef not quite half his years. 3e had
few social comings and goings, sew
with the like-minded and like -hearted
intimates whom he had drawn about
him, But there was ne man of such
good and approven counsel in twenty
parishes, The row of red leather
Oliver and Boyd'e almanacics in his
,'little consulting room et the Bank of
Scotland had listened to more secrets
than any score of lawyers' desks in
the South Country, Wherever there
was a widow in trouble, a good man in
the toils, an orphan left aline there
was Henry Marchbanks, his tel , slen-
der figure and calm face lifting him
above common men. And if you stood
watching him in any gathering of folk
in his ,own or a •neingboring parish,
you would see grim, faces soften as
they came near ,him. Strong hands
were silently stretched out to shake
his, with the grip which means that
the tongue may say little but the heart
has not forgotten. The salt water
would stand in some woman's eyes as
she mindedher of the hour of her
calamity, and thought of what had
been done for her in that day and of
the man who did it,
Yet no one dared to thank Henry
Marchbanks in public, hardly even in
private. But the general heart ap-
proved hi mas the man who in all the.
country stood most out of reach of sel-
fish ends, the one friend whose mo-
tives were above suspicion, the helper
to whom those in trouble went straight
as dove to its window.
Yet Henry Marchbanks was not a
rich man, and could give little money
'away in comparison with others of far
slender lines and has a well-dressed Marchbanks' income had never in all
as well as a business air. In these his life equalled that of a tradesman
days of luncheons and teas combined in a, good way of business in the tows.
with 'the shopping tour, madam eT- Yet when in the fulness of time the
first School Board came to Claire Ede],
ways )looks chic in her one-piece tailor- were, and the people considered the
ed costume. The picture shows No. probabilities, they never speculated
1069 made up in dark kasha, with about who would be top of the pol.
lighter kasha used for collar, vestee, They only discussed the second place
cuts' trimmings, pocket pipings and —for, "of eoorse, Moister Marclibanks
buttons. The gown closes with one will be at the head o' the poll. No a
Arnu.ar,'• said the Sheriff's officer,: errand. And to Thee be all the glory. large button and hound buttonhee A eraitur that can scart wr' a eallevine
gravtly in his most professional tone.; Amen'"• set-in pocket at the right front, `from but will gie him a vote! Which thing a saclifice that shall clear our hearts
'•I have her., a paper•--•---"
the easy.' way . .
wash clothes with less rubbing
Mrs. Experience gives her method
of getting clothes -spotlessly white
. merely by soaking.
"It's so easy, really! There's no hard fobbing,, so
wearing on clothes—no boiling, 'ndtoiling over wash, '
tubs. Here's the way I do my weekly wash.
"I merely soap- the clothes lightly with Sunlight Soap,
• roll them up tightly and put them' to soak for 30 Jninutes or
an hour. That's all. Sunlight dissolves all dirt and greases`
spots, so that in rinsing, the dirt just runs away. , A pure soap
like Sunlight rinses away quickly and completely; an. impure '
".soip stays and injures the clothes. w e •
"For dishes and all housework, Sunlight is excellent and
really economical,, trio, because every bit of it is pure, cleansing '
soap. ` And more good news—Sunlight keejzs the hands soft
and comfortable." Lever Brothers Limited, Toronto, make it.
1'
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f The family rose, and the Sheriff's which a crisp handkerchief protrudes, in due time befell. And Benry March-
banks
and let us has the richt to look every
de-
-le 1• the hour of worship." return -:officer with them. Ile did not now, adds another interest to this comfort- banks. became for ,a and season the that manfn'the_face, owing po zuanaoy-
ed the Eid'e; let business wait." 'seem to be in any such hurry to de- able dress. Picots, heavy cottons and man of the board, and piloted that thing. Yet I will not do it •without
"1 het r• here 0 paper--" Meer his missive. He sat down an 0
crani and unseaworthy bark with. your approval, Vire aeries faced the
"I.At it wait, sir."said the EIder, chair in a frame of mind palpably', linens lend themselves to this useful rare judgment through perils o€' Wail.' sae lang tiaegzther, you and me;
With fire •.+-.»s. "I bid you to sit down.' .111 at. ease. i design It is splendid for the woman waters, ecclesiastical and political. Margot Annelle, to tae divided nosv,
And the mar. sat down with an i11 "And now, Moister Gilroy,'said the of large proportions, as well as for Then after three somewhat barren' tivhen the lilt is dark and the thunder
amr:ncl Fran, for he was smarting gnodman of Durnal, "ye shall hae some, the morass lender figure. Cut in sizes and thankless years he retired, and wakens up there among the bills."
the treatment he had received .supper before we consider your Mss—', 38 to 48 inches bust. Si:.e 42 requires never again could be induced to as i "heathy, Mathy," said his-. wife,
fr<os, Betty Landsborough. • sage. Margaret, will you set the •
,a;l yards of 36 -inch material. Width.sume public duties; for, as he said catching at the old man's hand and
"Are we all hers present?" said table?" ; when •pressed, after all these things holding it in hers, "what for doss the
at lower edge 'of sldrt in medium size
Matthew Armour, looking reverently{ For the Elder held to the oldScot- were not his sphree I Lord use us this way? It is juist as
i 13i yards. •Such was the man who now stood by
about. fish saying that there can be no suit-! if we hadna tried to sr've Him., Yet
His wife nodded her head, a little; ahte discourse between a full man and s Matthew Armour in the day of for forty year we hoe striven, and
t ,i haw whish rustled the tris a fasting.
;the roof the new house of Kirkoswald, trouble.
1" "'` p' all that could be seen of it from the never forgotten to sail morning rind
white linen of her mutat„ 1 When the Sheriff's officer had finish far za teading of Dornai, glittered The sale proceeded to its somewhat evening on His name. And after a'
"Then let us; worship God in the' ed his repast, Matthew Ardour smiled sombre end. The cows one by one Ile. has forgotten us.me Is it richt o'
y3lth Psalm at the fifth verse." And`upon him and said. "And now, sir, you.cappery in the red light went under the hammer. The horses grin, Mathy—d'ye think it is richt o'
the Elder read the psalm of the night. will hide with us this night. The room' a a est we
forgive aid them -
Ruling tr spas were brought into the ring and led the Almighty?"
Then rang out Iike a battle chant: and bed are ready, and the night is g out. Rob Armour's Hp quivered, (To be continued.)
the noble rugged numbers of Cid Hun- dark, and you have far to go before. and went like a man with his mind at strangely at the thought that never'
tired and Twenty-fourth, throbbing:you reach your home, ease, to do the morning duties of the again would he lead Bess and Jean.
over the moorlands even as in days of At this Willie Gilroy, who had done farm. to the plough, in the morning when! Mirtarces Lintel' Fine Tor the ;Halt:
the Covenant. With such fer•vors.so many messages of pain and brought* the birds were twittering their brief a
quickening their pulses and steadying, trouble into so many houses, found, CHAPTER XIX. ]little winter song of thanksgiving for Sarcasm is the sting used by a cer-
their souls, Matthew Armour's fore- himself embarrassed for the first time' THE ROtrr OF THE ARMOURS. open weather and the seagulls were tain breed of drone bee too lazy to
fathers had stood in line at Drumclog, in his life, 1 . sweeping aloft—nor ever again ride learn how much better honey is.
or made ready to ride into the smother "You had better see this first," he' Biterly the wind piped across the them home with outstretched necks of
of that last charge at Ayrsmoss. And said, and handing him the folded pa-! moorlands. It rushe depth the onstead
none can ever understand Scotland per he leaned back in his chair intent -'of the Black Dornal, singing one high
from whom these things are hidden. Iy watching the face of the Elder. ' level note like an express whistling
The goodman of Darnel took the as it rushes into a tunnel, It was the
The raging streams, long blue legal document, and straight-; Tuesday before the Martinmas term,)
With the proud swelling waves, ening it out upon the rough calf skin. and the day of the Armours' roup. I
Had then our souls cover of the Bible he carefully wiped. From far and near the people had
0 erwhelmed in the deep. his spectacles and set them on his nose gathered to gve Matthew Armour a
But blessed be God, with the natural dignity which mark- good send-off. As the harvest had
Who doth us safely keep, ed all his actions. been an excellent one, their pockets.
And hath not given Then, drawing the candles nearer,' were well lined with .silier and' their
Us for a living prey he began tp peruse the contents. The hearts with pity; for by this time all
Unto their teeth writing set forth with much circum -;the world knew that it was his son-!
And bloody cruelty. locution that upon the twenty-fourth', in-law who was putting the Elder out
The lines ere rude, almost like the day of November, being Michaelmas.of his ancient holding. 1
improvised song of some Celtic bard term day, Matthew Armour was called His three sons, Rob, Allen, and
stormily triumphing over a battlefield upon to uit the farm of Black Donal Archbald, busied- themselves with^
of slain enemies. and to remove therefromall his stock;
bringing forward the horses and
cat-'
implements, furniture, bestial, and tle into the yard where Muckle Jock'
which ntheCvoce of gentler
I nd bor !everything belonging or appertaining Bennet, the auctioneer from Cairn'
ough thrilled like a mavis singing int to him from the lands, outhouses, Edward, had been playing his oldest
the springtime eopses. dwelling -houses and all other places and most successful jokes for three
upon the said lands. This he was to long hours, and getting the best prices
for ever hi from the ood an
-
do at .the instance of Walter Mac Yt ng gd
Walter of Kirkoswald, proprietor of kindly folk of the united parishes of
Even tie a bird
Out of the fowler's snare
Escapes away,
So is our soul set free.
Broke are their nets
And thus escaped we.
Therefore our help
Is in the Lord's Great Name,
Who heaven and earth
By Ills great power did frame.
Atisusamasiaraimammeaskso
`after every meal."
. Parentsr- encourage Me
children M ca-tbrtheir teeth/
•
Give them Wrigley S,'i
It removes food particles
front the teeth. Strengthens
the gums. Combats acid
month,
Refreshing aiul beneficial!
5'.EALED
TIGHT
REPT
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weariness, their chain -gear clanking
in the evening stillness as they turned
their feet gladly towards stable and
supper.
Betty Landsborough wept without
disguise in a corner of the empty.byre
in the intervals of servign refresh-
ments, and paid no heed to the compli-
ments of her many admirer. The
stalls, already void and cold, where
Fleckie and Bell would stand no more,
were too much for her.
"What for are ye a' forgrutten?"
said handsome Eckie Fergusson of
Langberns; "ye'll sune get thither
place. Faith, lass, I wad gie ye yin
myseP that we wadna he easy pitten
oot o'!"
But Betty passed on her way with-
out so much as a saucy look, and that
Y
sant much from a maid sready dy of
retort and so willing to exercise both
her charms and her repartee as Mis-
tress Elizabeth Landsborough.
I)ullar and Whine lr ate. In the milk -house to the north Mar -
the land aforesaid and of the stealing gy •gg • garet Armour was sitting by herself
and offices of the aforesaid Black There were others present at the on the stone shelf, which looked bare
Durnal. auction besides the country folk, Sou- and forlorn without its shining white
Having read it through twice very ter (of Snellgrove and Souter, the. wood basins and cool blue delf. She'
calmly, Matthew Armour folded the agents for the present proprietor) be- rocked herself to and fro.
paper and placed it between the pages mg the most prominent. He was a lit-! "Ochanee—ochaneel" she said soft -
of the Bible from which he lied been tle bow -shouldered man, with a repu- ly to herself, using the old half -Erse'
reading. titian for great sharpness. He went, keening cry of Galloway which most.
"This will await consideration tin hither and thither, pushing through; have now forgotten, but whish still
morning," he said aloud. And with the press about the "nowt-beasts,"1 comes uppermost on the lips of the
equal composure he engaged his guest and peering cynically at the cattle old when they mourn to themselves
in talk about the weather and the pros- d th ]h f g g
pects of the crops.
Presently the goodwife came in with
a candle in her hand.
"The room 1. ready," she said, smil-
ing upon the Sheriff's officer with hos-
liable oodwill, Willie Gilro felt
un er e e ows o some gigantic and •think that none are near.
farmer, as if mentally estimating how "Ochanee—that 1 should leave the
worthless a lot they were. 'bonny bit. Here I cam' a bride forty
Also, standing shyly en the out -{years since. Forty.yearn last May on
,the face o' thee Craigs Matthew lifted'
;me doon free the beast's back, and I.
grat on his shooder because 1 was sae
young to hae the care o' a hale farm
toon, and I thocht he wad be .disap-
pointed in me.
"And there by the saugh• tree was
our wee IAilise's garden, and she was'
that fond o' hs bit flooe s. 1 n
x r mind
she had a 'think o' daisies an' muekle
Itlel 1101110 dye• an'
ing and 'tinting Is white gowans ed none -so -pretty; Ay:
guttrantc 1 with Ole.
an when I geed to the kirk she wad
bring, mea bit emeerwood tar my kir-
No man can tell whether be is rich
or poor by turning to his ledger. It is
the heart that makes a man rich. He
is rich according to what he is, not
according to what he has.—Henry
Ward Beecher.
more crushed and /alterable. than het'
had done when Marget„his wife, lied'
died. Yet he told himself that he had
done no more than his duty. Winch
wastree enough; but conscience when
1t alta is an engine y irra
teethes, wholly-,,
tional and does not care even or the
best excuses.
"What was the man's .business?”
asked the goodwife of her husband
when the door had closed on their
guest.
'•Nothng that need vex us," answer-
ed her husband, calmly, "so being that
we carry it to a throne of grace. We
will take our sleep first. In the morn-
ing
orning we will consider it together,"
And being accustomed all her life
to depend upon her husband's judg-
ment, M x
aret Armour laid her head
g
But
allowand slept
down upon the p
the Elder lay all the night with un -
shut eye, praying to his God, till the
edges of the wndoicreeping
bl nd a d the early
bird cried in the rustling heeeh-trees;
Them he rose and went out. The
sun was rising and mnlcing of the east
a broad and even glory. A vane upon
BEAUTIFY IT WITH
"DIAMOND DYES"
mond Dyes. Just dip !.chief frac that bush *hare, that she
18 cold water to tinthersel' planted. She caa'ed it 'mith-
eaft, delicate shades,' er's snuff.' Aye, but shewas a Edit-
or ball to dye rich, , some bit thing as she ficl,tered by like
permanent • colors. `a butterflee among the flooere. Bless
Each 16 -cent package, the Lord that I never foresaw this.
contains directions iday, nor a' the sorrow that WAS to
to simple any wo I licht on her young life!"
nian can dye er tint., She hadnotheard the step behind
her s she sat on the cold stop seat
a c
lin oris 's lis
, i trig
g ,
r r But
drowned in sorrow and mrser
bans, skirts, waists, dresses, coats, a hared was laid on her shoulder --the
etncltlugs, swoators, draperies, rover, hand of the Ruling Elder.
fuss, hangings, everything pew . „ g "
Bay "Diamond Dyea"—no other kind 1 "Come your ways ben, Margit, he
—and talc your druggist whether the said; "we will go in and shut to the
t
material you wish to color is woof or; door.lThere is that to with done (illy y
only you can hc.p ms this lily
silk, .or whetber It is linen,cotton, or
mixed geode.
For Sore Fect---Mlnard's Lir:in,enL
up
r+t
AVOID
SUBSTITUTES
Only Kraft
Cheese is
.unvarying
indelicious
flavor and
top quality
Lots of 'Em.
First Bug -"What kind of• a beg is
that Dr. Bug over there?"
Second iing-"A humbug, I guess!"
laly $1
Here is great value in
Dairy Pails. We know
there exists a big de-
ni and for awelt-finished,
good wearing sanitary
dairy pail •selling at a
popular price. Here it
is—the sin P Dairy Pail,
new style. See them the
y em in
stores. 'Take a look at the
big ea notethe absence of
all cracks
cks and crevices --
and marls the low price—
only one dollar. Equip
your dairy throughout with
DAIRY
PAILS
17d
TFIE ROMANCE OF
THE PICTiONARY -;
The glory of eonzpaon things ie ee-
where more,evieeat, and yet nowhere
Mere unnoticed, than in language,
Science and legend, the four corners
oP the earth, the earliest history of
man, have all contributed to llaa
growth ot'cur ponnnon speech,
GO romantic aro the stories 01 anany
St our woi•iis that even the simplest
sentence contains histories (10110 as
tutot'eating as novels.
We have seen stow in recent years
our common tongue has been enriched
with such words, as "camouflage,"
"radio," and "Blighty," and we know
that over a thousand yearn ago the
vadery, 01 Bngland brought new worde
with them. This growth of Ianguage,
therefore, lane now thing; It has been
Suing an :through all the centuries.
"Plain as a P!Meataff.'
When we -Pay a thing is as "plain se
a pikestaff!* we refer to the times when
pilgrims carried staffs as .a symbol of
their 'vocation, white not "to care a
brass farthing" is an illusion to the do-'
based coinage Issuer by James II.
•When we partake of supper we
ought, aecordkng to t'he'origin of the
word, to take a "soy" of bread. soaked
in gravy, and because maax years ago
the' statue of a guest was'iudlcate1b at
the.. table by his position above u be-
low the salt -cellar, an unworthy pet,
son placed above the mark of degree.
was said to be not "worth his salt."
Who does not know the desultory
person, the man who begins a task and '
half -way through leaves -1t to another?
He is so-called because in a Roman
circus the athlete who sprang from
one horse to aaother was a "dosultor."
A horse going at an easy gallop is
said "to canter," simply because he is
Proceeding at a pace similar to that
of the pilgrims of» Canterbury; and a
milliner was at that a dealer in all
hinds of goods from Milan.
The Contribution of Books,
ltlany words and expressions in corn -
mon use cone from the Bible. A few
needing no explanation are "forbidden•
fruit," "IshmaeliteJ' "babel," "Good
Samaritan," anzj,'n'tvidows
Other books have contributed to the
common stock, Sir Thomas Marc's
visionary land of "Utopia" has now
given its name to any idealistic state,
and from "L11llput," the lanil of lit-
tle people vlslted by Gulliver, we have
our adjective, lilli,itutian,-.
yrom , a book called "Boohues."
which was written in a veryltigh-flown
artileial style, has conte our weird
"euphuistic, which describes language •
affected or bonrhestia.: ,
There bre even some words specially
coined to supply a detielency, Charles
Hands first used the word "suffra-
•gette," and Darwin the. phrase "sur-
vival of the fittest."
Other instances which sprang CO the
spied are Mr. Winston Clnirchlil'a
synonym for a lie, "terminological in-
exactitude"; and Mr. Lloyd George's
popular expression, "silver bullets,'
-Age-Old Secrets We Cannot
Solve.
Once a knife or a sword is broken
It Is unmendable, for without destroy-
ing its. temper there Is apparently no
completely successful process or weld-
ing steal,, Yet In the early part of the
last. century there lived in a small
Welsh villagea blacksmith who was
cable. within half an hour, to weld
broken
deteswords so sllfully thnone
ddetect the jokiining. Hisats vt
died with him.
How the ancients mixed their paint-
ing tlolors is still mystery. Marry pie-
tures on the walls of 'the excavated
city of Pompeii look fresh today, and
even the painted notices of au e"ection
about to take place when the unhappy
city waa destroyed still tell travellers;
in vivid colors, for
whore to vote.
The' Romans were. unsurpassed Ae
builders, anfl it is said that tbeir mor-
tar Is• almost imperishable. .
Still as good as it was when placed
between the stones 2,000 years ago,
Roman mortar resists the raveges of
time and climate in the nutlet remark-
able manner.
Another closely guarded secret of
the Romans was their method of mak-
ing bronze. Some of their swords of
bronze were as hard, and probably as
sharp, as ours o1 steel. But even .the
Romans were excelled in metal work
by that ancient and mysterious people
railed the Aztecs, who lived in Mexico
thousands of years ago. They POs -
1
AMW r _ ^ sessed the secret of making virgin cop -
fi4 r,a
let • 5
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IvWe benne ecs'respondenre frons mertl,ante who can get out and
sell radjo at, any season of the year, 'rise }lnrropi .agency i,'t
most di
i 11'tIrle, 'rhe rumrtat!on 0f \Iurcont receivers is weil-
establlelu'd Ilvc.r•y instrument Is guarmiteod, Salol are made
quickly. Buyer,: slay satisfled. Address Tile Marconi WVireless
Telegraph Cbmpauy of.,L'atusda, hhniteti, Moiitrettl"
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y✓�v' ifI0 ' IONt
a. o %t'edio
„y xnseress x x • • ,...a .. .
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per as heed as steel and capable of
taking the finest edge.
Scaredy anything would be more
valuable today than unbreakable glass
end many attempts have been thine to
prodtice 1t AA tine aueient%
d
id;Gob-
lets were 1Ade Of elastic gTAssnin the
reign of the Emperor Tiberius. His-
torians record that sotner of the drink
-
ink vassals then iu, usd svero crystal-
clear, yet as springy as steel.
0
A Sentence -Sermon.
'1`o hate et man—
Is to pet yourself beneath lila.
Is always easier than trying to nie
derstnnd him,
Is usually to confess that you do
notknow hitt,
p
Is the beginning of sufoldo of the
soul, ,•
Requires less mentality than*to ad•
that your difforenees.
Is to begin the wrecking of your own.
happiness.
is to be as guilty as ho la: