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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-7-3, Page 6E ree, 1 res. feetseear,a;'—;-Irl WAX BOLL ,c. She wore a little white gown which looked very simple,. and had costa lot elf m .lney, A silver band was twieted in and out of her red hair, and her firm little neck vas devoid of all jewellery. She dewed divinely. too, and many eyes fel- lowed her admiringly, 'A stumpy little man with speeta- ribs end .red whiskers bed a out- paeiecl her to the• h X11. He stood now by the doer, his bright glance shifting from face to faee, 'and fall- ing presently on a couple st.4nding by an per window, Muriel, the daughter t;f the host, and Grant, a tall, dark, rather • good-looking Aran, both of whom were. evidetutly eyeing the red-haired girl with a geed deal of curiosity. "Who is she 1" asked the men. "I haven't a notion, Mammawill tell people to bring any friends they like. It always. annoys me." . And Muriel stroked her gloves and looked thoughtfully after the stranger. "Find out and introduce me, will. you 1„ "She ean dance, can't she' Don't be teo nice to her. She looks each. a baby." And, forthwith Muriel, with Grant in her wake, made her way to the stumpy man with the whis- kers. After sine brief pourpar- leys, the three proceeded down the room to where the red-haired girl eti od talking to her partner, Yes, she certain danced divinely. Even a blase man like Grant felt.• his pulses quicken as they whirled together in dance after dance, "I've found a beautiful place where we ean talk," said the girl, in the middle of their third waltz.. `'stet's and rest." He followed her out of the room and through a long, wide passage, clown a couple of flights of stairs, and then along a narrower corri- dor, till they came tea closed door. This she opened, then she pressed an electric button, which turned on the light and - disclosed asmallish library, atith dark walls, dark fur- niture and bookcases on evere side, save • where athick plush curtain. hung, apparently concealing a win- dow. A fire was' still burning in the grate and before it were two armchairs. .Shut the door," . she said. `;Isn't this cosy :' She settled herself in one of the chairs and began to peel off her long gloves, and he noticed that her hands were very small and dimpled like a baby's. "You seen; to know the • house pretty well," he .said, and she smiled eenfidentially. "Come and sit here," she said, leaning over. and patting the other chair, then drawing it closer to her own. "You danee very nicely, you know." said Ate. '`I hope I shall meet you again at, somebody else's house. I'm just out, and I'm go- ing to heaps and heaps of dances. It is so lovely to be out at last!" She leant forward, stretching her hands to the blaze; and the man noticed that from one of her wrists hung awhite satin bag, made of ribbon-eratli'er a large bag. `Taney ! my hands are still chilly-:" She put one out for him to feel. Grant was most decidedly flneing himself entertained. He had lived a good deal in women's society and was accustomed to call the, tune and to inspire a certain amount of tear in those he happened to fancy; but this child was treating him as though he were a boy of her own age. He took the preferred hand and held it between both of his for a second or two. • • "You funny little thing!" he said. ."Your red head looks wick-. ed. but your face is.: a. child's." "I'm eighteen!" she said. And, oh the dignity and pride -of her tone. Then, breaking into smiles again, "Haven't we met beaffore she asked. • "I think rot. I am certain not." ".Three nights: ago I was at a dance. Such a crush. And I won- dered if yen were there, perhaps, in the crowd. That was on Tues- day night last," She turned an in- quiring, innocent face to his. He stopped, and picking up the poker with a hand that seemed rather unsteady, thrust it in among` the red embers: "No. I was not at a dance an Tuesday. last." "Are, you: sure 7" "Of course I am sure," h.e, re- plied, throwing his head back -with a sound like a, laugh, ,yet his eyes had narrowed and his face seenr,ed to have turned, grey. `'Where, were' you, I wonder!" persisted the child. "I still feel, somehow . r other, as .if I had seen yn•u that night eemewhers V' And slte leaned toward him, her lovely little feet: all agleam with childish curiosity. Suddenly he sat forward, and looking at her in a. fascinated way, clasped the dimpled hoed Which hung ,over her chair, and said' in• a queer voice "Would you. like me to toll you a, real eeeret V" The hand he held pressed his 4.134 tlio big baby eyes sparkled, "Oh, please, please !" "We'll, I was faupposed to be et a theatre in the. Strand that night, but really•• -I ways a few miles away with a—a, friend." She clasped her hands to her breast. "Ie one of the suburbs! Let me guess ! Brixton, Saint John's Wood, Streatham--' "No," what an amusing, eager baby it was. Re was, really highly. entertained. "Battersea, Chelsea , , It was Chelsea!" And her clear young voice rang out in almost srreana. "Sh ! You forgot," said the man, glancing over his 'shoulder. "You forget—it is e secret." She dropped her hands in her lap ,and her eyes rested on the curtain that seemed to be covering the win- dow, Once more he thrust the po- ker nervously forward, prompting the fire to a livelier warmth, "And now shall I tell you a se- cret?" .she .said, et last, and her. voice quiveredever so little. - "Do you know what I've got in my. bag;" 'I can't guess." "I bring her with me because I've loved her a long time; you won't laugh ?" The baby faee was very near ; the big eyes were staring into. his; the red lips were pouting. How ooulcl he resist. But she ,sat back heetily, and, opening her bag, disclosed a— wax doll; thatis to say, a doll with a wax face. ' Oli 1" she exclaimed, distress in her voice, "the heat has begun to melt her. Oh, look! :My poor little doll ! And she thrust it, head foremost, towerdrs him. "Pinch her face and see !" "she cried; and he pressed a finger and thumb on either wax cheek. They were, in- deed, quite. soft. 'Poor dolly! Poor little girl l Very carefully .she wrapped her cambric handkerchief ever the face and rose from her chair. She was. trembling, and he looked down at her and laughed. "You promised not to laugh!" she said, .encl.-he could have sworn that the eyes she raised to his bad tears in them. "1'11 buy you another dolly," he said, as he bent down to kiss this absurd but adorable child. But she sprang to the door. `rWe must go back," she said. "I'11 put her away with my Cloak—to cool." She led him back aiong the:cerxi- dors and up the stairs to the door of the ballroom, where he stood looking after her as she vanished. The bedrooms were all in dark- ness, but she found the one in which she had doffed her cloak, and switched the light en. Losing no time, she opened the white silk bag, took from it a purse and out of this a tiny photograph and then a small but very strong.. magnifying glass. This shee applied, first to the photo- graph and then to the cheeks of the doll, which she had held with great ..care. For a few seconds she gazed eagerly. Thenreplacing paper, purse and glass in her bag and lay- ing the doll cautiously on a chair, she flung her cloak over her shcaul- ders, wrapped a scarf over her head, which muffled her face, and, clutching her possessions, returned with all speed to the library, where the little stumpy man with the red whiskers was reclining on the win- dow seat, apparently fast asleep. "Watson !"- she said in a quick whisper. "It is 1, We all right. Not aedoubt about it ! Look !" She took the things from the bag and banded the man the magnify- ing glass. He peered through this, first at the cheeks of the doll and then at the photograph, which was that of the impression of a large thumb, "That's the man!" he muttered. "Then you can tell them I will report first thing in the morning. I'm tired,: and shall go home.n:ow. You'd' take him to -night, 1 sup- pose?" "As soon as he leaves the house, mins." "All the evidenoo complete now 1'' "All." ` `Good -night, Watson." "Good -night, miss." A motor brougham was waiting for her outside. "Home," She said, wearily, as she entered: and snap- ped the door sharply. As they drove aWay she Leaned forward, and glanced back at the house with a shiver; "It's not a nice profession," ehe murmured to herself "but in this ease at least I'm glues; For in was fl• eruel'thing. The brute I'' She was veryy tired, and her head oohed, so she leaned hack against the cushions with ?dosead eyes, -- Pall Mall Gazette. ,hheo, She Was Surprised. "I have got to pick a, chicken fer dinner," announced' the termer's wife. "Do chickens grow in the gar- den?" inquired the cityvisitor in amazement. You can't .tail unless .you take chances, and you can't suceeed. [wielkeleilk 11101,810411, ti gr'Mr9irM►1r+ Choke Recipes, Bacon Gravy onToast.—Out up one-half pound bacon into small bats and fry brown, Add one-half cup of hot water, two eups of milk, a small piece of butter and season- ing. Add sufficient flour to make a thiek.. gravy. Pour over the toast. Frosted t•Iirraalis.—Take large, perfect bunches of red ' and white currants; Wash carefully and when dry dip in the beaten white of egg to which a little cold water has been added, Drain, then roll in pow- dered owdered sugar, or sprinkle the sugar evenly over the currants. Lay them on a -colander to dry. • Rice and ;Fried Green Peppers. --- Bail rice and turn it into a veget- able dish. Cut green` peppersinto rings—remove the seeds—and soak the peppers in salted Water :for half an heiir. Then drain, and fey thea. in butter, Arrange the pepper rings on top of the rice and turn over them the butter in which they were coakecl. Dover and place in the oven for five minutes, then serve. Fruit Canapes. --'lase the sponge cake' that was left from Sunday's supper—cut in squares and split. Saute in butter, on both sides, Sprca,d cooked fruit on each piece; make a thick settee of the fruit juice by adding arrowroot to the hot juice and pour over the canapes. Siberian Sauce. .Stir -.together one teaspoon chopped pimento, three of grated horseradish,_ one of mixed mustard, one teaspoon of sugar and a little salt. Add suffi- cient vinegar tocover and serve with cold meats. Boiled Lettuce. 'Cut away the thick stalks from four or five heads of lettuce and boil the leaves in salted water for'fifteen ' minutes. Turn out into a pan of cold Water, Mince fine and add some chopped leaves of fresh mint, pepper and salt and the yolks of two eggs. Foran into belle and place in a bak- ing dish. Pour a teaspoonful of melted butter over emelt and bake in a hot oven ,about ten minutes, Garnish with sprigs of mint. Meat I?rlittees. Make a good rich fritter baiter and add ane cupful or more of minced meat to it. Fry as you would any fritters. Spider Cora Bread.—Grease the the bottom and sides of an iron spider, then melt 'WO tablespoons of but- ter in it, Beat' together' two eggs, two tablespoons sugar, two cups milk, one cup cornmeal, one-half eup of flour anz*ed with a teaspoon baking powder and one-half tea- spoon salt, Pour into the spider, but do not stir. Pour ever this one cup of milk; bake about half an hour in a hot oven. When suffi- ciently cooked it shouldhave a streak of custard through the cen- ter., enter. Chicken Rings.—With a double biscuit cutter cut: rings out of slices of stale bread. Toast or fryin deep. fat a nice brown. Dispose down the center of a platter and plaee a tablespoon of creamed chicken in each ring of bread. Garnish with parsley. Sumner Salad. -,Cut into small pieces any cold vegetable which you may shave -string beans, asparagus,. peas, potatoes, beets, tomatoes, cu- cumbers,etc. ; Mix oarefully, so they,,, will not become mushy, place on a bed of lettuce and drese with French dressing. Things Worth Knowing. To remove scorch stain, wet it and expose to the. sunshine. It is Worth while to add -the white of an egg to the pot of chocolate, A pinch of soda added'to a berry pie before the tipper crust is put on will keep it from running over. ' When washing, one-piece dresses, hang them over a coat hanger to A VI FUMY IS PRINCESS DARE O11VIL FiLtTS OF VMS 11i fr!S1AN 11 OMAN. -A. Wild tyiator, and Safety Doesn't Appear to Make Any Ala. peal to Her. Prineess Shakhevskoy and her teacher, the Russian Vssvolod Abp removitoh, fell the other day in their Wright biplane when tying art Johannisthel, writes a Saint Petersburg correspondent, The princess fell on her head and, since she wore a safety. helmet, got; off without injury, but Abraanoviteh is lying at the paint of death, Thereby is dissolved a remark- able flying partnership•—perliaps the most, remarkable that bas ever been known, Princess Shekhovskoy is the wild aviator who for months past has been oscillating between Saint Pe, tersburg and . Berlin, bent on mighty feats. She wants to fly around the world. To. fly, ;that is, as aartomobiles fly, crossing the oceans on a liner, For a' long time she had to wres- tle with her first teacher and cone rade, Abxamovitch, whore; she. wanted -to take round the, world with her, because he argued that the obstacle was Siberia, . where petrol and benzine are scarce. The princess declared that she would make depots in advance all along the Siberian railroad,and that she could cress 'Siberia in a month, and America in a. fortnight. That was, she sal, taking it easy. She wanted to start from Moscow and to cover Siberia, the hardest part of the journey, first. Holds ,the Record. Vsevolod Abranaovitch was not in a 16,00'6 SCHOOLBOYS IN GREATEST LTIILETIC MEET EVER; WELD IN A.DIE1IICA.. Central Park, the playground for the people of New York, was converted into a vast athletic field Saturday last, where 10,000 boys of the Public sehgols (the largest assemblage of schoolboys ever gathered in such an event anywhere in.the world) net in,,a series of athletic contests ar- ranged by the Public Schools Athletic Association. drain and chop. Return to the fire, add a cupful or more of white sauce and when quite hot stir in the well -beaten yelks of two eggs. Cranberry and Nut Salad. -Cut into dice a sufficient quantity of cranberry jelly. Sprinkle with. chopped walnut meats and pile lightly on a bed of lettuce leaves. Cover with mayonnaise dressing.. Rice Pudding (Made from cold. boiled rice.)—Break up two cupfuls of cold boiled rice, so that it will be free from lumps. Add one table- spoonful melted butter, one table- spoon sugar, a good pinch of salt and the beaten yolks of three egg,. Stir in two cups of flour to which has been added one heaping . tea- spoonful of baking powder. Beat all together until smooth, flavor with orange and, the last thing, fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the three eggs. Put in a buttered. baking dish and bake until it is well set. Serve plain or with a fruit sauce. Date Genis.--,Sift together two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one-half teaspoon cinna- mon, one-half teaspoon ginger and a little salt. Heat one-half cup mo- lasses and a tablespoon butter in a saucepan until the butter melts. Then stir *in the dry ingredients, alternating with one-half a cupful of milk until it is well blended. Now add one cupful of chopped .dates which havebeen liberally sprinkled with flour, :Bake in buttered muffin tins for half ari hour. Carrot Pu.ree.•—Peel and sliee sev- eral good-sized carrots. Put them in a saucepan with minced onion and two tablespoonfuls of dripping, Cover closely and cook' until the carrots are tender, Then add one. quart of stock, pepper and salt and cook for fifteen minutes. Put all through the vegetable press and serve very hot. Baked Hash Balls With Mint. --- The lamb which was left from Mon- day's dinner may be used for these. dry; they will dry evenly and hang much straighter: To sharpen' ' a knife fold a piece of emery paper in the centre and draw the knife rapidly back .and forth several times. Do not use soap in washing win- dows. Clear warm water with a little kerosene or ammonia added ill 'givea high polish. Don't forget to stop the: clocks when going away for the summer; it is bad for the springs if they are allowed to run down. It is best to clean windows on a cloudy day, as the sunshine dries the water too quickly, and the win- dow is apt to be streaked. Summer bedspreads should be made of "material easily washed, Nothing is prettier than the inex- pensive dimity or madras. Never turn your faucets on with a jerk. Turn slowly and gently when turning the water on or off. The faucets will wear twice, as long. To tablespoonfuls, of paraffine mixed with a bucket of boiling water,: with 'which tables are to be scrubbed, will make them beauti- fully white and smooth. The flavor of lemonade will be im- proved it for part of the sweeten- ing loaf sugar rubbed over the peel of the lemons is used. In making a(n eggnog, beat up the egg light with the milk—three-quar- ters of ilk—three-quarters-of. a cupful of milk to an egg is the usual., proportiSn-and add a pinch of salt, sugar to taste and a little nutmeg for flavoring. Tlien add the -white beaten to a stiff froth. An excellent way to extract the juice from an onion is -to cut the onion, press it firmly against' a grater, and then draw it up and. down. The juice' will drop slowly from one corner of the grater. If you are mixing a pudding or cake with a wooden spoon, beat the mixture with the back of the spoon It is far easier and becomes'beauti- fully light in hall the tune. any sense such an optimist as the princes's.' "Who will repair our machine in Siberia if it, comes .a cropper?"he asked, "That can be done," said the im- perturbable princess. "Yoe forget that 1 hold the record." And, in fact, the 23 -year-old princess ,does hold the record—the Russian record, that is—for flying high in oompany of a passenger. At Johannisthal,. near Berlin, where she flies round in dangerous- ly narrow circles, Sha-khovskoy is known as "die wilde Fuerstin," the wild ,princess,' She got that nick- name by the daring way she learn- ed to fly. When she arrived there from Saint Petersburg she could not fly at all and had only been twice up in an aeroplane. But the third time she went upshe insisted on steering the machine herself, and nearly broke her own and her coin. panion's neck by getting faint at a critical turn, Now she is the best woman avis for in Europe and can perform. ex- ploits in driving over : and ender stretched ropes that would ba'ffie many skilled men flyers. When husband P d Pi 'ine, e k'etex' Slialzhovskoy heard of his wife's ex pl.oits he was horrified. The wild princess increased his horror by an- nouncing that she would go to Tri- poli to drop bombt on the Berbers in Italy's sacred. cause. She would do this, ,she said, because she was educated in Italy and loved the stella. rare Prince' Shakhovskoy was highly wrathfil, lint all he would do was to stop his wife's allowance, and that lie did. Rea' Husband, Prince Shakhovskoy is a. rich landed proprietor, who was once aide»de-camp to Tsar Nicholas II, I3e got into trouble for marrying the wild princess, who is partly cI1ltTr COMPANY,, 1 1,,pNrPORONTO, 1. �'r'fx.vtiX�re�•x�s '�•� MOST PERFECT MADE THE INCREASED NUTRITI- OUS VALUE OF DREAD MAPF IN 1'HE HOME WITH ROYAL YEAST,CAKES-SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT INCENTIVE -TO THE CAREFUL HOUSEWIFE TO GIVE THIS IMPORTANT FOOD ITEM THE ATTENTION TO WHICH IT IS JUSTLY 'EN- TITLED. HOME BREAD'HAKING RE- DUCES THE HIGH COST OF LIVING BY LESSENING THE AMOUNT`OF EXPENSIVE MEATS REQUIRED TO SUP-, PLY THE NECESSARY -NOUR ISHMENT TO THE SODY. E. W. GILLETT Co. LTD. TORONTO, ONT WINNIPEG MONTREAL Jewish by blood: The wild princess was always wild, and that was ho's she won her husband, She cap, tared him at Naples, by dancing a1. the flat roof on the Officers' Club, The prince ;sacrificed all for love, and within three months he had to • sacrifice the love also, for the black- eyed princess vowed that the anis- toeratie life in the Sergeyeti,sky street was' too tante, and that she would go bear shooting. She left the prince and went bear shooting in Vologda .province. A bear. bit her hand, and this so displeased her that alae dispatched him with a knife. e Finding this work tame, she.. re- solved to become an aviator, a pro- fessional aviator: who would worry, her husband . for funds no more.' And an aviator she has become. • At Johannisthal the wild prin- cess performs strange feats: Some • are unsafe. Once, a'f ter her teacher Abratno='. viech remonstrated t-ainly,. shetook two inexperienced ,officers up in a, gale. Aubth"er day she flew, high over the Tenaplehof Field to-Friede nae, a forest of high housea South Berlin. When she was flying. over the mainroad her motor gave; out and ehe nearly had to descend on steep housetops. On Another Occasion she fiew down a narrow lane of pine trees near Johannisthal, where the least swerve to right or left would have crushed' her into the trees. The wild princess is the admired of Prince Henry of Prussia,. Henry is a sportsman; he has repeatedly sailed in Geppe1i,a airships, and he has taken lessons in driving an ,aeroplane. Last fall the wild prin- cess and he flew together. The wild princess is by speed; dictatoiiel and rude, and she later reported to the . Johannisthal 'offi- cers very unfavorably en Henry as an aeroplane man. As. Henry is a full_ admiral and the Johannisthal officers are mostly junior navy men, this made. trouble, Then the wild princess jour.rieyed to Kiel, and gave Henry there a fine exhibition of flying in a prin crassly way. In Russia the mild princess is the first woman to' take' up aviation. She tried to get other women to take it up. First she started en association for women aviators• and got Countoss Scheremetieff, 14lrne, Elise Gorbatoff, ,Mlle. Desyatinsky and several other aristocratic wo- men •to' join. From this stare a Ladies' Flying Club.. The clublasted a month. the wild princess flew so high and so daringly with her guests that they were thoroughly frightened, and they decided to leave flying alone. Success conies to a fear of tts in; spite of ourselves. i!L.0flcy peertsoms having idle fund.' on hand for temporary or longer periods, or awaiting perr'nanent investment, can obtain POUR PER Cf3NT, interest, compounded guar terry byopening an account to the SAVINGS DBPARTMVMRNT of this Company. These 'funds aro with- drawable :by cheque and bear inter- est from date received until date withdrawn, Wo solicit out of town accounts, which maybe opened by rVtafl. 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