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% The Baby Cry? it is not offered to her; but to relin- quish does not mean to be contented. | "It 1s well known that we ourselves ! become nervous in the company of a nervous person. Sp It seems but na- When the baby cries without visible tural that the infant should succumb cause, the parents become concern-|!o the same influence. As we know, ed, and the puzzling question arises: ' our domestic animals are extremely 1s the child ill? Has he a pain which | sensitive to the frame of mind of man, he can not tell us about? The horse becomes 'jerky' and ner- It is with these momentous ques- '°U% and the dog, too, grows to be tions that a children's tT pr. | shy and fidgety, in a -troublel euvl- Flusser, deals in a most interesting | ronment. The same may be observed way in a recent pamphlet, published | 1 the smallest infants, who are just in Germany. | as little able fully to understand their The purely pathological # PA) part is Intended for specialists, but in! environment. FHenever the baby the chapters that deal with the mind | 3 nervous and 'finds no peace,' 3 con of the child and his relation to the fiCUng evironment 'is frequently -to environment, Dr. Flussers conveys al Plame. The child senses that peo: multitude of thoughts and . | ple around him are impatient, cross or stgges-| * ° tions 'of Interest not only to parents | Nervous, aud he Bimsell becomes neuropathic, nervous, and morose. but to teachers and psychologists also. | Psy, 8 "It is obvious that the modern type Why Does "Pirs Yon '1a "Falaads ; Pn i 4 of 2 Tie Question is raised: { of mother in whon. varied diversions, rovided the child continues to cry, |gn,rt, recklessness, and flirtation are does this under all circumstances! " . at variance with a mother's duties, mean discomfort or illness? must endanger the equilibrium of the "By We forget only|child. Such conflicts in the child's too easily that crying is the Infant's! environment may also be caused by only possible expression--the only |goclal conditions. Hunge:, misery, vent for his frequently overbubbling' and unsolved sex problems cause in- temperament, making his Individual- directly, through neurastheniag of the Ity--surely this expressian is justified restlessness and no means, | treatment, even at this age--known to his fam- ily. "And when the baby thrives, "is rosy and strong, sleeps soundly and shows the proper increase in weight, in that case we have to deal with a high-spirited child, a 'distinct per- sonality,' who makes his existence known in a different way from a child with an ordinary temperament. More- | over he healthy child displays everrwiere a certain inclination to- ward perseverance. Just as, at a; later age, he never wearies of listen-| ing again and again to the same falry- tales and the same jokes, so he ret) nists in his 'crying concert' until his suppiy of vocal power is exhausted." Of course, we are reminded that one should be cautious in judging such qualing baby." Whenever the crying becomes spasmodicswhen the facial expression of the child and his c attitude during the crying- indicate discomfort--the con- tinuous crying is not to be consider- ed merely as a surplus of energy. And when the scales and the thermo- meter--the most reliable health-me- ters at this period of life--suggest possible malnutrition and illness, then it requires all of the physician's art to ascertain the cause, which oc- casionally is concealed: "But besides eventual physical ail- ments, the psychic attitude of the child, the 'milieu,' in which he lives, must be had in mind to a much larger extent than heretofore. The entire medical science of our time is fin- fluenced more deeply by psychic cur- rents than it was a few decades ago. The misunderstood child takes up a great deal of space in Dr. Flusser's pamphlet--the child without peace as a sheltering atmosphere and without a cerialn loving understanding as an indispensable basis of development. "A momentous question: Shall one fot the baby cry until he stops of his own accord? No! The baby of the family is entitled to solicitous loving He wants love and ten- derness, he wantg to be mothered and demands this right just as a young animal seeks to obtain a caress, "The infant who is 'quietly sooth- ed' whenever he cries develops into a child that is calm and contented and not cross and ill-bred, as one would frequently make mothers believe. The child that realizes the futility of his crying, and-for that reason Is silent, may well be compared to a woman who earns to relinquish love because {8.5 eminently the sanctity ele grown-up people, psychic uneasiness of the baby. "For all that iife brings to the new dweller on this earth, of physical and psychical discomfort, he has but one means of expression--the cry. It is the physician's task to diagnose the cause, and .to remove it whenever he can." EH a Precious Little Frock for Playtime For Wee Maids of Pre-School Age. | By ANNETTE It has kiited plaits across fromt to give the necessary freedom for wee tots who work so hard at play all day. The yoked bodice with collarless neckline is very French. It buttons at front emphasizing the scalloped outline, The back of skirt is bathered to back yoke. Sleeves may be short or gathered into narrow cuff bands. It is so precious, you'll just love to make it as sketched in cotton broad- cloth print in yellow and white with a dash of vivid blue. Style No. 207 comes in sizes 2, 4 and 6 years. It's easily laundered, with the deep plaits from yoke. Another interesting "idea is French blue linen with huge white pearl but- ton and white bias binding at neck, yoke and sleeve bands. Orchid plain gingham with white piping, woul jersey in sky blue, white pique and rose-pink shantung are pretty combinations. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and Service, 73 West Adelaide St, Toronto, FAITHFUL LOVE Love, when true, faithful, and well {was open. $. THE STORY THUS FAR: Vance believes Skeel innocent of the murder of Margaret Odell and that he lay hidden in a closet while the strangler did his work. Markham ridi- cules the theory, but Vance is un- shaken.. Mannix, under pressure, re- veals that he had been calling, the night of the murder, on a Miss Fris- bee, who occupied the apartment ad- joining the "Canary's." At five min- utes to twelve, he says, he saw-Cleaver sneaking out the side door of the building--the door which was thought bolted on the inside all night. Mark- ham confronts Cleaver with this in- formation and asks him why he lied about his whereabouts, CHAPTER XXJVI. For a long time there was tense silence. Then Cleaver spoke. "I've got to think this thing out." Markham waited patiently, After several minutes Cleaver drew himsalf together and zquarel his shoulders. "I'm going to tell you what I did that night, and you can take it or leave it." Again he was the cold, self-contain- ed gambler, "I don't care how many witnesses you've got; it's the only story you'll zver get out of me. I should have told you in the first place, but I didn't see any sense of stepping into hot water if I wasn't pushed in. You might have believed me last Tues- day, but now you've got something in your head, and you want to make an arrest to shut up the newspapers--" "Tell your story," ordered Mark- ham. "If it's straight, you needn't worry about the newspapers." Cleaver knew in his heart t! at this was (rue. No une--not even his bit- terest political enemies--had ever ac- cused Markham of buying praise with any act of injustice, however small. "There's not much to tell, as a mat- ter of fact," the man began. "I went to Miss Odell's house a little before midnight, but I didn't enter her apart- ment; I didn't even ring her bell." "Is that your customary way of paying visits?" 3 "Sounds fishy, doesn't it? But it's the truth, nevertheless. I intended to see her--that is, I wanted to--but when I reached her door, something made me change my mind--" "Just a moment. How did you enter the house?" "By the side door--the one off the alleyway. I always used it when it Miss Odell requested me to, 50 that the telephone operator wouldn't see me coming in so often." "And the door was unlocked at that time Monday night?" "How else could I have got in by it? A key wouldn't have done me any good even if I'd had one, for the door locks by a bolt on the inside. T'll say this, though: that's the first time I eyer remember finding the door unlocked at night." "All right. You went in the side entra.ce. Then what?" "I walked down the rear hall and listened at the door of Miss Odell's apartment for a minute. I thought there might be some one else with her, and I didn't want to ring unless she was alone, . . ." "Pardon my interrupting, Mr. Clea- ver," interposed Vance. "But what made you think some one else was there?" The man hesitated. "Was it," prompted Vance, "because you had telephoned to Miss Odell a little while before, and had been an- swered by a man's voice?" Cleaver nodded slowly. "I can't see any particular point in denying it. . . Yes, that's the reason." "What did this man say to you?" "Damn little. He said 'Hello," and when I asked to speak to Miss Odell, he informed me she wasn't in, and hung up." * \ "That' I think, explains Jessup's re- port of the brief phone call to the Odell apartment at twenty minutes to twelve," "Probably." Markham spoke with- out interest. He was intent on Clea- ver's account of what happened later, and he took up the interrogation at the point where Vance had interrupt- ed "You say you listened at the apart- ment door. What caused you to re- frain from ringing?" "I heard a man's voice inside." Markham straightened up. "A man'§ voice? You're sure?" "That's what I said." Cleaver was matter of fact about it. "A man's Otherwise I'd have rung the and it sounded a little hoarse. wasn't any one's voice I was familiar with; but I'd be inclined to say it was the same one that answered me over the phone." "Could you make out anything that was said?" Cleaver frowned and looked past Markham through the open window, "I know what the words sounded like," he said slowly. "I didn't think anything of them at the time. But s came back to " "What were the words?" Markham cut in impatiently, "Well, as near as I could make out, "of human without it, the 39 iS hich "When you heard 'kis man's voice, | do?" 3 Bl - -t c after reading the papers the next day, address your order to Wilson Pattern | those word: 5 what did ; : "T walked back down the rear hall and went out again through the side door. Then I went hom." A short silence ensued. Cleaver's Mannix's statement. doing between twenty minutes to twelve--when you phoned Miss Odell --and five minutes) to twelve--when you entered the side door of her apart- nent howe? rad "I wa. riding uptown in the Sub- way from 23rd Street," came the an- swer, after a short pause. "Strange--very "Vance in- spected the tip of his cigaret. "Then you couldn't possibly have phoned testimony had been in the nature of | a surprise; but it fitted perfectly with) out| H Presently e lifted himself of the depths of his chair. | "I say, Mr. er, what were you Lid ree td © any one during that fifteen ti eh, what?" 5 I suddenly remembered Alys La Fosse's statement that Cleaver had telephoned to he: on Monday ..ight at ten minutes to twelve. Vance, by his question, had, without revealing his own knowledge, created a s of un- certainty in the other's mind. Afraid to cemmit himself too emphatically, Cleaver resorted to evasion. "It's possible, is it not, that I could have phoned some one after leaving the Subway at 72d Street and before I walked the block to Miss Odell's house?" "Oh, quite," murmured Vance, "Still, looking at it mathematically, if you phoned Miss Odell at twenty minutes to twelve, and then entered the Sub- way, rode to 72d S t, walked a block to 71st, went into the building, listen- ed at her door, and departed at five minutes to twelve--making the total time consumed only fifteen minutes-- you'd scarcely bave sufficient leeway to stop en route and phone to any one. "However, I shan't press the point. But I'd really like to know what you did between eleven o'clock and twenty minutes to twelve, when you phoned to Miss Odell." Cleaver studied Vance intently for a moment. "To tell you the truth, I was upset that night." I knew Miss Odell was out with another man--she'd broken an appointment with me--and I walk- ed the streets for on hour or more, fuming and fretting." _ "Walked the streets?" Vance frown- ed. "That's what I said." Cleaver spoke with animus. Then, turning, he gave Markham a long calculating look. "You remember I once suggested to you that you might learn somehting from a Doctor Lindquist. . , Did you ever get after him?" Before Markham Vance broke in. "Ah! That's it--Doctor Lindquist! Well, well--of course! .,. So. Mr. Cleaver, you were walking the streets? The stregts, mind you! Precisely!-- You state the fact, and I echo the word 'streets.' And you--apparently out of a clear :ky--ask about Doctor Lindquist. "Why Doctor Lindquist: No one has mentioned him. But that word 'streets'--that's the connection. The streets and Doctor Lindquist are one --same as Paris and springtime are one. * Neat, very neat. . . . And now I've got another piece to the puzzle." Markham and Heath looked at him as if he had suddenly gone mad. He calmly selected a "Regie" from his case and proceeded to light it. Then he smiled beguilingly at Cleaver. » "The time has come, my dear sir, for you to tell us when and where you met Doctor Lindquist while roam- ing the streets Monday night. If you don't, "pon my word, I'll come pretty close to doing it for you," A full minute passed before Cleaver spoke; and during that time his cold staring eyes never moved from the district attorney's face. "I've already told most of the story; so here's the rest." He gave a soft, mirthless laugh. "I wen to Miss Odell's houge a little before half past eleven--thought she might be home by that time. There I ran into Doctor Lindquist standing in the entrance to the alleyway. He spoke to me and told me some one was with Miss Odell in her apartment. could answer, to the Ansonia Hotel, After ten min- utes or so I telephoned Miss Odell, and, as I said, a-man answered. I waited anpther ten minutes and phoned a riend of Miss Odell's, hoping to ar- range a party; but failing, T walked back to the house, "The doctor had disappeared, and I went down the all side door. Aftr liste as I told you, and hea voice, I came away 'an . «+ +. That's ever, 3 (To be continued.) ------ "Then I walked round the corner) Bt. 4 SAWS ORS EE ASE so ------ eh x AE " "The East in Her Garden The East is full of secrets--no one understands their value better than the Oriental; and because she is full of secrets she is full of entrancing surprises. Many fine things there are upon the surface: brilliance of color,} splendor of light, solemn loneliness, clamorous activity; . . . the essential charm is of more subtle quality, As it listeth, it comes and goes; it flashes upon you through the open doorway of some biank, windowless house you pass in the street. .... Then the East sweep: aside her cur- tains, flashes a facet of aer jewels into your dazzling eyes, and disap- pears again with a mocking little laugh at your bewilderment . . , She will mot stay----she prefers the unex- pected; she will keep her secrets and her tantalizing charm with them, and when you think you have caught at last some of her illusive grace, she will send yeu back to shrouded figures and blank house-fronts. You must be content to wait, and perhaps some day, when you find her walking in ha: gardens in the cool of the evening, she will take a whim to stop and speak to you and you will go away fascinated by her courteous worlls and her exquisite hospitality. For it is in her gardens that she is most h: self--they share her charm, they are as unexpected as she. Con- ceive on every side such a landscape . .. a grey and featurless plain, over which the dust-clouds rise and fall, build themselves into mighty columns, and sink back again among the stonas at the bidding of the hot and fitful winds; prickly, ow-growing plans for all vegetation, leafless, with a foliage of thorns; white patches of salt, on which the sunlight glitters; a fringe os barren mountains on the horizon . . Yet in this desolation lurks the moek- ing bea ty of the East. A little water and the desert breaks into flowers, bowers of cool chade spring up in the midst of dust and glare, radiant stretches of soft color gleam in that grey expanse. Your heart leaps as you: pass through the gateway in the mud wall; so sharp is the contrast, that you may stand with one foot in an arid wilderness and the other in a shadowy, flowery paradise. Under the broad thick leaves of the plane- trees tiny streams murmur, fountains splash with a sweet fresh sound, white rose bushel drop their fragraut petals irto, tanks, lying deep and still like patches of concentrated shadow. The indescribuble charm of a Persian gar- den is keenly present to the Persians themBelves--the "strip of herbage strewn, which just divides the desert from the sown," an endlessly beautiful parable, Their poets sing the praise of gardens in exquisite verses, and call their books by their names, --From "Persian Picture." by Gertrude Bell. J "What do you think of a girl who would break her promise?" "I should have to know what the promise was." Commit Mercy Wilt thou draw the nature of the gods? Draw near them, then, in being merci- ful: Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. ~--Shakespeare. arma arr-- Judging by the alimony they got, some of these grass widows make hay while the sun shines. {1s melting' and will disappear hours. The seed will work down into the soil and germinate in a few days. Protecting Plants This Is the hardest season of the year on perennial plants. Just now 'when the sun is mounting higher and b ing warmer climbers and shrub- bery on the south side of the house, particularly, gre liable to start bring- ing sap up from the<roots. After sun down there is an abrupt drop in tem- perature and this sap may freeze and burst the tiny cells inside the stems. This damage is not noticed until later 'on when but weakly sprouts are sent out or perhaps none at all. On the shady side of the house there is lésa danger but it is well in every case to make sure that roses, ivy and shrub- bery are well covered around the roots, The perennial border too may need some attention in this connec- tion. Straw, old flower stocks, leaves and snow make the best cover. Plant Sweet Peas Early Sweet peas should be planted just as soon ag. one can work up the ground. These will come along in first-class shape no matter what the weather following is like. It is best to dig a trench about 4 foot or so deep. Place a layer or rich soil or rotted leaves 'or manure in the bot- tom, covering it with about six inches of fine loam. In this, plant the sweet peas about three inches deep and am inch apart. The rains will gradually fill in the trench and the plants will develop a very deep root growth as a& result which will protect them against summer droughts. Get the very best seed possible and try some special shades. After the peas have come up an inch or so thin out to four inches apart and supply brush work, strings or poultry netting at least thirty inches high for the vines to climb on. Wire netting is the least desirable for this purpose as it is liable to injure the growing plants. Suitable Vegetables While varieties of vegetables are very important, in these Jdays of care- fully prepared seed catalogues which ouly list the best and most suitable for growing under Ontario conditions, cul- ture is even more important. It must be remembered that few but the most sultable varieties of garden vegetables have survived and if one is careful to make his choice from an Ontario cata- logue which only lists Government ap- proved varieties, half the battle is Awon. The other half will also be won it the land is well prépared, cultivated thoroughly during the growing season and some quickly available fertilizer applied to hasten maturity. This is the secret of tender vegetables as the more quickly they are grown the higher quality they gill be. The fol- lowing list of varieties is recommend- ed: Asparagus--Washington, satisfac- tory from the standpoint of disease re- sistance and a good cropper. Beans-- Pencil Box Wax, Round Pot Kidney Wax, Stringless Green Pod, with Ken- tucky Wonder Wax and Kentucky Green Pod as pole sorts. Beets--Flal Egyptian Early and Detroit Dark Red later. Cabbage--Golden Acre, as a round-headed first early, followed by, Copenhagen Market and Enkhuized Glory: as mid-séason, with short stem Danish Ballhéad for winter storage. _| Caulifiower--Early Snowball and Eat ly Dwarf Erfurt. Carrots--Chantenay and Danvers, Corn=-of the early va- rieties Cory Golden Bantam, Early Malsolm and Crosby are recommend- ed, with Stowell's Evergreen for later use, Cucumbers -- Improved White Spine and Davig Perfect. Celery-- Golden Plume or Wonderful White 'Pjume which is good for winter keep- ing. Lettuce--Grand' Rapids is one of the most popular leat varieties, with | New York and Hanson where a head sort is wanted. Muskmelons--Mont- real Market, Rockyford and Hacken- sack are all good varieties, as well as Hearts of Gold, Miller's Cream or v -@