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; a Copyright Houghton Mifflin AN, i ut - ' Company by special arrangement with Thos. Allen, Toronto CHAPTER IL On Friday and Saturday Mrs. Dono- hue energetically conducted a house- | gleaning; she took up the Dasior and dining-room carpets, draped them on} a clothes-line in the front ard, and | with her head swathed in 4 blue polka- "dot handkerchief, beat them with a rattan stick. "If he's good enough to go to Con- ou he's good enough to have this | ouse fixed up for him a bit," she would say. She could not help ex- hibiting her pride over the distinction | that had been conferred on Jerry. "And it the first chance he's ever ha to vote in all his life!" she conclude. . "And a Congressman mak- | ing up to him right off Ain't he the lucky boy!" By Saturday night she had put' down the carpets and washed the par-| lor and dining-room curtains; these on! Monday had to be darned, for they were old and did not well endure her vigorous cleansing. On Monday, too, phe washed the windows and dusted the furniture, the Jietures, the chandeliers--singing all the 'while. ! She finished crocheting the tidy and' hung it over the stain on the re plush chair. The paper roses on the parlor mantel had become soiled after six months of decorative service; un- willing to throw them away as having outlived their beauty, she went over them, petal b; petal, with a bit of damp cloth. o gardener ever tend- ed living roses with more care than that which she had bestowed in trying to preserve the fresh appearance of these flowers, Likewise, though an object of evergreater solicitude, had the white memorial dove been grimed and flecked. Against a sheaf of rushes and enclosed in a frame lined with white satin, it hung head down, wings outstretched, transfixed by an arrow which was issuing at its back. Beneath it, worked in red: worsteds, was inscribed, "At Rest." "1 declare, Jerry," said Mrs. Dono- hue, surrendering to despondency on Monday evening, "if there's been one thing that I've tried to keep free from spot and stain since your father's | death, it's that dove, But what with the soft-coal smoke, the soot, the dust a-flying in from the street, that dove is no longer the pure white bird it ought to be. I hope Mr. Maxwell won't notice the specks on it, and think we've failed in vur duty to- | wards the dead." "Now stop your worrying," he said soothingly. "You're just Dlayed out. You've made the house look fine--but you needn't to have." Tuesday 'evening, when Jerry came home from the mill, he found his mother in a state of triumphant ex- haustion. «] did think at one time I never would get through," she said, 1 hope I've froze up enough ice cream and fried enough doughnuts. How many do you think will come, Jerry 7" "You mean to say you've been freez- ing ice cream and frying doughnuts! PIANOS! PIANOS] In order to get our justly high e piano in each town, village or town- ghip throughout Ontario, we shall offer ome instrument, and only one, in each place, at factory price, as far as it can be done consistently, These pianos are made in Canada and have been before the Canadian Public for over twenty-five years, and dre sold on a straight guarantee. For further information apply to BOX 427 . TORONTO, ONT: A TAG Rac ae AY ST STOVE POLISH | | wish there was a Walker Al On every ies le tour GEE Well, if 'you aint' a wonder! Mr. Maxwell didn't mean we should do that kind of thing." "1 don't know as that's Mr. Max- well's affair," Tsjfied Mrs. Donohue with dignity. "If you're going to be hospitable. I-borrow- ed the Driscolls' freezer, and that along with our lons. So it ain't as if you'd been in- viting your friends to an empty ouse. Ill spend the evening at the Driscolls'--and say, Jerry, Mrs, Dris- coll asked if we mightn't slip over some time during the party, her and me, and peek through the window-- would | she'd so like to see the Congressman. 1 told her we could." of "Sure," said Jerry. "And if you'll make some kind of signal, I'll sneak you out some ice cream." In his black suit and stiff collar, with a salmon pink necktie which flared violently. against the deeper pink of his neck and face, cended'the stairs. His mother had just finished putting the dishes away in the kitchen. . "My, but you do look nice!" she assured him, "Now I'm going up to change my dress, so I'll be ready to run over to Mrs. Driscoll's the mo- ment he comes. Don't stir round an get yourself all mussed up and excited, child; just sit still and be calm." Obediently, but with an uncomfort- able consciousness of his collar, Jerry sat in the parlor and endeavored to ve his mind to "Ben Hur." The door- ll jangling violently summoned him. A brewery wagon was waiting at the curb; the teamster was waiting at the door. - . "Two kegs for J. Donohue," said the teamster. "This the place 1" "Yes, but 1 didn't order any--" "Sent by John Maxwell." The steamster strode down fo his wagon and lifted a keg out in his arms. Jerry held the door open for him dumbly. "In there." dining-room. "Jer-ry!" The call came from up- stairs just as the teamster had de- parted for the second Teg. "pM you got to the door?" "Yes, mother." "Who was it?" "Oh, just a--just a mistake." The brewery wagon was turning away when anotheféwagon drew up at the curb. apprehensively. The driver lugged a bushel basket filled with tumblers up the steps. ; "In there," Jerry murmured; point- ing to the dining-room. . On a second trip the man in four quarts of whiskey and boxes of cigars. . Jerry closed the dining-room door upon these contributions; then, as if at a loss, he inserted his forefinger down the front of his collar and gave his chin three or four meditative hoists. . He returned gravely to the parlor and resumed his reading of "Ben Hur." +h: 4d Jerry pointed to the ' brought two ded His » the stairs. "What in the world have you been tramping about so for, when, I told you to sit still and be calm?" she de- manded. "I thought the house was coming down.' "Oh, I wanted to make sure every- thing was all right," he answered. "And it is. Now I'll read you a chapter out of this book." And thus placidly were they engag- ed when the jangling bell proclaimed the first arrival. "F guess 1 won't-wait to see Mr. Maxwell afterall," said Mrs. Donohue nervously, "unless this is him." From the stairs, whither she re- treated, she saw Jerry open the door and admit Dave Scanlan and four or five other friends. "Then she took her departure 'undetected by the guests. Until the arrival of the \eandidate, there was an atmosphere of dismal decorum. The young men, asembl- ing at last to the number of twenty- five, conversed in funerally low voices. At last an automobile puffed up the street and stopped before the house. Instantly the two front windows were blocked with heads; the front door was flung open. "It's him!" Jerry anngunced with excitement. Mr. Maxwell was a believer in dash, in "snap." He ran up the plank walk and divested himself of his fur over- coat as he ran. "Hello! hello! hello!" he cried; he d Jerry's welcoming hand and Fosse his overcoat into a corner by e door. "Say, old man, orry to be late. © I've brought 'with me friends of mine--Mr. Donohue, ee Tracy, Mr. fy 7 own makes four gal-| At the door Jerry waited N Mr.| cupful honey, 1 cupful the cupful chopped nut ments} egg, 8) nd," uted Jerry, "there Sp ae: i r. Maxwe side 1 : room door. He worked his way into the corner where Jerry was ladling ige cream out of a er. ci , "Jerry," he said; "I'll bet this was , your mother's doing," | "It was that." * "Well, I want some of that ice | cream in a moment." . | He turned; some one passed him & i glass of beer. - ! | "Gentlemen! Friends!" Mr. Max- { well rpised his glass above his head, and they all listened. "I want every , one here to fi]l his glass and then join "me in 4 toast that I will propose." Jerry des-- A home-made sponge box or bread raiser will prove a great convenience in the wartime kitchen. It enables the housekeeper to keep her sponge or dough. at the right temperature so that it will rise in less time, A sponge box or bread raiser, there- fore, takes much of the uncertainty out of bread baking. It can be made from an ordinayy dry goods packing box, and ' the government has sent out directions for making it, as fol ows: A box 26 by 20 by 20 inches is a convenient: size. ~ About ten inches from the bottom of the box a shelf made of slats or strips of wood rests oh cleats fastened to the sides of the box. A second shelf is placed four inches above the lower one. The shelves can be removed when cleaning the box. Below the lower shelf a sheet of galvanized iron slightly wider than the shelf is inserted. It is curved in order to make it slip in and stay in place securely. This prevents scorching of the lower shelf i when a lamp is placed below and also helps to distribute the heat more even- ly. The rs is hinged and fastened | with a thumb-latch or hook and staple. Several small holes are bored in the Jower and upper parts of the sides and in the top of the box to promote circulation of air. A cork which has | { * Honey a Sugar Substitute. Honey is much more easily digested than sugar, and much more quickly assimilated. It has the peculiarity of retaining moisture, keeping bread and cakes, for instance, fresh and soft for a long time. It is delicious on dry cereals of all kinds, even dry bran. In combination with most fresh fruits and nuts, there is no sweet like honey. Try it with baked apples, baked peaches, sour cherries, boiled or bak- ed quinces, grapefruit, cocoanut, al- monds and Brazil nuts and you will surely want it & second time. Raisins, spices and spicy seeds blend well with honey. ; Honey cakes; as we have said, are noted for their keeping qualities. For this reason, the use of honey is re- commended for wedding or black fruit cake, while it gives a richness of flav- or and texture to even a plain raisin loaf like the following: Honey Plum Cake.--3% cupful short- ening, % cupful brown sugar, % cup- ful honey, 1 egg, % cupful milk, 2 cupfuls pastry flour, 1 teaspoonful' soda, teaspoonful salt, % teaspoon- ful ginger, % teaspoonful nutmeg, % teasponful cloves, 1 teaspoonful cinna- mon, 1 cupful raisins or mixed fruit. Cream the shortening and brown su- gar together, add honey and egg well beaten. Mix and sift together all the dry ingredients, reserving a little of the flour to dust over the raisins. Add dry ingredients alternately with the milk to the first mixture; beat well add raisins and bake in a well-greased and floured loaf pan in a moderate oven. Honey small cakes. indefinitely: utlets.--1 cupful shortening, 1 brown sugar, 1 2 . is unequaled. for making The following will keep foe! ug excitement of ice cream on the t with his hands and complimenting Himes his discretion ¥n withh 'of the beer. could come to her unac- companied by any sting of disappoint- ment or disillusion. (To be continued.) ---- Si SPONGE BOX. AS KI TCHEN COMMODITY. been bored through the centre to ad- mit a straight thermometer is insert- od in one of the holes in the top of the box. A Fahrenheit chemical ther. mometer that registers as high hs 100 degrees can be used. mometer may be ordered through a hardware dealer or directly from an instrument dealer. - To avold all danger of fire, the box should be lined with asbestos or tin when a kerosene lamp is used for heating the box. If an electric light is used the lining is not necessary. A sixteen-candle power light will heat the box nicely. A small and inex- pensive night lamp is placed in the bottom of the box and a shallow pan of water is placed on the lower shelf 80 that the air in the box will be kept moist. i The bowl of sponge or pans of dough are placed on the upper shelf. The temperature of the box should be kept as near 88 degrees F. as pos- sible (80 degrees to 88 degrees F.) when bread is being made in the quick way. If o/ sponge is set over night 66 to 70 degrees F. is the better tem-|- perature until the dough is made in the morning, after which the tempera- ture may. be increased to 86 degrees F. The temperature in the box may be varied by raising or lowering the flame of the lamp or by using warm or cold water in the shallow pan. scant teaspoonfuls soda, 1 teaspoon- ful salt, 1 .teaspoonful cinnamon, 4 cupfuls pastry flour, Sift the dry in- gredients together, beat the egg well, and mix #n order given. This will make a stiff batter; drop by teaspoon- Such: a ther-| For Starch and Linen. invented -about ninety-two years ago by the wife of a blacksmith of Troy, NY. Whe Wade; ong for her husband. ce then grown in until there is probably Ss porslasas has not-worn a starched collar at some time or other. Now its popular- ity is on the d e again, partly on the score of comfort and partly as a result of the war. % . The crux of the matter does not lie with the collar itself, though that is made from material which is usefal for bandages. It's the starch is to be saved--valuable foods that ought not to be wasted on collars. ing introduced which is not celluloi but is a regular fabric collar trea with & kind of varnish that makes it possible"to clean it under the tap 'or . The separate starched - collar was A permanently stiffened collar is be- {kil with a damp cloth. Automobills should be among those who mobilise this new fabris, for in spite of road dust, it is always possible to clean" in a clean collar, A collar of - this kind will last from two weeks to' a month, i i me Eradicate cedar trees growi th orchards to down apple rus! is chiefly a fol disease, but attacks the fruit. : jod to kill rats. Pos- ut most cats' do no rats. Every cat will kill birde, and as the birds kill insects, every cal is an insect protector. Get rid of uses less eats to protect the birds that prod : tect crops from. destruction by insects: Cats are sup, siblyy some do Y new. that are shabby oo Send it to Parker's OU will be astonished at the results we modern system of dyeing and cleaning get by our , Fabrics or spotted are made like , dirty We can restore the most delicate articles. 'Send one article or a parcel of goods by post or express. We will pay carriage ome way, and charges are most reasonable. 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