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The volume of applications for new insurance during 1916 was by far the Greatest in the History of the Company. ! evidefice of Public estbem. Let us send you some fresh Insurance facts CROWN LIFE INSURANCE ©0., TORONTO Agents wanted in unrepresented districts Y That~is the best. bl gives life time service. 1s made of the best O) n Hearth steel fence wire, all im- purities burned out, all thestrength and tough ness left in, Makes the fence clastic and springy. will not fluke, peel or chi hilly and uneven very joint ig Homan wanted in unassigned terr! THE BANWELL-HOXIE WIRE FENCE CO., Lid. innipeg, Manitcba off, Oan bo erected over the m / round, without buckling, snapping or kinking. ocked together with the well-k loss ok." The heavy stay wires we use prevent require only about half as many poste as ot Bend for catalog. Jt also describes our farm gates, pon cing and ornamenta) fencing. Agents nearly everywhere. ck atmose d the coating Py ng "and 1-known try tory, amilton, Ontario 3 Between OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. Ss CHAPTER IIL.-- (Cont'd). "Im sure he isn't!" said the indign- ant Ella. "He is far too--serious for that. We sat upon a bench for ever so long, and he told me all about his plans. He has such beautiful ideas!" "Which means that you flirted shamefully with him. Ah, I know you fair-haired innocents; and I've no doubt he knows them tod. Men aren't 80 blind as some women would like them to be. (There's my cushion slipping down again, Fanny--can't you keep your eyes open, girl, instead of only your ears?) So that's you spend your afternoon, ogling young men, while a stricken woman like me can sit a prisoner in her room, with no more cheerful company than that long-faced Fanny." The corners of Ella's mouth began to droop. "But, auntie, I've only got one after- noon in the week! Cousins; the first time that her niece had at- tempted to encroach upon her own premises. Such efforts could not be too promptly discouraged. In the in- terests of the family peace it certainly was fortunate that the real martyr in! ing claim to the title. : The end of it was that, having swal- lowed a few more insults, Ella. retir- led in tears to her room, while - Mrs. Watson, satisfied with her evening's work, settled down comfortably to find fault with the delicate little supper- dish over which Fanny had been georching her thin face for the best part of the evening. | Upstairs, behind her locked door, | Ella was hying to reconstruct her elation of, the afternoon. To-day's {event had crowned the wishes of | months past, for the schoolmaster's , daughter possessed a disposition which |inclined to the sentimental, as well as a combustible sort of imagination, as the case had never yet thought of or : Preparing Rhubarb. The spring months bring in abundance of nature's best gifts, fresh fruits. * in Rhubarb is the earliest of our I tive fruits, it contains valuable mineral salts of an acid nature, which have very beneficial effects upon the liver and kidneys by causing a free - tion of bile. This is very desirable after the prolonged. winter when, through lack of exercise and eating i rich foods, these organs become slug- gish and inactive, producing the so- called spring fever, which is nothing but a lack of energy and ambition, due in many cases to a torpid liver. t Eat freely of this very Jesirable | fruit. Its tonic ptoperties are a | valuable addition to the diet. ~ Below Rl are a few methodods of cooking rhu- ! barb: ~ Rhubarb Baked in Casserole.--Wash k | and drain a bunch of rhubarb, then cut in one-inch pieces. Putin a cassergle and add one-half a cup of brown sugar. "| Place a lid in position and bake for | three-quarters of an hour. Do not add | any water. This is delicious. The | casserole confines all the aroma of the | fruit, so that none of it escapes. | Rhubarb Pudding.--Two_cups stew- ed and sweetened rhubarb, One cupful bread crumbs, One-half teaspoonful nutmeg, Mix thoroughly and then pack in a well-greased mold. Steam for one hour and serve with hard sauce. . Rhubarb 'Roll.--Drain all EJ from the outside, as it were, taking what might be termed a bird's-eye view of her own person--such a view as may be gained from a balloon mounted to a reasonable height. Often had she contemplated herself from this vantage-point, and had been im- mensely touched by the sight of the fair-haired orphan (the color of the hair somehow greatly enhanced the ef- fectiveness of the picture) thrown her aspirations. At the affecting vision, | tears were ready at a moment's notice to rise to her eyes. She always kept a supply, at the disposal of self-pity. | But resignation could not make her hesitate to take the chance offered by | the forgotten sandwiches, and from | that moment an element of hope en- ; tered into the dreams. It was not in { accordance witheany deep-laid plot | that she pursued her advantage. liquid You know that much at the mercy of any stray spark | There was nothing either of the cold- I'm shut up in that post office from that might be flying about as is an blooded schemer or of the false siren Monday to Saturday, and my head | imperfectly isolated powder magazine, in Ella Mitchell, thought a good deal ti aches sometimes so terribly. s 80 hard never to get a little fresh air." "Stuff and nonsense! You're as healthy as a cat," decided Mrs. Watson curtily, Evidently there was no room for two martyrs in one family. This was not \ FOR HEADACHES, BILIOUSNESS CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION Nearly all our minor ailments, and many of the serious ones, too, are traceable to some disorder of the stomach, liver, and bowels. If wish to avoid the mis- eries of indigestion, acidity, heartburn, flatulence, headaches, constipation, and a host of other distressing ailments, you must see to It that your s*omach, liver : and bowels are equal to TRY the work they have to do. Itis a simple matter fo take 30 drops of Mother Seigel's Syrup daily, after meals, yet thousands of former sufferers have banished indigestion, bil- Jousness, constipation, and all their dis- Yessing consequences in just this simple way. it by their experience. Asa digestive tonic and stomachic remedy, Mother Seigel's Syrup is unsurpassed. MOTHER ™ SEIGEL'S SYRUP. HR New 1.00 Siz8 CONTAINS § TIMES AS MUCH | She had been quite right in saying] | that her imagination was a bother, but it was likewise a danger, to her- self and others. A touch of fastidi- ousness, which she herself called "choiceness," and which had never had the chance of developing into refine- ment, made her ill at ease in her pre- sent groove. She owned to nothing as common as ambition, preferring to deal in "aspirations," hitherto unful- filled. Eminently she was one of the dissatisfied ones of the earth; ever on the look-out for an escape from the! monotony, and what she considered the | degradation, of her present existence --chronically scouring the horizon far afield, and unavoidably overlooking the one beneath her hand, as too small, and altogether too commonplace for "Ther powers. The very sight of John M'Donnell' had stirred her interest. - The tall young man with the striking head and; the deeply abstracted gaze had in- stantly 4 her fancy. She began to weave theories about him, which grew more and more highly colored the oftener she sat opposite to him. | In time the theories began to turn into dreams, and the dreams, in order to be! fully tasted, had to be confided _to| somebody. Thence those Ridnight, talks, so deeply condemned by Mrs, Watson. "I am sure he is very learned," Ella told Fanny, who lent herself to the role of confidant as resistlessly as to that of whipping-boy. "He evidently lives only for his books. He must be a very superior person, so serious and earnest; and his hair is such a beauti- ful color, so quite different from the usual common red. But oh, I should like him sometimes to take his eyes off "the books! One glance from those deep, brown eyes would make me feel quite ha y for a whole day, I am AE nd 5 ever I could obtain one word!" By the time the confidences reached this point, Ella was quite as enuinely in love with her unknown fellow-pas- genger as it was in her nature to be with anything but herself, though be- comingly resigned to the apparent hopelessness, of her case. er role of silent and, unrequited adoration leased her fancy considerably, an 3 touched her. She had a AS THE TRIAL SIZE SOLD ATS0c PER BOTTLE. 180 atl Ne Ea of looking at herself of th naive flirt. esies, to her it was not flirtation, but desperate earnest--or so she believed. John's picture of his Highland home had in very truth gone to her somewhat un- certainly" balanced head. Having lived all the dull part of her life in towns, the country represented to her the holiday part of existence. On the subject of John's "mission', her imagination had proved somewhat less combustible; but here, too, the magic of his earnestness had lit a spark. To the helpmate of so picturesque an apostle as this, 8/field would be open- ed not absolutely unworthy of even a superior soul." Also, she began to consider (but this, as it were, subcon- sciously) that the taking of orders has been known to lead to high places. If she did not tell herself that the Church has frequently served as an ante- chamber to the drawing-room, it was partly because the achievement of the expression was beyond her, and partly because she was honestly unaware of having come to any such conclusion; for though never willingly decieving others, she rarely passed a day with- out deceiving herself. Invariably, she was the first of her own dupes, though not necessarily the sole one. Even in the privacy of her own mind, she liked to keep up the picturesque side of 'things. Religion was un- doubtedly picturesque; which was probably one of the reasons why Ella, aving dried her tears on the Sunday night in question, came to the copclu- sion that she had been neglecting it lately, and that it was time to take it into a more serious cultivation. Next day, accordingly, she purchas- ed a new prayer-book, and resolved to work up her knowledge of Secrip- ture. * * * * * When at. the end of the third term John returned to Ardlock for the last time before his ordination, he did not bring to the slate-quarry quite his habitual disengagement of mind. The prospect of the future, hitherto so sternly simple, had somehow got com- plicated. , Tim M'Laren, having been definitely put on the "bank," had given up joking, as a thing which no longer served his purpose, but there was plenty of frank curiosity as to the per- son of the futpre "missis." - at there was to bd a "missis" was taken almost for gra Who would elect to live alone in the whichi was so of aly lanned to hold two--and more? 'John listened thoughtfully, making no absolute denial of the possibil ty of the thing. That consternation which the "first suggestion roused in him was no longer visible on ! 0 his face. : be continued). ~. Furnitur by our easy payment plan. y stone house, |: So vom enough cooked rhubarb to meas- the | ure two cups, then make dough as | ening, Sig ablespoonfuls milk or wa- ter. Sift dry ingredients, then rub in shortening. ix to dough with milk or water. Roll on floured pastry board one-quarter inch thick. Now | spread the drained rhubarb over the | dough, leaving a space of one inch all around the edges. Now rojl like jelly roll and then put in a well-greased baking pan, pouring 'over the roll: One-half cup rhubarb juice and one- quarter cup of sugar. Bakein a follows: "One cup flour, on tea- spoonful salt, two teas ont s bak- ing powder, two tablespoon 1s 'short- | TO wwe PARKER'S DYE. WORKS, Limi 791 Yonge Street - - Toronto moderate over for forty minutes. This roll may be eaten hot or cold, wth a sauce made from the rhubarb. Rhubarb Sauce.--One cup rhubarb juice, one-half cup sugar, one table- spoonful eornstarch. Cook until clear, usually about five minutes, Serve hot or cold. Rhubarb = Dumplings.--Prepare a dough, using the recipe given for rhu- barb roll. Cut after rolling in four- inch squares. Fill the squares with pieces of uncooked rhubarb cut in one- inch blocks. Fold over the dough, then tie in dumpling cloths and boil or steam for twenty-five minutes. Serve with sweet cream sauce. Use of a Stencil. Stenciling is one of the daintiest, yet easiest, method of decoration. The uses to which a stencil can be put are almost too many to montion; all kinds of articles for personal wear can be so treated, such as scarves, dresses, sunshades, bands, etc., and for the home such things as lamp shades, cushion covers, curtains, bags, hangings, table covers, etc. A useful little stencil to purchase is based on the wild rose and is very simple to work out; it can be applied to various articles, such as scarves, covers, curtains, bags, shades, etc.; the stencil is repeated, of course, as often as it is thought desirable--this will depend upon the nature and the size of the article that is to be decorated. The colorings used for this stencil may be varied, such as red and green, pale pink and green; the coloring will depend upon that of the rest of the room. = If the stencil is to decor- ate a hanging or cover, and if for dress purposes it will depend upon the general color scheme. Some oil colors will be needed, one or; two stenciing brushes, and if the work is to wash well it is wise to buy a bottle of stenciling medium. Put out on an oil plate or palette, some Alizarin crimson, white, lemon chrome and blue. If the material to be decorated is delicate pin it down with drawing pins on to clean white blotting paper, then pin the stencil*in place. Economy A National Duty. It is said that Canadian women scarcely know the rudiments of econ- omy. Though this may be too strong- ly expressed, it is certainly true that considerable quantities of food are wasted in the average Canadian home. This may be due to ignorance or care- lessness, or both. But if the women once grasped the fact that conserving our food supply is, in a very real sense, war work, and a definite duty to the country, more intelligence would be brought to bear on the problem. There is a tendency to put the emph- asis on patriotic work Sutside phe home to. the neglect of natio service which is waiting for us in the kitchen, undergo hardship in our eating. All that is asked of the women is that they serve simple, wholesome meals, avoidable waste as follows: (1) Loss through poor cooking, (2) cooking in larger quantities than nes- sary, (8) buying materials of small nutritive value, (4) food out of season, (Bb) buying imported foods, (6) buy- ing staple foods in too small gquanti- ties, (7) buying more of some foods than can be used. before spoiling, (8) buying cooked foods that could be more cheaply prepared at home, (8) failure to make use of left-overs, (10)- careless season and unattractive may be summarized No appeal has been made for us tof eliminating all available waste. This SHOE POLISHES JO¢ -BLACK-WHITE-TAN=1O¢ F. F. Dalley Co. of Canada, Ltd, Hamilton, Can, doo] ie Jo ss 1] CER J \ cheese, milk | holes evenly in each end, bring ends" together, lace up with leather thong eT mam or ribbons, bind top, make a round Utilizing Old Linoleum, Wooden bettof and you have a decid- " edly ly waste et, which can be Le hoe ui pects kept clean inside and out by wash- and too few cereal, egg, and fish dishes. " ing. " The "Groundwork" of Health, Comfort J ~ and Economy when days are wet and ' "all out-doors" is sloppy, is a good pair of rubbers, rubber boots or rubber farm shoes. . The sure guide to good rubber footwear--your guarantee of service and protection--isoneofthese Trade Marks: ~ ( "JACQUES CARTIER" = "GRANBY" "MERCHANTS" - "DAISY" "MAPLE ar . "DOMINION" Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co, Limited \ Largest Manufacturers of Rubber Goods in the British Empire ~~ : ' EXECUTIVE OEFICES - * MONTREAL, P.Q. / SEVEN LARGE, UP~TO~DATE MANUFACTURING PLANTS IN CANADA 28 "SERVICE" BRANCHES AND WAREHOUSES THROUGHOUT CANADA serving, (11) too many meat dishes