Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 29, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page fourteen Winnipeg free press wednesday May 29, 1940 Tell Bill goodbye t chapter eighteen Ommy said. The kid s right fab. She s got a i what she pleases. Get to do you re Tak ing that settlement House too ser Ned Blakely took her to the Carousel club one night. Did you know this is a gambling he asked her. Ned. I be rambler s blood in my veins and i be solemnly vowed i d piously. Imagine you playing police 1cvci, Sambo for Monck. But woman to a kid from the slums but in go along with you in play Fabinne turned to him with her hunches if you la give me the eyes hashing. What s so funny Lrol Jevc Hundred you about that she demanded. I a Little slow. He scratch nothing. Honey nothing. But de his head. I Don t get he you Don t think you re responsible said dubiously but if your hunches for that kind of kid. Do somebody Lias to she said her Fik a growing serious and thoughtful. This place gives me the Dru Lold her husband. Never did like slumming. It sounds amusing but i la Uick Al they left at once without so much As a backward glance it the Lith italian girl sitting Wilh the i Bravn boys. At Al Morocco. Tommy picked up the Check for the six of them and Fabienne found herself looking at it. And thinking Lor the first Lime in her life of what the Money spent in a smart Cate would mean if it were applied to a fund to prevent arc Good i la take a Chance. Where do you come in on if you win five Hundred Over your investment. I Don t come in. I go she said with wry Gal Lantry. Because i m going to double that five i he gave up completely. The girl i was talking in riddles. Put it on she told him indicating his first stack of chips. The Ball dropped on 24 red. It dropped on 14 Black. On red 36. Twelve times out of fifteen it dropped on the number Fabienne whispered to him. He counted off five one Hundred Dollar gave them to her. Such things As she had seen hours before. What he wanted to know. I Don t she said. Your j Little winnings have Cost me two going Back to her luxurious apartment in the Plaza Fabinne said to Drusilla you know Dru she s a Nice Little kid. I feel somehow that it s All my Druisilla said. Fab s got an Edge on. You la feel better in the morn ing but in the morning Fabienne awoke thinking of Rose and the memory of her Little painted face came before her and the morning j paper she was trying to read. Rose s i face As it had defied her. Ann Rose s face As it had looked on j Christmas Nigin when she said real prize fighters and artists got their Start in classes at the House. If we had a dramatic class we might some of us become famous. And All the kids would love Fabienne consigned mrs. Cheese Borough to the proper place for ladies who did such things. Then she shrugged her shoulders As if to dismiss the whole incident. But there was no forgetting it when Rose White faced and Blush ing by turns in an agony of embarrassment and apology came to her office the next afternoon. Hello. She greeted the child with a Friendly smile. Rose kept her eyes on the floor. Her Tongue stumbled and she spoke Brokenly of. Miss Seymour i did t mean it honest i did t know what i was saying. I did t sit Down Rose. I know you months income. You won t find Rne at the Plaza after the first of the month i get it. With this Money and your income for a couple of months you re going on a she nodded. To the never never land Darling. No one will Ever be Lieve it about Little fab. Not even myself. Come on. Ned. Our work s done. And Nice work it to be continued did t mean it. Just Tell me Why Yoti went there. Why you like the Little italian girl raised her Black velvet eyes and kept them fixed at a Point above Fabienne s head. Gee miss Seymour you Don t know what some people s Homes is perhaps i can Fabienne answered gently. We got seven in our family. We live in two rooms. Kitchen and bed room. Me and my two Sisters sleep in the Kitchen. The old Man and my brother sleeps in the other room.1 Fabienne repressed a shudder. And you have no place to enter Tain Rose Shook her Black curls. No body has in this neighbourhood. It Ain t like where you live. But i Ain t so different from you. I gotta have that was what she had said the night before. Fabienne nodded understanding by of course you do. But there must be other places besides that that dance Hall. Tho movies friends houses the Settle ment the movies Cost Money. My friends Ain t got no More place to have other kids in than i Rose explained pathetically. The settlement House .1 sure. I come Here when there s something doing but you know miss Seymour a girl likes boys. Boys Ain t going to sit around Here and talk. That s Why i though if we had the Fabienne interrupted. Tell me one thing More. Rose. Why did you go with those because they got Rose said in i Small voice. Fabienne Felt her heart turn sick. Yes those boys had Money to spend on a girl first for dance Hall tickets and drinks and later for perfume and trinkets and Sleazy Little per Sonal presents and suddenly she Felt an immense sorrow a great helpless pity and Swift anger against society in Gen eral and mrs. Cheseborough in particular. Strangely it did t occur to her that there was something that she could do. Although the idea must have been there buried beneath the sudden appreciation she Felt for Uncle Ray s Conner a heroine of wartime nursing for soldiers when Florence Nightingale received the letter from an officer of the government she was excited. Her excitement grew As she read it to the end. The officer was Sidney Herbert a member of the British Cabinet. He wanted her to take charge of a group of nurses who were to go to Turkey to care 1 or wounded British soldiers. I Don t want to press he wrote taut i think on your Deci Sion will rest the Success or fail ure of the plan. Would or. And mrs. Nightingale give their con happily the parents were quite willing to have their daughter do this work for the soldiers. Inside of two weeks Florence and forty other women left London for the Crimea. The Crimea includes a jut of land in the Black. Sea. At that time it was a Battleground in a War with Russia on one Side and map of the Crimea and the Black sea regions. Great Britain France and Turkey on the other. The fighting was fierce and each Day brought its Story of suffering. In Many wars More persons have died in hospitals than on the Field of Battle. Soldiers fall victims of disease As Well As bullets. In the crimean War. Hospitals had been put into service near constantinople. This City is in Europe just across a Strait from Asia minor. At present it is known As Istanbul. Florence Nightingale and her 40 nurses crossed France on their Way to the hospitals. De a boat and then they Board were carried to Turkey. They arrived on a novem Ber Day in 1854. In the main Hospital at that time there were sick and wounded persons. Among them were 120 who were Down with the fearful disease known As cholera. The death was High and Florence Nightingale soon saw the her own comfortable existence. Jonin reason. The Hospital was Gertrude with an income of fit i loaded with the room to can thousand dollars a year had were infested with rats mice and had hysterics because she was not in a letter which she to have five million More dollars to wrote at this time she said the spend on More Homes More serv ants More parties and More clothes. Thinking of them Fabienne grinned a bit grimly. It was fortunate that Gertrude loved clothes so much that she could t resist buying them not Only for herself but for her daughter. For Fabienne on a Mere five Hundred a month could hardly have bought a stitch for herself. Every cent of her Money went to rent in the hotel the up keep of hoi1 car. For tips and the occasional dinners she gave. But she had to have them. Nicky had railed her a sybarite and so she Loving soft blankets and luxurious Baths the hands of an sex Perl beautician obsequious service a perfumed background. Poor Little Rose Riccio and her of Sisters. Fabienne could not have borne it. She grew to love her apartment to thrill when she opened her closet door Han and saw frock after frock g on its perfumed form to Rich food. To nop recite nil she not without. Uther girls could live in Small apartments have a part time maid. Clothes have Good times save Money on five Hundred dollars a month out Fabinne Seymour was granddaughter of a Multi millionaire and she could not living less than but an Shad the idea must have been vermin in this place might if their worked together carry off the four Miles of Beds on their what could two score women do to make things better their Leader was Quick to act. Scrubbing brushes were obtained along with soap and water and the great task of cleaning up the place was Start Uncle Ray Tor biography Section of your scrapbook de. Horoscope for Friday May 31 n interesting and eventful Day with contacts which May prove of prime significance is read from the predominant lunar aspects. New associations of an unusual nature May Call for some rather drastic activities with either social fraternal or group affiliation assuming prominence. Elders superiors and those of High standing figure in plans of ambitious charac Ter probably bearing on the social humane or religious position and advancement but act not impulsively. Those whose birthday it is May anticipate a year in which then fortunes and personal prestige May Progress or be affected by new contacts and changed interests. This May relation to group fit Vandement either humane social or possibly spiritual. There May be Basic Radical or revolutionary pro grammes involved without any sinister objectives. But refrain from impetuosity and haste. A child born should have Fine intellect with advanced ideals and ambitions and probably will be de voted to the Progress and enlightenment of its Fellows. It May have Peculiar Force and versatility in this direction. Urges Ion Montreal May 28. Canadian legion passed a resold Lution today urging the Dominion government to impose Universal conscription As the Only Way to fight a total War and suggested drastic measures to curb fifth column activities. The legion meeting in its eighth convention called upon the government to take immediate Steps to conscript the Man Power wealth National resources business Indus trial and other institutions so that we May wage War with the full vigor of the nation another of the Resolution passed unanimously urged that while exerting All possible Effort to Supply material and troops for overseas service the govern ment give special attention to the adequate and immediate defence of our country by the use of sufficient troops and Volunteer auxiliary forces to guard for the duration of the War and to prevent seizure or sabotage of vital communication transportation Indus trial and Supply centres. Dealing with fifth column activities the legion deprecated the adoption of methods designed to draw attention to this danger which May tend to unduly alarm the civil population the delegates expressed belief that our established agencies for the maintenance of Law and order and particularly the Royal Cana Dian mounted police Are if Given a free hand which we have reason to suspect has not always been the Case perfectly competent of dealing with any situation which May urged by writer new York May 29. Othy Thompson Public affairs writer and commentator returned from Europe yesterday with the prediction that something horrible for great Britain would under score any peace terms a victorious Germany might offer the treaty of she said after her arrival on the United states liner Washington will seem like a charming humanitarian slightly quixotic victorian Docu ment compared to the treaty the j germans have in she urged the United states to give the allies every conceivable kind of Aid. I think we should go into this she said. Sydney May 29. prime minister Robert Menzies said in a speech last night that the australian government will Send men munitions and War supplies without limit in support of the Empire s War Effort. He invited the opposition to Fol Low the example Given in great Britain and rally to the govern ment s support. At the City Hall Anzac veterans of the War of 1914-18 passed on the Torch to a group of soldiers of the new australian Imperial Force. Ahead of schedule Ottawa May 29. The government anticipated that delivery of Bren guns now in production m Toronto at the John Inglis company Plant would be Well in Advance of the the defence min ister Hon. Norman Mcl. Rogers in formed parliament last night. Certain modifications recently received from Britain were being incorporated he told a. R. Adamson con., York who had asked about rumours concerning the con tract. Dutch fight on London May 29. Spokes Man for the Netherlands govern ment said last night the Capitula Tion of the King of the belgians would make no difference in the decision of the Netherlands govern ment to continue lighting with All the forces at its disposal at the Side of. The allies. The government Here under Queen Wilhelmina still directs the Netherlands Navy and Rich posses Sions in the East and West indies. Shipping out Gold London May 29. Up an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Athens yesterday said it was re ported there Yugoslavia and re mania had made arrangements to Send their Gold reserves to the United states. Elderly prisoners escape ont. Camp port Arthur May 29. Up on Tario provincial police disclosed Here yesterday that two elderly prisoners had escaped sunday night from the prison Camp at Seagram. Ont. 200 Miles Northeast of the Lake cad. The week end escapes brought to seven the number of prisoners who have broken from the Highway Camp since Early Spring. Four of the prisoners Are still at Large. Authorities refused to divulge the names of the escaped men. Of Willie was very Cross whew he first cot out of jail he said he had a Bio notion to Send you aked Cousin Elmo to a worse place k that. But me bruddef2 Moon told Uncle Willie jest on account of Bein falsely arrested he d be a sap to do a l.1kethat. Well thank heaven that Moon has sense. Yen Moon said to jest your so it Oki this Angle. Is but you be 6o1mgto this columnists writing about Oane when grew stuff i can swim. Like Jane Arden ;