The Exeter Advocate, 1919-9-18, Page 2Fence In the Toddler.. } numberless happy hours, but that
A FRENCH PATRIOT.
The following poem, "Vive la
France," is one of the tenderest pic-
tures of patriotism that bas come out
of the Great War:
" Vive la France;
Franceline rose in the dawning grey,
And her heart would chance though
she knelt to pray,'
Icor her tnanx. Michel had holiday,.
., Fighting for France.
Perhaps the greato't privilege is they will never Iack for playmates,
the wonderful resource of having all because their play yard will be sought She offered her prayer by the cradle
outdoors, blit tins is el, privilege which' out by all the little folks in the neigh- side,
;the mother of young, children le apt: bcrhood, land with baby palms folded in"hers
to neglect. She herse:f must be in the:
- she cried:
kitchen or ne;z2• it during much of the' Beets Serve.: InNew Ways. "If I have but one prayer, dear crud-
day, and she must have her babies; fled Christ save Ftaacel„
where they are within sight" It often'. Beets in Jelly—!Boil, peel and chop „But if I have two, then, by Mary's that country little folies spend several medium sized new beets. Let
most of the time hanging drearily cosi and mix with them one cup of Carryrace
gate safe to the meeting place.
cold chicken, pork or mutton, chopped
around the kitchen where they are in; „ Let me look once again on my dear
the way and where the air is not; one. Pour over the mixture one pin love's face, g
• of lemon jelly made from jelly powder i
a.vyays good, + , Sage him for France!"
But what else can the busy mother' that has been dissolved and is be-;
inning to Als!fix well, pour in a She crooned to her boy, "Oh, how glad
he'll be,
d. fine. She can apply to her children mold and let et get Slice and.
r ,� .s platter or on individual Little three•month-old, to set eyes an
chicles. I'et.Gin„ 11 ;;cep little ehil-•mates earrielied with crisp lettuce,
the lore she has learned about little serve on a
diet safe from i.itemobile haunted thee!
Pace a spoonful of salad dressing on For, 'Rather than gold would I give,'
1E
ro h, sr. ram war, c r>uecvrs, from'
B oath porton. : wrote he,
i enrJneout of sight cif their mother's j es. Green Salad—Cook in salted •A son to France,"'
c e es. And there is no Tarin in the r B
country where 'there is not enough' water until tender, one-half peck of:
tender beet leaves with the tiny beets"Come. now, be good, little stray
c .sa2det! material •of one k.rti or an -I attached, Drain and cool. Peel the sauterelle,
ether 'y i* ;• aboat to imlose a spot, beets and chop the leaves. Mixt the
tweipty feet square, though it leaves with three chopped, hard-boiled
enit be larger to alit enrage, It is eggs and enough mayonnaise dressing'
better if there is a tree to furnish to moisten nicely. Pile in the centre,
some stale for hot divs, bait if there of a shallow salad bowl. Garnish with'
5 rtu*.e nettr enough iso the= house, a the tiny beets, small balls of cottage,
p,e.ec of old paper raoth g or a section
of oil corrugated metal roofing, or
Beet Greens Served Hot—Cook as
cheese and shredded lettuce leaves.
rme old 'aoards with cads and enols of many beet tops as desired in salted,
► ' Fhinctls put over them, win f urnish
shade fnr hot days. water until tender. Drain and pile
; on a plotter in a mound. Dress with,;
Little children wish and need to be' melted butter, whitePP a er and juice'
p
da eg something with their bodies and of one lemen and serve hot.
hands every minute they are awake. , Beet and Vegetable Salad—Cut two;
Ile problem is to provide them with, cold boiled beets in small cubes, Slice!.
something to do +which cannot hurt four small, cold -boiled carrots and one
them. which. will help them to grow, dozen small white onions. Mix and;
and which will not be too upsetting to add ono cup of cold boiled peas. Dress;
the regularity of the family life. To with mayonnaise and serve in a bed,
begin with, if a load of sand is dump- of shredded lettuce leaves.
ed in one corner of the baby yard, and Baked Beets—Clean the required
seine old spoons and wornout utensils number of beets, piaci: them in a pan.
contributed from the kitchen. there containing one-half inch of boiling
wit he many hours of every day dur- water, and bake until tender. Just
inq whish the fortune of a millionaire before removing from the oven lay a'
coral give the little folks no more slice of broiled bacon and a spoonful'
Largs
A ^ -• of shredded green pepper over the top is he? thousands of dollars a year, and he a "What are you going to do?" she
A piece cf ^l.�necl board can be nail- of each beet. Salt and pepper to taste, -There is dust Seel my eyed`, fax I can -small-] M
cel upon four stout sticks driven into dress with a little butter and serve claims that his is not only the , asked, perceiving grim purpose in ilia:
not see---
the ground and another on higher hot.est, but the most profitable railroad eyes"
Is that my Michel to the right o1 thee, in the world.
For we're going by -by to thy papa
Michel,
Ilut I'll not say ,where, for fear thou
wilt tell,
Little pigeon of France!
"Six days' leave and a year between!
But that would you have? In six
days clean,
Heaven was made," said Franceline,
"Heaven and France."
She came to the town of the nameless
name,
To the marching troops in the street
she came,
And she held high her boy like a
taper flame
Burning for France.
Fresh from the trenches and grey
with grime,
Silent they march like a pantoinhne;
'But what need of music? My beart
beats time--
Vive la France!"
His regiment comes. Oh, then where
IF ANIMALS COULD TALK.
What Stories They Could Tell of Cen-
tury -Old Events,
If animaais could talk, says Le Pete-
Mele, Paris, they would be able to tell
us first-hand' of !events that happened
a hundred years or more ago.
The Russian eagle, for instance,
that hovered over tixe freezing, fam-
ishing soldiers of Napoleon while
they were retreating from Moscow
in 1812, still may be living, for eagles
frequently pass t1ie. century mark.
Crocodiles which were in the
swamps of the '\Vest Indies when the
first explorer set foot on the isiauds,
are basking there yet, and in the
ocean still are whales that frequented
the coast of France when Joan of Aro
was a child, and when, in 1415, HeurY
V. of England, landed in Normandy
with a great army and seized Hon-
fleur. These, whales, if they could
talk and cared to, could tell us that in
those days there were large whale
fisheries along the Basque coast, in
fact pretty generally in the Gulf of
Gascony. Far whales live several cen-
turies, while elephants rarely pass one
hundred years; but carp and crows
sometimes live two centuries.
Speaking of birds we may recall
that parrots and swans often be-
come centenarians, and it is not un-
usual for a long -beaked heron to reach
50. Geese and pelicans live half a
century; the bumble sparrow frequent-
ly sees 40, while pigeons. canaries,
storks and peacocks often reach 30.
Partridge, pheasants, nightingales and
larks live nominally from 15 to 18
years.
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took up her stitches again and watch-
ed her slip them one by one on the
needle.
"There!" she said. "Now I'm all
straight. I shall soon make up what
I've lost,"
"But while you're making it up you
might have knit a lot more," he burst'
out. "I guess that's like me. I began,
all wrong—though it wasn't my fault.
And perhaps there isn't any use in;
trying to make up."
She perceived that -his thoughts'
were traveling a worn groove of des-"
poetdency.
"Do you know," she said, almost
sharply, "that what you have just`
said is both false and cowardly?
There is always a use in trying—al-1
As for X -hat ha ened at 'our!
ways pp e
birth—your poor young mother went;
home to God, carrying her story with
her, ,Do you think He doesn't under -1
stand? And she has only one anxiety
now; can you guess what that is?"
"Doth" k do you
mean—?
which you In
Railway, vl isle
Island a a
The Grand
I land R i ),
stretches from end to end of an island Sometimes I've fancied—I've wonder -1
in the Athabasca river, is probably ed if she ebuld--a fellow,, can't help
the smallest in the world. The en- thinking queer thoughts, you know.'
tire length of the track is a quarter of "Your mother," said Mary Brett;
a mile, and the rolling stock come steadily, "wants you to be•a good man.,
prises two well-worn lorries. How do I know? Becduse 1 am a
Merchandise is taken to the island mother; and more than anything in;
in boats or scows, transferred to the heaven or earth, I want my boy to be
railroad and shipped again by water i a man ---courageous, honest, loving. I
at the other end. Customers load tate : shall always want it, wherever I am.
care themselves and propel then! by !_ I am sure of it!"
hand power across the island. The s He got slowly to his feet, fumbling;
a•ner says his enterprise returns in his pocket for his wrecked bat,
O
stieks put before it, and the little Beet Cups --Peel six boiled beets
folks will have a bench and table and scoop out the centre to form cups.
whieI' cost but a few cents, and are as Chop the part removed with one cup
eervi:'eab'-e as the pretty painted ones of white fish --cold bailed or baked--
wh«:eh coat ten times as much. Potters' and six or eight stuffed olives" Add
clay can be bought for a few cents a' twa tablespoonfuls of thick Bream,
pound ;.nal for a variation from the ` one tablespoonful of prepared French
sr:s,1 pile plays, young children will mustard, salt and pepper to taste and
g` oily turn to clay modeling. If the juice of one lernon, Mix and fill cups.
clay is kept where it can be obtained, Grate the yolks of twa hard-boiled
etteny, it is possible that one or more eggs over the top and lay rings of
of the children may show some stir the white of eggs and a sprig of
rt..gs of native ability and begin to! parsley on the plate with each salad
tr t r d th • a1 life of
Soldier of France?"'
Then out of the rdnks a soldier
fell,
"Yesterday--'twas a splinter of shell—
And he whispered thy name, did thy
poor Michel,
Dying for France."
The tread of the troops on the pave-
ment throbbed
Like a woman's heart of its last joy
robbed,
As she lifted her boy to the flag, and
r o retro uce a an im i cup- sobbed: .'
the country. If the mother has time: Beet Jelly—Pour one pint of boiling "Vive la France;"
and ability to supervise tilt play, so beet juice over the contents of one
Snitch the better, but if she is so busy package of lemon flavored jelly powd-
A wooden spoon is best for cake
because the round, handle does not tire
the hands.
Alfalfa is the cheapest home grown
feed to produce milk. There are 212
pounds of digestible protein in ane
ton and the average yield per season
is three tons per acre. Alfalfa, by
adding nitrogen to the sail, gives as
much as it takes.
Minaret=s Liniment for saIo everywhere.
that he can only call out from the, er; add twa tablespoonfuls of sugar. f
kitchen a suggestion to make some; Pour into mold and let harden. Serve
little cups and saucers, or a bird's! in squares as garnish for meats, fish,
nest and eggs, this will serve very salads, etc.
well for a beginning,
If tour strips of wood arc nailed in How We Do It.the form of a square at one end of the A teas son of vinegar added to each
little table p g
and a pan hal£ full of
water is set securely down into the gallon of water in the boiler in which
sreenre so that it will not tip over, white clothes are scalded will whiten
another great resource is added to the them.—Mrs. L. M. T.
play yard. With an apron of oilcloth, If tablecloths, napkins and handker-
a spoon and an old tin cup, it is an chiefs are folded a little beyond the
abnormal child who is not happy and middle when ironing, they will last
harmlessly busy for a long time each much longer, as it is on the edges of
day, Any ordinary child a few years folds where they first wear, and by
of age loves to play with water in this folding not on the middle line, with
nay and learns steadiness of hand and each ironing they get a new erease.i
sureness of eye which go a long way Mrs. R. G.
toward insuring agreeable table man- To bleach your handkerchiefs a
ners at an early age. As he grows pure white, after washing, let them
older a fleet of boats made of bits of soak over night in water in which a
wood or walnut shells vary the fun. bit of cream of tartar has been dis-
..te apron can' be made in a few min solved.—M, A. P.
it Fax in g hams and other colored cot -
table oilcloth. If the mother is very tons dissolve and add ti, every pint
busy she can simply fasten it together of starch, a piece of alum the size of
at the shoulder and back with safety
pins.
Childrenunder four delight in
climbing,, and if possible provision
should be made for that. A wooden !nay be restored to their former soft -
box can be set a little down .in the ness by soaking them a short time in
ground, so that it will not tip over, gasoline.—M. A. P.
ann the edges padded with a bit of an Cedar,,oil rubbed on the side walls
aid comforter, so that the inevitable and under side of shelves in closets
bumps are not too severe. The small- is good for prevention of moths. Tur-
est children, even the baby who can- pentine rubbed on carpets under heavy
not walk, will rejoice endlessly in furniture and in corners will keep the
pulling himself up aver the edge and moths away. -Mrs. J. J. O'C.
clambering down into the box, there- Save old kid gloves for ironing day:
by exercising every muscle of his Sew a piece from the left glove on to
body. the palm of the night one, and you
Little children cannot co-ordinate will find your hand is saved from be-.
their muscles quickly enough to play coming blistered, while the fingers
ball with much pleasure, but if a large and back of the hand will be protected 1
eoft ball is suspended by a long cord,1 from the scorching heat which is so;
they can swing it back and forth to damaging to the shin., ldrs. J. J. O'C.1
each other with ever-increasing skcill,• __ _. •
and they should have a rubber ball to
troll to and fro on the ground. I£ a A Simple Cure.
!two-by-four board i1 laid on the The little country inn was pin-
gronnd the little folks will find much! turesciue, but leaky. Late ane night
funintrying to walk along it, and thus 1 a guest rang his hell urgently, aad the
acoui]•e a considerable addition to landlord answered.
their capacity for walking straight "I say, look here," snorted the in -
and managing their bodies. A .pile of diguant traveler, who was still in bed.
bay or straw to jump into will save "That roof's letting in the rain, and
the little gymnasts from:bumpe ard'. I'm drenched.
'bruises. "Very good, sir!'1 remarked the
Nothing in this baby 'yard need landlord, amiably, as he retired. A
cost a farmer's' fancily more than a fe-vi' minutes later he came with a
fear cents, nor take biit l'ttle time and large washtub.
a]iroet tlo Carpenterin., skill. And .yet, "This will make things right, sir,„
the suggestions made cover a very
complete outfit for the outdoor"exer-,
dee,: of ehilciiee under five or six.
.A.n:;- r•ine r wno makes this,pro\-ision 1'11 have another empty one ready!"
- foe mee b � s: ,re not only that
her ewe litt'le, ...;.ilia`!'t:n will pa•" -s ntinnrd's ointment Oozes Dandruff.
a hickory nut to keep the colors
bright.—Mrs. J. IC.
I have discovered that when flannels
have become hard and shrunken, they
he said, stili amiably„ "I'll just tint
this on your chest; then, whenits
full, ring the bell, or shout out, and
rarabyrywrionrmr
Her Housebreaker
By Florence Morse Kingsley.
ti
CHAPTER III,—(Cont'd,)
She arose front her chair and laid
her hand on his shoulder.
"I'm going to give you a name,"
she said impulsively. "Will you ac -
sept it—from me?"
He gazed at her wonderingly.
"Comet" she urged. "I want to
show you—"
He followed her to the dining room.
She paused before the portrait of a
man with the stern countenance. Her
eyes were shining as from same
strange inward light®wltich seemed to
illuminate her whole face and figure.
"Thetis a picture of my father,"
she said: "He was the best man I
ever—knew. His name was Daniel
Maitland. I am going to name you
for him."
She quickly dipped her fingers in
the glass .bowl which held the asters
and held them over his head.
"Daniel Maitland," she said slowly,
"1 christen you, in the name of your,
Father, which .is in Heaven. May he
bless, guide and keep you, from this
day forward, even forever more!"
She certainly had not planned the
little ceremony. . It was a beautiful
impulse.
)
He stood before her, silent, his head
bowed. Then, as she stirred a little,}
as if about to move away from him,
he caught her, fingers in his own. 1
"Daniel Mitland," he repeated 1
huskily.
And by the dawning light in his
eyes' she perceived something of the
value of the gift she had, in hergreat
pity, bestowed upon him.
"To have a name—of my own," he
went on brolcenly, "a name, like other,
people. You can't think what it is
likento be always called Workhouse,'. "'
"Don't say it any more," she beg
ged. "You have a name now—a good,!
an honorable name. You must grow
to fit it. Do you understand what I ,
mean? You must promise me."
He was gazing at her hungrily,
"I promise," he murniuretl, "I will'
try. I shall succeed if you "
"I will help you," she promised.
"But your first step in the new life
will not ..be easy."
They had returned to the fireside.!
and she had taken up her knitting, a'
warm gray weave through which the'
needles- flew in and out.
He glanced at her inquiringly. He
seemed stili shaken by some inward
storm of emotion.
"What do you want me to do?"
"You must go back."
"To Van Auken? Never!"
"You stole his money."
"No!" he denied, hotly. "I had
earned it ten times over. I had a
right—"
"Not to take it without his knowl-
edge."
Her tone was unwavering and he
perceived that her eyes could be stern,
like those of the pictured Daniel Mait-
land.
She bent toward him suddenly, hold-
ing out her work for his inspection.
"Daniel," she said, "I want you to
look at this. It is one of those sleeve-
less jackets women all over the coun-
try are knitting for our boys in the
Army and Navy. This is meant for a
sailor. It will help keep him warm
and comfy at sea. You don't know
anything about knitting, of course;
but do you see that hole? It is a
dropped stitch. I was worlcing on it
the night before my son went away.
I --.I couldn't see what I was doing
very well, and so I must have slipped
a stitch from my"ncedle, without no-
tiaing."
He was looking and listening with
frowning intentness.
"If I don't go back and pick up that
stitch and make it right, my work
will be ruined. That one small drop
stitoh will spoil everything. Do you,
understand ?"
"And you think I've dropped a
stitch," said the boy. "Well—"
Mary Brett flashed him a quick look
of wonder, She. had not expected him
so clearly to follow her homely little
simile. He was not dull, it seemed.
"Sometimes, one has to ravel -like
this!" '
And she swiftly pulled her work
from the needles and drew out the
long strands.of wool.. _ -
"Pea going back, you see, to the
place where I made the mistake. After
that I shall be careful not to - drop
another stitch."
"How can I go back?" lie inquired
gloomily. "You don't kt;ow Van
Auken. He would put me in jail."
"Not if you returned the looney,"
He was silent, -while she 'carefully
"Going back to Van Aitken," he told
her. "I'll make a clean breast of it.
And maybe if I agree to work for him -
'without wages fax an extra month or
so, he'll let me off. If not—I can taker
my medicine."
"Don's, go yet," she begged, "there
are other things I must say to you.
This afternoon perhaps we can plan.
together,"
Friends of the Bretts, another and
son, were accustomed to speak of
them as "delightfully unworldly."
Mary Brett in particular, was known
to have done the oddest things. Only
the winter before she bad actually
stopped an the street to give her
cloak to a shivering woman earrying
a baby. Other follies of philanthropy
were commonly reported of her. "She
seemed," said certain prudent neigh-
bors, "to have no sense, when it came
to doing for 'lame ducks.'
Mary Brett was aware of the cove
" conduct awakened
•vi ]t nduc
's io le to t
ext disapproval a
in the breasts of persons more "sen-
sen-
sible"—or less perceptible to the sor-
rows of others than herself. She had
therefore fallen into the habit of con-
cealing her impulsive acts. It was her
own business, not theirs,
(To be continued.)
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