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Zurich Herald, 1931-12-17, Page 3r • t 13Y IRENE szups. Tbe. little typist, working in the third window on the fourth floor of the building opposite the hospital, fin- iehed her letter with a flourish. A man wont to watch her as he went his rounds in the men's wards, prepared to smile. It was hardly necessary to pause, he reflected, He knew so well what she would do. She would open a drawer, take out her powder -puff, and powder:11er impudent little nose. '..hen she would perhaps throw some laugh- ing remark to the girl who worked nearest her. In any event, it would be some minutes before she started 'Work again. Yes, as it happened, the little typist only sat back and sighed, The man opposite was so sueprised that be paused longer than usual, until the brightawaface at the 'window turned y. "That young man certainly knows how to stare," Judy Carstairs said to her companion. "You should feel flattered, dear," said Miss Macintyae. Judy shoolc her head. • "His eyes are too critical; besides, the wretched creature always manages to look across when I ani powdering my nose. You know, that building op- pcsite has blighted my life." Miss Madintyre was horrified. "Oh, you shouldn't say that. Don't forget it's a hospital. Don't forget the good work they do," "Yes, I always do try to remember that, but I can't help regretting the pleasant green squares we used to look upon. -You weren't here, so you don't remember what this place was like a yeae or two ego. It was a pleasure to work here then." "And now?" ventured Miss Maeln, tyre, thnidly. "It's a penance," said Judy solemn- ly, "and that's final." "Heavens, what's go you down this morning?" demanded Miss Macintyre in alarm. "The building opposite," said Judy tersely. But that, though indirectly true, was not so entirely. Judith would hardly admit it to herself, but it was the man opposite who had upset her. He stared so often and so hard that she had been bound to notice him, hill she was often forced to wonder •whe- ther he had ,really noticed her. to go. If she could cheer those hors uphe would, Besidee* The Saturday afternoon concert • proved to be the usual hospital affair, replete 'witlileiad old ladies exercising somewhat' doubtful talents. Judy couldn't help acing the star turn. When she had finished her first piece at the piano, no one would hear of her leaving' the instrument, ,Some stadents, who had gathered in the doorway, ran forward every time she tried to escape, and held her down. She played popular dance tunes and all the old favorites she could rernenee ber. She sang an old-fashioned love song and had half the ward singing with her. It was towards the end of this song that her voice faltered' and her energetic little hands played not so surely. She saw the fair young man pause in the doorway, When she had finished the sang he spite to the .students, • and a number of ti ern turned on reluctant heels and went sway; but he remained, frown - lug She felt suddenly nervous, or she would hr ve gone up to him and asked him why he did not like her sting. She often went over to the hospital aftet that, but though si.e mad friends with all the patients and many of the etaelents, she :ever Tide friends wii the 1 ir young met e,iih the : rioas And because she was not sure she v, as angry with herself for being so interested in him, angry with herself for liking his fair, thoughtful young. • face, his serious, frowning brows, but ea° ereett eaaseieeaetill with him because he never smiled:- Ile seemed very remote and ab- stracted in his work across the way. The boys in the men's -ward smiled at her, and were only too happy if she smiled back. The boys in the men's 'ward waved to her, and were delight- • ed if she waved back. The old men sat by their windows in the sun and nodded to her. They were all pleased to see her—all except the serious young man. He just stared and frowned, almost as if ne was not pleased with what he saw. Thus it was that on thiNbright morn- ing Judy also frowned over her type- writer. She was still frowning when a note was braught to her by one of her own firm's messengers. "A young man left it for you in the hall, miss," said the departing • messenger. Judith looked down at the note with puzzled eyes. When she had read the address she was more puzzled than ever. It was addressed to "Miss Busy Bee, care of Messrs. Harford & Her- ford, Third Window, Fourth Floor, Facing West Central Hospital." It was a joint invitation from S011..0 of the boys in the men's ward, asking her to tea the following Saturday. There was to be a concert, and if she could join in, so much the better. They had watched her so often, and she had smiled at them so often, that they all felt they knew her. She looked so happy that they wanted to know her better. Judy, surprised and tonched, decided eyes "I don't think he approves of me," she told the rosy-fae al oy with the broken leg. "He always stands and glowers at me wneo. I'm playing — that is, if he deigns to notice me at ell." "Oh, he approves of you all right. He wouldn't come round at all while you're here if he didn't. He's always very busy. But then he takes his job very seriously, you know. He's very young to be house -surgeon. He was a student less than two years ago, you know, playing Rugger in the hospital. A team. He told me that when he heard .how I broke my leg." The next week was Hospital Week for the West Central Hospital, and excitement ran high. Students Parad- ed the streets in -white coats or fancy dress; smiling nurses collected at cor- ners. On the Tuesday there was a door to door collection, and the stu- dents raided the offices of Messrs. Harford & Harford. Judith watched eagerly from her window, trying to recognize some of the fantastically dressed figures. After long minutes she began to think that her own room on the fourth fl.or had been forgotten; then the door opened and someone came in. He came straight across to her seat by the win- dow as if she were the only person he wished to see. He smiled. Standing before her, shaking his collecting -box, he seemed younger and gayer than she had ever seen him. "You're not supposed to do this sort • Perhaps it was a sudden feeling o of thing, surely," she said, when she hopelessness and helplessness whic l had recovered from her surprise, she overcame Judy, or perhaps it was the which. really was the most she could stickily about the air. Her grip ow the afford, and as she fumbled she read the legend: "Peter Maddox, House Surgeon's Collecting Box." "I came across more to see you than to collect," he was saying. Her heart leapt, and she raised starry eyes to him. "I wanted to see you about our luncheon -hour concert on Thursday. ' Her heart sank. again. • "It's going to be just an impromptu affair on the first -floor roof garden.' suggested that it was no use having a modern building if we didn't make the most of it, so we are going to have a short concert there at lunch -tithe; when everyone will be out about. They'll get an awfully good view from the street, and we'll have people down in the streets collecting. Don't you thilik it's a good idea?" "Splendid!" said Judy. "Of coarse, I'll do everything I can to help. I ex- ect I can get some extra time off for OttoW.11.1%., Members of the Juno Art Seavel at pinchleY, E neam,o, pose offectivelY in a ,m1Frap by the late Anna Pavlova. Many baleit Classes are now prepaying for Christmas progrEgas• watch. "Why, -ve're due down there - 11 do mole than smile," he said, . at three o'cloale, aren't we?" And4 es he bent over her again. more than half of the. students fled, "Accidents hatle their compensaa leaving Judy and about four other* Vions," murmured 'Judy happily-, after: to clear up. he had kissed her. ---"Answers" (Lon - "Ever seen the operating theatre don). from this point of vantage?" askea the student who had spoken first, 2 "No," said Judy, "nor from any New Hardy R ose other point." Produced in Dominion "Well, it's just right here at handy, Montreal.—A new rose has been. if you want to look. It's that next bi of low roof that backs on to here. It' lower than the rest so that they ge daylight through the roof. Gosh, girl you should see the lamps they have in there!" "I wish I could see them," said Judy. "Follow me, child!" beckoned the student, "and you shall see all." "But we can't go in," she objected, "It isn't a proper visiting hour." "Oh," said the young man, "it's much more exciting out of visiting hours. Besides, we are only going to, produced at the Experimental Faun, sufficiently hardy to withstand the climate as far north as Ottawa with- out protection. It is a cross between an unnamed double white variety:. of the Rugosa type and Ra spantaisinut aspida. In the repoit =of the Min- ion Horticulturist for 1930e which is issued by the Department "4".. Agri- culture at Ottawa, the rose te'describ- ed as having a handeomeebash with distinct foliage, the leave4 goldieh green with seven leaflets. flowers • are large single, pale pitkoh opening, fading to w le The ptent blooms take one short peep through the win-, dow." •ea -lentil -ateamd e of Jug . B. E. becaire I'Feeiyeeee Judy followed the young man-nieelta • a or d td. ' --:.. ..f.. fore the. first upon whia ly along a ledge to a small Side wir • signature appear. f.g. Jove, where there was another iaccoetta and modeeing little ledge to hang on toa saecarry the portraits'of e tthe Presidetrrs parti.ias giving a the London Light winds in sighing. sink, till ris- ing bright Eerything in the operating theatria Managers, the . a5 and i8 inations having the peroration light. Night's virgin. pilgrim swims in vivid One short peep it was for Jud was in readiness, and amid that alai.* ,..tareet we ober Conundrums nor Except as regardefi. , tie shall all ta,eet ing whiteness and careful cleanliaesa Bog and the $10 there was the man Judy loved. Maslee nominations that or. ed and rubber -booted, he seemed 4there is little dee Pause-- ,rprised to hear, Because it is usually seen upon a line. „I .doret . lair• I:Y is a wet blanket like a train?— r Mote than ever What does your butcher weigh ..-- IVItat, of oourse. Why is w clock like a discontented worker?—Because it never passes a Try These New Wine in Old Bottles. Have you tried the amusing game of making new endings to old pro- verbs? "It's a long lane" --says one, "that has no picture palace," continues another. Or, "Where there's a will— there's litigation," and "People who live in glass houses --should pull down the blinds." What are your new endings for "Too many cooks—" "The early bird—" "When the cat's away—" and a boat of others? • Party Problem •,rettlit,v *10,4,14 uri4v'befil (>1 - Lesson December 27. Lesson Xilli—'Th Spread ef Christianity In Europe— Isaiah 11: 1-10e Golden Text— The kingdoms et this world are be. come the kingdoms of oweLora • and ea hie Christ; and be shall re g n for ever and eae tion 11: 15. For six months we have been follow- ing the studies of the spread of Ch4s- tianity after the ,departure, of Jesus. In the resurrection the little band of followers became aware of the living and eternal Christ and they went -everywhere spreading the message and the power of his gospel. As we have looked again upon the faith and the courage of these early followers of Cheist, and realize something of the price they paid new outlooks and heroic endeavors, risking and.sacAflc- ing all that they had, we feel abet we have entered into a rich heritage in- deed. We are cemstrainecl tea.aek mire selves whether we have been as faith- ful witnesses. The past Quarter's lessons nave shown us Christianity meeting out into new areas, the extension of the mis- sionary activity of the church ti.Aia- elude Europe. Help the class to see the enlargement of view as well as of area that has taken place. This part of the review you might gatherup under the heading, "Jewish vs, versal Christianity." Recall with the group the Judaizing tendency of a cm-, tain group, They 'egarded Christian- ity at first as exclusively for Jew a and within the Jewish church. When did this idea get its first challenge? Recall Peter at Joppa. But who was the real champion of the larger view? It was Paul who "tore the gospel from its Jewish soil and rooted it in the soil of humanity." Call to mind his experi- ence on his first and second missionare journeys and his call into Europe. Re- . view the circumstances .of his preace- , Can you make any sense out of these ing in Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, fauelines? and Corinth. Note eepecially that dbagstntliamidtwightdm, . , Paul was demonstrating all the while Vahlstbrdsnwldswftvgleeclngskm that Gentiles could enter into the faith Ightwndifisghngsektile aigbrght and life in Christ equally with Jews I ughtsvrgnplgrruswmsnxxdight. and it was not necessary for them to It only needs the addition of one accept the unfamiliar ceremonial of vowel to make four lines of quite good Judaism in order to be good Chris- tians. But it was very hard for the Poetry. The letter is "i." Put it in the Jews to see this, as is evidenced by right places, and the lines then read: the bitterness with which they oppose Idling I sit in this mild twilight dim, ed Paul and the Gentile mission. The Whilst birds in wild, swift vigil cir- matter of consequence is that the cling skina, Christian gospel demonstrated itself as a universal gospel rather than for a merely Jewish sect. Notice what were the implications oi this. Racial equality was recogniz-, ed or prepared for, and the way open- ed for racial understanding. In Christ there was to be no East or West. Paul was the world's greatest pioneer under Christ into this field. Have the class attempt to estimate what we owe to Paul in this. Another topic for discussion migbt be "Three Jerusalem Councils." Have Sunakpled. hor ):•ag for l'inlf-a-exOWn. sickening .re•ok 4,4kor vellat -87..trz something as important as this. Will you be there?" she added, as if as an afterthought. "Of course, if I possibly can. I shall want to see the concert. And to see you," be added. But on Thursday, -even when the concert waged 'wildest and most larious, Peter Maddox was nowhere to be seen. "Why doesn't he come?" Judy kept asking herself. "Why didn't he come?" she finally asked one of the students. of reach." "I believe he's busy with an opera- "And now I've come acreas to you," tion alow, or going to be very shortly," he said, "and you'll have ta, smile al 11 d then he looked at hi me because I'm a patient.",e-;' familiar design, b.op innnediate- bis , ' I t' Clrell a ionn• g his address, turned . state one tell of the, fi,ret/ vvhere Paul tST1 spoke too long, did I. ont toe W'hy, is a care u luvgy, not "fade out" until the dog trying to bite its own tail?—Be- Gentile response eau o zee 64 get the council's a-ppkoval and ugly- anceof a tolerant attitude toward Gentile Christians. Some one else may tell of Paul's last visit to Jerusalem and the attitude of thu council and of the Jewish community. Then have another tell of the Jerusalem Confer ence in 1928, when representatives — from all the continents took counsel together on the basis of racial equal- ity and human brotherhood. How far was Paul's thought of the universal- ity a? the gospel vindicated by this last conference? How much of the olel racial antipathy anu sectarian nar- rowness has still to be overcome? ()nether interesting topic for dis- cussion here would be Philemon's Re- ply to Paul's Letter, taking for grant- ed that Philemon was ae good a Chris- tian *as Paul believed him to be. ledge slackened. She felt faint. She aflUOiLUL did fell. . word "I don't think*" had been cause they are both trying to make When she reco eared con ciousness, tvansinetted. ben- ends meet. her broken arm had been sa, and her tt, .---0----,- What has a foot and a brow, but no whole body ached with breaises. She . leg and no face?—A hill. was a little light-headeih front, the Why is a false friend like the letter chloroform they had giveii her, Ind it he is the last in help. p?—Because, although the first in pity, was some moments before she realized "I admire a ta .e.. whose was the face that bent ,bove Still light-headed, she raieee Ian in-: right thing at the right time." "So an who says the auiring finger and.touchediNrcoen'er do I—especially when I'm thirsty." of the house -surgeon's moue& "What a salmi young =Dr she There came a knock at the doer, said. The cottager opened it. "Good morn - ""Something to look seriots about, , Mg!" said the shabbily dressed visi- thisl" he muttered, but smiled back at I tor. "Is it here that you are offering her, neverthelees. "You don't seem nearly so remote when you smile," she said, "You ; should do it more often." 6Remete—I—remote?" Be threw back his head and laughed. "Why, it was you who seemed so remote. You smiled at everyone except me." "You used to glare at me when I powdered my nose." "Why, I loved to see you powder your little nose! You all seemed so carefree over there. Everything seem- ed so serious here. I'd work much better after I'd watched you for a min- ute. And why do you think I came across collecting. It was just that I couldn't bear this sense of your being just across the way, always just out MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER Daughter—"You'll have to give me away when I marry Tom." Father—"I have already told him how extravagant you • are and he isn't discouraged yet." "I think Elsie's boy is a credit to her." "Well if I know Fllsie, she'll need every penny cf it." "Did you ever hear of the straw which broke the camel's back?" asked the guest at a country inn. "yes, sir," replied the landlord. "Well, ythell find it in the bed tried slelep on last night." a reward fob a lost dog?" "Yes," said the cottager anxiously. "I'm offering ten shillings. Can it be that you have news of my' poor little Fido?" 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