that it take ae background until they! became a sie a ea Be mes 3 cya CHAPTER. VII.--(Cont'd.) - "The only bother with, the arrange- mént," he added, looking serious, "is at ¥ your time. Oughtn't you to be at Julien's this morning?" | _ She had forgotten about Julien's. | Yet for the last two years it had been the very centre of her own individual life. 'ow the crowded studio, the smell of turpentine, the odd cosmo- litan gathering of fellow students, é little pangs following the bitter criticisms of the master, receded into! et | dream g long ago. : "IT don't think I shall ever go to Julien's again," she angwered. > "But look here--that won't do," he} , > -- Gen - nA ow---~"" 'Sh til you get out aga objected. . "If I'm to interfere with' your, plans--" ec "It isn't that, Monte," she 'assured him. "Ever since I came back this last time, I knew I didn't belong there. When Aunt Kitty was alive t was all the opportunity I had; but. @ paused, " " ae have my hands full with you un- Totes in," she answered } ghtly. yee "That's what I-object to," he. said. | "Tf being engaged is going to pin you' =» of ~ thought of this in the night. . A of conscience, -- emergency. _ Nurse Duval would have made her think I shall get a little villa there Sn be engaged. _ down, then I don't think you ought to You've had enough of, that in your life." , | - The curious feature of her present position was that she had no sense' being pinned. down, She Bed e had never felt freer in her life, With-| in a few hours of her engagement she had been able todo exactly what she f ' arranged, and drift into a state. dreamy contefit as she read to him.' This happy arrangement. might go on forever except that, in the course of time, his shoulder was bound to heal. And then---he knew well enough that Old Dame Society was even at the end of these first ten days beginning. to fidget. He knew that Marjory knew it, too. It began the day Dr. Mar- cellin advised him to take a walk in the Champs Elysees. i He knew that, with every passing day that he came out into the sun- shine, these same people were manag- ing to make Marjory's~position more and more delicate. 'It became in- creasingly less comfortable for her and for him when they returned -to the hotel. . Therefore he- was not greatly sur- rised when she remarked one morn- "Monte, I've been thinking over where I shall go, and I've about de- cided to go to Etojs." . ). "When?" he asked. "Very soon--before' th week, anyway." a "But look here!" he protested. e end of the f '|"MOTHERING" igs UTHFUL TOMMY COMFORTS MIDDLE-AGED FRITZ. i yee 1 Touching Story of British Compassion Extended to a Wounded Ger- man Prisoner. It is not always the youngest sol- diers--the "golden lads" of whom so many have fallen--who, when wound- ed, call piteously for their mothers in their weakness or delirium, Men grown--men grizzled--often revert to that primal cry as the bonds of the present loosen near the dark thresh- old. Many a compassionate nurse has answeredthe cry with tender pretense, in the name of all motherhood, to com- fort some tnknown mother's' son, _. Recently, from the front, comes a story of such mothering insextremity, but with a difference; for the "mother" was not a nurse, or any woman, but a soldier. He was, moreover, the captor of his' patient. During the first day of a long- drawn battle a very youthful Tommy --who had a right to that name by lawful christening as well as by Brit- ish birth--was with a small "mopping- up" party on the outskirts of a ruined village. A dazed and pallid German, already slightly wounded, emerged ATE ay \ "What am I going to do?" » "T don't know," she smiled. "But! one thing is certain: you can't play | sick very much longer." "The doctor says it will be another | two weeks before my arm is out of the sling." : "ven so, the rest of you is well. There isn't much excuse for my bring- ing in your breakfasts, Monte." "Do you mind doing it?" "No." "Who is to tie on this. silk handker-| from a cellar and surrendered at his demand. still in the air, and he had not ceased repeating "Kamerad! Kamerad!" -- the German appeal for quarter--when a huge shell from the German lines burst close by. The prisoner's hands were |. name was Fritz; he was suffering and he wanted his mother. The next, time he cried out a hand patted him and a voice reassured him, "Yes, Fritz; ja, ja, mein Betta!" fap _ They were not found for two days, for the tide of battle had receded; but | they were finally picked up. In the hospital their beds were side by side, although wounded Germans were us- ually placed in a ward by . themselves; for Tommy, immensely proud of his prisoner and of the good effects of his mothering, had begged to have it so. For some days, to the vast interest and amusement of the ward, he continued to mother his protege; always success- fully, for ee had been the sweet singer of his company, and his softly and soothingly murmured "Ja, Fritz; ja, ja, Fritz!" (he attempted nothing more) was quite properly feminine and gentle. : Then one "day Fritz's mutterings ; ceased and he fell into a natural sleep. 'The doctor pronounced that he would | certainly recover; but when he turned to look at Tommy's wound he grew 'suddenly serious. Tommy, looking ,quickly from his face to the nurse's, read in their eyes something that he junderstood, He did not wait to be told. | "Poor old Fritzie!" he said with a 'gallant smile. "Goin' to leave 'im a 'bloomin' orphan again, I am. 'Ard, ain't it? But 'e'll do without 'is bloomin' mother now. Poor old Fritz!" } i Se The Tallest Chimneys. What is said to be the tallest chim- ney in the world has been erected re-- cently for a copper smelter at Sago- } It is built of concrete, noseki, Japan. [570 feet high, 26% feet inside dia- wished to do without a single qualm! chief?" He wore a black sitk hand-| When the English boy came to him-\meter at the top and 42 feet in dia- self he and his prisoner were lying to- meter at the base. The chimney was gether in the cellar, unroofed by the carried to that great height in order blast, into which they had both been to convey the poisonous fumes from hurled. The German was unconscious, | the smelter to an altitude where they She had been able to come here and look after him in this 4 She would have- done this anyway, but she knew how! Marcellin and his assistant and even. pay for her act--an act based upon nothing but decent loyalty and honest _ responsibility. Raised eyebrows-- | gossip in the air--covert smiles--the | whole detestable atmosphere of in-|-- trigue with which they would have surrounded her, had vanished as ,by a spell before the magic word fiancee. - the mountain-tops. She was breathing air like that upon | It was sweet! and clean and bracing. "Monte," she said, "I'm doing at this moment just exactly what I want ae es < - slightest. -- never known, and for more than ten' by the window reading to him. had nothing to do with being read F rith the mere fact that she was he w - for not having kept his to do; and you can't understand what a treat that is, because you've always done just exactly as you wanted, I'm! sure I'm entirely selfish about this, | because--because I'm not making any! pacrifice, You can't understand that, ' either, Monte,--so please don't try, Ij think we'd better not talk any more, about it. Can't we just let it go on "Tt suits me," smiled Monte. "So; "maybe I'm selfish, too." _ "Maybe," she nodded. "Now I'll see about your breakfast. The doctor} told me just what you must have." So she went out---moving away like) a vision in dainty white across the, room and out*the door. A few minutes | later she was back again with a vase of red roses, which she arranged upon the table where he could see them. as it is a little while?" CHAPTER VIU. Drawbacks of Recovery Monte's recovery was rapid™in many ways more rapid than he desir- ed. Ina few days Nurse Duval dis- - appeared, and in a few days more! Monte was able to dress himself with | the help of the hotel valet, and sit by} he window while Marjory read to} him. Half the time he gave no heed) to what she was reading, but that did | not detract from his pleasure in the) He liked the sound of her, Woice, and liked the idea of sitting opposite her. Her eyes were always interesting when she read. For then she forgot about them and let them have their| own way--now to light with a smile, now to darken with disapproval, and sometimes to grow very tender, as the gtory she happened to be reading dictated. ~ ; - This was luxury such as Monte had years now he had ordered of the world | its choicest in the way of luxury. _ «No one at his club, on the boat, or) though he was somewhat afraid of the) at Davos--not even Edhart--had giv | wonder in her eyes. en him this: this being the somewhat vague word he used to describe what, he was. now enjoying as Marjory a t ! aloud to. He could at any time have' summoned a valet to do that, and in five minutes would have felt ~like throwing the book--any book-----at the yalet's head. [It had nothing to do a ~ Nurse Duval could not have her place. Kind as she had » he was heartily bored with her before she left, ohh | t would seem. then, that "in some! terious way he derived his pleas-| U rom Marjory herself: But, if so,) en she had gone. farther than all th who madé it their life-work to: see that man Was comfortable; for | ties tisfied. only existing wants, ' while she created a-new one, When- ever she left the room he was con--- scious of this want. Ss i Yet, when Monte faced the issue squarely and asked himself if this ere not a symptom of being in love, e answered it as fairly as he could { an experience that covered Chic n's prenuptial brain-storms; a observation of several dozen' eymoon couples on shipboard, to oman nm thing of many incipient cases. a funnel. d there; and, finally, the ise of Hamilton. e Monte ed fo esate . 'thoroughly normal in everything. As Yr fe ed any theory of life, i is based upon the wisdom of keep- ---of keeping normal. 'To get. of every day, this was It was not the man who +h who enjoyed his wine: as the 1 ho drank little. That ue agent dyes . If Hamilton Bc Rag is hea a ante wag indebted to Ham mn love: that was _' Marjory was not in love: was certain, This was why to light his cigarette, | ead on the pillow she e was not A pe VL 'e A! ETE + er | ed Fi himself', Shur-Gain. if kerchief over his bandages, which she always adjusted for him. She met his eyes a moment, and 'smiled again. "T"m going to Etois,"* she said. "I and stay all summer." "Then," he declared, "I think I shall go to Etois myself." ye "T'm afraid you. mustn't." "But the doctor says I mustn't play folf for six months. What do you think I'm going to do with myself un- til then?" "There's all the rest of the world," she suggested. "Are you . going to break our gagement, then?" "Tt has served its purpose, hasn't it?" she asked. "Up to now," he-.admitted. "But you say it\can't go any farther." "No, Monte." The next suggestion that leaped into Monte's mind was obvious en- ough, yet he paused a moment before voicing it. Perhaps even then he would not have found the courage had he not been rather panic-stricken. He had exactly the same feeling, when he thought of her in Etois, that he had when he thought of Edhart in Para- dise.. It started as resentment, but ended in a slate-gray loneliness. "Marjory," he said, "didn't I ask you to marry me?" She nodded. "That was necessary in order that} we might be engaged," she reminded him.' "fxactly," he agreed. 'Now there seems to be only one way that we may keep right on being engaged." "T don't see that, Monte," she ans- wered. 'We may keep on being en- gaged as long as we please, may n't we?" "It seems not. That is, there isn't much sense in it if it won't let me go to Etois with you." "Of course you can't do that." "And yet," he said, "if we were married I could go, couldn't I?" "Why--er--yes," she faltered; "I suppose go." "Then," he said, "why don't get married?" She' did not turn away her head. She lifted her dark eyes to his. "Just what do you mean, Monte?" she demanded. "f mean," he said uneasily, "that we should get married just so 'that: we can go on--as we have been these last ten days. Really, we'll still only, be engaged, "but no one need know) that. Besides, no one will care, if! we're married~"' He gained confidence as he went on, en- ™ we | "People don't care anything more) about you after you're married," he, said. "They just let you drop as if, you were done for. It's a queer thing,| _ Place over the heel a square of! -- Why, if we were mar-' surgeon's plaster. This prevents fric-, with crude lemon oil. ried we could sit here all day and no; tion of the skin by the constant rub- it is ready for use. but they do. one would give us_ a'second glance. | We could have. breakfast together , as often as we wished, and no one, would care a hang. I've seen % done, | We could go to Etois together, and I could pay for half the villa and you could phy for half. You can bring Marie, and we can stay as long as we wish without having any one turn an eye." ~ He was growing enthusiastic now. : - (To be continued.) "How to Clean Old Paraffin. Paraffin that has become unclean through usage in canning and preserv- ing, may be cleaned and reused. Many times it can be cleaned with a brush in cold water. | If this does not remove all the dirt, says a specialist of the United States Department of Agriculture, heat the paraffin to boil- ing and strain it through two or three thicknesses of cheesecloth placed over Or a thin layer of absorb- and the English soldier was wounded, he did not know how severely. There was no other living creature any- where near.. It was night, and. the stars were shining down on them. The artillery fire had ceased and it was very still. ' Fritz's Mother. Toward morning, the German, whom the dawn showed to be a large man of middle age, began to moan and writhe, and wakened to delirium, call- ing for his mother and entreating her to come to him--her Fritz, who needed her so. Why did she stay away so long? Young Tommy, who had pick- ed up a little German from other pris- oners, could not understand it all, but he understood enough. The man's 'would not hurt vegetation. The next tallest chimneys in the world are the .506\foot concrete chimney of the Bos- _ton and Montana smelter at Great Falls, Montana; a 454-foot chimney at 'Glasgow, Scotland; a 400-foot steel chimney at Jerome, Arizona; the 366- foot chimney of the Eastman Kodak | Company at Rochester, New York, and the 865-foot brick chimney of the Or- ford Copper Company at Constable Hook, New Jersey. vas P fenea sean Make out lists of seeds and order them without delay. Get the seeds. Many late callers at the seed stores will go away disappointed and so algo persons who order by mail later in the season. HOUSE What would you do if you found a rent in a conspicuous part of your raincoat? Lay the coat on a flat surface so that the torn parts fit perfectly to- gether and lay adhesive plaster over the torn place on the wrong side of the goods. Press together with the fingers and let dry. A tiny hole in coat, cloak or trousers may be mend- ed in the same way with plaster of a similar color. darned. How may you prevent the moisture from a potted plant marking the var-,; nished table on which it stands? Place under it a square-pane of glass, hidden by a paper or linen doily. What would you do to render palat- able the morning cup of hot water prescribed by your doctor? Add a little celery seed and a pinch of salt and transform it into a delicate bouillon. Some persons prefer a dash of lemon juice. How would you take the shine from black garments? Rub the spots with pieces of raw potato. What would you do for the child whose tender heels are always blister- ed by new shoes? bing of the shoe and is a sure preven- tive of blistered heels. When you need the whites of eggs only in cooking how may you pre- serve the yolks? Make a small hole in the shells, let the whites run out. Weta tiny paper square in the white and-seal the hole. The yolks may thus be kept fresh for several days. How would you make a good mus- tard plaster? Mix the mustard with white of egg instead of half flour..This will never blister aud the plaster is lighter and more comfortable. : 7 Do you know the "best way" to clean stone steps, stone window sills 'and kitchen utensils that have become discolored? Get a nickel's worth of sandpaper, coarse and fine. Use the coarse grade on sills and steps. The fine is excel- lent for' cleaning almost everything ent cotten over ene thickness of cheese cloth may be used as a strain- er, paraffin lodging'in the strainer may be recovered by heating the cloth and pouring off the hot liquid through another strainer, eb SS Mere es een aes Not One Quarter "Produced. _ Not twenty-five per cent. of the available maple trees in Canada are | being tapped. Statistics show that out of 55,000 farmers in Eastern Canada who produce maple sugar and all, only very few tap more} the trees they have One straining should be suffici- | ~ ent ordinarily, but if the paraffin still; luncheoris, is unclean heat and strain again. Any | and after | School Luncheons. It takes time to pack school but it is time well spent; the boys and girls | grown and out in the world, mothers look back on this as one of their pleasantest duties. 'If the "children are at school all day, they must have substantial food, | whieh should be carefully prepared 'and packed. Luncheon kits of fibre may be purchased, but a basket is about the best choice, as it does not retain food odors. Keep on hand a | supply of paper napkins and waxed paper. Provide an aluminum cup and spoon and, if possible, a thermos bottle to hold hot soup or cocoa. -- provide things which have food value. 'Raisins, figs, dates ' f or sweet chocolate. aS Kid gloves and um-, brellas are better repaired thus than: are | : | well. In satisfying the craving for sweets, tes and prunes are ex- irpose. So is a bit HOLD WORDS TO round the kitchen. Is it necessary to dicard your win- dow shades that are soiled or wrinkl- ed at the bottom? No, they may be made over by re- moving them from the rollers, turn- ing them upside down and, with a loose machine stitch, hemming the other ends. Run the sticks through these, attach the pull-cords, then tack the worn ends to the rollers and set up again. How can you make ice cream with- out a freezer? Use the fireless cooker. Prepare in the usual way and pack in the cook- ler. . Use more salt than usual and pound the ice fine. After one hour, beat thoroughly. Three beatings will make it beautifully smooth. If your scissors are dull how can -you sharpen them quickly and easily? } -Cut the neck of a bottle with the 'scissors as if you were trying to cut the neck off. What would you do to protect your | garden seed while germinating if you , were troubled with moles and mice? | Preparatory to plantings, soak the seed for twenty-four hours in one | quart of water to which one table- spoon of turpentine has been added. Have you an economical idea for opping your hardwood floors? Saturate the ordinary fibre mop Partly dry and This oil costs , only from ten to fifteen cents a quart jand is recognized as one of the best | treatments for hardwood. Have you an easy method of darn- ing large holes in stockings ? |. Baste, on the wrong side, a patch 'of netting of the same color as stock- png Turn and darn on the. mght ide. When baby sit s "may you protect th i out the use of the unsightly tr Use a large with beveled edges. white oil cloth is also neat and use- :ful for this purpose. ! How would you freshen a faded ear- pet? Take it up, beat well and brush. {Spread it face down on the lawn. When it is fastened down again, rub well into it with a clean floor cloth, a mixture of hot water and one pint of vinegar. = at the table how e tablecloth with- ay? piece of plate glass : \ Buy the best prunes, wash through ter to dry, then put away in a tin box and they will be ready for use. visins, figs and dates may, be bought in packages. Hot, nourishing soup in the thermos an orange and a cake of sweet choco- late combine to make a wholesome and satisfactory luncheon to car school. _- Sandwiches should be wrapped in waxed paper, and the crust left on the bread, for it is good for the chil- dren's teeth. . Whenever possible, put in fresh fruit--apples, oranges and bananas are wholesome and carry Cookies (not too rich) or bread and jelly are better for little "tummies" than pie or doughnuts. for something which comes as a sur- _ prise will be doubly welcome. | STORY 0 A square of; several waters, spread out 6n a plat-! -bottle, bread and butter sandwiches}' ry to | Vary the luncheons from day to day, | --_ '| During the next four or five months |food conservation on this continent and among their own people must be almost the sole hope of the Allied na- trals. No effort that cap be made by the people of North America can add any considerable amount of new food to the available supplies before next fall. Stocks are dangerously depleted, particularly in the case of cereals and ineats. The problem is to "stretch" these supplies over the in- terval until this year's crops are har- vested. While preparing for in- creased production, we must also do our utmost to help our Allies over the next few months when starvation will be threatening them dangerously' em tions in Europe and of friendly neu-| -- p It not only i) i softens the water but doubles the cleans- Ing power of soap, and makes everything sanitary and - wholesome. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. g P aiillll -- nan disgrace is public property. S59 But, fortunately, the scandal. is short-lived. The story of Col. Eng- land passed rapidly into the limbo of the forgotten. Nearly four yedrs elapsed. Then, Official information, much of it con-! fidential, received during the past few, days emphasizes~the scarcity of sup- plies of cereals and meats and the 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 situation. They know something of, what the next few months will mean. | Their spirit was expressed by Lord Charles Beresford the other day when he said: "We are tightening our belts and we are going to win." A recent cable from London stated that the present meat ration in Great Britain is not more than one- 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 every available substitute for wheat, beef and pork. Upon our food ser- vice depends the very lives of thous- ands of women and children in the Al- F A MAN WHO CAME BACK STRANGE \CAREER OF LIEUT.- COL. ENGLAND. Deprived of His Commission, He Rose Again From Private to His Former Rank. "Lieut.-Col. England relinquishes his commission, the King having no fur- ther use for his services,' was the curt announcement that appeared in the London Gazette of December 11, 1914. ' No greater disgrace than that in- volved in such an announcement can befall a soldier in war time. At this point in the Austrian or the German army the disgraced officer would have a revolver thrust into his hand and would be conducted to some secluded spot, there to shoot himself. In England they have a more vindic- tive method. The London Gazette, the daily official list that circulates in every division, brigade, battalion and company of the British army and is printed in all the leading newspapers, may be read by the whole world. The 4 early in January of the present year, the London Gazette printed the an- nouncement that "Edward Parker England has been reinstated to the rank'of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Artillery." . The restoration to honor was pub- licly announced on the very day that Col, England was discharged from the army a disabled private, His rein- statement, in the cold phraseology of the Gazette, was in "consequence of his devotion to duty and gallantry in the field while in the ranks of the Devonshire Regiment." Beginning Over Again. The story that was crowded into those four years has only been equal- led on one previous occasion in the re- cords of the British Army. Edward England came of a fighting stock. Three of his brothers were soldiers, and all three laid down their lives for their country. The only authentic re- cord of the affair is given by a sur- viving brother, who is the rector of the church in a small village in Sussex. During the retreat from Mons, when Col. England was in command of a munition column, a staff officer gallop- ed up with the information that the column was in danger of being sur- rounded. Col. England's chief thought was for the safety of his men and it was with this opfeet in view that he ordered certain portiom® of the trans- port to be abandoned. In the confu- sion more was cast astray than he | knew of and, though the column won | through, retribution was. demanded when the loss was counted. Physically for the time being Col. | England was a broken man, and for | weeks he was in hospital, but as soon | as he was fit he joined the Army Ser- vice Corps as an ordinary private, giv- | ing his age as 40, although he was) then over 60. Transferred to the | South African Horse, he fought _in Africa and later went to France with the Devons. Here he took patt in many fights, bearing himself like the brave man the King has now be. 5 'Your Untapped Trees. ae - "If you had fifty cows and they all gave good marketable, money-saving milk," said H. J. 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