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Port Perry Star (1907-), 7 Mar 1940, p. 2

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'Memorial For Bronte Sisters Tablet Set Up in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey A memorial tablet ip commbm- oration of the Bronte Sisters has been set up in the:Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. It is' of Yorkshire old Huddlestone stone provided by the Dean and Chapter of York, It ic but right and fitting that the threc sisters should be honored." Charlotte, Emily and * Anne were fellow-workers and gave a joint volume of poems to the world as Curver, Ellis, and Acton Bell, Anne, who died first of the trio, had talent Where Em ily and Charlotte had genius, but' "her * novels, "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell are still well worthy of perusal, WRITERS OF GENIUS : Nothing is more remarkable about this gifted family of South- ern and Northern Irish descent on their father's side, than the revis. al of critical opinion which has taken place in the course of a generation about the relative posi. tions in literature of Charlotte and Emily, For many years Chav- Jotte had pride of place with "Jane Eyre" which, published in 1847, was an immediate success owing to what was then termed its "ex- treme realism."In a later day Emily's "Wuthering Heights" was recognized as infinitely the great- er novel in its magnificent origin- ality of conception and treatment, Plenty of Space For Your Clothes An Overstuffed Closet Is Apt To Become Dusty and Untidy Half the batle of grood grooming revolves around the manner in which you keep your clothes. Cood clothes deserve nice living quart ers, and you can't possibly expect your.apparel to do you justice if you' crush too many things in one closet. When a closet becomes a hodge- pedgo you lose sight of things, too, they slip off hangers, necessary mending may be overlooked until a critical moment when it is too late to attend to it. NOT TOO MANY Next to the bathroom, soapdish, there is nothing, theoretically clean that can become so cluttered and dust-infested as the average honse- hold clothes closet, Try, first of all, to see-where you can. arrange additional hanging space. A foot taken off part of a wide passageway will not wmcon- © venience anyone and will prove to be welcome relief for the overstuf- fed closet. Perhaps you can take epace at the end of a hallway, or build a cabinet in one or two cor ners. Hall," _ KEEPING FIT n Rutherford takes advantage of he studio gymnasium to keep in trim. Excess fat melts away after e "pulley" exercises. Not only ngthens the arms, but also works' on back nsclen lina wiisiing and strengthens fingers, keepin wrists and arms slim, . © 7 Milk Drinking Improves Girls National Dalry Council Secretary Declares It Makas Her { "Honesto Sonne e milk 'drinking would r ult 5 Yewer "flappers," Allan raser of Ottawa, sccretary- mane © ager of. he National Dairy Coun- eil,, Wednesday told the joint meeting of Manitoba Dairy Pro. + ducers and Manufacturers, "We tell the public that if they use our product the flapper will © eease to be and her place will be © taken by an honest-to-goodnesa gir), good to look upon, u creatura . of beauty and joy forever" He protested that dairymen received littio Sbplaute for thelr servide to the public. : -- Blended For Quality "SALAL TEA v @ SERIAL STORY BRIDE ON A BUDGET BY JANET DORAN Copyright. 1939, NEA Service, Ina Yesterday: Bart and Iris quar- re), but Iris Has her dinner just the same. She tells Bart she has m0 money, he discovers she is-in debt. Yet Iris buys a new mink coat to 'feel wanted." CHAPTER XI Though it was Monday, and she had recklessly splurged $12 on a dinner party for her friends Sat- urday night, and _Bart had worked at the shop all day Sunday, and Sunday night until long after sho slept, Iris left the office with a clear plan in: her busy mind. She had taken-the mink coat at noon, and hidden it deep in one end of her clothes closet back of her last winter's coat, her raincoat, her summer sport coat, and the long, furred tweed coat to her ward- robe suit, Now, at four-thirty, she "bought a steak, bought everything for a grand feed. The way she used to do before they were married. When she was trying every wile | she knew to enchant Bart and make him propose to her. Now, she haggled over wager- cress--it wasn't fresh enough, it was bruised, it didn't loak good. She bought four big baking pota- toes, and a dozen home baked roils at Mrs. Kembie's Home Kii--- chen. She bought peaches and heavy cresm for whipping, and a pound of butter, and lima beans because Bart Was erazy about them, stewed in sauce. She squandered 50 cents on Bem Whipple's taxi to take hey- home with all her parcels, and hurrying -out of her office clothes, tied a' cute printed house-coat abot her slender waist and. started the meal. Supper Just Right At six, everything was ready and waiting, even to the iron skil- let smoking hot, ready for the steak the minute Bart appeared, The salad was on (the ice, and shortcake, also. And in the glass coffee-maker, amber brown brew murmured contentedly. At six-fifteen, Bart came in, tir- ed, dispirited and silent. Iris flung him a radiant smile and started the steak. She took the potatoes _out and popped cubes of butter. into each yawning seam, where the scored place had burst a' few minutes before. The (lima beans oozed yellow butter as she pour. ed them into the dish, and the . hot rolls were just. _right--crisp, and not dry. Still he didn't notice. Still he just came in, pulled his chair out and sat down and began scooping his potato out onto his plate, Iris passéd him the platter of steak and he _ helped himself-to it. By the time they reached the short cake, Iris'was ready to scream, "She watched him cut- the cake, watched his fork travel from the plate, laden with -¢réam topped 'with peaches and cake, to his mouth, and back again, and the awful silence was too 'much. Ab- ruptly, she pushed away her un- touched desert. Desperately, she faced him aéross the little table laden with the remnants of their lovely dinner. "Bart, what #8 it?" she asked _ shakily. "What's It To You" Dully, he looked at her, Wear- ily, as if trying to brush:away a burden he could not bear, he plowed tense fingers through the | thick wavy brown hair, Then light. ing a cigaret, he started splitting the match a dozen ways with n nerve. ous thumbnail, a rich butter "What's it to you, Iris?' he asked bluntly, "Bart, you know anything. that concerns you, concerns me, too!" "Don't worry, I'll manage to support you in the manner you're determined to enjoy, Iris." "Bart--please!" "All right, you asked for it. The 'bank wouldn't give me any more time on my notes, so they took over my ihsurance as forfeit." "Bart--why how could they? If you paid the interest and met the payments," "I didn't pay the interest, Iris, I couldn't. And 1 couldn't borrow any money anywhere. Not even from loan sharks, So they took my policies." "How . . . how much had you paid in, Bart?" "Over a thousand on all of them. I had only four years to go on two of them, and I'd have twenty-five hundred on each." "Bart, did you try the Finance Company that loans on furni- ture?" "What good would that do, Iris? When I couldn't pay them they'd take our furniture. We'd only be that much worse off." "Bart, if you're not making any money at the shop why .do you keep on getting in deeper and deeper?" He stared at her in Trastentold annoyance. "We've been over all this be- fore, Iris; why bother again? I'M making enough to get by, if we economized. We can't seem to, So that's that." © : "They'd no right to take all that insurance away from you, Bart! Can't you make them just take out_the amount due;-and give you back the rest?" "Iris, you know nothing about business or finance, so quit both- ering with this." "Quit bothering, Bart Whit- taker! The idea. When that was to be our own home, when the policiés were paid up." He glanced at her curiously. Shrugged finally, as if he gave up. "It's a little late to think of that now, Iris. They're gone." Evaporated Guilt Absurdly, she began to feel guilty about the mink coat. But after she had cleated the table, and decided to eat her short-cake after - all, the guilt evaporated, Though she did worry, a little, over whether she'd manage to keep the coat, now that Bart was in trouble, If she had to use any of her salary to run the house, or pay expenses with, she'd be in a_bad jam all right, With all the other payments 'she had to make on the clothes she had 'been buy- ing right" along. Paying on old accounts, buying more, creating further budget appropriations. Talking In His Sleep That "night, Iris woke up to. ward morning, and a cold rain was blowing in. She got up and closed the window, and turned, arrested, when Bart began muttering in his sleep. "I tell you it's impossible--I'm sorry, I can't help it. I can't do it, I tell you, I can't--don't you understand? My wife's salary has nothing to do with this, this is my affair. Seventy-five a week to- géther and we owe everybody. All right, so what? Do you want all my creditors to be cheated of their money?" Shivering, she lay still listening, but there was no more. Thougn ho tossed and turned a lot and groaned." Shivering, she wondered VITAMIN Bs PLANT GROWTH diss Be SY Lr \ if she oughtn't take the mink coat back after all. But it was so cold in the morning, a sharp wind, and the driving rain, And remembering her heavy coat was worn, she put the anxiety out of her mind. Bart was always borrowing trouble. This was probably just another false alarm because he hadn't made $50 clear profit this w cals or something like that, They breakfasted hastily, and Bart hurried away as soon as he was finished. 'At noon, when she telephoned, Iris was informed he was out. And Ellen was lunching with her husband, and neither of- fered to invite her to join thém. So she ate a solitary lunch at the- soda bar around the corner. And finishing, heard the news about her husband losing his radio and washing machine agency. "Sure, didn't you know?" Truck's over there now, taking the stuff. I heard he couldn't make a lot of dead-beats pay their weekly instalments, so the com- pany took them over. But this will be a bad dent to the shop all right, Hurts a business when any- thing like that hits them." L* * * Iris 'didn't answer. She walked out and went back to the office. Past Professor and girls of the senior and Junior classes gathered to 'discuss serious things, nightly from 4.30 to 10. Past the Gamma sorority where girls often dashed out in mid-win- ter to set a pan of chocolate pea- nut butter fudge to cool in the snow; where gay lighted music blared forth during prom week- ends. Where smart roadsters swooped up to tootle musical horns for the fortunate few who were dated. It was raining,-stillsand a soph- omore took off his raincoat to hood a junior's freshly waved coif- feur, and across from Chem Lab to Lib Arts, trooped couples, arin in arm, or fingers laced, totiiyg armfuls of books, talking ec:ir- estly, laughing. College kids. Iris felt almost old, hurrying past them, Nodding to one or tivo she knew. Knowing they' thought of her as "Mrs. Whittaker, of the dean's office." Because she'd been there so long. Longer than any of the present crop had been in college. Two college terms longer. Eight 'years, It was funny, too. All through each one of those eight years, she *had- had almost the identical same worries. Worries over some dress Expedition Searches "For Lost World Vast, mysterious, désolate pueblos -- cliff dwellings of a people long since. disappeared. But where? Scientist Bob Barry ppopndepred this question, de- cided to find out, He headed an expedition Into the wilds of the American southwest, there to explore these abandoned ruins. But were they abandoned? You will find the answer In one of: ever written, a new serlal, Los? KINGDOM. COMING SOON Kitteridge's little - bungalow where the young men" the. strangest adventure stories Bl m=» LRN By SADIE B, CHAMBERS PIES"OF FAVOR Variety In pastry Is just as great an asset as any other dessert, It would be interesting, if a census - really could be tzked to know the favorite ple. One part of the world {s quite sure it is "Apple Ple", not forgetting the cheese, Then others again are sure that. "Lemon Ple" satisfies the great majority as the finest that culinary art can executy for the pie kingdom. But there is still a part of the world left, whose opinion cannot be lightly discredit: she wanted and thought she couldn't have. Worries after she got it, for fear she wouldn't be able to make the payments and might lose it. Worries over suits, coats, gowns, wraps. But always the same. Always budget worries, All her married life, too, Wor- rying over the powder blue suit the very night Bart asked her lo marry him. Then silencing her worries because of what she could do, once she had it. That night, Bart was home a- head of her. Lying on his bed, covered with a satin puff, 111 with a severe cold. Tired, and ill, and silent. Iris tried to make him take some medicine, some aspirin, or a gargle, or something but he re- fused, He was all right; leave him alone. She tried to make him have a doctor, "I don't want a doctor, and I couldn't pay one if I had him, Now get out and leave me alone, will you?" In the kitchen, feeling rather abused and neglected, she scram- bled two eggs and made coffee, There was some short-cake left, and some salad. Eating her soli tary supper, Iris decided budgets weren't much fun. Not mixed with marriage they weren't. Because the budgets were to blame for all this. If Bart weren't so set on liv- ing within his old budget hook Hatiictions, everything would be fine. In the widie of the night, she heard Bart prowling around. And speaking to him sharply; was al- armed to discover he was walking in his sleep. His voice sounded queer and thick, -and a trifle shrill, but he got back into bed again directly when she. spoke to him. And right after that he had a chill. Shaking so her own bed three feet away trembled, Iris was alarmed and got up. «She got her heavy winter coat, and her spring coat, and his over- coat and piled them on his bed. She lighted the gas and boiled wa- ter and got a hot water bottle, Stiil he shook so his teeth trembled and he kept sneezing in awful spasms of seven or eight sneezes at a time. At 17, when Iris awoke again, he was delirious and did not know' her. Frantically, she called a docs tor. . (To Be Concluded) = ed and these feel that "Raisin Pie" should hold the premium. Well, anyway, here are my favorites: LEMON PIE % cup granulated sugar 14 cup Karo corn sv rup. 4% tablespoons cornstarch (level) 114 cups boiling water 6 tablespoons lemon juice 2 teaspoons grated rind 3 eggs 1 'tablespoon butter Boll the water and place In a double boiler, Mix the cornstarch avith Cdld.watér to make a smooth even .paste.~Add to boiling water, stirring thoroughly, Cook thorough- ly for 15 minutes, Add lemon juice and rind. Beat egg yolks until creamy; add the sugar and orn gyrup, mixing well, Pour over this the ornstarch and lemon mixture. Return to double boiler and cook for 6 min. Beat a few rounds with dover egg beater to Insure perfect smoothness, Place in prepared ple shell, When partly cool, cover with meringue 1ade from the cgg whites beaten ver stiff (to which has been added 1 tablespoon of "Karo corn syrup and one tablespoon of cornstarch), Place in hot oven, watching very closely until an even light brown, RAISIN PIE 2 cups raising (which have been cleaned thoroughly and left soak- ing in hot milk, 1 cup granulated sugar 2 cups water 1% teaspoon salt tablespoons cornstarch tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon vanilla Cook raisins for ten minutes, then add the salt, sugar, lemon juice, cooking until the sugar is dissolved, Dissolve the cornstarch, mizing vory thoroughly In the cold water, --- add to tle rafsin mixture, cook for several minutes, about five tii! all trace of raw starch has disap- peared: Pour into pastry-lined vam; then sprinkle the top with a litte finely grated cheese. Cover with pastry and cook 25 minutes in oven, that Is at moderate heat. INDIVIDUAL CHICKEN PIES 18 small boiled onions. 1 cup cooked, diced carrote. 11% cups cooked peas 11% cups cooked, diced potatoes 11% cups diced, cooked chicken 3 cups thin, well seasoned chick- en gravy or white sauce -- salt 20 Christie's Milk Lunch Biscuits 1% cup butter 1% cup water Into 6 individual baking dishes put a portion each of the vege- tables, chicken, seasoning and gravy. Roll biscuits fine and mis with softened butter and water. Spread a portion on top of 'each dish, Bake In a hot oven (450 de grees F.) until top" is lightly browe. ed, 6 ples, [CRE READERS, WRITE IN: Miss Chambers welcomes personal letters from 1aterest- ed readers. She is pleased to receive suggestions on topics for her column, and is even ready to listen to your "pet peeves." Requests for recipes or special menus are in order. Address your letters to "Mise Sadie B. Chambers, 73 Weat Adelaide Street, Toronto." : : 3 Except for young queens, all' members of a bumblebee colony _ perish in the autumn. 3 tions. CIGARETTE PAPERS NONE FINER MADE : AUTOMATIC BOOKLET 0 Active Sport Helps Figure Achieve That Longer Look Through The Middle by Taking The Right Kind of Exercise The woman who is determined... to achieve the new . "stretched look" from top of hipbones to underneath the arins decides right now to 80 in for an active sport or to revive her interest in one she has learned lorig ago but hasn't thought about in years, If she lives in a cold climate she chooses between skiing and skating, both of which are won- derfal for improving the posture and stretching the muscles of the torso. SWIMMING AND TENNIS If tennis and swimming are quite out of the question, she does exercises which employ similar mo- ----------dn When poison ivy grows in apple orchards there are apt to be more -leafhopper. pests, because the hop- pers find the poison Sil a 'con genial host plant. NEW HAND-KNIT STYLES ro 1940 was my doctor wo explained to me common constipation is: due to a - lack of intestinal bulk. Kellogg's All- Bran supplies this needed bulk and also the intestinal tonic vitamin B,. If you suffer, as I did, from this common type of constipation, you'll find that this | ' daily 'Ounce of Prevention' is a lot pleasanter and more effective than dos- ing yourself with harsh cathartics, Just. «eat it regularly, either as a cereal or in "delicious muffins, and drink plenty of water." All-Bran is made by Kellogg's "in London,: Canada, and sold in two convenient sized packages by all grocers. rls

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