now you have made me @ man." "Will nothing I can say disillusion ou?" asked Miss Ingleby despairing- as if I were a dragon!" Elsie went forward and looked at each - glance -between them was " : b an cas in = it : 9 Pp Oo lem door opened @ woman i A W mans r in. gray w oe : 5 oO a ee vad are her = » t il izer _During the ; Shur or five bn Stripped Herself of Her-Little Artifices to Save a Young Girl gyre ante e * -- - ma conser 8 "oni thi ; continent < ' am ieee and am r own people must be By Frank Filson. e "CITY OF HISTORY. aes sole Pope ps ae a _| &8 and 30 . tared hard, 1 -- tC) endly neu- = j Elsie?" he whispe! Interest of the Entire | trals. ~No effort'that can be made "Come here, girl; don't look at me only a boy when I became engaged--|'g5 she seated herself at Tom's Holds Sah by ths peg ok cee a ! ' "Miss Ingleby!" s add arly Considerable amount of new b : From a firs tammered the gir Ps Red Planet," by Wa just learned \agbeat * gave me a psychological, th) experience that I shall never ~forget, in amazement: 2 food to the ilab] li The rest of the meal was passed { abe fe mupelies. Letere next falk. § Miss Ingleby-with an-expression of ? ' tocks so much mingled hatred and admira » absolute silence. Elsie's eyes took i "Tar enkins had bee ted of we had not kr tion that the elder woman flashed her] "Nothing," he answered. "When I every de the incident, Sh writes Hester ihe apt ye aailaty eee ee ' gaan y =e ae maar of at the white teeth and her eyes twinkled ex-| look at you you seem the incarnation! .ay the expression of amazemen very Pi § and meats. The problem is to signé& to the British, actly as they did in the posters with] of all beauty to me. I want you; I crept into Tom's eyes, ; mil HSG of the soil con which almost every boarding in the] dont care for honor or duty; I want! tempt to speak, choke, and at last rise/such Adam's Tomb, David's Tower, | terval until this year's crops are har- . "out country had been decorated at one] you.' : and hares from the room. An: er even Calvary'it-| vested. While. preparing for in- Siete iliccteciate = time or another. Miss Ingleby rose up slowly. Her Ingleby, brave Miss Ingleby who had y/places tag; by,| creased production, we must also do more magnificent ree e perhaps She went forward defiantly, but a face was pale, her lips trembling. stripped herself naked of her titties ce ilgrims with no re- | our utmost.to help our Allies over the Mrancevwill Be studs , too, with the ' , moment later somehow. she found that | she was crying upon Miss Ingleby's shoulder, while the singer caressed} "On Thursday morning I will give you my anwser," she answered. That was Tuesday evenin artifices to save another woman, ere unconcerned, the cynosure of all g a courageous show of thad quarrelled seandalously ver the P to troth; I knew that Christians next few months when starvation will graves of Amer y soldiers. Can anyone doubt that*'nenceforth for. all . be threatening them dangerously. city, and that many superstitions had! « Se ee usurped the 'name of religion, and I jexpected dirt and disillusion. But world. purposes Britain, France and the United States'will be bound to- gether in an indissoluble friendship? - Tom her and patted her hair gently. | Banks lived in a fever of Leneiness "So I have stolen her beau away during the following day. . ld from her and she wants him back!"; scarcely attend to the details of his re Official information, much of it con- whispered Miss Ingleby. "Isn't that| business... His whole being burned) gpe understood that the elder woman gradually I came to recognize in the | fidential, received during the past few so, dearie?" | with a consuming passion for the} had made atonement for her offense,| land the setting for the wonderful life | days emphasizes the scarcity of su Elsie raised her head. "I shouldn't beautiful inger. What though a few) 'There could be none greater than that.j@f Jesus and the background for the! plies of cereals and nieats and the mind if--if you meant to marry Years in age separated them--two, or Tonf," she sobbed. "But I know you' three, or five at most? He had known) footiights, turned into a plain old are only amusing yourself with him,! of cases of greater disparity in which) oman to save an innocent girl's because Tom is much younger than happy marriage had resulted, \He did hea not think of Elsie at all. The. dazzling beauty, the pride of the) Hebrew. Scriptores. As we steamed past Sidon' and Tyre, one beautiful summer Sunday,' I felt a distinct at- necessity of avoiding at all costs en- croachment upon the supplies for the armies. In Great Britain, in France, in Italy, the people are alive to the Leave it to Parker HE postman and expressman will - rt. os, " "whe aid « 07 we }mosphere quite different from that of eae ie i "How old are you, child?" inquired] _And she had been a silent witness at aig. yeu: So als whinpee Syria. It became intensified in Jeru-} sityation. They know. something of being "agi -- right to iti Miss Ingleby. of that last interview. From her lit- "Because," answered Miss Ingleby|salem, where I was never unconscious | what the next few months will mean. _home, Wr Tay carriage one ways "Twenty," said Elsie defiantly, tle room in the wing of the house) gowly, "I wa young once, and sweet of it. And when"l entered the Church | Their spirit was expressed by Lord 'Whatever you send--whether it be "And Tom?" she had seen Tom seize Miss Ingleby's} ang innocent--like you." fof the Sepulchre; although I knew that | Charles Beresford the other'day when: bousehold draperies or the most deli- hand and cover it with kisses; she cate fabrics--will be speedily returned could not tear herself away, even She kissed her good-bye and none to their original freshness. When you Christ did not lie there, I was struck of them saw her again. But on the : he said: "We are tightening our belts thy it as by a wind. This emotional at- and we are going to win." "Tom is twenty-five. And you must be nearly thirty," said Elsie. "So I cnow v¥: , "py though the sight scorched her heart) p; sie found Tom, walking like ' A ' : oe apt pig es as though a burning hand were laid | Piazza Elsie When le bi tee he mosphere hung over the whole coun-| A recent cable from London stated| think of cleaning or dyeing think of mas, and now--now he won't speak to; there. . !came humbly up to her. , from Jaffa to Nazareth, and only | that, the present meat ration inj. PARKER'S, " She dreaded' the evening meal.| "Risie," he said, "you know what! When our train left the Sea of Galilee; Great Britain is not more than one- A most helpful booklet I suppose did it suddenly drop away. I explained it to myself as the at- hmosphere of tears and prayers and as- pirations that had gushed forth in this land of holy memories. It scemed to "the, especially as I stood before the pspurious tomb of Christ, that I was yhathed in the emotion of past pil- | grims. It-is this that makes little,| every available substitute for wheat, | }poor, insignificant Palestine the | beef and pork. Upon our food ser- reatest Country of the world. Men vice depends the very lives of thous- | ve so deeply loved here, No city in | ands of women and children in the Al- the world has known such abandon-| lied countries,® tment-of sorrow and of ecstacy and of - prayer as has Jerusalem. There were but three other guests! at that season; her father and her-| self sat at a table facing Miss Ingle-! business man of the town and Elsie's | by, and Tom, who had boarded at the} father, old Major Lennon, who kept! hotel ever since their engagement, | the summer hotel, Had been one of the} Surely Tom would spare her his pres-| first settlers. And they had been| ence that night. But his infatuation | sweethearts for years. | proved too strong for him. He en | stronger soul; that the innocence Since the singer had come to spend | tered and bowed coldly to her, nod-| youth had yielded to the- knowledge a couple of weeks' vacation, however,' ded to the old major, who, absorbed! of maturity; that the sheltering love he had had no eyes for poor little in his soup, saw nothing of the little: ne bo Tom was immeasurably Elsie. He seemed fascinated by the' tragedy, and waited for Miss Ingleby| <tronger than the girlish adoration older woman's bright eyes and witty' to appear. And Elsie could not tear| which was gone for ever. talk, her mature ways and air of the herself away, though she knew that Copyright, by W. G, Chapman.) world, = -- "Never you mind; you shall half of the amount to which the peo- ple have been accustomed. Accom- panied as this is by the restrictions on; the consumption of bread it cannot | but entail physical loss and privation. | Canadians too, must tighten their | belts and help the Allies to win. Use | should be made on this continent of sort of-a fool I have been. we can never be the same. to each other again, but if you will give mea chance--" "Perhaps we can be more, Tom," she whispered. And she knew that from that moment hers would be the e. ; The match between Elsie' Lennon and Tom Banks was approved by all Kentville, for Tom was a rising young of suggestions will be mailed on request. 9 Parker's Dye Works Limited Cleaners and Dyers 791 Yonge St. Toronto 68 | have your Tom again," whispered Miss . Ingleby encouragingly. iS : But it seemed a harder problem . The strong smell in old fowls can . be removed by washing in warm soda water. ig '. The secret of perfect frying is to have the fat hot enough to brown the outer surface instantly. - When the eyes say one thing and ithe tongue another, the practical man - relies on the language of the first-- erson. atch dahlia and canna roots to that they do not, dry out com- y or have so much moisture as } them to rot. u than Miss Ingleby had expected. She had not meant to lead Tom on. But dad woman of the world often forgets that the light interchange of repartee and badinage may be the cut and thrust of mortal earnest to an inex- perienced young man. t was Tom who furnished her with WLS i ee HOUSEHOLD WORDS TO THE WISE; What would you do if you found aj round the kitchen. a rent in a conspicuous part of your| Is it necessary to dicard your win- raincoat? dow shades that are soiled or wrinkl- Lay the coat on a'flat surface so/ed at the bottom? that the torn parts fit perfectly to-| No, they may be made over by re-}2. gether and lay adhesive plaster over| moving them from the rollers, turn--- the: torn place on the wrong side of}ing them upside down and, with a Take it as Soup before Meals her opportunity that evening when they sat together on the piazza. "Miss Ingleby," he said, "I want to tell you something. " Lis You are going 't inl y ¥ the goods. 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