PAGE TEN Pe---- In the Realm of W rHE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1919. an --- Some Interesting Features Full Nett Weight of incomparable Quality and Value in every packet | ADA" Economical | "Delicious in the Cup" in Use inUse ....| = np Wr --r 'THE WRITER OF AN IMPORTANT CLASSIFIED AD Will have more readers on the day it is published than Shakespeare, Browning and Kipling combined in this city. He will have to be content with.a passing popularity, of course--- but for the hour and the day he has a real following. And of course this means thet he accomplishes the thing which he set about accomplishing. « THE NAME°*GUARANTEES® ITS EXCELLENCE Western Canada Flour Mills Co. Limited ' _HBAD OFFICE----TORONTO, ONTARIO Canad Food Board License Nos--Coreal 3-000--Plour 18, 16, 17,18 o PURITY. OATS: MAKES BETTER PORRIDGE" 7 -- -- The ------------ Promoter' s Wife sss sh "BLANCHE ORTON MONOPOLIZES NEIL CHAPTER XVI, Often when 1 saw older people so ludifferent 1 would think how perfectly awful, how tragic it was--tragic that they accepted each other simply &8 a mattér of course, as they did their oatmeal 'or their coffee. Perhaps young married peo- ple werd rather imbecile about many things, but wasn't it better than be- ing cold and indifferent? Across the intimate commonplaces of marriage life ran the flashes of sympathy, the wonderful love that surmounted all else. When that was worn to indifr- ference, where was the joy of living? Yet, to tell the truth, I wasn't much given to analysis. One isn't, often, at twenty-four, especially if one is as normally healthy and alive as was I. We Kept busy too, Neil and I, or some of my friends and 1, altho the novelty of New York had worn off to a degree, and I often wondered how people who had been living this theatreé-restaurant sort of life flor years, could keep up their pérpetual vivacity and never-flagging interest in the same puerile amuse- ments. At first 1 was wildly eanthu- silastic whenéver Neil spoke of going to the play, or to some smart restaur- ant for dinmer, or on occasion to some "Bohemian Joint," as he called the sort of places frequented by girls with bobbed hair, and men with flow- ing neckties and frayed cuffs. But mow 1 was a bit satiated with these evenings of noise, forced gayety and alcohol - juspired witticisms. Yet Neil seemed never to tire of the gay places, and was over polite--so 1 thought-- to the coarse red-faced men who often sought our table in- trusively. : married The furnishing of the new apart- ment kept me so busy for a {few weeks that when night came [ begged Neil either to stay at home, or to go out without me. Yet when he took me at my word and went smil- ingly out, after kissing me fondly and telling me to "turn in early," 1 felt strangely resentful and abomin- ably lonely. "1 pever saw anyone so generous with her property as you are," Lor- raine Morton said to me one day when 1 was shopping for curtains, and had run into her at the counter. "Meaning?" "Simply that Blanclie Orton is de- lighted to monopolize Neil. 1 was at Perry's last night, and when she saw him come in alone she called him to her at once; then flirted out- ~~ & E were among the first to put up tea in sealed packages. . We were the first to use atitomatic electric weighing machines so as to insure accurate weights. We were the first to make known the qualities of the now world-famous ASSAM teas. And we are now the first to adopt a new package for the better protection -of thése fine quality teas. The lead _package has served its Eeyprations, but it rok broken or not only a loss of tea tea to the air, a and dust' that it 'to protect the tea* against, purpose well for torn, allowing tom the package but exposing the it a. mm---- a new package the waxed board carton--is stronger, a ner tea that ie ah yk en 2 ragesusly with him all the evening. Why didn't you come too?" "1 was dead tired. Wasn't Mr, Or- ton there?" : "YeS. But that means nothing." "J guess I shan't worry as long as he doesn't." "I don't want you to wWoOITy. 1 might want to do the same thing some day! 1 am rather fond of your handsome husband myself, you know. 1 was only remarking your generosity. It is unusual---when. a man is as attractive as Nell. Most women would be wildly jealous." 'Jealous because a man went out occasionally? 1 think that would be terriBly silly, as well as almost in- sulting to the man. 1 don't expect Neil to be tied to my apron strings simply because I am his wife!" Yet, as I splke, I felt a return of the re- sentment 1 had felt the night before when he had so nonchalantly © left me. "Better tied to your apron to that of some dgher woman, You know, Blanche considered him . her| especial property until he married} you." 'He's Tine now," I said with a little laugh that sounded forced. 1 knew Neil had known Blanche Orton for a long time, and that he liked her. I wondered if Lorraine knew it also, and 7" she thought Neil .still was en rapport with the lively Blanche, "See that you keep him. envy youn your job." On my way home 1 kept thinking of that parting speech of Lorraine's. What did she mean? She had sald she did not *'envy me my job," and her voice had conveyed even more plainly than had her words, that she thought it might be a hard job. The F¥dea! That was all she knew about it. She was judging Neil by some of the married people she knew who had bedome indifferent to each other. To-morrow--Neil Takes Blanche Or- ton's Advice to Exercise. A COMPARISON OF PRICES HIGH COST OF LIVING CAUSES CONCERN. than 1 don't STILL The Prices of a Few Commodities Are Dropping But In Others the Prices Are Very High. Although the market prices for eggs and a few other commodities are faldng gradually, the high cost of living is still causing liousewives no Iittié concern. At this stage it is of great interest to compare this year's prices with the prices whicli-prevailéd during the corresponding week last year, and for the corresponding week | in 1914, before the war was thought of. Prices generally are lower now than they were twelve months ago, but are away up from the prices of pre-war days.' For instance, butter sold in the market on Saturday at from 655 to 60 cents per pound. Last year at this time the price whs 50 to 62 cents, and in 1914 it was 35 cents a pound, an increase of over sixty per cent., being shown in comparison. Eggs on Saturday were 40 to 46 cénts @# dozen; in February, 1918, they were 75 cents a dozen, and at the same date in 1914 they sold at 40 cents. Below is appended a list of comparative prices of the chier ar ticles. which figure in the weekly price lists for the third week in February: Dairy Produce 1819 1918 1914 Creamery butter, Ib 57c &§2¢ 36¢c Butter, rolls, 1b, 66 1.60; 82 Oleamargqrine, 1b. 40 38 Eggs, doz, 45 Poultry Chickens, 1b. Hens, Ib. ...: Turkeys, 1b, seve se LTE TD ma "It's dood for me" Meats Beef; fronts, hb. .. Beef, hinds, 1b. .. Pork, fronts, 1b. .. Pork, hinds, 1b. ... Lamb, fronts, Ib... Lamb, hinds, 1b... Vegetables Beets, bushel ..., Carrots, bushel. . . Cabbage, head Celery, bunch Parsnips, bushel ., $1 Turnipg, bushel .. 85 Potatoes, bag ..$1.76 $2.26 Grain Barley, bushel ,.$1.25 $1.50 Bran, ton .40.00,38.00 Buckwheat, bushel 1,76 1.86 Cornmeal, ewt, .. 5.50 6.08 Corn, yellow feed, bushel. .. .-. Flour, ewt. 14 18 24 25 25 28 AS "85 12% 1.80 © 2.40 6.16 6.00 "Hay, baled, ton ..20.00 17.00 Hay, loose, ton. 16.00 16.00 Oats, Manitoba, bu.. 95 1.10 Oats, local, bu. .. -.70 1.00 Shorts, ton .... .44.00 45.00 Wheat, local, bu. . 2.26 2.40 Pilot J. A. Burwash travelled by air from Deserento to Toronto, 139 miles, in one hour. oo BE es rn, S frikingly. Super 300 Ip TO THE POUND oiRecT FROM THE TEA = TH THE Tia por rEWORD" yeéars ae. the BR a ay a struggling young lawyer Sealed-Book-Lad 'When they got married twenty|ly, as 5 if expecting applause for her ighorance. When you think of laundry work think of Gold p. 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