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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1918-5-2, Page 2ing him "Jerry." "And tremember yen too," he said to Dave Scanlan, "You were with Jerry the other day at Grady's—and you're—Scanlan. Yea, to be sure, Scanlan. I tell you, T dont often forget a face--thoUgh some- times Igo a little shy on names." Jerry flung open the door into the dining -room. "Fellows,' he announced, "Mr. 'wax - well has kindlY PrOVided .6.011e liqUid . . 0 :iii• 7,,,e:, re;Ereshments and cigars for this even_ Arthur St 111141 Od Pie . , , ..... -,,.....,..,,._ ...,.....,--± .„,:m ing',..if you will kindli, step this )vay copyright Houghton marlin COCompwly by ,,,cial arm,, Qatent. with Thos. A.Ilea, ing fward • ee=ceereetere —te,4ar"--att. "A.-aory!" Cheered, to crowd, surg- Toronto `And," shouted Jerry, "there ice cream and doughnuts the house," CRAFTER II. Well, if yen aint' a wonder! Mr. 1\Tr, Maxwell got inside the dining - On Friday and Saturday 111rs. Dono- Maxwell didn't mean we should o room door. He worked his way into hee energetically conducted a house- that kina 0-4L thing." the corner where Jerry was ladling cleaning; she took up the parlor and "I dohai n't know as t.,", Mr. Max- ice cream out of a freezer. ~- dining -room carpets) draped them 011 well's affair," replied Mrs. Donohue "JerrY," he said, "P11 bet this was a clothes -line k the front yard, and with dignity. "If You're going to your mother's doing." with her head swathed in a bate polka- have folks,. be liospittible. 1 borrow- "It was that." dot handkerchief, beat them with a ed the Driscolls' freezer, and that "Well, 1 want Some of that ice rattan stick. !along with our own makes four' gal- cream in a moment." "If he's good enough to go to Con- 1°ns. So it ain't as if you'd been in- He turned; some one passed him a gress, he's good enough to have this viting your friends, to an empty glassof beer. house fixed tip for him a bit," she house. I'll spend the evening at the "G`xentlemen! Friends!" Mr. Max - would say. She could not help ex- Driscolls'—.and say, Jerry, Mrs. Dris- well raised his glass above his head, Whiting her pride over the distinction cold asked if we mightn't slip over and they all listened. "I want every that had been conferred an Jerry. some time during the party, her and one here to fill his glass and then join "And it the first chance he's ever had me, and peek through the window— me in a toast that I will propose.", to vote in all his life!" she would she'd so like to see the Congressma— n. e— \ conclude, "Anda Congressman mak- I told her we could," ing up to him right. off! Ain't he the te• "Sure," said Jerry. "And if you'll lucky boy!" make some kind of signal, P11 sneak By Saturday night she had .put you out some ice cream." down the carpets and washed the par- , In his black suit and stiff collar, lor and dining -room curtains; these on with a salmon pink necktie which Monday had to be darned, for they flared violently against the deeper were old and did not well endure her pink of his neck and face, Jerry des - vigorous cleansing. On Monday, too, cended the stairs. His mother had she washed the windows and dusted just finished putting the dishes away the furniture; the pictures, the. in the kitchen, chandeliers—singing all th w e. My, but you d.c. look nice! s e The activity In the nelghborhood of the kegs was resumed. But at last very 0110 was supplied. "All ready, Comereseman," shouted Dave Scanlan. Mr. MaXwell mounted a chair. "Gentlemen, I want you all to know that Mrs. Donohue with her own hands froze this ice cream and fried these douglinuts fel. you boys to -night. She wanted you and me, coming here to -night to welcome each other, to en- joy ourselves; and so she did all this for us, •New say that when the wo- men come into the campaign and give us their support in this way we re bound to win. And I want to propose the health of Mrs. Donohue—God bless her!" There was great cheering; they all drank with avidity. Jerry in his gay excitement accidently slapped a chunk of lee cream on the floor.. He gather- ed it up with his hands and chucked it into the freezer upon the salted ice, eomplimenting himself meanwhile on his discretion in withholding from his mother knowledge of the beer. Now knowledge could come to her unac- companied by any sting of disappoint- ment or disillusion. (To be continued.) She finished crocheting the tidy and assured him. "Now I'm going up to SPONGE BOX AS KI hung it over the stain on the red change my dress, so I'll be ready to A home-made sponge box or breacl plush chair. The paper roses on the run over to Mrs. Driscoll's the mo- raiser will prove a great convenience parlor mantel had become soiled after meta he conies. Don't stir round and in the -wartime kitchen. It enables six months of decorative service; un- get yourself all mussed up and excited, the housekeeper to keep her spongo or willing to throw them away as having childjust sit still and be calm." ; dough at the right temperature so outlived their beauty, she went over Obediently but with an uncomfortthat it willrise in less"Ina' A - them, petal by petal, with a bit of able consciousness o f biscollar,Jerry damp ry er - damp cloth. No gardener ever tend- sat in the parlor and endeavored to sponge box or breacL raiser, there - ed living roses with more care than give his mind to "Ben }lure, The door- fore, takes much of the uncertainty that which she had bestowed in trying bell jangling violently summoned him. out of bread baking. It can be made to preserve the fresh appearance of A brewery wagon was waiting at from an ordinary dry goods packing these flowers. Likewise, though en the curb; the teamster was waiting at box, and the government has sent object of even greater solicitude, had the door. out directions for staking it, as fol - the white memorial dove been grimed "Two kegs for J. Donohue," said the lows: and flecked. Against a sheaf of teamster. "This the place?" rushes and enclosed in a frame lined . "Yes, but I didn't order any—" A box 26 by 20 by 20 inches is a with white satin, it hung head down,! "Sent by John Maxwell." convenient size. About ten inches wings outstretched, transfixed by an 1 The steamster strode down to his from the bottom Of the box a shelf arrow which was issuing at its back., wagon and lifted a keg out in his made of slats or strips of wood rests Beneath it, worked in red worsteds, arms. Jerry held the door open for Ives ____:L3 D.-» "At Rest." I him dumbly. on cleats fastened to the sides of the "I deolare, Jerry," said Mrs. Dono- "In there." Jerry pointed to the box. A Second shelf is placed four bac, surrendering to despondency„. inches lower, above the one. The on dining -room. up - Monday evening, "if there's been one "Jer-ry!” The call came from shelves Call be removed when cleaning thing that I've tried to keep free from the box. Below the lower shelf a stairs just as the teamster had de- spot and stain since your father's death, it's that dove. But what with parted for the second keg. "Did you sheet of galvanized iron slightly ------- s-flying in from the street, that dove 'Yea, is curved in order to make it. slip in mother." "Oh ' t n 'stake " prevents scorching of the lower shelf doorV' wider than the shelf is inserted. It the soft -coal sinok.e, the soot, the dust got to the is no longer the pure white .bird it 1 and stay in place securely. This "Who was it?" ought to be. I hope Mr. 'Maxwell „„ ,. won't notice the specks on it, and The brewery 'wagon was tuiuminagt when a lamp is placed below and also think we've failed in our duty PP 4:7,– 1 away when anotherwagondrew p, ,. to -j curb. At the door Jerry waitea . . helps to distribute the heat more even- ly.. The door is hinged and fastened apprehensively. The driver lugged a bushel basket filled with tumblers up with a thumb -latch or hook and staple. the steps. Several small holes are bored in the "In there," Jerry murmured, point- lower and upper parts of the sides war s le e . "Now stop your worrying," he said soothingly. "You're just played out. You've made the house look fine—but you needn't to have." t the d •oom Tuesday evening, when Jerry came go ° trip the and in the top of the box to promote home from the mill, he found his . a secon rip man brought .quarts of whiskey and two circulation of air. A cork which has in four. mother in a state of triumphant ex- boxes of cigars. Terry closed the dining -room door upon these contributions; then, as if at a loss, he inserted his forefinger down the front of his collar and gave his chin three or four meditative hoists. He returned gravely to the parlor and resumed his reading of t`Ben Hur." His mother descended .the stairs. "What in the world have you been tramping about so for, when I told you to sit still andebe calm?" she de - mended. "I thought the house was coming down.' e "Oh, I wanted to make sure every- thing was all right," he answered. "And it is. Now I'll read you a chapter out of this book." And thus placidly were they engag- ed when the jangling bell proclaimed the first arrival. "I guess I won't wait to see Mr. Maxwell after all," said Mrs. Donohue nervously, "unless this is him." From the stairs, whither she re- treated, she saw Jerry open the door and admit Dave Scanlan and four or five other -.friends. Then she took her departure undetected by the guests. Until the arrival of the candidate, there was an atmosphere of dismal decorum. The young men, asembl- ing at last to the number of twenty - free, conversed in funerally low voices. At last an automobile puffed up the street and. stopped before the house. Instantly the two front windows were blocked with heads;. the front door was flung open. "It's hirar Jerry announced with excitement. Mr. Maxwell was a believer in dash, in "srrap." He ran up the plank walk and `divested himself of his fur over- coat as he ran. "Hello! hello! hello!" he cried; he grasped Jerry's welcominghand and tossed his overcoat into a corner by the door. "Say, old man, I'm sorry to be late. I've brought with me these friends of mine—Mr. Donohue, this is Mr. Tracy, Mr, Jenks, Mr. Tiffin. Darned good fellows, the- -whole bunch. And, say" --he caught Jerry's atm and dropped his voice to a haustion. "I did think at one time I never would get through," she said. "I hope I've froze up enough ice cream and fried enough doughnuts. How many chi' you think will come, Jerry?" "You mean to say you've been, freez- ing ice cream and frying doughnuts! PIANOS! PIANOS! In order to get our justly high. grade piano in each town, village or town- ship throughout Ontario,- we shall offer one instrument, and only one, in each place, at factory price, as far as it can be done consistently, These pianos are made in Canada and have been before the Canadiau public for over twenty-five years, and are sold on. a straight guarantee. For further information apply to BOX 427 ..TORONTO, ONT. 1-1 wish there was a Walker House in every - little town wide there 'was a WALKER HOUSE In every little town; Then I could travel merrily, And always sit me down At night in peace and comfort, Happier than king with crown, If there was just oris Walker House In every little town. I 'wish there was a WALKER HOUSE In each place where I go, Thecomforts of me, dear old horrie While on the road I'd know, The meals—the Cheerful Service, too, Would leave no cause to frown., If there was just one Walker Rouse e In every little tow. 0. 1101196 Gd6. Ott The nty, ".` PVCilkCr HO tiSe I Pio TCHEN COMMODITY. been bored through the centre to ad- mit a straight thermometer is insert- ed in one of the holes in the top of the box. A Fahrenheit chemical, ther- mometer that registers as high as 100 degrees can be used. Such a ther- mometer may be ordered through a hardware dealer or directly from an instrument dealer. To avoid all danger of fire, the box should be lined with asbestos or tin when a kerosene lamp is used for heating the box. If an electric light is used the lining is not necessary. A. sixteen -candle power light will heat the box nicely.. A small and inex- pensive might e lamp is placed in the bottom of the box and a shallow pan of water is placed on the lower shelf so that the. air in the box will be kept moist. The bowl of sponge or pans of dough are placed on the upper shelf. The temperature of the box should be kept as near 86 degrees F. as pos- sible (80 degrees to 88 degrees ?'.) when bead is being made in the quick way. If a sponge is set over night 65 to 70 degrees F. is the better tem- perature until the dough is made In the morning, after which the tempera- ture may be increased to,86 degrees F. The temperature in the box may be varied. by raising or lowering the flame of the lamp or by using warm or cold water in the shallow pan. Honey a Sugar Substitute. Honey is much more easily digeeted than sUgar, and much more quickly assimilated. It has the peculiarity of retaining moisture, keeping bread and cakes, for instance, fresh and soft for a long time. It is delicious on dry cereals of all kinds, even dry bran. In combination. with most fresh fruits and nuts, there is no sweet like honey. Try it with baked apples, baked peaches, sour cherries, boiled or bak- ed quinces, grapefruit, cocoanut, al- monds and Brazil nuts and you Will surely wanteit. a second time. Raisins, spices and spicy seeds blend -well with honey. Honey cakes, as we have said, are noted for their keeping qualities. For this reason, the use of honey is re- commended for wedding or black fruitcake, cake, while it gives a richness Of flav- or and texture to even a plain raisin loaf like the following: Honey Plum Cake.—% cupful short- ening, 1/2 cupful brown sugar, ;43 cup- ful honey, 1 egg, % cupful milk, 2 ecuPfuls pastry flour, 1 teaspoonful soda, 4teaspoonful salt, I/2 tea epoon- ful ginger,% teaspooriful nutmeg, 3h teasponfulcloves, 1 teaspoonful cinna- mon, 1 cupful raisins or mixed fruit. Cream the shortening and brown su- gar together, add honey and egg well beaten. Mix and sift together all the dry ingredients, reserving a little of the flour to dust over the raisins. Add dry ingredients alternately with the milk to the first mixture; beat well, add raisins and bake in a well -greased and floured loaf pan in a moderate oven. Honey is unequaled for making small cakes. The following will keep indefinitely: Nutlets.-1 cupful shortening, 1 cupful honey, 1 cupful brown sugar, 1 cupful chopped nut meats, 1 egg, 2 whisper—"there are half a dozen more coming up the hill- now—saw my roachille, gave me a cheer, and in- '''' vited t,hernselyes. One of them's Jimmy Burns, running for the Legis. lature. You won't mind letting 'em in? I guess there's stuff enough'for all." ' "Oh, sure," said Jerry. "The rnore the merrier." He was quite exhilarated; the can - dictate's bounding manner reassured him after the gloomy tension of the last half-hour. "Now introduce me all round," said Mr. Maxwell. --"And then," he added in jerry'e ear, "open up the stuff," It was wonderful how Mr. Max- well's entrance iriVigorated the as- sembly. "Well boys, hero we are again," was his happy, general greet- ing. To individuals lie was more than kind; he held hands affectionately while he endeavored to recall the Christian tarn°. To his host he vouchsafed an ecstatic moment, call.- ' • • " scant teaspoonfuls soda, 1 teaspoon- ful salt, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 4 cupfuls pastry flour. Sift the dry in- gredients together, beat the egg well, and mix in order given. This will make a stiff batter; drop by teaspoon - full on a greased pan and bake in a moderate oven, as mikes made with honey will burn easily. This reeipe niakes about eight dozen small cakes. Honey Hermits.--% cupful shorten- ing, % cupful honey, 'A teaspoonful !nixed spices, 1 cupful chopped raiains, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1/14 tea- spoonful salt, about a cupfuls pastry flour. Beat the shortentng and the honey together until the shortening is melted, add the mixed spices, using cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, Allow it to cool. 'Then add the egg, well beaten; raisins, and two cupfuls of flour in which the soda and salt have been sifted. Add more flour if need-- ed to make a dough stiff enough to roll out. Roll, cut netsquares and bake in a moderate oven. FEWER STIFF COLLARS. Better Uses Are Found at This Time For Starch and Linen. The separate starched collar was invented about ninety-two years ago by the wife of a blacksmith of Troy, N.Y., who made one for her husband. Since then it has grown in popularity until there is probably nobody who' has not worn a starched collar at some time or other. Now its popular- ity is on the decline again, partly on the score of c?mfort and partly as a result of the war. The crux of the matter` does not lie with the coller itself, though that is made from material which is useful for bandages. It's the starch that is to be saved—valuable foodstuff that ought not to be wasted on collars. A permanently stiffened collar is be- ing introduced which is not -celluloid, but is a regular fabric collar treated. with a kind of varnish that makes it possible to clean it under the tap or ar)6La" vtpetal0. teArN Ire • Reda:Dee:ea asenateeal • 1- 1.7 4.0.1tiralmeni4 43.Coitat lit.G.LONS6CO.Lemno • °IRON TO CAt.44.ktlA ?iisanr with a damp cloth. Automobiliste should he among those who appreciate this new fabric, for in spite of road dust, it is always possible to "feel clean" in a clean collar. A collar of this kind will last from two weeks to a month. Eradicate cedar trees growing neae. orchards to keep down apple rust. It is chiefly a foliage cliseaee, but also attacks the fruit. Cats are supposed to kill rats. Pos- sibly some do but most cats do not kill rats. Every cat will kill birds, and as the birds kill insects, every cat is an insect protector. 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