TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1923. A ae TE ------------------ -- NEWS AND VIEWS FOR WOMEN READERS' ~~} dlipped about Shirley from behind, | And a voice, dearly familiar, whisper- ed things about their wedding day | . . . and a fever . . . and blessed, | ! intimate words intended only for her | - ear. From which Shirley gathered | « AQ | that Raymond had been coming to . / - | her, all repentance, from Java, when | a fever had stricken him and detain- Grapefruit Cereal \ Sansages Pop-Overs Lancheon Vé#getable Soup TOMORROW'S MENU ' Egg Salad Rolls, Dinner Cream of Onion Soup Corned Beet Potatoes, Cole Slaw Cottage Pudding Answered Letters, A Daily Reader: "I would like a pickle recipe calling for cauliflow- er, string beans, onions, beets, pap- pers and tomatoes. Also kindly tell me if it is safe to use an aluminum kettle for boiling vinegar and mak- ing pickles?" Answer: Tea, Preserves Beats Coffee clipe you want: Mixed Pickles: Two quarts green tomatoes, two quarts red tomatoes, one quart small on- ions, one head of caulifiower, three MOTHER! Child's Best Laxative is "California Fig Syrup" em Hurry Mother! Even a bilious, constipated, feverish child loves the pleasant taste of "California Fig Syrup' and it never fails to open the bowels. A teaspoonful to-day may prevent a sick child to-morrow. Ask your druggist for genuine "California Fig Syrup," which has di- rections for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother! You must say "California" or you may get an imitation fig syrup. Read "Business Chances" every day-- Something good will come your way. READTH I think this is the re-| wi | 8reen. sweet peppers, three red | sweet peppers, one head ot cabbage. | two tablespoons of mustard, one | quart of cucumbers, one and one- | half cups of sugar, one cup of flour, | two quarts of boiling vinegar. (You can substitute other vegetables such as beets and string beans for' some of these vegetables if you desire.) Slice the tomatoes and peppers (removing pepper seeds); peel end slice the onions _and cucumbers, chop cabbage and separate the cauliflower. Put all the vegetables into a brine made by combining one- half cup of salt and five quarts of cold water; let stand in this brine for 24 hours, then drain well and steam till tender. If you have not a regular steamer, improvise one by sinking your colander half way in- to a deep kettle which contains bolil- ing water; let the water boil under the colander, keeping a pot-cover over the colander. In the meantime mix the sugar and flour together and ada just enough water to form a paste; add this paste to the boiling vinegar, thin the mixtufe with one pint of hot water, and cook till well thick- {'ened. Add the steamed vegetables to this dressing and mix before putting it into hot, sterilized glass jars and sealing at once. No, it is best to use an agateware or emamelware pot rather than an aluminum one. Mrs. FF. M. "Can you tell me how to remove rust from the oven and top of my gas range? Everything 1 use to blacken it with, burns off." Answer: Rub the rusty part first | with kerosene (of course the stove | must not be lighted while this is go- ing on) and then rub with steel wool which is well moistened with linseed oll. In extreme cases, the oiled steel wool may be dipped In powdered pumice stone. A light, superficial film of rust can be re moved by a cloth of heavy wool which is saturatéd with linseed ofl; follow by wiping with a dry plece of heavy wool cloth to remove the surplus oil. . Bride: "What is "a "slumber throw' that people are talking ' so much about?" Answer: A Slumber Throw is a light-weight, small-size, all-woor blanket (some of them are hand- woven and look like homespun) us ed to cover a person who wishes to lie 'down for a little while in the daytime for a rest on couch or bed. It is never made ip in & bed. Tomorrow: --Recipes Oalled For In Meuwus To Come. All Inquiries acaressed to Mjss Kirkman in care of the "Efficient Housek'eping" department will be answered in these columns in their turn. This requires considerable ime, however, owing to the great namber received. So if a perconal ur quicker reply is desired, a stamp- 4d and self-addressed envelope must be enclosed with the question. Be sure to use YOUR full name, street number, and the name of your city and province. ~The Editor. If anybody ever succeeds in cut- ting taxes, he can become a movie star quicker than a husband shoot. er, N------ Sr the Conval scent JDOCTORS constan esa tive prescribe "Ovaltine because it BRITISH--and sold throushout the Empite ,, spices, | | | | ed In three y been predicament, Six o'clock in the mofning of the | important day found most of Spots- ford Centre bustling about fts busi- ness. Cook, the ea since been manipula band, and the skeleton of a bride's cake already lay before him, even in its unadorned state a compliment to the importance of the wedding of a Spotsford to a Hart. A few doors down, and on the same side of Main street, a light was burning in the back room of Perkins, | the florist's, and if one had been there to see, one might have glimps- ed a bright head bending absorbed above an armful of flower sprays scattered on the work-table. But of course it was six in the morning and there was no one to see, for all of Spotsford Centre that had not busi- ness of its own to be about was asleep uptown, and would be for hours. Nor did it really matter. For though It would be, in our opinion, a shame to miss a sight of Shirley Carter's profile at any time, and par- ticularly in the half-yellow light of the back shop that morning, uncon- sciously provocative | with its lips pursed over her work, there was no one uptown who would have spent a thought on the sight. Not any more. The time had been, of course, when Shirley's¥lightest whim had motivat- ed the whole uptown set, but that was before the administration changed, tariff jumped, and the bottom of the sugar market dropped, leaving Mr. Carter to die apologetically in the big Carter house, because!there seemed to be nothing much else for him to do at his age and with his financial tangles. TC ¥ only in the movies and in story books of a kind that the friends of the unfortunate heroine who has lost her patrimony execute an "about face" and leave her to shift for her- self. Buch mercenary procedure is not true to human nature, even of the most perverted sort, and certain- ly it would not be a natural act of the kindly people who had become Bpotsford 'Centre's artistocracy by right of other things than money. It was Shirley Carter's own fault that she had been dropped by the up- town set, and she acknowledged the fact generously. She had dropped out with studied purpose, after she had decided that one party dress sueh as she had always worn was scarcely worth a month's salary. Not that the party dress was essential to her play- ing about with her old friends, but it symbolized a great many things and which she could not now afford. Above everything, Shirley dreaded pity, and she did not intend to em- Phasize her new estate by forcing too many comparisons. And Spotsford Centre once made to understand; had accepted her decision. This morning, bending over the bouquet which she was fashioning, Shirley's pride was stronger, and her heart more desolate than it had been before the three long years, thoughts weer full of the happiness of Mary Spotstord, who, at high noon, | would be carrying this very bouquet | up the flower-strewn aisle of the ehurch, where Robert Hart would be wAltiDE. | i For heart was glad for Mary, you! she could not#®ontrol the rush of feeling that was almost self-pity as she wondered it there was anyone in | Spotaforfl Centre besides herself who | would ember to-day that three! years ago she, Shirley, had been en- | gaged to Raymond Hart, Robert's | brother, and that to-day's ceremony | was to have celebrated two weddings of one. Raymond w _' another figure of the old lite, us lost to her as her| father, or her long summers tn the | Adirondacks, or her Paris hats prie- figures. Their quarrel ween them. What and she was too proud to explain to hith was that the pity and sympathy mirrored in every friendly eye about her seemed to Shirley a reflection on the beloved nhs, had eft her tn such a Her | capitalizing No, she would work, pay what she eould of the debts that she had in- when th itty i i i 3 it! li : 4 i o ed him until to-day--their wedding | date! At the mention of the wedding, Mary appropriated Shirley. with a | knowing smile, "You'll have to get busy, she unfastened her friend's apron, whole Perkins family down here. We'll need another bou- quet, for we're going to have a dou- ble- wedding, after all!" As Shirley let herself be led to- | | ward the door, she knew, gratefully, | that Mary would take the details up- | veil | everything the five | hours that remained. After three | on her capable self. Gown . accessories would be forthcoming in years of lonely independence, it was a comfort to be dependent, and no | longer lonely. She looked back over her shoulder at Raymond, whose eyes were still | following her. Life had been swept clean of all anchorage when he had | left, but n he was back! ow c SOUNDING SKY WITH BALLOON. | Experiments Made to Determiné Tem. | perature and Test Air Currents. Sixty years ago two men managed | to rise in a balloon to a height of five miles above the earth's surface, and for man a record, says the London Tit-Bits, In those days it for certain until, in 1902, a French meteorologist began to experiment by sending up small balloons, to each of | which was attached a self-registering | thermometer. Most of these were lost, but some were recovered, and the fact was revealed that in every case after six | and a half miles the steady fall In temperature ceased abruptly. Indeed, | a slight rise was often noticed above that height. Since then these small balloons | sondes, as they are called, have been used all over the world. They are | made of rubber and constructed so that when they burst they turn into | parachutes, which bring the instru- | ments intrusted to them safely back to earth. sent up to 46,000 feet. Pilot balloons, which are larger, and which are used for testing the | alr currents of the upper atmosphere, have been sent up to 82,000 feet | and have proved that at great alti. tudes there are winds blowing at 132 | miles an hour--that is, faster than | anything near the earth's surface. These little balloons are teaching | us all sorts of interesting thi about the top of ne the weather. study only the bottom of it. One odd fact is that the coldest | do not lie "over the poles, | greatest | regions but over the equator. The degrees of cold ever recorded--119 degrees below sero, Fahrenheit--was found at a height of twelve miles above equatorial Africa. ------ When the Kaiser Wore Kilts. A great many notables, from Glad- stone to Balfour, from Fauny Kemble to Sarah Bernhardt, figure in the | Countess of Jersey's sprightly remi- | niscence of the Victorian epoch. As a daughter of Lord Leigh and the wife of Lord Jersey, she has known | most of the British nobility. When | she was a child she shook hands with the Duke of Wellington and was | kissed by the young Queen Vietorix. | One of her girlhood memories is of the wedding of the Prince of Wales in 1863, in connection with which she ays: The pressut ex-kaiser, then Prinos | William, aged four, came over with his parents for the y peared at the ceremony in a suit, whereupon the German ladi remounstrated with his mother, say- ing they understood that he was to have Worn the uniform of a Prussian cer. "lI am very sorry," replied his mother; "he had it on, but Beatrice and Leopold (the Duke of Albany) thought that he looked so ridiculous with tails that théy cut them off, and 50 we bad to Jook about until we found an oid ele for him to wear." early English protest inst militarism! Youth's Companivn. ------------------ Chess-Mad Stroebeck in central Germany, is a village devoted to chess since 1011 when a Count Gunnelin was impris- | there and to pass the time mad board and Then Ai i i e ; i i ! ils ie EE yf Hike 1A. ~= London Mr. | rer, bad long | Groom," she called to Raymond as | egg beaters | and stove dampers wilh an expert | 'and get the years that ascent remained | was taken for | granted that the higher you went the | colder it got, but nothing was knewn These balioons have been | Up to | the present century we were able to Your Scottish | | sult of his fet from Quebec, + Millinery New York, Dec. 4.--Mrs. in |Mrs. Leeds : Stillman on her dresied a letter to , Florence Leeds ou her new x5 3 eX A | out-of-doors Jtercoest Weather When the snow is falling and the air's "keen as a whistle" --that's when skating, skiing, tobogganing and snowshoeing are really healthful and invigorating. Be sure however, that the body is well protected against the coldness that follows the reaction from violent exercise. All medical men recommend wool as the surest and only protection against sudden changes of temperature. 5 Wear Turnbull's pure wool underwear. CEETEE pure wool underwear is made from the finest and purest Merino Wool-- It will not '"prickle" or irritate the most senitive skin, Will not shrink. It is the only underwear made in Canada that is reine forced at wearing parts. Favoured by Ladies this year are: "Vests and bloomers to match in CEETEE No. 225 or TURNBULL'S No. 420. For Men : Sold by the Worn by the Best Dealers po Best People geo UNStiry, I po 4 Made only by , Ju §, "VRE woo k A ¢ Look fos the 1) Shoop on avery ? Garment of Galt, Ont, danger signal Walk upstairs to the top step--are you out of breath? That's your danger signal. It calls igs in your food bai. You are eat- ing too much starchy (fat making) foods. Eat Shredded Wheat Biscuit with milk for ten days and sce how much better you feel. Shredded Wheat is a well balanced ration. It is a muscle-making food -- contains every ele- ment needed to nourish the human body, and in the right proportion. Easy to digest because so thoroughly cooked. Two Biscuits with hot milk and a little cream make a perfect, satisfying meal. Delicious with fruits. The Canadian Shredded Wheat Company, Lid. Niagara Falls, Ontarie a as a millinery ealeswoman, and make her fall millinery pureh wished her success. She would not from her. on ia im isay whether she would scoopt Mrs Mre. Stillman said she was Venture. d invi lo patronize ner. 'fident of victory im the weeks ago ad. division in Brooklyn, Wed: Mrs. Stillman, when Mr. 's : told of her new pori- aside his wifels victory for r favited Mrs. Stillman to and Baby Guy will be argued. ames complimented Mrs. position in which tion and