RRs iCaaieiEug PAGE EIGHT THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG OCTOBER | In the Realm of Women---Some Interesting Features TYE EN a Comfort Lye cleanser, Comfort Lye Kills rats, and insect pests. spring cleaning you've got. ai ian very powerfal It is used for cleaning up the oldest and bardest dirt, grease, ete. Comfort Lye is fine for making sinks, drains and closets sweet and clean. mice, roaches Comfort Lye will "do the bardest Comfort Lye is good for making soap. It's powdered, perfumed snd 100% pure. R eI or and Some Old Friends | This time when 1 asked John if he loved me, he did not answer teasingly, 'Love you? he said. "Why girl, I love ¥ou so much that everything I do from BOW on, 1 want vou understand, done with you mind and for you. 1 all forget you again some- cause [ am the kind of a man is absolutely engrossed in the thing at hand." "Then it behooves me to be ever at | your hand, lover," 1 said. 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So is absolutely pure and efficient SE double acting, that is, its first action occurs in the mixing bowl when cold water various forms is added. Al- lowing the dough to stand for 15 or 20 minutes will give better results. When you in the oven Egg-O will | until your cakes are pro- or milk in its put Jou baking continue to rise perly baked. Buying most econ <0 in the larger tins is I for facily use. Egg-0 Baking Powder Co. in my own affairs, I ut afterward ,l found myself things would not have been for Ruth Gaylord and Helen ss if Ruth had paid more at-| Bob I made Bob bring your trunk and , Kate," said Helen, t all your clothes in it safe to congratu- ~bringing the trunk ' 'asked Bob ' answered John. Wouldn't yr and Bob made a dive for which dexterously s Anyway, I'll kiss the bride," "No you won't," I answered This | bride must come first or not at all." { Ves," said John laughingly, { "Kate has just been taking me to | task for letting a little business deal, lin which I made a hundred thousand fdoliars, come first for a few moments | this morning." | Helen she stepped he said | | § ATER siderable amount of nutriment." --Enc. Britannis, sulliith r Helen. old "Heavens!" said | might: forget me any pleas for that." , T don't know," remarked Bob. i there are women in the who would care more for a man's absolute devotion than to be | handed pearl necklaces and diamond | rings early and often." | For some reason the gay bandin- {age left us a little serious, and to | cover this! . somewhat strained | feeling, 1 asked Helen into my dres- sing room to repair the ravages to | her make-up before we went down to { luncheon: We had hardly gotten through the door, however, before Beb and John were deep in the discussion of John's new 'business deal, time you "John's forgetting me this ing," which I will tell you at I want John to 'hear it," To my surprise, Helen did not seem to be listening to what I had said. "'Sh® threw her arms around my neck and asked tremuously: "Are you really very happy, Kate?" "Eestatically," I answered, "You are a very fortunate girl." And I have noticed that she had tears in hér eyes. "Why, what is the matter, Helen? Aren't you happy?" "No, dear, 1 think I am the most miserable woman in the world." For a moment my thoughts swung to the many times that she and Bob Gaylord had been together lately and then I took myseif to task for thinking anything like this of my dearest friend. Ruth Gaylord bad been one of Hel- en's classmates. ; Helen had known hér longer than she had me. An affair between Helen and Bob couldn't be possible 1 decided. I looked again morn- edients ¥ MARRIED by the noted author Idah M$Gione Gibson -1 88 we reached the fi "and I} las with a) "You | I said, "reminds me of a story! luncheon. | LIFE to see where Helen was dabbing ber | face with powder. "Surely you are joking," I said "Of course, | am joking,' she an- swered, 'lI just wanted to see what you in your great happiness would do for a friend whom you thought was in great need." | There was more earnestness in this observation than Helen would have me think, and 1 went over and pht my arms about her, saying: '"Helen, you surely must know that {I would do anything possible for you jor any other friend who was in { trouble." "Come on girls," interrupted John 'Remember, you are beautiful to us | without any dolling up. It may not the door, Robert Gaylord's face loom-| be a romantic confession for a newly I don't mind tel ring." "I want to has promised to she tell it to up?" Yes," I answered, "'b iwe are at luncheon | "Wait a minute," sai ut wait floor. 1] | rememb 1at Ruth said some {about t r comir j today | seeing me on quent '1 wonder, Robert left us, of too much mother | Bob and Ruth?" | "1 sheuld say." I esis it {8 a case of too | wouldn't blame him there, John quickly, for to tell the tru have never had any groat desire a houseful of children but more must for One or two, be a. great Helen sald nothing, but I not 1 the color slowly flood: her face i then recede.. For the mo I won- | dered Then 1 took myself to tas) for being suspicious "Why, John," I said, more to take his attention from her apparent fusion than for any other reason "I am sure no husband wife wanat to tgo- through life without children!" con {Ruth Gaylorfi has been mm're of a i mother than a wife ever Wce her first baby'came, and now Mey have! three, she has absolutely detariorated | 5 into a governess and nursemaid. We were talking about it at the club the | {other night and Fred Smith said- {and you know Fred is one of Bob's {greatest friends----that he never went thére any more because, although he loves children, he does not care to] spend the entire evening listening to| thelr ills and their smart sayings." ! "It is a sad state of affairs, don't] (you think so, Helen?" | For a moment Helen was and then she said: "Yes, I think Ruth is making a mis- | take. But you know, John some i women are made to 'be mothers, and some are wives only. I think Ruth is perfectly happy with her children" | "But what about Bobby?" I asked,| curiously dezed by the turn the con- |versation had taken. "Oh, Bobby can take care of him-| self, I guess," sald John with a grin, as though he hed come inner infor- {mation that he did not tell us; Again I was surprised at Helen She looked at John with a flash of angry concern and seemed about to speak, but she evidently thought! {better of it and compressed her lips! tightly. | 'Surely you don't think that Bob- | iby Gaylord is the kind of a man who | would neglect his wife, do you John?! Why, he-- "I don't think Bobby Gaylord could | be really neglectful," interrupted He { en quickly, 'but I have been there | 'quite a bit lately and I must say that | {Bob seems to be ah unnecessary ap-| | pendage to the household." | To my relief Bob returned at that |moment. His arrival ended a con- | versation that was rapidly drifting in-| ito embarrassing depths. | { "It's all right,"" he said. 'Rath | | thinks Bobby Jr. is coming down with | ithe chicken pox and Grandma Gra-| | ham and she will be too busy in the| | nursery to think of me or luncheon | lor anything until the doctor comes. | | "Wait until you get to be an old | married man, Jack, and you'll see of | | quiet, I "Certainly not," he ang wsred, 'but | | expeditionary force canteens. | the . (Continued From Page 3) On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Herb. Steacy, King street, received for | the first time since her marriage, and | many callers thronged her to welcome her to the stone City. She was we lovely wedding gown of wh and lace, a ¢o ge bouquet of pink roses giving a pretty touch of color. Mrs. E. T. Steacy ted her daugh- | in-law in receiving, and wore a ndsome black gown. Grace- fu rysanthemums were artistical- | ly arranged in the drawing-room, | while in the tearoom a eilver basket | filled with white "mums'" was on the centre of the table which was covered with a beautiful maderia and lace cloth Here Mrs. W. R.| ivens made tea, M A. W. Winnett poured coffee, I fisses An- nie Minnes, El , Gwen dolyn Folger McKay passed the dai refreshments. . home te ve Mrs Son stree brother, Vernonville, Ont. . Frank Har of Ottawa, rlland, 429 John- lay to with Blackburn, at returned, to N.Y., after with her 126 John re again in pent a few days A this week and returned on 2len Duff, Alexandria Apart ph spending a few Sound McKay, ing on M he will be Lionel Sr Sydenham uxton who has Mc eal, 1 and Mrs is Patton Robert Sutherland and son, | have returned from Clin- where they were visiting Mrs. Edward i Bessia and George Sm Miss He Drury has left Halifax. { where she spent the summer, and has gone to 'Boston, Mass., to spend the winter with her brother, Capt. G. C. Drury. : | -------------- Money. from Canteens. Canada will benefit by a substan- tial sum from the proceeds of the These were canteens with which 'the Y.M.C.A. and other organizations supplied all the British troops in! France with extra messing supplies, liquors, cigarettes, and various other articles. Their surplus proceeds have been turned into a fund of | which Gen. Julian Byng is director and which will be used for ex-service men: of the Imperial army, and amounts to over $30,000,000. An al- lotment, however, is to he made to troops of the various overseas dominions, according (po proportional strength.» This money will be paid to the Canadian military authorities, and will probably amount to between two and two and a half million | dollars, | This decision has been made khown by Gen. Byng in reply to the | request of the British branch of the G.W.V.A. for assistance from the | | general canteens fund for a eclub- house for demobilized Canadian sol- diers in Britain. Gen. Byng, who was | former commander of the Canadians, | explained the arrangements and wished the war veterans' scheme | every Success. | A Brave Man to Be Honored. 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It would be with | and your children are on the scene," | a view to the erection of a museum | sald Bob, fretfully. {on the spot. The ground would be | shoe situation has become a problem for the up-to-date woman. Unfortunate at In Kingston LOCKETT'S BOOT SHOP | "Don't be edgy, Boboy," I inter-| rupted. "listen to my story. I have been vanting to tell it to John all {the morning. It shows that there] jure men besides my John who forzai| their wives. "It seems that ¢n¢e upon a thmo~ - "| "Hold on, hold on, Kate," put in John, 'let's order the luncheon Civil. Um starving. Tverybody can Have exactly what they want, but Ym going to have a beefsteak, Frencii fried potatoes, combination salad and a piece of ple." "Nice, healthy appetite for a lov jar," laughed Helen. | "Your observation, young woman." sajd Boh, with renewed good humor, "does not keep me from duplicating that er. . h "But you're not a lover," she sald quickly. Glanetog up I caught the look which passed from Robert to Helen, and Jt said as plainly as though he had spoken: "1 am your lover." {Continued Monday). Frank Ramshaw of Eden Mills, about sixty-five years old, died sud- denly of heart failure, caused by ex- citement over a métori accident near Rockwood on a return trip from a wedding. 3 The extension of time given Bul- | Peace commission to reply ¢o | the peace terms expires Felday. If! is expected they: will make their re | : i port. : {or money refunded. expropriated, failing a friendly ar. | rangement with the owner, 2d Canadian Writer Honored, | His Majesty the King has grae- | lously accepted a copy of "The Maple Leafl"s Red Cross," by Mary MacLeod | Modre. 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