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THE OSHAWA DAILY FIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1928 . PAGE THIRTY.ONE, | nia ME Be i LCI (i The most popular set in Canada today a f | | f+ f The DeForest Crosley ; : : : : RADIO "wicr $275.2 This advertisement is just so much waste money, because we can sell all the DeForest Crosley Radios we can get before Christmas, without advertising, Put we want you to see what this set-looks like. Come into our store and let us demonstrate it to you. We also sell the famous | Williams Piano Look for our Special Advertisement in the Friday issue of The Tim Times. CS PERIR LLC The Johns s Piano Store 80 Simcoe St. N. Phone 251 Oshawa' Sub-Dealer for North Oshawa--FRANK SNUDDEN. BSNS TEINS 20S BEEBE 1 4% More Blessed to Give (Continued from page 17) before. He was whistling, some- thing new for Rob, But to-night, he was feeling young again. He was not empty handed this Christ- mas Eve, He had a present for Ruth--the first in all the years he had known her, It was a title clear to his farm and because something heavy and binding had gone from his spirit he had bought another present a little ring set with « single pearl, How a woman's heart would have rejoiced in it once! Rob was thinking tenderly of his sweetheart to-night, His faith- ful quiet Ruth, whom he had watch- ed grow from happy girlhood into a quiet, reserved woman, It had been hard for her. Women were al- way putting love before gain. That was not sense, But the way was: clear now, \ He wondered if she expected him 'urely. Christmas time she gener- \ly--no, always-- had some little for for him. Strange that she was ot in the kitchen where she al- : ways sat in the evenings, her 3.200th brown head bent over some ice of sewing or some homely ending for the hired man who . had gone homre for Christmas the day before, On the red oilcloth table propp- 7 jd up against the small oil lamp with its glowing white shade, he saw an envelope addressed simply "Rob." Wondering, he opened it, and regd and read again, Minutes pass- ed, He kept looking helplessly from the letter to what he held in his hand, the little box containing the ring. An awful sense of loss pos- sesed him, Then he thought of the old man, Noiselesly, lamp in hand, he mounted the stairs and when he stood over °the old-fashioned wooden bed with its gay red and white log cabin counterpane, and looked down at the quiet, peace- ful old face, with its fretfulness all smoothed out by a magic hand, he knew Ruth had no need to have gone to the city for her freedom, It had come to her here--unknow- ingly. Noiselessly still, he went down the stairs and stood at the open dor looking toward the dis- tant light. A few flakes of snow came down from the darkness. Faintly, he could hear the Christ- mas. bells, too far off to distinguish what they played. It would be a white Christmas after all, © The thought wandered aimlessly through his bewildered mind. Slowly he made his way toward tne neighboring farm with his news oi old John Emon's death. Hz had 'reached the gate before he realiz- ed that he still held the lighted {amp in his anand. Ruth was gone' He must ind ker. He felt no anger, ne resentment against her. H2 was begining to understand what his sel fishness had meant to her, Pir girl, she had a lot of happiness coming to her, Yet ehe should not have left like that. Next morning the s&un shone bright on a glittering world, But the blinds were drawn at the old Emmons' farm house and kindly folks had gathered to 'do what they could" on this Christmas Day. They were not- sorrowing, the poor old man had been full of years and moreover he og been too re- clusive to make many intimate friends, A dim silent man was al) they remembered, Rob sat with his face white ana stern, his mind full of his own loss, After this was all over he would commence his search, One more the door opened. No palling caller to pay his last re- spects. but a startled, tired-looking woman--Ruth! She looked around her in quick concern 'at the staring faces, He words were -addressed to Rob, "Oh! what is it? What has startled. "Ruth," Rob was at her side, "don't you fret too much; it's ysur father. He died in his sleep last | 4 night," The suitcase dropped un- heeded fro mher grasp. "I didn't know, I had to come back; I thought of him alone here, perhaps calling for me," Her lips were stiff, her face working. "I'm glad he nev- er knew I went," she added faintly. Rob's arm strong encircled' the slim, bowed shoulders. What he said matters not to us. : A sleighload of happy. carollers |'%&' went by, and through the elear air of the day they could hear what the bells of the church were play- ing "Joy to the World." THE SUBSTITUTE FOR COTTON % There is 4 report that a substi- tute for cotton has been discover- ed, and that it can be manufactur- E ed from a common weed which will grow anywhere, The new "artifi- cial cotton" has heen produced in England, and its originators claim that cotton can be sold at a price' eight cents per pound cheaper than the present article, The discover- ers assert that the weed from which the fibre comes is not uncommon, but the difficulty is to get the cot- ton out of it, and they claim that they alone hold the secret. The cotton growers do not appear to bs unusually excited over the discov- ery, and the scientists are frankly skeptical, It may be that the new textile is all that is claimed, but the proof has not yet been forth- coming, There is no essential rea- son why the new substitute should got be all that its promoters hope, but the claim has been made before and the world is waiting for addi- tional proof before it becomes at | #2 all excited over the wonderful dis- covery. If we can secure cotton cheaper than ever before we shall be glad to avail ourselves of the privilege; but we had better not postpone our cotton purchases un- til the new material is on the mar- ket, i PECL CORE NRO IREES SEE ERE ETO TERETE | nr The "IDE. i. Christmas " "Gifts" ; ~ Kolster and McLagan Erla RADIOS Each a leader in style. Takes the guesswork out of radio buying SILVERTOWN TIRES AND WEED TIRE CHAINS Silvertowns are famed for quality and long service. Weed Tire Chains are unexcelled on the chain market. 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