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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-11-27, Page 6r .Money'`... ottie A Bottle of Bovril in the kitchen will cut down butcher's bills: It enormously in- creases the nourishing vLlue of food—in fact, its body- building powers have been proved ten to twenty times the amount taken. It ;nest be Bovril. 6.11.11. ez E, e Cat 9 By WILL S. GIDLEY. ,nom -..:_,... 1►iy aunt Sophronia never liked me I don't know. why, So far as I lino I never placed a straw hi her pathway nor treated her with anything but th respect due the maiden sister of one' wife's maternal grandmother—to such was the relationship she bore t pre. Yet the fact remained perfectl plain to me, and alas to Angelina, my wife, that the dear old lady always regarded me as an interloper in the Trotter fancily (my wife's mother was a Trotter) and only condescended to put up with me for Angelina's sake She simply tolerated me, as the. hus- band of her grandniece—that was all Now, I won't go so far as to say that I reciprocated the antagonistic feelings cherished for me be aunt Sophronia; I didn't positively dislike her, but I can't say the same for her cat. Beezlebub was his name. I don't pretend to know why e respectable, church -going woman of sixty-nine summers and Puritan ancestry should pick out such a cognomen for a cat, but it certainly fitted him all right. He was a We, black, yellow -eyed mon- ster with a slow and stately trea.i. and when he wasn't curled up in m;: :'Mor- ris ch::ir asleep, with claws in readi- ness to protest against being sat upon, he was stealthily prowling about look- ing for an opportunity to make a nuis- enee of himself—acrd he generally sue- eeeded in finding it. Aunt Sophronia was perfectly itaare of my antipathy to cats, yet she insisted on bringing Beezlebub with her every time she dropped in on us for a six -weeks' visit, whit•h she did about four tinges a year. This footed up twenty-four weeks annually that we had aunt Sophronia and Beezlebub in our midst. When aunt Sophton e finally died— at her own home acrd in her own bed, es it happened—she willed me her cat. fust Bee ebrib—that's all. True, An..etma got some antique furniture q r and a few keepsakes, and several thou- sand dollars in cash; but all I got was sympathy from my friends and Beezle- bub from aunt Sophronia. The cat clause (pardon the pun) in the will was as follows: "I give and bequeath to Stanley Gray, husband of my grandniece Angelina Gray, nee Trotter, my black cat Beezlebub, to cherish and care for during the natural lifetime of said cat, and it is lay wish that he accept this legacy with the full knowledge that he does so subject to my displeasure if he neglect or abuse s.'1 eat during its lifetime. or be the cause of its untime- ly taking off, by poison, drowning, shooting or other form of violence." "Of course you will accept for aunty's sake, won't you, dear?" plead- ed Angelina. "and well take care of 13eezlelrib and coddle him as if he were our very own pet pussy, won't we?" "Oh. yes, we'll coddle Beezlebub all right," I said sarcastically. "Bet you will accept the legacy,' won't you, Stanley. for my sake, if not for aunt Sonhronia's? I never could bear to see Beezlebub compelled to live among strangers. He would he dis- contented anywhere but here, now that his mistress is gone." Well, what was I to do? I saw that Angelina's worldly happiness (net to mention Beeziebub's) depended on having the cat around the premises— sort of an extra member of the family, as it were; so I gave in. • And right here, let me confess that I have never regretted doing so. Beezlebub has been with us now two years and he has made a place for himself in the household of the Stan- ley Grays, as the society editor would put it, that no other animal, nor even human being, I might say, could fill. On the start, it .is true, we had our little spats and differences of opinion, Beezlebub and T. I objected in particu- lar to his habit of jumping up on my writing table and clawing my manu- scripts off into the waste basket. But after a while I found that that was where most of them belonged, and Beezlebub was right. He was only anticipating the judgment of some dis- criminating editor and saving me from a useless expenditure of postage stamps. During the first eighteen months after Beezlebub was Left to us by nay wife's aunt Sophronia the fol- lowing events hearing on this veraci- ous history took place: 1. Beezlebub proved himself the champion mouser and ratter of the neighborhood,. keeping the premises where he held forth entirely free from these rodents. 2. Won the first prize at a free -for-' all cat show, and did it easily in spite of a hundred yowling competitors. 3. Was abducted, soon afterward by some • conscienceless cat -fancier and swiftly borne away in an automobile,' but escaped and came back, somewhat ruffled but still in the ring, a few hours later. 4. Whipped two canine intruders at once in a three -cornered cat -and -dog fight and chased them ignominiously off the premises. .; you remember?" he led oil as soon as w: he w ass .seated. 'Quite eeriest:' said I. '`I have not o forgotten the circumstances. ]far. from s' it." r. ••I. the cat alive?" he demanded o,'! next. y! • "Very teach so," I assured him "You would think so if you could see him chase the stray dogs oil the place ' as fast as they canna along. He doesn't hesitate to tackle anything from a ' Spatz to a Russian wolfhound. . ; "Have you ever thought of selling or getting rid of the animal?" he q'.leried, after a brief pause. "Never even dreamed of it," I re- ' plied. "Why, I refused $50 for that cat right after he captured the blue ribbon at- the Suburban Dog and Cat Exposition." "I am aware of that fact," he said calmly. "In fact, it was an emissary of aline that offered you the money. I rather expected that you would be wilting to dispose of the animal at that price, but as you declined I am going to make you another offer. Would $100 be a temptation to sell him?" "Not the slightest." • "Suppose I were to double the offer?" "My answer would be the same: De- elieed with thanks!" -Then. the antagonism • that y eu former:y cherished toward the cat has ''een replaced, I take it, by a feeling of sympathy and admiration?" "Call it what you like, I certainly: have become greatly attached to that cat. In fact, Beezlebub and I are the best of chum_. If Sophronia Trotter had an Idea that she was going to har- row up my feelings for the balance of my life by willing me that cat—well, she has another guess coming!" . At this juncture Beezlebub came strolling leisurely into the room,' sprang upon my lap and from my lap to the top of my desk, stretched him-! self out comfortably on a pile of magazines and newspapers, and gazed down on aunt Sophronia's lawyer and myself with the wise and gravely im- partial air -of an owl or a sphinx. "I; declare, that cat winked at me just'. now!" chuckled the lawyer. "Yes, sir,' winked his right eye at me dust as mf' he were human. I actually believe that' cat knows all about the business that brings me here." "Well, if he does," said I, "he cer- tainly has the advantage of me." 1 "And I am very happy to enlighten' you," responded the little lawyer: briskly. "In the first plaee, as you' perhaps already know, Sophronia Trotter was a peculiar woman and had. her own way of doing things—even a' favor or a kindness. If she caught a small boy in her jam closet she would probably give him a sound spanking the first thing she did, and then fill him up with jam and send him away; happy afterward. "I've been her legal adviser for the past twenty years, during which per-; iod it was generally she that did the advising and all that was left for me; to do was to carry out her wishes.' Now, when she made her will dispos- ing of her property she held out a' little nest -egg of $20,000 in govern -1 ment bonds which, the instant you re- fused to harbor her pet or misused or' neglected it in any way, or voluntarily; parted with said animal, for a mone- tary consideration or otherwise, was to be invested in a home for friendless cats with Beezlebub as the chief bene- ficiary. "Such were her written instructions to me when the trust fund was placed in my hands; but it was further pro- vided that if at the expiration of eighteen months from the date of her death I was satisfied that Beezlebub had found a welcome home with you and was being well cared for and ap- parently happy and contented, the cat fund was to go to you and your wife, share and share alike, to enjoy and do with absolutely as you see fit. I have the bonds here in my bag, and if you and Mrs, Gray will favor me with your autographs on this receipt I have filled out,.I will wind up my business. by turning the securities over to you, with my congratulations on your good for- tune." And Beezlebub, calm, unmoved, majestic, blandly looked down upon us from his exalted position and solemnly winked his right eye once snore—this time at me. (The End.) In short, Beezlebub constituted him- self Inspector- General and Chief - Warden of the Stanley Gray menage (not menagerie, please), and was eapidly making himself an indispens- able fixture in the household, when one day I was surprised by a call front the' lawyer who had handled the most of, aunt Sophroxtias legal business during her lifetime, and who had drawn up her last will and testament. "Your deceased aunt, Sophronia! Trotter, bequeathed you in her will a certain black cat known as Beelebub, Packing Oranges. Oranges' are picked by hand and wrapped by hand, but the rest of the business of sending them to market is done almost entirely by machinery. Very important is the mechanical arrangement by which the oranges, rolling along runways under the in- fluence of gravity, are made to sort themselves according to sizes, those of each size failing into a separate bin. Alongside the bins sit a row of young women, whose business it is to wrap and pack the oranges in boxes. Each one has at her left hand a quantity of tissue sheets of the proper size on a tray. With her right hand she plucks an orange from the bin, with her left she grasps a paper sheet. A few rapid movements and the box is filled and ready to be removed and nailed up, an empty one taking its place, siSinard`s r+indment Cures Diphtheria. swtee Peril to Creeping Baby. I Serve cream soups with croutons— Does your baby p1a,' btl the floor, small squares of breach which have Mi' �'ungmothr? Are you very, been browned in the .. oven --and in earefuI to see that he conies in con-: this way use up' bread. which has be - tact with no unclean substaz.ces? DO. carne stale; or place a slice of toast you know that a deadly disease lurks sprinkled with grated cheese , in the in dust and dried sputum carried into onion or neat soup, and a spoonful the house on people's feet? ' of poly -earn in cream of corn soup. Doctors who have studied these' platters carefully tell us that most1 A "Specialty" Social, persons who contract tuberculosis are; 11 you wish to plan an entertain - infected in- childhood. In fact, eight ment that is an excellent- money of ten personas have the germs at. some maker, incl that also gives an oppor- tinre in their lives. Every year12,500' tunity for the workers in the coin - persons die of the wh,tte plague in' munity to demonstrate their -various Canada. This means about 33,000; abilities, try having a "Specialty" active cases in the country right now, social. i A large percentage of these victims Instruct the families taking part to are suffering needlessly. "As Many; plan their contributions so that they • of these patients became infected in will bring in as much money as pos- babyhood, mothers should be made to' sible, You ran arrange to keep track realize the great responsibility that is' of each donatio,_ and to offer a prize theirs," says Dr, Victor Vaughan, an for the. fancily adding most to the authority on; tuberculosis. I evening's fund. During the first few months of a I When our committee arranged -such i child's life there is very little sign of ; an affair, we told the people that they ! tuberculosis. If the newborn babes ` could bring any saleable commodity and the tuberculosis germ could be' that they desired and ceuld dispose of kept far apart the country would. it in as unique a manner as they wish- ; eventually be rid of the white plagued ed. The sale was held in the gym- Therefore, a serious duty rests with' nasium of the consolidated school, a the mother. I large room, and there certainly was "It is just abut the time a baby; a varied list of articles to choose begins to play on the floor • and to. from. have a change in his diet that the One woman brought five varieties tuberculosis infection begins to oc-' of cake. We knew her to be a re- cur," says Doctor Vaughan. "The markable cake baker and therefore mother places the child on the floor; expected her to bring cakes; but we unthinkingly, perhaps, and wholly un were totally unprepared for her novel mindful of the germs which may be way of selling them. She erected a lurking there. The child's impulse tosmall booth,' in which she displayed put everything into his mouth does, her wares, and sold slices of her cakes the rest. Clean material should first with the accompanying recipe, at ten be placed on the floor as a protection. cents a slice. Only sanitary toys should be given Another woman made pretty and him and under no circumstances unusual aprons, and not only offered should he be permitted to have a them for sale, but also sold patterns `pacifier.' The latter has no merits of any style desired. whatever. On the contrary, it is a A girl who had learned to make the germ carrier and often works untold new beaded chains, sold some that harm to a child." she had on hand and also placed on Another matter which Doctor sale a -number of home-made looms. Vaughan lays special stress upon was Then she further demonstrated her that of allowing a child to drink from. ability to add funds to her account the same cups as the grownups or' by giving lessons to anyone who wish - biting from the same morsels of food. ed to learn the art. "Each c child should have his individual A rural canvasser for magazine dishes and receptacle<," he continued. subscriptions made arrangements "This is the most common cause of with several publishing firms to ex - infection and the quickest way ,in which disease is spread." Soups From Left -Overs hibit copies of their publications and to furnish the clubbing rates that these firms made. The commission from her sales made her a contestant Soups may easily be divided into for the prize. three classes: Purees or cream of One man, who made up all the cane vegetable soups, meat -stock soups of the district into sorghum, ran a and meatless vegetable soups. candy table. His family united their The first class is usually made with efforts with his, and together they a single vegetable, such as peas, corn, made several kinds of candy. They or potatoes as a base. The vegetable, assured us that it was a truly local after being cooked, is pressed through product, from the cane seed to the a sieve or colander, added to the re- finished candy. quired amount of milk, oramilk and water, boiled up, thickened with flour and seasoned. Another family sold popcorn in various forms—on the ear, shelled. ready to pop, specially picked -out ears The second class has, as a founds- for •seed corn, or made into popcorn tion, meat stock to which the vege- bells and crackerjack. tablesEvery particle of , are added. Mince -meat was 'another specialty i meat, bone and gristle should be made offered. The exact recipe acro npan- to yield its Inst atom of nourishment j rich found athe jars cthe delicious pies re ready sale, especially in soup with which to begin everyi memo.;he inexperienced housekeep- day s dinner. It is not necessary to ;he serve much at a time, for more sub-� Then, there was a "specialty troupe'' stantial food follows. Put the scraps � tubo sold their entertainment to those' of meat and bone in an earthenware who wished to be entertained. This or porcelain -lined pot, place over the brought in a large part of the fire and just cover with cold water, L receipts. letting it heat gradually and simmer; One family claimed that their long and slowly. Let stand over night ; specialty was the accumulation of and next morning skim off fat.. The! things they had no further use for. flavor may then be varied by different vegetables or seasoning. 'There are So they conducted an auction booth iri and found that there were other pec - the bones and gristle, as well as in the ple who could use and were willing to meat, qualities that are needed in the pay for such things as outgrown body. clothing, household appliances and The third class is perhaps simplest and most economical of all. It may be made entirely of left -over vege- tables, or it may include both left- overs and newlycooked vegetables. Perhaps there are some cold potatoes (any kind), a little gravy, a few spoonfuls of peas or shelled beans and a little turnip en hand. Put into a kettle sufficient boiling water to make the required amount of soup for your family. Into the kettle slice one or , two onions, two or three carrots and a few more raw potatoes if needed. Cook until tender, add the left -over vegetables, gravy, and some salt, pepper to if liked, and boil up, then use a wire potato masher to reduze the vegetables to a smooth mixture; A. pleasing variety of soups may be had by varying the .ingredients. Tomatoes in any form may be used, • even to the rinsings of the catsup bot- tle. Boiled beans, baked beans, squash,' corn, a little cabbage, a bit of parsnip, celery, macaroni, rice, oatmeal or the' left -over - meat pie (crust and all) may all be utilized in this way. Celery makes a most delicious .-;cup. The celery itself mats be used; or cr:tsbe.l, dried leaver, or celery -alt e..n be used for flavoring. When a Idraittlit vege- table soup is r.la.IL add mill: r:.r a lit- tle cream. to giv? the twit:1 rielineee. Lacking thew, better or e little g•otel cooking oil niay be need, A delicate -oup fr_r :•h`. .: cn :eel !e- yelids is made thee: Pet ant iiac: of chicken broth titer the fire, wash two hda,p.ine traepeonfuls cf rice and add it to the broth. Cook s'owly for half an hour, thicken with a table,- spoanful of butter and two rf fiot+r rubbed to a paste. Add e pint of new milk whieh has been ssal ncd.'•Serve very hot. - . brie -n large; Outsiders eontributed also and the booth was very popular. Some of the women banded together and demonstrated that their specialty was serving supper to,a.large number of people, and thanks to their ability, every one was able to partake of a meal which was well cooked and well served. Besides giving those who tools p'kirt in the sale or entertainment an op- portunity to express originality or individuality, the novelty of the af- fair stimulated interest, drew a crowd olid swelled the receipts to unusual proportions. To Freshen Furs. Many owners of furs, on receiving them from cold storage or on taking them from their summer packing box- es, are distressed to observe that the fur --even; the most handsome --ap- pears dead and lusterless, a condition most noticeable when subjected to the test of comparison •aaaith a new set. Furs in this condition are not attrac- tive, and it is well worth the trouble of applying the Russian remedy, which both cleans and freshens. The dead appearance of fur, as a rule, is due simply to the fact that it is soiled. It never seems to occur to most persons that any but white fur, becomes soiled, but it does. To clean' it the Russians, who use more fur than any other people, take rye bran, which is heated in an„ earthen pot until it is as hot as the hand ctln stand, being stirred all the while, and pour it upon the fur in liberal quan- tities, rubbing it in thoroughly. They then brush out all particles of bran with a clean brush, or shake and pound the fur. rainard's Liniment Cures Colds, 8:o. Fresh laid eggs should not be shaken. Handle then carefully and they will keep fresh much longer. An iron should never be directly ap- plied to black stockings, or it may discolor them. Instead, place a piece of thin material over the stocking be- fore pressing. All grades. Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS Q, J. CLIFF - - TORONTO .11111111,M,•o Din goe . In Australia aro found the only bade loss doge. The wild .dogs of that ire land continent, called '!dingoes," can and do howl, but they never bark. It used to. be,supposell that the din, goes must be descended from dogs fetched to Australia in early times and run wild; but there is excellent rea• son for believing that they were thoro long before the first human beings ate peered on the earth, inasmuch as foe. sil bones of recognizable dingoes have been totted that apparently date back to the Pliocene, Assessment System Whole Family Insurance. The Order furnishes insurance to its imembees at Ontario Government Stand - and rates. • Sick and Puneral Benefits are also Fired if desired. -The Juvenile Department furnishes the best possible insurance benefits to the children of our adult ntombere.' The Order has already paid over $680, 000,00 in Sick and Funeral Benefits, and nearly Seven lvlilllons of Dollars in in- surance. 650 Councils in Canada. If there is not one in your locality there should be.. Nor full information write to any "f •the following Officers: J Lc. Davidson, W. P, Montague, Grano Councillor Grand Recorder W. 0'. C.anrpbell, J, H. Bell, M.D. Grand Organizer. Lirancl Aced. 1)s. HAM ILTON - ONTAItto ATLANTIC FIGHT Wonderful example of the value of OXO. Captain Sir]../ILCOCK writes:--- ` "You will he interested to learn that "OX0 vas a great hells to us during our "Trans -Atlantic Flight; it sustained us "wonderfully during our 16 hours "journey. "We hacl found out what a good thing "it is when flying in France, and so "decided to carry it 'with us on this "occasion, and we can assure you that "hot OXO is most acceptable under such "cold and arduous conditions. OXO "was the only article of its kind which "we carried, J. ALCOCI:, Capt., D.S.C. ,HIS, rkers t fi z 111g t 13y cleaning or dyeing—restore any articles to their former appearance and return them to you, good as new. Send anything from household draper- ies down to the finest of delicate fabrics. We pay postage or express charges one way. When you think of lea4• �®j Think of Parker's. Parcels may be sent Post or Express. We pay Carriage one way on ali orders. Advice upon Cleaning or Dyeing any ar- ticle will be promptly given upon request. Parker's Dye Works Limited Cleaners and Dyers, 791 Yonge St. Toronto AMAZING CASES OF MEN WHO gAME BACK. Even Yet "Loft" SoIdiea'aat'o Taking Their Friends by Joyous Surprise. Alive or dead? The ever -anxious question !s-tigain raleed by the lis• covert' In Vhissiand tho other they ef a seldter who, two years ago, was re. parted, "mi:.e.ing," and. subsecluently '- hree:'med dead. Here is a real, and not imaginary, incident. A letter for a soldier who has been misaing for many long, weary months is• delivered at his home, It . is from -a •chum• -a patient in a nails-., tary hospital in Loudon• --who writes ou. the assumption that Ito has been die charged . - Pale and trembling, the parents hurry to the invalid's bed^'! te. Can he toll .them anything about their lost boy? lTo, nothing, except thet they both left a Gorman hospital together to•return to England, . Silence — unbroken silence -- for seventeen mouths, and than a woman in South London receives a letter from her ,husband to say that he is a prison - or is Germany, Other letters quickly follow, till at that there comes the JOY• - Pia news that he is to be exchanged. But tho silence lengthens again. What has hapeened? Nobody knows. { Finally, the wife receives an ofrlcial communication. The soldier reached Switzerland, and there all trace of hire . is lost. Huns' Lack of Syctern, teyond question, numbers of poor fellows for wheso return relatives are still faintly hoping passed ti their rest M. such plague spots as Wittenberg, where the Germans, when typhoid broke cut among the prisoners, fled, leaving there to their fate, Hetes-and similar horror -t aertirrd elsewhere --our men diad like flies in autumn, and were buried without any record being kept. System of registration there was none. A marl might have gone to a enmp dike Wittenberg. dad there, and descended to a nameless grave. Any Chance is Seined. On the other hand, nbthing is more certain than that some of the missing are alive and wall. In saying. tips, I do not wish to raise false hopes. At certain stages of the war, par- ticularly during the retreat in 1914, and again last year, members of sol• diers los=t touch with their reglement, sorra returning to our Iines atter a longer or shorter interval, c.ni -others going to swell the total number of the Lost Legion. After alajuba, a number of tha "pre- sumed dead" cut a deals in various parts of South Africa. One man, hay- • ing conceived a bitter hatred of his company officer, slipped away during the confusion, and laeg afterwards 1;ar, met in Johannesburg by come of ! his old comrades. In the Foreign Legion. Events in South Africa, indeed, led to many double lives. Perhaps the most astonishing instance was that of a man who was missing after Paarde- burg, and for whoa inquiries were :made for years by newspaper adver- tisements, notices in messes, etc, An Englishman—himself a very "hard case" --who was serving in the French Foreign Legion in Algeria, one day recognized in a comrade who had come over in a new draft the long. sought mystery man of Paardeburg. Both fell on the Western Front in the early part of 1916, the "missing" soldier carrying his secret with hips to aesEaszammeasege the grave, for no questions are asked in the famous Legion. Back on the Line. In one instance.a man was conceals ed for a time by French peasants, and subsequently made his way to a oer- tain port, whence he was smuggled back into England. The day after he landed ho re-enlisted, and in less than six months from the date of bis deser- tion he was in the fighting -line again, Yet he has long since been presumed dead, and to this day his relatives de not know that he is alive, How many are the easea in which men have been seen—often in our own lines—by their °comrades, long after they were reported missing? They number hundreds, if not thousands, And, as a natural result, the belief fe entertained in homes all over the AJzn• pire that men oflcially dead will sure - 13r reappear sooner or later, and not as men who have disgraced thena selves and their relatives, but as vii,. tizns of some combination of afrount• stances such as no sensational novel. ist over imagined, Chicken a Reptile? "Plunk a chicken and you have tt reptile," This relna.rk of au rima to±nist waw meant to imply that the only very im- portant difference between a reptile and a bird lay is the fact that the for- tnleir has scales, whereas ,the latter is feathered. But feathers and scales are but nmodifioatione of the Elaine hing, - The earliest birds on the earth were vory reptile -like and had teeth. Tn. deed, these seems to be no doubt of the faot that all modern birds are originally desoended frons reptiles, which may have started to acquire power of flight by Jumping from bough to bough of trees, BABY'S OWN SOP The flower fragrant lather of Babyys Own Soap, . is so skin -healing and so pleasant that five generations of Cana- dians have adopted it as their Standard toilet and nursery soap. Experience has justified this confidence, and because it is "Bests+'or Baby"–Baby's Own Soap is "Best FOR YOU." to the interest of yoursF'un, insist on Baby's Own Soap. 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