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tl A '7l 1 -rNb THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND, 1938 THE CANADIAN STAtESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO F1AU.E FO~UR 1.~DOCTO0R "ZIR"ïE HOA4 Z«i CHAPTER XLIV number of reasons this is flot1 Katie wvas ,appy that sume, feasible, and so ' make an alter- living luxurfiouy, lyi ng on th is That year Chris undertook the native Position which I hope beach or that, playing bridge, education of Ursula's boy, now a yo iîcnie. acn.Btnt eating. t was tali lad of twelve. Things had not The alternative proposition xvas'the mode to be slim, and even un- gone too well with Hirarn follow- ta hyacp nana u der hier new one-piece bathing % ing the war, and Chris spent a romhirn unetilameswer betesuri it she \vore a bandage to flatten weekend with hlm and é Amy. an idago peaaoyhr breasts. In the mornings she anudgfNoel aook to Chris at once. ac Youn Nol tok o Chis t oce.school flot too far from them. rrolied on the floor to reduce hier I'egot a puppy in the barn." Ihips. and she was always hungry. f "ive. e' osei "As you know, almost al Bu seIa happy. At the end of In the barn Noel, sitting dlownlhave and am is due to your mo- of hier visît she would pack up her a with the puppy in his lap, lookdther's legacy, and I should like toý innumerable scanty garments in e UP at Chris and said shly feel that young Noel will carry1 suitcases, leave extravagant lar- reTE "You're a doctor. arenIt you?", on as she enabled me to do." gesse for the servants, get into the bl "I'm a surgeon. That's la sort He sat for a long time over the car, and move on.E of doctor." latter, however, before hie sent it. "Good-bye. I've had a lovely wth "I'd like to be one, like my The idea of youth in his house time." a grandfather." died hard; and young Noel, if hie -Good-bye. Corne back next Chris leaned down, and pick-1 studied medicîne, would start ini year."*** ing up a rather grubby hand, ex- where hie left off. Medicine wasfa amined it carefully. "Look like, moving on, working hand in hand Katie came home in the early Va godhad, esaid. "Maybe wvith science now. fal, beautifully tanned and f lled h you'll make a surgeon some day, It was a new world. of group with enthusiasma for the summer S and xv en I gt ld y u c n el clnis, ofpainless childbirth, of and with plans for the winter. , me. How about it?" ýarrested tuberculosis, even of ar- Chris, listening patiently, wond- Sh The boy flushed with pleasure, rested age -the Steinach opera- ered at the breadth of the gulf aci and Chris himself felt happier on 1 tion on elderly men, and Barrett which lay betweefl them. For y his way home after the visit; hej now besieged by middle-aged wo- days hie heard of nothing but lux- so had some one to watch now, some men for painless rejuvenation ury, of easy living and hard play- th one to train and care for, and under the X-ray! Goinig in hope- ing; and one day he came home eventually to carry on for him. fully to lie down on his table, to to f md a butler installed, and toso After that hie wrote to Noel reg- Ireceive the treatment; hearing as listen to Katie's vociferous ex- ou ularly. and that fal he spoke to they lay there the pressing of a planations. o Katie about having the boy thereI switch and the low humrning of "He's as cheap -as a parlor , that winter and sending hirn to a the machine, and then going maid, Chris. And anyhow, with ait good day school. Hiram and Amy home, slightly nauseated perhaps, your success and everything-"l gis were worried about his education. to watch in their mirrors for the "What success? I'rn spending ba Katie, however, was not interest- change, for youth again. more than I earn. If that's suc- ed. By early spring of the follow- cess-' "Don't be ridiculous," she said. ing year Chris had been i n prac- 'ýYou'd earn more if you charg- "If they chose to adopt the boy, tice fourteen years, and hie had ed more. Everybody says that." ofl that's their business." gone far in that tirne. He was a He listened to her. She was be "We have plenty of room here. conservative now in surgery, as learning fast. Even hier vocabu- Cf He could spend the winters in opposed to bis early more recl.less lary was changing. And she was H( town and go to school. Hes old days; a man to be counted on. very pretty, now that she was hi food and shelter-and we have work of other men; occasionally ever been. Strange that she held ho more than we need of both." his gorge rose at some butchery lIo attraction for him. Watching foi "You mnust be crazy, Chris Ar- or other. He was perhaps too out- hier as she moved about, he won- s] den," she said flatly. "If you spoken for general popularity in dered at the curious urge which of think 'n going to take on any- his profession, but hie was no drew some men and worn to- fi body's illegitimate child, you cani recognized as a sound man. gether without their own volition, 'an tikagain." Hwvr ysme fta so that they would commit any w He tried further, arguing pa- year hie knew hie was a tired man anceeion; da thacrmt oers tinl;but she only grew shrill andaeftd one. rceveuin n tta tei and resentful, and at last hie left H e carried on as best hie could. rpulsion, current, or whatever it ca ber on the verge of tears. Tehuewscoad ihmight be, which could separate wj It was the first of many such Katie gone on a round of' bouse two people so that they might live go scenes, for Chris found that he parties, it was quiet. At night, together in the saine house and ed wanted the boy badly, sorne sometirneslean dwodgt, be as far apart as the poles. th young life to whistle ' and Tlyi h craddie would get And as the days went on bie an about the house, and play into tecaandrvamesy wondered if the situation as it was ga core ac t ate srntbngtoabout, talking or being still, con- 1wa art e.Teewsf- st oteb th ate the day's work. tent men f ashion once more to be th i v icu b er. Here snye evnot now.thehouse was quiet, together. But Ted felt tension un- tsuspevcd herbofunitHeunes.er enn he fettahee was times 'der Chris's f requent silences and utbe hiheritflfaggf ed wbe hot el tH woldicornerunnîng began to worry about him agaîn. Bhe as abou. someitimfagehe eve y ,a hotl. Hewouldcomebome at "How long since you've hadaltoh he was a frt. aoeid of hl.enh night to find the rugs turned and vacation?"I Mouhse was tilioeri tat people dancing, and even once or "I don't know. Not since the wHene a she cadreint teie twice to find sorne arnorous war." offieone asore eram nd o the.es couple snugly settled in bis office Chris did not mention Katie's Shfieonsm rad rote.1 when hie turned on the lights bills or the cost of the new house, the was planning a big party for rc thr.Sometimes they did o but Ted required no telling. In ethhe ask some of tand he bogs-li even know birn, for Katie's tastes the end hie gave up the attempt e htseaksm ftehs l were young and liberal. . to get him away. Chris was wor- pital staff and their wives. im "Say, what's the idea?" "Doctors?" she said blankly. b] "Unfortunately I belong here, ried about money that summer. "t i still considered an honor- r and I need this roorn." As usual, collections were bad able profession." t "It's the doctor!" ýduring those montbs, and the ex- "I know all that. But they li New bad and casual manners. Penses continued. He began to won't mix witb this crowd, Chris." a new dinks newdancs. H didbe irritable, especîally in the op- "h oAd byaem lot bernksaong any of Hem. derating room. The beat was ter- friends. Aftr dIl Isupe arn ya notbelng mon an ofthe. irific there, and under bis long fins fe lIspoe1a Nor, hie came to see, would young wrn dlnncatadbsms giving this party, too." Noel belong there eitber. ,w ounled len coverend itb hot "Good heavens, Chris, a Party s "I sbould like to have the b o yhe ol ecvrdwtho s'ju aptyYuhveoP her," ie rot toHirm, andsweat. Sometimes be felt as if a gîs eoetoju ta p rty. o have to hc eeh wroe gt Hi ira,"nd tight band were f astened around gtpoletgterwoko to eetht e'go bs inerhis head, and one day he threw a each other." c schooling at least. Then you and dull pair of scissors across the t was an old difference be-% Amy could have hlm during vaca-1 room. tween them. Katie, neyer forgiv- e tionsanth umrBufoa "Good lord!" hie shouted. "I îng the hospital and refusing to S don't ask mucb, but I do ask for ineti t tff n hi e prprinstruments."i fending his friends there . , , Inb proer sbcmigtctun . the end he won, however, and He wuwa ecoggtacîturn toKatie went off to prepare lher re- Me oul wlk oggdl alngvised lists. But not before she had ir the halls, an uneasy interne be- fUe rasd thm side him, saying little or nothing f Ivea rad o ake m w lf GET R E EThen, his hospital rounds over, aI'end rn ae y own frens, s e tol( I bndwouldwgo outnand geteintodhi I I ' IO YUR OOINC1lewudg u n e no hîm. "I've neyer imeant anything a car, step savagely on the gas and t o.Iue ocrcr e-i get away, to make bis few caîls to lyo ut I ue oe, car oe er e and then go back to the empty rby u o ee i.Yuv house which still somebow be- 1 nwor cared for anything but your t longed to Grant-and of course me. and. Ba yourself fo'trlam NWto Katie-and sit for long hours atoc.Chi.Bamtorsl io enrdehis desk. More than once he feli CHPTce.L meauure-as pteK*~atai gave bier party that faIl,k bedre. late, found bier gay and triumph- "' :M'Now and then hee bad a letter 'n ntemdto t -Cet ealten. here, haven't you?" hie said aboved Absoutel wether "Ths i a lvelyhoue, ad Ithe noise of the orchestra.A tight. Greatly reducahvn awneful time. Not _Wberes Chris?"b SOLOON 25 EARmuch sleep, but plenty of every- -Why bring that up!" she said. i SOLD ON A 25 VEA else. Dozens of servants. -Where is Chris at ans' party?" ý Pr GUhi alarANe werbaueoSls and a perfectly sweet beach. So fe htTdfudS T« le tionFailave lone wericaue 0fales "But I've lost a lot of money at Chris shut in bis back office, his 9 Mmzufcttreraao of famoua Preton Stel:bidge again, so I'd better have empty pipe in his mouth and his s Trusa Barns and Jainesway Poultry equip. some more, please."eesginatohigHetr- ment. Address: 8O8Guelph ', resto. Ont He answered them meticulous- ed e zng the or opne.trt _______________________ v. sending the money, saying no- "Coren te d. Ipe n away .~11rd,~r~Ui~,ftIrIUthing of the heat or bis own fa- fromn that infernal din. t drives tigue; sitting sometimes for a long me crazy." tiebfreh-oldtiko "Why not go up,,to bed?" said anybin t sa- t aI.Ted prosaically. "Most of thislt ______________________________________________ row -wo't k-now whether you're1 E N J Joas ne S nwas sure o.Etan rn J. J M a on & sonand dance. You'Ii be a long time Insurance Agency Me stirred uneasily. The beat of the music and of dancing was P hone 681 Bowmaflvillè i his cars, in his brain. On~ cokdt h lmt a n night, so that this might happen! What was, that thing in the oath he had taken? Old Hippocrates Yor Wall of Protection and his o4th, "With purity and FýEj -ýwith holiness 1 will practice my art." Purity and holiness! _____________________________________ A girl opened the door of the )oes YOUR System Make Excess Acid ? Acid Indigestion, Colds, Headachos, Billous Attacks, Constipation OFIEN STARI THIS WAY Sorne people are what are known as iid-makers. They can't help lt--and ten they don't hnow is. The results )f an excess of acid muay sem just ite :rdinary stomach trouble - but they în't be put right by ordlnary stornach .redies I Excess acid rnay be the .eason why you wake up flat, sour, leary-eyed, biliaus - and ftie reason 'hy flerce purgatives only leave you in 1e grip of a weakening habit and the urne oid symptoms. But there's one thing that acid can't Lce. Tbat's the neutraiizing power of Vange Saits, the aikaline remedy with 1e natural mineral spa action. A tea- poonfui in warmn water surges through vour sysfemn just like fthe mediclihal pring water far away in England where Vange Saits corne fromn. Excess id is neutralized quickly, painiessly. Vour blood is purified of poisons. Your re stomnacli wafls are soothed. And 1at mass of bard, poisonous waste natter lying in your intestines is sftened genfly, naturally, and passed )t of your body. Then do you feel god! It's iarvellous I But the most marvellous thing is that Vange SalIs re oniy 60 cents a tin 1 At your drug- ist now-but if you're wlse, on your mthroomn sheif toniglI iffice, smiling back at the man >ehind her, but wben she saw bhris, sbe closed it again quickly. qe got up then, stili steadying imself by tbe desk, bis face gray ver bis evening clothes, bis eyes ot and scornful. Oufside be stood r a moment looking up at the ;y and drawing in great breafbs )f the dlean nigbf air. The chauf- lur was on dufy in tbe driveway, ind Chris turned abrupfly and xent back to the garage, wbere <atie's new limousine stood be- fde bis own car. Me backed bis ýar ouf. The driveway was lined witb cars, and be was obliged to o carefully. At the gate be turn- cd and looked back. But even tere the music followed bim, nd be stepped suddenly on tbe as and shof along the darkened streets. Once away from the din, bow- ever, be rnoved more slowly. Mis e'es were burning in bis head, his moutb was bard. Me drove deliberately now, passing this dis- trif or that, seeing farniliar bous- es and gafbering toget ber those old cases of bis like beads on a rosary. Mere be bad failed, bere he bad succeeded. Me reached the mili district at last. Tbe fur- naces were going again, and the blasts were close at band; a dull roaring of blue and yellow fiames, the figures of men moving about ike pygmies, and then darkness and the figures gone, blotfed out as by some monstrous deafb. But the district bad cbanged ,ince the early days. There were playgrounds for cbildren bere and there. District nurses visited the sick. The water supply was carefully watched, and now in bot weatber the f ire department turn- ed on the hydrants and children ,plasbed in the water. Perhaps, after alI, the world was growing better. Me didn't know. It was two o'clock in the morn- ing when be reacbed tbe hospi- tal, but the staff was accustomed to bis eccentric hours. Me went .ipstairs, making his rounds much as if tbe hour were usual, going into quiet rooms, speaking to the niurses, leaving this order and that. Wbat did those people at bis house know or care of this other rîight life, of a crying child against tbe blare of jazz, wbere pain and not pleasure was king? If they knew, perhaps tbey would cane, but they did not know. Me was very tired as be furned toward home. Lt was stili dark, that darkest hour before the dawn, and the streets were quiet. At the bouse the music bad gone but the pbonograph had replaced it. and the party, if smaller, seem- .d vennoiier than ever. Me sIippedin by a aide entrance and ýot to bis office witbout being ~en. Long after sunrise Kafie, open- ing the door, found him there witb bis head on bis desk. "Where bave you been?" she demanded indignantiy. "I've put you on the map sociaily in this town, and then you run ouf on One pad kîlls files ail day and ever* day for 2 or 3 weeks. 3 pads ln each packct. No spraylng, no stlckinese, no bad odor. Ask your Drugglst, Grocery or General Store. 10 CENTS PER PACKET WHY PAY MORE? THE WILSON FLY PAO CO., Hamliton, ont the contact of the small body, and aften a time he, f00, relaxed. If F was as if they bad each somefhing to give the othen, man and child; and that somnetbing was escape from Ioneliness. Me tigbtened bis hold unconsciously. Wben the nurse returned some time lafer, Chnis had gone, and the cbild lay quiet in bis bed. (To be confinued) Education And fficiency B By gowned be was coolly efficient, revenues poured into the bospi- E eih tal belping it to carry on. Bur- neÏt took him into the office one day and sbowed bim sorne figures, and even Chris was surprised. But he was working on bis nerve, and one day be told Daw- son, the new bospital psycbiatrist, that life was the cbeapest thing in the world, and that be was sick of tryîng to save a lot of people wbo didin't deserve saving. Daw- son eyed bim sbarply. "Wbat makes you say tbat?" Chris grinned. "It's true, isn't if? Not ail of tbern, of course, but Oshawa,1 a good many. I figbt to send tbem back to wbatever tbey cal living; but I don'f fobl myself. I Numi haven't added anything f0 the Figures, one world." impressîve appee "You're travelling on your sballed wîtb im nerve. Mow long do you expeet fions, împressi to keep if up?" ail other efforts "As long as I can earn rnoney Wben we tbi by it."1 and sfrengtb as Daws on saw thaf sometbing in the promotio was wrong, but when be suggest- sion and if we ed thaf Chris corne in and talk to fair degree succ him, Chris rnerely laugbed. not, our expier. "And bave you ppobing into sbown up tbat my mental insides? No, tbanks. this experience I'm keeping rny own secrets!" set was our vis "Probably that what's wrong realize then tbsi with you." be rneasured in Chris went on, stili grinning. We would nota t was not until the early ing to sacrif ici spring of 1925 tbat Chris finally tbing rnoney coi met catastrophe. To the eye be If we bave gc was rnucb the same. Me still re- permifted to us( tained bis quick srnile, bis strong purcbasing wba body, bis beavy dark bair. Me bave poor visio was, for all that bitter new phil- tbe tbings purci osopby of bis, sf111 gent le of band ferior because, and compassionate. Mis reputa- the vision to del tion continued to grow. Me neyer (to bec joined the srnall group of nation- ally known, but witbin bis orbit bie was a definitely shining star. Now and then be saw Bob Bar- YOUR rett at the bouse and wondered about Kaf le. Once, affer a ser- Prefacing bis ious difference, he asked ber if zation and Mai she wanted to leave him for Bar- ably the mosf rett. She looked at bim quickly, book on bospit as if she were startled. 1 in existence,N "If you want f0 get rid of me-" Eacberrs makes "That's nof wbaf I said. I asked statement in ne you if you wanted f0 be free." and ideals of pi But Katie was not sure of Bob tais: Barrett, even then. Me was not "Since thet the marrying sort, and sbe bad twentieth cenfm: no intention of finding hersef cogniftion bas i out on a 11mb.vauofpen Up on the bill the hospital wasiv aue of iprev rising f0 completion. t covered of cure. More much of tbe old Lewis properfy, expecf the mi an imposing structure thaf seem- take a leading r ed f0 dominate the city. prevenfive meé One day the new buildings were reason, if mustf rpady. If the staff felt a vague ing bealtb cent disloyalty in abandoning tbe old munify, and fror structure, they said liff le about if. afe the ufrnosf But tbe break was nof easy for ail exisfing btî any of tbose wbo bad bulîf their ognztosb lives around if. This hospifal bad a oniaons hrp been theirs. The new one would mancomon pun( be Staunton Lewis's. If was as if mf ae, woan a be had reached ouf from that ofurae, on h, mausoleurn wbere he lay, f0 make good bealfb. I a final arrogant gesture. must the bospil. "Take this," he seemed fo say, "'I give if f0 you. I, Staunfon Lewis. Forgef the old tbings and- go on f0 the new. Fonget the Christmas mornings in the cha- pel. and the old horse-drawn am- bulance; forget Grant and Nettie Simpson and old Joe and ail the others. If is no good f0 remern- ber. But always you will remem- ber me." 1 On the nighf before the formal Y opening of the new bospital there was an informai meeting of those wbo bad served tbe old one. Tbey sat around the farpiliar rooms, now worn like tbemselves witb years of service.s Tbey made little speeches, these older men, or fried f0. "Wben I finsf came here forty yeans ago .."Their voices would thicken, their fbroats confracf. Tbey would mumble sometbing furthen and sitfcdown; for the passing of the hospital marked the passing of their youth, the passing even of their mafurify. Now only age lay abeadi, and tbey were f00 old for new things. Chnis, lisfening, was moved and reserifful. Wbaf righf bad Staun- , ton Lewis f0 reacb ouf affer hie was gone f0 uproof these men, fo lafe for fransplanfing? Wby not let them alone for their remain- ing years? The buildings were oid but adequate. Tbey could have been repiaced one by one, an easy transition, but Lewis bad chosen the grandiose gestune. Late thaf night Chnis found bimself alone in the operating room. Me switched on the ligbts and gazed about him. If was dlean and in order, but alneady some of the equipmenf was gone, and if looked empfy and desenfed. The sigbf depnessed bim. In a way it hadi been the focal point of bis ;if. Othen-menibad1bornes,wives, disease." "Prevent ion" in many forms, sornetirnes not clearly understood as sucb by layrnen, plays a major role in the service programnmes of ahl our Canadian bospitals f0- day. stance, by whicb oun bospifals are stniving f0 protecf the bealfb of our citizens is seen in the opera- tiof and maintenance of Chest Clinies. The seniousness of Tuber- culosis is well known, but wbaf is not SO clearly understood ,by the public genenally is the import- ance of diagnosis of the disease inf ifs early stages, so thaf proper fneatment can be given. In Kingston, for instance, fhro' the co-operation of the Provincial Department of Mealth, the City of Kingston, the Kingston General Mospital and the Medical Faculty of Queen's University, a Diagnos- tic Chesf Clinic bas been planned at the Kingston General Mospif a:. The idea is primariiy f0 diagnose the disease in ifs early stages so that if nof only can be treated more satisfacfonily but that ifs spread f0 others may be prevent- ed. And so, ahl over Canada, if will be found thaf hospifal service bas posbe -vCue d Prevenfdulonu- to not only beal the sick, but to lay down a barrage of bealth knowledge and service befween sickness and bealfh, whicb is making it increasingly difficuit for healtb f0 burdle. WHAT WE NEED We don'f need more matenial development; we need more spir- itual developmeft. We do not need more intellect- ual power; we need more moral power. We do not need more know- ledge; we need more character. -Calvin Coolidge. TUME TABLE CHANGES Effective Sunday, September 25, 1938 FuIliiiforination froni Agents. Canadian National Railways Opt. Disney BIdg. (opp. P. 0.) Phone 1516 mber 51 account of their 'anance when mar- mpressive exp lana- us perbaps wben Swould fail. link of our health ýan assef invested 'on of our profes- re bave been f0 a ccessful or even if rience bas surely in the gaining of aan important as- sion. 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