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Zurich Herald, 1920-10-28, Page 2Delicilottzt in the xg8721 tks equal for qsi fit n flavor. If you have not tried Salado" send us a post card'2or a fres sample, stating the pri you now pay and if you use fi 1acl s Green or telir ed Tea.. Address Salads..., Toronto r" .- Ci ��� 0 Marryillg Parso Thca., i'' aS1j By HEIpE N S;HIERM` N GRIFFITH. a.• plunging his hand into the gay ere - 'Miss Winthrop, Hope, I asked you ; tonne bag that swung from his arm. out here this :.fternoon to—" Randall! "Is this the thing you call a sweat - was interrupted by a vivid fiash of ! er?" he asked, and lifted out a filmy lightning. He looked al:out him, 1 garment of deep rose pink. "It looks .startled. Ilt:pe screamed. more like a cobweb at sunrise; the "I --I'm afraid of lightning! "%hat sort of thing we used to call fairy shall we do?"tents, you know." "Better stay here where we won't! "How romantic we are getting," get wet; the trees are thick here," l scoffed Hope, as she wriggled into the Randall began, but hope shook her! knitted slip -over. "It is a very sub- head. essential cobweb, I assure you. All "We can't stay here! It is danger- wool and a yard wide.' Ugh! How ous! Come on, cane!" She held out it presses these wet sleeves against her hand to lam ---"Hurry!" ; me! And my feet are blocks of ice, Band in hand the pair raced along aren't yours?" the weed path to an open space some i ruefully Randal gazed at the dainty distance ahead. The clearing offered foot thrxst cut to display its muddy, no form of shelter. A double line of sopping pump and its wet silk stock- railway- tracks, disappearing around { ing. a curve, was the only sign of civilize- i "Shan't I rub 'em with niy hendker- tion, and already the first drops were chief?" he offered meekly. "Or," as splashing down. ! she shook her head, "wrap 'em up in "There are cars c.r that siding,"one of these?" Ile picked up an empty panted Hope. `"There must b : a sta- I sack from. a heap in one corner and bion around the bend. Shall we run inspected it. "It's dingy but it looks for it?" ! fairly clean. Had potatoes in it, I Randall pressed one hand dramatic- think." ally against his forehead. "Why not Hope declined the offer and tried seek refuge in yon empty car?" he • not to shiver. suggested. "It welcomes us with open; , Suddenly Randall whirled about arms—at least with open door. Are': with a new idea. "We'll dance our- you game?" '. selves warm! I'll be orchestra, as Hope laughed. "What a lark! I'llwell as partner,._.. Mss Winthrop"— race you to it." She sprang down the i with a low bow—="may I have the slope, slipping and stumbling over the ; honor of this dance?" He whistled a loose. stones. Randall leaped forward bar of dance music and held out his to save her and sent hurtling from his : hands invitingly. arm the -knitting bag he hed been i Gladly Hope surrendered herself to carrying for her. • 'his arms, and lone after Randall's "That was a narrow escape," he whistliing breath gave out the pair kept said, relinquishing her slowly from' up the rhythmic turning, their rubber - his reseing embrace.- !soled. shoes 'tripping -noiselessly' over "Yes, but I beat you," she retorted; the rough board surface. triumphantly. "See what you have' They were still at it, indeed, when done to my poor knitting bag." a 'sudden jolt sent them, breathless "Quick, here conies the rain in good • and startled, against the side of the earnest!" Retrieving the bag, Randall' ear. Then the car began to move. bent and made a step of his hands, as ' "What the—!" RandaIl sprang to if he were mounting her on a horse. ! the narrow slit of doorway. Then he, too, scrambled in, while the i "We're going! We're being carried rail* descended in torrents. 1 off!" Hope was pardonably redundant. Well satisfied, Randall peered into 1 "Hi, there! Hi, you outside!" the dim corners of the ear, During his shouted Randall, shoving with all his entire vacation he had waited pa strength against the stiff door,, wlach tiently for an opportunity to see Hope ° slida unwillingly back upon its rasty alone to tell her his innermost . hinges. He shouted again into the thoughts and desires—in short, to • blank walls of rain: "Hi, you there propose. And the empty freight car' stop! Stop! Let us out! What do surely promised isolation. But Randall you think you're doing, anyway? was forgetting the circumstances; he; Stop, I say!" turned to his companion and saw her; The only response was a steadily sher. I increasing rate of speed. The two "You are soaked! Here, put on my i passengers stared at each other help - coat, he commanded. It isn't as less' wet as that thin waist.""Wfiat shall we do?" asked Hope. "No thanks—keep it for yourself," "I—I'm afraid we •can't do anything returned Hope with a shivery laugh, until the blamed thingstops. Then— "there is a sweater in my knitting then we'll get 'off." p bag.,, 1 "Off where?" Hope gulped down a I always wondered why they were, sob. ,called knitting bags. and now I see it ; RandaIl clenched his fists. How he is mere camouflage," laughed Randall, longed tr' take her in his arms and e A . :,.:.���r tri ats n f e tea loaves left tell m for cornfort her, if only he had the right, If only he could have finished his pro- posal before that hateful , thunder- storm broke! But hang it, he could not propose now; the situation wily too awkward. He mast get then both out of this serape first. "I wish I knew," he answered dully, and a silence fell. Then Hope saved the situation by bursting into a laugh, "How ridicu- lous it is! But it won't carry us fax^. Freight trains never travel a great distance at a time," "That's right," he agreed, immense- ly r b?evcd, "I say, you are a trump to take it like this, "I'm --I'm awfully sorry!" "You could not help it. Neither of us could, so let's make the best of it. I wonder what time it is?" Randall.consulted his wrist watch, then held it to his ear. It had stop- ped. He peered outside, The thunder had ceased, but the rain was still pouring down and the sky was dark. He pulled the door to again, leaving only a narrow opening for light and air, and cast around in his mind for a way to .lake the time pass pleasantly. In this he had good luck. "Do you play chess?" he asked suddenly. "I hope our misfortunes have not gone to your read," suggested Hope politely. "Irl such cases T believe the rule is to humor the patient. Yes, my father taught me how to play." Randall smiled tolerantly, arranged a head of bags as near the opening as the rain allowed and invited Hope to be seated. Then he produced a wallet and opened it, revealing a miniature chess -board, with pockets in which to fit the men. As every chess lover knows, the game is an engrossing pastime, meal the pair soon forgot the rain, their uncomfortable quarters, even their grotesque situation, until they were forced to stop by the increasing dark- gess. "It must be terribly late," sighed Hope. "How worried mother will be when we don't turn up for dinner." "Why did you mention dinner? I'm famished, and yeti must be, tool" "Whereupon Mrs. Swiss -Family - Robinson actin resorts to her camou- flage bag," laughed Hope, and pro- duced a cake of sweet chocolate, crumbled but edible. They munched and talked nonsense and then they waited expectantly for a little while; but still the train move:; noisily, steadily onward. Hope's spirits were sinking perceptibly, while Randall racked his brain for amusing anec- dotes, and wondered ,if he dared broach the subject next to his heart. Suddenly Hope sprang up. (Concluded in next issue.) That Grievance. Have you got a grievance? We most of us have; yet harboring a grievance is one of the most foolish forms of hoarding. Women usually have a great rrfaiIV` more grievances than men. They are more introspective, also more intui- tive. They feel even the slights they cannot see. Men are more frank with one another. If they are annoyed they ! say so; women sometimes smile, even i when they feel very hurt. It is a well-known fact that many : women -run concerns—including clubs i —break down ov-ir,g to disagreements !among the ladies. Women take of- ! Itfence, and as has been -aid already, 1 they do not always show it. but they I nurse a grievance, until 1: becomes a bitter sense of wrong and a heavy mind burden. Now, why shouldn't we have any grievances? It's wrong and un -Chris- tian, of course, but never mind that for the minute; we must avoid them out of expediency. They will hurt us far more than the person against ' whom we feel aggrieved. j I have a relation—we most of us 1 have—who almost always has a "quer- rel" on with some member of the ' family. Someone has not invited her, Ior they have slighted her, or done or ""'—'"" left undone something, and she seizes upon it, and has a "grievance." This grievance she carefully nurses until it becomes a full-grown child of real un- happiness. It's a nasty, spoilt child, too, and she always brings it with her when she comes to call, and lets it annoy you while she shows it off. Of course, we can all .rake griev- aices, They are easily made—you needn't work overtime to get them done. You only want a great sense of your own importance, much conceit, a narrow outlook, and a thorough want' of sympathy with everyone else to start a whole crop of grievances. So let's get rid of them before they spoil our lives. We roust throw them off, and make an effort to leave them on the sands of Time. 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These bands moved with the exact speed of sound waves --at the rate of a mile in five seconds— and the space between the bands was larger for the big guns than for the small. This strange sight lasted for about ten minutes, and appears to have de- pended upon the relative positions of the observers, the guns, and the sun. Sound, as we all know, is caused by waves in gases, liquids or solids. In d vacuum—an empty space—sound does not exist. If you could fire a twelve -inch gun from the top of Mount Everest, the sound would be but feeble. Could you carry it much high- er, its discharge would be inaudible. There are rays of light which the eye cannot see, and there are sound waves which the human ear cannot catch. Ask yourself if you can hear the cry of a bat. Any person who, at the age of forty, is able to hear the thin squeak of the bat, has reason to con- gratulate himself on being possessed' of exceptionally good hearing. The squeak is too high—it hag too many vibrations per second to be heard by any ear that is not very delicate. Silence That Terrifies, Some years ago Air. Galton, the famous anthropologist, invented and constructed a whistle which, by r.. ans of an adjustable plug, could be render- ed so shrill that presently it cea_ed to be heard by human ears. But—here is the curious part of it —after the sound of the whistle had ceased to be audible to any human ear, a dog was still able to hear it, and came readily when it was blown. Animals and birds hear fax better than mac. It was noticed during the war that pheasants in coverts on the East Coast of ,England were disturbed by the noise of guns at sea, when even children (whose hearing le. quicker than that of older folk) could hear nothing at all. Sound. travels better across water than across land. 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Forever is a long road; Forever is a highway Whereon go marching through arch• ing nights and days Proud Dreams with golden crowns fair upon their foreheads, Shining Dreams with haloes and bright Dreams with bays, And all along the flowered edge the little Dreams go dancing, Singing gay canticles of praise. Forever is a broad road where have met together Brave Deeds in red robes and Deeds of golden fire, Grave Deed's in sliver gowns, quaint Deeds in motley, Quiet Deeds in homely grey that only saints admire, Gentle Deeds that love the green rad - merit of the summer, Pure Deeds in very white without the chill of snow, Squalid Deeds in dull rags, pitiful and ugly, .. Down the broad highway they go. All the Dreams are living still, all the Deeds are Working— White man and yellow rrlan and black man at last Will join hands and teach their feet how to walk together.