The Brussels Post, 1915-7-15, Page 211
' IE FATE OF AZU A y
Or, Tho South African Millionaire,
CHAPTER XVII.--(Cont'd).
"Well; well, we must see what we
can do. Ah, you ladies, when jewels
are coneerned, you have no hearts.
You are all the same."
He took a little case from his pock-
et, on the white velvet cushion of
which reposed three diamonds infin-
itely more lovely than those be had
given away, and he hooked them on
to the chain.
"In my 'country,". he said "we al-
t.
of 1Judith with fall her experience was
difficult to believe in.
Judith shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't see what it matters to any-
one, as long as it doesn't to me, he
says that if he were to part with her,
he would lose all his fortune! she
brings him luck or whatever it is."
"Him" Lady Glaucourt's lips seem-
ed to have grown suddenly thinner.
"Those kind of women are suppos-
ways give the biggest giff to the ed to bring luck I believe.
youngest person present to -night I Judith laughed.
think that that is Lady' Judith. Please "I am dying to see her, and I hope
Lady Judith accept a small remem-
brance of my dinner party, and I hope
that one day I may have the pleas-
ure of welcoming you all at "Hid -
away" (Hidaway was his place near
Johannesburg). He turned and gave
an order to one of the servants. So
far as he was concerned the incident
"
"I hope you will not mention her
before me."
This showed that her mother was
going.
In the carriage Judith told her mo-
ther:
"If- we wander away mother, don't
was closed. follow us, because I believe that he'll
So might a Sultan have given jew- repose to -day. I think that is why
els to the woman he• had chosen to he asked us."
swell the number of beauties in his "I suppose that it won't take long,"
harem, or a Paella have thrown his said her mother a little wearily.
handkerchief to a dancing girl and
that impression conveyed itself to
everyone.
But to Judith it was not repellent.
After all, if it were not for the dia.-
Judith laughed.
"I can't time him, mother, but I'll
try to make him do it as quickly as
possible, anyhow there'll be lots for
you to look at
mends they would none of them be ',It is so fatiguing looking at other
here to -night. people's things, that is the beauty of
If he never did propose she would one's own one never looks at them.
at least have a beautiful necklace, Lady Glaucourt was relieved to
she said to herself, with a touch of find that the member of Parliament
Detaining her by a gesture in the
half shadow of the corridor leading
to the boudoir he whispered:
"After tea I want to ask you some-
thing . you remember - what I
told you about my house, do you re-
member?"
Yes, she remembered So well that
little runnels of joy, seemed to fill
themselves in her being, and to bring
delicious thrills.
"You have said so many things,
she answered evasively, laughing a
little from sheer relief of mind, and
moving after the others,
"This time I shall only .say one
thing," he spoke gravely.
And the silence seemed to him as
if she had answered.
And here standing near the tea
table stood 'Azuma, Azuma dressed in
fantastic dress by her master,, some-
what after the fashion of an Arab wo-
man, with long draperies ofexquis-
ite embroidered stuff and round
her arms and ankles bracelets, of brut
jewels uncut barbarous, but of in-
calculable value. The light from a
window of Murano glass threw ram -
bow tints across her, giving some-
thing weird and unhuman to her ap-
pearance, while little odd patches of
light from the afternoon sun made
high lights on her dark skin as if
she were made of polished bronze.
And she stood, too, as if she were
made of bronze, motionless, yet a
little defiantly, while her eyes seem-
ed to scan Lady Glaucourt's ample
figure -with wonder, and to fall with
sudden. swift inquiry upon Judith as
she entered the room.
This was the room in which some-
times of an evening Azuma brought
him his "cibouk and came herself to
squat at his feet and tell him the
story of her pebbles. Against the
wall, beneath an Indian cabinet,
stood a tray on which, she spread her
sand, while she gave him counsed
about his investments, prophesied
about the Stock Exchange or whis-
pered of future great enterprises. It
was a room whose beauty you could
humor. who alone was in the secret, had been not gauge at once on account of its
But surely after this he must pro- invited, and told off to keep the mo- discreet adornments, but it grew
pose. ther quiet. He was very fond of upon you like the mind of aerson
When Lieb had joined the women Lieb and quite delighted. He went of intellect who is reserved, but
in the next room, the men discussed
it for a few moments over another
• cigar.
"Why that necklace must be worth
about twenty-five thousand pounds,"
remarked Lord Eustace. Lord Glau-
court only said that he supposed that
Judith -would send it back in the
morning, He would certainly sug-
gest that she should.
"A good deal more than that," over were opened by a porter, and got
here, said the member of parliament. down at the door, that her mother was
"It gives one an idea doesn't it of satisfied with the appearance of
the enormous wealth of South things. Lieb met them in the hall
Africa," said Mr. Spencer, who was with his friend, and took them
dying to get some information about straight to the drawing -room, then
the mines. he disappeared, asking them to ex -
"Funny thing to do," said Gelling cure him.
with a cigar between his lips. He "Will you forgive me? I have a
never could resist saying something man there, who has just come from
disagreeable about Lieb.
But the women themselves didn't
think it funny at all. They thought
it delightful. -
CHAPTER XVIII.
But the day after she had engaged till I'm not I have had oina cupto ook at of teaa thing said
herself to Adolphe Lieb, which was LadyGlaucourt. She had reached a
on the third of June, Judith awoke timof life when tea was quite one
with some of the ominous dread hov- of its great pleasures, because, as she
Bring about her which had character- said, if it was fleeting, it at least
ized her former love affairs. She was could be repeated.
again seized with that invincible de -
"I know you will have that directly
sire to tell her story which had pos-
he comes back," said his friend in
that
sassed her when she had realized that the cheerfully resigned voice of one
Sir Hubert Gresham was about to who knows that he is in for quite
tell her that he cared for her, only, two hours of boredom, but who means
instead, the firm decision that it was to make his martyrdom as pleasant as
the right thing to do was missing, possible to himself and others, for his
as it had been when she engaged her- friend's sake. Lieb was gone longer
self to George Danvers while she than he expected, and a sudden feel -
tried to persuade herself that this ing of gene fell on the three. Judith
time the millionaire was doing quite realized afterwards that she had felt
well enough for himself whether he a sudden return of the old gnawing
knew or not. She had had too be- dread. For something to do, she
wildered, too confused, too handicap- went to the window. How pretty
ped, a life, to be able to recognizeto everything was, a ridge of pink ger-
what aroused this feeling again,ed aniums ending as it were the green -
see that it was the man who seemed ery visible from the Park opposite.
to exact sincerity, to deserve it. With It would be good to live here if only—
Sir Hubert it had been her love which
dictated sincerity, and her belief in
his; now she did not think that she
loved, and she had ceased to trust in
the love of others. No this time, she
would not tell, and something seemed
to whisper that this time there would
be no hitch of any kind; then why
did she feel so anxious, so suspicious
sometimes? She even wondered now
and then if Madame Dufour had ever
said anythinp,about it to Mrs. Gelling.
At another ;l' oment she told herself
that she was wicked, ungrateful to
those who cared for her, ungrateful
to the fates, which at last, if they had
not brought her the fairy prince of
her dreams, had at least provided her
with a colossally rich husband of
pleasing personality, and devoted to
herself,
Yet, till the moment when he act-
ually proposed, she was given over at
times to moments of depression which
were almost of despair.
And the feeling was revived with groans which tore at her the more,
realistic force on the very day of her i because she dared not utter them.
engagement. He had invited her and I Was it her fancy, or was there a
her mother on the Sunday afternoon troubled look on his face? If she had
following the dinner, to come and; boon alone with him, she would have
have tea at his house, and to see his stretched out her two hands and said:
very little into society, except whom you grow steadily to admire.
amongst the phenomena, as he called The first impression it made upon
Lieb, and he had heard nothing. you was that it was dark, dusky like
Judith was immensely relieved to Azuma's hair, yet conveying the illu-
see him, for she had told herself that sion of gold dust upon it, like her
Adolphe wasn't at all the man to behair too. The walls were of violet
hurried. wood, grey brown, or black grey, or
She could see by her mother's ex- grey black,its
color of forest shad -
pression as they drove through the ows, with ts own faint perfume ex -
gates of the magnificent house which haling slowly, like suppressed scent -
my office. I will give him a letter,
and come back in an instant, if you revealing secrets of craftmanship.
will allow me." While he was gone; And rising nearly two yards in height
Lady Glaucourt chatted with Mr. El- around the room a wainscotting of
liott, and Lady Judith wandered round trellised mussharabeah, of the old ap-
the room. ple pattern which is now extinct,
while over the two doors and win-
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knew Nietzsche by heart. "He glanced
at me coldly as he answered, 'I en-
listed because I am an Englishman.'"
Here is a comic incident of the last
general inspection. While standing
easy, the men compared their razors,
to find that 30 per cent. of them had
been made in Germany.
There are a few good stories illus-
trating the humors of billeting, a
process which at first proved rather
a strain upon the patriotism of the
aloof, reclusive - middle -classes. One
day an officer asked a hostile elderly
citizen, full of paunch and English
dignity, how many soldiers he could
keep in his house:
"Well, it's like this—," the man
began.
"Have you any room to spare
here?" demanded the officer.
"None, except on the mat," was the
caustic answer.
"Two on the mat, then," snapped
the officer, and a pair of tittering
Tommies were left at the door.
To the adventure of the billet he
ed sighs. But as you remained in the soldier finds the working classes
room you saw that there were other the most sympathetic. They under -
things upon the wall, the wall which stand him, and make him welcome.
somehow reminded you of a dark In the houses of the well-to-do he
scarab of Egypt. Presently your feels out of it. As one Tommy put
eye detected faint dead gold traceries it: "There's nothing we can talk
let into the wood so delicately, that about with the swells,and 'arf the
they were like graceful writing on
burnt paper, like the hieroglyphics time they be "skin' us about things
onthe scarabs, yet barely discernible that's no concern of theirs at all."
except where the light touched them The young officer in the new
armies, who is perfectly amazing in
his intelligence, adaptability, and
thorough grasp of detail, is the butt
of perpetual pokes and biting sar-
casm during his training. '"Shout!"
yelled the adjutant to "Eyeglass,"
deep dull red with delicate embroid- the platoon sergeant, whose voice
eries of gold. Why was it that the was so low that his men could not
impression it made upon Judith was hear the command. "Don't mumble
that of the inside of an exquisitely like a flapper who has dust got her
prepared coffin, panelled rooms had first kiss. It's not allowed on par -
made that impression on her before, ode" Another man who gave a
but the darkness of this wood empha- •
platoon the wrong direction in dress -
sized the fancy? ing was told "to be careful, and not
(To be continued.) shove the regiment over." A fiery
HUMORS OF AMATEUR ARMY. Welshman's snub for getting unreas-
_ onably angry with two of his men
How Lord Kitchener's Raw Recruits for a slight mistake was conveyed in
the remark that "he had only got
Were Made Into Fighting Men. them on appro'."
Rifleman Patrick MacGill, of the
Irish Rifles, author of "Children of She Knew.
the Dead End," has written a jolly "I am collecting for the suffering
little book about ' "The Amateur pm,'
Array," giving glimpses of every "But are you sure they really suf-
stage in the training, from raw fer?"
"rooky" to finished fighter, based on "Oh, yes, indeed. I go to their
houses and talk to them for hours at
a time."
"Oh," she uttered a little cry and his own experiences. One day, out of
drew back from the window. A man I curiosity, he asked some of his mates
who had apparently lust been shown why they enlisted. "Well, matey,"
out of the front door, was walking
towards the gates, and he looked
like could it be? No, not dressed so
shabbily, yes, no, yes. He had look-
ed back for a momentas if be had
forgotten something, and she had
seen his face and drawn back.
It was Hugh Glover.
At that instant the door opened
and Adolphe Lieb returned, and the
two sitting there had no time to ask
her why she had exclaimed as she
turned with a white face to scan his
features. Her heart was beating so,
that she could not speak.
Why was Hugh Glover here, what
had he told him, why had he been so
long? Ah, it was the old story, the
Third great wave she would never
climb it, never. Her heart, her very
soul seemed to die away within her,
and in its dying to give birth to
pretty things.
Lady Glaucourt had hesitated, no
one ever went to his house, but Lady
Judith had over -ruled her as usual.
"You'll have to come when I'm
there, T suppose," she had said a
little brutally, and with a finality stants to Lady Glaucourt, and he rang
which took her mother's breath away., for tea.. It was quite ready, the but -
Evidently Judith meant to marry this ler said, and he, Adolphe, led them to
"Adolphe, you know, I know that
you know, but you must not desert
me."
It was quite impossible for a few
moments to toll what was passing in
his mind. He talked for a few in -
man.
"But supposing after all that he
means nothing."
"Oh, my dear mother."
Her mother's want of perspicuity
the back of the house. Mr. Elliott
pioneering Lady Glaucourt.
"No, not that way, up here, now
down that passage, here we are,"
"He knows the house better than I
always irritated Lady Judith. do," Adolphe called out to Lady
"Well, of course,. if :youthink, but Glaucourt, who was in the front,
do you sujrposl that that woman will
be there?"
"Certainly she willbe there, she is
while he walked beside Lady Judith,
Lady Judith silent', horror-struck.
"1 never saw such a house, why it's
said his friend, the good-natured
cockney, grinning sheepishly, "I done
it to get away from my old gal's jore
—now you've got iti" Another type
in the most democratic army in his-
tory was a pale, intelligent youth who
always going to be there." like a huge country house you really
Her mother couldn't believe her ought to have chairs to take us about,
ears. those things on wheels, they have
"Why, Judith, I never' hoard any- at exhibitions," exclaimed Lady Glau-
thing so .immoral, why it's as if you court, pausing on the threshold of the
were marrying a .Mormon or a Turk door of an Egyptian boudoir, leading
01 some Mohammedan, or other, who onto a terrace, screened from the back
are the people who have lots of of the other houses by flowers and
wives?" plants interspersed with bird -cages
Judith laughed. full of birds.
"How absurd you are Mamma, why "Now you are going to see Azuma,"
she's nothing but a sort of servant, a fl whispered to Judith
woman who tells his fortune, who ad-
vises him about his speculations, he
told me all about it!' -'
"And do you believe' all that?"
Lady Glaucourt looked at her inore-
g� �s see ► •vobso.terwsit.
liaoraVaAbitailtoftdP-6'.411~C,
Drag the Roads.
"When the smiles of spring appear
Drag the roads;
When the summer time is here,
Drag the roads;
When the corn is in the ear,
In the winter cold and drear,
Every season of the year,
Drag the roads.
"When you've nothing else to do,
Drag the roads;
If but for an hour or two,
Drag the roads;
It will keep them good as new;
With a purpose firm and true.
Fall in line; it's up to you—
Drag the roads.
On the Farm
Cause for Dislike.
"I don't like that man." .
"Don't like him? Why, my dear
fellow, you don't know him!"
'That's why I don't like him. He
refuses to meet me." .
Was she mistaken or did he speak
just as usual? -
Yes, in another moment she was
quite sure and the reaction almost
made her faint.
FRENCH WOMAN AVIATOR WAS
CHASED BY A TAUBE AIRSHIP
Helene Putrlcu is probably,the only womanaviatorwho has participate
ed in the, present, war, Her am�t•1"11itc was noised in milt-alr by a
Gei'nian Tanbe. Tins woman took pet In Ile aerial defotitxt of Paris,
but alio is now fn tiro United Si ate$.
Caring for the Little Calves.
Everybody has a way of doing
things and this is my way of taking
care of the calves.
I have ten good cows which I raised
myself, and I found out that to raise
good cows you must begin at the be-
ginning. No good results will come
from a half-starved, stunted calf.
I let the calf suck the cow the first
two days. It is better for him and
the mother, too, and the calf is more
apt to get all the milk than I would
be, thus getting it out of the cow's
bag and into the calf's stomach where
it should be, with less trouble and
better results.
At the end of this time I milk the.
cow and feed the calf; tie the calf
where it cannot see its mother, and
if the weather is cold I wrap some-
thing round her when the barn doors
are open. Never allow a calf to shiver
if you want it to keep well.
For the first two weeks I feed new
milk as soon as milked, and then I
begin to mix in separated milk by
degrees, adding at first a third, then a
half and when a month old I give all
separated and take care to have it
warm.
Buckwheat shorts and bran are
good, but never put them in the milk.
Have a small box nailed in a conveni-
ent place on the manger or side of
the wall and fill with dry feed. The
calf will soon learn to help itself.
When six weeks old put clover hay
within reach; this will aid the diges-
tion and increase growth.
If eggs are plenty break one or
two in the milk, and you will be sur-
prised at its sleekness.
Flies are the worst things to stunt
the growth of calves as they take so
much blood, and the young animals
should be protected from the pests.
I tried spraying last summer with
fair results, but ]: did not depend en-
tirely upon this. I put my calves in
the barn every afternoon during the
warmest weather and gave them hay.
Another thing that stunts the
growing heifer is dehorning. I avoid
this by rubbing on caustic potash •
when the horns first start, first clip- �'
ping away the hair. It will smart ,
for a while but that is all and no horn'
will ever grow.
My heifers usually come in when
21/2 or three years old and make ex-
cellent cows, and this is how I raise
them.—N.A.B.
Stop and Think First.
Before buying new machinery, it is
well to consider the following ques-
tions:
Will the use of the new machine
give me a larger net return from the
crops on which it is used?
Will the new machine reduce the
demand for man labor?
Where a machine is required only
a few days each year, can it not be
rented more cheaply than purchased?
Will the money to be invested re-
turn more in some other way?
Has the machine been thoroughly
tried by others and found satisfac-
tory.
Her Mistake.
Frock of Coin -dotted Organdie.
Simplicity of line and novelty of
material is the keynote of the, ef-
festive summer costume. The .day. of the over -trimmed, Val -inserted musts
mer dress has gone, and we are sure
that no woman who makes her own
clothes pr helps the home dressmaker
is sorry' for its passing. Everything
this season is plain, with full skirt,
white -net or batiste vestee,' and
dainty hand -made tucks to give dis- -
tinetion.
Embroidered materials are enjoy-
ing a great vogue. ,Colored stripes
of every desdription are seen, and the '
more exclusive costumes show coin
dots (usually embroidered on silk or
cotton crepe) in profusion. The col,.
ors of these dots are varied, tan, red,
Nile green, navy blues and lighter -
blues being the most popular.
The latest summer - frock is - coin
dotted, in deepest navy blue, upon a
ground of white organdie. The blouse
has a novel • arrangement of white or-
gandie, used as a yolce on the bodice,
with corded edges. A regular old-
fashioned fichu is used as a collar,
erossing at the front, with Val -edged
ends. The small -vest is made of the
same material. Tho girdle is made
of the : coin dotted organdie;
The skirt is simple, and full in"the
extreme. Inserts of the white - or-
gandie are used as the only trimming..
The hat is of striped ratine. This
is also navy blue and white, and faced°
with navy straw. A huge pompom
of cut ostrich feathers is used :on
the crown. It is a delightfully in-
formal hat, and suitable for almost
any kind of sports, seashore or every-
day wear.
He Struck at That
Mike was employed as handyman
at a big ship -building yard in the
North of England. On him fell most
of the disagreeable jobs, and he was
much in request for lifting the heavi-
est weights.
On the eve of a recent launch, when
the huge vessel was standing ready
on the stocks for the morrow's great
event, Mike went to the foreman and
demanded his pay. -
"What for?" asked his foreman, in
astonishment. "Surely you're not
thinking of leaving us?"
"'Deed, and I am," replied Mike
sourly. "Since I've been here I've
done some heavy lifting, but"—and
he pointed first to the finished ship,
and then to the barricade on the bank
of the river—"I'm hanged if .I'm go-
ing to lift that thing over the fence
to -morrow."
Only one Englishman has ever
been elected Pope of Rome. '
The small- girl walked thoughtfully
into the house from the vegetable
garden.
"blether," said she, "have green
gooseberries legs?"
Mother laughed.
"01 course they haven't, darling.
What made you think .so?"
The child looked more solemn than
ever as elle replied:
!"Well, then, I've been eating cater-
pllarsl"
Sugar
Home Jam -Makers
This hint may
Save your Jam !
blo matter how fresh your
berries, norhow thoroughly the
jam Is cooked, nor how clean
thejars are, preserves are
absolutely sure to spoil if the
sugar used contains organlo
matter,—Impurities—and many
stegars do— i
Home jam makers should
profit by the experience of
others and insist on being
supplied with
Extra C'ranulated Sugar
which has always, and
for many years, given
satisfaction. •
It tests over 99.99 per cent
pure and is refined exclu-
sively from cane sugar.—
Buy In refinery sealed packages to
avoid mistakes and assure absolute
cleanliness andcorrect weights -2 ib.
and -.5 lb, cartons; I0 20, 25 and
Inc Ib bags, and your choice of three
sizes of grain: fine, medium, orcoars°.
—Anygood deafer can jfflyoso•order.
ST. LAYYNENOESUOMI NEFINENIES,WITES,
Monacal.
Fashion Notes.
For golfing, sailing and - country
wear generally, the shops are show-
ing some new wool stockings in black
and white stripes. Wool, mind you!
Oxfords come in all colors and in
all sorts of combinations.
High white shoes are seen of can-
vas, calf, buckskin and satin. Some
have gunmetal buttons and others
have tips of black patent leather.
Soutache braid is used on white
shoes, binding the button fly and de-
signed in loops and rings about the
tops of the shoes.
Buckles have given way to single
jet buttons on low shoes, and there
are more varieties of strange orna-
mentations that one could dream of
in six months of Sundays.
The shoe men have suddenly awak-
ened to the value of changing styles.
New styles mean better business. By
the time everybody has what you
are wearing, you want something
else. So the fancy shoes are given
to the laundress or go into the poor -
box. All of which makes the shoe
dealer happy!
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RED CROSS NOTES.
Toronto, June 28.—Amongst the
many hospitals, where our sick and
wounded soldiers are being brought
back to health, there is perhaps no
institution which will appeal to -Cana-
dians more than the Duchess of Con-
naught Hospital at Cliveden, a beau-
tiful country house, along the upper
reaches of the Thames, which was
given to the British War Office by
Waldorf Astor.
The covered tennis court, probably
the finest in the country, with its ap-
pendages, out by the golf links and
close to the football ground, within
the screen of the woods, has been
turned into a hospital building capa-
ble of holding over 100 patients. This
accommodation has since been in-
creased to 500 beds.
The following interesting descrip-
tion of this hospital is taken from a
London paper.
"What between the donors of the
building and the Canadian Red Cross -
Society, this hospital is a model. The
great height of the building and its
glass roof insure the wards being
flooded with light and air. The oper-
ating room is one of which any hos-
pital might be proud. The X-ray
room, though small, has received high
praise. The laboratory, the medical
stores, the disinfector, and other fea-
tures of the equipment are all of the
best that can be got.
"The whole atmosphere is cheerful.
There are beds in the wards by which
nee does not linger—beds where the
signs of pain or of exhaustion are
woefully patent. For the most part
smiliog faces ,greet one, and the Men
are laughing and talking in content-
ment as they sit knitting or smoking,
Just outside of the terrace is a row of
beds. Every man fit to come out
spends so many hours of the day out
here, where he may watch his strong-
er fellows playing bowls or football.
No wonder that the wounded heal
quickly, and the prostrate dream and
sleep themselves smoothly -:back to,
strength."
The staff consists of 20 officers,
88 nurses, and 120 non-commissioned
officers and men, with many female
cooks ad servants. All this will mean
a considerable outlay of money.
It should be remembered that this
hospital is a Canadian institution in
every way. It is manned by Canadian
doctors and nurses, by Canadian non-
commissioned officers and hien; it re-
eeives Canadian wounded, and is sup•
ported and kept up by Canadian mo
nay, It only remains for the Cana-
dian people as a whole to give their
whole -hearted financial import to
this Canadian hospital, where our own
fellow -countrymen will be brought
back to health and strength, '