' wanted me to have a girl because he ramag ra ecananaeansenncevnesretirn t)rF/0)0/00F | Amelia Merrow's Folded Hands By Dorothy Donnell Calhoun te 4 iy fe wi * aq 5 . « ¥ AS ataaen -- Part IL. | want to run up with this bow] of stew Amelia Merrows sat in.the y so she can eat it while it's nice and window, her hands folded in her ample hot." lap. . The little sitting room was full; The next of gray shadows, stirring noiselessly; girl had a stitch in her side and in tune with the snowfall outside. An Amelia insisted on her remaining in exquisite color breathed from the soft bed. At intervals throughout the day, polish of old mahogany and the gleam' Amelia ran upstairs with doses of of the brass andirons in the firelight.' ginger tea and camomile. Abel's The red geraniums on the window sill mild protest met with gentle indigna- gave cut a spicy breath. 'tion. "It's most time for them to be "Father! And you a deacon in coming," she murmured distressfully. the church, too!' She may be a hired She pressed her face to the window-| girl but it wouldn't be Christian of us pane, peering out into the gray Feb-! to expect her ruary dusk. Reassured she hurried, pain in her side." into the kitchen and fumbled on the} shelf for matches, striking three in' Abel too. her eagerness before the oil lamp on' disquieting spectacle of' Ma with her the table was lightea. Then hold-' hands: folded in awful unfamiliarity. ing it aloft she turned and looked | morning the new hired tle room leven then Amelia the faces of o a little met her gaze like relapse friends. She made pil-| tender pats and prods. | village for the mail he found "We're coing to miss each other," rocking ostentatiously in the sitting- she told them drearily. "It won't! room bay window but there was _al- ever be the same again with a hired ways girl round. Vil have to sit in the! and flurried about her as if she other room and listen to her doing! just that instant untied her : things wrong out here.. My soul!" lsomet there was a dab of .. imes Amelia drew a breath that was like! on her cheek and once he thought he) caught a glimpse of the egg beater! certain impurities. asob. "Forty-five years I've washe dishes and baked pies in this kitchen ' hastily concealed behind the row of! and now I've got to give un and fold: my hands for the rest of i.y life be-| cause Abel thinks I'm too old to work! strawberry jam any longer." _ Down the road sounded a flurry of; suspicions. sleigh bells. Hurriedly Amelia ar-| "You've been doing ranged her face in a smile of wel-| ever since Lizzie came, "Me come Its plump curves readily took! proached her. on smiles. She had never lamented) [avers if I met it in Africa. long over the inevitable. "Abel | a 'hired girl for, I'd like to know. Amelia nodded serenly. "She thought the work was too hard," she seems real interested watching me comforted herself as she hurried to' ¢o9ok, You can't expect old heuds on throw open the kitchen door. "Men ' young shoulders and that reminds me, folks don't set so much store by fid-| Father, I-baked an extra cake an dling round their chores as women do.! hojJed a ham for sandwiches and I Bless men folks!" 'want you to take Lizzie down to the The hired girl was a tall, gaunt per-) Methodist box social this evening. son with sallow cheek bones and al geraniums. to work 'round with a) Lizzie's stitch was a reprieve for It put off somewhat the One week after her arrival the hir- with « silent farewell about the lit-'ed girl appeared in the kitchen . but 7 hovered over her, White scrubbed pine table, cherry ready to take the broom and dishcloth yellow pamted chairs, shiny tin pans' out of her hands at the first symptom , ie To be sure when Abel came into the grimage among. them, giving them house from his afternoon trip to the her something a little breathless had| mn; vur| out light; When a chocolate layer cake with | the cooking! lia," he. = with radium paint and protected with "T'd know one of you transparent What's | upon the hour numbers of a clock face, Cream Wante SWEET OR CHURNING CREA We supply cans, pay express char, and remit daily. Our price next week fifty-two cents Mutual D and Cream Go. 743-5 King mie weet - ~ nt |professional work. The available out- iput is very limited. The greatest 'e the particles of nd cause the latter to Medical men are worried lest an in- commercial demand for ra- e zinc sulphide glow. She ought to get acquainted some young folks. We don't her getting homesick, you know." ~~ | (To be continued.) bn a %, RADIUM AS AN ILLUMINANT, -- A Light for the Aviator, Regardless' | of Wind or Weather. ; | The fighting aviator is now prow jvided with a light for use at night. It illuminates his barograph--the in-| height' at \strument that tells the which he is flying. | Radium in combination with zine? sulphide furnishes the light, one ade) vantage of which is that neither wind, nor wet can extinguish it. Compasses of wardships have simi- lar radium lights; and the sighis of big guns likewise carry them--a con- venience of obvious importance for night fighting. They are of special) value where such guns are emplaced in pits. The stuff used is, in effect, a lumin-| ous paint--the same material that is employed for the faces of watches and clocks. Of course, the quantity of ra- dium is very minute, but it does the work. Oddly enough, a chemically pure {zine sulphide will not absorb and give it possesses this remark- able property only when it contains When a little radium is mixed with it, however, the case is different. The face of a good "radio watch" (or mee Se ST vi reserve its luminosity,for lin Lizzie's bony hands Abel voiced his| Clock) will pre s nosity | nine or ten years. Sometimes disks of metal coated celluloid are fasten | so that they may shine at night; and 'the hands are made luminous by like ;means. Safe combinations and even push buttons are illuminated by the 4 same kind of paint. The radium itself does not give out 'any light. But its "alpha" emana- /tions, which are atoms of helium gas, ' deposits of 'radium ores are found in the Paradox Valley of Colo- rado and Utah. Before the war these ores were ex- ported to Germany, and the radium erived from them was fetched back "gts United States and. sold for $100,000 a gram. e U of one-third of that'selling price. SS An Idolized Hat. "The Hat of the Somme" is destined to be one of England's historic relics. Already it is preserved in the British War Museum. In the attack which English troops made along the line on a certain day excess of vigor forced their way far beyond the objectives and were cut off from their supports. fdefying the Huns, put his hat on a stick and placed it over the parapet ed. They owned no flag, and desiring some rallying point cheered this bat- tered felt hat. Later in the day, when their com- rades came charging to save them, only one man was alive. The battle continued for hours about this spot, and for three days thereafter the hat, whipped by bullets and riddled with shrapnel, clung to its staff until the British finally consolidated the posi- tion and saved it as a precious me- mento of gallant death. Hurry the Early Potato. For many years I have found it very profitable to grow Irish potatoes for the early market. So I recom- mend planting all that can be given just the care and fertilizing they need. Employ good, rich, well-drained oamy soil, plant early, choose the early varieties, spread the seed a week or two in the sun- shine before planting, and give clean cultivation. Begin digging as soon as the tubers are nearing maturity, and close out the crop as early as pos- general drabness that matched her! cheerless name, Lizzie Gray. Abel | Merrows shook his grizzled head, dubiously when he Surrendered Lizzie o Amelia's care. j "One thing," he consoled himself, "a girl as homely as she is won't have any beaux round coaxing her Ma'll get a chance to fold her, I guess she deserves folding, after all these years!" In spite of his brave Abel was --_--, supeted nid oe eo jon his words evoked. ou! e a acquainted wi is new Amelia of|, When you are asked to have a beef the unfamiliar hands? A queer panic|/€S* meateach day and cut down your seized him as = ae gga ta the! allowance of sugar to one lump for drifty yard. t wou! range,!a cup of at first, not to see Ma bustling aroun ar sg -- hig coffee you scarcely dishing up supper, setting out one of ize what it means. her chocolate cakes, light as a fea : , er, with strawberry jam between the, and substitutes for wheat it looks al- layers. Tt was in the nature of a pleasant The average man's idea, if you are surprise to find Ma herself stirring a going to save in a big way, is to cut savory saucepan on the stove as, out everything you don't want him to though no hired girl had happened.' eat. Canada's Food Controller start- But being aman, indignation trod' ed out with the idea of educating the closely on the heels of Abel's relief. | people to save, not to do without alto- "Where's that girl?" he demanded | gether, and there is vast difference in aggressively. "Why isn't she get- the ri ipl Y Se i sed f ting supper, I'd like to know?" | th P suite e. ou can on y Juage o 'Amelia tilted the saucepan of stew the results of saving by waiting for over the blue bowl, dipping out the @ period and adding up your savings. dumplings with a eareful spoon. Her| The wealth of the French nation be- cheeks were delicately flushed, her, fore the war largely consisted in the eyes shone with the joy of her re-, Savings the people deposited in their prieve. banks, which aggregated a huge "Lizzie's gone to bed," she told him! amount. It was out of these small comfortingly. "The poor girl was all' savings that the huge indemnity after worn out traveling so far in the sNoW | the Frenco-Prussian war was paid. so I sent her right upstairs. You sit; Calculation; cn the basis of returns down and start in on your supper, ! Father, and I'll be right back. I, PIANOS i PIANOS Bed so rapidly in the last few years, In order to get our justly high grade much attention has been paid to re- plano in each town, village or town- ducing certain items of expenditure. ship throughout Ontario, we shall such efforts are more or less futile offer one instrument, and only one, {nN unless we are able to draw deductions each place, at factory price, as far to gid us in the future. as it can be done consistently, These; | believe every housewife should pianos are made in Canada and have keep acounts. She should know just been before the Canadian public for what is spent each month for food pro- over twenty-five years, and are sold ducts. The budget is a_ practical on a straight guarantee. 'means of reducing expense For further information apply to | There is a great advantage in mar- BOX 427 TORONTO, ONT, ' keting in person, and there is nothing Keep Household Accounts. Since the cost of living has advanc- | more important than the utilizing of the leftovers in planning the meals for the day. I+ goes without saying 'that the selection of foods that give the greatest nutritive va'ue for the |least outlay is a step in the direction Now there 1S just one WALKER HOUSE In ONE TOWN where I stay, 'of economy. wr ae | The average housewife will reduce en my trip heads | expenditures by keeping accounts each . month of amounts spent for various food products. By comparing ac- | counts for several months it will be | possible to obtain the average amount | spent for groceries. | This tends toward the keeping of budgets, and is the means of regulat- 'ing family expenditures, as opposed to the haphazard methods of the past. 'It is possible' to find what food pro- ducts are most expensive and make some: definite plan to lessen the ex- pense. that way. , The only other time I was so happy, Goodness knows, Was when a kid Dad bought me Red topped boots with copper toe When other trave'lers hit that town They, too, don't want to roam, For er, say, "At that WALKER HOUSE It's just like sexing home Where is the ONE TOWN where that WALKER HOUSE is? Don't ou know Why, it's that good old burg spelled T-O-R-O-N-T-O. The House of Plenty The Walker House Toronto Geo. Wright & Co., Proprietors of the ordinary family diet, any economy in the purchase of it will food bill. greatly reduced. | ovotein as a meat | prove satisfactory. EVERY LITTLE MAKES*A MUCKLE. |ings.in December in the United ate : nds, th-| re asked to eat fish instead of beef | 'most like trifling with a big subject. ! actually received show that the sav-' -- | Since meat makes up a large part The use of cheese which is rich in substitute will Since cheese is a, would furnish gmourishing family din- | concentrated food, less is needed to; ner as her final impetus toward hast- , furnish the necessary food require- ening world-wide democracy, sible. QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY KINGSTON ONTARIO "were for meats." 22,783,000 | and these , | 24,418,000 pounds. ' | the saving was 9,089,000 pounds which 'in January had increased to 12,790,000 pounds. The U.S. Food Administra- | tion believes that the saving of wheat flour during the month of February amounted to considerably over 15,000,- 000 pounds. Multiply these figures by twelve and you get a fairly good idea what was saved to be sent to the Allies, and how many soldiers were fed on account of it. And nobody in the United States suffered from it. The same is true of Canada. rom returns so far as they have been re-} ceived show in public eating houses savings from 25 to 69 per cent, The use of fish has increased considerably over 100 per cent. at means that an equivalent in beef and pork was sent overseas. The moral is never mind what your neighbor does, do it yourself. If you have to come to rationing it will be time enough to call your neighbor to account. iment. Nut loaf is also an excellent substitute for meat, since it adds variety to the diet and is rich in pro- tein. ' I find a great advantagé to market in person. The housewife may see the foods before purchasing them. In this way it is possible to get the best that is offered for the price. ' I always weigh articles that are sold by weight. In case the grocer gives short weight it should be dis- covered. Although the difference may be small, ina year's time counts up, and the housewife has paid a certain per cent. of her allowance without any return. Turn Food Waste into Eggs. Should all the worthless cats and dogs now consuming table scraps and more valuable food in several thou- sand Canadian homes--and farms as well as town; and cities are overrun with suchgyneconomic canines and felines--be replaced by a half-dozen laying hens for each dog and cat de- stroyed, there could be added to our food supply millions of dozen of eggs j annually, replacing meat needed for |overscas. This replacement could be made with little cost, as the expense 'of dog licenses, collars, chains, ken- /nels, and the like would practically offset the first cost of the hens. It is only fair to say that there are 'some dogs and cats that are worth their room and feed; but there are 'uncounted multitudes of roaming, flea- bitten, starving, bird-eating cats and | i make a noticeable reduction in the | sheep-chasing, poultry-killing, lawn- By using meat substitutes destroying' dogs that should be sup- | which are less expensive, but as nu-! planted by back-yard flocks of chick- | tritious, the amount paid for meat is 'ens as a war-winning aid. When the millions of layers that ; would replace the dogs and cats had completed their year's work, each hen it |- 'outse by correspondence, with one year's attendence or summer sessions, Summer School Navigation School July and August December to April 19 GEO. Y. CHOWN, Registrar Degiee four 'roots of these plants and breathing . S. Bureau | Mines is now producing it for about | 'of the battle a squad of men in their | One of the men, which he and his comrades had erect- | POTASH FROM WEEDS. Means Found to Utilize Objectionable Vegetation in Panama Canal. The prevalence of water lettuce and water cabbage on the surface of the Panama Canal channel through Gatun Lake has created a serious problem oe these floating plants become entangled in the ship propellers and lock machinery. It appears, also, that mbdsquito larvae sometimes escape be- ing suffocated by the crude oil pour- ed on the water by lodging in the jthrough them. Analysis shows that this yegetation contains about five per 'cent. potash, and as this substance is jmuch needed to fertilize local planta- 'tions, it is proposed to make use of these growths, which heretofore have j been thought an unmitigated nuisance. | | | UNION MADE OVERALLS SHIRTS & GLOVES ¢-G.ONG £60. taerres One must be economical in order ta be liberal.--Voltaire. 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