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6 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1921, THE DEAREST ACHE By KATHERINE H. TAYLOR. ing, girls and boys, and Alice wanted to go (her voice threatened to break) --but--she wouldn't if she had t» wear a dress that was suitable for an old lady! . . . After this Elizabeth telephoned, asking whether her mother had any cheese. "Why, dear?" asked Mrs. Wilkins. "Well, I thought if Bob came in tonight that I'd like to make a rarebit.". "Oh, I see," answered Mrs. Wilkins,! with a realization that all the lun-! "And I don't suppose there's any alcohol?" said Elizabeth. "What makes veil think that?" "Well, the last time I used the chafing dish I noticed that it was low. 1 meant to speak of it. Will you telephone Sears', Mother? And, Mother while you're ordering that, order my cold cream, too, will you, dear?" PART I. . Wilkins' day bad gor boiler's busted," Mrs. Meiglea was just gettm' { trom the beginning: and «| 2g -ft** llgTuP, SSTS^StS1. Late in the| whe'" * {t «-> ^ STori^hiem ! 3 teSko, was unusually sensitive, she looked j Wilkins_ a back over the day and realized that j drunk , she gave--gave constantly--for little return. "It isn't that I'm tired," thought, "although I am; it's r i-ror--" Two tears made their appear-: she fumbled for her handker- chief and mopped the suddenly steady! flow. "You give, and you give," she-mutt* ted, "and the pain What was happening kins is what happens to every w-man now and again during a lifetime; she was realizing that the pains she endured when she bore her children were never to cease--that she must constantly hurry, constantly endure, and constantly be forgotten. It was a bitter reflection, and it. left her so hard that her teak hurt as they forced ™tZ°J?l their way into the open. It had all begun that morning with her husband's • aying, "Molly, can you find me a clean union suit?" He had said th: her feenng uran »ne muwi. ue « Biu«w. - ... • She tried not to be sharp, and she, UP .i/1^; didn't see why he had approached^ he that way. "The pong Katie, had F"-- that 1 „j Caffin," said Mrs.: i pushed aside the half-1 cup of coffee, and stood up. I "Heat the water on top of the stove,; """I Katie. You'll have to manage some-' si1(v how. And--" suddenly she paused. Katie was weeping copiously, with her ?e water-soaked hand plastered; r her jaw. "No6, rmSn "Well, I ' ine is busy. ""Yes?" "Would yot "It's my tooth," loaned the suffer-1 i h Would j wondered. Your voice Gocd-by, dear. . . This . . Mercy, these people Mother!" i mind asking Dora to Ires®? I wore it motor-rright and it looks fright- [Spring and Summer Clothes For School and Holiday Wear At Lower Prices Ask Your Local Dealer for ra's!"' "I'm so sorry," said Mrs. Wilkins, Wil-' her manner almost overfull of sym-m,n | patbv because of the sudden irritation ' she 'had felt toward Katie as she heard the news. "Yessum, it's fierce!" went on Katie, after a gulp. "I guess--I'll have it out!" She was hysterically nervous over the decision, and fled sobbing. Mrs. Wilkins went to the telephone, persuade a recalcitrant plumber to visit her humble home, and then hurried toward the kitchen to interview the damages. She found them--and the washer "ttle girl, who, having "I'll , She got the got-" And then Mrs. Wilkins did a thing] she had never before done--she silenc- i ed the confidence of her daughter byj a sudden hanging up of the receiver. For a moment she stood by the tele-] phone feeling mean, and considering! the calling of her daughter to reas-j sure her; but the difficulty of singling out Elizabeth's department in the bigj vocational school and a ringing of the front door bell stopped this intention. (Continued in next issue.) stated Dora,] look like colds when they commence measles particular." „, | Mrs. Wilkins admitted it, and look- laundry!" 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'. peaked and limp appearance stra heavy! heF already overtaxed r ir she'd gone down-stairs ter sewing basket, Alice came in. j^j her j^in j^nees to" giv explained that she had the thread, Llinikin and perpetually E,ad appear- ____ she d been using it on a nax. q, -- . » Why didn't Mother call?" she asked,] X ■ stood in the d^7'p^bly] ^ ^.^.t NO BUTTONS, NO STARCH COMFORTABLE AN We Are Specialists in the Manufacture of Children's Hose and Underclothes ZIMMERMAN RELIANCE LIMITED MILLS AT HAMILTON AND TORONTO Swindled. A small boy was taken to see the new baby, whom he eyed very critically. "Why, he's got no hair, father," was his first remark. The fact was admitted. "And he's got no teeth, father," was the next comment. The circumstance could not be denied. "I teli you what, father," was the final observation, "you've been swindled; he's an old 'un!" oking. Mash and season as usual,! Argentina has 22 public holidays beating in the hot milk and the bu - during the year, Germany 19, Italy 19, The potatoes will be as light, Rumania 24, and India 21. rhen cooked in the old way, none ■------ of the potato will have been lost, and Minard's Liniment tor Bums, etc. he snvaill, irregular ones are used as I -- completely as those which are large One ton of metal will furnish ten and smooth. thousand gross of pen-nib^_ Minard's Liniment Relieves Colds, < that flushed from only pretty seventeen When she had disappeared, Elizabeth, who was twenty-one, and somewhat irritable from a too short night, of her younger sister. Alice beth's blouse had "bo:> KHz 3 wanted to _____jetli stood in the doorway and orated at length. She, for one, thought her mother spoiled Alice. At her age Elizabeth had--and Elizabeth explained just whac she had done that was admirable, and just what Alice did that was not admir- 11 ed of wood smoke, and <i were large and haunt-Mrs. Wilkins' every what the day able. "Why don't you asked her mother, "s gone don't y i got , the bloi mthei ____" This somewhat sullenly. "What about the pink-checked one?'-' "It's faded." "Well, you have that lawn with the Irish collar." "You know perfectly well what that looks like. Mother." said Elizabeth. "It never did fit, and it makes me sick to wear. I can't bear wearing it even at home and I simply won't wear- it out places. That's ail!" Mrs. Wilkins suggested some more substitutes. These were all rejected. Sam was late for breakfast, and complained because the sausage wasn't warm. Mr. Wilkins made a great joke of the fact that his wife bad, in her morning's flurry, sewn one of the buttons on the- inside of his lingerie. Alice was sullen under the abuse she had reaped from Elizabeth, and Elizabeth was nervous about the train she wanted to catch for town. It was a positive relief when the eight-forty reduced the family to Mrs. Wilkins, Katie, the cook, and Dora Meigles, who had come in to do the wash. The sunshine poured in the windows of the cheery room, and Mrs. Wilkins, enjoying the luxury of dawdling over her second cup of coffee, rather smiled over her own flurry, possibly she did spoil Alice, and as for expecting the child to be responsible for looking at buttons, and for their lack--well, that was too much, she was only seventeen She looked over to the sausage platter, which was now coated with a film of white and cold grease, worried a little over Sam's cold breakfast,-and then, as is the way of housekeepers, (tecidsd to make it up on the next meal. Dinner arrayed itself in her mind. She would have fined cnior.s; Sam liked fried onions. About this centre she grouped Mrs. Wilkins knew would be, and it was. The plumber came, and he and Dora held an animated conversation about the cost cf living. Katie went to the dentist's, lost her tooth, and came home to retire into the privacy of her boudoir, and to moan ?> loudly that she was heard in the kitchen. Little Hetty Meigle sat around to watch everything Mrs. Wilkins did. Unnaturally solemn, her stare began to affect Mrs. Wilkins as would an evil charm. It made her drop things, and make absurd, nervous moves that resulted in nothing but resemblance to the busy hen. Dora chatted amiably about the neighbors, in spite of Mrs. Wilkins' earnest endeavor to silence this sort of topic. The talk ran in "Yessum, he comes home soaked, mebbe three or four times a week. Laura--she's the up-stairs girl--she Recipes and Suggestions for Between Seasons. 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