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. A 1 "Bring her in here, Peter, 1 want' you both." PART L "Peter-Peter!" His mother used the childhood name she still loved. "What are you thinking about? Come and sit beside me a little while." Ruth came and sat beside Peter's mother on the couch and Peter took Ruth's eyes, turned toward Peter's tow-colored head, were bright with joy and half dim and very tender with that other part of joy that is so near to pain. She was small and perfectly made. From her floated waves of sweetness and young vigor as if Pan were lift- ing his pipes to his lips and playing i the ever-new, ever-old song of per-) fect youth and health. Her mind and | heart were as fragrant as the wood- "Do you remember when you told ands where Pan loved to play his me about Ruth, Peter, and how miser- magic pipes. able you were for fear I'd feel desert-| " "You and Peter were having ja ed in my first great need? It was'talk I gee it in your eyes, Peter's so soon after your father's death." | Mother. Can you put me into it, "That's what I was thinking about,| dear?" 4 Mother, when you asked me. You| "You were in it, Ruth. But my lit- were so splendid then. You told me, tle sermon is over. 'May F steal your you had always loved her, that girl time, Ruth? I want you and Peter 1 was to love, 'way back to when I. to take a stroll down the street with was a little tad. You've been wonder- me. Come, children." Her smile was ful, little Mother, the way you've sweetly puzzling. ! loved Ruth these five years. You| Peter's mother led the way, her aren't sorry the day iz so close? | beautiful head held with that calm "You'll be right here with us, in' Poise that was one of her chief this house we've made into 2 home.| charms. In her eyes was the great Ruth and I will take royal good care| light that leads every woman who of you and all our happiness will be faces her life with simple courage, yours, too. But you will lead your|no matter by what name she calls its his place again at his mother's feet.| Aline Sanford reached out her long, | slender hands and stroked Peter's tow-colored head. "Are you really twenty-four, Peter-Peter, and going to be married in a week?" A "Seems so, little Mother, You are- n't sorry?" Peter smiled the ador- ably broad smile that he had from his father. Wavering through it were quivers of tender concern for the mother whom he worshipped. own life. Your rooms must be as: absolutely yours as if they were in another house. You're to be free, dear, to do just as you please. Ruth cares for you almost as much as she; cares for me. And you love Ruth?" "Love Ruth? She's not hard to love, Peter-Peter. Indeed, I'm not sorry. I'm glad all through. Only as the great day draws near, the mother in me eries out to have you all to myself, just a little while like this." The long hands again fell to stroking the head esting' against her knees. "No man ever loved a girl better _. than I love. Ruth, Mother. But no- thing can ever make any difference in my love for you. It's so great, it is beyond expression." He spoke solemnly. Had he not tried to take his father's place? Had he not worked and planned and dreamed for her as well ag for Ruth these past five years? "You like the house the way Ruth and I have gone over and arranged it? There isn't so much that is new but it's all homelike. You've worked hard these years, my son. We've worked together; I in the school and you in your store. I'm proud, Peter, when I think how you've built up that business. Books and stationery and such things as you have, are pleas- ant to work with and you have learn- ed how to handle people. But you will not stop with the store, Peter. After you and Ruth get your start, other chances will open up." ' "] do have other plans than the! store, Mother. Thia town will give | me lots of chances, by and by. But, now I must'hold to my one sure thing till I'm ahead enough to risk a change, ~~ I've been planning some-| . thing for you, Mother. I wish you, would rest' a year from teaching if, aren't willing to give it up final- ly. 'There will be enough for us all. Ruth thinks you are working tob hard--that you look tired." \ "I know, Peter. Perhaps 1 am little tired. But work is my best, chance for: Jones? It's Sofs an to me, It came to me, like Hope ne of Pandora's box of evils, when the road seemed too rough for my LE tg live without yr Sond. Tae overt | branches; dignified pines stood stiff i used to know the arnal "|code In the navy, so I the message with my hammer. t| The country tn whith William Ho: o called. Holland, is gleaming guidance. Ruth and Peter chattered of the day's doings and of small details of the approaching wedding but Aline Sanford was very quiet. "I smell a secret, Mother," Peter- Peter cried as he used to when he was a child and she planned delight-| ful surprises for him. "Am I in it, too, Peter's Mother?" Ruth asked. 5 "Is mot a bride-to-be in everything,' my dear?" Peter's mother answered. ' May loveliness filled the streets. Great live oaks stretched their many and erect, and long stretches of maple afforded shade to the passer: by. The mingled fragrance of bridal Soreath and lilac filled the clear, soft air, a When they reached a small house set back from the street, with lux- uriant crim#on,rambler climbing over the porch; a graceful elm at its gate and a; " apple orchard peeping from behind it, e Sanford stop- ped. Whilé Ruth and Peter begged to be told the secret, she led them up the steps and unlocked the door. (To be continued.) tr Mie ' CAPTURING A MINE-LAYER Clever Ruse of a Diver Resulted in Surrender of German U-Boat. Extraordinary things happened to the U.S. destroyer flotilla as they hunted the German submarine, but the strangest adventure of all came in a British port where some of the U.S. ships were tied up. A German submarine mine-layer had wormed its way in'and was letting out it: mines when the crew was startled by a tap- ping on the conning tower. Some 'one with a hammer tapped out this message in International code: "Rise and surrender or depth charge will be exploded against your "hull." The commander of the submarine was too confused Jo act, and again came the dashes and dots spelling out a warning: "Depth charge has been wired and lowered." ' Then up the submarine, and a thoroughly. frightened commander 'surrendered 'to the destroyers. The man who ered out the message wag a diver at in the harbor, : iA "I saw this feller" he "Was there a depth bom] told 1" % hat if I could scare the subm: to the surface He destroyer We Sy liars ne_trouble nak ry +4 -mought refuge, or monly Netherlands, ~~ ed the Work on a sunken ship That was bluff, a figured ] arine| sent itself for getting a start in the right direction. At least it is hope: and expected that the terrible e periences in battle-torn Europe will never be repeated. The hope of the nations lies in the direction of peace for all future years to come. So prone are we to follow along the beaten path of habit that it requires some: thing very much out of the ordinary to arouse us to make an effort in a different direction. So with the self-denial made nec- essary by the war, with everything possible done to encourage econom in food and. in dress, with t -stamps and bonds to the: limit of our ability as a means of gaining the vic- | tary, it gave us a splendid start on the right road. Shall we allow our- selves to profit nothing by the les- |mon and drift back into our old habits of / extravagance , ard selfishness? Shall we not rather, with our newly acquired mental equipment for serv- ice, determine from now on to devote less thought to self and more to the great Brotherhood of Man? Shall we not be broader-minded," more sympathetic and charitable, less ready to criticise and find fault, more generous with time and means toward the unfortunate of all lands, and less inclined to limit our efforts to those with whom we are more intimately associated? * "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yét, Lest we forget--Ilest we forget!" Swat the Fly. The blow-fly becomes active at the first signs of settled weather, and its progeny soon numbers thousands. It visits every place that smells favor: able for depositing its eggs and de- veloping the larvae, for the fly is impartial and will follow an odor no matter whether it comes from a pal- ace or a hovel. Piles of decaying manure, decaying animal and .: table matter, etc., are all ideal places for fly breeding, and it is in such places that eggs are laid. The fly can follow an odor as ably as any four-footed animal, and it likes foul smells--best of all. Its sense of smell is a very reliable guide to food. and breeding places. It "is plain, then, that cleanliness about the house, barn and the whol one is likely to. have. Garbage pails; un attention .in order to forestall the flies' activity wbout your house. the various diseases they are said to they walk. carrying microbes on account of cer- arts of his anatomy, the e p. which holds him to the ceiling. alse carries germs. When crawling over filth of any kind this little cup- shaped pad never fails to gather a deposited later 'on other impossible to exterminate them if their breeding places. . Essentials to the Child. child, if he or she is to be healthy and strong, are these: and understanding and loving kind ness on the part of the parents o guardians, i n 2, Several hours of vigorous pla; and work outdoors every da$. 8. At least two hours of quiet hap piness with older people daily; di rectly after the noon meal; with little * happi: with older vidual uckly, indeed, do we forget. Never Tate: 1 agpin will a similar opportunity pre- outdoors determines how many flies] pig-pens, 'rotting vegetables and thé covered outhouses should receive{' Without going into details about] tain hairs and spines on the outer large number of midkcbes, which are surfaces: Flies love filth, and it seems almost] nothing is done to put an end to 1. Happy wpirits, born of sympathy j Cones Bar pal ng; why carry | arms or hold him in her lap when he can kick and crow so much more freely in his own hed? The baby who is bath®d, fed, given his nap regulerly, allowed freedom in too much attention will develop into a healthy, happy, helpful child and be a joy to his parents and a pleasure to their friends... oo Two Women. \ She kept her dwelling as spic and span : As the shining sides of a nice new pan. And prided herself she had done her Though she never sat in the shade to rest; . Her children's clothing was always clean - And never a hole by chance was seen She thought she surely was. doing right Though she never sang them love- songs at night. { Her husband's wish was her law and er » She'd ne'er neglect his slightest need, Though she felt too weary td talk with him And her form eyesight dim. 3 Now her shiftless neighbor across the stooped and her way Would leave her dishes to talk or play. Her babies rompers were plain and eap : But she held them close when they went to sleep her husband found 'jong frierd," ' a! the long day's And her, compan- Sweetheart and wife end, Which of the women do I .admire? 'Which in your home would you de- sire? » Martha, the toiler, was not denied, But Mary sat at the Saviour's side ! PRN WORK EXPECTED OF MACHINE. a taba plished if Trip © The following calculation by an en- gineer of a company supplying motors for a majority of British airpl which to grow and not hampared by|- What Hawker's Airplane Would Have |' : MISSING » Captain Grant A. Gooderham, re turned flying officer, missing from 'home since noon of Friday, May 2. «Was suffering - from loss 'of memory. walked very erect; clean shaven; cleft suit, blue overcoat with belt, green fedora hat and tan boots. Any infor metion as to his 'whereabouts. would be gratefully received by his parents, at 40 Madison Avenue, Toronto. Tele- phone College 1107. PRISED Tai Thirty thousand fur seals will be destroyed at St." Paul Islands, Behr- ing Sea, this spring. Every part of the seals will be utilized. 4 ' Canada has to remit to foreign countries a sum of well over half a million dollars a day simply to pay our indebtedness abroad; according to the Canadian Trade Commission. Dominion trade is rapidly running back to pre-war standards. Yet the largely increased debt which war brought us makes it imperative, says the Canadian Trade Commission, that this should be prevented, and that peace-time work can be on a war- time scale. » ONTARIO ARTS Part of the Arts course may be covered by correspondence. "MEDICINE EDUCATION APPLIED SCIENCE Mining, Chemical, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering' ! adian Trade Ccmmission wish enormous importance of exp in chin (may possibly have grown a |' beard by this time); grey eyes, heavy | brown hair. Was wearing dark grey be grasped even by children. .|-Age27, short, he' \t about five feet "| four inches; broad shoulders and} DELIGHTRIL " W. CLARK uarroamonracas' Swen fag tact is Bs 18 shows what Hawker and Grieve ex- carry it is. known that flies leavejPected their machine to accomplish in germs by the wholesale wherever! Admirabl 3 rably adapted ford] The bi the transatlantic flight covering a Lperiod of at least twenty hours: of each propeller to travel 12,000 miles. 550: x "The piston in each cylinder to travel "40 miles, so with four motors of twelve cylinders each the pistons' distance 'would be 21,120 miles, "The engine to make 2,160,000 re- yolutions. : ® |. The valves to be operated 25,920, 000 times. 4 The pump forcing water through the radiator to have a lift of 38,400 gal- lons, _ The actual work performed by the engine would represent approximately ,600,000 feet tons, which is sufficient The absolute necessities for) thefanansy Ao-1ift the steamship Olympic, 45,000 tons, 100 feet in the air, mr -- AS NOW HER OWN| R OF FASHIONS,