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Port Perry Star, 3 Sep 1931, p. 2

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BY REX SON OF THE GODS BEACH i SYNOPSIS : tam Lee, who looks "white" but Is Balin. to be Chinese, is a student at Spud Gorham and Kicker induce Sam to take them out in xbetiaive Sa with their girl com- party up sud- ny when Alice Hart discovers that come to college as the son of a wealthy Chinese importer 3, New Zork, Then she sees possibili- % Sam's wealth and calls him up, Sher Jriendani eepens, and at the 8 ™m Cy York as Bam's guest. ® Eves to New > 'CHAPTER VI--(Cont'd.) Alice and Sam lunched together: for tea they visited a place she had always longed to see and they lingered there, Soft music. Rich rugs and hangings. Crystal and silver and bronze snd gilt, Sam Lee didn't look like a Chinaman. He looked more like a Spaniard or an Italian. Or a Roumanian, a Greek, a Russian--any- thing: one foreigner was about like another to Alice. How wonderful if --He was the dearest creature, really, and the nicest thing about him was his formality. He had never even {ried to kiss her. How nice it was to be in a place like this, how wonderful to afford to come here often, If she were an artist she could afford it. This was living. Yes, and Sam had seats at the most popu- Jar show in town for that evening. 'When she returned to her room she received the culminating surprise of that gala day. On her bed were a number of packages from the shops she had visited and when, with trembling fingers, she opened them, she found they contained all, or prac- tically all, of the lovely things that she had most enthusiastically admired on their sight-seeing tour, Here was a dinner dress, there an evening wrap, yonder a sport costume, a beaded bag, a hat--! Incredible. Alice gloated over them like a miser, her heart beats choked her. This was like Sam: Le did everything regally, What ex- travagance! For once Alice was eager to be seen in publie, therefore ghe and Sam went to a night club after the theatre, It was a maniacal place, the entertain- ment was wild, the dancing was fever- ish: she had never experienced any- think liks this, and it intoxicated her. She was drunk, too, on her escorts praises: over and over again he mur- mured into her ear that she was the most ravishing, the loveliest creature in the place and she believed him. They 'danced until they were tired. Sam did not kiss her on their way back to the hotel although she fully expected him to do so. Another day of bliss, another night of revelry followed: a third and then a fourth. The young people spent most of their waking hours together: when apart they were tly in "How strange to think of you com- ing from a place like this," 'Alcs mur- mured in a stifled voice, 3 He odded towards the south. Down there a little ways is where the governor of the state was born." A block or two between bleak, nar- row walk-ups that ran high and then Sam swung his car into a street more brightly illuminated than the others and with startling suddenness the en- vironment changed once more. New odors, strange and pungent and spicy, came to the girl's nostrils, new pie tures greeted her cyes. The signs and the storefronts carried hiero- glyphics, Oriental men crowded the sidewalks: * they were yellow, flat- nosed, high cheek-boned, undersized, and they wore ill-fitting, incongruous American clothes. Alice heard out- landish cries and words without meaning. The street ran bank full of pedestrians but the stream divided to let Sam's car pass through. He was saying something about Chinatown--it was nothing like it was painted--there was no local colo- it was a gigantic fake, but Alice heard him indistinctly, These Chinamen recognized Sam Lee's car and they knew Sam Lee: they were gaping at her. And why not? A white girl with one of their own people! A white girl in an evening wrap. Of a sud- den she felt frightened, half maked. She had never anticipated anything like this. Sam stopped his car in front of a building which rose several storeys above its neighbors and helped his passenger out. They were facing a fine store, a bazaar, now dimly light- ed: alongside of it was a tiled eu- trance and into this he led her. The place was clean and shiny with brass and white marble but there were un- recognizable odors in the air. Opium probably! Alice grew faint, her knees weakened. Where was Sam taking her? What would be the end of this hideous experience? A panic seized her. She saw it all, now, and under- stood the significance of his gifts, his attentions. How cunningly he had arranged everything, how patiently he had bided his time. An oily, wily, Oriental manoeuvre, She was tempt- ed to bolt and run but it was too late, the elevator gate had closed, she was being rushed upward, out of and away from the v-orld, She wanted to scream but feared to offend her companion. She wondered if she would ever be heard of again. CHAPTER VIL The elevator stopped. Alice step- ped out into a spacious hall, really an elaborately finished in each other's thoughts. Then came an evening to which Alice had looked for- ward with dread: Sam took her to see his father. Thus far she had beheld only the opulent heart of this modern Bagdad, she hau seen nothing of the city itself, but Sam piloted her away from +he calcium glare of the Rialto and drove south with her through streets that were dark and comparatively'desert- ed, on between endless towering walls by blind windows. Elevated trains roared through these empty, echoing streets with the clangor of huge metallic dragons: the denizens were meanly dressed, furtively they passed from shadow to shadow. Here was poverty, dirt, garbage, the sights and sounds and smells of a life all too familiar to Alice Hart. She shuddered, drew closer the silk- en wrap which Sam had given her and shrank against his side. Here was everything she loathed, back yonder the sky was ablaze; here the air was fetid, there it 'was heavy with intoxi- cating scents, She could never return, to 'this. 'Who cared what Sam Lee! was? He offered escape, he held her 'freedom in his hands and--he trem- Bled Vie a loaf at Ler touch. . She 'must act a part, she must be nice to his father for this was the deciding carved teak wood. Through this Sam led her into a room that caused her to gasp. It was splendid, it quite took her breath. Some spell had been put on her, she r d, for a ago, she had "been in the slums and now she stood in a temple of enchantment. This airy, spacious room was a mu- seum of treasures, it was softly light- ed;«it had an atmosphere of benevel- ent calm and dignity. Benevolent calm! Dignity! That's how Sam had once described his fath- er's dwelling place and the words were aptly descriptive also of the owner, a tall old Chinaman who rose and came forward to meet Alice and who was now bowing ceremoniously, raising and lowering his clasped hands in the Chinese manner: Lee Ying! He was a patriarch and an aristocrat. His voice was pleasant, his speech was slow and precise, his words were well chosen; he carried himself like a noble. "You honor my poor house," he told his visitor with a Dbenignant smile. tents of my heart ave yours. has often spoken of you in terms of the most respectful admiration and it is generous of you to favor an old man with th the light of your counten- » the stately "Its contents and.the grateful Soe : The speaker round: towards the farther of the room for it seemed to ner that she was looking out into a grov- ing garden, a riot of bloom and foli age. She saw live, luscious, From leaves and heard the tinkle of run- ning water, Talking as he went, the old man led her out upon the roof of the building itself and along a graveled walk, bordered with shrubbery, to a breast-high coping where she looked down upon the swarming chaos that is Chinatown, Atop this modern, fireproof structure that housed his store, Leé Ying's home stood in a yard of its own. Alice was in a lofty garden hung high above the lights and the clamor of the streets: evergreens and rose bushes were bejeweled with drops from a recent watering, the air was fresh and cool and earthy smell- ing up here. Yonder, to her left, down a formal pathway of slender cedars, stood a little Chinese pagoda with curling eaves over which a riot- ous wistaria clambered. Midway of the path was a pool, the abiding place of lazy goldfish with long, lacy fins, and into it a fountain dripped its li- quid music: here and there amid the shrubbery were stone and porcelain figures, the play-in-the-garden people Sam called them. They were images of merry little Chinese children, ab- surdly proportioned animals and 4ueer; capering gnomes with upflung arms and open mouths. The lights from the house, and it too had been modeled along pure Chi- nese lines, flooded the garden with an artificial moonlight wholly entrane- ing; it was a fairy bower, a place for birds to rest and for lovers to meet. (To be continued.) -- eee ee "Pleasure-Loving" French Called Industrious Race One of the most fantastic miscon- ceptions about the French is that they are a purely pleasure-loving people. The fact is, writes the Paris corres- pondent of "The London Daily Tele graph" that the average Frenchman passes a most laborious day, and, ow- ing to the inadequacy of his wages, this is followed in thousands of cases by a laborious night in a second em- ployment. As for the French work- ing woman, she accepts a twelve or fourteen hours' day as a matter of course, The remuneration for all this work does not permit of an extensive holi- day. Consequently, a host of people will welcome a scheme that has been worked out by M. Gaston Gerard, Under Secretary of State at the Min. istry of Public Works and Tourist Traffic. As is well known, the crowd- ing into Paris and the big cities has left many empty houses and cottages in the villages, and M. Gerard's idea is that these might well be placed at the disposal, at a small cost, of Par- isian workers for a week's of a fort night's holiday. The Department has asked every Prefect and every Maire to supply a list of such available dwellings, and steps are to be taken to put Parisians in possession of this information, FIR | SOHO CHR TO ONE ASLEEP sweetly, tender heart, peace; Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moon in- crease, And the great ages onward rcll. --To JS. am?" Sleep in smaking Lesson 'Fur- nished With. 4 Bory P Pattern Scalloped tabs centred with buttons of the circular flaring skirt, distin. guishes a smart school frock. The belt passes beneath the tabs and tied in bow at the back is girlish. A scalloped Peter Pan collar and flared cuffs add dainty note to the simple bodice. It's so easy to make and so attrac- tive to wear. Soft woolens in tweed mixtures, crepe, jersey and challis prints can be used, and with a little belt of con- trasting ribbon, it is truly delightful. The belt may also be of self-fabric. Heavyweight cottons also suitable. Style No. 2670 may be had in sizes BY Bl Miustrated Dresomal The telescope sonal" collapsed In Chung's hands, as telescopes will when you squeeze them, Chung was all Finn Bly a moment be- | fore he was delighted with the won-| derful Magic Eye that would bring distant objects close up. : "Lookee Stickee | allee gone", he | wailed. it working fine, in spite ot the laughter of the sailors. Care- fully he surveyed the ship = which fired the cannon, then as we watch- ed him he seemed to turn three shades paler and dropped the glass with a sudden cry. "What is it Chung", 1 asked hur rledly. But Chung was so upset that he lapsed into a curlous chatter of Chinese and English and goodness knows what, I could not under stand a word of it. Everyone stop ped tense and excited. Evidently Chung knew something was going on out there in the China Sea, I shook him roughly "What is it" I sald. "Pilates" sald Chung and his teeth shattered. Pirates! So that was it. Those dreaded villians that infest the Chinese waters and prey on weak vessels, There was not much time to waste, If we wanted to save the little ship, at which they were fir-} ing. The decks of the "Madrigal" be- came a scene of the wildest excite: ment, as we worked feverishly get- out on 2g derrick "boom and slid down the pulley. ropes to the plane. "Come pack, Chung" ; 3 yelled but I. might as well have remained quiet ung sat with clenched fists in the cockpit, swearing terrible 'things in Chinese. 1 was amazed. Chung; of all peo- ple, was the last man on earth that 1 would have expected to turn war- rior. It was not until a long time later that I learned that the Pirates had broken up Chung's boyhood home on the river and laid the dis- trict waste and ever since then he had hoped for a chance to clean up on the Chinese bands, 2 Really, his was a case of splendid courage, for he was actually scared white--or rather scared lemon yel- low--with fear, yet he wanted to take revenge for the murder of his family, My respect for Chung grew immensely. Taking him along with me in the plane was impossible, however, I needed the room for an experienced gunner. The mate of the "Madrigal" had. some naval training on board a warship, so I took him. Our artillery consisted of two heavy shot- guns and plenty of shells, also long range automatic pistol. We would have given a fortune for some really good bombs--big ones with plenty of pep --but we had to take such weapons as happened to be on board. (To 'he continued) Note: Any of our young Teaders writing to "Captain Jimmy", 2010 ting ready to take off 'n our plane, toward the scene of battle. Soon we Star Building, Toronto, will receive his signed photo free. 8, 10, 12 and 14 years trasting and 1 yard of 1-inch ribbon. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. , Write your name and address plain-! ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in Washington Science's eff ¢ enable homes to be as eacily cooled summer as they are heated in winter are guided by the familiar slogan, "It. isn't the heat, it's the humidity." ° Reducing the humidity is the im- portant thing in making buildings comfortable in hot 'weather, scientists of the United States Bureau of Stand- ards recently said. If the humidity is _ lowered considerably, the temperature- has to be reduced but sligh Homes . of the future, they predicted, will be made cool in summer by drying the air carefully and cooling it a little. Windows will be kept closed in. 'these prospective air-cooled homes, Living "where there's a "breeze" no- longer will be important. Mothers will shout to youngsters iu summer to- "shut that front door--you're letting in a lot of hot ir," just as they shout now about letting in cold air in win- as because, it's damp. Evaporation of perspiration is sup- posed to keep people cool in hot weather, If the air contains nearly all the water it can hold, however-- that is, if the humidity is high--evap oration cannot proceed fast enough, and we are sticky and uncomfortable. The less e the air t , or the lower the humidi'y, the more com- fortable we are during 2 heat wave, |The air can absorb more perspiration: moisture. Ovenlike 1. Irooms and sticky, stuf fy apartments will be made livable in: future summers by drying out and slightly cooling the air that enters. them, just as some homes now are: made comfortable in winter by heating" the air that enters them, the bureau's: scientists explained. In warm-air heating systems, cold air from the outsile is heated by the- furnace in the ce' on its way to one room above. Cooling systems for homes probably will work the same- ' Size 8 requires 2 yards of 89-inch % Oh material with % yard of 35-inch on} 0 i The health-giving, delicious drink for children and grown- || ws. + Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. stamps or coin (coin oreferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. lt New German School Has Walls of Glass The public sc. ool, Am Klosterhof, just completed. at Lubeck, Germany, marks a new uoparture in construc- tion, Glass cabinets for books take the place of the usual walls separating classrooms from corridors. The outer walls are also of glass. On the ground floor there is a break- fast and milk room. Each classroom has a bathroom and each desk in the physics department has its own gas, water and electrical connections. The geography room has a projection ap- paratus by which the movements of celestial bodies are shown on the cell- ing. There is also a greenhouse, in which pupils raise plants throughout the year, sy OHM-MADE, "My, I didn't know you had electricity way out here." "We generate it ourselves." "Ohm talent, eh?"--Good Hard- ware, ---------------- is Ht 1 ¢ sane tn Nev. York and, of gig? she has never Aviation's "Safety" Plane coals when the workman fell in. Gil- i 3 All Nature's Beauty Yea, set aside with these all Nature's beauty, the Wildwood's Flow'ry domain, the flushing, soft- crowding loveliness of Spring, Lazy-Summer's burning dial, the serenely solemn spells Of Eibylline Autumn, with gay-wing'd Plenty departing; All fair change, whether of season's or bright recurrent day, Morning or eve; ,the divine night's wonderous empyrean; High noon's meltin azure, ' his thin cloud-country, the landscape Mountainous or maritime, blue calnis of midsummer Ocean, Broad corn-grown champaign gold: waving In invisible wind, Wide-water's pasture, with shade. of whispering aspen; All whereby Nature winneth our love, fondly appearing As to caress her children, or all that in exaltation Lifteth aloft our hearts to an unseen | glory beyond her, --From "The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges." Be U.S. 'Postage Rates Rise To Great Britain and Ireland Washington.--Rates of postage will be increased on letters and postcards mailed in the United States and ad- dressed for delivery in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State on Sept, 1. The rate on letters will be 5 cents for the first ounce or fraction thereof and 3 cents for each additional ounce or fraction, and the rate on single postcards will be 3 cents. The present rate of postage to these countries is 2 cents on letters and single postcards. ---- This is Bravery London.--Bernard Gilmurray, Ul- ster man, received the 1930 Carnegie Hero award for his feat of rescuing a fellow workman from a burning lime kiln, The 4iln was filled to within a foot of the top with burning | murray immediately jumped in, and with a shovel freed 'he man from the ccals, Gilmurray was burned so bad- "ly himself. that he spent months in a hospital, Ls Tels want no road that' straight, With dost clouds w] a Lan : None stiel as these can my feet, To where By Beart is solug. : | banker arged as we looked over my '-- what to-day we'd call "city plan- + lowia Sone 'The Medieval Spell "Lwow, then a day in Lublin, Herg's a thing you musn't miss," a Warsaw itinerary. "Stop off at Zamosc (Za- mosh). It's about halfway between those two towns. By all 'means, you must have an hour or two in Zamosc!" "And. why should I take the time for Zamosc? What is there to see?" "Something ycu'll not find any- where else in Poland, and maybe not anywhere else in all Europe. Zamosc has a medieval market-place, arcaded clear around. No one's ever dared to 'restore' one building in any other type of architecture, It's as lovely as when it was first planned. It's just about perfect," he added with an en- thusiasm that was surely contagious. My banker was right. The market- Place was worthy of all his enthusi- asm, and mine added to his. If was worth the discomfort of the journey. 'It was, as he'd said, just about per- fect. From the Senator and Mme. Senator, from the friend who spoke English, I pieced together bits of his- tory and learned of Jan Zamoyski, the hetman who founded the town. (There were four hetmans in Poland, the most important officers of the king.) That explained his name, for ski is the Polish equivalent of a French de or a German von, and means "from"; Zamoyski then means "the man from Zamosc." Now this Jan Zamoyski must have been a very important person. . . . 1 was speechless with joy over the market-place, as many times as I went into it that day and ths next. An architect from Italy designed it ning"--with high brick walls sur- rounding the whole town, with the market-place arcaded all around, and 'streets put in.wheve there was space left. Half shut my eyes and I might have been in Italy, for it was perfect Renaissance architecture. I gazed and gazed at the arcades; I strolled along through them, peering into the dim little shops, exclaiming over the vault- ing, measuring the walls--four feet thick, or five, with heavy buttresses; the whole place in such good repair. 'Above the shops were three floors | of apartments with plastered walls-- : Dive os by buff or white. So strong is the | that no one has Zamoseld a house, in zll these years, nor, introduced any other style; prob- ably no one has ever wanted.to. Not e touch of Gothic, not a. hint of arog wih its curls and fussiness. The town hall may be a century' later \ the rest, but with 1's fine tower ib in the picture. The place' olute unit. And over it all - Weigh thy words. ina Values, and andar fox thy nyth, il injus way, with the humid air from outside | passing over a cooling plant on fits way up into the house. Cooling the- air dries it by reducing the amount of moisture it can hold. Paradoxically, the air may be cooled '--and dried--by passing it through a. spray of cold water. Instead of plck- ing up more moisture from the water as might be expected, the air is cool ed so that it loses moisture. A cold pipe coil will cool th, air equally well, Cooling systems of theatres, hotels and other large buildings operate om. thig principle. Cost and lack of a de- veloped market are the chief obstacles: to introducing cooling systems for pri- vate homes, the bureau sald. r------ Knowledge of Bees Saves Big Plane Knowledge of the habits of bees is: not a usual part of the equipment of an airplane pilot, yet it saved the: lives of pilot and passengers recently in France, when bees from a hive ship. ped by air express from Marseilles to Paris got loose while the airplane was flying and invaded cabin and cockpit. The passengers were able to protect. themselves to some extent by blan- kets or shawls drawn tightly over their heads, but the unfortunate pilot had no such defense, nor was ho able to land the airplane at once without serious danger. A large number of bee stings have been known to drive: individuals temporarily insane. The incident offered, therefore, material for disaster. Fortunately, the pilot re- membered that bees swarming out of a hive seldom sting unless disturbed. He continued to fly the airplane but made as few movements as pogsible and made those very slowly. As a re- sult he was able to bring down the plane safely at the Paris airport, with: bees swarming all over his body, but at the expense of 'only one or two stings for himself and a few more for the passengers, Once on the ground, the bees were induced to swarm around their queen, who had remained in the damaged hive. -- A Code in Prayer When shadows fall around my soul, And 'round me day-dieams tumble; When through a veil of bitter tears, 1 see my castles crumble; When Fate has dealt a master-stroke To quell all hope within me, When friends desert me right and left |And Sorrow seeks to win me; When work I've given all my life To see complete and gleaming ruined by a spiteful hand ; And left me hopeless dreaming; Oh, God, may never faith give out-- May never co fail-- Is (20 Me fhe siragth io fight % frou; a fight and never quail! oe Oh, "Cot. when everything seems ends Wie life stretches mile on mile-- Let me. weave again the fragmentg-- Let me still show Life a smile! atl » Woods, in the Detrot. --_-- INJUSTICE It " a great gift rg 'with a SLL tice and, meanness, cluded not so much because it's hot. 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