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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-10-12, Page 6'1 roigabation is not in force for the finest beverage of all -------- IV XI a 1''or flavour, quality and richness there is nothing to equal a cup of "SALADA". Invigorating, refreshing, and so pure and clean. 8226 SOLD A T A L L GROCERY CERY STOR)i✓S 4Oc,, . 5Oc., 60c. ` and 70c. ao n p u d THROUGH THE DARK SHADOWS Or The Sunlight of Love CHAPTER VIII.—(Cont'd). Behind him glittered the long French windows of the morning -room, one of which stood open, revealing the luxury of the' room beyond; the table with its silver and delicate china service, and the purple hangings of the walls. -Prey ently he stopped in his stroll and turned his stern eyes towards the landscape stretching beneath him. Through the confusion of the dark woods there lay a long line of turf, cut here and there by formidable hedges, and divided by a streak of glittering silver, which was in real- ity a dangerous stream—indeed, high- er up it became a torrent --forming the final obstacle of the Barminster • steeple -course. All the Leroys had been fond of horses. The Barmin- ster stables 'had sent many o satin - coated colt bo carry off the gold cup; and this race -course had been care- fully kept and preserved by the family for many generations. While he stood gazing on it a light footstep sounded behind him, and a slender hand was laid on his shoulder. He turned slowly, and with a kind of kingly courtesy kissed the long white fingers. "You are early as usual, Constance," he said approvingly. Lady Constance Tremaine smiled as she turned with him and walked along the mosaic pavement of the terrace. She was little more than a girl, with a slim, graceful figure, and clad in a simple white morning gown, which served to enhance her youthful beauty. Her face was a pure oval, with clear- cut features and an exquisitely curved, sensitive mouth, while her grey -blue eyes gazed beneath their thick lashes with a calm serenity that bred faith and confidence in those who looked into them. Crowned with a wealth of pale golden hair, together with her delicate complexion, she looked as if she had stepped from one of the old Florentine pictures of the saints. As the two so typical of youth and age stood side..byside in the clear morning light, the resemblance be- tween them was marked, Indeed, they were related, for the Tremaine; were a distant branch of the Leroy family, and the same proud blood ran in their veins. Lady Constance had been brought up, in the Barminster house -1 hold, and Adrien had grown to regard her in the light of a loved and trusted 'sister; but, as yet, nothing more. .1 "Won't you come in to breakfast?", she said, as they reached the end of the terkace. "Aunt Penelope is not coming down; her nerves are bad this morning.'' ti ; Penelope Leroy, Lord Bar- 1 manatee's only sister, was not strictly; speaking Constance'; aunt, merely a distant cousin; but as a child Con -I stance had been accustomed to call her; her so, and the habit had grown up with her. Lord. Barminstersmiledgrimly. "J advised her to let the cucumber alone last night," was his only corn -1 green or ripe, in jelly, spiced con- t serves, or simply i' preserved in light syrup, snake a delicious and inexpensive additiont to your Winter supplies. vtt e, because of its purity and FINE. granulation, is best for all preserving. 2 and 5-tb Cartons. 10 and 20 -lb .Bags ".File Al1-d-'nrpoie Sugar" PaE5ERviNc- 7AnEas sass 04 gummed arid printed InIelo foo n. redrnh t oloolork. Saud to Atlantic Sugar Refineries, Ltd: rower nice..,:Si, :Arent ag ment as he turned towards the break fast -room. Constance smiled too, for she know that when Miss Penelope complained of her nerves, it was in reality nothing but a ease of indigestion. "How bright the course looks this morning!" she said, with a charitable. wish to change the subject, for Lord Barminster 'was apt at times to wax caustic over his sister's small weak- nesses. "Yes," he said grimly; "like all things dangerous, it is pleasant to the eye. I hate that strip of green—it is the grave of many a Leroy'a best hope. The turf has always been a fatal snare to our race. ' But, come, he broke off, "let us go in. Thank goodness, Adrien arrives to -day." "To -day?" repeated Lady Con- stance, a delicate flush rising to her sweet face. "I thought he was not going to arrive until the morning of the race," "The race is to -morrow, but he comes to -day," anew ered Lord Bar- minster. "I had a note from him Iast night saying he would be here by lunch time, and was bringing a few friends down with him." "And Mr. Vermont, too?" inquired Lady Constance almost timidly. The old man's face darkened and his thin lips set in a hard line. "Yes," he said fiercely, "I suppose so. Adrien is as much in love with him as a young fellow with his first sweetheart. I know that he's a scoundrel and a rogue—butthere, what would you? Times have changed since my day; we have replaced horses by motors, to spoil our roads and ruin our lands, and gentleman friends by base -born, scheming adventurers." "Oh, but, uncle," Lady Constance timidly remonstrated, "surely Mr. Vermont is a gentleman?" "Yes, by Act of Parliament!" snap- ped the old-man,in whose aristocratic eyes a lawyer was but little removed from the criminal whose case he de- fended. "Certainly it is strange that Adrian should be so attached to him," the girl said musingly; she, herself, had little liking for the gentleman in ques- tion, though her sense of justice had made her speak a good word for him. "But he is a clever steward, at least." "A rogue's only virtue," said Lord Barminster dryly. "Amusing, too," she suggested. "We've no longer need of a court jester," -returned her companion, with sarcasm, "But never mind, Adrian will find out his mistake for himself one day. ' Certainly, I am not going to attempt to strip the meek off his friend's face. Give him rope enough, and he will hang himself. Meanwhile, give me some more coffee, and leave the fellow's name alone; I hate even the thought of him." Lady Constance refilled his cup and brought it to the end of the table, for she loved to wait on the old man. As she did so, his sharp eyes caught the glitter of a piece of needlework across the back of her chair, and with a curt gesture towards it, he said: "What is that?" She blushed, almost deeply, then took it up, and opened it out for him to see. It was a silk riding jacket, in the scarlet and white racing colors of the Leroys, and their coat of arms, worked in silver, upon the breast. "For the Grand National," said Lady Constance, as she refolded the jacket, "You worked it yourself?" ques- tioned the old man abruptly. "Yes," she replied, blushing again. Then, as he was silent - for some minutes, she said almost timidly: "You do mot mind, uncle, do you?" He started. "Mind! Good heavens, Child, why should .i.? You know the wish of my heart only too well. What' better favor could he wear than yours? As far as. I. am concerned, you were plighted in your cradles. Le- roy and Tremaine are no unequal match, No—no-my dear, make his jacket, and win his heart ---if you can!" Some few hours later, panting and. throbbing, the Daimler motor drew up in the Castle courtyard—Adrien and his friends had arrived for the great steeplechase, Attracted by the sonnei of the bark- ing dogs, who apparently disliked the unaccustomed monster—Load Barmin- ster himself invariably using horses --Lady Constance stepped from her room on to the balcony which looked down upon ;the courtyard beneath. The gentlemen's hats flew off in greeting, and, as Adrien looked iap, an unusual thrill ran through him as he noted the simple beauty of the girl above him. "We thought we'd left the sun be- hind us, Constance, but evidently 'she' is still overhead," he said ,smiling. She looked, clown with mock reproof, playfully shaking at him a flower which she held:in her hand,' IC r//fes "I. thought compliments' were gut of date; Adrian: Have yea enjoyed MIS tor the' Home your drive?'i t l 1 J "Not half so much as the welcome," was the courteous reply, as.he caught the rose which she had let fall. I She laughed, and blushed a little, en urne to e of er members of the party, who had now alighted from the car. "Ah, Lord Standen, I did not know you were corning." Then, as that young man's face lengthened, she ad- ded quickly; "Unexpected pleasures are always welcome. -I am glad to see you, Mr. Pexhorn." After a word of greeting to Mor- timer Shelton, she drew back into her room; while the men, laughing and chatting, passed into the great hall, where they found Lord Barminster awaiting them. His stern face soft- ened Into a welcome as, with out- stretched hand, he came forward' to greet his guests. "Ah, Shelton!" he said, "so you keep my boy company, and you, Pax - horn and Standen, Gentlemen, you are welcome ---through' there's no need to remind you of that, I know. Ar- rion," turning to his son, "you have a fine day, did you drive or ride?" "We motored ^down, sir," answered the young man, in his soft, melodious voice. His father frowned slightly. He heartily detested all modern innova- tions, and would never hold that mob- tors—or indeed, any increased facil- ities f travelling were improve- ments. "They breed discontent, sir," he would declaim 'vigorously. "In my young days people were content to stay in the place in which they had been born, and do their duty. Now, forsooth, they must see this country and that, and visit a dozen places in the year, where their grandparents visited one. Anything for an excuse to fritter away their hard-earned savings!" On this occasion, however, he made no comment, but turned to Mortimer Shelton. "You'll find the roads here better suited for horses than for oil -cans," he said grimly. "We are primitive, as you know." Shelton laughed; he knew his host's ideas en this subject, and was apt to respect them. "So much the better, sir," he said in a cheerful tone; "I am a hit tired of the smell of patrol myself. Give me Nature without a corset," "You'll certainly get that here," Lord Barminster replied, favoring his young guest with an approving glance. Shortly afterwards, they made their way to the morning -room, Here, luncheon had been laid, and Lord Barminster, Miss Penelope, with Lary Constance, were awaiting them. The little party sat down to table, each one secretly only too ready for the meal; for the ride through the fresh, country air had been a fairly long one. "I was really hungry, Constance," Adrien said, with his low, careless laugh, "There must be magic in the air oy Barminster." "Yet still you come here so seldom," returned his cousin gently. "Business and the cares of State," quoted Adrien, with a senile. "But I might retaliate. Why do we not see you up in town? Society misses one of its brightest stars." Lady Constance toyed idly with the grapes on her plate; then she looked up. "Society has many brighter lights than I, Adrian," she said quietly. "Bub now, tell me about the race— auntie is terribly anxious over it; are you not, dear?" "Yes, my love," returned Miss Pene- lope, who, reality, hardly knew one horse from another, "Oh, Adrien always wins," put in Lord Standen. "That's a foregone conclusion. Have you seen the 'King' lately, Lady Constance?" "Oh, yes," she relied. "He is ex- ercised in the paddock every morning, and is in fine form." Adrien smiled. "Poor 'King Cole'; he'll be worth his weight in gold if he wins tomor- row! What about the other horses, Stan; are they clown?" "Yes," replied Lord Standen; "my man saw some of them at the station; but no sign of the Yorkshire chest- nut." "So much the better," said Adrien; "perhaps his owner has thought dis- certion the better part of valour and withdrawn him." (To bee ontinued). -g Lively Dodging. "Do you take plenty of active ex- erc?" "Wellise, the street where I live is a favorite one for auto speeders." The One Who Kicks. "Does it annoy your wife when you take home unexpected company?" "No, but the maid raises the deuce about it." For That Irritating Cut or Scratch There is nothing mote healing and soothing than TroOd Murk nhcp h.ite QtfeoWii,e Qes Sold in g ass bottles and sanitary tin tubes, at chem- ists and general stores yeverywhere. J,%eluse substitutes: Free booklet on request. CHESEBROIJiaM MFG. Co, (Cs,,ol,iofl 1880 Cim6ot Ave,ldMontreet - '.y.' t.M�nr/rMfY.'/Mk37P-'t•MrmvMtl.n!KwK±p`FI ES THE IMP Selected Recipes. Lemon Cookies.—One egg, one cup, of granulated sugar, an eighth of a cup of shortening, a cup of sour milk, an even teaspoonful of soda. ' Beat into milis until dissolved one and two- thirds cups of flour and one teaspoon- ful of lemon extract. Will be stiff batter. Drop in gem pans and bake in hot oven. This rule makes about 16 cakes. Fried Oysters,—Use large oysters, drain between cloth without pressure, roil in seasoned bread crumbs, then in beaten eggs, diluted with one table- spoonful of milk and again in the crumbs, and fry, a few at a time, in smoking hot deep fat. Drain and serve three or four, according to the size; on each plate, with a small cup shaped leaf of lettuce, in which place a teaspoonful of tartare sauce. Oyster Patties. -.Roll puff pastry about one-half inch thick; cub rounds with a small cutter for the patties, and mark a smaller round in the cen- ter of each. Put the pastry on a flat bin, glaze with egg, and bake in a hot even oven, Remove the center piece with a sharp -pointed knife; take out the soft inside paste. Boil a pint of good stewing oysters. When they are cooked add a small emoutlt of salt and butter. Fill the patties with the oysters by taking out the soft inside paste. Serve hot on a dish paper. Garnish with parsley. Fish Filets.—Fish should always be fried like doughnuts, in deep fat. Bacon drippings are perhaps as good a material as any. Butter should not be used for frying fish. It should be cooked until well browned, and then removed and allowed to drain, but not grow cool, before serving, If the filets prepared as above are cub into individual portions before being cook- ed, the housewife has no crumpled mass of fish as the result of her lab- ors, but firm, well -cooked squares of a delicious food. Escalloped Oysters.—Take as many. oysters as desired—a quart enough for six people. Use a granite or crockery baking dish., Lay a layer of cracker crumbs in the bottom of the dish and two or three small pieces of butter on top of the crumbs. Put in a layer of oysters, then another layer of the crumbs and butter,, and so on. Have the cracker crumbs form the 'top layer, and place butter on top. Bake in a medium oven for from three quarters of an hour to an hour. Serve while hot, either plain or with chili sauce. Gluten Bread. -The following is a delicious bread made from buttermilk and gluten flour: Half pint fresh but- bermillc, half level teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful butter or olive oil, half pint gum gluten flour, one round- ed teaspoonful baking powder, two eggs. Mix well, put in eight -inch squares, well -greased pan and bake in moderate oven half an hour. Bran biscuits with gluten flour, for constip- ation, are made as follows: Half. cupful wheat bran, half cupful gum gluten flour, one teaspoonful baking power, one teaspoonful melted butter, one teaspoonful salt, Sift dry ingre- dients, rub in butter and add milk to make a stiff dough. Roll out and bake in hot oven. Sunshine Cake,— Ingredients -Six fresh eggs; one cupful flour, pinch of salt, one and one-fourth cups sugar (granulated), one-half teaspoon cream of tartar, one-half teaspoon almond or vanilla extract. To make—First separate your eggs, putting the yolks in a small bowl and the whites in your mixing bowl; beat the yolks with a revolving beater un- til light and add salt to the whites. Whip with a wire whip until frothy, then add the cream tartar, whip un- til stiff and dry. Meanwhile have the sugar with about three tablespoons of boiling water boiling slowly until it hairs from the spoon as it does when. making boiled frosting; pour this on the beaten whites and beat well. When partly cool, add the yolks and beat until well mixed. Now add the flavoring and the cup of flour mea- sured with measuring cup after being sifted five times. Place around the edge of bowl and fold in lightly to- ward the center, using the egg whip for mixing it in; do not beat. Keep the mixture light and foamy; pour in a medium sized angel cake pan, un - greased. Start to bake in cool oven, turning the gas burner quite low un-- til n=til the cake has raised to the top of the pan, then increase the heat slight- ly to finish baking. Will raise in from twenty-five to thirty minutes and will bake in from fifteen to twenty.. When done, the cake will shrink slightly from the sides of the pan. Take from the oven and in- vert cake until it is cold; remove from pan and ice with a boiled white frost- ing. . Keep Your Brushes Stiff. It is impossible to overestimate the danger to the hair of unclean combs and brushes. Such toilet instruments should be carefully cleansed and disin- fected once a week, and there is a way to do it so as not to injure them, The brush and comb must first be quickly washed, then dipped in a wat- er with boric ;cid and then sunned and aired, , An expensively backed brush may be cleansed by dipping the bristles alone in a strong .,elution of ammonia and water': After this run' hot and cold water alternately over this part of the brush, shake it vigor- ously and put it, bristles down, over a; rest of some sort to, dry in the open air. If the bristles of a brush have lost their stiffness or elasticity, treat them to an ammonia and salt bath. First wash the bristles in hot water to which ammonia has been added and then dip directly into water to which salt has been added. Pry the brash, with bristles up, in the open air. Borrx also cleans a brush well. Dis- solve the borax in hot water and. dip in the bristles, Rinse thoroughly, whim clean, end dry, with bristles tip, in open air. Combs;. CO be, cleaned Y'Ii ', R G OCE cosTsrtco RE Tglt'h THE UNARY OAK SIN with borax or ammonia, but ammonia sometimes discolors celluloid' combs. Another admirable method for cleaning brushes is to use dry bran. Naturally this method is easier on the brushes. Rub the bran in thoroughly, as you would rub orris root into the hair. Then shake and rub it out. It will take out all grease. Bran can be safely used with brushes having brie - ties set in rubber, which cannot be cleaned with water. Things to Remember. Soak a hardened lemon in hot wa- ter. Never move a cake in the oven un- til the centre is set, Sponge cakes baked in patty tins re: quire a very hot oven. Good soup stock is made -pith lean, juicy, uncooked beef. Pickles should be kept in a dark, dry place in stone or glass jars. If whipped cream is to be flavored it should be done before the cream is whipped. White enamel furniture can be cleaned with turpentine and it will re- tain its gloss. Rubber bands are not expensive, and they are useful in so many ways in the kitchen. Warmed-over meat loses its flavor, therefore, the gravy should be well seasoned. Clear cold water and ammonia, aid- ed by a nail brush, cleans cut glass beautifully. Glass jars are used for storing dry materails, such as coffee, tea, spices, etc, Paste the label inside the jar. Garbage will not attract so many flies if it is wrapped in newspaper be- fore it is put into the garbage pail. Cooked or melted cheese is a valu- able and nutritious food, and is more easily digested than when eaten raw. A soft cloth dipped in gasoline will clean the cuffs of a blouse, Change the cloth when it begins to look soiled. When putting down cucumber pick- les pub a green pepper in the jar. This will improve the fiovar of the pickles. When making teas, instead of the usual spoonful for the tea pot, add a lump of sugar. The tea -will be just as strong. If the layer cake insists on sliding when you are putting it together put two skewers through the layers to hold them together, Milk or milk foods will not scorch ih the cooking if stewpan is rinsed in cold water and rubbed with a little fresh butter or lard. When beating eggs with a clover egg beater try holding the heater at an angle in the howl. The work will be accomplished much quicker. If you wish to have mashed pota- toes in a hurry, cut the potatoes in small pieces before boiling them. They will cook much more quickly. By cleaning one room thoroughly each month the house will be kept in good shape and that terrible task of house-cleaning twice a year avoided. Before using cabbage, cauliflower or lettuce the heads should be turned down in salted water. This will cause any form of animal life to crawl out. Cream cheese mixed with chopped celery and olives, formed into balls, rolled in, choppednuts and served on lettuce leaves with French dressing, is'a very good salad, Very frequently when separating the whites from the yolks of eggs the yolk becomes broken and falls into the white. Dip a cloth in warm wat- er, wring it dry and touch the yolk with a corner of it and the yolk will adhere to the cloth and may easily be removed. Before using tea, spread it on a sheet of brown paper and place in a waren—tot hot --oven for ten or fif- teen minutes. The tea will go much farther and the flavor will be improv- ed. By this method there is a sav- ing of a quarter of a pound on every pound of tea. • If beds received ' more attention there would be less of that "tired feel- ing in the morning. The bed ought to be the most hygienic piece of furni, bare in the house. It should be well aired and never dressed immediately after the occupant leaves it. And when it is being aired the windows should be wide open. Regardless of the condition of your couch, however, if you sleep hi a stuffy room you are bound to pay the penalty. When you open the windows wide and sleep in an hygienic and properly equipped bed you can depend upon nature to do her part in assisting upon nature to do her part in assisting you to recuper- ate and gain strength. GREATEST FOREST FIRES. Clay Belt Piro in Ontario Ranks With the Most Destructive. The Northern Ontario forest fire of duly 29th last takes rank as the third most serious fire catastrophe in the history of this continent. The Hinckley fire in Minnesota, 1894, was responsible for 418 lives and the burn- ing over of 160,000 acres, The fam- ous Peshtigo fire in Wisconsin, 1871, killed 1500 and devastated 1,200,000 acres of timber. In 1825 occurred the Mirimichi fire of New Brunswick and Maine, with a loss of 160 lives, six towns, 1000 head of cattie, and damage of 8,000,000 acres of forest. The Clay Belt fire in Ontario, with 262 lives lost and 800,000 acres fire - swept taltes its place with the great disasters of history. The Porcupine fire in 1911 killed 84 persons. It is noteworthy that Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maine and New Brunswick have taken comprehensive measures to prevent further disasters by organiz- ing their forest patrol systems on modern lines, building trails, lookout towers, telephones, etc, as well as carefully supervising settlers' clear- ing fires, one of the worst sources of danger, Ontario, which has given the continent its two most recent fire catastrophes has made no such move to modernize her forest guarding sys- tem. Sometimes a man aoids a lot of worry by having a poor memory. WOUNDS AND INFECTION. Germs Numerous In Long Cultivated! Boil. The p•i•ofeeelonel healer, like the pro feseional fighter, has found thee mail of the things he learnt in South Afrlee lie has had to unlearn in Flanders, Wonisds seldom proved troublesome the Boer War, because th6outh At': rioan veldt was almost virgin ; - bit is Belgium and France, where the has been oulitivated for centuries, gentle germ is always Sealy to e,ut the smallest wound and bringabou tetanus and other diseases, At the surgeons were In despair, tea that our mums -vaunted antiseptic were of no avail, It requires long search and expo*, anent before methods of overoomtg new difllculties could . be discover Then, owing to the lavish use of hi explosive shells, Wounds are mor complicated and more Miceli to tee clean, while the pointed bullet wor more halm than the blunt one of th' "good old days." Plenty of fresh all is found to wont marvels, so there at least one hospital where the patients live practically In the openi. It has also been found that wounds Ott main clean if water continually flow4 over them, so the clever surgeon has constructed little baths which fit oveef the wound, a supply of warm watt impregnated with oxygen continually flowing through. • —4 OUR STAPLEF00D SUPPLY. Does the Modern Flour Mill Breed Cancera ? That cancer is caused by eating rice flour and other foods which have been robbed by millers of some of their most valuable elements before they; reach our mouths is the belief of Del Horace Packard of Boston University.: Such a demoralized diet, he declares,! encourages the development of the' parasite or fungus growth whose en-' Grande into the system loads to can,! her, "It Is a momentous fact," lie sayse "that the flour mills and the rice mills of the civilized world are busy elimi.' Eating every particle of Iron, phos.' plrorus, sodium, potassium, silica, cal.' clam, chlorine, magnesium and sal-, phur (mineral salts), from our staple food supplyand sending out food materials itch in heat units but piti• fully meager in energizing and immu- nizing motorial. "In a single flour mill, approxirnate- ly one million tons of wheat are milled each year. Of this about 650,000 tens go to the human family as refined flour (wheat search) and 450,000 tons of the by-products bearing the aver- glsing immunizing food salts go main- ly to feed domestic animals." A Wily Statesman," "Of course you have said things that you would like to take back?" "No," replied Senator Sorghum. "When you regret something and try to take it back, you simply remind people that you said it." Vision tests by prominent oculists show that most patients can see much better before than after getting the bill, ON most clothes hoes you'll find Penmans Knit Goods ----- on wash days, of course. 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