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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-11-14, Page 61 THIS IS THE TIME TO PUT OUR SHOULDERS TO THE, WHEEL IN VERY TRUTH. WE ARE ON THE BROW OF THE HILL• LET US MAKE THE SUPREME EFFORT. I3UY VICTORY BONDS TO THE LIMIT OF YOUR PURSE THEN BORROW AND BUY MORE. SPACE AND POSITION DEDICATED TO THE CAUSE BY THE SALADA TEA COMPANY the woman's failure to dispplay jeale. ousy, or oven vigilance, In fact, it could not•eseape Nore's notice after a while {hilt es seen as Laura's lesson was at an end, Mrs. O'Brien usually had some inirsioll that took her from the house, while Petrick Maguire con- tinued to elt in the parlor and insist on being abut c a. If it had net seem - cd too in redib',n, Nora would have been ilkpu ed to think that Mrs, O'Brien was taging to inake a match. But that was yr:Toeteroui'. It we in- conceivable that Patrick Mageire's li.nowiug and Leer111lif. There was once a woman who sister 0.);•;411] h� planum„ moasures thought }lersolf an excellent haul. which, if .ucee ,fu1, would saber die- keeper because she slid piing exactly possess her of a comeeetable home or as iter mother had done, no better inn at the It et de iris e her of the teethe no worse. Theft there came a guest ority which ,h ehad long enjoyed in little girl who had learned many her brother's house. things from reading the latent books So Nora concluded that the rece!v- and magazines a girl who wee always ed sigh marked conisderation only be- learning. And the woman who had cause Mrs, O'Brien had decided it was been satisfied with knowing found -that, perfectly safe to let her have it, and while agood houselsee er she was, not because. both mother and uncle were p sincerely grateful for her re ognition an excellent one, for she was to - of Laura's extraordinary qualities. ful of both thne anti strength and he One day when Maguire had chosen had missed all the improvements that to walk with her after the Iosson,'they had been made on the ways and ma - 8531 �.. thods of a past generation. She was an 1880 model of housewife competing with the 1918 type. The little girl who real} and learned met Jerry Donohue. He saluted, look- ing straight at her and ignoring Ma- guire. Nora, was rather pleased that Jerry should have seen her in such company. He had not been very at- mixed the lard and flour for her pie tentive to her of late, and it wouldn't he at all a bad thing if some little crusts with a fork and used ice water jealous apprehensiveness should stir instead of any kind that happened to within him. be available, her crusts were-fieky and She felt a slightly vengeful satin- feather light. She put her dust cloths faction when he called on her the in an old pail, poured in a little ken - next day. Her mother was in the sene oil and covered them tightly for bed -room, lying down, so there was an hour. Each cloth was as good as no particular reason why he should those the woman had been buying of have talked so stiffly and formally as an agent at thirtycents each. She. did. About Dave and how hand -g somely the warden spoke of him, washed beans, peas, berries, etc., in a Arthur Stanwood. Pier So8Trlght Moughton Comps.ay 81 spacial arrangement walla Thos. AL` s treselota CHAPTER XX.VI.—(Cont'd.) "Great! Great!" Patrick Maguire would exclaim, slapping his knee. "Say, Mrs. Corcoran, won't you give usthatagain?" And when she had complied, he would be likely to say, "I can't sing a note, but just to hear tou, Mrs. Corcoran, makes me feel here's music in my soul." It was inevitable that, having been finst interested in the singing, he should next become interested in the singer. Nora had fully determined that this should result. When he began to escort her -home after the - lessons, she felt that they.were a p Broaching a basis on which she would be able to nagitiate with him. But she was going to do nothing prema- turely; she was going to be sure that the shock of surprise and disappoint - meet would not flatten out the wave .ef sympathy. Besides, she realized that am application for pardon could hardly be considered until Dave had served a term proportionate to the of- fense which he had confessed. Per- haps by the next spring or summer, when he had been in prison a year and a half, it might be safe to make the effort. She thought that a year and a half would not seem an inadequate term for attempted robbery. Until that sufficient period of penance should expire she would abstain from any appeals; she would devote the Interval to strengthening her hold upon Patrick Maguire's interest. It had been a long time since she had been disposed to make herself as charming as she could. Now she recovered much of her old pleasure In exercising that facility. She fiat- cered Patrick Maguire on his own tic - punt as shamelessly as she flattered him and Mrs. O'Brien about Laura. about the weather and how he enjoy- ed now being on duty at dawn, for he had heard a robin sing only day 'be- lek fore yesterday in the park ---and then papers as often as necessary an sieve and the work was wondrously simplified. Sha kept a clean newspa- per over the kitchen table, changing She had been hearing about Patr abru I saw you wanting with Maguire—so it seemed to her—almost Ply—`much scrubbing of the white oilcloth ever since she could remember. How Ptatrick Maguire yesterday." was saved. then did it happen he was such a Oh, yes," said Nora. "I walk in man? And so good- with him quite often." After a pause, The woman who knew watched her naom. g as she did not want to punish him too natured uged looking loo . She always had severel he added, "I give his little thought of a political hoes as a man Y, s a who looked like this—and she thrust niece music lessons, and sometimes, if out her lower jaw, drew down the cor- hes going down street, he walks along nem of her mouth, and swaggered with me. IIe's quite interesting." back and forth across the room In an "I have no doubt he would lee if he with ;11 new interest 'in what had be - cornu, prosaic, dragging housework. When she suggested that boiled salad dressing could be canned just as easily as peaches the woman doubted, but experience proved that enough dress - absurdly truculent manner. I was to tell all he knows," replied ing to last three months could be Laura backed against the wall and Jerry, made at one time and with a bigsav- looked awed; Maguire passed from a "He's very pleasant," said Nora- broad grim into a shout of lauhgter. "Not at all uppish. And he's very ing of time, fuel and dishwashing, "Come down here, Maggie; come nice with his folks." The girl who read went back to women h thought she schoolbut woma Who the • mwistful voice,g down here and look at thins. he called; "Jerry,"she said in a wilt 1 and when Mrs. O'Brien appeared in "do you ever think much of what life' knew subscribed for three good maga- the doorway he -paid to Nora, "Come might have been for us if—if the eines and set hereslf the task of be - now, Mrs. Corcoran, give it to us Purroy Works had gone on just the coming the woman who could and again." sante as always?" - "Oh, I couldn't," Nora protested. "I "No," he answered, and he did not was just being silly, Mrs. O'Brien." ;mean to be cruel. "I find plenty to "Go on, go on," urged Maguire. "It's, think of with life as it, is." her idea of what a political boss should; "Yes, but don't you ever like to Again the housewife has to prove be the way she thinks I ought to' imagine things, -Jerry?" "the policeman of food control." In look. Let's have it again now." "Not that sort of thing. What's her hands lies mainly the success of So Nora, with some reluctance, per- the use, when you're hungry, of imag- making 1,h pounds of sugar do for formed for Itfrs. O'Brien's benefit, and ening a dinner?" each person in the family for a month. Mrs. O'Brien was as entertained est "It might make you enjoy it all the The burden of maintaining the Allied her brother. s I snore when you sat down to it." "You've got a comical way with you, "It might," admitted Jerry thought- sugar supplies falls on us. There is -Mrs. Corcoran, there's no doubt about' fully. "It might, But if the best not enough sugar available for us all it she said. "To think you should that's ahead of you is a stand-up feed to live in our peace time habits. Our ever have thought Patrick was that at a lunch-counter—how about it great war programme has reduced kind of a fellow!" then?" our sugar -carrying fleet; the sugar would learn. Thee Housewife's Part. Nora was relieved that her concep-, "I don't eee why anybody should tion aroused in Mrs. O'Brien amuse- feel so hopeless as that." sent rather than hostility. She was still further relieved by other evi- dence, as time went on, that her in- creasing intimacy with Maguire was in upon a tableau, especially arranged not, disapproved by his sister. Hav- for him because from the windows ing expected that Mrs. O'Brien would Peter had seen Mira coming down the discourage the growth of social inter- street. At first Jerry could not course between them, she was some- inake out just what was the matter; what puzzled as well as gratified by the family were all placed round on chairs in the sitting -room, looking at Irian expectantly, with mirth and in- terrogation in their eyes. His mother sat in the middle of the room, with Peter on one side of her and Betty on the other, and' their faces seemed al- most to dance as they looked at him. He turned to Kate for explanation; and then, though she sat with her head down, very demurely mending stockings, he saw that she was quite a different Kate from the one he knew. "Hello!" he cried. "Why, you've gone and put your hair up!" Then they all laughed, as if there were something humorous about eith- er the remark or the discovery. Kate laughed too as sho lifted a rosy face and shining eyes. "Does it make ale look quite old, Jerry?„ "I should say so. Stand up and turn round, so that I can see you.— Yes, there—" as Bate obediently stood and turned before him, "You're dressed like a young lady too—not a little girl any more at all. Do you feel as different ns you look?" "No; only a little shy at having peo- ple think I've changed." "The change is very becoming, Se you needn't feel shy." "Ohl Do you really like it, Jerry?" "Yee, very much." "Isn't that nice! Now I shan't feel half so shy about showing myself at school like this to -morrow." "0f course you won't Why, all the bays will be interested and all the girls will be jealous." CHAPTER XXVII- On arriving at home, Jerry walked HeirteW it at Parker The clothes you were so proud of when new—can be made to appear new again. Fabrics that are dirty, shabby or spotted will be restored to their former beauty by sending them to Parker's, CLEANING a d DYE/E Is proprrly done at Parker's Send articles by post or express. We pay carriage one xray and our charges are reason- able. .Drop us a card for our booklet on household helps that save money. PARKER'S DYE WORKS, LIMITED Cleaners and Dyers, 791 Yonge St. a Toronto 1,1 Beau in E ei 1Always have a hos of Ingrari's Velvcota Souveraine Face Powder (5001n the house. A mere touch and onineaa and perspiration disappear, It covers up blemishes and given you a clear, flawless con lexion, It stays on, At your drugg'ist's there Is a complete lino of taerate's toilet products including i 2odentn for the teeth (25c,. . A Picture with tach Purchase Beni; time you btt'.epnekuge of Iegram'S , Toilet aids or perfume your druggist will give you,wltho"t charge, n large portrait of a world -famed motion picture actress. Seth tinteyou get n dilTertnt pnriral t!.oyotrmalte a eollootion for yo, hetes, Ask Yourdruggist, r, Ioglrein Co.) Windsor, Ont. nmol Two Sizes -50c and $1 lror 51 years Canadian' women have found Inirrain's Milkweed Cream the moot efficient toilet preparation en the market for keeping the complexion clear and colorful, prevent- s agwia dins rn and pimples, koeping the handl, Soft and white even when In dig hwnter deify, end warding off hang nails from the fingers, It has thernpeutlo qualities no other emot- llrnt possesses. "If 1 thought that— But you see, Jerry, lots orf the other girls have put their hair up, so I.don't believe any- body will be much surprised," Jerry smiled at her willful rejection of his little compliment. Her way of turning. it oft' was rather clever too,— se very 13111.0cettt. •, • (Is, br, eonLinued.) Eat Frozen Fish. Fresh frozen fish is just as pals. - table as fre,lt flab. Only --a good many women do net know how to handle it properly. .„ The thing -to remember is thele froz- en fish must bo de -floated inn cold wa- ter. When this has been Arne clean and prepare as you would any other fish. and emelt • in whatever forum yeti desire, bleb whish hee 1tg,o frozen i:; just as nutrious es may other and its cheap-• ness should make it mole widely known, No matter hew much dripping is used, fish, when being fried, is apt to stick to the pan's bottom. If a table- spoonful of dry -salt to put into the pan and, rubbed over ie it will be found sat'isfacto'ry, w1: have destroyeJ sugar beet fields and factories in northern Frame end, Italy; more than 00,000,000 Nunes of edger Win; sunt to in, bottom of the w.ran Off the Unite;l lta , coast r'- eently. Siace about 70 per cent, cf the country's sugar supply pa ees through the hand 3 of the housewife, it is evi- tient that she bas a must important role to play In its eonservntion. Just 08 in the tee of flour substlt- utea, she will learn from experiment and practice many ways of tieing oth- er sweetening. She will also learn how to substitute other energy,. and fuel -giving foods for the sugar 011e has relied upon m clays of plenty. All this takes time nuij.thought, but it is a voluntary contribution to ulti- mate victory. - i Remodeling The Child's Sweeter. In nothing do we show our patriot- ; tem more than in our 'willingness to fall in line with everrequest of the govermnent. One ofy the higgert re- quests is to get along with ,aa little wool as possible, a request iv1licli will Iinconvenience the folks of our north- ! ern slime nearly as much as the ban on sugar. So far wool cards are in 1 the future, the giving up of wool is simply a test of our patriotism. This is how one mother met the sit- uation. Sweaters will wear out even on grown-ups, and when a child wears one three years it begins to look as if a new one must replace it. This requirements of time army are very large; the American crop is less than we expected; we have diverted 80,000 tons of sugar shipping in order that Belguim should have food;. Germans sweater, a darts blue, was worn and frayed at cuffs and collar. In nor- mal times the mother would have giv- en it to the Salvation Army and bought a new one. This year, how- ever, she decided on new collar and cuffs. For the cuffs she simply cast, on thirty stitches, knitting with two - needles knitted back and forth and until the cuffs were as deep as were needed for that particular sweater, which depth, of course, she learned by measuring on the child. The col- lar is just as simple. Cast on seven stitches and knit across the back. On the third time across cast on two more, and on the fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, etc., un- til you have twenty-two stitches. Then knit straight back and forth un- til the collar is of sufficient length to start the point on the other side, when narrow on every second time across clown to seven stitches. The collar is then done. The cuffs are sewed together and tacked onto the sleeve, the worn blue cuff being cut away. With the new white collor sewed in place, the old sweater has a quite dressed up look, for the simple outlay of fifty cents in 1'ttt in 1!Ienty at verietai:Ices : ml lace of Harley. Even with moor r,t)ICIC delicious soups can be matte by acidities a crash.' of u Food Control Corner C4o,t ' i:lera cf Canada have now an opportunity of iu'certainirig whether she prime they pay for foodshi1Ys are ceasetable and fir or po;'rible extor- tions by alleged prellteere. Ail they have to do in cash municipality in (nnada ie to Bele their nttinuinal council to appoint, a Fair Pri ,, G it- iliitteo to investigate the prep.; wed by retailers and to tit'aw en elusions as to wheelie), the:,o prior,; are fair and reiminni +le, Theo Fair Price Committees will then publish their findings in the form of lists. In Lhis way the consumers will make sure whether they are paying lirires which aro uni'easo- and unfair or not It may benitblethat the prices wliioh the. Committee considers to be fair and reasonable will not be tinPe lower than the present prices charged by retailers. In 503118 cases they may be higher. But that need not bother the conamner so long as he is satisfied through the invoatiga- 23 tion of the impartial Fair Price Com- mittee within his own municipality that the prices published indicate a fair and reasonabde standard to guido both consumer and retailer, having in mind war conditions and the tuiset- tling of pre-war prices. If there is a desire on the part of the consumers to find out just where they stand in regard to prices w lith they have to pay for foodstuffs, they now have a golden opportunity to have the matter dealt with once and for all under the provisions of the recent Order -in -Council, fathered by the Department of Labor, relative to the. appointment of municipal Fair Price Committees. In "some quarters it is said that Fair Price Committees will not solve the with food problem. present in most house- holds. It may be pertinent to sug- gest that municipal Fair Price Com- mittees first should be given a chance to show that they can find a solution before the principle of municipal Fair Price Committees is condemned out of hand. It is a good rule to support measures that seem to send in the right direction. A similar progrem has been effected in the U ited-States, The virtue of this Order -in -Council, giving authority to municipalities to appoint Fair Price Committees to in- vestigate the prices consumers have 4,to pay, lies in the publicity that will be given to the findings. Tit this -way public opinion will be informed, and enlightened public opinion may be trusted to cc -operate in all national food efforts if it knows the facts. You can always give anything a thorough trial once. 8111. ma rood Board, Licence No, is-. •12 money fur the yarn and two after- noon's 'work. _-- To Dry Citron Peel. Pare the citron, cut in places of a convenient size, and boil in slightly %tilted water until tender. Make a thick- syrup, using one pound of su- gar to otle pint of water for each pound of the prepared citron,, Ade the citron and let simmer until the syrup is nearly absorbed, then boil rapidly, stirring constantly, until the pieced are well coated. Dry in the warming oven and stern be any tight receptacle, fruit jars or pails tight -fitting lids. • Special N fe face Fathers and Mothers, you can Invest in V GTO RY a>8 for your children by using our Partial Payment Flan Iiasy monthly VIP ments secures them. Write at once for ex- planatory Booklet and state how much your want to invest for each child. II. M. CONNOLLY & CO. Members Montreal Stock L:rchangc 105.106 Transportation Bldg. MONTREAL • QUE. Canada is receiving only just enough sugar for her actual needs';! There is no surplus for wastage. -First, all- waste of sugar must cease; second, wherever poi-lssibl'e, . Corn Syrup must be used as an alternative for sugar. You will discover at real economy, and a, delicious addition to your: household supplies LI yon Here are a few suggested ways to..use CROWN BRAND or LILY WHITE Corn Syrup to give to dishes a finer flavour than sugar give's:. Use CROWN BRAND Corn Syrup as a Sauce on Puddings. Use LILY WHITE instead of Sugar .in Cakes, Use eitherbrand in Cocoanut or other Puddings. Use LILY WHITE -in snaking Marmalades, Jams and in all Stewed fruits. ' '11111111, ...,,_ 21(,, • 110 OWARDSBN �A.1�.� 1134 d� �e c611 ORM a. The Brand is Important! raVarAteceperan Ileal -Corn-Syrup is GOOD --very good! If your experience tells you othorwiee it le because you have net tasted the genuine, which is produced from the most nutritious part of the ('loch by wholesome and scientific processes, Remember the brands, LILY 'WHITE and CROWN BRAND, and insist on getting thenen, lee polity, economy and flavor. Write to the Canada Food Board, Ottawa,forEuilethe on Corn Syrup. A great many recipes are im- proved by using half sugar' and half Corn Syrup,' Buy a can of LILY WHITE or CROWN BRAND Corn Syrup to -day and become acquainted with their great possibilities, Sold ,by 5408era everywhere in Z G, 10 and 20 Ib, tine, Canada Starch Co,, Limited M b N'1' IgA!-, r— STORY OF HUMAN ENDURANCE Ordeal of Riveting Plates in a Glas- gow Shipyard. A marvellous story is told of a :rcmelkable piece of riveting work dant recuntly in a Port Glasgow ship- yard It certainly furnishes a thrill- ing example of courage and endur- glnce. Two plates had to be renewed and riveted onto a long iron derrick. Imagine a steel tube sixty - feet long and eighteen inches in diameter at its widest, tapering to ten inches. The new plates had to he riveted on to this at about forty feet from the open end where the diameter was only thirteen inches. Through this dark tube a man and a boyeted to crawl for forty feet until they reached the menet spot. The boy, gripping a long pair of tongs with which to catch the red hot rivets as they were dropped through a small aperture, had to work his way almig feet first, as he taunt face the "holder oil." The latter crawled after the boy, face first, carrying his heavy hammer. Thane they lay, stretched at full length, unable to turn to right or left. The red hot rivets were dropped through one by one, caught by the boy with his tongs, and put in posi- tion by him and then riveted from the outside, while the "holder -on" in- side sustained with his hammer the impact of the hammer strokes from without. ' Cho task lasted for days, and men and boys who could endure for so long the darkness, confinement, strain, deafening noise of the hammers, only - a few inches from their heads, and the terrific vibration, are surely mas- ters of their craft. It has Indeed happened that the lien tube has had to be cut through from the outside to release a man wimose nerve Itas given way'under the ordeal. A Rope of' Human Bair. A mighty witness to the vitality of religion in rural Japan, says Alia Joseph L 0. Clarke in Japan at First Hand, exists at Kyoto. A few years ago, when the Higashi Hongwanji temple w•as rebuilt, a rope -"of the greatest strength was needed to bolsi; the Iimeat r..oleantls and roof -tree tim- bers into place. Some zealot propos- _ed that it be of human hair, whitish Inakcs the atrongeat rope of all, The response was entlmeiastio; thirty thousand women cf a single province sacrificed their beautiful, long, dark tresses. r The rope that performed its task.. without breaking is shown on rho temple grounds to -day, It is closely woven, two hundred and twent-one Toot long, thirteen inches in cireum- fremice and more than four inches he diameter, I touched iLs lustrous cella with reverence; it meant 0o tre''eil t.itcriflce; so malty wishes Ilene the deeps of the human heart event with it, y, Figs (If dried ones) ohoutrl bo washed, drained and of illed, it