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OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR.
CHAPTER IV,--(Con'td,)
"The Bishop's residence," said John,
in answer to her eager question.
Ella actually turned in her seat to
take a better look at it. The thought
that to enter those majestic gates
would be her privilege—nay, her duty
—could not but make her heart swell.
"I suppose we shall have to cal]
there at once, John?"
"S shall go immediately, of course;.
but Mr, Wodley is away at present."
Ella said nothing for some time
after that.
"What is all that black stuff?" was
her next query, as a turn of the road
brought them into view of a miniature
mountain range, dusky and bare,
which here rescended abruptly to the
very side of the road.
"Slate refuse," came John's answer,
in accents almost of pride. "We
shall be passing. the gates in a minute,
and then you will see!"
What she did see was only a smok-
ing engine -house, and beyond what
seemed to her a great black hole in
the hill, on which John's eyes rested
with a tenderness quite incompre-
hensible to her. Beyond that, more
of the refuse: black, shiny, and loose
in the more recent deposits, dull and
closely packed in the older ranges
the crevices filled up with green moss,
and here and there a wild -rose -bush
having taken root upon the inhospit-
able slope, to which it clung like an
eagle to a cliff. At one place a pas
sage had been cut through the pro
jecting mass, and the stone arch
seemed to groan under the weight of
the slate above.
"This part isn't pretty," said Ella,
glad of an object on which to vent the
still rankling disappointment. "Why,
it's positively ugly."
Is it?" queried John genuinely
astounished. Perhaps it's because I
know it so well that I never found it
out. That black heap represents the
labor of two centuries you know."
The look of the village—of the
straw -thatched cottages, with, the
grass flourishing on the roofs, and
the green mildew creeping up the
walls, undoubtedly picturesque though
they were—astonished Ella more than
it enchanted her. But the Rectory
raised her spirits. True, it was rath-
er too much mixed up with the cot-
tages, but it was a real modern stone
house, with real bow -windows, almost
as good as a Peebles villa, and with a
front garden which presented pos-
sibilities, From experience gathered
during school -feasts, she knew that
gardening was quite a suitable occupa-
tion for a lady, and even before she
had alighted from the "machine"—
alas! with only a group of bare-foot-
ed urchins as spectators, and while
John, with all sorts of things in his
eyes, was looking up the village street
towards where a modest grey spire
pointed above the roofs—she had re-
solved to buy a gardening manual.
That first evening might be likened
to a sort of moral see -saw between
elation and disappointment. Sonia
things surpassed her expectations;
others fell below them. The sitting -
room (which, from the first, she firm-
ly called the drawing -room) was larg-
er than she had dared to hope, and the
entrance lobby was distinctly "super-
ior"; while, again, the furniture, tak-
en over from their predecessor, posi-
tively cried out for new coverings,
and the carpets were certainly as ripe
for retirement as had been their ven-'
erable possessor. The tea -cups too,'
produced in a hurry—since John's!
funny idea about a clandestine arrival'
had naturally resulted in no tea be-'
ing ready—were of a dreadfully coo -
mon pattern. But all the same, the.
possibilities were there, inside as well,
as outside.
"At last, Ella!" said John, as for
the first time they sat 'at their own
hearth, with the primitively set -out,
tea -table between them. "Ah, I am
thankful!"
"So am 1, John. Do you know, I;
had not at all expected a bow -win-
dow '1
ow-win-dow? You never mentioned it. It
will do beautifully for a flower -stand.'
And with new chintz covers on the'
chairs and a folding tea -table, and one
of those neat little cake -stands to'
bring along with it, the room will real-!
ly look all right."
"Isn't it all right?" asked the in-
nocent John, opening his eyes rather]
wide. "And what do we want a
cake -stand for, when we only eat;
bread and butter, and there's room en-
ough for that here, surely."
Ella smiled indulgently.
"There's far too much room, John,
Nobody has these big, set -out tables
nowadays=I mean nobody of the bet-
ter sort. I've seen how they do it in
thee ountry-houses. And of course
we'll have to give our guests some-
thing besides bread and butter. We
can't help having guests, you know.
Don't trouble your dear head about it;
just leave it to me. You shall have
a comfortable home to come to be-
She had heard before of the garden
ing brother-in-law, but had carefully
kept his existence in the background
of her mind.
"But I mean the house itself; who
does it belong -to?"
"To Mrs. Gordon, a .rich widow.She's a great help to the village,"
"And does she tome to this
1 church?"
tween your labors never fear! and a
pretty one too;forl'mean to be a ered't
to you, John. Just see if I won't be
that!"
Upon which a pair of hands met im-
pulsively across the. too broad table,
"And since we're talking about.
meals, John, I heard that woman in
charge saying something about sup-
per, Of course it's all right for to-
day; but from to -morrow I'll take all
that into my hands. Tell me, at
what hour are you accustomed to
dine?"
At one o'clock, From one to two
is the quarry hour."
The white brow ruffled slightly.
"Oh, but that was in the—former
times. You're not bound by quarry
hours now. I really think that in the
matter of meals we ought to keep the
same hours as our neighbors."
"All the neighbors dine at one."
"I don't mean these neighbors, John.
Now, for instance, the Bishop—he
dines in the evening, doesn't he? And
when he asks us to dinner, as I sup-
pose he will do occasionally"—Ella
had some difficulty in governing the
thrill. in her voice as she said it—"you
will have to eat your dinner in the
evening; so surely it is better to, ac-
edstom yourself to it at once. And
' there may be other people too. By -
the -by, who lives at that big house
just across the water, there among
the trees? It seems a very handsome
house. I should like to see it
- near."
"You will see it near, for that's
where Alick is gardener—my sister;
Polly's husband, you know—and of l
course we shall go to see her."
"Oh!" said Ella, burying her face in
her enormous tea -cup.
"Yes; she's very regular in attend-
ance, except on those days when the
loch is too rough, to cross."
"Do you think she will call on me?"
"1 daresay she will,"
With newly -fed vigour Ella return-
ed to the charge about the dinner -
hour, successfully overcoming John's
not very determined resistance, It
was the newness of the idea more
than anything else which had startled
him; in itself it could have no import-
ance. Once it was proved to him
that even his work would be benefit-
ed by the arrangement, he acquiesced
without another word.
"Two more days till Sunday!" he
mused, as he rose, "And after that,
to workie
"Yes, to work!" echoed Ella, with
another of her semi -critical, semi -
prophetical glances round the room.
There was another shock in store
for Ella that evening; for about an
i hour later, while perambulating the
house, with a view to deciding future
arrangements, she was astonished, on
opening a door, to find herself con -
I fronted by a rather uncouth -looking
;individual in a much stained blue
serge jacket and grimy white duck
!trousers. This person's face and
=heard were of two different shades of
,red, which did not match, and he was
. actually sitting down in John's pres-
ence and talking quite easily.
' Ella was for at once shutting the
door upon this startling vision; but
with a radiant face, John sprang up
and stopped her.
"Don't run away, Ella! It's only
Adam—my cousin, you know. He'll
be very glad to see you."
(To be continued.)
Too Much Dessert.
In the average family the dessert
problem takes up more time than the
more substantial courses.
Traveling through a farm district
recently, the writer found that the
particular branch of cooking in which
women were most interested was the
making of cakes and desserts. At
a demonstration lecture at a western
university befure G00 women the
whole time was devoted to serving
afternoon tea and showing how the
cakes and ices and other desserts
should be made.
Now I do not wish to disparage the
arts of confectionery and the making
of delicious sweets, but I do think
that perhaps our women over -empha-
size the need and time for making
desserts. Many girls proudly boast
that they can make cake and fudge
and concoct delicious, if overly rich,
salads, but can these girls make equaI-
ly good bread, prepare meats so that
they are -luscious and tempting and
stew the plainer fruits so that they
are wholesome and attractive?
I have said often that meats and
vegetables are more poorly cooked in
this than in any other country, and
this statement is based on extensive
travels abroad. On the other hand,
we seem to emphasize the need of pud-
dings, pie, cake and wrongft:ll; stimu-
lkte too great an appetite for them
in ou: families.
If we want to classify the family
according to taste, we might well be-
gin with father, who feels the meal is
incomplete unless he has a hearty
triangle of pie at the end. Now, there
is nothing about a good pie to be
criticized, but it is the one dessert
which must be well made in order to
be wholesome, and, second, it does
take a considerable amount of time.
Just c.hy it should be a staple des-
sert in many a home cannot be fath-
omed, since all dietitians agree that
the crust is not wholesome if eaten
frequently or on top of an already
generous meal. Then there is the
child who will not eat the rest of his
meal because l.e is so anxious for des-
sert, and whose taste has been educat-
ed beyond simple desserts like rice
pudding, cornstarch or fruit and who
desires more elaborate puddings with
sauces and, worst of all, whipped
cream.
Whipped cream in itself is unob-
jectionable, but when added to an-
other food which is sweet a .d fat the
combination often proves disastrous
to one's liver! The cream itself is
practically all fat, so that it should
never be used with desserts which con-
tain a large amount of fat or sugar in
some other form.
It is the exceptional dinner among
middle class families across the At-
lantic which has anything for dessert
except fresh fruit, cheese and crackers.
Or stewed fruits which are called
"compotes" may be served with a
small offering of tiny cakes. There
is much in favor of this simple type
of dessert which would mean so much
less work for the homemaker and few-
er overburdened digestions, Fruit,
either fresh or canned, without much
sugar, is the dessert which could be
served every day and which would be
by far the most wholesome for chil-
dren and old people, who particularly
need the salts and mineral values that
food offers,
Another more wholesome plan is to
make a combination salad dessert at
the end of a hearty meal. So many
delightful salads can be made even
in winter or between seasons, that one
often wonders why another course is
passed after the salad. A sweet
dressing may be used, especially with
fruits, and if accompanied by crackers
or wafers and the cup of coffee or tea
the stomach really should not crave or
need anything else.
Menus For The School Children's
Dinner.
I. Eggs, boiled, coddled, poached or
scrambled; bread and butter; spinach
or other greens; cake.
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Casters for the Kitchen Table.
The most convenient thing in my
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housekeeper, is the table, which is
movable. We bought four ordinary
casters, which we fitted in the legs of
the table, so it can easily be rolled to
the sink to receive the dried dishes,
then to the pantry, where they can all
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To give your blouses and handker-
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flowery odor, put a small piece of
orris root in the rinsing water when
washing them.
To cool a fevered patient, add a lit-
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ter.
To keep moths away and to give to
it a wholesome and pleasant odor, put
branches of arbor vitae in your winter
clothing before storing it away.
To prevent green vegetables from
boiling over drop a piece of dripping
the size of a walnut into the center of
them just as they commence to boil.
To make a tight shoe more easy try
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11`
HOW WE ENTERED
ANCIENT EACUAD
SPLENDID) ACIIIEVEMENT OP
OUR VALIANT TI;OOl'S.
Historic City of the Orient Was An.
Easter Present to the British
People.
"General` Kerman in a telegram to
President ineohr used the proud
words; 'I send you the city of Savan-
nah as a New Year's gift,'
"General Maude has done even bet-
ter than that," says an English writer.
"Ile has sent the British people the
great and historic city of Bagdad as
an Easter present. Every circum-
stance of time, place, and memory is
combined to warm the heart and fire
the imagination in General Maude's
great achievement. It is as character-
istic a British victory as one could
possibly desire.
"After all the talk, it will be a
British and not a German -made en-
gine that will be the first to enter the
city of Haroun Al-Raschid from a Per-
sian Gulf terminus. Sinbad the Sail-
or, not Fritz the Frightful, will have
told the last and best story in 'Tho
Arabian Nights.'
"The occupation of Bagdad is an
event in a unique setting. Historic
cities have sprung into importance
again in the vicissitudes of the war,
and tiny hamlets emerged from a shel
tered retirement into a light that'will
not soon fade. ..
An Ancient City.
"Bagdad is a city which can look to
a civilization when the great centres
of Europe were unconsidered. settle-
ments. Its story is so old that its
chief home is in the imagination,
where it rivals the appeal of Babylon
and Nineveh, of Darius and•Alexan-
der.
"It has fallen to an Irish General in
command of British and Indian troops
armed with the fruits of the specula-
tions of the last quarter of a cen-
tury."
Mr. Edmund Candler vividly de-
scribes how the British and Indian
troops entered into this famous city—
the neighbor of the great Babylon.
"Our vanguard entered Bagdad
soon after nine o'clock this morning,"
he writes from Bagdad on March 11.
"The city is approached by an unmet -
tailed road between palm groves and
orange gardens.
The British Entry.
"Crowds of Bagdadis came out to
meet us, Persians, Arabs, Jews, Ar-
menians, Chaldeans, and Christians of
divers sects and races. They lined the
streets, balconies, and roofs, hurrah-
ing and clapping their hands. Groups
of school children danced in front of
us, shouting and cheering, and the
women of the city turned out in their
holiday dresses.
"As soon as the Gendarmerie left at
two o'clock this morning Kurds and
others began looting, As we entered
from the -East this morning they were
rifling the bazaar at the other end of
the city, and among the fist citizens
we met were merchants who bad run
out to crave our protection.
"Regiments were detailed to police
the bazaar and houses, and pickets and
patrols were allotted, that there was
much that it was too late to save.
Many shops had been gutted, and the
valuables had all been cleared. A rab-
ble were found busily engaged in
dismantling the interiors, tearing
down bits of wood and iron, and oar-
rying off bedsteads. The had even
looted the seats from the public gar-
dens.
Law and Order Restored.
"Our entry was very easy and unof-
ficial, and it was clear that the joy of
the people was genuine. No function-
aries came out to meet us; there was
still fear of reprisals. Our own atti-
tude was characteristic; there was no
display or attempt at creating an im-
pression. The troops entered dusty
and unshaven after several days' hard
fighting and bivouacking,
"The people of the city have been
robbed to supply the Turkish army,
"The bridge of boats, the Turkish
army clothing factory, and Messrs.
Lynch's oifices were blown up or other -
Wise destroyed last night, and the
railway strition, the civil hospital, and .
most British property, except the
Residency, which has been used as a
Turkish hospital, were either gutted o
damaged,"
Irony of the Sign Posts.
The Somme front in the snow and
brilliant sunshine was magnificent,
writes Gouge Bernard Shaw. The
irony of the signposts was immense.
"To Maurepas," and there was no
Maurepas, "To Contalinaison," and
there was no Contalmaison. "To Po-
zieres," and there was no Pozieres.
On the road to Ypres the trees had
stood, an unbroken old guard lining
the road, with hardly a gap in their
ranks. But here! With every limb
shot to bits, beheaded, halved, out
off at the shins, torn out of the
earth and filing prostrate, these
woods seemed to scud with bare
poles or "woken jurymasts before the
wind ns oar car passed, all their rig-
ging blown and shot Lewey. As to the
ground, you cannot find enough fiat
earth in square mile to play marbles
on.
Pow cullision occur on the path of
virtue.
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