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She had heard before of the garden -
mg brother-in-law, but' had carefully
[ kept his existence in the background
of her mind,
"But 1 mean the house itself; who
does it belong to?"
"To Mrs, Gordon, a rich widow.
She's a great help to the village."
"And does she come to this
church?"
CHAPTER IV.- (Colt'td,)
"The 13shop's residence;" said John,
irr anSwor to her eager question.
I+11a actually turned in her seat to
take a better Look at it, The thought
that to enter those majestic gates
wouid bo her privilege—nay, her dut r
--•could not but make her heart`swell.
"1 suppose ` we shall have to call
there at once, John?"
• "I shall go it mediately, of course;
but Mr. Wedley is away at present."
Ella. ,said nothing for some time
after that,
"What is all that black stuff?" was
her next query, as a turn of the road
brought them into view of a miniature
mountain range, dusky and hare,
which here rescended abruptly to the
very side of the road.
"late refuse," canie John's answer,
in accents almost of pride, "We
shall be passing the gates in a minute,
and then you Will see!"
What she did see was only a smoke
ing engine -house, and: beyond' what
Seemed to her a great black haale in
the hill, on which John's eyes rested
with a tenderness quite incompre-
hensible to her, Beyond that, more
of the refuse; black, shiny, and loose
in the more recent deposits, dull and
closely- packed in the eider ranges,
the crevices filled up with green moss,
and here and; there a wild -rose -bush
having taken root upon the.inhospit-
able slope, to which it clung like an
eagle to a cleft. At one place a pas near!,
ou will see it near, for tha
tween your labors, never Lear! and a
pretty one too;forlinean to be a credit
to you, John, Just see if. I won't be.
that!,,
Upon which 0 pair of hands n et lm
"And' since we're talking;' about
meals, John, I heard that woman in
charge: saying something about sup-
per. Of course it's all right for to-
day; but from to -morrow I'll take all
that into my hands. Tell me, at
what hoar are you accustomed to
dine?"
"At one o'clock. From one to two
is the quarry hour."
The white brow ruffled slightly.
"Oh, but that was in the—former
times, You're not bound by quarry
hours now. I really think that in the
Matter of meals we ought to keep the
same hours as our neighbors."
"All the neighbors dine at one."
"I don't: mean these neighbors, Jo hn.
Now, for. instance, the Bishop—he
dines in: the evening, doesn't he? And
when he asks us to dinner, as I sup-
pose he will do' occasionally" -Ella
had some difficulty in governing the
thrill in her voice as she' said it -"you
t ill have to eat your dinner in the,
evening;. so surely it is better to ac
custom yourself to it at once. And
there may be other people too: By-
the -by,. who lives at that big house!
just across the water, there among
the trees?, It seems a very handsome
House. I should like to- see• it
Ilesively : across the too broad l able
"Yes; she's very regular in Attend-
ance, except on those days when the
loch is too rough to cross."
"Do you think she will call on me?"
With newly -fed vigour Ella. return-
ed to . the charge about the dinner -
lour, successfully overcoming John's
not very determined; resistance. It
was the newness of the idea more
than anything, else which had startled
him; incould itself it c,o tl hove no import-
ince. Once it was proved to him
that even. his work would be benefit-
ed by the arrangement, he acquiesced
without another word.
"Two more days till Sunday!" he
mused, as he rose. "And after that,
to work!"
"Yes, to work!" echoed Ella, with
another of her semi -critical, semi
Prophetical glances round the room.
There was another' shock in store
for Ella that evening; for about an
hour later, while perambulating the
house, with a view to deciding future
arrangerrients, she was astonished, on
opening a door, to find herself con-
fronted by a rather uncouth -looking
individual in a much stained blue
serge jacket and grimy white duck
trousers. This person's face and
beard were of two different shades of
red, which 'did- not match, and he, was
actually sitting down in John's pres-
ence and talking quite.`'easily.
Ella was for at once shutting the
door upon this startling vision; bnt
sage had been cut through the pro- ,
Jesting mass, and -the stone arch gardener—my sist
here
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seemed to groan under the weight ofi'olly's husband, you know -and
the slate above, + course we shall go to see her."
"This part isn't pretty,"said Ella, "Oh!" said Ella, burying, her face
glad of an object on which to vent the her enormous tea -cup.
stili rankling disappointment. "Why,
it's positively ugly." •
t s with a- radiant ;face,; John sprang up
er, and stopped her.
of "Don't run away, Ella! It's only
Adam—my cousin, you know. ` He'll
in be very glad to see you,"
(To be continued.)
"Is it?" queried John, genuinely
astounished. Perhaps it's because I
know it so well that I never found it
out. That black heap represents the
labor of two centuries, you know."
The look of the village—of the
straw -thatched cottages, with the
grasa flourishing on the roofs, and
the green mildew creeping up the
walls, undoubtedly picturesque though
they were—astonished Ella more than
it enchanted her. But the Rectory
raised her spirits. True, it was rath-
er too much mixed up with the cot-
tages, but it was a real modern stone
house, with real bow -windows, almost
as good as a Peebles villa, and with a
front garden which presented pos-
sibilities. From experience gathered
during school -feasts, she •knew that
gardening was quite a suitable occupa- particular branch of cooking in which
tion for a lady, and even .before she women were most interested was the
had alighted from the "machine"— ,making of cakes' and desserts. At
alas! with only a group ,of bare-foot-
ed urchins as spectators, and while a demonstration lecture at a western
John, with all sorts of things hi his university before 600 women the
eyes, was looking up the village street whole time was devoted to serving
towards where a modest grey spire afternoon tea and showing how the
pointed above the roofs -she had re- cakes and -ices and other desserts
solved to buy a gardening manual, should be made. '
to a asort t sof moral set evening e ht saw bebetween likened Now I do not wish to disparage the
elation aril .disappointment. Some arts of confectionery and the making
things surpassed her expectations; of delicious sweets, but I do think
others fell below them. The sitting- that perhaps our women over-empha-
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Too Much D,iessert.
In the average family; the dessert
problem takes up more time than the
more substantial courses.
Traveling through a farm district
recently, the writer found that the
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oorr (which, from the first,• she firm- size the need:and time for making
y called the drawing -room) was larg-desserts. Many girls proudly boast
r than she had dared to hope, and; the that theycan "make cake and fudge
ntrance lobby was distinctly "super- and concoct delicious if overly rich
r"; while, again,` the furniture, tak- y
n over from theirpredecessor,osi salads, but can these girls mane equai-
p 13r good bread,preparep
vely cried out for new covering's meats so that
nd the carpets were certainly as ripe they are luscious and tempting and
for retirement as had been their Yen- stew the plainer. fruits :.so that they
erable possessor. The tea -cups too, are wholesome and attractive?
produced in a hurry—since John's I have said often that meats and
funny idea about a clandestine arrival' vegetables are more poorly cooked in
had neaurally. resulted in no tea be- this than in any other country,
ing ready—were of a dreadfully comth, tl-is statement is based on extensive
mon pattern. But all the same, e;
possibilities were there, inside as well, travels "abroad. On the other land; ir
as outside. l we seem to emphasize tee1M'4 bt pud-
"At Iast, a!" said John, as for (dings, pie, ca speeeu• ji:ongf::ll; stimu-
the' first time they sat at their own i late too., great an appetite for them
hearth, with the primitively set -out J.._6"ae `families.
thnnkful!'eeen them "Ahr a n If we want to classify. the family
--- "` T T r"according to taste,we might well be -
In Ted -a„,--" Do you know, I gin withfather, who feels meal is
not at all expected a 'bow -win-
dow? You never mentioned it. It incomplete unless .he has a hearty
will do beautifully for a flower -stand, triangle ofpie at the end. Now, there
And with new chintz overs on the is nothing about a good pie to be
chairs and a folding tea -table, and one criticized, but it is the one dessert
of those neat little cake -stands to which Must be well made in order to
bring along with it, the room will real- be wholesome, and, second, it does
ly look all right."
"Isn't it all right?" asked the in-
nocent John, opening his eyes rather
wide. "And what do we want a
cake -stand for, when we only eat
bread and butter, and there's xoom en-
ough for that here, surely."
Ella smiled indulgently.
"There's farr too much, room, John.
Nobody has these big, set -out tables
nowadays—I mean nobody of the bet-
ter sort. I've seen how they do it in
thee oua ntr -h u
ses, And of course
we'll have to give our guests ,some
thing besides bread and butter. "\ We
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n t help
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having , you know. ron't trouble your dear head about it;
ust leave it to me. You shall have
comfortable home to come
to be
take a considerable amount of time.
Just ...by it should be a staple des-
sert in many a home cannot be fath-
omed, since all dietitians agree that
the crust is not wholesome if eaten
frequently or on top of an already
generous meal.Then there is -the
child who will not eat the rest of his
meal because he is so arexious for des-
sert, and whose taste has been educat-
ed beyond simple desserts .like rice
ptdding, cornstarch or fruit and who
desires more elaborate puddings with
sauces . ancl, worst of all, whipped
cream. e ..
Whipped cream in, itself is unob-
jectionable, but when 'addedto an-
other food which is sweet a _d fat the.
combination often proves disastrous
to one's livery The cream itself is
practically all fat, so that it should
never be used with desserts which con-
tain a large amount of fat or sugar in
some other form.
It is the exceptionaldinner among
middle class families across the At-
lantic which has anything for dessert
except fresh fruit, cheese and crackers.
Or stewed, fruits which are called
"compotes" may be served.' with a
small offering of tiny cakes. There
is much in favor of this simple type.
of dessert which would mean so much
less work for the homemaker and few-
er overLurdehed. digestions. Fruit,
2. Beef' stew with vegetables;`milk
crisp' thin tea biscuits; honey.
.3. Dried bean ox' pea puree; toast;
baked apple;' cookies.
4. Vegetable -mills soup; rice with
maple sugar and butter or with milk
Or cream.
5. Potato chowder; snickers; jelly
sandwiches.
G. Cold meat; creamed potatoes;
peas, bread and butter; frozen custard`
or -plain ice cream and plain cake.
Lamb chops;;, baked potatoes;
bread and butter; sliced mixed fruits;
coolies .
8. Baked omelet with spinach, kal
or other greens;bread and butter
apple sauce; cake.
9. Mistring
11\ toast; beans; stewe
fruit; cake.
10. Boiled potatoes; codfish gravy
bread and butter; lettuce; custard.
Casters for the Kitchen Table.
The most convenient thing in' my
well-equipped kitchen, says a good
liousekeepei•, is the table, which is
movable. We bought four ordinary
casters, which we fitted in the legs of
the table, so it can easily be rolled to
the sink to receive the dried dishes,
then to the pantry, where they can all
be "Placed" with a single effort (thus
saving much walking back and forth),
or to the stove when canning fruit,
etc. You will'find such: a movable
table: a great•source of help in the con-
servation of energy and valuable as a
time saver:
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The Right Way.
To give your blouses and handker-
chiefs an exquisite, subtle, fresh and
flowery odor, put a small piece of
orris root in the rinsing water when
washing then. - -
To cool a fevered patient, add a lit-
tle bicarbonate of soda to bathing wa-
ter.
To keep moths away and to give to
it a wholesome and pleasant odor, put
branches of arbor vitae. in your winter
clothing before storing it away.
To prevent green -vegetables from
boiling over drop apiece of dripping
the size of a walnut into the center of
them just as they commence' to boil.
To make a tight shoe more easy try
laying a cloth wrung out of hot water
across the place where it pinches.
This should be renewed several times
till the moist heat has caused the
leather to mold itself to the foot of the
wearer.
MOTHER
The proof of Mother Seigel's
Syrup is in the taking. That
is why former sufferers, whose
vitality' was being sapped by
Indigestion, say it is just ex-
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bowel troubles. Thanks to
Mother Seigel's Syrup, they
are now strong and well.
IS EXCELLENT Bear
either .fresh or canned, without much
sugar, is the dessert which . could b
served every day and which eykf e
by far the most wholeson chil-
dren and ee14 rtepie
�,,,, rcuple, who particularly
deed the. salts and mineral values that
food offers.
Another more wholesome plan is. to
make a combination salad dessert at
she end of a hearty meal. So many
delightful salads can be made even
winter or between seasons, that one
often wonders• why another course is
passed after the salad. A sweet,
dressing may be used, especially with
fruits, and if accompanied by crackers
or wafers and the: eup of coffee or tea
the stomach really should not crave or
need anything else.
If you are afflict cj -by Indi-
e -at-as'i o o rfe- d sorders of the
stomach, liver and bowels, take
Mother Seigel's Syrup regularly
for a few days ; long enough
to give it a fair chance to make
its beneficial influence felt.
Then note the improvement
in your appetite, your strength,
your general condition. 301.5
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CONSTIPATION
Menus For The School Children's
Dinner.
1. Eggs, boiled, coddled, poached or
scrambled; bread and butter; spinach
or other greens; cake.
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