Daily British Whig (1850), 19 Jun 1914, p. 13

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BUILDERS ! Have You Tried GYPSUM WALL PLASTER? It Baves Time P,WALSH Bibby's Garage Moderate Charges 'Phone 201 Garage, 917 Furniture Specia | HINTS ON LIVING ROOM PIECES ROCKERS, EASY CHAIRS, COUCH. ES, DAVENPORTS. Cosvmiony 112 Br Dos, AD ANG Wilfred, évidently much relieved at his mother's departure, took the pack- age from under his coat, put it on the table, and began to undo it. He took from it a pair of vers soiled, dilapi- dated, gray uniform trousers. He had Just lifted them up when he heard Caroline's step on the porch, and the next moment she came into the room through the long French window. Wil fred stood petrified with astonishment at the sudden and unexpected appear ance of his young beloved, but soon recovered himself and begin rolling the package together again, hastily and awkwardly, while Caroline tched him from the window. She WHY NOT BUY? We have some great bar- gains. Two bungalows with b rooms, good locality, at $1500. Two houses, $1600, good locality. 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Girls' White Canvas Pumps Childs White Canvas Pumps "Al the shapes. % wit" -- : The Sawyer Shas RF wna, | Ladies' White Nu-buek But-| ton Boots, $3.50, $4, $5.00], coldly serutinised his confusion while he made his ungainly roll, and, as he moved toward the door, she broke the silence. "Ah, good evening, Mr, Varney," she sald coolly. "Good evening," he sald, his voice a8 cold as her own. They both of them had started for the hall door and in another second they would have met. "Excuse me," sald Caroline, "Im in & hurry." : "That's plain enough. Another par ty, 1 suppose, and dancing." "What of it! What's the matter with dancing, I'd like to know." "Nothing is the matter with dancing if you want to, but I must say that it is a pretty way of going on, with the canton roaring not six miles away." "Well, what do you wants to do? Cry about it! 1 have cried my eyes out already; that would do & heap of 800d now, wouldn't it? "Oh, I haven't time to talk about sach petty detalls. I have some im- portant matters to attend 19," he re turned loftily. "It was you that started it," said the rl Wilfred turned suddenly, his man ner at once losing its badly assumed lightness. "Ob, you needn't try to fool me," he reproached. her; "1 know wéll enough how you have been carrying on since our engagement was broken off. Hall a. dozen officers proposing fo you--a dozen for all I know." "What difference does it make?" she retorted pertly. "I haven't got to marry them all, have 17 1 "Well, it tsn't very nice to go on like that," sald Wilfred with an air into which he in vain sought to infuse a detached, judicial, and indifferent appearance. "Proposals by the whole- sale!" "Goodness me!" exclaimed Caroline, "what's the use of talking abeut it to me. They're the ones that propose, I don't. How can I help it? "Oh," said Wilfred loftily, "you can fielp it all right. You helped it with me." ' "Well," she answered, with a queer look at him, "that was different." "And ever since you threw me over ~" he began. "I didn't throw you over, you Just went over," she interrupted. "I went over because you walked off with Major Silisby that night we were at Drury's Bluff," sald the boy, "and you encouraged him to propose. You admit it," he sald, as the girl nodded her head: z "Of course I did. I dirt want him it. what it was to he out of it like that! You haye no idea how I suffered; besides, it is our duty to help.all we cad. There aren' many things a girl ean do, but Colone! |' Woolbridge--he's one of Morgan's men, you know--sald that the boys fight twice as well when they have » --aweethéart at home. I couldn't waste an engagement op--" "And is that why you let them. all propose to you? rejoined the youth bitterly. b "Certainly, ft" didn't hurt me, and it pleased them. Most of 'axa will never come back to try it again, and it is our duty to help all we can." "And you really want to help all you can, do you?" asked desperate ly. "Well, if 1 'were to join the army would you help me--that way? This was & direct question. It was the argumentatum ad feminam with a vengeance. Caroline hesitated. A swift blush overspread her cheek, but she was game to the core. "Why, of course 1 would, if there was anything J--could do," she an Swered. "Well, there is something you can do." He unrolled his package and selsed the trousers by the waistband and dangled them before her eyes. "Cut those off," he sald; "they are twice too long. All you have to do is to cut them here and sew up the ends, so that they don't ravel out" Caroline stared at him in great b wilderment. She had expected some thing quite different. "Why, they are uniform trousers," she said finally, "You are going to join the army? She clapped her hands gleefully, "Give them to me." "Huah! don't talk so loud, for heaven's sake," said Wilfred. "I've €0t a jacket here, 100." He drew out of the parcel a small army jacket, a private soldier's coat. "It's nearly a Ait. It came from the hospital. Johnny Seldon wore it, but he won't want it any more, you know, and he waa just about my size, only his legs were longer. Well," he continued, as the girl continued to look at him strange ly, "I thought you sald you wanted to |. help me." "I' certainly do." "What are you waiting for, then? asked Wilfred, The girl took the trousers anc dropped on her knees before him. "Stand still" she said, as she meas ured the trdusers from the waistban to the floor. "Thatls aout the place isn't ite" 4 "Yes, just there.™ "Wait," she continued, mark it with a pin" Wilfred stood quietly until the prop er length had been ascertained, an then he assisted Caroline to her feet. "Do you see any scissors about? she asked in a businesslike way. "I don't belleve there are any in the drawing room, but I oan get some from the women sewing over there 'Wait & moment." ; "No, don't," sald the girl; "they would want to know what you wanted with them, and then you would have ito tell them." . "Yes," sald the boy; "and I want to jeep this & secret between us." "until | FEET AREN'T ACHING OR TIRED NOW--"TIZ" | "TIZ" is wonderful for sore, burn: ; calloused = See Godd-bye sore feet, burning feet. | swollen feet," sweaty: feet, gmelling feet, tired fee Good-bye corns, 'tallouses, bunions and raw spots. No more shoe tight | Wess, no more limping with pain or and started to out off where' they were marked: was old and worn, but It rer theless, stiff and hard, and her scls- sors were dull. Men spent thelr time' tn sharpening other things than wom: en's tools during those days in' Rich- mond, and her slender fingers: made hard work of 'the amputations. ' Be side, she was prone to stop and think 4nd dream of her soldier boy while engaged hi this congenial work. She bad not finished the aiterdtion there: fore, when she heard a step in the hall. She caight up the trousers, striv- ing to conceal them, entirely forget: ful of the jacket which lay on .the Mable. "Oh," said Mra. Varney, as she came into the room; "you hawen't sone yor ™ "No," faltered the girl; "we don't Sasembie for a little while, and--" "Don't assemble ™ "I mean for the party, It doesn't begin for half an Bour yet, and--"" "Oh; then you have plenty of time." "Yes," said Caroline." "But I will have to go now, sure enough" ' She pped your scissors, my Gear," sald Mrs. Varney. } "I thought I heard something fall * she faltered in growing confusion. Bhe came back for her scissors, and, In her agitation and nervousness, she dropped one of the pieces of trouser leg on the floor. "What are you making, Caroling asked Mrs. Varney, looking at the little huddled-up soiled piece ©! TRY on the carpei, while Caroline made a desperate grab at it. "Oh, just altering an old--dresa, Mrs. Varney. That's all." . Mrs. Varney looked at her her glasses. - As she did ; o"" The mildest ham OU'LL find this first-class eating It's cured in the good old - fashioned English way--sweet as a nut--mild 'and tasty. Give the folks a pleasant surprise by serving a dish of sizzling Rose Ham and fresh country eggs to-night or for break- fast to-morrow! If you don't say it's 'about the finest piece of ham you ever tasted I'll miss my guess!" - "Look for the same on the risd" At your butcher's or grocer's 'ROSE HAM AND BACON MATTHEWS. BLACKWELL, LIMITED Everywhere in Canada FISHING TACKLE | « Oome in and look over our stock. We have fish catchers, fishing poles, rods, lines, hooks, sinkers, swivels, scales, disgargers, etc. ? ~~ - Leroy 9 LL» ¥ 3 ) - Yer | ¥ Prepared) Especially For This Newspaper A by Pictorial Review - ed ~~ 32 uk FOR THE BOUDOIR.} '4 . i, sacque. Theicrepe costs about $1.35 & ! yard. 7 As the dressing sacque is made in af! one plece, its: popularity is twa-fold, i for women nowadays like modes that can be putitogether as quickly as pos- | sible. In cutting'out the crepe, first fold It in half; them place the pleding for the front, back amd sleeve and the collar

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