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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1924-03-06, Page 2Your Guarantee is the name It insures tea that is fresh, fragrant and ore -- Try it. A . kry'.t the Hous SUIT SCHOOL LUNCIt TO THE WEATHER, When my childrenfirst went to School we were living in town and they were dismissed at 11.30 and came home for dinner. How they used to rush into the kitchen "hungry as bears," wash and comb, and be al ready when their father arrived. When we came to the farm to live, school was too far away, so I packed their lunches At first they like staying at school during the noon hour. But with the season for coats and caps and mittens, the. cold lunches last their popularity. A cold lunch may be very nourishing, but it is not satisfy- ing in cold weather, and the children really need something warm. At first I. thought of consulting th teacher and the other mothers in re- gard to serving something hot, but hesitated. to add to the work of the busy teacher. I decided to try some- thing else first, It happened that we had thick rico soup with tomato sauce for supper one night about that time, and one of the children watched me dish it up and said, "I wish we might have sorne of that for our hunch to -morrow." "Well, I guess you might," I' said. It is one of. our favorite soups and is very nourishing. It is made this way: Put into a frying pan two table- spoons n of pork gravy, orlr Plard, and lr Yr when it melts add one cup of washed rice. Stir until the rice browns, then add four or five raw tomatoes or some The Hidden Hour 0 BY J. B. HARRIS-BURLAND T CHAPTER XXV•—(Cont'd.) there was something strange and un - Suddenly and swiftly it came over real about all this gaiety. And, at Ruth—that overwhelming wave of one moment, when, she glanced at her pity, sweeping away all her own fears, husband's face, it seemed to her that all the thoughts of her own safety; all there was mockery in his keen little her desire to do.her duty to her pus_ eyes, and that. band. Hot color came into her cheeks of mischief, dancing and grimacing. he was like some imp lied died away again. She turned and before it flung its dart of misfortune. took off her fur coat and laid it on a But when they reached the cottage chair. Then she went to a mirror and again, and she was alone for a few looked at herself, and touched her minutes in her bedroom, she was sod hair With hex Singers denly stricken with remorse. "Per- ton with a smile. I must have re- f d '1 ht h they "It was the fur cost;'+ said Nterriu haps he'is Al," she thought: "Perhaps „ g something is going to happen to him.. She had learned of people being what membered you in a fur coat. No doubt the Scotch called 'fey" filled with studio," u ore it when you came to the some uproarious spirit of - unnatural un an aug er when were near "Oh, yes," said Ruth,, "often -very to death. often, I. expect. It was the winter, yon This melancholy idea vanished when Jean. "She told Mrs. Austen to come know." She paused and then she they met again at the evening meal, 'any time,' and now she won't admit turned and said in a low voice, "I Again he praised the Watson and even to herself she wishes the time e°kpose lt—it hurts you terribly— the cooking, and her own good man were any other time. If it were any.s this loss of memory!' agement of the house. And after - one but Mrs. Austen! The most ex- Yes, Lady Bradney, You seeI'had wards, when they played piquet, he so little quisite, fastidious, elegant person time with Paula -only n few had such extraordinary luck that he we've ever known!! Years, and every hour is precious to won two pounds from her in three me,' All those months—of happiness games, told her she would find us simple pee- Lady Bradne . You've said, "I fee as though I could win v n ve come here to 1 ple living simply in a little country have your portrait painted, and I'm anything I chose from anybody" town. We don't want to pretend." wasting your tinge—and mine. Weil ``How absurd you are, Alec," she liked "No, but we want to bo at our best, make a start, shall we?" !replied with a laugh. • not our worst! And everything's' "One moment, Mr. ltterringtan. T `Lucky at cards;" he said, "unlucky I wrong, and we're none of us ready— only want to say this to you, You in love. Oh well, we won't talk of love, unless it's grandmother, and she's al- may remember the happiest part of Ruth. We're two old married folk, you ways ready for anything! Did you your lbe, end d to be od many people s ahtrof each wother, eh?lite hate the notice how she colored uppink and ,, g in your position. I don t mean that you were not happy She smiled at him, but he did not pleased and pretty when she heard in those months oil have for otter— wait for her to reply. the letter?" but you might not have been quite se "I had good news this morning," he 1 Louise uttered a little squeal of die- happy'i • continued. They re going to mak me e1 may, "But. she. isn't .ready! I haven't He smiled grimly, - "You are a Phil- a judge of the High Court, i£.I'l1.alow made over her best lace cap or mend- osopher, Lady' Bradney," he said, them ought to do so, p m wondering whether ed her embroidered crepe shawl. "And I daresay you are right. But to accept. Myincome will drop when I remembered your face, I hoped to five thousand a year. But it's a I They've been in my closet ages!"oh great compliment anyway. What do i "She won't care," said Jean 00011- I dream again.atThat's doesn't matter. I m ikely, isn't v you think about fit, Ruth?" j dently. 'When there's anything to An hour and a halfllate•Ruth left) "perfectly drink it's splendid," she replied, be enjoyed grandmother just enjoys the house, but sire did not leave the' Perfectly splendid, Alec. Oh, I am it and doesn't fuss about the outs. memory of John Merrington Uehind pToIdwoflyou. givingu m seat in Sire's as easily pleased Be a child." her. She carried it with her—a clear ' „ P y „ "Umph! Children aren't so easily picture that she saw when she was the House, Bradnev continued,'and pleased itl th' h back et the cottaS tl B • more than that perhaps. I night be I Mother rallied enough to say, "I —lost—forgotten—oh, this won't do,I knew I should win to -night," he tomato sauce, and set on the edge of the stove to simmer for an hour. Sea- son while cooking, with onion, salt and pepper. If necessary add water. x Y When I put up the lunches next morning I put the cold, thick soup in the bottom of a broad, oblong dinner pail and laid the wrapped sandwiches on top of it. The dessert and fruit went in last. At noon the children took out the other articles and put the soup on the stove to heat.- At night they were very enthusiastic over their warm lunch, and I found that I had started something, for they all wanted to know. what they could take to warm an the following day. So I began saving out something from supper or breakfast, or making something extra to put in the lunch pail to be warmed. Sometimes a small granite dish of baked beans, some- times scalloped potatoes, creamed car- rots or turnips, macaroni and tomato sauce, stewed meat with vegetables, mashed potatoes atoes with gravy, or some of the rice soup. Every day that winter the children had something to warm in their school lunch. On mild ways and cold days, in sunny weather and stormy weather, when there was a path to follow and when they had to break their own, the children went to school. They were not sick once and never missed a day. Just how much the warm lunch had to do with it I cannot say, but I be- lieve it helped and they never went Unwillingly to school. And when their father and I sat down to our own warm dinner we ate with more relish, Imowing that the children too had a satisfying meal.—Mrs. E. H. D. • HAPPY -HEARTED AGE. "If it had been any other timel" said Jean tragically. "The blinds all o8' and the house half painted—" "And Maggie with a swelled face and as cross as two sticks, poor thing;.I only hope she won't give no- tice at the word 'company,'" added Lonise dolefully. "Oh, bother!" said Nan.'"Those are trifles! What's gnawing my very soul is that I'll have to wear my old blue dress,' because Miss Conover won't have finished my new brown, and the tailor's got my only suit, put- ting the new lining in. He's got yours, too, Lou; have you forgotten? And, Jean, I don't believe you have a single fresh, good-looking dud to your name; you haven't even begun overhauling your things as Lou and I have." "Mother isn't saying anything, but there's despair In her eye!" observed • wr . r any ing t at's conven- g r t0 r th Attorne -Genera] e1n ou h erre — rent. You hand Bettrkin a rag doll a picture of a man broken down by Y one of theae da grief, aloud in i> a world, helpless and Ruth—perhaps even Lord Chancellor. when she's set her iniad on a Teddy Wh knows? weak to fight against Fate • Mewing "o crows. bear and you'll find out! She's tie ton himself had never painted a por- "Oh, I hada t thought of that, Alec." perpetually smiling cherub—not she! trait more clearly. "My political career will be over." Children are sophisticated and imperi-;• "It would be almost better for him But you dont really care for poli- Ontruth," poll: - tics, 6 r s persons ° do ou s snowto know? P nowadays;you can't theY t1 t ut Y , she he said to herself a xr' them oil with any old thing and 'Now as she sat on the balcony that over,. I like the lflghting part of the sea. idol he v Well, you can grandmother! I shippedhad been shattered But for fer a few moments. ys, ave a good tune, deariel"' looked filo Thethatw of game thet'e al Ruth was silent him it was still "This would mean less work for you?" mean, if there's a good timepossible,were pure white marble and not of means—well,she'll Lave t unspoiled Dchd like and bans— clay. ofoHis grief was not for the shat- like what I'm doing In at present.eat nothing P pPy- tering of the idol but fax the removal doing at I had hearted, ea ted she's the youngest fourteen' , ou est meinhours straight bei of of itfromr ht on end the y g thisg earth to some place ace » 1 1she?"e this family; other da Y." nowisn'twhe Y, re he could no longer see it, He "Then you must accept, Alec. You "Yes," said mother, pulling herself more beauld lutifulsand puremake it even have been wonting yourself to death" together. I believe she is, When his thoughts. and holy in Bradney shrugged his shoulders. anyone has lived as long as she and than a memo+ Butitwas no more ;pro wondering if I should be a sue - than as many troubles and perplexi-i '"If he were to know the real cess as a judge," he laughed. "One ! ties and always done her full share Paula," thought Ruth, and then her gets into the habit of only looking at of th hard thi• perfect, and its feet she said after a pause. ngs e in life and yet has pity for Merrington extended to the on de of tris gnestion." h w managed to keep a heart that opens dead woman -the poor little dead butLater on when Ruth was alone she easily to happiness, like a daisy to the terfly that had only lived for sunshine felt as though a burden had been lift- sun—dears, that's something rare and and was now for ever in darkness. ed from her mind. Fora little while fine, something for the rest of us to John and Paula Merrington 1 She she could not quite understand what live up to. Mrs. Austen's visit won't pictured them both. What were her it was that. had happened to her. And own little affairs—her fears and then she remembered that she had be under quite the conditions we could troubles and anxieties beside this tre- been just a little frightened at her wish, but if we forget them and enjoy mendous tragedy. It seemed to her husband'e exuberance ofn spirits• That her, as grandmother will in her old that hitherto she had thought too little was it, of course. And' now there was cap and second-best shawl,—I believe of Paula. Even when Paula had been nothing s be frightened of at all. Ifo our guest will forget them too and alive it had been as though She had had naturally been pleased ail' nd excu o enjoy us. I'm sure of itl" !never existed. She had not even seen ed at the honor ut was proposed to "Oh, well, we can try," conceded Paula—only a picture of her that confer upon him. — e s1 anyway, she's s dlsap- Jean, "and an if h ' Merrington had painted—and the CHAPTER XXVI. be in grandmother. One smile andd a ways been something unreal Mr. Peters was worried about that one lof a gray curl and she'll come about Paula, as though Merrington's small iron door in the old bread oven wife had been some woman she Ruth of the studio It was a small enough pointed in everything else, she won't photographs in the newspapers. There la 1 undo a spp , Grandmother's our had read of in a book or sena in a matter, but it had been drilled into irresistible charmer and our angel- play. 1 Mr. Peters that small matters were 1" But now, as Ruth sat alone in the his especial province, that he need not sunshine, she thought of the darkness expect to meet with any wonderful ad - in which poor little Paula slept, .and ventures at Dedbury Priory, that he that other darkness in which the mind could not hope to find out anythin of child. POTS THAT WON'T BOIL OVER. To prevent foods from boiling over, of John Merrington lay waiting for stupendous importance. So far he had grease the ins' the e a e of the co k- dawn. o mg ves- been unable to report anything except P s g n "impressions." n sol at the top. By doing this ;(-in can Y he never remember said what Crust called hnpressionB. Mr. safely leave the food to boil without to herself• I Ardington seemed to be a very kindly, watching. This is especially good And that night when she was in her clever artist who lived like a gentle - when boilingcandies or And she fell upon her.knees and man of means and position. There was preserves. prayed to God—that John. Merrington"nothing suspicious about his conduct The moment the rim of grease is might always forget or his conversation Ile was very well liked m rile village as his father The next week -end Sir Alexander had been before him. And there were •i> came down to the cottage on Friday even old people who remembered his afternoon. He was in high spirits grandfather, a very eminent doctor and inclined so it seemed to -Ruth, to who had made a fortune and had pur- look on the right side of everything, chased the Priory estate. For quite a long time—in fact, almost Mr. Peters, finding nothing of ever since her return. from that tragic greater importance to occupy his journey, he had been good-tempered mind concentrated his attention on the. and genial and quite unlike the man door of that old bread oven. It would who had driven her—so she always have been easy enough to break i tried to think—to take the first stomp open with a hammer and a chisel, bu the- road that had led nowhere at that was precisely what Mr. Peters all. But on this particular afternoon could not do, He had asked IKane's he seemed to have grown quite young advice, and Kane had distinctly said again. His happiness was like that. ,to him, "If you open the door at all, of a boy who can find pleasure in the Peters, you must close it and leave it smallest matters. He praised the tea, exactly as it wee before. Later on and ate greedily of sortie little cakes perhaps we may be able to break it made by Mrs. Watson, and said how open, but not now." jolly lucky Ruth was tobetatwo such Mr. Peters had been handicapped by servants as Mr. and Mrs. Watson. the difficulty of not being able to Then' he had been to see the poi,' work on the job for any length of trait, and he was delighted with that. time without interruption. But during "Of course," he said, "it's only in the the fourth week of his residence at first stage, but I can see Merrington's reached, the boiling -over tendency is >« e a * " eliminated.—M. S. D. Mutton and Macaroni. When the cold mutton has lasted so Iong that the housewife dreads putting it again before her fancily, let her try It under this guise, Cut the cold meat into cubes. To two cups of meat have one cup of cooked macaroni, two cups' of tomato sauce, one cup et cracker crumbs, two tablespoonful of butter, salt and pepper. In a well buttered enamelled ware bake dish put a layer of macaroni, bread crumbs and tomato sauce, then a layer of mutton with bits of butter, pepper and Salt, Alternate until the pan is filled. Sprinkle bread crumbs on top with enough extra but- ter to brown them. Serve in the dish • In which It is cooked. The Rueful Kangaroo. The kangaroo slipped on the ice, And both feet upward flew, He sat down unexpectedly; Which made the kanga rue. 0 Mlnard'a Liniment Heals Cuts. t' idea. A clever chap, Merrington." WOMEN CAN DYE ANY Andra then he bsaid h tow sorry Meas DRAPERY rington, and he said how sorry he was GARMENT, for him, and how much he should like to help him, and so on. Dye or Tint Worn, Faded "one Bali only recommend him to one's friends," he Iaughed, "but that Things New for 15 cents. is something." And after tea they went for a walk on the sands, and Sir Alexander pick- eDiamond Dyes d up shining pebbles and threw them into the sea. It was wonderful how U far and how straight ho threw them, and how pleased he was -with his own. prowess.Don't wonder whether you can dye "This place puts new life into me," he ^aid. "`Thee is no place like it or tint euecessfully, because perfect in the world." home dyeing is guaranteed with "Dia- Ho joked and laughed and•would mond Dyes" even if you bave never scarcely talk seriously of anything. dyed 'before. Druggists` have -all col. Ruth 'wo deeed, and—she was justa ors. Directions In each parkage• little afraid. She could not give any ISSy N • o, 1:11 _ -'24. reason for her fears, but, she felt that A POPULAR PRACTICAL .MODEL. 4391. This style has good and com- fortable lines, The closing is in coat style. Madras, gingham, pean drill'. or flannel could be used for this model. The Pattern is cut in.9 Sizes neck measure: 14, 143/2, 15, 161/x, 16, 161/2, li" `:ntsiMy°aaarmamugm de ---,s 17, 17% and 18 inches. 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' r105 or OP CANADA YNTSHEET METAL PRODUCTS Co. LIMITED MONTREAL TORONTO WINNIPEG EDMONTON VANCOUVER CALGARY O. lr� .i. Yeitiateraipe 169 An Invention That Has. Revolutionized Commerce Next to the typewriter, nothing has helped • to revolutionize business se, roach as shorthand. It must have saved, millions of money to business men theworld over, and gained a tre- mendous increase In revenue for the Post Office, for .whereas formerly a man aright spend a whole afternoon distating three or four lettere to a' long -hand writer, today scores of . communications can betaken down in shorthand almost in as marry minutes. The advantages of shorthand do not end here, for ive all know' how Import. ant it is on the editorial side of news- papers, In Parliament; in the courts) and so en.. Used by the Romans. Though shorthand play such a won•, derfui part in our lives, most people know nothing, or practically, nothing, of its fascinating history. How many • are aware, for instance, that the an. tient Romans employed it with sue - cess., or that many pioneers• had pro- duced various systems long before Sir Isaac Pitman came upon the scene with his more p=•acticable method? The system of shorthand used by tiro ancients pro hably consisted of con- tractions of words. The first real shorthand known to Britain made its appearance in 1588, when Timothy Bright brought his invention before the public. This system enjoyed eon- ederabie popularity, and it Is said that some of Sh'akespeareer plays were transcribed from it. Many other methods of "secret writ- ing," *8 shorthand was cal'e1 111 those days, made their appearance within the next few years, One, the work of John Willis, was employed by Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, After Pepy's death his diary had to be tran- scribed before it could be publtshed• Reporting in Parliament. Charles Dickens, when he was 'a soleltor's clerk, tried to learn short- hand. IIe tried a system produced by Gurney, and Ills inpre.eione may be gathered from the fact that he tirade David Copperfleld say that shorthand was "about equal to the mastery of six languages," It was Gurney, by the way, who got shorthand ollleialiy re- cognized. In 1750 he was appointed shortha ncl writer toh t e Governlneut. A number of his descendants also held the post, and Gurney's shorthand is still used sometimes in Pailiameut. Tt•was .1n 1837 that Isaac Pitman came forward With his method of stenography which was destined to !n w such Pp world-wide r v l a a o a. T31 s first system was very crude, but in course of time many Improvements were made. It is interesting to note that one of those who helped Pitman was Mr. "Tim" Mealy, the present Governor-General of the Irish Free S tate. Not What They Said. In a letter to the annual festival of the Pitman Fellowship recently, Mn Healy declared that he himself had written eborthand for fifty years, and during Sir Isaac Pitman's lifetime had maintained a correspondence with him. About 1877 he suggested to Sir Isaao that the "Teacher," which in those early days was a rather crude eohool- book, required reforming. Sir Isaac then accepted from Mr, Mealy many !Slustratfone for the new edition: Sir Isaac' was•, as Mr. Healy tie- elared, one of the greatest men of his century. Many amusing mistakes are record- ed in connection with•the transcribing of shorthand notes. Thus Professor Blackie was once made to comment upon the "greasy atmosphere" of Edin- burgh, hereas he had actually said g y W "breezy." The late Lord Carnarvon was once reported to have said: "In these days clergymen are expected to have the wisdom and learning of a journeyman tailor," whereas he had referred to Jeremy Taylor, the famous divine and author. 17,000 Miles for a Bride. NA Canadian recently crossed two oonianents and an ocean to marry a Greek•girl and take her bank with him to Skagi1 in the remote North-West. The journey to Greece and back ex- tended over 1Q•00oo miles and cost near - An '\ An even more\ging journey was undertaken by a Rusd4�tn who had,emi- grated to the United Ste s. He heard that his sweetheart in Ru'48a was in danger from the Bolsheviks. -immedi- ately he set sail' for China. Tlimeee he travelled overland, mostly on foot; ,-- across Siberia, to his sweetheart's iome in European Russia;' where he was able to rescue ]ler. The journey occupied eight months. Long journeys to get married some- times 'have unexpected endings.A girl who sailed several thousands of Mies, to marry her lover, changed, her mind on the way. The unlucky man' was one of 160 bachelors exiled in a settlement wixare there " were few white women. On learning of her re. fusel, the other: 149 bachelors petition- ed the girl not to return to England, - but to choose a husband from among - them. She did so, and the former fiance acted ae "best man" at the wed- ding. • One .should never touch an electr1I switch while he has one hand in con- tact with a sink or other damp place. A brain is no stronger than its. weakest think. 777