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THE LAPSE OP
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By ISABEL GORDON CURTIS,
Author of "The Woman from Wolverton
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CII.UPTER XIV .---(Cont'd).
l.TM,u,th hrugged his sl nelders. "If
tla;tt is the tray y. is cheese to put -it,
wee. n rill gegel. Seems to mea pit,
that stai cannot drop this altoe,ether
end—fee-get. The future leaks bright
for a Bath of us. We eoui.i ea ily go
Peek i a seta, oisl happy laic if y .t
P.:reee moved tewar i the deer. "I
eeniee feeget. I ureini a you oee
Eeeida. I vii .:e: -e: speak of it
' Th:ink yea," eaid the man lerus-
CH PTFR XV.
Who.i the eurtaitz dropped on the
bet act at a Saturday matinee, Iter -
ca paue :,1 on the way to her tire "s-
in;; -,ecus; and d ;lanced out at the stage
dtor. .Rain was lashing, the stre"t
furious, wild-la.own torrents. The
few -people who braved the storm bent
their heads against it and plodded on
with determination.. Nearby a street
organ was wheezing the "Miserere" in
pitiful appeal to a heedless crowd at
the theatre door.
Dorcas returned to her dresaing-
roonz. It was a delightful cozy re-
treat—lir. O. weld had seen to that.
Alice Volk sat repairing a gown.
"Where's Julie?" Dorcas demanded.
"She's asleep in our dressing-room."-
The
ressing-room."The girl seated herself in front of
rhe -mirror and began to remove her
make-up. At intervals she glanced
over a bench of letters which Iay on
the dressing table.
"I used to wonder how it would feel
to be famous. Of course I am not
famous yet," said Dorcas quickly; "I
am merely one of the people you hear
of in pa: -sing. Still, I cannot grow
accustomed te the queer experience of
seeing my name blazoned on every
housetop when I ride on the L, or
finding my picture in papers and mag-
azines. People stop on the street to
stare at me; oceasionally they whis-
per my name to some one who is with
them. A girl I went to school with.
wrote the other day and asked for
sixteen autographed portraits to give
as favors at a party. She was arida.'
child, and at school she snubbed me
unmercifully."
"It's the way of the world," the
other woman answered. "A little of
it came into my own life."
"It's a queer way," Dorcas contin-
ued, "and somehow already I feel
blase. The love and trust I have
from Julie and you is something
worth while."
Mrs. Volk rose to hang up a gown
she had been repairing. As she pass-
ed Dorcas she beat and kissed her
cheek. The girl looked up with a
grateful smile.
"Suppose," Dorcas suggested, "we
have a little spread right here. I can
order a hot dinner sent in. It's a
wretched night—What do you say?"
"If I were to speak for Julie, you
know how she would enjoy it."
" 'Phone to the Beauclerc for a-
menu. It will be fun."
Half an hour later the dressing
room looked like a small banqueting
hall, for the property man had put
everything he controlled at their dis-
posal.
"Listen," said Dorcas to the waiter,
who stood ready to take their order;
"bring us consomme, boiled salmon,
celery, cucumbers, and sliced toma-
toes, potatoes, string beans, roast
chicken, lettice, almond meringue pie,
coffee, and—is that. all?" she asked
of Julie who stood peering over her
shoulder.
"ice 'cream and cake," suggested
the child;
"Of course," cried Dorca"; "it's so
long ago since I was a little girl. I
had forgotten drat, ice cream and cake
is much more important than -,oup."
Julie turned to gaze at the table.
"Isn't it a pity, Miss Dorcas, there are
only three of us, when there are four
sides to a table."
Dorcas laughed. "I'll let you pick
out a guest for us, Julie. Who shall
it Fie?"
.,Steal, let me think." The child
pan ed. -There's Diel: ---Dick woald
do anything for ue. He's only a call
hey, but he's nice. Then there's
Ra`.'ertson. He loaned us the chairs
end table. Robertson's the nicest
man in the Gotham --•almost. We could
have hats Brunton, but she's just go-
ing taut. Then there's Mr. Merry. I
believe," she added decisively,
would rather have Mr. Merry than
anybody."
Dorcas bent to rearrange a knife
and fork.
"How do you know lir. Merry is
'in?"
"He is," cried Julie. ""He called me
into his dressing -room when I passed
and gave axe these:' She unclasped
her hand to show three caramels
squeezed into a sticky lump.
"Would your mother like to have
shim here?"
Julie did not wait for her mother to
answer.
"Of enarse, Mother and I love him. '
"Well, you may be our messenger.
Tell him he is invited bo dine with
three ladies. Dinner will be served
in ten minutes."
Merry returned with Julie clasping
his hand.
"This is unexpected! When the
young lady tapped at my door, I was
debating whether it was worth while
going to eat in the storm."
It was a gay Iittle party. Dorcas
ordered the waiter, to set the dishes
on the hot radiator, then she sent him
away. Julie took her place delight-
edly.
"You're a clever waitress," said
Merry.
"I used to plan to be a waitress
when I was grown up," said the child,
while she gathered plates neatly on
a tray. "That was before I went on
the stage. Playing the little 'Cord-
elia' is nicer than being a waitress."
"It means getting rich faster," said
Merry gravely.
"Of course," agreed Julie. "Still,
it muse be delightful work to be a
waitress. Before we found you,
Mother and I used to go mornings to
a little restaurant to get hot cakes,.
and I loved to watch the waitresses.
Some of them. They had lovely hair
and cunning little muslin aprons."
Merry laughed. "You were wise
to decide on 'Gardena.'
"I know that. I would be quite
happy to be 'Cordelia' with you, even
if I didn't get any money for it. Of
course, though, it's lovely to get my
salary envelope once a week, and to
have nice rooms at Mrs. Billerwell's,
and all we want to eat, and clothes
and shoes. I am growing rich --I
have a bankbook?"
"Really?"
"1 have four hundred dollars in the
bank,"
"Four hundred dollars!"
"When I have two thousand I am
going to buy a little house out in the
country. Mother and I picked it oat
one day when Miss Dorcas took us
driving. We will keep chickens and
a pony and a cow, and have cherry
trees and radishes and pansies in the
garden,"
"I will come and board with you,"
said Merry, "if I" don't have to milk
the cow."
"Oh, Mother," cried the Child im-
petuously, "I never thought of keep-
ing boarders before! ---only we can't
charge Mr. Merry much,"
'May I come too?" asked Dorcas.
"Oh, that would be lovely!" Julie
laid down a chicken bone she held be-
tween her fingers to clap her greasy
little hands joyfully. Merry was tell-
ing a ridiculous adventure which had
once befallen him on a snowbound
train when he was interrupted by a
timid knock at the door.
Julie rose to open it• She turned
to, look back at her mother with a
bewildered glance. A small, odd fig.,
ure stood motionless in the doorway..
a little boy with .ierio.rs, brown eyes,
His straight,, yellow hair was cropped
in a fringe about his eyes, then it
waved upward. He wore a black suit
with lung, tight trousers. A round
Jacket, over a white shirt, reached to
his waist. In his hand he held a hat
like a small saucer,
"Rul'.o, David Copperfie]d, where
did you conte froze?" eried Merry.
la isn't isn't my name." • The child
had a sof;b English accent. "I have
heard of David Copperfield, but I'm
not "David,' Sir, my name is Robin
Tully,"
"Come in, Master Robin Tully,"
said Merry, "sand have dinner with
us."
The child stared at them steadily*.
but did not move.
Dorms jumped t her feet. "Ohl„
she whipsered, "the poor little boy is
b]indt"
The child stood moving his dark-
ened eyes about as if to place her
voice, then he came straighb toward
her, groping with both his hands, Re
had tucked the small, fiat hat beneath
one arm. Dorcas lifted him to her
lap and laid his cheek against her
own,
"Mother," he whispered as he drop-
ped the hat and e1aeped his arms
tightly around her neck.
"Dear little boy," she said softly,
"I am not your mother. I wish I
were."
He loosened his arms and passed
his soft fingers over her face. Dorcas
pillowed his cheek on her breast and
whispered tender, foolish things to
him between her kisses,
Merry took one of the child's hands
between his own. "What is your
mother's name?" he asked gently.
"At home her name is Mrs. Tully.
I have a letter for her, George, who
brought me here, told me to show it
t'o somebody, and they would take me
to her,"
He put his hand in the inside ppeket
of his tight coat and drew out a
smeared envelope. Merry read it,
aloud: "Miss Zilla Paget, ' Gotham
Theatre."
Dorcas turned to look at Merry with
unspoken pity in her eye... "Your
mother is upstairs. We will take you
to her in a few minutes."
Julie crept close to Merry. She
stood by his side, gazing curiously at
the blind child.
"I did not know Miss Paget had a
little boy," she said.
"Neither did I. Run upstairs, dear,
and ask if she is in her dressing-
room, but nob one word to her or to
any one about this boy."
Roblin laid his creek against Dor-
cas' face.
"I wish you were my mother," he
murmured.
"You may have me as your friend."
The girl kissed him softly, in response
to which his chin trembled.
"Does your mother know you are
coming?" asked Merry.
"No, I'm to be a surpri.e. George
said I'm a sort of 'Christmas present."
Merry's eyes turned anxiously t o
Dorcas. He shook his head, and
there was a perplexed frown upon his
face.
Julie came in. "Miss Paget is not
in her room. Emiline says she is
out taking dinner with a gentleman."
Roblin jumped to the floor and be-
gan to grope about for his hat. Merry
lifted it and put it in his hand. "You
must stay here till your mother comes
in."
"Of course, for you are just in time
for dinner," said Dorcas. "We have
lots of good things left—chicken and
tomatoes and ice create."
"His shoesought to be changed,"
suggested Mrs. Volk; "they're awfully
wet,"
"Nothing is wet but .ray goloshes,"
answered Robin. He bent to take
them off, "When we left the train,
George brought zee here under an
umbrella."
(To be continued),
Washing Milk Cans.
The matter of washing cans by eity
dealers, while only a"small pa, of the
daily operations, is a very important
one. Many different :methods are used
by various dealers in caring for the
cans after the milk is removed from
them. Some of these methods are as
follows :
1. Returning the cans unwashed..
2. Rinsing with water (either hot or
old).
3. Rinsing out by means of hose
with either. hot or coli water. This
is quite common at some plants but
is not satisfactory.
'4. Rinsing out with Bose and then
steaming with live steam,
5. Washing the cans out by means
of washing powder and hot water and
a hand brush, then rinsing.
d. Same as 5, with an additional
rinsing with Bolling water or steam-
ing.
7. Cleansing by means of machines
of various kinds.
One of the simplest of these ma. -
chines 15 a jet machine, by means of
which sprays of cold and hot water
and of steam are successively forced
into the can. Some of these simple
machines also have dryer attachments,
by means of which a draft of dry air
is forced into the cans. Another type
of machine is the brush machine, by
means of which the cams are brushed
out with washing powder and water
and then rinsed. They may be steam-
ed after washing by a spray of live
steam. Some of the largest machines
are fitted with powerful pumps, and
the cans, in an inverted position, are
run through the machine and sprays
of soap and water, rinse water, hot
water and steam are successively
forced into them under considerable
pressure. After being thus washed
and sterilized they are also dried in
the modern machines.
In justice to the farmer the dealers
should give considerable attention to
this question of washing the cans. If
the cans are allowed to go back un
washed to the farmer it is a very dif-
ficult and often am impossible task
for him, with his facilities, to clean
them. Even a rinsing with cold water
is better than nothing, though of
course it is not satisfactory. It does.
not matter what method Is used, so
long as the cans are well cleansed and
sterilized. The drying ,of the cans is
also an important factor. Not only
does this leave the can in a i such bet-
ter condition, but it will also preserve
its life, as it helps to prevent rust.
It is also important that the cover be
thoroughly cleansed and sterilized as
well as the can. Ib is not a good plan
to put the cover onto the can until
the latter is dry. When the covers
are not put back on the cans immedia-
tely, the cans should be kept in a clean
place where there is no dust or con-
tamination. The covers should be
placed tightly on the cans before they
are returned.
Some of the large dealers who oper-
ate country stations not only wash the
cans in the city, but also rewash and
sterilize them when they arrive at the
country plant This is owing to the
fact that the covers may be removed
from the cans during the trip back to
the country and thus the cans may
be contaminated.
Considerable experimenting has
been carried on by the Dairy Division
in regard to sterilizing cans. . Bacteria
counts were made from cans receiving
ordinary washing and rinsing.. The re-
sults showed that the cans contained
from 300,000 to 18,000,000 bacteria per
cubic centimeter, with an average of
4,600;000. To 10 gallons of milk put
into one of these cans there would be
added more than 100 bacteria per cubic
centimeter,` as an initial contamination
from the can alone ; that' is to say,
that is thc. least number that would be
added. With a little steaming these
same cans could. be rendered prac-
tically sterile.
One dealer who had recently in --
Do ALL your preserving with
Pure cane. `FINE"
granulation. High
sweetening p wer.
Order by name in
original packages.
2 and a -ib Cartons
10 and 204b Bags
Free
� °This Book of
printEd and
gummed labels
for fruit jars.
if you will cat a red ball
trade -mark front a Lantic
bag or carton and send it to
!/Atlantic Sugar Refineries, Ltd.
Power Ridg., alo •treat
stalled a modern washing machine had
some tests made by his bacteriologist
on the results obtained, From the pre-
iiminary tests made less than 200,000.
bacteria were found to the can and no
undesirable types. Before the machine;
was installed, counts from the old one
which bad a much less efficient stearal -p
log device, ran as high as 20,000,000'
bacteria, to the can and some were un-"
desirable. Of cour a the largo dealer,
niust have a machine that will do good
and rapld work, but the main result to!
be obtained is a clean, sterile and dry'
can regardless of the machine used.'
The main means to accomplish this is
thorough cleansing with washing pow-
der and water, rinsing, sterilizing with
live steam, and rapid drying, then.
cover the eau and keep it from eon-'
tainination.---U. S. Dairy Division.
Cleaning Grain at Threshing Time.
In a bulletin entitled "Grain
Screenings" issued by the Dominion
Department that the loss entailed id
shipping Western grain uncleaned
amounts to considerably more than
half a million dollars. The following
account of an experiment by a West-
ern grower should be of value in con-
nection with the problem of eliminat-
ing the waste due to the shopnient of
grain subject to a dockage on ae-
count of screenings.
A monitor cleaner and a five horse-
power engine to run ib were purchased
and both mounted on an extra strong
wagon gear. A 15 -foot ordinary grain
elevator was attached to the elevator
;wagon or bin. Another box wagon
received the screenings (mostly brok-
en and shrunken grain). The cost of
the entire outfit, including operation,
ti repairs and interest on capital, was
$1,195. The grower calculates that
he saved on his 50,000 bushel crop 1,-
600
;600 bushels of broken and shrunken
;wheat worth $960, freight on which to
the terminal elevator would have cost
$220, and haulage to the local elevat-
or $64. He thus has a profit of $49.
The out fit paid for itself in one year
and he says is as good as when it
started.
This experiment, it is argued,
proves that cleaning the grain on a
large farm is practicable where one
has his own outfit. On a medium siz-
ed farm where the threshing is hired
out, it could not be done in the ease
of grain hauled directly to market,
When the grain is stored on the farm
before hauling, cleaning is practicable
and advisable. The really practic-
able way for the whole country gen-
erally would be that the threshing
outfits should include a grain clean-
ing attachment, as many* of them now
do a sheaf loading machine.
Any ordinary threshing machine if
fitted with proper screens and care-
fully operated is capable of removing
many of the smaller weed seeds that
now constitute a considerable percent-
age of elevator screenings.. -Seed
Branch, Ottawa.
Dairy Notes,
It is hard bo make some men realize
the great influence of a good, pure-
bred sire in a herd. The sire is more
than half the herd. If he is richly
bred, every heifer inherits from him
good butter traits,
Sires should be selected from ramie
lies of cows with rich records,
A good price for a superior bull is
Money well invested. The difference
between the price of a strictly high-
class sire and an inferior one is made
up in the first lot of calves.
Keep the old bull that has proved
his merit:
Fill the silo as soon as the corn is
fit. When the kernel begins to glaze
is the right time. The more ears
there are on the stalk the better the
ensilage.
A silo is one of the best investments
on any farm, It means the succu-
lence of pasture all winter.
This means an increase in cream
and milk production at less cost.
Now is the time to turn off unprofit-
able caws. If after if good trial any
cow is below the standard in capacity,
send her to the butcher.
Peed windfall apples, with the grain
ration, and watch the results. Don't
let a single apple go to waste; there
is feeding value in every vegetable;
get the good there is in it. Little
things help to round up the profits.
'`HERE are certain words
in our language which sum up
a number of qualities, and express
them tersely. "Class" is one, "'EfTi-
ciency" another, " Pennans" still
another. This last one when applied
to underwear means alt the good
things you want in the underwear
you buy for yourself. Don't forget
Penmans.
Penmana Limitod
Paris
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