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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-12-5, Page 6Fresh, an, ragrant Vie=aWannitnartnanght===0TealhEMieneene An Everyday Delicious Beverage Slack, Green or Mixed .. 5439 Sealed Packets only at all Grocers .. • eeeerieht 7Aoughtoa M1etin Cempany Torob ' special arrangement with Tllo•. Allen ato CHAPrhR XXIX. Looking hack upon her talk with Maguire, .Vora felt that she had • every reason to be satisfied. First! and mast important of all, she had' ech'.eved what she had planned to: achieve. eleguire's intervention on' beh.•t:f of D -ave was as good as an ac-' cemplished fact; he would do his ut- most, whether his suit prospered or' not. Certain of that, Nora remained', cool to his wooing. Having married one man without loving him, she could hardly imagine herself com- mitting a similar blunder with waddl- er. The truth wan as she acknew:edged to her ee;f, eine eared more for Jerry than rhe had done before her mar- riage. She was unhappy because he came so seldom to see her; still mere unhappy did each visit make her, be- cause he never intimated the :cast de- sire to revue the old re''tisn. Almost against her will she could' not help _cowing him sometimes how much she cared. "You're so dull, Jerry," the cern-, plaint en one occasion. "I believe you (eme to see me es a duty, just as you might occasionally come to see' mother if I weren't here. Don't you get any more pleasure out of it than that?" "Oh, I dare say once I'm a lawyer I :than be es chipper as a lark," Jerry answered. "I'll be walking the street with a green bag in my hand, all stuf- fed out wth papers and documents of the highest importance. And I'1 have appointments with clients for' every hour of the day, and an office, with a mahogany desk and a tele-; phone.—Ncra," he said, suddenly changing his tone, "a dozen times a day it comes over me, the foolishness of it. Me trying to be a lawyer, and what good will it do me when I am one?" "Pm sure you'll have clients and a hig practice somehow," Nora said. "I don't know what will start people com- ing to you, but they'll come." Then, just as she thought she had got him in a confidential, even a con- fessional mood, the most promising of moods, he disappointed her by'ris- ing and saying, "Well, I just dropped in on my way to the library, and I i must be off to my studies." "Oh, Jerry, dont go. Please don't � go. If you only knew hew much it means to me to see you!" "That can't be, Nora." "But it is. I have so little in life that's interesting and amusing; your, visits are better than anything else.' And you come so seldom and stay such a little while!" She could be pathetic without sacri-, firing any of her charm. She leaned' over the back of a tall chair and'. looked up at hien wish eyes the more lovely for being so appealing. The pose accentuated and made more al- luring, the pretty lines of her neck, the edit curves of her arms and shoul- ders and bosom, the warm color in Ler cheeks. ".cora, I don't want to think about you too enuch," Jerry said. He etond with his hands behind his back, try- ing to harden himself against the impulses of the flesh; she was so pretty, eo appealing, "If I thought about you now as I used to, it would only be interfering with my work, and it would do neither of us any good." "Oh, Jerry, it would do m0 good if I I could feel you thought about me that way again. Even if there Iva, 71.0 chance of our getting married for years and years." "Your marrying made a difference in my feeling, Nora, If I sane you a I great dead and thought about you e. great deal; I might want to marry ! you, just as I once did. But Pd - rether not want that, and so I don't: let myself think about you." "Why thane you want to marry nm, Jerry?" Wliat is Your Favorite Security ? Perhaps you cannot purchase it Deeaueo your Means do not per- mit yon to pay for it in full, It. is right horn that we ineet'you, You can become the owner by using our Partial Payment Plan, payment being made by monthly instalments, We invite you to write for a free copy of our booklet tellieg y0i5 til 01)001 our plan, 11. M. CON.NO ,I Y & CO, ennebert Menu -eat 6108)1 ilxohange lee.109 Trenoportetion ilulidin@ i+1C1NTRgAt 7 , IUs, "I'm in no position to think of marrying." '• "Still you might want to, even if you couldn't do it." The reproach was half smiling, half serious. "I'm afraid I shnald want to, and my reason tells me it would be a mis- take. We'd not be likely to make each other happy." "Why do you think that?" "I could never feel sure of you, I couldn't be happy with a person I didn't feel sure of." "0f cour:•e I don't wonder that you have that idea about me. But can't you see how it was, Jerry? Every- thing '_coked so hopeless, and I was :eolith and believed that Charley. Ccr,inran really eared for me. It seemed the ea est way out, and I was weak enough to take it. Don't you think Chet I've learned my lesson?" "I can't help wondering. You're attractive. Nora, awfully attractive, but there'; a question in my mind about you that never used to be there," She flushed, but said humbly, tram ulensly, "What is that?" "It's a question of your—your sturdiness. Whether you can die stanch and loyal to the things you be- lieve in and the people you care for. Its lust another way of questioning whether you have it in you really to believe in things or care for other people than yourself. It's not just your marriage that makes me won- der. It's the way you've treated Dave—so indifferent to him, as I. look at it. And it's the way you seem not to have held steadily to any purpose or work in this last year and a half. Drifting, sort of—and tir- ing easily.—Wel!, you plight tire easily of me. We -might tire of each other." "Oh, you're unjust to me; truly you are. I'm not indifferent about Dave—perhaps you'll know some time. And as for my not being true or loyal, Jerry,—that hurts, of course, but you have a right to say it. Drift- ing—perhaps I have been. But there's something you don't seem to understand—and I don't know how I can tell you," "Never mind, Nora," Jerry said, trying to be sympathetic. "Don't feel that it's necessary to tell me anything," - 'Oh, Jerry, how stupid you are!" Vexation was in Nora's voice, and her eyes filled. "I want to tell you— can't you see?" "Oh, you want to," said Jerry, per- plexed, "Well, then, why don't you go ahead?" "I will," she exclaimed, with sud- den vehemence. "Why am I drifting? What else does any woman do who wants only one thing in Iife? What does any normal woman do who's lonely and doesn't have the life that she craves? You reproach me with not having a purpose in life; I.sup- pose it's true, I have only desires and longings, such as the normal wo- man has. A woman can't have any special purpose in life unless her one big woman's longing is fulfilled. At least I can't. You wouldn't feel that I was • drifting, that I had no purpose fn if e, that I had no loyalty, if--if—No, you wouldn't, Jerry." She burst into tears and flinging herself upon the sofa, hid her face on her arms and sehhed. Jerry stood aghast; then he carte over and touched her ehouldcr almost timidly, "Don't, Nora, don't," lie pleaded. "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings; I didn't realize--." He kept his hand on her shoulder, "Honestly, do you care for me so much, Nora?" "I never meant that you should know," she answered through her sobs. He bens and kissed her neck, "Jerry, you mustn't do that; you don't love me; you've told me so." "I haven't told you so," he said 171 a choking voice, "01 course I love you,' Then Jerry was on his knees beside her, with his arms round her.' alto turned, showing 'him a face all light- ed up with 'happiness, and while he kissed her he fait her staining hit" to her heart as she had never done be- fore. Anil it gave hum an ein0tiol4 that 11e had never knawyn before --of recldess exhilaration and brutality; while he "rushed her in hits arms she "murmured in his ear a plea that in- toxicated his whole spirit•-e'Lovo me, Jeimy, oh, ;love ane, love me." "I cavo you/' 11e answered. "Yee, J love (To (ro be continued) Four-year-old Charlotte was hay ing trouble with her English, but she had entlreler panacea her did'icultiee on one po4pt, "I gee flow it is now, mother "she ue,nd peopleaid tho rsit day,"Hens lie, 0,gm!� i 490, %oy iii it Y " ABOUT THE HOUSEHOLD pig rf rLic�:•�-� Selecting Kitchen Utensils, Often time is lost and fuel is wasted as a result of choosing the wrong kind of kitchen utensils. They should be durable, have a smooth finielt, he easily cleaned and suited to the purpose for which they are in- tended, Tin makes a satisfactory utensil for most quick baking proecsses, as it is light in weight and heat and cools rapidly. The beet grade is the heavy block tin. Pure tin is soft and pli- able, and consequently iron or steel are often used as a foundation. If this foundation material is exposed by scraping or scratching the utensil, rust will attack the iron. Enamel, agate, and granite ware are made on iron or steel foundations. Should the enameling material be- come chipped, the iron body soon will rust. Often utensils of inferior quality are sold as bargains, and soon chip and rust. The pure -whits and the blue -and -white enamel wares are not suited for cooking processes where great heat is necessary-. The gray and brown varieties are much more durable. Aluminum is attractive and of light weight. There is no danger of chip- ping or rusting this material. It is very desirable for many processes of cooking, as it heats rapidly. Iron is used for processes of cookery where a high temperature is necessary, It is durable if kept dry and free from rust. When not in use it should be coated with salt- less grease to protect it. Earthenware is used for long, slow cooking or baking procesees. The lids of earthen baking dishes should fit tight to keep in all moisture and heat. Cooking utsnsils made of glass are attractive, easily cleaned, and sani- tary. Such utensils have been proved successful for baking processes when made of a material which can be sub- jected to high temperatures with no injurious effects. Utensils should never be bought until needed. When selecting cook- ing utensils, choose articles -with smooth -finished rims and made of one piece of metal. Avoid seams and useless curves, as well as dirt -catch- ing handles. A heat -resisting wood makes the best handle. Recipes for Cool Days. • Chicken Curry—Add two cups cold chopped chicken to two cups white sauce; season with one teaspoon curry powder, heat thoroughly, and dir..h into the rice. Mushrooms and a lit- tle celery top, chopped fine, may be used instead of curry powder. Stock in which the chicken has been cooked may he used instead of white sauce in preparing this dish, Thicken the stock as for chicken gravy, season to taste, and add chopped chicken. Sweet -Sour Stew—This may be made of meat, o•r merely a meat bone to produce a good stock is equally nice. If meat is used, soled a cheap cut of beef. Cut into pieces of pro- per size for serving; put over the fire In sufficient water to cover well, and cook until tender. • Remove the meat, and add an extra pint of water, one- half cup vinegar, two tablespoons ! sugar, salt to season, and two or three whole pepper -corns if they are at hand. Peel and cut into rather thin slices enough potatoes to make one cup, enough turnips and carrots to 'make one-half cup each; a sweet pep- per from which the seeds and inner skin have been removed is cut into thin slices ar rounds and added with the other vegetables, also one cup fine- ly shredded white cabbage and, if liked, a medium-sized onion, sliced thin,Cook until the vegetables are tender. This will require about half an hour. A few minutes before time to serve, add the meat and let it heat in the stew. Serve very hot. This is fine on a cold day. Canada Roast—Ono pound cooked beans, one-half pound cheese, bread crumbs, salt. Put beans through the meat grinder. Add the cheese and enough bread crumbs to make the mixture sufficiently stiff to form into roll. Bake in moderate oven, bast- ing occasionally with tomato juice. it v fe 6tis itit lie ' 11Y? A Little S g1 r Goes a Long Way. The Canada Food Board has put the homes on their honour to save sugar. But a little sugar goes a long way when you use Corn Syrup for cooking, pre- serving and on cereals, It makes it easy to obey the War Order! CROWN RAN AN r) LILY IT CORN S H RUP Corn Syrup is sora starch converted into its "sugar" form, making it even more digestible and palat- able. It is therefore made from the most nutritious and wholesome part of the corn. And as corn is grown in North America, and does not require for its transportation the ships still needed so urgently for carrying food and supplies to Europe, you can use all you wish of Corn Syrup. lea. � + i1til ` go. '11,en Y•-,, ,tt�4ryg,yln:it� nibs. ,� "NEr% tiiiRpti'ria¢ cul t ?lee tort Iv M1. Write to the Canada Food Board tor Bulletin on Corn Syrup, and i11 the meantime, get a tin of CROWN ARANO Corn Syrup or LILY WHITE Corn Syrup and try it in your favorite recipes in place of sugar. Sold by Grocers everywhere in 2, 5, 10 and 20 Ib. tins. ars'- sag see eneeennees The Canada Starch Co., Limited %11, MONTREAL. Food Control Comer Peace—lent Not Plenty.' The olid of the war has conic, but Cant* minet not relax her efforts to. Idncrense the production of food, In addition to the Allies; whoeo prodae- tivo powers have been hampered by tho war and who need lmporee from this continent to build up a reeerve, the people of the neutral nations must also be considered, Canadn P'ood Board calls attention to the fact, also, that the countries of the di:deated enemy nations have also to be 0011s1(i- ered as in some cases millions of help - lees people are facing starvation,. Counting Russia, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria, the neutral coun- tries, France, Belgium, Italy and Great Britain, a grand total of 250,- 000,000 people are 911011 of food. Canada will have a hungry\ market for her agricultural produce -lend our• greatest possible effort t0 maintain and increase production will be none toe great. Lire Stock Conference. To £ormuleto national plans for• meeting the new and critical condi- tions in the live stock industry accom- panying ccompanying restoration of peace, some of the leading Canadian live stock men and representative meat packers are ' being called to a conference by Hon,. T. A. Crerar, Minister of Agriculture. Those who .have been watching the. situation realize that Canada has the opportunity of placing her live stock industry on a broader and a sounder basis than ever before. The war has stimulated live stock production in Canada. An even greater stimulus is expected to develop with the restora- tion of normal commerical com- munication, as the breeding stock of Europe has seriously declined during the war, in nearly all countries. 'A heavy demand is bound to be made upon this continent for meats and breeding stock for some years to come. The Minister of Agriculture is call- ing upon farmers and live stock men to maintain their operations on the war -time scale. Sometime. t, (Helen B. Anderson, Melville.) Sometime, we think, we'll stop the toil And ceaseless grind of every day, And then Have time to be more kind To friends we meet on life's rough way. Sometime, we think, we'll journey on ,.,_ ,m.,, x More leisurely than we do now, well reasoned. ,-Form into small cakes, place a cake in tho centre of each small square of the dough, bring the ends to the top and press together firmly; place in a buttered baking tin, the edges not touching, and Lake for about twenty minutes. Serve hot, with or without gravy. Bean Loaf—Two cups lima beans, one cup dry bread crumbs, four table- spoons peanut battier, two tablespoons I grated onion, one tablespoon drip- ; pings, one tablespoon dried: celery leaves or poultry seasoning, two tea- spoons salt, one-fourth teaspoon pep- per, one cup rice stock or other liquid. Wash and soak the beaus over -night, then cook fn boiling water till soft— about forty-five minutes. Drain, and when cool chop coarsely. Add ! crumbs mixed with seasonings and peanut butter, then add liquie and fat. Put into a greased bread pan and hake in a moderate oven thirty mi - t nates. This yields eight servings. Cottogc Cheese Sausage—One cup 1 eobtago choose, one cup dry bread crumbs or one-half cup cold cooked rice, one-half cup bread crumbs, one- fourth cup peanut butter or two tablespoons savory eat, one-fourth cup coarsely chopped peanut newt, one-half teaspoon powdered sage, one- half teaspoon thyme, one tablespoon mills, one teaspoon salt, one-fourth teaspoon pepper, One-third teaspoon soda, one tablespoon finely chopped onion, The bread crumbs may be made from left -over corn, barley, or other quick breads. Cools the anion in the fat until tender but net: brown, D' 'eel the soda to the milk and veork into the crheeee, Mix all other dry ingredients thoroughly with the bread crinnbe, Blend peanut butter and onion with the cheese, and mix with them the bread crumbs, Form into flat cakes, dust with bread m.'umlas ar co.neeeal, and fry a delicate brown h1 a little fat in a clot frying pats, Sausage Rolls --These baked ro11e 806 very appetizing and are wetly preStued. Make a ibalthng-pewter biselil't Clough roll; roll out in a sheet abeut half an inch in thinner,, and out into smell squame, Have ready any good sausage mixture—pork, beef, or a mixluro of left -over mate) Figure It Out. "tyoyes' - - Over 100.000 people are employed in Canada's fishing industry and the sum of $20,000,000 is invested in it, There are 200 steam vessels, including trawlers, fish tugs, cannery tenders and fish carriers, aperating on the oceans and inland waters. The sail- ing and gasoline -driven craft include 1,300 vessels of various kinds. There are over 27,000 sail and row boats home expect to get it? When all the people in private homes get clown to the level of restaurants and sugar manufacturers, the shortage will be fully met. Two pounds a month— the limit—means 6 spoonfuls a day. Confectioners are often accused of using much sugar. The fact is they take only about 5 per cent. of Canada's total consumption—about 12,000 tons a year out of nearly 300,- 000 tons. Real saving in sugar must come from the remaining 288,- 000 tons, most of which is used in the 1,500,000 homes in the Dominion. If each of these honestly cuts the sugar consumption to the 2 pounces a month for every person allowed by the Food Board, there would be no sugar diffi- culty. It is plain now which foot the boot is on. • THE LAST CEREMONY Organizing a Soldier's Funeral Des- cribed by an Officer. I was signing a seemingly interm- inable number of forms when the quarter -bloke, who had been talking to someone over the 'phone, came over to me. "Hospital notified headquarters, sir, Private Webb, of B Company, died this morning from pneumonia. Ar- rangements to be made for funeral on Friday n B Company was composed of 'raw recruits, and they cannot take their part in the rendering of the last honor to a departed comrade without train - ink. I had to get busy. .First the War Office and the Records Office had to he notified, the latter" of which would., pass the news on to the rela- tives. The chaplain also had to be notified, and the attendance of a band and gun -carriage to be .arranged ler. From the batmen, storekeepers, etc., I was able to secure enough men to form a firing party, old soldiers all of them, no longer fit for active service, When the hour of the funeral came the men were ready. They formed up outside the hospital, those who wished first going in to take a last look at their comrade. The coffin, covered by the Union Jack, was carried out and placed gently on the gun -carriage. Then be- gan the dull beat of the muffled drums, the wailing of. the "Dead March,' and the procession moved off, the men of other companies who had gathered to watch standing at the salute. In front walked the band, then came the gun -carriage, the fir- ing party on either side, then the men of the company, lifting their feet to the slow time, their heads bent, their arms reversed, and last the officers. Past headquarters, where the guard turned out and presented arms, and so on to the last resting -place. There the chaplain waiting, took his place at the head, intoning in a subdued voice until the grave was reached. The firing petty took their places, the muzzles of the rifles downward, their hands crossed on the butts, their bent heals resting on the hands. As the coffin began to disappear the rifles were reversed, pointing upwards across the grave. The "Last Post" rang out, and the rifles three times volleyed. The funeral was over. Onteir'n the cemotei'y'the ranks formed again; the band struck up a lively gnicls- et( o. NU .SI`N G Sar" from 510 t'o $2S o wank. Learn without leavdn hone. Booklet sent lees. ROYAL (MUGS 0. 3015501, 800 n8 %balm ave.. i51 o,te. Cas. and 11,000 motor boats employed 1,, dustry of British Columbia, ovoi Ili,- Parker's will l 000,000 in invested in cannery plants. The investments in nate, traps, litres, smoke houses, este., run into millions. No less than $3,000,000 are invested in freezers and ice -houses and $2,- 280,000 in fishing peers and wliarvos. fishing. In the salmon canning in - The Sugar Question. Shall we face the sugar ahortagc in Cseade, honorably and courageous- ly? Or lime we going nn quietly hoard- I ing even if only a little in every home? llfanufaalemers, eonfe.ctex ars and !peddle eating places are doing their &dare Well, Soldiers and monitions workcre want sugar Lacca than the persons doing ordinary work. Lai; them have 0, b must come from the private lemMee1- there only is there hoarding, however slight every individual ease, Don't ba mean for the sake of, n sweet tooth, Canadian raataurente are not per- nmitted to give thele raetomsrs all the sugar they ask far, liamttdteturnrs and ronfekrtienets he... ,.I0 htleu put; upon stylot: sagas ib arae could not won get bolsi? their present all' iris, peoee Pt minimum, VA( Eteruni By cleaning or dyeing ----.restore any articles to their former appearance and return them to you, good as new. Send anything :('Irons household draperies down to the finest of delicate fabrics. 'We pay poatago or cxprenq charges one way: When you thi.la.k of Think of Parker's Our booklet on houselloldtsuegeu1iona that save you mouey will be neat; free of elia:r;e. Write to•S:ay to Parker's Dye Works, Limmited ()loaners, Arad Dyet'o T91 Yotsge 51. Tomato That we may help to boar }1'- 'lee Beneath whose weight a friend may bow. Sometime, we think, we'll have more time To cheer the. hearts of those in grief; By gentle word or cheerful smile To bring to saddened hearts relief. Sometime, we think, we'll rest a space In shady spot on life's highway And hand a cup of water cold To thirsty travellers, day by day. Sometime, we think, as days go by We'll call to cheer a friend that's 111, With dowers or fruit, with book or song The weary hours with joy to fill. And cheer the poor whom now eve pass So heedlessly on life's rough way, We may have time to them to give Our best of love—our charity. Sometime? Of life we have no lease, To -day is ours, to -day alone, To share each other's burdens here And weep with those that moan. For those whom now we fain would help To -morrow may have crossed the bar And earthly word of song or cheer Can never reach that shore afar. HINDENBURG'S EXCUSE FALSE Not Famine, But A1tiny Collapse Was Cause of Surrender. "Field Marshal von Hindenburg -in his message to the German army said that the threat of famine causes the acceptance of the armistice" eye Marcel Hutin of the Echo de Paris. "Although food difficulties played a part in the defeat of Germany the determining cause of the German col- lapse was the fact that the enemy's army was on the brink of disastecl, "The first words the German pieni- potentlaries said to Marshal Foch were, in substance: 'Germany's army is at your mercy, Marshal. Our re- serves of men and munitions are cone, pletely exhausted, making. it impose Bible for us to continue the war, "FLYING TANKS" Caused Havoc Among Retreating Germans in Last Days of Fighting.. Says a London despatch: "Flying tanks are war's newest implement. •!'hey are armor -plated scout planes, lnvuhterable against 00dlnary ground fire, capable of climbing quickly and of developing remarkable speed, and designed aimoee entirely for the Most demoralizing of any kind of warfare ground strafing, These machines can accomplish the maximum amount of longs with the 'ninimetre amount 'of danger to both 411oe itltd plane. They eausod great; havoc among the retreating German forces in 101.4nco,