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The Huron Expositor, 1949-02-11, Page 7„ ,47'777,477, 74' f. 137 (6041,11/110 front bat Week) Ai' a child and by Ivor found plenty of 00011Pation onAhe estate. fOrmerly eoldieeteervant to Captain Selincourt and now eoach- roan, the old gareekeeper, the grooms and gardeners were devet- ed to the boy; and ever ready to assist in his amusement. • Did he feel a need for Leminine society, Nana, Mrs. Joust, and eundry maid- servants were prood to gratify his every wish, while his Aunt Anthea continued to be as she had always been, a mental equal, a most en- gaging companion and the dearly loved confidante of his joys and griefs. Now and then, while home from Eton, he was called um to endure an afternoon in the com- pany of a pretty prim little girl, Jean Pordham, the only child of the now widowed Fanny, Lady LEGAL McCONNELL & HAYS Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. PATRICK D. McCONNELL H. GLENN HAYS County Crown Attorney SEAFORTH, ONT. Telephone 174 A. W. SILLERY Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Phone 173, Seaforth SEAFORTH - ONTARIO MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC E. A. McMASTER, B.A., M.D., Internist P. L. BRADY, M.D., Surgeon Office Hours: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., daily, except Wednesday and, Sun- day. EVENINGS Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday *rely, 7-9 p.m. Appointments made in advance are desirable. JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. , Physician and Surgeon IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: Office 5-W; Res. 5-3 Seaforth M. W. STAPLETON, 13 -Pee 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, ljniyersity of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aural Institute, Moore - field's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hospital, London, Eng, At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, Seaforth. 53 Waterloo St. South, Stratford. JOHN C. GODDARD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Phone 110 • - Hensel' DR. J. A. MacLEAN Physician and Surgeon Phone 134- Hensall OPTOMETRIST M. ROSS SAVAUGE Optometrist Eyes examined and glasses fit- ted. Oculists' prescriptions accur- ately filled. Phone 194, Evenings 120, Seaforth. VETERINARY J. 0. TURNBULL, D.V.M., V.8. Main Street - Seaforth PHONE 105 AUCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and House- hold Sales. Licensed in Huron, and Perth Ccountles. Prices reasonable; sate lisfaction guaranteed, • For information, etc., write or phone HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on 661, Seaforth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. EDWARD W. ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer Correspondence promptly answer- ed. Immediate arrangements can he made for sale dates by phoning 206, Clinton. Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. JOSEPH L. RYAN Specialist in farm •stock and im- plements and household effects. Satisfaction guara-ateed. Licensed In Huron and Perth Counties. For particulars and open dates, write or phone JOSEPH L. RYAN, R.R, 1, Dublin, Phone 40 r 5, 4217x52 C.N.R. TIME TABLE GOING EAST (Morning) A.N. Gederich (leave) 5.40 Beaforth .-- • 6.20 Stratford (arrive) 7.16 (Afternoon) P.M. Gaderich (leave) 3.00 , Seafeveth 4, . 4.40 Sanover..- Ivor was polite to ithie young 'perm; but devoutly thault- ful wen. tea was over end Jean, In company with her plump, met - ling mother, safely packed into the departing ,earriage. As the boy, grew older nature saw to it that Ills interest in sex snould awake, but being a youth of naturally de - Cent feelings he escaped from the grosser forms 'et temptation, rte which some of his fellows site- cumbed, Curious and yet deeply reserved, he watched. and made his. own de- ductions train life, and like Moat other youths his epoken words by no means always expresaed the ideals which he cherished in his romantic, and tender boyish heart. Even in his aunt, Ivor was in,. capable of confiding all the diffi- culties and uncertainties which be- set him in his late boyhood, While coul4 he have broken through his reserve, she, quite ignorant of so much that under the circumstanc- es she should have known, would have found herself unable to help him by more than vague appeals to be a good boy, a good man, to behave as became an officer and a gentleman. • Anthea, product of the opinion of her day, still confused ignor- ance withinnecence, and held that it was well that good women should remain as far as possible unac- quainted with what she termed "unipleasant eubjects," while, liv- ing up to the highest personal ideal and demanding of other wo- men a strict adherence to the laws of sexual morality, she yet accept- ed the belief. -a little sadly per- haps—that men are "different," and that for this. "difference" not they, but the women who minister to their needs •must pay. Even as a subaltern, Ivor's opin- ions on the subject of women and marriage had begun to crystalize. Had you been honored by his con- fidence, he would have told you thatWhenthe right time and the right girl arrived he would. marry, and that a girl with .e.orne £800 a 'year would suit him very well. The Selincourt men were extravagant, and it was the dowries of these &EMBODY'S BUSINESS by "How can I gain more confi- dence?" Again and again people ask me this question. So here is the one suggestion that will perhaps prove the most helpful: Develop outside interests —especially with other people. Invariably those who suf- fer from shyness live too much within themselves. And this is the real cause of their trouble. The best cure lies in mix- ing more with people under all conditions — especially in group activities. It matters little what these activities may be: political organiza- tions, church work, service clubs anything that gets the individual outside him- self. In this way he becomes ab- sorbed in what'he is doing while with other people. 'Soon he learns to be at ease with them — and to forget himself. His shyness vanishes. • • , If you have financial security for the future, you will feel more confident. Life insur- ance offers the easiest, surest weir to achieve this security for yourself and your de- pendents. 1=.1111•11. • 239 ``littelstford (arrive) GOING WEST (MOrning) A.,M. Stratterd (leave) 10,4$ BeatOTtal, 1U0 tIoderith (arrive) 12„AO, (Afternoon) • Stratford (leave) *forth 1011 410oh (arrlye) 11.00 WHEN IN TORONTO Make Your Homs Rotel autrim LOCATED on wide SPADINA AVE. At Conoco' Sam' • • • RATES • • • Stools 01k50-$.5° 12.50-07.00 Write for Folder, We Advise Early Reservation WHOLg DO's SIQHMEEING WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE ' A. M. POWItu., Proodent , Irro*',140 4uitifI*4'im *Atoilowl* lora bfitifgf*'4'401447;' "OA** :9t19,04',*0,0* ,I4Ndge 'protr, .14,*1010.: :!oli. ''bt0014, ;MY AMY WtlY 0300' be Olevers lvt0144' haVe been, leliZEle4 PeYerthelePe eherielted iiagetti idea that Oreine" were linbeCcaeing to a 'Woman. • .• And all the While, Wider 'MU* cloak at worldly Wieclent,. Ivcn dreamed, of and waited ter the Princees without whose 'help no man can enter the ceuatrio where 'dreams ',comp tree. In. the Meantime, however, young Men are expected to eow .their wild oats', provided' they perform that task with reasonable tUseretion;. so Ivor cHiwed with the rest, taking no thought for the reaping. CHAPTER III As Nettie Burt walked down St. James's Street one hot June eve- ning on her way to St, James's Park, craving as she did a breath of fresh air before entering an omnibus at Westminster Bridge, she was ip, the mood for adventure —.restless, dissatisfied, questing, though quite unconeciously, f* love, life, experience. The girl was physically tired, for they had 'been working overtime at Gilman and Hanover's, the great dressmakers in Bond Street, where Nettiee,although but •twenty-three, was already a head bodice hand. She was a, refined -looking girl, well dressed as -befittedher posi- tion in such a house as Gilraan's, and, her pretty face drew many admiring glances. Nettie was pre- occupied. She- felt worried. Ev- mything combined to worry her. The weather had been unusually hot and the season unusually gay. Through May and the first half of June work at Gilman's had been killing. Now, thank goodness, the last Aseot gowns were finished. Soon the workers would be on three-quarter time; en half-time; on holiday. Miss Jenner—the per-, oxide -haired head fitter, middle-ag- ed •but strenuously and piteously striving to retain that look of youth so valuable an asset in a hard-working world—had suffered from the rush and strain of the season, and her underlings had suffered in their turn. Nettie was sick of the business. She dida't know as she wouldn't leave Gilman's, she pondered, wait- ing on the edge of the pavement while a hansom cut past her up Jermyn Street. But wherever you went there'd be one thing if 'there. wasn't another. Everything eeern- ed to go wrong. Why couldn't she marry Ernest Sampson? But there it was,, she just couldn't and now he'd gone off in a huff. Not that she cared, not one half -penny, Then she'd had a row with her mother only ,that morning, What a life! Poor Mother! Still, she supposed she needn't have married again if ,she hadn't wanted to. A vision of the half house at Walworth, crowded with small stepbrothers and sisters, dominat- ed by the sullen, bullying and of- ten drunken stepfather, flashed across her brain. No, she couldn't stand it and that was a fact. She earned good money and she'd set up somewhere for herself. P'raps she'd lodge with Minnie who'd be glad of the chance. And then she could help her mother a bit. P'raps Ernie would ask her again and then p'raps she'd think of it. She didn't know why it was she never could seem to fall rightly in love like other girls. She conjured up a mental pic- ture of Ernie Sampson's common face. Even the way he put on his hat exasperated her, and as for the silly fashion he had of opening his mouth! ''Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" sighed the girl. Wherever you went, whatever you did, if it wasn't one thing it would be another. She seemed caught and half smothered in a vast grey net from which she would neer shake herself free. Nettie was not apt to be de- pressed. She wairclever, ambitious and a hard worker, Silliness of any kind incensed her. Her out- look on life was cool, and her judg- ments a trifle hard. It's a pity as Providence wasted such looks on a girl as will make such little use of 'em," one of the hands at Gilman's had said, a tall saucy -looking creature, who re- garded her womanhood as a sale- able asset out of which good bar- gains were to be made. Yet, allied to the Capable side of Nettie's character was a passionate if in- articulate craving for the things which make life worth living. A passing youth grinned impudently, stopped and took off bis hat with a flourish. Startled from her gloomy abstraction, she answered, his grin with a frown, an indig- nant toss of her head and a has- tening of her steps. And then it happened. Something heavy lurch- ed against her, she fell, recovered, and found herself held by the Prince of her dreams. Pleasure in the shape of As- cot brought Ivor Selincourt to town, and Fate threw Nettie Burt in his way. Ivor jumping out of a hansom all but knocked the girl over. Catching her by the arm to save her &Om falling, he looked into the prettiest pair of dark eyes a man could wish to see, and look- ed again at delicate blushing face, at curved red lips and waving hair. Nettie bad the knowledge of some aspects of life which is in- evitable in a girl brought up In a crowded home; she also knew something of the pitfalls which He in wait for pretty young women. Harsh moralistS may hold that -She walked into her lavishly 'bait- ed trap with her eyes open, and therefore deserved all that atter- Wards befell her, Circumstance smoothed, the path for Nettie and Ivor. Her quarrel with her bar - Used, nagging and indifferent mother furnished an eXeuse for leaving houte. Ernie, finally dis- coaraged; did not taut* 'Work was slack at Gilman', meetings With this vroxiderfut lover of (hers were easy to arrange. Possibly from the Bret Nettie knew that the pride must 'he pact. Hello, RoMegia:iteret 'WheR cI oeculoas as. "Valootto0a.Py .U0 on a weelVda,y you ba've to poo,44.6r hew much time th,eeell be to ,pre- pare a lunch for a party atter school or office boure. We eugge.et a haffet slipper as the eaeleet4 simplest and most informal wey entertain upon such occastione,, :ect- pecially when the house is smell. Besides, everybody likes helping themselves from a buffet table and then wandering around Until they End a place at a bridge table with a partner of their own choeSing. The food,.too, is simple—just one hot dish, preferably somethieg in a casserole that's easy to eerve, or you may have a platter ot eold mite and then have scalloped or cream-. ed potatoes as the hot dish. In- clude a bowl of eriep ealad„ a tray of hot rolls or biscuits, tarts and coffee for a menu that can be pre- pared well in advance and one whiph takes little time to clean. up afterwards. To keep -the heart-ehape theme you may make red raspberry ice cream or cake decorated with red arrows or heart -shaped cookies to serve as dessert. For the casserole disb, it may,be creamed chicken, Spanish rice`tvith tomatoes, eggs thermidor or slipper meat pie. Choose the dish you know you can prepare best. Cold cuts can be made cap dur- ing the week -end. Jellied tongue or chopped veal with tomatoes', or Later she realized it was only too well, and, paying to the uttermost farthing, made no protest. It must be said for Ivor Senn, - court that in the early days of the affair he had no wish to harm the girl, and throughout he played the game honestly and according to the rules as he knew them. All along Nettie understood, that he would not marry her, and that in a few months' time he must leave her, for his regiment was ordered to India. Perhaps in her soul she also knew that on one side was fancy, passion, and on the other a love which counted the world well lost so that it should come to It fulfil- ment. There are none too many great lovers, but to Nettie it was given to love, with soul, heart and body. And Fate gave this gift of love into the hands ,of Ivor Selincourt, who held it loosely and in the end let It fall as a thing of small ac- count. . . . . . Five months after the meeting of Nettie Burt and Ivor Selincourt the two were together in the taw- dry drawing -room of a &t. John's Wood lodging. The girl lay on the sofa, her face pressed into a faded satin cushion. The man stood in the window, and turned now and again to look at the figure of the girl. His hand- some face wasworn and troubled. His thoughts swirled disconnected- ly. Almost unconsciously he tried to harmonize his inner feelings with his worldly code. After all what had he done? No more than many another fellow. He'd given the little girl a jelly good time, he was going jolly short to provide fo her in the months to' come. When that was done and over she'd marry. Of course she'd, marry and be happy in her own class. Rotten thing to do, marry out of your own class. Not fair on your people and those to come af- ter. Couldn't be done. It was hard on women though. Still, that was. not his fault. A fellow couldn't help nature. Never meant things to come to thig: Wish he wasn't so damned short of cash. Still, lots, of girls get. left, and lucky to have a ten -pound. note, poor little beggars. Oh, hang it all! It was beastly rough luck on a woman, and there was no saying it wasn't —sorry before God that he ever began it. Ivor Selincourt, at twenty-five, knew again the odd miserable in- terior feelings of the little boy who kissed his Aunt Anthea, was lifted by Prosper, the dignified butler, into the high dogcart and was driv- en off on his way to a preparatory school for the sons of, gentlemen. It was November now and the light was already dying. Ivor's kit bag was packed. His other world awaited him—a seemingly difini- fied world. The drunken seedy man, who yet retained some sem- blance of the gentleman's serVant, paused discreetly at,the dooti. "Hansom's waiting, sir." "Ml right. I'm coming. Put the things in," He flung •out his left band—the fingers wide apart in a little ner- vous gesture habitual to him.. The man's uncertain steps were heard on the stairs-. Taking a case from his pocket, Ivor counted snote after note. One hundred pounds. With •that Nettie said she would have all she want- ed to see her through; to Start her in a dressmaking business of her own, after— "Axe you sure It will be enough, Nettie?" he asked, and his voice broke as oddly as did the voice of the little boy Who bid, his aunt good-bye while the dogcart waited. And now as,then his arms were round a woman's neck and his tears were on her cheek, and now as then it Was ,the vtlinian whose voice was. calm, for fear she should add to the grief of the ehild—be he boy or man—she levece Later on, when it .was dark, the curtains were still. undraven, the fire had died out in the hideous pretentious grate, and the girl still lay, her face hidden in the shabby yellow' cushion, While from her hand the rustling notes had, fallen. One hendred petutdet ,Parinent for a tvotaan'e bodyeitild'aMil! (Coal/wed llext•Vite..ek) * akG 40.1)P64 • ' 0.400W,atoli, 1)10,apap,0041;v0 M Place ,bnttle V44k.drw,ipint,;,914, (i 1rnatoe 91n4ti::oa,f33210,70: Q14 gii. 2 cups, canned tioeiateefe 1 teaspoon salt k Grated (Sharp) ,Cheeee ' 3 tableaDoene margarine 4 tablesPoenct green pper or chopped celery 1 cup water % 01112 large Pearrata, Wash rice thoreugbly; melt mar- garine in part; add onion and cel- ery; cook until tender. Add re- maining ingredients, except cheese, cover and simmer about 40 min- utes on 'ley' eleuient. Serve with grated chee.se. Serves eight. • Eggs Thermidor Hard cooked eggs Sliced bread Thermidor sauce. Bring a small amount of water and 1 tablespoon salt to a boil. Add eggs (one per person) and cover. Cook on covered element on "oft" position 12 minutes. Cool quickly. Slice bread about 1 inch thick, a many slices as eggs. Us- ing a d�ughnut cutter, press Into rings. Arrange these on a broad', shallow pan. Into each ring, nest a peeled egg, large end down. Pour thermidor sauce over all. Heat in oven at 350 degrees for 15 min- utes. * * * Thermidor Sauce 2 small onions (eh000ed) 2 green peppers (or 1 cup celery, chopped) cup margarine or butter 1 cup chili sauce 1 cup catsup 1 pint cream. Saute onion and celery in fat, add remaining ingredients. Cook five minutes. Supper Meat Pie 4 tablespoons chopped onion 1 pound ground beef IA teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon bacon dripping 1 can tomato soup 4/8 teaspoon pepper Pastry dough. Cook onion in butter until soft. Add beef and cook until brown. Blend in soup, add salt and pep- per, mix well. Line a nine-ineh pie plate with pastry, moistening edg- es with cold water. Fill with meat mixture, cover with top crust, press crust together -in fluted de- sign. Bake in moderate hot oven of 375 degrees for one hour—along with scalloped potatoes. Serves about eight. * * * Valentine Cake 1 cup sifted cake flour 3 eggs , 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder Y, cup hot strong coffee, 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons shortening. Anne Allan invites you to write to her c/o The Huron Expositor. Send in your ,suggestions on home - *taking problems and watch this column for replies. 41, Anther year of re6ord expaa, aim The gen, Tele0911:e CorniPa" of Canada added 149,000 telepbonee to it SYstera n Ceatario and, Qtle- bee,. an ittereaee of 11 per cent over the 1917 'figure, according to the company's annual report for 1048. The increase was reflected in rural areas by the higher percent- age of rural households now with telephone service — 60 per cent, comihared to 5,5 per cent at the end of 1047, and 39 per cent in 1945. Throughout the, cOmpanY's terri- tory there were 1,456-090 tele- Phenes in service at December 31, 1948, which is nearly double the 1937 total, Nevertheless, demand was still beary, and at the year's end, 85,000 applicatiop,s for service remained unfilled. At the -elbse of 1947, there were on hand 94,000 applications .for service and 78,000 of these were cleared' during 1948, The report notes that in spite of record demand and growth, and the resulting strain on expanding facil- ities, progress was made towards improved standards of service. Expansion and improvement of facilities were accelerated, with new construction expenditures tot- alling $75,000,000-40 per cent more than in 1947. Total plant invest- ment reached $397,000,000 at the end of the year. Telephone traffic was handled in record volume with local calls in- creasing by 247,000,000, or nine per cent over 1947, and long distance messages by 7500,000, or 13 per cent. Total payroll increased from $45,000,000 to $52,000,000, an in- crease of 16 per cent above 1947. The number or employees totalled 25 721 at the year's end, more than double the figure at the end of 1943. A new high level was reached in total revenue which amounted to $97.198,652, which is $11,052,552, or 13 per cent more than the pre- vious year. but operating expenaes increased to $73,261 208, a rise of 16 per cent over 1947. Taxes tot- alled 39,239,000, equivalent to 31.81 for each share of capital stock, or $6.69 for each telephone in service. Net income was 310,576,574, or $2.08 per share of $25 par value, as compared to $9,701,652, or $2.20 per $25 par value share in 1947. The number of shareholders in- creased in 1948 by 4,450, of whom 2,374 have been added since the subdivision of the stock from shares of $100 par value to shares of $25 par value in October, and now shareholders total 38,889, largest on record. Ganadians com- prise 96.1 per cent of this number, and own 80.7 per cent of the shares. 044:04 .2,AP4'.00411P;11,t u0 API-OtiPA41''''',04#410*0 Ife'eohm.10.7iop#0,0Po 00,44,14 -Eat 40ra.,404.A 114.14 :pp try,kcha Ir'OptAble'03**Oo4.4!t eyovtoor41.,Vt'e, Ninny /3444:401W„lirii • takc, PizJbiaC*IirrPli 4 larly to. help,-haihl:, ?70.1F, agalhat this ilietteSs; ' Pinkbena's qcotwoumi, si no oplates---3M4ab,04Or4alog,40 Lydia E.'PlaithaniT 41 IT STANDS FOR (.5M PNE WHEREVER YOU SEE IT •0 COURTEOUS and efficient service at our switch; boards, in our business offices and in your -- home — that's the kind of service we're doing our best to provide. More and better telephones have doubled the scope and increased the value of your telephone service. Yet, up to now, despite rising costs, there has been no increase in'the,:, basic telephone rates established 22 years ag07. No matter where you travel, you.'ll.fu4.n„ greater telephone value; no better lierV3.0.ii the same low cost. 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