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Exeter Advocate, 1913-9-18, Page 6HHON STliceIS SHE BEST OLI Y A NUN ALPINE $A'�O1i.'l': SIMMER ROD-ST�I'uT1l)I: G. .o- LAST SALE IN T '4 WORLD ►�o-fsw�eo-o-s,+s f�r»i��rar��i•s1� sea•�t+eaowkt►t�w�+41,r,�or��.4« A RESOLUTION TF AT FAILED She had spent the afternoon re- reading and destroying old letters.. There is, of course, no mere de- lightful occupation, and it caused her almost to regret her resolve. She had made her will and had written a farewell document of sev- eral sheets. It was headed, To My Sometime Friend, and ended, De Profundis---Agatha, and all the rest of it was quite in that style, and some of it even more so. The Sometime Friend, by the way, was of the fereinine gender. There was no one of the masculine with whom she was intimate. Per- haps, fundamentally, that was why— She had quite convinced herself that she 'really was aboutt to die. The review of her life con •ances, so anxious were they to be eluded, she had taken a long, last doing the uttering themselves. That, partly, was what she ;meant when she had said that no one had ever understood her. Under: the same heading were comprised the additional geievanees that she de- tested her mother and was unhappy at home.• It was diffeult to eiriderstand how that innocuous, wel-meaning lit€le old lady, Agatha's mather, . oonld excite in any one an emotion so peal -ire as dislike. ' She was, it must be admitted, a fool. Though Agatha was .30, she continued to treat her like a child. As for making allowances for her for the occasion, or the frockshe daughter'e temperament, it • would thought became her best. She spent havebeen difficult to persuade the a great deal of money .:on her dear old ereature that nice women clothes, but they were always some- how ineffective. She wore, most ill- advisedly, greens and peacock blue. Women with her complexion will! late to breakfast with heavy -lidded Finally, she had come, with a ro- eyes, and her mouth turned down at the corners, having lain awake half the night face to face with the misery of existence, her mother was safe to enquire whether she ;was sure she hadn't eaten anything the night before which had disagreed with her. Agatha yearned to leave home neurotic imaginings. It was a dig- and live alone, and had suggested ger; a pretty, jewelled toy—quite as much to her parents at dessert the sort 'of thing they commit sui- one night after the parlor maid had her, ehronieling anoccasionel stray thought, then;, findii e, to her sur- prise, that even the composition of prose 'fiction involves .scree drudg- ery, she had deoidded that literature was not for her, and had fallen back on the misanthropy of inarticulate genius.' Forthwith the writing -room, alias the strdio, had become, to the mys- tification of the servants," tate den.. Before the Misanthrony became rabid she drifted into a Set, There were other Inarticulate Geniuses there—quite a lot of thein. She even, found Brains and breeding.. Raving a natural leaning that way and plenty of time en her hands, she was soon able.. to talk Soul States, and the fourth Dimension with the best cf them. Unfortunately her sensibility was so exquisite that she could not avoid noticing that no ane ever at- tended to what she said. The rest of them, like her, listened with ilea patience to anyone else's utter - look at the more cherished of her personal belongings. That, she felt sure, was one of the things suicides always do. All about the room were remind- ers of old enthusiasms which now left her cold -porcelain, an eastern hanging, a Da Vinci head smiling enigmatically, a kakemono, a prie- dieu, a sphinx of jade . . As she contemplated them she realized with satisfaction that they formed exact*y the background she could have wished. I have omitted to say that she had put on her most becoming frock ever had such things. • When, as was not uncommon at this period, Agatha slouched .down mantic sense of being fascinated against her will, to the table on which lay the instrument of death. It had been some days before she could bring herself to buy it. She had seen it in. a curio shop window, as she passed in a mood of black depression at the tail of three days' cide with in novels. Directly she had seen it she had visualized it in her hand and herself lying stark and cold and white. . The incident came at a critical time for her. The Sometime Friend of the fare- well letter had just earned herself the epithet which proclaimed ger a` vide for herself, there the subject back number by marrying. Their had dropped. intimacy had ceased. Like all intellectual women, un- til they marry, Agatha thought married an alternative term' for humiliation. Also it argued the ranietime Friend's interest in someone seise beside Agatha, which was wounding to Agatha's amour propre. She was only interested in people who were interested in her. retired. They were folk as conven- tional as only the well-to-do can be, and she was their only child.'• They had' declared so simultaneously, and in so exactly duplieaite en in- flexion, that they could never dream of such a thing, that, since she was manifestly unable to pro - But, the refusal happening- to coincide with the apostasy of the Sometime Friend, her grisly tan- dem, Morbidity and Introspection, had from that time onward been given free rein. She was able, in fact, to draw from the bitterness . of life a satis- faction which • its 'sweets no longer gave 'her. The figure holds for her Possibly for that reason, her cir- attitude toward food. Morbidity de of friends had never been a wide had vitiated her palate. She now one. She was, moreover, naturally found nothing worth'eating but fastidious. `Brains and breeding things like caviare, artiohaut a were a sine qua non. With the l'huile, anchovies. Particularly Sometime Friend's secession the anchovies. She had a. passion for supply of those possessing the ne- .anchovies, cessary qualifications was exhaust- It may seern unimportant. I met- ed. Wherefore en the night of her friend's marriage, Agatha had as- sured her diary that friendships generally were superficial and un- taste for them plebeian, and stead - satisfying ; tead-satisfying; had protested further, fastly set her face against their ap- that friends were faithless; and pearance at any other meal than finally. had .asserted with a sudden dinner, and then only occasionally. It was, indeed, one of Agatha's minor grievances against her. Once her craving for them had been so strong that she had surrep- tion it because her liking for them was probably at this time her only genuine, unaffected, whole -hearted emotion. Her mother ;thought her descent to the particular, that she, personally, was unloved and alone. That had been merely the final drop in the cup of her misery. Previous entries in the diary (voic- hi:iously purchased a small barrel- ing her •ha,hitual meditations), bad fail and consumed them in the seclu- sion of her bed -room. Even that had not cured her, as such orgies generally do, But she had never repeated the experiment, and had now perforce to be content with the occasion's on which her favorite delicacy, was included in her moth- er`'s menus. Her abstention sprang from a feeling which had followed (like a sick headache) . hard upon the orgie, that the gratification' of such mun- dane "impulse's was in•eonsisteire with her temper.ament. In the course of years she had quite warped her temperament by her notionof what wee con.tistent with it. cit came to be quite a p.raetice with her to 1ie abed hours after the thee of risizi#t, .because there was For two or three mornings, .wh ra `nothing ni life worth. risieg : for. she felt ie the mood, she heel • sat Wheel she did get up, presumably there with a sheet of paper bef.t;'e only beoauss even lying inert wa, declared that she was a Failure,' with a capital F; and that no one had ever understood her. The first of these, being inter- preted, signified that having, with- out any partieular talent, and with no capacity at all for co•utinued ef- fort, deckled to Express herself (•capital E), by painting, she had discovered that her first two or three pictures were not up ;to the level of Augustus Sohn, and had thrown away her tools in disgust. In that epoch the den had been called the studio, Shortly after- ward it became - the writing -room; in contradistinction to the study,, the apartment where .her father spent his days laboriously rnpil. in plegal totrtes, g ponderousg ‘`Rob -Rolling" on the Davos Bab -stun. • The roll bob is the invention of Mr. Sanger, a well-known. sport ins- visitor to Davos Platz. It is fitted with rubber tired wheels and proves a highly amusing and exciting sport. The only danger is rung-- ning on wet roads, as the bob is liable to skid. They are much u on the bob run Davos to Klosters.--London Sphere... - not worth while, her -personal ap- pearance was a matter of such in- difference to her than her dressing was :skimped; even, occasionally, on particularly morbid days, her ablu- tions. Onee downstairs, she . would only lounge sluggishly through the.. hours till bed -time caane again. It was at the end of -`ono', such wholly listless day that she - had seen the dagger. She had been,. glad that the man had demanded an exhorbitant price for the dagger. It gave her an excuse to go home empty-handed, to waver, and to wince. . On the second day she had seen the blade, tapered, flexible, shin- ing. Again she had returned with-, out it, to warm herself at -the fires of a perverted, dreadful joy. The act -to -be had now become wholly desirable, the only real thing in a- world of gloomy shades. Eventually she had purchased the dagger at the full sum.asked. She dreamed one night that someone else had bought it, and reached the shop next morning before the shut- ters were down. Pale,..:but trium- phant, she had borne away her prize, and, that some day, had sucked a certain sickly pleasure from the making of her prepara- tions. - An.danow,' the moment had come. She drew the'.weapon from its jew- elled sheath, with intense appreci- ation of the value, dramatically, of the act of. doing so. She raised her arm. and held the blade aloft, agreeably conscious of a duplicate. arm doing likewise in •the mirror behind - her. To pose had become more than second nature with her— to be natural was the most weari- some of poses. Momentarily petulant at the pic- ture of being found. unduly muti- later, she ran her thumb - somewhat carelessly along•the . blade of the knife to- test it. She was instantly startled by, a sensation of pain. Her hand felt wet. - She .looked down and saw blood dripping onto her dress. She flung the knife -away with an ex-: clannation, and examined her hand anxiously. The wound was actual- ly a` small cut in. the bend of the thumb, but to her, in .her 'over- wrought state., it appeared nothing short of •a gash. Pa nicestricken, she recalled tales of lockjaw; hard on'that •there oo- ourred to her the possibility that the dagger had been poisoned, and frantically she eueked `at the injured place. She. imagined herself to 'be suffering tortures. Losing all self-control, . she . shriek- ed aloud—once, and again, and yet. again. No one came. Thee, blood continued to drip' onto her dress. It was, gas we have seen,, her favor- ite dress, but the fact of its ruin did not now concern her. She ' rushed shed to 'the other side of the room a'nd,•,pressed her thorn)) madly against the ce1d marble mantelpiece. With the renewal of hope it gave 'her she found cnet gy to shrieagain,with redoubled vi- gor. Still no one came. Then she burst into a flood ' of tears, for it seemed to her that rho was being left 'alone to die I Eventually, overcome, it is. to be supposed, a by the unwonted strain of ,five ,minutes' genuine ,= erebtion, Was she fainted. When she Woke, an hour. later, from, the heavy sleep into 'which she had- almost, insen- sibly fallen, - it was to find herself in bed with a small piece of co•urt- pla,ter on her thumb. Then, with a flash of humiliation, the events of the afternoon came back to her. She had not the sense of humor to laugh` at herself and have done,. She merely felt acutely that she was 'a pitiful, impotent, conic thing.; and began softly to cry. To her, after an:interval, came Annie, • the' second parlor maid, with a tray. r . "Oh, Miss Aggie," said she. "I've brought• your tea, Miss Ag- gre,:_ • And your mother says, Miss Aggie, that as -you're been over - ;tired to -day, she's sent you .up some anchovies .with your tea—as a special treat." Life has - its compensations.— London Sketch. • THE VIRTUE OF TIIE LEAD PA.ORET. The last process tea undergoes at the gardens is firing, to exhaust all moisture, as moisture is fatal to quality. The tea is . then much drier than the air. It is then quickly placed .in the airtight . lead packets, or lead -lined chests, which are. soldered up and made. airtight. When chests of tea come into the possession of some dealers, they, unthinkingly, cut the lead open and leave the tea exposed to the moist air for weeks,' while. all the time it is fast decaying. Remem- ber, tea, however preserved, de- cays with age, but it will lose more in a week exposed to the air than in six months in a lead packet. That is why "SALADA" tea is sold only in sealed lead packets: its native purity- and garden fresh- ness are perfectly preserved.. —• Old" rubberized raincoats can be cut up to make cases for rubbers or slippers. Also to cover the clothes basket when laundry is sent away from home. A cheap cut of steak can be sim- mered slowly in a covered frying pan,together with chopped onions and a can of tomatoes. Allow two or three hours for the cooking. To put 'a gloss like new, on white silk, wash and rinse well, then . put into water containing ;a teaspoon- ful of methylated spirits to a : pint of water, . and iron while damp. When a little totamto sauce is left over, try poaching an egg in it. Season with cayenne and Worces- tershire sauce. The tomatoes should ..be boiled,when the egg is dropped. To remove typewriting ink from linen place the inked parts in tur- pentine . and soak for at least twenty-fourhours, then pour boil- ing soda oil-ing,soda water on it, rinse and dry, and the stains will be completely removed. In making pee soup, after well. washing one quart of quart of split peas, soak : them for the night, ants boil them with :•a little carbonate of soda in just sufficient water to allow thein to break to a mash, Then . put them to three or four uarts et broth, and; stew for q one hour; then pass the , Whole through. a sieve and heat again, 1 0 U1400'20.01 (la 1C tiverIte Recipes. 'Vegetable Padding. -- One cup grated -carrot, ono cup grated Po- tato, one cup • brown sugar, one cup seeded ia_�» :.;r, o: e chopped suet or butter, preferably suet; one teaspoon soda put dry into one h...aping cup flour, one -ha?_ teaepoon each of cinnamon and cloves, ,no water for wetting; the juice from vegetables is, m.rasture enough ; "steam .in three one poun,ct baking powder cans, 'filled ,half fu:1 and covered, one and one-half hours; uncover and brown in ova.: one-half hour. Sauce for the pud- ding: One cup• pulverized sugar, one tablespoon butter mix well, then stir in white of one egg, un- beaten ; now beat well. This is al- most like ' whipped ore.ain. T:eis sauce.is enough to serve four peo- ple increase according to number served. r . Steamed 'Salmon Loaf':• -The '-fol lowing salmon leaf has never bee: seen in print' and. is'n�'rfeee" delicious either hot or cold. Two cans of salmon, one • cup cracker crumbs, one large onion hied in four tablespoons of butter and then strain out the onion, four eggs well beaten, one 5 cent bunch of pars- ley cut fine, salt, and pepper. Mix all together' and steam two hours. Put in grea•sea lard' pail. Serve. with ;a good white sauce. If'you wish the sauce to look pink add ,7 little tomato catsup and it will not only look pretty but taste good. Rhubarb Custard Pie.—Two cups rhubarb, two egg's, one cup sugar, one tablespoon flour, three tablespoons pulverized sugar. Peel and cut up the rhubarb, pour b.i1 lug water on it, let stand five min- utes, then drain ; beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar, add • the hour, and mix thoroughly with the rhubarb. Line a pie tin with good plain paste, pour this mixture in it, and bake about half an hour.;1 Make a. meringue of" the whites of the eggs and sugar, place on. top r .when done; and lightly brown. Two Mullins.—These are called the two muffins because there are two measures of • each ingredient,' with the exception of salt. Seeved with eggs,• fruit, and coffee, a bet -1 ter breakfast at this season of the' year is hard to find. Two eggs, two teaspoons sugar, two,teaspoons melted butter, two cups flour, tea- spoon salt, two te.Qspoons baking powder, and enough sweet milk to make a soft batter. Bake in • a quiek oven in muffin .tins: I Veal Loaf.—Two cups of veal and one cup of celery cut in: small pieces, one-fourth can of sweet red peppers cut fine, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of extract of beef, one envelope of gelatine: Soak the gelatine in one cup of wa- ter for five minutes, add one and one-half pints of boiling water, salt, and extract of beef. When beginnig; to set , add celery, veal, And peppers and turn into mold_ •When cold slice and garnish.with parsley. .. Raisin Pie.—One cup of raisins boiled until tender, one cup sugar, one egg, one cup cold water, two tablespoons melted butter, two ta- blespoons flour, one tablespoon vinegar. Let cool before putting into crust. This is a good selling pie. Delicious Oil Maynoneise. — The yolk of a hard-boiled egg, mashed well, one teaspoon salt, one tea- spoon of dry mustard, the yolk of a ,raw egg;- beaten and mixed with the cther "ingredients. Add oil very slowly, as much as' desired, - (one pint is a ,good amount). Add' Lemon juice or vinegar to taste. The difficulty in making oil maynonaise is to avoid having soil; separate' from other ingredients: To pre-' vent this mix ingredients .in a chill- ed dish. •- Salt Water Tafty.—This taffy, especially near the seashore, is a great favorite and is sold in large quantities. It is made by simply taking the vanilla taffy receipt . and cooking it at a slightly lower tem- perature.' When it is done remove it from the stove and stir into it a tablespoonful each of butter, salt and plain glycerine: Pottr out and handle :the same as other taffy, leaving it white or'' coloring arid flavoring,;it in different ways. The proper way to finish this candy is to cut it into small pieces with a pair of large ebears, and wrap them in thin wax paper to prevent sticking together. This makes a peculiar waxy piece of candy, leav- ing the ,last taste in your mouth slightly salty..' Pure glycerine is absolutely harmless, as any ,drug- gist: can tell von, and is used to give the candy that mooch; waxy effect, Lw ILLe.rT Cold O N HIM'ITUD,. F O R r� MAKING SOAP SOFTENING 'yf AT E DISINFECTING CLOSET , AI S SINKS, & ) soft . cloth dipped in milk. Polish with a dry cloth. The skin of a grapefruit after re- moving the bitter white pulp, can he crystallized.- and cooked in the same manner as orange and lemon rinds are prepared: Suede shoes that 'are spotted from rain .can be renewed by the simple method of rubbing with an emery board, the spots matted to- gether by the water. If a small hook and eye are plac- ed at the ends of the rubber around the knees of little boys' bloomer suits, ,the rubber is'easily r.emov'd when the suits are washed, and the, bloomers Can then be ironed out flat. .When baking anything which re- quires 'attention at given intervals, set the. alarmbn your kitchen clock. Its ringing will remind you to keep a lookout for' the dish in the oven while you keep busy about your other kitchen duties. A left=over dab of mashed pots- toes can be made into a cupful of good soup with the addition of milk, a bit of butter and some cel- ery salt: A little ironingboard with a crease tonne case is an" excellent thing for women who frivol, as'it can be'put into the trunk with the electric iron. To clean a .frying -pan place it on the fire for a few seconds, then wipe out with •a- piece of soft paper or damp cloth. This will.preserve the pan in better condition than scrubbing it. hints. If the finger nails are too brittle g; rub `them with vaseline at night. When taking spots out with gaso- line, put a piece of blotting•paper under the cloth,' and no circle will remain after the material has been cleaned. Baked potatoes are delicious if a slice of bacon, is put inside. Make a hole in the potato with an apple. corer, roll a piece of bacon and put Season with sat and pepper. One it in the • Bole. heads of celery, sliced e I a- or two small hy, A good way to cl an patent e a,nd stewed in it,, will be found: a Hier shoes is to remove all the ,dart great improvement.' . ' and then wipe them over with a GROWING STItON IER. Apparently, with Advancing Age. "At the age of 50 years I col- lapsed from excessive coffee drink- ing," writes a Western man. Tea is just as injurious, becauso•it con- tains caffeine, the•same drug found in coffee. "For foto years 1 sham- bled about with the aid of crutches or cane, most of the time upable to dress rny�self without help. "My feet were greatly swollen, my right arm was shrunken and twisted' inward, the fingers '' of myl. • right hand were clenched and eould be extended excerpt with great effort and pain. Nothing seemed to give me more than temporary relief,:. `Now, during all - this time and for about' 30 years previously, X drank daily an •average of 6 cups o strong coffee -rarely missing ab meal. ` My wife at last; took my case into- her own hanels and bought soafie Posture. $he made it accord- ing to directions and I liked it fully as .well as the .best high-grade coffee. "Improvemen:t set in at once. , In about 6 months I began to : work a little; and in less than a year I was very much better, improving rapid- ly from day 'to day.. I am now in' far better health titan most men'of my years and apparently growing ' stronger with advancing .age: =am busy every day at some kind of work and am able to keep tip with; the procession wit'hout:a eitne. The :,arm and hand that ware once almost useless# now•keep far ahead in rapidity of movement and beauty. of penmanship:" Name given by Canadian Postern do„ Windsor, Ont. Write for copy of the Tittle book, ' "The 'Road to Wellville.'. Posture conies in two forms: Xtee alar roalunn -,- must be well boilest. f ttstant POStutkt is a soluble powder. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a cttp of hot water, and, with the .addition of creak a1.ad' su.rxar, makes a, delicious beverage i t1 . 1» "qtly, "There's i+'e's . reason" - or Po ttina, e a is res tum,