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\ SE Bovril"s wonderful N ~ -- 2 "Well," said Frederic, cheerfully, looking at the wound in his leg, which had almost closed, "I shall soon be able to go back to the front." "You are in such a hurry to leave me!" sighed Mme. Chantel. "In a hurry to leave you? What foolishness! But now that I am nearly well I naturally think of rejoining my regiment. In two weeks I shall be all right." 4 She shook her head. "You can hardly take a step. Th war, alas! isn't nearly over. You will have plenty of time to fight. And I shall have plenty of time to wait at home, torn with anguish by letters which 'ever come, by news which fills one with doubt. Stay a month longer, or six weeks! It will go so quickly. en I shall be the first to say to you: # "on He tenderly kissed her fingertips. "I shall stay." : Life took its ordinary course agai beautiful with anticipations, rose ¢ol- ored with hopes. Leaning on Mm: Chantel's' arm, he smiled at his pro gress, measuring the distance he cov- ered'each day, After walking around the house he made a tour of the lawn then of the garflen. Finally he opene the gate into the highroad. Mme. Chantel.followed his recovery joyless- ly. One day when he had taken a longer walk than usual he asked her: "Aven't you glad to see me getting along so well?" She answered evasively: "I am thinking of the separation which draws near." "How can jit be helped? return." "What service can you render? You have told me what life in the trenches is like--how much courage and strength are needed by the man who fights and the man who commands. I know that you have oeurage enough. But have you the strength?" The sweetness of inaction, the.at- tention with which he had been sur- rounded every minute, had softened him a little. He agreed that he still tired very quickly. She pxplained to him that that was not at all surpris- ing. She would not hold him back fon enything in thé world, she said. But prudence and even duty required him to remain. He listened to her thought- fully. She avoided intermingling her love andeher egotistic desire to retain him with her arguments based on common sense, © Winter brought the rains. Snow darkened the skies. The house was cheerful. "The droning stove sang a strange cradle song. So he remained. His convalescence lasted until spring. His wound, completely healed, .was now only a rose spot on his flesh. The newspapers were filled with talk of a new offensive. Letters brought him " word of battles, of wounded comrades cited in the orders of the day. 'The list of the dead lengthened. When he read these letters aloud Mme. Chantel closed her eyes. He didn't dare # continue. In a hoarse voice he kept saying: "I'm going to go." Mme. Chantel made no answer. One morning she broke out sudden- ly: Y Why go? Why die? I gave you up once. I nearly lost you once. Your life is precious to me. You have shed your blood. You have done your duty. He answered with firmness: "Who knows that he has done his duty so long as he has not done more than his duty?" Then she poured out her love, her self-pity, her rebelliousness and her tears. : I must » rs. "Haven't you also a duty toward me? Is our love so poor a thing? Besides, a soldier's duty is not always in the first line. It is everywhere. You think you are cured. I know well that you arent. The doctors have told me--" "What doctors?" "Al of them," she cried audaciously. Then, in a softened tone, she added: "Wait, wait a while. If you are -- oA ion, Na --- 7 : T -- Kitchen Econonty i -- © Ifyou consider its body-building powers Bovril is probably, "the most economical food you can buy. matter how high "its price, has been proved to or body buildiog powers. Bovril | saves butchers' bills and is a great economiser in the kitchen. ~ THE SLACKER Se By MAURICE LEVEL. K fa Translated From the French. The! 4 perhans. » y NB other food, no, -- 3 try fo console him =by beautiful i phrases, she showed him .life as it was in reality--good fortune for some, {misfortune for others. Little by little he forgot the war and dreamed of the | day when he should return to Paris to resume his civilian clothes and his former occupation. All constraint disappeared from their conversation. { He spoke of the war, of the advance- | ment of his former comrades, with | such detachment that she asked her- | seif sometimes whether this indiffer- ence didn't conceal eo deep-seated chagrin--if he didn't cherish a secret grudge against her for haying kept him out of danger. She sought to fathom his thoughts. But he smiled 80 tranquilly and sank back into the depths of his easy chair with such abandon that she felt embarrassed on his account and changed thg subject. Almost unconsciously . became 'less tender." He felt the change, was je enivg by 'it and ended by saying to er: | "You are no longer the same. I spexk to you; you don't understand me. You seem abstracted, far away, indifferent." ; -~ She' defended herself. How could he have such wn idéa. She was sad, But what woman wouldn't be sad; saddened thinking of the many men who were fighting and-dying?, Her response had never been so direct. He had never s) cruelly under- stood how false his own situation was --how humiliating, even. He replied, {With bitterners: | "Neo doubt they deserve more tend- | erness than those who remain behind." Without measuring its ,brusqueness | or brutality, she blurted out the word: | "Inevitably." > Her tone seemed to him to convey a certain hostility. - Her look was harsh and contemptuous, He thought her savage, unjust and hateful. | "Do you mean to reproach me for being here?" he murmured. She was silent. His gorge rose. { "Have you forgotten that if I am here it is because of your entreaties --almost because of your commands? Wasn't it you who counselled me and influenced me? Have you forgotten what you repeated to me over and over again with tears: 'Don't go; don't abandon me; keep yourself for me'? Was that a piece of acting on your part? Didn't you think what you were asking me?* Then--for your looks, your attitude, your Restures, your silence, all you are and do annoy and humiliate me--then what have you to I reproach me for now?" She raised her head and answered pitilessiy: "For having obeyed me." (The End.) ------ Train the Coming Generation. Beyond doubt it is true that fathers in the past have not paid enough at- tention to sons. There has been too much haphazard growing on the part of-boys, too- much trusting to Tuck, too much of the spirit of "Oh, well I was a boy once myself and I didn't have any coddling and I grew up all right; I guess the boys of to-day will grow up to be all right, tos" If you strip the whole activity of the race down to .its essentials, what is the race trying to do, anyhow? Is It not to improve itself from generation to generation? And yet is it not true that too many of the adult generation care very little, in so far as their activities indicate, what sort of folks the generation following themSshall be? Parents of to-day seem more widely open to indictment in this par- ticular than those of many preceding] generations. The boys are given not hearly so much home training as in former days, and as for the girls-- there is abundant evidgnce of how badly they have been trained for the serious+business of advancing the race by another generation. It is true that there is room fo abgolutely determined to go back to i go ; but to a service to] which your strength is equal. There must be many such posts. I dont know. But don't you know of any? You will be brave, wherever you are. ~ 1 am as scrupulous of your honor as] you are yourself. Think a little of "He listened in-silence, The slow Co Rp a ent. Then he bent his head. "torment ourbelt? You have [1 you could do? ot this assurance sufficed gf X 7h dust : tremendous increase of effort and gaod results.in public and general service of the boy. Nothing should prevent the making of 'that increase. At the same timé it is pathetically true that too many boys are in need' ot the help of public-spirited" men when the boys' own fathers and mothers are slight. ing the lads' training. There is a lot 'boy's work" meeded in the' boy's --_-- % Hard on Good Clothes. The "pictures" were a great novelty in slowville; and a travelling outfit 'was sure of crowded houses. Recently Jd Mrs. Brown yielded to her hus 's persuasions, and paid her first visit to the movies. She put on her Sunday bonnet and cloak - in honor of the great event, : As they entered, a thrilling cowboy film was being shown, in which men, cattle and horses were well mixe Mrs. Brown gripped "her ey +f L_ The idea that because a girl is to Can Your Daughter Earn Her Living? Last June your boy or your - girl passed the High School Entrance, School in the country is dome. © ™ According to your ideas, school is You might send a boy if he wanted] to take up a profession and just wouldn't stay on the farm, but a girl high school or college and getting a Not of high-falutin' notions that just turn her head and make her feel above her family? If she would go on and do something" afterwards 'you might do it, but she'll only get married and there's all that money thrown' away. This is your line of argument. But what of the child? Is your child per- fectly contented with the very, very little bit she ? For the work in public school 'is really not even a drop in the bucket. Is she perfectly satisfied with the future you have mapped out for her--to stay at home and help mother until some boy asks her to marry him and sha goes into a home of her own? Or has she ideas of a life a little fuller than one con- cerned merely with material things, money, clothes and food? Does she --what's 'the sense of her going to} done with for good. The child now eaven & ~~ gn a great deal more book learning When Setting the Table. : ; wick: you ever had, and you've gof] 7 = the ¥. : ona -- t along and made . There's no| It is not to have trained! _ tion which sense in-sending n to high| servants to set the table correctly and! record school unless they are going to teach.| to serve the meals nicely, Any house-| = layed] | v ié wife canido it, and with no'more time] | and energy expended, if she will but| bd train Berself. = E | . Setting the table correctly three . times a day is an art, but it is one] which everyone may acquire. Sim- plicity is the keynote in &ll table; decorations. In no other point is the taste and culture of a housewife so observed as in the table service which of meal has its own particular of silverware necessary for it, b 3 same general rules apply to all, -- In all cases the plates and silver- ware should be placed one-half inch stiff 'batter. A cupful of dried cher- love books, pictures, music? Has she a mania for taking care of sick folks. and animals? . ; Has she been "nagging" you to send her to high school so that she may bei able to do the thing she likes best ? | 15 she ambitious for something outside the kitchen. Of course, we want her| to know all about home-making, but| does she crave sométhing more? | And is her expressed desire for higher edudation based on a real de- | sire for knowledge, or does she just) want to go because her chum is going | and they can have a gay time in town, free from parental eyes? If she is sincere in her desire, what are you | going to do about it? you going to arbitrarily refuse hér the oppor- tunity, because you never cared for such things yourself, or are you going | to give her all the help you can to! improve her God-given talent? Are you going to let her be herself, help her to be herself, or are you going to! force her into a mold of your liking, a life of material things the making] of money, cooking' of food, things entirely of the earth earthy? | Is she to grow into the sért of wo- man: God meant her to be or the sort of woman you think she ought to be? Isn't she entitled to a choice of the sort of life shell. live. After all, ghe will have to live it. You may die in five years, during which time you have spoiled her life. Will you die more cheerfully knowing that her life-long thought will be, "If father and mother had only let me follow my natural bent how much better life would have been." y marry and become a home-maker, her education is wasted, is really so ab- surd it should have died long ago. But like all bad things, it dies hard. Isn't it true in your case that the more you learn about everything the better you are able to do 'your own line of work? The broader your knowledge the greater your success. And doesn't it follow that an educated woman is better fitted to bring up the right sort of citizens than the uneducated ones Would you rather . your son would marry a girl who left school at the third book, or one with a high school education? Wouldn't you feel that the last girl would, other things being equal, make him the better helpmeet? Hasn't your prospective son-in-law a right to demand that you do as much for his wife as you want someone to do for your son's wife? 3 Is a woman a poorer mother be- cause she can select the best in books and music for her children? Will'it be better for the children to hear Bee- thoven or ragtime? Won't you feel prouder to have your grandchildren choose' such works as Shakespeare | than to have them turn to "Deadwood Dick"? Is money wasted which helps a girl to make better men and women' out of her children? If you want a more practical rea-' son, there's the very good one that, every girl should be able to earn her: own living before she is allowed 'to get married. If she could, there would | parallel to the edge of the table and from the edge of the table. . The din- ner knife and fork are always placed nearest the plate. The knife, with the blade turned toward the plate on the Yight of the plate, the fork with tines up, on' the left of -the plate. The other pieces of silver are placed in the order in which they will be used, beginning with the outsilie. The, spoons are placed to the right of the knife, while all forks are placed to the left of the dinner fork. The butter spreader may be placed either on the butter plate or at the top of the "cover," with the point toward the fork. . "The glass has a correct place at the tip and slightly to the right of the knife. The napkins are laid at the left of the fork, with the loose edges ries, raspbérnies or raisins is .an .im- provement. Put into a bag and steam two hours. Sauce--one pint of water, rone cupful of sugar, half cupful of butter and two heaping tablespoonfuls of flour, bofléd fogether and! flavored with lemon or nutmeg.--¥. J. - How to Wash Corduroy.--Oerduroy is a kind of cotton velvet which may be washed providing it is not rubbed, squeezed or ironed. If it is made up at home; stitch the seams, with a loose stitch to prevent puckering "when washed. Before laundering babies' ts or other lined garments loosen the lining at the bottom to avoid bag- L ging. Use a solution of mild soap, for dark colors which may streak or fade a solution of goap bark. Souse the garments up and down in a soapy water, changing the water as it be- comes soiled. Rinse in several clear waters until no more dirt and soap come out. Hang the garment up ping wet and so that it will dry in the shape in which it is worn. Dry in the wind if possible. When dPy brush briskly to raise the nap. ttt Amin "To Stop Fires in Mines. fork; or it is rolled and placed in the same position. The_butter plate is placed at the tip and slightly to the left of the fork. The table linen may vary for the different meals, as a lunch cloth or doilies for breakfast and luncheon, and a tablecloth for dinner. These sliould bear out the sane keynete of simplicity as the table decoration. is just as likely to cause expl she offers her family and friends. | ~ = 3 e table should not appear crowd- 'Musical Merchandise : ed, and, as far as possible, china, siden Soc RI glassware, and silverware should] .] Without any obligation on my part, : harmonize--that is, they should ell ooklet. ~All none" adhere strictly to the note of sim- fi Zo ti plicity. . | ifr i ry TAME cnicsessmiamiioispsnissies isso ' The arrangement of the plate, glass, "5 ' ndpkin, and for gach per- ADDRESS correc} son is called the "cover." ; 1 | "German" Wast Africa theludes 3,000, or, Coal-dust floating in the air in clouds Minard Facts. ean Two rats will increase in twelve 'months to 4,000. ° : a Queen Maud of Neérway can claim ~ | to be the first woman pilot of a fly- ing boat. 3 a Britain's gift to Belgium: of part off 3 000 natives, i _The cost of living has risen in France, according" to district, to from 100 per cent. to 250 per cent. on pre- | war prices. CIE nT Ay 5:4 | "The train used by the Prince of "Wales for his Canadian tour com- prised seven salgon-cars, dining-car, and two luggage-vans. ' : The model of the first tank was made in August, 1915; the first real = was | . tank, nicknamed "Mother," & finished" in January, 1916, / i Superfiuois. j = 3 ; Little Arthur: "I say, father, is it Sx ! true' that Nature never wastes any-' thing?" Father: "Yes, Arthur, quite true!" Fruits of Experience. There are different ways of remov- ing scorch. One is to make a paste of cornstarch and water; hang near the fire after applying the paste to the scorched part. Some people are successful in removing scorch stain, | if they dip the place m cold water! immediately, and lay it out of doors. on the clean grass to bleach. I the scorch is deep, use Javélle water as a bleach.--Z. I. D. To Avoid Odors of Cooking Vege- tables.--When™ cooking cabbage, on- ions or cauliflower, to prevent the odor from permeating the house, place a good-sized piece of bread in the bot- tom of the kettle in which the vege- table is cooking. When Stitching.--If the belt your sewing machine is a little loose and slips when operating the machine, rub the belt thoroughly with a piece of resin--F. F, W. : Oil the Machine.--Sometimes my sewing machine becomes gummed, and refuses to move, so I pour coal oil into the oil holes, take the thread out of the needle, and run the machine. The coal oil soon cuts the dirt and gummed oil. "Then TI wipa off all the coal oil and oil 'with a good quality machine coal mines as fire-damp, and there are three ways of overcoming the danger. The commonest method is to use water to lay the dust. the plan of rendering the dust non-in- flammable by mifing with it ordinary rock-dust. This is done by applying a coating of the rock-dust to various parts of the mine, and the plan is very effective, . Another way is to set up a trough of the mine. When an explosion oec- curs the dust is automatically thrown from the troughs to-the floor of the mine, and the cloud of incombustible dust filling the air at this point stops the passage of the burning coal-dust. His Portion. 9) "Life, after all," we said in our su- perior way, "is but-a game, and--" "Yes," adniltted honest Farmer Hornbeak.. "And my part consists mostly in yelling at my hifed man that it is' his move." an , 5 = 4 Sweep down the cobwebs and use whitewash freely in the stables. --pe Le Four thousand women are: included in the membership of the Saskatche- "Then what's ge use of a cow - pi ing two horns en she can't even blow one? : > hn 's Liniment Cures Dandruff. my Then there is ! ¢ filled with rock-dust ih various parts. ~All grades, Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS @ J. OLIFF ,. . TORONTO oil. This knowledge has' saved .'me sending for the repair man a number of times; it also has saved me much time. It is a very simple thing; and yet many women neglect it.--F. R. Economy in'the Use of Lemons.-- Submerge the lemons in hot water | wan Grain Growers' mn, Parker's Wi and let them stand for five or six 1 " minutes covered. Then use in the' to their former appearance customary way and you will find that' them to'you, good as you will get almost twice the amount of juice and flavor as when they are Send anything from househo draper- fy without the "hot bath." "This g jes down to the finest of deicath fabries. method is also useful when the lemons' ll ~~ = We pay postage or express charges one have become hard and dry. 'If only a Ie ell TREE a few drops of lemon juice are needed | 4 : ; SE insert the prongs of a carving fork! be fewer widows left stranded. Just in one end and squeeze out the desired: a typical instance. There's the college' amount The holes will close up, leay-! woman who teaches Latin in our ing the lemon i --M. J. 8S. 1 -v | " school. Her father thought it was.alll A smooth board is the f : nonsense t4 send a girl to college, or, gre AT a a a La . 'beyond the fourth book, she'd only get coy fi WE AARNE BROS Bb OR J 0 married, But this particular girl !/} Parcels may be sent Post or Express. h and § v Fe a n all : ~~ We pay Carriage one way on all orders. ticle a By cleaning or dyeing ~réstore any articles will be promptly 'given : 7 . | x e ; - le 1K. _and return new. hd t.