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THE GIDDINGS STAR
ANEW IDEAS
Vos ofome-moken
By KUTH WYETH SPEARS CIP
DO YOU remember how [ olde
fashioned comforters used to
be tufted? They were made of
two layers of fabric with cotton'
between and every four inches
• or so in rows the three layers of
material were caught together''
with a stitch of wool yarn double
which was then tied twice and
clipped to make a fluffy tuft. Well,
that is exactly the way many of
today’ll smartest chair covers are
Shaking Liver
Good Exercise
For Mind, Body
By DR. JAMES W. BARTON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
TH
Men AMES WILLIAMS
CHAPTER XVI—Continued
Peter said, angrily resenting her
refusal to accept his word: "Don’t
at an '.‘exerciser” for talk like a fool. I tell you he’s dead!"
A FRIEND asked me to look
which he had taken the agency. Why should Peter be angry because
It consisted of a square box on she could not believe this impossi-
4 ble thing?
She forced herself to listen to what
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made. A cover of this sort re-
deemed this old rocker and re-
vealed its hidden charms.
The cover is plain, medium
green glazed chintz tufted with
dark green yarn and three inch
dark green fringe is used around
the bottom. A long zipper makes
a center back closing. Each sec-
tion of the cover was fitted on the
chair in the muslin lining first
and these pieces were used as
patterns for cutting the chintz,
also the cotton which was trimmed
to be "--inch smaller all around.
After the pieces were tufted, as
shown at the upper right, the
seams were stitched up. Long
stitches were then made on the in-
side to catch the edges of the cot-
ton in place.
NOTE: Are you planning to make slip
covers this Spring? Mrs. Spears' Books
t and 3 tell you exactly how. Book 1 gives
directions tor fitting and finishing slip cov-
ers for chairs and davenports. Book 3
shows you how to make a pattern first;
also how to arrange openings in covers
for chairs of unusual types, and how to
anchor slip covers so they will stay neat-
ly in place. Books are 10 cents each.
Send order to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills
New York
Enclose 20 cents for Books 1 and 3.
Name ...............................
Address .............................
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which he asked
me to sit or stand.
I stood on the
box he touched a
button and imme-
diately the box
TODAY’S
HEALTH
COLUMM
and I began to vibrate.
I told him that this was the same
idea as the mechanical horse found
on shipboard
or in a gymnasium
which “shook' up”
the whole body.
What about these
Peter said when he now began to
relate what had happened, telling
George, while the others listened.
Peter said they came out at last
on an open hillside grown with ber-
ry bushes. They saw the pond on
the saddle of the ridge and a great
flock of geese in the pond.
"I would have to crawl to get
near enough to shoot,” Peter said,
explaining to them as they listened
without speech, Isaiah and Hiram
in the door with Corkran behind
mechanical seats or them, George and Mary at the la-
horses? Can they ble. Tommy Hanline had come to
stand behind Peter, tears streaking
help the body?
his cheeks.
Peter went on with his story of
There is no ques-
tion but that the vi-
brating of the entire his brother’s death,
body in this manner "I’d have to crawl," he said, “on
is helpful. Move- my hands and knees. Richard and
ment of all kinds is Gee stayed where they were, so's
stimulating which is not to scare the birds. I crawled
just what many busi- within shot range and waited till
ness men and others they lined up good, and shot. Some
Dr. Barton
need after sitting for hours at a time were dead, and some of them flap-
at their desk. ping on the water. The others flew
For a long time I wondered how away.
“I stood up and yelled, and Gee
came running. We chased the
these men with country estates kept
as well physically as they did, de-
spite the fact that they were often wounded geese in the shallow wa-
very heavy eaters. It was only ter, and caught some, till we had
when I remembered that so many eight.
of them did a lot of riding that I "Then I asked Gee where Richard
found the answer. The jogging of was. He said Richard had gone
the horse was just what was needed down to the beach. I went along the
to stir up their liver, empty the gall top of the cliff looking for him, and
bladder, and stimulate bowel action, finally I saw him. There was a
For years it was believed that ex- point of rocks running out into the
ercise that shook up or squeezed the water, and he was sneaking toward
liver would make the bile flow and the point as if he was trying to cut
something off from the water. I
thought it might be seals, but I
couldn’t see them.
this was proven a few years ago
by research workers at McGill uni-
versity. In fact, I recently came
across a rhyme in a little book, "By- |
ways to Health” by Wood and Dans-
dill, as follows:
"A jaundiced young gent in an attic
Once thought he had trouble hepat.
ic (liver)
He bought him a flivver
Which shook up his liver
And now his mentality's ecstatic.”
For those that are unable or unwill-
ing to ride, and for those who are
unable to take active exercise, any-
thing that will shake up the liver will
help them mentally and physically.
For the vast majority of the
middle-aged who do not play golf or
other games, a daily walk at a brisk
pace, some bending exercises with
knees straight, and not eating heavy
meals should keep liver and bowels
active and the mind free from de-
pression.
Vaccines of Value
In Preventing Colds
COME years ago a survey was
O made from the northeast to
southwest part of the United States
(from Maine to California) to see
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bones at a touch. Peter served her
and George, and as Mat Forbes
joined them he served his own plate
and then Mat’s. When Corkran ap-
peared, a little uncertainly, Peter
heaped his plate; and he asked in
an agreeable tone:
“Do you know navigation, Mr.
Corkran?"
“No, sir.”
“Mr. Forbes can give you a start.
Better work on it." Peter smiled
grimly. "The Venturer's had hard
luck with her officers this voyage
Something might happen to me.”
” “Yes, sir,” Corkran assented in a
toneless voice. Peter looked at him
thoughtfully, but he said nothing.
There was little speech during that
meal.
“Dick was always a hero to me,"
Peter said, half to himself. “I
didn't think anything could happen
to him. He seemed so strong and
sure, and luck was always with him.
I almost went crazy, running up and
down that beach today.” He rose,
shaking his head.
George and Mary followed him
into the common room, and George
lay down on the long bench there,
it was still broad day in these high
latitudes, but the small window gave
scant light. Peter lighted the whale
Oil lamps.
“I don’t like the dark,” he said.
"I’m dreading tonight. Probably
won’t sleep.” He decided, after a
moment: "I'll go on deck and have
a look at her.”
George lay quietly. Mary stood
looking out of the small square win-
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He looked at her steadily, said at 1 stored to brightness by rubbing
last: “Why—he didn’t give it to me. with a sponge moistened in tur-
no. I wanted to go on deck, and it | pnune- .. .
was cold, and Peter gave me Rich- I „ your floors are worn ^ will
not hold wax, try touching up the
worn places with white shellac and
then wax. The floors will be much
improved by this treatment
• • •
Save all celery tops, wash and
dry them and place in the oven,
turning them now and then. Store
the leaves in an airtight tin. Use
them for flavoring soups, salads,
etc.
• • •
Drain all boiled vegetables as
soon as tender. They become sog-
gy if they are allowed to stand un-
strained after cooking. The water
drained off may be saved for soup
stock.
ard’s big sea coat to wear over my 1
own. After we got on deck, I put
my hands in the pockets, and felt
a piece of paper, and before I
thought, 1 looked at it. It was your
letter to Richard, Mary.”
She spoke quickly. “It began:
'Dear Richard, Having been capti-
vated by the charms of your per-
son . . .’?”
For answer, he fumbled in his
pocket, produced a crumpled paper,
gave it to her. She smoothed it out,
read it swiftly with racing eyes that
nevertheless lingered over the fa-
miliar, not-to-be-forgotten words.
She smiled as she read. Once
these words had seemed to her so
impassioned and tender and beauti-
ful that they made her senses swim;
and once she had treasured this
scrap of paper in her bosom happi-
ly. But now even in the tension of
this moment she was amused; and
she looked up at George in a deep
mirth.
"You really thought I’d written
this to Richard?”
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before putting it into the dough. •
“What could I think?" Paint piazza and garden chairs
"I mean, since we came aboard now so that they may be thorough.
here?" ly dried before you wish to use
“I’m afraid I did,” he admitted, them.
“I saw him start to run, and then
I saw them coming toward the wa-
ter, galloping on their flippers the
way they do; but they were sea
lions, bigger than seals, some of
them ten or twelve feet long. Dick
got in the way of them and he hit at
one with his club. It snapped at
him. I was too far away to see just
what happened, but they have long
tusks, teeth like a dog's, only long-
er. It must have sunk the tusks into
his hand; and it just galloped on,
dragging Richard with it, into the
water."
I "I think one of the tusks stuck th
his wrist somehow; maybe wedged
between the bones, or hooked into
the tendons. He was jerked off his
feet, couldn’t do anything. It dragged
him into the water, and they
went under together. The place
was boiling with them, dozens of
them, like a school of mackerel.
They churned it into foam like
milk. Even from up where I was, 1
couldn't see down into it.
“I stayed there, running up and
down the beach, shouting and yell-
ing like a crazy man, but I never
saw him again."
CHAPTER XVII
just what effect the weather had on
causing colds. Taking a strip of ter-
ritory some miles wide, it was found ______.___________
that at certain seasons of the year, had spoken aloud, for their eyes
fall and winter, the number of colds
“He can't be.” Mary realized she
in California was as large as in
Maine.
Now it is not as cold in California
as in Maine, so that cold weather,
in itself, is not a cause of the com-
mon cold.
On returning from summer cot-
tages it is the “usual” thing for
many individuals to develop head
colds. It is agreed that it is the
leaving of the outdoors to live in-
doors whether in Maine or in Cali-
turned to her. “Richard can’t be
dead, Peter."
He stood up angrily." “I tell you
he is."
"We can go back and find him.
Please!”
Peter’s face darkened, but he
spoke without heat, understanding-
ly. “I'm sorry, Mary. 1 know how
you always felt about Richard. But
I feel worse than anyone. He was
my brother, wasn't he?" He looked
around at them all; he cried, as
if their eyes accused him: "Blast
it, I couldn’t do anything! I tell you
he’s dead!” No one spoke. He came
to his feet, strongly. “I want to get
away from here. This easterly’s
what we need to get out of the Bay.
fornia that is the cause of a great
number of colds. It is not only los-
ing the outdoor moist, fresh, “sun-
shine" air, but breathing the still,
dry, dust laden air of the indoors
that irritates the lining of the nose, । „, . ----------------
throat, sinuses and bronchial tubes. We might not get another for weeks.
You are reading and hearing
more about getting vaccinated
against getting smallpox, hay fever, |
diphtheria and scarlet fever. What |
about the vaccines for colds? Will |
they prevent colds?
Dr. L. D. Bristol, New York, in the
American Journal of Public Health,
gives results of treatment of stand-
ard stock (cold) vaccines, in six dif-
ferent groups of factory workers
(totaling more than 19,000). The
time over which this treatment
against the common cold was avail-
able varied from 17 months to five I
years.
"On the whole the study shows an
apparent reduction in the severity of
the attacks, their length, and com-
plication arising from colds.”
It would appear then that as a
“part" of the treatment for colds
vaccines have some value.
QUESTION BOX
Q.—Is the presence of sugar In
the body waste always a positive in-
dication that one is suffering from
diabetes?
A.—Sugar could be found in the
water of everybody at one time or
another. However, if you carry ex-
cess weight or there is a history of
diabetes there is always the possi-
bility of developing diabetes. It
would certainly be wise to be guided
by your physician who would, of
course, know best how to treat your
particular case.
We’re leaving!"
No one denied him.
Peter said, his tone placating:
“Corkran, come on deck. I want a
word with you.” Without waiting for
an assent, he turned abruptly into
the after cabin. Corkran went
through the steerage to ascend the
companion ladder there.
George put off Richard's coat that
Tommy had given him and went to
his bunk to lie under blankets there.
She followed him, her legs stiff and
wooden with the penetrating damp
and chill. Standing by the bunk she
could see through the small window
above it a headland a mile away.
She watched the headland fall slow-
ly behind; and she felt the heavier
seas outside the Bay begin to lift
the Venturer. She stood there long,
not moving, her eyes fixed on that
bluff which was gray through rain;
till presently they changed course,
brought the wind more abeam, and
the headland disappeared.
When Mary came into the main
cabin that night, Peter sat in Rich-
ard's place at the head of the ta-
ble. He told her that Corkran had
been appointed second mate. The
mates had not yet come below. She
went to speak to George and found
him stronger than he had been, bent
on coming to be at table with them.
She sat on Peter's right as she
had been on Richard's right during
these weeks of the voyage. Willie
Leeper had roasted one of the geese
shot that afternoon, had cooked it so
thoroughly the meat fell off the
"But don't you see. George, this
means Richard isn't dead!”
dow at the boil of water under the
stern. The desk was at her left, the
log book lying on the end of it.
After a while, she looked down at
the book; and presently she lifted
it and turned the pages to the latest
entry. She read it, her eyes glanc-
ing along the lines.
"Hoakes Bay. Day began with
southwest wind and rain. Repairs
finished this morning. Captain Rich-
ard Corr and Mate Peter Corr went
to shoot geese on shore while the
water casks were being filled. Cap-
tain Corr descended to the south
beach and tried to club a sea lion
The animal bit at him and its tusks
fastened in his arm and it dragged
him into the sea. He was lost. Wind
came southeasterly in the afternoon,
giving us a fair chance to make out
of the Bay. Will stop at Stanley to
set up new topmast and topgallant
Rain squalls tonight. Corkran was
promoted to be second mate.”
Mary read and nodded slowly. As
she conned the words, she seemed
to hear, far away, a faintly familiar
sound, not easily identified. She
tried to hear more plainly. Peter
had written this. The capitals were
ornate, involved in sweeping curves,
and there were blotches where the
pen had pressed too hard, and the
letters staggered erratically up and
down. Peter had written this. It
was very different from the preced-
ing entries in Richard’s small, neat,
careful hand. Richard's hand was
compact and firm, Peter's large and
sprawling. Peter had written this.
What was it she seemed to hear?
Something heard long ago. Or seen
long ago. Peter had written this!
Peter!
Her eyes widened in a sudden
startled attention.
Once years ago Richard had writ-
len her a note, two or three lines,
brief, curt, cruel. "Wait till you
grow up. Don't be a silly little fool.”
But Richard had written that note
the way Peter had written this en-
try in the log, in a sprawling hand,
the words straggling up and down,
the capitals ornate.
Suddenly she knew in a complete
and overpowering revelation that it
had been Peter, not Richard, who
wrote that cruel note long ago.
The log book snapped shut with a
sound so loud that George sat up.
staring at her, asking quickly:
"What is it, Mary?”
She asked in a sharp whisper:
"George, what made you think Rich-
ard and I loved each other that
day?"
"Don't be unhappy about that. It's
all right."
"No," she insisted. "Tell me."
She demanded acutely: "George,
did Peter give you a letter he Mid
I'd written to Richard?"
"My dear, can you imagine any
girl really writing a letter like
that; so many long words, so stilt-
ed and silly and everything?"
He said, half-smiling at his own
confession: “I’ve never had a love
letter, Mary. I don’t know much
about them. Didn't you write it?”
“Yes, but years ago. My hand-
writing doesn’t even look like that
now!”
"I’ve never seen your handwrit- |
ing, you knqw. We've not been sep- |
arated, so we've never written let-
ters to each other.”
“And it’s signed ‘Mary Doncas-
ter,' ” she insisted. "Not Mary Mc-
Ausland."
“I thought you had forgotten you
were my wife."
He spoke so humbly that for a
moment she caught him close in ten-
derness; but then she spoke in swift
explanation, and soberly now. “Lis-
ten, George. I copied this letter
out of a ‘Complete Letter Writer'
when I was in school in New Bed-
ford. It was supposed to be from a
man to a girl, and I thought it was
perfectly beautiful.”
“I see,” he assented. "But Mary, '
Richard kept it all these years. So
perhaps he loved you too!"
She shook her head. “No, he
didn't keep it! He never saw it. I
know that now. Peter stole it from
me in school. He told me he was
going to give it to Richard. 1 begged
him not to.” Her cheek colored,
and she said honestly: "Next day he
brought me what he said was Rich- |
ard’s answer; but I know now that |
Peter wrote the answer himself, be-
cause it's the same handwriting in
the log; and he must have kept my
letter all this time . . ." Her voice
checked as though some thought
struck her; then she went on:
“And he put it in Richard's coat, |
to fool you, to make you mad!"
He said grimly, remembering that
storm of emotion which had racked
him so: "1 was crazy, Mary I'll ,
spend the rest of my life making
up to you for the way I acted that
day."
She told him, warmly comforting: |
"I didn’t mind really, George " Her 1
eyes twinkled almost mischievous- I
ly. “You know, you’ve never told
me you love me. It’s only when you |
get terribly jealous that 1 can see
you do." Then she cried, tense |
again, leaning close to him so that
they could not be overheard: “But |
don't you see, George, this means |
Richard isn’t dead! If he is, Peter
killed him; but I know he isn't!”
He asked gropingly: "How does it
mean Richard's not dead?”
“Why, don’t you see?” she in-
sisted. "Peter’s a coward and a
sneak and a thief, or he wouldn't |
have done that with my silly let- |
ter! George, we've got to make him 1
go back to Hoakes Bay and find
Richard."
After some consideration George
agreed with Mary to seek aid from
the crew in forcing Peter to re-
turn to search for Richard. Mary
sat beside George and in a whisper
explained that when Peter was sure-
ly asleep, they could creep across
to wake the mates and enlist their
aid. Bor if help were to be found
against Peter it must come from
those next in authority aboard.
Mat Forbes and Corkran were
sound asleep when George in dark-
ness opened their door and felt
his way to Mat's bunk and whis-
pered in the mate's ear, warning
him to silence. Mary pressed the
door shut without a sound; and
George lighted the candle, and Cork-
ran woke at the sudden flare. Ex-
cept for their boots, he and Mat
were both fully clad, sleeping in
their clothes against the pitiless and
searching cold.
Mat and Corkran, when the lamp
was lighted, looked at their visitors
in s sleepy wonder, waiting to hear
what this visitation meant; and
Mary tried to explain. She found
that there was terribly little she
could say. She had no evidence be-
yond her own certainty that Richard
was alive, and that Peter knew it,
and that they must return to Hoakes
Bay.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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