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The Wingham Advance Times, 1932-06-23, Page 6The Wingham Advance -Times Wingbaarn, Ontario. Wellington Mutual Fire insurance Co, Established 1840 riskstaken an all class.of insur- Ince at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD I'wo doors south of Field's Butciter shop, F.IRE,. LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Box 366 Phorte 46 liVINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER And SOLICITOR Office: Morton Block. Telephone 1W. J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Wingham :- Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D, S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R. HambIy Phone 54 Wingham DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND 'f[.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. G. W. 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"God made the country and man made the town," he tells her, and she agrees to go to a rural re- treat Before she leaves she goes to Den- nis Waterman's flat, where they are surprised by Linda, Dennis's wife, who takes the situation quite calmly. "I suppose she wants you to marry her?" she asks Dennis. At the night club where she goes with Dennis, Diana collapses. She regains consciousness in a little coun- try cottage, with a nurse, Miss Star- ling, bending over her. Dr. Rath - bone's home was close by, Miss Star- ling told her. After three weeks Dennis Water- man calls. He tells her he will have to go away, and his manner, as he leaves her, suggests that his love is waning. But Dennis has not been gone many days before Diana finds her- self asking Miss Starling all sorts of questions about Dr. Rathbone. Not long afterwards she learns that there is a woman living in Dr. Rathbone's house, a woman named Rosalie. • Soon after the meeting in the woods with Rosalie, Dr. Rathbone alls again at Diana's cottage. Diana, thirsting for love, turns her houghts again to Dr. Rathbone. She s thinking of him now as "Donald." �wegardless of the mysterious Rosr ,lie, Diana resolves to see Dr. Rath - one. She goes to his house, but as ;he stands at the front doter the ioctor's big police dog leaps at her end she feels his teeth tearing at her hroat. 6e-e.e—ememt Rathbone saves her from the beast resses her wounds and takes her toa NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Unless • the fug lifted it might mean being out all night in the colcl and wretchedness. He turned to retrace his steps to where he had left the trap when sud- denly a muffled cry broke the silen- ce. It sounded weird and unearthly, coming as it did through the stifling fog blanket, and Jonas felt his skin rise in little pin ii?oints as he waited for it to be repeated. Then it came again -a woman's wailing voice, For a moment' he stood petrified; then he went blindly forward as quickly as the hampering conditions would permit, in fhe direction from which he thought that cry came. It was not exactly a call for help -it was more like a frightened wail, but it urged the boy on till suddenly he pulled up sharply, only saving himself with difficulty as he found he was on the river bank. A sloping, `muddy bank, broken away by much rain and weather; but now the cry was nearer—almost at his feet, it seemed—and he answer- ed. it with a shout, cupping his hands round his mouth to make it carry further. "Hullo . . . there!" His own sense of helplessness was appaling; one might as well have been imprisoned by walls as by this blanket of increasing darkness. He shouted again with all the strength of his young voice, and then, sud- denly, as if by a miracle, the fog bank seemed to break for the small- est fraction of a moment, like a cur- tain being slowly raised by a mock- ing hand in order to show hire the thing he sought. She was in the river ... its width away from him , . . a half -drowned piteous thing, clinging with frail hands to the 7overhanging bough of a rotting willow, her white face up- turned, her flaming dark hair dank and horrible, her mouth wide open as if to give utterance to that wail- ing cry, Jonas caught his breath; instinct- ively he began to tear off his coat, when the fog came silently down gain shutting her out, leaving him per own cottage. Both realize that his is Love, but Dr. Rathbone tells Diana that he can be no more than friend, because of things in his life which he refuses to explain. He ur- es her to go back to London. Dennis Waterman conies to the :ottage to visit her, but she does not brill at his presence as she once lid. She goes back to London, and trranges to meet Dennis in a private oom at a restaurant. While she is waiting for hien Dennis' wife, Linda, :omes in, Rathbone finds that he is deeply n love with Diana, but he confesses ;o her that Rosalie is his wife. He had married her out of sympa- hy, when her husband had been tilled in the war. But Rosalie was Hopelessly insane. Diana and Rath - one part, and a letter comes from aunt Gladwyn calling Diana back to London, Dennis comes to see her, She dis- overs that she is all through with im. As she is leaving for London letter comes from Dr. Rathbone, expressing his hopeless love, Back n London she learns that Linda Jiraterman, Dennis' wife, has been or years in love with a married man hose wife has just died in an in- ane asylum. Life seems a frightful, ntzzling affair. She goes to a party, xpecting to be bored, but the foot - pan at the door announcing the in - ()ming guests, calls out "Dr, Don - Id Rathbone," Rosalie who had gone kr a stroll 1 the woods, does not return. What as happened to her? there, shivering and helpless, on the muddy, slippery bank. It seemed a lifetime before he could nerve himself to fresh action, Everything was unreal, uncanny; the silently flowing river like a half-dead poisonous snake creeping by at his feet, and .the strange impenetrable menace of the fog -enwrapped world. Jonas seemed suddenly to see Di- ana's face: her blue eyes, her sensi- tive Mobile face . . , . "Little head running over with gold. , ." Diana would be happy again if he left Miss Rosalie to die, He was shivering from head to foot, as with his whole body strain- ed forward he started and stared in- to the fog where she had. been. Of what use was her life? What did her happiness matter that an- other's so much more precious, should be sacrificed to it? In the few seconds of his hesita- tion it seemed: to Jonas that he e arg- ued the whole question ottt with cold calculation before, with an ef- fort that seemed purely physical, he pulled himself together and turned deliberately away. Let her die .. nobody would ev- e know. "I would rho anything in the world for you;" He had told Diana that more than once, and he had meant it with ev- ery fibre of his being, He was con- scious' of a queer sense of triumph to think that even though Diana would never know, he was fulfilling his promises, Teri the cry came again, strong ran led, weaker, mare despairing, the cry that might have come from a child or from one of the lost lambs which he and Shurey had sought for together one bitter March month af- ter a heavy fall of snow. For one second still Jonas hesitat- ed, standing rigid, his head craned forward in strained attention; then he turned back with quiet delibera- tion, scrambled down the muddy bank, and plunged into the icy river. CHAPTER XXIII Anna was perturbed. Half. a dozen times she had been in to Diana, and found her sleeping always in the sane position, lying on her side, her face turned against the pillows, an •arm flung up above her head. Half a dozen times since the early morning when Diana had conte home, and now it was past five o' - dock. Mrs. Gladwyn had been into the room once before leaving for anoth- er bridge evening. "Has she been asleep all day?" she asked. "Yes, madam—she seems thor- oughly worn out." She bent a little lower over Diana. "I suppose she's—all right?" she asked uncertainly. "Oh, yes, madam—just sleeping heavily," Anna said quickly, with a faint feeling of discomfort as she re- membered that once in the past she had been severely admonished for administering a sleeping draught to Diana without doctor's orders. Mrs. Gladwyn sighed. "She looks very like her mother," she said. "And her mother died when she was quite a girl." She pulled herself together and took up her gloves and handbag. "I should let her sleep it out," she said vague- ly. "It will probably do her a lot of good." When she had gone Anna quietly replenished the fire and went back to take another look at Diana. She was very pale—even her lips and hair seemed colourless; and in sudden alarm Anna laid a hand on Diana's arm. It was icy cold. For a moment she stood petrified with fear; then she tinted and ran from the room. "Miss Diana is ill—you must fetch a doctor at once. Run down and see if Mrs. Gladwyn has gone. If not, bring her back quickly." The girl ran, returning breathle„t*s- ly. "The car has just driven away." But Anna .was not the sort to lose her head in a moment of emergency. "Tell Markham to call a taxi and to go at once for Dr. Rathbone—I'11 give hint the address." She had. made a mental note of it yesterday morning when she dis- patched Diana's letter to him, and knowing that Rathbone had attend- ed Diana during her illness, she thought 'he was the most suitable one to summon. To expediate platters she went down to interview Markham herself. But Anna's evident anxiety whip- ped him to swifter action. "If Dr. Rathbone is there, bring him back with you. If he is not there, bring the first doctor you can find, but don't come back without someone, or it will be the worse for you." She ran back to Diana and pull- ed the curtains, opening both win- dows wide. The fog was not quite so bad, one could see the lights in the street be- low now, like bleary yellow eyes, staring upwards. An Anna turned away her glance fell on the bottle she had left on the dressing table, She caught it up, holding it to the light; then her face whitened, for it was nearly empty. Anna permitted herself the luxury of one moment's emotion, "Oh, poor lamb l" she said pity- ingly. ity-ingly. She knew a great deal more about Diana than the girl had ever dream- ed—knew all about the affair with Waterman, and understood that it had ended with Diana's' illness, but site had never been able to make up her mind with regard to Diana ---un- til now, when she believed that the girl had done this deliberatelyin a moment of overwhelming wretched- ness, retchedness, She lifted her gently, laying her flat on her back, and began to chafe her cold; hands. Anna had only seen Rathbone once, when Mrs. Gladwyn had sent MW.�•Y. �.uc WF:N111. 1.11.2 I. 1 for him after the girl's' breakdown; but she had been :impressed by his personality and quiet strength, and she Hound herself almost ,praying (thought Diana considcrcd prayer "gild -fashioned rubbish") that he Would come. She had always been rather con- temptuous of Diana's weakness, re- alizing how easily, during her short life, the girl had allowed herself to be bandied about, the victim first of one and then of another, in the vain, unsatisfying search for something real and lasting, but there was only pity in her heart now as site tried by every means in her power to rouse Diana from her dreadful uncon- sciousness. One of the maids came presently, with scared eyes, to know if she could do anything to help, but Anna shook her head. She wouldn't admit it, but site believed the time was al- ready past when anyone could help Diana. "Hasn't Markham come back yet?" she asked. "Not yet I think that's a taxi now." More breathless moments, Anna watched the door with strained eyes. If Markham had come back alone. . The door opened and she gave a little sob of relief as Rathbone strode into the room. He carne straight to the bed and bent over the girl lying there. Anna, watching his face—always watching him, as if she felt he was the only hope left to her—asked a broken question: "Oh, sir... she's not dead, is she?" Rathbone shook his head. "No ... what is it? What have you given her?" Anna explained as well as she could. "I only gave her four drops; she seemed so worn out, and yet she couldn't sleep; but I left the bottle on the dressing table, and the poor lamb must have taken sone more. It's nearly empty now." Anna turned her face away and wept, and she would not have be- lieved it had she been told that her tears were not so much for herself or for Diana as for the broken- hearted look site had suddenly sur- prised in Donald Rathbone's eyes. CHAPTER XXIV Diana was so used to dreams. Nearly every night lately, half awake add half asleep, she had imagined with one part of her senses, even al- though the other part knew it could riot possibly be true, that she was back at the Creature's cottage, in the little roonn with its chintz wall pap- er and muslin-petticoated dressing table, with Rathbone sitting beside her. It wasn't such a bad dream until one quite woke upl She wished she could make hint smile. Down at the cottage, no mat- ter how cross he had been with her, or how grimly he Looked at her as she hurled her silly little troubles at him, in the end she had always man- aged to make hip smile before he went away. Diana said, "Thank you," in a lit- tle whisper, and closed her eyes. The tears couldn't get through if she kept them tightly closed, and Donald hat- ed to see her cry. "Things always turn out badly if people take—what you and I might take...." Donald had saki that after she had asked if he would let her live with him. She supposed he must have been horribly shocked really, though he had only looked at her with eyes that seemed to 'understand. Funny that people, especially those whom the world called good people, should think anything physical such a deadly sin, much worse than any- thing else. She moved reslessly, and Rathbone spoke her name gently:' "Diana!" Her eyes turned to his face and rested there for a moment. "I'm so thirsty," she' whispered. Her mouth felt all clry and hot. (Concluded Next Week.) The Ripening of Tomatoes With'Ethylexie Gas (Experimental Farms Note) During recent years the consuinp- tion of tomatoes has increased am- azingly, owing largely to the desire on the part of the housewife to in-' elude this vitamin -containing fruit in her daily menu over as large a ,Hart of the year as possible. This has re- sulted in heavy importations of tom- atoes from the South during the winter months. These are picked green, shipped, and ripened usually by subjecting them to warm temper- atures.` Everyone is acquainted with the lack of flavour of such tomat- oes, which in addition, are frequent- ly deficient in red colour. At al times, such fruit is markedly infer- ior to that ripened naturally on the vine, and until recent years, no "sys- tem of artificial ripening had been initm mu�cvt;ni+fiiILJ74S�lii�if�3lYdiitfiYf ea:1th Service - OF Tilt arab utt e $rat , , , uria#iun Ed It GRANT PEENING, M.D. .w ASSOCIATE SFCREWARY HEALTH AND AGE During the course of our lifetime we change. Change is inevitable be- cause we first grow gradually and develop into maturity; then later we begin to fade. Change is part of life. There is no reason why, during all these years of changing conditions, we should not enjoy health. We can provided we are willing to recognize the changes which occur, and make the necessary effort to adjust our- selves to these changes. Throughout life there are certain health requirements that do not change, Proper food, sufficient rest, exercise and such things are requir- ed at all ages. However, the food requirements of a young baby are' not the same as those of a working man, nor is the amount of sleep re- quired the same. The general 'need continues, but it must be adapted to the age and occupation of the indi- vidual. At certain ages there are disease hazards. Whooping cough is a ser- ious menace to the young baby. Tuberculosis takes its heaviest toll in early adult life. Cancer ravages the adult group. It is obvious that at these various ages special atten- tion must be given to meet the con- ditions which are particularly• serious at such ages. A difficult age is the one when we begin to realize that our bodies are no longer able of doing readily the things which were formerly done with ease, We do not like to think that we are growing old, and that we have passed the height of our physi- cal powers, When this time comes it is necessary to take things a little, slower, with longer periods for rest, and the avoidance of heavy or sud- den physical strains. The growing boy cannot do what the full-grown man can do, and the older man should not attempt what the young- er adult can do. . A man may be only as old as he' feels, and there is no reason •why he should be depressed :because he is growing older. However, no matter how young he feels, it is the part of wisdom for the older man to realize that his body is not as young as it was. .11 he will do that he may look forward to many useful and happy years. The older person requires less food. More rest is needed. Sudden physical strains are to be avoided. Things should be done more quietly and deliberately. The golden rule is moderation in all things. Harm comes from excesses, whether in one or many things. Take the years as - they come, and make them healthy,. happy years by adjusting the man- ner of living to the changing body. developed capable of even approach- ing the effectiveness of natural rip- ening. Owing to favourable reports from other investigators as to the effect- iveness of ethylene gas as a means of artificially ripening tomatoes, ex- periments were initiated at the Ex- perimental Station, Fredericton, N. B., in the spring of 1930 to test its value as a means of ripening tomat- oes, and several other fruits and veg- etables as well. Experiments over a period of two year have demonstrated fairly con- clusively that ethylene gas is an ef- fective means of ripening tomatoes. And more important still, the qual- ity of the artificially ripened fruit is equal in flavour to that of the fruit ripened under natural conditions, providing mature green fruits are used. The, colour is perhaps some- times not quite so deep a red, al- though it has an advantage in that the stens end, so frequently green under natural conditions or ripening, is usually almost fully colored. The length of treatment necessary is almost in direct proportion to the stage of maturity. Fruits which have assumed the greenish white bloom, which appears just before the red pigment begins to become evident, will ripen in from four to seven days. Small immature fruit will ripen, but the quality will not be equal to that of the field ripen- ed crop. Providing the fruit is pick- ed at the proper stage, the quality is all that can be desired, Sufficient evidence is not as yet available as to whether this method has any commercial application or not. Undoubtedly the native crop can be put on the market at an ear- lier date, but whether this gain in earliness is sufficient to pay for the cost of equipment, has not been de- finitely established. The writer,. however, believes that it holds con- siderable promise for the more pro- gxessive growers, and that possibly, imported tomatoes could be greatly improved in flavour by exposure to ethylene gas in a properly construct- ed chamber. GEMS FROM LIFE'S SCRAP -BOOK "Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues."—Diderot. * * * "Integrity gains strength by use." -Tillotson. * * "Follow your honest convictions,. and be strong."—Thackeray. * * * "Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity." — Gold- smith. * * * "Evasion of truth cripples integ- rity, and ca'sts thee down from the pinnacle."—Mary Baker Eddy. * * Remember: —.William Gladstone was a man of integrity. 4.5 When you take Aspirin you ere sure of two things. It's sure relief, and it's harmless. 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