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The Huron Expositor, 1943-11-12, Page 7n OV OAL 14cC4)NNELL & HAYS .Barrigterg, Soicitors, Etc. RetriCl D McConnell - H. Glenn Rays SEAFOBfiH, ONT. A Telephone 174 R. I. McLEAN Barrister, SeIlcitor, Etc. SEAPORTS - ONTARIO Branch 9ftice se' Hensall Diensail Seaforth lone 113 Phone 173 MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC DR. E. A. MCM.ASTE•R, M.B. Graduate of Unjvereity of Toronto The Clinic is fully equipped with complete and modern X-ray and other up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutics equipment. Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist in diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat, will be at the Clinic the first Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5 p.m. Free Well -Baby Clinic will be held on the second and last Thursday in every month from 1 to 2 p.m. JOHN A. GORWILL, M.A., ,B,D. • Physician and Surgeon IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: Office 5-W Res. 5-J Seaforth MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon Successor •to Dr. W. C. Sproat Phone 90-W - Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pital, London, Eng. At COIM`MERCIAL HOTEL, SEAPORTS, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each month, from' 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic first Tuesday of each month. 53 'Waterloo Street South, Stratford. AUCTIONEERS • HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in • Farm and Household Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction guaranteed. For information, etc., write or phone Harold Jackson, 14 on 661, Seaforth; R,R. 4, Seaforth. EDIWARD W. ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer For Huron 'Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Dates at The Huron Exposi- tor, Seaforth, or by calling Phone 203, Clinton. Charges moderate -and satis- faction guaranteed. LONDON and CLINTON NORTH A.M. London, Lv. 9.00 Exeter 10.17 Hensel' '10.34 Kippen 10.43 10.55 Clinton, Ar. 11.20 SOUTH Brucefield Clinton, Lv. Brucefield a%ippen Mensal] Exeter London, Ar. SUNDAY ONLY Toronto To Goderich (Via London and Clinton) Toronto, Lv. , London ()Baton Goderich, Ar. P.M. 3.10 3.32 3.44 3,53 4.10 5.25 P.M. 6.00 9.40 11.55 12.20 C.N.R. TIME'TABLE EAST A.M. P.M. Goderich 6.15 2.30 Molmesville 6.31 2.50 Clinton 6.43 3.13 (Seaforth 6.59 3.21 Bt. Colamban 7.05 3.27 Dublin 7.12 3.35 ih&itcheli' 7.24 3.47 P 4•• ,WEST Mitchell Dublin St. Columban Seaforth Clinton Goderich CHAPTER X' x Sarah Daffodil liked the couple as soon as •$he saw 'them, though she had never considered renting an apartment to young people before. Her other tenants were middle-aged or older and dreaded noise. But there was 'something so 'oddly settled about this young pair, • a certain quiet ser- enity, a shining confidence, that caught at her sympathy and for her accented •their youthful charm. "We read -your advertisement," the girl said and her voice was lovely, clear as Sarah's cherished crystal bell, but with, a golden warmth denied to tinkling glass. • The young fellow felt his responsee,. bility, his dark, steadfast gaze betok- ened a steady purpose. "It's a three- room, to • •sublet? We • want three rooms by March first." Involuntarily he exchanged a sparkling glance with the girl. From her desk chair Sarah could see the fireplace and the few pieces of her mother's furniture which trans- formed the other' half into a3omfort- able, practical living room. Built-in 'bookcases replaced the office cab- inets, the clawfoot sofa and drumhead table balanced the break -front with its treasure load of old china and glass. Chintz draperies for all the windows and two large oval braided rugs laid on the floor tied the diverg- ent cccuc,as' into an. amazingly, har- monious whole. Tenants sometimes said that Sarah. Daffodil possessed two personalities as distinct as this room she loved. Undoubtedly she puzzled this boy and girl who had come in response to her advertisement. "The rooms are on the top floor," Sarah explained pleasantly. "But there is a firepla4 ?" The girl held- her tiny knitted/pillbox in her lap and ,her gleaming hair, molas- ses -brown with gold streaks, swirled in a beautiful, long, thick bob+to her shoulders. She wore it parted in the center so that two soft rolls, like wings, framed her small face. Her eyebrows and.her eyes match- ed her. hair perfectly, Sarah Daffodil Thought appreciatively. "There --is, a El•eplace in each of my apartments," she said. The bo spoke confidently. "We'd like to go up • and look, if we may. But we' ?tight to ask the rent ,first." . "It's a sublet, you know. The ten- ants in 3-A weres anxious to move to the coast. They were obligated to pay forty-five dollars a month, until October, but were willing to dispose of their lease for forty a month." "Could we go up riow-while we're here?" The girl's exquisitely clear voice remained unhurried. Sarah Daffodil rose and they stood, too, staring a little more intently, perhaps than they realized. .The wo man behind the desk had not appear- ed unusu:l;y tall, but now that she was standing they could see that she was, at least six feet in height. Al- though she wore gray flannel slacks and a tailored gray and white long- sleeved shirt, she did .not create a masculine effect. For one thing, she wore her abundant black and silver hair, which"waved tightly, coiled soft- ly at the beck of her head. "There's no reason why y o ti shouldn't run up and see the iapart- ment now-" her firm, long mouth parted in a smile. "Mrs. Merding will show it to anyone before five o'clock. Tell her I.sent you." "You'll be here when we come down?'` They both looked at her as if she were a kindly monument. ' "I'1'! be right here." The desk phone buzzed 'and Sarah lifted the handset. "Mrs.• Daffodil, This is Mrs. Merding: That couple you sent up are on their..way down to your office. They 'like the rooms a lot," - "Do you think-:' "Well, of course they're terribly young." Mrs. Merding conceded wist- fully, "but I never saw anyone so quiet in all my life. � You just can't imagine •them having large, loud par- ties -I'd take a chance, if I were you." "Before you .commit yourselves to leasing, there a e some things about the setup here ou should know." Sarah drew forwar her small Gard fi]e, "And some things about us you'll want to4ltnow." The boy's dark face glowed With, swift light when he smil- ed. ' - Sarah Daffodil admitted that the ,rule worked both ways.. "I think I must tell you that my other tenants are all well into middle age. too may prefer to be where your immediate neighbors will be snore likely to have interests similar to yours." "No, that doesn't matter. We'll be so busy -both of us 'work" Then •there was the yard, Sarah continued levelly. . "I'll show it to you before you go. It's large -seven- ty-five feet wide by one hi ndred and fifty feet deep." Experience had taught her, Sarah said, that beyond a certain •point com- munity •ownership retrogressed. Four sets of tenants could not enjoy the garden' as one big family. "')they us- ed to bicker incessantly over their washings and there were times when 11.27 10.33 11.37 10.44 11.40 11.51 10.6¢ 12.04 11.10 12.35 11.35 C.P.R. TIME TABLE. EAST Goderich Meneset ,McGaw Auburn Blyth Wal'ton .., (McNaught Toronto Toronto - WEST' ,McNaught Walton '.Blyth Auburn lbftcGaW Iff eiteset iGloderlah ... P.M. 4,35 4.40 4.49 4.58 5.09 6.21 5.32 9.45 A.M 8.2,0 P.M 12.04 12,(5 12..28 12.39 12.47 12.54 1.00 1.11111.11111111.0111011.111.110.1.01111111.111011111 I could cheerfully have wrapped their wally it's the houeeeeeping, sheets: around their necks and pinned them all on a good- high line." After several years of complaints and war- fare she had developed the -present plan. • "Each apartment is entitled to the full use of the garden and lawn for drying and bleaching clothes, one day a week. This includes the laundry room and equipment in the basement. Of coarse if it should happen to rain torrents on Thursday, you'd be out of luck for that week. You have to ex- pect such a perfprmance now and then." "Why,' that's wonderful!" T h e young,.peopie manifestly regarded the originator of this program as a gen- ius. a It hath worked out fairly well; Sar- ah admitted modestly, barring an..oc- casional controversy when someone wisitled to trade his day and could find do one wilting to exchange. "With the first four days going to the ten- ants, I'm left with Friday- for my own washing. 'Saturdays• I cut the grass and tidy up the garden generally and Sundays are for the community spirit if it wants to_ develop. Mostly it's riding out in the country, except for a few hot days in midsummer." Yes, she cut the grass herself, she said in answer to the gnestion mir- rored in the two pair of dark eyes. She, cut the grass, washed windows, did the small repairs and all the car- penter work. "I'm the superintend- ent and the janitor, the fireman (I have my license) and the handy man. I've always liked to work with my hands, in fact I, helped_ my husband build this house. Mrs. Merding prob- ably told you that .I'm the renting ag; ent and landlord, since Mr. Daffodil's death ten years" -ago." "She said there isn't anything you can't do." Enornnotis respect made the•girl's lovely face grave. Sarah laughed and picked up"her memorandum pad. "Stuff and non- sense! Now, if you really wish to take the apartment-" Their names, they told her, were Andrew Thane 'and Candace Moore. They planned to be married early the following week and would like to move in that week -end. Sarah's . pencil wrote the word "Lease," hesitated. "You're taking over the Mereding lease, yod know - it runs until October." Yes, they knew that. ft, you care to stay beyond Sep- tember thirtieth, a new lease will be necessary, of course." From force of habit she glanced at her desk calen- dar -Tuesday, February twenty-fifth, nineteen forty-one? The something that had been knocking at the back door of her mind, *ague, annoying, because she resented .distractions, suddenly found its place. • She said quickly, "Aren't you likely to be call- ed?" Andrew Thane's quiet, dark face did not quicken, "I'm registered." "But-" Sarah looked from him- to the girl. "Aren't you two taking a chance by marrying at this time? Do You mind telling me how old you are?" He was twenty-three, he told her soberly, his fiancee twenty-one.' "We have talked it over carefully and we think we're doing the right thing." * * * "The Merdings were very lucky to' be able to sublet so late in the sea- son." The little silver crochet hook in Mrs. Waters' expert'lean• brown fingers flashed brightly in and out of the intricate meshes that formed in its wake. Sarah Daffodil had never seen any- one 'whose crochet work equalled Mrs. Waters' in variety and, design. Her 'closet shelves and chests of drawers were stuffed with boxes in which she had stored bedspreads, table sets; edgings for bed linens and towels, medallions, even several sets of cur- tains, all exquisitely made, never us- ed. "I had just a glimpse of the new tenants -they're awfully young," Em- ma Waters remarked hopefully. King Waters sat at the knee -hole desk, his back to his wife and to Sar- ah Daffodil. He was making out the rent cheque for March. In the hope of garnering a little gossip, .Emma Waters always managed to arrange so that the cheque must be called for in person. Over his shoulder King Waters said 'casually,,""That young chap's probab- ly headed straight for training camp. I'm surprised they married befdre his number's called. Kids haven't a grain of sense when it domes to re- alities." - "I suppose they'll be having late Parties," his .wife sighed. "I know young people -liquor and e 'erything. They're right over our heads, too." "I don't think you'll be troubled by worse overhead." Sarah slioke with authority. "Both 1Ir. and Mrs. Thane go to business, they can't afford to keep late hours." From the desk Mr. Waters a•ald, his tone 'n►u'ffled, his pen seratching, "I' suppose she's keeping her job be - tante she •expects hint to be Balled for ,training." And from the corner Anima Waters' sniffed, "I've always said that no wordan rmati do . justice to two jobs----' one of them has to be neglected. tis - 1%N• 1..1,Vt�,4, is xl'a.,,.lr.,nw.ht .,L,a°t„h vi..(kt„ "Is that a new, spread, Mrs.' Wa- ters?" It was, of course. Sarah re- cognized the significance of a sin- gle crocheted wheel -all the wonder- ful, elaborate patterns Mrs. Waters turned out in sucji profusion began with a single eroolleted wheel. What on earth could the woman do with an- ether bedspread! `"There!" King Waters s w u n g around and °his chair creaked. "About that young fellow upstairs," he said, as if the topic had recently been tab- led. "A, year of training in the Army would be the finest thing that could happen to a young fellow like that. Put him right on his feet." "Far as I know he's on them now." Titre cheque fluttered feebly in Mr. Water's "blunt -tipped fingers He chew- ed:. on his unlighted cigar with vigor. "Do this present generation good to taste a little Army discipline. Why, I 'wouldn't take anything for the les- sons I learned while I was' in the Service." "I could stand it if you were a lit- tle less active right now in Post work," Mrs. Waters observed queru- lously. "Now it's another raffle and would you believe it, Mrs. Daffodil, they're after me to contribute one ,of my spreads. They say they can sell a thousand chances on it." " V('eLl, I suppose it's for the disab- led veterans-" Sarah found herself making wild calculations as to the ac- tual number of bedspreads stored in the apartment. • "But it's all handiwork. No one knows the amount of effort it is .to make a spread, until they've done it themselves." Something less elaborate might be acceptable, Sarah hinted. "Why don't you give them one of your handsome chair sets?" "There's a good deal *of•, work on those chair sets.. All filet." The gilt clock atop the radio tin- kled eight times. "I must be going-" Sarah rose gratefully. "Thank you, Mr. Waters-" as he relinquished the' cheque. "I'll be up in the morning to put those washers on the kitchen faucets." • * * * . "Nothing very cheerful to "read, eh?" King Waters unabashedly seen,, ned the headlines in the new*paper of the man whose has, seat he shar- ed. The young fellow looked up 'cour- teously. "All war news." "Yep. Most' of -it sounds,' pretty familiar tb me. I' was in the last fracas, Don't suppose you know any- thing about that?" ' The dark, quiet young man said composedly. "Only what I've heard." He dexterously folded his paper to bring the sports page uppermost. (Continued Next Week) DRY COFFEE MAKERS Glass coffee makers should be dried thoroughly before heating. This acts as breakage insurance. Clean coffee makers with soap and water and rinse. Keepthe electric units out of water.,. NEW WEEK -END JOBS The British business man has a 'hew week -end • lob. Every Sunday groups of business men' and women go to the railroad yards where they spend part of bhe day cleaning en- gines. ., REFRIGERATOR SENSE We speak of wrapping up against the cold. When food is put in the re- frigerator wrapped in paper or in pa- per, a-per, bags it is literally wrapped up against the cold for the paper acts as an insulator 'preventing the cold from reaching the food. OUTSIDE LEAVES - To get the food value you pay for, chop the outside leaves of cabbages, cauliflower ..and lettuce and add them to vegetable soups towards the end of cooking These outside leaves aren't just nature's wrappings; they contain far more minerals and yip - mins than the inner ones. EXPENSIVE DRAFTS Drafts are expensive and there's nothing worse than having your feet "cut off" by a blast of cold air. Worn down thresholds are serious offend - 'Mrs. Replace old ones with a new piece of wood cut to fit and you'll save many a 'shovelful of coal. 1 Ottogos'sip, The O4>;ypf Cltta)pa. ;i studying a pest -war t►r044 involr lug $900,000 worth of new eewpee 'an . 26% miles of . new pevelnent and eide,T walk costing •another $900,000 .e, . Construction is starting on a new4r80,- 000 square foot annex to house Q4 fawa'e largest cafeteria which will feed 7,000 civil servants. „, .. , There is such a demand for conversational Russian that a class is being started by •the High School of Commerce. -A staff of 400x, at national registration headquaeters ' keeps busy, making some 133,000 changes a month in the records of about nine million Cana- dians. * * * The Consumer Branch of the w.P. T.B. in Ottawa under the direction of Byrne Hope Saunders, better known as Chatelaine's editor, are asking Can- adian women to familiarize ,them- selves with the working of retail: meat charts. Initiated into the ways of charts through the beef order of the W.P.T.B., .the job of shopping for meat is now further simplified by the addition of a lamb chart, which will show the ceiling price of any cut of lamb. Any woman who doesn't know her cuts, can learn to distinguish be- tween loin ribroast, leg or breast of lamb by studying the cutting chart, accompanying all price charts. Fea- turing slightly lower prices than those which have prevailed, the lamb seems a break for the nation's biggest cat- erers, the housewives. * * * The order by the' department of la- bor declaring the meat packing indus- try essential' to the war and national interest has a .background. , It has been estimated that, meat packing plants in Canada will produce •the astounding volume of - 1,577,000,000 pounds of meat products during 1943. Of this an estimate is that nearly 50 per cent. will go directly into distri- bution for war purposes. Obligations to Great Britain will take care of be- tween ten and fifteen million • pounds of bacon alone, while the Canadian Armed forces will be fed with 102,- 686,000 pounds of meat products. * * * The Swedish liner Gripsholm which is expected -to arrive in New York early in December, will bring a good- sized Canadian party, repatriated -in an exchange with Japanese. The ma- jority of the Canadians are mission- aries, members of religious orders, business men and their wives and children. Morev_tJifan half come from occupied China and Hong Kong; some from Japan, Manchoukuo and Korea, and some from the Phillipines and French Indo-China. The voyage orient -ward carried medical supplies and vitamins from Canada sufficient to serve 5,000 people six months. it With'' ogler• r be made va d, +Qrijiei still. in Ji p handl * . IN LAUNDRY CIRCLES The Royal Canadian Nally recently took over the largest civilian laundry in ,Halifax and is now undertaking to handle all supplies for the army and air force, serdice hostels and ships, as well as its, own laundry require- ments. That's one reason why the Women's Royal, Canadian Nkval Ser- vice needs 150 laundresses irhmedi- 'ately. ;a1 {eS The vegetable sail; indust; add, gains im importance goes .on. Gross -soles iaat year the 39,481,450 .m, .ri44 f' sten ap plants four are in the Mon.trea'1'.'s3ea, two in Ontario, a, couple, and Manilto„bra,, oaf, each in Alberta and U.C. Linseed oil was tops in, production:, gross ,sales, in 1942 being $5,252,605 for 7,390;340" gallons. Soy beans are . coming along too. Production in Essex County, On tarso, last year was 173,305 bushels selling for • ,a total of $229,339. Sas- katchewan`'is now experimenting with large scale growing of sunflowerga- * .* * The return to Canada of a,propoe- tion of the Canadian Forestry Corps. from lumbering operations in the United Kingdom is announced by Na- tional' Defence -Headquarters. The Bri- trsh Government has agreed that the output of timber for the war effort of the United Nations ban be increas- ed by, using these stout fellows in the forests throughout Canada where the resources and quality of timber - are better than those now available in Great Britain. Lumber is one of the "musts" for the United Kingdom now as always. * * * A few highlights of the joint Agri- culturalCommittee meeting recently completed in Washington: (ondlu- sion was reached that., an expansion in output of certain products is pos- sible, but increase in over-all produc- tion ',;. limited by acreage, manpower, equipment, fertilizer. Particular at- tention was paid to suggested in- crease in U.S.' wheat acreage from 54 million acres in 1943 to 68 million next -year, made imperative by ,a'bnor- mal disappearance of 'Wheat current- ly fo ,.,feed and industrial alcohol. Maintenance of dairy production by using grain and protein feeds Was stressed, with , preservation of total food value in milk best accomplished by converting as much as possible in- to cheese, dried milk, etc. Canadian memberspointed out needed •expan- sion in this country included special crops as oil crops. Peas and beans were considered well suited for re- lief -feeding in liberated areas. * * * Odds and Ends: Good fur catches for the Eskimos have made them fork over income tax; Mounted Police fill out forms, make necessary assess- ments.... Maybe it's the greater pur- chasing power, but Canadians are bit- ing into plenty of meat, withh a mod- erlte increase in 1942 over 1941. The estimated per capita consumption of all meats • (including offals) in 1942 {o, ha ill anal a part Af and Empir.;e, ibei fol" . similar, a 4 g 0.1et: says Maierit lyI Ilell, V tare Officer, ipni0 ns lain;. Tobe . Canadian R,o Society Inas 'undertake;'` to Rte ea rovio , 100,000 parcels of, fd'for prisoners of war 4u Cerulany us- ? as medical Wuppliea `andC tamins fpt r -- ebildren and nurettl 'zsu!ihere it •fol,!; lana. . . . The new syntliette rubber tires are very apt to go 4,1',10tren" atE over 35 m,p.h. at overload, or` the' tires should be under-rnfia'ted, "is" e warning from rubber controller. Big truck kind is moat liable to give trod: ble if used improperly. * * *. One side of war is. a, huge business an announcement by Munitions aid Supply shows:. Total value of .conne tracts awarded and commitinentp. made on Canadian, United Kingdonal and other account has exceeded the., $10,000,000,000 mark; end of Septem- ber. Just count :the zeros.' !Contracts: Placed on Canadian account alone :tee, taile o- tailed over four and a half billion dol- lars, including contracts executed..for plants, plants extensions • and general purchases. * * * Consolidation by the Prices Board on three previous " orders clarified maximum •price regulations for used stoves, ranges or obhee heating or cooking appliances range from 90% of listed retail price when new or re- built, or equivent appliances a year or under in age, to 60% for those more than , four years old. This ap- plies in like extent to coal and vrood appliances. Ranges and stoves are ahout as valuable these days as hors- es in the good old hoss tradin' days. * * *. A Royal Commission has been es- la' hL7 ie tablished to investigate wage rates to /. persons in operation of coal mines in Alberta and British Columbia.' L * *'* In tests re best quality dark tobac- co growing conducted at Experimental Station, Harrow, Ont., crop sequence showing best results was tobacco, corn, oats, wheat and alfalfa. While barnyard manure and commercial fer- tilizers proved highly beneficial, pro- per crop rotation was necessary also. I VITAMIN SENSE When cooked vegetables are reheat- ed, most of their vitamins' vanish. This Tari, been proved by tests made on freshly cooked and reheated vege- tables. It's vitamin sense to cook on- ly as many vegetables as will be us- ed at one • meal. 11 small amounte' are left over it's better to serve then in salads than to reheat them. ant Ads BringResuits Week after week The Huron Expositor hears very gratify- ing reports of the results obtained from the Classified Directory from people' who have something they wish tosell and want to find a buyer. For a very small sure you can tell hundreds of pro- spective buyers who have something they are interested in. 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