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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1913-11-06, Page 5er Great Love; A Struggle For a Heart • CHAPPED XXXV.-(Continued). She shrunk back from him as if he baa • 'fikritek her. „Your—wife?" The words were scaroely audible, and . Yet, to him they eeenaa to riiig through the room, ,lie, still gitzed at the face. How had it 'come there? What juggling fiend -had conjured the thing up to confront hint with it at this sneatient-the moment of • "Your -wife?" Deeizna repeated, and she .sliedidO a. step further away from him. , wife!" lie ,said, hoarsely, still star- ing at it. Then he lifted his eyes heavily, slowly, and looked 'at her, looked and realized that he had spoken aloud, that he had told her. With an oath he flung the portrait Into the fire -place. It fell with a craeh as the glasg and frame were shattered on the tiles; then he stretched out his hands t0. Wardsher. "Yea, my wife. Decline, you know now why / can not marry you. I am married already." "No -no I." she put up her hands to her ears as if -to shut out the words. ;"It is true!" he said, hoarsely, with a calm' more terrible than any violence. ."I am married to -that woman whose,por- trait. lies there. That-ts why I C011 not marry you, Listen -for God's sake, don't shrink from me!" for as lie had taken a step toward her she had drawn back with a gesture of denial. "Your wife! Then, -then it is not I you love -you can not! /t is she!" "Love her?" He laughed with fierce bit- terneee. "You don't know what you say. Love? I hate, I loathe her!" A cry broke from her lips. "33o1 -she is your wife.” -lie made a gesture of despair. Now could he tell her, make her understand? "Demurs, oho is my wife, hut I hate her! No man With a spark of manhood could do otherwiee. . Child, listen -don't shrink from me. Don't -don't loOk so,' or shall go mad. She le a bad, worthleen woman. I left her. X have not soon her / for years. She is nothing to me; nothing -nothing. Don't you understand. But that she is my wife I should have told you of my love long, long ago, Ah, that you understand. Come to one, Child, have pity;" I De knelt to her, mud drew her hands from her face. She yielded, or rather, else did not resist, but her eyes were fixed va- cantly above his head, as if she were try. tug to understand -end to bear -the truth. "Decline, slow that wou `know, you will not turn from me?" ..„ ."Your -wife I" She one handd, from his grasp and remesed it against her fore- head with a piteous hitt' e gesture of help- lesenees and desPair. 'Oh, why -why did you not, tell me? Your wife!" "Dona -don't repeaa it!" he cried. "Try and fergct it. Decline, you -you will lot desert use; you -will not draw back? I eau not live withont you! If you turn from use-" his rose and caught her in hie arms, for she had swayed to and fro, as if she were 4tbooit' to fall. But Isle touch Boomed to give her strength to resist him, and after a moment -a moment during which he looked into her eyes -she recovered from the terrible faintness and drew herself from his arms. • "Let -let me go! ah, let me go!" she panted. "X will go! / want to go! Your wife!" "You shall Oct go until your have heard me!" he said, fiercely. "Child, you don't understand, or you would •not torture me. Sit down!" ' "No, nor "Ah, but you must! You must listen. Deoirroa-, She stood, her bands clasped, tightly, her face upraised, her eyes fixed on vacancy; and her despair almost drove him mad. "Decline'," he began, again; then eud. deuly he stopped. There was a sound in the corridor. A voice' a woman's voice, said in clear, metallictones "Thanks; don't trouble. I know the way, I. will go 'In and wait until be comes in, At the sound of the voice Gaunt started and looked over his shoulder, as if his 'mimes were' playing some fiendish trick on Deoima heard the voice, the words, but She did not move., "Ohl it le else!" broke from Ills white lips, ' He caught Decline's arra, but stood as if paralyzed for a moment; then he said in a hoarse whisper: "Go -that room!" and dashing -open the door, half led, half dragged her into the -adloinina room. Then he closed the doom and stood with his back to it, and -waited! CHAPTER XXV. It was the long arm of Coincidence - guided by Morgan Thorpe'e cunning- • which had led Laura to Prince's Mansions that night of all nights. Three days before there had been a lit. tie dinner at Cardigan Terrace. It was like all the other dinners, perfect of menu and cosy of character, and, as usual, Tre- vor, and Bobby were the only guests, . Now Bobby had come back from Leaf' more with a good resolution. He would see 110 More of Morgan 'Phonies and Laura -far, 'alasi it was as "Laura" he had Bab - homily thought of her, and not seldom addressed her, so fee had 'poor Bobby gene. Bobby made this resolve firmly - surely, that grins road to the infernal regione, which is constructed of good re. eoletione,, must be the inset endurable ever imagined, more endurable than stoue, more slippery Go an [mph mit !--ituel he meant to stick to it. But the morning after his resolve, behold! Mr. 'Morgan Thorpe, arrayed in faultless attire, enter. ed Gaunt'e rooms, and greeted Baby on if lie Wore a longloet brother suddenly . returned. "My deer boy," he exclaimed, "where, a have you been? I called the other night, and was filled with alarm when they told me that, you had left London. X feared -that You had fled --from 116 forgood." Whiolz, though he did not intend, was a particularly accurate way of putting it, Of was Quite Out up, I 263111.0 you, end as to. Laura-" 'He palmed and smiled at Bobby. l'Wail, perhaps I'd better not say how any news affected her. Mustn't toll' tales out'of school, eh, Deane?" Ito leaned forward and touched Bobby on the knee, and Bellaby grew red and hot, "/".4 had a wire from home, and had to' run down suddenly." Morgan Thorpe, glanoed at hire sharply: -"No bad 'news, 1 truot ?" he said. • • "N-0," replied Bobby, after a moment's heeltatioa. "At least -well, , „something had gone 'wrong -some nufauese; but it's all right now," ,"I'm glad to hear it. I woe afraid, one of your people was ill," said. Mr. Mangan Thorne, with charming sympathy. "And I'm glad YOU are back. We missed you, my dear Deane, though you were sway for so, shirt a time. Trevor canto and dined 'sin, but -well, Trevor is is deuted ° !low, but lie didn't compensate us oe, %abeam°. I never saw Laura so "trit dull.-- You really must come round soon. What tha you say to dining with us tomorrow night?" Bobby's good resolution rose and looked at him sternly, and, still more red and uncomfortable, he stammered, an excuse. 'Engaged! IM sorry, and'%, I'm sure Laura will be. • Well, we'll hope for an- other night What are you going to do this afternoon? Drop in at the club and have a quiet shell 'out with Trevor and What could. Bobby say? It would have been extremely difficult for him to remark: "Look here, Thorpe, I've made •a mental vow to out you, therefore -get out!" What young man of Bobby's age and tempera moat could have done that? Oh, parents and guardians, when you are inclined to be hard on your erring sone and wards, enaY you remember your own youth ani the temptations thereof! "All right," he said; but there was an- other pause of hesitation, which, be sure, did not escape the wily tempter's notice. "Half a moment," said Bobby, a;51 his visitor rose to leave. ."I'll -I'll take up those X.O.U.'s, Thorpe. I've got some oof." He went to the bureau of inlaid stabil-wood and took out his checlabook; but Morgan Thorpe waved his hand With delightful indifference. "No need to bother about that, just now, my dear Deane," he said. "Besides, I haven't the I.O.U.'s with me." They were JO his ,pooket at that liniment. of course. "And dashed if I remember what did with them. They're at home somewhere I dare say. Bring the cheek next time von come and dine with son," Again, What could Bobby do? Ile could scarcely force the check upon Mr. Thorpe. "Al! right," he said again. "But -but, Thorpe, I wanted to tell you-" lie color- ed again, but the old Bobby 'aeeerted It- self, and he looked Thorpe in the face squarely, and se lie did so, there was an expression in his face which was singular- ly like that of Decline's. "What is it, my dear boy?" "Oh!' only this; that I've made up my mind to out cards for Um future. The fact 1e -well, my governor has lost some money, and I can't afford-" Morgan Thorpe seized his hand. - "My dear Deane, I'm delighted to hear You say that -not that your father has lost money, but that you are going to out cards, It's strange, but I was just going to ask you if you'd mind my giving you a word, of advice, of 'warning. 'I wee go- ing to ask you if you'd deep gambling. I wet indeed! It was on the tip of ray tongue. To toll you the truth, Laura and I have been -now, you won't 'mind, you ‚won't think us intrusive and impertinent, I hope Deane-" "No, no." said Bobby. "Go on." • -"Well, 'we've been thinking about you -she is always ready to talk about you, YOU. know. You must know that she -Well, take.s a great interest in you, and she begged one to ask you not. to play." Bobby' felt so grateful, so touched by the beautiful worean'e goodneeo and care for him that lie could. not speak. "And I promised her that I would. If I had not done so, she would have spoken to you herself. I'm convinced she would. Ali, I assure you, the dear girl hos plenty of pluck when she hes resolved. upon do- ing the right thing, when she is convineed that a duty lies before her." 'I -X am very grateful; it is very good of Mrs. Dalton to think of me, to care," stammered Bobby. "She does care, I assure you; caret very much," Mr, Morgan Thorpe nodded grave- ly, almost solemnly. "She takes a great interest in you. As a rule, Laura is very chary of making !Mende. She has euffer- ed a great deal, poor girl! and suffering hardens us -hardens 116, any dear Deane. And I have never known her to come but of her shell, no to speak, as she has done with you. But about the cards, mY dear fellow. You are not offended?" "Not a bit," Said BohbY, cheerfully. "The fact le, I Might not to have gone in for lay, and -well I'm going to cut it now,'."I can't tell you how delighted foam to hear you say so," Raid Mr. Morgan Thoepe again. "I'm a bad liana at preaching, and I don't set up for a Puritan (dr a mo- ralist-" • Bobby grinned. -"But. X don't mind telling you, Deane, that if I had rpy time to come over again. I'd never tooth a card or put a penny on a horse. They talk of the evils of drink. By the Lord n Harry! I've seen. more young fellows go under through carde and bet' tug than ever were 'downed' by liquor. Why, I could give you instances by the ecore. And take my own case. In con. ildence, any dear Deane, X may tell you that Morgan Thorpe would, have been in a very different position from the lowly one which he now meanies if he had made the resolution which you have jest. now 60 nobly made -and stuck to it." _ "Why don't you chuck 'em now?" asked Bobby, 'with all the verdant innocence of Mr. Morgan Thorpe did not smile -which proves under what perfect control he held his facial expression. "Ahs my dear boy, it is too late for me, alas! Some of us are born gamblers. It'e In my blood, in any blood, mralear Deane. And poor Trevor's got the taint, too. Take the cards away from him and use, and we should go hang ourselves. It's too late fee both of us. Tbat's why I am eo glad and relieved to hear that You are go" 1.11g to drop it. And Laura -well; it will be the best news I can tale her. You'll come and see ner, dine with us noon, Deane ?" • "Yes," mad Bobby, stifling a sigh as his good xeeolution went up the chimney with a moan of reproacher and farewell.- "That's all right. $o long!" Mr. Morgan Thorpe paused at the door and looked round. "Delightful rooms, these of yours. Al- ways strike me whenever I eonm into them. Lord -what ie lois name -still et that place in the country?" °No," said Bobby. "Ile lies gone." Morgan Thorpe stopped, with his hand on the handle of the door. , "Gone, eh ? Where? Gone for good?' Bobby shook Ids head` rather sadly. "I don't know. He loft Leafmore sud- denly, and no one knows his whereabouts. Ins half inclined to think that he has gone to Africa." , "To Africa?" A faint expreeeion of re- lief shot for a moment into Morghn Thorpe'e frank blue eyes. "Really?' Well, Its .might go to a worse pima He'll escape the coming winter:" With another nod and smile he took his departure, The expreesion of relief grow more open. as walked away., For Mr. Morgan Thorpe bed had an anxious Vow of it ',pile in London. He had bargained witls Gaunt to keen his wife out of England; dint Morgan Thorpe, while making the bargain, had forgotten that -his sister pee- eoseled that estremely intoilvenient.tbillgo will. of her own. And the divine Laura bad nit only de - <dined to remain at Vevey, or remove to Paris, but had insisted upon' going to Lon - He had not dared to OPpose .her, for • You cannot afford brain -befogging. headaches.. NA6D,RILNCO liteadaOheVitraklers cop ..thei,n in .qulek thne,and clear your head. Their do not:contain either phenacetin, tioetantltd, morphine,'' 'opluin or any other dangeroue drug., 25o, a box al NsTiostm. Onus owe CtOpsicto. Oa. ookkADA, tmtese, she would have, grown poopMioue;, , end when r'the diaine Laura was suspicious— well,' Morgan Wheelie% life was non au easy 'one, SoIts had been 'obliged to let her mime, and had' spent some part of hie days in fear and trembling, lest his should • run up, againet Gaunt, and so,' in a moment, But, chance !lied, favored lain, hitherto, and Gaunt, had not seen Laura.' Of.Gone to Africa?" lie 1110004, as ha walk- ed with a pleasant smile on hie. ,pleaaant peen 'face, media smoked a choice Ifeanona.'"Welh Ini,Ye done so, and my 'luck May. skill be With'sfue, but, on the ether hand, he utaY not, and may turn op at 'any Monient My dear Laura,- you ' will have to Clear out. Yes; I shairlia,ve to move yOu. Butt hew?"' He pondered for ',IV time, ,.theattlle.' ensiled: We are smelt, we littLit; he- well /hake a little 'coup liebere we Ostia., A 'tioat of epoilingo"the MgYfitialle'talk, it over With hero Her brain's.. better than" miles et that kind of. Zn 'wltioho Rfr., Wigan Thorpe scarcely' did himself justice, for it would,heve, been difficult‘to find. a eliaamer ormore astute ecoundrel than himself, even in London, whore eharp and astute scoundaels' abound Mid flourieh. • ' ....Three days ,afterward Bobby received a. dainty little note -emitting the peculiar scent -from Mrs. Dalton. Why did, he not come to see her? Bad she Offended him? If no, why did he not tell her what she had said or done amiss? And would he comp to dinner on Monday .and give,her an oPportunity Of explaining and, begging his pardon? • So ran the note, prettily worded, and written in a thin Italian hand, There was only one answer possible. Bobby wrote and said that 'lit' ‚would come and tell her that in no way had she of- fended' him, and that she had always been' all that was kind and.gracious. And he went,. She was alone when he entered the drawing -Toone, and she receiv- ed'iltim. with a half -sad, half-reamoachful air," She was beautifully dreesed, loud "Made up" a little pale, her black osme, which; as she had heard his voice outside, had (Mono with contempt and boredom, now beamed upon him softly, almost ten - "I thought you were never coming, that I -we -should never see you again," she murmured. "Come and. sit beside me and tell me what is the matter." She touched is chair near the lire and beside her own, end Bobby dropped into it, feeling no if he had been the cruelest and most hard- hearted of young men. "Morgan has told me that you are go- ing to give up cards, I am so glad!" she said, after Bobby had assured her that there was nothing the matter and that he had not been able to come because Ise had been "busy." "011, pray, pray, keep to that! I °hey° seen so much =leery through gambling, and I do hate it so! Besides," she added, with an air of inno- cence which would have done credit to a first -ohms actress, "YOU will be able to sit arid talk to me while they are playing, for, of course, Morgan and Mr. Trevor will play." Amid in this way she talked to him, sing- ing Conscience to rest, and the beautiful, bewitobing face blotted out all remem- brance of hie reso/ve not to see her again. Then Trevor came in. ; He ecowled at Bobby as be nodded to him. "Thought you'd gone into the country or abroad," he said, sullenly, "Domed cold." He gave a little shudder as he drew nearemthe fire. His face V.012 pale -it had the pallor of the rod -headed 711011—and eyelids were swollen and .intlemed. It struck Bobby that Trevor had been drink- ing heavily, and Laura shot -a glance at hum as he stood gazing moodily at the fire. Presently Rforgan Thorpe came in. "My dear Deane, Trevor, forgive Me! I sin late," he said, with his cherming "Trevor, how well and fit you look!" Trevor glowered at him sullenly. "Do I? Then any looks bsu elie e, for I feel anything but fit. It's thin beastly cold weather coming in so suddenly.." "Your dinner will put You, night, Said Morgan Thorpe, brightly; "end there's the bell." As Laura rose, Trevor bent over her. "Let that cub go first to -night," he said. "I'll stay after hini; I waiit to speak to You." . She made a motion of assent, and smil- ed up at him„ sweetly, confidingly. Thorpe was in the beat and brightest of humors, and once or twice Bobby thought what that resolution would have cost him if he had stuck to it. TIM' were such pleasant people, the Thorpns; und Laura -Wile all angel. ' Trevor .drank a great deal -as usual- thromgh his -dinner, and Thorpe plied hire assiduously with "the earl's wine:" and after 'a time his face got flushed, and the sombre fire burned in his eyes. They went into the drawing -room, where -as usual -Laura was playing softly on the piano, and Bobby went and sat down 'beside her and turned . over the^ -music. Morgan •Thorpe opened. out the card' table, . "Do you play to -night, Deane?" he wilted. Bobby shook his head. "Not to -night," lie said, eleddenine,. Laura'a left hand stole out toward him enconraging, empathetically. "Why not?" demanded Teevor, looking across at him with surprise. "Can't afford it," said Bobby, with a touch of his old spirit. Trevor sneered, "That's a reation no one can meet," he said, with a sneer, "Go on, Thorpe." a Bobby Rushed still more hotly; but the small hand sought, and found, and press. ed The play went on; Bobby remained be- side the piano, or eat in a 'chair chose - very close -beside Laura's near the fire. ed They talkin a low voice, which. low though it was seemed to annoy and irri- tate Traitor, and once he turned toward them fiercely, and demanded: "What on earth are you two whispering and mumbling about?", Laura laughed softly, "Mn', Deane is telling mo shout his coadeb, his crammer; he must be such a funny. man! Are you winning or losing, Mr. Trevor? The former, I hope, Why don't you give -up cards, and come and sit round the fire like good Mc. Deane and me.?" 'He swore under his breath. "Losing," Ore aid. She turned to the fire again, and the play went on. Half an hour later Mr. Thorpe said, af- fectionately: "Laura, my dear, will you give us a lit- tle champagne?", Oro be continued.) 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Ne•Din-Co Dyspepsia rableta Is that, they are so .pleasant and easy to take,i The relief they give from' heartburn; flatulence, biliousness and dyspepsia la prompt and petinallent. Try one after' each ineal--they'll snake you feel like' a new person. ' soc. a box at your druggist's' com- pounded by the National -Drug and Chemical Co, of Canada, Limited, Montreal,. ita covered (mound is barely discerni- ble. It is said that no Moslem will enter the inner shrine." ; SIR EARLY DAYS. The present dietinetion of Sir Hugh Graham as a newspaper pro- prietor; with a' fortune said, to be several millions to his personal cre- dit, stands in -strange-oontrast to the eircumstitneess of his early years, Those, who have followed his business career from the begin- ning _describe the heart-rending months w -ben the. first edition of the Montreal Star were run off in a cellar. The press was none' too -sat- isfactory in its performances, and breakdowns were. frecesent. So pinched were Mr. Graham's finan- ces in those days that he was unable to afford a steam boiler of his own, Sir Hugh Graham, and arranged with his next door neighbor to run it pipe through the wall and suppily him enough to keep an old steam engine _moving at press time. The small payment for the steam often fell behind, and; it is said, Mr; Graham day after day would watch the coppers earn- ing in from the newsboys until they grew into an amount ,sufficient to pay for the steam When he care- fully wrapped them in his handker- chief and bore theta off to the hun- gry neighbor, Woinen carry a 'beautiful' hand with them to the grave, When a beautiful face has long age vanish- ed, and ceased to enchant: It is -easy -to do less than your best; it is impassible to do more, and yet you must try to do more, always more, even to the end. The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act and you reap a habit; Bowe, habit and you reap a character; Sow a character and you reap destiny. "Father, what is meant, by bank- ruptcy 'I" "Bankruptcy is whe'n you put your money in your hip pocket and let your creditors take your coat. / -- "And so you hink that some birds and animals commit suicide I" Been Buried. 'Certainly Why, I had a canary once that escaped from its' cage and feebly, level ; The site of bNuitneavdeiloiinisinalgmiebset jumped out of the windows" tern wall are two huge mounds that conceal the palaces of the greatest kings of Nineveh. On the lower, or southern, mound stand meaque and a village of considerable size, says a corres,pandent of the Chris- -Liam Herald. The village is named Nebi Yunus, or the Prophet Jonah, for the mosque contains the tomb in which. Jonah is -said to have been buried. The age of the tomb to uncerts.in, but it was probably built long after the Hebrew •prophet's time. 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You can always depend on them. - 25c. a box at your Druggist's, iys Rational Dreg mil Chemical Co. of Canada, Llnilted. THIS is a HOME DYE that ANYONE Ceti BSC The Guaranteed "ONE DYE fok All Kinds of Cloth Mean, 5ls,p5o, No CfilISICO of,MIntakes. TRY iii ,Sand, for Free Onlor Gartland liooiciet, Th.I.h......Rkluindsort Co. Llmitad, Itolo0tren 'rolled AP and put out Of sight soon 'as, eailed ' When the eleanin ' has been done 'pieces of the' pape 'may, be rolled up, lighted and lose teeeinge the bird. If rolled- fair tight one or two rolls will 'be sit ficient. to ever the whole, fowl - much mre oeatisfactory raetgo than the' old ;. one, .of singeing ore the -fire,' After the singeing ha been Clene the 'bird is usually weal ed, and these- drained. It may the 'he dried- uPen . several folds' o brown paper and the Stuffing truesing be done in the seine place ,da. this" wa4/ there can be no . mus 'Fish, also, mil, be, Cleaned en pa, =pees, and if boning is to, be don there is no better working eurface iMuch of the dislike of cleaning fie hinges on the Muss that is created vshile if it can be quickly remove meaall distaste disappears. After me or fish has been. washed for the las time, however, newspaper shoul not be used next to it, because o he ink, a piece of manila' paper be ing substituted instead, s Whereas, the paper' wrapping of bundles, may be used in many ways, they should „never be used when they are to cerne in direct contact ?svith feed. In lining cake -pans, for -instance, there is nothing so no- iceptable as a fresh piece of manila japer. It is ad excellent plan to keep in the pantry a box of papers cut to fit the various pans. These may be kept together with clips or rubber bands. Then a lining is al- ways ready, and it is never neces- sary to leave the cake at a critical moment to prepare one. It takes no more' time to cut a dozen linings than it does one if the kitchen scis- sors are used. Another little help tonsists of small squares of paper cut for oiling tins. The pasery brush has a mission, but most wo- men prefer to oil their pans with the traditionary bit of paper. Many a 'precious moment is lost in search- ing, the paper finally being torn 'from any near -by bag or package. 'If a box or basketful is hung on a hook clone by the cooking table, these bits of paper are always at hand—and the kindergarten baby loves to cut them, The clishweshing alone consumes a large part of the housewife's time, while if she could only learn 'to reduce the number of diehes, she *could gain considerable leisure for other things. Again, the friendly 'piece of paper comes to her aid. In baking, it is usually customary to sift the flour and measure out the sugar into bowls; if a smooth piece of manila paper is used instead, it 'will not only save many a dish, but it is more convenient. 'These pa- pers may be used mgain and again, and if tucked away within reach of the kitchen cabinet are always ready. The housewife frequently pares her potatoes and other vege- tables into a clean pan or the sink. In the former case slid has tho pan to wash, in the latter the sink to clean', while if she sits down, a newspaper in her hip, it syill hold 'all the parings. The problem of the frying kettle and other greasy utensils makes dishwashing a hor- ror to many women. If the utensils are wiped out with a swab of paper, ;a large part of 'the grease is ab- sorbed and the dishwashing greatly ;simplified. It is an easy matter to 'svash the dishes, scale them and leave them to drain dry if one has e. special drainer and a sink large enough to hold it. In ease one has not, thick folds of newspaper may he spread upon the table or set tubs, and the dishes scalded and packed one by one upon the paper to drain. A country housekeeper elves her daily nap and recovered health to this simple arrangement, In cleaning milk or other bottles, 'bits of newspaper, with, a good soap solution and a vigorous shak- ing, will usually accomplish quick results. Again, the garbage can May be kept sweet and clean if lined with paper each day after emptying. If this is done, two or 'three scaldings a week will keep ItFrierditafoods disagree with many, because they are improperly drain- ed. A generous piece of manila paper, crumpled into little ridges, acts as an efficient drain to all ore- quttes, doughnuts, fritters and ba- con. If the fritters are laid flat, the same effect is not brought about, because in that case oaly pert of the food is drained, Whip- ped cream for the Sunday night supper is always hard to prepare, unless one owns a cream churn, But again the sheet of paper. In this ease it should be large enough to extend several inches beyond the 'bowl. In the centre it should be -slit in the shape of a Maltese cross, to permit the insertion of the egg 'beater, set over the bowl, and the cream may be whipped without dan- ger of spattering the hest dress: This same method is of itie in beat- ing fruit whips or salad dressings or -custards that have curdled. Or- dinary brown paper bags are use- ful for drying bread and vegetables '(like celery tips), keeping thein Sind it! —just once.' You•can shut your eyes and verily believe you are breath- ing the delicate fragrance from a bunch of fresh sweet violets, so perfectly have we caught the real odor of violets filler - vets ;violet Glycerine Soap: But this is not all. We have caught, too, the beautiful green of fresh violet leaves, yet kept this soap so crystal clear you can see through it when you hold it to the light. Ask year druggist for Jergens Violet Glycerine Soap today. 10c a cake. 3 cakes for 25c. Get a quarter's worth. Jergens, vioLET Glycerine Soap For .ndtt bit Canadian druggists front roost is coast, including Newfoundland For .1 sample asks. sand To stntnp *0th. Andrew Jenne. Co, Ltd, S Sherbrooke Street, Perth, Ontario. HOME ihoyeAmbilbil~11.0,11,611, Tested Recipes. Rye -Date Bread.—To three pints of wheat sponge add two table- spoonfuls of brown sugar and *one large tablespoonful of melted- but- ter, then stir stiff with rye flour, and add as many washed and ston- ed dates as you like. Let rise and bake. Way to Prepare Hain.—Trim slice of ham about one inch thick and place it in a covered baking dish. Over this pour one cup of vinegar, one level tablespoon of dry mustard, and two -tablespoons of brown sugar, mix together. If ti he vinegar s strong; dilate with water. Cover closely and bake three-quarters of an hour. Then uncover and brown for about ten minutes. Oatmeal Cookies. — One cupful sugar, one, cupful flour, one cupful raisins, seedless; scant one-half cupful butter, two cupfuls rolled oats, onelialf teaspoonful salt, -one 'beaspodrful cinnamon'three- Aurths teaspoonful.- baking soda, dissolved in a little Warm water ; two eggs well beaten. Mix the sugar, eggs, and butter, then add the flour and oats, and then the rest of the ingredients, Flour rais- ins well. Drop dough from spoon on buttered tins about one and one- half inches apart. Way to Use Onions.—Take new green onions, cub them off, that ;they be as long as asparagus, throw scalding water on them, let stand, while they drain, cover with cold water, boil one-half hour, then drain again, covering with eold wa- ter again, boil until tender, drain, 'and dress with vinegar weakened With water, butter, a tablespoon of salt and pepper. Yon will have a fine dish, as good as a,spa.ra-- 'gus. ThisTs a saving dish, because you can utilize all the onions. Can also be served with cream dressing. 'Delicious dish to eat with hot bis- cuits or -toast for lunch. • Boiled Icing for Cake.—One cup granulated sugar and four table- spoons cold water, /shined in a por- celain or granite saucepan. Do not stir, but shake the pan gently till all the sugar is moistened. Place 'over a moderate fire and bring to the boiling point. Boil briskly for ;three minutes and remove from the fire, In a pint bowl beat to a stiff foam the white of one egg. Slowly 'pour the boiling sugar into the bowl, beating the foam continuous- ly with a spoon. You will be sur- prised to find the mixture fluffing up and filling the bowl. Continue beating until the icing is smooth and shiny, then pour it upon the cake and emodth with a knife. This icing hardens upon the- surface, ;while below it remains creamy and delicious. Doughnuts, --..50 cups flour, one- half teaspoon salt, ene-half table- spoon butter, one-half cup sour Milk, three-fourths teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream of tartar, three-fourths cup' sugar, one egg, one-half teaspoon.' nutmeg. Sift ?flour with the salt, anger, cream of tartar soda, eg,nd nutmeg,. Beat the egg and add it to the milk. ;Work the better into the sifted in- gredients and then add the milk and egg; Itoll out ene,half inch thick, cut cab with a doughnut Gutter, and vy ill deep fat. , 'Uses of Paper in the Kitchen. It is not ,always the expansive etensil that Makes kitchen ellicieney 'pessible, the comMonest little ar- ticle often being of greatest itssist- ance ; as the game time they are easy to use, necessitating but little 'cleaning and eosting -next to no - :Probably there is no single article, uf suell use to the housewife as a piece of paper or, a paper bag. Vroin the hemble newspaper to the; fresh rolls 'of waxed paper in the shops,' it is an indispensable ad- jueet to the dainty kitchen. Often task of cleaning Chicken or gaMa is magnified by the,thonght of a messy molding board, If _several 'folds it newspaper -are laid ,upon it the cleaning, may be quickly ac- complished, the first Isyer with' the entrails being quickly disposed of, while the second and thitd can be f compANY00 nee o nigtla ONTO Ogjklif MOST PERFECT MADE THE 'INCREASED NUTRITI- OUS VALUE OF BREAD MADE IN THE HOME WITH ROYAL YEAST CAKES SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT INCENTIVE TO THE -CAREFUL HOUSEWIFE TO GIVE THIS IMPORTANT FOOD ITEM THE ATTENTION TO WHICH' IT IS JUSTLY EN- TITLED. , HOME BREADIIAKING RE- DUCES "THE HIGH COST OF LIVING BY LESSENING THE AMOUNT OF EXPENSIVE MEATS REQUIRED TO sup. PLY THE NECESSARY NOUR- ISHMENT TO.THE BODY. E. W. GILLETT CO. LTD. TORONTO, ONT WINNIPEG MONTREAL , *,* 'from dust and germs. They may also be Put over the mouth of the food chopper when grinding crack- ers or dry bread, collecting the crumbs as fast as they fall from the knife and preventing scatter- ing over "the floor or table. HOW TO ENJOY LIFE. Agreeable CoMpanionships Made in Man's Daily Work. Should a man look upon his bread earning as an unwelcome task, to be hurried and clone with confusion and at -the risk of his health, with the hope of reaching an early per- iod of retirement when he may do what he will and really. "enjoy life'?" But suppose a man can hope to retire at an early peviod and live thereafter -without gaining work, is he justified in regarding whatever respectable occupation he has as it bore or as merely a method of earning enough money to retire on I And, if he so regards it, is he likely'toenjoy his retirement'? Ho will make a very doubtful experi- ment. Whatever a mall does dur- ing his active period he Olin -let to do with such orderliness and thor- oughness as to get from lois daily and monthly 'and yearly labor the pleasure that comes from doing his task well and the additional plea- sure of so doing it that he performs a real service. To do anything wholly for the money it brings is not to do it well enough. And those men who contract the habit • of working wholly for the money are likely thereby to unfit them- selves for the enjoyment of a period of retirement; for the right-minded man makes agreeable companion- ships in his daily work, he finds problems that call for all his brain and character—for endurance, for fair judgment, for just dealing, for doing as hewould he done by; and all these are the very warp and woof of successful living. The kind of Man to retire from money earn- ing labor with the hope of really enjoying life is the man who has really enjoyed life during his period of hardest work. And you will de- ceive yourself if you imagine that in idleness you will develop virtues or a capacity for sensible enjoyment that you did not have during your working days—World's Work. To Date. Peter, Peter, punkin eater, Bought and used a carpet 'beater, Now the doctor'e down the street, Beating microbes out of Pete, How -1Te—linew. Bix—You say that money is hard - to collect, How do you -know that Have you ever tried and failed'?Dix—Ne; but a number of per- sons have tried to collect from me. Medical Advice. s. "Doctor, how can I prevent my husband from talking in his sleep'?" "Well, you might try giving him few opportunities in the daytime." Lady (at piano)—They say you love good mimic. Youth—Oh, that doesn't matter, Pray g� on. d NA-DR11-CO set.'aiZon el Co Liver Oil Prevents Sickness Are you one of them thousands who. ,thotiele apperenny wen, coal; cold easily and often I 'It's a dangerisa conditiOn Is , tolerate, and one which yoamen eanly prevent by.taitine two pr three nettlesof lb -Dr's -Co Tasteless Preparation of coil Live' 05 at once--thts Pall. , ' This 14=ot-tasting food -ionic gives toe, end viten is Os WhiSe jsn end .10 strengthens lungs And bre-alash that they readily tit row off th000lds which • would °them/Ise lake hold, of you, Restores Health By virtue, of Its remarkable combination of curative and nutritive ereentles, Nee ' lortaCo Taztelese. Cod Liver Oil boos of . llie very boot. semsdne. Stowe fey 25f6mt2 ' tsuele eta -colds, bronchitis, asthma and' . eatalah. III, also an excellent reconstruct.; . 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