Daily British Whig (1850), 17 Dec 1921, p. 38

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RIGHT For Plumbing and Heating Equipment, let us give a price on your A Gift Worth While For the Men If husband's or brother's Suit was called for each week and de- livered nicely sponged and pressed, all minor repairs taken care of, wouldn't it be a nice Christm gift to him. ; Ladies! Think it over -- then come in and let us explain our on tract system to you. D. S. COLLIER (Successor to Warwick Bros.) Holiday Prodigals By Waiter Joseph Delaney CHRIST- shouted a T"RRY MAS," volce home of Seth and Esther Marvin at Easton, and In blank surprise those estimable persons the porch and ! viewed Uncle Greg- j ory Thearle just departing. To the | fence was tied the fattest, sieekest | calf they had ever seen, | "Why, what 1s this?" inquired Mr. | Marvin, staring vaguely. "Can't you see--fatted calf! It will | do for Christmas, eh? You'll need It. {Tl be over later; good bye till then | and Merry Christmas!" He went his way waving his hand mysteriously and chuckling and shak- Ing with half suppressed joliity. "He must mean the boys. Oh, Seth, can it be that they are coming home?' palpitated Mrs. Marvin. "I don't know, but there Is some hidden mystery In the actions of our | relative. You know he always liked Bob and Tom and Ned. Perhaps he | has kept track of them, Mr. Marvin sighed and he had reason [to do so. And his loving loyal help- meet cheerlessly echoed the aspiration, ! Then eyes met and there were mutual | tears In them. Then Seth went to the woodshed. and came forth again hold- ing a hatchet and a saw. "Where are you going?" inquired Esther curiously, "Over to the woods. I'm going 'to | get some evergreen and holly, It is | as well to be prepared for a surprise." Just as fall had set in the three sons of the worthy couple had left | home secretly one night after writing | & note, honest and respectful, announc- | Ing that they had heard of positions in a distant factory, and realizing that IA mortgage on the home and hard | times were distressing the dear old father they felt it their duty to do something toward the family support. For three months regularly there had come a draft for quite =n amount, | but no other word from the runaways. And now--on Christmas eve--there | were three glad, grateful visitors to the little cottage: Tom, Bob and Ned : once more rested under the dear old home roof. The news got about town, The lads were popular and had many. | true friends. Three, particularly, ar- rived with thelr sisters just as the | prodigals wished and hoped. And In , the evening the same welcome coterie made the old home cheery with their | chatter at the supper table. Then appeared Uncle Gregory. and blinked at his three prime favorites, the boys, and brought two turkeys for the holiday feast. "But the fatted calf for the prodi- gals," he queried chucklingly. appropriate; and It will last a week." And an hour later Uncle Gregory blossomed forth in his most felicitous He Brought a Fatted Calf. | style. He handed a folded legal look-, { Ing document to Mrs, Mdrvin, | "What Is this, Uncle Gregory?" she inquired. "Release of the mortgage these dear lads hoped to pay through their own exertions, but they are only boys, if good ones, and the task was too heavy for them. And, by the way lads, here's a bank book. 1 consider you a good Investment and I have donated what will take you through college and prepare you for battling with the world--well educated men." "I declare!" murmured Mr. Marvin and there was a catch in bis throat. As to Mrs. Marvin she came up to | the old man and placed her loving arm about him and kissed .him fervently. "Yes it Is a genanine surprise, indeed," voiced Mr. Marvin. "Blessings come thickly when we most need them." And the three charming girls were more beautiful to the returned prodi- gals than ever, and old Uncle Gregory Christmas," he insinuated, chuckle for the three lovely girls who each sat close to thelr admiring lover outside the | came to | He winked | "So | A Christmas By ALDEN CHAPMAN ¥ Copyright, 1931, Western Newspaper Union. YE sweet voiced Christmas chimes were echoing out a chorus melodious and reverential and Mabel Durand sat in the parlor of her cozy little flat ab sorbed in reverles that the season nat- urally brought to Her face was not a happy one, | her, | for her memories were freighted with | | sadness that had shadowed her life | for nearly ten years. | She had wedded Rodney Durand, a | close friend of her brother, now dead, | and both had been employed in the | Prosperous mercantile house of her | father. He, too, hyil pow passed away 'and Mabel was alone In the world, | except for her little daughter, Erma, only ten years old. The little one came tripping joyously into the room | at that moment. { "Oh, mamma," she cried. "what do { you think? Our neighbor in the next | flat, Mrs. Brayton, wants us both to be ready in an hour to go with her to the movies. Mrs. Brayton had been a cheering | element in the lonely life of Mabel Durand for over two months. Mrs. Durand had more than once during their brief acquaintanceship | conversed with the neighbor she seemed to especially" like about her past history. It was a tragic one. Two years after her marriage to Rod- ney Durand her hushand had been { arrested and sentenced to prison for embezzlement from her father. |" loved Rodney and I always shall," Insisted Mabel. "There must be some | mistake in the fearful charge they | have brought against him." "There is none," replied her father sternly. "He has disgraced us. He | stole from me boldly," Still Mabel hoped and walted and | at the end of two years when Rodney was released from prisdn she bore si- lently the reproach of never hearing | a word from him, | So Mabel had talked of her broken | life and now it was Christmas time | again and the occasion brought a sad | remembrance of those days In the hap py past when she and Tif{iTe Erma had known a tender-hearted husband and | a gentle indulgent father, Mrs. Brayton. chatted casually all the | way to the theater and told her she | had seen the picture play twice and | was greatly impressed by it. { "It Is the story of the life of a | wronged, misjudged man," she sald, { "and I know it will Interest you." The screen outlined the course of | business in & modern counting room. | Then as there entered a new figure, | little Erma pressed close to the side | of her mother and exclaimed: "Oh, mamma, that actor looks just | Uke the picture you Bave of dear, ab | sent papa." x, Mrs. Durand gasped and tottered in Plain View Rodney Destroyed It in her seat. The gentle, soothing hand of Mrs. Brayton steadied and quieted her. "Do not be startled orf excited, dear friend," she whispered. "I had a pur pose in bringing you here, as you will soon know, perhaps gratefully. The principal of this movie is Rodney Durand, your husband and my broth er. Fur his sake I have got acquaint ed with you; for both your sakes } have brought about this climax. The story of the embeszle ment crime was faithfully depicted and it showed another as the real criminal--her own brother. Her hus band had taken his blame. bearing brother from disgrace. . At a critical moment her brother had sent a full confession to Rodney, taking the blame for the crime. In plain view Rodney, in the action of the piece, destroyed it. "Do you comprehend now?' ques tioned Mrs. Brayton softly. "Oh; hot we have wronged my poor; dear Rodney," sobbed Mabel. "Can you forgive him? Will he ever forgive me? Ob, that I could find him." "You shall," and when they reached home, Mrs. Brayton left her friend for a few moments to reappear with her brother. : Higher swung the gladsome chime bells, merrily echoed the happy sweet volces, and beside the little Christmas tree that had been trimmed for Erma, those three earnest souls joi the Joyous knowledge that. their" paths would lead together from the threshold of that Christmas eve into broad sun- ny pastures of love and happiness, They used to say of some girls that they wore their hearts on their sleaves, but we guess if they desire the men to ace them these days they have to wear them on their stock- ings. 1 - The women who were so keen about getting equel rights with mew right not to vote | work," she said. the penalty and reproach :t0 save her to vote are now assuming the men's il A Holiday Romance By T. B. ALDERSON Copyright, 1931, Western Newspaper Union WO feet deen of snow, Why, it's a regular Christmas lon hopefully, as he gift for me!" ob | served Rolfe Dar | awoke from a night | of profound slum- ber and glanced out | through the street | window of the chill bleak lodging house where he was one | of wanderers who had no other home. | As he descended to the well-heated | office room of the institution he paid little attention to the lounging crowd | of idle and battered men. He paused only to address an old man with a palr of crutches by his side. He | slapped him In a friendly, familiar | way on the shoulder. "If I can only get a snow shovel" | he observed, "I will see to it that your | | meals and lodging are well provided tor over Christmas." "Bless you, my friend!" murmured | the other gratefully. "You have been very kind to me," and Darlon left him | with a genial Darlon was passing some cottages | adjoining one another when the door of the nearest one was opened and a pleasant faced lady beckoned to him. "You look as If you were seeking Would you clean off this sidewalk and a path to the coal shed for half a dollar?" By the end of an hour he had his task completed. "Yon must come In and share our hanch, if you will," invited the young lady. Chancing to glance through the window he noticed in the next yard a SSN 23 PX V Springing Free of the Roof. young girl battling with the heavy snow with a frail broom. "She doesn't make much progress," he observed to his hostess. "If you will lend me your shovel I will soon clear ® path around the house for her." {He lifted his cap politely, explaining his' purpose. Alice Brill, young, frail, grateful, bestowed a winning smile upon the friend Inineed. She an- nounced frankly that they could not afford to pay for the service offered. "You needn't worry about that," he declared lightly. "It will make me feel the better for doing a little act of kindness, so near to Christmas." Darlon regarded Alice Brill with! more than ordinary Interest. He had heard the girl and her father in the next house discussing their neighbor. It seems that the father of Alice had sold some store property in the town for over four thousand dollars, repre- senting about all he had in the world. He had hidden it In his bedroom, some one forced open the window and Brill awoke next morning to find his little fortune gone. Darlon worked, sturdlily at sidewalk and garden paths and had pretty near- ly completed his task when Alice came out on the rear step. = "I wonder If it would be too much to ask you to get the ladder and climb up to. the kitchen roof and push off the massed show there." Darlon. was only too glad to grant the request. He was pushing the last shovel of snow over the eave troughs when he startled Alice, who had come out again' to watch the progress of his work, by springing free of the roof, waving a dark object in his hand. "1 found ft lod in the gutter spout, where It" must have fallen from the hand of the thief," he announced breathlessly. "It is a pocketbook filled with money." Just that it was, and Rolfe Darlon, a weleoing. spectator to the wild ae light of the :Brills, ln the house, £ wo if 8 5 Eg good-by and started | "forth for a day of hard, earnest work. | | | | | | | i 17. 1021, --e rt NOY, wm Bank of Commerce . Building, Automotive Eqipument Tourists' Dureau ' Manufact urers' Agents Accessories " We Can Get It" Phone §isw - - - - 100 Brock St, Kingston, Ont - G. V. DREDGR B. R. KYRES A Canadian Product See this beautiful Waltham at your Jewellers Ths model is designed especially for the m.» who wants Waltham accuracy at a very modera'e price. 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