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The Exeter Advocate, 1924-8-7, Page 2Tor Flavor insist oz SALAB B559 Always fresh and pure. -- Sold only in sealed aluminum packets. Barry, the DogHero of. St. Bernard Pass BY EVA MARCH TAPPAN. PART IL eager and resss, but not troubled. The St. Bernard dogs were kept in It was "in the -blood," as the school - Berne until they were nearly grown, master had said, and although they because the intense cold c the pass obeyed when the monk called, Come, was too severe for them when young. children, and Test a bit,"they gazed Carl had known from the first that wistfully at the path that stretched f as soon as Barry was old enough he before them. f must go to the good fathers at the They came to a deep and narrow pass, but when one is only ten, "old any d rugged valley known as the Val-' leof Death because so many had been lost in its winter snows. The, path wound from side to side, cross- ing the roaring torrent of a river and recrossing it again and again. Deep chasms yawned between the rocks; precipices stretched up to the sky;' the patches of snow grew larger and deeper, and the gullies overflowed with. it. The excited dogs gathered. around the young monk and he talked to them gently and quietly. "It is all right, niy children," he+ said. "It is only a little farther be- fore we conte to home and supper. Listen! Do you hear that?" The dogs pricked up their ears, for up the height, not so very far away, they heard the friendly barking of dogs of their own breed. A turn in the pathway widened the view, and in the twilight the dogs could see a great building with little windows and massive walls of gray stone. This was the Hospice, where "Pll surely come. Barry," whisper- of all who asked for hospitality not ed Carl with his arms around the dog's one was refused. The tired dogs were neck. Barry licked his cheek, then fed and with a kindly word and a pat followed the monk, stranger as he from the monks they were sent to bed was. to rest for the new life that lay be - "Barry knows he is going to his fore them. • work," said the schoolmaster, For seven centuries monks had kept Suddenly the dog stood still, then this Hospice open for all who came,` turned back, put his paws on the whether wealthy people travelling for boy's shoulders, licked his cheek once pleasure or workmen coming from more and set off for the fierce strug- Italy into Switzerland to find work, gle with the cold and the snow and or peasants who had taken this short - the tempests of the upper mountains. est and cheapest way of going from But when the monk and his dogs one country to another. They put i-egan the climb no one would have money into the little box in the chapel thought that they were going 'o .a if they were able and chose, but no place of cold and storm. There was one was ever asked for a penny. no shade on the path and the sun was Many thousand came every year. The blazing hotly. Flowers were every- 'convent bell rang at all hours of where. The rocks were carpeted with night and day; but even he who ar- heather and in their clefts and amongrived at midnight always found a hot the boulders the yellow violets were supper and a bed waiting for him and growing. Pansies made wonderful) in the morning there was breakfast splashes of purple gorgeousness; and a "God bless you!" as he started against the brilliant green of the to continue his journey. grass. In the shadows of the woods! When the ten months of winter be - lady slippers stood with dignity and 'gan then came the terrible snow.; grace. Alpine roses with their fresh' storms, covering with treacherous green Laves came out bravely into, bridges the chasms between the rocks,' the sunshine. changing the places of the drifts,' Up, up, they went. Here and there rooting up the trees, hiding the fa-' were ,pataracts slipping over the pre-' miller streams and every trace of the' cipices. Wisps of white clouds gath-! pathway. Travelers became exhaust-` Bred around the peaks. The sunshine` ed; they stopped to rest; the fatal was no longer golden and burning, mountain sleepiness overpowered but chilly and pale. The deep ravines : them, and unless help came swiftly grew deeper and darker. The wind that was the end. rose and began to roar through the! It was at such times as these that! treee and the pines. Now and then, the monks went forth in anxious thedogs pricked up their ears at the` search. No one went without a dog,' sound of a distant avalanche. They; and the dog was always in the lead looked startled and expectant. What He pushed on wherever he thought were they coming to? Tired as they best, and the monks never questioned,t were, they sometimes dashed ahead of, but followed like little children which -1 the monk, plunging into the snow; ever way he might choose. More than that was still deep in the gullies and once the, dags refused to go by the floundering about in it, then running usual path, and in each i• Lance some' back to their leader and gazing en-! good reason was found afterward for; quiringly into his face, as if to ques- I their refusal. They kre w much by; tion what it all meant. They were' instinct, but they were carefully trained, and this training went onl with most dogs for two years or more before they could be sent out by; themselves. They usually set out in pairs. A blanket was bound to the. back of each and a flask of wine was tied around his neck. Their smell; was so keen that they could find a man even under a deep covering of snow. Then they pawed until they reached him. They licked his hands and face and lay down beside him to make hint warm. Sometimes they; could arouse him so that by partly dragging and partly by urging him onward they could persuade him to' push on to the. Hospice. If not they barked till some one came to their; aid. On the night of Barry's arrival the house was full of guests, and in the' morning every one hurried out after' breakfast to' see the famous dogs.' They were having a regular good time, howling and barking and rolling in the snow and playing tricks on one. another. "They are our children; our, braves,' our lay brothers," said the father with a smile. "See what gentlemen they are when they are introduced.- Jup- iter!" he called, and a big dog came forward and shook hands with one of the vests. "1VIars I" was the next: name. Mars was :the baby, Jupiter's enough" is a long way off, and when Barry was sent for, Carl was heart- broken. "Will you surely write me every year and tell me if Barry is well," he said with eyes brimful of tears to the young monk who had come for the dog "But, Carl," said the boy's father "you must not forget that the good monks have much to do and many lives to save." "But Barry has a life, too," the boy pleaded. "I promise you," the young monk sad gravely. 'And when 1 am grown up, will you let me come to the Hospice and help Barry to save people in the storm?" "If you still wish it when the time comes, I do not doubt that there will be a place for you," said the monk, Iooking tenderly into the boy's earnest face. a, ter every mead Cleanses mouths and -teeth and aids digestion. Relieves that over- eaten feeling and acid mouth. Hs 1 -a -s -4 -ii -s* -g f lavoe satisfies the craving for SSVJeets. Wrigley's is double •crahne in the benefit an pleasure it provides. Sealed in its Parity Package. NirPQPG✓ f� Sll4-,- 1:38.0 F., No. 31--'24, SUMMER CARE OF THE RANGE. The kitchen range is an article of household equipment that is quite likely to be overlooked at houseclean- ing time. And yet no other piece of equipment pays such large dividends for proper care as does the wood: or coal range. Needless to say in order to give the best service the range must be kept. clean all the time; but before begin- ning the summer cooking on the. oil range you will find it pays to take a day and do a thorough job of clean- ing the kitchen range. First take down the pipe and clean it well. Take a stiff brush for doing the final inside cleaning, Clean and polish the outside. Next clean out all the ashes thor- oughly and finish this job with the stiff long -handled brush. Remove lids from the top of the range and clean out these ashes, fin- ishing with the stiff brush. Now comes the flue between the range and the reservoir. Clean this with the brush only. Take the scraper that comes with the stove and insert in the little door under the oven and clean all the ashes thoroughly from this part of the range. Next comes the reservoir. Take out all the water and clean and scour the metal well. I)o not allow water to stand in the reservoir if you will; not use the stove during the summer.' Clean and scour the oven thorough-! ly, then paint it with aluminum paint. 1 Stove dealers tell me this is essential, to the life of the stove as the range' may otherwise rust. This should be! done at least once a year. If your stove has the polished top! and the white enamel doors and back,! as mine has, the rest of the cleaning process is a joy, because it will look so nice when finished. Take warm soap suds and wash all over, rubbing dry with a soft cloth' that will polish. The white enamel is the easiest part of the stove to keep- clean. Then go over the nickel with metal' polish. Now the polished parts can be gone aver with paraffin and pol- ished. This gives a clean, shining and altogether attractive surface. The outside surface should be gone over with antirust oil. If the stove is to stand idle all summer it is best to give the cherished polished top a coat of vaseline. During the summer while you are using your oil range, cover the polieh- ed top of your wood or coal range` with newspapers. A fresh one can be put on each morning, then the top can be used as an extra table. OVEN CANNING. So many women have asked to do oven canning that I feel sure a great many more will be interested in the method. For the woman who uses her coal range in canning this plan is both economical and practical, for she can; do the work while the top of the stove is being used for something else, thus saving fuel and time. Oven canning' also does away with a. steamy kitchen, which is never pleasant and might cause plaster to fall. For my oven canning I use a large dripping or bread pan, insulating the l jars from the bottom of this with a' wooden frame made of lath. Several; folds of newspaper will serve the, same purpose. The filled cans are put in and enough water poured in the pan to come up about two inches' on the jars. If the food packed into the jars is, cold then we pour cold or slightly warm water around the jars. Boiling. water would be likely to crack the jars. But if we have previously cook I ed the food to be canned and have. packed it hot into the jars, then, off course, we will set them in boiling 1 water. Do not put on the jar rubbers at this time, as the dry oven heat is very destructive to them. Place the lids on lightly; do not screw them down. I Keep the jars at boiling temper- ature, which is shown by motion within the jars. A medium -hot oven is just about right. From time to time boiling water is added to re- plenish that which has evaporated. The length of time for cooking in oven canning is the same as for the hot water bath. When the cooking is finished, remove the jars one at a time, adjust the sterilized rubber and screw the lid down tight. BUTTERMILK FOR TAN. With the summer wind and sun comes something that country women do not like and city women claim to enjoy; namely, tan. In the country you" have at hand some of the best complexion aids there are; and one- is� buttermilk. • White living on a Western ranch grandson; and when Jupiter had marched away to shake hands,' the little rascal of a Mars had jumped into his grandfather's warm place It was very comfortable, but he obeyed and came forward, looking as lnis- chievous as the rogue that he was. "Oliver!" and Oliver carne forward and shook hands in friendly fashion. (To be concluded.) Mir,ard's LinimentHeais Cuts. I found a ,new way of using it that works as an effective bleach and cleanses as well or better than some of the well-known massage creams. ' Use buttermilk at least a, day • old as it bleaches better than when fresh.' Apply as usual, let dry, then massage of with more buttermilk, Tubbing it in and out again. It will roll out bringing the dirt and bleaching the tan in a way more than satisfactory. It is so much more comfortable than leavingthe, sticky buttermilk on over: night and your face does feel so fresh and glowing. E. B. HOW A. COUNTRY WOMAN MADE MONEY. A widow with a baby son and two young daughters, living on a scrap of a farm, six miles from a large city, desirous of adding to her meager in- come evolved the following plan and successfully carried it out. Her farm is situated on a bus line, there is a telephone and mail delivery, also a nice lake nearby where excel- lent fishing is to be had. A small stream running through the place has sandy banks and sunny sand bars where bathing is a delight and sun baths popular. A bit of woodland where wild flowers and berries grow affords a pleasant place for 'picnics, hikes, and the study of birds, barks and botany. This mother could not burden her- self with summer boarders, so she completely renovated an old roomy barn which stood on the place back from the highway, near a pleasant grove of tall trees. The barn was whitewashed inside and out, and the roof was re-covered with roofing paper. A trellis built across the front was also whitewash- ed and morning glories were trained over it. The ground underneath this trellis was covered with clean peb- bles. The barn windows were cleaned and curtained with stenclied cheese- cloth. With wallboard the loft (there are stairs leading to it) was partitioned off into four sleeping rooms, and four double cots set up. The rough floors were covered with fibre matting. A large oil stove, dishes, kitchenware, a table and chairs were brought from the house, as she had more of these than were needed for her own use. A kitchen table, a couch, several wicker rockers and two hammocks were pur- chased second-hand at a reasonable price. Cupboards, cabinets, magazine racks and dressers were made of rough Iumber and packing boxes found on the place. Draped with chintz they looked stunning. Four mirrors 18x22 were purchased at a second-hand store and cost $1.25 each. The stalls of the barn floor were converted into kitchenette, dining - room, living -room and a "shower." Inexpensive cotton blankets, mat- tresses and unbleached muslin sheets and pillow cases were provided. Pil- lows were made of coarse muslin stuffed with bright, clean 'straw fresh from the mow. Silverware and linens were left for the prospective tenants to provide. A one dollar ad. in the home town paper brought seven girls who rented the place for the months of June and July and later decided to stay through August and September. They were young working girls and rode the bus to and from work in the city each day. They paid fifteen dollars per week rent for their comfortable sum- mer home, or $270 for the eighteen weeks they spent in the country. The total cost of renovating the barn did not cost to exceed $100. During the summer the enterprising landlady sold the girl tenants the following products from her farm garden, dairy and home bake shop: Cake, bread and pastry$ 59.70 Jellies, fruit and berries 29.40 Cheese, cream, milk, butter- milk and butter 44.20 Dressed pigeons and fish Dressed poultry and eggs Smoked meats and lard Potatoes and fresh vegetables For doing fine laundry 9.80 18.00 9.15 82.20 64.00 Total $266.45 Rent of cottage 270.00 Grand tetal .... $536.45 Expenditures 100.00 Net gain ;....... ...$436.45 Cut garden flowers, vegetables, fruits, cottage cheese and melons, some fine woven rag rugs, patchwork quilts and home-made jams and jellies were sold at the door to friends of -'- girl tenants and brought in an addi- tional $187.25.—G. S. A "Clean" Town. The village of Valdese, in • North Carolina, which is the home of the only Waidensian colony in the South, boasts that in the thirty-one years of its existence no inhabitant ever has been convicted of an offense against the law. Shrine to God of Babies. Of the thousands of shrines in Kioto the " quaintest and prettiest is that dedicatelto Jizo, who is the god of babies. .i The human brain contains 300,000,- 000 nerve cells. )11111111111"„""x1111111101111 Soaking t es the place of rubb ng— LUST by soaking the clothes in the suds of this new soap,dirt is gently loosened and dissolved. Even the dirt that is ground in at neck- bands and cuff -edges yields to a light rubbing with dry Rinso. Not a thread is weakened. The mild Rinso suds work thoroughly through and through the clothes without injury to a single fabric. Rinso is made by the makers of Lux. For the family wash it is as wonderful as Lux is for fine things. All grocers and department stores sell Rinso. LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED, TORONTO A Poem You Ought to Know. In the following poem there is no high literary merit, but it remains pos- sibly the most complete list of ob- servations of the signs of coning rain in the language. It was written by Dr. Edward Jenner, the discoverer of vac- cination. The hollow winds begin to blow, The clouds look black, the grass is low, The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, The spiders from their cobwebs peep: Last night the sun went pale to bed, The moon in ha'oes hides her head; The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For see, a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink -eyed pimpernel. Hark how the chairs and tables crack! Old Betty's joints are on the rack; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks ere', The distant hills are seeming nigh. How restless are the snorting swine, The busy flies disturb the kine; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how sharp he sings; Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, And nimbly catch the incautious flies. The glow-worms, numerous and bright, Illumed the dewy dell last night. At dusk the squalid toad was seen ., Hopping and crawling o'er the green; The whirling wind the dust obeys, And in the rapid eddy plays; The frog has changed his yellow vest, And in a russet coat is dressed. Though June, the air is cold and still, The mellow blackbird's voice is shrill. My dog, so altered in his taste, Quits mutton -bones on grass to feast; And see yon rooks how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding kite, And seem precipitate to fall As if they felt the piercing ball. 'Twill surely rain; I see with sorrow Our jaunt must be put off to -morrow. Nurse Plays Big Part in Developing Character. Quite an interesting book oould be written upon the indebtedness of fa- mous men in their childhood to the influence of some old nurse. Lord Shaftsbury, for instancce, to whose in- fluence and perseverrnce so many of the social reformers of the last cen- tury were due, owed almost everything to the religious influence of his nurse, writes F. 0. H. in "The Homiletic Re- view. His mother was just a fine society lady who apparently cared more about being a beautiful hostess than a faith- ful mother. He traced the beginning of his Christian life to the influence of that simple Christian woman. She it was who taught him to love his Bible. She was indeed his only guide. Throughout his life he prayed the prayer that she had taught his youth- ful lips to speak. Shaftesbury shared this inde.bt d- ness to some simple serving t 1 with some of the foremost men of the nineteenth century. Archbishop Tait's mother died, whilst he was quite a. child. He owed some of life's most wholesome and abiding influences to the nurse who presided over his youth- ful destinies. Dean Stanley was similarly indebted and in the mid -course of his career refused a royal command to dine with Queen Victoria that he might attend the funeral of his oldnurse. Men are not supposed to refuse such royal com- mands—once received that becomes the day's supreme engagement; but after all there are other engagements of loyalty and of gratitude. Robert Louis Stevenson affectionately sent a copy of every new volume he publish- ed to an old servant. 0 For Sore Feet—Minard's Liniment Had Been Convicted, Too. "Do you think that fellow has ever been open to conviction?" "Yes—and been convicted, too." To Be Helped By Us—No Doubt. The child of active mind beglas ear- Iy to inquire into the riddlie of the universe. • Prof. George H. Palmer of Harvard University likes to tell a story that illustrates that truth. 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