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kept, her from 'realizing her career hiss Phoebe's Hollyhock Garden| By CHARLOTTE KINNEY. a8, on as PART L "Spring is surely here!" the women in their windows would exclaim as with hér basket of pussy- by their houses up the hill to High School. Or, "Autumn has come again for there goes Miss Phoebe with hert milkweed pods and asters!" = They! could say this because for twenty years Miss Phoebe had been going past their windows with her season- able basket, Twenty years, up on the third floor of the High School, Miss Phocbe had taught the drawing classes, Her hair | was quite gray now and her eyes, which were two of the kindest eyes in the world, looked often tired and there were patient lines about her mouth, But there were people who could re- member "Miss Phoebe when her hair had been a snappy black and her cheeks as pink and fresh as the holly- hocks that grew in her own garden. That was the time when" Miss Phoebe had been but twenty-one and just home from art schocl. It was said that Miss Phoebe had won a gold medal and that an editor down in To- ronto, who had seen her pictures, had offered' her a place on his magazine. "I pec'om," old Jim Wilson, the post- master, had said to Miss Phoebe one morning when he had handed her an importiit looking letter with a To- ronto: 'postmark, x rec 'on now with this fine position you're going to be getting and the money you'll be mak- ing, you'll never let your ma take in any more sewing. You'll be able to givé her a rest now, Miss. Phoebe, suchas she ain't seen since your fath- er died, and you was a baby." And then when all Lakeview had given Miss Phoebe a farewell party on tht very eve of her going, some- thing happened, something so unfore- seen, so Piteously overwhelming as to postpone Miss Phoebe's city adventure for twenty years and to change the cours® of 'her life. Mrs. Malcombe suf- fered a stroke of paralysis that for weeks threatened her life and finally left her helplessly. crippled: Ag, first, Miss Phoebe had hopes for her mother's recovery. 'She bravely accepted' the modest art position .in the village high school, engage ed a girl to stay with her mother the hours she was oMliged to be absent, and waited, cheerfully and patiently. One of the sweet things about Miss Phoebe was her cheery patience. It perhaps was what had given her face its soft and lovely quality. Years passed. Old Mrs, Malcombe sat in her chair quite comfortable but helpless, slowly fading away like the fading of a beautiful Foi If there ad 'evér been a time when Miss hoebe had resented the fate that she had carefully concealed it from her mother. A great love existed between them' "I'll never leave you, Mother," Miss: Phoebe had often whispered to her.' ¥No; not for all the glories of thé world." Pwo years - after Mrs. Malcombe's death,' the daughter went steadily on with her. teaching. She had become a fixture 'with the school, as much so as the flagstaff on top of the building or the clock in the lower hall. Then one day, the village was electrified with "thé news that Miss Phoebe-had resigned and was going to Toronto to have a studio, "To have a studio!" repeated the amazed few. "But was Miss Phoebe, the village drawing teacher, "clever enough: to draw pic- tures for magazines and actually sell an awakening, for Miss Phoebe the second time, had proved 'that she 'watched Miss Phoebe Malcombe| Was. "willows pass | margin of her time several was attested by the fact that again {and I could have gone on, wouldn't I them?" Then Lakeview gxpefienced for She had, ine past year, on the made and sold pictures. Their -- excellence had come to her an offer to come to Toronto. The. day before her bn ht she sat beside a box packing her pict! Suddenly, she came to one over she lingered and fondled almost as Gt it had been a baby. It was the pic- ture of a little yellow-haired boy with brown, bare feet standing against a great mass of pink and scarlet holly- hocks. It was entitled, "In a Garden." © "The Dear!" whispered Miss Phoebe and her lips twitched a little, "How 1 shall miss him!" The boy who had posed for the picture was David, a little elf of a fellow who played in her garden and made trains of cars out of her books en the floor of her studio. She covered the picture at last and carefully placing it in the box, was preparing to tack down the cover when the door bell rang. "A telegram," gasped Miss Phoebe, "or callers," But it was not callers, just the poy with the "Companion." She found her pocketbook and paid him. "Don't bring it next week, Willie. I'm going away to Toronto." "You're alright, Miss .Phoebe, I say!" grinned Willie, keeping the change as she closed his fingers over it. "And some day 1 bet Lakeview will find one of your picturés on the 'Companion's' cover!" The picture on the "Companion's" cover of a little boy against a back- ground of hollyhocks, was so nearly like her-own conception, that she could scarcely believe her eyes. With beat- ing heart she read the signature, Marcia Allen McNair. "Her picture!" gasped Miss Phoebe, "Hers! She's got the starf of me again, even to being first with my idea." She had spoken the words aloud. Laddie, a very old Scotch collie, got up slowly from his nap. and came up and laid his great head understanding- ly on her lap. "It hurts, Laddie, that I never could have had my chance, Marcia and I were to have gone away" together, Laddie, but something . happened 0, make me stay. She went on to a bi success. And I've often wonder: if something had kept her from going have made as big a success? I love to think so, Laddie! And Laddie, that isn't her real name any more than 'mine is Narcissus Her name is just plain Mary McNair and she's from Lockport, and we went to the Art School together; roomed together, worked toget! and_ graduated to- gether twenty years 'ago. But that isn't all, Laddie, There was. in school a teacher, old Vand i we used to 'call him. He taught the life class, He used to | to watch her pictures and mine in the making and once he said, 'Miss Mary, she has talent--much, but Miss Phosbe 'has more; she has genius.' That's the word, Laddie, the magic word, and I've liked to think all these years that perhaps he knew. It makes it easier] to have the courage to start again!" She picked up the picture a examined it with greatest She even held it u dog's Svat, "Look, ie, clever ? Mary was always. so clever 0 before the old a Frit Growing Long; Delors the grain and cattle era of the west, the Canadian prairies pro-: duced ;many, small fruits which grew 'Palatablenees 'throughout the wild in profusion. Several varieties of on on the Prairie A the miles a large number erri University. i' Bdmonten, | Have you felt in your soul of her and nterest. isn't it{ oy say now, that|® north of the 5% Sdmonten, 00} An soft on ig Pralile's s | -drous charm, Ef And the peace of her quiet Have you scen of the. midn! 'black and deep, ~'Neath the weer; of the starstrewn| sky, 8 Out thers in bh darx where v i things creep i And the Northern Lights | Bo by? Have you followed the beat of the un known trail = : : That leads you to God knows where, | Up over the hills with the mists. be- tween, t "And out on the prairie bare? If you've tasted of these you may wan- . der far : O'er the sea and the mountain, and plains, - But ever the prairie will call to your heart And you will come back egain. © -- ge - Charm _ and Romance of : Sundi als. 0 So far as can be ascerfained, no one knows the date or even the near-date of the ' first sundial, says & recent writer. I think the Bible gives us about the earliest records of them, while the 'earliest sundials = still 'in existence are Grecian, and the 'earl: fest Grecian dial known was 340 B.C. Sundials abound in Chima and Japan, too, and Time himself only knows how far back they were known there, There is an altar-like quality about a sundial, a solemnity, impressiveness, and serenity which confer dignity up- on a garden and invest it with a peace that wraps soothingly about one the moment one enters the gate. I _once heard an old man say that a garden witheut a sundial was like: 2 person with a shallow personality. A - A sundial, like a candlestick, € lovelier for being older; f6¥ age gives | a mellowness which man cannot dupht- cate. Some of the mottoes upon the. very old dial, however, were very insistent that one bear death in mind rather than life. Hspecially is this true of those found upon some of the older churches, whose dials, by the way, were oftener wall dials instead of pe- destal dials. Speaking of English dials, Charles the First presented a most elaborate one to his queen, Henrietta Maria, and in time. .Parted in time, To be united when time shall be no more." i Some dials are stern .taskmasters| who resent any dawdling even for ou pleasure in 'their society, for, ad) gone about: your business!" and an. other, "To no one is given right of de-. lay," and another, with startling abruptness, "Mind your business!" Other dials give advice more gently, as "Now is- yesterday' 8 to-morrow," and-- . "The guerdon of the passing hour Seize gladly while tis in thy power." The other, a mord stately dial, says, as though blessing youth and romance | with a benediction, "Too slow for those who walt; 4| Too: swift for those who fear; Too long for those who grieve; Too short for those who. rejoice; 'But for those who love Time is Eternity. ol ~ i Speaking . of: inexpensive petostals for sundials, one. of the most attrac tive I have seen was an old gate hed, which had been 'transplanted, level a, plege of wood placed. upon the "Gather ye fuses while yo may dinners till T think I coi 'them with my. eyes ha Each din- ner is a miracle of simplicity. I used to decide that 'it would be nice' to 'have 'this or that, but now I plan a 'menu 'that. "will" take the 'minimum amount of work. I cut work down! to the last detail. "I seldom have roast meats. They are too much work and not necessary. Nine times out of ten I use cold meat} | eliced and beautifully garnished and served in plenty. plenty of everything the men are sat- isfied; when everything looks pretty the women are delighted. "I use salmon, jellied chicken; cold tongue; sausage loaf and several more. "I keep plenty of parsley for gar- nish growing in my kitchen window box and I always keep lemons on hand. "But I start a company meal off with a hot soup, highly seasoned. For this I keep canned soup ready on hand. "I seldom serve more than two other hot. dishes--potato and a vegetable. Dishes that are to be served cold, 1 bo 'Marjorie ready long beforehand, Ee it furnish . the meals of doing things in a novel way. Madam calls!' guests in there alone?" I asked. tals for the guests' inspection sed nuts or did a little: ance, na and prett ; ] i 'she is old and Haught ¢ sho has of it to support the dial, a place a great house with pt thick enough ake ome crude n and has traveled in' foreign lands iy ing about the sides, where the owner een | had inscribed | this he 'gra | The white part underneath is bitte and causes milk or cream {o- curdle,| d prepare 'When you have a very hot day, I omit soup, use Plenty £5 fruit "grapes," melons, berries. } cream ¢ helps. 1 ns not make it fag T 1 save work-%save Work---save- work! "That Fis my motto. Afid todo. itr cannot | 'regulation - 'company' and be just to myself and I seem to. have earned the reputation "Fred always helps me. As soon as dinner is over Fred ushers our guests into the sitting room, and almost by magic vanishes to appear again with my big kitchen apron ox, announcing: 'Excuse me two minutes, please; the "Couldn't you leave the dishes?" 1 had inscribed upon the dial--'"United | #sked "Yes, but when we ds, they get in the way of chores and Fred knows how hard that is so the two of us hustle and wash up the dishes in a jiffy. Its restful to have a tidy kit- monishes one old dial, "Behold and be Chen "when my guests depart!" ~ "But isn't it awkward leaving the "Fred, Jr, does the entertaining! He's almost seven, but he can run our musie machine as well as we. We | have taught him to entertain company. {while 'Daddy and Muver are doing dishes," and he loves his part. His Dad- dy did most of the teaching and I don't know which of the two enjoy it most. I took the part of company during these | evening 'lessons his father gave him. 'When Boy was Jounger we borrowed May,\ a_ neighbor's little 'daughter, and made out a 'real little program for her to go 'through with. * | She recited some of 'her school pieces, "| and presented our latest picture pos- oe pas ;| but' it contains no part of the lemon ,| flavor. Yet when lemon flavor is called for the lemon is often grated down right to the pulp in parts, while the yellow rind is left on. A lemon Should be grated evenly, inning at the end and working 'rofind it, using as smal surface of the grater as pos- prevent waste. The habit of 'turning the lemon as you grate comes as easily as to turn an apple under the knife_when peeling. "Generally - twice across the grater and back between each turn will re- 'move all the essential oil, but while guarding against grating too deeply care must be taken to remove the whole of the yellow surface. ' Food and Efficiency. A 'young wife, inexperienced in housekeeping, is likely to feed both herself and her husband injudiciously. In the cdse of tha husband it may 'mean a loss of efficiency, because im- proper feeding makes flabby a torpid liver and a muddy brain. When children come into the home, the wife shas a double responsibility. Every child has the ight to a good constitution. ~ If he does not get it, f he has the right to ask why he did got 'get it. No child, however well-horn, is, Jikely to win in his. fight with 'the world unless he has good food. But apart from its economic value good food has an effect on thedaily} atmosphere of the home. Everyone} knows: how refreshing a 'good m at the end of a hard day, and how 'much easier it is to be amiable there- after. Yesterday's dinner and the din- ners of many earlier yesterdays all help or hinder you to resist the temp-| tation to be irritable. In making her plans the housewife must consider several points: her hus- band's income, the health of her fam- ily and-its happiness. In making up her home budget she should decide £: ing money she can spénd for food, what part for rent, for clothing and for running expenses, and what part she can lay aside. In the running ex- penses she should reckon the family vacation and the money for amuse- ments. ~ When she has decided upon the sum maker is ready to plan how to spend it... The average Canadian has a way of demanding the best without stop- ping to consider what constitutes the best. One who tries to educate the inexperienced housekeeper 'has first to teach hér a Just appreciation. of values. The young ho eeper, instead of finding such problems: irksome, should be proud to have a field in which she can use her mental powers to such! loyes. * Prederving. Corn in Brine. corn; jin the jar, packing the jar nearly full. | Pour the brine over the ears; add coy-| = and weights. Fermented corn has.a | cheered definitely what part of the housekeep-| that she can spend-for food, the home-{ | good "advantage, and in which any| success is certain to be rewarded with | increase in the health _ happiness' of those whom she * 'Wisk and flean the. silk from the 'Wash and place the edrs on end parads. 'The little sainy peak 8 'be-cracked, and the red "Crown fess and faded worn 'wi ous veteran. The young the more thought h ing his youth ever color Rd 4 moor carefully than French conscript. discolc a0) We Are so used now to pale blue diers, with medieval helmets, the dashing little policecap; worn an impertinent angle, that it seer ir. credible that in 1914 the men were as they marched away. branches in rifies and flowers in caps, were the red and blue soldiers of half a century's cartoons and : drawings, with their little caps, such-as an ated" English postman might wear in his garden--the crushed relic of his official headgear, - only without 'the hinder = pesk--Jauntily crummed upon their i heads. Fi It will be a very little time 'before; we actually see the last kepi, and prob. ' ably when we do we shall not realize it. These things slip away unnotided. : It ought to be represented in the war museum, Its remains can still be seen hanging on some of the wooden cr "es by that long: eastern road. which | ; Tows the valley of the Marne. : ENE TREER Smeal Minard's Liniment For: Burns, Et +; san----------. Eo Home, Sweet: Hemme. The dearest spot on earth to ne, 3 Is home, sweet home! * ° The fairyland I 16hg to see Is home, sweet hope! i There, how charmed the sense or ing; Ree CE Thete, where ove is so endearing; gale All the world: is not so cheering, } . As home, 'sweet home! v3