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fen orrMixed T' ES =5 5 PART II, .. "D'ye like him, of don't you?" she asked, 3 "Yes, I like him. He likes mae, too." You be Ser ible caveful, Joanna." " 2." ca, Address Salada, Toronto done shall be bid fn " x 7 ours, Pgh \y Bd nd turn your soul coustiuas beTote 10's yoo late. can ing. ~ THE THIEF BY EDEN PHILLPOTTS. nothing. So we be all clear but you, my dear, and you've got to clear your-] self, if you please, because nobody else can do it for you. We've all} 'marked ybu was a bit troubled of 'late, with 'sométhing on your mind, and we've wondered why." Dear Mr. Editor: Re ,Eendy for your box inthe ~~ (To be continued) Mospial for ick Children | COLLEGE ST, TORONTO. ~ Christmas Appeal to Friends of Childhood. 2 Thé most vital fact in vinee 1s, as you knaw, the tremendous Great' Provincial Charity = Makes) 000 i public He health service throughout the 'pro. he be glad, in & way, if you was strides made in child welfare Work. | » Modern science is harking back to the ancient proverb that "An ounce 'of prevention is worth a pound.of cure." It has been the privilege of the Hos- pital for Sick Children--the greatest ; institution of its kind upon the con- tinent--to find that ounce of préven- tion. > ; In bygone days dependence was pul more largely in medicines. Now- adays there is a closer. partnership between the pediatrician and Dame Nature, Since the erection of our Baby's Ward and the establishment of well babies' clinics the infant mortality in Toronto alone has been reduced from 155 to 82 per thous, "yy, v . Further statistics which might He yore then, ant to De- glven would merely corroborate the then youll be wishful to prove it," | ®ctual lifesaving value of the Hos- "I can't prove it. T can only take! pital's work. And ft is unnecessary my oath, I-didn't touch anything. |to explain to you that the informa- 'm_my father's daughter, and-that| tion as to the researches which make ought to be enough." : such a record possible is at once] "So it ought, communicated to the Health Officers a good man. You'm wife| Then he mentioned his son's money. old and very near so handsome for| Joanna changed colur 'and gave a '@ woman'as your father was for a{bit of a gasp fronted like that afore man } 'em all. But she soon 2ome to her- "Don't you feel no fear about. mse, self. : er. I want to be married to the] "I see iis terrible difficult, mas- right one some day." ter," she said, "I've feared moren When Joanna went back to Four lonce you was looking at me 'doubt ' Ways that night, Mrs, Turtle was in: ful; so P'd best to go, I reckon In tribulation. .. (fact, me @nd mother talked it over sep ve lost my brooch," she 'said. to-day, and she thinks the same, And The gold one with a Jock of mr if Master Tom have lost money--but mother's hair let in behind it. . Loo there tis. I'd best to go. In fact, around sharp to-morrow, Joanna. !'T was going to say the word to missis "Tis a To heat togasure." to-morrow." . wi en, ere. was you " ' » ve fouday--~in the "garden or in the Vil-| og the fermen" dgeictide" anawer- lage" - _ 1 God you've hot took nothing, Joanna 2" "1 do." \ | mer y ] 'a home 3 ¢ SY : Old man (or old woman) of the dark, |? r contents "hurriedly old man of the dark, AL dumped upon the floor, where they! Come Join in our fun and our play; 1. are left, while she flies to the attic: {We'll 'tread on your toes, but each) Ten minutes more of frantic search- one of us a ing, interspersed "with sneezes and If we're caught we'll be lost to the hurry calls from below, and she ar-| day, wn 2 rives at the last box, leaving another _. Then they dance around the Goblin | trail of disorder. : *_ | separately, stepping within his sha- It is 8 big box, but digging down! dow when they dare, but always be- through the layers like a terrier dig- | ing careful to keep beyond his reach. ging for a rat, she emerges with A The Goblin attempts to tag any one triumphant light in her eyes, drag-| who ventures within the magic gha- ging forth from its hiding place the dow, and if he is successful he takes elusive underwear, only to find them! his place as a sunbeam outside and ] 0 ADO. with three. buttons missing and in, the one who is tagged must stand in| dict, Will enter upon all era; 0 dire need of mending. 7 ~~ the centre of the shadow and be the|and : kable development," Sewing is out of the question, so) next Goblin, The game is then begun| : g I've "been making jam . scarce out of the house." But a great hunt failed to find the brooch and Mrs. Turtle grew melan- eholy. * Then, not a week later, if she didn't miss another trinkrum---a lit- tle silver chain that she wore Sun- days and a. little Jocket 'as hung on it, with. a tiny photograph of her _rhildren when they was babies. "She cultural and live stock region, I'y a great outcry, and, slowly but surely, began 'to fasten on Joanna-- Not to her face, but behind her back. Because there wasn't another soul' in. doors at Four Ways barring a.. old woman, up home né4r seventy, who'd been in. the family for 'more than Self a century and was like one of themselves. Farmer Turtle wouldn't sear it at first, and more would Susan, wand more would young Tom Turtle, Sut then a thing happened to the young man himself, and he had to tonfess' that he'd lost a very fine breast pin made of gold with a car- duncle sel. in it--a gift under his grandfather's will and an 'heirloom m the family. hig room and, mlong with it, he'd also lost a silver cigarette case--a prize he'd took in a vegetable show for the best early potatoes two years back. Joanna fretted as much as anybody ander these disasters; and presently 'she began to see that with all the will to do otherwise, the family was Beginning to feel uncomfortable about her, Nobody can say how she felt about it, but Susan warned her be- fore the crash came that her par- ents were terrible uneasy in eir minds; -and when she did warn her, Susan said afer, Joanna didwe flare up or nothing like t, but kept v aint and only said that afore Gout ._ she knew nothing about the lost trea- sures. And believed her, The sequel came all in a hurry on a Septeniber evening when the family was together and Mr. Turtle axed his son what was amiss; because that was another trouble 'and the young man had been glum and queer and unlike » Himself for a day: or two. For the minute they'd put by their losses as Susan was going to be mar- zied next month, her wedding filled air. 'But now young Tom told 'em- bluntly that he'd missed two pounds in gold and two half crowns. "If you must know that's what I'm frétting for--not for the money, but what it means. Twas on my table 'along of my watch. three mornings ago, I will swear," he said; "but I was in a hurry and a thought late ~--for "breakfast. So I pitched on my i clothes and came down, and left my watch and' ¢nain and i Susan most steadfastly | 1t 'was gone out of|tle it, 'and he | that he feared f All the world knew him, But the little you can do, Joanna, you did ought to do." "And thankfully, But what can I do, Mr. Turtle?" she asked. "You can do this," he answered. "You can let: Mrs. Turtle search your Rockets this minute; and then you can one. more thing." fe ~-Joanna flushed so -ved as a rose. Her lips! shook and her eye flashed. For reply she went to her migsis, put her little handbag into her hands, e. ' "Search me, ma'am," she said, And Alice Turtle done so. There was nothing in her bag but a handkerchief, a key and a small bot- of lavender water 'she'd just brought home from her mother; and there was nothing in her pockets but a bit from a news *--a bit o rhyme she'd cut out, ause she liked it. It was a bunting rhyme and mind- ed, het of her father, : ¢ very good so far Joanna," said Mr. Turtle. what might the' .ey be?" "The key oi my box, master." "Then you'll let my wife look in your box, if you please, You ean wus bers J gain Joanna grew pretty hot. "0 my God! My father's 'daugh- ter, to be though: " Her knees Yiivered "under her; but whether "twas shame of being suspect~ ed, or fear of being found out, none watching her could say. Susan stood up for her and protested against such 3 harsh goed, but Thomas Turtle told er to shut her mouth, for he s getting angered now. He Sald-rat was true enough, that if Joanna was innocent she needn't mind the search, and "it would be ne dishonor to her father's memory. "I don't' mind the search, master," she answered very quiet; "but there's a 'packet of letters in my box and they be private letters and I don't think you ought to look at 'em." - "That depends, Joanna" replied Mrs, Turtle. "Be very sure I \ read nothing. ' Your letters are your own; but, at & fearful time like this; you don't ought to no diffienl- ties, in my opinion. If there's let- ters, a third part shall read 'em--not us. Us'll take 'em to parson, or any- body you like to name above suspleion, letters be from my lover" gad Joanna quietly. "Take the key, ma'am, I'll bide here." TR t as it goes; "And now t t pale of cheek or' with twisted "limbs will be the immediate beneficiaries {those the Yuletide remembrances of y readérns, the coming year will benefit by their kindliness. i and practising physicians throughout Ontario. Consequently the Hospital Ras surely a claim upon the Christmas. ime generosity of every friend of lit- tle childrens An institution which is ecuring the new-born child twice the change, 'not. merely. of; good "health, but of life itself; is entitled to the abundant support of the public, During the past financial year, revenue from all sources fell one hundred dollars a day behind mneces- ary expenditures. It has always been the ambition of the Hospital for Sick 'Children to gain not only the support but the ympathy of the people of Toronto, and so to-day, with a dobt exceeding $150,000, it appeals to your readers to help along with some gift, whether it be great or small of $2,000 from an individual or a 80- clety gives the privilege of naming a cot for all time; a donation of 25 cents will run the whole Hospital for half a minute. Between these two amounts A contribution lLiere is surely some sum which be sent by everybody to the pero reasurer at 89 College street, Toronto; as wu -token of 'interest in a charity whose fleld is as large as this province; The Hospital for Sick Children fs one of the largest and most highly regard. ed in the world, | in which the people of Ontario may take legitimate pride, for it 1s through their generosity that success has been [ possible, a 4 It is an institution Two hundred and fifty ch! Thousands' more throughout IRVING B. ROBERTSON, ~ Chairman of Appeal Committees, | i len ends Cost of N.Z. Bullding High. The cost of buflding is 80 high in| New Zealand that private capital is not attracted to the erection of homes, so the Government is 4 -assuming the i| House Plants in Winter. ~ {l other single cause. Ti }but never leave water standing in of the foliage is al- + she flings them down to the: impa- tient John, who _ is loudly helding forth on the valug of system in the home, and returns to the trail of the socks and the mittens." Now, no busy farmers wife "has time for an elaborate file stein, hut if Mary had used this Ii much time of temper and a bad cold. = I'am' "riot blessed 'with unlimited storage space; "so, while doihg the spring cleaning, 1 store sl} winter underwer hosiery, and the like in suit boxes 'of uniform size, number- ing them and stacking them neatly on one of my closet shelves. Then I copy the number ona card; and opposite each number every item of clothing which that box. contains; the number of suits belonging to each member of the family, whether they are mended and whether they will do another year.. This card hangs inside the closet door; and shows at a glance where any needed article is. A similar card hangs just inside the' attic door, showing exactly where everything in it is stored. "In my attic I-bave a sort of book- cage made from packing boxes, in 'which I- file away. the papers and 'magazines I wish to keep. The same little card system is used for it end in just a few minutes any member of ine family can find any magazine he desires, 7s > nine - The watering of plants, especially those ts or boxes, is not a pas- time to be attended to whenever it' may be convenient. Indifferent water- ing ruins more house "The washing of most. as important as the soa the: soil. Te loaves bosoms Overs responsibility. _ She sat scrunched up. She'd gone 8 | ds tooth by now, and face if ever he seed it. away then and restless about to Susan 'late n ater But Susan on _ht SX Tom went out oF ore He'd s that guilt was. | = Which p idea of the mine' she would have saved 'heraelf trees and worry, and John a fit} | million 'or 'more' inhabitants of 'Ma: 'a8 before. At is lots of fun, DC It is the woman stays in the house so much 3 time in' the winter, and has to keep it warm. It is the woman who has to struggle with the dust which blows through even the tightest house, It! is very often-the woman who has to make frequent {rips to the chicken' housg and do other outside chi J Tt istthe woman who is ch ested Wy, the garden and in find suitable Place for the children to play. ' y inser | Her comfort can be tremendously in- creaséd by a proper protection of the house and grounds. 3 Minard's Liniment Relieves Colds, Ete | nti SL Madrid's Washerwomen. - The laundry women of Madrid are probably the finest of tneir profession. in: the. world. - Nowhere else ces the lir..n come home s0 delightfully clean. and it is all Bocomiplished with cold of King Altonso's paldce,<any day of the week, Including Sundays, may seen acre after acre: of .snow-white linen 'spread out to dry along banks of the Manzanares. In the tur: 'bulent 'waters of thls creek, for it fa}. nothing 'more in spite of its sonorous name, virtually all the washing for the | than that of n ely water.» Within sight of the windows, Ha RE