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PART IL I himself. The second warder joined
With a crooning cry, he crept' his companion in the doorway,
Glaser to him, regardless of his rains- Pity to have dragged you out on
soaked jacket. ,night like this," went on the convict
"God is good!" she murmured, in an "but the prospect of a good meal was
ecatasy, too much for me. Do you mind if
He bent his worn face till their lips finish my supper before I go back?
Bs et. Then he looked round atilt a As the warders watched him i
half -laugh- silent amnazement, he took up a de
I haven't mueh time to waste, 'anter and tilled three ghasses with
They'll soon be on my tack. I only whiskey,
'broke out in the hope of an hour of "Have a drink?" he suggested.
freedom and a good meal, and I tied— Then, es they still stood silent, h
fanned your" eine faced then, his awn glass
Even as he spoke the dull boom ofI! lcv:,l with his 1•ips,
es gun came to their ears. i "Go on!" he laughed, "It's n
Yes the hunt ^.s up," he went on' d, ae•ged or poisoned!" As he spok
quie ly. "But let them come. They. he drank the contents and replaced
can't take this moment from mel" the glass on the table. "Heavens, bu
sound of the gun had roused it's strong, thought" he spluttered.
Betty from her dream of happiness: Then at last one of the warder
In broken phrases she tried to plan spoke.
some means of escape. But Lienel "Well it'll keep off a cold, maybe,'
shook his head, he muttered', as he took hold of a tilled
"It's no use, sweetheart,"" he replied glass, And within a few minute
to all her ideas. they were •seated at the table, stppin
"Convicts never eseape, except in their whiskey with appreciations,
stories, But I have had leis hour of. The convict stared at then in
life in Vase few moments with you." turn. He had been prepared fo
Then suddenly Betty renembe•re,.l harsh words, even cruel blows, hu
what he had said, not for this touch of Comradeship.
"You're hungry!" she eriell pathetic- hurriedly he pullet himself together.
ly, and with the :.ords flew to get One of the warders was speaking.
leen food' and drink. "You've led us a nice dance," he
Lionel drew a �.hre: to the table and said grinning, "and if you'd waited an
eagerly attacked the curtail meal, hour or so yon could have gone in a
In a little while he was s•ttis-ed for a cab,"
u a t>
moment, arra turned again to her, to Pf?sa�? stammered the convict.
seize all the bliss he aald from his "It's like this," explained the ward
Heaven-sent .stroke of luck. er. "The governor has just reeed
"If only £ could give the brutes a a wise from London to say that other
run for their moneyl" he muttered, in man, Strakes, has confessed• to
angry despair. The food had revived murder. Apparently he's been badly
the fighting spirit in him, and he smashed in a motor accident, and
clenched his hands impotently_ thought be might as well do the fai
The words gave Betty an idea. thing before he croaked." He snorted
"Come!" she ordered breathlessly. contemptuously. "He did ]Bis mast
"I have a trunk full of my stage in for the money in his desk abou
elethes upstairs—wigs and all," hall an hour after you left." He
Together they dashed ep the narrow sprang suddenly to his feet. "Here
stairs, and into the dainty room in bear up!" he shouted.
which she had passed: so many sleep- For Convict No, 679 had fallen to
less nights. With quivering fingers the ground in a crumpled heap with
she threw open a trunk and hurriedly a little broken try,
selected garment after garment whech * * * w * *
she threw on the bed. A few weeks later the Excelsior was
Change, quick!" she ordered. paelred from floor to eeiling to welcome
"There's a mackintosh behind the the return of their favorite star
door." dainty Betty Lethbridge, known now
Slamming the door behind her, she to her personal friends as Mrs, Lion
iced down the stairs again like one Averse,
possessed. In the sped behind the The End.
cottage stood a nutor-eyele, which 4
for some unknown whim, she lied
brought with her. Now, as she her- Feterlou3 Rejections,
riedly prepared •lamps and tested The young author who is apt to feel
petrol and oil -tanks, a hymn of thanks- depressed when his work is rejected
giving welled up in her heart.
Back again into the sitting -room to
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Frayed Souls
It is an exquisite thing to have a
perfect house. In such a house ev-
erything is in its place, high and low,
front and back, and In its place al-
ways—not on set and state occasions,
but always. The chains and tables
have their fixed relations to one an-
other and keep them. No dust Is
allowed to remain, or even to gather.
The polish of the doors is immaculate.
The furniture covers and the wall
papers are intact, not faded by In-
trusive sunlight, not torn or frayed
by the careless claws of puppies or
kittens or the wayward activities of
lively children. Every thing looks
finished and as it should be, and
stays 80.
Such a house is undeniably pleas-
ant to enter and restful to sojlurn in,
a if it is not stiff and artificial, and
it need not be, The visitor feels that
there is peace there, that life is order-
✓ ly and regular, and that the souls of
the inmates are orderly and regular
also. And the inmates themselves no
doubt get pleasure out of it, It is
a comfort to feel that you can find
things where you leave them; ,and,
o in a world that is always too prone!
to be topsy-turvy, a quiet corner,
a wife harbor and a well -ordered
of resting place give the troubled soul
• a sense of security that enables it
to go out and flight its battles with
more hope and assurance of success.
s Still, for the dwellers in such a
house as we speak of it is not all
peace. Constant order requires eon-
s stant thought and attention on the
part of some one, and, if you are to
live in an abode that is never damag-
e ed, you have to be careful not to
✓ damage ,it, Unworn furniture is love -
t ly; but if you want yours to be un-
worn, you must never sit and never
stand and move very little, or you will
wear it. A prime element of peace is
stability, and the human muscles
were not meant to be stable, but to
be used, with perpetual consumption
of themselves and
vs
of everything that
Yt
comes near there, g
vd But it is not so much the dwellers
in the perfect house that deserve pity
e as the keeper of it. She may de-
light in dustless surfaces and unfaded
✓ curtains and unscratched wall papers.
But, oh, the wear and strain on her
er of maintai±xing those things! How
t she resents soiled hands and heavy
shoes and eager notions and irregular
visitors and the unexpected generally!
What little things become great to
her, what trifles terrors!
We all know the perfect housekeep-
er and admire her, and she some-
times contributes to our comforts,
sometimes not; but she is not always
, happy, and, although her house is
perfect, her spirit is likely to be
c1 tattered, patched, forlorn. It is
better to have a frayed house than
a frayed soul.
may gain comfort from the fact that
out sandwiches and fill a silver flask many famous books suffered rejection,
with wire. Then breathless with her some of them many tinges,
haste, she turned eagerly to the stairs, It would seen] that a book which is
down which came a yeung slim ream off the beaten track is more liable to
trim and upeight. With the prieon rejection than one more conventional
garb, he had thrown off his slinking In pattern. Kipling's "Plain Tales from
gait—the air of a man who knows he the Mills," was turned down more than
Is always under guard. once, and the late J. W. Arrowsmith,
A trenuilsas laugh broke flora the Bristol publisher who sold 400,000
Betty's lips.
"They lit!" she cried, 'Teen the wig copies of Hugh Conway's "Called
will do!" Back," and probably an equal number
Then, with a sob, she slipped her of Jerome I{, Jerome's "Three Men in
arms round his neck and raised her a Boat" actually ]et "Sherlock
lips to hie. For an instant he strained Boines" slip through his fingers!
her to hien, .It was the girl who drew "Vice Versa" seems to have puzzled
first from that long embrace.
"You mustn't wait any longer!"
she said, "Write to me under cover
of Sidney, at the Excelsior."
half a dozen publishers before the
seventh tumbled to its form of humor,
and "Bootle's Baby" had an exactly
Another guide -snatched kiss, and he similar experience, Edna Lyall's "We
was gone into the stomps, while she Two," which brought a small fortune
quickly shut the door and ran up- to the house which finally accepted it,
stairs. There was still work for her was rejected many times, and "Lorna
to do, She must hide those hideous Doone," even, was refused by Smith,
clothes somehow. Filler P
Stopping quickly, she gathered them �+n c Co. before it was taken by
et ran into forty editions in a
in a bundle and then suddenly drew short. time.
berself erect. .An inward light seemed „•Gude `Pons's Cabin," the biggest
chase wass delayed, the better chance
to come alThe longer time the eater perhaps of modern times, had
•
had her lover of escaping. I to face at least a dozen rejections, and
With an air of quick resolution she, when accepted called forth the re -
spread the wet garments out on the mark from the novelist's husband:
bed, Turning frantically to her dress -1 ewell, Harriet, if you get a silk dress
lag -table, she snatched up a pair ei 1 out of It I shall be eatisfled!"
seiesers. * w 4 w w w Sir Rider Haggard's "Dawn" was re -
Through the wind and rain two men fused several times, and a publisher's
in glistening water -proof capes tame' reactor pronounced the late W. Clark
stumbling across the uneven ground Russell's "Wreck of the Grosvenor"
which surrounded the Kittle cottage. I to be a "catalogue of ship's furniture."
After a low -toned Conversation, Nor have the very greatest escaped,
they strode up the little garden -path The caeca of "Vanity Fair" and "The
and knocked loudly at the door. The' professor," which •wandered for
light in the lettle hall went out sud-1 onths among the publishing houses,
denly, - Then, as a voice bade the -int-
c 1 thaty' are historical,
+ cu , Cor, e 'vett were ga.,.,,.
titles and pushed the door open,
A beam of light shone through aBritish Sportsmanship.
half -open door at the end of the pae-
sage, One man remained on guard If anything were needed to show at
by the front door, while the other, his once both the British love of outdoor
ellf&e at the ready, crept softly down aporte and the number of young Eng -
the hall and suddenly threw open the lishnlen who were crippled by the war,
door of the sitting -room, it could be found in the rotten of the
4)3, act tabNo.le littered was standing calm- British National Lawn Tennis Aesocia-
Ty by a table iithered wroth foot] and tion in so modifying the rules of the
game that a one-armed player, when
he serves, may toes the ball from lits
racket instead of with his hand. Te
put a disabled player on an equality
with conP etitors who are whole is
the Very -flower of eportsmanahlle
heir and drenched. mud-etainod 9
C"othes; but he tletlnetl to be dn3aying Mfnatd'M Ltnlmint itaivI, Irsntalpli.
bottles.
"Sorry there le no one else to wel-
eome you;" he said coolly, "but the
heeleo was empty when I arrived, so
I just :.Biped myself."
The official peeped
in amaz
ement.
No, 679 was a pitiable•iookiug object,
with his pallid Idea, close -cropped
The Care of the Eyes
1. The continued use of the eyes.
at donee work is harmful, even if the
eyesight is perfect, Rest the eye's
every few minutes when studying or
writing by looking up from the book
or paper; if they still feel tired, do
something else for a whsle,
2. To read or study when tired is
to overstrain the eye. Therefore,
avoid night study as far as possible.
3. When using artificial light, do
not let the light shine directly into
the eyes. The light should come from
behind you and from the left side.
On no account let the artificial light
some from in front.
4. When the child experiences dif-
ficulty in seeing the blackboard from
the back part of the room, or suffers
from hearache in school, or shows
mow..:..•
evidences of eye .strain, hes eyes
I should be examined to ascertain tho
cause, and it should be corrected by
glas•re prescribed by a competent
specialist.
' 6, When glasses have been thus
prescribed, they must be worn con-
' stantly. If needed in school, they
are necessary all the time,
6. Keep the glasses clean.
7. The adjustment of the frame
'ie of as mueh importance as the eor-
reetness of the lenses. The child
should look through the optical centre
of each lease. As frames get bent
and children grow, adjustment should
be made at frequent intervals.
8. Glasses ordered for astigmatism
or any severe refractive error require
most accurate adjustment and should
be mounted in spectacle frames.
9. Eyes should be re-examined for
glasses each year of school life, be-
cause eyes often change in refrac-
tion, as ,children grow older, and
lenses suitable at one age are unsuit-
able at a later period.
10. The immature eyes of child-
hood are very susceptible to having
their defective sight made worse by
using glasses not suited to their
special defect. They require constant
and careful supervision.
As children obtain their knowledge
both in and out of school chiefly
through their eyes, it is essential that
parents should exercise a careful and
intelligent eupervision. They should
remember that it is better for the child
to lose his chance of high marks in
school than to have weak eyes for the
remainder of his life,
A child's eyes are priceless. The
slow progress in school of many a
boy or girl is due to poor eyesight
which might easily, en most cases, be
remedied by the use of proper glasses.
Choose Food for Minerals
If you have growing children, or if
the doctor tells you that you need
more iron, pover the1 aste this table
and include some of these foods in
your daily meals:
Foods Rich in Iron
Dried lima beans. Oatmeal.
Dried navy beans. Egg yolk.
Dried peas. Prunes.
Whole wheat String beans.
Lean beefsteak. Wheat flour.
Spinach. Corn meal,
Raisins.
Foods Rich in Calcium
Almonds. Peanuts.
Dried navy beans. Turnips.
Egg yolk, Parsnips,
Milk. Carrots.
Dried peas. Oranges.
Oatmeal. Prunes.
Walnuts.
Foods Rich In Phosphorus
Dried peas. Oatmeal.
Dried navy beans. Walnuts.
Egg yolk. Lean beefsteak.
Whole wheat: Low-grade flour.
Peanuts. Prunes.
Almonds. Patent flour.
Things to Keep in The Emergency
Drawer.
Every household should have an
emergency drawer of linen and under-
wear to bo used ,in the event some
member of the family is hurt or sud-
denly taken M. A home demonstra-
tion worker in a western agricultural
college gives the following sugges-
tions for stocking such a drawer.
Four plain, substantial sheets, four
plain, untrimmed pillow cases, one
pair of clean blankets, one white coun-
terpane, two women's light gowns,
two men's night 'shirts or pyjamas,
six soft towels, six wash cloths, bath-
robe.
Above to be clean and within easy
reach in case of emergency.
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everything!
The Direction Book with each pack-
age tells how to diamond dye over any
color.
To match any material, have dealer
show you "Diamond Dye" Color Card.
The Commandments in
Verse.
Here are the commandments in
rhyme. This should •help you to
memorize them:
Thou no God shalt have but mo;
Before no idol bow the knee;
Take not the name of God in vain;
Nor dare the Sabbath clay profane;
Give both thy parents honor due;
Take heed that thou no murder do;
Abstain from words and deeds Un-
clean;
Nor steal, though thou art poor and
mean;
Nor make a wilful lie, nor love it;
What is thy neighbor's do net covet.
Gloss paint should not be laid on
over the gloss --•-the undercoat Sher
, be a dull paint.
$1,000,000 For Airmen.
The announcement of an offer of
$1,000,000 In prizes by the Aero Club
of America for a go -as -you -please flight
round the world, is a reminder that
there are other big prizes to be won
by enterprising aviators,
Four hundred thousand dollars has
been presented to the Aero Club of
France for the organization of air
races, In which airmen of all nationali-
ties will have a chance of carrying off
the spoils.
Twenty thousand dollars is offered
by the Portuguese Government to the
first military airman to fly from Lib -
son to Rio de Janeiro. This, appar-
ently, is in addition to the prize of $33,-
000 offered earlier,
Perhaps the prize scheme that le
exciting most interest at the present
time is the offer by the Australian
Government of a prize of $60,000 for
the first Australian airman to fly from
England to Australia.
Appear At Your
Best—Instantly
If you receive a sudden
caller or an unexpected in-
vitation you can feel con-
fident of always appeadna
St your best. In hut It few
moments It renders to 1,000
skin a wonderfully Pure.
soft complexion that Is
beyond comparison,
•
An Artist's Conscience.
Tho following little story 1s an 1k•
luatratlon of the seriousness with
which 0 Fromm craftsman lakes his
art and himself.
There are sprinkled over Paris
watehmalcere who make watches at
home, malting every part by hand,
working as many or as few hours a
day as they rllooee, with neither a
foreman nor a union leader to say
them nay. The big jewellers 01 the
line de la Pais know all these ]nen and
await their work eagerly; but not even
they cru] make one work faster or
otherwise than as lie will,
Before tiro war un attache of the
Turkish embassy bought ono of these
watches and presented it to his royal
plaster to curry favor with him, He
in turn wished to give it to his favor-
ite wife. But there are grave practi-
cal disadvantages about polygamy; he
dared not give her the watch without
remembering at least five other wives,
So the attache was bidden to go back
and get live more watches just like
that one. Re went to the jeweller, and
the latter seat for the man who made
the watch.
"Yon made this watch for me, mon.
aleur9”
"Yes. Does the purchaser say that
there Is anything the matter with it?
If he does, he is crazy."
"011, no! On the contrary, ho lilies
the watch so much that he would like
five more just like it."
"I told you he was crazy. I never
duplicate my work, I am making an-
other watch now!"
And rather than lose the sale, the
jeweller, more clever than scrupulous,
had to send the watch to Switzerland,
where the Swiss watchmakers matte
him the live reproductions for about
the same price as he had originally
paid for the watch, and the Sultan
never knew the difference. But the
old artist would bave known!
atinard,a Valmont tor sale everywhere,
lisowessisimessasenweinasoneuessavalawereell
The Great West Permanent
Loafs Company.
Toronto Office 20 King et, West
4% allowed on Saviuge.
Interest computed quarterly.
Withdrawable by Cheque.
51/e% on pebenturee,
Interest payable half yearly,.
Paid up Capital $2,412,678.
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His Choice,
"Now, Willie," said a generous fath-
er, as lie and his little son were gaz-
ing into a tabor's shop window, "I ani
going to buy you a pair of trousers,
and you shall e110080 them. Which
pair do you want?"
After a moment's hesitation, the
little boy said: "Please, father, may I
have that pair, marked 'Cannot be
beaten'? "
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WHY SOME PEOPLE
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REAL CAUSE OF FACIAL;
UGLINESS.
Scientist Explains Part Played
by Certain Wonder -Work-
ing Glands,
Ugly folk are guilty of an injustice
when they blame their parents for
their lack of good looks,
It is their pituitaries that are the
real cause of their want of facial
charm.
Plain Janes and homely -looking
Johns owe their joint unattractiveness
to the special pituitary gland with
which they were provided at birth.
This quite small but very potent or.
gan Is situated on the under surface
of the brain, reposing snugly on the
bony floor of the skull, well out of
harm's way. From this point of vant-
age it directs those operations, using
suet plastic materials as skin, young
_:.
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Iia Properly Done at Parker's
It makes no difference where you live; parcels can be
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0SS from paint -neglect is
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cost of paint -protection.
Eut it is to be noted also that
the real cost of using ordinary
paint—however cheap it may
be --is vastly greater than
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and green bone, muscle, or llesil and
blood, which result in the making or
marring of your face.
Sometimes the pituitary gland has
an inspiration, and the result is a
Venus or an Adonis. It is difficult to
explain why in one individual the
pituitary should have obviously done
its best and in another its worst.
Of course 1t is not always the pitel-
tary gland that makes a sad mess of
the human face. The thyroid gland, a
modest, unassuming structure that
hides In the region between your col-
lar-stud and your Adam's apple, often
lends a hand In the making or mar-
ring of your visage. And considering
the difficulty of ringing the changes
without end on a couple of eyes, a
nose, a mouth, and a pair of ears, the
combined efforts of the pituitary and
thyroid glands to turn out really pre-
sentable faces, each of which, though
resembling the other, has an individu-
ality all its own, are to be highly com-
mended on the results obtained.
Judging by Appearance.
Flow is it done? All that can be
said in reply is that these glands dis-
til from their substance into tho blood
and lymph some eery mysterious es-
senses which materially affect the
building up and moulding of the tie -
sues which go to the malting of our
fares.
It must be remembered that were it
not for the beneficent activities of
these and other glands every human
being would be simply a replica of all
the others. We should not be able to
tell one man or woman from another,
Fortunately the reverse is the case,
and these wonder-working glands
which seem to pull the strings of life
and growth of the human marionette
are responsible also for our figures
and even our characters. So it is that
most of us can easily be judged more
or less accurately by our appearance.
The disposition, temperament, nature,
and tone of the individual depend up-
on the precise proportion in which the
magic essence distilled from these
(Indians glands is blended.
The idiot is mentally and physically
the product of his ductless glands,
The genius is In like case, though so
far it is impossible to identify which
particular essence or what special
gland plays the greatest part in his
production. When science has finally
got at ail the facts, idiots should he
as rare as precious stones, and Shake-
apeares as plentiful as blackberries.
Degrading and brutal forms of em-
ployment aro not without their in-
fluence in the production of the posi-
tively repulsive face, On the other
hand, elevating, altruistic, and 'deans -
tic activities have an obviously refin-
ing effect on the contours and expres-
sion of the human face.
Beauty and ugliness, therefore, are
the result of internal glandular activi-
ty and of environment and habit of
life, A word to the wise is enough.
The Song My Mother Sings.
O sweet unto lay heart Is the song my
mother sings
As eventide is brooding on its dark
and noiseless wings.
Every note is charged with memory,
every.ntenlory bright with rays
Of the golden ]tours of promise in the
lap of childhood's days.
The orchard blooms anew, and each
blossom scents the way,
And I feel again the breath, of eve
among the new -mown hay,
While' through the halls of memory in
happy notes there rings
All the life -joy 0f the past in the song
my mother sings.
It's a song of love and triumph, it's
a song of toil and care,
It is filled with chords of pathos, and
it's set in notes of prayer,
It is bright with dreams and visions of
the days that are to be,
And as strong In faith's devotion as
the heart-beat of the sea;
It is linked in mystic measure to sweet
voices from above,
And is starred with ripest blessing
thro' a mother's sacred love,
0 sweet and strong and tender are the
memories that it brings
As 1 list in joy and rapture to the song
my mother sings.
• Finds Ships In Pogs,,
A noted British wireless company
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has announced tieP roductlon of t5
radio direction finder that enables
ships to locate one another's position
in the densest tog,
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