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IMAPEA SCOLP j ;S OUTOFHCRf \ ^ I UNTIL sHf SW/KHCP mfOfWM) J Mr 9L . COFFEE NERWES.JiJ V . "She was a loving wife and mother until caffeine-nerves caused by too much coffee and tea gave her a brittle temper! How she could carry on at the children or her husband. But her mother told her about Postum and that was the end of me." Perkapf you, also, iliould stop drinking coo*e nil tea nd twitch to Postum. It you have hen J- che, indigestion, restleu nerves try Postum foe 30 days. You'll enjoy this delicioui mealtime beverage and it is very economical. Order from your grocer. POSTUM .; \ P22I MARRYING MARK by Violette Kimball Dunn SYNOPSIIS After Mark Alexander's beau- tiful wife Ellen died, her whole family became Interested In Valerie, Ellen's daughter by a former marriage and In the trust fund left Valerie. All Ellen's sisters, save Shirley, frightened Valerie by assuming he would live with them, but Mark came to the rescue and. took Valerie on a long trip. On the way home, he and Valerie) met Lucy Tredway, owner of broken down traveling library. Mark hired her to tutor Lucy nd brought her home. Elise, trying to make the most of the opportunity, appeared at the house on the day they return- ed and was startled to see Lucy there. She left In a quiet huff and has just called Val- erie to see if Valerie will spend the day with her. Valerie It talking things over with Lucy. Chapter 15 Valerie moved a little nearer. Hie would tell Lucy. "You see don't like her! Mrs. Waterford, mean. My mother did. That IB, suppose she did. They were to- father a good deal anyway, when- fver I was home. Of course, that Wasn't very much." Lucy wondered if it was DOS- ible that less than ten yearn lay between them. She felt like Meth- V*fl;i!i "I often get like that," h said. Valerie looked up. ''Really?" she *sked hopefully. HEALTHFUL DELICIOUS/ Enjoy its delicious genuine peppermint flavor after every meal . . . relieves that stuffy feeling . . . helps keep teeth clean, bright and attractive. .. breath pleasant. GET SOME TODAYI "Absolutely. And when I do, I turn it Into a kind of game. I call it 'Making Excuses.' Not for yourself that's not so good but for other people. Especially when you don't Ilka them. I think, maybe they aren't happy, or their shoes don't fit, or somebody drop- ped them, on their heads when they were babies. You know like that." Valerie laughed. "That's fun," she said. "I won- der what I could think up for Elise? Would the head-dropping one do?" "Well first, tell my why yon don't like her?" "Do you like her?" countered Valerie. Lucy thought furiouly. "Well how do I know? It's a little soon to tell. You see, I never laid eyei on her until last night." "Oh," said Valerie disappointed- ly. "But sometimes you can tell right away. Look at father and me and you." "I suppose that was an excep- tion." Lucy wondered why she was fighting on Ellse's side, and couldn't discover any reason ex- cept that she wished to teach Val- erie tolerance. "It's like -this," Valerie explain- ed. She drew on the bright chinU of her chair with a pointed finger. "She's going from here to here, you see." She made a straight line between two points. "But she doesn't. She goes this way " A. series of curves indicated Ellse's circuitous course. Lucy looked at Valerie in amazement. "And then she wants to ask you something terribly, and he doesn't. She Just talks around it until you get all mixed u.p and tell her something you don't want to find out. So you see, she isn't a very nice person. At least, I don't think so." "She's rather nice, to look at" suggested Lucy. Ft wag the only thing she could think of In Ellse't favor. "Not to me. It's sort of like smelling a lilac, and then a tuber- rose. Both of them are sweet, but the tuber-rose is shivery. Any- way, it is to me." Lucy wondered it It wasn't, somehow, a rather complete summing up. "I suppose it Isn't nice, feeling this way. but what are you going to do?" "There are the excuses I told you about." "All right. You begin." "Well " said Lucy, "she's alone, isn't she? Being alone often makes people disagreeable." "She didn't have to be," explain- ed Valerie. "There was her hus- band. He was quite nice. Not very handsome or young, but nice. And she knew he wasn't very young or handsome when she mar- ried him. Then after a while, they weren't married any more. If she was lonely, why didn't she kep him?" "I give it up," said Lucy. She had rather a feeling of being car- ried over her head. She heard with relief Mark's knock on Valerie's door; and Val- erie, with her young arms around him, forgot Elise and the game of making excuses. She didnjt think of her again until an hour later, as she and Mark and Lucy sat swinging their bare legs over the edge of the pool after an exciting game of water ball in its gre-en depths. Looking Backward Valerie, Mark, and Lucy swam every day. even when it rained. Mark, fired by their- enthusiasm, was already making plans for an indoor winter pool. McTavish had left the kennels, and was never far from Valerie's heels, running frantically on his sort black legs. Mark had come to look on him- self as the father of a family, and he liked It. He thought of Lucy t as almost as much of a child as Valerie. It never failed to aston- ish him when she spoke to him maturely. Even when he remem- ' bered the diplomas and degrees, and knew that she and Valerie kept regular school hours. He found himself urging them not to overdo the learning busi- ness. To enjoy the summer days which were lengthening magically. He took to coming home earlier to play around the pool with them before dinner. He felt as yoTing as they were, which astonished him a little when he stopped to think about It all. Mark looked at UM placid pat- torn of nil days, and marveled. Hli IK* had seemingly craaned o thoroughly; and yet here it wa, weaving itsef as If nothing had happened. He hardly realized how much of this was Lucy's work. Mark found Elise and even Shir- lay vaguely disturbing. He was be- gtliuiug to realize he had known them for years without knowing tiii-rn at ail. He didn't even now aspect why this was go or gueas tluii Ellen had guarded him so sub- tl|r from every woman except her- self. He had danced with, them aod sat beside them at dinner, and found himself looking Into Ellen's eyes again before they be- OcMiie to him any more than figures moving acre 3 a stage. Elise had Invited herself to din- nr at Wide Acres twice before Shirley showed up at all. ElLsa never mentioned her, and Mark al- most forgot she lived only a scant ten miles away. He was ashamed to find how completely she was out of his thought, when he came home late one afternoon in June to find her sitting with Valerie and Lucy at a table under a huge gay um- brella at the edge of the pool. (To be continued) Mothers Were Good Guessers The New York Times Gives Soma Homey Hints About Vitamins As for the vitamins, It haa been pointed out more than once In this column how strongly science en- dorses human experience. The vit- amins are not found In petroleum or clay or prussic acid or other substances alien to the human die- tary. Vitamins occur in milk, meat, wheat, corn, rice, rye, barley, oata, oranges bananas and yams. Long before the human mother knew about vitamins ages before she knew any letter* of the alphabet to name the vitamins, she knew th.it milk and fruit juice were good tor her baby. That is why it is so oomfortlng to hear that a study of ISO Wisconsin children between the ages of 1 and 3 has shown that milk and fruit Juice art in ideal infant food. In Lighter Vein To the Editor of The N'ew York Tfcnes: How worried I am about my breakfast cereal! Formerly, I would Choose a product of wheat or oati or corn, feeling that what would fatten a hog or strengthen a horse waa good for me. Now I find that Cereal A is especially made for chjldren who play hard, Cereal B l for nursing mothers and Cereal C is what makes champions. I am not a child, a nursing moth- er or an Invalid, and I think It smacks too much of vulgar pro- fessionalism to be a champion. I have just bought a pound of rice and am looking for old-fashion- ed oatmeal in bulk and will hope to find some packaged cereal free from thiamln or vitamin B or tin whistles and silverware. Kicker. It's Just An Old Indian Custom Parents distracted by fretful infants may find reief in an old Piute Indian custom - - that of strapping the baby to a primitive "cradle board." Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gushing of San Francisco (they're just white folk) did that with son Jeffrey just as soon as they took Britain's Fighting Planes ana; Warships 29 NOW AVAILABLE "Flying Portress", "Bristol Bcauflghter", "N.M.5. King George V" and many other* For ench picture denircd, .-CIIL! n complete "Crown iSrand" label, with your name find address and the name of the picture you want writ- ten on the back. Addro.ns Dupt. J.12, Th Canada Starch Company Ltd., 49 Welling- ton St. E., Toronto ISSUE 39 '41 tf lfDJUL gsL WHEAT GERM ( YlntuJUL ftiwuLdsHu it" Dietetic research has shown that die Wheat Germ helps am- vert food into energy, stimulates the appetite, and is essential to normal growth. In Nabisco Shredded Wheat you get Wheat Germ as Nature provides it, because this cereal food is made from unmilled 100% whole wheat. You also get gen- erous amounts of protein, carbohydrates, phosphorus, iron. Millions of people, especially children, have benefited by tha habit of eating a whole wheat breakfast of two Nabisco Shredded Wheat widi a cupful of milk, and fruit if desired. Ask for this famous whou wheat food by its full name. "Nabisco Shredded Wheat" THE CANADIAN SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY, LTD., Niagara Fail,, Can him from the hospital at the ag of two weeks. Six weeks later they declared the experiment an unqualified success. The Cushings believe that a great advantage of the cradle board is that it causes the child to grow up with a straight back. You seldom see a stoop-shoulder- ed Piute they point out. This cradle board made for them by an 87-year-old warrior at Wadsworth, Nevada consists ol willow frame covered with elk- hide. SLENDERIZING AFTERNOON FROCK By Anne Adams Do you know you can actually j look ten pounds slimmer if you choose the right dress? Anne Adams has designed Pattern 4732 especially with this in mind for those important afternoons when ' you want to look your very best! Notice how fullness over the bosom is achieved by three tucks | on each shoulder and gathering above the waist. The tucks are repeated on the new, three-quar- ter sleeves, and may be accented with buttons to match those down the bodice. Short sleeves are op- tional. A front-curved waist- band gives you trim lines, and the panelled skirt flares gently. This frock gives you a very slen- der silhouette, especially if you make it in printed crepe. Pattern 4732 is available in women's sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 requires 'i^ yards 39 inch fabnc. Send twenty cents (20c) in coins (stamps cannot be accept- ed) for this Anne Adams pattern to Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Writo plainly size, x name, address Rivl style number. TABLE TALKS By SADIE B. CHAMBERS Celery as an Eye Opener One if the most valuable foods from a dietetic standpoint it that of celery, rich in vitamins and In- dispensable in flavor. At no time of the year la the choice so splen- did as now. Calory Sauc* 24 ripe tomatoes 2 heads celery 3 large onions 2 red peppers 2 tablespoons salt 1 pint vinegar 1 lb. brown sugar. Wash and prepare vegetables and chop fine. Add half th quantity of vinegar first, brown sugar and salt. Boil slowly until tender, about 1 'j hours. Put In sterilized jars and seal while hot Craamed Calory 1 large bunch celery 1% tablespoons shortening: 3 tablespoons flour 94 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper ?4 cup celery stock *i cup milk. Wash thoroughly and cut in Mi inch lengths. Boil in salted water 60 minutes or until tender. Drain and set aside 'i cup stock. Melt the shortening, add flour, salt and pepper. Add milk and celery stock and bring to the boiling point, stirring constantly. Add celery and heat thoroughly. The creamed celery may be put in a baking di.-h, sprinkled with crumbs and grated cheese, and baked 20 minutes in a moderate oven. Cream of Celery Soup Cut into small pieces the tops and stalks of 1 small bunch of celery. Place in a saucepan with 5 cups of cold water, V4 teaspoon salt and pepper and a few slices of onion. Cook until celery is tender. Press through a sieve and use 2'-s cups strained liquid. Adil to hot white sauce and serve hot. White Sauce 2 tabcspoons shortening 4 tablespoons flour Vi teaspoon salt 'B teaspoon pepper 'i cups milk. Melt shortening, add flour, salt and pepper. Mix well. Add milk slowly. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly to avoid lumping. Keep hot over boiling water until ready to combine with vegetable mixture. Fruit Filling (Request) \ cup finely chopped figs Vi cup finelly chopped dates '4 cup finely chopped raisins to cup sugar to cup boiling water. Mix figs, dates and raisins. Add sugar and lemon juice and cook over hot water until thick. Spread while hot between lay- ers of cake. Ml**) < ll. ,!!,....> I. r .,,..,,.. ,,.,,.,., letter* from luliTfalvil reiulfris. Ml U iileuHcil to i..i . .. sUfiKrHtlou tuple* for lirr column, iintl yen reiul> lo UNICII lu yuur "| wsi." ic. -.,11. -I- for ii'.-iiir-. t .... i.-,; M, mi- .in- In ,.: ili-i \il<lrm our N ii. IN in Mli.* Millie u. i limn. >!*, 7:t Vtl'Mt \il.t:iil. Mricl. I .,- ronlo." >l-nil 111111111111. . II a'l.lr''H..-,l The first airplane driven by a Motor using cha'coal instead of UjUi.l l';ie. . a suc.'essful t'liglu ID lt:;1y recently. Busy Inventors Are Successful Since the war began, in SD- teniber, 1939, over 50,000 inven- tions have been submitted to th British Ministry of Supply. Each month there have been ai6i tl^i 1,000, and in most months th total has been higher than for the whole of any year in the pre-war period when inventions were sent direct to thd War Office. It If found that about one in every 400 of the inventiong is useful and worth developing. U.S. Technicians To North Ireland The United States technician! who are employed by the Britiak Government on defense facilities in Ulster were reinforced last night by the arrival of 150 mor Americans. There now are about 950 Americans thus engaged la Northern Ireland. BAKING- ECONOMY - ^HERE'S trouble-free baking in store foi you when you use i I'U.IHI Baking I'owder. You use less and its double leavening action du ring mixing and in the oven assures better results. Easy-opening, won't-spill container, with handy measuring device under the lid. PRICED SURPRISINGLY LOW! L3I