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Maxwell, very pale, shrugged l?is ,
shoulders .and achieved a smile.
"Come along, boys," liid.1I
I
no idea this was a Sunday -school
clans ---•and 1 don't know that I've ever
before been insulted by my host,
No other voice was raised' there
was a forbidding look on Jerryis ace.;
Less than half the company followed
Maxwell from the house; the others t
lingered.
There was an awkward silence.
"Well, I guess I'll be going," said,
Dave Scanlan. "Say -I guess you're
all right, Jerry. Ian with you." I
"S&'m I," muttered sheepishly some
of the others. Good -night."
When Jerry called at the lriscolls'
for Itis mother, she looked as if she I
had been crying, She looked at him
with mingled appeal and reproach. He
merely said, "They've gone, mother."
Bat out ordoors he asked abruptly,I
"What did you think of him? I saw
elean spot' on the wall where the mem-
orial dove, now in, the taxidermist's
hands, had hung, and her oyes filled.
if only her man Jim had lived.
A still more cheerful sound reached
him presently and thrilled his heart,
for it proceeded from the Meese to-
wards which his steps were directed,
a house planted on a knoll above its
neighbors and accessible by means af.
a zigzag flight of steps. To the ac-
companiment of a piano a girl's voice
was singing, 'Kathleen Mavourneen";
at the foot of the steps Jerry stopped
and listened. Never, he was sure,
bad he heard, never would he hear,
any one sing more appealingly. His
young heart thrilled to the melody, to
the vivid picture of the singer with
which his imagination presented hint
—the rich, red cheeks and dark, curl -
nig hair and lovely, 'fluctuant, trilling
throat.
He mounted the steps and knocked
on the door: It was opened by Nora
herself—Nora, with her quick, start -
you and, Nora leaving the window." l ie�i smile. llhe pre 1 tiestt gir
"Oh, Jerry!" She dabbed her hand -1 Jerry knew, she was also always the
kerchief to her eyes. I best dressed; slie wore this evening a
"I kicked him out of the house ' white muslin gown with short frilled
saki, Jerry, "when I heard that. I'm ; sleeves, and her hair was banded with
sorry, mother." 1 a black velvet ribbon. The hand. that
Then in her joy and contrition that she gave Jerry was white and soft,
she 'should ever have doubted her son„
she stopped, flung her arms about,
Jerry, and wept in his breast. A few'
moments later, ascending the steps
of the house she said,-
"And now, Jerry, child, you're done!
with politics, I hope?"
"Oh, no," he answered. "To -night
I've just begun with politics."
She paused an the threshold to look ,
at him. There was a new confidence
and knowledge in his eyes, in his
smile. Then with poignant sorrow and
exultant pride she understood; this
night she was present at the passing
of the boy, the awakening of the man,
CHAPTER III.
Two nights after the parlor rally,
Jerry, according to his custom, was
assisting his mother in the drying of
the supper dishes. When he had
wiped the last saucer, he remarked
with am impromptu .air•,—
"I guess I'll be going up the road a
piece. I told. Dave Scanlan I'd see
him."
"It's a wonder it's Dave and not
some other in the family you'd be see-
ing," replied. Mrs. Donohue. "Work-
ing with Dave day in, day out, as you
are. It's for him you put on your
new tie and your best coat, I suppose."
"What'd be the use of teasing me?"
said Jerry with a grin. "You don't
think Nora would look at me—after
her spying upon me with you the oth-
er night and seeing the kind of corn -
piny I keep."
"I'm thinking Dave has set her are asked to eat fish instead of beef
straight upon that. If he hasn't I and substitutes for wheat it looks al -
will." meet like trifling with a big subject.
"You're a good- creature, but you The average man's idea, if you are
must not always be so possessed' to be going to save in a big way, is to cut
helping your son along. Hold up out everything you don't want him to
your cheek now, till I' give it a smack." eat. Canada's Food Controller start-
Ile held it up himself to his two hands ed out with the idea of educating the
and smacked his loudest kiss in the people to save, not to do without alto-
gether,, and there is vast difference in
the principle: You can only judge of
the results of saving by waiting for
a period and adding up your savings.
The wealth' of the French nation be-
ebair and rocked and lamented to her- fore the war .largely consisted in the
self aloud. Grown up he was, indeed, savings the people deposited in their
when he was for leaving his mother in banks, which aggregated a huge
amount. It was out of these small
savings that the huge indemnity after
the Frenco-Prussian war was paid.
Calculations on the basis of returns
actually received show that; the sav-
the voice with Which she greets
was clear, uncorrupted by the harsh
and shrill intonations of the neighbor-
hood. Slender and delicate, she had
a round little chin, a sensitive little
mouth, a fastidious little nose—all
uniting with the flash of her senile
and the color in her cheeks to endear
her to the young man.
"I heard you from the street,
Nora," he said, "and of course I had
to come in."
"Olr, that was it, was it? I bad
hopes you'd strolled up to see me on
purpose!,
"So I had. Nora, you've a great,
way of guessing what I'd be at."
"It must be because I give it so lit-
tle thought. I'd be guessing now you'd
be at speaking with father and moth -
On; it wits just them I was amusing,"
"Keep on with it, keep on with it,"
said Jerry. "I shan't mind."
Ile followed Nora into the sitting
room, in the middle of which Michael
Scanlan and his wife were occupying
an S-shaped "conversation chair."
Michael, facing the door, nodded to
Jerry in silence; Mrs. Scanlan glanc-
ed over her shoulder and remarked,
"Olt, it's you, Jerry," in a manner that
was distinctly more fretful than wel-
coming.
But Jerry was not easily dismayed.
"Sure it might. be any other crea-
ture that was happening to pass a-
long the road It would beh a fine
struggle a man would have with him-
self not to get drawn in by the sound
of Nora's voice. Now has she sung
you 'The Widow O'Toole,' Mrs. Scan -
Ian?„
"I don't care for Nora to be singing
them vulgar songs," replied t Mrs.
Scanlan over her shoulder.
"Oh, now, would you be calling it
vulgar!" Jerry exclaimed. "Just a'
bit of cheerfulness, to my way of!
thinking. Will you let me see what
songs are there, Nora?"
While he stood beside her at the
piano, he was aware that her parents
watched him with lazy hostility. They.
were North of Ireland people and
Protestants, and the Donohues had
come from Cork. But Jerry did not'
feel very much d'ep'ressed by the par-
ental antipathy. Nora had a mind
of her own, and he ventured to think
it was favorably disposed toward him. t
So he continued to chatter in his live-
ly manner: "There's `>ather'O'Flynn': i
the sight of it makes me almost feel
1 :can sing myself. And ' Mulligan's !
Musketeers'—that's another I can
hear inside my heart, .but I've; got it.
safe shut up there; don't be ,scared.—
You know, Nora, you look fit to sing
in grand opera to-nightisn't it a
fact, Mrs. Scanlan?"
"She may be doing' that yet," re-
sponded Mrs. Scanlan severely. "We
expect great things of her."
"We do" agreed Mr. Scanlan, with
equal severity. S
"Sure," said Jerry. "And don't yo:u
be disappointing us, Nora."
"I think there's no great danger,"
obseed
ry Mrs. Scanlan with a malici
ous pungency that Jerry af.'eoted not •
to notice,
"Well," Jerry said, "let it . be any-
thing you please Nora. Just sing."
"I'll 'have time for only about one
song. Maybe not for that. I told'
Charley I'd be ready at eight and it's
tliat now."
"Where is it you're going?"
EVERY LITTLE M ARES A MUCKLE.
ings in December in the United States
were for meats 22,733,000 pounds,
and these had increased in January to
24,418,000 pounds. In wheat flour
the saving was 9,089,000 pounds which
in January had increased to 12,790,000
pounds. The U.S. Food Administra-
tion believes that the saving of wheat
flour during the month of February
amounted to considerably over 15,000,-
000 pounds. Multiply these figures
by twelve and you get a fairly good
idea what was -saved to be sent to the
Allies, and how many soldiers were
fed on account of it. And nobody in
the United States suffered from it.
The same is true of Canada. From
returns so far as they have been re-
ceived show in public eating houses
savings from 25 to 60 per cent. The
use of fish has increased considerably
over 100 per cent. That means that
an equivalent in beef and porlc was
sent overseas. The moral is never
mind what your neighbor does, do it
yourself. If you have to come to
rationing it will .betime enough to,
call your neighbor to account
When you are asked to have a beef-
less meal each day and cut down your
allowance of sugar to one lump for
a cup of tea or coffee you scarcely
realize what it means. When you
.middle of it.
"Go along then with you, and don't
be plaguing the heart out of me,"
cried his mother.
Then, when he had gone, she, sat
down in the parlor in Icer rocking -
the evenings to be going to see the
girls. Better that, to be sure, than
to be hanging about the saloons. And
yet if he could but be contentesd at
home after supper always, forever
and ever. She looked at the square
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Keep household Accounts. ment. Nut loaf is also an excellent
substitute for meat, since it adds
Since the cost of living has advanc-
ed so rapidly in the last few years,
much attention lades been paid to re-
ducing certain items of expenditure.
Such ' efforts are more or Iess futile
unlees we are able to draw deductions
to aid us in the future.
I believe every housewife should
keep acounts. She should know just
what is spent each month for food pro-
ducts, - The budget is a practical
means of reducing expense,.
There is a great advantage in mar-
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more important than the utilizing of
the Jeftaeers in planning the meals
for the day. It goes without saying
that the selection of fonds that give
the a eatest nutritive va'ue for the
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The average housewife will reduce
expenditures by keeping accounts each
month 'of amounts spent for various
food products. By comparing ac-
counts for several` months r it will be
possible to obtain the average amount
spent for groceries.
This Lends toward the keeping of
budgets, and is the means of regulat-
ing family expenditures, as opposed
to the haphazard methods of the past.
It is possible to find what food pro-
ducts are .most expensive and 'Make
some definite plan to lessen the ex-
pe'S.e
Since heat makes up a large part
• of the Ordinary family diet, any
economy in the purchase of t will
make a noticeable recllictfdn in the
food bill. By using meat suhstitutes
'wh)ch' are less expehtive, but as nu-
, tritioos,the amount paid for meat is
greatly reduced,
The use of cheese which is rich in
ptotein as e meat substitute will
1,roee Satisfactory. Since cheese is a
eonceiitratcd food, less is needed to
fuxn:ish the necessary food require -
variety to the diet and is rich in pro-
tein.
T find a great advantage to market
in person. The housewife may see
the foods before purchasing them.In
this way it is passible to get the best
that is offered for the price.
I always weigh, articles that are
sold by weight. In case the grocer
gives short weight it should be dis-
covered, Although the difference
may be small, in a year's time it
counts up, and the housewife has paid
a certain per cent, of her allowance
without any return.
Turn Food Waste into Eggs.
Should all the worthless cats and.
dogs now consuming table scraps and
more valuable food in several thou-
sand Canadian homes—and farms as
well as towns and cities are overrun.
with such uneconomic canines and
felines—be replaced by a half-dozen
laying hens for each dog and cat de-
stroyed, there could be added to our
food supply millions of dozen of eggs
annually, replacing meat needed for
overseas. This replacement could be
made with little cost, as the expense
of dog licenses, collars. chains, ken-
neisi and the like would practically
offsetthe Most cost of the hens.
It is only fair to say that there are
some dogs and cats that are worth
their room And feed; but there are
Uncounted' multitudes of roaming, flea-
bitten, starving, bird -eating cats and
seep-chasiug, poultry -killing, Iawn-
destroying dogs that should be sup
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ens es a war winning• aid, .
When the ml Moils of: layers that
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eompleied their year's work, each hen
would furnish a nourishing"family din-
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"To a dance at McCabe's
"Who with?"
"Charley Corcoran."
"Oh!" said Jerry. "Well, you're
dressed more fit for grand opera than
for McCiibe's Hail."
"I always like to dress up when I
go to a dance."
"I always want Nora to look like
a lady wherever she goes," interjected
her mother.
"Them that are of a low class will
be less likely to get familiar with
her," added Mr. Scanlan.
"She won't findmany of a high
grade at McCabe's Hall," replied
Jerry.
"As good maybe as what some
young fellows have in their mothers'
parlors," said Mrs. Scanlan.
Jerry reached hastily for asheet of
music. "Come on, Nora," he said.
" `Kathleen Mavourneen.' "
She had sung only one stanza when
her , motiher interrupted.
"Nora, 'there's some one at the
door."
It proved' to be Charley Corcoran.
Jerry had always felt antipathy if not
animosity towards the light -haired,'
scorbutic young. man who was fre-1
quently standing in the doorway of ;
Corcoran's Drug Store. It was more
than the milds generic antagonism'
that the man in workman's clothes;
extends towards each member of the
class that habitually wears white col-
lars and tries to keep its trousers
creased. That stronger feeling, in-
nate and indefinable, was intensified
in Jerry while he watched Corcoran'e
debanair entrance and observed his
mannered greetings of Nora and her
family. "Dude!" Jerry thought, and
in his mind the word was charged
with theenergy of rancor and con-
tempt. "Dude!" He wanted to cry
it aloud when Corcoran addressed
him
with
patronizing suavity: "I hear
youohadquite a political meeting a
your house, Donohue.
"The less it's talked about the bet-
ter," Jerry replied ungraciously.
"You may well say that," observed
Mrs. Scanlan.
"Well, you know, Mrs. Scanlan;"
said Cororan confidentially, "when
you mix into politics you've got to
put up with all sorts, Finding that
out, eh, Donohue? Your man Max -
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weli is ail right though; he Nn have
Uy vote."
"1' thought likely," In his extreme
aversion Jerry cduid not permit him-
self words enough even to make
sarcasm effective.
"Oh, sure, he's the fellow. ---Well,
Nora, all ready to come and trip the
light fantastic witth me ?"
Jerry wondered how Nora could en-
dure a man who talked to her in that
fashion. It 'seemed to grim a hackney-
ed and objectionable form of sinart-
ness. And yet Nora seemed smiling
and eager; she would be ready in a
moment; she had only to get her,
wrap; she hadn't been to a dance in
weeks and she was awfully excited,
(To bo continued.)
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