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| Mork, trom the Ariso i | { 1 3 w ly FEET TRE F WOOT Lge Ew ET x 11 hho sald shortly, "He's really a fine | 'anyone I've met in a long time, I'm N nee fod up with the crowd at H ¥ * ¥ "What's wrong with the fi] "They're too raticons," 5 ¥ 4 ¥ » # 5 4» a gambler, even if he does own most of he Riviera, And an infam- it the Opera Comique, that prima donna you rave about, and at least i i, Tote » [4 ¥ % ' FTERE J os 2 Re FEFTTFER : i them, kind" ? v 1929 ! / MM is % : EER ee By , Raquel Nojos, chief model of phonse Courbet, noted fashion ris is the reign queen of uty in Paris, .to which she has me, after a brief stay in New town rmosn, Known along the boule yards and in fashionable circles as 4p iis noir", .the black ily, she 4 ben pursued by several men with offers of marriage, Her latest sdmirver is Eric Stafford, o son of an English lord, Summo to England by big father, Erie tells Raquel that upon his return he will Bek her an important question, After two years In Paris, Raquel and another medel, Greta Tosak, a slangy and inveterate mold-dig- bor are residing in Neuilly, fu a _ house provided by thelr employer. a ett i he | ToL BRS PTs Tx EO i no faw are cused, but, as a rule, Bow ror fingers 4, bY; i 2 | Well, maybe so," sald Greta, ' t ba al! p+ Xnow," sald Raquel, "He hl tly finding ways to throw us | together." {That afternoon Alphonse confide {$8 to Raquel that her commliss- 'Phones, The sums wer ath] and Mbp Greta, Tt id. done in Re Ea i Chapter B58 | Early fn the week following the Jouls XVI fete now graven on the "tablets of Fashion's history as more plaborate even than the most lav- Jah that distipguished the reign of the perfervid ¥rench king, st Ver- sailles, Raquel and Greta were a gain breakfasting in the garden, "A message for Mademoiselle," sald the man In the velvet coat, placing an envelope on the table beside Raquel, | "jy trom Erle," she sald, open~ Jog it with more eagerness than was her wont, "Great!" sald Greta, "Is he bringing you a bucket of moss from the castle?" '| Raquel went on studying ho the te, "It's rather. . unlike him," she Don't tell me he's ducked." "Don't be silly, Greta, He'll here tomorrow." "Well, treat him rough, "him about the bathtubs." Raquel sipped orange juice from A crystal glass, "He is. . worth while," ahe sald, "Worth how much?" Raquel's brows drew together in little V of displeasure, le mn - * "Pisase don't joke about Wrio" be Tell os 4ype. I care more for him than JAlphonse's. There are too many of And not always the right (ireta, merry "Whew!" whistled ob?" "Too what? Rawcuss? I'll admit Mome of 'em are' pretty raw and they're not #0 bad, not so bad." ; Raquel'continued, "At the fete, there was » famous gambler, He ous prince, A pink pig. A ter." © 'Yes, and a couple of t In. ian potentates with rubles in thelr ns a8 big as 'the face on the clock," sald Greta, 'Gosh! od Not to Thention a flock of heavy politicos and society dames, the big noise fue bimbo who takes his nourish- ment from a throne when his Ly keep him planted on it, M on?" "No Those are people, But not the right people." ¢ "What makes you think ao?" | "Going about with Erle Stafford Hap taught me," . Greta choked over & plage of melon, 'My heavings, dearle,' she managed, Stafford broads Qusing: It's beginning to work al» y. . Raquel! Ignored the charge, 'You may think it's funny," she Bald, 'but just the same, it's true. © may have everything--money, uty, pleasure, adventure, These essential, surely, But there ia hing more. . Poaltion, Erle that," ping hersolf to another plece of mn, "But behlieve me, I prefer nt from Pittsburgh with a le of million in hia kick, Does Eanes know how you feel a- 0 s to like Erie, And he's cone m the Bosart order, which I secured as ahe planned, o largest in the history of tol did mot ask the amount. such money as she need- the cashier in Ches Als negligible, 0 house in Neuilly find its ex- nes were taken care of hy Al- onse, So were the clothes she wore, These things wera a par of lle cost of operation, he explained, id showed a very handsome pro- on the investment, What the pn of Deauty wore was law to followers in the fashionable 1 go to' Deauville shorts A aT told Raquel, TY have nied for a special mator fer t should be wmiven tn motor toge, considering all France spends ita holidays on wheats, T have designed a complete line. Tt in, T.helieve, most unusual." Reanel made no comment, Tfehe ghan'd accent Wels Ria¥ard, she would nat a ta Nenvville Anan woman wou'd ride In the gpeein RYAVE, would set off the ~ hot 3, BY. JANE DIXON Tastrated by Armstrong Perry creations of Cliez Alphonse, Erie eameo to her In the garden ot the house in Neuilly, In the twie Hght of the following day, At sight of her, an exotie lly with tral ing white petaly snd a black erown, standing sthaifht in 'a garden of roses, his English re serve gave way, He was actually, and figuratively, at her feet, "It's knocked me out completely, away from you,' he couless- his ps straight, "Why, .yes,"" she sald, moved by his emotion, Bhe was glad he could not look inte her eyes, Had she missed him? He rose, uncomfortable that he should have given way so dramatis cally to his feeling, He dropped in- to a chalr, There was that in his posture which told Raquel he was troub. ard-Boiled THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, "Perhaps, If we should really marry, you're Mather' might rer I*nt," sald Raquel evenly. Stafford shook his bead, "No," he said, "We must not count on {| goofer ¢' Okes me, Tt makes me want 10,, KHL" w/ota weg alarmed by the storm ot passion this talk of dust arouse od, J "Take It easy, dearls," she suid 8. othingly, "Nabody's t*~owing any ust around this place, 1 thought you'd come out of the te" pin you went Into over a title, It's the bunke, Wuhlieve me," "I'd have give up. ,every. thing, Yiven the clothes I wear, They belong te Alphonse, He'd find some one else to wear them, He'd mele beauty as he made Min, Dox~ ter, as he made me,.,.and you, Greta." that, The Btafford motto is 'Btand Firp, It's been a «iud of religion with us, 'L have a younger brothas, Edward, .%e'd come Into the title, ani the estate, Ned's pretty much wll right, He could carry-on, Bet~ ter than I, He's a thorough Stat ford," Well," sald Naquel, signaling the man in the black velvet coat who was busy at the far end of the garden, "that's that And now, let's have a fresh cup of tea, This has grown eold," "But Raquel,' * gasped Stafford, astonished at the calm with which this lovely woman received the coup de grace to what must have Veen high hope, "you haven't ane led, swered- me, Do you love me en- "It's knocked me, out completely, Huotor done In graye. A now beauty fessed, being away from you," Erle cone "There 1s something 1 must tell you, Raquel," he sald at last, "I don't know precisely how to go about jt." Something he must tell her? Something disapprinting, of course, This much was evident, Eric was not easily shaken, He faced life squarely, Then the something must be more than disappointing. It must be downright disastrous, "I'm not to he Lady Stafford, af- ter all," thought Raquel, The ly lifted a haughty sable crown, "It what you must say 1a agreeable," she sald, cooly, advise your plunging into It having it done with" Stafford braced himself for task, "I saw the pater," he sald, "He was very stiff, He'd heard about, , cei" "Yea?" A show of Indifference, "Yes, Someone took him the news, I had hoped fo get to him first, He, he. .disapproves.' .... The lly tossing slightly on its stem, "You see, he had other plans for me," Stafford hurried on, "There's a young woman in England--our faniilies have been very close for gunerations, .our parents rather imagined we'll make a go of It, Fine girl, Cynthia, One of the best, Great pal, Great sport, 1 thought myself wo might try it together, , until T met you, Can't go ft. Don't love her, You must know, dear, how it 1s with me?" Raque! watched a hee emerge from the heart of a rose, So lad- laden with honey 1t found difficulty in carrying the load: Chaptor B4 Love! Raquel restained the curl that sought to creep Jnto the corn- ers of her scarlet lips, "I tried to make the pater see it." The words were tumbling from Stafford now, Ha could not unlease the torrent of them fast "enough, "He couldn't understand, He's out- lived it. love, His own marriage was one of convenience, Its turned out right, He came to, worship. . my mother." Stafford paused and looked to Raquel for encouragement, She was still watching the bee amqng the roses. "I've told him T shall marry you, Raquel, .it you'll have me" Now the bee lost its interest for Raquel, She turned warm, atarslit eyes to Stafford, MThere's this you must know, though, dear," he sald, "hefare you anawer, We'll be pretty hard press. ed for funds. The Rtafford estate | entafled, you know, It's In hands of the head of the house, The pater can out me off entirely, Even to the amall allowance I now get, He's threatened to do ft, I know he will keep his word" The stars in the black eyes gut- tered as if caught in wu tangle of wind-blown clouds, ; "But Raquel, T can go to work, fapfously, T mean. I've tried goveral {H'=es, None of them seemed to fit, Now I must fit hyselt to my work, There'll he something, We could take a small place, a cotlawe, gomewhare outside Parle, Ti's hard to ask thie sacrifice of you. . vou're sa beautiful, 40 fragile. so #0, utterly desirable." The black eves widenad, Teeth s'anmed thraneh searlet lips drawn across thelr blue-whiteness, din oa and the ough to follow me? Into what will be, for a while at least, a kind of oblivion? After this?" Hin eyes wwebt the garden, the brick house with ita golarium, We wan including all the luxuries, the swift, plquant pleasures for which theses things stood "I must ask you to walt until I have considered," MNague! pald, And pided, when she saw the pain In hig eyes: "You would not have me he hasty In so serious a matter After all, the happiness of many persons, the entire courte of thelr Hives, are Inv !ved in the answer." "Yeu," ha sald, reluctantly, "Hera's the tea," she sald gally "Two lamps, fsn't 15 and lemon?" She was to meet Greta at the atelier of Alphonse, They were din Ing, with a party, In the Nols, She had exnected Krie to be with with them, Buddenly she wanted (n he alone, Bhe was about to plead a headache when Frie saved her the polite fletion, Me had Important business In town, He was going to nea a friend rhout taking a position In a bank, He'd plek her up later, "1 shall remain at home evening," Raouel teld him, nead gulet, and I want to think." He would have made the parting tender, had she not Wanaged to evade It, She sent word to Greta not to walt for her Sho might he alone later, t When Greta came In alter mid. night, the lights wers still burning brightly in Raquel's rooms, Greta tapped on the door, Raquel bade her enter, "My word, old cake," Greta greeted, flinging herself onto a chaise lounge and flexing her weary muscles, '"'ow's the fourth or the fourtieth,.or what have you, .Lady Stafford?" Raquel was toying with some trinkets on her 'writing-table She did not anawer, The significance of the sllence brought Greta to a sitting posture, "For the love of 'la bloomin' majesty," she eried, "don't tell me the title's gone bust." | No." i "What's the troub then? Did you find out it was phony?" "On the contrary," sald Raquel! black eyes wide «gain, teeth gleaming, "It's very real" | "Then for heaving's sake, what's the matter? This place seems like a morgue," How qulek Greta was! | A wmorgue, Tha burial place of dead hopes, dead ambitions, "I've decided it's not while," sald Raquel, She was a¥ranging some flowers on table, { | | | this mischievous worth To. the | (Continu * To-Morrow) EEL GOBBLERS AT WORK IN LONDON I---------- Nine Platefuls at Sitting is Record of 'One Old Man London,~""¥Ye Anclent Order of Hel Gobblers,'" whose members re- cently met in Battersea for the first gobble of thelr elghth sea son, are now recovering their nor mal agility, Those who think that this is a wocret woclety with un fearful initia- tion ceremony and impressive ritu- al are wrong, writes a reporter, The whole object of the soclety ls proclaimed in Its name, The only qualification for an eel gobbler, Is an ability to gobble eels, and by gobbling 1 mean rea} gobbling--a marvellous, a magni- fleant capacity for eels, The eel, as is well known, ns nature's _half<heartgd attempt at ou fish, - It Nves in mud, and It poss nosses a rich, fruity flavor whicn its admirers say Is superior to any thing else on earth, Thick or Clear The eels consumed nt the ors der's gobble welghed well over 100 Ibs, They were served "thick, clear, and Jellled." An eel, however it In served, pre. sorves the essentinl beauty and consistency which hus made it far mous, © "Thick," means that you gobble it with a thick saugs, Yelear'" means that yon gohble it with a kind of ¢loar soup, and "Jel. Hed! means that you gobble it In Jelly, In addition to all this, you may, If you wish, gobble mashed pots toes as well, and---another pleas- ure---Ilubricate the eels with beer or stout An eel gobbler does not differ very much at fivet sight from his fellow men, but | learned from one gobbler that, after some years! a development of the lower part of the face takes place by whieh the real ool enthusiast may be distin. guished, "You ean tell an eel gobbler." | he said gravely "from the Met | that his howler hat a Hite too small for him, Under That Hat "Mark you," he continued, "wo buy our own bowler hats to fit ux, but, with the passage of time and the consumption of eels, our faces soem to swell below, so that the combined effect of hat and man is not so much a hat on 8 mag as a face underncath a hat." The average conmimption of eels by a member of the order at a sit ting in four platefulp The gob hlers become leas and less lively m thelr movements and more and more placidly benevolent as the oely disappear, One old man, who ate nine plate fuls time ago, was last seen Walking unsteadily tawards hin home, He has not vontured out | singe, but his record fg still re. garded proudly In Battersea, neem this | " Trial Nearly AllJones Kight of nine persons menivion od In a oase at Llanfyllin, Wales, pollees court vecontly were named Jones, DBossle, wife of Robert Jones, was eharged with stealing on pale of shoes from R, A, Jones, Jr, of Bwthynhedd, Mrs, Ruth M, Jones was a witness and a consi blo testified that he had communi cated wtih 1', H, Jones of Llangol len regarding the noocused, Tho ease was heard before the mayor, Alderman David Jones, and the magistrate's elerk wan A, B. Jonds, The defendant sald she worked for M, Jones, Alderman Jones dis. missed defendant Jones under the First Offenders Act, "No said the shopkeeper, "1 don't want any slot machines that involve gambling." "These," replied the salesman enr nestly, "are not gambling devices The customer hasn't a chance," ------------------ BE -------------- | "Not worth while to grah a title?" gasped Greta. "But I, i sean Af ruptly, without benefit. of de- tall, Raguel told Greta what had happened. She spoke lmpersonally, a if the affair no longer concerned | er, "I can't give them up," ahe sald, at last, "This house, servants, fas. oinating olothew, going places, do. ing things, I'd grow sullen and ugly, Hidden away jn some dusty corner, Waiting for him to come home, dusty and tired, To a dualy little house in a dusty little street, Dust! I've had enough of it, I tell you, I shook it off, I've been hard, eruel, oonter ptikle, TNechuse I could not endure the' dust, It thought it was position you crave And ed " ' | "STOMACH PAINS? Get rid of them Perman. ently with "Fruit-atives." ------------ Frolt-atives" vid of gus, flats da as 4 and make s worth Gloves, wa, writes: A bi Annie Otte oe Ay PA lt-s-Alia ach on the sys tem. Gently and hay strengthens tract. It awakens lives, the whols av bowels and Get & 28¢ or S0¢ box at your drugBist'y EE SN Flas FER align i . ELECTION RESULTS IN ONTARIO POINTS --p---- MAYORS ELECTED DARRIE-~D.F, MeQuaig, WLLEVILLE=George Reid, BRANTFORD=Ross Beckett, BROCKVILLE-=Allan Donaldson, CHATHAM 8B, L. Bedford, CORNWALL-A, Horovite, FAST WINDSOR], H, Wigle, GRAVENHURST-A, W. Ditéh- urn HALLEYBURY~Willrid Charbon- nean HAWKESBURY 0, Laurin, KINCARDINE=-W, J, Morrison, KITCHENER-W, PP, Clement, LONDON--W, J, Kilpatrick, L'ORIGNAL=E, R, Poulin, NORTH BAY-Robert Rowe, ORILLIA). B, Johnston PARIS Isane Stewnrt PEMBROKE], M, Taylor, RENFREW-1), B, McLaren RIVERSIDE Harry Droyillard, ROCKLAND-Z, K, Cheyier, SARNIA «Arthur Kirby, SAULT STE, MARIE -~John Me- arty, SMITHS VFALLS-H, H, Layng. ST, MARYS Harald D, Lang. ST, THOMAS--John Jagoe, STRATFORD «Chas, ) Moore (eanegded) TILLSONBURG WALKERVILLE peary, WOODSTOCK Colin Sutherland, REEVES ELECTED , ARTEMESIA TWP, --H, Caobert, BENTINCK TWP. LE, J, MecDon b Matthew Bean, Francis Langs ald : COLLINGWOOD TWP -W, 1 jele " CORNWALL CORNWALL W., H, Gallinger TWP-~W, A, Mw ray, FLESHERTON-Danie! McTavish HAWKFESHURY A, Legault, MeKILLOP TWP John Dodds, ORILLIA=W, LaRose, FORT DOVER--J, WH. Misner, br ANKLEPK HILL~H., J "la- IWOSNE WOLFE ISLAND-John Kingsley A SYRIAN IS NOT AN EUROPEAN | Windsor, Ontario, Dec, 4-Ags cording to a decislon given hy County Judme J, J, Coughlin, =a syrvian Is not an Buropesn, The decision came In a case of Eesex Renal Kstute Company, Limited, against Pavid Holmes und George Nake, The plaintiffs asked for an injunetion preventing © Naklle from using or bullding cn a lot In its original subdivision In South Windsor and sSoeuth Walkerville | The Cust was based on a clause In {the deeds providing the lots were | not to. be disposed of to any person not of Caucasian race, or to any Kuropean except one of an Knglish | ¥peaking country or French or of { Froneh descent, The defense was that Naklle, being a Syrian, was a Caucasian but not an European, The court decided In. favor of the defence and dismissed the case, Balloon Test for Autoists If you ean drive a car at 60 miles an hour and knock toy bal loons off posts with a stick you are competent to run an auto, Ho de clare officials of Berlin, Germany, The Idea was started, as a form of practice for auto polq, then was used to develop steady nerves for other drivers In order to cut down the great number of auto accldents on the highways, ------------ Water Traffic Cop In Berlin Nerlin Is now boasting of a wa- terstraffic policeman, He haa booh stationed on the Wannsee, the famous lake near the elty, where every fine Sunday from 60,000 to 100,000 Derliners enjoy a day in the opan at a total cost of about eight cents, He wears a special rubber sult with an inflated. belt, and his ohfef duty is directing the many steamers as they crulse the lake laden wtih merrymakers, He ia equipped with paddles, which he uses to propel himself to his sta. tlon in the water and as a means | of giving his signals, meron n-- SITTING PRETT a He fl a Hindu Fakir in India sand to prove that he is leading a life of Asceticiam, not to mention severe discomfort, he has been seated on this bed of ten<nch spikes for the last tan years or se. No doubt he gets up now and agkin and Wretches himself, but in the main ' he remains seated. Witho Je exactly an air of Hrahen o he is pot wahoaried, This is one of the Mmaring sights that .re seen round-the-world tourists on (at to fom New Foe ra ou ow next month, M "ork - INSUFFICIENT MEAT CAUSES RIOTING University Students and Police in Recurrent Clashes at Prague Prague, Czechoslovakia, Dec, 4. Lack of sufficient meat in the diet served by the students' municipal causes of recurrent clashes between university students and police whigh, have alarmed authorities here, Numerous students have been In jured and stil more arrested in the riots, which have also involved dect- seated racial antagonisms and poli tical differences, , The municipal kitchen Itself was the scene of the first of the recent series of clashes, Bullt partly with American funds, it serves about 1.650 of Frases student population, Dis- satisfied with the size of the portions of meat served, the students rebelled The Food Research Institute, 10 which a delegation submitted the matter, agreed that the smount of meat was insufficient and publication of Ms findings added to the students' unrest, Later university disorders were the result of protests of German and Crech Nationalists against foreign Jewish students, The former demand. ed strict limitation of the number of foreigners permitted to enroll and tried foreibly to expel the Jew from the German university and Prague technical college, SMITH ANNOUNCES TENTATIVE TERMS London, Dee, 4.~W, R, Smith, Parliamentary secrotary to the Board of Trade, told questioners in the Houses of Commons recently that the exact terms of the gustom; concessions between Creat Britain and Argentine were still subject to discussion and had not been def initely fixed, "I understand that a Presiden. tial degree will. be Issued In Argen- tina, by virtue of which the duties on artificial silk goods produced 1n Great Britain and Ireland would be reduced hy BO per cent from Janu. ary 1, 1980, on receipt of a declar- ation by His Majesty's Government that it is thelr polley not to im pose duties and restrictions oun the fmportation of certain Argentine food products, "Buch a declaration, of which the terms and scope are being con sidered, would express the policy of His Majesty's Government and would Involve no formal agree ment No question of consulta. tion with the Dominion or patifica tion therefore arises" Mr, Smith sald that the value on British exports to Argentina per ber 80 was around $1234, EE _ kitchen is one of the fundamental 1 head for the year ending Septem. ! | | Bowmanville A New and Sensational RADIO=PHONOERADH Achievement "ed hE, N\ 7 I 1 | m-- -- RADIOLA "44" ADIOLA "47" combines the latest of bate teryless Sereen-Grid radio receivers with the most advanced of electric phonographs. 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