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V ftep/ecfge for War Savings "SALAM TEA MARRYING MARK .... bjr Violette Kimball Dunn CHAPTER 23 SYNOPSIS When Mirk Alexander'! beau- tiful wife, Ellen died, he wa* left with Valerie, Ellen'i daughter by a former marriage. All of Ellen'* family and intimate* i\e Shirley want to adopt Valerie and the truit fund which Ellen left her, but Mark will have none of it. He take* Valerie on a trip and on the way home, they meet Lucy Treadway whom he engages a* Valerie'* tutor. Eli*e, want- ing to marry Mark, i* furioui about thit bringing another wo- man into the houte and i* mak- ing thing* as unpleasant for Lucy a* she posiibly can. Elise ha* just returned from a party at Mark'* house and is *o disturbed that she bark* at her maid, who immediately give* notice and walk* out. Klisc slammed the door on her, nd pulled nervously at the fai- tenings of her velvet dress. She stepped out of her things, leav- ing them where they fell. But certain canny sense left over ''Mary was a sweet thing until I got her in my clutches with too much tea and coffee. She devel- oped caffeine-nerves. Her eyes fairly flashed fire all the time. Then some meddler told her what was the matter and per- suaded her to try Postum and I lost out." \ fradarhei, nervouineit *nd lleep. leMiess art th* warning AiRiult of caffeine nerves, cud by drinkjng too much tc and coffee. Dclidou* nd particularly conomic*l. Jnitant Ponum i* entirely free from caffeine. Made mnamly in the cup. there ii no fun. no bother. Ask your grocer for Posrum. PI32 POSTUM SERVES TEN DAILY NEEDS Mcntboliitum bring* delightful relief for the discomfort* of: I. Head Cold*. 2. -..>,,.. i . ..i Burn*, j. Minor Cult. 4. Natal Irritation due Co cold* or du*r. ft. Wlttdburn. i. Tracked Up*. 7. Surface Skin Irri- tation*. 8. Scratchc* and Hrulie*. 9. Study Noetrll*. 10. Chapped Skin. At your druggitt. Jari nr tubti 30c. Al MENTHQLATUM dives COMFORT Daily ISSUE 47 '41 from lean days whispered It would be as well to pick them up and hang 1 them away. She did this, then pulled a negligee a- round her, and sat down at her dressing table to stare sullenly into the mirror. She pushed back her iiair, and looked closely. She was, she thought, far mort beautiful than Shirley. Or than the brown-eyed idiot of a Lucy, with her golden hair. What more did a man want than beauty? She got up, lighted a cigar- ette, and lay down on her couch to think. As she lay there, it came to her quite suddenly and sharply that she had lost Mark. That was how she put it to herself. Deep in her heart she realized she had never had him to lose. The first thing to do was to keep him from marrying Lucy. It should not b difficult. She lay there planning until a faint streak of yellow dawn lay like a brush across the sky beyond her window. Then she got up, shivering a little, pulled her negligee closer, sat down at her desk, and began a long letter to Dorothy. Chriitma* Feitivitie* Looking back on that Christ- mag at Wide Acres, Lucy decid- ed it was her final glimpse of heaven. It was far from tradi- tional Christmas weather. Kx- ccpt for one light snowfall, the days were crisp and clear with a warm mid-day sun. If it had to b winter, which she despised, Valerie said, it could hardly b improved. Al- though the leaves were gone, tha place wore almost a summery green. There wa an enormous ' planting of evergreens and pinei about It, with masses of rhodo- dendrons, glossy and sleek against the bar* trees. No Christmas could have hart a more perfect j .setting. Valerie went to a small party the night before; and Mark and Lucy and Chiltern trimmed an enormous tree for her at one end of the long library. After Chiltern had gone, Lucy sat beside Mark, watching the flames in a complete companion- ship neither had known before. Once a bell Hounded far off in the house. They looked at each other and waited, half expecting Kllse to push aside the draperiei and shatter the quiet peace. Hut Elise was at that moment the life of a night-club party In town, where she was trying un- successfully, in the midst of a particularly hectic celebration, to remember what she had written to Dorothy. She had to be very ^ay to drown the recurring fear that gripped her whenever she thought of the letter. The very fact that Dorothy had not answered made it all tha more ominous. She had kept as far us she could fruui Wide Acres, even refusing invitation* she thought might possibly in- clude Mark. Miichief Enters The peaceful interlude came to nti abrupt end two days after Christmas. Lucy looked back on it as a special sort of compen- sation for the pain that follow- ed. She and Valerie and Mark came in from a holiday matinee in town to find Dorothy unpack- ing in Kllcn's old rooms, having reached Wide Acres half an hour nfter they had left it. They would hardly believe Chiltern when he told them. Dorothy appeared at dinner. She acknowledged Murk's intro- duction to Lucy affably enough. Lucy breathed more freely. She hadn't known exactly what she expected from Dorothy, hut it wasn't pleasant. It was wonderful what a dif- ference nine months and a little money had made in Dorothy. She had managed to put on a little flesh, and had lightened Ivcr mmirrinjr to pale pray* and mauvtis which softened her right- eous angularity amazingly. She even chatted with them in i sort of fictitious gaiety, which some- how made them strangely un- easy. "I didn't suppose I could tear you away, to visit me," she said coyly to Valerie, "so whnt could I ilo but come to you?" "Oh, no!" cried Valerie. "1 couldn't possibly leave." Her own dismay struck her cars so rude- ly that she hurried to repair it. "You see there are my lessons. W have school every day. It's vry important. And, of course, there are the parties a few " Dorothy grabbed that. "Par- ties?" she repeated. Lucy thought she could hardly have looked more shocked if the child had confessed to arson. She bit her lips to keep from rushing to Valerie's rescue. She looked quickly at Mark. But Mark had already leaped into action. "Just some children's affairs," he explained amiably. "Why? Have you blacklisted parties?" Dorothy looked at him sadly. "Oh, no," she said. "Whether one's nature is like a shallow brook or a deeper stream is more or less out of one's hands, I sup- pose. I only feel it's rather a pity when grief has so weak a hold" "Then that's where we dis- agree," Mark said. "To me, grief should have no hold on youth at all. Perhaps it's all a matter of taste." Waiting Her Chance Dorothy managed to put in a week without even a hint as to the reason for her coming. She succeeded in spoiling New Year's Eve for everybody except Valerie, who went to a children's party at Shirley's, slipping out when her aunt had gone to her room after dinner, and feeling excit- edly like a conspirator. Lucy went into the library, after seeing her safely on her way with Cat- let. Mark was reading, and jumped up to put her in a big chair by the fire. "That's the very one you sat in the frst night you landed. Do you remember?" Would she ever forget? "Here's a perfectly good cele- bration gone to the dogs," hs added. Dorothy came in just then, so Lucy said good night, and went to her room. If Dorothy was waiting for a chance to talk to Mark, it was only fair to give it to her. She was quite sure by now that Dorothy was her enemy. She felt * growing conviction that she was the reason for Dorothy's presence. She and Valerie went back to their lessons the day after -New Year's. For those hours at least, they were free. (To Be Continued) British Rations Expanded Soon Forty thousand tons of canned foods, mostly from the United States, will be ready for sale Nov. 17 under a modified ration- ing plan, the Food Ministry an- nounced in London. In order that shops will be well stocked, 35,000,000 pounds of canned meats, 35,000,000 pounds of canned fish and 12,000,000 pounds of baked beans are being delivered to retailers now on con- dition that none will he sold be- fore Xov. 17. The Government also announc- ed the first allocation of unsweet- ened condensed milk from the United States to dairy pioducU dealers who have received per- mits to supply non-priority con- sumers. One can may be sold to each registered customer. NEW FROCK HAS VERTICAL LINES By Anne Adams Are your hips too broad? Ars your shoulders too heavy? Is your waistline not quite ideal? Then you'll need this figure-slimming frock by Anne Adams, Pattern 490'J, designed especially for th* larger woman. Three panels in the front of the dress run from neck-to-hem, giving you those eye- deceiving lines that camouflage extra weight and add to your height. The side bodice sections Kive a pointed lower waistline ef- fect, and a belt may start at either side of the front panels and tie in the back. The back has one .slim centre panel cut on princess lines. Sleeves may be short, three-quarter or long, ana the two front panels may be made of color contrast as shown. The Sewing Instructor helps you! Pattern 4909 is available in womens' sizes 34, 30, 38, 40, 42, 44, 40, 48 and 50. Size 36 take* 4 yards 35 inch fabric. Send twenty cents (20c) in coins (stamps cannot be accept- ed) for this Anne Adams pattern to Room 421, 73 Adelaide St West, Toronto. Write plainly size, name, address and styls number. Taking No Chances Mrs. Ida Heine voted in tht recent U.S. elections for the first time in her 75 years. "I've al- ways thought men knew enough to run the government, but I'm beginning to wonder," she said. 'I decided not to take any chancel this year." ALL-BRAN PLUM PUDDING FINE FOR XMAS GIFT From sunny California comes this magnificent pudding, pungent with spices and rich with fruit and nuts. Wrapped in c .! >!>hune and tied with bright ribbons and holiday greens it makes a ptricct Christ- mu.s gift, staying fresh unlil the last crumb is eaten. Directions tire as follows: All-Bran Plum Pudding 2 cups prunes, cooked iVi cups currants I cup raisins I % cups citron, chopped % cup preserved orange peel, chopped 1 cup candied cherries, sliced 1 cup nut meats, broken 1 cup All-Brnn Vy cup juice from prunes P/4 cup.s butter, or substitute '-- r.ips sugar 4 egg*, beaten 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 2 cups soft white bread crumbs 3 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon cloves 1 tenspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon ginger Cut prunes into small pieces; combine wilh currants, raising, citron, orange peel, jherries, nut meats nnd All-l!ran. Add prune juice, mix well. Blend butter and sugar thoroughly; add eggs and flavoring; mix well. Add bread crumb*, flour sifted with soda, salt, and spiers. Add fruit mixtuic; stir until fruit is well distributed. Fill greased pudding molds two-thirds full, cover and steam 3'<i to 4 hours. Yield: Three l-\ pound pudding* (1 quart moliU). ways (PAY lSS Calumet is priced surpris- ingly low, probably less than the bak- ing powder you are now using. O USE tESS Calumet's double-action means double leavening during mixing and in the oven permitting you to use less. 9 BETTER RESUlTS-Calumcfj coalm- ** nous leavening means finer, bet- : : ter textured results for your baking. JAMPT BAKING POWDER Like Average ^ Just like the average English- woman, Queen EIi?abeth is run- ning low on clothing coupons. Last year the Queen bought 20 yards of hand-woven tweed at the disabled ex-service men's exhibi- tion, but yesterday she could spare only enough coupons to buy two scarves. Over $200,000,000 a Year Gold miners throughout Can- ada are making a vital contribu- tion to the Canadian war effort. A force of little more than 25,- 000 men is producing over $200,- 000,000 a year in gold. Thi* amount of gold would fully pay for more than 8,000 Spitfires a year. In the amount of muni- tions and war equipment, the product of their work will pay for, possibly no other group of men of equal size anywhere else in the world will compare with that of the 25,000 men who are digging out the gold from the mines of Canada. TABLE TALKS By SADIE B. CHAMBERS FRUIT BREAD PUDDING 2 cups stale breadcrumbs 1 egg H cup .sugar % cup seeded raisins and stoned dates 1 banana 2% cups milk Add crumbs and sugar to milk and allow to stand foe one-half hour. Add beaten egg, dates, cut into quarters, raisins and finely cut banana to the mixture. Pour into a greased baking dish and place in a pan of hot water. Bake in a moderate oven until firm. A tablespoon of butter added to the mixture enriches the flavor. MAYFA1R PUDDING 1 cup seedless raisins H tablespoon ganulated gelatine 1 cup milk 2 tablespoons sugar 4 slices cooked pineapple - egg whites (i marshmallows Vi cup chopped nutmeats 1 teaspoon vanilla Boil the raisins in water five minutes, drain and cool. Soften the gelatine in 2 tablespoons of the milk. Scald the remaining milk, add the sugar and the gela- tine and stir until dissolved. Chill with occasional stirring. When the milk mixture is like honey beat frothy, then fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites, marshmallows cut in quarters, pineapple cut in pieces, raisins and nutmeata. Add vanilla and combine thoroughly. Chill in ser- ving glasses and serve with a gar- nish of jelly. TOPSY-TURVY PUDDING ^i cup shortening *i cup sugar 1 egg IVt cups flour "B teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder H teaspoon powdered ginger Vt cup apricot juice V* cup shortening H cup sugar V* cup almonds % teaspoon salt 2 cups cooked dried apricots Cream the first mixture of shortening or butter well; add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add the beaten egg, then the sifted dry ingvodients alter- nately with the % cup apricot juice. Combine well, Soak the apricots (1 cup) overnight in H BOOKS BY MAIL Postage prepaid on all orders. 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