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The Seaforth News, 1918-11-28, Page 6An Everyday Deliciouo Deverage Gz eep. or Mixed else Sealed Packets only at all Grocers ... The Sealed Room By Bdwi n Baird. CHAPTER VII, Yocum, throughout the recital, heel etood as if carved from stone; and now the recital Was finished, he dlc net •Immediately speak. At length he cleared his throat an said, with a sorry attempt et jocular "Well, old sox, I reckon this mean 'goodnight' for me. Our partnership' usted—or soon will be. Your trite be handtn' me my passports—" "She's not my wife yet, and neve will be perhaps," said Torn. ''She no more imagines that I want to marry her than a woman living on the planet Marc. Pll probably make an everlasting fool of myself when I pop the question, and shell laugh at me, no doubt, and then say, in that sweet way of hers 'Thank you kindly sir, but I'm not in the market to -day for a farmer'," "If she does," flared Yocum, "She's not Win' to marry Tom McKay.' Tony . knitted his brows over that. Ile wasn't quite sure of its meaning, bat he knew what Yocum was trying to say, and this somehow enhearten- ed hien, 13 e was not a bad sort of man. He had always tried to live a clean, de- mist life, and he was generous, good - matured, and slow to anger, And he would do anything beneath heaven— for her. Would she have him on Mote conditions? . With a world of anxious longing he asked himself the question, and could not answer it. )lesson told him that she would; but in another moment, he was afraid. she wouldn't. And at this psychological moment, To nm contributed orally to the ad - vitae supposition.. 'Toni, :said he in a _cameral voice, abating activities with the dapple - gray mare, "marriage is a serious question . " "So is a proposal of marriage," sine] Tomlife,"It's one time in your life,nurau- ed .he gloomy Yocum, "when you got - teem t aloes. You hadn't oughba rush it heedless, like as if you was askin', a ea! to go with you on a Sunday -'el s t picnic. Ought you, Tom?" Yes, I guess that's so. But—" anti another thing: Matrimony's committed just once in a man's life, i o t ,e>tuays it ;posed to be, and if yo;e-- ., ties, res." cut in Tom. et trifle ir- riLel a.; "Ive known all that since' Pete was a pup. But I tell you—" '•gory looky here, Tom, said I t, t'ee, moving toward his employer; ire a brotherly fashion, "you're gain' altogether too swift in this matter. ; You wouldn't buy a stud horse or a; brood sow without you took your time I and made sure you was gettin' full value for your money. Then why do you wanta make the greatest deal rn your life without even stoppin' to think?" "Think? As if I hadn't been think - 1t ,! I've thought of nothing else since I hest laid eyes on her!" ".In other words, since eight o'clock) last night. About twenty Imre, ail tokl," "Twenty hours or twenty years, It would be all the same," said Tom. "I tell you, my mind's made up. It'll be just the game next week, next month, I, ' or next year, as it is now." 'effete 1 tet to prove that," said Yocum, hes unruffled voice contrast- ing' with Tom's nettled tone, "why not ait a -fees weeks?" There was further discussion in this th vein, waxing more and mare specific; and the upshot seas that Tom didn't eaten the four -.fifty train, A myraids things thereafter claim- ed hie time—for the full tide of the c ml 'comer rush was now upon him— and thehours lengthened into days,, the Jaye into weeks, and the weeks' into a month. and he did not go back to het•, f There were moments when he, for- t getting her, was content with his lot, 'c r t uidling to think of matrimony and in satisfied all was well; but just as d often there came times—times of soli- u tude in the fields, or lonely times in the farmhouse --when he was visited b by a nameless longing, when a vision; of her face appeared before his mind's . I eye, alluring, enticing, strangely ap- ; v pacifier; and on these occasions he wee persuader) that his life was in- complete, and this bred a desire to 1 return to her and scale the citadel of her heart. el This desire, nebulous' for a space crystallized out day in late July, It was a blazing hot Sunday, and Tom s was seeking relief front the heat in s the shade of the front porch, when he ld saw an automobile coming from the direction of the Zuckerman's farm; r and then he saw the occupants were Mrs, Adolph Zuckerman, Dora Kirk, Mise Plum, and Winifred. Ile also saw they were headed straight for his house, His first thought was •that he was in his shirt sleeves and collarless, and his next that he must speedily make himself presentable, But es- cape was hopeless, He had scarce- ly risen from his chair before Mrs. Zuckerman hailed him from the road, and before he could gain the front door she was tooling the car up the driveway toward the steps. And now, putting a brave face on the matter, he was cordially extend- ingan invibation to his unexpected callers to "come up out of the hot sun and keep cool on the porch." Yocum, newly returned from church and therefore garbed in his best, sauntered out, was introduced to Miss Plum, and presently strolled away with hue, "to show her around the ranch." A little Teter Dora and -Mrs Zuckerman also departed, nobody knew where.m To, alone with Winifred, became acutely conscious that he had neglect- ed to shave that morning, Memory of this omitted duty contributed gen- t erously to bis discomfiture. 1 A small silence, not devoid of em- barrassment promptly ensued on the vine -clad porch. It was ended by I Winifred's telling him, as he had 'al - ;ready been tole) by the others, that she and Miss Plum had visited the •country to -day to see Dora. "Never in all my life," she per- , sued, facing him animatedly, "have I seen such a wonderful change in a person. Why, Dora's another girl —not the girl I used to know, at all. And it's all due to you." "Not to me," denied Tom, trying to hide his slippered feet beneath his chair, "but to the sunshine and her wholesome environment, and the pure country air." "Weld, anyway, it was you who gave these things to her, or act least made it possible for her to enjoy A them. And we'll never be able to thank you sufficiently. I was with her that day at the hospital when your telephone message came, and if you could only have seen her, if you could only know how happy site was, how she almost wept with joy at the thought of going back to the green growing things, and the cows and chickens, and the great outdoors, you'd feel repaid for your kindness to her a thousand times over" More talk followed, chiefly of a similar sort, and all of it distressing to Tom. Embarrassed by her encomi- ums, mortified by his appearance, con- vieeeed he was making a sorry impres- sion, he could not but feel relief when at last she rose to go. An unlooked-for delay attended her departure. Miss Plum and Yocum had wandered far afield, and only the most imperative summons—thene tred of haste to avoid missing the next train for Chicago—could coax em back to the automobile. Yo- cum, blissfully unaware of the fuss he had occasioned, stood talking with her, in a lowered tone, till the car was moving; and there was an unac- ustomed look in his eye as he watch- ed it disappear with her toward the) railway station. Early on the following morning' Tom conceived a satisfactory excuse! or absenting himself for a day or; wo, and straightway looked up To-, i um, whom he was so carefully plan-' ing to deceive. It soon became eve- co ent, though, that the deception was. er ,I ABOUT TIE IIOUSEIIOID Selecting Kiichen Lrteneails, Often time is lost and fuel is toasted es et result of choosing the wrong kind of kitchen utonsita. They should be durable, 'have a smooth finish, be weeny cleaned and suited to the purpose for which they are in- tended.. 'Tin makes a sati'sfaotory Meilen for most quick baking proeesses, as it is dight in weight and heat and cools rapidly, The best grade:is the 'heavy block tin. Pure tin is soft and pli- able, and eonsequentiy iron or steel are often used as a foundation, le this fouudatlon material i:9 exposed by scraping or scratching the utensil, rust will attack the iron, Enamel; agate, and granite ware are made an iron or steel foundations. Should the enameling material be- come chipped, the iron body soon Will Mit. Often utensils of inferior quality are sold as bargains, and soon chip end rust, The 'pure -white and the blue'anal-white enumel vinees are not suited for cooking processes where great heat is neeessai'y. The gray and brown varieties are much more durable, Aluminum is attractive'and of light weight. There is no danger of ehip- plug or rusting' bhis material. It is very desitahle for many processes of cooking, as it heats rapidly. Tion is used for processes or cookery where a high temperature is necessary. It is durable if kept dry and free from rust. When not in use it should be coated with salt- less grease to protect it. • Earthenware is used for long, slow cooping or baking processes. The d d re a n 0 tit d d lids of earthen baking dishes shoul fit tight to keep in all moisture an heat. Cooking• utensils made of glass a attractive, easily cleaned, and san racy. Such utensils have been. prove successful for baking processes wife made of a material which can be sub jetted to high temperatures with 1 injurious effects. Utensils should never be bough until needed. When selecting cook ing utensils, choose articles wi smooth-finithed rims and made o one piece of metal. Avoid seams an useless curves, as well as dict -catch ing handles. A heat -resisting woo makes the best handle. Recipe, for Cool Days, Chicken Curry—Add two cups cold chopped chicken to two cups white sauce; season with one teaspoon curry powder, heat thoroughly, and dies into the rice, Mushrooms and a lit tle celery top, chopped fine, may b used instead of curry powder. Stec in which the chicken has been cooke may be used instead of white sauce i preparing' this dish. Thicken th etock'as for chicken gravy, season to taste, and add chopped chicken. Sweet -Sour Stew -This may be made of meat, or merely a meat bone to produce a good stock is equally nice. If meat is used, select a cheap eut of beef. Cut into pieces of pro- per size for serving; put over the fire in sufficient water to cover well, and cook until tender. Remove the meat, and add an extra pint of water, one- half cup vinegar, two tablespoons sugar, salt to season, and two or three whole pepper -corns if they are at hand. Peel and cut into rather thin slices enough potatoes to make one cup, enough turnips and carrots to !rake one-half cup each; a sweet pep- per from which the seeds end inner skin have been removed is cut into thin dices or rounds and added with the other vegetables, also one cup fine-; ly shredded white cabbage and, if: liked, a medium-sized onion, sliced thin. Cook until the vegetables are' tender. This will require about half an hour. A few minutes before time to serve, add the !teat and let it heat in the stew. Serve very hot, This is fine on a cold day, Canada Roast—One pound cooked beans, one-half pound cheese, bread crumbs, salt. Put beans through the meat grinder. Add the cheese and enough bread crumbs to make the mixture sufficiently stiff to form into roll. Bake in moderate oven, bast - ng occasionally with tomato juice, Cottoge Cheese Sausage—One cup ttage cheese, one cup dry bread umbs or one-half cup cold cooked tae, one-half cup breed crumbs, one- ourth cup peanut butter or two ablespoons savory fat, one-fourth p coarsely chopped peanut meat, e -half teaspoon powdered sage, one- half teaspoon thyme, one tablespoon ilk, one teaspoon salt, one-fourth teaspoon pepper, one-third teaspoon soda, one tablespoon finely chopped onion. The bread crumbs may be made from left -over corn, barley, or other quick' breads. Cook the anion itt the fat until tender but not brown. Dissolve the soda in the milk and work into the cheese. Mie all outer y ingredients thoroughly with the ead crumbs, Blend peanut butter El onion with the cheese, and mix nth the t m clic bread crumbs. Poem o flat cakes lu ,, c sit with bread crumbs cornmeal, and fry a delicate brown a little fat in 'hot frying pan, Sausage Roils—These baked rolls very appetizing and aro easily prcpared, Make cit ibalcing'-powder bis dough roll; roll out in a sheet out half an inch in thickness, and into small squares. have ready y good sausage mixture—pork, f, ora mixture of left -over' meats, A Little Sugar Goes LongWay The Canada Food Board has pat the homes cn their honour to save sugar, But a little sugar goes a long way when you use Corn Syrup for 'cooking , pre - se ving and on cereals. .it makes it easy to obey the' War Order! • n ti CRO `'[ y. fM RAN 1 1 LILY '. ITE CORN S ([ UP Corn Syrup is corn starch converted into its "sugar" form, making it even more digestible and palat- able. It is therefore made from the fnost nutritious and wholesome part of the corn. And as corn is grown in North America, and does not require for its transportation the ships still needed so urgently for carrying food and supplies to Eurve, you can use all you wish of Corn Syrup. Write to the Canada Food Board for Bulletin on Corn Syrup, and in the meantime, get a tin of CROWN BRAND Corn Syrup or LILY WHITE Corte Syrup and try it le your favorite. recipes in place of sugar. Sold by Grocers everywhere in 2, 5, 10 and 20 lb. tires. 0111 0 The Canada Starch Co., Limited J MONTREAL. well seasoned. Form into small cakes, place a calve in the centre of each small square of. the dough, h bring the ends to the top and press together firmly; place in at buttered e baking tin, the edges not touching, k and bake for about twenty minutes, d Serve 1'ot, with or without gravy, n Bean Loaf—Two cups lima beans, e one cup dry bread crumbs, four table- spoons peanut butter, two tablespoons grated onion, one tablespoon dedp- pings, one tablespoon dried celery leaves or poultry seasoning, two tee - spoons salt, wee -fourth teaspoon pep- per, one cup rice stock or other liquid. Wash and soak the beans over -night, then cook in boiling water bill solt— about forty-five minutes. Drain, and when cool chop coarsely. Add crumbs mixed with seasonings and peanut butter, then add liquid and fat, Put into a greased bread pan and bake in a moderate oven thirty mi- netts, This yields eight servings. • Figeie'e It Out. !necessary, Yocum, discovered in the barnyatrd, l egan the conversation by saying: . "Boss, if it's aii the sante to you, t 'd like to get off for t' -day. I wanta eu isit my folks in Springfield." on The alacrity with which the request was granted apparently delighted Yo- m cum, At any rate, he immediately started for the railway station. A few hours loter Tom started too, Around six o'clock on that genial evening Tom entered the gaudy "par- lor" of Mrs, Stookey's rooming house preceded by that affable woman, all friendly smiles and graciousness, (To be continued,) i'hat is Your _1 Favorite Security `? 1 Perhaps you cannot purchase it i because your means elo not per- , nett you to pay for it in full. It is right here that we meet you, 1 You can become the owner by i using our Partial Payment Pian, payment being made by monthly instelments. We invite you to write for a free copy of our booklet telling you I g i all about our plan, Members CON •TOLontreal L f �& bCO� 105-106 'Transportation Building MONTREAL, - GlUE. Four-year-old Charlotte was hav- ing trouble with her English, but she had entirely passed her difficulties on one point, "I see how it is now, ' mother," she said the other day. "Hens 'set end lay; and people sit and lie, don't they, mother?" New Zealand's winter comes in our midsummer, and last July was one ee the severest winter months in the his - dr br am w' Jet Or in are bi tory of the Island commonwealth, ab Nearly half a million sheep were lost cut as a consequence of the stories tha.tl an prevailed then, bee • p J Over 100,000 people are employed in Canada's fishing industry and the sum of $20,000,000 is invested in it. There are 200 steam vessels, including trawlers, fish tugs, cannery 'tenders and fish carriers, operating on the oceans and inland water's. The sail- ing ,and gasoline -driven craft include 1,300 vessels of various kinds. There are over 27,000 sail and row boats home expect to get it? When all th people in private hones get down t the level of restaurants and sugu manufacturers, the shortage will be fully met. Two pounds a month— the emit—means 6 spoonfuls a day. Confectioners are often accused of using much sugar. The .fact is they take only about .5 per cent. of Canada's total consumption—about 12,000 tons a year out of nearly 300,- 000 tons. Real. saving in sugar must come from the remaining 288,- 000 tons, most of which is used in the 1,500,000 homes in the Dominion. If each of these honestly cuts 'the sugar consumption to the 2 pounds •a month for every person allowed by the Food Board, there would be no sugar diffi- culty, It is plain now which foot the boot is on, THE LAST CEREMONY Organizing a Soldier's Funeral Des- eribed by an Officer.I was signing a seemingly interm- inable number of forms when the quarter -bloke, who had been talking to someone over the 'phone, came over to me. "Hospital notified headquarters, sir, Private Webb, of B Company, died this morning from pneumonia. Ar- rangements to be made for funeral on Friday." B Company was composed of raw recruits, and they cannot take their part in the rendering' of the last honor to a departed comrade without train- ing. I had to get busy. First the War Office and the Records Office had to be notified, the latter of which would pass the news onto the rela- tives. The chaplain also had to be notified, and the attendance of a band and gun -carriage to be arranged for. e From the batmen, storekeepers, etc„ o I was able to secure enough men to Elgin. -gym-m-.-..,town.,,, form a firing party, old soldiers all of them, no longer fit for active service, When the hour of the funeral came the men were ready. They formed, up, outside the hospital, those who wished first going in to take a last look at their comrade. The coffin, covered by the -Union Jack, was carried out and placed gently on the gun -carriage. Then be- gan the dull beat of the !ruffled drums, the wailing of the "Dead March," and the procession moved off, the men of other companies who had gathered to watch standing at the salute. In front walked the band, then came the gun -carriage, the fir- ing party on either side, then the men of the company, lifting their feat to ilio slow time, their heads bent, their arms reversed, and last the ofcers. Past headquarters, where the guard turned out and presented arms, and so on to the last resting -place. There the chaplain; Waiting, took his place at the head, intoning in a subdued voice until the grave was reached. The firing party took theix places, the nuzzles of the rifles downward, their hands crossed on the butts, their bent heals resting on the hands, Ae the coffin began to disappear the rides were reve'sed, pointing upwards across the grave.• The "Last Post" rang out, and the rifles three times volleyed. The funeral was over. Outside the cemetery the ranks formed again; the band struck up a lively quick- step. ^' cod Control' Corner Peace—DNot Plenty. Tho end of the wet hes (mate, but Canada mutt not telex' het efforts' to decrease tete production of food, In addition to the Allies, whose !incise - tire powers have been hampered by the wear and who• meet lnipnrt; frond title continent to build up a r seraet, the people of the neutral nations mubt 'also be considered, Canaria Food Board calls attention to the fact, al•:,, that the countries of the defestunt enemy nanous have item to he cons'lit- c'red as in some eases millions of helps lees people aro facing starvation, Counidest Reesta, Auserie-llungary, Turkey, Bulgaria, the neutral couu- dries. I r'anee, Belgium, Italy and Great Britain, a grand total of 250,- 0.00,000 people are short of .food. Canada will have a lrulegry market for her agricultural pa'odu00 and our greatest possible effort to maitrtain and increase production will be noun too great. Live Stock Conference. To formulate national plans for meeting the new and eritieel condi- tions in the live stook industry aeeom- penyi:ng r'eiter'ation of peace, senseof the leading Canadian live stock men and representative meat packers are tieing' called to a conference by Hon. T. A, Croner, Minister of Agricultuty. Those who have been watching the situation realize that Canada hesthe opportunity of placing her live stock industry on a broader and a sounder basis than ever before., The war has stimulated live stook production inCanad . An even greater stimulus is expected to develop with the restotta- tion of norfnel' • commerical com- ntunication, As the breeding stock of Europe has seriously declined during the war, in nearly all countries. A heavy demand is bottled to be made upon this continent far meats and breeding stook for some years to come. The Minister of Agriculture is call- ing upon farmers and live stock !nen to meinetain, their operations on the war -time scale, Sometime. (Helen B. Anderson, Melville.'( Sometime, we think, we'll stop the toil And ceaseless grind of every clay, And then have time to be more kind To friends eve meet on life's rough way. Sometime, we think, we'll journey on More leisurely than we do now, That we may help to bear the 'load Beneath whose weight a friend may bow. Sometime, we think, welt have more time To cheer the hearts of those in grief; By gentle word or cheerful smile To bring to saddened hearts relief. Sometime, we think, we'll rest a space In shady spot on life's highway And hand a eup of water cold To thirsty travellers, day by day. Sometime, we think, as days go by We'll call to cheer a friend that's With flowers or 'fruit, with book or song The weary hours with joy to fill.' And cheer the poor whom now w peas So.heedlessly on life's rough way, We may have time to them to give Our best of love—our charity, Sometime? Of life we have no lease, To -day is ours, to -day alone, To share each other's burdens here A.nd weep with those that moan. For those whom now we fain would help To -morrow may have crossed the bar And earthly 'word of song or cheer Can never reach that shore afar, FIINDENBUItG'S EXCUSE FALSE Not. Famine, But Army Collapse Was Cause of Surrender. RSIUNG "Field Marshal von Hindenburg in. 1 a1 )tis message to the German army said he ,t leach 8CF°..A'CE, 7Q0 ae $aa,t,ca re.. 9s0 Oo el EarnEarn from $r0 to $d5 a weelc'Learn wit RooWet s � t and :L1,000 motor boats employed in •---- that the threat of famine caused the acceptance of the armistice," says Marcel Hutin of the Echo de Paris. 'Although food difficulties played ne part in the defeat of Germany the cletermining cause of the German col- lapse was the fact that the 'enemy's army was on the brink of disasted. "The first words the German pleni- potentiaries said to Marshal Foch were, in substance: 'Germany's army is at your mercy, Marshal. Our re- e serves of met and munitions axe com- pletely exhausted, making it impos- sible for us to continue the war.' " "FLYING TANKS" Caua'e'd Havoc Among Retreating Germans in Last Days of Fighting. Says a London despatch; "Flying tanks are war's newest implement. They are armor -plated scout planes, Invulnerable against or ie t g d any ground faro, capabis of climbing quickly and ofe developing romaekaiii, Peed designed almost entirely for the preen demoralizing of my kind of warfare —ground strafing, These machines can accomplish the maximum amount of daage with the minitnlim amount of clanger to both .4k pilot and plane. They caused great havoc among the retreating German forces' in Trmtce, fishing. In the salmon canning in. :S%i. se dastry of British Columbia, over $3,- 000,000 in invested in cannery plants, The investments in nets, traps, lines, smolce houses, eta„ run itito millions. No lees than $3,000,000 are invested in freezers and ice -houses and $2,- 250,000 in fishing pears and wharves. The Sugar Question. Shall we face the sugar shortage in Canada honorably and courageous- ly? Or are we going on quietly hoard- ing even if only a little in every home? Manufaoturem, confoctiot.ers and public eating peaces are doing their shame well. Soldiers and munitions workers want. sugar more than the persons doing ordinary work. Let them have it. It must come from the private p to homes; there only is there hoarding, however slight in every individual case. Don't be mean for the sake of a sweet tooth, Canadian restaurants are not pe"r- mittecl to give their customers all the sugar they ask for, Manufacturers and confectioners have r so been put upon strict sugar rations, arid could not well get below their present minimum, Why should people at arke r1s d g-ra By cleaning or dyeing :.restore any articles to their former appearance and return them to you, good as new. Send anything from household draperies down, to the finest of delicate fabrics. We pay postage or express charges one•way. When you think of L A 1NG or o ‘fl r :. Think of Parker's Our booklet on household eugem:eons that Dave Yoe money will be tient tree et charge, Write today to Park, cgs Lye Works, Li ited Cleaners and Dyers 791 Yonge St. • - - Toronto v'W0crs�