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BEGIN IH1EtRE TODAY
RUTH WOODSON, pretty, high-
spirited: girll cnq'. 19, in search of
work, seeks refeg.e from a storm
In. an old stone: house with a blue
floor in the little town of 'Worth-
vilie. The. queer •old caretaker,
BERTHA GAB)BS, also known as
PENNY., mistakes Ru t h for
ELAINE' CiHIA'L1MERS, whose
grandfather ibuilt the house. Ruth
falls in have 1.111h JOHN Mc-
NE1LL, the young man next door,
and resolves +bo stay on a while,
posing as Elaine.
-Elaine Chalmers, at Graycastle
College, vows in a sorority meet-
ing to win the hove of her child-
hood. hero, Dohs McNeill. She
(Plans to go ttm 1b'V.orthville. John
receives a letter from her and
realizes that the girl in the old
Hunter house is 'a fake.: He loves
her and decides to tell her so. He
is called out of town and leaves
u note of explanation for Ruth,
but old Berthra.does not deliver it.
Ruth thinks John has gone
away in, disgust. She is sleepless
and goes tothe library to get a
book. There she finds a suicide
mote, half -written, She follows
the writer to the third floor and
discovers him to be DUNCAN
HUNT R, )Elaine's uncle, Who has
been >,trljusltly held in an insane
asylum. Ruth persuades him to
live and to prove his sanity
legally.
Ellin arrives and learns from
Bertha. that there is .a girl in the
house, using her name
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Iwo
son before she could pass through
the blue door into the world
'ain. As she descended the
last step of the stairway and
;stood cautiously listening to
:Penny's heavy footfall in the
kitchen, a girl came through the
dining room door and confronted
her. The stranger was as grace-
ful as a tiger and wore a brown
'tweed suit, a loose fur at her neck
and a small brown hat. She had
gold -brown hair and dark eyes.
Her features were breath -takingly
perfect.
"Good Morning, Elaine"
Ruth noted all this. She also
noticed that the girl had been
eating her breakfast. She carried
a toasted roll in her hand. It
must be Elaine Chalmers, of
course. Ruth said, "Good morn-
ing'!"
"Elaine said, "Oh. Leaving us
so soon?"
Ruth thought, in panic, "Why
did this have to happen to me!"
She looked at Elaine Chalmers
pleadingly. She thought, "If only
she'll let me pi and not badger
mer"
It was toxo much. to ask, of
course. Fate never had let her
off easily. Elaine said, "You've
been using my name, 1 hear. Like
it?"
Ruth forced. a smile. "It's a
pretty name and it's helped me
CHAPTER XXVI
Upstairs, in the room which
had been hers for eight Clays,
Ruth Woodson was getting ready
to leave. She was debating a
"question of ethics with herself.
';Could she conscientiously take
leway with her the clothes Penny
had turned over to her?
"No, I can't," was her first de-
cision, "They really belong to
those women of St. Stephen's
Church who held the rummage
'gale. To take then would 1ro i.ikr
Stealing zrom sue- church itself."
Then '.common sense overrode
ethic's. "I need them to keep me
wai ni. and decent. To save .myself
from pneumonia and help me to
get a job. if St. Stephen's Guild
had them do sell they'd turn
around and use 'the •money to help
some 'needy and worthy girl' ex-
actly like me. So wby all the
fuss?. Yes, I'll take a few
of them. Not the evening clothes,
of course. Not the navy blue
satin, though I'd give my head
for that one. just the knit dresses
and the suit and a couple of felt
hats. PR take an extra pair of
shoes, too, besides the oxfords on
my feet. Those are the things I
.need." '
.• •Her Strangest -Adventure
The thin sunshine of the eariy ,..
Morning had disappeared and the'
day proMised to .be damp and ex-
ceedingly raw, Thankful for the
• warmth of the fur trimmed "sport
suit, Ruth put it on. She pulled
a felt hat jauntily over her left
eye.
"Now I think I'll cari•v a couple
of booles, so I'll look like a col-
lege girl .beating 'a "ride." Once,
when ••riding with John McNeill,
she had. seen g'ir'ls asking for rides
to and from. the little college
which lay 20 miles away. No one
had seemed to think less of them
for their boyish independence.
Very nice -looking' people picked
them up.
As she .had no Suitcase, Ruth
used a heavy cardboard suit box
from Bertha's storeroom. It ex-
actly held the extra clothes, And
then there was nothing left to do
but gather up her box, her purse,
and the two books which she
had selected as appropriate,
"'They'll he Duncan Hunter's
gift to me," she thought, "for
saving his life!!" She knew that
he was still sleeping, "My strang-
est adventure of all," she decided
thinking of last night.
But thele was; yet another ad-
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ABY gMeeti Street West.
its.,'tDieiarrie
evenin', T don't know what far,'
Perhaps this girl knew more,
1:Ntli answered calmly, "Ws
going to Washington ;has nothing
to do with my going away, X had
decided to go today, whatever
happened."
"Olt yes," replied Elaine; "You
knew 1 was expected soon, of
course."
"Yes," said Ruth.
"But you didn't get off quite
soon enough."
"No, I'm sorry to say." This
with a spark of defiance.
Elaine saki, "I hear you've
been seeing quite a lot of Joh
McNeill. Is he attractive?"
"Tastee differ," Ruth told be
"You'll have to decide that for
yourself. I found him attractive,"
"She .Hasn't knuckled Under"
Elaine felt an unwilling flare
of admiration for this unknown
person whom she was heckling
She thought, "She's better -looking
than I expected, She knows hots'
to handle herself. I've got her
cornered, but she hasn't knuckled
under. Maybe John's really fallen'
for ber."
Ruth murmured, "I'd like. to. go'
now, please."
Elaine retorted, eyebrows
raised, "In my suit?"
• Ruth's cheeks flamed. She had!
forgotten that she was wearing,
this girl's clothes, from. head to
feet. She wished that 'the earth
might open and swallow' • her.
Sinec that could not happen, she.
desired nothing so much as to
burst into tears and cry her
heart out. Yet, even as the tears.
stung her eyelids, she fought them
back. She could not bow down
in defeat before this golden
stinging creature who was tor -
meeting her. Not yet! It was
more than a personal thing. It
was a elass conflict—the poor girl
against the rich, fighting a duel';
of wits and self-control.
Ruth said, "They were your:
clothes once. All of them. But
you gave them to St. Stephen's
Guild. I'm indebted to the church, -
believe. One doesn't mind that,
so much."
Elaine remarked, "You're
think .a man, remembers all his
episodes with girls and women?
With your sort of g'il'ls, 1 mean?"
Ruth looked at her, wide-eyed.
• "So you believe I've had an affair
with him! 1 suppose when a girl's
as rich and fashionable as you are
it's smart to be evil-minded.'
Make "Pot -Luck" Good Luck With Beans
And All -Bran Brown Bread!
Elaine said, ignoring the thrust,
"How did you come to this town
and how do you expect to leave --
providing 1 decide to let you leave
without turning you over to the
ponce?"
"1 came by bus," Ruth told her.
I'll leave by hitch- hiking." She
felt defiant 'and hard and fLlrious-
ly angry,
"One more question; who are
yvu?"
Roth said, "My name doesn't
matter, • I'm just a girl without
a job and without a dollar to
my name. My mother was a lady
and niy father was a brave man
--an officer who died in France
at the battle of the Argonne."
Elaine's eyes flashed. "Careful
here! You've borrowed my name.
Don't try to borrow my parents,
too !"
Ruth answered, with' lips trem-
bling with rage, "What I said is
true. You—you wasp!"
"You tramp," Elaine retorted,
"Now get out!"
"Not until I've left .these cloth-
es behind," Ruth said coldly and
steadily. "I don't want anything
that has ever been yours to touch
my body." She turned and went
upstairs, carrying the box with
her.
Before She Broke
Ten minutes later she came
down again, dressed in a wrink-
led blue suit and matching hat,
both of which seemed shrunken
from a hard rain. Besides her
purse and the two books, she car-
ried a parcel wrapped in paper
---the meager extras she had
brought with her to this house.
Elaine had her back turned,
powdering her nose at the long
mirror. She suddenly felt pani4'
stricken and regretful. She reach-
ed'for her purse which was lying
on the table, opened it quickly
and extended a `F20 bill. "You'd
better take this," she said brisk-
ly.
Ruth brushed it away as if it
had been an annoying insect.
Without looking at Elaine Chal-
mers she went out of the blue
door and down the steps, her eyes
still clear of the tears that long-
ed to cloud then utterly.
She was not striving for an
effective exit. She only wanted
to get• away before she broke.
(To Be Continued)
Baked beans right out of the pot with steaming All -Bran brown
bread and melting butter — that's a steal that satisfies! in the States
it's a Saturday night standby — actually it's a treat for any night of
the week.
An old favorite with a new-found flavor. All -Bran brown bread
adds zest to sandwiches, too. Try thick slices with cream thee -e fill-
ing, for an afternoon snack.
ALL -BRAN BROWN BREAD
1 cup All -Bran 'nr cup sugar
1 cup sour milk or buttermilk 1 cup flour
Sit cup raisins1 teaspoon soda
1 tablespoon molasses ' teaspoon salt
Combine All -Bran, milk, raisins, molasses and sugar'. Sit). flour'
with soda and salt. Add to first mixture stirring until flour disappears.
Pour hatter into greased can; rover tightly and sterun for three bouts,
Yield: 2 loaves (3 inches in diameter x 5 inches).
out a lot, Thank yeti for the use
of it."
"You're not welcome," Maine
replied coldly, She laid the roll
daintily on the hall table and
daintily wiped her fingers on a
brown and white sports handler
Chief. That done, she looked at
Ruth with cool detachment, She
remarked, "I gave fenny quite a
start when 1 arrived this morning.
No wonder."
"No wonder!" Ruth echoed.
Foy a -moment she was •carried
away by the drama of the thing.
She wished' she .might have seen
old Bertha's leve when it hap-
pened.
of you to leave when our .friend.
of you to leave when our friend
John McNeill is in Washington."
She watched. Ruth's face closely,
hoping to discover how deet) the
other girl's interest lay. At break-
fast Penny hacj said, ten t�espn,�n'sct
to a question fromess?'Maine, "Mr.
John and his mother went to
Washington Sudden -like Monday
ribly clever, aren't yet? Or
should we be frank. and say you're
terribly tricky? have you always
lived by cheating and lying??"
Ituth answered, "You can sag
those things to me, -of course,
There's nobody to stop yon."
"Perhaps John McNeill would
if be were here?"
"No," replied Ruth with a shake
of her head. "1. think he'd agree
with you."
"So he's found you ,out!" Elaine
remarked thoughtfully. It was
something she'd been wanting to
know. "And be's the sort of ni.an
to be disgusted by a crooked
play."
"1 Can't Forget Him"
. "Yes," admitted Rath. Di-
gusted. Not that it natters now."
• `lo?" Filaine retorted,. '!ort
mean you've. lost interest?"
"I'll never lute inttrest 10
him,"'Ruth Said clearly. "Ill
Never forge" hits.- And i don't
think he'll ever fot•n•et me."
Elaine's face flushed. "Do you
To Spank - Or
-Not To Spank
1
That Is The Question in Fa•
mikes Where Young Children
Are Misbehaving
Solite parents whip their
children. Others don't. Which is
right'
A. Whipping? B. Not whip-
ping? C. Just the boys? 1'1. Only
Vie rough and tumble child!
Looking carefully over "="1.,"
"B,•' "C" and "D", I ant going
to agree to "A," writes Olive
Roberts Barton. Once in a
while, And then it must he done
with some v e r• y important
'thing:s in mind
So,netiines Good Medicine
First, are you simply raving
lead when you turn Jolirmy
over your knee, and want to
get even with him? Or have
you decided that a warm hand
;poltice is really what he neem
to make him heed and listen
and obey? There is a differ'-
en"e.
tn
Sed, is the child yetiart'•
about to punish so constructed
that rte will never hold up his
head again from sheer shame
and indignity'.' if that is the
kind your Johnny is, maybe a
sober second thought is bent.
There are children who can talus
it, and others who can't. Weigh
the effect on brooding
tions before applying,
Not A Sure Cure
• Third, why • pick on boys? 1:
know a family where the broth-,
er gets a periodic whacking. tle
is 5nnL sOSSitivu and better
believed than his sister, who is
a trouble maker, but who gets
off scot free. Maybe on the
whole, boys do accept corporal
punishment niot'e complacently
than giria as a matter of tradi-
tion and heritage, but this does
not clinch it.• It doesn't seen"
quite :fair.
Fourth, such punishment is
not a sure cure, As a rule chil-
dren misbehave for certain rea-
sons. Find those rea9ons- and
you will have a better answer
than whipping, .. ,,;y > ao
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By SADiE B.-61:1AMBERS
Strawberry Recipes
And Requests
1t is hard to realize the fact that
strawberry time is just around the
corner. But in suite of much incle-
ment weather the fruits seen to
appear about the sante time of the
year. I had intended writing entire-
ly different recipes for this week's
column, but as 1 have had several
requests for last year's siraa berry
shortcake (also the taint pier 1 ant
repeating some, with the hope that
those who have filed thein will hear
with me in the repetition.
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
2 caps floor (pastry) a little less
of bread flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
he's 'teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons sugar
?a ��a cup shortening
7. cup, milk
1 or 2 eggs (optional)
Mix dry ingredients, cut in lint
ter (fir other shortening) and add
all grad ually."Toss on ftoui'ed board
and divide in two parts. Pat. roll
out to fit round pan, spread one
layer with soft butter and place
the other layer on top and bane in
1101 oven for 2tu minutes. (Temp, of
425). Split, spread with softened
butter and place sweetened berries
generously between layers and on
top. Serves C.
Combine mayonnaise, berries, su-
gar
ugar and lemon juice and fold int
whipped cream. Makes about afs cup .
dressing, Delicious for fruit salad,,
NUT SALAD DRESSING
This should give a variation tre
ye -in- dinner salad for fruit. A`;
C tablespoons salad oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tsaspoou salt
2 teaspoons fruit -sugar
s, teaspoon paprika
2 tablespoons chopped nuts '
Measure the oil into a bowl; add
the, lemon juice, salt, sugar and pa,
prika, Beat thoroughly, then. 'add
chopped nutmeats. Serve at once.
SPICED RAISINS
For your sweets either for the
end of the meal or for party use or
for the candy jar, try these.
1 cup sugar
ajc, cup water
1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon
One-eighth teaspoon ground nut-
meg
14 teaspoon ground clove
3/,c teaspoon ground ginger
1 cap raisins
Cook sugar. water, cinnamon and
other spices together until the soft
ball stage. Add raisins and cook
over low heat for ii min. Stir gent-
ly. Remove a few raisins at a time
from the syrup and drain. Roll .lat
granulated sugar until well covered.
Place on waxed paper or a greased.
platter to cool. 14 the, easter shwas►
crystallizes. add a Tow drops of we-
ter.
STRAWBERRY MINT PIE
cups strawberries Halved
14 cups granulated sugar
11;4 cups water
One-eighth teaspoon salt
7.g tea tot pen peppermint fie varies;
1ts tablespoon gelatin
se cup cold water
Wash and hull the berries, ewe -
bine the sugar, water awl salt. And
bring to boil: 'Simmer lee minutes.
I'onr over gelatine. which has been
soaked in cold water. Stir until gel-
atine dissolves, add flavoring, cool.
pour over berries. When commenc-
ing to set (he suv' to stir thorough-
ly, nom' into baked shell. ('hill it
thoroughly. Before serving corer
with whipped cream and garnish
with whole berries.
STRAWBERRY MOUSSE
1.4 tablespoon gelatine
tablespoons cold water
Vii: imp fresh strawberries
Two-thirds cup sugar
2 cups whipped cream
Two-thirds cup sliced strawber-
ries,
Soften the gelatine in veld waier
and crush the berries and stir and
cook to boiling point with the su-
gar, Dissolve the gelatine roruplete-
ly in the hot liquid. (')lilt with ocea•
stonal stirring until the mixture
reaches a, honey -like consistency.
Beat until frothy. Fold in this cream
and the sliced berries. Turn into a
tray of the mechanised refrigera•
for and freeze until firm.
STRAWBERRY CONSERVE
1 quart of ripe strawberries
SA lb. seeded raisins
1 leinan
2 oranges
1,t, lb. chopped walnuts (or Dee 911B
1 mart sugar
'Wash and drain the berries, then
prl r e i in 4 es rviny Kettle,.. wig). 2:e
iaisins, sugar, graterinds and i.;
pulp of the oranges and lemons.
Cook slow" for 3,1.1 ndittes. tlligts
add the watnitis and tools tor ten
minutes louger. ('lace in glasste-'
and ever with paraffin.
STRAWBERRY MAYONNAISE
la•scup mayonn:iise
Ss rip fresh c.u.bed str•ttwborri"5
2 teht'eserr: fruit. st gar
1 i ti : c,'n i. ulri.r juice
?t, 1.011 cream whipped
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Kt.`Ali :tr`n, `iiYrt, : a .,s ..
Miss Chambers welcomes
personal letters From interest-
ed readers. She is pleased to
receive suggestions on topics
for her column, and is ev=es
ready to listen to yei. r "pet
peeves." Requests for recipes
or special menus are in order.
Address your letters to "Mise
SadieB. Chambers, 73 West
Adelaide Street, Toronto:'
Arab Proverbs
---
The crown of a good disposi-
tion is humility.
No religion without courage.
A rose sometimes falls to the
lot of a monkey.
Where the mind incline,, the
feet lead.
The chameleon does not
leave one tree until he is surer
of another.
Occasions, like clouds, pass
away.
1't is of little use to
cold iron.
Advice given in the amidst of
the crowd is loathsome.
A tyrannical sultan is to - be
preferred to constant quarrel-
ing.
trhe riches of Egypt ere for
the foreigners therein.
Live with hila who prays and
thou prayest; live with the sieg-
es.
inger and thou singest.
The tongue of the wise is
itt his heart; the tongue of the
foolish is. in Itis mouth.
The mouse that has but ono
Eche i5 5000 Caught.
hanuntr
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