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' HIRST REMEDY COMPANY, HAMILTON, CANADA Also makers of HIRST'S Pain #xterminator (35¢) 4nd MIRST'S Peciorat Syrup ot Hl and Ek (35¢) ec Woman WwW By JANE PHELPS GEORGE REFERS TO Hl CHAPTER LVII, Nothing more was said anent our plans for the summer until nearly a week had passed. 1 had told Evelyn that George wouldn't consider a quiet place such as they had selected: She really felt very badly. "We could have had such a nice! s1ean I go? time," she said. "l know, and you aren't hal as | digappointed as I am." - "What can't be cured must be en- dured,. I suppose," she said, making a wry face. ( That very night at dinner, George |" remarked: "You'd better go to your dress- maker and give the order for your summer outfit. Tell her you will go to Newport, Bar Harbor, and perhaps other resorts. Get® everything vou need. 1 called her up today and gave her carte blanche as to ax- pense." "Those are such fashionable places, George. 1 wish we might go where there wasn't quite so mush style," I ventured. . Well, we can't. So say no more. My plans are all made--that is, as nearly as I care to make them." Then, "You will need several bathing suits, I am fond of swimming." Fortunately I was, also, and was rather expert, My orothers had taught me when I was a tiny girl A Request. As Tthought of being able »to swim, thé\longing to see the boys, to be with. mother and father, came over me so btrongly I couldn't resist saying, (neither could 1 keep the longing from my*voice): "George, may I go home for a lit- tle while before we go?" NA th tt AP SA at grt WHEATLESS MONTHS. New York Commissioner Wants Sac- « rifice Till Harvest, New York, April 26.--An appeal to mothers in New York state asking them to pledge themselves and mem- bers of their households th.abstai entirely from the use of whea™sand wheat products until the next har- vest, was issued yesterday, by John Mitchell, President of the New York Food Commission and State Chair- man of the Federal Food Board, 'Wheat must be saved," says the He frowned; then scemed to Le | figuring out something "Yes, 1 don't see any objection to {your going home far a week or two. Give the order for your summer ant. fit, first, then they can be working on i." "Oh, thank you George! When "Let me see. This is Tuesday. [I {see no reason why you shouldn't go Saturday I have an engagement Saturday night. You will' plan to (take an early train." I was so happy over the thought of going home that nothing else: nat: tered. The next morning, early, 1 ran over ta tell Evelyn. "1 shall miss you, hut am glad you are going. You'll be back be- (fore we leave, won't you?" "My, yes. I éan only stay two weeks at the longest. But I am so happy, even for that little time «1 have to order my summer outfit Be- fore 1 go," I added, just remember | ing 'Where are you going to spend the | summer? Has Mr. Howard decided 7' "Yes. We are going to Newport and Bar Harbor." f "What a tone! Oné would think you were going to the morgue." And she laughed mérrily. "It is lovely at both places. You'll enjoy it, I am sure." A Real Lark. i "Will you ge with me to order my clothes? 1 am to have every. thing I want." "You are.in luck. Of course 1 will go. It. will be a real lark. You see, I am not going to get a single thing but some wash dresses and a HOW FOOH WAS APPOINTED -- Result of Conference Between Milner and Clemenceau. terly retreat of the Fifth Army in the S PLANS FOR THE SUMMER couple of bathing suits. Just plain | ones, so 1 won't shock the natives, | up wheré we are going. They are | mostly fishermen, you know. Kurs | has hired a sailboat for the sum- | mer, and we will take all the new | Books, and order the magazines and | papers sent to us." | "Oh, how lovely!" { "Yes, isn't it?" . | "FE envy you, Evelyn; I hate to | 80 to these fashionable places. I don't care for that sort of life any- | way, although I don't mind it | 1 | { 1 | i i | | 1 | Always I must do as he said. But {much as | did." "I told you that you would get used to it." "I am trying very hard, Evelyn. I do want to please George, to make him proud of me---which I am be- ginning to think is the only way to 1 have tried so hard, | I know [I ! please him, these last few months, have learned many things. I can handle niy servants now, handle | thefn almost as well as Mrs. Sexton | did. She says so, herself. I have | {learned many other things too, but still I am sadly lacking in the! savoir faire, of George's friends, 1 get awfully discouraged at times." | "You mustn't! That's what [ say to | myself when, ne matter what 1 do, Kurts® family seem to think I might do better. I' just say to myself: | "You mustn't, you mustn'y mind!" | and go on trying. If I didn't lave | Kurts so much I don't suppose I'd he | 80 meek. But he loves his people | and he loves me. So I do all H can toe keep things pleasant." | "I try to, also, but I haven't your sweet, unselfish dispositlen. 1 Aight | like the dickens, inside, even when I say nothing." | (To he continued) ' Kee est PE Es CASTORIA| For Infants and Children | London, April 26.--That the mas- | in Use ForOver30 Years face of great odds would live in his- tory, Clemenceau hag assured Lord Milner. There is no division of opin. ion on this subject among the British and French peoples. Apropos of the meeting of these statesmen a remark- able story is told of how at the time of the greatest ¢risis Clemencean sat in his Ubrary writing a telegram to Always bears | the | Signature of > | Featur 3S Every single step I'd take Seemed just like my back would break. Then 1 put qn "Cat's Paw" Heels. My! how restful "Cat's Paw" feels. CATSP A PAIR PUTON *Cat"s Paw" Series, No. 4--Waich for No. 5. wink st ag J I 1 I | IREGAL FREE RUNNING | Table Sait Td 1 | - JUST ARRIVED -- A LARGE ASSORTMENT Jolly Jitneys, from roa. ie «+ 81.50 to $2.50 Folding Sewing with yard measure cove $8.00 Curtain Stretchers . | = \ os ) COAL CUSTOMERS | Please Notice ! | Coal Sales will be for Cash Only. -BOOTH & CO: va ena wae BE Shaofties ... ... ... ... . . «+ SLYS and $2.50 Reclining Chairs with Arm Finis ae we $1. Reclining Chairs with arms and leg rest ... Rock-a-Bye Swings . |. ... ... ... wei. Combination High Chairs (2 motions) . White enamel bassonette .,. ... 'aa White Enamel medicine cabinet . . At ROBT. J. REID'S Undertaker and Furniture Dealer Motor Ambulance 5377. appeal. "It is needed abroad for Lloyd George, asking him to send American, English, Irish, Seotch, Milner, believing that 'between them Canadian, Australian, French = and; they could formulates plan to stem Italian youths fighting for you and | the flood of the German advance. civilization. It'is a big part of their | Just ag he finished writing the door daily sustenance. vii opened and Milner entered, Together | 'In all 'sections of the country they conferred with Foch and Petain. there is a general movement for| Tha outcome of the conference was total abstinence from wheat and | ype appointment of a generalissimo., wheat products until the next hwr- ¢ . . vest. In New York city 75,000 club- men have voluntarily surrendered fo William DB. Sturgeod, Who. (or a Phone 133. a wheatless program.' number of years has heen engagod ' Total abstention fs not expected, | {;'" PCF © at Madawaska, recently however, in families whose members removed from there to Clarendon In "Perfect Seal" Quart Jars These are the finest preserving jars made ; and hold 3 pounds of "Crown Syrup". Your grocer also has 'Crown Syrup" in 2, 5, 10 and 20 pound tins. 230 Princess Street. © Write for free Cook Book. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED, MONTREAL. engage in manuel labor, if it means' more than it is "humanly possible to perform." NEW FEDERAL EXPRESS 00. Name Suggested For Merged Come panies With Capital of $34,000,000 Washington, April . 26.--Railroad adminstration officials and express company representatives conferred on terms of a tenative' contract under which the companies would be merg- ad with capital of $34,000,000 to act as a Government agent in express business, but without direct Govern- ment control. A name suggested for thie new concern is the Federal Hxpress Company, Orders For 66 Steamers, Cleveland, April 26.-~An order was booked here by the Emergency Fleet Corporation with the American Shipbuilding Company; which calls for the construction and delivery of sixty-six steamers for salt water ser- vice early in 1919. The order is the largest ever placed on the Great Lakes. The cost of the vessels will be in excess of fifty million dollars. Of full canal nize the boats will be of an average capacity of 4,000 tons gach. 261 feet in length and 48.5 beam, Women As Constables. London, Ont., April 26.~Two Lon- pont and will henceforth engage in A A AA rc is ns AWFUL ATTACKS OF HEART TROUBLE | Eased by the Second Dose of MILBURN'S HEART AND NERVE ! PILLS One of tlie first danger signals an- nouncing something wrong with the heart is the frregular beat or viols ent throb. Often there is only a flut- tering sensation, or an "all-gone" sinking feeling, or, again you may experience a smothering sensation, gasp for breath and feel as though about to die. . In such cases the action of Mil- bura's Heart and Nerve Pills in quieting the heart, restoring its nor mal beat and imparting tone to the nerve centres, is, beyond question, marvellous, Mrs, Frank Arsemean, Newcastle, N.B., writes: "I had awful attacks of heart trouble for the past five or six years, and as I had tried many kinds | of medicine without geiting any bét= ter, I decided to give Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills a trial, apd to my surprise I found ease from the sec- ond dose. 1 continued them until I had used six vend now Telephone Economy The Need of the Hour THE vital need of the hour is for economy! q§ We are urged to save, to conserve our resources. Nothing is so important, so pressing, - q We must economize, we are told, in food, in fuel, in clothing, in railway travel--all along the line, in order, that the war efforts of our Empire and its Allies may have a clear track to victory. q The telephone, by the very nature of the work it does, is a powerful agent making for economy and efficiency. Without it, business would slow down with a fatal reaction on war effort, = 4 But the incr scarcity of telephone material --. skilled Tabor demands that of all kinds, a don women, one of them an officer | feel as well as can be. our subscribers of the Y;W.C.A., have been sworn in| "At present my sister is. taking as special ongtablen iv mary thems ar herrgusnese, and finds great : to carry on wellare wo ere, © | comfor ruse' fo and refinement are revealed by the care with women will make.a drive against| Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills which they select their toilet requisites. street mashers, it is reported, are 50¢ a box at all dealers, or mail- HE a will bend their special efforts to the | ed direct on receipt of price by The fl: 0 these, Vinolia Liril Soa appeals b : 'projection of young girls on. the|T. Milburn Co.. Limited, Toronto, 3 * of i Se ali . : ip . x : streets. Ont, . TE {reason of its high qu Ay its purity and its soft . : {and refreshing skin. to : i -- ing action upon t nd should practice a rigid telephone economy -- : : 9 That they should order o such tele- equipment as is i ispensable--- 9 That they should be careful of present telephone a us in home or office #0 as to avoid fr age and repairs 9G That they should refrain f, unnecessary telephone ~ sations and make their talks | People of Taste brief 50 as to keep the line: for the next 'aalitr, T = q We ask your co-operation in our efforts to keep our service equal to war-time demand. The Bell Tepbone Company of Cons