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Zurich Herald, 1925-11-19, Page 6ifeetteaaa Fresk Flavor o tt4elictaus EEN TE preserved in the sir --ti ;ht L AL,ADA packet. Finer than any japan or Gunpowder, Insist upon $ALADA, "For What We Are A,out To . eceive BY MILDRED HOUGHTON COMFORT. e. PART IL "But every day at dinner," Sarah went on, "no matter how trying the day had been, you'd say that dignified, calm old grace and the trivial, com- monplace things would disappear. Something would happen inside of me. I'd feel calmer. I'd feel rested. I—I began to realize that I was part of that age -long procession of housewives whose work was to keep homes to- gether—good, old-fashioned homes, Sam, like ours. I seemed to be get- ting steeped with the idea. When Junior went to the window to see the first snow, it brought back my people and the pioneers. And it seemed good just to be comfortable and full of hope." "Say, old girl! When you're like this, Iife's worth living? Thought I'd queered everything hauling old Barnes in." "But you didn't, dear. That's part of my happiness now that I can be wally hospitable. I hate verbal hos- pitality. I like it from the heart." "I told old man Barnes so—that you really wanted him." Something in Sam's hesitant tones impelled his wife to ask. "Have "you seen hind since you invited him?" "Sure I did. He doubtless read me the time I asked him, and he wandered into the office yesterday and quizzed me a bit—politely of course but he might as well have asked me outright how you took the bad news." "What did you say, dear?" "I can tell you I was glad that I could be enthusiastic. What you said was right. It wasn't verbal hospital- ity but a real from -the -heart invita- tion I offered him. Even told him - about the grace." Sarah smiled tremulously as Sam's iu•m encircled her. "For what sets are about to receive, Lord, melee us duly thankful," she breathed from an uplifted heart, while Sam heartily pronounced, "Amen." Thanksgiving Day dawned bright aid cool, with little flurries of snow falling through the sunnily streaked air. The church service had been set tar an early hour to enable the house- l:eel ez•s to attend to the season's feast. Sai ah and Sano with the children listened to an old-fashioned sermon and joined in the old hymns sung as they were sung by generations gone. As Sarah turned to leave her pew, she came face to face with a short, gray-haired little roan with penetrat- ing steel blue eyes. "Mr. Barnes'." she exclaimed with. pleasure and he so fairly beamed with gratitude that she was torched. From the curt man of business whom she always had regarded as an ungrateful autocrat impervious to the feelings of • hie dependents, he suddenly became a friend. There stood before her only a rather small, mild old gentleman. with unassuming manners and a de- ferential quaint courtesy. "It's so very kind of you to want me on a day like this," he said, with a ring in his voice, his keen eyes shin- ing. ` 1.'ve been looking forward to it like this lad here," indicating Junior. He would be out at one sharp. No, he knew better than to go back with them—because he'd probably be in the way, he said—though' his manner bellied his words. "He seems almost excited," whis- BEAUTIFY IT WITH "1DIAMOND DYES" Just Dip to Tint or Boil to Dye Each 15 -cent pack- age contains direc- tions so simple any woman can tint soft, e' d oleate shades or dye rich, permanent colors in lingerie, Mika, ribbons, skirts, ipiPrij waists, dresses, 1 C, coats, stockings, f sweaters, draperies, reef:rfrtgs.liangings--everything! . Buy Diamond Dyes—no other kinds- and tell your druggesa. whether the r• tteriat yotf wish to color is wool or f ilu or whetter it is litres• Fitton Or geed e pered Sarah to out of earshot. boy." The children doors to play. stand around in Mother prepare .�7 Sam when they were "Just like a happy reluctantly went out It was such fun to the kitchen and watch "a party." As Sarah, hurrying from dining room to kitchen chairs in the immemorial manner of men when quite at home. "You see, Mrs. Burton, it was like this," began the amiable guest. "I've always liked Sam, but I realized that Their visitor was necessarily the firstto ` Peala "You both kook as though you were seeing ghosts!" .he laughed, "Ah, I see. You've been reading . . " Then they told him, how the Un- usual item had tripped them up and. so dismayed them until they realized their mistake, "But what dots this mean?" de- mandedSate thrusting the newspaper towards his landlord. "You're alive— we see that—but . . „" "It's true," answered their simply. "True?" exclaimed Sarah. you're alive." "Can't a man make and execute will while he's alive? But P11 explain things," he offered, "if you'll Iet me." Sarah settled the .children in the liv- ing room with their gifts and escorted the two men to the kitchen. "We can talk here,' she said calmly. l' "This turkey isn't going to be slighted if we inherit a—a kingdom. And I'm so relieved to have Mr. Barnes alive that nothing else matters." "That's it!" cried the little man jubilantly. "That's what made me do it. Your husband told me. It was your wonderful spirit, adapting your- self to conditions like the good old pioneers. If they couldn't have tur- key, they ate chicken. They could have been thankful on baked beans." Sarah laughed merrily.. "I'd like to see you and Sam if I offered you baked beans to -day!" Stephen Barnes, with an old-time courtesy, seated Sarah in the kitchen- rocker itchenrocker while he and Sam straddled guest "But and back again, opened preserves, basted the turkey and cleaned celery, she collided gayly with Sain. "I declare, Sam," she laughed, "you're as much bother as the chi)- he had the faults of all 'rolling stones.' dren. Go g the morning paper and He was always looking for something sit down in the rocker where you'll be out of the way." In studied seriousness, Sari did as he was ordered, opened the newspaper with much rustling and settling him- self comfortably in the squeaky rock- er with the limp in it. Then, quite suddenly, the uneven squeaking ceased and Sarah, in the act of filling the sugar bowl, turned to eee Sam petrified into immobility, his eyes startiig at the newspaper. "What's the matter?" she cried, set- ting the bowl down and crossing the room to look over his shoulder. "What is it, Sam?" "Read that!" he directed hoarsely, pointing. Sarah read. over his shoulder and crumpled weakly beside her husband. "Dead?" she queried uncompre- hending, and again, "Dead! It can't be!" "It can't be," Sam repeated me- chanically, as in a doze. "It's appall- ing! Why, it was only two hours ago . ." " . two hours ago," Sarah reiter- ated, "two hours ... how did it hap- pen?" Together they- read the news item that meant so much to them, Sam's husky voice breaking and Sarah's happy plans for the day forgotten in a common sorrow. -ECCENTRIC LANDLORD LEAVES PROPERTY TO TENANTS. Mr. Stephen Barnes has proved himself an eccentric landlord; 'for in his will, executed to -day, he left his Bayport property to its present ten- ants. He maintains that the property is, not in the nature of a gift, but that the renters have, inthe course of their tenancy, actually paid for their homes. Mr. Barnes' belief in the perman- ency of the old-fashioned Canadian home has not been shattered by his experiences as a landlord.' He cites as proof of his allegations the fact that tenants will often put both labor and money into a home that is not owned by thein. They will make re- pairs even when the rent is fully suf- ficient to cover these expenses and still give the owner more than ade- quate returns for the money invested. Mr. Barnes explains, in a written statement accompanying his unusual will, that it is oily good business to give the tenant his just deserts. Where the rent over. a certain period is ample enough to cover upkeep, in- terest and the original principal in- vested, it has paid for the home, That home, he asserts, belongs, in such a case, not to the. landlord but to the tenant. Mr. Barnes has the courage of his own convictions. His theory is being! carried out .in practice in eo far as it affects his Bayport property. Sam rose shakily. "I can't under- stand!" He turned the pages of the news sheet backend forth. "It doesii't say ..." Then he gave a queer gasp, dropped weakly iiito the rocking chair only to leap again to his feet, electri- fied, Sarah watching hien in a choked silence. •• o "Sarah Burton, we're crazy . Somebody's crazy. We saw him two hours ago, . This paper was deliv- ered before we were up this morning. He isn't any more dead than I am .. Must be a joke ... Bayport . pro- perty ... that's this . What, in times .." There v; ,s; s commotion at the door, the shrili.lt,ug'hter of Junior and Mar- got and the squealing of the two -year - Old Bob; The door -bell jangled, as it always did when the children rang it, and through the hall came Stephen Barnes with Bob on his shoulder and the two other children runnin;f eager- ly beside him, their artiis full of peckegeo, isarai, set down quickly on a dining- room chair while SAM ,graspea tlio back of it firmly. They had ,tilt' words. new and it seemed tb nee that I never ran into him that he wasn't asking if I couldn't find a decent place for him to live in. Being in the real- estate business myself and owning a bit of property, I usually succeeded in finding something. I finally decidedk' to let Sam in, without his now'ed ge, of course, on this little business .deal. Who says there's `no sentiment in business?' "It happened when Sam got to talk- ing one day about your home ideals and saving grace and all that sort of thing. I've never had much sympathy for the average tenant but that time I had Thanksgiving dinner with you, I got a new slant, as the saying is. It was merely a -matter of experiment with me. I haven't lost anything in the transaction. I decided to let you buy your house by charging a good, stiff rent. I am guilty only of fair play." J" "And the Mulveys?" "Yes. Their hones is paid for, too Only you win and they lose on the name proposition." ."Just the same," Sarah said tremu- lous' -y, "I'm grateful to you, Mr. Barnes—even though you insist that I'm ;,ust part of an experiment. If this had happened a few* months ago, I'd have had hysterics because of my great joy. But now I'm just—just calmly thankful. I feel as though I had everything—everything." "Contentment should come before prosperity or success," said the old man sagely, "or it isn't lasting." "Philosophy doesn't fill my stom- ach," burst forth Sam, "and the rear- guard in the living room isn't going to remain peaceable very ninny min - u Fes '-on ger." • It was less than half an hour later when the family was seated abcitt the festive board, the big brown, frag- rant turkey before Sam. Sarah pat- ter) the noisy baby, admonished Junior to keep his feet stilll and watch Mar- got settle primly into her chair. Mr. Barnes' beaming ince and Sani's con- tented one were brief flashes. Simple household tasks --the care of her chil- dren, her husband, and her guests -- were sacred things. It was given' to lier to guard a holy trust, a home. While her heart brimmed over with gratitude, her eyes grew misty. 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