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Zurich Herald, 1932-10-20, Page 2Ootoberr Investments Our October Bond List and Review. offers a gide range of Canadian government and high-grade municipal bonds. It also re- views the Canadian bond market of the past year and presents a chart showing yields obtainable from long term Province of Ontario bonds from 1912 to date. Copy of October Bond List and Review gladly furnished ora request. Wood, Gandy & Company Limited 36 law St. West Vomit° Telephana 2;Lpin 4321 Money is scarce yet she has p:etty clothes 'You always look as if you had juet stepped nut of a fashion sheet. Yet money is none too plentiful with you. How do yo,z do it?" the neiglibors were always asking Mrs. Burnette. One day she told them. "My secret of pretty clothes is simple. When my dresses, blouses and underthings become faded with much washing, I rent:+v their col- or beauty by a simple rinsing in Dia- mond Tints, 'These wonderful tints .re made by the makers of Diamond Dyes which you know are the best dyes made for dark colors, Diamond Tints are for light shades. They need no bossing and they last through repeat- ed launderings. All you need to do is to rinse your things in Diamond Tints. You can get such lovely shades by using them. So you see." said Mrs. Burnette, "pretty clothes are as easy for you to have as for me." DIAMOND TINTS AT ALL STORES The Window Cleaner Somehow he learned the trick of standing there, Poised an the ledge, careless of throngs below: Of heads within absorbed and una- ware Of aught save figures marching; row on row. In sweeping arcs he somehow learn- ed to swing •• His foaming brush against the city's grime, To use his chamois as a magic thing To call the sunlight back. Learn- ed how to climb, From sill to sill, unhungering for praise With only clearer glass to mark his days. Staunch window cleaner, will it take me long To learn to balance fearlessly and ply Iffy brush of words, my magic cloth of song? Tell me, a fellow -craftsman pass- ing by, Oh, will It take me long to understand If beauty comes, what matter by whose hand!! —Molly Anderson Haley, in "The Window Cleaner and Other Poems." There is no study that is not cap- able of delighting us atter a little ap- plication, to it,—Pope. Doing Good by Stealth Residents of and visitors to New York have recently been granted a unique privilege. The Acto"s' Dinner Club has now opened its hospitable Moors not only to actor;, prosperous and reedy alike, but a:so to the great mass from which audiences spring. The charm of t:,k, restaurant is the feet that amid pleasant surroundings, t: the accompaniniert of an excellent teener, the casual visitor may hobnob with etage and screen celebrities. But the club has still another rea- son for its existence. It helps the un- employed actor ' y the simple method of not charging the jobless actor for his dinner; of charging the actor who can afford it fifty cents, while employ- ed stage people and visitors pay $1.. Lech guest receives exactly the sante sort of ticket, .o no one knows who has not paid for his dinner. The club gree, out of a suggestion made by one of a group who were dis- cussing the economic situation and its effect on the theatre. The actors agreed that there should be Sonne place where unemployed actors could he supplied with food as guests. -The club has now served 75,000 meals, of which 1:5,000 have been given free, during its twenty-five weeks of existence, and has had to move to larger quarters. The venture is new considered one of the most successful in the field. Says the exe.utive director of the club: "The actor has n. ver appealed to •uiyone outside his profession :,'or aid. He has always been the first, without being asked, to offer his services to others in any tint • ;,f difficulty or dis- aster. In his present economic situa- tion his fellow .peofeesiolaal, leave, vcll , unteered their aid to liim. If your brother Inst his job and found himself in straits, you wouldn't hesitate to ievite him to dinner as often as he desired to conte, would you? That's what we are doing." And looking aroned the cheery dining room at these stage folk, united by the desire to help one another, the visitor can but agree. Motor Hints Have your breaks tested and ad-! Gusted if necessary. Brakes that do not operate squarely are extremely hazardous on wet and ley streets. urder a By .il,WB JLUSTtN, ridge =ate. Sx-goi'SIS. 'New York on my hands and knees Juanita Seethe is murdered at bridge. Replaying the "death hand" casts suS- picion ou tate following: Flora lti,iles, i# Nita's closet reading a note sent to Nita which she thinks is from her husband; Nelly Beale and Clive Hammond, to- gether in the solarium; Dexter Sprague, who wrote the note to Nita; Judge Me.r- shall, whose gun, equipped with a Maxim silencer, was used for the murder and who also knew Nita in New York; John Drake, interested in Nita; Lydia; the maid; Lois Dunlap, in the dining room with Tracey Miles; Janet Raymond, who was on the Porsche Dundee, special investigator, looking in Nita's desk, finds from her chequebook she paid no rent to Judge Marshall; that she had deposited 4'10:000 since she came in the bank of 'which Drake Is 'vice presi- dent, the amount indicating blackmail, and that she paid Lydia $od a week. He the nio ing picture studio,» also finds her will, the contents of which "When did he become her—lover, makes him ask Lydia, whose face has Lydia?" Dundee asked casually. been horribly burned, why she didn't tell hint that Nita had burned, her. The woman stiffened, became mai- ' acingly hostile. "Who says he was CHAPTER XX. he;• lover? You ca1,'t trick me, Mr, 'r Nita Leigh!" Du idee studied her horribly scarred face, made more horrible now by what looked like genuine grief. "Lydia, who was the pian .over whom your mistress wanted to cora- . suicide?" The single, tear -reddened eye glared at him suspiciously, then became wary. "I don't know." "Was it Dexter Sprague, Lydia?" "Sprague?" She spat the name out contemptuously. "No! She didn't Trow him then, except to speak to at Detective! I'd crit out my tongue b: - Lydia Carr, still clothed in the black f .re I'd let you make ane say one word cotton dress and white apron of her gainst my poor girl!" maid's uniform, struggled to a sitting Dundee shrugged. He knew a atone position on the edge of her basement wall when he ran up against one. room bed. "Lydia," he began again, after a "No, no! That's a lie! It was an thoughtful pause, "1: have proof that accident, I tell you—niy own fault! Nita Leigh Selim' was sure you had Who dared to say Nita—Miss never forgiven her for the injury she Nita—did it?" did you." His fingers touched the let - "Better lie down, Lydia," Dundee ter in his pocket—that incredibe.e suggested gently. "I don't want yoti "Last Will and Testament" which fainting, You've had a hard day with Nita had written the day before she the abscessed tooth, the dope the den- was murdered. tilt gave you, and—other things. ! "And that's another lie!" the wo- don't wonder that you lost your head, man cried, shaking with anger. She went a little crazy, perhaps" struggled to her feet, stood swaying The detective's sinister implicatie i dizzily a moment. "Come upstairs with seemed to make no impression tit all me to her room, and Pll show you upon the woman with the scarred face. some proof that I forgave her! "I asked you—" she gasped, her Com- along, I all ycul • . Trying to single eye glaring at him, "who dared make me say I killed my poor girl, say Nita burned me?" when I'd have died for her— Conte on, "It was Nita herself who told me," Dundee answered softly. "Just a few minutes ago." "Hol; Mother!" the maid gasped. Let her think the dead woman had appeared to hint in a vision, Dundee told himself. Perhaps her confession would come the quicker— The maid began to rock her gaunt body, her 'arms cro sed over her fiat el est. "My poor little girl! Even. In death she thinks of me, she's sorry— She sent inc a message, didn't she? telt me! She was always trying to comfort me, sir! The poor little thing couldn't believe I'd forgiven her as soon as she done it— Tell met"* eeetaeeelnee.Dundeeseagteedeseshi watching her keenly. "She .sent ua? a message—of a sort... But I can't give it to you until you have told me all client the—accident in which you were burned." "I'll tell," Lydia promised eagerly. Gone was the harshness and secretive- ness with which she had met his, earlier questioning.. "You see, sir, I loved Miss Nita—I called her Nita, if you don't mind, sir. I loved her like she was my own child. And she «as fond of me, too, fonder of me than of anybody in the world, slie esed to tell me, when some pian had hurt her bad... And there was al- ways lways some man or other, she was so sweet and so pretty... Well, I found her in the bathroom one day, just ready to drink poison, to kill her poor little self—" "When was that, Lydia?" Dundee interrupted. "It was in Febrna-y—Sunday, the ninth' of February," Lydia went on, still rocking in an agony of grief. "I tried to take the glass out of het hands. She poured a lot of the stuff out of the battle.... You see, she was already in a fit of hysteria, or. she'd never have tried to kill herself. It was my own fault trying to take the glass away from her, like I did—" "She flung the acid into your face?" Dundee asked, shuddering. "She didn't know what she was do ing!" the woman cried, glaring at him. "Nearly went out of her mead, they told me at the hospital, because she'd hurt nae.... A private room in the best hospital in New York she got for me, trained nurses night and day, and so many doctors fussing around me I wanted to fire the whole outfit and save some of my poor girl's money—which I don't know how she got hold of till this day—" Dundee let her sob and rock lies arms fora while unmolested, In Feb- ruary Nita Selim had had to borrow money to pay doe`cm and hospital hills. Had borrowed it or "gold -dug" it. And. in May she had been rich enough to have $9,000 to invest! "Lydia, you never forgave Nita Selim for ruining your life as well as your face!" Dundee charged her suddenly. "You're a liar!" she cried passion- ately. "I know what I felt! It's Iny faee and my life, ain't it? I tell you 1 didn't even bear a grudge against her—the poor little thing! Eating her heart out with sorrow for what she'd done—till the very day of her death! Always trying to make it up to me --paying me too misch money for the handful of work I had to do, what with her eating out neatly all, the trine and 'throwing away stocking the Mite. ute they got a run, in 'errs I'+ orgive icer? I'd have ertly led front here to Prevent Obscuring of Vision. Keep a window or two open a bit! on closed cars. This prevents vapor! in the breath of occupants from for- ming a vision -obscuring steam on the windows and windshield. Windshield Wiper Needs Care. Keep your windshield wipers in good working condition always. They are essential to safety when driving in a heavy rain, sleet or snowstorm, The Iess people speak of their greatness the more we think of it. -- Bacon. Satisfy their 'tween-meals hunger with Christie's Premium Soda Crackers and milk, or jam, or spreads, or peanut butter. They'll love therm and so will you. Keep a package in the pantry all the time for soups, salads, desserts, quick Munches. Crisp, light, flaky and slightly salted. Delicious. rM_ "ie PREMIUM SODA CRACKERS I tell you!" And Dundee, wondering, beginning to doubt his own conviction a little— that convicition which has sprung full-grown out of Nita's strange, in- formal will, and which had seemed to explain everything followed Lydia, Carr from her basement room to the i bedroom in which Nita had been mur' defied.... "See this!" and Lydia Carr snatch- ed up the powder box from the dress- ing table. Her long, bony fingers bus- ied themselves with frantic haste. and suddenly into the silence of the room came the tinkle of music. "I bought her this for a present, out of niy own ,`Soon aselegotra? eerie— pital!" the maid's voice shrilled, over the slow, sweet, tinkly notes. "It's playing her name song--tJuaniia.' It was playing that song when she died. I stood there in the doorway and heard it—" And she pointed toward the door leading from Nita's room into thebackhall. `.She loved it and used it all the time, because I gave it to her, .. And this!" She set the musical powder box upon the dressing table and rushed across the room to one of the several- lamps that Dundee had noticed on his first survey of the room. It was the largest and gaudiest of the collection' —a liege bowl of filligreed bronze, set with innumerable stones, as large as 1narbies, or larger. Red, yellow and green stones that must have cast a strange radiance over the pretty head that hen' been wont to lie just beneath it, on the heaped lace pillows of the chaise lounge, Dundee reflected. As if Lydia had read his thoughts, she jerked at the little chain which hung from the bottom of the big -tone bowl against the heavy metal standard. "I gave her this—saved up for it cut of my own money!" she was assur- ing him with savage triumph in prov irgeher point. "And she loved it so she brought it with us when we came from New York— It won't light! It was working all right last night, be- cause my poor little girl was lying' there„ looking so pretty under the col- ored lights*" With strong twists of her big hands Lydia began to unscrew the filligreed bronze bowl. As she lifted it off she exclaimed blankly � N G • l ANrAt 140,44 4g Igo A •`Fresh rrgm the Gardens" 25C 'Why, Iook! The light bulb's— broke!" But Dundee had already seen ---hot only :the broker light bulb but the explanation of the queer noise that Flora Miles had described hysteric- alIy over and over, as "a bang or a bump." The chaise lounge stood be- tween the two windows that opened upon the drive. And at the head of the chaise lounge stood the big lamp, just a few inches from the wail and only a foot from the window frame upon which Dr. Price had pencited.the point which indicated the end of the imaginary line alor a which the shot which killed Nit,,, Leigh Sella had traveled. The "bang or bump" which Flora Miles had heard had been made by the knocking of the big lapin against the wall. And undoubtedly the one •be had bumped into the lamp was Nita's murderer—:'r murderess—in frantic haste to make an escape. And that meant that the murderer had flet' toward the back hall, not through the window in front of which 1'e had stood, not through the door leading onto the front por.'h Lttle progress, st least! But Lydia was not througa proving that she had forgiven her mistress. She was snatching things from Nita's clothes closet— • "See these m•:_e: with their ostrich feathers? I gave 'em to niy girl+ And this bed jacket? I embroidered t,i flowers on it with my own hands: " Through her flood of proof Dundee heard the whirr of a car's engine, then the loud banging of a car's door. . Running footsteps on the Rag - stone path.... Du<_dee reached the front door just as the bell pealed shrilly. (To be continued.) Italy Combats Illiteracy Rome.=The Ministry of Education has decided to institute 1,200 more primary schools during this scholastic year. This great program is made necessary by the increase in the num- ber of children attending school as a result of the government's campaign, -rr �-S • c c -<-'- IF YOU, CAN'T NURSE BABY YOURSELF ...'TRY EAGLE BRAND I Countless thousands of healthy, happy babies have been reared on Eagle Brand during the last seventy. five years. You will find our little booklet, "Baby Welfare," full of valuable hints en baby care. Write for it. Ilse coupon below. The portico Co. Li,nited, Ve 1eonves, D.C. Gentlemen; 'Nesse send me free copy of booklet entitled "Baby Welfare." 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