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Rapt and Romance
By. ETHEL CHAPMAN HARING.
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The Hardest Task of All. in cottouseed or peanut oil instead of
Stepmothers are apt to thunk 'theirs olive oil.
is the hardest lot in creation, because There are three things about the
of the general attitude of the ptlblau' outside of a 'box of sa^ddnes that the
toward second mothers and because clmecrzminatang •housekeeper will de
the very word itself seems a reproach, well to notice: first, its general asp-
but the wife and mnothex of little chi!- pearance;'•second, the way, in which
dren who must take°eare of a crochety the box is sealed; third, the •condition
elderly person liana small house on a of the label.
limited allowance certainly has eo I. The top and the bo±toni of the
eompetit,ion when it comes to speaking 'b°x eliould If
either' flat or slightly
of difficult jobs. At one and the ceneeve, If : the contents have been
same time she must try to be a good thoroughly ,sterilized, there will be a
wife, a good mother and le good rola- partial vacuum in the =box, and at-
tive often under difficulties that would mospherie pressure will force the
try the patience of Job. There : are cover inward. Bulged, or convex cov-
women who are sueeessfully doing ers, on the other hand, usually iinda-
these very things, and they certainly tate imperfect •sterilization and the
deserve more than they get at the presence of gas that has inflated the
hands of bothfamilies and the on- can. To eat the contents of such a
looking public. box is to run the risk of ptomaine
In our •community is a young . wo- poisoning.
Than with four little children who has 2. A drop of solder on some portion
I. : `Teddy!" she cried, and submoittted with her her very old father. The old of the cover may mean that the box
From her sheltered corner of the f with eestacy to his embraces, gentleman adores and spoils the chi!- has been resealed. 'Unscrupulous deal-
hotel verandah comminiding the 9restf "Good old girl!". the man exclaimed dren, yet when he ntants them to be era sometimes prick swollen bores to
view of the ;1 i surround.- in a big,out-of-doors bass, "The For- quiet he expects them to instant let the inxprisoned gas escape, and
tsRuthand is un yDp P obey then reseal the boxes with drops ofi
ani Peaks, Goodnow lamented est. Department gave mime five days 1 , Of course, they do not and then
solder.
it leeks bright, elean and new, you
that romance had passed her by. Here off, and I found that if I traveled foul he reads the mother- long 'lectures
about what children did when he was 3. Examine the label of the box. Ii
young, and how there is no respect '
shown now for old people, together
with peseinmistic refieetions on the
hard fate of elderly people in general,
He becomes irritable with his daugh-
ter and the children and refuses to
be pleased, with every effort she snakes
to pacify him. To make matters worse,
he tells outsiders what a hard lot he
has, bow little consideration is shown
hint, then they come and "labor" with
the young woman as to her plain duty.
And in the midst :of it all she must
try to make a good home for therm
all and do all the work for the big
family.
The other day 1 heard a lady saying, skin is glossy and !bluish on the back,
unkind things about a neighbor be -
the scales having been removed dur-
ing cooking or washing. In herring
the dorsal fin is slightly behind the
ventral fins, and there is a well-
defined ridge there, The skin on the
back is brownish colored, and covered
with a network of fine lines.
*he was, engaged, almost married, and
in all her comfortable life she had ex-
perienced not one real adventure to
look beet upon with a thrill.
of 'em I could connect with your itin-
erary. And it was so long since N
seen anything .from the old town—
even a parent—that I took the hop,
Her fiance was a serious-tb king, You must have got my wire."
slow-moving man of thirty, as safe He patted her back in filial fashion,
its a government bond and just about looking over it the while at Ruth,
a� c;xciting. Ills very name, Hiram who turned away with a blusbi at be -
Babbitt, was unromantic. Babbitt lag caught looking and listening, and
was well enough, to those who knew then set her down gently but definitely
the excellent family it indicated, but in the steamer chair from which she
Hiram! . Not everyone was aware i had risen. Then he included the gla-
hat he had re received it ihonorof the
t, c ed in
grandfather who had Iaid the founda-
tion of the family fortunes by manu-
facturing automobile tires—Hiram,
eter, the peaks, the valley and the
bystanders—particularly Ruth— in
one quick and com'prehensave glance.
"SIick spot. Know anybody here?
lung of Tires, he was facetiously t If so, for heaven's love save my life
known to the automobile world, Most by introducing me, It seems a thou -
of the younger Hiram's energy went sand years since I saw a real girl."
into the inherited business, which re- The mother followed his eyes dot -
turned him interest as a good business', ingly, while Ruth strove to look un-
conscious.
"There's only one really nice -look-
ing girl at the hotel," she murmured,
"and I haven't met her. But--"
"Well, by all that's lucky!" her son
interrupted her, staring now beyond
Ruth and striding all her direction.
"Excuse me, Mother—if there's not
Hiram, King of Tires!" and reaching
out his brown hand he grasped that
of Ruth's fiance, who had just come
around the corner.
It appeared that Hiram's' firm had
had mutually satisfactory dealings
with the young manes father, in whose
office they had often met before Hast-
ings had found the city too stifling
and had "taken to the woods."
"I wanted to get out and buck up
'against nature. Well, I've had my
wish. Mother, the third generation of
tire kings, Hiram Babbitt; Mr. Bab-
bitt, Mrs. Theodore Hastings of 'To-
ronto."
Mrs. Hastings smiled with elderly
coquetry, and Hiram beamed and
introduced both strangers to "Miss
Goodnow, my fiancee."
Hastings acknowledged the intro-
duction with a rueful laugh.
"Fiancee? Lucky pian! Wish I had
one here! There are more of your
party, then?"
Hiram nodded. His even reply con-
tented with Hastings' impetuous ex -
should; the rest was spent in a mild
and steady devotion to herself. He
took her to symphony concerts and
to plays which came to town with the
criginnl casts. To quite half of these
entertainments his mother and hers
eeeoinpa;l ed. them --as on the present
holiday journey.
Adventure just didn't connect with',
Hiram. Not even the war could bring
it. To do him justice, he had tried.
Ids best to get into the service, but
his nice blue eyes were of no par-
ticular use to see with, and he had
been rejected for the officers' train-
ing camp and the Canadian Army.
Of course Ruth loved him. But like
every other woman in the world, she
had come of cave -dwelling ancestors,
and an old ghost of cave -day memor-
ies flickered at the back of her ~brain
and had not yet been laid by an ex-
perienee with what she thought she
craved. She wanted her man to be
more; cave -manly. She did not con-
sids r that cave -age conditions are seI-
dom met with in civilized life, that
cave -man characteristics would hard-
ly qualify Hiram to conduct the busi-
ness which made their financial pros-
pects so pleasant. Least of all did she
consider what a very poor consort she
herself would make for .a cave-
man. But she was just as unhappy
as if her discontent had sprung from
some valid cause, and ae her wedding uberance as his high forehead and
day approached, this lurking sense of benign expression contrasted with the
disadvantage grew. aggressive nose and snapping dark
She looked pastthe hotel :gardens eyes of the other. The two were Rea -
to the old bed of the great ice river son and Romance. And it is a path -
whose melting body became the white
stream issuing from the bluish mouth
of the glacier which yawned a mile
up the rook -strewn valley. Just op-
posite, the mountain sides were rich
with the spring verdure which comes
late in the Canadian Rockies. Next
above was the sentinel strip of dead
evergreen. Above the timber line,
vast and dazzling from a recent snow-
fall, lay the source of the ice tongue
crawling slowly down. Highest of all,
the mountain tops of brown splintered
rock pierced the blue. Here and there,
bursting like a white, tangled plume
from a. green velvet cloak,. foamed a
mountain brook, snow -fed.
Adventure ought to develop in an
atmosphere like this, but it wouldn't.
They had been at the hotel a day and
had taken the usual walks; another
day and they would have taken the
usual drives and finished the place.
That was the way 'things happened
when Hiram managed them. He was
bargaining .now with the bandit who
owned the livery privilege for a rig
to be used that afternoon. The con-
veyanee would be the best obtainable
and the driver the safest. They would
return agreeably hungry, in plenty of
time for dinner.. She hoped he .would
get back In time for the event of the
hotel, day, the train whieh brought a
fresh supply 'of tourists. She looked
at her wrist watch. 'Goodness, it had
,stopped again! Still, it was a pretty
.armament, and Ruth was not the girl
etic truth that while Reason has its
points, picturesqueness is not one of
them.
"Our mothers are resting for the
drive this afternoon. I've just ar-
ranged for a buckboard to call at three
to tape us to Inspiration Point and
the Lakes in the Clouds."
The other permitted his admiration
for Ruth to become perfectly open.
'Well, she'd need two chaperons
both of them anthers—if I were en-
gaged to her," he said. He regarded
Hiram's mild, spectacled eyes with a
twinkle in. his own. "But the situation
puts pie out of luck. Mother's not up
to walking, and I had Miss Goodnow
all copped out for a tramp and the
trip to the 'glacier this afternoon. I
hadn't met her yet, but she looked
good to me, and that could have been
arranged.- Another dream dashed!"
and he wrinkled his pugnacious nose
humorously.
"Not necessarily," said Hiram with
cordiality. "Of course, she's seen the
glacier once, but she might prefer see-
ing it twice to going to drive. Glaciers
are rarer than mountain lakes. If
Mrs. Hastings isn't a good walker, she
could take Ruth's place in the buck-
board."
Botch Men looked at .Ruth.
"Having your lord's permission,
will you go with me?" asked Hastings,
his black eyes snapping.
And Ruth, looping from one to the
tether, accepted with thumping heart
to -discard a decorative watch merely —the adventure at last!
because it refused to rush.
A faint whistle was tossed back and
forth by the mountainsides, and, a toy.
train :curved into sight. At Ruth's
elbow a well-dressed woman who `had
frequently consulted a lithe crystal
watch for the last quarter hour leveled
to tortoise lorgnette at the tugging
train. Ruh made a mental note to get
a eo11'ar-andecuff sett like hers for that
allele -green silk - of her trousseau.
he customary group oftourists de-
trained. Part of these, after bustling
past to register at the office, took a
tasty glance at the glacier from the
verandah, and, apparentlydeciding
ilmat it would wait, went to their rooms
i,o follow its exainple The rest, nervi-
imsiy determined to make the most
ea every minute, immediately hurried
cut to get et line on the place before
the noon meal. --.
All but one. A,stalwart young man
dropped, his: Gladstone bag on the
ggrass' and with a flying leap cleared
the verandah railing, and landed at
:the ' side of : the robust matron with
the 1 rgnette.
(Continued. next Issu'e.)
Why Egg -Cups. For Eggs?
The average man or woman, when
eating a boiled egg, uses, of course, an
egg -cup In which to stand the egg.
But there is a simple device where-
by the egg -.cup can be done away with
and yet the egg enjoyed without the
fear of the egg upsetting. There is
no need to hold it with the fln'geie, to
keep it upright, as one would imagine,
It is only necessary to break the
egg -shell at the side and not at the
top. After taking the first spoonful
you will find that the egg will not
overbalance at ,all. This, idea ;was, 'a
discovery of oum soldiers in France;
when egg -cups could not be expected,
and it should prove a boon to picnic
parties.
Minard's Liniment Relieves Colds, Etc.
may be reasonably sure that the eon -
tents are fresh, The appearance of
the solder should also furnish a clue!
to the age of the box,
If you are still -in doubt about the
quality of the sardines after you have
bought them, place the box in ai
Trees Made to Measure.
Can you grow a square tree?
It sounds impossible, but the experi-
ment has been tried with success, by
the School of Forestry at Cambridge;
England
There exists in the sohool ay. won-
derful specimen of the oblong tree,
which has assisted the disooverY eta
secret of growth: The trunk in ques-
tion is about 30in. by 21n Its curious
stave is due to no more than a little
bruise or two which persuaded ,it to
grow in one direction and not at all
in any other.
Other discoveries and experiments
prove that an artistic bruise—it may
be no more violent than strong pres-
sure with the fingertips --eau make a
tree expand in a desired direction,
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Know the joy and
happiness that comes
to on:e thru possessing
a skin of purity and
beauty. The soft, dis-
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renders brings out your
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basin filled with water and punch a
tiny hole in the cover with a sharp
awl. If gas bubbles appear, the con-
tents should be destroyed,
To determine whether the fish are
genuine sardines, note the position of
the dorsal fin. In the sardine it is in
front of the ventral fins; there is ne
raised ridge on the ventral fins;; the
cause the neighbor's mother wore such
soiled and worn clothes. "Mrs. H— is,
young and able-bodied," she remarked
severely, "and I should think she
would be able to keep her mother
looking decent. Her children always
look well and she does, toe, but she
lets that old lady go looking 'like a
tramp." Now, as a matter of fact, the
old lady stubbornly refuses all efforts
to get her into clean, whole clothes,
though she knows it worries her
daughter a great deal, "These things
are plenty good enough for me," she
says stubbornly. "I'nl not so stuck
Minard's Liniment For Burns, Etc.
A novel camera is equipped with a
small telescope of the same focal
length as the camera lens, so mounted
that when the telescope is focused on
up as the rest of you." So the poor an object the sharpest results are ob
woman not only has to be ashamed of ta'mea on plate or film.
the way her mother goes about the
house but she must bear the reproach
es of the neighbors as well.
It is easy to say, "0, well, every-
body knowns old people People
their
whims, so why worry?" People who;
have bad experience along that line
never say such things. The woman
who has had to hush down her chil-
dren until they dislike home, to keep
the house quiet enough for some elder-
ly invalid, who has had to listen to
the hints of neighbors, and who has I
done her 'best only to find herself
criticized, knows that it is a task from
which it as impossible to divorce;
worry. It sounds very well to 'say tact
and patience and sympathy will solve
the problem, but in dealing with peo-
ple
whose physical and mental powers
are waning, all the tact and patience'
and sympathy in the world will not
avail on occasions. Of •course, they
are not normal but that fact does not i
make them easier to deal with in their
Whims.
Tri our community lives a woman.
who simply bad to keep everything
under lock and key lest her aged fath-
er would carry it away to give to
children or anyone he met, but people
,criticized her severely for not having
patience enough to watch him without
going to such measures. Watch him!
Why, a detective could not have kept
track of that mild mannered, bland
old gentleman.
So if anyone wants to know who is
the real heroine in the community just'
east about for the young •woman who
is'a good wife, a good mother and a
good relative to some cranky old per-
son. Of course, if the elderly relative
is normal and in possession of every
faculty things are different, but when
the "childish" period comes trouble ds
sure to come with it. Blessings on the
woman who can sweetly and.serenely.'=
keep the peace and allow her children
enough freedom to make them happy
m
without making the elderly person un-
happy. There are rich rewards in
store for every woman who bravely
does :her best in the face of difficul-
ties, but I thank the brightest stars
will be saved for her who successfully
,holds three hard jabs down at once,
and makes husband, children and aged
relative happy and content
A Box of Sardines
lOto
20 times
the amount taken
That is the nourishing
power (passed by in-
dependent scientific
experiment) of
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The. best sardinesin the world are,
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The scientific . name of the little fish
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practice of the best French packers'
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to ,pack them in .a good:gradc otelive
ail. All the so-called sardines froisi
Norway, Sweden, Russia, Maine and
the Pacific Coast are really young
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they,can be sold :cheaper than French
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wits - ess attention to appearance and
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Doris, aged four, wan alarmed at a
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