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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1945-07-05, Page 7You'll enjoy our 1: 1�1 ra 1, ;� ge „ ekoe ))'lend 'lSALA' TEII LOUIS ARTHUR CUNNINGHAM • CHAPTER VIII Meridel smiled. "He had been drinking some of Jules Goujon's. white wine in the inn—the Coq d'or, I. et him right outside the uoor in the narrow street of :Gratden and he said, 'Are you reap Ts this place real?—and—and we went to the fair, and after that he walked up the mountain with me and then he said good -by. He did not even tell me his name—only Michel" "Like him," nodded ma.lame. "Well it he was there when the war CUM tri may be sure he's In it, There's Scotch, Trish and French in hint." "But—but he is really good, ma- dame? He is not really a scamp?" "A bit wild," said madame slow- ly. "But underneath the wildness and willfulness, I think he is good and strong. One could never really know. It's hard to know a man who can laugh when he is crying inside or suffer pain with a smile. And Mike Fabre was like that. Did you fall in love with him?" "I always remember him." "I know child. So did I. but I've often wondered if it wouldn't be better to forget, I'd advise you tr put him out of your mind. Roger is so steady, so reliable, so good." "Yes—all of that., And you would think it best for me to forget the other one?" "If you can," said madame, smiling. "I couldn't." There wasn't much time to think of Michel in the days that followed.. More children came, little Polish boys, twin girls from the shambles of Rotterdam, three more boys, sons of an aide of Charles de Gaulle. There was work, plenty of work for Meridel, for Madame Mimi, for Rudolph. There were lessons to be arranged. Madame from her long years on the stage, had the fight of tongues. The chil- dren loved her. It was a sight, she often thought, -that would have sent Michel into shouts of laughter when she stood on the lawn with all the little ones abut her, speaking to some in Prench, to others in Dutch, to others in English. In the eve- nings she and Meridel sang for them and led them in their native tongs. In October they received word from Roger. He was flying some- where in the Middle East. "I pray - that I may be home 801111 --will you please all p, ay too. 1 have looked everywhe a for 1ti ee, but ever a sign of hint can I find." The day after that letter came, Madame was sitting of rhe ter- eece with Meridel and .brdoiph when Ro' Inc and Pol Martin came to the. Rosine was crying; Pal Martin's face was very long. He drew Rosine by the hand until they stood .n front or madame. 'the little girl hung her head anti her shoulders shank with her weep ing. "You must speak, Rosine," said Pel Martin, "I-1 cannot—" "Now what is this hein?" Ma- dames bony fingers were crooked on the silver knob of her stick. "What has happened to you, Ro- sine?" "1 smashed the pictture." The words were mumbled against the hill of her dress, but presently she lifted her chin and looked with near defiance in her tear -reddened eyes .it madame. "I threw it on the floor and ground my heel in his face. I did!, l didl And 1 am not sorry." "I told her not to do that," said Pdl Martin. "I .ried it make her see that it is not .your fault, Ma- LOOTEL METROPOLE All Beautifully Furnished With Running Water. Rates: r$LLSO up. NIAGARA FALLS OPPOSITE C.N.R. STATION THE BEST WAY TO KILL FLIES --a 10c package. of WILSON'S FLY PADS will kill more tree than 55.00 worth crony other fly killer I The old reliable way for 5k yearn. Me WILSON'S FLY PADS todayi ISSUE 27--11545 dame Laurin, that he—" "In the name of the good Godl" Madame hammered fie ferrule of her stick on the tiles. "What then is this! Have you gone mad, you children? Speak now. Whose picture have you smashed, Rosine?" "His. The one who killed Bon- homie Fricot." Madame rubbed her eyes. Meri- del stood up to take the children away, but madame - gestured • brusquely and, princess or no prin- cess, Meridel obeyed her. But she looked with puzzled eyes from Ma- dame to Rudi, who kept staring at the grass, his fingers intertwined before' him. "Where was this picture?" asked madame softly—far more softly than any of them had ever heard her speak before. "In your room, madame," said Pol Martin. "It is the one in the bright silver frame. .Gesner said it was of your nephew and that his name was Michel Fabre, and that he is Roger's brother, The can- not be, madame. Say it is not so." Madame looked at them with the eyes of an ancient eagle. Her fin- gers moved no longer on the knob of her stick. She licked her lips slowly, "You mean, you little ones, that you think—I cannot say it. What is it again you think?" "We know," said Rosine, "He is the one. When we saw,him him he wore the German uniform and there were ribbons on his tunic and he had shot Bonhomme Fricot, but he is the sante man, We would know hint anywhere, I ant sorry, madame. I meant never to speak; but I—I. could not help it." "When did you first begin to think this—this crazy thing?" Ma- dame's voice was flat now, lifeless, and she looked old and tired as she leaned back against the cushions. "It was the day you couldn't seem to. eat, Rosine?" "That was the day, madame." "Yes, I had put the picture on the dresser, I recall. So that was it! But—you are mistaken, chil- dren. Thais the picture of my nephew, of Roger's brother, He could not be—" She stopped, closed her eyes as if the sun were too much for her. Was this madness, phantasy, child's non- sense? Or was there some dread kernel of dimsal truth in the whole bizarre business? Children were sometimes mistaken. but not often. (To Be Continued) and vanilla, beating well: Mix and sift dry ingredientsand add al- ternately with the milk. Pour batter into two eight -inch layer cake pans which have been lightly greased and floured and bake in a moderately- hot oven. 375'-F, for ' . 55 to 40 minutes. When cool spread filling (recipe below) be- tween layers. Dust top with pow- dered sugar. Strawberry Filling; cup sugar 14 cup flour teaspoon salt 54 cup -cold milk i% cups hot milk 7, egg .34 teaspoon vanilla' OR % teaspoon lemon OR almond extract 1 cup sliced strawberries Mix sugar, flour and salt and blend with cold milk. Gradually stir in the hot milk and cook in double boiler about 15 minutes, stirring constantly. Beat egg, com- bine with a little of the hot mix- ture and add to remaining mix- ture in double boiler. Cook, stirring for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, add flavouring and cool. Fold in fruit. Six to eight servings. Rhubarb and Strawberry jam 4 cups rhubarb 4 cups strawberries 13 cups sugar Wash rhubarb and cut in half- inch pieces; wash and hull straw- berries. Cook together for 20 minutes. Add sugar. Cook 15 minutes or until thick and clear. Pour into hot sterilized jars, cool. and seal. Yield about 2 pints. Ta:.ble Talks And Feast Upon Strawberries The sugar shortage need not prevent our raking the most of strawberries though for, itfully ripe, they require a minimum of sweetening and most strawberry desserts fall into the sugar -saving class. For maximum sweetneses with the least sugar the home economist's of the Dominion De- partment •of A,sritufture suggest adding a little sugar half an hour before serving. '!.'hese tactics bring out all the natural sweetness of the fruit. Strawberry desserts are also vitamin desserts, for the Ntttritiion Division reports a full day's quota of vitamin C in ten good-sized braves. Summer Pudding An easily made dessert is a L,anadian version of the popular British "Summer Paulding". Line a mould with % inch slices of lightly buttered breach Fill the centre,, with alternate • layers of crushed sweetened strawberries and slices of buttered' bread, end- ing- with bread. Cover with a weighted plate and chill two hours or longed. Unmold and serve with table cream, additional ber- ries or custard sauce.- Try this dessert later on with this, of raspberries goad redcurrants and with blueberries. Strawberry Boston Pie 34 cup mild-flavall.ed fat • cup sugar 7 egg - IA teaspoon vanilla 344 teaspoon salt 7./ cups sifted pastry flour Or 734 cups -sifted all-purpose flour V% teaspoons baking powder • cup n7ilk •Create fat, add sugar and cream well together, add well beaten egg (1[!tcl niesicL Let the youngsters soak up sun in gaily embroidered sunsuits; each takes less than 1 yard of fabric! Appliqued boat and chicks. A 1 -yard remnant, plus scraps for appliques, makes each suit. Pattern 909 has transfer of 2 bibs, pockets pattern pieces for sizes 1, 2, 3, and 4. Send twenty cents in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St., West, Toronto, Print plainly pat- tern number, your name and add- ress. CHRONICLES By of GINGER FARM GwenYoli_ne. P. Clark, These days we are waiting—just --as ao'many others are -waiting— for the return of our son from - ov'erseas. One letter last ,week said he was still in Germany; the next that he was in Holland and expecting to leave for England the following day. We listen to the radio arc] we hear—"'three boats of returning men expected' to dock next . week—one on Wednesday, one Friday and the "Lady Nel- son" on Saturday." -We wonder . will it be Wednesday—or Fri- day—or is he still on English shores? Naturally we would be glad to have our son home at any - tinte but more especially now when his help is so urgently needed as Partner is by no means well and to carry on without some one to share the responsibility is prac- til -ally impossible, What'a wonder- ful thing is good health—especial- ly when one hasn't got it! It looks RS if there might be plenty of field work before long. The hay is just about ready to cut--anrl it looks like a good crop. The 7vheat is well out in head— but oh dear, what a shock we got last week. T was on my way for the mail and in passing I looked over at the wheat—and I never saw so much smut in my life. As soon as I got hone I said to Partner "Did wetreat that wheat last fall?" "Sere we •treated it," he ans- wered. "Whyr what's the trouble?" (1 -Ie hadn't seen what I had seen.) I told hint, and later we looked at other wheat crops in the district and sure enough every one of them was well sprinkled with WHAT SCIENCE Artificial IS GOING Artificial Gale There never was such a wind on land or sea as that which will blow at the beck of scientists in Britain in the not -far -distant fu- ture, :says The Vancouver Prov- ince. A wnd tunnel is being construc- ted in Bedfordshire by the British air research to test and develop super -fast aircraft of the imme- diate future. The Ministry of Air- craft has stated in Me House of Commons that Britain is "on the verge' of designing aircraft which will attain 700 tittles per hour — faster than the speed of sound, To evolve a plane capable of withstanding stresses and frictions implied in such a velocity several tunnels are to be built in which air can be expelled with the force of 40,000 horsepower. Another tunnel, 25 times as powerful as any in existence today, will be capabic cf a blow equal to -100,000 horse power. The Bedfordshire air iesea-ch station will be the largest s the world. Its electrical plant, exeln- sively serving the station, v 11 be as powerful as any now serving the light and power requirements ct a city of a million inhabitants, smut. 'However ' Partner :thinks a lot of it will wash off =and I must admit it doesn't look nearly as bad now as it did t: week ago. Some of the spring crop appears to be surprisingly good—that is. the oats, Barley has an unhealthy. tinge - of yellow through excessive moistl.u•e and cold weather. 5 *` * 1 suppose the problem with most women these days is shop- ping, I know it is mine. But ev- ery time 1 get a bit bothered i • think how little we have to com- plain about and how gladly we - sheuld suffer -a few shortages in order to help those who have suf- fered so much. After all, we can still get all the milk, eggs, vege- tables and bread that we need. And given an abundance of these things we cannot -legitimately com- plain. Possibly our most serious problem is not in the threatened shortage of supplies but in how we face it. For instance we have become so accustomed to a plen- titude of potatoes that we hardly know how to keep house without them. And yet they are not really essential—just more of a habit than anything else. We can get along quite well without them al- though I must admit they are good 'fillers" and f could do with -a bag in the cellar very nice- ly. My worst worry 15 sugar—but if the fruit is going to be scarce ten pounds of canning sugar will be plenty- * A * My hopes are beginning to soar! Out in the lane at this very minute the hydro men are putting cross -arras on the poles. And there is a transformer in the truck just for us. We were told they would probably have the uower on by the end of June—but we were beginning to have our doubts as after raising the poles the Hien simply -•anishcd and this is the first we have seen of thein for three weeks. And they are just as likely to disappear again for an- other three weeks. Btit here's hop- ing they don't. So near and yet so fart Here is the house all wired; there are the poles in the lane and on the road, There is the transformer but click the switches in the house and still nothing hap- pens. These fixtures overhead .. . that two-way switch , those plugs in the wall . , they are all just promises. But those lamp chimneys that need cleaning , . . that stove that needs filling .. . those irons that need heating— they are realities. And that back -breaking, hand - power washing machine—I'll say that's a reality! CON FJ. lli0N'L'1AL LOS '01tTs ON CANADIAN -GOLD Ietnes - Properties - Companies ASCOT AGENCY Four ne Street TORONoJTO,ONTATCI OO Phone. PU.ght 1335 for BETTER SLEEP 1 BETTER D/GEST/ON.. Rom MAIM' Dr. Chase's Nerve ,Food 'Loll -mills 5.155015 & . Folks At Home Should Calm Down The London edition, of the Sta- ple Leaf, Canadian forces news- paper, in an editorial asked the folks - at hassle to calm down, -say- ing it takes a lot of work to move an army and may be a little while, yet before Johnny conies march- ing borne," It is only natural that families should be excited and do a Iot, maybe too much, of wishful think- ing. The headlines of the moment perhaps wiped out thoughts of fur- ther operational commitments, the Pacific war, long service personnel and the trouble of getting' shipping space. "The 'boys know everything is being done to get them Monte as soon as possible and in order of their right to get home by virtue of service. Anxious folks in Cana- da read big figures and start hop- ing.— If they will just be a mite patient and realize the gigantic ad- ministrative details necessary to move the gang back it will be easier for all." The purity of sand has a great influence upon the quality of glass made front it. VACATION NEAR NO +E — Trains are stiii needed for men in uniform. Contributed by Males BLACK HORSE e