~----------- NEDULB PEAT ce aT CO Te OM PT Mother's Little aM eae | et tte "I tell you, I don't approve. I emphaticaliy do not approve of Mother's traipsing about the country alone at her age." Joshua Towles glared at his sister.' "Yes, Joshua, know your senti- ments. oman's place is the home and that sort of thing," Eliza Bennett replied, "but Mother's done her fair share of staying. The fact remains) that she's eating her heart out to. see Charlie and her new grandson." "If she'd just wait until spring, 1 could go with her." "TI said if she'd wait until autumn, | I'd go, and she waited and here I am! flat on myy back--oh, yes, quite com-| fortable now, thank you! It isn't! her duty to stay with me. But when| spring comes, you'd have to go North or South or East or West on business! and Mother would be disappointed | again. "Don't be foolish, Joshua. can take Mother to Toronto an her on the train. She goes straight through without change and Charlie, meets her at Winnipeg. at's dangerous about that even for a wo- man of Mother's tender years?" "Does Mother really want to go?" "Ask her and see her eyes shine." | "When does she want to go?" Joshua queried a little gruffly. | "Just as soon as I could persuade | How soon can you} | You you to consent. take her?" "I have to go.out to Toronto next week and I can start her from there if she can be ready." "Ready! Mother can twenty-four hours. é and get your reward. Mrs. Aschah Towles, Joshua and Eliza ') be ready in You go tell her mother of and Charles, was a demonstrative woman and therefore Joshua was completely sur- prised when she threw both arms about his neck and sobbed on his shoulder. "Why, Mother!" he soothed her, patting her back awkwardly. 'I haven't seen Charlie for si x years and his boy is my only grand- child," she murmured as she mopped her eyes. | "All right, Mother, I'll call for you on Wednesday. Je'll wire Charlie when you leave Toronto and he'll meet you at the other end. If by any chance there should be a silip,' take a cab to the Dominion House. I'll write the mapager to take special care of you." "Hump! Don't you worry one mite about me once ]'m on that train for Manitoba, . Joshua Towles did rather given to that His mother looked worry, being House, to meet his mother's train. "Charlie might miss her in the crowd and it won't do ny rm to have two of them on the lookout," he said to hiffhself. Meanwhile, Mrs. Aschah Towles sat in her Pullman seat and had it out with her conscience. "Tt wasn't because you didn't want to worry Joshua, that you didn't tell him; it was because you knew Fae | siop you," her conscience accused her. "The ticket was bought and every-| thing," she argued back, "and besides | I wasn't going to be stopped, not this! time," she added with a determined shake of 'er head. "I promised to wire as nas I arrived but no tell-| , "so perhaps! I'd better begin a letter to Eliza.! She's more understanding than! Joshua." But Mrs. Aschah found difficulty in explaining herself satisfactorily even the more understanding Eliza. "Charlie's letter came," she wrote, "while I was one off campin a month. oshua carefully ex- plained that my ticket allows stop- overs at any point. All I need to do, Is to tell.the conductor if I feel ill and | get off at the nearest town where! there's a hospital with good doctor! and nurse, shan't feel ill but I thought maybe I'd stop off and see my Cousin Abner's widow; and Sary Ann Wilson's daughter lives just the other side of Barrie. I'd like to see if she's like her mother. Then ever since | and Joshua brought home those' or pictures of Muskoka, I've wanted t see that lovely country. So I just thought without worrying Joshua, I'd start out for Manitoba just the same. "We've ic a real nice friendly con- ductor and he says there's lots of things to see on the way out. You've got sense, Eliza, so I expect you to ---- OTT pe LAs bis See z f =f GY q i = orreeapenant SHOT ERGRSU IER PAPAL SETL EDL 7 - oo, PTT rie 2 -------- ee ee AS BER | ee x|ing or serving she may achieve con- | potatoes habitually in more than two Fling | , keep Joshua calm. I'll write you_all along the way." ay. Eliza Bennett was far from calm herself as she read her mother's let- ter; then she lay back among her pil- lows chuckling to herself. "Mother shall have her little fling. I guess a woman who raised Joshua and Charlie and me's entitled to it." o weeks later Joshua Towles burst into his sister's apartment, "Eliza Bennett, do you know where| "on. Lucky Joshua e me Mother is? Be serious. Look at all that font bh pest too) this." His hand trembled as he right straight home a as glad enough to thrust under her eyes a telegram. "I've been telegraphing back and forth for two days. Mother did not arrive in Winnipeg. The manager of the Dominion House met her train; the conductor remembered a little old lady who left his train at some small tion in Ontario. | Charlie's camp- ing and can't be reached, is stenographer remembers mailing a letter to Mother the day he left Win- nipeg. She couldn't have received i »" by that pile of picture post cards. The postmarks may be_ interesting to " you | "Bliza Bennett, have you lost your mind? I want to know where Mother| " rege ag of = Borden." at the expression on ' face, Mrs. Bennett ootdeale : she stop Wilson's daug of Barrie. =. gag "She was going on -- see | ut on off to see ter on the other Cousin Abner' widow train she got acquainted with a irl who was running away to her lover, 'a cowardly blatherski a married man,'" qu from the card in her hand, " "filled head full of fool notions about bem a free spirit and obeying her natural instincts. "Natural instincts, yam grandmother!" I told her. "You turn right round and go home and mind. your ma instead of those instincts! that aren't natural to any nice Ci We had to stay all night: at the June- glad to get home too, poor cfd, The scoundre : ""T stayed to the wedding ' had a tiff with a nice neigh ; and gone off ina huff. It was nice wedding. I wore the new silk; dress you gave mé.'" x "Cousin Abner's widow's eldest Son was about to have a barn raising when Mother arrived there and she turned right in and baked all the: pies. She was afraid she'd got her hand oat but her crust was just as flaky as when she took the blue ribbon at the county fair. " "Besides the frustrated elopement,| the hastened wedding and the barn raising, she's been to a funeral--oh, no relative, just a lonely little woman on the train, who was taking her hus- band back to the old home for burial! USE VEGETABLES The patriotism of Madame House-| wife is measured these days by the | kind of meals she prepares for her; family. The youngest child will take | what is put before him, provided the} food is well cooked. There is no- | thing in the menu that lends itself to' more variety or constant use than do vegetables. Twice a day vegetables can be used in one form or another, if they are judiciously handled by the housewife. Vegetables have different character- istics. For instance green vegetables are valuable mainly because they con- tain substances which purify the blood , NOW. . "In Barrie, I believe, watching the! and asa tubers sprinkle with salt dead at close range. sports" by putting them to work on on be step te ermine = seat | Peper : _ Similar cases of defenceless women | the farms. "Non-essenti: es vegetables supply bulk and all contain | #4 dot over with one-half, tablempos children murdered in cold blood | have been interpreted by some Magis- a considerable am of water in! of ubatitute. "Repeat. tampting to defend their pro-| trates into more or less definite groups | ee which are the salts so valuable to| Hot milk until ft may be seen Sie SOG) Ponty ce frequent in every town health, We are still within the sea- i liao ig real ourth | and village. gon when we need the properties of pota' Cpa SEA the roots and tubers. P Tt will be pares aoa = oe Pull Your Weight. ete Gan ok peor eg : > Z = * rome time before the fresh vegetables! Fssiy tach aces." ut in edbmn,| Th bilows ore eeving Eahod | ERP" ous Tae = thn, oie Wad bet ing None ee wel 'Cover three c potato with white @ breakers are foaming ore; pen, FOR CATALOO "1 all kinds of fencing for farms, rap . the other 7 ore we begin to use oni, cook until soft and drain. Cream| We need all the strength we can Wee RACCORLT LORIE OPER VANCE COMPAWS . . four tablespoons butter substitute nd-- Winnipeg, Manitoba Hamilton, ete The first and most immediate need is to release wheat for overseas. Every potato, carrot and onion that we eat is, helping towards that end. Don't ne-, glect to be in the ied ranks One harried housewife moaned the other day: "I never want to see an onion again as long asl live. We are sick of them." | "How many ways have you tried to! cook them?" she was nsked. "Oh I, always fry them." No wonder sho! was sick of them. Every vegetable car be cooked ir a variety of ways and it is poor policy on tle part of the heusewife to tire her family wich re- petition. She may use the same vege- table nearly every day and by a fre-- quent change in the manner of cook- stant variety. How many families have boiled po- tatoes day in and day out? It is safe to guess that only about five per cent. of the women in Canada cook ways. One of the simplest and easiest of dishes to prepare is riced potatoes. If the housewife is boiling them, any- way, she might as well vary them by putting them through a potato ricer coarse strainer. Then they will be flaky, light and delicious. ere are some other recipes that System as a Housekeeping Aid For many years before becoming a farmer's wife, I was one of fifty teachers in a large school whose head acher was a woman of remarkable executive ability. Methodical, order- ly, statistical, she demanded that each teacher provide for her use and guid- ance a genéral outline of work for the term, a general program of work for each week, and a detailed program of the work for each day. These daily schedules must be elastic to al- low of seizing unforeseen opportun- ities or for unexpected occurrences. My first few weeks at housekeeping were a horrible tangle till I bethought me to apply to my housework the same method of preparing a program, so to 8 , of the proposed or necessary activities of the day, and it has meant untold comfort, pleasure, and ease in the accomplishment of the day's dut- jes. It requires thought, planning and judgment to make things dovetail to best advantage, and like the school program, it must have sufficient elas- ticity to admit of being altered more AND SAVE WHEAT. ; might be used to advantage. There is nothing new or elaborate about them but so few people think of try- ing them out. Potato Border.--Place a greased mould on platter. Build around it 8 wall of hot mashed potatoes, using nine potatoes, three and one-half inches high by one inch deep. Smooth and crease with case knife. Remove mould. Fill with creamed left-over} meat or fish and reheat in oven be- fore serving. Escalloped Potatoes.--Wash, parey soak and cut four potatoes in one+ fourth inch slices. Put a layer in baking dish, and | add one tablespoon lemon juice, one- half teaspoon salt and a few of cayenne. Add potatoes, cook three minutes and add one-half tab! spoon finely chopped parsley. Duchess Potatoes.--To two cups hot riced potatoes, add two tablespoon§ butter substitute, one-half tea 4 salt and yolks of two eggs slightly beaten. Shape in form of cone of any desired shape. Brush over with beaten egg diluted with one teaspoon water and brown in hot oven. With the aid of vegetables it is quite possible to have an entire dinner in one dish--a dinner that is wholesome, nutritious and very palatable. How many people are familiar with chowder? Here is the recipe; it is enough for a family of five: 1% pounds fish (use moderate-priced vari- ties such as cod, haddock or flat-fish), 9 potatos, peeled and cut in small pieces, 1 onion, sliced, 2 cups carrots cut in pieces, 3 cups milk, pepper, 1 tablespoon fat, 1% tablespoons corn- starch. Cook vegetables until tender. Add fat, mix cornstarch one- half cup of the cold milk and stir in the liquid in the pot to thicken. Add the rest of the milk and the fish which has been removed from the bone and cut in small pieces. Cook un- here. -bye. Eliza Bennett sank back on her pil- ' lows as Joshua rushed from the room. At this stage of the world's food situa- Food Control Corner headed for Winnipeg fon a aA of troops; they}. Enforcement of the Canada Food They were all) Board's regulations as to food con- servation has been placed in the hands of the police machinery of the"munici- palities and of the different Provinces throughout the Dominion. It is the duty and privilege of the provinces to enforce federal laws and .| the Orders of the Canada Food Boa' have the effect of federal law, being | passed upon authority of Orders is- sued by the Privy Council and publish- ed in the Canada Gazette. It, there- | fore, becomes the duty of police of- ficers throughout the Dominion to acquaint themselves with these re- gulations regarding our food supply and to see to it that they are obeyed. "Joshua's a determined man but/ tion, when 4,750,000 peorle in Europe * ' Mother =| them before she comes back." In which surmise, ved her ter, Mrs. Bennett received from her mother: "Why in the world did you shua start out on a f ®? He broke his collar bone try- me te ride a horse over the. rough roa time. trai Do Eliza Bennett lay back on her pil- lows and laughed the joyful laugh of an understanding daughter. rey and astuteness. 1 suc ool e post where I'm visitin This is no place for a man 0 ng about the country that way. to keep him at home." a FOE STRIPS INVADED ITALY. An Italian motor driver Frisi, wee Pag pede OF eat | copies of the various Orders affecting {trians during the gre November and who just escaped from! Canada of recent weeks, there has captivity, reported that all the cattle and foodstuff Each ounce you can put to the oar. Are you doing the best that you can To Keep the old galley afloat? Cattle and Foodstuffs Taken; Women Often Slain. s in the Are you power or freight? Are you pulling your weight-- It's Are you pulling your weight in the boat? It isn't the task of the few-- The pick of the brave strong; he and it's'I and it's you Must drive the good vessel along. Are you ready to ta Will you save? Will you work? will you fig' Are you serving the State? Are you pulling your weight-- The delicate shades of colored lin- ens can be kept from fading by using pulverized borax in the wa- lenty of age they are washed and ter in which rinsed. Use a brush dipped in whiting to shine up your bookcase doors, mir- rors and cut glass. Polish with news- paper. Are you pulling your weight in the boat? ----___----. To Prevent Fading. Eliza Bennett en days a agg dee et 's| named invaded pT0-| cases yvinces have been systematically re-| firmly behind the regulations and im- quisitioned by the military authori-| ties, who for this purpose utilized the motor trucks captured from the Ital- | fans, says a despatch from Rome. Italian drivers were compelled to act as interpreters as well. Frisi said that a squad of Bosnian soldiers took him to Vittorio Veneto; where they requisitioned everything of value besides foodstuffs. Two girls to give up a small pig and begged the Austrian soldiers to let them keep it. At their suggestion Frisi pleaded hard with the Austrians, who took the pig and silenced the two girls, who were loudly weeping, by shooting both é and the ke off your coat? set out to see Charlie and lit-| have sarved to death as compared to I think she'll see! 4,250,000 soldiers who have died as | the direct result of battle, it is beyond | _cavil or dispute that these food re- | gulations are absolutely necessary. In- many people in communication with friends in England or in France think our Canadian regulations mild in view of what people on the other side are undergoing. Patriotism as well as duty should inspire submission to these restrictions by the public and vigilant enforcement of them by the 2 officers of the law. In cases of convictions secured by the municipal police officers, it should be noted that where these convictions result in the imposition of fines, the money from these fines is to be paid to the municipa! treasuries, and similar- ly in the cases where Provincial of- ficers secure convictions. The Canada Food Board has circularized these Orders in official form throughout the police machinery of the various prov- inces, beginning with the Attorneys- General and continuing through the lists of Crown Attorneys and Crown Prosecutors. In some provinces the | Chief Constables have also received the public. As a result, throughout | jbeen a crop of convictions. In al the Magistrates have stood posed the penalties as provided. These teat from $100, to $1000 in fines or im- prisonment up to three months or both. Restaurant keepers, who have served meat on prohibited drys and hours, served sugar on the tables or wasted food, have been brought to task and the wide spread publicity this has entailed will do a greet deal more to assure conservation of food in pub- lic eating places than anything else. The Anti-Loafing Law, also bearing upon our war-time food production, has likewise been enforced. Magis- Cream Wanted war ee cans, pay express charges Our price next week forty-eight cents Mutual Dairy! PRER Toe 742-5 King St. ber - Toronte SWEET OR CHURNING CREAM dally. and men who had no better than employment in said questionable industries' have been ordered to get into more useful occupations. Winnipeg a great change has been observca in the streets since this law went into effect. loafers have disappea of sugar per head of the household to private fruit growers this season for preserving fruit. London in 1918. Reports just receiv- ed show that 6,014 gardens were start- ed in one week. In The idlers and red. Great Britain is to allot ten pounds The war garden is to be popular in BOB LONG UNION MADE OVERALLS SHIRTS. & GLOVES & c Yona 2CO.rnaven til the fish is tender, about 10 mi- nutes. Serve hot. or less as occasion demands. An in- te tion, a fire slower than we had e , a telephone visit may disar-| range our well laid plans, but some way, if we have it written down in tab-| ulated form it is a little easier than if we are anxiously thinking, "what was' it I was planning to do next?" or to} have to say, "Dear me, I intended to' do so and so but I forgot." | with pencil hung beside it the easiest place on which to jot my daily pro-} . Of course, the general plan of routine duties changes little from day! to day, but I have found it well to have' it 'put down in writing," especially' for the guidance of hired help some- what as follows: After breakfast: 1, clear table; 2, put sitting-room in! order; 8, do chamber work; 4, wash, dishes; 5, prepare vegetables, etc. The dally program ont be more! specific, indicating what must be done ile something else is doing, for it is, this fitting of duties into their proper niches which lightens and shortens la-' bor and makes the difference between. there was just one WALRER"HOUSE In towns along my route, hr, § would be joyous And I wouldn't give a hoot For all the inconveni- ence of The trains that poke so slow If there was just one WALKER In every town I go. I'd hustle like the dickens. And take orders by the Say, trav en would be Just one round of solid fun. I wouldn't mind the rain or sleet, Or mud, or frost or snow, If there std just one WALKER 7 ton. In every town I go. 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