Daily British Whig (1850), 11 Feb 1922, p. 11

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THE DAIL A RDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1922, THE JUNIOR BRITISH WHIG BIGGEST LITTLE PAPER IN THE WORLD Y BRITISH WHIG. Nice decent hard-working people lke the Jonderguists!" In her batiste nightgown she was standing at the bureau engaged in | the invarizble rites of wishing that sho had a real dressingtable with a | triple mérror, of bending towand the | streaky glass and raising her chén to inspect a pin-head mole on her throat, and finally of brushing her hair, In rhythm to the strokes she went on: 2--- MAIN ST-- fndcdad "But, Will there isn't any of what Be BT) 2 Sa NO a NO) WEA NCAANAA NN vt. wy 'The Woman's Part | HE average woman in the discharge of her m responsibilities as wife, mother and housekeeper learns her own" lessons of finance in the: management of her household. Her efforts are largely con- centrated orf "making both ends meet."' Naturally, she does not always realize the dif- erence between capital and income, because the average woman doesn't get the opportunity to accumulate capital. It is wise to consider this point in connection with life insurance. Would a lump sum paid in the oN HUMOR PLAY WORK SC AOOL ONE REEL YARNS LINCOLN'S CHUM My father knew a fine old man whe used to talk of whem Abe Lincoln was . jan awkward lad, Jot thay were play- p nice and easy up | mates then. Just t of it! A chum to th Shay d tow ice and cut) up| ie rs ik 0 him and play slightest noise to arouse the crew or | before the humble cabin door when the watch. And then they'd climb Tehores were put away! I guess that [you might call financial rivalry be- over the side of the ship, wouldn't ask much mere of life if I | tween You and i} J . Mn't be very hard to ovér- [could be the man that father knew, | eon you and the partners--West. "It wouMn't be very and say that Lincoln played with me. {fake and McGanum---is there?" power the unsuspectin' watch. If they | had to fight, they'd do it quietly so as| I like to close my eyes and think He flipped into bed with a solemn » oth on the boat. what sort of boy he was--a fine, big- | back arseult and a k "Ey not to stir up the ther Bleeping | Hearted kind of lad that fellows. liked | aok-somersault and a ludicrous kick Then they'd go a a kill the |Pocause they knew he'd always treat {of his heels as he tucked his legs ua- crew. Maybe they be only part of | them square and never pick a fight {der the blankets, He snorted, "Lord whole bunch, or may y with boys that weren't as big as he. 0! I Hever bem ia 1 'em and put the rest in chains, He knew it wasn't right. Kind of no! I never begrudge any man q nick- serious-faced, I guess, ungainly-like, el he can get away from m " and slim--but gee! I'd give the world to have a chum as fine as him. To store in Mem'ry's treasure-house | en irene CAO NCTA LP a L( Ia a OLLIE CLARK MAKES A SPEECH ABOUT PIRATES HESE pirate fel- lers--the ola timers -- were SOME pirates. Take Ollie Clark's word for : { | our Cave in Herb Woods' baock- yard, Ollie got up from his soap box and says he had a few words to tell us about pirates, 80 we all says all right, and Ollie went ahead. Here's what he had to say: "Pirates were a pretty rough bunch," says he. "If & men was an outlaw and had a desp'rate and brutal Burn Forsaken Ship CT (mp STP "But is Westlake fair? Isn't he ay?" "Sly is the word. He's a fox, that boy!" She saw Guy Pollocks grin in ths mirror. She flushed. Kenmicott, with his arms behind "Anyway, the pirates got the best of the ship. If it was bigger and better than the ship they already had, they'd burn their old one and sail away fo the new ome. Prob'ly they'd head for some town along the they comld sell land flowers, of learning all the gecrots wise that nature had to tell, and spending wrinkled days in character he'd make a good pirate. On the Spanish Malin "They were havin' thelr | biggest times in piratin' about 150 years ago. The Spanish Main was their best working field, for It was being trav- eled a lot by ships going back and 487 | ice to have been real pirates? take possession of the boat. «ain't hard to do for the beats in har- those men of the captured crew that were still alive. Then maybe they'd head for another'isiand and there bury their plunder, planning to return for it some day. . "After that they'd start out after more ships and plunder. That's the way they worked. How'd you fellers Well, we all thought it over for a few minutes and then we decided all at once that nome of us would bave enjoyed being so tough as all that, though we sure would like to sall out in boats the way those real pirates did and go some place where you can do as you please.--~AL STUBBS, Scribe forehead learning how te spell; to lie and watch the kindly sky, cloud-casties floating together free, "what I'm going to be." The old man sald his boyhood friends just seemed to feel, some way, that Abe was sure to BE some one, would take his place some day among the world's most truly great, and he was proud and glad to play and work his little while beside the sad-faced lad. It didn't surprise him, then, at all te - have occasion come when he could say with shining eyes, "Abe Lincoln was my chum." Jimmy d-donkey kicked me!" Fa talking, boy-like, of TO-DAY'S PUZZLE NEDE, DRIA, EKID, DEWA Each group of letters may be ar- to form a word, and the four may be made into a square. Answer to yesterday's: Lose, lone, e, fine, find. r Answer to to-day's: Wade, arid, dike, Sethi He Was Frank 'Willie, "Father, the ther: "Have you been annoying (tearfully): ne Jimmy: "No, I was only trying to, CATve my name on it." 0AL! COAL! Age Staten of Anthracite Stove ayia | E. G.DENNEE MAIN STREET | The Story of Carol Kennicott By SINCLAIR LEWIS She dropped into his dap and (af- ter he had jerked back his head 'to save his eyeglasses, and removed ibe glaases, and settled her én a posi- tion less cramping to his legs, and causally dleared his thro@t) he kissed her amiably, and remarked: "Nope, I must say you're fairly good ebout things like that, I wasn't kicking. I just meant I wouldn't want the fire to g0 out on us. Leave that draft open and the fire might burn up and go out on us. And the nights ere beginning to get pretty cold again. Pretty cold on my, drive. I put the elde-curtains up, it was 80 chilly. But the generator is working all right now." 'Yes, It ds chilly. But I feel fine af- ter my walk." "Go walking?" "I went up to sec Lhe Perrys." By a definite act of will she added the trath: "They weren't in. And I saw Guy Pollock. Dropiud into his of- 2ce." "Why, you haven't been sitting and chinning with him till eleven o'clock?" "Of course there weme some other people there and--Will! Wha' do yon think of Dr. Westlake?" "Westlake? Why?" "I noticed him on the street to- Wes he limping? I the poor fish would have his teeth X-rayed, I'll bet nine and a half cents he'd find an abscess there. 'Rheumatism' he calls {#t. Rheumatism, hell! He's behind !the times. Wonder he doesn't bleed himself! Wellliliil--" A profound land wserious yawn, "I hate to break up the party, but it's getting late and a dootor never knows when he'll get rouded out before morning." (She re- membered that he had given this ex- planation, én these wonds, mot lees SORES SPREAD ALL OVER FACES AND BODIES - than thirty times 4n the year). I guess we better be trotting up to bed . I've wound the clock and looked at the furnace. Did you lock the fron 'door when you.came in?' They trailed up-stairs, after he had turned out the lights and twice tes'ed the front door to make sure it was fast. While they talked they were preparing for bed. Carol stili sought to maintain privacy by undressing be- hind the screen of the closet door. Kenndcott was not so reticent. To- night, as every night, she was frrivai- ed by having to push the old plush chair out of the way before she could open the closet door, Byery time she opened the door she shoved the chair. Ten timee an hour. But Kennicott liked to have the chair in the room, and there was no place for it except in front of the closet. She pushed ft, felt angry, hid her anger. Kennicott was yawning, mone portantously, The noom smelled stale. She shrugged and became chatty: "You were speaking of Dr. West- lake, Tell me--you've never summed him up: Is he realy a good doctor?" "Oh yes, he's a wise old coot." ('""There! You see there is no medi- cal rivalry. Not dn my house!" she 4 1 4 dege sada Hi 5 3 ¥ this. it possible event of your death, be the wisest and safest form of bequest for you to make? Or would not provision of a regular income every month be better? Many a family has learned by sad ence that an insurance policy which seemed sub- stantial in a lump sum, when first paid by the insurance company, proved but bri protection when treated as income instead of capital A Guaranteed Monthly Income policy in the Mutual Life of Canada saves all danger of this mistake. It removes also danger of loss from un- sound investment of the proceeds of the insurance policy. Your beneficiary is guaranteed a regular monthly income for twenty years, and as long thereafter as she may live. We'll be glad to send you our folder, "A Guar- anteed Monthly Income--the Greatest Thing in the World of Insurance", Write us. THE MUTUAL LIFE of Canada: Waterloo, Ontario 8. ROUGHTON, District Agent Kingston, Ont. his head, was yawning: "Yump. He's smooth, too smooth, | But I bet I make prett' near as mmeh {a8 Westlake and McGanum both t- | gether, though I've never wanted bo | grab more than my just share. If any- | body wants to go to the partners in- |stead of to me, that's his business Though I must say it makes me tir- ed when Westlake gets hold of "ho | Dawsons. Here Luke Dawson had | been coming to me for every toeache {and headache and a lot of little things | that just wasted my time, and thea [when dis grandohild was here last | summer and had summer<complaint, | suppose, or something like that, { probably--you konw, the time you and 'I drove up to Lac-qui-Meur:-- | why, Westlake got hold of Ma Daw- | som and scared her to death, and made her think the kid had appendi- citis, and, by golly, i he and Mo | Ganum didn't operate, and holler their heads off abou: the terrible ad- hesions they found, and what a regu- lar Charley and Will Mayo they wore for classy surgery, They let on that if they'd waited two hours mome theo kid would have developed peritonitis, and God knows what all; end then f ney collected a nice fat hundred amd {fifty dollars. And probably they a have charged three hundred, &f they |' hadn't been afraid of me! I'm no hog, [but I certainly do hate to give old Luke ten dollars' 'worth of advice for a dollar and a half, and then see a hundred and fifty go glimmering And if I can't do a better pendectomy than either Wes'lake or MecGanum, I'll eat my hast!' As she crept into bed she was dazzl- ed by Guy's blazing grin. She experh mented "But Westlake is cloverer than his {som-in-law, don't you Shink?" (To be Continued.) Raa (7 P77 aa LP? SLD 7a NS Ua) 7 a) Sas a OV a) LES) a fe De NOs) - oll A == yr 4 4 Yr A] ' i 4 : « 2a a a, 1 pb ------ h -- BH { RAL ND AA a \ OV) CI [ [TaN Wr SUPT m1 i Mn, A ---- = ------ There's no ease for the whole mouth when one tooth is aching. It is foolish to fight the wall after the thieves are gone. "w De Bb ¥ fi Foot-binding, which resulted in| The Nova Scotia House of Assem- women having feet so emall as to se | bly will meet March 2nd. practically useless, has been discon One doesn't take a butcher's knife tinued in enlightened China. to carve the nib of a fowl. ~ ~ AMES HOLDEN MSCREADY LIMITED MONTREAL . November 3rd, 1921. Censdian Deily Newspepers' Assooistion,? Excelsior Life Building, Toronto, Ons. Speaking facturer who does s Dominion vertising is ss necessary to of a trede-msrked piece of merchsndise ss end shelter sre to the well-being of the the standpoint of the menu -wide buainess, newspaper sd- the successful distribution food, rsiment individusl. ' Newspaper advertising nourishes the pro- duct; 4% clothes it with reputation, integreity snd re- speotability; evd it protects it from the storms of competition snd the inrosds of goods of questionable parentege. Hetion-wide newspsper Savers iaine ia the foster-son of tremasportstion. As the facilities for the distribution and delivery of goods inoressed, so did nationsl vewspsper advertising develop. The shoe menufeoturer of to-day wes the village cobbler of yesterdey. The menufscturer who makes thoussnds of good monse-traps for the publio now is the successor of the men who yesrs sgo made mnouse-trsps for himself snd his neighdors. But the world doea not dest so pethwey to the door of these manufscturers! No, they go out snd "tell the world" ebout it through the newspspers, 4nd the world responds, snd buys.

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