The Seaforth News, 1928-03-08, Page 6LEGERDEMAIN
$EGIN HERR TODAY.
.)'ohm Ainsley, a man of education
O*nd breeding, 'whose wear wound left
him unfit for triennia labor, returns
hungry to hisshabby boarding-house.
To pay his landlady the week's rent
for his room—$J.—he is compelled' to
alawat an ivory miniature of his
mother. At the pawnshop he is puz-
zled at the sight of a prosperous-
7ooking, 'fur -collared man diekering
'with the broker.
After leaving the shop, Ainsley hur-
eles to n little restaurant to get' fend.
He is stopped in the entrance by the
,fur -collared individual, is takento the
man's home, and is revived with hot
]soup. As he eats, Ainsley tries to take
stock of his host and his surroundings.
"Yes, I suspected as much," said
my hest "Starvation hurts a gentle -
mans insides just like it does an
'ordinary roughneck's, don't it? Are
you proud?"
"Suppose you`eitplain," I suggested.
"Make it snappy, eh? All right, I
will. I take It you have no friends in
particular, You wouldn't be starving
if you bad. Ani I right?"
"Go on," I said.
"If you got a chance to make
money, real money, important money,
you'd jmnp' at it. Am I right?"
"Go on some more. You interest
me," I smiled.
"There's a lot of money lying
around this town waiting fora good
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. ratan to pick it up," he said.
The man unquestionably was not a 1eShow it to me," I suggested.
gentleman. His clothing was too gar- "Suppose s do? Have you got nerve
ash, hie jewelry too blatant. His enough to grabit?" he demanded.
speech, too, was coarse and sloven, I reached for another cigaret, then
wind he used phrases that betokened drew back nay hand empty. The con -
an unfamiliarity with polite speech- versation had taken a turn that rays-
His apartment, moreover, was fur- tified me, I was not sure that I
sashed badly. The pictures on the wished to place myself ,under further
walls clashed violently with the fur- obligation to my host.
nishings. I would have set him down "I don't think I understand," I told
immediately as a parvenu, possibly 'him,
one of the recent species' of profiteers, Ile put his Band into a pocket and
but for a furtiveness of manner. withdrew it. I don't think that ever
Moreover, I had first seen him in a in my life I had seen so much actual
pawnshop. cash as he placed on a table beside
Why had he followed me What him, Certainly there must -have been
was lie? Well, I :ouid- wait for the fifteen or twenty thousand-dollarbills,
answer, And so, forcing myself to and as many more of, lesser denomina.
tions ranging from fifty to five hun-
dred,
"Understand those?" He pointed to
the wad of bills.
I managed to lift my eyes from the
money and looked at hire.
"Go on," I said again.
"I'm in business," he said slowly.
"It's a new business, and there's lots
be slow, to chew each mo.sel carefully,
I waited for him to direct the cower -
ration, . for I said practically nothing.
He delivered a monologue, based for
the most part on places he had visited,
events, mostly of a sporting nature,
which he had witnessed. I began to
think that he was probably a gambler,
perhaps a follower of the race -track.
Then, having , devised that I had
eaten all that it was well for me to
take at this time, I followed his ex-
ample and walked with hint into the
nest roam.
"Smoke?" he asked.
Perhaps I had suffered almost as
much through the abstinence from
tobacco as through the lack of food.
Certainly his question aroused mem-
ories of sufferings that had seemed
unbearable. With the first dizzying,
inhalation of the cigaret he gave 1ne,
I felt my own man once more. I had
been the sport of circumstances, bit
of flotsam on the city's tide Sudden-
ly I felt master of my own destiny,
"Drink? Cocktail? Highball? Cham-
pagne?" he asked.
I shook my head. "Never touch
It," I said. "And I thought in these
days no one but millionaires had such
a variety."
"Who saki I ain't a millionaire "
lie demanded,
"I beg your pardon," said I. mar-
veling at the queer vanity of him.
"It's all right," he said. "I sup-
pose, having seen me talking to Wein-
berg you thought I was busted,"
"I. didn't think anything about it," of money in it. People don't lose
I replied, their thirsts simply because other
He laughed in a reculiarly harsh, people pass a law."
joyless tone. "I gnecs you were be- "Bootlegging?" I suggested.
yond thinking about anything. I took "Bright boy," he said. "Other
a look at you, and says I to myself: things, too."
'This baby's about due for the tiler- His eyes were almost hidden be -
gee'," tween their lids now; yet I knew that
I felt myself color- "I do look their pupils studied me intently.
pretty badly," I admitted. "And on "How far would you travel with a
top of what Weinberg had been tell- than who could toss you a bunch like
that on the table?" He pointed at the
wad of bills. "I need a man like you,
a man that can look and talk and act
like a gentleman. I got ideas, but I
ain't always able to put them over.
You see, I know my own Iimits. It
doesn't matter how much of a front
I wear it don't fool the people that
I want to foal."
} understood him. "My face is my
fortune. Is that it " I laughed.
He nodded. "You can make it your
fortune. It hasn't' made much of a
one for you yet• Anyone can tell that
you have been educated, and used to
good things and all that, but where's
it got you?"
"Here in your apartment, accepting
charity; I replied.
He waved a disclaiming hand. "Not
charity—business," he corrected me.
"Thank you," said I. "I'nt glad you
put it on a business basis. How much
do you think the food I ate was
worth?"
"What you mean?" he asked.
"I mean what 1 told you awhile ago.
I'm a gentleman," 1 said, ".—.not a
bootlegger or a crook."
His thin lips curled in a sneer. "I
suppose it's better to be a gentleman
and starve than a wise guy and get
rich;'
"I think so," I told hint.
"There's still other ways of making
money," he said. "For instance, you
could run to the police, give them my
address, and tell them what I've told
you."
"Understand those?" he pointed to
the bills-
ing you About me, it was easy to guess
that I wasn't a millionaire."
His eyes, hard blue, narrowed. "You
see things, don't you? Tumbled right
off to Weinberg wising me up about
you, eh? Well, 1 knew right off that
you were no boob. I thought you were
the lad I needed; now I know it. Like
a little dough?"
I laughed. Odd, how a few ounces
of food change the whole world.
"What do you think?" I countered.
"I'd say that you were ready to do
anything to make a 'stake," he said,
".Almost anything," I amended.
"Fussy?" he asked.
"I'm a gentleman," I told him. The
words sounded grandiloquent, absurd.
Outdoors or indoors—
whatever your task.
Let WRIGLEY'S refresh
yeti— allay your thirst, aid
appetite and digestion.
•L"ielps keep teeth dean.
After Every
Meal '
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Wild Geese
l hold to my heart when the Wee
are flying-- •
-
A wavering wedge on the high,'biiglit
bile.
I tighten my lipsto keep iron crying:
'Beautiful 'b'i'ds, lot rale go with 'out"
•
And at night when they Welt—Ann
their wings dad weaving.
A pattern' across n frill gold ataoon--
I hold to a heart that' would . be leav-
ing
eaving
If it were freed to fly too soon:
I hold to nay henrtt. that would bre
going—
"You' know that I won't," I replied. in comrade '''to will finds of the till,
"Will this,, cover the cost of what I As wayward as they—and never
ate?" ^. `. knowing
j admit that it was ungracious, Whq}lq it ie " going—and never: care—
even to a confessed criminal. But
after all, he had insulted me. T placed I hold to my beast -for here lies duty,
two dolitres upon the table—how piti-
And here is the. path tvhore, my feet
fel the amount was when laid beside
his huge wad of bills picked up my
hat from the chair on which it had.
been dropped at my entrance, nodded
to him and started' for the, door.
"•♦'1Tfiit a minute," he said. "When
you think this over, you'll change
your mind. Yoe'li want to find me.
I won't be here. This place is rented
for the night. Just go to Weinberg
and tell him you want me. That's the
kind of a man i am—no hard feel-
ings."
"None here, either," I told him.
"But I hardly think we'll meet again."
"You're belly's ailed now, 'Wait till
youfre hungry -again."
"1 will," said I. And with that I
walked `front the apartment to find
Myself a moment later in Washington
'Square. I looked at the great cloak
on the Judson Tower. I could still
keep my weed to Mrs. Gannon. I did.
Then,' with two'dollars left of the five
I had received from Weinberg, I
climbed more easily this time than
last, to my. room.
I sat down upon the bed and re-
viewed the last hour. And en I thought
of how a cheap criminal had carried
me to his lodgings, fed me, patronized
me and insulted tile, 1 was sick with
shame. A man of my education and
breeding, who had sunk so low in the
social scale that he was open to'sueh
an insult, who was as unable to cope
with the elementary facts of life- as
I was, was unfit to -live•
It was a harsh judgment which I
rendered against myself, but a just
one. Incompetents clutter up the path
of progress. Society, In making civil-
ized life difficult for the incompetent,
is enacting natural decrees; for na-
ture, before society began, destroyed
the incompetent. A sudden determina-
tion came to me. I had parted With
the last possession that had a market-
able value. Of course, I had my over
coat, but freezing was not preferable
to starvation.
* * * *
But why starve or freeze when
there was an easy alternative? That
is, the alternative would be easy if I
were in fullossession of m faculties.
ltie
p y u s.
But if I became hungry to the point of
starvation again, my faculties would
be impaired, my will be gone. I could
see myself begging of passers-by, even
possibly, rummaging in refuse -pails
for a bone or a crust, like any fam-
ished dog.
The alternative, of swift and simple
self-destruction, was infinitely prefer-
able to such degradation. I would eat
again—already my stomach cried for
more food, so long had I gone hungry
—then walk to the waterfront and
rid society of one of its unfit.
(To be continued.)
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Retort Courteous
London—A highly developed ex-
ample of the retort courteous was in-
dulged in by Prime Minister Baldwin
in the House of Commons recently.
Asked to comment on a recent speech
in which Viscount Weimer the as-
sistant Postmaster -General, suggested
that the post office might be better
operated by private enterprise, Ube
Prime Minister remarked:
"I heard what Lord Walmer said
and it struck me that when he bas
attained to years of discretion he will:
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Get Ready For Chicks
Literally and figuratively, the world
will seem a cold and cruel one to baby
chicks which emerge from their shells
during the earliest weeks of spring.
Lord Wolmer is 41 years old;
Causes Gossip
London Lobby gossip in the House
of Commons one night was occupied
with the sharp rebuke Premier Stan-
ley Baldwin administered to one of
his ministers, Viscount Weimer, as-
sfetant postmaster -general, in the
Rouse of Commons in the afternoon.
Following the "rap on theknuck-
les," as some describe it, came the
cryptic announcement that Lord
Wollner, acting on medical advice is
leaving London and going abroad for
two months.
We live le a world of mysteries,
and the scientific man is more aware
of his ignorance than anybody else.
—Sir Oliver Lodge,
Mlnard's Linlinent kilts warts.
'but at least a little of the chill can be
taken off, If the poultry grower has
seen to it that the brooder house
equipment is in good order when the
chicks are ready for it.
February is designated as a gpod
month to: Examine and overhaul the
brooder stove, replacing any broken
or worn out parts; test the thermo-
stat with heat to see that it operates
the air intakes and checks; replace
any broken or rusted sections of stove
pipe; secure plenty of good grade
coal, such. as was very hard to get
last year when it was wanted; start
the stove a couple of days before the
chicks aro put in the brooder house;
test fuel pipes and wicks of oil stoves.
Comfortable quarters 1n the very
earliest days means much in the fu•
tura development of chicks and the
profit which they will return to their
owners.
'Da11ydenws, Who eaj-b that women are
(standing untrammeled on the thresh
61d of 1928, a Tear that dill probably
bring to inglishwomen, With an in-
creased franchise, even more freedom
than they have now. A hundred
years ago, it is recalled, the ladies of
the land sat in stilling idleness. There r they call lieu' attic lending libraries
there, M
trete no professions open to tho
, we Little afy, who .had fallen 111, beg- —are those that come out ,in twins
are reminded, and if. they ivere $o un- god for aikitten. It
was found that
y or triplets, giving you the wirers ]ifs
fortunately placed that they must an operation was
cessa y for the
earn` their own living or starve they child's cure, and that' she must go �bistory of a:' family, They aro in -
could only hope for employment as a to the hospital.- The mgther promised ,variably such a mournful and morbid
"companion" or as a governess. We tilt 11 sbe were very brava' she should crowd that the occasional relief of a.
are then offered this picture of "poor have the very finest •kitten to be murder or suicide is welcome.
Miss 1828," which shows a startling -found., As Mary was atecovcring from ! These are, I find, the- sort of books
Contrast between the young Iadies of the 'influence of the anaesthetic the that wren -meaning friends bring 'you.
that day and those of to -day; • nurse heard her muttering:—"It's a when you are just recovering. [rein
"Look at her standing there in her rotten way to get a kitten." 'flu. If you' attempt to read one, yea
stuffy thick 'clothing, her hideous get a headache; iE you_go on,. you get
frilled 'pelisse' with its puffed sleeves,. ``�, a relapse,
her face hidden by an'ungainly flap- ` .®6f _ ( 1Iany of these volumes of the mud
ping bonnet 'as large as an umbrellas
Paying for i o
Wanted -•--Leas 'M.ud and''
Misery', " Cheer-
ful Novels About Nor-
"mai People`
A correspondent recently complain•
ed in a London newepapet' that there
was e, woarraome monotony about
Present-day' newels, because ninety
Nine not of,°Very hundred' heroines
were "extremely slim,"
His. complaint Of quite justified;
but even more tedious . than the•
uhletynine young ladies' beanpole
figures 10' diets' general. behaviour.
All the very newest heroines, ap-
,., 1 patently not only object to "%•bey,"
-w--
but refuse ' to go through any .mar•
but the destinies of nations "lie in nage ceremony et all. Those that
the hands that a little while ago were are not quite 10 new -those, say, on
the second shelf at the lending 'lib-
rary -all • manage to make idiotic
marriages to just the wrong people.
Berlin 11Se,tbreatening decay of They are either 111 lee divorce court
the' "Nance Palms" near Potsdam, 'viten the pleasing tale opens, or >liv-
ing on Its, doorstep in the third -ehap-
tte ex -Kaiser's farmer residence, was tar.
reporteddby government building ex-
In some eases it is the man who is
pests on thethe round of inspect- ess alta a hurried
tit so aimlto
tion.' As the work of restoration change.
called f0 pompt Retion,'this
historical
Anyway, there •must be: distinct signs .—
landmark of the Potsdam environs of a. tnatrimoutal nhix-up for some -
has been temporarily closed to the body by the second a;:a.pter it the,
public, - .novel is to•bealieSt•sellei•. '
' Books that Bare
Keep Minard's in the Medicine Chest. The very gloomiest of these pope -
ler favorites -at 'least, •that's' what
pale and wean with idleness.
"Kaisers ' Old s
Home Decays
List or "Wanted Inventions"
Sha has been groulidetl lite Ameli 1? and Full Information Sent Fres'
Sedley fn the priuciplea, of religion: °"'inti. RAytsnsr Ott Dept. �,v,
and morality. Her head is stuffed alar sank St., 'Ottawa, ont.
With Hangnail's questions, her fingers
are sorewith working 'samplers,' her
body is stiff with that strange' cult
known as 'deportment' She is just
sixteen (years of age and ready to
`come out' to a life of social and do-
mestic inanition. When she dances,
it is ;to pace soberly through the mea -
1 sures of a minuet or the quadrilles,
for she has not yet been introduced
to the .'sprightly polka' or the glamor-
ous waltz, •Little wonder that she
breaks the monotony of her days hy
occasional fits of hyetei'ice or a gi'at.c
fur swoon.
"She had her vanities- poor dear—
her looks were one of her few itt
•terests. She was as fnigbtetted of eon
sulence: as is her modern sister. Rosy,
fresh cheeps were considered cont -
mon, -and she deprived nerseif of ade-
quate food for fear of growing fat and
'material,' A pale and tired gentitlity
eras her creed, She -moved of nacos.
city in a small and cireuniscrihed cir-
cle traveling no further than her feet,
or the slow, lumbering coach, would
take her, for the revolution of trans -1
port had hardly begun, and railways
were not yet familiar."
Of all the changes the swiftly moi-•'
ing hundred years past has brought
about, none is more dramatic, thinks
"A Modern Girl," then the inrpieve- f
mentin the' status' of women. Not 1
only their own destinies, we are told,,
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BEST FOR ALL YOUR BAKING Pies, Cakes, Mans and Bread DOES ALL YOUR BAKING BEST
and -misery type' errs written by so-
called leading novelists - who oaglt
to know better: People read teens
because they will read anything which
bears these writers' names,'
- But how many people, if they spoke
the trellis really want to read there—
or do? How many skim a few chap -
tors, so that'tGGey may be sine of be
Ing up to elate, and then, with a thank-
ful sigh,` pick up a good, wholesame
detective yarn, and give their war
riors brair-s a rest foln psychoanaly-
sis and the divorce court?
One wonder's how many of the
writers 1301 so highly landed—and
raid—will oven be remembered in
twenty' years' time: Looking back
on no novels of the last hundred
veare,'it 1s evident that litany of
those once praised to the skies are
now completely forgotten,
i The exceptions: tbat prove this rule;
such as the books of Dickens and
Thac.era Y,
and such lasting
favor.
ites, 'again, as -Lorna Doone "The
Cloister and the Hearth," and "Treas-
ure Island," were not books neat de-
liberately tried to be abnormal. They
were feat plain tiler about average
buman beings, but . written extla-
ordinarily well.
It is not perpetual fooling, Bite the
Insane "comics" of the American
Slims, which one wants in a British
book, but neither is It • perpetual
gloom,
"Give his a Failure!"
' Most of us in these 'lays 'incl life
'nytlring but easy, and we get all the
trouble we want—and some over --
without going to the lending libraries
for it. nose who use free libraries,
where the newest fiction is not band-
ed out, are really better off than the
patrons of the subscription libraries.
A young business nlau of Illy ac-
quaintance, whose working day emu
ends et nine or ten o'clock, anti who
has. neither time nor money for
amusements, jollied a local lending
library as an economical relaxation.
i Given a volume guaranteed as euro
to please him—"it's the latest sue-
cess—everybody's asking for it" -he
Interned it next day in disgust,
"It tens is the sort 04! thing that's a
. atecess, for goodness' sake give me
one -at 'tUe failures(" he said.
Bank of France Branch
Has Disappearing Floor
• Paris --A fgrfrress with a most
guards the gold of the Bank of
France, - -
"Even the American bankers ad•
mire it," say ofilrials"}of the bank..
Deep in the cellareebf the last -built
branch of the back, is an old, aristo-
cratic palace, t::ero is always an arm-
ed sentinel with orders to let no one
but the chief director enter. The en-
trance to the strong room Is a metal
safe -door seven' feet thick. Inside
the gold is stowed in other supposedly
burglarproof :boxes,
The moat, Sixty-five feet creep, 'las
a swift len footflow of water in It, di.
veined from an underground elver.
Should some . master . cracksman
reach the big steel door he wotfid be
in a smooth steel corridor, the floor
of which would disappear from under
him once he began operations, Be.
low him would' bethe swift stream
and an about him polished steel sura
faces offering no grip.' '
What devlced there are, to cause the
floor to vanish are secret. ,Oflfeials
are so certain of the safety of their
treasure thatthey are swilling that
burglars should know where Fiance
keeps her billions.
"'Did any of your family ever snake
a brilliant marriage" "0n! ns
wiles,,"