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'The only bother with the mange;
ment,' Ito added, loolchig serious "1s
that it takes your 'time. Oughtn't
yea to be at Julion's this morning?
She bad forgotten about Julien s.
Yet for the last two years it had been
the very centre of her own individual
Rife. Now the crowded studio, the
smell of turpentine, the odd cosmo-
politan gathering of fellow studeihts,
the little pangs following the bitter
eritieisres of the master, receded into
the background until they became as
a. dream of long ago.
"I don't think I shall over go to
Juliens again," she answered..
"But look here—that won't do," he
objected "If Pin to interfere with
your plans--"
"it i n t that, Monte," she assured
him, "Ever since I! came back this
last time, 1 knew. I didn't belong
there. When Aunt Kitty was alive
it was all the opportunity I had; but
now---" !She paused,
"Well?"
"I laws my hands full with you un-
til you get out again," erre answered
lightly.
That',-, what I object to," he said.
"If being engaged is going to pin you
down, then I don't think you ought to
be engorged"; You've had enough of
that in your life."
The curious feature of her present
position was that she had no sense
of being • pinned down, She hacl
thought of this in the night. She
had never felt freer in her life, With-
in a few hours of her engagement she
had been nblc to do exactly what; she
wieh,•d to do without a single quahn
of conscience. She had been able to
come here and look after him in this
emergency. She would have done
this anyway, but she knew how
Dlarceilie and his assistant and even
;wire Duval would have made her
pay for her act—an act based upon
nothing but decent loyalty and honest
responsibility, Raised eyebrows—
gossip in the air—covert smiles—the
',thole detestable atmosphere of In-
trigue with which they. would have
surrounded her, had vanished. as - by
a spell before the magic word fiancee.
She was breathing air like that upon
the Mountain -tops: It was sweet
Did-cicuii and bracing.
"Monte," she said, "I'm doing at
this moment just exactly what I want
to do; and you can't understand what
0 treat that is, because you've always
chyle just exactly as yon wanted. I'm
stir° I'mn entirely selfish about this,
because--hecause I'nh not making any
eiacrifico. You can't understand that,
'either, Monte,—so please 'don't try. I
think we'd better not talk any more
about: it. 'Can't -we 'jug let it go on
as it is a little while?"
""It suits me, smiled Monte. "So
maybe I'm se i, too"
"Maybe;" the nodded. "Nov I'll see
about your breakfast. The doctor
told me just what you must have."
So she lventout—Moving away like
avision in dainty white across the
room and but the door. A few minutes
Utter she was back again With a vase
of red hoses. which she arranged upon
the table where ho coiner see them:
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CHAPTER VIII.
Monte's recovery was rapid—in
Many ways more rapid than. he desir-
ed. In a few days Nurse Duval dis-
anpeared,_and in a few days more
Monte was able -to caress himself with
the help of the hotel valet, and sit by
the window while. Marjory read to
him, Half the time he gave no Beed
to what she was reading, but that did
not detract from his pleasure in the
slightest. He liked the sound of her
voice, and liked the idea of sitting
opposite her.
Her eyes werealways interesting
when she read., For', then slie•forgot
about them and let them have their
own any now to 'light with a,smile,
now to darken with disapproval, and
sometimes to grow very tender, as the
story the happened to be reading
dictated.
This was luxury such as Monte had
never known, and for more than ten
years now he had ordered' of the world
its choicest in the way of luxury.
No one at his club, .on the boat, or
at Davos—not even Edhart—had giv-
en him this: this being the somewhat
Vague word he used' to describe what
he was now enjoying as Marjory sat
by the window reading to him. It
had nothing- to do,.with being read
•aloud to.. He could at any time have
summoned a valet to do that, and in'
1 %wish there ywas a
Walker
House
n every
little .town
I wish there was a WALKER HOUSE
Iryevery little town;
Then I could travel merrily,
And always sit me down
At night in peace and comfort,
Happier than king with crown,
If there wag just one 'Walker House
In` every little town.
I wisli there was a WALKER HOUSE
In each place where I go.
The comforts of my dear old home
While on the road I'd know.
The meals—the Cheerful Service, too,
Would leave no cause to frown,
If there was just 0110 Walker House
In every little town,
The Walker House
Thb;louse of ?"oYollfo Goo. Wright
Plbnty E, M. Carroll
five minutes wou d have felt 1 ke
throwing the book—any book --•-at, the
valet's head. It• rad nothing to do
' with the mare last that sho' was a
woman. Nurse Et van could not have
token her placo, Kind as she had
been, he was heartily bored with her
before she left.
It would seem, then, that in some
mysterious way he derived his pleas-
ure from Marjory herself. But, if so
then she had gone farther than all
those who made rt their life -work to
see that man was comfortable; for
they satisfied only existing wants,
while she created a new one. When-
ever' she left the room he was con-
scious . of this want.
Yet, when Monte faced the issue
squarely and asked himself if this
were not a symptom of being in love,
he answered it as fairly as he could.
out of an experience that covered Chic
Warren's prenuptial brain -storms; a
Mose observation of several dozen
honeymoon couples on shipboard, to
say nothing of many incipient cases
which started there; and, finally, the
case of Teddy Hamilton.
Monte liked to consider himself
thoroughly normal in everything. As
far as he had any theory of life, it
was based upon the wisdom of keep-
ing cool—of keeping normal. To -get
the utmost out of every dpy, this was
necessary. It was not the man who
drank too much who enjoyed his wino:
it was the man who drank little, That
was true of everything, If Hamilton
had only kept his head—well, after
all, Monte was indebted to Hamilton
for not having kept his head.
Monte was not in love: that was
certain, Marjory was not in love:
that also was certain. This was why
he was able to light his cigarette,
lean back his head on the pillow she
arranged, and diift into' a state of
dreamy content acs she reud to him,
'I'hls happy .aarrangenitlntmiglht go ,onfSorever • exeilpt thali,,,in the course of
Cline, ltie shoulder was bound to heal.
And then—he knew well enough that
old.Aamo Soeiety was even at the and
of these first ten days beginning to
fidget. IIe knew that Marjory knew
it, too, It began the day Dr, Mar-
oelltn advised him to take a walk in
the: Champs Elysees;
He knew that, with every passing
day that he came out into the sun-
shine, these same oople were manage
in ' to make''Marjory s position more
and more delicate. It became in-
creaeingly less comfortable for her
and for Itim when they returned to
the hotel,
Therefore he was not greatly sur-
prised when she remarked one morn
ing:--
"Monte, I've been thinking over
where I shall go, and I've about de-
cided to go to Etois."
"When?" he asked,
"Very soon—before the end of the
week, anyway."
"But loop: herein he protested,
"What am I going to do?"
"I don't know,' she smiled, "But
one thing is certain; you can't play
sick very much longer."
"The doctor says it will be another
two weeks before my arm'is out of
the sling."
"Even so, the rest of you is well.
There isn't much excuse for my bring-
ing in your breakfasts, Monte,"
Do :you mind doing it?"
"Who is to tie on this silk handker-
chief?" He wore a blank silk hand-
kerchief over his bandages, which she
always- adjusted for him.
She met hie oyea a moment, and
smiled again,
"I'm going to Etois," she said, "I
think I shall get a little villa there
and stay all summer."
"Then," he declared, "I think I shall
go to Etois myself."
"I'rn afraid you mustn't."
"But the doctor says I mustn't play
golf for six months. What do you
think I'm going to do with myself un-
til then?"
"There's all the rest of the world,"
she suggested.
HOUSEHOLD WORDS
What would you do if you found a
rent its a couspieuous part of your
raincoat?
Lay the coat on a flat surface so
that the torn parts fit._'perfoetly to -1
gother anis lay adhesive' plaster over
tho torn place on the wrong side of
the goods. Press together with the
fingers and let dry. A tiny hole in
coat, cloak or trousers may be mend-
ed in the sane way with platter of a
similar color. Kid gloves and um -1
brollas are better repaired thus than
darned.
How may you prevent the moisture
from a potted plant marking the var-
nished table on which it stands?
Place under it a square pane of
glass, hidden . by a paper or linen
doily.
What would you do to render palat-
able the morning cup of hot water
prescribed by your doctor?
Add a little celery -seed and a pinch 1
of salt and transform it into a delicate 1
bouillon. Some persons prefer a
dash of lemon juice.
How would you take the shine from
black garments?
Rub the spots with pieces of raw
potato.
What Would you do for the child
whose tender heels aro always blister-
ed by new shoes?
Place over the heel a square of
surgeon's plaster, This prevents fries
ton of the skin by the constant rub-
bing of the shoe and is a `sure prel'en-
tive of blistered heels.
When you need the whites of eggs
only in cooking how may you pre-
serve the yolks?
Make a small hole in the shells, let
the whites run out. Wet a tiny paper
square in the white and seal the hole.
The yolks may thus be kept fresh for
several days.
IIow would you make a good mus-
tard plaster?
Mix the mustard with white of egg
instead of half flour. This will never
blister and the Wester is lighter and
more comfortable.
Do you know the "best way" to
clean stone steps, stone window sills
and kitchen utensils that have become
discolored?
Get a nickel's worth of sandpaper,
coarse and fine. Use the coarse grade
on sills and steps. The fine is excel-
lent for cleaning almost everything
TO THE WISE,
round the kitchen.
Is it necessary to dicard your win-
dow shades that are soiled or wrinkl-
ed at the bottom?
No, they may be made over by re-
moving them from the rollers, turn-
ing them upside down and, with a
loose machine stitch, hemming the
other ends. Run the sticks through ,
1
"Are you going to b'''eak our en-
gagement, then?"
"It has served lis purpose, hasn't
It?" she asked. .
"Up to nowt" he admitted. "But
yosay it cant go any farther,'
"No, 1Vlonte;
The next suggestion that leaped
into Monte's mind was obvious en-
ough, yet ho panted' a moment before
voicing it. Perhaps even then he
would not have found the courage had
he not been rather panic-stricken. He
had exactly the same feeling, when he
thought of her in Etoie, that he had
when he thought of Edhart in Para-
discs, It started as resentment, but
ended in a slate -gray loneliness,
"Marjory," he said, "didn't I ask
you to marl's me?"
She nodded.
"That was necessary in order that
we might be engaged," she reminded
him.
"Exactly," he agreed, "Now there
seems to be only one way that we may
keep right on being engaged."
"I don't see that, Mcnrte," she ans-
wered. "We may keep on being en-
gaged as long as we, please, may n't
we?"
"It seems not. That is, there isn't
much sense in it if it won't let me go
to Etois with you."
"0f course you can't do that."
"And yet," he ' said, "if we were
married I could go, couldn't I?"
"Why—er--yes," she faltered; "I
suppose so."
"Then, he said, "why don't we
get married?"
She did not turn away her head.
She lifted her dark eyes to his,
"Just what do yeti mean, Monte?"
she demanded.
"I mean," he said uneasily, "that
we should get married just so that
we can go on—as we have been these
last ten days, Really, we'll still only
be engaged, but no one need know
that. Besides, no one will care, if
we're married."
He gained confidence as he went on,
though he was somewhat afraid of the
wonder in her .eyes.
"People don't care anything more
about you after you're married," he
said. "They just let you drop as if
you were done for. It's a queer thing,
but they do, Why, if we were mar-
ried we could sit hero all day and no
one would give us a second glance.
We could have breakfast together
as often as we wished, and n0 one
would care a hang. I've seen it done.
We could go to Etois together, and I
could pay for half the villa and you
could pay for half. You can bring
Marie, and we can stay as long as
we wish withoet having any one turn
an eye."
He was growing enthusiastic now.
(To he continued.)
these, attach the pull -cords, then tack':
the worn: ends to the rollers and set
up again. -
How can you mala ice cream with=
out a :freezer?
Use the fireless cooker. Pyepere
in the usual way and pack in the cook-
er. Use more salt than usual and
pound the ice fine, After one hour,
beat thoroughly. Three beatings
will make ft beautifully smooth. •
If your scissors are dun how can
you sharpen them quickly and easily?
Cut the neck of a bottle with the
scissors as if you were trying to cut
the neck Off.
What would you do to protect your
garden seed while germinating if you
were troubled with moles and mice?
Preparatory to plantings, soak the
seed -for twenty-four hours in one
quart of Water to which one table-
spoon of turpentine has been added.
Have you an economical idea for
mopping your hardwood floors?
Saturate the ordinary fibre mop
with crude lemon oil, Partly dry and
it is ready for use. This oil costs
only from ten to fifteen cents a quart
and is recognized 'as one of the best
treatments for hardwood. •
Ilave you an easy method of darn-
ing largo holes in stockings?
Baste, on the wrong side, a patch
of netting of the same color as stock-
ing. Turn and darn on the right
side.
When baby sits et the table how
may you protect the tablecloth With-
out the use of the unsightly tray?
Use a large piece of plate glass
with beveled edges. A square of
white oil cloth is also neat and use-
ful for tits purpose.
How would you freekhn a faded car-
pet?
Take it up, beat well and brtish.
Spread it face clown on the lawn,
When it is fastened down again,' -rub
well into it with a clean floor cloth,,
a mixture of hot water and lithe pjnt
of vinegar. '
School Luncheons.
It takes time to pack school
luncheons, but it ie time well spent;
and after the boys and girls are
grower and out in the world, mothers
look back on this as one of their
pleasantest duties.
If the children are at school all
day, they must have substantial food,
which should be carefully prepared
and packed. Luncheon kits of fibre
may be purchased, but a basket is
about the best choice, as 11 does not
retain food odors. Keep on hand a
supply of paper napkins and waxed
paper. Provide an aluminum cup and
spoon ;,nd, if possible, a thermos
bottle to hold hot soup or cocoa,
In satisfying the craving for sweets,.
provide things which have food value, ,
Raisins, figs, dates and prunes are e.x-
cellent for this purpose. Se is a bit
of maple sugar or sweet chocolate,
Buy the best prunes, wash through
several waters, spread out on a plat-
ter to dry, then put away in a tin box
and they will be ready for use.
Raisins, figs and dates may be bought
in packages.
Hot, nourishing soup in the thermos
bottle, bread and butter sanctw`iches,
an orange and a cake of sweet choco-
late combine to make a wholesome.
and satisfactory, luncheon to carry to
school.
Sandwiches should be wrapped in
waxed paper, and the crust left on
the bread, for it is good for the chil-
dren's teeth. Whenever possible,
put in frosh fruit—apples, oranges
and bananas are wholesome and carry
well. Cookies (not too rich) or
bread and jolly are better for little
"tummies" than. pie or • doughnuts.
Vary the luncheons from day to day,
for something which comes as a stir -
prise will be doubly welcome,
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food conservation on this continent,
and among their own people must ho!
almost the sale hope of the Allied na
tions in Europe and of friendly nen•
trans. No effort that can be made
by the people of North America ran
add any considerable amount of new
food to tlhe'tiveliablc supplies before.
next fall Stocks are dangerously
depleted, particularly in the ease of
cereale and meats. The problem is to
"stretch" these supplies 'ver the in-
terval until this year's crops are liar--
vested. While preparing for in-
creeaed production, we must also do
001' utmost to help our Allies over the
next few menthe when starvation will
be threatening them dangerously.
Official information, much of it eon-
fidential, received during the past few
days emphasizes the scarcity of sup-
plies of cereals and meats and the
necessity of avoiding at all costs en-
croachment upon the supplies for the
armies. In Great Britain, in France,
in Italy, the people are alive to the
situation. They know something of
what the next few months will mean,
Their spirit was expressed by Lord
Charles Beresford the other day when
he said: "We are tightening our belts
and we are going to win."
A recent cable from London stated
that the present moat ration in
Great Britain is not more than one-
half of the amount to which the peo-
ple have been accustomed. .Accom-
panied as this is by the restrictions on
the consumption of bread it cannot
but entail physical loss and privation,
Canadians too, must tighten their
belts and help the Allies to win. Use
should bo made on this continent of
every available substitute for wheat,
beef and pork. Upon our food ser-
vice depends the very lives of. thous-
ands of women and -children in the Al-
lied countries.
io res WHO CAME BACK
1a. 74e li! �L TlarvirT.xiH snataa
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eo s ad ao rs,fzege street, Toro:ita, oat, ,9'1'IlAN(ll7 CARTER OF LI1;1J'P,s
God's Acres, COI EN GLAND,
From a first-class war -story, "This
Iced Planet,” by h
just learned a l,(autiful ..thinz that
we had not 'known before. It seem=
that the French Govot•nmrnt has as-
signed to the British, ownership for
all time of the soil occupied by British
graves in France. Could anything be.
more-approprisatc, ,more touching,
more magnificent? In time perhaps+
France will be studded, toai with the
graves of American soldiers, Can
anyone doubt, that henceforth for call'
world purposes Britain, France and
the United States will be bound to-
gether in an indissoluble friendship?
W. J; ',eke, we have
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household draperies or the most deli-
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to their original freshness, When you
think of cleaning or dyeing think of
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This War Flour is excellent in quality and
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"ROYAL HOUSEHOLD" to which you have
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It is just as haul for us to give up milling "ROYAL
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In the meantime, the new regulations—being in the best
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Certain stores and dealers have stocks of "ROY,:., UOUS ,,,
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' "I. iehit,,Go1,•England relinquishes his
cammiseion, the King having. no fer-
11101, use for his seevicee," was the
curt announcement that appeared. 111
the bender' Gazette of December 11,
,No g)yater disgrace than that in-
volved in such an announcement can
befall a soldier in war time. At this
point in the Austrian or tbo German
army the.d.isgraced officer would have
a revolver thrust into his hand and
would he conducted to some secluded
spot, there to shoot himself.
In England they have a more vindic-
tive method. The London Gazette, the
daily official list that circulates in
every division brigade, battalion and
company of the. British army and is
printed in all the leading newspapers,
rosy 1* Mead by the whole welds The
disg2aee is public property.
dint f'oh:tuna'te'lyy Ilbe s'caixate lis
slkart-lhlvetf. Elba story sif Celt I
land passed rapidly into the limbo of
the forgotten.
Nearly four years elapsed. Then,
early in January of the present year,
the London Gazette printed the an-
nouncement that "Edward Parker
England has been reinstated to the
rani: of Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Royal Artillery."
• The restoration to honor was pub-
licly announced on the very day that
Cbl. England was discharged from the
army a disabled private. Itis rein-
statement, in the cold phraseology of
the Casette, .was in "consequence of
this devotion to duty and gallantry in
the field while in the ranks of the
Devonshire Regiment."
Beginning Over Agan.
• The story that was crowded into
those four years has only been equal-:
led on one previous occasion in the re,'
cords of the British Army. Edward.
England, came of a fighting stock:
Three 01 his brothers were _soldiers,:
and uli .triose laid down.their•lives for
theft country. Theonly authentic re-'
cord of the affair is given by a sur-
viving brother, who is tha rector of the,,
church in a small village in Sussex.
During the retreat from Mons, when
Col. England .was in command of a
munition column, a staff officer gallop-
ed up with the information that the
colurnh was iii danger of being sur-
rounded.. Col. England's chief thought
was for the safety ofhit men. and it
was with this object 10 view that he
ordered certain portions of the trans-
o port to be abandoned. In the confu
sion more was cast astray than li
knew of and, though the column wo
through, retribution was demcinde'
when the loss was counted.
Physically for thetime being Col
England was a broken man,,and fo
weeks he was in hospital but as, soar
as he was fit 110 joined the Army Ser;
vice Corps as an ordinary private; giv
ing his age as 40, although he,', we.
then over '50. Transferred to:,th'
South African Horse, he fought it
Africa and later went to France witl
the Devons, Here he took part in than:
tights, bearinghimself like the brav
roan the Ding has now declared him t
be.
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0t'l? DEBT TO CIIEMSS'$ t.
It is the Real Basis of Human Indus
try, Saye Vii eeturery,,,_
In the course of a recent address o
chemistry, before the Franklin Init
tuts, I)r, A"iierttonr.+'':'"CusYihan sa
that the general public has begun,,
understagststke feet thaiWehemistr'
the real) ,iii„ of � attain inclustr,
Either directly or indirectly, chemitti
as applied to industry affects the got
c i$W and Wi 'ihenrrgi r'O..alyfciv1li
r d'"lions'
The clothes we wear, the food `!a
eat;-t1,ha.,utgnsils -NOV) whiellpwe :p'
pare it, the materials of constrnctic
with whjch,.we are Doused and ;a
transported' frond "pt'ace to place, Itt
medicines on which we depend in }:t1
struggle 'with- disease and deadl -a
all, in one way or another, the produ
of chemical, .industries, ,
lt. i,"tTieinistiv thb±has mach~ ff: p
Bible to produce iron and steel o%"`
enormous scale that ,inal m e
it ellen t
th0 Eeit1SI0s' tt tW/ rill t t'rorn;;
smellniitr.t se ci ioa i.` tihausahi
beautiful colorss air iiges, ` inedin
andhigh explosives. The redrsi
parasol of a summer beach and the x
wound of war have e a common prig
in that black, sticky macs.
It is chemistry that has perfect
that wonderful structural mater'
Portland cement, that enables re
to mould his building stone in t
place he wants it so that in a
hours it attains the condition of so
ity and durability that bclongu to ro
laid down and 86lid11110d in the co
of geological epochs. Man become
creator when he learns to apply
principles and science of cih:nnistry
the materials that surround hint.
wits out lists of soocis and or
them without delay. Got the see
Many late callers at the seed ole
will go away disappointed and so
persons who order by mail later
the season,