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B. finds time to do so much sewing.' In the selection of new home or kit- chen conveniences it is well to learn Along with the other housecleaning problems there is the one of storing the winter clothing. It is here that the old adage, "An ounce of preven- tion is worth a pound of cure," ap- plies, for to have silk and woolen and furs from the wily moth, one must use every preventative. To store unused woolens, silks and furs in an attic or clothespress will serve as an excellent breeding place for the moth. It is best that all such material should be carefully, cleaned before storing in order that no moths be present. They may be put up in several dif- ferent ways with a degree of safety. fore investing. What may appear to be a convenience might really become an expensive inconvenience. With a few well chosen conveniences the farm wife can do her work much more effi- ciently than if she has too many. We need, then, with an open mind to choose the new methods, sugges- tions and conveniences according to our daily needs, that our work will be easier and that me may have a few minutes for recreation and fresh air. | i MOTHER'S OCCUPATION the opinions of other housekeepers be-|. CHAPTER XL.-- (Cont'd.) ing with an outer office and threw it open Mr. and Mrs. Hull, Olson and e Chief of Police followed Phyllis :| Harriman into the room. More chairs p were brought in. The Chief sat nearest the door, one leg thrown lazily across the other. He had a fat brown cigar in his hand. Sometimes he ¢ on the end of it, but he was not smoking. He was an Irishman, and as it hap d open- minded. He liked this brown-faced Jone fellow from Wydming--never d believed him gully from. the first. Moreover, he was willing his detective bureau' should get a jolt from an out- sider. It might spur them up in future. "Chief, is there anything you want to say?" Kirby asked. "Not a wor-rd. I'm sittin' in a Kirby stepped to the door connect- to tracted ttention. I had the aby ac al on. t an Ta a at Dry Vi SE he man who had written ters to my uncle/an' to discover that nan, Insi he was stayin' next door to the Para- dox the very night of the murder. More, my friend Sanborn an' I guess- ed he had a 3 Deen on the fire Seal eR andhau an Sef some in' o ance throug n- dow. Later I forced a statement from Olson. He told all he had seen that parquet seat. It's your show, son." Kirby's disarming smile won the Chief's heart. « "I want to say now that I've talked with the Chief several | times, He's given me a lot of i tips an' I've worked under his direc- tion." The head of the police force grin- ned. The tips he had given ane had been of no value, but he was quite night irby turned to the rancher from Dry Valley and had him tell his story. When he had finished, the cattleman made comment, "On the face of it Olson's story leaves in doubt the question of who actually killed my uncle, If he was tellin' the whole truth, his evidence willing to take any public credit there might be. He sat now while Kirby told his story. "Outside of the Chief every one here is connected closely with this case | an' is involved in it. It happens that Paper bags of pasteboard boxes may be used for storage of these materials, but care must be taken to seal them carefully with gummed strips before putting them aside. A generous sup- ply of moth balls may be sprinkled in to serve as an added precaution. Clothing free from moths may be stored in cedar chests or tight wooden boxes which have been painted on the inside with the oil of red cedar. This method is much to be preferred, since odor of red cedar wood is pleasant to most people. All washable woolens should be washed and ironed before storing. Clothing must be aired, brushed and sponged before being packed away. Carpets and rugs should be cleaned and swept with a damp broom dipped in kerosene. Infested areas of car- pets may be steamed, using a wet towel and a hot flat-iron. Closets from which moth-infested clothing has been removed should be wiped down with a damp mop mois- tened with kerosene, since the larva, when ready to pulpate, ofttimes mi- grate for their food supply and fasten themselves to the ceiling and shelves. On the enrollment card for young people to fill out on entrance to col- lege, there is a request for the name or parent or guardian, then the name of their occupation. One boy, whose father was dead, gave his mother's name on the parent line and on the blank requesting occupation he wrote the word "Mother." There has been a lot of discussion in the past year about who are the great women. There are so many! fathers, daughters, sons and friend of | mothers who have planted in their] hearts the picture of some woman-- in most cases their own mother-- whose life was or is obscure. They cannot prove to the world her great- ness, but-they will not allow fame! to place a name above their mothers. Several women who have won fame in careers are now telling the world that were they to choose again it] would be for a home, husband and children. Perhdps even the census man may some. day take the school- boy's suggestion and admit that the occupation of mother is worthy of the name. | | | i | dr: A POPULAR STYLE. USING MAPLE SYRUP. On days when you are too tired to fuss with an elaborate dessert, try this one: Cover a fresh slice of bread, cut about an inch thick and two or three inches square, with fresh maple syrup or shaved maple sugar. Serve with thin cream. Maple Cream Filling--Cook three- fourths cupful of maple syrup, and a tablespoonful of butter, then pour gradually into the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs. When mixture is smooth, add one-half cupful of whip- ped cream, and a few drops of maple Byrup. Maple Syrup Cake--% cup butter, 8 rounding tablespoons sugar, 1% cups maple syrup, 4 tbsp. cream, but- termilk, 2 tsp. soda, 2 eggs, 4% cups flour, 1 tsp. cream of tartar. Cream the butter. Add the maple syrup. Put cream in a cup and fill my uncle's apartments either at the time of his death or just before or after." Kirby raised a hand to meet Olson's protest. "Oh, I know. You weren't in the rooms, but you were on the fire escape outside. From the angle of the police you may have been in. All you had to do was to pass through an jopen window." There was moment's silence, while Kirby hesitated in what order to tell {his facts. 'Hull mopped the back of his overflowing neck. Phyllis Cun-| ningham moistened her dry life, A cord in her throat ached tensely. "Suspicion fell first on me an' on Hull," Kirby went on. "You've seen it all thrashed out in the papers. I had been unfriendly to my uncle fo; years, an' I was seen goin' to his rooms an' leavin' them that evening. M own suspicion was directed to Hull, especially when he an' Mrs. Hull at the coroner's inquest changed the time 50 as to get me into my uncle's apart- ment half an hour earlier than I had been there. I'd caught them in a panic of terror when I knocked on their door. They'd lied to get me into trouble. Hull had quarrelled with Uncle James an' had threatened to go after him with a gun in 'two days after that time--and it was just {orty-cight hours later he was killed. t looked a lot like Hull to me. "I had one big advantage, Chief, a lot of inside facts not open to you," the cattleman explained. "I knew for instance, that Miss McLean here had in the rooms just before me. She was the Joung woman my uncle had the pppointment to meet there before ten o'clock. You will remember Mr. Blanton's testimony. . Miss McLean an' I compared notes, so we were able to shave down the time during which the murder must have taken place. We worked together. She gave me other important data. Perhaps she had better tell in her 'own words about the clue she found that we followed." Rose turned to the Chief. Her young face flew a ch flag of color. Her hair, in crisp tendrils be-, neath the edge of the small hat she, wore, was the ripe gold of wheat-tips in the shock. he tender blue of violets was in her eyes. "I told you about how I found Mr. Cunningham tied to his. chair, Chief I forgot to say that in the living room there was a faint odor of perfume. with buttermilk. Add soda and stir. Add well-beaten eggs and flour to which cream of tartar has been added. Spices, nuts or fruit may be added if one wishes to change the maple flavor. Bake in a loaf. 4684. This becoming little model may be of gingham, pongee, sateen or | printed voile. It is also good for linen, serge or wool crepe. The guimpe' may be of lawn or batiste. The Pattern is cut in 4'Sizes: 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. A 6-year size re- quires 1% yard of material for the, | Dress and 1% for Guimpe 36 inches wide. With short sleeves the Guimpe will require 1 yard. Pattern mailed to' any address on receipt of 16c in silver, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Allow two weeks for receipt of pattern. Send 16c in silver for our up-to- date Spring and Summer 1924 Book! of Fashions. LEARNING FROM OTHERS. A homemaker without an open mind is like a turtle encasing herself in al hard shell at the mere approach of a suggestion. Her home may be solid along structural lines but its progress is slow and will not keep apace with the moving tide of new ideas. You have met the woman who can- not accept a new idea from another person until it has become 80 incor- porated in her mind that she is con- -vinced that she thought of it herself. ray That friend is defrauding her family, TO SAVE THE DRIPPINGS. {gan to run down facts an' learned that On my way upstairs I passed in the dark a man.and a woman. I hud got d whiff of the same perfume then. It was violet. So I knew they had been in the apartment just before me, Mr. Lane discovered later that Miss Harri- man used that scent." "Which opened vp a new field of speculation." Kirby went on. "We be- my cousin James had secretly married Miss Harriman at Golden a month before. My uncle had just learned the news. Hé had a new will made by his lawyer, one thal cut James o without a cent an' left his property to Jack Cunningham." ack and listened | had every man an' woman of us were in, 80 Joints either to the Hulls or my cousin ames, But it was quite possible he seen amele tied up an' help- less, an' | himself stepped throu the window an' shot him. Am I right, ief 7" The Chief nodded grimly. "Right, n. _ "You told me you didn't think I did it," Olson burst out bitterly. "An' T tell you so again," Kirby answered, smiling. "I was mentionin' possibilities, On Jour evidence it lies tween 'my cousin James an' Hulls, It was the Hulls that had tied him. up after Cass Hull knocked hi; senseless. It was Hull who had given him: two 'days 'more to live. And that's not all. Net an hour an' a half ago I had a talk with Mrs, Hull. She admitted, under pressure, that she 7e- turned to my uncle's apartment again to release him from the chair." She was alone with him, an' he was wholly in her power. She js a woman with a the schedule I mad like to see it." - velope to James, ther's 'down the list. "I ge. he said. "But what does chiefs in England reminds the London Chronicle of the visit of a similar de- putation in 1894 and its introducton to Queen Victoria, which shook a little even her experienced equanimity, lated 's 1 checked u ime as carefully as I cogld. Heres Mebbe you' Jack rose and looked over his bro-| 4 that stage the queen shoulder. His eye Tan| i; alarmed. "But where is the Tis rest of LM) rted. "I do : (To.be continued.) rn peers ems eis. The Official Baby. The arrival of a party of * | savage six feet tall and weigh, siderably more. Swazi | pounds. "Here he fs. is best who is beset. by "We come, O great mother," trans- the interpreter, "to bring to thee | sear reminds. | - R_- i EGE EY lose to' the time element.| J LE v5, . of an hour ten people beside] Y, wid Lo. Uncle James were in his ly ie Pl must 'a' trod on each Heit fast, I figured. So | nothing. > / don't-see him." © "Here, O Mother, said the Swazi, a ng than two hundred ~~ Minard's Liniment Meale-Gots No one is born without faults; be least. Forget the wound even though the| it. By doing so you | may sometimes discover that the name does not tell you everything about the bearer of it. That is so in the case of | the "mystery ships." Officially, they th | are described as "aircraft carriers." "Nothing novel about that," say you. "I've heard of them before." You may have done £0. Bu | vessels are something far more- portant than mere floating pantechni- 'eons, as. all "aircraft carriers" have ; , the ships are capable of doing a bit of fighting them- selves. 2 = Amnon Great Britain Still Leading. . +One. of them--the Hermes--is the first #hip ever designed and bullt spe- cially as a sea-going base for aero- planes. She is ordered to join the Mediterranean Fleet. When she ar- rives, this Fleet, shortly to become the most: Important sea-going command in the Navy, will be able to take with it wherever. it goes a "nest" from which a swarm, of "hormeéts" can "buzz out" at any moment and to which they can return after thelr flight has ended. Other of the these "mystery ships" are reiocarnations," They were orig- inally battle-cruisers, and have got a new lease of life as mobile bases for aircraft. One is joining the Atlantic Jassjonate sense of injury. What a) ned then nobody else saw." rs. Hull opened her yellow, wrinkled. lips to speak, but ®Kirb checked her. "Not yet, Mrs. Hull, I'll return to the subject. If yom wish you can defend yourself then." He stopped a second time to find the logical: way of proceeding 'with his story. The silence in the room was tense. The proverbial pin could have been heard. Only one person in the room except Kirby knew where the lightning was going to strike. That person 'sat 'by the door'chewing the end of a cigar pasSively. A woman gave a strangled little sob of pent emotion, "I've been leaving' Horikawa out of the story," the cattleman went on. I've t to bring him.in now. He's the inge on which it all swings. The man or woman that killed my uncle felled Horii Joos ames Cunningham, sitting o) site Kirby with his cold eyes org ly fixed on him, for the first time could not have maintained It-is a'pure and. Ts its unchallenged position in ~~ ° Whelssmenect n> Canadian homes if it were = ug, aR not the best. Fhe best is not Seonemical too good for your table. Ar all d Ask for Crown Brand. = i ho 20 Ib. tins. .--~ THE CANADA STARCH CO, LIMITED _- - | her co in 2-25-10 and | hte ~} » | shall keep {70 the Seas." gave visible sign of his anxiety. It came in the form of a little gulping sound in his throat. ¥ "Cole Sanborn and I found Hori- kawa in the room where he had been killed, The doctors thought he must have been dead about a day. Just a day before this time Miss McLean an' I met James Cunningham comin' out of the Paragon. He was white an' shaking. He was sufferin' from nau. sea, an' his arm was badly strained. fot lonfosst topos phmit y Mouta tection" booklet on request, HAROLD C. SHIPMAN & PATENT ATTORNEYS By SRe S1eiar ET RRR '"I'hat will was never sigaed," Jack broke in quickly, Kirby looked at Jack and smiled ¢ ieally. "No, it. was never signed. Your brother discovered tha: when he: Inoked the will over at Usiele's desk a gh death ". $ few minutes after her friends and herself of the increas-| There is always a great deal of left- «ed comfort and happiness that greater Over fat on the farm. Here is an ex- rogress in the development of her cellent way in which to save it. With! Pons ight afford, a can opener 'the centre is cut from' = "of the best methods relating, the lid of a syrup Son and a Sreular, our home job we may learn from Plece of muslin--an old sa i friends, if we will only select them! is ideal for this--a little larger than adopt them for our own.|the rim is sewed to the rim with works. out some, coarse thread. This top acts as schedule just a little Strainer, is always in place and keeps i than does Some other Out dust and flies. ] : | close observation even BE TT ions will surprise one to ntimental, steps Mrs. S. does! "Let me see," sald the young : ©" lthoughtfully. 'I've got to buy. ---- | flowers, and some chocolates, = a the senior clerk, = .. d "No, sentimental arithmetic," wi the reply. VO Ps ef iin Toe highest est. roost is not. the saf James did not wink an eyé in 'dis- The hand of the woman sitting beside him out instan gd h i : ure. ; white to the Tipe, but het thought ws for the man she loved aud 'not for CH gives! y at the Lowest Cost per Mile i T= automobile as a productive factor in A Canadian business has proved of greater value, than any other single invention. By shortening distances and time, the automo- bile brings buyer and seller together more quickly, conveniently and economically than any other means of transportation. : The 'automobile has increased man's earning power many times over. And Chevrolet, the lowest-priced. ity car in the world pro- vides this efficient transportation at a lower price per mile than does any other car built. 4 \ : Continuotts daily service under difficult con- ditions only proves Gop ete depend- ility and stamina of th ctical Fleet; the remainder will be sent wherever 'required. When they all have "passed into service" the Navy at sea will 'have become a part aerial, part naval, force--equally able to fight over the water, on the water, or under the water. Whilst Britain has been thus recon- | strc 'the "Empire's Sure Shield" tors shroat have followed along similar linge. Only, they are a an her. ty That, explains why the "mystery hie are. sing officially kept a 'mys. tery." ' The Admiralty do not see the wisdom of telling the whole. world * that have cost her so much discover. It 16 thus that 'Britain 'her.proud title: "Mistress i -- rin "1 Posen You Ought to Kew: "The Skylark. _ Thousands know the memorial to Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh, but few are familiar with the beautiful statue 'to his friend, James Hogg, in Ettrick Forest, beside St. Mary's Loch. The poet was called "The Ettrick Shep- i Bird of the wilderness, - Bithesome and cumberiess, ~~ Pp Hy {5 is' thy dwelling-place-- . 40h, to abide tn the desert with thee! vild 1s, thy lay and loud, & a ae a lou Love gives it energy, love gave It birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where are thou journeying? : Thy lay. is in héaven, thy love is on earth. (O'er tell and fountain sheen, O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the = day... Over 'the cloudiet dim, - Over the rainbow's rim, . - {Musical cherub; soar, singing away! Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and