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!-y I â- W « j ' 'u« itti w." ' i iii m ir i I I I. j *^ 'â- â- 'tp- .t^i K\M 6di RY m}f\\f ff Arthur Stanwood Pier b« at npmklnir with father and moth- er: it was Juvt them I was amiiting." Keep on with it, keep on with it," , snid Jerry. "I slian't mind." \ He followed Nora into the sitting- room, in tiie middle of which Michael Scanlan and his wife were occupying an S -shaped "conversation chair." Michael, faring the door, nodded to Jerry in silence; Mrs. Scanlan glanc- ed over her shoulder and remarked, "Oh, it's yoL', Jerry," In a manner that was distinctly more freitful than wel-, coming. Allen, But Jerry was not eaeily dismayed. "Sure it might be any other crea- , , , , ture that was happening to pa.s8 a- I clean »p«l on the wa.l where the mem- i,jng ^^ ^^j j^ would be a fine hig'orial dove, now in the taxidermist's | ,^^^^^.1^ ^ ,„^n ^^^uy ji^ve vv^jth him- I hands, had hung, and her eyes filled, ^^f^ „^ ^ _g^ drawn in by the *ound ..J If only her man Jim had lived. | ^f N„ra'« voice. Now has she sung had no idea this was a .Sunday-school I A still more cheerful sound roaehe<l : you 'The Widow O'Toole,' Mrs. Scan- classâ€" and I don't know that I've ever him presently and thrilled hLs heart, Jan?" I before l>een insulted by my host. 'o' 't proceeded from the house to- "I don't care for Nora to be sinping No other voice was raised; there 'wards which hia steps were directed, them vulgar songs," replied Mrs. was a forbidding look on Jerry's face. : * house planted on a knoll at>ove its Scanlan over her shoulder. I Less than half the company followed, "•''tf^i'^ors and accessible by means ofi "Oh, now, would you be calling it Maxwell from the house; the others â-  zilfiag flight of steps. To the ac-] vulgar!" Jerry exclaimed. "Just a Copyrlflit Uouthtoii MlffUn Company by .pedal analigement will, rhosi. Turontu CHAPTER II.â€" (Cont'd ) Maxwell, very pale, shnipKed shoulders and achieved a smile. "Come along, boys," he said. Cream Wanted SWECT OR CHURNINQ CRKAM W* (upplx caina, pay sxpreaa chartaa^ and ramlt dally. ^ Our price next week flfty-twe canta _ Matnal Dalrr aad OieaaMiT Oo. 743-S Kta« Bt. Waat Toroato lingered "There was an awkward silence. "Well, 1 guesH I'll be going," said companiment of a piano a girl's voice ; bit of cheerfulness, to my way of : wa.s singing, 'Kathleen Mavourneen"; 'thinking. Will you let me see what at the foot of the steps JeiTy stopped songs are there, Nora?" Dave Scanlan. "Say â€" 1 guess you're ' fmd listened. Never, he was nure, I While he stood beside her at the all right, Jerry. I'm with you." | had he heard, never would he hear, 'piano, he was aware that her parents "So'm 1," muttered shecpiihly some any one sing more appealingly. His ^ watched him with lazy ho.sitility. They of the other.'t. Goo<l-night." i young heart thrilled to the melody, to were North of Ireland people and When Jerry called at the DriscolUV the vivid picture of the singer with Protestants, and the Donohues had for his mother, she looked as if she 1 which his imagination presented him come from Cork. But Jerry did not had been crying. She looked at him â€" the rich, red checks and dark, curl- : feel very much depressed by the par- with mingle<l app<'al and reproach. He ing hair and lovely, fluctuant, trilling ental antipathy. Nora had a mind merely sairf, '"fhey've gone, mother." , throat. | of her own, and he ventured to think But out of doors he asked abruptly, He mounted the steps aiul knocked it was favorably disposetl toward him. â€" I on the door. It was opene<l by Nora' So he continued to chatter in his live- "What di<l you think of him? I saw herselfâ€" Nora, with her quick, start- 'ly manner: "There's 'Father O Flynn': you and Nora leaving the window." ', led smile. The prettiest girl that, the sight of it makes me almo.st feel "Oh, Jerry!" She dabbed her hand- 'Jerry knew, she was also always the I can sing myself. And 'Mulligans kerchief to her eyos. I best dressed; she wore tliis evening a Musketeers'â€" thaf.s another I can "I kicked him out of the house," white mu.slin gowni with .short frilled hear mside my he-l, but I ve got it •aid Jerr\-. "when I heard that. I'm sleeves, and her hair was baii.led with safe shut up there; don t be scare*!.â€" Borrv, mother." |a black velvet ribbon. The hand that You know, Nora, you look fit to sing Thpn in her joy and contrition that she gave Jerry was white and soft, in grand m)era to-night - isn t it a she should ever have doubtcnl her son, the voice with which she greeted him fact, Mr.H. Scanlan" _ she stopped, flung her arms about was clear, uncorrupted by i,he har.?h : "She may be doing that yet. re- Jerry, and wept in his brea.st. A few and shrill intonation.s of the neighbor-; spoiMied Mrs. Scanlan severely. "We moments later, ascending the steps hood. Slender and delicate, she Iwd ! expect great things of her. of the house she said.â€" !a round little chin, a sensitive little I "We do," agreed Mr. Scanlan, wiih ".\nd now, Jerry, child, you're done mouth, a fa.stidious little nose â€" all j equal seventy. , , . with r'<:'liti<-s, I hope?" uniting with the flash of her smilei "Sure," said Jeirj'. •Anii^ don I you "Oh, no," he an.swerod. "To-night and the color in her cheeks to endear , be disappointing us, Nora. I've ju.st lH?gun with politics." ; her to the young man. j "I ihink there's no great danger," She pau.<ed on the threshold to look' "I heard you from the street,; obscrve<l/Mr3. Scanlan with a malici- at him. There was a new confidence Nora," he said, "and of course I had ous pungency that Jerry aCe«tcd not ami knowledge in his eyes, in his to come in." amilo Then with poignant sorrow and "Oh, that was it, was it? I had exultant pride she understood; thi.s , hopes you'd strolled up to sec me on night she was pre.'ont at the passing purpose." of the boy, the awakening of the man. "So I had. Nora, you've a great ' song. Maybe not for that. I told way of guessing what I'd be at." i Charley I'd be ready at eight and it's! "It must be because I give it so lit- ; tj,at now." I tie thought. I'd be guessing now you'd I "V/here i." it you're going?" I to notice. "Well," Jerry said, "let it be any- thing you please Nora. Just sing." I'll have time for ordy about one JIbouf the CHAPTER III. Two nights after the parlor rally, Jerry, according to his custom, was I assisting his mother in the diying of' the supper dishes. When he had; wiped the last .naucer, he remarked • with an impromptu air, â€" "I guess I'll be going up the road a! piece. I told Dave Scanlan I'd sec him." "It'.'i a wonder it's Dave and not some other in the family you'd be see- ing," replied Mrs. Donohue. "Work- ing with Dave day in, dav out, as you are. It's for him you put on your EVI:RY MTrLK MAKES A MUCKLE new tie and your bcvt coat, I suppose." When vou are asked to have a beef- ' ings in December in the United Slates .aid .K with Vgrin ""'Tou "on' '«- â- "-• -''^ ''"V -"• -t down your \ --,« ^ for meats 2'2,73:).000 pounds, ' fhlnk N<';?a ;'fuM S at me-^fte allowance of sugar to one lump for ' IJ"' ^l*-- ^^''^ •"-â- ^"-f '" j"""7„^^ her .pying upon me ..th you the oth- a cup „f tea or coffee you scarcely : t^'S, ^sl 080 000 pS er nignt and seeing the kind of com- ,„,,., , , ^ „,, > . , ^ , , â-  ' ' , i ^n^ oon pany I keep." i realize what it means. When you in January had increased to 12,71>0,000 "i'm thinking Dave has set h«?r'"'^ asked to eat fish instead of beef: poumLs. The U.S. Food Admiiiistra- Ktraighl upon that. If he hasn't I:^'"' substitutes for wheal it look* al- â-  tion believes that the .saving of wheat will." i most like trifling with a big subject. I flour during the month of Febniary "You're a go.id creature, but you ' The average man's idea, if you are amounted to considerably over iri,000,-| niuiyt not always be so possessed to be going to save in a big way, is to cut | 000 pounds. Multiply these figures | helping your son along. Hold up out everything you don't want him to by twelve and you get a fairly good; your check now, till I give it a smack ' â-  . â-  "To a dance at McCabe's Hall." "Who v«th?" "Charley Corcoran." "Oh!" said Jerry. "Well, you're dressed more fit for grand opera than for McCabe's Hall." "I always like to dress up when I go to a dance." "I always want Nora to look like a lady wherever she goes," interjected her mother. "Them that are of a low class will be less likely to get familiar with her," added Mr. Scanlan. "She won't find many of a high gn'ade at McCabe'a Hall," replied Jerry. "As good maybe as what some young fellows have in their mothers' parlors," said Mrs. Scanlan. Jerry reached hastily for a aheet of mtisic. "C/ome on, Nora," he said. " 'Kathleen Mavoumeen.' " She had sung only one stanza when her mother interrupted. "Nora, there's some one at the door." It prove<l to be Charley Corcoran. Jerry had always felt antipathy if not animosRy towards the light-haired, scorbutic young man who was fre- quently standing in the doorway of Gorcoran's Drug Store. It was more than the mild, generic antagonism that the man in workman's clothes extends towards each member of the class that habitually wears white col- lars and tries to keep it-s trousei-s creased. That stronger feeling, in- nate and indefinable, was intensified in Jerrv while he watched Gorcoran's dobanair entrance and observed his mannered greetings of Nora and her family. "Dude!" Jerry thought, and in his mind the won! wa.s charged with the energy of rancor and con- tempt. "Dude!" He wanted to cry it aloud when Corcoran addressed him with patronizing suavity: "I hear you had quite a political meeting at your house, Donohue." "The less it's talked about the let- ter," Jerry replied ungraciously. "You may well say that," obsen'ed Mrs. Scanlan. "Well, you know, Mrs. Scanlan," said (,'ororan confidentially, "when you mi.x into politics you've got to put up with all sorts. Finding that out, eh, Donohue? Your man Max- w^ if all right, though; he can hav« my vote." "I thought likely." In his extreme aversion Jerry oould not permit him- â- elf words enough even to makej sarcaim effective. "Oh, sure, he'« the fellow.â€" Well, ! Nora, all ready to come and trip the light fantastic with me?" Jerry wondered how Nora could en- dure a man who talked to her in that favhiun. It eeemed to him a iiackney- ed and objeotionable form of mart- ness. And ye* Nora seemed smiling and eager; she would be ready in a moment; she had only to get her wrap; she hadnt been to a <^nce in weeks and she was awfully excited. (To be continued.) >- If meat or fish become slightly tainted sweeten it by putting a lump of charcoal large as a walnut into the saucepan when cooking the fish or meat. e best ijou can get One must l>e economical ;n order to 'oe liberal. â€" Vohaire. Thi Pe«riess Parfecfion Fanca iJfS ymir rtook anrl they "tay wht^it> 'oa p*:: tlifrr Tbe . _ that Bervee yoii for dil tiuie. Can't'rust. i-ab or l»re«k V do^vti. 8uud» any weathor. T.a<:\^ joint veourely hcl.i wirh (be rr«ries« ICK-k, all purts heavily ralvaniie.!. the •trongvtjt. most ier\ iceabie farm leDoe mado unii full)" guar^nievii. >5 SEND FOR CATALOG ^t all klDd* of Un^Xnx for f*rmf. ^u \l. Citiio*«tie«, Uwr.», DOultiT yartJ. omaiutaUl f«nclDit and fstea 6*« <M 111 u \X y.ur ;.ii.al deslon IfB-.tj wauUl In tptn Urrlt :â-¼ BANWEXL-HOXIE WIRE FENCE COMPANY. 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Catiada'a Food Controller start- ^ idea what, was saved to be sent to the I ed out with the idea of educating the Allie.-*, and how many soldiers were | people to save, not to do without alto- fed on account of it. And nobody in^ gelher, and there is vast difference in the United States suffori-d from it. the principle. Vou can only judge of The same Is true of ("nnada. Kiom the results of saving by waiting for ; returns so far us they have been re- a period and adding up your savings. \ (•eive<l .sliow in public eating hou.ses I The wealth of the Kiench nation be- ' Biiving.s from 'Ih to (iO per cent. The ^ fore the war largely consisted in the use of fish has increased considerably Bcdf aloud. Grown up he wa.<, indeed, i savings the people "(bipositcd in their' over 100 per cent. That moiins that' whenho wilt for leaving his mother in banks, which aggregated a huge ' an etpiivalent in beef and pork was! the evoningg to be going to see the amount. It was out of these small sent overseas. The moral is never girl.-. Bettor that, to be sure, than to Ij yet nom and ever. lie held it up himself in his two hands and smacked his loudest kiss in the middle of it. "Go along then with you, and don't be plaguing the heart out of me," orie<l his mother. Then, when ho had gone, she .sat down in. the parlor in her rocking- chair and rocked and lamented to her- mm be hanging about the saloons. And :, he Krenco Prussian war wa.s paid \ if ho could but l)e conlent'sd at i ,'„i„,,i„.i .u i i j. ^ me after supper always, forever! ^olf-'lfttl'-'y-n the basis of reti. .lavings that the huge indemnity after; mind what your neighbor does, do it j yourself. If you ha\e to come to fi ipper always, forever i , -,, / •â- â€¢ •â- â- " -•-•"". returns ' rationing it will be time enough to .She looked at the square ' "^^"^ received show that the sav- 1 call your neighbor to account. PIANOS! PIANOS! In or(l<?r to g«rt, our Ju.iliy high grade ptano In each town, village or town- â- blp throiigbont Ontario, we shall offer onn Mistnimcnl, and only one. In eacli place, at factory price, hh far aa II (Mn be dona oonsliitentl.v. Theaa plnn<i« ore made In Canada niid have boon l)efoi-e iho Canadian public for over iwenty five jokpb, and are uold on a straight guuranteo. For further Infonnatlon apply to BOX <27 . TORONTO. ONT. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin^ K Mow there 13 just one = i-V*^ WALKER HOUSE S In ONE TOWN where I f . '^y* a And, say, you ought to a see me grin B When my trip heads 3 that way. g The only other time I was .so h.ippy, S Goodness knows, S Was when r kid Dsd bought nie & Red topped boots with copper 5 toes. § When other trsve'lers hit that 3 town, 3 They, too, don't want to rosin, 3 For they ssy, "At that WALKER 3 HOUSE S It's just like slaying home." â-  Where is the ONE TOWN where 3 that I WALKER HOUSE is? Don't i you know i g Why, it's that coodold burg spelled 3 T-O-R-O-N-T-O. = £ The Ilouie of PUnti, | I I he Walker House % V. Toronto Oeo. Wright & Co., Proprietors b;iniiiiiMiiiifiiiiiHiiiiiiniiiiHiiiiiitiiii;; Keep Household .Accounts. | Since the co.st of living has advanc- ; ed so rapidly in the last few years, ' much attention has been paid to re- 1 ihicing certain items of expeiulituro. ^ , Such efforts are more or less futile unless we are able to draw deductions ! to aid us ill the future. I believe every housewife should 1 keep acounts. She should know just what is .spent each month for food pro- ducts. The budget is a practical means^'^f reducing e.xponsc. I I There is a great advantage in mar- keting in person, and there is nothing' more important than the utilizing of \ the leftovers in planning the meals 1 ' iw ihf. day. I^ goes without saying ' that the selection of fojds that give 1 the greatest nutritive va'ue for the j , least outlay Is a ttop in the direction | of economy. The nvorHgo housewife will reduce expenditures by keeping accounts each \ month of amounts spent for various ^ood products. Uy comparing ac- ^ counts for several months it will be ! ! possible to obtain the avorago amount Hj)«nl for groceries. 1 j This tends toward the keeping of i budgets, and is the moans of regulat- I Ing family expenditures, as opposed to the haphazard metho Is of the past. It in possible to find wliat food pro- 1 ducts are most expensive and make j Home definite plan to lessen the ex- Since meat makes up a large part of the ordinary family diet, iiiiy economy in the purchase of it will 1 make a noticeable reduction in the ! food bill. Uy using moat substitutes' , whidi are less expennive, but as nu- } iritious, the amount paid for meat is' greatly reduced. j The use of cheese which is rich in protein as a meat Hubstlliilo will 1 prove SHtlsfuolory. Since cheese is n conceritratiHl fowl, less is needed to' furnish the necessarj- food require- ment. Nut loaf is also an excellent substitute for meat, since it adds variety to the diet and is rich in pro- tein. I find a great advantage to market ill person. The housewife may see the foods before purchasing them. In this way it is possible to get the best that i.s olfered for the price. I always weigh articles that arc sold by weight. In rase the grocer gives short weight it should be dis- covered. Although the dift'erencc may bo small, in a year's time it eoiinta up, and the housewife has paid a certain per cent, of her allowance without any return. Turn Foo<l Waste into Eggs. Should all the worthless cats and dogs now consuming table scraps and more valuable food in several thou- saml Canadian homes- and farms as well fls town) and cities aie overrun with such uneconomic canines and felines -bo repl«re<l by u half-dozen laying hens for each dog and rat de- stroyed, there could bo n<lded to our food supply millioiiis of dozen of eggs nniiually, replacing meat needed for oversoas. 'This replacement couUl be made with little cost, as the expense of dog licenses, collars, chain.s, ken- nels, and the like would practically offset the first cost of the hens. It is only fair to say that there are some dogs and cats that arc worth their room and feed; but there are uncounted muUltiides of roaming, floa- liittcn, starving, bird eating cats and sheep chasing, poultry killiiur. Inwn- destroying dogg that should le sup- planted liy back-yard flocks of c'liiek- eivs as a war-wlnnlng aid. 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