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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-9-2, Page 6etre brewed, takes away fatigue, and is absolutely harmless, as a daily beverage - TRY B575 once, and you'll never forsake its use, And soft on the prairie's breast? Have you felt in your soul of her won e- ve ,�4 N e t, Brous charm, met great people and received honors. I've seen her last photograph; she looked rather old, I thought, and tired but she wore a wonderful velvet gown and there were real pearls around her neck, Laddie!" (Concluded in next issue.) The Lure of the Prairie. Have you tasted the breath of her sun- drenched air? Have you followed the infinite space? Have you felt the soft touch of the winds, Chinook, Andthe alkali dust in your face? Have you wandered the .hills that are misty and dim Miss Phoebe's Hollyhock Garden By CHARLOTTE KINNEY. �t4 PART I. !them?" Then Lakeview experienced "Spring is surlily here:" the women; an awakening, for Miss Phoebe, for their windows would exelaim tis the second time, had proved that she they watched Mies Phoebe :tilalcombe i was She had, the past year, on the with her basket of fussy-titillows passe margin of her time, evade and sold by their houses up the hill to High'; several pictures, The excellence Schee!. Or, "Autumn has conte again ; was attested by the feet that again for there gee: 1Tiss Phoebe with her, had wane to her an offer to come• to milkweed pals and asters!'' TheyToronto. couid say this because for twenty The day before her departure she years Miss I'll eche li ad beer. going. sat beside -a box pitekir,g her pictures, - ea t -heir windows with her season- Suddenly, she came tonne over wit:eh; tit l< lA.l�! et. she lingered and fondled almost as if Twenty years, up on the third door it had been a baby. It was the plc- ei the malt a,:hool, :wee Phoebe hal , ture of a little yellow haired boy with. taught the drawing classes. Her hair brown, bare feet standing against a l.:as quite gray now and her eye=. , great :Lass of pink andsear et holle� were two of the 1. " ° e -r eyes in hocks. It was entitled, In a Garden._ Cie , lelir' Ito : tired teal there,:"The Dear!" whispered Miss Phoebe ere, 1'...:L..t ;Lras al •o.it her ,eo:tth, and her lips twitched a little, "How I But :.re were n(:op?!x' who t .Ll:i re..shall miss ham!" The boy who had' Fee* :Tee pae?Li'e ease her hit posed for the picture was David, a' ;hal . ee o- a snappy .nese: eel her lift:. elf of a fellow who played in' eheeee as peel: and reek ee the holly- her g telen and made trains of cars ex, that grew in her ,.:v: geeeen. out e;c Ler becks en the floor of her ,i1 at aa,s the time .-lien xiee studio. She covered the picture at" l s eebe had beet but twr.. ; -o;Ie endlast and carefully placing it in the just i.4 Fee Irem art s ihoi .. It was box, was prep :ri3:g to tack down the said that Miss Phoebe had won a geld cover when the door hell rang. "rte medal mei that an a .:t• •r ,l«a::•u in To- e cee grs nt, But ped wasnotPhoebe, just' 1 to who 1 1d z, -On her r at res, hal , e.:e e i her a Fla: e or riw ii`+:ei,',eeeees " the bo • with the "Companion." She "Ir('een. `alit dim Willem, the past- f'Ninaher pec.:.t. cok and paid flim rimester, had said t�+ Mi,s I'..ebe one , "Don't brim; it mixt week ea , Willie. 'morning when he had hae,ler1 her an I ni Zia �n't.' away to Toronto." im or t loo king letter with a To- . Y ou re alright, lifi.,s Phoebe, I pont,, postmark, "1 re fon now with laity!" grinned Willie, keeping the this rine position you're going to be; change as she closed his fingers ever gett1nx and the menu you'll be malt.! it. "And some day I bet fingers ing, you'll never let y, ur ata take .n:z°ill find one of your pictures on the: any more sewing. Yo•;'li be able to i `Companio:'s' cover!" give her a rest now, Miss Phc ebe, l The picture on the "Companion's" ,till as ht ain't n since yew.'Fath- cover of a little boy rgainst a back- er dacd. and you was a baby" ground of hollyhocks, was so nearly And then when all Lakeview had like her own conception, that she could given hiss. Phoeee a farewell party scarcely believe her eye.. With eat- en the eery e\e of her going. some- `iag heart she read the signature, smile l': t'she-a somesha r se teeeete- Marcia Allen McNair. "Ile':' picture!" • i a tro.. overt-Ale:mile.. as to i weed M.ss Ph ebe, "Hers! She's peeeeI:, Mies Phee: e', it;' eileetessre 'e i:'.2 start (,: me again, even to, Is • , aad t tf 1 . -e the `,.•ing first with my idea." eeceee of her .e: Mrs. M a' eelie ;ti- She had spoken the words aloud. ferrel a etr�..ke of r�: alt's:e thin La(i.ii� a very old t 1' got! lir - for -. •.t:rteli collie, ,-ot z t e .rrea 1 ifer life mil ,t :3n:;:ly up slowly from his nap and cane up I,f: her ht•'r c sly erippleti i and laid his great head understanding-; At first, M.;.? Phoel a ha .l hopes for , ly nn her lap. her mother's reeev"ery, She bravely i "It hurts, Laddie, that I never could: aecept.•d the modest art position in have had my chance. Marcia and I' the village high school, engaged a girl were to have gone away .together, to stay with her mother the hours she ,Laddie, but something happened • to' was € is ined to be absent, an •.i waited, make Ire stay. She went an to a big! cheerfully and patiently. One of the • success. And I've often wondered, eweet things about Miss Phoebe was if something had kept her from going, her cheery patience. It perhaps was ' and I could have gone on, wouldn't I what had given her face its soft and have made as big a success? I love to Iove1, quality. j think so, Laddie! And Laddie, that Years passed. Old Mrs. Malcombe, isn't her real name any more than sat in her chair quite comfortable but: mine is Narcissus Celeste. Her name helpless, slowly fading away like the:is just plain Mary McNair and she's fading of a beautiful flower. If there ; from Lockport, and we went to the had ever been a time when Miss' Art School together, roamed together, Phoebe had resented the fate that ; worked together and graduated to - kept her from realizing her career% gether twenty years ago. But that she had carefully concealed it from her'isn't all, Laddie. There was in school mother. A great love existed between` a teacher, old Vandy, we used to call them. "I'll never leave you, Mother," I him. He taught the life class. He used Miss Phoebe had often whispered to Ito watch her pictures and mine in the her. "No, not for all the glories of making and once he said, `Miss Mary, the world." -she has talent—mach, but MissPhoebe Two years after Mrs. Malcombe's has more; she has genius.' That's the death, the daughter went steadily on word, Laddie, the magic word, and with her teaching. She had become a I've liked to think all these years that fixture with the school, as much so as perhaps he knew. It makes it easier the flagstaff on top of the building to have the courage to start again! or the clock in ethe lower hall. Then She picked up the picture again and one day, the village was electrified examined it with greatest interest. with the news that -Miss Phoebe had She even held it up before the Old resigned and was going to Toronto dog's eyes, "Look, Laddie, is'n't it to have a studio. "To have a studio!" clever? Mary was. always so clever repeated the amazed Lakeview. "But and pretty tool - They say now, that was Miss Phoebe, the village drawing she is cold and haughty. That she has teacher, elever • enough to draw pie- a great house with servants and ears, tures for magazines and actually sell and has traveled. in foreign lands and Fruit Growing on the Prairie Long before, the grain and cattle era of the west, the Canadian prairies pro- duced many small fruits which grew wild in profusion. Several varieties of wild currants and berries of great palatableness are still to be found' throughout the country andare pre- serv"ed annually by the wives of the farmers of the three provinces. Where wild fruits grow in such profusion and sturdiness, it is natural to expect that some of the cultivated varieties will thrive equally well, and this expecta- tion has been realized by hundreds of farmers in Western Canada who have made a hobby of the growing of small fruits. Thdir success shows that with treasonable care and attention some l.emarkabie results can: be produced ,and that Inueh might be made. of this branch, of agriculture' on the prairie. The provincial universities of.Mani- toba, Saskatchewan and. Alberta have, through their horticultural depart- ments, gathered much valuable infor- Matiee. relative to this industry, and much successful experimentation has been done by the many experimental farms scattered threoght the country. And the peace of her quiet rest? Have you seen of the midnight, so black and deep, 'Neath the sweep of the star -strewn sky. Out there in the data where the wild things creep And the Northern Lights go by? Have you followed the beat of the un- known trail That leads you to God knows where, Up over the hills with the waists be- tween, And out on the prairie bare? If you've tasted of these you May wan- der far O'er the sea and the mountain and plains, But ever the prairie will call to your heart And you will come back again. Charm and Romance of Sundials. Easy Cooking for CombaliY. My neighbor Nora has a husband who loves to have company in the home. 'SI nearly- wept to smash on that rock," said Nora to me, "until I learned how to manage," "To—ramiego?" I asked, "Yes, manager laughed lay neigh- bor. "I cannot have company and do ail my work—unless I manage. At first," said Nora thoughtfully, ''it wipe off • all the coal oil, and oil with a good quality machine oil. This: knowledge has saved me send- ing for the repair man a number of times; it also has saved me much time. It is a very simple thing, .and yet many women neglect it, How to' Grate a Lemon. The grating of a lemon is a most simple operation, and it may seem seemed there were but two ways to do, that every one must know how to do Have company, and go to smash.-.usu- it; but this .is far from being true, as ally a raging sick headache after it many cases of curdled custards and was all over, breaking nerves and an sauces can easily testify. The object unsteady temper and limbs aching of using grated rind of lemon is to exasperatingly because of overwork; obtain the fragrance and flavor, which or, not have company and drop out differ greatly from any extracts, how - of everything• --let my husband go his ever good, way alone, find his own enjoymesat, Now, the whole of the oil which and perhaps grow away from his contains thls fragrance is at the sur - home. I put thought on it and found face -4s, in fact, the yellow portion a third way and it works." of the rind; therefore this, and only the cap, The great point of azonor "Gradually, I planned about ten ex- this, must be removed with the grater, about the cap, of course, was that it tremely simple company dinners, I The white part underneath is bitter trod to be as broken and squashed as have the menus written out and t liked. and causes milk or cream to curdle, was consistent with a passing en up inside the pantry door. I have but it contains rio part of the lepton parade. The little s. iuy peak had to practiced on the preparing of those flavor. Yet when lemon flavor is called be cracked, and the red crowu shy.:: dinners till 1 think I could prepare for the lemon is often grated down less Part Wed, them with my eyes shut, Each din- right to the pulp in parts, while the The new -looping kepi could only be Tier is a miracle of s!mpiicity. I used yellow rind is left on. A. lemon should warn without ridicule by some Mere. to decide that 'it would be nice' to be gratedevenly, beginning at the ous veteran. The younger the soldier have this or that, but now I plan: n end and working round et, using as the more thought lie gave to rcn('.p . menu that will take the minimum small a surface of the grater as pos- ing hie headgear disreputable. No amount of work. 1 out work down sible to prevent waste. The habit of: youth ever colored , lucent -min more to the last detail. turning the lemon as you grate comes carefully than the oighteen-}ear•old "1 seldom have roast meats. They as easily .as to turn an apple under French conscript discolored his cap. are too much work and not necessary, the knife when peeling. We are so used now to pale blue soh Nine times out of ten I use cold meat Generally twice across the grater, Biers, with medieval helmets, or wi"- sliced and 'beautifully garnished and and back between each turn will re- the dashing little polieecap, worn r . be used in the preparation of some dishes, such as chowders, omelets and so forth, where its flavor will be mask- ed to .some extent by other ingredients. To. some people this peculiar acid taste of fermented corn is not at all objectionable. The brine is made as follows: To each gallon of water used Gadd one-half pint of vinegar and three=fourths cup of salt and stir until salt is dlssolved. The amount of. brine necessary to. :cover the vegetables will be equal to about one-half the volume of the ma- terial to be fermented. If a five -gallon jar is to be used two and one-half gallons of brine will be needed. French Army Loses the Kepi.. The kepi is to go. The French army is to wear either trench helmets or glengarries. For a hundred' yearn the kepi has in various forms seen the French soldier through his few de- fects and his zu ny glories, To such a garment farewell can only be said with. regret. There are some sentiments which tbe host hard-headed can hardly •lent'. All the rest of the old uniform has lone—tile baggy red trousers, and now So far as can be ascertained, no one served in plenty. When you have move all the essential oa, but while an imperilment angle, that It s0ems in. knows the date or even the near -date plenty of everything the :ten are sat- guarding against grating too deeply credible that in 1914 the men were of the first sundial, says a recent isfied;: when everything looks pretty care tmust be taken to remove the: cheered as they marched away, writer. I think the Bible gives us the women are delighted. about the earliest records of then, "I use salmon, jellied .chicken, cold while tbe earliest sundials still in tongue, sausage loaf and several more. existence are Grecian, and the earl- iest Grecian dial known was 340 B.C. Sundials abound in China and japan, too, and Time himself only knows how far back they were known there. There is an altar -like quality about a sundial, a solemnity, impressiveness, "I seldom serve more than two other and serenity which confer dignity UP- hat dishes—potato and a vegetable. on a garden and invest it with a peace Dishes that are to be served cold, I that wraps soothingly about one the get ready long beforehand. moment one enters the gate. I once «If it is a very hot day, I omit soup, heard an old man say that a garden use plenty of fruit, .grapes', melons, without a sundial was like a person berries. I can buy ice cream end that with a shallow personality luz►e, A sundial, like a candlestick, is the work—save work—save work! That world unless lie has goad foal. ' lovelier for being older; for .age gives is my motto. And to do it I cannot But sanest from. its economic value' '� a mellowness which man cannot dupli- furnish the reg;;lat:on 'company' good food has an eifeet on the daily Minard s Liniment For Suras, Etc. CAte. meals and be just to myself and 1 atmosphere of the home. Everyone!`-' Seine of the mottoes upon the very very insistent seem to have earned the reputation knows how refreshing a good meal .1s! Horne, Sweet Home. old dial : however, wereof doing,train; s in a novel way. at the end of a hart- day, and how! The dearest slact on earth to ino, that one bear death in mind rather "Fred always helps me. As soon as tho,-o found upon much easier it is to be amiable there -1 Is home, sweet Home! than life. l;upepon son so Is this true erme of the older dinner is over Fred ushcre our guests after. Yesterday's dinner and the din -i The fairyland 1 long to see churches, whose dials, by the way, into the sitting room, and almost by ners of many earlier yesterdays all. Ls home, sweet home! were oftener wall dials instead of pe- magic vanishes to appear again with help or hinder you to resist the temp- There, how charmed the sense of hear dental dials. my big kitchen apron on, announcing; ! talon to be irritable. ing; Speaking of English dials, Charles 'Excuse me two minutes, pl ise; the In mak'ng her plans the housewife There, whore lova is so endearing; Madam calls!'" i must ccneider several points: her bus- All the world is not so cheering, "Couldn't you leave the dishes?" I band's income, the health of her fain- As home, sweet home! asked. Illy and its happiness. In making up • "Yes, but but when we do, they get in" her home budget she should decide the way of chores and Fred knows' definitely what part of the housekeep- whole of the yellow surface. : branches hi rifles and flowers in caps, jI were the red and blue soldiers of half Food and Efficiency. i a century's cartoons and drawings, "I keep plenty of parsley for gar- A. young wife, inexperienced in with their little caps, such as an aged nish growing in my kitchen window housekeeping, .is likely to feed both; English postman might wear in his box and I always keep lemons on hand. herself and her husband injudiciously. garden -0e created relie of Iiia official "But I start a company meal oft' In the ease of the husband it may he'i':gear. 07'4 v::tbout the hinder with a hot soup, highly seasoned. For mean a loss of efficiency, because int Pe;1k- jattrt'Iy ori:rnmed upon their this I keep canned soup ready on hand. proper feeding makes flabby muscles, • Bead$. a torpid liver and a muddy brain.' It w;ll be a very little time lief -tire When children come into the home,; we actually ree the last kepi, and prob- the wife has a. double • responsibility. i ably when we do we shall not realize Every child has the right to a good; it, These things slip away unnoticed. constitution. If he does not get it, It aught to be repae.,ented in the war he has the right to ask why he did not: museum. Its renins Call rt!it be aeen get it. No child, however well-born,; bunging on some of the wooden eross- is likely to win in his fight with the es by that long ea tern road which fol- lows the valley of tits M A the University of .Edmonton, 300 miles north of the international bound- ary, a large number of varieties of currants, raspberries, and strawber- ries have been grown with gratifying success for many years. Strawberries are quite at home on the Canadian prairies and have be- come the most popularof the small garden fruits. One of the most. in- teresting surprises prepared for the Prince of Wales on his tour last year was the presentation of a box of strawberries grown on a farm: at Coal- dale, near Lethbridge. Fresh strew- berries in Optober are a novelty in the northern hemisphere but quite a :pos- sibility in Alberta, many varieties be- ing grown asfar north as Edmonton. Up to recently comparatively little fruit has been grown by farmers in the prairie provinces, and those who did enter into this interesting phase of, agriculture grew ol~iIy sufficient for their household needs. But now with the great stretch of country becoming yearly more settled. it is passible for a farmer to profitably devote greater time and energy to the growing of small fruits for market. • • helps. I woukl not make it for I save the First presented a most elaborate one to his queen; Henrietta Maria, and had inscribed upon the dial—"United In time. Parted in time. To be united when time shah be no more." Some dials are stern taskmasters how hard that, is so the two of us ing money she can spend for food, who resent any dawdling even for our hustle and wash up the dishes in a • what part for rent, for clothing and pleasure in their society, for, ad- jiffy. It is restful to have a tidy kit.. for running expenses, and what part monishes one old dial, "Behold and be- chen when my guests depart!" I she can lay aside. In the running ex - gone about your business!" and an- "But isn't it awkward leaving the pauses she should reckon the family other, "To no one is given right of de- guests in there alone?" I asked. ( vacation and that money for amuse lay," and another, with startling "Fred, Jr., does the entertaining! ments. abruptness, "Mind your business!" He's almost seven, but he can run our; When she has decided upon the slam Other dials give advice mare gently, :music machine as well as we. We that she can spend for food, the home - as "Now is yesterday's to -morrow, have taught him to entertain company maker is ready to plan how to spend and— while 'Daddy and Muver are doing it. The average Canadian has a way "The guerdon of the passing hour dishes,' and he loves his part. His Dad- of demanding the best without stop - Seize gladly while 'tis in thy power." dy did mast of the teaching and I don't ping to consider what constitutes the The other, a more stately dial, says, know which of the two enjoy it most. 'best. Onn who tries to educate the as though blessing youth and romance I took the part of company during these inexperienced housekeeper has first to with a benedictive evening lessons his father gave him.: teach her a just appreciation of values. "Too slow for those who wait; When Boy was younger we borrowed, The young housekeeper, instead of Too swift for those who fear; Marjorie May, , a neighbor's little, finding such problems i heeme, should Too long for those who grieve; daughter, and made out a real little, he proud to have a field in which she Too short for those who rejoice; . program for her to go through with. l can use her .m•ental powers to such But for those who love She recited some of her sa hoot pieces, !good advantage, and in wwliich any Time is and presented our latest picture pos-; success is certain to be rewarded with.. Eternity." tars for the guests' inspection or pas- a corresponding increase in the health Speaking of inexpensive pedestals and happiness of -those whom she for sundial's, one' of the most attrac- tive I have seen was an old gate post which had been- transplanted, leveled, a piece -of wood placed upon the top of it to support the dial, a piece think enough to take some crude Serv- ing. about the. sides, where the nivner had inscribed':` r' '`Gather ye roses while ye may For o1d,,ti'me is`a-flying!" And. the wooden post was entirely wreathed in pink rambler roses. t�J The Shori; ng Way. O steadfast Faith! Let me behold Your face'serene and fair; Your eyes reflect` the light of'heaVen— I read a promise there. �. Ah, Hope, brave Hope! When all, was • `dark Your lamp burned clear and bright; Encouraged byits cheerful beam,; I sought, and found, the' light �;,'_ And., Charity, kind Charity;., (Whose other name Is Love), You drew me with your tender cords And bound my soul, above. Fair guardians o€ my 'destiny! •O` bring my steps, I pray, TO where the paths of earth, -are morged Into the shining way. —A L Read. Too many . people say, i'Good-morn- ing," without realizing what it means. Think it over! lylinard's Liniment Relieves Cords, Etc. sed nuts or did a litble dance, and we have never yet had guests who have not seemed to -enjoy themselves. `"Company is part of happy home life and I mean to have all I can, sensibly, and I find that they too like me to be sensible." Oil the Machine: Sometimes my sewing machine .:be- comes_ gummed, and refuses to move, so I ;pour coal -oil into the oil; holes,; take the thread out of the needle, and run the machine. The coal oil soon cutsthe dirt and gummed tail. Then i. loves. Preserving Corn in Brine. Husk and clears the silk from the corn; wash and puce the ears on end in the jar, packing the jar nearly full. Pour the brine over the ears.; add cov- er : and weights„ Fermented corn has a sour taste, which may not be relished -if the corn is eaten alone.'` 'For this• reason ,it will be preferable in most eases to preserve'cora by drying, can- ning or by salting without fermenta- tion. Fermented corn, however, may Ontario .s 1919 Mineral Production According to a bullelin'=recently is- sued by the Ottawa • Bureau.'of Mines; metalliferous mines, smelters, and re- fining works of Ontario show, in the aggregate; an increase in value of out- put' for the first quarter of the year, of nearly one million dollars over the corresponding quarter of 1919. Owing to Ontario's contribution, Canada was the only country able to report an increasedoutput of, gold 1919. Production for the first quarter. of this year shows 'an : increate of nearly 46 per cent over the first three months of 1919: The output for the period was $2,953;036. 'In addition; the gold mines produced '24,913` ounces of silver valued1•at• $31,373:' The total quantity of silver marketed during the period shows a falling off, -•the' produc- tion being 2,280,665 ounces, valued at $2,954,695, as against $,105,002 ounces, worth $3,152,700, in the corresponding period of 1919. • During the quarter; 301,133 tons of nickel -copper- ore were raised and 258,700 ;tons smelted, as compared with 229,822 and -226,954. tons respec- tively for the corresponding period in Shipments of matte,: totalling 10;168 tons, were made, to the re fineries in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. The Algoma Steel Corporation and Moose Mountain, Ltd. carried on iron mining, 53,754 tins be- ing raised. 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