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Penthorn Road was one of those
oroughfares which have gradual -
come to a state of shabby gen
lity after aperiod of affluence..
The houses were tall and bleak
fend fronted with grim stucco; all in
hat manner which our forefathers
` ound so desirable. Once they had
leen expensiveo u e a .ted
houses ten
us , n by
eople of wealth and social stand-
ing, but now The Gables, half -way
down the road, struck the only firm
t¢iote of resistance to the general air
of decaying prosperity. Curtains
Always hung primly in its case-
ments; the frills of the muslin win-
dow blinds alwaysseemed newly
etarohed, and the ,steps of the front
(door were always a, marvel of
!whiteness.
People wondered why Miss Mar-
;garet Weston, who lived there in
•state with her servants, did not
move out of a locality which wae de-
teriorating so rapidly. Some bolder
.spirits even asked her why she
stayed on at The Gables, instead of
letting it, and departing to reside
in a street more befitting her qual-
ity. To these Miss Weston answer-
ed gently that she had lived in The
Gables most of her life and had no
desire to change now.
Miss Weston always . answered
`everybody gently, for gentleness
was the essence of her being. The
neighbors referrd to- her as an ``old
maid," but, even as they used the
.(phrase, they knew it,.. wee not the
exact term by which to describe
her, There. was none of that. sharp-
ness about her which the epithet .of
""old maid" habituaily implies.
Long ago, when she was a. little
,orphan girl of seven, her uncle had
adopted her and brought her to live
'in Penthorn Road. But now both
her uncle and his wife were dead,
and Miss Weston was left alone in
the old home, save for the servants.
• Rather a pitiful romance, was
Miss Weston s. • It was simply the
old story of the man who had not
dared enough, the man who had
leapt to false conclusions and gone
out of her life, to leave her alone.
Sometimes, when she tenderly
took a packet of letters out of her
bureau, there was one particular
missive which she had not the heart
to re -read, for it was -too sacred
with poignant memories.
But always she remembered the
night when it wae handed to her,
She had only to close Jser eyes again
to visualize the scene completely.
She saw herself, quite young, sit-
ting before the fireon"an autumn
evening. She was trying to under-
stand something. Why . had her
cousin, Harry Dutton, gone 'off to
the Colonies without a word of fare-
well to her 2 He had made quite a
sudden departure, though he had
told her that he was going. And
yet he had never said good-bye to
her.
And while she was •seeking to un-
derstand his attitude., the small son
of a neighbor had come into the
room shamefacedly.
"I say, Miss Weston," he blurted
out,, "I'm awfully sorry; but I
clean forgot."
"Forgot what `E" she asked, puz-
zled..
"Why, this letter: Mr. Dutton
gave it to me to give you. He want-
ed to make sure you'd get it the
same: evening,' I've just remember-
ed it," •
"When did he give it to you V'
she : whispered.
"Last Thursday. And I'm awful-
ly sorry---"
"Last Thursday," she said to
herself, when the small boy escaped
from the room in relief, "That was
two days before he sailed !"
She opened the letter and read
its contents.
"Dearest Margaret," it rest,-
"As you know, I sail for South
America the day after taenlorrow.
Before I go, I want to ask you
something, but. I fear it will be too
much to ask you. You must have
'guessed that I love you. I know it
is, presumption on my part to aspire
to your hand, for you are the
odopted daughter of a rich man and
I am only the ne'er-do-weer son of
a poor blether. But, I mean to
make money in South America. I
want to come• hone and marry you
There, I've blurted it " out quite
bravely 1 Will yo uivarry mea I
want you to wait for me.
"I suppose I'an asking too •much,
but I •shall hope. If you 'reply to
this note, I will come and say.good-
bye, but if you do not answer, I
shall know what you mean. Yours,
Harry."
There was the. explanation. She
went to her uncle and ,showed him
the note. He counselled cables and
letters to Harry, but, ou the voy-
age, Harry altered his plans so that
the message lay waiting for him and
never reached him. And he never
wrote home; he just droppedout of
everybody's life. •
Would-be suitors dangled about
Miss Weston for a, time, buts receiv-
ing no encouragement, went off
elsewhere. Friends 'married, 'ae-
quaintanaes 3.71,0V ed out of the
neighborhood. Margaret grew from
agirl to a woman, froma woman
to an old maid.
And still she waited for :Dutton
in the house where last he had seen'
her, and where again he might seek
her.
II.
Sometimes she epictured his re-
turn. She saw him whirling up to
the door magnificently in a motor-
car. She saw him on foot, tenta-
tively examining the, old house from
the further side of th eraad. Al-
ways she .pictured him.coming back
prosperously to seek that . bride
whom mischance .heedso long with-
held from ,him.
And then, one day, quite unex-
pectedly, she met him in the street
and he was woefully shabby and
down-at-heel and his face bore lines
of want and recklessness:
"Harry l" she faltered.. "Har-
ry 1"
The light of recognition leaped
into his eyes, but he shook his head,
"You're home again !" she.: ex-
claimed. ``I— I've been expect-
ing you. I've been waiting for
you !"
"Expecting me? Waiting for
me he muttered, astonished:
"Ever since you went away," she
said, simply. "Waiting for you in
the old house. There was a, mistake
I never gnat your letter till it was
too late. And then we never heard
where you were. But I waited."
"You—you're amaking a mis-
take," he. said slowly. "I don't
know you !"
Ile swung away from her at that.
Miss Weston took s few •steps after
him, but a faintness came over her,
And when she could see clearly
again, Dutton had.' gone.
But even now her simple faith in
love did not abandon her.
"He'll come hack to me one
day," she said to herself, going
slowly home. "He known I'm wait-
ing for him.. He's ashamed of him-
self because he's poor. As if that
mattered!"
Indeed, it was quite a cheery M:is
Weston who arrived honae at The
Gables: And now every rnorning
the thought was still stronger in her
that thee day her lover of long age 1
might Ball to see ,her in the house
where last he had left her.
But the days ie;lipped by, and
though often glanced from her
windows,.- ,she 'saw no sign of him
m the street outside. And so a
month, these months,. another six
month$, passed by,
xTI.
"Gentleman to see you, mum !"
"A gentleman to see me, Janet I"
asked Miss Weston, in surprise.
'‘How strange i"
A cater of any sort was indeed a
rarity at The Gables,
Miss Westonrose from her chair.
She was trying to persuade bersel:f
that it •could not possibly be Dut-
ton
utton who had come to Penthorn
Road after all these years. Al-
though she had hoped for hiss 'com-
ing every moxlung, it suddenly
seemed to her that this was alto-
gether too much to hope for.
She went downstairs slowly, hold-
ing tightly on to the banisters, and
steeling herself to meet disappoint-
ment.
But it was Dutton who awaited
her in the roombelow—Dietton far
better dressed than -when *she had
seen n him last and now holding him-.
•self with a resolute bearing
"Harry !" she exclaimed, holding
out both her hands to him. "So
you've come back'? I knew you
would—I knew you would`!"
"I ,had to come back," he said
slowly. "1 wanted to 'see you just
once more before I went . abroad
again,"
"Abroad again 1" she. echoed.
faintly.
"What':s the good of my stopping
in England 4" he asked. rt'There 's
nothing to keep me here. Abroad
I shall do better, I did, not do well
when I was there before,, but that
was .because I had nothin to work
for, I had last you and—"
He stopped for a moment.'
"You thought you had ;lost me,
amended MiGs :Weston :softly.
"I—.'I knocked about e bit over
there," he went on. "A rolling
stone, you know. Then I had a
whim tU come back to England. I
—it's no good disgnising it—I was
on the downward path: I'd Iost in-
terest in things — worse, I'd lost in
terest in myself. And then one day
I met you onthe street. • You re-
memberS . The man you remember,•
ed as ' Harry Dutton' was dead
then," 'he said, "and" in his place
there was a mereshiftless ne'er-do-
well. I felt utterly ashamed to 'find
your eyes on -me.. I saw' you still
believed . in me, long after I had.
lost faith or belief in, myself. And
-and I resolved to ,try again to live
mi life straight."
"And *now 7"
"For close on a year -ever since
that day—I've struggled. I think
I've left the wastrel behind. I'm
trying hard to be the man you
thought mo to be, and I think rem
succeeding.''
"And you've conte back et testi"
"Yes, I wanted to isee you again,
not as I was that day you met me,
but as -I axn new. I wanted to win
back a little of your respect.'
"And—and you're going abroad
again 4"
"Quite soon: I've no tees,. no
wife or family," •
"There's me!" pointed out Miss
Weston -with 'unprecedented bold-
ness. "Have you forgotten ree'i"
"You'?" • he said in amazement.'
"You don't mean—"
"I've e waited : all :these years for
you to come back to me," ,she re-
plied steadily. "We • wereparted
by ill -chance, but I was loyal to the
memory of you, for I knew you'd
return one day!"
"And =I," he said, "hive been.
true- to you in word and deed, be-
cause all my love was with you:
Other women" -he dismissed, them
with agesture, "You were always
the only woman in my thoughts."
"I knew it, she said simply, a.nd.
told him how mischance had ,led
their paths apart those many years
ago.
"Ah, if the past could but come
back again," he said. "If only °I
were younger ! But now I cannot
ask you to marry me. I'M getting
old, I'rn poor. And you—you're
rich, I suppose, and you haven't
altered in the least," .
Gently she smiled dissent.
"But I have something to tell
you," she said. "Uncle George
left nee all his money, •but he left
this House to you. Nine years Ago
he died, and we inquired ,about you
everywhere. We advertised in the
papers, too, but could get no tid-
ings of you,"
"Nine years ago l" he answered.
"I was up -country then. I stayed
up -country three years. That was
why I was undiscovered.'
,,Well, nine years' rent ' is
yours," she told him. 'rZ've, been
keeping it for you, waiting for you
to come back. So, you lase, you're
not quite ,so pooras you thought,
"And not quite so rich as l'd dike
to bei" he sighed. "I'd like to he
rich: enough "
He paused,
"To what V' queried Mies Weston
anxiously, "Surely you're not go-
ing to balance rie,hes against happi-
ness 2"
"I've got my prick," he held,
ertubbornly,
"Arid you've got your house,"
she said. ".And I'm goring to shove
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out of it at ogee. You must come
and live in your own house."
"No, no," he replied, uneouifort-
aby.
"I shall go," she said with firm-
mess, and added artfully, "though
after all these years it'll break my
heart to leave it.
"Then—them let me continue as
your—your landlord. The house is
far too big for me;"
"1 won't stay on es your tenant
a day longer," she said. "And it's
going to break my heart to go.
Can't you see what T—what I'm
trying to make clear 2"
"No," he said, in perplexity, "I
can't, And 'yet -but no, I'm too
poor and ashamed to ask ` you to
marry me:"
".Rubbish !" retorted Miss Wes-
ton with the most asperity she had
ever been known to show, "Either
you're going.. to break myheart by
making me leave the. old house, or
else you're going to let me stop on
as your wife, Which is it to, be 1"
Her unwonted briskness gave way
and she took a faltering step to-
wards 'after after all these years—"
she quavered,
"My littlo sweetheart!" he whis-
pered, and she and he forgot that
youth had left them:—London An-
swers.
ANYTHING- INSURABLE.
Everything and Anything Insured
in England.
Of late years -especially in Len-
don—it has become quite common
for gifted people -beauties, musi-
cians, artists, and so forth—sq in-
sure separately those parts of
their anatomy on which their suc-
cessdepends.
An American actress, for ex-
ample, who was recently appearing
at a London' theatre, insured her
eyes, upon whose power of fascina-
tion she relied very largely for her
effects, for £6,000.
Similarly, Caruso has his voice
heavily insured, whilst the hands'
of Paderewski,the great pianist,
are said to be insured for something
like • £80,000, - Many artists, of.
course, insure their hands; and not
long ago a .noted scientist, on ao-
count of, the heavy strain imposed
by research, work on his eyes, de-
cided to insure his vision, despite
the high premium demanded:
Countless "freak" insurances
also have been effected, < To take a
ease in point—a certain erstwhile
society beauty, terrifiedlest her
nose, which is at once her pride,
and creaming glory, should be dam
geed in. a motor accident, � has for
ten years past regularly been pay-
ing ata extravagant premium in or-
der that she may, at least, get
some compensation if a "road -hog"
or unforseen occurrence . mar her
beauty.
Fact aid Fancy.
Gossip puts two and two to -
gather and makes nine.
Beards are taxed. in Japan,.
A good deed is better than gold,
but not es negotiable
The Dutch. consume the most to
bacco ,
Some people never get any high-
er than a, towering' rage.
Baked bananas make a good
brain . food,
Airing other -people's faults never
made them smell any sweeter.
"America has most tramps,.
True pearls are .often found in
the cocoanut palm.
Every man has his own peculiar
bent, and that is why so many of
us are crooked.
Porcelain coins are a feature of
Siam:
REVIVED.
Old -Tinto Health, Eating Grape
Nuts.
"I had been sick for,10 years with
dyspepsia and a lot of complica-
tions," wrote a Western woman.
"An operation was advised,
change of climate was suggested,
but no one seemed to know just
what was the matter. I was in bed
three days in the week and got•so
thin I weighed only 89 lbs. No food
seemed to agree with m,e.
"I' told my husband • I was going
to try •some• kind of predigested
food to see if I could keep from this
feeling of oontinued'•hunger.
'Grape -Nuts and cream was the
food I got and nothing has seemed
to .satisfy me like it. . I never feel
hungry, but have a natural appe-
tite,' Have had no nervous;`.spells
sinee T began "this food, land have
taken no medicine,
"I have gained so inu•oli strength
that. I now do all my housework
and feel well and strong. My
weight has increased 9 lbs. in 8
weeks and T shall always oatGrape
Nuts as it is .fat pleasanter than
taking medicines." Nano given by
Canadian Peetiian Co., Windsor,
Ont. Beed "The Road to. Well -
vine," in pl.gs, "There's a ems
son," •
ever riad the Above littler? A nay, b:ir
appears iron, time to Limo, Thor art
somite, truer and fUil at human iiitevatt,
stesseeisesssesseesoaesheesess
Selected' Reeipos.
Sardines with Lemon ---Remove
the bones and skin of the sardines
.found the flesh, and with a, large
piece of butter make a paste of it
Add lemon -juice to taste, Spread
w
thiteh pasghertekiinns. a dish, and garnish
Cinnamon Cakes.—Take one cup
ful of molasses, one-half cupful of
Wiling water, oneteaspoonful o
isaleratus, one-half teaspoonful o
salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon,
and then stiffen thema:attire witl
flour until it will just pour. Bake
in gem pans, and serve hot with
whipped cream,
Crowded Eggs.—Chop the whites
of twelve hard-boiled eggs, and mix
the yolks with a teaspoonful and a
half of melted ,butter and a cupfu
and a quarter of sweet milk, Sea
son. with onion, salt, pepper an
mustard, Add to this mixture th
wMtes of townh, e eggs and one cupfu
of soft-boiled rice, and bake to a
light br
A Spanish Onion Dish.: Take
the skin from one or more large
Spanish _onions.; remove the core,
leaving a hole large'enough to in-
sert a sheep's kidney, nicely sea -
coned. For the kidney, minced
ham can be substituted, Put the
onions on a, well -,buttered baking -
dish, baste them freely with melted
butter, and bake until a. golden
brown.
Breakfast Disk. --Slice very thin
half a dozen good-sized boiled po-
tatoes. Put them in a frying -pan
for a few minutes with butter; let
them sizzle until thoroughly heat-
ed,, but do not let them'really fry.
Take
six and boiled eggs, sliced,
and one and 'three-quarters 'cup-
fuls of finely chopped ham, ruoist-
ened with a cupful of cream put
potatoes, eggs, and ham in layers
in a buttered baking -dish; sprinkle
bread -crumbs with small pieces of
butter and chopped parsley on top.
Brown in the oven.
Egg Salad.—Boil half a dozen
eggs. Remove the yolks. Cut the
whites in rings. Mash the yolks
to a paste and season wall with
salt, pepper and a, dash of mustard.
Add half a cupful of finely minced
ham. Moisten with a Iittle mayon-
naise dressing. Roll into balls and
place one ball in each ring of white.
Garnish . with watercress and stuf-
fed : olives . and serve with mayon-
liaise dressing,
Vegetable Soup. --Cover a good
sized soup bone with three quarts
of ld ; - coater " and cook. slowly for
two and one-half hours. Add three
teaspoons of salt, one cup of to-
matoes, two medium sized potatoes
diced, one medium sized onion into
which stick three or four cloves,
one carrot diced and one table-
spoon of oatmeal. Boil until vege-
tables are tender. A little water
may be added if it boils down too
much,, (The Ladies' Aid Cook Book,
Charleston, Til.)
Fruit Salad (half quantity
ample). -One medium sized -pine-
apple, three .. bananas, three
oranges, cut into small cubes, pour
the dressing over it;, let: stand on
ice a half hour or mare 'before serv-
ing with Golden Dressing Two
eggs, oue-fourth cup light colored
fruit juice (orange, apple or pine-
apple), oue-fourth cup sugar, one-
fourth cup lemon juice. Bean eggs
slightly ; add the fruit juice, lemon
juice and sugars Stir constantly in
a double boiler until it begins to
thicken. Cool and serve on the
sliced 'fruit, (One Hundred Recipes,
Battle Creek, Mich.).
Fig Cake.—Five eggs `(whites),
One-half cup butter, one and one-
half cups sugar, two cups flour,
two teaspoons baking powder,one-
half eup sweet milk, one -hall tea-
spoon each of lemon and vanilla
flavoring. Cream butter' and sugar
together until verylight, add flour
with baking powder mixed in it
by thoroughly sifting together, and
milk. Add well beaten whites and
flavoring last, Bake in three lay-
ers and put together with fig pre-
serves.
Canned Asparagus. --Fill an as-
paragus boiler nearly full of hot
`salted water, bring it to a boil, and.
when this. point is reached lay' the
asparagus in the water. Boil un-
til the asparagus is tender, but not
until it is soft or broken. Take it
out carefully, stand it on end, the
tipsuppermost, in fruit jars. Tern
the boiling water in which the as-
paragus was cooked into the i',
filling each to overflowing, and sea1
at once. Be sure that your rub-
bers are in pelfect condition and
that -the tops fit closely. Keep the
jests in a dark. place.
Good Things to 1Cnt►w.
"Clean glass with ammonia,.
Clean piano keys with alcohol:
Clean wall paper with stale
bread,
Paint can be removed by rubbing
with spirits of ttirpentiee,
Unvarnishori furniture can be
polished with beeswax and turpen-
tree,
Scratches on fuenituee can .be
taken ,from varnish by rubbing with
kerosene,
Remove white sena ftoin f tulle
tura by rubbing with camphoric,,
Wash linoleum with wane soap
water, then: Apply " equal parts of
linseed oil andvinegaz tahad,
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THE CLE•AN,LJN ESS'
OP sINKs,CLOSETE.
BATHE, DRAINS. ETC.,
IS OF NATAL. IMPORTANCE.
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Ifsweet oil • is applied to the akin
immediately after a blow -or bruise,
it will not turn black and bine.
When cleaning, use a child's long
handle broom to brushunder the
bath tub and under gas stove < in
kitchen. It is much easier than
reaching under with a cloth or
shed handle broom.
In making a cocoanut pie or cus-
tard, soak the.eocoanut in the milk
for a few minutes before adding the
other ingredients,
A liniment for inflammatory rheu
A. liniment for inflammatory
rheumatism is made by taking one
ounce of pulverized saltpetre and
putting it into a pint of sweet oil..
Bathe the ,parts affected.
An external remedy that is good
fora bad chest is an ointment com-
posed of an ounce of pure white
vaseline, in which ten drops each
of spirits of camphor and turpen-
tine have .been. stirred, Or hot gly-
cerine may be rubbed on the chest,:
which. -cover over " afterwards with.
soft fine flannel.:"
Instead .ef:using a flat irefec to
steam velvet, try a soapstone tinct
see how much better and smoother
the velvet will be.
Stains on flannels may be remov-
ed by applying yolks of eggs enc.
glycerine in equal quantities. Leave'
it for half an hour and then wash
out.
Fold apiece`of emery paper in
the centre and draw the knife re-
pidly bale and forth several times,
turning it from side to side. This is
an excellent sharpener for paring
knives.
By placing thin silk between two
piecesof tissue paper, you will f nd
that you can cut it as straight as
though it were a heavy cloth; there
will be no annoying puckering.
For simple hoarseness take a
fresh egg, beat it and thicken with
pulverized sugar. Etat freely of it
and the hoarseness vrall.soon be re-
lieved,
A tight shoe may sometimes be
made easybe- laying a :cloth wet' in
hot water across where it pinches,
changing several times, . The lea-
ther will shape itself to the foot.
An old tablewith marble top
may be utilized for a number of
purposes in the kitchen, such as
rolling out pastry, cutting meat,
etc,, and may be cleaned easily.
A candle may be made to fit any
candlestick if you will soften the
wax by dipping it in hot water.
Then push the candle into the can-
dlestick. If its is too small it will
squeeze 111; if it is too large, the
soft wax will spread and hold the
candle up.
To prevent the contents • of a ket-
tle boiling over on the stove wipe
the inside of the kettle around the
top with butter.
Rine should be washed in several
waters before cooking it. The best
way to de this is to put the rice in
e sieve and plunge it up and down
in a pan of water, ' Hot water is
far better than cold, for if the rice
kernels heed been coated with pa-
raffin the 'loot water will :wash it off
This is impossible with the cold wa-
ter,,
By the way, how many of your
acquaintance let their religion in-
terfere with their business ?
Constipation----*
is an enemy within the camp. It will
undermine the•strongest constttutialt
and ruin the most vigorous health•4.,''
It leads to indigestion, biliousnes ,
impure blood, bad complexion, slag (f
headaches, and is one of the most
frequent cause, of appendicitis, To
neglect it is slow suicide. Dr. Morse's
Indian Root ills positively cure
Constipation, They ate entirely
vegetable in composition and do not e
sicken, -weaken or gripe Preserve
your health by taking
r. Mors&s ds
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