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To stop the itch of a mosquito bite rub it with ammonia. 7n five minutes the itch is gone. A Liverpool skin specialist says that the cause of baldness amongst men is too much haircutting. . > A sufficiency of sleep by night is a sine qua non to good health, no matter who or what the individual animals that feed on grass and vegetables this has dwindled almost to nothing in man. It is generally about three to six inches long, and its diameter is little more than that of a goose-.quill. One cause of appendicitis appendicitis is a kink or twist in this worm-like structure, that stops its blood supply. Sudden, violent strains such as lifting heavy weights seem to be another frequent frequent cause, while insufficient action action of the bowels, as well as indigestible indigestible food, are both prone _ to bring on an attack. Appendicitis may also be due to germs producting producting general infections, such as typhoid typhoid or rheumatic fever. One • sometimes hears of foreign bodies such as orange or apple pips being found in the appendix. But these frequently prove to be small particles of hardened excrement that have dried, and even become coated "with a layer of phosphates. The best precaution we can take against appendicitis is to try. and escape the initial injury,. As far as possible, therefore, we should secure secure regular action of the bowels, in the hope that no small concretions concretions may lodge in the narrow canal canal ; we should avoid sudden violent strains, and finally take care not to eat indigestible food, and not to eat too hurriedly or too heartily. The taking of wrong food in a wrong way is apt to cause irregular movements of the ins be stines, and these produce the twist or _ kink which is frequently the beginning Hot lemonade is one of the best remedies in the world for a cold. It acts promptly and Effectively,' and has no unpleasant after-effects. 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Be particularly careful of a dead sure thing. Penthorn Road was one of those thoroughfares which have gradually gradually come to a state of shabby gentility gentility after a period of affluence. The houses were tall and bleak and fronted- with grim stucoo, all in that manner which our forefathers found so desirable. Once they had been expensive houses, tenanted by people of wealth and social standing," standing," but now The Gables, half-way down the road, struck the only firm note of resistance to the general air of decaying prosperity. Curtains always hung primly in its casements casements ; the frills of the muslin, window window blinds always seemed newly starched, and the steps of the front door were always & marvel of whiteness. People wondered why Miss Mar- ] garet Weston, who lived there in state with her servants, did not ? move out of a locality which, was. de teriorating so rapidly. Some bolder ; spirits even asked her why she stayed on at The Gables, instead, of letting it, and departing to reside in a street more befitting her quality. quality. To these Miss Weston answered answered gently that she bad lived in The Gables most of her.life and had. no desire to change now. Miss Weston always answered everybody gently, for gentleness was the essence of her being. The neighbors referrd to her as an "old maid," but, even as they used the Fresh, sweet violets --the first thing you think of when you smell this soap. As soon as you use it you will delight in the sweet elusive per^- fume that is left clinging to your face, your, hands. and hair, and in the softening, whitening effect of the glycerine on your skin. Get a cake today. have probably probably been intending intending to try Red Rose Tea for some time but from "force of habit" have just kept on using another tea. Break the Habit and buy Red Rose next time. OSE 'is NEVER SOLD IN BULK Glycerine Soap 10e a cake. 3 take» for 2Sc For sale by Canadian druggists from coast to coast, including Newfoundland l'or a •ample cake, send 2c stamp to the Andrew Jergens Co. Ltd. 6 Sherbruoka Street, Perth. Ontario. phrase, they 'knew it was not the . , . exact term by which to describe went to her uncle and showed him her There was none of that sharp- the note. He counselled cables and. ness about her which the epithet of letters to Harry, but, on the yoy- "old maid" habitually implies. age, Harry altered his plans so that Long ago, when she was a little the message lay waiting for him and orphan girl of seven, her uncle had never reached him. And he never adopted her and brought her to live wrote home ; he just dropped out of in Penthorn Road. But now both everybody s life. , , her uncle and his wife were dead, Would-be suitors dangled about and Miss Weston was left alone in Miss Weston for a time, but, receiv- the old home, save for the servants, ing no encouragement, went off Rather a pitiful romance, was elsewhere. . Friends married, ac- Miss Weston's. It was simply the quaintances moved out of the old story of -the man who had not. neighborhood. Margaret grew from dared enough, the man .who had a girl to a woman,, from a woman leapt to false conclusions and gone to an old maid ... _ out of her life, to leave her alone. And still she waited for Dutton Sometimes, when she tenderly in the house where last he had seen took a packet of letters out of her her, and where again he might seek bureau, there was one particular j her missive which she had' not the heart to re-read, for it was too sacred with poignant memories. But always she remembered, the night when it was handed to her. She had only to close her eyes again to visualize the scene completely ' steeling herself to meet disappoint 1 ment; But it was Dutton who awaited her in the room below--Dutton far better dressed than when she had seen him last and now holding himself himself with - a resolute bearing. - "Harry!" she exclaimed, holding out both her hands to 'him. "So you've qome back ? I knew you would-- F knew you Would !" "I had to come back," he saic' slowly. "I wanted to see you just once more before I went abroac again." "Abroad faintly. again ?' ' she echoec "Ah, if the past could but come back again," he said. "If only I were younger ! But now I cannot ask you to marry me. I'm getting old, I'm poor. And you--you're rich, I suppose, and you haven't altered in the least." Gently she smiled dissent. "But I have something to tell you," she said. "Uncle George left me all his money,, but . he left j this house to you, Nine years ago îe died, and we inquired about you everywhere. We advertised in the papers,* too, but could - get no tidings tidings of you." "Nine years ago?" he answered. T was up-country then. I stayed up-country three years. That was why I was undiscovered. ' "Well, nine years' rent is yours," she told him. "I've been keeping it for you, waiting for you to come back. Set, you see, you're not quite so poor as you thought." 'And not quite so rich as I'd like to bej" he sighed. "I'd like to be rich enough to ' ' He paused. "To what ?" queried Miss Weston anxiously. "Surely you're not going going to balance riches against happiness?" happiness?" "I've got my pride," he said, stubbornly. "And you've got your house," she said. "And I'm going to move out of it at once. You must come and live in your own house." "No, no," he replied, uncomfortably. uncomfortably. "I shall go," she said with firm ness, and added artfully, "though ^ after all- these years it'll break my-]:" heart to leave it." "Then--then let me continue as your--your landlord. The house is far too big for me." "I won't stay on as your tenant a day longer," she said. GILLETTS PERFUMED LYE f m////A \WA PsWO THE CLEANLINESS OF SI NKS .CLOSETS, BATHS. DRAINS. ETC. IS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO HEALTH. ■15 tPCRiMO-rkav oieicn»-* 0 * ■Epfc \ 'pot ^ QiLlett company uMjj TORONTO ONT. 5*6 ■\> iger, going to br^ak my heart to go "Harry, after all these years--" she quavered. "My little sweetheart !' ' he whis- "And it's ! pered, and she and he forgot that "What's the good of,my stopping j Q^n't you see what I--what I'm in England ?' ' lie asked. "There s I -frying make clear?" youth had left them.--London Answers. Answers. nothing to keep me here. Abroad I shall do better. I did. not do well when I was there before, but that I poop and ashamed to ask was because I had nothin" to work for. I had lost you and " He stopped for a moment. "You thought you had lost me,' amended Mise Weston softly. "No," he said, in perplexity, "I can't. And yet--but no, I'm too you to marry me." x "Rubbish !" retorted Miss Weston Weston with the most asperity she had ever been known to show. "Either you're going to break my heart by "I--I knocked about a bit over ] taking me leave the old house, or there," he went on. "A rolling I you're going to let me stop on stone, you kno-w. Then I had & L your vif e , Which is it to be ?" whim to come back to England. I Her unwonted briskness gave way --it's no good disguising it--I was took a .faltering step to on the downward path: I'd lost in- wa , rc ls him. terest in things--worse, I'd lost in- II. Some-times she pictured this return. return. She saw him whirling up to the door magnificently in a motorcar. motorcar. She saw him on foot, tenta- Visuanze Uively examining the old house from She " w hersel£ - qmte young ' -"*• I the further aïdl of th eroad. - *1- ting before the fire on an autumn evening. She was trying to under- | pietured him «oming^aek "All Is Well That Ends Well" stand something. Why had her prosperously to seek that cousin, Harry Dutton, gone off to I whom mischance had so long wit the Colonies without a word of fare-. . , , . well to her? He had made quite a A ^. then > one ^ ay ' . qui £® ^*7 sudden departure, though he had | P^tedly, Ae met tarn in the street told her that he was going. And yet he had never sai-çï good-bye to Alone with dyspepeia comes nervousness, sleeplessness and general general ill health. Why f Because a disordered stomach does not permit the food to be assimilated and carried to the blood. On the otherhand, the blood Is charged with poison» which come from this disordered digestion. In turn, the nerves are not fed on good, red blood and we see those symptoms of nervous breakdown. It iti not head work tha £ does it, but poor stomach work. 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And while she w£s seeking to understand understand his attitude, the small son of a neighboizhad come into the room shamefacedly. "I say, Miss Weston," he blurted out, "I'm awfully sorry; but I clean forgot." "Forgot what?" she asked, puzzled. puzzled. "Why, this letter. and he was woefully shabby and down-at-heel and his face bore lines of want and recklessness. "Harry!" she faltered. "Harry "Harry !" f ' . The light of recognition leaped into his eyes, but he shook his head. "You're 5 home again!" she exclaimed. exclaimed. ~"I-- I've been expeert- I've been waiting for mg you. you !" . . "Expecting me? .Waiting for Mr Dutton I m,e muttered, astonished, gave it to me to give you. He want- "Ever since you went a-way," «he 2,1 ^ «nre vou'd ret it the ! sald . smnply. ■ Waiting for you m There was a mistake ed to make sure you'd get it the same evening. I've just remember- ' oi(i house ed it." "When did he give it to you?' «she whispered^. "Last Thursday. And I'm awfully awfully sorry "Last Thursday," -she said to know you ! --I never got .yourtietter till it was too late. And theri^we never heard where you were. But I waited." "You--you're making a mistake, mistake, " he said slowly. "I don't ) 7 WANTED-- More workers ical Proceee. pimple, -maJhaniftai work, rapidly done. All pa^ terns furnished. Positively no experience required. We furnish the Process ajid chemicals and supply you with pictures to color, which you. return to us. Good prices paid promptly by the week or month. No canvassing ôr selling--our travellers travellers sell the goods and the field ie unlimited for our work. If you want clean, pleasant work the year round for whole or spare time, write us and we will send you contract and the prices we pay. COMMERCIAL ART WORKS, 815 COLLEGE STREET, TORONTO, ONT* herself, when the small boy escaped from the room in reliéf. "That was two days before he sailedJl^ She opened the lettérand read its contents. "Dearest Margaret," it ran,-- "As you kno-w, I sail for 'South America the day after to-morrow. Before. I go, I want to ask you something, but I fear it will be tod much to ask you. You must have ■guessed.that I love you. I know it is presumption cm my part to aspire to your hand, for you are thé odopted daughter of a rich man and I am only the hfe'er-do-weel eon of a poor brother. ' But I mean to make money in South America. I want to come home and marry you ! There, I've hlurted it out "tfuite bravely! Will yq umarry me? I want you "to wait for me. 5 "I suppose I'm asking too much, but I shall hope. If you reply to this note,. I will come and say goodbye," goodbye," but 5 if you: ^iq. i>ot answer; I. shall know what'you théan. . Yours, Harry." - ^ " . :' There tfbh .'the t esdplanation; She j Most people would be benefited by the occa- 'sioiial nseof • -i He swung away from her at that. Miss Weston took a few steps after himTTiut a faintness came over her. And when she could- see clearly again, Dutton had gone. But even now her simple faith in love did not abandon her. "He'll come back to me one day,", she said to herself, going slowly home. "He knows I'm waiting waiting for him. He's ashamed of himself himself because he's poor. As if that mattered !" Indeed, it wasjquite a cheery Miss Weston who arrived home at The Gables. And now every morning the thought was still stronger in her that that day her lover of long ago might call to see her in the house where last he had left her. But the days slipped by, and though often she glanced>from.her windows, she saw no sign of him in the street, outside. And so a month, three; months, another six months, ■ te rest in myself. And then one day I met you on the street. You remember? remember? The man you remembered remembered as Harry Dutton ~ was dead then," he said, "and in his place there was a mereshiftless ne'er-do- well. I felt utterly ashamed to find your eyes on me. I saw you still believed in me, long after I had faith or belief in myself. And --and T resolved to try again to live my life straight." "And now?" "For close on a year--ever since that day--I've struggled. I think I've left the wastrel behind. I'm trying hard to be _ the man you thought "me to be, and I think I'm succeeding." "And you've cômé back at last V' "Yes, I wanted to see you again, not as F was that day you met me, but as I am now. I wanted to win back a little of your respect.' "And--and you're going abroad again ?" "Quite soon. I've no ties, no wife or family." "There's me !" pointed, out Miss Weston with unprecedented boldness. boldness. "Have you forgotten me?" "You?" he said in* amazement. "You don't mean--- "I've waited all these years for you to come back to me," she replied replied steadily. "We were parted by ill-chance, but I was loyal to the memory of you, for I knew you'd return one day!" "And I," he said, "have been true to you in word and deed, because because all my love was with you. Other women"--he dismissed them with a gesture. "You were always the only woman in my thoughts." "I knew it," she said simply, and told him how "mischance had led their paths apart those many years ago. Constipation ■■--■ is an enemy within the camp. It will undermine the strongest constitution and ruin the most vigorous health. It leads' to indigestion, biliousness, impure blood, bad complexion, sick headaches, . and is one of the most frequent causes of appendicitis. To neglect it is slow euicide. Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills positively cure Constipation. They^ are entirely vegetable in composition and do not sicken, weaken or gripe. Preserve your health by taking Dr. Morse*» Indian Root Pills Always -Serviceable.--Most pills lose their properties with age. Not so with Parmelee's Vegetable Pills. 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