For frosting cakes, mak- jug bonbons and other confections without cook- ing. Ask for it by name _ at your grocers. Ib Castors only We Se is packed at the factory in t cartons, Yours jo'the first hand 10 touch it. 2nd 5-1b Cartons and 20-1b Bags "The All- are A pure, complete Progressive Dietary. MILK FOOD ~ No. 1 From birth to 3 months. MILK FOOD r No. 2. ou {1aw, which carries with It no moral FA Ad | + States employ over 100,000 women. in the I AM CONVINCED THAT MY CAPTOR IS A MADMAN Co 181 MoClure ear Sindleaitey Aftet 1 had come from my bath and had put on some of the clothes which had been so strangely brought from my home and placed in the drester drawers, I approached the breakfast table. 'For the first time 1 that there was an unsealed enyelope in my plate, It was ad- a simply, "Roxane." 1 stared at the paper, wondering whé could want to write to me and who, of all those who knew my name, knéw where 1 was, Slowly and almost dazedly | opened the envelope a drew out the contents, It wis 2 note closely written In a strange hand on a double sheet of extra fine writing paper, such as any particu- lar men t use for his corres- pondence, This is what 1 read:; Roxane--Perhaps you may never know who I am. Perhaps you may. Perhaps you are #ble to guess who the writer of thig Tettér fs. Possibly I have been able to conceal my feel: ing to such an extent that you can- not guess, and that you will be gl y mystified when you - read what | am writing, . if you cannot imagine who I am I will enlighten you to the extent of saying that you know fe very welll that you have been thrown in eontact with me time and again---so often; in fact, that long ago I realized that my life would not be worth living unless I possessed you. So 1 have taken seps to make you my prisoner. . ; did this because I came to the conclusion that I could not win your love ag long as you were in the surroundings in which I knew you. 1 was convinced that you did not love does not love you yet 1 detected that you would remain faithful to your husband, even # though you should love some oné else. My only hope was and is that in different surroundings you mmy take a differ ent view of your © on to a man or you nd for whom you do not care deeply. By detaching you from him, I hope I have detached you from whatever fancied obligation on your part, You are no longer in his home, but in mine. He no longer provides for you. The only claim he has pon you is the formal claim of the force. You are free so far as your husband is comcerned, and you are free through no act of your own. It is also true that you are free through the foree of circumstances oyer which you had no control. FOR PA tay THE ACTIVITIES iw Bridgeport (Ct.) munition factor- jes employ over 4,000 women, Many women are now employed as members of the Paris police force. eo factories of the United Mrs. Helen K. Holmes is the onl street the finest royal singer The New York Bar association hus Twilight -- In To my mind It 1§ perfectly clear, then, that under conditions as they] exist now, you owe nothing to your: non-commissicaed husband. , You do mot owe him any- of the 72nd Battery entertained thing, not even yourself, ventional bond which bound you to- gether has been broken, and you are absolutely free, 386 this in the same Hght that I see t Theres re tion of just as great moment to Me. Loving you as I do, it gave me the] greatést pain to realize that in possession of another; live in his home; the same table with him; enjoyed at least some of the privil- eges. of a husband in" his relations with you, I have removed the possi- bility of that suffering by removin you from his home to one which have provided for you, touch you; he cannot see you; he is free to remain at his elub as long as he pleases and go With any one be pleases wherever and whenever he wants to, without feeling that he has violated amy of his obligations tb you, these things, have gone away with 'sonmie one else, and he will not seek therefore, are left free to do as you please, times contemplated leaving him, but] 2 that you 'were deferred by fear of ; publicity or inability to arrive at = Gan Obtain New fiealth Through {he Use decision in the matter, lem has been solved. it for you. there is to be a scandal it will come 5 omic. ' At special times unusual because of my act instead of yours, demands are made upon her strength. put it will come just the same, and Where these are added to the worry stter the Seandal has passed been forgotten, you can go your own weakness and ill health wil follow way and live whatever please, But 1 hope and belleve there your husband, and I know that he, Will be no scandal, Your husband will accept what he thinks is your something about you which told me {decision, and will go about his busi- ness #n his accustomed way, gradually he will forget you. The cof-| I am sare you will E: He cannot! And 1 believe he will do He will think that you, you. 1 belMeve ybu have This prod- 1 have solved It You: have left him. and life ' you and And gradually I hope you will learn to love me, even if you hate me now for the act committed. realise that, by separating you from your husband, which will leave you free to seek! your own happiness. With this re- alization, I hope there will come for- giveness for me, more? May I not hope that some day | you will decide that:your happiness So ilo Nt lies In become which 1 have In time I hope you will 1 have taken a step iMay I hope for my keeping and that we may af and wife? ] ONE WHO LOVES YOU. .1 read the letter a second time, (To Be Continued.) v a es ment ig 'Miss Julia Lathrop, head of the c¢hild-welfare bureau. Mrs, Gertrude Dornglaser, of Chi- cago, who holds: the woman's bowl- OF WOMEN ing championship of Illinois, makes en living by teaching women how to wl, Miss Loula Long of Kansas City, who has entered her entire stable in the Denver horse show, is known as the greatest horsewoman in America. The Big Sisters' association of Kansas City has applied for co-oper- ation in that city so that it can oper: | ate a hotel for business women ex- clusively. r Miss Sara Livingston of Seattle, | Wash., who ranks filth in this years that you | that you sat at | delicious supper was served at mid- that he | {* decided success. 3 * * g! | Miss Grace Bollard, (Continued from Page 7.) Major R. R. Carr-Harvig. officers, officers and men at a City The most enjoyable dance in tae i Hall on Wednesdsy evening. 'large number of guests were receiev- ed by Mrs. Carr-Harris, Mrs. T.DR. | Hemyming, Mrs. G. Hunter Ogilvie and Miss Wilhelmina Gordon. The mains, however, a ques hall was decorated with Union Jacks 'and Queen's orchestra, which sup plied: splendid music for the twenty you were | dances, was stationed om the plat- form behind & screen of palms. A night, and altogether the dafice was . Mrs. Robert Segsworth of South Drive, Torohto, gave a supper party after the Mendelssohn Choir concert on Tuesday night for Miss Carrie | Waldron, her guest for the day. - - - Ottawa, and Mitg Ada Adams, Kingston, left for New York, where they will visit Miss Bellard's aunt, Mrs, Reginald Al- combrack, until Easter. Miss Laura Nicolle, Barrie street, y EB] RUARY 10, 1017. "the Realm =m ) is going to Perth and Ottawa on a vigit, F. 8. Grout is spending a few days in Kingston with his father, Canon Grout. ® . = Mr, and Mrs. Hugo Craig and their son, Hugd, who have been Mrs, Geo, Fenwick's guests, left yesterday for their home in Fort Wiliam. Mrs. T. T. J. Coleman, "Rose- lawn," entertained oa Thursday evening, when her guests were the members of the Faculty of Education. Mrs. Campbell Laidlaw, Ottawa, is thé guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, G. M. Macdonnell, University avenue, Miss Macaulay, King street, who has been visiting her niece, Mrs. Charles Abbott, Peterboro, has re- turned home. ¥ * - Mr, and Mrs, W. H. Hil, Peter- bore, announcs the engagement of their daughter, Aimee Agnes, to James Fordyce Strick Heutenant of the 247th Battalion, ® sen of Mr. and Mrs. Jaries Strickland, Corn- wall. The marriage té take place quietly in March. You, | "| WOMEN WHO SUFFER of Dr. Wiliams" Pink Pills. Every women at some time needs and work which falls to her lot, unless the blood is fortif§ d to meet 'the strain. Weak women find in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills the tonic exactly suited to their needs, Most of the ills from which they suffer are due to blcjad- | lessness--a condition which the Pills readily cure. These pills save the girl who enters into womanhood in {a bloodless condition from years of misery, and afford prompt and per- me ant relief to the woman who is blobdless, and therefore weak. Mrs. Wm. H, Wagner, Rosenthal, Ont. ond ehild I suffered from troubles | which most methers will understand, without going into details. The doc- ttepding me said an be necessary, but as I dreaded thiz and as Dr. Willams" { Pink Pills had been of great help to | my sister I decided to try this nredi- cine; and I can fruly say that after slowly, carefully, There could be no yging the pills for some time they doubt that i was in the hands of 8) made a complete cure and made life madman! more enjoyable than it had been for a long time. I think every women suffering from 'the ailments of our sex should give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a fair trial, as I know from my own, ¢asé the greaty benefit that fol- lows their use." You can get these pills through any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box' or six boxes for §2.50 trom The Dr. Williams' diedicine Co. Brockville, Ont The British agriculture depart- ment has succeeded in raising an army of 200,000 women who will be put to work on the farms, replacing the 'men 'called to the front. Mrs. Russell Sage, appreciating the act that the cost of living is so high, doubled her usual gift to the park policewomen in New York this writes: "After the birth of my sec-} | Plays and Players | base Robert Peyton Carter, the = Lord fimes of "A Kisg for Cinderella," Maude Adams' new play, is undoubt- edly the highest priced actor in Am- erica, He spéaks two lines in thie play, and receives eighty dollars a line, . There is a happy chorus girl in Toronto this week---Miss Billie Carr, with the Monte Carlo Girls at the Star Theatre. Why? Because she has lost a husbami.' They were wed almost a year ago. His name is Gerald Crabtree, and he was just 47 yedrs old when Cupid led them captive to the altar of Hymen. Soon afterwards Billie discovered that it is a mistake to wed one so young, and she has finally succeeded, she announces, in having the marriage annalled, New York, IHinois, Indiana, Texas, are all jin the throes fight over Sunday closing of movie shows. The picture interests. are putting up the battle of their lives against what they are pleased to and call thé "blue laws," and they may win in New York and One or two other States. Mayor Mitchel, of New York City, favors the open movie on Sunday---under certain conditions, Mane, Alla Nasimova, who for a long time has been in quest of a theatre for a season of repertory, realized her ambition on Jan. 4th, when Walter F. Wagner and Charles rangements whereby she is appear- ing under hér own management. Shoals," a new play by H, Austin Adams. Miss Maxime Elliott, who Is asso- ciated with the Messrs, Shubert in the. ownership of Maxime Elliott's Theatre, arrived in New York last week. Miss Elliott hag been in Eng- land during the last five years, and bas performed great service for the Allied forces in hospital work in of al Bryant 'her husband, completed ar- She opened in New York in "Ception| . to devote a little the reward of every women iling Just a much as the real article. chances? Vee applications obtained at the barber shops and bai dressing parlors JEP a 0 to be "just as | i The sabatitute cor . od FULL 3 , Purifies, PACKAGE Sc Het of the United States National Belgium, Lawn Tennis association, among the women players, never wielded a rac- year, giving each a gift of $10. Mrs. Anna Lee, a woman legisla- tor in 1ilinois, has introduced a bill decided to admit women as members. of their association, Fh Women of the Glasgow tramways are paid at the same rate as the man employees. Yale university will hereafter ad- mit women ai candidates for the de- quet until three years ago, when she first took health.' up the game for her GA in that body which if it becomes a law will prohibit the manufacture of corsets In the state of Illinois. steak, but for the family of 4, 2 ad- alts and 2 children, with a certain \ ce, got a small, thick sirloin thy | mind, especially at the present. time. In 4 récent" London despatch to an evening paper reference was made by a special correspondent to the latest war film from the Cana dian front, who, after declaring that "gvery man, woman and child throughout the length and breadth of Canada should make a paojnt of seeing the pictures of Canada's bat- taliong actively at work," goes on to state that the Canadian rights to this film have been sold by Sir Max Aitken of the Canadian War Records Office to an American firm for $20,000. The purchasers of the Canadian rights, Messrs, Jule and Jay J. Allen, of the Famous Players Film Service Limited, a Canadian firm with headquarters in this city, not an "American"-one as the term is understood heére, The distinction is an important one in the public Weak, Anaemic, Nervous Run-down WHEN our yeh Thatiswhye 0, undermined ti worry or overwork your vitality is lo you -- feel "anyhow" --when your nerves are "on edge" --when the least exertion tires you--you are in ' 'condition. aon for the want : a : water phi tha water. t over 10,000 doctors