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The Clinton News Record, 1923-3-22, Page 6GOLD N ANS. Anent -,i father had died five years later en's ehi.ldi opd - was a sones of picturies, and a gaunt L old, rattling buggy and a, little, bent woman going wind and rain, all seasons'of the , to 'answer calls, could' not recall that she ever led to ge Herself, no matter: what hour of night, what the miles to "foreigner's" kitchen bedroom s'hackful of numerous progeny,. 30 • she . attended i in their sick- une ever a five -dollar bill, or even vo-dollar, his, mother's way and Aptly it posted. to city wholesale ie for quinine, calomel, aconite, ,nhylliu and chloroform, He re- tliered once asking her what she'd to have far Christmaa. "Two sand grains ofuinine, son,' she • gloomily. "That swamp four a west of Nord's to died one spring—of' a common 'which went- into bronchitis be- e a wet rainy body did not put f into dry clothing until a gaunt horse had been unharnessed, fed bedded in a shed barn. Lephen was' thirteen.. For two years o he:• worked far his board with a ly decent family ,nearby.. Later sold"his'-few wretched. acres and se for, a . few• hundred dollars rant to Chicago, and, by pure triumph mind over, matter, through „ tical." ` Le was a,. man who. madefriends: was net vain„ Sometimes he sus- ted that his surgical and drug skill half vicarious, not so much orig ! as' parentally inspired.. He looked his long, lean, ' careful .but not iust?pped .fingers and'. surmised thetwo who bore him had given ;for all`their willingness, -'but. half: eritago. But' he had a keen mind a conscientious mind; and intime: the timehe was destined to -meet ice,Towne=he was earning: around: niy, thousand dollars, he was on consulting staff of several hospi-. , held for waiting' patients a desk a long bench • of the best dark aissance walnut. , TI -IE' WORLD RACE FOR OIL. ' An of the Great WorldPowerh a^e,contendiug to supremacy lio the oil fields in both hemispheres. Great Britain, represented by British capital, has, up to the present; secured controlling interests in many of the European and Asiatic fields,'inoluding Mosul: The United States has to import. twenty,� five per cent. of its supplies now, and' Re visible supplies ;nay be exhausted:: in twenty years, Europe, has visible supplies for 2110 years. The map shows where the known oil Ileldh of the world are located. ogized mechanically when he had heist lthough no one knew this—and he careful to tell no one; deeming Matter Ins own private affair Iiia 11, bent,, wind -browned, .rain -soak mother often stood beside him at t renaissance walnut desk, paused ook over the bench -ranged patients, n sat with hiir in his inner office. re men and women etripped their' les and their souls for his ding- le, and once or twice she had pooh .hed, in; his ear while: with -a con - re he, had discussed the inconven- ce of night calls. • - he •vaggely`seemed to. afford a, zzical ,.contrast 'to- Lettice Towne'. se first. few months. His meetings; h Lettice: were, casual• ones;, edged essarily with" infrequency into the fessional days of a' buy and- pre- upied' man. Once or twice they t on 1111i -street; :otherwise at ai- rs or evening gatherings mostly der the. ,Wel!ltnan roof..:';He,_ gave n and, Maud Wellman due ,crdit for tting hint .:and sttitheythought er's way. Adroitly, Friendships are made as well 'aa rn, His friendship with . fat, rich' n Wellman had begun twelve years fore, over e business and profession- men's.' gathering. Maud, stout,. erdressed, and'overrouged for her e, had tried to marry Stephen 'bf1. had -never been tempted by her tt� until i ettice appeared. Tempted -he corrected himself, He s not tempted now. Dangerously, at ie. .He laid.the' pros against the ns. Besides love` and money, the oatest modern argument for;`mar- age is loneliness. He had: his mo- encs of that of course.;But an •.ab-' rbed "and successful professional an is -likely to realize personal lone - nese '1050 than many people ' must lite it. Furthermore, he had. seen, almost as uch loneliness inside the marriage n as outside it., His, work gave him !most merciless. vantage for .seeing. he interiors he saw—the acrid homes e entered. And even in own pro- essional circle -- dinner waiting, even to,,.perform a major - operation;, eyed `small, dirty boys wistfully and wished ho could adopt one. There was' Caldson, who, when an interne,' had given up u. scholarship prize, two years, in a foreign univer- city, because Mrs: Caldson would not go so far from her family for eo long. Caldson ,was bald now and fat and not a very good allopathist. ' Never sure of his own judgment. Some ,•in nate fault in the man himself, of, course. JStill--= -There was old Dewey—who hid his non-paying patients' names in'a"se- cret drawer of his desk. There was young Stillwell, whoreddened when slander suits were mentioned. There' was Grainy, too, with his huge prac- tice and huger fear that -eventually Mrs. Graisy would win her way and he would consent to move to New York—and, at fifty-four, build again. :Extreme cases, Stephen admitted, Well—not' so extreme, but garnered a would come to apologize for 'dinner tardiness, But he said to himself that he could place'`Lettice Towne. Jim Towne, her father, was a com- monly met type -and not the worst earth 'knows. 'Ho bragged- about his business: and his daughters. - "Other people can stew over their offspring, I don't have to, They take after their mother in looks -and X didn't marry Mrs. Jim Towne. for the way she 'could, cook. Say,` by the way, did y' hear Metal Motors Accessories drop- ped to "six and three-fourths yester- day? Y'ltnow,'I Valera often get caught on the wrong side of the market—for all Any little fliers are only infrequent. But this a timeyep, .its down to that—." . He said to himself that he was not in love with her and he 'he'd no inten- tion of allowing himself' to believe that he was, in love. But it was with a curious invgluntary alacrity that a few days later he accepted sin'in"� vitation to dike .at the,Weliman table and afterward take in a' play down - little, prejudicially by;himself. He town. had no: great fear that' 'he himself , : (To:be continued.) An .Apron, Eron1 Left -Overs. • Turning a stray' yard of chintz and a, jagged length] Of organdie -into, -a flchu apron is a good antidote lease blue Monday or a drizzly spring'Wed- nesday. ed- nesday.:-'It gives` that pronounced sat- isfaction—the same feeling you have when you; roll out the bit of left -over pie crust,, pare a couple of speckled apples; slice :them, crumple up' the We Like Gasoline Lamps. Since we have' installed two gaso- line vapor mantle lamps in our home it is` so very much more,. cheerful, bright,: and agreeable that now we look forward to the arrival of evening with .its time for reading and fun. We had used the common coal-oil' lamps; as so many farmers do, until we purchased our first gasoline vapor crust, and pop two delicious turnovers mantle lamp., A year's' use proved into the. oven, registering the thought this .system far: lighting our home so attach 'a piece of tape to ieach.aitie to do in the back? Spiaivh all you want to, your cviothing' will keep dry behind this protector, -Mrs, C. W, S. beat year when we butchered, T ran all. the fat through my food •chopper, It carne out in long white strings, and instead of the usual amount of crack; lings, X had, in comparison, just a handful. Of course, X halo no lard press, and this gets me more lard than I usually get, and the waste is al ready ground ready for the hens: *Mrs. F. C. When getting ready' to dress a chicken if the water is bpiling•hard in theeteakettle, itis too hot, and is' apt to cogk the flesh, so that the skin' will come off and make the chicken' hard to clean, and also spoil the looks of it, I always put half or two-thirds of a cup of cold water into the boiling water, and then it will be scalded just right. When I am dressing the chicken I use warm: water, as it cleans Bauch easier than to 'pit it in cold water, Some rub baking soda op..,the chicken, a''s it has a tcsndency tp clean" easier. After dressing the chicken I always put it into cold water at once, and add just a little salt, as it helps to, draw out the blood and makes the flesh white and clear.—Mrs. :A. R. Eskimo Seal; Hunt. When once he has gone to the trou- ble of splicing a -fine spear handle the Eskimo does not wish to break it; so the point is put ,on with a toggle or' Joint. When a seal or walrus is har peened the sudden struggle of the ant - mal does not break the spear, but Merely unjoluts the point, and the more ,the- animal -struggles' the more the point turns crosswise in the wound did the 'firmer the barbs take hold: But thea animal' cannot escape;' for with thongs of; skin' the point is con- nected with the spear' shaft. Tho ani- mal merely swims away or dives deep carry with him the that you have made something tasty satisfactory that we purchased a sec - out of what might have been thrown and one, away. This was the latest type lamp gen- The flchu apron is a recipe, too, that eratod and lighted directly with a can be varied to suit - the ingredients couple of matches. It given a Power - at hand. :.Crisp :blue chambray" -with 1ul light of ,several hundred candle- a flchu of blue -dotted white swiss is .a power, coating us only a few cents an possibility that- comes. to .my mind: evening .to ,use.- While .its light is Checked gingham might :be used with .bright, it is non -flickering; pure white, a starched voile,lbatist'e, or lawn flchu. and restful to the eyes. We fill the Or cut cross -barred dish -toweling for lamps -only once or twice a week. There was Koxfier of glittering lack' eyes and washed-out gray' hair, vhose consultation fees alone brought nim in around fifteen thousand dollars L year, but whose -medical desk was leaped' so ;nigh each first of month lith: modiste bills, millinery bills, nasseuse bills, eaterers' Mlle, house - old bills, that every end of month law his bank account overdrawn and ,Corfl'er's nerves had an edge he per- nitted to few of his 'patients. , There was Biekings, general •prae- .itioner, with his :full, immobile fitce ind sarcasm. Mrs. Backings weighed two hundredand forty-two pounds Ind was a leading and contributing nember'of half a dozen charity boards, Stephen had hoard that thirty years before she and Bickings eloped be- cause her parents considered her too young to marry. Now Bickings apol- a flchu; using: the band that comes: off There are no wicks to .trim, no chim- at the side for trimming on a white neys to keep clean. They are perfeet- lawn ipron. ly safe. And if your sewing bag -disgorges ' I with .everyyfarm woman could see an odd' length of voile' that's yellow our home as we now light it for night beyoncrusing, puton thertint-•pot; and recreation,—R,;h; , halm a new blouse. It` will take a lovely light gray, which happens to_'ibe The Little Vanities. *acific Railway FIND, I p for ,Ewers gdian O'armers and het to react diel$ 21p, Lao, .Canadian Pacific Xtaihvnv 3e ¢anizatioa to provido.. such help. trona llt n tedely 'and, Arian n -to its w now p o; £ [ttn itsei si 'ha a Ne rod from. eat a wit th'es and i orwn in all of rSrgont+:tivoe who lisle fnrmOd3n and o ell lona and who rite now in touch ,'nxiotrn to cdmd to; Canada, los above nnentioncd have oxpr5nsed on of thin otos of tlieiq pooplan, In notedly and ,brhut' the bol jr 16 li t a plate rn,dcrgtandtng Of the 1aaul16. sod "AI011dation fox X1611 -i" 'Prat 1466 ' t;om any of the offices Anted Below. the ;armor ,tor thin servise riot %et cash `ndvsnco •whntaoovor toward, th6 honest xhilwny Station !Gime fnfortnn• • 1101481 forms thiol W111 ho held In t tiofntgr—the IsGhduif he wnntrQ— f'QnYc'ietirod Chil fol` tlew1osI#J orad C kind of work ,'614#0,, 5Lc, ''t.Rticniturnl Agent, 'f, r'it. -. cod, Land Agent C,11.1.1., , Cep, t1,04, iisods1o6 AtIevtkC•:lube WO and Development lilt Railway artiuiftloact', aienireal. decidedly smarter' than white a$' an Everyone likes the woman with the accompaniment to a blue suit.' ' dainty trail , of elusive fragrance In fact, running over the new styles something different that stirs theim- makes' me think of many m000 "tuck- agination. Fortunately for thin puns- aways:" A. square of lace, for in- es it isn't a question of price or label:- stance. It will snake one of the ripply 'This;- aroma of distinction may be berthas that all the girlsare wearing. achieved by anyone who gives a little There are sevoralrways of eedomplisli- 'thought in selecting her perfume. ing the feat. It' can be edged- with Of course, you know certain colors narrow lace, or the corners rounded are`beconiing to -you, But do you and left raw. Or scallop it and finish know that 'a perfume may add equally it with an edging. For the neck open- to your individual charm? Colors` and ing, -just cut a circle in the centre.Of perfume are much alike. Yehow'may course, you must` tint, the llace exactly to match the shade of the 'dress. into the sea, > g. spear, The long leather thong, which is attached to it uncoils from the deck of the kyack and, plays out. It carries with. it a drag like a kite, which, re-, tards:.the animal ,and exhausts him, but does hot pull hard enough to break the line. Even this draw is made of skin stretched over a spliced frame- work. When the line is alt played out. it is seen to be attached to a float, which is also carried- on the deck of: the boat. ' This is. made of' am inflated', skin. It has plugs and attachments of cleverly carved ivory, for wood Is far too precious to be used in this land of ivory so' ;far. from the forests. The float serves as a buoy so that the Es- klmo can fallow the animal and find It after it gives up Its struggle' and dies. Then, too; the ' float keeps ' the catch from -sinking and being lost in the, ocean's depths. Perhaps you have a seedy Paisley; .shawl -one that's too far' gone -to Make a, jacquette. ` However, there may be enough, that will hang 'to- gether:'to'patch out a- delightful band- ing for a white wool sport skirt, piec- ing your band at the centre front and When you arae; rummaging around you may bring to light a ;dress length of blue ehatnbray,which you have been holding for a house dress, way back to the, time when house .dresses were nett gay calicos, ehintz,,and tempting not look well en you:; Then leave amber, chyme, and narcissus to the dark -eyed languid girl. They belong to the sane personality; as the yellow shades. Brown hair and blue eyes de- mend .one of those halt -flower, half - oriental odors. Ansi for the woman gray-haired and a trifle�,plunp there's a 'bottle of sweetness not too frivolous. yet not at all "old." While a scent as sweet and clean as orchard blos- soms belongs :to the young girl who looks; so pretty in pink and 'white Well -kept' nails.. are .another little vanity that adds one hundred per cent. peppermint green -checked gingham. charms. Professional' manicurists, give My advice is to forget the house -dress a double polish First h pink cream. idea right oft, You have the start of Then a high polish powder. A whisk a smart slimmer street dress if you invest; your spare time for a couple of days in stitching a ,patterns on it. You cin use ajband design transfer pattern, stamping theband crosswise of the goods and parallel to give an all-over effect., In stitching en your machine, place the paper under the goods so it won't puciceo', and use' cuticle and tednces manicuring to a coarse -sewing, cotton. Then there are 'minimum, slipper frills to use up your serape af • Blackheads! Of collage -they're not silk. Some are just straight strips a venlig. Butte my way of thinking, of material, MX inches wide; ,folded getting rid of their is quite a worth through the centre, lengthwise, and while indulgence, Rib:a little, .lard gathered to farm a hoop. The centre on thein, Let it any fan a few mins is finished with a buckle, This forms utes, -' Then wipe ib off carefully and a "trim," as the shops, call It, that rub the same place' with a cakeof of two of.the buffer, and you have a palish that is lasting and water -proof„ If time is valuable, plan your mani- curing after you have had your hands 111. water. Then the cuticle is thor- oughly softened and' responds .rapidly to treatment: Or you may use, a new preparation that actually melba the Story, of the: Safety Razor. Many 02 the world's greatest for- tunes have boon founded on things whfclt appeared trivial. There is no better example than the story of .the safety'i•azor. The idea was so simple that at first- the Invent- or,, Bing Camp Gillette, met with noth- ing but ridicule and discouragement. But he persevered, and in the first seventeen, years after lits invention Demanding Reference,, Employer—"A girl by -the name of I-Iatti.e; Brown worked for mO last. I could give her for reference; Not Working Overtime. Every' cellar window was'broken 1n Ma 'Jones 'old tumble-down ; hoose. Consequently, all tL,e small domestic' animals in the neighborhood-particu- lariy the :dogs, and' cats—ran In and out atwill. Sometimes there was. -quite a gather- ing in the cellar, and when a pet was missing, it was the regular thing to go to "Uncle Bill's door with, "Have you seen my' cat:?„ One evening a nearby family missed,. their "tortoiseshell" at ,bedtime, and eonciuding' dist site hail joined the happy throng at Uncle Bill's, sent their miaii over toask hint if 're -:would take a look and see if she was among the number. It may have, been a day of many shatter demands; at all events, Clncle Bill' was not in his usual good temper. "Your catmay be there, or she may not' be there,", he said, "but 2 ain't a goln' to light up no lamp an'. go down inthat, cellar this time o' night Fortin' out cats for nobodyl" Appropriate .Suproundlnes. "I want - my photograph taken." '"Certalnly, sir.': Would you lute 0 carte'or a cabinet?"' The prospective .customer wriggled. uneasily. "It doesn't - natter- much whether, there lo a cart or a. cab in it," he an swered. "As I'm a- ,sexton .1 shiould. like if you could manage to put a church in it." had been. lauiiehed it brought- him in thousands of `dollars 'a year. To -day people are buying Gillette razor's at the rate of 'well oder two 'million a year, to say nothing of the seventeen odd million blades which his' factories turn out annually. Mr.Gillette started his career as a travailing 'salesman far the' Crown Cork Company, the makers of the little` natal naps'whiclr We see oh'somany bottles. to -day. He svruck up a .great friendship: with William Painter, the owner" of the Crown Cork 'patent, and It was the latter who gave 1s.m the advice which- was to start him on the road to fame. "Gillette, said Painter, "why don't, you think of something like the Crown cork, which, when once used, must be thrown away, anti the customer must keep coining back for mere?" t. It was in 1895 that Mr. Gillette was afflicted one morning with a blunt razor, which made shaving a tort}ire. In a flash the idea of the. Gillette. safety -razor' came Intohis mind. With - oat a miateent's delay he rushed out,' bought some pieces of brass and steel; aud,wfth his own hands made• the first "Gillette." - Then a stern' struggle began. No. body listen to him. He carried his plans round for six years, never losing hope ar adinitting'defeat. Event- ually, with two other men, he formed a company with a nominal capital. of $500,000. Actually, after a terrific fight, they managed to, find five tabus - and dollars in cash: can betacked to the front of a plain 10011. yc s' Ir »` wet soap, Rinse this off with waren waters Ideas Proun Oilier Farm Women. Try using a straight.handled sauce- pan in which to mix Waffle or pancake batter of Sift up a cake 'It is much easier td titin the. than the ordnsary mixing howl, especially if one's bands are seneld and one's wr7sls not par- ticiilatly strotsg 1 itnd it easy to tip rho sltrcepltlr f<jj koatinu aryd to por' or Speen 1 u1 l)al.t<ri 210)1) .it cinfq the griddle or u'sftic irqu. 1 have thorn, in all sl t}a,,anrl use t'ipis» for Pearl)" evcrythtn♦i'in pr'etoierice td othoe ltinda `o: kettles and niixing howls L..A. 11'. It 11' impossible f,e'tio the Weekly tl` a'li 5 getting one's anion and Tim's Description. ' An Irish railway 'company has a re - gulag printed form, on which 'to report any nnishaps whtolioccur to aaihnals. on its linoe.,,R,ecently'a stray cow that ha•d wandej•e+ionr.te the line waglctlled, and Tim O'Toole, the fraflic inspector, was asked to send .'in a report,. In ane}ver: to the question: "Dlsposl' tion of Carcass," he wrote, "Kind and gentle." aha G!s'eef (Ysssu'dtas ,,8wcof>otel '50"o r'yftr;r eta talidtBtuhtt atOUpIa: ,it* 'digt'ulp t .oiillire gla4. fkktt44Egsvletii i,['g}�>�qa' , it baap ottefftn dta t hf eed`AAAitiig itaefe.'. >N` 0. twee, 1t afar, tgo tine Wltileat,lr,s slats ester'' zile.anl—'exec harts nsssetf iuieQfon; oar kv11CY "4, Isuseli x +i,1it51d.11tim. ,NDN While There' t if c Thera s 7oh`3 <krC Wei -inti the damp -pat he, gnick- 2 busily, the 'i rtnndit's- 'that hr o: i', r,e4orsi('s _atirlerl, ,ilei irirri' is 11e%: you's'a 'a softie' ea wets 1101 )cilli (1)1'1) ras.11y, in ale cl„JAit lug11in wropperb wli €it .done savgd 1111.' WWit S ; n 10 t .r 11 e I nes1111 ller Stciudy•- Irbat<'t, iirs, GV1tWe Vail pi"„ail-)t5h, Maid the ed e` v;trh (,i'pe, , aets enoilgit 50aP WfOp1)01(' prod s 1,1) fta5it 1 > 'i r ,” 151i1i i 1 e,14.11 "i,ostler to iurnlsll r Slat 11s cat; gibm u1 rl<w,1 ' of t -lit 1'', ,,i> Alii+ 11v61the lioad, ;And ilests the sf ''IiB whdle body is re- l. the ironing is . done far more quickly,:and the end of your ironic g finds you With unfired anis and wrists, if you iron the way. The thumb rest,"en exclusive. Hotpointfeature6 relieves all strain' from. the Srdst, and makes, ironing an agreeable duty, rather than a weary task. Vor sale by dealers every- where- "Sdada to Canada,' by CRaadlan Gpveral llcctrlo Co, Edatted Uaad ptrl Toronto ea >'5 j1 bxigsg !i'©mac the..bccon, collor the blue c ry tiro ariestage to Garcia, etc. ITTLE Raisins, full of eneYgy and_ 'TITTLE will put the pep into you that maks winning plays. Use vim like;' it in your business; too. One hundred and. "forty-five cal- orics of entr(pizing nuttfn ant in every, • little five-centred box that you' sea Climes from fruit surtax in prac- tically predigested form—devutose, the scientists call it --so it goes to work almost immediately. Rich in food-, iron also. • Try these little rads gj8,yyhtlst yp�'r0 hungry, lazy, tired orfauiti " fito. he !' they,pick you up and set ycitl b your tots, ittie `'N ee 13e'tuveen . Meal" Itaielna se Everywhere este, pis