Pink.Gingham and Blue Chambray By Mabel McKee __ AConeluded from last week). An hour later the light was still) burning and Fanny was not even near the 'land of sleep. rom the first) pages of the magazine she had turned! to the middle ones ard then.on to- ward the bac A daintily clad gin) on.one of the pages had caught her at- tention. Now ine still studying the picture. sh like to be as pretty as that," she whispered to herself. "And! I'd like to have a_dress like that one. too, Jane Bradden couldn't make one | like that. She turned to read the directions. for making the dress but there were no directions. The neath the picture told ready-made garment directions for ordering so_ that one could get her exact size. It came in different materials and colors from (ky gingham to sheer, white organ-! "Pink gin, ham!" Fai.'s voice was ecstatic. ink gingham! Why, could wear that on afternoons right here on the farm and : egal be pretty ine the sort I really need but not the months. all the time at home t picture. Here the same young wo- 1 "A whole bungalow, the disappointment of hav-. t lin ng to stay on in the old farmhous* as well as the need of a trousseau, | slipped into the letter. The fact that three rooms would have to take the place of an entire bridal nee |low and the question of how to ar- range these rooms so that they 'would do" went in too. Taken altogether it she sat with parted) was a very personal letter that the the Canada Food Board, with offices a] mail carrier took away from the Gacden box the next day. "It's queer I never thought of these' ictures being made for us," she tol j ours but ours is not pr rig] 'and our curtains are all wrong too. ' one? The roses in our old one are too large and there are too many colors in it." The answer to the letter came be- ifore Fanny thought it would. An with the answer came radiance to Fan.! trousseau planned, Mum-. sie!" she rejoiced. "One for me-- would have bcught. I was ike bed How About The Harvest, REMERON ee The shortage of flour and wheat) - products is so serious ~between now and next harvest that every effort must be made by this continent to tide it over. Farmers by producing Wheat are helping to win the is of interest to note that in the West it is estimated that the , ka Prairie Provinces this spring have sown an increase of about a a acres of which 2,000,000 acres are of wheat. This is the report of Mr. J. D. McGregor, Director of Labor for in Winnipeg. It is based upon esti- mates received from a large number of points throughout the three Prov- in Two big facts face the farm wo- That is the first fact. extra workers, hired help, labor--call | woman knows ' such animal." fact See that your wash boiler has a| vegetables and the open kettle for the' as fish. More than 560 s well-fitting cover and a false bottom | fruit. which one of the men can easily make | door and devote one's energy Mare" | for you from laths. Tops and rubbers for*your Big ar of primary importance. vibe to only ten) bushels of wheat per acre, which is a rinting under-|I'm going to take some of our pic- Very low estimate indeed, the average | ge that it was tures down from the wall and may I being more like twenty bushels, it) and gave get # new rug--a plain one like that would mean 20,000,000 bushels of wheat. The average consumption of | wheat in the wheat consuming coun-! 'tries the world over runs about five! bushels per capita per year, so that! the increased crop which Canada ex-| pects to produce this summer would feed 4,000,000 people for twelve, At a most conservative cal-| culation, that is to say it would feed .|bers last year were quality, and much spoilage resulted. | | bers No rubber should ever be used twice. | and cleaned. | When. a can of fruit or vegetables is|™ethod is used, the rubbers, covers,' opened, the rubber should be discard- ed and saved for the "rubber man.' To test new rubbers pull and jerk them. They should spring back to their origina] shape. Valuable tests for the tops of jars are: Screw on the top without the rubber. If the thumb nail can be in- serted between the top and the glass, the top is usually defective. Put on a glass top without the rubber. Tap the top edge. The top should not On the next page ell was another' going to have one like Cousin Anne's the bulk of the British army. The | rock ~ Sometimes jars are defective | and it's just as this editor says-- abilities are that this increase! at the top. This can only be ascer- | hers was for a college town and " will be double that amount and it is'tained by running the fingers over man was clad in a dainty cap and long apron. th apna outfit," Fa suey Vere aerate she counted up their | cost. g| the ronnie bed ready for the sent |' I have to} se asked eayet. The amount her" mother named Fanny. It was almost twice as large! as the ios she had counted in the Fa asiiys " second hug sent the bloo racing through Mrs. Warden's bole radiant once more. "Honey girl, why didn't you tell me that you were 'an gently. "I wish I had told you ations that you were not to end for my new clothes, Mother?" brought a " pritliasiog embrace from, next ro Jt was good to have her daughter about your clothes?" she re- be st tinted. f ee. already back in her own paring over the maga- t says the fashion again room zine's pictures. editor of the magazine will help one plan one's trousseau," she murmured to herself. "I'll write her a letter and ask her about it. It won't take long to get an answer. While I am wait- ing for it, I can begin to make out the list of things I want to buy or almost an hour she eciad on that letter. Somehow without Fan's realizing it, the longing for the new will ~ for the country. An ery jay that T live.' | the boxes ere a wedding trip, Metter so that I could -- all my wedding 'clothes and let g and) e better. I thought that marryin then just staying on here woul 'monotony. pretty things all the ped right here 'and be happy all the tim to be hoped such indeed will be the! e ene, as there is need of every bushel. | . W. Robertson, who made a tour 'of Eastern Canada, in the pro-! on behalf of the| e of cultivated crops for the ral inces, Ontario, Quebec, New) runswick, Nova Scotia and Prince: Edward Island, of Com mpared with former years, 2,000,000 acres.! there | very well in many districts where an attempt was made to grow it. Some! of these areas, however, have been re-| placed by spring wheat. | The Eastern Provinces will grow | t also increased amounts of fodder for| | i benefit as well as the dairy output. Canadian farmers are responding, | the spirals. If they are smooth the jar is probably good. Just a word here. Don't throw away defective glass jars, those which will not screw tight. Use them ; jam, gg: ol available piece of glass- ware should be used this year. Small- necked bottles can be used to hold fruit juices. , 'as is ' sometimes directed, but before the j canning rush begins. To temper jars they are put in cold water, brought to a boiling point, and boiled twenty minutes. If they are imper- fect they will probably break in the tempering instead of the canning. It is not a pleasant experience to have nstead I'll wear all my. livestock, so that the meat supply will the jars bre#k after the hot food has been poured into them. It may hap- pen anyhow, but it is not so likely to an hour later A was at the magnificiently to the call for increas-| do so if this test has been made wit milk house molding the butter she had churned that morning. "Seven yr a! quarter pounds," she exulted. isn't it beautiful butter!" She heard big ae whistling, out in fod. AIG FOX co as com they're ail med!" path: ee alled: want) eee' "beautiful than we Dan dropped Fe scythe and sane over to her mid ped his arm around tr it's less than a month now until you are a bride, dear. Fanny put both slender arnis around his neck "Isn't everything beauti- ful? And won't it be still more beauti-| ful when--" she hid her head on his) shoulder and whispered, "when we are! --married ?' | To a Man "Somewhere in Canada." Be Noble! No? That word has never yet Failen unheard upon a noble ear. Thou'lt wait? Too long, thou'lt wait, Till time shall bring anear Grim footsteps to our poor-locked oor. Then thou shalt feel the sweet, sweet sense Of Liberty no more Up, while the day shines ! Afar in} France there lies The field of action for thee, selfish one. There the dread bullet flies, But, if thou hide from it, The chance grows yet more sure | gi | | | that soon Thy dear Canadian birds will learn Some unlearnt German tune, To the rescue? Yes, for the dusk comes fast, | Qur sun i sink if Joshua not hijs| Aloft vil hold in faith, new sun, our quiet farms, And towns to drench in its red light = Da red East shall rise. ! j Yes, ! God --_ thee in His sight. | -- . ~ | Fire Waste and How to Prevent It. | Conservation of fire waste is one of anada's greatest vroblems. The Over $25,000,000 in property were burned last year. Neglect of ag precautigns was re-| tpe ee = three-quarters of 8 Btove p should not pass anion partitions. Electric wiring should be Installed 7h com a men and should be reg- | ularly Rubbish Arn not be permitted to! Xecumulate in attics and base- values throu gh) Vigilance in regard to these seeming- | ly trivial matters will eliminate | one-half of our fires. | Abolish the "strike anywhere" match | u and hundreds of children's lives | will be saved. Trained fire departments ma, guish fires, but they are to prevent them. lusurance partially indenmifies indi- 4 extin- elpless get | little quicklime and stir until it is jeenicen china and oe -risen-to more ' £900,000. vidual losses, but cannot restore the property destroyed. | Only individual carefulness can ma- terlally reduce Canada's fire waste | Now is the time for action, Will YOU} do your part lh ---- | A Mary For His Oliver. It is told of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes that he was one day strolling | on the beach near his summer home round ; when he began chatting with a little ir] who was playing in the sand, The child soon slipped her hand into his land walked with him. By and by she said: : "T'll have to go home now." "Good-by, my dear," said Dr. , Holmes, * 'and when mother asks you! 'where you have been, tell her you have been walking with Oliver Wen- dell Holmes." And when your folks ask you. where you have been," said the child, i"tell them you were walking with Mary Susanna Brown." | = | For Men ae China. | An old and tested recipe for a'! mending substance for china and | glass, which will resist the action of |water and heat, is as follows: Mix a cupful of milk with a cupful of vine- {gar. Separate the curd from the! ert with the whites of five eggs,. eating the whole thoroughly to-} ether. When it is well mixed, sift in! This dries quickly and for thick paste. may be used 'very satisfactorily Pope sso shallow cultivation keeps e plants growing In 1914 about a million and a half ewt. of margarjne were imported into Great Britain. In 1916 imports had | than two and a half: million cwt. at a cost of nearly! Soldiers, the eyes of Europe are you. You have great destinies = accomplish, battles to fight, dangers es to overcome. ou are vad to do more than you have yet done for the prosperity of your coun- try, the happiness of men, and for your.own glory.--Napo eon. | Total subscriptions, $1,000,000,000. roduction, despite the many other | calls that have been heard and ans-! wered. The world is at the greatest et Bs its history and the far fers | of Canada have realized the fact \jnd/ bP oa ss : i 3 "fowns and cities to organize and sacri- fice personal interests in a wholeheart- campaign to save _ crops, which have been 's0 uccess- _ed p » th 0 0 | that the harvest will be as great in| proportion as the acreage sown. This summer and autumn will mean a long} pull and a strong pull for all hands. RAIDING INFORMATION. |Londoners Stand an Even Chance! With mee Bombs for 32 Years. r An ingenious person has calculated | |the chances of the average Londoner being hurt by enemy bombs "Taking the area of London as 100) square miles," he says, "with a circle, yards in diameter as the area in which a bomb would cause serious in- nvenience, and assuming the a wobentia in dropping 200 bombs London wey month all the year ; assuming also that there is an equal likelihood of a bomb dropping | i at any one point as at any other, the |? dri war will have to last thirty-two years | for it to be likely that a bomb will drop within one's own circle. it "In other words, in thirty-two -- of such bombing there would b even chance for and against ak an event happening. Again, the chances! would be against a direct hit on one's roof of ten yards square if warfare of this intensity were to continue 894), ' years." ~~ Great War Loans. The following are the greatest wart loans made by various belligerent na- tions British Victory Loan early in 1917,! 5 per cent. Total subscriptions, $5,- 096,245,320. United States Second Liberty Lat, | 5 4 per cent. Total subscriptions, $4,-| 616,000,000 | Eighth Ggrman war loan, 4% per cent. and 6 ptr cent. tions, $3,600,000,000. Total subscrip- ; French war loan of 1915, 5 per cent. Total subscriptions, $2,261,- | 864,409. Austrian seventh war loan, 5 per| cent. Total subscriptions, $1,150,000,- Italian fourth war loan, 5 per cent. ungary seventh war loan, 6 per cent. Total subscriptions, $600,000,- S So --) Canadian Victory Loan, November, 1917, 5% per cent. Total subscrip- tions, $418,000,000. & -----@---_. Mending an Electric Bulb. By turning on the current and ta ping lightly on the side of the globe you can often make the broken wires vibrate enough to touch one another success. We will assume that you have tested jars and tops, purchased and tested new rubbers. So much for seine. u will want to hee acer eady rush season com- mences you 'will Shless your foresight | many tim In fears ra conserve your strength ly Fin slip-' fully planted despite difficulties, so|in the. most~efficient manner, you | should plan to do a little of the work leach day. It is wise to gather from the garden and the orchard not just ; the amount of vegetables and fruit | which you happen to need for the | meal, but rather to take all the to- matoes, beans, peas, etc., which are. | ead for picking and which will spoil if left on the vines. You can get the surplus ready for the drier or can it in odd miputes while you are getting dinner. It would be impossible as well as very foolish for one to attempt to | preserve all fruits and vegetables in ithe same way. Drying and the vari- ous methods of canning should all be used. One will fit into the other, so | that no time need be wasted and more than one thing can be done at once. I PLANNING YOUR CANNING. man, After four years of war, food' housewife can make use of two - {must_ be preserved--as~ never before. ! more of these methods at the os But as for time, and an afternoon's work ma have more to show for it than oe it what you 'will--well, every farm! formerly the case. | textion is the most important thing in of ar poor | canning. processing, the jars should be cov- ered with water. With careful planning a cleve For example, if, lan to use the cold 'pack for the! It will be well to lock the | | ing track of the "irons-in the It is well to remember that steril- | All jars, covers, and rub-! should be thoroughly washed | When the open-kettle, i and jars should be washed and then ther into a large pan on a rack or thick pad to prevent them from They | ing on the bottom of the pan. should then be covered with cold war | ter, which is brought slowly to th boiling point and allowed to boil ten minutes. Scalding and blanching is absol- utely necessary in preparing vege- tables and some fruits for the cold pack. It consists in immersing the prepared vegetable into boiling wa- ter or steam and leaving it there for afew minutes. This process shrinks the material. The cold-dip process should always immediately follow the scalding and blanching. It consists merely in dipping the blanched material into very cold water. If the sack contain- ing the material to be blanched is fastened on the end of a stick there will be no danger of burning the ands. Syrups are usually added to fruits and brines to vegetables. When the jar is tightly cated with material, the brine or syrup should be poured into the jar until it is completely full. Canning syrups are prepared by mixing two cupfuls of sugar and three cupfuls of water and boiling for dif- ferent lengths of time. is just brought to a boil, thin is boiled two or three minutes, medium thick is boiled six to eight minutes, and thick syrup is boiled eight to twelve' minutes. ith the present sugar shortage, corn syrup should take the place of at least part of the sugar rine for vegetables is made by adding one level teaspoonful of salt to a pint of water. Jars filled for the cold-pack process should be closed lightly--not.sealed tight--during the o f> be used a Count time after the water begins to boil and see to it that the water is kept boiling vigorously until the time is up. Directions for operating the pressure cooker come with it. These should be followed carefully. --_--o>,--~ SHRAPNEL TAKEN FROM HEART. Remarkable Operation on _ British Soldier Successful. A remarkable operation has been fi piece of shrapnel weighing sixty-one grains was extracted from the anter- ior walls of the heart. The patient is Private John Brit- land, who was wounded at Arras on April 11 last year. After receiving treatment in several hospitals he was taken to Leeds Infirmary, where a t may as well be admitted that,|radiograph eftablished the fact that while greens, asparagus, beans, an considerable time unless you hav | pressure canner. Corn is also difficult and} | peas are more desirable canned than | the heart itself. He is making steady ed, the sure canning of these takes | progress to recovery. he had a piece of metal in the wall of Stick to your business with the glue an by ordinary methods, but this! ia industry. ° oa bother no one, since dried corn i is so delicious. Preservation by drying is so satis-}" factory for navy beans, pumpkin, and | squash that it would be unwise to use 9 glass containers by canning them Some fruits oy very well No woman can be, excused for wasting apples when fee are so easily dried Extra aches, pears, and plums may also} be erasectad by this method. In gener® , canning is most desir- | hte for tv toes, eggplant, cauli- flower, rhubarb, grapes, berries, and; ert other fruits. Each housewife | 1 have to decide for herself wat io is going to do about string beans, lima beans, peas, and asparagus. Certainly they should not be wasted. The open-kettle method of canning ane be used only for tomatoes and fru The cold--pack method can be med = all fruits and for most vege- tables, provided enough time is given to processing. The water-bath, using the_wash boiler with the false bottom, is the most convenient method for tHe cold- pack, except the pressure canner, but in an emergency the oven may well be made use of by placing the cans on a board bottom in the oven and keeping the heat very moderate during the time of cooking. The cold pack can easily be done with the fireless cooker by following these steps: Partially cook product or pack cold into clean jars; fill jars with syrup or with brine and other in- edients; pack into fireless cooker kettle and cover with boiling water; place cover on kettles and lock cooker. Leave overnight or until cold; seal and pecome welded together again, cans immediately. } | | Y a2 Cream Wanted -- SWEET OR CHURNING CREAM : ana 2 2uRPL, | sean, pay exptess charged or Sree reo Ee Be FISH NAMES AFFECT MARKET. Extent of the Demand Depends on the Popularity of the Name. "What's in a name?" is a modern , question implying a negative answer. ae simply ain't no she must can both fruit and vege-| There are instances, however, w is fhe second | | tables at the same time, it is wise to! a name is of prime importance, For ; example, take such a common product ies, in- cluding sub-species, of fish are found in Canadian waters, but only a few dozen are used for human food. Some, of course, are not suitable for food, but in many cases only the name that : has been given to the species prevents them from being utilized. In such in- stances, the obvious thing to do is to discard the bad name and apply 4 , good:one. Dogfish, for food as dog- fish was quite impossible in the Unit- ; ed States, but it was re-named "gray- ; fish" and cleverly advertised and was soon in demand. In Canada, about the ; only use that is made of these "ocean pests" is to reduce them for their oil and for fertilizer. Such "trade names" have long been applied to other more commonly used fish. Thus, tine are sold as cod, and the bulk of e canned sardines sold in Canada are really not sardines at all, but smail herrings. Again, there are certain fish that have "made names for themselves." This is one reason why such a com- paratively small number of species of fish are used as food. Everyone knows that salmon and halibut and flounder have the name of being good fish and so everyone buys them. It would be to the advantage of cus- tomers to remember that dogfish or catfish, or other ill-named fish, are not * necessarily objectionable as food. At the same time, dealers might profit- ably apply new and more attractive names to hitherto unused feod fish as a step toward.making them more at- tractive to the consumer. ----<--é.T, WRIGHT CO. Vy Rea " Not t Netting st an! poultey No. tates "a ebeowt our frm ted Hes ee mrakl a4 Man ] largely because they do not "in proper care of their compl exions. Ingram's water ick looking if younger than yo It jae err cpane and 'colar fal. ee up the Slleats skin tissues, - wy the com- It esos the skin in a healthy condition because it of the nose and forehead try or shin! ram rn ects, pearerees @ Pace Powder. Vale | delicate in toxtars that you bon fearcely Fy detest, it yet It stays on and ffectuall: reom piexion ana bl des perspiration. A full ngram"s toilet products Including ta for the teeth, is at your drugstore. 50c ~ dobat P [eh P Es Face 'Pewter 3 shades) Ee Cream Seep Complesion a peblets 2 FRED'K F. INGRAM CO., Windss+. Can. = . (os ing ott 3 2S Ze 25 e . . . .