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The Seaforth News, 1930-02-27, Page 2The quality of Salada is the only premium offered 'Fresh from the gardens' Wandering Minds Do not read a word beyond this sen- tence eatenee Irnless you have a desire to tit oreases your power of concentration. If you are going to read on, say to yourselfright now, "I am going to hold my thoughts from all diverting influences while I read this article I shall squeeze the last drop of mean- ing from every word. If the door slams, If some one moves near me,' still I shall whip my thoughts along the path of these words." Now go back and read the first para- graph again—slowly, thoughtfully. You can attain a mastery of your mental processes. You can gain the power to snap your mind to a subject and make it stay there. White light from the sun may be broken into the colors of the rainbow by passing it through a glass prism. The same sunshine, concentrated by a shaped glass, will set a fire to blu- ing. Your thoughts, regulated by a wise willpower, may turn to beauty unbe- lievable, or concentrated upon a life problem, may light the world with ideas and wisdom. Are you following the thought of these sentences? Did your imagina- tion cause eyou to visualize a hand .holding a glass prism to a lay of light admitted to a darkened room? The person who has gone for years Axing habits of flighty thought of vague thought, of shallow thought, cannot expect to change overnight.. The invalid does not expect to become a champion. athlete in twenty-four. hours. We know from physical ex- perience that we must put in hard training for many months before we can bring our muscles to strength and co-ordination. Do you want to generate more near- ly your full brain power? Have you nerve enough to be a hard taskmas- ter with yourself. The first step toward concentration is desire. The amount of concentra- tion you achieve depends entirely upon the strength and continuance of desire. If you are in earnest, ask your librarian for simple books on mind training tack occasionally to energe- tic, forward-Ioekffg friends, and calm- ly study yourself. Exercises such as follow will help you achieve concentration. 1, Each week read a non-fiction -article in a high grade magazine. Read slowly, following last week's suggestions on permitting each word to "explode" its full meaning. 2, Attend a lecture or sermaa each week. Work with your mind uutil you can listen from beginning to end with uo slack in your attention. 3. Each day write an interpretation of a difficult paragraph or sentence. For example: What is meant by the saying. "Inattention le voluntary fee- ble-mindedness." Attractive Undies Chic Parisienne Chooses .Her Undies - With {.reatest'Forethouught for, , 1 Slimness ' What a girl does when she is pur- eued is usually around silty." Worrying over past mistakes paves the way to permanent failure. By ANNETTE,. The StCP. on the Stairs By, ISABEL OSTRANDER CHAPTER 1. crackling upon their ears and both Professor Sorry onov, the celebrated men leaped to their feet and stood for chemist whose prefonud knowledge of the, fraction of a second staring at toxicology had more than once been each other. The professors nervous - placed at the disposal of the author- 'nese had fallen from biro and he spoke sties in the solution of Crime, tugged With the calmness of fatalism: ' at his bushy white side -whiskers and "There was no lightning. That was gazed at Sergeant Jahn Barry from not thunder, but a shot! Come!" the Homicide Bureau. The realization of the truth had The professor's head with its shock even before his host voiced it and he of white hair nodded slowly and his sprang for the, door. As he flung it shrewd eyes twinkled, open, with the rotund figure in the "You tell me that there is now tattered dressing gown close at his calmness upon the waters? No crime heels, he heard umnistakably the of more importance than the averagesound 6f hurrying footsteps below and. petty misdemeanor engages' the atten- plunged for the head of the stairs.. tion of your bureau? Is that why The narrow hall was but dimly yen have honored me tonight with an lighted and in the unnatural silence unexpected but most welcome call, and which followed the echo' of the shpt, in your civilian clothes?" their own feet as they clattered down "You've got me, Professor Sorry the matting -covered stairs drowned onov!". The detective laughed again out the lesser sound which had come frankly. "There's no crime waveup to them. • threatening to break over us that I The hallway directly below was de - know of, but a rather curious case has serted and the door leading into the come to . our attention at head- apartme it was closed and blank. quarters." Professor Semyonov paused to ham - The roll of distant but approaching Hier upon it but Barry hastened on thunder broke in upon his words. downward, his eyes striving 'o pierce "We are goirg to have a storm." the gloom. Was that a fleeing figure The professor rose from his chair below hies or just his own distorted and waddling over to the 'windows shadow advancing before his reckless pulled Lown the shades, Ile moved descent. with astonishing rapidity and vigor. On the third floorhe halted: The "I do not like to watch it approach; .door of this, apartment also, which it fills me with a sense of suspense'of his ,host 'had told him was occupied by foreboding. It is the electricity in the a woman portroit painter, was closed, air, I suppose. You shall tell Hie all but from the line ofthesill streamed about your case, but frst you must see a peculiar, bright light like a beam of my apartment, My laboratories are sunshine. The ,professor ceased his quite on the other side of the city, you fruitless efforts and rejoined his corn - know, but here on this old square nankin just as there came a soft thud where the aristocracy- of forgotten and then from the street level a vio- generations lived once upon a time I lent ringing and pounding. find the absolutely different atmos -1 "Perhaps we were mistaken," Barry pheri. which brings relaxation." remarked. "It' night have been a Barry followed his host through a 'fracas out in the street—" spacious, old-fashioned dressing room, The professor shook his dread . de- and bath to the bedroom at the back. cidedly and then pointed to the line Here, too, the professor paused to of light beneath the door before them. pull down the shades and then opening "Someone is in here, at any rate. a door at the right displayed a mod- We will knock." ern' kitchenette. Suiting his action to the word, he. "This p you house erceive,niust once rapped smartly, waited and rapped , have been a Amity mansion but it again, but there came no response, has now been made over, an apart- only the steady glare of that garish ment to each floor," Professor Sealy- light and the banging from the en- onov explained. "A shop of hammer—trance on the ground floor. ed brasses and other atrocities occu- Professor Semyonov shrugged and pies the street level, a young gentle- turned to descend still further, but the nian'waom I do not know has butlate-sergeant grasped his arm. ly arrived on the second floor. His "That's otily someone who heard apartment is larger than mine, how- what we did—the officer on tbe beat, ever, for an extra room ie built out perhaps—and wants to investigate. over the strip of garden but the ex- Let him wait. If .cnything is wrong tension ends on the floor above hi's in in this house it is behind that door!, a studio with a skylight, It fa occu- I'm going to assume responsibility'for pied, that third floor, by awoman who breaking it in, professor. Stand back!" paints portraits, Mrs. McGrath tells The door itself was a massive one ane. but the lock evidently old and flimsy "The fourth apartment, that direct- and at his third onslaught it snapped ly below mine here, houses a crotchety with such suddenness that he was al gentleman with no ear for music; he most precipitated into the apartment. raps on his ceiling when I play my A single glance sufficed to show the violin at unseasonable hours. outlines of daintily carred furniture "Above me in an attic studio Fives and cushions scattered about in pro- one of the feminine freaks peculiar fusion by an obviously feminine hand, to the neighborhood in its declining but the room was empty and its only years; a smocked, thin, wraith -like illumination was that strange ray of creature with bobbed hair and a counterfeit sunlight which streamed pointed chin. She might be 20 or 40, through an opened door in the oppo- rind it is understood that she writes site wall, a door which led evidently for the eccentric little magazines to that studio built out over the strip i;-hich spring up sporadically here- of garden of which the professor had a"out. So now, niy dear sergeant, you spoken. are acquainted with my home and its The still, heated air was heavy with surroundinre. What do you think of a subtle, cloying perfume but mingled it?" with it was a harsh, acrid odor that He chuckled as he led the way back was not new to the detective and he to the living room and Barry followed, sprang across to the doorwoy of the studio and then paused. Facing him upon a large easel was the portrait of a woman in a gray evening gown poised on tbe third step of a staircase with one slippered foot pierced the detective's consciousness, A slender step-in combination for your new frock of moulded waist and hipline, that will add to the effect of slenderness. The fitted brassiere has the import- ant scalloped outline to wear with frocks of deep 17 -neckline or with the chiffon frock with deep yoked sheer- : ass. It can also be made with straight upper edge for sports wear. It just hugs the figure, shaped with deep point at front to keep the flat hipline. It opens at right side. The knickers have elastin inserted through casing at lmees forming ruffl- ed edge, and are opened at side from waistline to knees. They are stitched to the brassiere, fitted with darts at either side of front, with soft gathers at back, They are easily made and at a worth -while saving. Style No. 222 is designed in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42. inches bust. Peach crepe satin with deep shade ecru lace is very effective. Crepe de :kine, ninon, georgette, rayon novelty crepes, batiste, sheer linen, voile and flat silk crepe suitable. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your naive and address plain- ly,giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St,, Toronto. LIFE IS GOOD All life is good. "God is light and inHimIs no darknees at all.' All life is light, and joy, and gladness, and illumination. And wheu it seems the reverse to us it is because we have gotten "off the track," as people some. times say, and the phrase is expres- sive We have .missed the way. Laziaess stifles ambition, strangles self-expression, dwarfs men, and keeps hosts of young men of great natural ability on the toboggan all the time. • JE Sell yours !i2 the highest Market sal with an old reliable D t s!- le bu We aro paying for Eggs for Hees house with a reputation of the week ending February more than sixty-five years for Sth, square dealing. Best -pylori EXTRAS 45c doz, paid. Prompt payMen{s. Cases FIRSTS 42o dos, returned quickly. Cases sup - PULLET EXTRAS 35edoz. piled, 60c each, complete, deny - SECOND & CRACKS 30c doz. ered,'payment in advance. • Reference: -Your Own Banker. Write for Weekly Quotations THE WHYTE PACKING CO.,.LIIIITED ESTABLISHED OVER 65 YEARS 7,9„8O Kola Strati .t ToZt Toronto 2 at a loss what to reply. The profes- sor was known on three continents,his scientific discoveries had made him rich; he might have lived in solitary state in a house of his 01tzt, or occu- pied the most expensive bachelor slightly advanced and a hand of start - apartment in town. Why had he oho- ling whiteness upon which a huge sen to hide himself away in such emerald blazed rested on the dark, dingy, dreary quarters, polisled wood of the balustrade. The "You seem to be mighty comfort painting was only half finished, but it was indicated in broad splashes of color and with the bold, sweeping lines of the cartoonist, which rendered the likeness unmistakable to anyone familiar with the lineaments of those in the city's highest society. AU this Barry took in with one darting glance and -.then: his eyes traveled to the foot of the easel and what lay there. It was the huddled body of a woman with masses of tawny hair scarcely dishevelled by her fall and a spreading stain upon ` e breast of her paint -daubed smock. Kneeling beside it he gently raised the head, which rolled backward in his hands and the curiously long, nar- row, half -opened eyes stared up sud- denly into his with a dull, unwiniting gaze. "Dead!" the professor announced beside hint. "She was at work when the shot pierced her breast. See, her. thumb is still thrust through the pal- ette and the niaulstick and brush have but just fallen from her hands." (To be continued.) Check Falling Haig with Minard's. OUR DUTY Let us do our duty in par shop Ore our kitchen; in the market, the sife3t, the ofli,ce, the school, the home, just. as faithfully as if we stood in the own country many years before the front rank of some great battle, and . late war and the memory of them is nno,P that victory for mankind de - with nie always. But let us forget the pended en ow ],;;;very, strength and storm if we can. The case you men- skill. When we do that, Elleysl Honed, is it murder?" of us will be serving in that great "Frankly, I don't know." Barry re- army' which athletes the welfare of speeded, 'It is similar to that Tudor the world, affair at Sandy Cove last sununoe—" ISSUE No: 7—'30- A sudden, sharp detonation burst able, Professor Semyonov." The detec- tive spoke as heartily as he could and his host laughed outright. "That is the point!"'he exclaimed. "I saw that you were surprised when you came, but my wants are simple and here, you see, T am just a queer, old foreigner named Semyonov, who minds his business and goes his way in peace; I Ant not Professor Semy- onov, the chemist, to Whose laborator- ies ail the world contest No knows of my abode except a few like your- self to whom I have given my address, and I aim undisturbed. But now you must tell me about your ease. Is it an affair of poisoning?" Before Sergeant Barry could reply another flash of lightning as,l:een as a knife thrust swept beneath the edges of the window shades and for an in- stant dulled the electric lights into an augr orange glow. y Professor Semyonov started, then shrugged. "That was nearer, eh? I am as bad perhaps as a hysterical housemaid, but does it not seem as though the very, atmosphere waited for the breaking of the storm?" "It is like the report of guns!" The professor pulled lib worn, gor usly- basil dressing gown More closely about him as he sank once more into hie alialr. I have heard them in my • In fhe new poundpac/ic9e Christie's Graham Wafers in the new one pound package, are famous for their crisp.freshness. Delicious, nourishing— good for everybody. .Also sold in bulk. hrilie Biscuits the .e aa2xcati/eAince /85.3 The Thrift Habit Just because the late Edward W. Bok picked up and took home a stray potato, and because a friend didn't bother to save UM strings from opened parcels, Mr. Bok is now successful, famous and well off financially, and the friend is only a clerk in a depart - meat store. Of course, Mr. Bok, who told . the story in Collier's, does not mean that the potato and the string actually determined any one's future. But he insistedthat the habit of thrift and economy to con- nection with the small affairs of early life, is likely to lead on to fortune. He told another anecdote in this connec- tion: An 'investment opportunity of the kind which comes only once in a life- time was recently offered to a man,. He went to a very close friend with whom things had not gone well, and. said to him: "You take this chance. It will fix you and your family for the rest of your lives. I don't need it. I have saved, I am fixed. After a week ]tee'friend came back, and said he would have to let the chance pass him by. Ile wffuld give no explanation, and he refused as- sistance. "No," he said. "It was coming. to me, _ It is a life -lesson that I must accept." What was back of it? He had not sufficient liquid funds or securities : for a loan. and the banks did not con- sider his account sufficient to justify the venture. Thrift doesn't mean being penuri- ous or close, says 11ir. Bok; "but it does mean not to live up to an in- come, no matter how small that in- come may be." As tiie former edi- tor of the Ladles' Home Journal again turned to remiuiscence. When I earned 50 cents per week, I saved Eve cents of it. It was the principle that I respected; it was the. habit that I formed. To -day I am just as careful to turn out an unneces h en.in a hotel, as I was in early days not to light the Minard's Is Best for Grippe. • Gar Wood Expects To. Make 100,, M.P.H. . At Miami Regatta Speedboat Veteran Has Never , Put Miss America VIII to Test in Mile Trials A speed of 100 miles an hour on the water may realized during the-Com- ing he com- ing speedboat aoason in Florida, ac- cording to representatives of Gar Wood. veteran- American driver, who holds the present record of 92.123 miles an .hour made at Miami Beach last winter in his Miss America VII. Wood, it i. reported, plans to ship his new Miss America VIII. to Miama. and try for a mile -trial record there during the regatta March 25 and 26. Miss America III. is credited with the, successful defence .of the Harms- worth trophy at Dr.' dt last Septem' ber. She has never been put over the miletrial courses which deter- mine the top speed of a motorboat. Wood believes her limit is just over t"s coveted 100 -mile mark. • This, however,, will probably not be Cast enough to defend the Harms- worth Trophy next summer provided the threatened British in'•aders ma- terialize and manage to beep their bottoms under them. American speed- boat enthusiast's are beginning to lamp a moment before it was actually necessary. And besides the effect on one's own mentality, it is important to create. an impression of thrift: A wife_ mentioned to her husband the care with which a certain young man, a friend of the son of the house, always turned off every light when he left his room, and how punctilious he was in the little Cringe. about his room and the bathroom, The husband said nothing. But when the boy was graduated from college he asked him to come into his business—in which he 15 now a partner. There are few acts of, conduct so small that they go unnoticed: There are few so lowly and humble that the eyes of some one are not upon them. It is hard to believe this, but it is so. sary electric lig t, ev • 'I've just spanked you because you Played truant. Don't ever let it hap- pen again." "Aw, it didn't happen -4 did it on a purpose." A GRAND CATHEDRAL Christian faith' is a grand cathedral, with divisely pictured windows. Stand- ing without, you see no glory, noncan possibly intagiue any; standing with- in, every ray of light reveals a har- mony of unspeakable splendours.-- Hawthorne. plendours.—Hawthorne. eH dless ,Some folks take pain for granted. They let a cold "run its course.', They wait for their headaches to "wear off.!1 If suffering from neuralgia or from neuritis, they rely on feeling better in the ramming. . Meantime, they suffer unnecessary, pain, Unnecessary,because there ' is an antidote. Aspirin tabets always offer 3nunediate relief from various' aches and pains we once had to endure. If pain persists, consult your doctor as to its cause. Save yourself a lot of pain and discomfort through the many proven uses of Aspirin, Aspirin is safe. Always the same. All drup stores with complete directions. 'TRADE MARK REG, worry for the first time in years about their chances of retaining the world's premier speedboat trophy. It is re- ported that the Packard :engineers are working on the design of a new 1,500 -horsepower motor for Wood, a1sd that if such engines are built he will put a pair of them in each of two new Miss Americas. Even the 3,000 horsepower this will give him, however, will L. less than the 4,000 that Sir Henry Segrave is expected to have in his Rolls -Royce - Powered Miss England II., while Miss Marion Carstairs - will 2,400 horse -power in a paiig,of Napiershave and Hubert Scott -Paine, now here to ,loot over the. Detroit course, may come over with a rev i utiouary single -mob ored boat. Gar Wood, George Wood and Richard F. Hoyt, holeers of the Gold Cup, are mentioned as possible drivers of Miss Americas VIII., IX.., A.Talbot. an James4 andI{„teeny, d Jr., may build a new boat to succeed Miss Los Angeles II. No country may enter more than three boats. The Florida ravine schedule Iias been announced as follows: Feb. 8. St. Petersburg; 9, Palm Beach; 16, New .lmyrna; 13-14, St Augustine; 20, Clearmount; 22, Clear- water. March 23-24, Palm Beach. April 3, St. Augustine, 4, Jackson. i311e. Barn :na Success Rules. While looking through an old filo in his office recently James Boyd Hunter came across a success formula written by P. T. Barnum. It was dated August 19, 1852, addressed: "Buelaes,Rules for Young Men, by P. T. Barnum, Esq,,” and the code was ae follow*: "1—Select the kind of business that suits your natural inclinations and temperament. "2—Let your pledged word ever be sacred. "3—Whatever you do, do with all your might. "4 -Sobriety: Use no description of toxieating liquors. "5—Let hope predominate, but be not too visionary. "6—Do not scattsr.your powers. "i—Engage proper employees. "8—Advertise your business. Do not bide your light under a bushel- "9—Avoid extravagance, andalways live considerably within your income, if you can do so without absolute starvation. "10—Do not depend upon others." Forest Silence Not here the fleet hare dives Into this leafless wood, Not here the gray grouse hides In velvet solitude. I am a forest where no doe Bends downward to the water's brink 114y hillsides are a place of snow My trees as dark as ink. Not here the lyric bird Plays his enchanted lute, No leaping fish are here, - No fall of rosy fruit Once was this brain alive With wing and song, Once did the laurel thrive Before the days grew long. O forest close your eyes, The winter creeps, Death comes without surprise — And even the woods must sleep. --Harold Vinel fit Coutempory Versa THE WEAVER He dropped the shuttle, the loom stood' still, grey; Dear heart, hewill weavehisbeauti- ful auti The weaver slept In the twist e ut- ful. web In the golden light of a longer .day Caller—"Let me see, I know most of your folks,., but,,I have never met your Uncle George. Which side' of. the hoose does he look ~sloe?" " The small boy in the family—"The side, with the bay window."