Daily British Whig (1850), 27 Dec 1921, p. 4

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MAIN STREET The Story of Carol Kennicott By SINCLAIR LEWIS (into exuberance by the light, The | &ninshine was dizzy on open stubble; from immense cun $s were forever gliding vnds; and the sky w and r and more resolute Ulan the sky of cities , clared, | "it's a glorious country; a land to be big in," she crooned. Th Kennicott startled her by lus . she de- BB el ee tp #1 must say I don't quite get yon imetimes, Carrie." Let him? They 't help themselves, Dutchman, apd probably the t can twist him around his fin- , but when it comes to picking farming land, he's a regular He's their symbol of The town erects him, %n- of erecting buildings." '#Honestly, don't know what ou're driving at. - You're kind of layed out, after this long trip. 1 feel better when you get home " have a good bath, and put on blue mnegligee. That's some : pire costume, you witeh!"" . | He squeezed her arm, looked at knowingly. They moved on from the desert ess of the Schoenstrom station. train creaked, banged, swayed. air was nauseatingly thick. Ken- mlgott turned her face from the win- pw, rested her head on his shoul- She was coaxed from' hor tun- ppy mood. But she came out of it 'dnwillingly, and when Kennigott was gisfied that he had corrected all worries and had opened & mag- of saffron detegtive stories, she upright. : Here--she meditated--is the new- t empire of the world; the North- Middlewest; a land of dairy and exquisite lakes, of new au- tomobiles and tar-paper shanties and wilps like red towers, of clumsy speech and a hope that is boundless. An empire which feeds a quarter of the world--yet its work is merely hegun. They are 'pioneers, these ty wayfarers, for all their tele- and bank-accounts and auto- planos and co-operative I#agues. And for all its fat richness, heirs 18 a pioneer land. What #8 Ms future? she wondered. A fufure of cities and factory smut where now are loping empty fields? es universal and secure? Or pla- old chateaux ringed with sullen huts? Amberola The J. NN EY REI NLT FAYE RROT NAY He's a damm 'Nights Beat | The Arabian Nights Edison's Amberola will give you thousands of nights of the most wonderful entertainment--all the world's best music--grand opera, ballads, hymns, comic EE band music, latest songs and dance hits--that will kee i happy at home And can own this greatest phono- raph vale in the Eactiean own firms! 'Thomas A. so--he wants to bring music--~rve/ music-- .into yur home. away and learn full particulars. . & chucklin 'D" you realize the town ext is Gopher Prairie?" poi Willingness to sift the sar ied les? Or creamy-skinner fat wo smear- ed with grease and .chalk, gorgeous in the skins of beasts and the bloody feathers of sligin birds, playing bridge | with puffy pimk-najled jeweled fin- gers, women who after much expen- diture of labor and bad temper still ) fat : grotesquely resemble their own fla- | ier Prairie? And this thick tulont lap-dogs? The ancient stale in. | 37 Deside her, who dared to define equalities, or somehing different in Iker I, he was a Stranger! Sie § tedious maturity {turned in her seat, stared at him. story, uiike the us miatyrity | Who was he? Why was he sitting what hope? | with her? He wasn't of her kind! His Carol's head ached with the rid- ("OPK Was heavy; his speech was dle. { heavy; he was | twelve. or thirteen She saw the prairie, flat in giant | years older than she; and about him patches or rolling in long hummocks, | Was none of the magic of shared ad- The width end bigness of §t, which | ventures and eagerness, She could Lad expanded her spirit an hour ago, t believe that she had ever slept began 'to frighten her. It epread out 1s arms. That w: one of the #0; it went on co uncontrollably; she sams which you had but did not could pever know it. Kennicott was | y admit, closeted in his ive story, With She told herself how good he was, the loneliness which comes most de- | how. dependable afl undérstanding. pressingly in the midst of many peo- | She touched his ear, smootlied the ple she tried to forget problems, to | Plane of his solid jaw, and, turning look at the prairie objectively. | away 3 ain, concentrated upon liking Phe grass beside the railroad had |his town. It wouldn't be like these been burnt over; it was & smudge | barren settlements, If couldn't be! prickly with charred stalks of weeds, | Why, it, had three thousand popula- beyond the unpdeviating barbed-wire | thon, Thai was a' great many people, fen: s were clumps of golden rod--i{ There would be six hundred houses Only this thin hedge shut them off jer more. And--The lakes near it from the plains--shorn wheat-lands-{ would be so lovely, She'd seen them of autumn, a hundred acres to a field | in 'the photographs. They had looked prickly and gray near-by but in the | charming . hadn't they? blurred distance like tawny velvet | As the train left Wahkeenyan she stretched over dipping hillocks, The | began nervously to watch Yor the dcng rows of 'wheat-shocks marched the entra all rer future like soldiers in worn yellow tabards. i Jut when she discovered them, The newly plowed fields were black' to the left of the track, her only im- banners fallen on the distant slope. | pression of them was that they re- It was a martial immensity, vigorous, | sembled the photographs a little harsh, unsoftened by kindly A mile from Gopher Prairie the gardens, 2 | track mounts a curving! low ridge, The expanse was vrelieevd by | ana she could see the town as a clunips of oaks with patches or short whole, With a passionate jerk she wild gress; and every mile or two [pushed up the window, looked out, was a ehain of cobalt slews, with the | the arched finger of her left hand filcker of blackbirds' wings across trembling on the sill, her right hand them, ; lat her breast. All this working land was turned And she saw that Gopher Prairie wa | Was merely an enlargement of all the {| bamilets which they had been passing. Only to the eyes of a Kennicout was it | exceptional. The huddled low wooden { houses broke the plains scarcely {more than would a hazel thicket. ThTe fields swept up to it, past it. It was unprotected and unprotecting; there. was mo dignity in it nor any Lope of greatness, Only the tall red grain-eleyator and a few tinny church-steeples rose from the mass. It was a frontier camp. It was not a place lio Hive in, not possibly, not con- ceivably. - The people--they'd be as drab as their 'houses, as flat as their fields. She couldn't stay here, She would "have to wrench logse from this man, and flee. She peeped at him. She was at once helpless before his mature fixity, and | touched by his exéitement as he sent 11. | e word--home--It terrifi-| Had she really bound herself' ine scapably, in this town cail- { That or led her to Hve of other empires? What future and lakes | life, all the family nights a year. world on practically Edison bas said THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. TUESDAY, DEC: 27, Brain Poisoning Menace For Those of Mrddle Age Brilliant" Business Man May Wreck Enterprise Unless He 2 Takes Enough Vacation Business men the country over are coming to the habit of taking their PUTS vacations on week-ends and in some instances are arranging it so that their employees cen do likewise, New York City the big department stores close all day Saturday and many of the workers go to the beach or the mountains for the two days a week--Saturday and Sunday--to build for middle-aged writer in the London Times goes a step further and says that the only "wild oats" but is due to brain poi- soning because of an insufficient cleansing of the many tissues and cells of the body. Must Stop Werking The mental qualities which make for success in business depend on a sound constitution, he says. More than that, they depend on a well-cleaned, well- Threatens Middle Aged . refreshed brain. The man who never muain poisoning threatens stops working never can stop, he as- migdie.aged the sorts; he earns se little. The big brains of business, on the other hand, often seem to work véry little. You meet them not in offices; but on golf courses, in hotels, at pleasure A In consequence foolish people say that the owners of these brains are idlers and that business could get on per. fectly well without them. Business, says the physician, de- |apite such opinions, is not a matter {of routine work. It is primarily a matter of what is called instinet, or imagination. Both of these are gifts; /but both are gifts which require a great. deal of cultivation. There is nothing easier than the loss of them. |A clouded or choked brain ceases to be capable of the exercise of either. This is not questionable in the doc- itor's view, when we come to examine the nature of the mental processes which determine success. When the moment of erisis has passed, a tendency to exhaustion ds evident. man, the physician de- olares. It is the chief of all his ene- mies and the most subtle. For the Medical ae call it "auto-intoxica~ tion." A simpler term is insufficient cleansing. Theres is a gradual, a very , acoumulation of waste pro. duets, the materials produced by fore mer activity, Like a fire from which the burnt-out ashes are not entirely removed, says the writer, the bralw becomes more and more inefficient. Office life, says the writer. helps the Poisoning process; muscular activity - opposes It. The brain is swept clear. This is pot the same process ss eccurs in sleep, Where the brain is actually EB: 3 ; ests ff ths i ii Private Wires and Banking Ry means of private wires between cen- J points, the Bank of Montreal is 1, at all of its Branches, to give its mopt and authoritative information. Private wire service main- tained between Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Winnip Vancouver, New York, Chi- [= bd le BANK OF MONTREAL ESTABLISHED MORE THAN 100 YEARS BRANCHES IN KINGSTON King and Clurence Streets: P. DU MOULIN, Manager Ontario St. and Market Square: R. R. F. HARVEY, Manager | his magazine skittering along the | alsle, stooped for their bags, .came {vp with flyshed face, and gloated, "Here we are!" She smiled loyally, and looked away. The train was entering town. The houses on 'the outskirts were dusky old red mansions with wooden {rills, or gaunt frame shelters lika grocery boxes, or new. bungalows with concrete foundations imitating stone, Now the train was passing tne cle- vator, the grim storage-tanks for oil; a ereamery, g¢ lumber-yard, a2 stock- yards muddy and trampled ana x ing. Now they were stopping at a Come to olir store right M. GREENE MUSIC Co. "The Home of Good Music." 466 Princess Street. Phone 1324, ke BING WORK DONE RIGHT | fine Fantom. 1 H. APPLETON For Plumbing and H work. Contract and wquat red frame station, the platform crowded with unshaven farmers and with Joffers---unadventurons people with dead eygs, She was hére. She j| could not go on, It was the end-- i .the end of the world. She eat with closed eyes, longing to push past |~ | Feunieott, hide somewhere in the M| tian, flee on toward the Pacific. xive a price on your n firgt-class attention, CALENDARS, DECORATIONS, ETC., ARE WONDER- FUL. BE SURE TO SEE OURS FIRST. Something large arbse im her soul and 'commanded, "Stop it! Stop be- ing a whining baby!" She stood yp | quickly; she wald, "Isn't it wonder- i ful to be here at last!" { He turned her so. She would make | herself like the place. And she was going to do tremendous things-- She followed ~Kennicott and the bobbing ends of the two bags which | he carried. They were held back byd | the slow line of disembarking pas- ocngers, She reminded. herself that she was actually at the dramatic mo- wernt of the bride's home-coming. She ought to feel exalted. She felt | nothing at all ~exeept irritation et their slow progress toward the door, * i STATUARY _KEWPIE DOLL LAMPS NOVELTIES, ETC. Konnicott stooped to peer through the windows. He shyly exulted. "Took! Look! There"sa bunch come dowh to welcome Clark and the missue and Daye Dyer ALL THE LATEST MUSIC NOW. 75¢.--BRUNSWICK RECORDS--7%c. EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR ABOLIAN VOCALION | RECORDS. COME IN AND HEAR THESE. "DISTINCTIVE STATIONERY" FOUNTAIN PENS LOTS OF THINGS--COME IN AND LOOK AROUND. * and' Jack , BI and, yes sir, Harry Haydock end Juanita, and a whole crowd! I guess they see us now. Yuh, yuh, sure, they see us! See em wav- ing!" > (To be Continued.) 4 I ------------ One reason why happy marriages often end disastrously is beciuse the bride and groom so quickly learn nei- "her 'the landlord nor the grocer will accept love as legal tender. ours Lo. Acute or Chronic? In either ease you'll get such: re- sults from good old ' "Nerviline," which has five times the pain destroy ing power of ordinary rem Nervilite gives results because it to the source of the pain, ingredients. SILVER PENCILS » | | | 5! Sam |.-« "ALBERT L.CLOUGH. . The Quickly Carbonising Engine A "Wet" Mizture Is One Cause Of This Failing T IS NOTICEABLE THAT SOME ENGINES have to have the carbon scraped or burned out of their cylinders at exasperatingly short Intervals, while others run up large mileages satisfactorily without need of decarbonization. The full explanation of such differences is not available, but the following statements give some inkling as to the reasons. Carburetor and intake design are one factor and operation is the other. An engine has to be decarbonized when it loses power and knocks on account of dirty cylinders and high compression engines usually have to be cleaned at the shortest intervals, because they are almost on the "ragged edge" of knocking even when free of carbon and but very slight deposits are required to make them hammer very-badly. There is now a pretty general agreement that while lubricating oll is a factor in carbonization, the main cause of it is the fuel. Involatile gasc- line, that goes into the cylinders in "gobs" and "fires" into solid matter on the piston heads and other hot surfaces of the combustion space. is now chiefly blamed for the deposits. The fuel ought to go in as & vapor or at least as a fine mist, but it doesn't and in so far as it fails to do so, through incomplete atomization at the carburetor, lack of heat applied to the intake passages or faulty manifolding, carbon formation seems to be.more rapid. Thorough spraying of the fuel, exhaust jacket: ing or "hot spots" and the avoidance. of long and complicated manifold passages, seem to retard carbonization dy eliminating the presence of masses of liquid fuel that are capable of distilling and leaving solid residue. Excess ofl in the combustion space, if it is of such a quality as readily to break down under heat, is undoubtedly a source of carbon and even oll in its normal condition may collect and hold the dry carbon produced by the incompleta combustion of overrich mixtures, so that the presence of oll above the pistons is certainly to be avoided, REPLACING IGNITION COIL AIDS TO EASY STARTING 8. K. 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