The Exeter Advocate, 1924-4-17, Page 2When the Crossby Heir Came Home
BY BEATRICE MCDONALD.
The town of Hillsboro was agog i "Of course I'll help you, Bobby.
ertr the. coming of Wilbur (rossav's Run back now anel„
nephew. Wilbur had died suddenly
and now Dean, his nephew, heir to his
fortune, was. com!na to settle his'
uncle's affairs. Cro .sby's lawyer had
given out no statement as to the ex-
tent of his wcaith, but intimations
had been sufficient to wend every
another with eligible daughters sour -
tying to make them pretty before the
nephew's arrival.
'Going to make yourself smart for
the Crossby heir":" asked Mrs. traces
of Amy Phelps, the pretty school mis-
tress who lived with her. "You could
give the others hereabouts all kinds
o!' handicaps when `t comes to looks.
Why don't you doll up and go after
him?"
Amy's silvery laugh was a tons^ for Phelphs as she .slowed down, mutter -
all who came within earshot of it. Ing in an undertone, "Aunt Sophy's
Mrs. Gates said it always made'her in the henhouse—keep him under the
feel a few months younger every seat!"
time she heard it, "Doll up?" laugh- Then Miss Phelps rode on, enjoying
ed the girl. "How silly! It's my the sharp tang in the spring air, out
idea of no way to win- a husband. onto the country road and back to
Think of what you lay out for your- ward town again. Just as she cane
abreast of the old Crossby place she
killed her engine and got .out to do a
little coaxing. Meanwhile Bunny,
having tired of his close quarters,
started on a tour of investigation and
when Amy looked up was jumping
with a twinkle in her eye; "but along toward an open gate.
there's a right smart of mothers in Straight into the Crossby yard he
Hillsboro's going to start their ran, stopping behind a lilac bush to
daughters out trying hard anyway. see if he was pursued. He was, for
Mrs. Prentis says she's counting on Amy, true to her trust, followed the
the heir for Easter dinner. What do, furry fugitive as fast as she could..
you say to cutting in ahead of her • On and on her ungrateful'protege Ied
and inviting him. I her, hopping aggravatingly just be -
"Not on my account," Amy laughed, yond her reach, circling the house
`again. "If he isn't here there'll be twice, finally dashing to the porch and
that much more chicken for me." • 1 through the door, opened at that
"Mrs. Prentis ain't calculating to psychological moment by an extreme -
have chicken. Sha says she's got ly good-looking young man.
what newspapers call a scoop. She "Why—how do you do!" he greet -
remembers when the nephew was lit -ed cheerily. "What was it that just
tie and visited his uncle and how he decided to partake of my hospitality?
loved baked rabbit, so she's counting Is it yours? 'Won't you join it—and
on having that, if she can find one" me—inside? I am—"
With no particular reason, Miss "You aren't—are you—"
Phelps' thoughts reverted to Bobby "Dean Crossby—at your service.
Raine, one of her pupils, and his pet Came on a few days ahead of myself
rabbit. How he did love it! She re -.—just to get the lay of the land—
called helping him remove its foot unaided, as it were. And may I have
from a trap one day and the look of the pleasure of knowing you?"
tenderness upon his face. That "I'm Amy Phelps, a school teacher,
brought her to a much mooted ques- out trying, to abduct your Easter din -
tion in her own mind—some way to ner."
remove Bobby from the unpleasant The twinkle in Dean Crossby's eye,
environment in which he lived, with his coming ahead of schedule just to
a woman who called herself his aunt, be alone, revealed a man entirely op -
but whom the majority of the natives posite to the millionaire aristocrat
believed was no relation to him what- Hillsboro'was expecting and Amy
ever, I soon found herself telling Bobby's
After supper that evening, as Amy story. The boy was terribly cut up
was passing a vacant. lot on her way when informed that his pet had
to the regular Monday night teachers' escaped, but lived in the hope he
meeting, Bobby Raine, jumping out would return of his own volition.
from behind a clump of bushes, clutch-' When Dean Crossby decided to re-
ed at her skirt, and whispered, "Walk main in Hillsboro and made known
down this street with me, Miss Phelps his desire for a small boy to live with
--I want to talk to you." . him and help about the place, he was
Had it not been for her bump of carefully paving the way to asking
humor, Amy Phelps would have wept for Bobby. A fat roll of bills com-
at the look of tragedy in the uptur,,ned, pleted the transfer entirely to Aunt
tear -wet eyes when Bobby looked at Sophy's satisfaction, and when the
her under the street lamp. As it was boy was shown his clean white bed in
the path left by two vagrant tears a sunny south room he sighed and
coursing their way through grime and said, "Everything would be grand if
freckles aroused an inward chuckle I only had bunny back."
instead. She wouldn't have hurt the. "Perhaps some of the live things
boy, by laughing outright. I outside will help you to forget," smil-
"It's about Bunny," he told her ed Dean tenderly, taking his hand.
when they had reached a spot a little "Let's go see."
more aloof from the heart of things.' . He led the way to a new hutch be -
"Mrs. Prentis says to me this morn- hind the barn, where a bunch of ani-
ing that she wants to buy him for a mated white fur was devouring a car-
Iittle Easter dinner, and I says he's rot. "Bunny!" exclaimed the delight -
not for sale, and she says she'll see ed youngster. "However did you find
my aunt. Aunt Sophy'll do anything him, sir?"
for money you know, Miss Phelps, When Crossby told him the story
and rabbits is scarce now and Bunny's `Bobby sighed again and remarked re
all I got to love since Aunt Sophy gretfully. "She's the best friend any
shot Shep 'cause he ate too much." 1 fellow ever had. Gee -I wish she was
The child blinked and choked, his going to live here with us."
pinched face trembling so pathetically; "That's my wish exactly, old man.
Amy Phelps would have helped him Suppose we go and ask her!"
even if she hadn't known the condi-I "Oh dear," sighed Mrs. Prentis
tions. "I—I thought maybe, you'd when the engagement was announced.
keep him for me over to Miss Gates "If we only could of had rabbit for
till Easter's over—aunt'll think he's Easter dinner things might have
run off," the boy went on. been different!"
d when you come to
school to -morrow' I'll have a plan,
Wilbur Crossby's nephew was due
to make his triumphal efitry .into
Hillsboro on Thursday, the following
Sunday being Easter, so there was
need of speed. Tuesday afternoon
after school Amy turned Elizabeth
into the highway and went ostensibly
to make sick calls on some of her
pupils, Elizabeth was her trusty lit-
tle runabout which had conveyed her
on many an errand of mercy.
To -day, strange to say, her road
lay past Aunt Sophy's where Bobby
lived and, still strange to say, Bobby
was waiting for her behind the big
maple tree with an old basket in his
arms. It was covered with a cloth
and he handed it 'lovingly to Miss
self Why—he'd expect to see you
looking like a fashion plate every
time he came down to dinner, and
we know, don't we, Auntie Gates,
that it can't be done."
"Maybe not," answered Mrs. Gates
in a
Naturefoundthis. poem ,hidden1 �--
;
violet bud..At.-first . she .didn't know RECIPE FOR THE
what to •do. Mistress Spring was too'`
big to spank, but she wanted to teach' HOLIDAYS
her a lesson, So she made all the 1
Spring had described them in her
poem—.and she created `me to be the
mother of them all. "I live forever,
but I get me a new bonnet every year.
Mistress. Spring doesn't really love us.1
She never comes around until after
we have disappeared."
Just then Peter heard Mrs. Peter
saying:
"It must have been -a funny dream,.
Peter. You giggled twice in your
sleep."
Romance of an Easter
Bonnet.
`'•I want a bonnet," said Linda Gray,
"An Easter bonnet with ribbons gay;
But how can I buy an Easter hat
When this poor little• purse- of mine
is fiat?
I'il rummage around in the garret
though
And see what the place may have to
show."
So she climbed the stair .to the attic
where
Tho beams were low and the floor was
bare, -
And mice and sliders played blind
man's buff,
And the cobwebs hung like curtain
stuff,
And the odds and ends of sixty years
Were stored in a jumble—chandeliers
With dangling prisms, and candle-
sticks,
And tall glass lamps' without any.
wicks,
And rusty andirons and crippled
chairs,
And china vases—a dozen pairs
And broken plates, and a long quill
pen,
And clocks that never would go again,
And ancient bureaus and pictures
quaint
Of simpering beauty and solemn saint,
And the trunk that Grandmother
Gray with pride
Brought to the house as a fair young
bride,
And right on the dusty lid, behold!
A bandbox covered with red and gold
Chintz all ribboned and frilled and
shirred
In the old time fashion so absurd,
And tucked away in • it lo! a dream
Of an Easter hat, all pink and cream,
A wonderful yellow Tuscan straw
With the widest strings that you ever
saw,
And a beautiful fluffy drooping plume
The very tint of a rose in bloom.
"Here's my bonnet," she cried in glee,
"Just the style of a hat for me."
So she wore her grandmother's Tuscan
poke
Half in earnest and half in joke,
And dark eyed youth who never knew
Till Easter morning her, eyes were
blue
Over his hymn book looked at her
And thought of laces and lavender,
And love and music and all things
sweet,
And laid his heart at her dainty feet.
—Minna Irving.
Motion Pictures in
Saskatchewan.
Agriculture" being the basic industry
of the province of Saskatchewan, it is
only natural that the Department of
Agriculture should make wide use of
moving pictures In instruction work.
They are used in all short course work
carried on by agricultural representa-
tives in the province and also by the
Extension Department of the • iniver-
sity of Saskatchewan in connection
with the agricultural courses conduct-
ed daring the winter at various points
in the province. ". The films exhibited
deal with practically all phases of ag-
riculture. Among them are pictures il-
lustrating the co-operative marketing
of live stock, showing the progress of
the good. points of horses, bulls, milch
cows, give the observant an education
in what to look for when selecting
these animals. Farm boys get a lot.
of useful information from films of this
character, and put it to good use at
the farm boys' camps when the live
the animals from the farm to the
stockyards, the care of poultry and the
candling of eggs, ,the construction of
trenchsilos, cream grading, the em-
bryology of an egg. Films showing
stock judging competitions are in pro -
grecs. A combination of the practical
and aesthetic is found in the film
showing the proper method of tree
planting, with the object of demon-
strating how farm surroundings can
be made more attractive.
animals come to life—just as Mistress
The Easter Rabbit
BY EMMA BUGBEE.
"She's right here," she whispered,
drawing aside a tuft of dead grasses.
Mrs. Peter Iooked, and sure enough,
sitting on a nest of curly ping crepe
paper was the most beautiful rabbit'
that ever was. She was pure white,
and much larger than Peter or Mrs.
Peter, and she wore an extremely 1
handsome straw bonnet trimmed with
pink feathers. But what surprised
Mrs. Peter was not the bonnet, though
no one in the Green Forest had ever
worn anything Iike that, but the fact
that the white stranger was sitting
en a. nest of eggs. They were such
strange eggs, too, all striped with
pink and green. Some were covered
with flowers, and there was a big one
witha glass window in one end, and
through it Mrs. Peter could see pic-
tures of flowers and rabbits, all
sparkling like ice.
"What are those?" she asked.
' "Those are Easter eggs, of course,"
answered the' stranger. "They. hatch
out Easter bunnies."
"But I never saw any bunnies come
out of eggs," said Mrs. Peter. "And
I've raised a good many' fine, healthy
'families, too. Who are you,' any-
way?"
The stranger pulled a little powder
puff out of her apron pocket, and be-
fore Mrs. Peter's scandalized eyes she
powdeaed her nose.
"I am Madame Easter Rabbit," she
said, "and. I have the most beautiful
families that ever were. Come here,
levies."
She whistled a little tune, and In
answer to it a strange procession
came from behind the pussy ,willow
bushes. It was led by a big chocolate.
rabbit walking on his hind legs, car-
'rying a red egg in his paws, and after
him came tumbling six little yellow
chicks, all fluffy and fat like the ones
Peter had once . seen wandering. in
Farmer'Brown's orchard. But every
little chick wore a straw bonnet trim-
teed with pink bows, just like her
mother's.
"But -but," stammered Mrs. Peter,
"how can there 'be a chocolate rabbit
in the same family with chickens? All.
my children are just alike, and Old
Mother Nature told ine—".
"Never mind Old Mother Nature,"
laughed the Easter Rabbit. "She has
no control over me; 1 really belong to
Mistress. Spring. Did you never hear
the story of the Easter rabbit?"`
"Well, office 'ueon 'a time,, long, long
ago, when Mistress Spring was a very
young girl—and quite silly and senti-
mental—she wrote a spring poem, all
about dear' little white ..lambs and
fluffy chicks and downy rabbits in the
woods. It was a very silly poem, as
you can imagine. Well, Old Mother
ll
A well -cooked egg dish should be
served at Easter time and is always
a welcome substitute for meat for the
light meal of the. day. Escalloped
eggs; curried, scrambled, shirred and.
stuffed eggs, egg salad, omelet—these
are some of the ways of serving. them.
Eggs have a food value comparing
favorably with meat, milk, cheese and
other animal foods.
For fruit egg -nogg (individual
serving), separate white and yolk of
one chilled egg. Beat yolk, add a
teaspoonful of sugar (powdered
sugar preferred) and a few drops of
lemon extract. Mix, turn into a glass
and add iced milk, plain or .evapor-
ated, until the glass is three-quarters
full. Beat egg white and add to this
a teaspoonful of sugarand a, tea-
spoonful of grape juice. Pyramid
this on top of the glass, and serve ice
cold.
Eggs in a nest might be served for
an Easter breakfast. Toast slices of
bread to 'a very light brown. Beat
the whites of eggs until stiff and pile
on the toast, making a depression, in
the centre to form a nest. Into each
nest drop one egg yolk, being very
careful not to break the yolks.
Sprinkle with a little 'salt. Place in
a flat pan and put into a hot . oven
and bake until the white of egg is a
delicate brown. Drop a small piece
of butter on each, Serve very hot.
Clunolate sauce is served hot with
cottage or bread puddings or may be
served cold with puddings made of
corn -starch or gelatine. The sauce
requirse one pint of milk, one table-
spoonful of corn -starch, two ounces
of grated chocolate, one teaspoonful
of vanilla extract, and one-half cupful
of sugar. Put the milk in a double.
boiler, add the chocolate and stir until
the chocolate is melted and smooth.
Moisten the corn -starch with a little
cold milk, add it to the hot mills and
stir until it becomes smooth and thick.
Add the sugar, take from the fire, add
the vanilla and stir until well. blended.
An Easter pudding which will de-
Iight the children requires four cup-
fuls of scalded milk, one-half cupful
of corn -starch, one-quarter cupful of
sugar, whites of three .eggs, one-half
cupful of cold milk, one teaspoonful
of vanilla extract and a pinch of salt.
Mix the corn -starch, sugar and salt,
moisten with the cold milk, add the
scalded milk and cook in a double
boiler for fifteen minutes, stirring
constantly until the mixture thickens,
then stirring occasionally. Remove
from the fire, add the egg whites,
stiffly beaten, and the vanilla. Mix
thoroughly, pour into a rabbit -shaped i
mold and chill. Serve with chocolate;
sauce.
Live Stock Movements in -
' Canada. ,.
The movements of -live stock in
Canada during January and Febru-
ary compared with the corresponding
months of last year at the five prin-
cipal centres were: cattle 123,644
against 118,425; calves, 21,058 against
17,440; hogs, 236,788 against 228,804,
and sheep 35,964 against 51,160.
The supply of select bacon hogs in
Ontario and Alberta,, shoved 'fan up-
ward trend in January and Eebruary
this year compared with the first two
months of last year, but Manitoba
and Quebec did not do as well. The.
figures for selects only are: Alberta,.
this year 3,117;: compared with last;
year 2,143; Ontario 61 ,54a5,, compared'.
with 27,101; •Mairai'ii� a" ;6'25;''compar-
ed with 5,836, and Quebec 7;708, com-
pared with, 11,389. In other :classes'
of hogs, especially in thick smooth, all,
the provinces showed an increase
•
0., death, .where- is, thy sting?
0 grave, where is thy victory?
Making wash day pleasant—
just use Rinso where
you used to use bar
soap—for soaking,
boiling, or in your
washing machine.
THE hardest part of wash -day,
rubbing, rubbing, rubbing, has
given way to the new method of
soaking the clothes clean with Rinso,
This wonderful new soap gently'
loosens the dirt anda thorough
rinsing leaves things white and
glistening as you never could get
them before.
Only spots where the dirt is ground -
in, such as neck bands, cuff edges,
and the 'like need a light rubbing,
and a little dry Rinso rubbed on
these spots quickly makes the dirt
disappear.`
Rinso is sold by all grocers
and department stores
B.4..25 MADE BY THE MAKERS OF LUX
Foamy omelet requires four eggs, t
four tablespoonfulsof milk or water,'
one teaspoonful of salt, a dash of.
pepper and two teaspoonfuls of but -1
ter. Separate the yolks and beat
until creamy; add seasonings and:
milk or water. Then beat the whites
until stiff and cut and fold them into
the ' yolk mixture. Place the butter
in a pan, heat, and pour the omelet
into it. Cook slowly (this is an im-
portant rule in good omelet making),
occasionally turning the pan so that
the omelet may brown evenly. When
the omelet is set and delicately brown-
ed underneath, place it in a hot oven
for a few minutes to dry the top.
Fold, turn out on a hot platter and.
serve immediately. French cooks fold
an omelet as soon as the eggs set and
i the bottom is browned. The partially
( cooked portion on top is left soft and
I is called the "sauce."
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