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HONEST TEA IS
TI1E BEST POLICY
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waseassaassavessaaaasessarsaaseassaa corer, roll a piece of bacon and put
it in the hole. •
A good way to clean Patent. lea-
theiashoes is to Semovesen the dist
and then wipe them over with a
soft cleth dipped in milk. Polish
with a dry cloth.
The skin of a grapefruit after re-
moving' the bitter white pulp, can
be crystallized nod cooked in the
same manner as orange and lemon
rinds are prepared.
Suede shoes that are spotted
frorn rain can be renewed by the
simple method of rubbing with an
emery board the spots matted to-
gether by the water. •
If a small hook and eye are plac-
ed at the ends of the rubber around
the knees of little boys' bloomer
suits, the robber is easily removed
when the suits are washed, and the
bloomers can then be ironed out
I
LARGEST SALE
IN THE WORLD
smanaviessaissaseieassalia-aals
Favorite Recipes.
,
Vegetable Pudding. •-a One cup
grated carrot, one cuPagrated po-
- tato, cite cup brown sugar, one
'cup seeded- raisins, one-half cup
chopped suet or butter, preferably
suet; one teaspoon sods, put dry
late one heaping cup flour, one-half
teaspoon each of cinnamon and
cloves, no water for wetting the
• juice from vegetables is moisture
enough; steam in three one poiind
baking powder cans, filled half full
_and covered, one and one-half
• hours; uncover and brown in oven
one-half hour. 'Sauce for the pud-
ding: One cup pulverized sugar,
ene tablespoon butter; mix well,
then stir in white of one egg, ' un-
beaten; now beat well. This is al-
most like whipped cream. This
sauce ig enough to serve four peo-
ple; increase according to number
served.
Steamed Salmon Loaf.—The fol-
lowin•g salmon loaf has never 'been
seen in print and is perfectly
delicious either- hot or cold. Two
cans of salmon, one cup cracker
()iambs, one large onion fried in
four tablespoons of butter and then
strain out the onion, four eggs well
beaten, one 5 cent bunch of pars-
ley cut fine, salt and pepper. Mix
all together and steam two hours.
Put in greased lard pail. Serve
with a good white sauce. If you
wish. the sauce to look pink add a
little 'tomato Catsup and it will not
only look pretty but taste good. pan, together with chopped onions
Rhubarb Custard rie•—lly° and a can of tomatoes. Allow bwo
When baking anything which re-
quires attention at given intervals,
set the alarm on your kitchen clock.
Its ringing svill remind Youoto keep
a lookout for the dish in the oven
while you keesiobusy abeut eiasm. Decimas "Oh, I nen eo sorryl—I mean'—she fal-
your and srit vvith enthu
CHAPTER X.Y1lIes-(000(inued).
It was the one thing heeded. The men
smiled, and leaned back tee their chairs,
and the women tapped their feet on the
Soft Turkey carpet in time with the sub-
dued silvery strains.
Deeinal, glanced DA' Gaunt, and he met
hoe' eyes,
"Are you pleased—,satithed2" .he seemed
to say, -and See ,stailed anprovingly, at
At last 'Lady 'Irolleoroagitilooked round 10
at thelamw,
diee. and `eand they sled out
e raw ngrolitn. _ ,6d"Oh, nor' she replied. "I don't kndee
to
Gaunt AVMS near the door, and he open- how ninny there Will. be, hat I an' eui7
enga ed Ion, the next (ewe. w give YOU
strotehed .out hisa
hand and touched her
°d it fa7 thul. .8.6 " 3:16'hna l'68' lie the tIlird, 'if YOU. iilie.' •
arm. She Kelt the touch and looked at „rod rlaoved ,od,, „and, going oo a rocw.
'I'm going to dance the next," he said
in a 'strained voiee, and moved away.
When the waltz was over. he, went to
Decinnt and asked leer for the following
•
"5 am engaged for that," she said,
the, wet panting a little, and there was
happy smile on her lips, for she .had
"enjoyed her dance.
Itershon bit his under lip.
Perhaps' you are, engaged for all?" he
He jetted it, down on his cuff, boWede
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DI.A.'s"Grudn't went back to the men, he pees- _:i.IllYesdheereits yinoaukidi,;iagnen, 711°1 herr' 'Ile
ed hes han,d over his brow with the ges- two her head., seneation• • It—it
‚Lure of a mall who has to get, through an w,e,
allotted teak, .11,e,...6,,t,Lii.ed an cath, and glanced at her
"Oloee up!" he said. "Ferndale, the eae'''`e•
pDorerrterieclzzi.teht, , Ii is thie„remeet,h3rooun,,, deloboywo.11 7,71DO:ifyieul,:thnadinnatowryoIrro,yysintinhtemere: ipt?he.Whdorya;dol
In an instant or Bo Wa6 the eerlect 'et help it," she said in a low, nervonS
heat again, and with a smile on his lips, Call
wat3 encouraging the anon to drink. But "3,—I wish you had moken to her
ell the time his theughts were with the ight,.,,
little girl in the dove -colored dress, and refOr.e. It will not, be so easy after ta-
ke hated the necessity that kept him I n the
away from her; but he plaYed hM Pare shrunk away from him. He remained in
alai was audible this time, and she
f te or two still
a friend of your father's, a true friend;
but—but, WI. am, it's because of you,"
Deeima looked at him Ivith a slightly
puzkled air, and he went on, not hurried-
ly but slowly, an if he had rehearsed his
'I've known you some—some weeks now
/OA Decima,"—the frowned unconacionaly,
;at the Decima—"and it's only natural
deal I should have grown. to care for you
—to, love you, in fact."
,No*, let it be remembered that no man
had ever spoken .of love to her; that she
had, unlike most girls, never thought or
dwelt upon .the great mystery. She
scareely 1[110,11t what it 'meant; but she
'knew' enough 'to &rink at the sound vf
the ...word in Mr. Mershon's voice. Tim
color left her face and her lips grew very
"That's how it is with me," he went on,
after a pause, "I've fallen in love with
you, d I b "
LIVING IN
BRITISH TOWNS
CREA SED 25 PER CENT. IN
SEVENTEEN YEARS.
Food Prices 12 Per ceat, 'Higher in
London Than in Other.
Towns.
Tie very waits sudde.ou 'to nneesThe dwindling purchase value of
lead euepected what was in his mind,
the thing the Soyereign'fe emphasized in the
les-
sened the shoal:, strange as this may report of the British Board of
Coined. If she had been at all erePared. Trade on the economic probknn of
pulsion—almost horror—to have stirred seheild., which
1 on
there would have been time for the re- the working clans
within her. Ae it wae, she sat, half- .
stunned and bewildered. Iler eilence did 01 formidable bulk. For tilt. Pur -
not daunt him. Irri Meral,011 wee acetic- poses or the inquiry eighty-eJght
tomed tor getting what be wanted, some- of the principal towns were taken,
Mama by guile, sionietimes by force, Genie -
has been published in a blue heels
times by sheer dogged pereistence. Ile and. bince in 1905 the board castled
meant getting this lovely girl—anywaY. similar inquiry, a cumpal.a-
(To be continued./ `"
• 'Live study of great interest and
l'COW WAR ENGINE. facts.psoonia,danivcoeloisso4pos:ei‘b.eler.l Tiomuteostaronpdsi.ni ig-
“SishRer-Automatort” Said to Be Rents 'have. Changed veiy little
Substitute for Skirmishers, prices of comniodities consumed by
Yet another terrible engine of the working classes have increased
war is likely .to be added to the materially, though they' are still
equipment of modern armies, if the lower than a generation ago.
iAnavsesnetnie,nofofcoapnertheanggienneefirofilnisameexd_ Sir Llesvellyn 'Smith computes
the average increase in workmen's
rents, food, fuel end clothing tak-
en together at about 10 per cent.
There has been a distinct upward
movement in wages, the mean per-
centage increases in rates of wages
in all toWite Being': • "--
Building trade, skilled men, 1.9;
laborers, 2.6.
Engineering trade, skilled men,
6.6; laborers, 3.9.
Printing trade, compositors, 4.1.
There are cheap and dear towns.
London retains its primacy as the
city where the cost of living is high-
est. Taking rates and the selected
articles of food, and coal, living was
between 11 and 12 per cent. dearer
tthorns.in the other eighty-seven
. on the average, svhile the retail
aap This engineer has per -
company and hie position as host,
laughed as if as were delighted with hie Watching Decima. then he went to the ,Peetatlens•
eraffet and got some more wine. His face I fected an invention which, he calls.
with consuninaute art, and talked and
it let
corner of the drawing -room, and had al ohoo,lie;pr, ibmutaAt.
and his lipe twitched, lot, he was all ab- machine for replacing the' lin•e of
togagr:nTenifirse a soldier -automaton antomatic
Meanwhile, Deeimit had f ound a quiet heirdid Lot
drawing -room , sue was somebody of len. stemious man as a rule. and he ea
. ,
nor tame ,• but here, amidst these county drunk far more than. his usual quantity
dames, in their gorgeous dresses and already. ' .
diamonds, she felt herself a. kind of no. Gaunt, it might be said that lie
body, and desired to remain unnoticed. 'wandered, about. There Wae a smile on
There was a small eabinet of books near his faze. but it, was a fixed smile, and too
her, allli She tools out a volume. ' it grim for mirth. At last, as if he could
chanced to be all edition de luxe of a re- flee keel) away from her any longer, he
cent history of travel, aud ae age turned
over the pages, she came upon, a refer -
once to Lord Gaunt. It seemed that the
writer regarded Mord Gaunt with strong
admiration. and be epoke of his mirage
"I've come to beg for a dance," lie said.
"Will you give me one—the next?"
She raised her eyes to him With a and. -
den Immure in them "
eyes g owed, and the color -roee to .her bred—"I am. engaged to Mr. Mershon."
other kitchen ditties. face. It was strange that she should have Her lake partner rose, and bowed ,and
A left -over dab of mashed potas happened upon that book of all others; left them., and Gaunt sat down in hie
't seemed as if at no moment of her life, Idpg_le beside her., _ ,,
toes can be made into, a cupful of •1.-
..,ord Gaunt could be absent from her 'Give me one—the first you have he
,
good soup with the addition • of thoughts. As ehe wee reading, Lady Bo- eaid.
"It Isom long rirtioff," she said, regret;
milk, a bit of butter and some cel- b9•1171gal.v'es'lleem'il l'oipo.king for you, my dear," Dilly. "Why—didn't
you ask me before?
ery salt. • . she had almost ended with innocent be.
A little ironing board with a, cre-
tonne case is an excellent thing for
women who travel, as it can 'be put
into the trunk -with the electric
iron.
Old rubberized raincoats can be
cut up to make cases for rubbers or
slippers. Also to cover the cloths'
basket when laundry is sent away
from home.
, A cheap cut of steak can be sim-
mered slowly in a coveted frying
cups rhubarb, two eggs, one cup
•
sugar,_ one tahlespoen _flour, three
tablespoons. pulverised sugar. Peel
'and cut up the rhubarb pbur boil-
ing water on it, let stand five min-
utes, then drain; heat the yolks 'of
the eggs with the sugar, add the
flour, and mix thoroughlywiththe
rhubarb. Line a pie tin with good.
plain paste, pour this Mixture in
it,. andsbake about half an hour.
, Make a meringue of the whites of
the eggs and sugar, place on top
when done, and lightly brown.
Two Muffins.—These are called
the two muffins because there are
two measures of each ingredient,
with the exception of salt. Served
with eggs, fruit, and coffee, a bet-
ter breakfast at this season of the
year is hard to find. Two eggs,
two teaspoons sugar, two teaspoons
incited butter, two cups flour, tea-
spoon salt, two 'teaspoons baking
powder, and enough sweet milk to
make a soft batter. Bake in a
quick oven in muffin tins.
Teal Loaf.—Two cups of veal and
one cup of celery cut in small
pieces, one-fourth can of sweet red
peppers cut fine, one teaspoon of
salt, one teaspoon of extract of
beef, one envelope of gelatine.
Soak the gelatine in one cup of wa-
ter for five minutes, add one and
one-half pints of boilings water,
salt, and extract of beef,' When
begmnig, to Get add celery, veal,
and peppers and turn into mold.
When cold slice and •garnish with
•
Raisin Pie.—One cup of raisins
boiled until tender, one cup sugar,
one egg, one cup cold water,.' two
tablespoons melted butter, two in-
blespeons flour, one tablespoon
vinegar. Let cool before putting
into crust. This is a good selling
Delicious Oil Maynonaise. •s-- The
yolk of a hard-boiled egg, mashed
well, one teaspoon salt, one tea-
' spoon of dry 'mustard,- the yolk of
a yaw egg, beaten and mixed with
the other ingredients. Add .-'oil
very slowly, as much as. desired,
(one pint is a good anioUnt). Add
• . lemon juice or vinegar to taste. The
difficulty ins making oil . aynonaise
is to avoid having oil separate
from ,ether. -ingredients. To pre-
, vent this mix ingaedients in a chill-,
or three hours for the cooking.
To put a gloee like new en white,
silk, wash and rinse well, then put
into water containing a •teaspoon -
fill of methylated spirits to a pint
of water,•and iron while damp.
When a little totamto same is
left over, try poaching an egg in it.
Season with cayenne and Worces-
tershire sauce, The tomatoes
should be boiled' when the egg is
dropped.
To clean a frying -pan place it.on
the fire for a few seconds, then
-wipe out wit A a piece of soft paper
or damp cloth. 'This will preserve
the pan in better condition than
scrubbing it.' '
To remove typewriting ink from
linen place the inked parts in tur-
pentine and soak for at least
twenty-four hours, then pour boil-
ing soda water on it, rinse and dry,
and the 'stains will be completely
reinoved. ,
In making pea soup, after well
washing one quart of quart of split
peas, soak them for the night, and
boil them with _a little carbonate
of soda in just sufficient water to
allow them to break to a mash.
Then put them to three or four
quarts of beef broth, and stew kr,
one hour; then pass the whole
through a sieve and heat again.
'Season with salt and pepper. One,
or two small heads of celery, sliced
and stewed in it, will' be found a
great improvement. •
It is important to exercise great
care in washing woollen garments
in order to avoid shrinking and
felting. They sho.uld never be rub-
bed with soap,, bill -gently -moved
about in Warm (not boiling) water
in which sufficient good, plain soap
has 'been dissolved. :Rinse them
afterwards in clean, warm water of
the came temperature; and dry
quickly without wringing. Woollen
gasmenta 'should not be allowed to
lie damp, as that induces shrinking
and may cause the colors to run in,
the case .of delicate shades.
she said, with that kindly familiarity
which an elderly woman of the world can
use toward a young girl. "I have been
hearing your praises sung. The vicar—
what a dear old man lee isl—bas been tell-
ing me of your goodness to the village
Sulk. And he gays, too, that it is you who
leave transformed Le:11111er° from a dingy
old house to what it is"
Decima flushed Sightly, but her Sear
eyes met Lady .Roborough's frankly.
"Oh, no, nob' she said; "I only helped."
Lady Roborougb smiled at her approv.
ingly, for Dechr- modesty pleased her.
"Bather more t. helped, my dear, if
all they say is true; and I think it is.
But why are you eitting hero like a lit-
tle puss in the cornerq Won't you some
and sing or play for.rus?"
Decima looked rowed reluctantly. She
Ws not nervous, but she felt that the
simple (mugs wguld he scarcely suited to
so large and grand a party.
• "Presently, perhaps?' said Lady
borough, as if Aid understood. And with
nod she left her. A. daughter, of Lord
Perndale's went to the piano, ;was a
beautifulegirl, the belle of the county, and
possessed a magnificent and perfectly
trained voice, and its marvellous notes
filled the big room with a volume of
6ound. Demme listened with delight, and
her eyes Shone. Thera was a murmur of
applause when the song finished, and
"Hew beautiful!" escaped. Deefilla'S lips.
Lady Ferndale was standing near her.
She was passionately fond and proud of
her daughter, and the involuntary. girl-
ish burst of admiration touched her.
"Thank, you, -Miss Deane," she said,
smilingrdown at hem "That wag a genu-
ine tribute, and I ann grateful. I am 'her
mother, you seer ,
'Mama, smiled up at leer as if she un-
derstood what lihe felt; and drawn to-
ward her by her sympathy, Lady Fern-
dale sat down and talked to 'her. Some- of solf-restramt. Ile screen a 6
one played' a brilliant sonata, and then got up from the lounge.
Lady Roborough same wi and drew Devi- "I save my medesty by flight," he said.
"Pont would make a saint of Inee, and all
preach.
Gaunt could have finished the sentence
for her.
"There are so many other—younger—
men who are anxious to dance with you,"
lee said.
There -was unconcealed reproach in her
eyes as she raised them to his.
"And I am host, and Must surrender the
best to my guests," he added, quickly.
She laughed. softly.
"What an outrageous compliment!" the
said.
. ''Was it?" he said, rather grimly. "Are
you happy?" he asked, suddenly, his eyes
seeking leer face with something of their
love -hunger revealed iii them.
The question startled her.
"yea," she said; "very happy! It is all
so bright and beautiful—the music,"
She looked rowed and laughed with in-
nocent delight in the brilliant scene. •
• "I am glad," he said in a low voice. "It
was iverth. doing," •
"It is such a great emcees," she said,
after a moment. "All are so evidently
enjoying themselves. Lady R,oborough
says that your party will, never be for.
gotten..
"It will not—by me," he commented.
"And you, too, must be he.ppyr she
said, glanoing at him.
"I am—very," he eatd; but there sate
something in his tone, in the Malt of lye
eyes, that troubled her.
"You deserve to be." she rnurmnred
solely and a little shyly. "You ale so un-
selfish; you have taken all this trouble to
give pleasure- to others."
He folded his amine :and gripmd them
above the elbows tightly. Her flask, in-
nocent praise of hem, the soft sweet
voice, the deep eyes, "were getting on his
nerves." Ile felt that if he stayed near
her much longer he should loge the power
• 'Salt' Water !ran.—This taffy,
especially near the seashore, is a
great favorite and is sold in large
quantities. It is made by simply
taking the vanilla taffy receipt end
cooking it at a slightly lower tem-
perature. When it is deneremove
it from the stove and stir into it a'
tablespoonful each of butter, salt
.and plain glycerine. Pour out and
handle the same as other taffy'
leaving it white or coloring and
flavoring it in different ways. The
proper way to finish this candy is
to cut itinto small pieces with a
"pair of large shears, and wrap
them in thin wax paper to prevent
sticking together. This makes a
peculiar waxy piece of candy, leav-
ing the last baste in your mouth
slightly salty. Pare glycerine is
'absolutely harmless, as an,y drug-
gist can tell you, and if; used to
give. the candy that smooth waxy
skirmishers for defense, purposes.
Briefly, it consiste of • a 'cylinder
which buried in the ground and
which, like submarine mines, may
stay there for years without 'being
damaged. A signal station at a
distance of four or five miles, away
is connected with the cylinder. :By
pressing a button an electric cur-
rent is transmitted and the cylinder
shoots up until it is about two feet
from. the level of the ground, firing
at the •same moment 400 shots in, a
horizontal direction.
The value of such an invention in
repelling invader* is obvious. It
means that one of these cylinders
can take the place, at any point, of
400 soldiers, and if a number are
buried in proper systematic order
over a 'certain stretch a, country,
a continuous hail of bullet* can be
fired at an invading army, without
the latter seeing a single enemy.
A number of these cylinders, in
fact, makes a line of skirmishers
whose operations May inflict 'terri-
ble damage on the enemy. The
shots take effect at a distance of
300 yards, and the inventor calcu-
lates that only 10 per cent. of the
enemy would be saved after an' at-
tack of these automatic troops..
The skirmishers would be placed
in rows 'behind other, to be used
,succeSsively for resisting various
attacks and as -the cylinders are
hidden in the ground, no enemy
can know where the line is before
the firing starts.
speech hand throngleer arm,
"Now you Will sing to us, my dear," she
said.
,he led DCRAratt to the piano, and Be.
otha looked up at her appealingly.
"I leave so httle voice," she said; "and
after that grand onel"
Hat: simply and unaffectedly, she sung
one of the ballads which Bobby was so
fond of listening to after elinner;. • and
there must have been something In the
voice which touched the audienee—and
what an rtudierece!—'for the talking ceased.
While she VMS still singing, the gentle-
men came in; and at the door they toe
stopped talking and stood listening.
CHAPTER, XIX:
Gaunt, had entered almost last. and he
'drew back so that he. was quite behind
the others. His eyes went toward the
girlish figure at the piano, and be held
his breath for a moment as his Bee
twitched. When she had finished, he
-went up to the piano and stood beside
her. It was the proper thing to do, as
host; but he did not praise the song.
"Thank you," was all lee said; and, the
words sounded almost grim and stern.
As she lookest, up at him, she .saav a deep
line across his brow, and that his lips
were tightly drawn.She looked down
again in an instant, a faint trouble at
her heart. Was he ill, unhappy? she won.
flared. A moment or two afterward some
of the other men came round her' and be-
gan to talk, and Gaunt moved away and
went about the room.
qui, was Served. with due state and cere-
mony; there was more singing and play-
ing; the room wae filled with the been of
conversation. Gaunt moved about, with a
kind of restleeeness, and suddenly he
went into the hall. Dechna heard the
servants wheeling the furniture about in
it; then the band began to play, and
Gaunt came bask and went up to Lady
Roborough and said something.
She mailed and nodded, and addressing
the company generally, said: ,
"Lord Gaunt says that as the band is
hero, why not dance?"
The ladies brightened up and innrmured
a delighted assent, and, in a moment' or
two the (lancing commenced. .
Deoima drew back, for there were more
ladies. that!, gentlemen, and elle' did' not
expect to 'have many' partners; but to
her astonishment, Several men . came to
her With 'eager requests for a dance.
CV
,N117,, Gaunt had 'prom/lied the' dance
that he might get a waltz withheri.land
Seen the fret waltz 'Started, he
wasmaking his way to her, Thn he saw
'that, ohs Was sureounded—and by.,,some of
tbe.„younger men, and he stopped. short.
Me- line deepened on his' brow, and with
a sigh be turned aside and went and sett
by Lady Ferndale, as if he had no Jaen..
tion of dancing.
Withont watching him, Thelma saw
him, and noticed the approach nfnd re-
treat, and a little wave of disappointment
passed over her. ;
"I vs talking to that sweet girl,"
said Lady Ferndale. -
Re looked straight before him.
"Which?" he said, almost. curtly.
"There alp50 sweet girls, Lady
Ferndale. •
Re laughed.
"How ga.flantl I. mean Miss Deane. She
has quite won my heart, and I intend to
see mere of -her. if she will let cue."
He nodded, with a kind of bitterneele ice
his' heart, ter lie saw that, Its should leo
longer 'have Beeline to hilbanif. 'lime lead
made impression on the society of the
ttee
ifi. '.11110 210,,t instant, he felt ashatned
of himself.
"I zip-) a selfish 'e rute!" ke thought; then
"Yen will ‚mini' her," lir semi. "She lees
very few friends; and it will be very kind
if "Toeullt't'l'ilce
tI'Ttitliit':Ity:hetc so." said Lady
Ferndale.' "Tlow happy she looks!"
Gaunt followed her eyes, and. nodded
11,0 me ))' ri 41111(1111 g with OLIO cit
,the hansltemest young, men, and ono of
the both dancers in the rools,. and there
Tina feint, l'Orit, hint in her and
arta it
happy light in her
lEe stilled lb Ing,11, 1VOLI, why should sl,:o
not be ItalleY? '
A m.rmout1 te,:. two Iv, r he .nose, almost;
abrupthy, and crossed tho room no ties
beffet whieli the butler had eXteMporized,
e Some men were standing there, drink•
•:Example Better Than Precept.
froni tbe London slums,
was the gueit of a great lady `Whe
interested herself in . "the poor.-
ISallv perfectly "Self-possessed,l
ped her tea; and -proceeded to „
gage, her hosteCs in email talk.
'Doe's yer 'ushand drink V' she
queried politely."
''My. dear childe-no I"
" 'Ow much does 'e make a
week?"
"He—er—slecs not do any werk."
Her ladyship.. was beginning to
feel slightly annoyed. •
"Well," centinuecl Sally; 'ope
yer keep out of debt'?"
-- "Why of course 'child! -Don't
ask such ridiculous questions I
Don't you.know you are being very
rude '
Sally was amezed.
•-"Riude it is 'I Well, mother Fays
to me : 'New, be eine end. b'e'ave
like a little lady,', she say's. And
when ladies come to our louse they
iilwAys begins by asking ilio.f>e ques-
tious
le
Ile left the sentence unfinished and
walked away.
Mr. Mershon's dance came, and %vitb it
that gentleman. He offered her his arm
without a word, with Just cite sharp
glance from his guarded eyes, and they
started.
lie was not a bad waltzer by any means,
Pant either he had not, got Deeima'a step,
or the emotion which was pressing on
Inn made him unsteady and confused
him, for before they had gone the round
of the room he had lost the time and
presently came to a. full stop.
"It Is --is hot, isn't it?" he said, looking
just below her eyes, "and the room,is
crowded," It was not "Wouldn't you lke
to sit down for a little while?"
"Oh, year said Thelma, promptly. She
would not have very much enjoyed a
waltz with Mr. Mershon even. If their step
had matched perfectly; and she was glad
to ho released. Ile led her, through the
great glass door at the end of the room,
into the palm -house, and they sat under
a marble nymph. The light from the
lamp in the hand of the statue fell upon
Decima's face, and Mr Mershon glanced
at her in silence for a minute or two, He
had paid several visits to the buffet, but
he was not in the least. intoxicated; and
the !wine had only served to give him a
kind of spurious, desperate courage.
Decima leaned back and fancied herself.
She was scarcely consciotte of his pre-
sence,but was listening to the waltz and
thinking of—Lord Gaunt. The tone of his
voles haunted' her; and she wae Wonder-
ing what made him so sad and grim in
the midst, of the general gayety.
Then, suddenly, Mr. Mershon broke in
upon her reverie. ,
"leather a fine place, Loafmore," he
said. His voice, sharp and thin, yet not
so sharp and metallic as usual, jarred -
upon
her. .
"Yes," she said, simply.
He stroked his olean.shaven lips and
looked critically about him through half.
(dosed eyes, and then glanced covertly at
Love.
Love's pictured as a little chap,
A, litle eha,p Inc may he,
'Useful Hints. At any rate bis troubles seem
The tronlale.s Of a baby,
'If Pope,' nails ;Inc to'.'He nytiO, be fed to te.ntierly,
thew With va,/clille 'This winsome, wee glosslion,
And oh_fctl,eunrt, he spends hours and
A-cp'inL,, for the moon.
Some 160 millions 4i People $P0ak
potatoos are delicious if a DIKE s getagB ; is
51 0 of Potionput e :Make 2 P ()ken by 130 millions; Fiend). by
a hole in Lim potato vith a..-1 apple 70 millions, .
Whet) id/1.11F F.,potF..' °tilt with gario-
ins,- pact-' 0. plea of blotting prifier
-111tillor tl‘e twill, hod 'no Olo'cie cCt-li
. altOr the material.- lit., been
Rents High in London.
Although in London the rents of
working class houses have declined,
they are still much higher for the
same accommodation than in any
other town in the country.
The general level of food prices
and coal in the different towns
shows a greater degree of uniform-
In !WM oP011110.,.....TW4."'"°'
tal expenditure of the working
classes, is thus shown to have been
very marked in so short a period
as 1905-1912, and if the comparisou
is extended back to the year of low -
'est prices namely' 1896 the in-
, ,
crease in food prices up to the year
1912 would appear to have been
about 25 per cent. The level now
reached is, however, no higher than
in the early eighties and much be-
low that of the seventies, when
prices were exceptionally high."
There ha -s also been an increase
in the cost of clothing and an ad-
vantage of 5 to 15 Per cent. it the
cost of footwear.
ity, and On this point Mr. McLeod
of the Department of Labor Statis-
tics says: PROI1431TION FOR SWEDEN.
"It is found. that the cost of liv- —
ing, as represented by rents, in- Royal Family FaTOTS a Law Against
coal, was between 11 and 12 per There is a prospect that Sweden
Liquor.
eluding rates and the retail prices
of the selected articles of food and
cent. higher in London than in the may 60011. be placed under national
other eighty-seven towns taken as prohibition. Laws making it an
a whole. London is followed in offence to drink spirituous liquors
this respect by the Scottish towns anywhere in the country are eau -
and at the other end of the scale templatod, and there is a reason -
are the towns in the Midlands, in able chance that, they will he adopt -
which both rents and prices were ed•
at a low average. Prime Minister Staaf, in a recent
"Croydon, Newcastle -on -Tyne, address before. a..eongress of tee -
Plymouth and Devonport, Sheer- totalere in Stockholm, declared
nose and Swansea are the towns in that prohibition was. the only effec-
'England and Wales for which the tive means of preventing drunken -
combined figures most nearly ass- nese. All other attempted methods
preached those for London, while of reform, he said, had proved in -
the towns in which the cost of liv- effective and insufficient to atop the
ing was lowest are Wolverhampton,
Walsall and Macclesfield. London The Prime Minister's speech is
range of index numbers for rents
extreme considered an indication of the
being taken as 100, the
and prices combined in other towns lievedato foreahadow the introdue-
Cloverninent's policy, and is be -
was from 81 to 97."
Increase in Food Prices, ttlii°en
jOto niamoeintaaof aspibriiltluoftemr
In broad outline the appended drink's in Sweden. Snell a law
table states the percentage of in- would eommand the 'support of the
crease which has taken place in the Royal family. ,The King is a, strong
price of food: temperance advocate.
46.1 A prohibitive law would be likely
'Potatoes . .
32.1 to meet with opposition from
BCOoahaceo.lense. 22.5 France. Sweden 'has' a big trade in
3.8.8 wines and spirits with France, and
15.3 she depends upon the French mon-
Bread .
15 1 ey market to finance many Swedish
FElgogusr..
enterprises. There are fears that
the exclusion of Ftench wines
British pork . .
would encounter retaliation in the
3Biriitttissrh b. ed
form. of exclusion of Swedish securi-
ties from. the Paris bourse. A pro-
posal to increase the duty on wines
in 1914 had to be dropped because
the Faench Government protested
and threatened to Isar Swedish con-
sole from ' the Paris Stock Ex -
present inquiry enter into the to- change.
So Mitch For History.
Horace sat and gnawed his pen,
concentrating a look of hatred on
the blank sheet of paper before
'him. From his seat he could see
every member of the class writing,
'as if for dear life, an essay on
Henry VII1.—their allotted task.
His pen alone was idle.
"Two minutes more I" came from
the teacher. Then Horace, in de-
speration, seized his pen and made
a 'bid for fame—as follows:
`!Henry VIII. was 11, King tl.f
England;' and the greatest widow-
er as never -was. He was born at
a place ealled Anne Domino, and
he had sixty wives. The first he
ordered to be executed, but she
was beheaded. He revoked the sec-
ond, and the third died; and then
he married Annie Bowling, the
daughter ‚of Torn Bowling. , When
he died he was succeeded on the
throne by his Aunt Mary. Her
Lull, name was Mary Queen of
'Scots, or the Lay of the Last Min-
strel."
"I shouldn't mind haying a place like
into,v he said, nieditatreelY• •
"Yon have very"—ehe could not say
bea,utiful—"grand house already, Mr.
Mershon."
He shook his head.
""Y -es; beet it's rather commonplace, it's
new, you see, I should like an old hones.
Something after this style. I think I
shill buy one; there are always plenty in
the market. Why do 'you, smile?' he ad-
ded, •ouickly.
Demme, laughed softly.
"Because you said that as others say
it when they ttre referring to quite a
trivial, inexpensive thing,' she replied,
candidly.
"Well; it wouldn't break me," he said,
coolly. "I might just as well spend my
money that way as not. The ,oniy thing
is it would be rather large for—for a
bachelor." -
"Lord Gaunt is a bachelor," she re -
English owls feed mainly on in
eta and small mammals, such as
ice.
as
In
13.6
12.6
9.9
9.5
Milk .' 9.4
British mutton 6.1
Surveying ,this aspect of the pro-
blem the report says:
"The rise in the cost of living so
far as the articles covered by the,
His face darkened for an fnistant; then
he smiled and nodded toward the !
room. She looked and saw Lind Gaunt
With Lady DtallChe Ferndale upon his
arm. Ile was.looking down at her as he
talked, with a smile on his face; and the
girl's eyes were unturned to his with a
.pleased .expression them.
"He won't remain ' bachelor very
long," said Mr. Mershon. "They say that,
the Ferndale's daughter will be the mis-
tress of Leurfurore." •
Decimet looked at Lord Gaunt with a
Nfladell contraction of the brows, ;
."She is very beautiful—veryr she gai4,,
under her breath. ..
Mr. MershOn.nodeled. ,
"Yes; but I didn't sell Tonto eerliS hone
to talk about them;" he. said, with a kind
et desperate abruptness. , .tetko
any intereet them </V --0i' any one else
but . myself and—and another •person."
Decima turned her eyes upon hini with
faint, fn.11'nritle,
.."119.na etrainto •Teetoe!" she said, With
ci 0111i18. d011't ill btu toast know what
"Yon 'don't?" lee. increduloutelY,
end *with a sick glance at, bor. "D0/13;
yoll know Unit the only person.I take any
In tercet la—you.?"
Heeima milt.ber blushed nor started, m14
tho smile was still on her lipS, 0.6 elle
leg champagn 0. among them 1.,1 . (mid , .
Aftn'Nli011, WIN 10n10 ng 1)10 I'll 0 "In Ine T1, is, very IciMI of you, Mr.
Loge, gileilio-i ils ii 5 bane, 1118 eYea Mershon, is beensuse You etre
fixed on .1),clen a. Ii.fS llareow Pima, \V LIR .F,t)ren lb I' Unni a—YOU We No mucli—of
my
pale, and. hie eintril hada. ninclied look l '
looked 11 er and...lowered hie twee.
emehly. (Ulu n 1, would iiat,,,leave doud
bte
her hi 111:Grier,^f..Qr ci mo -
Wall/ tr-hu man 'Wa a of ilidlerent
''Slot al this,e1.12 sr," "T -es,
'about .them„. and Gaunt, as no gi ,cciC',,l a,
hini, wee struch by II eXp1,2,1',i011.
,ortunt got himself some sena
'Not daileing, Mr. McAllen I"' :110
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