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y- ~ - - - - ,r*,-, -s THUHSDAY, I~UViiiVLDUaKI a4I~ A,' PAGEEPON POUCRV "Cookie", Lost Ail Feur After Seing Iombed and Unconscious Foi Three Days In England Here is the heart-stirring tale of ah ordinary every day English- woman-a waitress in a restaur- ant-who having lost her husband and two babies and lying three days unconscious in the bombed ruins of her home carnies on with the indomitabie courage of ber race. Add the story of the two Russian refugees and Margaret Butcher lias given us a letter out of the ordinary. It was written specially for the Free Press Hier- aid. t(Br Margaret Butchert In the gardens near here I met "Cookie." (No, I don't know her real narne; it doesn't matter, any- 'Dondt get behind the 8 -BALL!* Don't let a sudden cold snap fnd your coal bin runnng low. Play safe. Place vour order today-for aur RKED trade marked coal, Famous1 Réiading Anthacte. Discover foi1r yourself those money-sav- ing qualities that have made kt America's fasteit seling bard coat. JJ.FLETT FULS Eau.: Ontario St. Tard: C.N.R. Phone 2695 Phone 2673 BOWMANVILLE way!) She is tail and fair and smiling; one of those people whorn one recognizes, at once, as clear- minded and' sympathetic. She works i a local restaurant, where I have often seen her, laoking very neat and smart in a white linen coat with red facings. She is about twice rny size, and looks down on me with a friendiy eye. I've often tliought it might be nice to talk to -"'Cookie." And to- day the chance came. How does one slip from one subject ta another-from cam- monplaces to intimate things? I don't know; but it just liappens that way. That's liow it was witli Cookie and me. It was lier after- noan off-and mine too-so we waiked together as f ar as the gate; and in that comparatively short distance I found out mucli. The chef thing I dîscovered is that I -was riglit about lier. She didn't tell me a bard-luck story, or anytbing lîke that; it was just a normal exchange of views, dur- ing which the facts crept in some- how; and that is how I learnt that Cookie is a brave and wonder!ul woman. She doesn't thik se, o! course; she is merely of the opin- ion-and nô mean one, at that!- that one should help others over the bad patches, having negotiat- ed them oneseif; and neyer mmnd about repayment or thanks or praise. She seemed to regard it as a rather ordinary affair, but I wondered (and am stili wonder- ing) if it la humaniy possible to get much further than that. I daubt it.' rCookie-almast needless ta re- mark-has been bombed out; and I !lnd that this uncomfor*able ex- perience liappened uneasily near my aid home in London. Candid- iy, I'm glad it was no longer ny' home at that time! This littie bit of information cropped up when we spoke of ciothes. Being women, I guess we shail be pardoned for givrng a few words ta that. Coakie lost everything in the world; every, stitch except a splnter-torn niglit-I dress, it seems; and then the story followed: Nlghtmiare of Death For nine months sne lived in that nightmare of fire and crashes and deatli; an-d durlng that time she lost over forty pounds in weiglt-and who can wonder at "Iwas se fightened, most of the time," she said, statig a sinm- ple fact. "It was a terrible strain." Then came the night when it happened. She and anether wo- man sat an their bedà, listening ta that friglitful dii. "We heard twa drap quite near," she said, "and we heard the houses fail. Then a third drapped, and rny friend said, 'Welh, there won't be any more now. We'hh be ail right naw.' And directly she had spok- I Bright ? Childrern~eoauq "'Officor Keiy-Iah thoro any chance or us eseaplng the G-mon if wo teai a pee of thes weil layer cake fromn Cart- er'a tisat Mom's servIng tonlght?" 's- fOREWARNED IS FOREARMED -~ ~pard for thse Bohool Daru mut aisead by havAnE Laund 'ry & Dry Cleaning Compasy, Llmited *Laundry ad Cieualnt roqulrmeintu now. PHONE 419 itour driver wMieaU. The war weapon pictured here, a Naval Gun is the objective for the Bowmanville district in the current drive for new and increased pledges for War Savings Certificates. Citizens ini Bowinanviile district are asked to subscribe to enougli War Savings Certificates to pro- vide one of these weapons for the arrned services each rnonth. en it care-that whigtlinig sound, and naw iglit over us. We clap- ped our hands ta aur ears . ..and that's the hast thing I rernember. I don't eveti rernember being ht by enythig. JI just passed iglit out." Hiow one liopes that it is often as merciful at that! That was on a Thursday niglit. On Saturday afternoon Cookie was Iaued out a! the ruins and laid, a ragged and unconsciaus creature, on the sidew4alk. ,,it was cold and rainy," said Ceaie, "and I thik it -was the rai on rny face that brought me round." She la vague about al that; for a wbele week memory didn't functien. That week la atml almast a blank. In houpital she just iay and thouglit cf nothing. Then, when she liad recovered from ber sliglit injuries-another miracle--she went back te wbat stood for lier as ordiivarY life. Foar Had Dipierd A strange thing had came ta pasa. She waan't tnlghtened a7ny more. There were plenty cf raids1 a!ter that, o!'course, but ah. just1 went on-'! ýeeiing as if nathing mucli were happening,' as she put it. The worst liad happened and fear was dead. Durmng the twoj niglits and nearly two deys when1 l.s>had lain unconsciaus under the. ruina this queer change had came about. The liuman brai, obvlausiy, can reglater just s0 *rucli o! any ernotion, and then ne more. 1 suppose it eithen gives way or takes on a new phase o! strength and iniunity. That, I arri sure, la what lias happened ta many o! these counageaus and wonder!uily sane people. A f ew days a!ter ah. camne out o! liospital ah, and another Wa- man or t4wo were in the thick o! it again, makdng tes, i a iitchen and takig it out tcr the rescue squad. Three liundred cups o! teâ. i one niglit. There was ne mc10 bile canteen ta be found then; only Cookie and lier cups o! tea ta iielp and cheer those dust- cboked workers. Haw grateful they must have been! Somnehow I can see ber: gentie and brisk and normaI; entireiy fearhesg i that lieu let-loose o! fine and crashig ruin; movig among the dead to brig those wehcorne cùps of tea ta the Éweatrng, grirny men whe were nlskig their lives. There la someéthing aimost fantastic about it. Boiling ketties, warming tea- pots, iadiing out the quantities; and all tue wile the most hideous thigs in liistory are goig on i the streets round about. The odd part o! it la tint, tbree or four years ago, Il'h wager, Cookie saw nothing dramatlc or ini the, east significant in a tea- pt. 1,t was just one o!fhs tig n a dook'a if.. Now, if Cookie had armoriai bearigs, a teapat - sureiy? - should have pride of place as her crest. Coalcie and her teapat, going out ta meet what seemed lîke certain death.. and flot a pheasant one. I am b.- gining ta wond.r if I siiali ever drink another cup o! tea without havig the. thouglit o!flier same- where et the back o! my mind. Imagie liaw I stood tiiere, et the. gate o! those gardens; look ing up at lier, savorig the sheer drame o! tuis quiet, gentle-vaiced waman's stary. I don't minacon- fessig that I couldn't se. lier very well juat then, fan my eyes had grown foggy, someliaw. But Cookie is the kid on. needn't feel seif-consciaus about. I jusi went on iaaking foggy, for I am sure she understaod . . . and 1 thlnk she lik.d me fer it. Net Ail the. Story 'you see, that isn't quit. ail tue stary. There was somnething elae, rather a long while ago-wlier she was a very young woman in- deed. Cookie lan't even rniddle- aged yet, but ejsperience hasn'1 passed lier ave-ar treated ber kidiy. Her husband and tw0 bAbies were killed i a car acci- dent, and she lienseif waa badly lnjured. h. didn't want ta go on at al; i guema tliat's easy ta un- derstand . But there was a doc ton, a lifelong friend o!flier hus- band, and lie toak tuings in banc when lie thought that she had bac long enougli ta cierish lien grief, pon thing. Ho must have been a wise and sensible dactan, ferrlia told ber tuat there was aometlilng ahead o!flier: somethig for whlcl aie liad ta 'buck up' and face life ragain. I expeet he knew aur nathig 50 g o s haýto'sould be wahiste. statsoudb wshedlule .iti ee e memerluhedalehre e "H.e slapped me!" she said. "A real, liard shap." Excellent, Doctor! Sa that isthe story cf Cookie- who was shapped back ta barshý neality, ta perforn marvels o! courage with the teapat, an~ show the rest o! us how a humebeing can behave at a tinie when be- haviaur la dreadfully irfiportant., The worhd s a mad place, o! course, but it la certainly turnig out sorne fine folk. I have a cup o! tea beside me at this marnent. 1 raise it ta - Cookie, one of the besti' Joke PFrom Last War WAR WEAPONS OBJECTIVE Cablnet Minister Wites Letter 0f Appreclation Statesman neaders will recal tat a f ew weeks ago we publish- d a letter £romn an American turist, Rev. C. M. Hazzard, Cam- den, -N. J. wbo expressed appre- iation ta The Carter Famly Miss Edythe Carter), for return- rrg a travelling bag ta him which was left i their tea roorna. This paper cantaiig the letter caught the eye cf Hon. J. T. Thorson, iister of National War Services, wbose department la in charge of Canada's Tourlst Bureau, for he has wrltten the followig letter ta the Carters: Ottawa, November 3, 1941 The Carter Famiiy Tea Raorn, 3owmanville, Ontario. Dear Sirs: An iterestig item "Appre- ciates Canadian Caurtesy"l ap- pearig i The Canadian States- nan, Bowmanville, Ont., October 30, 1941, concernig the courtesy ;liown by the Carter Family Tes Raom ta Rev. C. M. Hazzard of Carnden, New Jersey, has been brouglit ta my attention. As the Minister responsible for directing the activities cf the Can- adian Travel Bureau, I sliouid like to express rny appreciation ta the Carter Family for its khidness and attention ta American tourists as evideiiced by the. article mention- ed above. I ar n hformed that yaur Tea Roorn is outstanding in Bawrnanviile for the warmth ai its courtesy extended ta tourists. Establishments such as yours are greatiy needed in Canada for the promotion o! the taunist traffic. Yaurs sicereiy, J. T. Thorson. c ti ec tc dq ti c h ti T E ta the radio, with its grini news e o! this ever-spreadiiig busiess, p I 'found myself thlnking, once r again, cf sometbing that lias pop-3 ped ito rny brain many times s: lately. I wonder if anybody else E bas recalled that particular scrapC frorn the dirn tlMe .new knewn as t 'the hast war'? I don't remember readmng snything about it, but it d is extraordinarily apt. Just a jakea i one o! the aur best-known t humorous periodicals; that's ahi. ( But the artist who illustrated it a neyer imagied, I'm sure, that heE was peretuatig s o me t hi ng9 which, h anather twenty-!ive3 years, was gong ta have a grim-1 and uite staggerig - signifi-i cance. He simphy siiowed us a1 a!wngo a country-man talkingg ta a city-dweller; the captian1 made us ail laugli at the time. The country-mnan la sayig: "We've talked it over in this village, and we'vo deided to be neutraL" To brig it tharoughhy up .ta date- one mereiy substitutes the Word 'couXtry' for 'village' and ..Welli there you are! One feels a great- temptatian ta add soine such nice,.éompréhensive phrase as 'Wc>ld papers please copyl. Meanwhile, aur temparary li la atmn on us; but it's a prlckly sort of luil, and one feels, very acutely, that it's no.time ta drap vigilance. Ail eyes are on, the Russans-pltting'up their splen- did stand. I lived with Russians for many monthi, so tliey de not seem at ail strange ta me. Trheir language, jo!course, la apailnglY difflcUlt_ udging by the sound o! it. Ail I could ever earn was 'Yes' and the equivalent o! 'No- thing doig.' Net the. iast word in conversations1 prowress, it mnust be adrsutted. But they were folk o! treinendoua courage: tbe sert a! courage one uses i everyday iif.-perhaps the rnast difficuit sort o! ail. Madame A Rosi SOIrlt -Wiien I knew them they were doggedly ruximing a tiy generai store-without previaus exPeri- ence-and makig a go of it, tea. Little Madame, with lier dark eyes and higli cheek-banes, work- ed ike rnad, day in and day out, keepig the. houa. dlean,ita the the bargai, and zwhen ah. could possibly fid a spare houn-get- tig down ta lier fiawer-paiitiflg. it was quit. good painting, too. She was very. temperarnental, o! course, subject -ta fits o! g100m which always remided me Of some welrd one-act play af former rdays; and I arn a!raid I uaed ta t augli immoderately and in the tworst possible taste. But she was ta real sport, and neyer took ef- fense. 'I arn aeeiy,' she would say. 'I know it. You, dean Margaret, are 50 goood for me.' And then aie would laugh and snap eut o! It. Actually, thein sens. o! hurnor eis veny iike ours; we seo!ten !ouuid ourseives being tremen- dously arnusédt by the mRne thigs: tbe things wbich 1 had -always irnagined ta be pecullar 't ta aur British brand o! ievlty. ýr Monsieur, wlio had lived in 0every country in Europe, 1 be- - ieve, liad a stnong politicalinh- Y stinct whlch aimost amounted ta n an extra sense. Maddenlflgly enougli, I have fargatten meat o! -th. thigs lie told me, but ail that - le pnedlcted o! France bas came d true-and that was iglit at the. d atart o! the war, in the. openlng Eweeks.- The Russians, I should a aay, have the faculty o! Ieoklng e aliead-if leie l anything ta, judge kby. Tliey were generous folk, to, à and wlienever Madame -cameta e se. me after, penliaps an thati r precicus a lal-day wlien the Shop Former Local Boy 1 1 was closed, she always brought some cand3r and a few flowers from the littie garden. We would talk a mixture of French and Engllsh (in vlew of my notable paucity of Russian!) and the time passed very pleasantly. It was I, in fact, who taught ber rnost of lier English, i exchange for a pollshing-up of my French. Per- haps, some day, we slial get i toucli again; but one lases sight o! people ail too easily nowadays. I once bought a little painting o! hers, and I shal keep that. A souvenir o! a very plucky anfi very sportlng littie body. Onlon Heart-Breaklng The Allotment bulletin la satis- factory-in.parts. The onions are heart-breaking; one miglit suspect witchcraf t, so odd are the things which happen to them. But the potatoes are monsters, the mar- rows ripe, and the turnips coming aiong. The cucumbers have given up their atternpts ta cllnsb the tree, and those awful sunflowers have now shot up to ten feet. As for artichokes, I can see myself living on them almoat exclusively during the coming *inter, so pro- -lific is the visible portion. Just now 1 arn acutely marrow-con- scîous; several evenings, indeed, have been spent i efforts to make jam, with marrow as the chief ingredient. Things have turned out not too badly, though a mere lodger with nothing but a gas-ring and a pint saucepan can- flot be over-ambitious. The main thing, however, is to get sarne winter provender together, and that we are ahl doing. We don't intend to capitulate for want o! jam . . . to say nothing of the fact that we certainly shouldn't get any jarn if we did. FIVE PER CENT BONUS TO BE GIVEN TO MAIL CARRIERS Postmaster-Generai Muiock lias announced that mail contractons, rural and city, whase contracta were awarded on tenders dated on or befare April 29, 1941, or i- valvig an annual expenditure o! less than $200, will receive a 5 per cent bonus an payments for wark per!ormed as from hast Aug. lst. April 29, it was explaied by the. Minister, was the. date the gasoline tax was brought down in the. Federal Budget and con- tracts signed before this date bad no provision for sucii tax. "This bonus will ivalve an icreased expenditure o! approximateiy $2 l5,000 from Aug. 1, 1941, until tue end o! the fiscal year, March 31, 1942," the. Minister said in a statement. ON 5 YEAR .Write. From Ohie Wonder how many o! our citi- zens rernember W. D. (Little Bllie) Beach who lived here back i the 80's when his fatiier work- ed in the Organ Factory? Well, here's a letter Harry Allin, The Corner Grocer, received froin hlm recently wbich -will be of particu- lar interest to older citizens: 404 W. Tuscarawas St. Canton, 0h1o. 372 DAY STREET U NI A system of milk zoning as must b uy milk from the officia vendor assigned to the district, o: been established in New Zealand carry the milk from a licensed re to conserve gasoline and reduce taller. tvlll prices have thus bee distributing costs. C o n s u m e r s reduced and gasline saved. 18717 70 Yaora CE Securit y f0 Policyown' * 1941 The man for whorn I work tells me that he met yau wlien passig througli Bowmanville the other day, and that we used ta go0 ta school together. The. report thàt lie gave you about my death, la greatiy exaggerated, as idlcated by this letter. I bave not been i Bowmanvllle sice I was thirteen, but have liad the desire to corne back just once more before the last of my days arrive. I would like very mucli to hear frarn you telllng me about thigs i the old home town, and if my nephew Louis * Tapson, and bis father Will, are stili there, and if so ask Louis ta write me. I re- member the aid pond where we used ta do aur skating as weil as the aid miii where the boys used ta go after the gates were open for the. niglit, and spear suckers i the creek beiow the miii. Re- member? WMat is the aid place ike Han- ry? Wouid I knaw it any more? Of courze there would be very few wham I wouid knaw, but there wauhd no daubt be saine left that I wouid remember, and wlio wouid remember me. I remem- ber Johnny Hlearn, and bis father Mark, oscar LaBelle and Arthur Carnisli Who were the rivais on the piano, if you remnember. Then there was Guy Russell who lias been dead for a numrber of years, and Guy Pethick whase father ran the barber shop. Then cornes Ida Shaw who I used ta peddfle liats for when she was in the mil- liery business, and I cauld go on and naieernany more. Write me Harry, for whiie I ne- member yau only vaguely, I arn sure I knewr you wben I was sinaller, for I knew most everyone in the littie place, and wilh enjay hearing from you. A lot of years bave gone by Harry sice we were boys, but I wiil always rernember the good times we used ta have in littie aid Bawrnanviiie, and some day I arn going ta trek back and see the olid place once more. Sincerely. - Little Billie Beach. 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