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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-06-13, Page 7le it nd of is d, ne tg 10, al ib - he ap irl its ler 1118 in- ich a led sick tho the re- els - his her vie sing of lore Filth rom the i11a- was :gild that it i8 e to frons mes, tents tinge hem - Ce to ' de- and eon- ot to s. ewers pro - make have th of keep nixed, arket- from stalks, auyers green toying or and longer ing is plants that a if suit - ng the lg ma - ng the tly a r- ing the This doors, a. ]ardngs n there dimmer ell well 'equires but by rtensive p5 are of tee-,, mid, "u v being rgmia. all lit -eel 1afey) e ,line; SOI r j/l1 litLE eg'c'rzc ? iDa.3(1r�6Ott'•' (CokpyVIght) CIiAPT'I.11 XIX,--(Cont'd,) 1 He dodged Peter this evening to :.''You've been very good to Peter," I:escape es(' thewir t to hie 8081 after-dinner fte 1 ei was there rho sold, "I've wanted a chance to' sow, with his lace white and tense. tell von .•:o," • "'lieu „don't know what ire's heed He had beef densely stupid from the t}rrongh," elle frowned, "Even 1tc first, as Beatrice lead' informed hire. doesn't !;now. When I came to him, Ally marl of the world ought to have • there -,vee so little of him left, 1111 suspected something when, at the first pr. er :'r":,eii ilio first sight I had of sight of Peter, she ran away, She Thin h•. had never run from him. Women run Ixlltul to la tore as• t zoug x naked flste, mandaebioned. That wee! care -free too known to her and to the what gave Peter his rlg'ht. That world as just Monte, right Was whatshe feared, I I• to had known her: for aver a de- Mente had .a grandfather who in code. Ars a school -girl he bac! Been forty-nine crossed the Plains, A plc.' her at Chic's, .and now ten years later tore o. m un n 10 th.t even then she had within Food Control Corer cream Wanted Enforcement of the Canada I ood SWEET OR OHURNINA (DREAM f hi h 1 tl Covin on ho saw A Board's regulations ae toi feeci eon- anA a 0085Awlly ne, Yr axprerae chara80 gg gt clear v o e z 1 'ed in the hA nds house in Phlladelp}iia. The paintingall that tike now had, 'Phut ,ser foil n has b e a p ac Uur price next week forty-eight cants revealed steel -gray oyes and, even be -1 white forehead ]tad been there titan: of the Police machinery of the intimal- mono, Davy ane oreemory oa. h e hin b o /hint' -s t 'Reroute eked r wa the ,a feces 791! Kilt Sit, Wont 'n la ]c ax , ithe aro I r v a the b C alit a A11 of h different l th b •d of res ectabilfty, a lP s dd mouth that zin many ways was 'like' straight nose, and the mobile lips, IIe througljixtt file Dominion, Peter's. Montague Sears Covington' caught his breath es be thought of Itis the duty and privilege of the --:.that was his name; the name that those lips, Her eyes, too --but no al Provinces 14 to enforce fpr vii a of the lead been banded down to Monte. They change had taken place there. ire' Pro Orders of theo Canada Food s end man had shouldered a rifle, fought his had always thought of her eyes as, way actress had risk and over moue." cold—not that now, Once or te. wice wore he' passedhave iiupune act of authorityoral law, of Ordersozis tain paths, had rlslced his life .a dozen! l thou ht he had seen into them a little' sued by the Privy Council and publish- thew a day to reach unknown El Dor- g ed in the Canada Gazette, It, there - partly of the West, l'Ie had done this! way. Once or twice he thought he pal fly far nwoman—a slip of a girl hoe glimpsed gentle, fluttering figures, fore, becomes the duty of police of - in New York whom he ]eft behind tot in them, Once or twice they had been fivers throughout the Dominion to 6 wait for him, though she begged to; like windows in a long -closed house,! aequairrt themselves with these re- go, That was Monte's grandmother, suddenly flung open upon warm 0O0m41 gulations hemsdin. our food supply filled with flowers, It made him dizzy g Monte, in along, dod i ght a respoy, ]zed: now to remember. those moments, I and to eee to i't that they are obeyed, jogs— hres dodging the teato Pete- He paced hie room. In another week! At thle stage of the world's( food situa- i�ios—the res nsibilitias that Peter' • 'f ho had ke t on—if eter tion, when 4,750,000 people in Europe �n0 two x p 1 e hcsprtal, Thm and white only when there is danger of capture; Noyes rushee forward to meet, Ho :.ail 1 y h 1 1 and she had nothingto fear from him had ducked even love, even father-' Iled not oomo,—he might have been have served to death As compared to dead," I in that way.She ran safe with him.I hood, Like any quitter on the grid -1 admitted farther into that house. Ile' 4,250,000 soldiers who have died 'He loved so hard, with all theresquared his shoulders. If ho fought the direct result of battle, It is beyond was in !aim, as he docs everything," She dared oven come with him to as- iron, instead of tackling low and hare,ger iris own even now—if, man against •cavil or dis dispute that these food re - she explained, t l cape those from whom there might be he had sidestepped, IIe ]tad seen Chiaher—he P "I suppose that was the trouble," solve possible clangor. tUntll now tae in a any, and beeanse of that had talc- men, he cballenged Peter Ming chem or Was not Relations are absolutely necessary. In - he nodded, I baro been orather o honor, roucSl ethad tr rated had next healer for Marseilles. o He that his right? In New York, in the i deed many people in communication She turned quickly. It was as if l him as she would not trust ether men, seen Toddy, and had run to what he world outside New York, that L was man with friends in Englan 00 in Trance he said that was the mief:eke, ' It had made hhn'1 throw back 1xle shoal- law: •a hard fight—the think our friends, re rations mild "Aller all that's just love, isn't it? thought was safe cover. If he paid win. In war, favors light he shown; ! In view of what people on the other It d • -d f ] t} t ] , !vas! but in life, with a man's own at stake,! side are undergoing. Patriotism as it was every one for himself. Peter" well as duty should inspire submission himself would agree to that. He, to these restrictions by the public and was not one to ask favors. A fair, vigilant enforcement of them by the fight was all he demanded. 'Filen let' officers of the law. it be a clean, fair light with bare: knueltles to a finish. Let him show Ill cases of convictions secured by himself to Marjory as the grandson of the municipal police officers, it should the man who gave him his name; let, be noted that where these convictions him press his claims. 1 result in the imposition of fines, the He was ready now to face the world! money from these fines is to be paid to with her, He was eager to do that.! the municipal treasuries, and similar - Neither heights nor depths held anylly in the cases where Provincial of - terrors for him. He envied Chicr•Ificers secure convictions, The Canada he envied even poor mad Hamilton. Food Board has circularized these If he could only be given another, Orders in official form throughout the chance to do something for Marjory -1 01100 machinery of the various rov- sometlling that would bite into him, P y p something that would twist his body" feces, beginning with the Attorneys - and maul him! If. ]le could not face General and continuing through the some serious physical clanger for hoe,' lists of Crown Attorneys and Crown then some great sacrifice— Prosecutors. In some provinces the Whieh was precisely the opportun- Chief Constables have also received ity now offered. He had been eonshd- co ies of the various Orders affecting eying this sacrifice from his own per-, the public. As a result, throughout uponpaint of view,yHe had looked Canada of recent weeks, there has upon rt as merely a personal pultish- ment. But, after all it was for her. been a crop of convictions. In all alone. Peter players no part in it cases the Magistrates have stood whatever. Neither did he himself. It firmly behind the regulations and im- was for her—for her! posed the penalties as provided. These Monte set his jaws. If, through run from $100, to $1000 in fines or im- Peter, he could bring her happiness, prisonment up to thtee' months or then that was all the reward he could both. Restaurant keepers, who have served meat on prohibited ds ys and hours, served sugar on the tables or wasted food, have been brought to task and the wide spread publicity this hes entailed will do a great deal more to assure conservation of food in pub- lic eating places than anything else. The Anti -Loafing Law, also bearing upon our war -time food production, has likewise been enforced. Magis- trates have seized the opportunity of dealing with loafers, tramps and "sports" by putting them to work on the farms, "Non-essential" industries have been interpreted by some Magis- trates into more or less definite groups There cant bo any hallway aboutit, els ansa oo Ia nc can there?" She trusted him because she diel not "I wonder." I fear him; she did not fear hlm he - "You --you wonder, Mr, Coving- I cause there was not! ing i1) him to ton?" !fear. It was not tixat he wars more Ile was stupid at first. He did decent than other men 11 was merely not get tho connection. Then, as sire because he was less of a man. Why, turned her dark eyes full upon him, she had run even from Peter—good, the cost after that, whose the fault? The least he could do now was to pay the coat like a man, Technically, he must desert her. IIe must -make that supreme sacrifice. At the moment when he stood ready to challenge the world for her—at the moment when his heart within hila burned to face for her all the dangers from which he had run—at that point he must relinquish even this privilege, the blood leaped to his cheeks. He honest, Conscientious Peter, with the wars married --that was what elle was ]teart and -soul and the nerve of a man.trying 'to tell him. x` He hada wife, Peter had sent her scurrying before . and so presumably know what: love him because of the great love he and with smiling lips pose before t o was. For her to assume anything else, dared to have for her. Peter challenge world and before her as a quitter. He for hint to admit anything else, wits ed her to take up life, with him— to - must not even use the deserters pre - impossible. 1 buck New York with him. This was. rogative of running. He must leave 'Perhaps we'd better turn back," after he had waded in himself with her cheerfully and jauntily—as the else said uneasily. I --- -- • He felt like a cad. He turned in- stantly, If only now he recovers his eyes." "He says there's hope." "It all depends upon her," she said, "Upon this woman?" "Upon this one woman." "If she realized it—" "Sire does," broke In Beatrice. "I made her realize it. 1 went to her and told her." "You did that?" She raised her head in swift chal- lenge. "Even though Peter commanded me not to—even though 1 know he would never forgive me if 118 learned." "You women are so wonderful," breathed Monte, food is well cooked. There is no - "With Peter's future—with his life thin at stake --what else could I do?" gin the menu that lends itself to "And she, knowing that, refused to more variety or constant use than do some to hini?" vegetables. Twice a day vegetables "Fate brought us to her." can be used i11 one form or another, if "Then," erssiaiened Monte, "what they are judiciously handled by the are you doing here?" housewife. She stopped and faced him. It was evident that he was sincere. Vegetables have different character - "You men—all seen are so stupid 'sties. For instance green vegetables at tames!" she cried, with a little are valuable mainly because they con - laugh. tain substances which purify the blood bakingdish,sprinkle with salt and He shook his head slowly, and assist digestion. Roots and tubers ' "I'11 have to admit it." are heat and energy -giving energy—givingfoods. All pepper dredge with comma :1 or flour "Why, he's with her now," she vegetables supply bulk and all contain and dot over with one-half tablespoon laughed: "That's why I stayed at of butter substitute. Repeat. Add home to -day." a ronsiderthe amount of water in hot milk until it may be seen through Monte held his breath for a second, which are the salts so valuable to and then he said:— health. We are still within the sea- top layer. Bake one and one-fourth "You mean, the woman Peter loves is --is Marjory Stockton?" "No other. I thought you must have guessed it from her." "Why, no," he admitted; "I didn't." "Then you've had your eyes closed." "That's rt," he nodded; "I've had my eyes closed. Why, that expains The first and most immediate need . les one tabp add oon lemon juice, one a lot of things." is to release wheat for overseas. revery half teaspoon spit and a few grains of Impulsively the girl placed her potato, carrot and onion that we eat is helping towards that end. Don't ne- cayenne. Add the potatoes, cook gleet to be in the vegetable -eating three.minutes and add one-half table - ranks. spoon finely chopped parsley. Duchess Potatoes.—To two cups hot One harried housewife moaned the rived potatoes, add two tablespoons other day: "I never want to Ice an butiter substitute, one-half teaspoon onion again as long as I live. We are salt and yolks of two eggs slightly sick of them." beaten. Shape in form of cone or "How many ways have you weed to any desired shape, • Brush over with cook them?" she was asked. "Oh 1 beaten egg diluted with one teaspoon Everything considered, Monte always fry them." No wonder she water and brown in hot oven. should have been glad at the revela- was sick of them. Every vegetable With the aid of vegetables it is quite tion Beatrice made to him. If Peter can be cooked in a t a1 ioty of ways and possible to have an entire dinner hi were in love with Marjory and she it is poor policy on Ile part of the one dish --•a dinner that is wholesome, with Peter—why, it solved his own housewife to tire her Family with re- nutritious and very palatable. How problem by the simple process of ori- petition. She may use the same vege- many people are familiar with fish qtly and wrath despatch. v chowder. Here is the recipe; it is enough for a family of five: 112 pounds fish (use moderate -priced vani- ties such as cod, haddock or flat -fish), 9 potatoes, peeled and cut in small pieces, 1 onion, sliced, 2 cups carrots cut in pieces, 3 cups milk, pepper, 1 tablespoon fat, 144:. tablespoons corn- starch. Cook vegetables until tender. Add fe't, mix cornstarch with one- half. cup of the cold milk and stir in the liquid in the pot to thicken. Adel the rest of the milk and the fish which has been removed from the bone and cut in small pieces. Cook un- til the fish is tender, about 10 mi- nutes. Serve hot. •t USE VEGETABLES AND SAVE WHEAT. The patriotism of Madame House- might he used to advantage. There wife is measured these days by the is nothing new or elaborate about ]rind of meals she prepares for her them but so few people think of try - family. The youngest child will take what is put before hint, provided the ing them out. Potato Border.—Place a greased ask. Here was a man who loved her, mould on platter. Build around it a who would be good to her and fight wall of !lot mashed potatoes, using hard for liar. He was just the sort nine potatoes, three end one-half of man knock cauld trust her to. A knock at his door made him turn inches high by one inch steep. Smooth on his heels. and crease with case knife. Remove "Who's that?" he demanded, mould. Fill with creamed left -over "It's I—Noyes," came the answer. meat or fish and reheat in oven be- "Have you gone to bed yet?" fore serving. (To be continued.) Escalloped Potatoes,—Wash, pare, soak and cut four potatoes in one- Pull Your Weight. fourth inch slices. Put a layer in The billows are heaving behind, The breakers are foaming before; Wo need all the strength we can find— Each ounce you can put to the oar. Are you doing the best that you can To keep the old galley afloat? Are you power or freight? Are you pulling your weight -- Are you pulling your weight in the boat? and men who bad no better excuse than employment' in said glOstioneble industries have been ordered to get into more useful Occupations. In Winnipeg a great cheese has been ohser•ved in the streets eince this law went into effeot, The idlers and loafers have disappeared. Great Britain is to allot ten pounds of sugar per head of the household to private fruit growers this season for preserving fruit. eon when we need the properties of the roots and tubers. It will be some time before the fresh vegetables are on the market. Let us clean up the one kind before we begin to use the other. hours or until potato is soft. Potatoes a la Hollandaise,—Wash, pare, soak and cut potatoes in one- fourth inch slices. Cut in cubes. Cover three cups potato with white steels, cook until soft and drain. Cream four tablespoons butter substitute, hand 0n Monte's arm. "As an old friend of hers, you'll use your influence to help Peter?" "I'll do what I can." "Then I'm so glad I told you," "Yes," agreed Monte. "I suppose it is just as well for me to know." CHAPTER XX Paying Like a Man All that remained for him to do was to table nearly every day and by a fre- remove himself' from the awkward quant change in the manner of cook - triangle as soon as possible. Ile ing or serving she may achieve con- must leave Marjory free, and Peter stant variety. would look after the rest. No doubt How many families have boiled pe- a divorce on the grounds of desertion tatoes day in and day out? It is could be easily arranged; and thus, safe to guess that only about five per by that one stroke, they :two would be cent. of t110 women in Canada cook made happy, and he—well, what the devil was to become of him? pdtntoea habitually in more than two The answer was obvious. It •did ways. One of the simplest and easiest not matter a picayune to any one what of dishes to prepare is raced potatoes. became of him. What had Ile ever If the housewife is boiling them, any - done to make his life worth while way, she might as well vary diem by to any one? Ile had never done any putting them through a potato ricer particular harm, that was true; but or coarse strainer. Then they will neither had he done any particular,. flaky, light and delicious. good. It is the positive things that Here are some other recipes that count, when a man stands before the judgment -seat; and that is where 1M4Y onte stood on the night Marjory came back from Cannes by the side of Peter with her eyes sparkling and her cheeks flushed as if she had come straight from Eden. System as a Housekeeping Aid, For many years before becoming a farmer's wife, I was -one of fifty teachers in a largo school whose head teacher was a woman of remarkable executive ability. Methodical, order- ly, statistical, she demanded that each teacher provide for her use and gad. mice a general outline of work for the term, a general program of work for each week, and a detailed program of the work for each day. These daily schedules must be• elastic to al- low of seizing unforeseen opportun- ities or for unexpected occurrences. My first few weeks at housekeeping were a horrible tangle till I bethought mo to apply to my housework the same method of preparing a program, so to speak, of the proposed or necessary activities of the day, and it has meant untold comfort, pieaeure and ease in the Aecon plishnnsart of t�te day'a dust - lee, Xt reciuirea then le planning au), judgment to make things dovetail to best advantage, and like the school pr write, it must have sufficient elas- tip1f' to adroit of beim ftjered: more or less As occasion demands. An in- terruption, a fire slower than we had expected, a telephone visit may disar- range our well laid plans, but some way, if we have it written down in tab- ulated form it is a little easier than if we are anxiously thinking, "what wits it I was planning to do next?" or to have to say, "Dear me, I intended to do so and so but I forget." I find a school slate flung of the wall It isn't the task of the few -- The pick of the brave and the strong; It's he and it's I and it's you Must drive the good vessel along, Will you save? Will you work? Will you fight? Are you ready to take off your coat? Are you serving the State? Are you pulling your weight—' Are you pulling your weight in the boat? To Prevent Fading. The delicate shades of colored lin- ens can be kept from fading by using plenty of pulverized borax in the wa- ter in which they are washed and rinsed. Potatoes at home make more wheat for the Allied Armies; it is your fight. Some of the California Indians store their corn supply in willow bas- kets, which are as large as the rooms of a modern house. One million women in England are working in munition plants. Two hun- dred and fifty thousands are engaged in agriculture. Use a brush dipped in whiting to shine up your bookcase dooms, mir- rors and cut glass. Polish with news- paper. 4I(Brill(ii(fifU(iilil!ilillli(IliliiiiiiliiliiiN O 1 _ thJ iiiC i ere was just one .M WALKER HOUSE In towns along my 5 route, Then "drumming" would be joyous, u And I wouldn't give M a hoot For all the inconveni- Ei ence of The trains that poke so slow, ie If there was just one WALKER E HOUSE ' In every town I go. with pencil hung beside it the easiest S place oft which to jot my daily pro- ti gram. Of course, the general plan of routine duties changes little from day ei to day, but I have found it well to have ei it 'put down in writing," especially E for the guidance of hired help sone- what as follows: After. breakfast: 1, clear table; 2, put sittiegeroom in order; 3 do chamber work; 4, wash' TT5esl 5, prepare vegetables, etc. I i~ he daily, program must Ile Ptore II 5 specific, Indicating wj1af !Moist 11e done g while ennothing else is doing for it is e this fitting of duties into their proper merles which lightens and shortens lees re boy and makes the differeneaeottween effigiencend eloveniine4 : ,.' ill II 1111 11 nil! !III 11 I 11011 11111 1 I'd hustle like the dickens And take orders by the con Say, teaseling then would be n: ! Just one big round of solid fun. pi I wouldn't mind the rain or sleet, ' Or mud, or frost or snow, If there was just one WALKER i - HOUSE In every town I go. ra I The war garden is to be popular in London in 1918. 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"Tho last three weeks I spent in the Soltau Main Camp were absolutely miser. able. The place is full of vermin and rats and filthy dirty. I don't think 100 had four good nights' sleep out of twenty-four I was there. "Wo have eaten very little of Ger- man camp food since 3.915. We have always relied on our parcels. I hare often hada bit of bread and dripping for all throe meals rather than touch that horrible soup. 011, the soup! I actually saw a dead dog being taken into the kitchen to be put in the prisoners' soup. That's eb:.elutely true. "Whilst I war) at Archers I saw thousands of their wounded coming in from Armentieres, and they did look wrecks. German wounded would ask us for soup. 'That's the state of entire, and yet they try to ricin' the people they aro winning. What a hope! In some of their big titles 1 have been asked by their women and children for bread. Just imagine civilians in England .asliog Gerruan prisoners for. bread. Tried to Escape. "I made several attempts to get out of the country and was either caught or the weather was too bad. In July, 1915, I got away from a 'Icommando' near Wiesbaden, and made for Switzerland, but only had a map tarn out of a notebook and watch chain compass. I was only a few days out when a forester caught me with my boots off. He had a ra- ther nasty -looking rifle, so I did not. carry on any farther. "In December, 1916, a chap Isom the 7th Battalion and rayself got out of the camp at Giesen and made for the Holland frontier by Munster. We had to go- through Westphalia; one of the most mountainous parts of Ger- many, and, after wandering about for nine days in snow up to oar waists, we had to give ourselves np. The 5110w was so deep that -we could not keep to the roads and kept wan- dering into fields and failing into streams. We used to travel by night and sleep in the woods by day. • Ran From Parra. "In i+lar,h, 1917, we volunteered foe work, and were sent to a farm at Prath, a little south of Coblenz. The people there were very decent to us, but we only stayed two clays, and then beat it out of the window dnr- ing the night. We made a bit of not -;e .and wakened the people, and all the dogs in the village were after us be- fore we had gone a hundred yards. We got away all right, crossed the Rhine in a boot that nigh`, cro. sed the Moselle two days later by the public ferry, and sifter n pretty hard trip made the frontier at Aachen. We got lost o'1 the last lap. and walked right into the frontier gu mrd. Saw Dutch Guards. '"file next, morning when w' were brought out of the guard -room we could see the Dutch sentries. who waved . their hands i.o m, Say, it nearly broke my heart to eee that. We did three week:, in jail and were sent to Meschede. where we started digging a tunnel out of the came. After working at that for six; weeks, we had just con, 1e tad it, one of our own mien and a senior sergeant at that, gave 1.12 away to the Germane. Well, we were lugged' nein and sent to Soltau command, and now I am here." Tricks of Animal Hun -theme. in military stables horses are known to have pretended to be lame . in order to avoid going to a military exercise. A chimpanzee had been fed on cake when sick. After his recov- ery he often feigned coughing in or- der to procure dainties. , The cuckoo, as is well known; lays its eggs in another bird's nest, and, to make the deception surer, it takes away ono of the other bird's eggs. Animals are conscious of their deceit, as is shown by the fact that they try to act secretly end noiselessly; they show a sense of guilt if detected; they take precautions in advance to avoid discovery; in some eases they mani- fest annfest regret and repentance. Thus, hoes which steal hesitate often be- r fore and after their exploits, as if they feared punishment. A naturalist described how his mon- key committed theft. While he pre- tended to sleep the animal regarded! hin'i with hesitation, and stopped ;. every .time his master moved or seefn-: ed on the point of awakening. i Since 1918 the number of horses in,. France has declined by 90 per cent,1 cattle by 16 per cent., sheep by 35 per cent„ and pige by 41 per eent. The beet potato can be spoiled by poor cook, Legend:, has it that a fatuous king in history tested each, cook before hiring him by asking ly l 0 lst14 Po.tALt;-vc,„ta