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PICKING UP THE PLAYTHINGS. ing up the playthings at the end A Is a time for dreaming and a time to pray. ) Quietly in slumber, lying snug and Busy little hands and busy little feet. . Rooms are still from laughter, child- ish worries gone-- Little troubles they'll forget with the smile of dawn. In the utter silence, glad our hearts must be Silent rooms shall sound again with * the morning glee. The first Life is not all playtime, soon the years Economical! much trouble in after years. ber, it is much easier to instil good manners than to break bad ones. Remem- COMMON CAUSES OF CANNING one knew he was here an' kept him FAILURES. This is the time of year when) housewives wonder why things which you who killed him," answered Kirby they have put up for the winter do With not always keep. Shrinkage of material in the jar! of may be due to packing the.jars too tight at canning time; to overcooking, or to air spaces left between the he every da materials when the jar is packed. difficulty can be met by packing firm, but not tight, to within a half-inch of the top of the jar, an by leaving this half-inch of space for, expansion during cooking. d he while the police were him everywhere? thin' why didn't he it? What was he walt the folks that finally b If he kn : to n' knew he didn't what he " Fi, Tp in Sct iT can't answer . | off the reel, Cole. our questions right © ebbe I could guess at one or two answers, but they wouldn't be right. F'r instance, could guess that he was here in this hi Si Se ft like oi here Jumper him off Shi 3 said evenly, . ; 2 se yaidhing He mpertasbable orem ranged, vr "1" want - ut a muscle of hi face 'Some one illum plenty dead," he Io, ov, i, Se al was Tn a Tom er tr thi Sd ti "In these apartments. Never lefy 'hat what he OL know & Bp em, most likely. What's more, some 8nese habits.of mind would fill a great many. books. su Plied with the daily papers." El "Who? CHAPTER XXL "If I could tell you that I could tell a grim, mirthless smile. "How do you know all that?" Lane told him of the mute testimony f "Some one, brought those papers to y," he added. "And then killed him, Does that lock reasonable to you?" 0 Cc the newspapers in the living-room. the cops?" he JAMES LOSES HIS TEMPER. Lote grinned whimsically at bis riend. 3 - "Do we light out now or walt for asked. "We wait. They'd Erohably find ut, anyhow, that we'd been here." Five minutes later a patrol wagon langed up to the Paradox. A sergeant "We don't know the circumstances.' of police and two plainclothes men took Say, to make a long shot, that the the elevator. Jap had been hired to kill m y thie other man, and say beginnin' to uncle the party, stopped in ' e Was the apartment and let a hard, hostile et ugly an' make threats. eye travel up and down Lane's six The sergeant, heading e doorway 0 Or say Ronkaw knew about the feet. will bring Strict adherence to a can t i ning table, kijlin' 'of my uncle an' was hired by| "Oh, it! " or i ¥ , it iciously. Days of Joy nd sorrow, toil and giving cooking time for different the other man to keep away. Then| Kirby smiled. Merhars Tight, ofhc . fruits and vegetables, will settle the he learns from the papers that he's cer. We've met before, haven't we?" Now with love and laughter do the second trouble. To avoid the third dif-| suspected, an' he Fo anxious to g9/ They had. The sergeant was the years go by, ficulty, exclude the air by inserting a J the Jolies wi what he Jnows. man who had arrested at the cor- Happines d 5 h spatula or thin bladed knife in the YYouldn ere be reason enough then|oner's inquest. It had annoyed him p rv Joyousness hover YT Jar before putting on the lid. to kill him? The other man would that the authorities had later released "Rlat sour," another common have to do it to save himself. the prisoner on bond. May their little hearts so fill with the trouble, also arises from over-packing, I reckon." Cole harked back to 8| "Have you touched the body or ' Jove of home. but is mainly due to. allowing food v| preceding suggestion. "The revenge moved anything since you came?" the : y y allowing food | theory wan't hold water, If some sergeant demanded. Memories shall never fade though stand in a afar they roam! Picking up the playthings at the end of day Is a time for dreaming and a time to pray. --A. W. Peach. BREAKING IN BABY. J-~ "What pretty manners your baby has!" said Mrs. Brown, looking admir- ingly at the tiny Jones girl, who was daintily eating a piece of bread-and- butter, = "I could not possibly have my Barbara down to meals with me. Bhe makes such an awful mess with her food, and is so restless." Now, very many children are like Barbara. They are simply impossible at meals with grown-ups. But it is not really difficult to train a child to - eat nicely, and to behave properly at First of all, the child should be taught to give all its attention, just for the time being, to what it is eat- fng. All atempts to play at meal times should be resisted. Sometimes 'a mother will give a baby a spoon or toy to play with, so as to persuade reat, This is very wrong, as baby g to understand, and soon will not eat at all unless some other enter- tainment is offered at the same time. iter, this leads to children being i 'and unable to sit quietly at and to their trying to play with knives, forks, glasses, etc. Boon as possible, a baby should begin to feed himself and to drink ; " himself. Quite quickly his little n will adapt themselves to hold, first, bread-and-butter and plain big «nits, and then fork, spoon, and cup. But to make this process easy for --and pleasant for other people-- must not be given at the start food it is messy or difficult to manage. 'baby 18 to learn that.a dirty face d dirty hands are not the right ing at meals, he must not have food 'into his hands that, through no of his, brings about this result. only "Manners makyth Baby" 'be regarded as being as import- Collar and wide. TRY A 2 ana- 'omen, hundrede of por- | pages ($10), $2.25. History lion, 1837-39 and Life {and of bread on salad dress any time during the canning process. | When the fruits float, the jar may, have been over-packed, or over-cooked, but it is generally a sign that too much sugar has been used. {A GOOD STYLE FOR A SCHOOL FROCK. 4534. Checked gingham in brown tones was used for this model. good for wool jersey, twill and serge also for taffeta and velveteen. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. i requires 2% yards of 54-inch material. have it translated, Cole." semi-heated condition at/ It is| -|uncle was a big, two-fisted scrapper. A 10-year size cuffs of contrasting ma- terial will require 3% yard 86 inches Pattern mailed to any address on off receipt of 15¢ in silver or stamps, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 78 West night an' tells. about it here." Adelaide Street, Toronto. Allow two weeks for receipt of pattern. BACON SANDWICH TO-DAY. The bacon sandwich will be relished |tle Japanese quickly. - by anyone on any oc be as welcome at the afternoon tea as in the workingman's lunch-box. You' will find it desirable to use bacon fre- bands also make good fasteners to quently as a garnish and in combina- tion with other dishes. Its appetizing! ator y lities are such as to make other! fly-swat handle and save buying a. dishes Susie Bets, os he Bom Sandiiol-Cook the ba-' worn at the end, I bend it back and con until it is crisp. Butter slices of it lasts still longer Lindsey, } oad and spread. dressing. Add a little chop Na | seasoned with salt and peppe crisp bacon, put casion. It will and to improve ped lettuce, has' been . Add top, and then serve. The and chopped. 2 nd Chopped Jestuce lettuce | sewing stand, friend of yore uncle knew the Jap had killed kim he'd sick the law on him. He wouldn't pull off any private exe- cution like this." Kirby accepted this. "That's true. There's another possibility, We've been forgettin' the two thousand dol- lars my uncle drew from the bank the day he was killed. If Horikawa an' some one else are guilty of the murder an' the theft, thes might have quar- reled later over the money. Perhaps the accomplice saw a chance to get away with the whole of it by gettin' rid of Horikawa." "Mebbeso. By what you tell me yore Ci It was a two-man job to handle him. Pui 1i'!' Jap never in the world did"it alone, he was prob'ly in on it an' later for |p, with increased respec hack to Kirby sul "What you doing here?" ¢ 1 lookin' things over: What it gets back to is that/on the fire escape an' happened to "No, sir, to both Questions, except the telephone when I used it to reach headquarters." The officer made no answer. He and the detectives went ifito the bedroom examined the dead valet's position and clothes, made a tour of the rooms, and ame back to Lane. "Who's your friend?" asked the ser- geant superciliously. "His name is Cole Sanborn." "The champion bronco buster?" "Yes The sergeant looked at Sanborn t. His eyes went enly. "We were in my uncle's apartment We stepped out otice this window here was open a some reason his pardner gunned him." | little, It just came over me that meb- "Well, we'd better telephone for the |, police an' let them do some of the h worryin'." Kirby stepped into the living-room, followed by his friend. He was about to reach for the receiver when an ex- clamation stopped him. Sanborn was standing before a small writing-desk, | # e we might discover some evidence ere. So I got in by the window, saw the body of the Jap, an' called my riend." > "Some one hire you to hunt up evi- dence?" the officer wanted to know with heav sarcasm. "I hired myself. My good name is of which he had just let down the top.|involved. I'm goin' to see the murder- He had lifted idly a piece of blotting- paper and was gazing down at a sheet of paper with writing on it. "Looky here, 'Kirby," he called. In three strides Lane was beside him. His eyes, too, fastened on the sheet and found there the pot-hooks we have learned to associate with Chinese and Japanese chirography. "Shows he'd been makin' himself at home," the champion rough rider said. Lane picked up the paper. There were two or three sheets of the writ- ing. "Might be a letter to his folks --or it might be--"" His sentence flickered out. He was thinking. "I reckon I'll take this along with me an' e 8 He put the sheets in his pocket after he had folded them. "You never can tell. I might as well know what this Horikawa was thinkin' about first as the police. There's just an off chance he might 'a' seen Rose that A moment later he was telephoning to the City Hall for the police. There was a sound of a key in the outer door. It opened, and the janitor of the Paradox stood in the doorway. "What you do here?" asked the lit- "We came in through the window," explained Kirby. "Thought mebbe the | hold the strainer cloth on the separ- tank. I sew a small piece to a new one. When the wire separator brush is; paper tape I had left from making a dress-form is handier than: string, when wrapping parcels, and 1, also, use it for labeling fruit jars. | "1 want to tell you all about I bought a cheese box for ten cents| part of I used the cover for upper foot len open side tomer who refused to be ap the position in which he stood® He had half a mind to arrest the man again! on the spot, but he was not sure; enough of his ground. Not very being everzealous. to make the same mistake twice. = | inch by one inch. pine for ot r is brought to justice." "You are, eh?" "Yes." "Well, I'll say you could find him if anybody could." "You're entitled to. your opinion, ergeant, just as I am to mine, but before we're through with this case you'll 'have to admit you've been wrong." "We'll go now, Cole, if you're ready."| " Lane turned to his friend. "The sergeant glared at this cool cus- long ince he had missed a on by He did not want "Help the Velerans" To help solve the problems of the Veterans' Associati a Dominion« wide campaign for is now being conducted in the form of a Poster Judging Competitions Send Donation of $1.20 Every donor of $120 will be p d with one ticket-folder om which sixteen of 1 "Hit in the safe" lled at! g Hr uch with a Jag : in the a Japanese mean- ti tou hi y fe me." 3 "Suits me. Shall I leavé the writ- ing here?" > "Yes, if you will. Doesn't Th at of course, but since we have it I'll put| (To be continued.) ~~ si ysis. * Leaves. Peace to these little broken leaves, That strew our common ground; That chase their tails, like silly dogs, As they go round and round. For though in winter boughs are bare, Let us not once forget Thelr summer glory, when these leaves Caught the great Sun in their strong net; . And made him, in the lower air, Tremble--no bigger than a star! f= --W. H. 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Stow furnishes the record of this cool ducal conflcation--*"these books (as it is sald) weto In the raigne of Edward the 6 sent for by Edward, Duke of Somerset," Lord Protector, ~with pro- laded from thence three carriers with 'made a storehouse for clothes." | handed over in 1560 to Sir John Aylif, Knight, for the term of his natural life, to be. used as a "m'ket howse for The Corporation made. no attempt to reinstate the library until nearly three hundred years later. : 1824 some obscure apartments in the 'Guildhall were set aside for the pur- years later--the interval being wisely interesting London books--u collec From that time the growth the library has been steady, and 1869, the number of volumes hav far outgrown the accommodation, the a cost of $300,000. Among its 200,000 books the Guild: hall Library possesses some treasures, the chief being a first folio Shakes- one of the three known signatures of Music Belongs to. Every- ing music lessons, comes to your mind? Of course the forms and kinds of music and musical other instruments of our orchestras and bands, and we also think of the ic that we often hear that is mad antiquity to the present time. The American Indian had a great deal gs musie, 3 d wood rane sd be returned shortly; men t never returned: This librarie . = is now lofted through and ibrary, surely enough, was _of clothes and none other ~ Then in the new library, and four the acquisition df rare and building was® constructed at: d a Shakespeare decd bearing --ai-- you speak of music or of tak. = 'what generally rhythm from the earlies and he