- PAGE TEN, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1910. seemiceoceocoscr HOUSE FOR ARMY DIRIGIBLES...... ">... | Janet s Reward _--ey Most people know that orris root is!' one. of the chief ingredients of violet} ---- pewder; many others are well ae | quainted with the strangely shaped | pieces 'of white root, that seem tike { dried ginger, which give ont the deli: | cate and subtle scent of the violet, and perhaps the privileged few know | that it is made from the roots of al Kind of iris. { "Never have I deen the cultivation | of the iris and the preparation of or} ris root to such perfection as this sum | mer ip the Tuscan Apennines, where! Vallomabrosa lifts its pine cipvered] head," says a writer in. the Queen} "On the sunny side of the mountains | lias the whole district of the Val] d'Arno and between Saltino afd Pina! di Seo the entire neighborhood is giv-| S of the NEEDEMS RD TH RHE DOGS | ARE TOU FB A (ING TO MAKE A MEMAS \ Out or Ths $00 By Martha McCulloch-Williams., OO OOOO 00000O0 00000000 DOC 0OQOOCOO000VRO0O00 It was hard to say whieh was the more noted--the Wilton pearls or the Wiltoy temper. Euphemia, the youngest Wilton girl, had inherited both, together with much land, many stocks and bonds, not to name revolutionary relics quite equal to a patent of nobility. Therefore it wns, and was not, amazing that she was single at thirty-five. There had never been a hint of romance nor a suspicion had had suitors in "shoals. three times she had marrying one of them. of blighted affections. She At least contemplated But it had not en up to the cultivation of . vines, | olives and iris, Indian corn, wheat and millet fin { i } { got beyond contemplation--each of the three had been dismissed, Both her brothers had married and had crops of lusty young Wiltons, but | Clara, the sister who shared with Miss | Faphemia tenancy of the big home { stead, had only stepchildren. She had {married a minister with the tradition al family. It was remotely through this family that the afiair of the pearls came to happen. If there had been no need of a governess for three very unruly girls, Janet More, Irish, finely bred, wistfully pretty, careless and happy in spite of poverty, would never have seen those famous gems, Janet danced like leaves in southery the voice of a lark, 1 a place; but wine, oil and orris root ave the three conimercial industries. | Pergolas of vines stretch along as far! as the eye can sed; Vines with clusters | of purple or white grapes, olives laden with green berries, and under them and between them little plantations of iris dalmatica. "The iris, or giaggolo, as it is called] in Italy, is planted thinly, and allow-| ed to grow for three years, when the | roots ave dug up and tied in big bun-| dles, These are then prepared. Nearly | he whole of the tuberous root is cut! for $25. ff, leaving only a tiny bit with fibres | Miss Readywitt--As usual we women 'n order that the plant may grow | are at a disadvantage. A grizely bear | when replanted, as it is at once for} can't be bought for many times that. | ther three vears of peace. | "The tubers are: then thrown into big basins of water, and the whole family of the contadine, or peasant, itting on the doorstep of their-house yr under 'the pergolas in the shade of the vines, begin the business of peel ing them previous to their being dried in the sun for the market. Everybody i# busy with * the small sickle shaped tnives trimming the iris root. I, its fresh condition it is sold for about twenty centimes the kilo, about two nts a pound. But after a few days | exposure to the brilliant Italian sun- shins on large wicker work trays, it - loses two-thirds of its weight and is sold to the wholesale merchant at nine vents un pound:™ BUILDING THE BRITISH ARMY'S AERODROME . THE SPHMARE . a . are building an immense rome a modern dirigible balloons provided for supervision of Mervyn O'Gorman, shows the great shed ready for British military authorities Farnborough in which to keep the the army.. The work is under -the a well known automobilist.. The picture the laying of the flooring. or you's Paw Paw Pls conx the live by gentle methods. They do or weaken, They are a stomach, liver snd nerves; ad of 'weaken. They en and end ble the stomach to the pourishment from food that is pills contain no ecalo- soothing, healing and stim- sale by all druggists in 10¢ ir y hued wedient aa off thelr ability abso- o¢ Suargs. MUNYON'S, 834 | irs, sang with y ~ lgeemed indeed the embodiment of fyouth and spring. Because none of the great people awed her in the least, she made her way to their hearts. Their splendid aloofness touched her quick y svmpathies as did the squalid poverty lof her peasant compatriots living down beyond the mills, Miss Euphemia held out a brief while {lara and the minister, Mr. Fay, had surrendered at sight. Before three lmonths ended, Janet was one of the { family, freer indeed than the step- {children to break up Miss Wilton's ' iwolitude and make her laugh. | "Sure, laughing makes you the pret- tiest," Janet said, with just" the faint- est touch of a brogue. When she | chose, her English was erystalline, but she had found out that the Irish, in flection pleased the stately lady. She dared further to rummage out things and dress up her patroness. "It's a bride 1 am making of you," she said, one dull afternoon, raw and leold, when Miss Euphemia was held by a sore throat from her daily drive, "You shall be the enchanted princess in wait for the fairy prince," she ran on. "I'm your lady-in-waiting. Stand up, please. Fairies sure made the lace on your white frock--with the pearls and all, you'd putshine even a dream." "You're a big baby and I'm your doll, a foolish doll--very." Miss Wil- ton retorted, nevertheless permitting herself to be adorned. She loved her clothes, her jewels as happier women love their . children. It pleased her more that she conld say to sun hér- sell in Janet's admiration. "You'll have to hurry, though," she went on. "Dr. Bently may come in any time af- ter two. If he came and caught us in our masquerade--"" "He would say he was in luck,"" a voice said from the opening door. Af- ter a half minute it went on, the speaker meanwhile walking to the fire- side, "Upon my soul! Is this pro- phetic ? Are you really going to do it at last ?" $ "] don't know what you mean," Miss Buphemia said ecrossly. : Dr. Archibald Bently laughed. Heo was a stout man, slightly bald, and half an inch lower than tall Miss | Kuphemia. He had played with her | in short frocks, being but a year her lelder, and a son to a close family friend. "Bless my soul ! Phemy !"" he ejacu- lated, after looking her over. "Ii only I'd known earlier how stunning vou could be-well ! 1 might have done something foolish." "You never will come to things where people dress like Christians," Miss Fuphemia said, still crossly, but a smile lurked about her mouth, | Janet danced in between. them, say- Ling gayly © "Children ! Children ! Mind {your manners! And your medicines ! {But isn't she the love?" This to the ldoctor : "To think of wearing a string of pearls like that only once In whiles! {1 call it sinful 1" | "You'd wear them every day--to 'market, mill and muster," thé doetor laughed. a Janet grew slightly pale. Hr 1 shouldn't dare to wear them at all--or to keep them," she said. "They are - -- = NOT COLD STORAGE HUMOR. worth so much; and the money !--it - would build houses and homes, and warm cold little children, and comfort, oh, so many ! I'm glad to be spared such trials ! 1t would be awful to have them--and awfuller to give them up." " "Run' away, you young anarchist, Dr. Bently suid, shaking his head. As she vanished he took Miss Wil ton's hand.' It was hot and tremulous so much so he looked startled. In stantly he called back Janet, also summoned Miss Wilton's maid, and had her put to bed as quickly as pos sible. "Grip ! tions develop," took his leave. Mrs. Pay was away with her hus hand: therefore, Janet had to be the family head. "Nursing is pretty much everything," the doctor went on. "There's where you come in--she won't have - a professional, Keep, her quiet and send for me if the fever mounts. Don't lose your head. She's got all the chances. Wish I could say as much for the cases down by the mills." i Before midnight Migs Wilton was out of her head. Dr. Bently found her playing with the string of pearls, talking to its component parts and occasionally fondling it. "You-vou won't take it to give Janet 7" she asked in a fearful whisper as the doc- tor bent over her. "Janet would sell it, but we won't let her." She ff] into a drugged sleep, with the pearls huddied pnder her cheek, Janet, watching, also slept, fitfully, but heard neithér sound nor stir. Morning found Miss Wilton raving-- and the pearls gone. Janet hardly gave them a thought--all her thought was for the sick woman. Two days i another night, hall the next day, she The sat by her, battling with fever, with delirium. Complications had develop- ed--there was pneumonia, Though others came and went, ministering and helping, Janet did not leave the sick room, save for the briefest spaces un- til. the crisis was safely past, Miss Wilton clung to her even in the wild- est minutes. She was very white and heavy-eved when the doctor looked up at her to say with his finger on thready pulse. > i "Young md we've won--by the helpgi the Lorlg" Then she febt like fainting, like \ory- ing, like screaming, but instead, she dropped down white and weak, her hands over her face. She crept away to sleep, a long, heavy sleep, and awoke remembering the pearls, They must he founml. They surely stifl in Miss Wilton's apart ments--no sea sprite could have been cruel enough to snatch them while a sck woman and her watcher slept. Jut as the days slipped by, each bring: ing Miss Wilton health and bealing, Janet grew more heurtsick. Search as she. might she could not find the neck: lace: Dr. Bently saw that 'something wns amiss--what, he could pot diseov- er. He watched Janet narrowly every 'time he came. Miss Wilton, in tarn, watched him---and drew her own con: ¢lusions. She was more than ever beautiful with the transfiguring fair- ness of convalescemce, but she did not realize 6 The ' day she sat up first, fully dressed, and the doctor had come, she called to Janet, "Come here! Fetch my pegrld, T Want then--and you," Phe do vou want them?" Dr. Bent- Iv asked quickly. Over her shoulder he had sesh the panic in Janet's eyes. WOMEN'S WOES "To give ta vour wife--you will marry Janst," she said, tremulously. ; "¥pu deserve her, Archibald. I. wish fi are Finding Relief vou don." Kiugstn Women Last. 8 Rell Aphiy-but I don't want her--don't : J+] want any other woman so long as you 1t does seem that women have mote "are above ground, Phemy."" Dr. Bent- {hab a fnir share of the aches &pd Ly said, taking her thin hand in his. pains that aiffict hinnanity; they must Her eves closed, great tears "keep up," must attend to dities in | hom beneath them and involuntarily spite of constantly aching ecks. oc} her head sli Lo his breast. "But'it headaches, digxy spells, ving-down | yose almost instantly. "T-I---there is pains; they must stoop over when to something,' she said, pressing her stoop means torture. They must walk hands hard above her brows "Oh, 1 and bend and avork with racking pains | remember~the pearls | T put them in and many aches from kiduey ills. Kid: | that old yase--the very last thing be s ing than any | fore 1 out of myself. Take Neep the y them down, Janet, and tell me they kidueys well and health is easily main- will console you a little." eee Lt) Road of 4 remedy for kidneys | UT don't ned anv OQOCODOO0OOVCO0TO nly that helps and cures the Kidueys Mr. Grump (a savage bachelor)--1 don't see why a man should get mar- ried when a good parrot ean be bought Howell--I'm engaged to Miss Rowell. Congratulate me, old man, Powell--1 would, if 1 did not know that in her case a nomination is not equivalent to an election, Mrs. Younglove--John, are you aware that you haven't kissed me for a week ? Mr. Younglove--Y-yes, darling, I was just waiting to see how long it would take you to notice it." No danger unless complica ALONZO "+ MIMONLA he told Janet as he - -- Shape-Stayed Semi-ready Tailoring Chief Clerk--Here comes the lady who wrote those articles on "How I Live Regally on Six Dollars a Week." 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It would appear hat if the proposed legislation is en- acted it will be left to the insuring public to discriminate between the sound and unsound United States fire insurance companies The grievance of the regularly regis- terad companies is that the legislation will expose them to the competition of companies which maintain no head or branch offices in Canada, pay no tax or license, and have no guarantee | deposit with the government, Harold--I know that I'm not worthy vou, darling, t Ihe Fair One--Remember that, Har- old, and my married life is sure to be happy. 2 Dozen for 256 Also a few boxes of of The picture shows the patent I I pocket we use--a pocket that will hold a heavy load and will not sag. "Lid vour wealthy old uncle leave many heirlooms ?"' Oh, A new heir looms up most every week." ves, al- of | bring | { The sweetest words of tongwe or pen Are those that saw: "Enclosed find ten." On the Corner . } Brock and Wellington Sts. 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