HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1914-11-19, Page 3Foolish Young
Or, the Belle of the Season.
011APTEll XXX T.—(Conti:mod).
FolloWed by this doVent Pierer, Ida
went up to her room. As the paced up
and down she tried to tell herself that the
whole thing was too ridiculous, was too
inuth like a farce to make her wretched;
but she felt unutterably miserable, and
Site knew 'that 'she could no longer endure
Laburnum Ving anti the Vette tYrrolni
'and vindictiveness of them relations.
Poverty, hardship, she could have borne
patiently and •withont complaining; inet
there aro some things, more intolerable
to a high-moirited girl, such as Ida, than
Poverty or palysieal. hardship—thein axe
mune things JwInch hart more than iietual
blows. She felt stifling, choking; she
'knew that, happen what might, she could
not •reinain under her cousin's roof, oat
the bread of his ohavilY, for.another day.
Shop shuddered as phe pictured herself
'uieabirtg them at the breakfast table, fee -
ug Mra iron. spiteful 'ratio, Isabel's
swollen eyes, and inFr Centlin Johnlet'.
onio a sermon.
•She would have to go. '
'Elio thrust a few things into a bag and
toob out hor ;oast and +counted tho
teuta. 'Obey mimainted to six pounds arid
a• few shiltings;, but small though the
sant woe, the thought that it wOuld main -
'thin her until she *mild find someway of
l!eitrning a livelihood, though at °the ano.
. anent she hall not ;tam least idea Of what
she eouo4 find to do. Withoht undressing,
• she thVow lienselr•on the bed mud tried to
'atom); hut her heart,ached, too acutely
and her brain Woo tot, active to pentnit of
:sleep; and. try as Sito sivould, her Mind
..10PUld travel book to those brief days of
happiness, at Herondale, and she was
ntaunted by the remembrance of Stafford
and the love whirl she had lost; and at
times tfh.at nast was almort effaced by the
'vision of Stafford seated beside Maude
Falconer at the concert.
As soon as she Beard 'the servants moo.
•ing ,about the house she rose, pale and
'weary, ,and putting on her outdoor statings
stole downstaims 'with her hag la her hand.
Mlle servants were busy in the kitohen,
and she unfastened the hall door and left
the halliSe tvititout attraotdng 'any at-
• tention. Tato fresh, morning air, while it
roused ter to U. sense of her position, re.
'rived and encouraged her. Atter all, she
Wan Yonne and strong and—she looked up
at the ileum of 'bondage which she .was
• lesming—she was free( 011, -blessed free.
, dont! Hew often she had read of it and
'heard it extolled; but she had nevem
known until this anotuent how great, how
sweet a thing it 3300.
She .waited tut tan mean little station
,until a workmeuis • train came ep, and,
• hustled by the crowd of sleepy and weary
toilers, got into it. When she left the ter.
3111008 she ovallted with a portion ,of the
throng nthich 'turned up Bishopsgate
Street, though any other direction would
have suited her as well—or 'as litte; for
she had no idea where to go, or what to
do, beyond seeking some inexpensive lodg-
ing. She knew well enough that she could
nob afford to go to tt. hotel; that she 'Would
hare to lbe content with a small room, per -
liana an attic and the ,plainest of food,
•.while she sought for worlr. It Wee soon
evident td her that she was not likely to
' 'nod 'what she mos looking for in the broad
thoroughfare of aliens oat] °Hives, and,
- beginning to feel bewildered by the crowd;
whieh, early on it was, streamed along
• ttletipamoments, she turned off into one of
flui 'narrower streets.
no long arm of Coincidence Which
•thrusts itself into all our affairs, bed her
to the lifinories, and to tho very quaY
which 'Sfafford hariretiched in his aimless
wandevinMs; and, mechanically she onus.
ed and looked 00 droaanily ,at the bustle
and eonfueion whien reigned there. P01).
111000 the presence of the sheand cattle
attraeted her; for she felt drantql to then1
by sympathy with their hustled and hal,
ried condition, which so 'nearly resembled
aver own.
With 0110 hand resting on a rail, and a
bag in the other, she watched the men es
they drove the cattle up tha gapigways or
lowered huge casks and bales into the
'hold A big, fat man, with a oslonolohat
'"00 the book of his 'head and a pine in
the corner of his mouth—which did net
Prevent hint 0110001g and bowling at tho
111021 and the, anianrils--lurched hero and
there like one of the casks, and in the
Mitlat, of his shouting and bawling, he
every nom and then glenoed at, a match
of the frying pan order,. 111 was evident
'even to the inexperienced Ida, that the
vessel was Wheat to Start; the sailers were
rushing about ou deek in the haste anti
excitement of ordered disorder, Olathe
were clanking, and ropes and pullen were
shrieking; and it steam 'whistle shrieked
at intervals end added t* tato anultitudin-
0110 noises.
"Poor sheep, poor bulls !" murmured
Ida, as the last ot the boasts were driven
up the gangway and disapnearod. "Per.
haps you have come from another Heron -
dale! Do you remember, do you look
buck oo / do?"
Elite drew back, for ate tag man mid.
deftly lurched in her direction, and no
•deed, almost. against her,
pardon, anise," the said, touching
-hie slouch hat. "Anything 1 con do for
You. anybody 7031 me looking for?"
"No; oh, nor said Ida, •blusbing und
turning away,
.Difr, Rater, for it was that genial AUG.
traltan, nodded and stretched his moon-
like face in a smile.
"Thought you'd come to say 'goodbye'
to someone, so'rops. Wish it was me!
Mena, if 'it was, I've an idea that I
had them fancies anYself, especial'
ly after it hob night on shore. 11 you'd
only take a pull at this, you'd 'ali
right directly, It don't do to come aboard
too either, ',specially When you're leavin'
old England for the first trine. Do you
sofa 'em new?"
Ida lied moved away, and Stafford dreier
a long breath and forced a ,
"No," he said, huskily. and •almost to
himself, "Yes; it must have 'been Taney.
She could not have 'been there'. It is 1211-
,00001110.
• Mr. Joffier whistled and winked to him-
self, compfelkendingly.
. " 'Sher ' lie murmured. "Alt, that's tt,
in it? Ali, well, rve been there ;myself!
1)on't you let the 'fumy .upset you, srel It
,n11-paos afore we gete into the 00011, No-
thing like the Sea for teueltin' you to for.
get the gals you've left behind yen! Come
down below and try and peek . bit.
There's cold heef—and pickles. That'll
send thean kind o' fancies to the right
about."
• Ida Mimed 'and walked quiekly awes,.
Her head swam, she looked Into one in 0
dream. It 'was, of ceurtie, impneelado that
the man oho had eeell oould be Stafford:
Stafford on bond eattleindp I But the
flannel:lotion hall made her feel faint nod
III. She remembered that she had- eaten
nothing since yesterday at noon, and she
ascribed this freak od her imagination to
'the weakness (mused by want of food.
,nte left the quay slowly—as if her heart
and her strength and all her life's hope
had gone with the dingy vessel—and
emerging on the narrow, crowded ;street,
looked for some shop at which she could
•buy a roll of hread. Presently dhe Saw a
halter's tit the opposite, side of -the road
Lo that -on whieh she Vas walking, and she
was crossing, when p, huge empty van
e nsue. lumbering round the ocirner. • She
drew hack 'to let it, pass; and, as she did.
80 1. lighter cart cante,swiftly upon her.
She was so dazed, so bewildered by the
'vision She had seen, and the noise of the
street, that she stood, hesitating, uncer-
tain Whether to go on or to retreat to the
pavement she had left.
The' woman—or inan—whe hesitates In
the middle of iv busy London, street is
lost; the cart was upon her before she had
anoved, the shaft struck her on the shoul-
der and down She went into the muddy
road! The driver .ierimd the horse aside,
and leapt tfrom his seat, the usual crowd,
which seems to spring instantaneously
froan the very stones, eolleoted and surged
round, the usual polleCluan foreed 1110
way through, and Ida, was picked up and
Carried to the pavement, There 00873 11
patch of blodd on the side of her head—
the dear, small head which had rested on
Staffold's breast so oftenl—and 'WM
unconscious,
"Orrie struck 'er with in 'oaf," said the
policeman, sententiously. " 'Ere, boy,
call a ken. luwe Your name and ad-
dress, young 311011."
A. eat was brought, and Ida, still 'un.
O 000011111, WitS euried to the Londot hos-
pital.
And lay there, in the white, painfullY
clean, carbolic -smelling nvard, attended bY
the ;most skilful doctors in England and
by the grave and silont nilreah 10110, net.
avithetailding their lives of stress and toil,
luts1 not lost the capacity for pity and
sympathy.
Indeed, no ono with a heart in her Ito -
sent could standby Immoved and hear the
girl n-oaning and. orying in a whisper for
'"Stafford," Bay and night Me white lips
framed the swine name—IStafford, Stafford
---tts if her soul were in the ery.
OITAPT,22 XXXVI.
When Ida cameo to she found. (111( 010110
of the ward and a. young muse bending
over her with placid and smiling fac42,..
Why a hospital nurse should under onY
and every circitunstance be invariably-
thearfal Is one of those mysteries worthy
to rank with the problem containecl in the
fact that an undertaker is nearly always
of 41, merry dispoeftion.
Of cour,3e Ida. asked the usual. questions:
"Where am I?" and "How loog have
boon here?" -and the roister told ber that
she was in Clio Alexandra Ward of the
Landon Hospital, and that she had been
there, unconscious, for ten days. 'the
nurse smiled ne 11 111 were the beet joke in
a mild sway, iu the world, 'and answered
Iiitt's further questions while she admin.
istered beef tea with on air of pride and
satisfaction 'which rondo her plain and
homely face 'seem angelic. to Ida.
You nvere knocked down by 0 cart 'YOU
know," said Nunse Brown. "You weren't
badly injured; that ie, no bones nvore
broken, as is vein, often the case—that
girl there in the next ;bed but two hall
01113 .0.0111. one leg, and 0000 ribs broken;
ltiail cart; and that poor woman UPPeeite,
got both alms and a collar -hone broken—
But I mustn't harrow you with mix bad
eases," she said, quickly, us Ida seemed
to -wince. "Of course you feel very strange
—I suppose this is the trot time you have
been in a hospital ward?"
"iteS,': replied Ida, glancing round tion.
idly.
"All, yes, of eounse," said Nurse Brawn,
nodding and moiling entouragingly. "And
you (3101 0117 and neryoua; bat, if you only
knew it, 700 0110 better off here than you
would be anywhere else; You have the
very beet 'surgeons in. the world—we are
awfully proud of thent—and, though I
ought not to say it, the hest of nursing.
You are watched night and daY, and you.
get the least woe little thing you want, if
should stay on—air or no air—and I'M it's good 1101' you. I 11110107 you 1)07111
est if there , ain't preinous ollt tthedam to etay here, but will like to be talc-
bl,mornK , to t 31111 re.7. 011 11.W11,), 041 soon as you are well enough
Bless it all, 10011 be too late tor the tide
11 210 don't come," he said to tho captain,
who stood with one foot on the taffrail
an expression of hnnatience on his weath-
er beaten face. ' • ,
"aka enough he ain't oomin',. Mr. JTof-
fler," be said. 'Phew kind o' gents is al-
ways slippery,"
"I deasay. 'Though I didn't think as
this one was 0338 01 that kind, 'Poo much
grit about him --ah, and I was not anistak-
, en I Here he lel Get ready therel"
He turned, and Ida, hastinetively turn-
ing with hitn, saw 41341 figure elm' in a
serge suit masking its way quickly
through the eirositki of busy dock -men and
Idly lounging spectators,. He came straight
te the big, fat man, 'who greeted him la,
%Islay and loudly, and they passed side by
side on to the vessel.
&la drew a long breath 'and passed her
Land over her brow. It was absurd, of
couree, it wile trick of the imagination,
of a wearied and Overstrained hrain—but
tho tall figure in ,the 'bine serge-'-ali, how
lilto it'woi,s to that of Stafford! It disap-
peateed with that of he 'big, man into the
to be moved; for, of course, we all know
'that 7011 11.310 a lady. Olt, 111 1,4101 tato ftrst
time We have had a lady in the ward, A
great many of them come down here
',slumming,' and sometimes they got mu
over, as you have been, or they fall down
some of the dark and rickety stairs, or
hurt themselves 111 some Other Vay — it's
wendertul what0 hoke of accidents you
can have in this busy end crowded Part
of London."
After a pause she 'went ou:
"Of 0011(310ti W
ree yeill go away aS soon al
7011 can; hilt it's a pity, it really IS;
you're ever So much bolter off here, and
you'd soon get used to the other people
In the ward, though they ore of a differ.
enb class to yourself. But anent of them
ore norm' poor and some of.thean are usual.
ly rough When. they are home, it is
'wonderful horw patient theyallll»'yblL 30111
eetiesele ever hear a anuezner; only 001011)
now and again --and they are so grateful
that sometimes they bring the tears to
your eyes, anqu
d it's ite hard to part from
them when they get well and are dis-
charged. But I really mustn't talk to yon
C(.33,C and, with a sigh, she was 0001111301,07 mere,' .81,8 .antantred, PonitentLY,
and t, te so .1,, o e O'0100nceased
ntiong the deck and mount to tho quarter. , •
0"."7 "hen 43110 50111' the t"° 1'011 0001171(30Ida looked rour4 the ward, her har
et
The ,fat man was talking fund laughing, neating es fast as her condition would_al-
but the Teen in the blue serge 1,71115 grove 1031• Ae Nur" lirc"" j'ad '1118 reit'
and silent, as if he was lost in thought 1071'1,17 ,ITge rruS, 111 tam, 101,1g,
and not listening. whittiwashe war wr ito . towevet, was
Suddenly, as she paused, the younger, rendered ohoerful enough 117 Cho dozens of
slimmer figure turned in her . direction. Pictures from illustrated Panora, whieh
wed uttered a ory, 003)' almost of terror. 1111,11 been fastened .to the walls, and bY
Was she demented? Had her iOnging, 1100, the 000e1 aud groat lbowls 0±f100100,4 'whiclt
imbing longing for a eight of him <Piled seamed to oomilry every suitable spot.
no this vision of StaffOrd? Unless oho She closed her eyes and tried to think:
were out of her mind, the victim of blit she fail asleep instead and dreamt
strange hallucination, it was lie himself that she ,bad fallen off Rupert, and was
who stood thero,,his face, pole and nag. lying on the moes beside the river, quite
• geld. turned towards her. • comfortable and most absurdly content.
"Stafford!" she 41101011, lineon,ScioUely,
, and her hand grinned the iron In When she woke the sister -was standing
beside bor, bnil nodded with cheerful ' ap-
t:oat of her.
As if he Lad heard bet—though it 3003 '0(1111± better, Miss Heron," she said.
inenossible that her voice tould reach 31M "It IS Waite ,pleaSant to watch Fon asleep
through the shouts of the sailors, and not to hoax you rambling.
• lowing and 'bleating of the 01btle-4ic rais. IdrOs faro) Rusted.
ed his head and looked in her dixectiom "Ifave I been rambling?" she naked.
Their oYes met and were enhanced tor e,..W.119..f. have 1 said? 'You know my imam."
• moment, which seemed on onternity; then The ourso smiled.
the blood flew to his 'face, leaving it the "Your things ere marked," ,the extilain•
next moment Paler than Imfore. Xfo ed. "But there was no address,' nothing
serene round to the fat man by his side wbiell coati halo us to eon000nteota with
and clutched him arm. • Your friends, or we avonld have done so.
"Wait! Stop the vessell 1 011111 to go Yon win tell us where to send now, will
ashore!" he said 1100T8e1Y. Y011;410,0"
Mr, Joffler stared at ?iian, then gaughed. Ida blushed again and +felt, troubled.
• "llold ou, sir!' lie said, not, Unsymputh. WhY should nb>o 41.00010 and 1001101 the BP•
etIcally, "Hold on I Took queer like! Ler' nue. ,She shuddered ,plightly as she pm-
blesS" you, I know how tho feelin' is! It toured her couein Yohn .tanding beside the
=catches Ot,you right in tbe middle of the hod where tho sweet and ploasent.faceill
waistcoat. It's ihe thought of the land sister now stood, and preaching. :t.t. her. '
going baelr from You—we',eo moving, 110e'1,0 'Alley Troth' want to take her back to I -At-
• well away. gore, take a sip of this. You'll burnum Villa; and Ida re.garded the pr0.
get over it in 0,1)rece o' ,shaites." spect of return to that cheerful abode of
• Ife thrust a, flask into ,Staffords Land, th.e Christian virtues es aJ prisoner might
but +Stafford'out '1' away frOM himregard the prostect of returning to his
"Let Ina go ashore! 1ll ioi11 TO11 1,aLer," gaol. l'he Sister regarded hor keenly
he said, breathlessly, withoot aPpearing to do so.
Mr. JOffler caught' his arm as he was "Perhaps, you would rather remain quiet.
,o/b0111 '10 10mI13 101, tho toley. ly for a few days, Heron?" 'she sug•
"Steady, ,Steady, sir!" he admonished, gashed, sweet17.
noathinglY.' "We can't' step—and you'd Ida's oyes—they. looked. preternaturally
break 70171'neck (towing to lamp 1.1) And 1aage, viotiet orbs avIt
bier ite face—beam.
,all for a lo -nit', tee, 041 stake my lifel ed gratefullY. „
Ilearten 314,0100, hearten up! You're not "Oil, yes, Yes! if m,aY" t",a,a4 0 ha' 111
iltat 'La 1iee1 Oak "d 0017F at Dearin' long?—how ,,non will it be before 1 ()an
homo and friends." ,go?" •
•' Stafford bit his din and tried to pull It ie about es 11111104111 to get, FL definite
, ,hianself together; hut hi S eyee Were still ansaver from a 11112'80 r from 11 a0OtOrs
nXed on the nate ,face, the girlish, black. "011, some days yob,' replied: the sister,
• clad figure, and his voioe was ,shaltY, as cheerfully. "Yoe must not, go until you
110 03141 are quite strong; in faet, we should not
`YOure idght, Mr. Joiflea.". 113 13 too late set, you Now YOu. Millie shill and try
noav. thonglit I saw Seineone on the
mina, there. But it must havebeen fancy,'
it is imnossiblb, quite impoSsibloi"
PThet's 0011 Mr. ,Toffler, sitlth tt
'Aympathetio wink, love you, I've
19(1114," Ida, with her rare &dile.
The sloter'ncidded 'arid left her, and Ida
closed her eyes again: hat'not to isleep.
She ,reealled her 'flight' 'from Laburnaril
Villa, her wandering through the streets,
the', crolvtled and noisy' wally, and the
Strange halluetnation; the vision of (11011'
ford standing on the stern of the vognel•
Ofeciarse, it was only a vision, an Stalin-.
ciliation; hut hiiw, real ib had seemed! So
real that it was almost difficult to believe
that it Was not .he himself. She smiled
Sadly at the MOW of Stafford, the son of
the great Bit' ,Staphen Orme, sailing in a
eattle-ship!
ffliehourS. passed in a hind of 40000101
monotorty,throken by the frequent yillite
of 'Nurse Brown and the house surgeon,
with his grave fade and preoccupied air;
• and for 801110 time lda lay in a kind of
tenti-torpor, feeling that everything that,
svas going on arounA bet tvero the unreal
actions in a drama; hut ' as elto • grew:.
stronger elle began to take 'am interest in
the- life of the great, ward and her follow"
Patients; and on Jthe 90130'114. day after her
returii to conseiousness began a, <Waver.
mitten with her next-door neighbor; a
Pleasant -looking woman who had eyed. her
wistmily 'several times, but who had beep
too shy to ild1111000 "OW young lady." Shit
w as a, country-women—from Dorsetchire—
up to London on a visit "to any dacghter,
miss, which analried to a man as !coops
0. dair.v." It was her first visit to Lon-
dono sho had wandered from her 'daugh-
ter's, lest her way; and, in her .eonfitSion,
tumbled down hhe cellar of a beer -Shen.
She told Ida the history' of some of the
ether caeca, and Ida !found herself listen
ing with an interest whitli astonished .hor.
Muse Brown, seeing the 'two talking',
nodded apprOving: y.
-"That's right," she said, with a smile.
You keep each other 001111DallY. It, passes
the .tiane OK,07."
Very 00011, Iola found horself taking an
interest in 400113421ln that went. on, in
the imiseless onovements of the 1111T000, 111
the arrival of a new (aim, in the visit of
the doctors and the chaplain, and the
friends of the other patients. Lot the pea
&mists say what they may, there is a lot
of good in amnion nataine; and it comes
out quite startlingly in the ward of'
hospital. Ida was amazed at the eare ant],
attention, the patience ,and. the devotion
which were 1a.v.kshea au herself end lum
• fellow -sufferers; • It devotion which. no
money tan buy, and which oould not have
boeu exceeded theY had one and all been
orincerses 01 1>10 blood roYaL
• (To be continued.)
G E.N D'AMADE.
WilS With the British. Preens in
•the Boer War.
To the average reader Silt John
French's desereption.'ef the mannex
in which General cl'Arnaele'e catabley
had relieved tile pressure on the
English troops at ,a ino-
men,b meant co more than that a
Itirenth oemanateler had done, his
duty valiantly and 'well. But to
many mi littery readers the name
was already interesting end famil-
iar. General d'Antade has already
been in touch. with the English
army on :active serrice. He weat
through the South African War as
Freneh military ,rettache, and
ialthough he escaped the Boor bul-
lets, he fell a victim to a eornmon
enemy—styphoid. •
11 1> doubtful whether it is easier
'tio wa,ge war or to watch lb. The
attache's business is difficult, one.
He is always under. esto:tab ' 'Wher-
ever I walk and wherever I go,"
wr.0,1:8 Sir Len Hamilton when he
was attached to the Japenese gaff
in Manchuria. "I am anceateingly00
target for curioue eyes. There is no
help kr it:, I know, but in course
of time this penee of being watched
gets on the newees, and long with
au intense longing for one of the
two most 'secluded eititations in the
werld--the desert of Sahara or a
hansom eab in 'London.'
In South Africa, he niade friends
with several of the English geoerals
now fighting ir; Franee. 411
General 1) 'A
emisee, eaca tu the point of being
_able to assume ,tend boo.0,1131101811(1 by
his taeort, proved ao .exemplary
attedhe, amid when he did walk
-Moue he had way _of -rimpreseing
the most. suepicious 'sanity With hus
good interitiOrre, An attache, let it
be kilown, MIS, 41, risk of being
'treated as ia. spy if 41S Eillf_PWS- the
least dieposition aceyinieneess
1471hen be goes :forth obiserve, the
eiditietty, nitest nearer avoid the
oyes ,of patrols or let" hilneelf be
tne.tged .folt hong in the litaidepap.e ;
it • ie not 'eale, lee no ialieo.leeking
geetlemaa .01 militawy bearing to
appe.ae too end'clertiler, round the cor-
ner. Bibb by eenfichent arid eaey
bearinge .arid evea ))y. tiptely .arre
noisy blowing .nose ap,
preaching the danger -voile (both
General elletleade, arid Sig i'art Hada
ilton haVe ,attecklotes to the point),
it is possible. to go through ft cam-
paign without bailee itakea. feta a
aembatant. General el',Aniarle,',,s,
bearing is fit fr.). all ieceegioes., •
eie the b,earbig of a _first -este
Ileieeer, It has the eleertty
finielh proper 1)1)..an exponent of that
Politest et the .aeta. Gea-eraI d'A-
made .11.e.s.• dime a ',great deal fox. !the
<mit of bb ±011! .tuacl epee ie Erig-
lama. He late .offeresch prizes: at ',en-
due .clubs, and eliewn • how useltel
e.outoetithbona and erisalays mia.y be
raereadleg the vogue Of hie team.-
ite exerciee.
1\'jo±o '141011 WOulti..he .blee ease with
meet 'Enialleiliatme, he is able to lee.ep
the sheatial.- &greeter intact under
e Pile ot.seciel attainments. Mae
..of ,arbeet -fifty, wiai grey moestarche
.cual isaa till eSes,
herse .ie en and of establisheel
the the• beet ;type of .the able anti
noll'Ave s,cAdiert W110 upholding
the II -tenor et list•ituae, in the peesen-t
refeCatilger. claja find no
fitter eleseription than !diathesis, an
.o,fficter and ;a gentlemen.. '
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'a 1:11?' 011 "11; wn 4 .7031 e'r ti • hie • ble siese
lhink orer 10.-IeLter you would.. me ionae ie itniag , si
canuminicato with. your finciidg )iot. If we haveu't would probably magus
ye„ sat nth,,ice, I should as4, xr•
Pug4avvy, had
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Selected Recipee.
Pancakes. — Delicious ' paneakes
may be made by gelding to any good
prepared ' pancake' flout' eme beaten
egg arida Haile , This ien-
iriches-the batter aacl noticeably im-
proves ,
Variatiod in Serambred Eggs. ---
:Beat the egge, ,seasen with eat and
pe.pPer, and add '• them to melted
'butter in ichafing dish. When neanly,
eerembled, ledd bread met into (lice
and browned, ' '
Pitelt Stalling (Peantit) -- Three-
quarters of °racket' , crumbs, one -
hail of a, eiaafal 0± ahelle:cl.peannts,
finely chopped, eineshalf 01 0, cupful
of heia.vy cream,. 0100-0 ,ttublespoonfuls
of blither, a, few 'drape of onion
juke, salt and Cayenne pepper,
Mix the iegredients 1,1. the order
given, a
Ripe Cucanther Relish. — Twelve
ripe. encumbers, four large onions,
.tour green pepperstwo red pep-
pers. Put theouatiambree knile of
meat, grinder. A-cild, telt cop salt;
one eup sugar, one and one -hell
cups vinegar. • 'Can cold. Thia in
delicioits, retains its crispness and
is eiceeedingly pretty, too.
Oatmeal Mush With Apples. —,
.Cerre the apples, leaving large 00,7-
itie0,; p000 404101 ,eo,dk until soft in
syrup mede by 'boiling sugar and
w.ater togebliet, 11wing on,e cupful
of sugar to one, and one-half cup-
fuls of water. Fill the cavities with
oatmeal mush; serve with sugat
and cream. The syrup should be
saved encl reueed. Berries, sliced
banamas or eliced peaches are ex-
oellent when eerved with any
brealklEatt cereal.
Chieken and Oyster Soap. — Gut
up and prepare a medium-sized
fowl as 101, fricasseeing. Cover
with water, and cook .slowly, re-
moving the ,ecum as it rises. 'When
the chicken is tender, take it up;
strain and return the broth to the
kettle: Ff there is nob .a quart of it
add boiling water. Add one quart
of oysters witlatheir juice, and the
same amount of scalding milk. Sea-
son to taste with a little salt and
pepper; also a little mace and nut-
meg if liked. Thicken with one tea-
spoonful of flour and butter rubbed
together and just before it is 8(211"
0(1 stir one-half of eater', cupful of
hot cream into .the soup, This
makes three quarts of soup,
Bataan Illhuhshy (stuffed potatoes).
—Peel a sclozen meditineeized pota-
toes, hollow themout: throug.h
small hole with a sharp knife until
the alien is about as thin 'es an
orange peel, and fry them well with
butter. Mince into very small pieces
11. sufficient quantity of lean tender
mutton, add a proportionate quan-
tity of pine seeds. season the mix-
ture with salt awl pepper, and fry
it thoroughly. Stuff the potatoes
with the friend meat and 'set them
side by side, with the hole upward,
in a. •saticepan. Put some tomatoes,
a little butter and alta 0, pint or so
ef water in the pea, and cool the
Potatoes over it light fire, for about
half an hour. The pine seeds ea,n
generally be, procured at any Syri-
an grocery ;store. It they are uniob-
tainttble, the meat may either be
used alone, ior in combination with
some other ingredient.
Sauer Kraut end Cueunther
Pk:Mos.—Cut cebbage fine, using
kraut cutter. Illor every gallon use
a rounded tablespoon of salt and
one-thalf teaspoon caraway seeds.
Mix well. Wash medium size cu-
cumbers. On the bottom Of an
earthenware jar pub a few din
Stems (seede will do), then put in
alteertate layees of eucurnbeas
sprinkled with .salt, ariel the pre-
pared eabbage. About, three tinies
the thickness of cabbage when
presee.d down with the palms of
your hands as of .eucumbers. 'Con-
.
tines. until jar is full, uoing cab-
bage as last layer. Over .all put a
white cloth and a white plate turn-
ed over with a weight on it to keep
contents under brine. Add 7-nore•
water 111(1113 (00 needed. When ready
to use slice encumber's lengthwise
for the table and boil kraut as
asual.
Bsead.—One large cup mashed
'potato, two tableePoona lard, one -
hall cap suger. Beat all into made
eel potato while hot. Add three
cups lukewarm water and strain
through mediate fine strainer. Add
to, above 'mixture one pint flour,
warmed, and beat till well mimed.
Some brands of floor will require
more than 'the pint ito thicken. Add
one yeast ,eake dissolved le onedialf
eutp w.arin wtuter. ,PI' kg -ether
for several minuters ail thor-
oughly mixed. Set in warm place
to rise and „stir at intervals, as it
makes a lighter 'sponge. 'At heti
trine or early /text morning wenn
two and one -halt -quanta of flour
(or more , if net enoegh to stilllen
,p10pe.01714 add one tablespoon of
salt. Mix the iaponge bit° this
flour antil e, medium .seiff dough " is
formed. Knead and pound well a,n cl
set, 402310130,130 rise. When light mix
into loayes. Kn.ead each loave av,e1.l.
for better bread. \\reaming the flour
is part of the secret, of due bre.acla
excel! e n co.
lieusehohl ;Wats.
• By 'clipping a limpet)] in boiling
suds once a, week it cart be preserv-
ed fox longer .nee.
Linen slaved eleset, warm
and poorly ventilated, iwillisoon 030-
00l1(e yellow and crack.
One yard of sheeting ,will make a
pair of 'pillow eases, and will cost
much less than 'pilhow tubing.
TIE a ,feav deeps ef pairaffin are 1031-
- 04 a ent, 4PJyj.' give, 19131L0
relief and' else' asisiet it to heal.
Boiled elresannes served 013 lettuce
leaves, With French dressing,, quake,
delicioue 'and .seasonable salad,
A (110110- 14(11(1 made Of mosquito
aettieg enables oile Ihy, a look Ito
find tho particular roll of goode de -
Spirits of turpentine will remove
most apots 'from silk, bulb easa must;
be taken to he sure 'that thedye is
Varnished paper On 30011110 Should
be (deemed with a flannel dipped in
week 'tea and polished with a, dry
cloth,
sharpen a Ingle, fold apiece of
eineey ipaper in the centre ,and draw
blue knife rapidly ba,ck and forth
several times.
&small pieee of .glaae placed over
O cookery book when lying open on
the table keeps it operr arid enables
the cook to 'read the recipe without
handling the book with etticky fin-
gers.-
When a kettle im "furred" inside
(111 31(1 with water, add goodeeized
lump ot ,boliaxand let it ;boil well.
Then poor away the borax and' wa-
ter, and rinse thoroughly with clear
cold water.
Sweet, spirits of nitre iwill remove
inksepots from wood, Rulb the spots
with the nitre ; when the wood
turns white, wipe it off Nvilbh a 'soft
cotton rag. It may be necessary to
make a second application
When yo,u have finished with the
kitchen fire for °poking parposes
take some fine coal duab, putii13 in
,s,trong beown peper bag, clamp it,
and put it on the top of the fire.
The latter will 'burn slowly for
hoer s.
1Chinese gloss staach is made r,f
tWo tablespoons 111410 starch and cme
tablespoonful borax dissolved in
one and one-half cups water. Ga,r-
meats are clipped in this, rolled
tightly and left a few houre in a
dr.y cloth before ironing.
Soups isthould be made from the
liquor of every vegetable cooked,
with a, little milk or !butter added.
The water from the vegetables,
thrown down the ,clrain contains the
mineral ealts or the vital element of
the vegetable, and should never be
wester].
People who suffer much from
"acidity" will do well to try going
without bread and especially 'with-
out any ettereley thigg with an acid,
ab the same erne trying to find out
how muchlat can be tolerated, but-
ter, cream, or the tat el bacon, and
so forth. Fats do not 'stimulate the
. .
gastric juices.
• KEEN-ETE_D K. OF
Interesting Anecdotes of the Great
• Aneeclotee oSi()ILdoi,ererl: Kitchener of
Kharturne-K. of K., 43.5 he is popu-
larly icalled by the English—have
been going the rounds of the for-
eign and the American newspa,pers
mice the outheeak of 'the war in
Europe. Some 0114 >10±', and mole
old; some exedible, and move in-
credible. One ot the most popular
is that of the hairpins—of which
theee +are .almost as many aersions
as them are pine in 11 ilia,cly's hair.
The original veasion, however,
seems t31 be that brought, from
South Africa at the time of the
Boer Wax by a lively young FreAldl
journalist, Mona Je,aili Carieve of
the Paris Metal. According to him,
a dandy British officer with an un-
fortunately• effeminate taste in
trifles, one day came to Lo -rd Kitch-
enex bringing a fine lawn kandker-
chief upon which, in compliance
with a fie,shioniable fancy of the mos
merit, he desired to obtain the gen-
eral's autograph.
K. of IC. took the handkerchief,
thenied it over, turned it round,
icncia,tertiel:
layinspected its quality, and
'This is doubtless your sister's
handkerehiel:
"No,"ie,,replied the offieer "it's
rnn
"Ah," eehoeil Kitchener, "lb is
Y°llinT
Ahe handed it book, without
writing upon it, inquiring as he did
So, "And what kind of hairpins do
you weer!"
If the atoxy is not true, it is at
least invented in .harmony with the
known cheracteristics of K. of K.,
who despises fripperies and imffeeta.-
tione, Mrs, Erskine, wile of mae (113
his former offieers, tells how, at
Preteria, he one day obor
sveicl a
young heuteettiot sporting a mono-
cle. '
"Does your eyeesight, require you
to weer ±11±40 311 114 mquired.
"It does," replied ithe- young
man,,hastily.
"Then report to -morrow tmovning
to the linee of ponimunicatione," or-
dered Loed Kiteliener,, crisply. "1
do not require men with poor eye-
sighast headquarters."
K. of K. despises self -advertising,
and has never isteught populaxity.
When he cans_ he escapes lionizing;
and he ,appeari- to ewes nothing fox
the appliaase and approval of the
public, eiceept .eo ler as it helps hira
04 earry on his week. But his ob-
servant eye discriminatee as keenly
as in other things between the reaI
and the artificial in popular re-
nown. Mrs. Beeklue describes how,
after an elaborate lunation in his
honor, at which a. pompous mastee
of eeeentionies had deliyered n vex -
boa eulogy before a elietinguiehed
eon -maga (boring him most fright,
ishe anti her husband vetoers-
ing home on horseback in hie com-
pany. On the way 'they passed a
shabby ice-exesam cart, the sides' of
which were; deem/cited with cheap
lithogrephe of Queen Victoria, the
Prince of Wales, .aind Kricheoex.
K. of. K. leaned suddenly forweact
in passing, Aliecleed his own dusty
aeritaiait with the tip of his riding
whita, and deelare,a:
"That, and, that, eala tie flame'
as;
Hears Little.
'Jones belieVes about all he
heturs.'' •
"Credulous, is fie I"
"Not particularly ; he's as icleaf
es a poet."
I) eseev e the I? tt ti ishmen .
.M111. -s, iSea—
a,ppStiabi S tri ell 9 w that
awned men lilye longer thrin single
nae
iScreppy—Yes, it serves them
ill abbe
ETT'S LYE
_ The -Standard Lige of
Canada. Has many- „
Inactions but no equal
CLEANS AND
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THE BRAVE BRIJ GUARDS
83900D LIKE iloCK TO MEET
GERMAN CAVALRY crrAnGg
Enthusiastic Correspondent TelIP.
Their Gallantry itt
Battle.
Thi s is the Geary, we it has been
told to me, oIibl,o wet30 in which the
Irish Guards, • a;b 111—, Web the
eharge of three Gerrnen 'cavalry re-
giments and emerged from the en-
counter with undying glory, says ia
Havre dispatch to the London Cen-
tral News.
It is the .story what those saw
who were not 'themselves in tie fir-
ing line, eted who awaited with ap-
prehension end wonderment the
collision between the gray horde's of
the Kaiser's 'horsemen end the thin
but unswerving, line of tritishers
in khaki, who, with bayonets faxed,
made -ready for their oncoming..
These same Britisher> had jovially
sheeted their adieux ;to French
troops who had been retired from
their immediate neighborhood, and
in the brief interval before the
erash came the •avatchers could see
officers .walking Up and down the
lines, cracking jokes with their
men, and otherwise assisting fa
maintain their extellent spirits, I
am told that when the German cav-
elry was only 200 yards away one
man 'momentarily pub down his
rifle and begged a eig•arette from a
comrade, which he eoolly lit.
Then they ".prepared to recelve
cavalry," and did it in better order
and with much less excitement than
if they • heel 'been elamit lio witieSa
the finish of 01>8(1. Leger. Three re-
giments of German eavella, splen-
didly horsed, splendidly equipped,
charged a regiment of Irish in-
fantry. The men who had been jok-
in(1 and smoking -rose up to meet
them, a bristling bulwarls of giants
holding weapons of steel, in steel
grips.
'Phe Shoolo or Arms.
For a few minutes there was an
awful 'chaos of looses, soldiers gray
and soldiers yellow glittering
lances and bayonets, ;the automatic
spit of machine guns, the flashes of
musketry. Amidst it all the men
in khaki stood immobile. Grimly,
and without budging, they threw
back, at the bayonet's point, in ut-
ter demoralization, the troops of
the Kaisea, the men who terrified
,perrnca,net villogere m a
of Belgium
F
They wanted something to put on
;their banner, and their 0104135111 133' list
will ethow that, "if blood be the
price," they achieved their aim.
French soldiers tell use that, rising
from the ranks of the Irish, just
before the rash came, there reech-
ed them the stresins 0± soage they
had never heard before. A 'French
soldier, hobbling along with a 'band-
aged face and a bullet in his back,
ventured to repeat from memory
the beginnings of a, tune which J.
made out to be that of "God S,a,ve
Ireland," ,enti I have gathered that
"Whistle to me, said I," wee an-
other of these strains.
The ,generosity ef iVIr. Thomas
Atkins earns for that adaptive gen-
tleman bributes of eurpriee and ad-
miration from the Freneh soldiery.
He wants ito give everything away—
his jam, his canned meats, and
many other delicacies wherewith he
is provieled. He 'believes ie ,shaving
,with his "pals."
"They Do Not Ran."
To -'day, 10 11 age, the landlady
said to me, "Ws like the . Englisit
eoldiers, but the 'Scottish and 'the
Irish are not good mem They won't
nay for 'what they have.' Now,
this was a .slight *n men 0113 024' ONVil
race, and I asked 'the good pat-
ronne what sum ishe had lost bY
reason of their faulty commercial
iastincts. Tivelve francs, 1 was
told represented the total. "Then,"
said I, "I will pay you your 12
fatince," end I was >0110033 (10 do 00
INhell some Ilr,erreli sOlclierS•who' had
been drinking in ' the restauratet
stood up .and earil "No, you won't,
1113 this is lame that the Trieh and
Scotch do not pay their bills, it is
true that they, do nob xun when. the
Krupps are trained upon them.
They awe eooler than .we, and the
Germans ;fear them." Alter' that
the landiada, whose husband was
fighting at the Inane refused be
take my money,
Ancl noir something about the
seamiest side of the War. Those of
us at home who, thanks to our glor-
ious naisy, know nothing ol what
wax means, 'need, perha,ps, a re -
Minder each as Mr Yleib tO the contin-
ent will quielsly give therm. I saw
some ladies to -day, ladies who late-
ly held pieces in provincial 'society
like our 0,13711 ladies of the manor,
destitute and begging their bread.
The war has ruined them. Ib has
ma,de them line up with the child-
ren of the gueters in order to get
bread. Remember this, and ,while
hoping 'that England will remain as
safe to -morrow as she is to -day, re-
member thet 510017 4)110 of us has his
part to play in assuring flab
safe by.
Took Him Prieoner.
A story is toll of a British eel-
dier in Belgium. His eolonel, ob-
serving hun one mormog wending
his way :to camp with a fine rooster
in his arms, stopped him to know
if lie had been stealing chickens.
"No, colonelt" was the reply; al
just saw the old fellow sitting on
the, wall, and I ordered him to
crow. fox England, and he weuldn't,
so I lust took him prmonere
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