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The Clinton News Record, 1912-08-22, Page 3THE WIIITE LADY; OR, WHAT THB THRUSH SAID. CHAPTER X.—(Cerit'd) I thanked him for his kindness, and he nodded gravely, but without speaking, and presently lighted 'his pipe and fell into 1 is mime 'thoughtful silence. And so, with hardly a dozen words between us, we finished the journey to Exeter. Herb we dined togother at the Crab Tree Inn, aeter which I saNy. Mr. Liskarcl to his trap and bid him farewell. You are wing William?" he said. "Te the wars?" Re shook hands with me, and saying sinaply, "I hope yo80 niay reeurnsafe, and so goodbye to .you," he cracked his whip nd adrove etraeght off without once look- ing back. ' I went straight into the tov,m, found a recruiting party, 8016 108811100 that the Dorsetshire Light Infantry, shattered at Weymouth, were taking recruits, minuted for that regiment at once, and withi•n for- ty-eight hours found myself 0000 01080 Ott drill. CHAPTER XI. I liked my new corps muoh better titan eny old ono. The men were not so rough, and the drill instruotors though very ,etriot, were less prone to, bullYing- Still, the life in barracks was a great ,change from that, in the lonely little farm amongst the tors. The bustle, the pound of the marching, the music, and the con- tinual clanging of the bugles intenalaed did. And doubtless god Could have made something nicer than a 8,0111811. but if He tried lie kept the creature in His own garden, as N -f ene ee, ' Actuate" "You are certainly in love." And you certain.w tO be. But the worst of is, love is like pills, Bottle people cannot swallow it. 7o, 1111)1108e You try ray °thee favorit,e -prescription." "What is that?" "Work." "Work? What kind of work?" Well, say study. I'm going in for a Mix- ture of grammar, arithmetic, and single - stick. Will you try 'eraP" I don't epee." "It's a bet, comrade; come for a stroll along the o18180 now, and 611 tell you how to fall in love without previous experi- ence,,hindranbe to present occupation, or the aid of a master." 'Thus "'invited, I left my gloomy perch by the treaoheyous greee sea, and walked for 811*- first bane by the side of the brav- est and gentlest and treeizt soldier that ever married. 0. musket. Prom that hour Philip joyoe and I be- came fast friends. We studied together, fenced together, (Mini 800081107, and shared' our hopes and griefs together, and by the end, or September, when the news of the splendid vioory of the Alma sent all the regiment frantic with enthusiatbm, the dreadful shadow was lifted from MY heart, and I began to see, as in a glaim darkly, that an unselfish and brave snail eau never sink under deOlvair- joyee was, under his pleasantly playful manner, a wonderfully steadfast and ear - the contrast to the siknoo o en st man, who 10okod 119011 111187 not al winter amongst the snows of Dartmoorthe burden, but as the object of life. 'The men were all smitten with the war 'Duly ,» he said, in his quiet undoubting lever, too, and the one ,subJect of Vasil' way Ais not a thing made for a Mall to .and surmise at mess -table and oanteon 'was the war. Every day brought its exciting news. Now some regiment farther uPoountrY 'had got the route; now the fleet wos 'tering at Spithead; novr the French were ,despatching troops to Varna, or the Turks were daily expecting to come into collis- ion with the enemy. Our 111011 greW. more and more eager, and looked out with ever-hicreasing anxiety for 'the order to march. So that, although the drills were made longer and more frequent, no one thought of grumbling. Every hour's work Made us more flt for the eampaign, every day shortened tho interval between us and the savage delight of battle. But when the general orders were made known, and the Dorsetskire Regiment dis oovered that it wee to remain in garri- son, the men went nearly -mad with dis- appointment, and broke out into open manifestations of disgust. There were rough times then in Wey- mouth., The soldiers drank and stayed ,subsent, and got punishment arm, and broke out of barracks, and. were sent to cells. The piequets were trebled, the sentries doubled, another drill a day was put on without effect, and art last the colonel formed the regiment up in hollow square and appealed to them to steady themselves. "My lads," he said, "7011 are no worse disappointed than I aim; but a good sol- dier obeys orders and asks no questions. Pull yourselves together, men. Steady, steady. No more drinking; no more rant- ing. Do your duty and keep you0 pow er dry. You'll be wanted soon, and then door to door along the officers co , we'll let them see what the Dorsetshire . boys can do in action. At present we oan only show our mettle by waiting. It's ono of the hardest things a soldier has to do. Steady, men, Meetly, and give me a charm to be proud of you," This speech had a, great effeet on the men. They 'recovered their balance di- ' reetly, and settled down to their duty with exemplary patience; but they grumbled terribly, and the swearing WaS both loud and deep. For my part I was bitterly disappoint- ed. I had felt impelled to rush into this war by a feeling of intense longing to es - wipe from my own gloomy thoughts, and here was baulked of the promised San. 001' and excitement and driven in upon mYself onee more. As a cousequenee sank into a condi- Mon of morbid melancholy, in which the idea of suicide was for ever struggling in my mind against the feeling that my sister Alice in heaven would feel my sin. It was useless to struggle against this chilly shadow—the shadow of grief and loneliness under which my soul drooped and languished, I grew daily more hope- less and morose. I dici my work ineohani- eally, and spent all my leisure time upon the rocks by the sea, where I was wont -to sit and brood hour after hour on the blankness of my ruined life. ' One day had gone out as usual, and Watt sitting On a steep rock looking down into the deep green water at its base and ,dallying With the idea of death, when a young corporal named Joyce, passing along the cliffs above, might sight of me, and came down to my dangerous seat .above the tempting sea. . • I had often noticed this corporal—in- 'deed, he belonged to my company—and had always thought hiin a fine soldier and a kind man. He Wati of medium -height, slight and strong, and fair. He had a complexion which a lady might .have envied, a ready. genial emile, and a pair of eyes as blue as forget-menots, and as innocent and candid as the, elms of a child. He came now and sat clown close by do. lvfan is a thing made to do duty. And be did his duty cheeriully, faithfully, and well. - He was very muoh in love, and he at- tended to that duty as sedulously and as earnestly as to all others. And though he seldom spoke of his sweetheart, I knew that it was for fear of wearying me with her praise, aud not because she was ever absent from his mind. "Davis," he said to me one daY—it was the day on which. the rumor came that we were to proceed to the Crimea --"Davis, that 98111 18 nty ealvation. Her love is the star I steer by. The hope of seeing her again is strong enough to carry me through any trouble that Fate can send." And as he spoke, Jack Burneall of our company flung open the barrack -room door and shouted gleefully, "Boys! The route's In. We are for the front." COULD la BE SPARED The word Bovril hoe become a house- hold word throughout the world. Bovril itself has become an established part of iood supply Ift -all civilized people. If there were no Bowel every hospital would be that much poorer, every doctor would be at a loss to ilnd a true substitute, every nurse bvould be thrown on her Own resources to provide nourishing invalid food. If there wore no Bovril, athletes in training would be loss fit, and competitors in games would lose a great support. If there were no Bovril, children would mies the quickly made Manger satisfying sandwich. Housekeepers wonld be less " ready to meet, _an emergency demand for food. If there were no Bovril the camping party and the picnic party would be mere difficult to feed. , If there were no Bovril, life in the cottage would entail. a far greater amount of cooking and fewer tasty dishes than. at Present. But there is Bovril and its 'uses are so mauy and so well known that life is made pleasanter and its burdens made fewer. Keep Bovril on liand. CHAPTER XII. The news that we. were for the front ran through the barracks like the sound of a bell. With Shouting and imprecations. with yells of laughter mid chorousime of patriotio songs, with much mild chatter and exaggerated gesticulation% With drumraing of tin cans and flourishing of caps, the Dorsetsliire Regiment noured out, half-dressed, from 'every door, and hurried hot and turbulent to the can - It was a great hour. Young Simpson, the junior ensign. a pink -faced boy not a year from school, went, clattering from bawling out the tidings o g • Lieutenant Showers, the adjutant, strode into the barrack square and shouted for the "Sergeant Majam." The oolonel turn- ed out in undress uuiform and smoking oap, shook hands with the senior major on the mess terrace, and called the Jun- ior captain. "old boy," The sergeant -ma- jor howled for the bugler, the bugler blew for the orderly sergeants, and the order- ly sergeants took down instructions from the adjutant enjoining steadiness and SO. briety, what time the men set themselves zealously to Ole task of getting drunk. Order followed order, bugle call melted into bugle call, the adjutant chased the sergeant -major, the sergeant -major chased the orderly sergeants, the orderly sergeants harried the orderly corporals, the orderly corporals raced around the lives. "Confined to barracics"; "Canteen to be closed', "Rifles to the armorers"; "A.. Company 'for doetor's inspection"; 13 Company for kit inspection' • "C CompanY for bayonet, sliarpening fatigue'; and still the excitement grew. Down came the drummer boys with fifes and drums to rattle out the "Red, White and Blue," headlong poured the Dorset - shires from the canteen, flushed and Jubi- lant to shout the chorus. Off rode the ad- edeant to town, up came the quartermas- ter bursting with business. Louder waxed the din, fiercer grew the fever, and through it all Phil Immo sat under the verandah smoking. his pipe and reading "Lindley Murray.' For my part, I was infected by the virus of battle fever, and wandered restlessly to and fro, now taking a rub at my cart- eidgb-box, and now walking rapidly up and down the severe. But at length night came and quenched the fire of enthuidasm, and after some spasmodic bursts of profanity and song, the- Dorsetshire Regiment foll asleep vete snored with great precision and unani- mity. When the next morning came, the re- giment got up in a bueiness-like and so- ber frame of mind. Barracks were Clean- ed, baggage was packed, arms and a0 - kind voice, "good evening, comrade; what and with the excep coutremonts made ready or e , ine, smiling pleasantly., and saying in a tlon of 5.,.‘ceitseleseflzuv are you doing here all alone? You store of gossip about theth battle at had t at the water as if it Was alive." .o ghse t, mud thowhich should be fought, "How do you know it islet alive?" / said ithuere \Vas little in the conduct of the men to mark the importance of the 900110 1011. On this day Ione put 0.8,07 1118 books, prepareit his traps, and then sat down and wrote a long letter to his sweetheart, I mot him afterwards returning from the post. Ile Was looking very grave, aud on seeing me said simply, "Poor AMY. WS Gruel fortune for her. But duty's duty, Willie, my lad, and men and women are in tho hands of God." "Are you glad to go to the front, Phil?" I asked him. "No," he answered eeriouslyi "I am very eorry. What is there to be glad gloomily. "I loolc at it because I cannot help looking at it. It seems to speak to me; and I keep thinking and thinking." "And what is it you think, Davis?" asked 407ee; "nothing very pleasant, I should imagine." "No," 6 answered, "I keep thinking is it wrong to kill oneself when itwould be so pleasant to do it?" joyee sat silent for a while, then 'Mid his hand upon my arm, and said gently, "That won't do, comrade, that's bad. Your mind's sick, You must take some phy- "What p117080 shall I taker I asked hira bitterly. He aeswered promptly, "Try a dose of friendehip." "I don't know where they sell it," I re- plied. Joyce snailed, and shook his head. "They don't sell it, my lad," he replied; but they give it—try a little of mine." "Yours?" ,"Yes, mine. Bless you, I've got a lot of it in stock, and no customers. Come, I)avis, I have seen for a long time that you had something on your mind. That's not a common complaint milli soldiers. They very seldom nave any minds, poor fellows But you have, and it's sick. Open a vein, 00181881651tell me all about it. What's the -trouble?" I told hem what the trouble vvas., How I had lost the only friend I ever had, and how my life was bleak and empty, and I had nothing to live for. _ "I see," said Joyee, quietly; "I pee. 'You've had a hard life, and a sad. one, :and this big trouble has been more than you could carry. I'm not going to preach reeignation to 'You; but/ cannot let you mope like this. Bemdes, there is smile - thine to live for --there ie a lot to live for." • "What?" demanded, gloomily. "What is there to live for?" "Why," said .Joyce, "plenty of things. Doing your drill, and cleaning emir traps, and reading beolcs, and looking at the fields and flowers, and laughing at peo- ple, and being norry for them, and helping them, an11 falling out with them, and go. to be go - fog d and getting up again, and eat. Ing yeur meals, mud cursing the commis- sariat and falling in love, and getting married, and having childrei, and grow- ing old, and being a man, in short. That's how I look at it" • "I cannot do any of those things," said I, almost tempted into a smile by his whimsical summary of the joys of life. "Couldn't you fall in love with some. body?" he risked naively. I shook my heed and sighed. "TVs 00,07 ,enmigh," said Ioyce. "Perhans You have tried it,' I said, mak- Ing an effort to appear interwel Ile learzhed pleasantly, end giving me one of his avoh looks, replied, "Rather! Been at, it ever since I could walk. I'm ettbject to it. I've got it very bad Just naw." "And who is the—the vietim?" I isuruir• ed. Joyce laughed again. "That's right, old fellow," be swid "you pla,y the cynic and' get some of the poison off your chest. The victim is the very bonniest, best, and dear. est air) in Sessex, and her name "Woman," I sitggeeted, "He, ha, ha!" laughed Joyce. "want DM old bedeehog -von ore! Of course her nalne is woman. Shonldn't I look well =hit* 'love to a stained-glass angel? And there's worse creatures than women. Do yeu know what Izaalc wanon said about the • strawberry I, "Ile an,id doubtless God could have made 06 better berry, 1110 doubtless 0011 never his 81111. I heard a subdued buzz 'from the orowd, then the sound of a, woman's Wail from the other flank, mnd then, "Quiek—Marrehr The big drum boomed. A. Comemny step- ped off: Captain Dawlish called out in lais elear tenor, ''No, 2, by the left"—and then came a crash of MUM.% a bow, rumb- aing, rising roar of cheers from the pee- ple at the gate, and the Dorsetshire Re- giment had started for the seat of war. Very steadily, though with a somewhat rapid and choppy step, the regiment marched through the town,',the orowd closing in all round it like a eombre sea, the elmers running along the street like Kentish fire, and the ladies and children waving their handkerchiefs &rem all the balconies and windows. It was very lively and cheery, but 50011 over, and in lees than half an hour we were packed tight In the narrow and com- Portion eompartments of the train, VOA - Ina' for air ainid the fumes of coarse to- bacco, and refreshing oursehree as best we eould by snatehee of questionable song, and nips of potent but malodorous 1.11731, of which we had apparently not stinted ourselves. It was dark when we reached Ports mouth. and marched to the barracks 05' 11071011 by a noisy crowd, end preceded by the band of the Marines, sent to "play us in." "Well," said I to Joyce, "this has been a lively day, and I'm tired." Zone 'Ah!" said he, "7011. wait till to-morrobv—and you'll see something." And I did. That night our men fraternised with the Marines, and inuoli beer was swallowed, and many songs were sung, so that again the Doreetshires slept heavily, and enor- ed as one man. (To be continued.) HIS OXFORD ACCENT. Doctor Ramsay Wright who in June retired from the position of Professor of Biology in the Univer- sity of Toronto, is sometimes spoken ,as the "Scotchman with the Ox - Lord accent." Even when he speaks French it is with an Oxford accent. I made no answer, but left him on pre- text of attending to some imag•ivary clutY, ,for I was glad, and—I was ashamed of The next morning we were to leave bar- racks and go by train to Portsmouth, whence we were to embark for the Cri- men. The parade was called for ten o'clock. By eine we were all dressed in marehing order, and standing about, greupe outside the barraok rooms, waiting for the Sound of the bugle to fall in. It was at this tinie that the first patch of shadow showed itself in the picture, Hitherto I had seen the war with my own selfish eyes only. . But now, paesing the married quarters, I came across many pa - *ego groups—the married. soldiers tak- ing leave of their wives and children. _ The first of these gronpe was formed by Pat Harrington, his wife, and their five little ones. The latter looked on, gad and wondering, not realizing the full im- port of that which they saw. The mother, a typioal soldier's wife and old camp -fol- lower, stood olose to her husband, talking loudly and rapidly to hide her emotion, and nervously plucking, as she spoke, cut tof he sling 'his rifle. 'There were tears In her hot eyes in spite of, her offoets, and her voice was husky. "Yo'll take keer of y'ere baccy, Pat, an' not be after waStin' it. It's maybe the long while before ye gets more. An' ye'll wrofte &via, and don't go philanderhe 111. to flee for sheer fooliehness, and you wid an owld wreck of a wits an' a basketful of bobbies, bohint yez. An ye'll send us a •thrifle—whin ye can, Patsy. an'—howly Mary! What's that?--" It was the roll of the drum: the first warning of the Muster, Poor Pat bent down and kissed the little Harringtons, wrung his bilfe's hand, coughed, settled his Mock, and marched away towards the Pa- rade.. I followed him, and as I went • passed dose to Corporal Allan's young wife, who waS being led awa,y by another woman. and Was sobbing wildly as she went and covering her face with her shawl. These sights ehoolc ole a good deal, so that 7 noticed little of what passed until the regiment stood under arms With the band aud drums in front, and the colors unoasell, awaiting the command to etart. Then I looked sharply eomid. The gates were wide open on ons: left; and e, dense crowd had collected outside, and Was 5007' Ing in upon the square. TN adjutant was curbing in his horse as Ito rode: .away from the holonel's side. The colonel sat; Olean and prim, boct with 18 half -smile en hie stern faee, and ran his eye proud- ly Rhine the column. The btg drummer I could just cateh a glimpse of, with his right arm tai•sed, a,nd beyond Jahn the great hairy imp of. the drum maJoe, and the gilded hea.d of his long staff leaning outwards. "Battalion," the colonel's voice rang out. A perceptible thrill went through the ranks. The crowd at the gates seemed to waver like corn in 16 breeze, "Peers— Right! BY suepessive,eompanies from the 'front—" 8 sew the ,big drummer raise Prof. Raiusay 'Wright. Fri.110N1i• 4646 00.41,1efbeillAbilAW111~1101b 'SALADS FOR HOT DAYS. The appetite jaded by ,heat may be tempted by salads only when those salads are seasonable. Heavy meat concoctions and most of the fish mixtures are not suitable for hot weather. • 'The ideal summer salad has three requisites—it must be light, appe- tizing in appearance and icy cold. French dressing is more seasonable than mayonnaise, also more diges- tible, and fruits and vegetables are preferable to nuts, fish or meats. It is hard to get heeded lettuce in sum- mer, but if the young, tend.er leaves of the garden lettuce aro crisped by being put in a cloth on the ice they are improved. Salad being both cooling and nourishing, may be eaten at both lunch and dinner. To prepare it easily have lettuce always crisping in the refrigerator and also have a pint bottle filled with aihick 'French dressing. This should be well shak- en before using and any left in the salad bowl may be it -rained and poured back. It is economical to" use left -over vegetables and fruit from dinner of the previous day. Particularly nice is one made of tomatoes cut in eighths, asparagus, shredded green peppers., thinly sliced cucumber, a cake of Neufehatel cheese and a lib- eral supply of Chili sauce. This is well marinated with French dress- ing flavored with onion or chopped enien may be mixed through the salad. Serve on a bed of lettuce. This salad may be mixed with string beans, peas or small iima beans. Cream theese is good through the mixture, arid it nothing else is convenient grate American theme thickly over A rather heavier salad is made from hard-boiled eggs cut length- wise. Remove yolks and rub to a paste with anchovies. Refill and put a slice of anchovy on each sec- tion. Serve on hearts of lettuce. Another nice mixture for a plain lettuce salad are squares of cream cheese sprinkled thickly with cavi- are. Place these in the centre of the lettuce and strround with a border of crisp bacon broken very fine. Cover with French dressing seasoned with chutney. Grthn peppers are invaluable for a summer salad. Served -whole, they are delicious when filled with cold boiled corn, 'mixedwith a highly seasone,d mayonaise. A spoonful of the dressing should be put on top of each cup. Another good filling is coM slaw and shredded peppers well mingled. A pretty salad is made by arranging a bed of tender green lettuce leaves, or young na- sturtium leaves, and on it putting a row of shredded green peppers, another row of cheese balls and an outer border of shredded pimentos. The canned ones may be used. Cover with a thick French dressing. If onions are liked, small pearl on- ions can be sprinkled over the cheese balls. A delicious fruit salad is a round of tender pineapple placed on a let- tuce leaf. On top of the pineapple dot berries in season, strawberries, raspberries,blackberries or cur- rants, ai nd n the centre of the ber- ries have a round of dream cheese. Border the fruit mixture with may- onnaise and put a little in the cen- tre of the cheese. Black cherries served cold make a, delicious salad with mayonnaise dressing. They may be stuffed with an English walnut or cream cheese if the big variety ie used. Apricots stnffed with cream cheese mixture or with plain cream cheese make a nice salad. Aa this fruit is rather tasteless, a drop or two of Worcestershire may be mixed in the dressing. This fact brought forth many jokes at the annual Mock Parliament at Varsity. The Moil- is told that when Con- vocation Hall was nearly complet- ed, one day Professor Ramsay Wright and Principal Hutton went over to try the acoustics of the new building. Raising his voice the Doctor called to 811 workman in one of the top galleries, "Aw, rnah gude fellawh Cawn you uncla,hstawned what Ahm aaying— 1" "How cia you expect him to 7" interrupted the principal, "I'm right beside you, and I can't." POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Many a man's courage isn't skin deep. Worthless people are often mope amusing than worthy ones, When two smiles come together in a head-on collision the result is a kiss. A man likes to acknowledge his faults to a wornan who insists throb he has none. It is said that there are people who have meney and do not, know how -to enjoy it. Sometimes a girl misses a good thing by pretending she doesn't, want to be kissed. One way for a man to find out just what a woman really thinks of him is to make her angry. Nothing jolts a married man more than to have bit wife spring one of his old love letters on him. The child who is afraid of the dark may beco.me a politician when he grows up and fear the light. "TETE LADY OF THE LAMP." The City of London's memorial to Florence Nightingale is rapidly nearing completion and is expected to find a place in the lobby of the Guildhall early in the autumn. It is a marble statuette, 3 1 out in height, Miss Nightingale is shown setting out upon one of her heroic errands of mercy. The "Lady of the Lamp" st,a,rads bareheaded in the 'simple dress of the Victorian Period, which preceded the cline - line. In her left hand she carries' a candlestick, while with her right hand she is shielding her eyes from its light. The portrait and model were founded on a statuette in the possession of Sir Harry Verney, Walter Merrett is the sculptor. ly and fold the paste over. Press out with a rolling pirt,ancl roll out lengthivise, have the paste no that the two open edges are parallel with yourself after folding it in three. Roll from you and never from side to side, using geode pres- sure,. Then Sold in three. Put the paste away •to cool for 20 minutes. Now arrange the paste with. the open ends in front and roll out again lengthwise, and fold in three as before. Repeat fer the third and fourth time, and put to cool for another 20 minutes. Now give the fifth, sixth and seventh rollings, and again cool for 20 minutes. The paste is now ready for the final rolling out. Frosting a Cake.—Boil one and one-half cupfuls of sugar and one cupful of water till it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water, then pour on to the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, pouring in a, steady stream and very Blowly, adding, while beating, one teaspoonful of vanilla extract and one teaspoonful of lemon extract, beat until thick. Spread an cold cake. It is an er- ror to think that a palette knife is the best instrument for ieing a cake. A good sized table knife ia much better on account of the greater stiffness of the blade. jelly Rolls.—Beat, up four eggs with one cupful of sugar for 20 min- utes. Remove the beater and sift in two cupfuls of flour and one tea- spoonful of baking powder, add four tablespoonfuls of milk and one teaspoonful of lemon extract. Mix carefully and pour into a large flat buttered and floured cake tin and bake in a hot oven for 12 minutes. Turn out on te a sugared paper 2 spread quickly over with hot -melted jelly and roll up at once. A Vanilla Pudding.—One and a half heaping tablespoonfuls of pow- dered gelatine, two cupfuls of milk, half a cupful of sugar, one cupful of whipped cream, three eggs and one and a half teaspoonfuls of va- nilla extract. Put the gelatine in- to a saucepan, add the milk and sugar, then dissolve. Beat up the eggs, then add the milk, stirring all the time, return to the pan, and stir over a slow fire till it thickens. Strain into a basin, add the vanil- la extract, and when cool fold in the whipped cream. Pour into a wet mold, and when solid serve with any kind of stewed fruit. GOOD RECIPES. Puff Pastry,—Rub half a cupful of butthr into four cupfuls .of flour beat up the yolk of one egg, with a few drops of lemon juice and a little thld water, add them gradually to the flour, making it into a firm paste. Put a cupful and a half of butter into a basin of cold wMer, wash and squeeze it, then flatten out into a cake. Roll out the paste into a long strip, Jay the blither on .DO YOU WASH FRUIT. A German. investigator, having estimated by careful experiments the number of bacteria to be found on market fruit, tried different me- thods of washing it without injuring the flavor. He washed grapes, ap- ples and Tears that had been ex- posed to street dust, eaeh time ex- amining the wash water for the number of bacteria present. While the first wash w,ater yield- ed large numbers, the mcond con- tained only a. few, and the *Ind a negligible number. A basin of water was used for -the purpose, the fruit being moved about in it. When runni,ng water was used, five minutes' time was allowed. Fruits with a firm, smooth skin should be rubbed before washing with a clean cloth to. start the dirt. The cleaning of delicate berries is a difficult matter. Such fruit should be purchased with care to avoid all that are too soft or which show sand or other visible dirt - Strawberries, because they grow so near the ground, should not be pur- chase,cl after a rain, which will spat- ter them with Inuddy drops. Only the freshest .a.nd cleanest berries should be served raw; more doubt- ful specimens should be cooked. By immersing them in water a few at a time and handling carefully, such fruits may be washed without muCb loss of flavor. Dried figs and dates are very commonly ea,ten without cooking, or even washing, and yet they have been exposed for an unknown length of time to the contagion brought by (lest, flies and dirty hands. In how many houses are ora,nges washed before they are brought to the tEtble'or the lemon before it is sliced for the tea 07 lemonade, or before the skin is grated for flav- oring? Yet the thin is often vcrY dirty. Shelled nuts purchased in market should always be washed and scald- ed before they are used, as they are commonly exposed to dust. Light moves at the rate of 200,000 one end of it, wet the edge slight- miles a second. FOR MAKINGS SOFTENING W REMOVING PAI DISINFECTING S CLOSETS,DRAI NS SOLD EVERYWHER REFUSE SUBSTITUTE THE MONTESSORI SYSTEM. How It Develops the Faculties in the Child. The most conspicuotia achieve- ment of Dr. Maria Montessori's in- teresting educational methods, says Josephine Tozier in The World's Work of London, is the way in which her little pupils begin spon- taneously to read and writc--or "explode into writing,/' as Madame Montessori herself graphically puts it. Ordinarily,. ehildren are taught to read and write by means of a long succession ol monotonous and, to them, meaningless tasks imposed upon them by the teacher. By the Montessori method there is no co- ercion, there is no attempt even to persuade the child. He uncon- sciously masters the means of ex- pression through toys ancl games deivnic.seid so to develop his faculties that they will respond quickly and accurately to the demands of hi ms About four years ago Maria Mon- t/tossed, an Italian physician and teacher, opened in Rome the first "House of Childhood," and began to apply her revolutionary methods of education to the teaching of little children. Her work has set on foot a new edueational movement throughout Europe and there are now Montessori sthools in Boston and New York. .At first the children entertain themselves with toys selected to ap- peal to the senses of touch and sight. Meanwhile the teacher makes a 'careful study of the 'pecu- liarities of each pupil, but does not attempt any actual diseipline.. Indeed, children are in the "House of Childhood" sometimes for several weeks before any real lessons are given them. They are required, however' to be tidy in their persons andin their dress. Now, all children love to dabble in water, particularly when soap plays a part in the game; in the Montessori schools, under judicious guidance, the washing ef the hands and fame becomes, even with the youngest, a cleaning process. nastic exercises con minutes at a time. houm cares,—that i ment of tables and dishes,—and then blocks and the ma The first of the t the one that even writing—is carried rough and smooth p is taught to distin rough and smootl hands drawn first o and then over the o child has its finger conact with square is, with yielding s the child receives w order that he may minste between th different objects. has 'geometrical for which he places on outlines of which h colored crayon. T fills in with color. else Doetor Mentes of the greatest lin]: trains the fingers to oil or erayon. When the Child's has thus been actua he receives an alpha of -which is mounte piece of sandpaper. outline of each lette gers as it is prom) teacher. The sound becomes so strongly the muscular movem to produce it that WI word spoken of •Whi are known to him, stinctively make the they have so often m the sandpaper alphal a crayon in his hand comes visible, and write. Doctor Montessori uses light gymnastics to give the little ones command of their limbs 8,nd to bring about the proper co-ordina- tion of their muscles, but the gym - DIDN'T W The Barbar—"On tomers had Ins the by mud baths." The Oustomer—" I've stood as a„,08 elections—and my r bad an ever I" Pouting. Wife—' 'Ye you married me that cook." Hub—"Yes, know that it was impo to learn." Each and Every 5 Package f Extra Granul Sugar contains pounds full weight of Canada's fin st sugar, at its best. 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