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Exeter Advocate, 1913-7-24, Page 6KEELS. As they stood chatting at the eor- ner of .the street; Fred Chislett felt hie cleapondeuey increase. He had allays regretted his lack of inches; and since making Mabel Vyne's tic- quaintance he had been more sen- sitive than over on the subject. mind his qwu affairs, but her moth er was present, and Mrs. Vyne was a quiet,, shrinking woman who hated argument ok any kind. !" commented George, ' on receiving vague details. "You give 'ern all a turn; that's lily advice for the present. I'll be able to say more latexon." One evening after ;supper he look- ed across to where she sat sewing by the fire. He was in the best armchair, which by now he had When she left him at last, and coolly adopted for his own exclusive: moved along homewards, he paused use, towatch her slue figure. He hated "Edwin North --he's all right. to realize that he looked. the short- Got 'a fairly decent piece at the er of the two. motor works, rind he'll probably They were, by nature, almost of I haven rise given him soon." a height, but, un the evenings orf "What do you mean by talking Sundays when they met, she always like this 1 Have you been spying wore a largo hat and high -heeled' on any more of my friends, pray r, She faced .him in indignant sur- prise. "Walter Kelson, too ---1 reckon he's got a bit of money saved," oon- tinued her cousin. placidly. "When you're thinking of getting engaged, I mean, your choice is between the two of 'em, Mabel. Let nie know when you've settled. it." :;It's no business of yours 1" the "I was just going 'to pay you a girl flashed. "When I want a hus- band I'll please myself, thank you," A few days afterwards she ap- proached him triumphantly. "rye just told mother." She. "Ha I And which one is it 1" "Neither. It's Fred Chislett, if you wish to know!" A month later Mr. Chislett might shoes. :Fed Chislett was sure that she compared him unfavorably tr bigger men they passed. He saw that she had now stopped outside the hoose where she lived with her mother. He turned glooazl- Ily away, for Mabel Vyne was speak- ing to a tall, broad -shouldered. in- dividual, and seemed highly inter- ested in his eunversation. call. I've come up to town for a change, you know." Miss Vyne hesitated. The strang- er eyed her patronizingly. "What, don't recognize me 1 I showed a ring on her finger. knew you d'reetly." "I do believe you're my Cousin George!" "That's it, We haven't mot since we were kids --eh 1 I'll step'in and have been observed wearing an .air say how-d'ye-do to Aunt Rose." of profound dejection." Mabel Vyne " Wh.y, of course, Come along," had returned his ring. the girl answered quickly. "Moth- Its absence was noticed imiredi- er'iI be pleased to see you, I'm ately by her cousin George.: IN TIRE C3 AiDIAN UELTI `G`c POT. sure." `.What! D'ye mean to say that's George Radley's appearance, how-, all off 1 Did you quarrel with him 1" This photograph, taken at Sarnia, Ontario, shows a group of young: ever, did not impress her very fav -1 "You've guessed it," agreed the Canadians in a garden urn. There. are no less than eight different orably. His .clothes were untidy and girl jauntily. European races represented. he obviously needed a shave. But{ "O' course, if you're sorry, and ! he seemed to take it for granted' want to `make it up again, you' 'e i .into their road. He told himself only to say the word. Not that I d r that they must never hear about the: ever have had anything to do with{ deplorable failure of his mission. little Chislett if I d been you. Still, Chislett and Mabel had parted, so that he would be welcome, and soon he was lolling in the most comfort- able chair they possessed. "Teal), be ready in a minute. You I don't mind obliging you by going; she would surely get no news from must wait and have some, George," Mrs. Vyn:e suggested. "Thanks; I will. Cosy little place to him and hinting--': thatuarter. "You'll do nothing of the kind I'' "Good "Oh, then you've finished with Good gracious, why, it's you've got." - . him for good! But what was the! George I" Supper time ,arrived, and he had row about?" ( He swung round under a street not yet moved. When the second Wearily she parried numerous' lamp, and discovered his cousin at his elbow. meal was over, he brought out a queries. ` "What on earth have t•cu been pipe and took the armchair once "Leave me alone, please. It's all doing to ona yourself'l Had an more. over and done with. dent 1" "Quite nice to see you both again ! "He's jilted you, that's what he's,, es;" he gulped. "Fell down Any more news I can tell yon 1" done. 1 wonder you put up quietly( ' "Not to -night." the girl answer- with a thing like that. But I s'pose and banged my eye against some - ed. "Mother's tired; and I have to girls often have to. This is where thing, and knocked my nose, acid get up early in the morning to go to it's a good job there's a man in the work, you know." family." ".A.h." George Radley assented. He went on to speak of the ne- "By the way, I s'pose you couldn't cessity for demanding Fred Chis - give me some sort of shakedown 1 Haven't settled on any lodgings yet.." "There's this little room." Mrs. Vyne took him out on the landing, and opened a door. ``We'll make up a bed for you in here." "That'll suit me Al. How'd it be if I was to join you altogether an adjacent road. for a bit? We'll decide to -morrow Mr. Chislett came to the door how much I'd pay a week. Bela- himself in answer to the impera- tions are better than strangers— tive summons. eh 1 "My name's Radley—George Rad - Mrs Vyne, a widow for five years, ley. I'm Mabel's cousin, and I'd agreed. Discussing his proposal like a few words with you." next day with her daughter, she e to you to come?" de - etareapology ; but hiscousinonly ;home before. I've been very Busy— belling •against this point of view— stared from the window w andp all on account of you. in fact,` judging' from the"present peered to pay no attention to his ,`Ola 1" she. remarked gravely. trend of events, ehe bids Bair, ini the comments. "Making inquiries • about that course of years, to vie with hes "I don't want to talk ed voice. it Fred Chislett," he explained jerk- English sister in independence of any more," she said in a tired voice. it spirit. No longer is marriage her He went out, nodding complacent- y`Really 1 ' Miss Vyne murmured, only ainn in life, and so the chooses ly; and strolled along to a house in "A thoroughly bad character! carefully and requires ;special. qual- Engaged to three or' four, besides ities in the man she is going to hurt my elbow. TRENCH GIRLS MAY REBEL. Not Now- Content With Uusbands Chosen by Fareuts. . The -views of the_modern, French girl in regard to matrimony are un- dergoing a remarkable change.: There was a time when the was content to aocept'the eligible parti chosen for her 'by her father and mother without question or' -com- ment, but now she is evidently awakening to •the fact that it is an unfair matrinaonial oompaot in which all -the good qualities are ex- pected. freer the wife, ` whilst in the husband =post defects of character are counted as nil spa long as he "My word, yes ! I noticed rev brings a good position and suffi- eye at once." crena money to, complete• the bar - "I'm late for supper," said Mr. ,p3sin. Radlev hurriedly. "Couldn't get The French: girl of to-d tay is re- you," added George Badley vindic- wed. tively.: " "You ought to thank your Recently, a. Paris- paper set itself stars you've got rid of him!" . the task of finding out the 'French ".els .a matter of fact, I haven't." 'girl's ideal of a model husband by "Eh''" he ,queried sharply. propounding a number ' of ques- "Sh Id 1 "We'd quarrelled; act I tolyl you— tions for unmarried' girls. In the pointed out that George's contribu- mantled the short young man eag- about some silly little thing. He answers to these questions the tion to the housekeeping money eery. wanted me to give up wearing high modern demoiselle's ideas on mar - heels • said it looked ridiculous for riage are clearly revealed. would assist them thatrthe Even "Notu to ask um whathtre on nay him to be shorter than I' am. I've To, the' question; "Do you wish to Mabel admitted the arrange- own,.just to ask you.you m ment promised well. by behavin' like this. You ought always been rather against him, 1 marry 1 the consensus of answers „ admit, because of his size. Very was "Yes," and as some empha tri - Then that's a bargain, said her to be if sheed o'yourself, treating footisle of me. You're big enough, Cally put it, Yes, of course. cousin jovially. "Now I'm just off her as if was no consequence at All were insistent on certain ape - to make sure of the job that's been ail." but he's worth a hundred of you. So qthey promised me." "Come indoors," said Mr. Chis - now, you sec—" sial ualiti es -wished to find in One week , _ She put one ,foot forward. $er the man of their . •choice. Many Tressed; apparently, -then lett abruptly. Y u' shoes were smart, but had heels of urged' the necessity of intelligence. another; and still, apparently, heeedn t think you're going to and energy—others looked for had failed to get employment. In get off scot-free. This'll cost you moderate height.. the eveningshe would complain somethingbefore ou've done,myChanged of my own free will. health, physical balance, and moral p of Y Bought this small hat too Because uprightness, whilst others "again various difficulties in his path; but b Mabel Vyne could not forget that he rose late, always appeared at meals, and seemed quite satisfied with the world in general. "We ought to get rid of him," she declared. "Has he paid you anything yet, mother 1" "No, dear ; but we must give him a chance. Remember he's a rela- tion!' "He's a lazy one, I know that!" She mentioned Georges arrival iett's onslaught resembled a hum- not to stop to Fred Chislett. g cane. Mr. Radley tied to hit him, "Perhaps pod like to argue it "Your cousin—eh? Is he going to but failed.. Under a shower of blows with Fred? He's waiting upstairs. stay long? "Goodness knows !" the girl re- torted. One thing she resented very much, and that was George Radley's in- eauty." „ be arse we've just decided •that looked upon tenderness, without • Come in :sentimentality as a necessity. "Yes, I will," assented George we're going to be married.. next Most, if it is true, wars in favor Radley, looking down at him and month.''of obeying their husbands • , but suppressing a chuckle. Fred Chis- Badley tried to speak, but'failed. , le. "You've -Harried next month," Miss with the somewhat nullifying quell - lett had turned very pa Vyne repeated. "Mother's coming ficataon, "of our own free will." hot a man to deal with now, you to live with us. But you aren't. One girl. thought that a prespee- have, so-- -" tine husband's temper should . be He was utterly unprepared for Oh, dear, no! In fact, I'll just run well tried and tested before she the first attack—a stinging slap en and pack your belongingsconsented to into a her future to ue the cheek. Gaping incredulously, parcel." his care. entrust he withdrew apace. But Mr. Chis- "I—ran to go -not to coma in— If; a man shows ialtat he can sande , sweetly whilst struggling with a collar stud, or assumes a benign expression when trying to eat a half -cooked dinner; if he chows an- gelic patience shouId.the dinner be half an hour date --or pays a huge milliner's -bill without deauur and refrains from criticizing the house- hold expenses, then let its feel *sure 'that he will pees the test; eF , n ltadles face cang he toppled against achair -and fell George y'hed. to the floor. And Mabel Vyne turned towards Mr. Chislett stood over him, red- her gate with a smile.—London An - faced now, and furious. savers. "How dare you come poking your ,quisitiveness. Once Mabel Vyne an nose into what doesn't concern yoti 1 swered sharply when he inquired I've heard all about you from Ma -ROYAL FAMILY IS S}IY. whether she was likely to be getting bel -haw you've sponged on them married for weeks and weeks without do- Pr'auee of WalesNervous at Meet. "Dare say you've several young ing a stroke of 'work' or paying a ing French President. fellows after you. Hasn't she, pennypiece I You lazy, hulking aunt?" scoundrel ! Get up 1"Heraised his Members of the Royal family are Mrs, Vyne regarded her dangle foot *suggestively. ter's flushed face. She sighed as "Get up and clear out I" Mabel stamped: from the room. Mr. Radley was somewhat slow "Yes; I've heard' of two or three. in . rising. Dazedly he felt himself Walter Kelson; young North—Eda North—Edbeing propelled along the passage win, his name is' -" end out into the street. His hat "I caught ;her with a little chap flew after hire. The front door In the High Street last night,"' slammed. "That would be Fred Chislett," "Phew!" he ejaculated feebly. Mrs. Vyne nodded. "She doesn't His first impulse was to escaper'to think much of him, though. He's a,, safe distance. In a public park too small." about a mile away he found a seat, confidence. :He was frightfully nor- there, cliuir'dr urded feel •ons about meeting the French nor - Subsequently George kiacdley, with and rested ,h , , w i . e .President. ' Ro acid. to an Oxford paternal condescension, rritexrogal•- ing Iaxrnself tened..a.ly' all. c ve.a, BeH ed his pretty' cousin about these felt reluctant ;o fats Mrs. Vyne and friend masculine anquaintances. She . the curiosity of, her daughter, "I shall: probably begin to -talk would promptly have told hint to It was fairly Tate when Ire turned German to hint in mry anxiety." nearly all ,arlieted 'with shyness. There have been times when the Princess Royal could hardly bear to be looked at, and the opening of even alocal bazaar was too much tor . her. Her nioknemie in those days was "Her Royal Shyness." King George, however, was ne- ver in the least shy. The Prince of Wales is given to alternating fits of extreme ahyneee and extreme ST • IN BUYI.A ea YEAST' CAKES .9E CAREFUL TO SPECIFY ROYAL, ES CAKES Dl C,crnrR uBsrtrUri"s e,W.GILLQTY CO LTD: Te RQNTO. WI.NNIPEG. : PdONTREAL. AkIr rmittft o 'ANY41,1„! eseocoasealassesseareteeedeeer Selected Recipes. Soft ,Cooked i ggs.: Heat a quart of water to boiling, move from the source of heat, lower in four eggs gently, cover and let stand from six to eight minutes, accordi}mg to softness desired. Late -Trial for Witcheraft. .Atrial for witchcraft and sorcery occurred. in England in 1881.. Thus. was the trial of the Fle.tohers, who were famous clairvoyants, cr'ys'tal gazers and nueamerracets—who • gave sceanees to which the whale fa,sh- ion ble world flocked. ` They in- duced aMrs. Hart Davis to give them jewellery and lane to the value of 410,000, and when proceedings were takers' against them fled to ,America, The Husband managed to escape' arrest, but Mrs. Fletcher was brought back to England, in - dieted under the old statute of witchcraft and soroery and sen- tenced to twelve months' imprison- ment with hard labor.—London Chronicle. Gfcrger Ice Cream. -One pint of cream, yolks three eggs, one-third jar (small size) preserved giogeir. Sold the cream and pour it grad- ually over the beaten yolks. Re- turn to double boiler and •cook un- til thick. Chop the ginger fine. Add it and a third of the syrup to the custard. - .Freeze the mixture, us- ing three parts ice and one part salt. Ginger. Cookies. - One-half cup molasses, one -hair cup brown sugar;. one tablespoon ginger,' one-half cup drippings, one-half teaspoon soda, salt, flour to make a stiff dough. Mix in the order given, rubbing the soda with the salt. Make into small balls, ` Flatten' with a tin -cup, sprinkle with a small amount of cinnamon and sugar and bake in a moderate oven. Stuffed - Cabbagc.-=Out out the stalk end of a head of cabbage, leav- ing a hollow shell. Grind two pounds uncooked round steak ° with a slice of bacon and an onion. Add one 'cup bread crumbs, soaked and wrung dry, one beaten egg, salt, paprika and mace. Shape into balls, arrange in .the cabbage and steam until cabbage is tender. Serve with tomato sauce. When iced tea is desired for Cornmeal Muffins. Three-quar- tersluncheon or diff ner it should be pre - When reedy cup ,cornmeal, three-quarters g rem cup flour, three . teaspoons baking io serve, tpou it on the sugar, ice powder, one tablespoonful sugar, and lemon already in the gla.•sses. one-half teaspoon salt, one egg, Nothing is more helpful in dust- thre'-quarters cup milk, one table 'ing polished floors than the absor- spoon butter. Mix and sift the dry 1 bent broom bag, which can be pur- ingredients ; beat the egg until very i chased for a -few cents or may be light end add the milk to it.'Then made at home from a piece of cot mix with the dry ingredients. Melt ton flannel. the butter and add it last, stirring If threads draw hard and break into the mixture. Bake in buttered easily when preparing- a piece of muffin pans from twenty-five to this- fancy work, a little white soap rub- ty minutes. This quantity makes bed on the wrong side of. the linen `six muffins. will be of advantage. It does not Tomato Soup.—One can tomatoes, harm the linen. one pint water, twelve peppercorns, I A delicious sandwich filling is bit of bay leaf, four cloves, one made from one part chopped al - slice onion, two tablespoons sugar, monds and - two parts of shredded or grated celery, with a dash of salt. Moisten the mixture with mayonnaise. When making apple pie°the flavor is much improved and the apples will keep, in good color if a fete drops of lemon juice are squeezed aver the apples just before the crust is put on. Remove grease gains by saturat- of thin cream; •odd one cup crushed macaroons and freeze. Useful Home flints, Commou mignouotte grown in a pot is very disagreeable to flies, Cotton - crepe is now being used for covers for summer pillowe. If sandwiches are served, with;af- ternoon tea, 'they must be small and dainty, and minus crust. Plain :custard, cold and poured over three cupfuls of sliced oranges makes a delicious summer pudding. Grapes and.apples are among the mott nutritious fruits and should be freely eaten,' even by the most deli- cate. Pyrethrum powder burned in a room stupefies flies until they can be swept up and put where flies - oeght to be. ` In the summer delightfal;informal entertaining may be done with the help of paper tablecloths, dishes and napkins. Before starting to can fruit, see that the, tops of your fruit jars fit, and that you have a good supply, of rubbers on hand. - A bit of fine mosquito netting placed under the hole in a stocking, and used as a foundation for the darn, is a great 'help. In washing cotton crepes and ere - pons, have grease stains removed with naphtha or gasoline before putting the crepe into water. Tongue 'for sandwich filling should be mixed fine and rubbed to a paste with :mashed boiled eggs, seasoned with vinegar and:better. A baby's bottle ought never be washed with .soap, but the moment it is empty it should- be washed an cold water, then filled with: a weak solution. of boric acid. one teaspoon salt, one-half tea- spoon soda, two: tablespoons butter, two tablespoons flour, one-eighth teaspoon. pepper. Cook the'first seven ingredients thirty minutes, strain, add the soda and salt. Melt butter,, add the flour airci-, season- ing, then the strained tomato; cook ten minutes and serve hot. Salmon Timbales. One pound canned salmon, one-half cup soft ing the spots with alcohol' rather• bread crumbs, one tablespoon melt- ed butter, one tablespoon lemon juice, four eggs, paprika. Remove the bones and skin and break the salmon into small pieces. Mix to- gether all the ingredients and pack closely in small' buttered timbale tins or cups. Set them in a pan or hot water and - bake until firm. Turn out and serve with a sauce, Nougat Ice cream. -Three Dupe milk, one cup sugar, yolks five eggs, than benzinei as the: alcohol will not leave the ring around the spots that is left by the benzine. Wash • with cold water. All the left -over vegetables, sncla. as string beans, peas, beets, car- rots, etc., will make A delicious luncheon salad. They should he chilled and laid on salad leaves with French dressing. The remnants of a chicken can be converted into delicious short - one teaspoon salt, one and one-half cake: Make the biscuit crust the cups heavy cream, whitesfive eggs, same as far old-fashioned short - one -third cup each pistachio, filbert, "cake. Spread the chicken between English walnuts and almond meats, and pour gravy en the whole. one tablespoon walnuts, 'one tea- Borax makes an excellent wash for the hair; a teaspoonful to a basin of water being a good proper spoon almond extract; Make acrus- tard of first four ingredients, strain and 43001. Add heavy cream, beat- tion: A solution of it isalso good ern until stiff , whites of eggs, beat- as a mouth" wash The dry powder en until stiff ; nib meats, finely may be used ae a dentifrice. chopped; flavoring and then freeze'. If you, desire to remove :clic sk;n Corn Cake. -One and a quarter of peppers drop them into' boiling 'cups cornmeal, two en -Ps sour milk, water and simmer for five minutes, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon or scouring them slightly and pram:- salt, two eggs, two tablespoons but- ing on the broiler over hot coals ter. Sift dry ingredients: Add a few minutes will loosen the ekiri. milk andbeaten eggs gradually. Tomato sandwiches are made with. Heat frying pan, grease sides and, slices of tomato between buttered bottoms of pan with butter, turn in bread; spread mayonnaise over the the mixture. Bake in .a hob oven tomato, and be surf; the sandwiches for twenty minutes. Macaroon ice Cream. --Scald one pint milk, reserving enough to make are not made until just before serv- ing or: the bread will become. soggy. To clean white veils, lay them m a smooth paste with one-fourth cup duke warm soap suds made with flour unix with the hot milk and white soap. Let them .soak an hour. cool in the double boiler half an or two, thensqueeze them softly hour add beaten yolks of three and put them through clean suds in eggs; cook five minutes longer, stir- the same way. Rinse in warm wa ring constantly ;• then add one cup tea', then in cold, and pass through sugar, a few grains of salt and water stiffened with a little gum strain, Wheti cool mix with a pint arabic or rice wviuter..