CONFESSIONS OF ROXANE By Frances Walter. ARTHUR AND I HAVE A LITTLE TALK, (Copyright, 1916, by the MoClure Newspaper Syndicate) I busied myself during the after: noon making preparations for thé evening's dinner. I wanted to make everything mice for Arthur. I did not want anything to"go wrong, be- cause I felt if he were in a cheerful humor, I might be able, if I found it necessary, to tell him of she gossip. I could mot decide on a course that seemed proper to me. There were times when I felt it proper to tell him, and still other times when I did not, iy He came, early, as usual, bringing some flowers. 1 have heretofore re- ferred to my capacity for hiding what I felt. No anguish was suffic- iently intense to cause me to lose my poise and so, for the purpose of not betraying anything of what was in my mind to Arthur, 1 had especially steeled myself, I ran to the door as had become my habit since that day when we had told one another of our love. He put his great arms about me and kissed me and held me and placed the flowers in my arms. "Roses, Roxine," he said. "Roses like those in the garden where I first saw you. Their odor always comes back to me whem I think of you, my sweet." I could not say anything. He had often referred to the roses in the garden and there haunting frag- rance, It had always thriled me. That night T wondered if he did not make pretty speeches to all women. "I have something to tell you | about the Tanners," he said. "They are in a very bad way." It. may seem strange, but I had felt no resentment for Mrs, Tanner after that luncheon. I had begun 10 look to her with a certain amount of gratitude, for had she not been the unconscious instrument that brought Arthur and me together? "What about the Tanners?" 1 asked when we sat down to dinner. "I have not told you about Tan- ner, although he and his affairs have | weighed heavily on my mind for some weeks. An auditor came down last week and examined the books after I had asked headquarters for an inspection. - I had suspected for some time there was something; wrong. Just where the trouble was | I could not ascertain without expert | investigation, and now the andghor | has told me there is a shortage, and | it is in Tanner's department." I was shocked. Of course I knew that Mr. Tanner was under a severe strain and that he had to scrape con- tinuously to keep up with the extra- vagances bf his wife, but I had never suspected him of being a man who would comimit a theft. " I put it up to Tanner, and al- though he becamé pathetically ner- vous, he would not confess that he had done the stealing. I know how he musi have been tempted. Ordinar- ily, he is a capable man, and I think he is instinctively honest, but, under the urging of that wife of his for things that he cannot possibly sup- ply on his salary, 1 can readily see how he might have taken the mon- ey." "What horrible things men win! do!' I said. i "For a woman a man will burn his soul,' said Arthur. "For a woman, Do you mean all men?' "Most men, He who would not for the woman he loves is not worth anything." "Would you go that lemgth for the woman you love?" "Indeed, I would go further." "Arthur," I asked, "do you love { me emough to burn your soul for me?" g 'Yes, I love you more than that. My life is yours." " "Then, dear, you would bend every effort to protect me from slan- der and scorn, wouldn't you?" "You know I would," he said fer- vently. "Why do you ask that?" I ignored the question, "You would not consciously do anything that would jeopardise the position of either of us, would you? You would not intentionally pain me either, would you?" "Don't be cryptic, Roxane," he said. "Tell me what you are trying to drive at." "1 have in mind our conviction that we - are sufficient unto our- selves," I went on calmnly, 'but things have changed. We have a position to maintain and no matter what disregard we may have for what people say, we, and you partic- ularly, must be circumspect. We cannot have people talking." He broke in at this point, angry, almost in a rage. "See here," he said, 'you must tell me what you are driving at. I will not be preached to even by you. Come, out with it." He had never used such a tone to me. It stung me and I cried. (To be Continued.) (Continued trom Page 8.) Miss Margaret Hemming, King atreet, entertained informally at the tea hour on Monday in honor of Miss Dorothy Savage, Cooperstown, N. Y., who is Miss Eleanor Lyman's guest. Miss Florence Scripture who has been Mrs, Harold Hughes' guest at Collins Bay returned to Toronto on Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Porter, Belle- ville, were week-end visitors in town. * . - Miss Margaret Murray who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs, Pearson, in Toronto, returned home on Sat!- urday. Miss Janet Porteous who has been visiting her brother, William Por- teous, in New York, is now with her other brother, Dr. Carlyle Porteous, in Verdun, Que, Miss May and Miss Isobel Ross are leaving this week to spend the sum- mer at Cushing, Que. Mrs. F. C. Austin, Montreal, is the guest of the Misses Forneri, Alfred street. Mrs, Andrew Forman and her chil- dren, Montreal, have arrived in town to spend the summer th Mr. and Mrs, W. B, DaMon, Johndon street. Mrs, J. C. Farthing, Méntreal, will &épend some time near Petawawa, where Jack Farthing is in camp with his battery. The Bishop will join her at the beginning of August, and he and Mrs. Farthing will spend that month in Muskoka, . - » » Mrs. OQ. P. Oram, Greene avenue, 'Westmount, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Key McLean, of Woodburn, N.S. Mrs. erick Birkett and her little daughter Ottawa are in Kings- tom to visit Mrs. Birkett's mother, Mrs. Taylor, Mr, and Mrs. Robert Alexander are returnig from Aurora, where they went to visit their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Alexander, and to be present at the christening of their grandson, Denis Du Alexander. G. L. Alexander is ager of the Imperial Bank a' Aurora, and his wife is a daughter of Prof. Dupuis, Kingston, one of the The Summer *Life- Savers" are fruit, cereals most distinguished members of the staff of Queen's University. . - » » Dr. and Mrs. A. P. Lothrop, Union street, have returned to town after spending a couple of months at Leo- minster, Mass. Mrs. F. Lodge afd little son, Dick, Lansing, Michigan, are visiting Mrs. Lodge's mother, Mrs. G. Buiden, Barrie street. Mrs. George I. Moore and her two children, Brooklyn, N. Y., are the guests of Mrs. Moore, Union street, | Mr, and Mrs. E. O. Sliter left this ' {son of the late E. mm week for their summer cottage Wolfe Island. Prof. Edward Williamson, Hobart College, Gananoque, N. Y., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Wil- liamson, Brock street. Miss Dorothy Savage who been visiting Miss Eleanor left for Cooperstown, N. Y., to-day Miss Lyman accompanied her, and will be her guest for a couple of weeks. at has Lyman The engagement is announced of Miss Helen Elsie Lowe, daughter of one of the most distinguished mem- bers of the staff of Queen's Univer- sity. . -* { The engagement is announced of Miss Helen Elsie Lowe, daughter of George Lowe, of Hamilton, and Ma- Jor Edward Hamilton Lancaster, 0.C., 49th Battery, C. E. F.,, eldest A. Lancaster, M. P., St. Catharines, "Low Cost of Living" Menu - Menu for Thursday BREAKFAST Sugared Red Currants Bolled Cereal Coral Eggs Jam Turnovers Coffee or Cocon LUNCHEON OR SUPPER Baked Eggplant Buttered Beets Relish Rice with Berry Syrup Buttermilk or Iced Tea DINNER Ieed Cherry Juice Beef Crogquettes with Peas Huttered Beets Lettuce Salad Plain or Frosea Pineapple Coffee . Coral KE One or atin to- , 2 thin slices of ba- con. Utensils--Frypan, measuring cup, egg-beater, silver\fork, six pieces of toast. \ Directions---Put the bacon in fry- pan and fry until crisp; remove and put the tomatoes into the drippings. heat through. Beat the eggs until well mixed; season to taste with salt and pepper; pour into the hot toma- toes; as soon as it begins to set stir with fork, same as scrambled eggs. Serve on rounds of wet toast; sprin- kle with parsley. Baked Eggplant Materials--One eggplant, 1 cup bread erumbs, 1 tablespoon drip- pings, 1 tablespoon .grated onion, 1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon salt, an eighth tea- €poon pepper, a dash paprika, 1 ta- blespoon melted butter. Utensils--Paring knife, two meas- uring cups, tablespoon, teaspoon, large saucepan, small saucepan, fry- pan, eggheater. Directions-- Wash and pare the eggplant, cut in halves, remove the centre, leaving shell half inch (hick. Put the shell in cold water at once, 80 itewill not discolor. The centre is cut in small pieces. Put into saucepan, cover with boiling water; boil ten minutes and mash. Put the dripping in a frying pan, add the on- fon, mashed eggplant and dry bread- crumbs, stirring so it' will fry dry. Add salt, pepper, parsley, paprika and well beaten . Mix well and remove from fire. move eggplant from water. Dry on plece of cheese- cloth and with mixture; 3 3 be ter; put into a moderate oven for thirty minutes; sere with cream sauce. Beef Croquettes With Peas The meat croquettes are made from the soup meat and are placed on a bed of rice, which is boiled and blanched as usual. The peas are boiled and covered with 1 cup of cream sauce and put around the cro- quettes and rice Materials--Two cups of soup meat, 1 cup cream sauce, 1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley, 4 teaspoon grated nutmeg, salt and 'pepper to taste, 1 egg and breadcrumbs. Utensils--Mixing bowl, two mea- suring cups; teaspoon, tablespoon, food chopper, platter, eggbeater, deep frying pan, brown paper. 'Directions--Put the meat through food chopper, add the cream sauce, salt, pepper, nutmeg and parsley, and mix well. Spread on platter and set in cold place for two or three hours. Take 2 tablespoonfuls, form in floured hands, dip into the egg, which has been mixed with 2 table- spoons of cold milk and 1 teaspoon rostarch; then in breadcrumbs, sure they are well covered with egg and crumbs before frying. Fry in deep, very hot fat, a light brown; drain on brown paper. Frozen Pineapple Materials--Two cups grated pine- apple, 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon lem- on juice, 2 cups water, ice and salt for freezing. Utensils--Paring knife, two mea- suring cups, teaspoon, tablespoon, saucepan, ice cream freezer. Directions -- The pineapple is washed, pared and grated. Sugar and water boiled together for five minutes. 'When cold pour in freez- er, which has been iced, then add the fruits. Let it stand five minutes. Begin to turn, being sure that the freezer Is covered with ice and salt. Turn eight to ten minutes. Remove dasher, then cover, and cover top with ice and salt. Be sure to drain off the water if it is going to stand a long time. When one does not have a freezer or the time to make the frozen pineapple, the grated and sweetened fruit is put in a glass jar and put in the ice. Serve in ice cream glasses or parfait glasses, with a cherry on top. The parings of the pineapple are boiled with 3 cups of water for thirty minutes. Strain and add half eup sugar and hoit far five minutes. This used gelatin or tapioca later in the week. Su the Ream of Woman THE NEW P. C. Sir George Foster is the Fourth Ca- nadian to Ce Called "Rt. Hon." "The two living Canadian public | men who have made by far the most favorable impression over here are Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir George E. Foster." This was what a writer in | The Toronto Star Weekly says be | was told not very long ago by one | who is quite exceptionally well plac- | ed for gauging public opinion in! Great Britain--at any rate in London --and who is himself no mean judge of public figures. \ The raising of Sir George Foster to the dignity of membership of the Imperial Privy Council raises the number of resident Camadians who are members of that august body, every member of which is entitled to entitled to the prefix "Right Honor- able," to four--S8ir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, Sir Robert Borden, and Sir George Foster. The honor is, naturally, regarded as a very high one. Prior to its being con- ferred on Sir George Foster, only one Canadian who had neither held the Premiership nor been Chief Justice of Canada---namely, the late Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Cartwright, whe became a member of the Imperial Privy Council in 1902--had been an Im- perial Privy Councillor. Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir George Foster! antithesis of the other, and in so many ways. And yet he would pos- sibly be a bad judge who would deny that theirs are the two outstanding 1 statesmanship, | figures in Canadian Of the two, Sir Wilfrid Laurier un- doubtedly made the greater "hit" in the Old Country. This in spite of the fact that his general climate of opinion is not so congenial to an Old Country audience--and it is from his speeches that the British public mainly form their estimate of a visit- ing Canadian politician--as that in which Sir George Foster moves, Sir George Foster is at his best when making a short, extemporary speech. There he is concise, cogent, and convincing, It used to be said that his speeches frequently had about them something of a vitriolic quality, That is now no longer the case. As a politician he has mellowed considerably. He is no longer frankly a partizan. His at- titude now is often almost non-party --that of a man shrugging his shoul- ders at both parties. A FISH SURVEY. Ontario Government Plans Inquiry Preliminary to Restocking. A swwvey of -the fish resources of every section of this province is to be undertaken by the Ontario Fish and Game Department, as a preliminary to the department with data showing stocking inland waters with game fish. At the present time, while the fish resources of the Great Lakes are com- paratively well known, the depart- ment has little definite information | as to conditions in the inland lakes, | rivers, and streams, with the excep- tion possibly of some of the well- known tourist districts, The scheme now being put into effect is to furnish every fish overseer with a detailed map of his district with instructions to return it to the department with data showing the variety and quan- tity of fish in every river, stream, or lake, together with all general infor- mation available, With these maps and reports on file the department will be able to "take stock" and to decide upon the streams which can be restocked with advantage when the game fish hatch- ery plans now - under consideration are put into effect. The Game and Fisheries Depart- ment has received from Dr. Prince, the fisheries expert at Ottawa, a re- port upon the immense speckled trout caught in the Nepigon district some time ago. The trout was taken by Dr. W. J. Cook, of Fort William, and weighed 141% pounds. The size of the fish was se remarkable that its species was called in question. In order to remove doubts the depart- ment had the fish sent to Ottawa, and Dr. Prince has now declared that it is a true speckled trout. The Nepigon district during the past year or two has been producing some ex- ceptionally large trout, due largely to the fact that the: department has been protecting the fish from the de- predations of the pike. Last year special men were employed in captur- ing the pike in their haunts, while this year the Department is permit- ting the Indians to go into the dis- trict without licenses to catch pike. Boy Scouts Will Pick Fruit. A call has come to the Boy Seouts of Toronto to help pick the fruit in the district of Clarkson. The call is going to be answered. This is one of the activities in which the bogs who are not old enough to don khaki can help thé Empire, and they are responding splendidly. They will be camped in the district of Clarkson in a number of small camps, each under a camp supervisor, and ,k the whole group under a chief supervisor. Arrangements are. now well under way. The staff has been selected, and a large number of names have been handed in of boys who are will- ing to go out and do their bit. A Marvel of Vigor. When at about 75 years of age Sir Mackenzie Bowell made a trip through our Far West there were notes of admiration of the vigor of body and resolution of mind of so old a man. That was 18 or 19 years ago. Now in the 93rd vear of hic age the Venerable statesman has set out on a jourdey to the Yukon. Mrs. S. Brien received the sad The one almost the direct | '{since the outhreak of the war as sub-| spread to every LMOST every housewife owns some very fine laces, linens, drap- | -- eries, etc.,, whichh she uses only on ""state'" occasions. Use Ivory Soap and you need have na fear of washing any of them as often as necessary. It is so pure and mild « that it will injure nothing that water itself will not harm. Its quality is in keeping with the choicest fabrics. That is why it washes them so safely and so beautifully. } Procter & Gamble Factories % in Hamilton, Canada The New Whole Wheat Foodwith the Delierous Havor-originated by the Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake (o BATTLE CREEK, MICH. and TORONTO, CANADA RUMBLES, the most popular of whole wheat foods, tastes specially good to folks who want a change of breakfast foods. Whole Wheat--all the wheat, including the phos- phates, mineral salts, and 'the bran that are so bene- ficial to the system, so doctors say -- prepared by the exclusive. Krumbles method. Notice how the sweetness and flavor of Krumbles come out more and more as you chew it. Made in Toronto, Canada. In the WAXTITE package Oc French women have so success-;cal service and light duties on the !ticket and freight fully demonstrated their efficiency | railways, their employment has now | of platforms, lamps tment except | vice, cleaning s the men at the front that, | operation and maintenance. Among |gines and transferri I beginning in the cleri-| their duties at stitutes for from present are clerical, tween cars and the fn lighting ser. en-