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The Huron Expositor, 1943-12-10, Page 7• It • , ', ' ';'(• le" ' • e eeee•i•• - • • • • - CULI4 II1TS .. . Banristere, Solicitor., Etc, en Pratelek Vs Me 0enne11- - H. Glenn klaYSJ SEAVOATK ONT, . _ . . Telephone 3.74. v K. LIVICLEAN Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. SEAFORTH - ONTARIO - Brach Oftiee - Hensall Heiman • Seaforth Inharie 113 - Phone 173 MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC . e DR. E. A. MoMASTER, M.B. ..• Graduate of University 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 i diseases of the ear, eye, nose and thin:eat, 'will be at the Chute the first Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5 p.m. Free Well -Baby Clinic will be held on the second and last ThirsdaY in every month from 1 to 2 pan. 6 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 ..e., Phone 90-W e " Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- fuel an Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL; SEAFORTH, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m. 40 4.30 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic first 'Tuesday of eachmonth. 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, Seafo'rth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. v . •ErliWtinD 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, lev. .. 9.00 Exeter " 10.17 Hensel' 10.34 Kipper 10.43 Brucefleld 10.55 Clinton, Ar. 11.20 SOUTH P.M. Clinton, Lee 3.10 Brucefield, 3.32 Hippen 3.44 Ilensall 3.53 Exeter ° 4.10 London, Ar. o 5.25 SU N DAY. ONLY • -. Toronto To Goderich n' (Via London and Clinton) _ ,. . • ' P.M. Toronto, Le , 6.00 London 9.40 - Clinton 11.55 Goderich, Ar.. 12.20, C.N.R.,TIME TABLE ;- EAST A.M. 'P.M. Goderich • , 6.15 2,30 Ifolmesville . .... 6.3.1 2.50 Clinton . 6.43 3.13 Eleatorth 6.59 3.21 Gt. • Colamban 7.05 3.27 Dublin 7.12 3.35 Mitchell 7.24 3.47 WEST Mitchell 11.27 10.33 Dublin • 11.37 10.44 Gt. ColuMban 11.40 .... Eleatorth• 11.51 10.56 1 Minton 12.04 11.10 Goderleh ' 12,35 11.35 C.P.R. TIME TABLE EAST P.M Ooderleh 4.35 Illeueset 4.40 McGarr ' 4.49 Auburn 4.58 Birth 5.09 Walton .... 5.21 lifeNatight • 5.32 Totonto 9.45 . ' WEST . A.M. 8.20 . p.111 SEeNaught ....y .. .... 12.04 .. lel '4 C wauon Slyth :Auburn Skew SVentitiet Mit4evith ..... 171111111)11.1111EMEEMINEMEEIMIIIMSEGIIMIMMIBIBUIMIIIMIEN CHAPTER V Bighearted Sarah Daffodil acts in -..every capacity for the four - family house in Gnrset after her husband's death. The frugal, el- derly Mr. and Mrs. Peppercorn and the newly-wed Andrew and Candace. Thane occupy the two top -door apartments' and below them middle-aged Bert Fitts and his wife -who is too engrossed in ar activities to care for her home -and King Waters, veteran of World War I and his wife, Em- ma, a devotee of fine 'crocheting. The Peppercorns wish to help a destitute family found by •Hen, the junkriann, sheltered under his scrap metal. Mrs. Peppereorn calls on Mrs. Fitts to ask her aid but Mrs. Fitts is not interested. It was Sarah who overheard King Waters as she waited in the cash gro- cery late one afternoon. It was fun- ny, King was saying to a group of sympathetic neighborhood women, how sentimental a man could be. Sometimes he was half ashamed of his soft heart, but sometimes he was rather glad that he wasn't as cold as stone. "Now you take the papers recent- ly." He• patted the evening paper rolled in his pocket. "I can't pick up a paper these days that, I dont see the name of some town that 1 re- member as a lad in olive' drab. Lord, Lord, the things we saw and the things we did!" Sarah selected her loaf of bread from the rack, saw no immediate chance of having it wrapped and turn- ed her attention to King, who was now relating that the American doughboys were the most generous in the world. "No one ' will ever ' know the num- ber of French orphans our outfit adopted. --We just made ourselves re- sponsible for every youngster as soon as we moyedinto a town. Those kids, plenty of them, didn't know white bread and chocolate bars had been invented. 1 tell you, I'll never forget the look M. their eyes, as they held out their hands to us. There's something about ,a child in distress that breaks you all up. I always us- ed to go to pieces." The women murmured, but, Sarah detoured around a crate of pineap- ples and spoke -with firmness. "Good afternoon, Mr. Waters. You're just the person I want to see. Mr. and Mrs. Peppercorn are in great need of a little assistance -they're trying to rehabilitate a destitute famil y. Father, mother and six children, 14-v, ing under piles of scrap in a junk yard." Briefly Sarah butlined what had been.accomplished for the Beim- ers to date: A bit of. cash would help incalculably, she said. "Just imagine an entire family almost naked and on the verge of starving. I don't belieVe you saw anything much worse than that in France." - "It's entirely different here." King Waters looked unhappy. "No one -starves in this country. We have established agencies to handle every emergency." ' Red tape operated against the Beimers, Sarah countered. ,- "Oh, well, they can't expect to have ,their case attended 'to by push- ing a button. It's taken time for them, to reach their present level, na- turally' it will take - a little time to lift them lip." He made it a prac- tice not to contribute on 41mpu1se, Waters stated, edging toward the counter and_trying to attract the busy clerk's eye. "It discourages the trained welfare workers who have made a study of assistance and who can be trusted to take hold in a prac- tical manner." Sarah gripped her bread grimly. "That's what you think," Even the C.I,OVeratieht, Waters re- minded her, discouraged individual and indiscriminate gifts. "The...only charitable deductions they allow you on your -income tax returna-are for contributions tvf organized harities." It did. not inlmrove Sarah temper to be overtaken on lier way home by Toni Fitts who was not one, sO) she said, todiscuss her neighbors. "But I can't help thinking that it's a lit- tle funny that Mrs. Thane has been sewing every. night MS week for those proteges of the P,ep•percorns. Yet she told Me point -bank that She couldn't give even one night a week to war relief, because she roust spend her evenings at home with her hus- band. 91 do like people to be consist- ent. I trust I am." Mrs. 'thane's husband had -worked with her, Sarah declared, resisting th'e temptation to brandish sher loaf of bread. "Besides, •you may be in terested to know that Mrs. 13elmer is an Englishwoman. She,hati two bro thers with the -British Army. I've been -wondering Whetherany of the societies you work With WoUld do any thing for her." "Everyone was swampedhad been 12.28 12.29 12.47 12.54 1.00 asked to give to so many causes," TOni murmured. "I doubt whether the women w•euld feel obligated to help a woman like that under...the circumstances." Early in June Emma Waters heard the first faint ruiners that production of refrigerators might be curtailed. "Of course I don't believe it, really, not for a moment. Still, they say the country is •going to need more and more metal and you never knew what they'll, reach out and take next." It was Tuesday, the Waters' gar- den day. She had asked Toni Fitts to spend the afternoon with her, but that restless person complained that she could not go away from her tele- phones. They solved the problem by placing ohe of the extensions on the window sill of the living room which overlooked the garden. Toni was dx- pecting to hear from the newly or- ganized office of the Civilian Defence. No one knew yet what the duties of the volunteers would .be, but Toni was firm in her determination that there must be becoming uniforms, "About refrigerators," Mrs. Waters explained. "It seems -to me that- if there is likely to be a shortage, R might be a good thing to ask for new refrigerator's, now." "You mean here?" She had .epoltop. to Sarah Daffodil, Mrs, Waters revealed. "I pointed out that while the iceboxes we have ,.now are in fair condition, if the prospect is that they can't be replaced within three or four years, they'll be pretty well worn out." • Toni Fitts stared absently at the toe of her heavy tan brogue. She said slowly, "I'd like a larger box: I maY have to do considerable enter- taining this sumnier. In a way it's un to me to get the- women interest- ed in Civilian Defence." "Well, you know how Sarah is." Mrs. Waters slapped at a fly. "I had quite a time getting her to see the logic,of the thing and then she agreed to replace the old, boxes only if all the tenants were willing to pay five dollars more a month, beginning in October when the leases arei,eignied." "You mean she would raise the rents?" Toni glanced toward the house, lowered her voice. "What in time -why, that isn't fair. It will im- prove her property, won't it? Why should we pay more?" "I've wondered lately about Mrs. Thane-" Toni studied the initials •d her smart cigarette case. "It may be all my imagination." "You don't think-" Offhand she'd say that even a cou- ple of idiots had more sense than to bring a child into the world in its present distracted state, Toni mur- mured. She really hoped' she was do- ing the Thanes an injustice. "With him likely to be called for training any day, you might say, -• they ought to know better." "King says it's perfectly dreadful, the number of young couples who are having babies for no other reason than to have the man deferred. Not, of course, that- the Thanes are like that -still this is certainly no_ time for there to 'be planning to have a family." As Emma Waters had foreseen, neither the, Thanes nor the' rrepper- corns would agree to an increase of five dollars a month in their rents. The present refrigeratole vere quite satisfactory, they insisted, -it was positively wasteful to think oreplac- ing them. "Of course the rent should be increased, if we ask for new, ex- pensive equipment, but we don't. ask," old Mr. Peppercorn argued. Andrew Thane was equally firm. '.'We can't possibly consider any in- crease in rent. Things are too un- certain." * * By the middle of June the garden was lush with white lilac and wine and white peonies and the close -clip - pet.' emerald lawn, Sarah Daffodil's had triumphed over 'the city's dust and soot. The Thanes, who.had taken their vacation at'lhe time of their marriage and would have no time off for another year, turned to Ole' fragrant, 'open space In fervent gratitude. An unreasonable bla'nket of abeat had -shut down early in the month and • the beaches began to re-° port iecord week-ehd crowds. One hot, sunny morning ,,Candace Thane came to Sarah and announced that they had engaged a Cleaning wo- man for,,n,half-day each week. "I wanted you to know, for rii have to leave the key with you. One of the, girls at, the office recommended her to me -her name is Zither and she's perfeetly trustworthy." "Her. name is what?" Sarah fan- ned herself with a pa,lra leaf fan neat- ly bound with green, tape. "The 'girns name was Zither, Can- dace repeated soberly. Against the grateful cooinass of the grey linen slip' cover that slireuded° the couch, her small face looked too White. "Hee she a surname?"' 1. "It's Rous," Canda.ce ad itted, Soft laughter running under her words. Sarah promised to let Zither into the, apartment and the next week a young, light colored Wotan arrived promptly at Friday noon to clean the Thanes' apartment. • -- "We could get along without any- one to clean." Candace, the budget envelopes spread out on the table in the breakfast nook, fingered two one - dollar bills covetoUsly. Andy frowned. "Not in your eoh- dition." They both laughed, because one of Candace's friends referred constantly to her "condition." Candace tucked two dollars into the envelope marked "Household Help." , Andy's, curiously old hands counted out five one -dollar bills, slipped them in the envelope lettered "Baby His dark, thin face was earnest. "Say, we want to make sure he gets his birth /certificate mailed to him when ••;; .4pc4.., 46:et 'e„:' 044, i'010* .ux •41,4'149.k.,AA, .191x:APO, - 44y,14i7'yt.441170;11.7)r:' o4 f,"; 714 cluet UMW $et, bjiPt4 dyeertwts4t;Ir6epaCrTulclg"teo 40411. ;114-e4:.44P•47' tents of the baby fund- nnivnb*,. f49 else went around 'tee table to sit tei• side Itim (i the beuele A great many older *nen were hav- ing a. terrible time about their tk1't11 ertifteates, Andy explained,' pulling his tiny'wife comfortably nato his lap, against his shoelder. His lige bruele ed her cheek. "Births were record- ,. ed haphazardly fifty-five years Hundreds were never sent in 41 doc- tors who did as they pleased about it. you see, darling, apparently the early Town Fathers didn't like statis- tics any better than you do, though let us hope they pronounced the word mere successfully than you. Say 'sta- tistics,' Dace." Candace stuttered. "Sta-sta-sta- ties." She laughed under his chin. "But you needn't be so critical. Say 'gnarled,' Andy." He rolled the word like marbles under his tongue and admitted they were even. Quite suddenly his young smiling face stilled to serioesness. He said, "The papers tonight seem tO think that bill exempeting men twen- ty-eight or over, will pass. I came ..0 *„ do tente41/filit7, Telt 01301114I4v to -1 - wAit1y oW Op tos gol t1llrU 91 ar as 4:4'irty;.',44,01slitt..: that, whell thri1a linen uS.;hj- dOne," be said slowly, '1st': •inn. honer or elery in it end mostly the fruits are tterness and hate, 'Yet a '`•","•••••"•,•e•ni•,•.;-• •4 man can't fuse to fight, as I see it, _unless he is willing to give tip that other men Will fight for in his stead." "Do you wish you were twenty- eight?" I just wondered." "So' that I'd be released autciiaatk- catty by the exemption clause? I don't know, Dace, 1 have a'funny feel- ing . . . Even if 'the bill is passed -well, nothing seems permanent to me, any more." (Continued .Next Week) , MEAT AND HEAT ' Low cooking temperatures keep meat shrinkage at a minimum. A, steady oven heat 04 325-360. degrees F. means more pounds of meat on the table -and not only more meat ;.• . rrr•-' '; 1 It' I ,44.•• I A, ; ; 1 I I ) kr, T`e. 48440<414,•. • GIIIMINNIIIImmie • ;re-' r rr, ‘4. • •riienerrre, „.. . _ te 04te, 11* PACIWg. . And 41:444 §e'ATUIP 1P1 toe r",Tfiere zte e2 cear: 1. 46. 4.W 4 PROM 1H Q, Xf you hAITR 41,14`'` ?.1.0•24'.) that has beounle, • Ivortis -Aremld';•4 ueckbaad and wristS and, 'was it --it will wash- like; nottMa; h .• warm suds are11Sed-dry it ahtv- it over for a lining. It viiiiEniake,lit, tle sister's coat invulnerable tO winds and cold: NC SCRAP° Iron lost whet' potato laedings Are discarded can't be reclaimed, as serail. • '• Just another argument for cooking potatoes in their jackets. 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