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The Brussels Post, 1918-6-6, Page 6(-OK Arthur Still •wood Pier,i Copyright Houghton iulffnu company by special arrangement with Thos, Alien. 'Reroute nig; It s a mere), I learned to wash • well When I was young, and that. I've kept my health and strength." C'HAP'TER IV.-- (Contei.) "If he'd just do something so that I condi onrush him:" Jerry often thought while he marched and eoun- termarehed with his company in the Y. M• C. A. Hall; and the desire made him sheut omit his ',order, with an ee- traord•inary ferocity. Roger Trask, the drillmaster, ster e ,l one! of the third militia an rehent watched and d thought, "There's ce fellow that e ult make a good sollier a good sifi•: n Trask had tseise/it interest n Jerry, a speeial feeling for him. It had been .Jerry who had iodueed Trask to undertake the training -of this com- pany tele evening in the preceelin Septen be., at. the invitation of the euperintendeint of the leeal branch of the 1.M.0 .A., the officer had given a talk on the: discipline and service rtf the militia. He often revelled his sat- isfaction when atter the talk a stal- wart, eager -faced, blue-eyed voang man came up to him and said, ••That's tine, what you've been telling us. And it wed,' l,e the making of a lot .•f u3 if you d only come out now and then and g, u, some real lessons about drilline and soldiering." The cote- pany wheel at first had numbered only about thirty men had doubled in size. It was still a varied asseeement of otd firearm, that the privates bore; Trask had wanted them to dispense with weapons, but .Jerry had plead- ed so hard for them that he had con- ceded the point. .Terry's feeling for Trask was noth- ing less than her•oworship, qualified only by the secret sense of kinship that humble appreciation claims. Trask was exactly the kind of mss that Jerry aspired to be—straight, vigorous, eummanding. yet genial, too, with a.g;eniaiity that never cern- promised his dignity; contemplating him .Jerry l'e'st in himself all aorta of similar potentialities; and at the sante time more than ever despaired of out- growing his celtishness. A circumstance chronicled on the first page of the Daily Press, the fav- orite newspaper of the workingman. confirmed and emphasized Jerry's secret sense of kinship with the drill- master. The engagement of Colonel Roger Trask and Miss CIaire Des- mond was announced in an article richly biographical and illustrated by photographs of the pair. Allies Des- mond was not only very beautiful, as appeared .from her picture; she was the daughter of Benjamin Desmond; and locally that name was as signific- ant as that of Vanderbilt or Astor. It was not long after this that the figure of Benjamin Desmond began to loom portentiously alive to persons for whom his existence had hitherto been as mythical as that of Croesus. For the rumor that had been disturbing the community there proved to have been a solid foundation; one morning early in January the announcement was made that the banking house of Desmond and Company had purchased the Purroy Steel Works. Grim speculation at the Works, foreboding and panic in the homes of of the workmen, followed promptly upon this disclosure. That evening, on going home, .Terry found his moth- er in a cempdetely pessimistic yet de- spairingly resourceful frame of mind. She wee waiting for him in the hall; she clung round him and he felt the trembling of her arms, the nervous clutch of her fingers. "Now don't you feel blue and cast down in your mind, Jerry," she en- treated him. "It's just when you least expect it of them that things have a way of coming out all right in the end. I've been thinking what a blessing it is that I have my health and strength. If things come to the worst, we ca.n maybe sell or rent the house, and we've still got your fath- er's life insurance money, Then in the city I can find washing to do, and that will keep us till you get a new job. Of course if we can't sell or rent the house and there's the molt - gage to pay and you don't get some- thing to do right off well, then I sup- pose we'll lose pretty much everything we own. At least we can keep body and soul together through my wash-, • "It's a mercy to yarn to let you run- - en until you ran down," said Jerry. ^:1 tine sight you'd be, taking in washing and the like . t that, and at tine sight met r letting you. Sit you down, Y”" eXe01 old Lod),•, and get posses- sr'un of your live sensea i non nt Diva 11 a I ince ..i what t I'm telling'y doulte ltut I could get a bettor .i' b any! day. of I chose to quit the Steel Wort., .and go into the city. Di^:il a doubt now, I'm telling you," "Cth, .Terry, is tinct 'h., truth? In- deed if it. 't• you're elt:T . a ,;relit load off try shoulders." •tit course it's the truth. A great strong lad like myself! In half an hour I ceruld land any job that I wanted. Divil a dulibt noes." "It does me good to hear you say it. But I tct,h you wouldn't say that word %hel; Terry Baur. Your fath- er never: used it." • {ll right. mother. I'll do my hest. And now de,n't be pulling that long. face any more; it don't look right on ,yeti. Your face ought to he broad and good-natured like a Dutchman's." She smiled doubtfully-. `Have you honest the heart to be jeking with me, Jerry?" "Yes, and the heart to be eating a fine supper, if t:hcre's ,null a thing to be had iti this, house—" "S'w'ell. there is then." And she bustl- ed u tled away, and presently Jerry tram his room upstairs heard her singing to herself while she put the dishes onl aft the table.me I Uream Wanted 13ut her cheerfulness was short- v 11 GpL le �i lived; even in the midst of supper! SWEET OR CHURNINO e1:eAM forebodings settled again upon her,, we supply cans, way asereas chargos she was -sure that Jerry had just been ant remit Sally, trying to comfort her, some big and Our price !text week forty-eight cents ominous Change affecting all the enl-i aInQnal aalry ane oroaunery do. ployees of the Works was impendi . '7434 seinestwest - TorontoGhe lett her sol}„r almost untaste , and Jerry ate without satisfaction or den impulsive caress. Ile was as enjoyment, Afterwards while he puzzled by thia new hospitality of helped her with the dishes, lie tried to manner as he was elated. turn her thoughts into more pleasant Indecci, had he but known it, the in - channels, but she would not be divert- fluences that he counted most hostile etl she was fur the meet part glumly had advanced his cause; the bitter re - silent and spoke only to lament or Co preaches which she had that evening reiterate dismal predictions. Jerry s undergone at the supper table from heart sank lower and lower; he fore- her parents, who were exasperated by saw that what he must soon say would the failure of the musical education provelte her to despair in a new guar- they were bestowing upon her to pro - ter. Isis instincts in dealing with itis duce the expected results, had increas- m°ilner «etc totally accurate. Yet ed her conviction that life at home there was uu •coy "£ av°dding ibis could net be much longer endurable;' disaster. ' and the boldness of Charley Cureer- b AIt'S z t thly'rt i th at to tri' 11l°0 - ha i n tIII1"1'IIt S. somehow revealed to her more tlag- ing;ly his scorbutic unattractiveness. It was a sunny morning in early Jerry's kind. and humorous eyes, hone Starch; the wind blew„ftly from the est face, and big, stalwart, frame had south, and people opened doors and seemed, more than usually welcome windows to welcome Spring, Jerry eine! lditeable--and Neru, while s}ie Donohue, starting to his work tour vaguely, emotionally respogded to the minutes ahead of his schedule, .enrolled admiration in his eyes, had more dis- and swung his dinner Lail blithely'• tinctly and concretely felt that, quite It was ,est a morning, to assure one apart front any emotional considera- that all one's &e is and apprehe1t- tions, she could not do better than cions had been vaporings as tenuous marry Jerry Donohue. More than as the smoke that fixated and drifted any one else that she could think of, and broke to let the sou shine through. he seemed to her to have a man's full So roux a time had pas..ed siaca the strength, a man's full power to corn- abeerption of the Purroy �Vetlts by for security. the lmericau T oun;iries Company, Jerzy, thrilled by her unaccustomed with no for. haauvvingt of any change readiness to let the conversation take in policy, that anxiety was giving a practical turn, had spoken with eig- place to confidence throughout the or and decision. He had been pati- tew•n. And Terry's sanguine temper est, he had waited, but it was time was invigorated by more than the now for a definite understanding. fresh west air ..f the morning. 9.'hs Z•erj• well—and the promptness ruin tness and night before he had feinei Nora in her' I' most responsive, confiding, affection_ exp rcitness of her answer had left no- nte mod. Never had she Leen so thing to be desired; the term at the completely, so t ,uredly the girl that Conservatory ended on April 9; on the he loved—•vw h her hand pressing his next day she would announce her in - arm, her slealrt• self drawing close tention; to her family, and within a to him, her eyes upturned I.a his, her month thereafter she would marry laugh tinting a plea ed ., e•onse to trim. the speech of admiration, lit the sud- So it was in a blithe spirit that Jerry Donohue set forth the next morning to his work. Indeed, his head was su shrouded in the clouds, his nose Was so cast upward, happily sniffing the balmy air, that he had got some distance down the slope lead- ing to the Works before he perceived the unusual proceedings at the en- trance. Groups of men stood on tither side of the mill gates examin- ing large printed notices that were ef- KITCHEN E The busy woman of to -day realizes what efficiency in the kitchen means to her further ability to easily supply to her family nutritious food without waste of time and strength, i The problem of obtaining help brings to the housewife a thought of the time, strength and energy required to keep the household at par. So that to equip the kitchen with modern [tools and to replace the furnishings of the household laboratory in an attrac- tive manner is no longer a fad, but a dire necessity. Cleanliness is an absolute essential thatt is based upon fundamental princi- ples. Tho kitchen should be compact in its arrangements, so that no motion may be lost. Unless one can afford a tiled kitchen, a durable wash paint is the most economical. While the cost- liest kitchen is not necessarily the best, intelligent and careful planning will count quite as much as money. Color schemes can easily be follow- ed. But for general utility a Colonial buff is the best color with which to paint the walls. The window trim- mings may be ivory and white. A good quality of linoleum for covering the floor will be found satisfactory, A kitchen cabinet, a fireless cooker and a good range, a refrigerator and a table with a sanitary porcelain top would complete the large furniture needed In the kitchen. Have the man of the house build and attach to the kitchen table a frame that will act as a rack, above the table, to hold dippers, strainers and other utensils that are necessary. A drawer in this table to hold the knives, measuring spoons, etc., will make for time saving and efficiency. A careful selection of pots and pans is vitally necessary, and right here I wish to tell the housewife my pat and pan stony. Sixty-five out of every hundred per- sons suffer from some form of in- testinal indigestion. That is due to the manner in which the fool is cooked or to the utensil itself, How many women are there who, in cooking food in an enamel saucepan, stir the food while cooking and then tap the spoon on the edge of the pan. Ahl I see you smile, for you all recognize the old , trick. Now, do you know that often 'ailllllllllliltlilllilill11111111111111111I111111I12 Come to Toronto F TO DO in addition to the outing and change, a shopping trip to Toronto may save you mach money. ''he advantages of buying in largo metropolitan city are very many. Wider choke, newer goods, fresher commodities, special bargains, all of which mean a saving is money, in addition to n pleasurable Ulm And all this is doubly enhanced by tate fact that you can stay at the most home -like and comfortable hotel In Canada, and at moderate cost, and have your parcels sent direct to our check room. There is no extra charge. 5I`he WalkerHouse E. The House of Plenty TORONTO, ONT, i11111111111111111II11111111111111111111101111111111 I +ate I'FICIENC't. you chip the enamel off the saucepan, sometimes into the foot!, and you have to pick it out; then again,oftener you fail to see the damage you e done until, when washing the pots and pans, you find a spot where you have chipped off the enamel. Now, if you have a broken spot in the bottom of your saucepan and you are stirring the food that is cooking in this pot, using a metal spoon to stir with, you are grating off the glass coating on 'the enamel saucepan into your food. Think about this, and then use wood- en spoons for stirring all foods while cooking in all saucepans. These wooden spoons need not be costly, and any handy man around the house can whittle a couple of paddles for you from any piece of hardwood, preferably maple or ash, in a very few minutes. Learn to use the fireless cooker for cereals and brealcfast foods and also for eooking the cheaper cuts of meat, Meat cooked in the fireless cooker loses proportionately less per pound than meat cooked upon the coal, gas or electric ranges. Use all left -over breakfast cereals in making bread. A word about the refrigerator. Upon this important household uten- sil depends the health of the family. The ice compartment should be suffici- ently large to keep a piece of ice that will keep the food compartments at a temperature of not less than 50 de- grees Fahrenheit constantly, A thorough cleansing three times a week is an absolute necessity, Remove the drain pipe and flush and swab out the trap. This is very important. Do not place the refrigerator in a dark, damp place. Do not permit the drain to be con- nected with the sewer, If the waste pipe is attached have'it made so that it may be frequently taken apart and flushed with boiling soda water,, Drain the waste water from the re- frigerator into the garden or yard. To make a drain from the icebox, cut a hole in the floor and place a large funnel in the hole. nNow connect suf- ficient length of pipe used for speak- ing tubes to this hole and drain into the yard or garden, This pipe can easily be taken apart for frequent flushing. To Have Clean Windows. There are few women who really enjoy cleaning windows, and one rea- son must be that the result is so often disappointin ;. Soap always seems to smear the glass, and the cloth gets too drippy and countless things hap- pen. But one housewife, has thought about it hard and has decided just what is the best method of cleaning her winnows. She sent us her deci- sion, and here it is: "I have found a way," she says, oto polish windows brilliantly with the least possible work. I can clean them whether the sun is shilling or not, so infallible ie my method. First wipe off the dust with a dry cloth, or if eery dirty, with a damp one, then put a small quantity oaf water In a basin and make it very; strong with house- hold ammonia, using not more than two parts of water theme of ammonia. Dip a small cloth or sponge in this and wring It nearly dr"y, then go over the glees, rubbing hard but working rapidly. Wipe itnmediately with e, dry, aimless cloth, or the pane will be dry before you can get over it, The sole objection to this method is in the effect of the strong solution on one's fingers, A rubber or leather glove may be used, but even without gloves Ifrnd It takes so short a time to clean a number of windows that if one is careful to wash the hands immediately after the task, then rub them with lemon juice or vinegar and rinse again with clear water, there will be no unpleasant effect." • How to Clarify Fats. Here are three methods of clarify- ing fat. Method 1. Melt the fat with an equal portion of water in a double boiler. Strain through a cloth. When cold remove the layer of fat from the water, Method 2, Follow directions • given under Method t, using sour milk. Flavors and °dare are modified, Mee nod n. follow directions given in Method 1, adding several pieces of clean harm x d charcoal. If beef fat Is, be all; clarified, the yellow color is removed awl awhite odorless ess fat1- X secured. e"; tfeire, t�F MAKES uREAa IN 3 MINUTES F.Jindncter all guess work. Makes light, wholesome bread, roil etc., without trouble. Sava num and helps conserve the Nation's loud } supply. Convenient, quick and clean—hands do not touch dough. Delivered all charges paid to your home, or through your &Dier— four loaf site $2.75 t eight loaf size $3.25. lJs Ss TS $3.25 Sk;ealetta ,�.tt e?•:bra:a, '�:etas>� • ;7 sass - ,�?f::S,,,...v.o:,;. � .� `4..e, •. r:, E.T. WRIGH700. NAMILTON CANADA a fixed to the fence; those who had finished reading passed inside, want- ing elowly; as he drew near, Jerry be- came definitely aware from the be- havior of the mets that the printed notices were of grave import, Stands ing on the edge of the crowd, he read the following:— IMPORTANT On and after April 1 worlc in the Purroy Mills will be in two turna of twelve hours each instead of In three of eight hours each. Under this uew arrangement the number of employees will necessity be reduced, Those who are not to be retined will be given one week's notice, J. F. Drayton, Superintendent. (To be continued.) Keep feed troughs and drinking pans clean and filled. : ANC :{ gaVDsDS AMID en A new clothes -line should be boiled raneeceseeteseeeteesass." before !reing1nt out. This nrevents iatouen• fem. Cgz oCoact it from stretching an1 makes it lest ea .1 .474146 ( D 4s c 'TORONTOGANAuq much longer, Grow your own supply of vegetable seeds for next yetis.. The Dominion Department of Agriculture hos issued a leaflet to tell you how. A Grave question. Shopkeeper—Novy, look here, littl girl, I can't spend the whole da showing you penny toys, Ito you want the earth with a little. red fenc round it for a penny? Little Girl—Let me see it if _71.. please. Food Control Corner Frequent statements appear that mills are insisting upon dealers buy- ing large amounts of flour in order to gest feed. This is not the case, and has not been for some time. The stills are able to sell all the flour they cern stake for export to the Allies, for cash, and at a price equlvnh•nt to that allowed by the Canada Fuad Board to be charged to the Canadian trade and there is no necessity for attempting to force sales in Canada, as otherwise might be the cause, an. feed cannot be made unless fluor is made and taut be sold. The Canada Food Board, the !weer! Ilranch of the Department of Agri- culture and the millers have been working together for months upon the very difficult problem of the fairest method ofdistributing , , nd n iron and shorts. The demand in Canada for these feeds is many times the total output of Canadlan mills and comes from all parts of the country. The prices fixed for bran and shorts have o made them relatively cheaper than Y other feeds, such as oats and barley, •nand this has increased the demand o and, moreover, in many parts of the country, oats and barley were a short crop last year, as was also hay, The extreme need of our Allies in Europe for every pound of flour and every bushel of wheat that could he spared has necessitated the lengthen- ing of the extraction in milling. Under ordinary conditions about 270 pounds of wheat would be used to make 19G pounds of flour, and allowing 3 pounds fur waste there would remain 71 Pounds of offal, bun about 10 pounds of the lower grade flour would be add- ed to the shorts to make middlings so that there would be a total of abort 81 pounds of feed produced. Under the Order now in force the mills must make 100 pounds of flour out of 258 pounds of whoat and cannot turn any back into the shorts, so that to -clary only 59 pounds of feed is made in the process of grinding a barrel of flour and the richer feeds cannot be made at all. Taking an equal amount of wheat in each case, this means that almost 25 per cent, less feed is being made than before, which of course has made the feed problem still more difficult. It is entirely out of the question for . the stills, under these conditions, to ship full carloads of bran and shorts to meet the demand for feed without causing users at other points to suffer. It would mance no difference to the miller whether he sold in full car- loads or in less than carloads, for his price to the trade is fixed at the same amount per ton in both cases, but the best and fairest method of distribu- tion has required shipment in smaller quantities. If a dealer does not re- quire flour or some other cereal pro- duce to fill a car, this of course in- volves the payment by the dealer of the higher freight rate charged upon 1, c, 1. shipments. This difference in freight may run from $1,00 to $10.00 per ton, according to distance. Dealers are naturally anxious to avoid this extra cost, which might put them at a disadvantage as compared with competitors in the same district who could fill a mixed ear, and although there is no extra profit to them the millers do not desire their customers to be at a disadvantage if they need oats, barley, oatmeal or flour which could be used to fill the car. There is, however, no such thing as compul- sion on the part of the miller nor any financial object on his part in insist- ing, since he can make no more money by doing so and already has a bigger market for all his products than he can fill. The critical condition of food sup- plies for the Allies during the next ;few months has led the Canada Food Board to pass additional orders affect- ing wheat and flour. It has been made illegal for farmers, or anyone else, to use any minable wheat for feed for any kind of animals, Con - punters are prohibited from accumul- ating stocks of flour beyond their ac- tual current needs and must return to dealers any excess they may have been hoarding, and dealers must re- port their excess stocks which will he returned to the millers or disposed of as the Canada Food Board directs. The British Ministry of Food has proved that excellent bread can be made by the addition of 15.20 and even 50 per cent, of potatoes. rt has prov- ed that a loaf made. of equal parts of flour and potatoes adds 5a/a pounds of bread for every 7 pounds of potatoes used. The potato bread mado in England is better than the regulation war broad, Why should not every Canadian wo- man who bakes her own bread get in- to the habit of using a certain percents age of potatoes? !'hose who have tried it out are enthusiastic about the results, It is a fact that we scarcely know the value of potatoes in this country yet, Germany's wise use of peta• ^toes helps her to hold out against the Allies. Our wise use of potatoes would farther strengthen our arm in bringing victory nearer. Germany eats three times as many potatoes as We ole in Canada. Now is the time .for us to show some practical patriotism—to Push, Offer, Talk, Advertise, 'Think, Order, Est and Sell POTA.TOb7S. 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