HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-11-07, Page 61
THIS IS THE TIME TO PUT
OUR SHOULDERS TO THE
WHEEL IN VERY TRUTH.
WE ARE ON THE BROW OF
THE HILL—LET US MAKE
THE SUPREME EFFORT.
BUY VICTORY BONDS TO
THE LIMIT OF YOUR PURSE
THEN BORROW AND BUY MORE,
SPACE AND POSITION DEDICATED TO THE
CAUSE Bir THE SALADA TEA COMPANY
The Sealed
By Edwin Baird.
CHAPTER IV.
The little minister trottigg along
between Tom and tete girl, chatted
glowingly of the work he was doing
among the city's outcasts. It was un-
doubtedly a worthy work, and hie ac-
count of it WAS interesting. But Tom
could not deny that he gladly would
exchange the whole of it for just one
%vont front her, whose name •he did
not even know, at whom he kept cast-
ing sidelong looks of speculation, and
who maintained a steady, even a
forbidding, silence throughout the
walk,
Their .lesttnation was a shabby
building, originally a private resid-
Imre, next a low-grade lodging house,
and now at last a home for friendless
;eel; and women.
"I admit," said the little minister
aptetogetically, "its exterior is not
very impressive; but• we're doing the
beat we can with •our limited resources,
and inside"—he paused while remov-
ing a hunch of keys from his pocket
—"inside," he rontinaed, fitting one of
the keys to the lock, "everything is
neat and clean, at any rate, and all
dire to the excellent management of
Mr. Buckle—a noble woman,' Mrs.
Reticle, one of God's own true gentle-
women. One minute now, and you'll
meet her, and then you can judge for
yoe selves."
But they were destined to meet her
even sooner than that. The words
bad scarcely left his lip bsefore the
door, was thrown violently open from
within, and there steed before them
a gray-haired, elderly woman, face
white and eyes distended, and trembl-
ing from head to foot.
"Thank the good Lord you've come!"
she gasped. "I was never so frighten-
ed in my life. 0 terrible thing has
happened—" •
She proceeded no further. .Tom,
who was standing beside the blue-
eyed girl, afterward recalled that at
this instant she emitted a sharp cry,
the first voluntary sound she had ut-
tered since leaving the Olenese res-
taurant, and it ;seemed as if some
dread calamity,. apprehended by her,
had tome true with a crash.
Tho rays of n coa"nter are lamp shone _-
pitilessly athwert n. amp iron cot on
which a motionless giel lay 1?rone,
Two set'onds more and 'he glad her in
hie arms and was bearing her to the
opened window, ' Climbing over the
:V, he lifted her out upon the fire
e apo, and as he lowered her to the
i• n he heard the voice of Winifred
f: a least be knew her first naive) fall
t, hit from the Nom:
Is she alive? le she?' The
w Ids were tiepealeus with grief and
a il.tety.
Tom, kneeling beside the slight, still
form, laid itis thamb to her pulse
while towelling bee waist at the as her norther had done, no better tine
throat. lie hooked up, his face very no worse. 'Then there caano a guest a
gave.„ r tittle girl who had learned many
i "I don't know, he said, and began things from reading r the latest books
pumping her arms back and forth as 1, t,
ogre who revives a drowning person. and mal;a'iues a girl who was always
' "I'm afraid not, But call an ambo- learning. And the women who lied
lance et once,” been satisfied with knowing found the,
1 An hour later Tom was walking while a good housekeeper, she was not
i slowly through a quiet thoroughfare an excellent one, fors she was waste -
with Winifred Snow—he knew her ful of both time and 'strength and she
.last name now,
"It's a pretty name,' he 'blurted out, had missed all, the lnilprovoments that
1 and was promptly astounded at his
teinehad 'been made on the ways and me-
thods thods of a past. generation. She was
She, 'however, evinced no trace of an 1880 model of housewife competing
confusion or self-consciousness, She with the 1018 type.
looked up at him in a sidelong way, The little girl who read, rand teamed
and her wistful blue eyes, smiling — mixed the lard and flour for her pie
him from beneath her wide -brimmed crusts with a fork sand• used ice water
hat, proved once mote disquieting.
"Do you think so, really=? So instegd of any kind that heppened to
many people joke about it. They be avaliabje, her crusts were flaky and
say it sounds too cold." feather light. She put bete dust cloths
Impulsively he thought to answer: in an old pail, poured in sr little kero-
The girl. first int the upper corridor`Nothing about you ever could be sene oil end covered them tightly for
—she had led the others all the wad cold," but he said, instead, convention an hour. Each cloth was as good as
—sped in the direction indicated and ally enough: "Some people will joke those the woman had been'buying of
began thumping the door with her about anything." en agent at thirty cents each. Sheknuckles, while calling frantically: Then she directed the taut into an -g y
"Dora! Dora! Let. me in, dear. It's other channel, shyly, as if she feared washed beans, peas, berries, etc., in a
I•, Winifred," to become to friendly with this sieve and the work was wondrously
She paused, holding her breath as stranger who had misjudged her est- simplified. She kept a clean newspa-
he listened, ear to the panel. There ough to try to patch up an acquain- per over the kitchen table, changing
swas no response. She tried the knob.' mace with her on the street, and yet papers as often An necessarY and
The door was locked. Father alarm- i lino had prover; a friend in need so much scrubbing 03 the white oilcloth
ed by this discovery, she turned dis- Expo tediy• was saved.
tractedly to Tom, who had hurried;, I don't believe he meant to be ,The woman who knew watched her
after her down the hall, with the. imperiinent," she thou•ght, and then—
minister pattering close behind, D'you know," site said, "I'm so ex- with a new interest in what had be -
"You must break the ctbor down!ititer; over Dora, and everything; I come prosaiey dragging housework.
Burry! It's a case of life or death."' can't think straight. But I do want When she suggested that boiled salad
Tom, caught in the full swirl of :to thank you, more than I say, for dressing could be canned just as easily
the mysterious adventure, was past' what I've done. You've been per- as peaches the woman doubted, but
'bothering about explanations. HeIfettle' and I—why, I almost owe experience proved that enough dress -
threw his weight against the door--' you my e. ingto last three months could be
thrice, heaviiy, and at the third impact! To Walk beside her and hear her g
of his sturdy shoulder the door crash- utter such thoughts as these was en- made at one time and with a bi sav-
ed in. ough t� turn the head of a math less ing of time, fuel and dishwashing.
He staggered back, gasping for air;, effably, he trod on air, as one in a The girl who read went back to
and he realized now, with a sense of glorious dream. Nor did he awake school but the women who thought she
horrible foreboding. that the room susceptible. Ecstatic, exhilarated in- knew subscribed for three good maga-
bad not only been locked --it had been until he heard her say: tines and set 'ifereslf the task of be-
i sealed! "Well, here we are. Thin is where coming the woman who could ani;
I
Gas belched from the room in a I live. Thank you for walking home would learn.
in
Knowing turd Learning..
There was once a woman who
thought herself an excellent hot.,+a-
keepertbecause she did thing exactly
stifling flood, and Tom dropped to the with me."
floor, dragging the girl and the little rimy stoodins populous street, be -
minister down beside him. "Lower fore a, huge brick house of faded
your heads," he commanded, "and grandeur r''repellent in its unwashed
don't breathe deep." Then, cautious-
ly, on hands and knees, he' started
across the threshold. "And don't fol-
• low me," he added.
In another moment he remembered
something else -
"Thal gas jet at the end of the hall,
turn it out quick! And open all the
windows you can find, wide!"
He crawled swiftly into the poison-
ed room, across the uncarpeted floor
to a window which gave upon a fire
escape. "Tell me," he blundered, "I don't
The window was sealed with glue quite understand—why do you—a girl
and rags, mute and tragic testimony like you—I—I mean to say I don't see
to the careful preparation for death,' why a girl like you—" Ho paused in
Nauseated by the sickenipg fumes, he hopeless confusion. His tongue, not
wrenched it open and leaned far outl for the first time, had spoken his oiled
and breathed deeply .ef the warm 'too hastily
night air.
Then, whirling, he surveyed the
room in a hurried, sweeping glance.
aspect and air of slovenliness. Upon
this structure Tom bent a disapproving
eye, and became aware of a window
sign announcing "Furnished Room,"
and several men in shirt sleeves,
lounging on the high front steps.
The girl inclined her head toward
them, and, turning to Tom with a
smile that was half amusement and
WI' contempt, explained:
"My fellow lodgers."
Tont viewed them with dislike.
5t?u
w at Parker's
The clothes you were so proud of when
new --caro be made to appear ra&w again,
Fabrics that are dirty, shabby or spotted
will be restored to their former beauty by
wending them to Parker's.
CLEANING and DYE''.G
is properly done at Parkes -'s
Send articles by post or express. We pay
carriage one way and our charges are reason-
able, Drop us a card for our booklet on
household helps that save money.
PARKER'S DYE WGRKS, LUTED
Cleaners and Dyers,
791 Yonge St. - Toronto
fs -
She, likewie, was embarrassed, and
was grateful for the darkness which
hid the hot flush in her cheeks.
"You mean to say you don't see why
a girl like me should want to live in a
shack like that?"
He looked at the "shack," and then
at her, and particularly at her neat
attire—lacy things and cool white
linen—and nodded, still perplexed.
"I'm sorry I spoke, and I beg your
pardon, but you see—"
"Oh, don't apolgize. But if you
were a girl, and worked in an rf}'ice
for nine dollars a week, maybe you'd
understand. I'll have to go in now,"
she said, taming toward the steps,
"and thank you again for all you've
done for me—and Dora."
Stark panic throttled Tom Mcitay.
He was losing her! Perhaps forever!
The thought was terrifying.
lie stepped after her, feeling like
one submerged.
"Miss Snow—before you go--I-•-D'd
like to give you my name and ad-
dress. In case our friend—" Le ! ur-
riedly added, "in case 1 could be of
any help again."
He drew a card from one pocket, a
pencil hewn another, employed both
busily, gave the Carel to her, and bow-
ed and withdrew,
i Ile had gone three blocks before he
remembered that he, in his agitation,
had written on the card only the name
of his hotel. It was considerably
later before be discovered another
mistake of importance the card bore
the name of Patrick J. Henneberry of
the Broadway .;Motor Car Company.
(To be continued.)
Eat Frozen Fish.
Two Sizes -50c and $2
For a2 years Canadian women have found
Ingram's Milkweed Cream the moat efficient
toilet preparation on the market for keeping'
the complexion clear and colorful, prevent-
intrwtndburn and ptmples,keepl ng the hands
sott andwhite oven when In dishwater flatly,
and •warding off hong nails from the anger°.
It has therapeutic qualities no other emol-
lient possesses.
Always have n bo:: of Ingrae4s Veivcola
Souverainc Face Powder (51 c.'lin the house.
A mere touch and oiliness and perspiration
di;npper,r. It covert up Liomtshes and triage
you n clear, flawless sar,Iple:lon. It Maya
on. At your druakiat's there In complete
line of Ingram's toilet pyroductg 1s_Inning
Zodenta for the teeth (;Sc),
•
A Picture with Each Pur-eitase
Zech time you buy a package of Ingram's
ToiletPerfume u u i troll
give
vee aide or pec mti ,a r dr ¢¢ a
word -famed ,notehn°Ordure actroo(, 0it e 0
time
yougetadotorc yyt,ortralt actress. EAeh
collection
ry urhotn . Ask
You Malin ,
correction fnryovrhotne, Ask yovrdru¢alet,
F. F. Ingram Co., Windsor, Ont. utas
Fresh frozen fish Ss just as pala-
table as fresh frsh,,Only—a good many
women do not know how to }Dandle it
properly.
The thing to remember is that froz-
en fish must be de -frosted in cold wa-
ter. When this has been done clean
and prepare as you would any other
fish andcook in whatever form you
desire.
Fish which her: been frozen is just
as nutrious as any other and its cheap-
;ct should make it more widely
:known,
No matter ;tow much dripping is
used, fish, when being fried, is apt to
stick to the pan's bottom. If a table.
ppoonfnl of dry salt. is put into tate
pan and rubbed ever it it twill be
Sound satisfactory, ..
The Housewife's Part-'
Again the housewife has to prove
"the policeman of, food control," In
her }lands lies mainly the success of
making lee pounds of sugar do for
each person in the family for a month.
The burden of maintaining the Allied
sugar• supplies falls on us, There Is
not enough- sugar available for us all
to live in our peace time habits. Our
great war programme has reduced
our sugar -carrying fleet; the sugar
requirements of the army are very
large; the American crop is 'less than
we expected; we have diverted 50,000
tons of sugar shipping in order that
Belguim should have food; Germans
have destroyed sugar beet fields and
factories in norttorit France and
Italy; more then ro,000,000 pounds of
sugar was cont. tt the bottom of the
ocean off the United States coast. re-
cently.
Sines about 70 per cent. of the
country's sugar supply passes through
the' hands of the housewife, it is evi-
dent that she has a most important
role to play in its eonservation.
just as in the use of flour substit-
Utes, she will learn from experiment
and practice many ways 03 using oth-
er sweetening. She will also learn
how to substitute other energy and
fuel -giving foods for the sugar she
has relied upon in days of plenty,
All this takes time and thought, but
it is a voluntary contribution to ulti-
mate a=ietory.
Remodeling The Child's Sweater. •
In nothing do we show our patriot-
ism more than in our willingness. to
fall in line with every request of rho
government. One of the Biggest re-
quests is to get along with as little
wool as possible, a request which will
inconvenience the folks of Our north-
ern clime nearly as much as the ban
on sugar. So tar wool cards aro in
the future, the giving up of wool is
simply a test of our patriotism.
This is how one mother met the sit-
uation. Sweaters will wear out even
on grown-ups, and wizen a child wears
one three years it begins to look as if
a new one must repl'aee it. This
sweater, a dark blue, was warn and
frayed at cuffs and collar.. In nor-
mal times the mother would have giv-
en it to the Salvation Artny and
bought a new one. This year, how-
ever, site decided on new collar and
cuffs. For the cuffs the simply cast
on thirty stitches, knitting with two
needles, and knitted hack and forth
until the cuffs were as deep as were
needed for that particular sweater,
which depth, of course, she learned
by measuring on the child. The col-
lar is just as simple.
Cast on seven stitches and knit
across the back. On the third time
across cast on two more, and on the
fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, etc„ un-
til you have twenty-two stitches.
Then knit straight back and forbh un-
til the collar is of sufficient length
to start the point on the other side,
-when narrow on every second time
across down to seven stitches. The
eviler is then done.
The cuffs are sewed together and
tacked on to the sleeve, the worn blue
cuff being' cut away. With the new
white collor sewed in place, the old
sweater has a quite dressed up look,
for the simple outlay of fifty cents in
use
son
Pat i11 plenty of
vegetables.. and
rice or barley.
Even with poor
stock delicious
soups care bo
made by�'.Iadding
a dash ZF
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Can;tegi Food Board, L i:once No, 15-142
money for the yarn and two after-
noon's ,work,
'l'o Dry Citron feel,
Pare the citron, cut in pieces of a
convenient size, and boil in slightly
salted water until tender. Make a
thick syrup, using one pound of su-
gar to one pint of water for each
pound- of the prepared citron. Add
too citron and ict simmer until the
syrup is nearly absorbed, then boil
rapidly, stirring constantly, until the
pieces are well 'coated. Dry in the
warming oven and store its any tight
receptacle, fruit' jars or pails with
tight fitting lids.
Sp .•acia Notice
Fathers and Mothers,
.500 can invest in
i
for your children by
using our
Partial Payment
Plan
Easy inontb1y pay-
ment,' secures them.
Write at once for ex-
planatory Booklet and
state how much you
want to invest for each
child,
11. M. CONNOLLY & CO.
Members Montreal
Stook M.0110011;0
106.106 Transportation Bldg.
MONTREAL - QUE.
Canada is receiving only just enough sugar for her actual needs!.
There is no surplus for wastage. -
ii irst, all waste of sugar mu's't cease; second, wherever possible,
Corn Syrup must be used as an alternwutive • for sugar.
You will discover a real economy, and a delicious
addition to your household supplies if you
Here are a few suggested ways to use CROWN
BRAND or. LILY WHITE Corn Syrup to give to
dishes a finer flavour than sugar gives:
Use CROWN BRAND Corn Syrup as a Sauce
on Puddings.
Use LILY WHITE instead of Sugar in Cakes.
Use either brand in Cocoanut or other Puddings.
Use LILY WHITE in making Marmalades,
Juin and in all Stewed Fruits,
The Brand is lahptartanti
Real Corn Syrup is GOOD—very
good! If your experience tells you
otherwise it is because you have
not tasted the genuine, wheel 15
produced from the most: nutritious
part of the Corn by wholesome
and 'scientific processes.
Remember the brands. LILY
WHITE did CROWN BRAND, and
Insist on getting them, for purity,
economy and flavor. -
Write to the Canada Food Board,
Ottawa,for Bulletin on Corn Syrup.
. A great many recipes are im-
proved by using half sugar and
half Coni Syrup.
Buy a can of LILY WHITE'
or CROWN BRAND Corn Syrup
today and become acquainted
with their great possibilities,
Sold by grocers everywhere
in 2, 5, 10 and 20 Ib, tine.
Canada Starch Co.y Limited
MONTREAL.
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Food Control • Corner
Cense/pore of. Canada have now lint
opportunity of ascertaining whether
the primes they pay for foodstuffs are
reesona'l rue and fair or possible extol'.
!olls'ity alleged profiteers. All they
have to .do in each municipality its.
Canada is to ask their menitlithal
eouneil to .appoint a Pair Pries Own
mittee to investigate the prices elskod'
by retailers and to draw eonelusions•
as to whether these, prices are fair
and reasonable, 'Aerie Fa}r Priem
Committees willthen publish their
lihdinp•s its form lists,
Tn this w'the •y the cenofslimere, wjli ,a
make sure whether they aro paying
prices which are unreasonable and
unfair or not It may be. time, the
prices which the Committee considerer
to be fiiir and reasonable will not lie'
any Dewar than the present prices,
charged by retailers. In mine cases'
they may 'be higher. But that needy
not bother the consumer so long ale
he is satisfied through the investigie-
tion of -the impartial Fair Price Com-
mittee within his own lnuni•eipality'
that thee -prices published indicate al
fair and reaaonabde standard to guide'
both consumer and retailer, having in'
mind war conditions and the unset -
tiling of pre-war prices,n
If there is a desire on the part'
of the consumers to Lind out just whore'
they stand in regard to prices which,
they have to pay for foodstuffs, they'
now have a golden opportunity to have'
the atter dealt with once and for rill'
untie the provisions of- the recent:
Order -in -Council, fathered by the'
Department of Labor, relative to Ute•,
appointment of municipal Fair Price'
Cosa,aittees,
In some quarters it is said that Fair
Price Committees will net solve the
food problem present in most house-
holds. It may be pertinent to sug-•
(gest Chart municipal Fair. Price Com-
'
mittees first should be given a chance'
to show that they 'can find a solutions
before the principle of municipal Fair
Price Committees is condemned out of
hand. It is a godd rule to ampere'
measures that seem to send in the,
right direction. A similar progremt
has been -effected in the United States,.
The virtue of this Order -in -Council,
i giving authority to municipalities to
appoint Fair Price Committees to in••
vestigale the prices conuumel's have
_
to pay', lies in the publicity that will
be given to the findings. In this way:
public' opinion will be informed, and
enlightened' public opinion may be
trusted to co-operate in all national:
food efforts if it knows the facts,.
You can always give anything 11
thorough trial once. spa,_
i STORY OF HUMAN ENDURANCE:
Ordeal of Riveting Plates in a Glee-
'
gow Shipyard.
1 A marvellous story is told of a-
'lhable piece of riveting work.
(bine iecently in a Port Glasgow ship-
yard It certainly furnishes a thrill-
ing example 03 courage and endur-
ance. Two plates had to be renewed
and riveted onto a long iron derrick.
Imagine a steel tube sixty feet•
long and eighteen inches in diameter
'at its widest, tapering to ten inches.
The new plates had to be ,riveted on
to this at about forty feet front the;
open end where the diameter was•
only thirteen inches.
Through this dark tube a man and
a boy had to crawl for forty feet untilee
they reached the exact spot. tglteltte
boy, gripping a long pair of tongs.
with which to catch the red ;tot rivets
as they were -dropped through a
small aperture, had to work his wily
along feet first, as he must face the
"holder on," The latter crawled after
the boy, face first, carrying his heavy
hammer.
There they lay, stretched at felt
length, unable to turn to right or left-
The
eftThe red hot rivets were dropped
through one by one, caughtby the
boy with his tongs, and put in posi-
tion by bit and then riveted from
the outside, while the "holder -on" in-
side sustained with his hammer the
impact of the hammer strokes front
without.
The task lasted for cldys, and Wren
and boys who could endure for so
long the darkness, confinement, strain,
deafening noise of the hammers, only
a feW inches from their heads, and
--rho terrific vibration, are sureleemas-
tet's of their craft.
It has indeed happened that the iron
tube has had to be cut through from
the outside to release a man whose
nerve has given way under the ordeal.
A Rope of Human Ilair.
A mighty witness to the vitality of
religion in rural Japan, says Mr.
Joseph I. C, Clarke in Japan at First
Hand, exists at Kyoto. A few years
ago, when the Higashi Hangwanji
temple was rebuilt, a rope of the
greatest strength was needed to hoist
the great columns and roof -ties timt
hers into place. Sbme zealot propos-
ed that it be of human hair, whiesh
makes the strongest rope of a11. The
response was enthusiastic; thirty
thousand women of a single province
sacrificed their beautiful, long, dark
tresses.
The rope that performed its task
without breaking is shown on the
temple grounds to -day. It is closely
woven, two hundred and twent-ono
feet long, thirteen inches in circum-
ference and more than four inches in
diameter. I touched its lustrous coils
with reverence; it meant so m/ah
sacrifice; so many wishes from the
deepe4 of the human heart went with
it. _
Figs (if dried ones) should be
washed, drained and chilled.
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