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l./." I wish there was a WALKER HOUSE In every little town; Then I could travel merrily, wfi m o. e an A Happier m king with crown, If there was just one Walker House In every little town. I ‘;.hh there was -h:A}.m HOUSE each place where I go. * The of my dgu old home While on L road 1‘d know. The House of _ T oronto The mealsyâ€"the Cheerful Service, too, Would leave no cause to frown, 1f there was just one Walker House T he W alker House For further information apply to BOX 427 = TORONTO, ontT. In order to get our justly high grade plano in eawug town, village or townâ€" ship throughout Ontarlo, we shall offer one instrument, and only one, in each place, at factory price, as far as it can be done consistently, These pianos are made in Canada and have been before the Canadian public for over twentyâ€"five years, and are sold on a straight guarantee. I wish there was a _a Walker The next morning they were on their way again, reaching the Hotel des Roses at six in the afternoon. Henri was at the door to meet them. Henri, he thought, had greatly imâ€" proved since his last visit. _ Perhaps Edhart, from his seat on high, had been instructing him. The man seemâ€" ed to understand better without being told what Monsieur Covington desirâ€" ed. _ The apartments were ready, and it was merely a personal matter beâ€" tween Monte and the garcon to have his trunk transferred from the secâ€" ond floor to the third and Marie‘s trunk brought down from the third to the second. _ Even Edhart mi&ht have been pardoned for making this misâ€" PIANOS! PIANOS! It was evident that Monte was not quite himself at that moment. That night she heard the roll of the ocean as she tried to, sleep, and it said many strange things o her. _ She did not sleep well. "You know better," he answered. For a moment she looked dizzily into his eyes. _ Then he broke the tenâ€" sion by smiling. â€" He stopped abruptly and seized her arm. "I guess we‘d better turn back," he said below his breath. ed "At any rate, if he hadn‘t died I‘m sure I should have kept to my scheâ€" dule," he said seriously. "And then ?" "I should not have been here." “‘You speak regretfully?" she askâ€" "But, Morte," she protested, "I should hate to imagine he had to give up his lifeâ€"for just this." "I think it would be no more than decent to look up his grave and place a wreath of roses there," he observed. "Then I must be indebted to Edâ€" hart also." CHAPTER X!Iâ€"(Cont‘d.) However, he was S:uod by this trivial attention, and knew it. It was an absurdly insignificant incident, and yet here she was recalling it with something like a thrill. Not only that, but she recalled another and equally Kreposterous detail of the day. She ad dropped her vaintyâ€"box in the car, and as they both stooped for it his cheek had brushed hers. _ He laughed lightly and apologizedâ€"forgetting it the next second. Eight hours later she dared remember it, like any schoolâ€" girl. _ Small wonder that she glanced about to make sure the room was emâ€" ptÂ¥. It sent her to bed shamefaced. he fourth day came, with the golâ€" den road still unfolding before them and her lai? prince still beside her. Then the fifth day, and that night they stopped within sight of the ocean. | in every little town House (Copyright) However, accusing himself did not bring him any nearer an og{lanation of her strange conduct. e would not have left him unless she had felt herself in some danger. If Hamilton were eliminated, who .then remained b{ whom she could feel menaced? Clearly it must be himself. Monte was .IL wrong. From beâ€" fhming to end he was wrong. Marâ€" ory had run away, not from him, but from sone one else. When she left the hotel she had been on her way to join monsieur, as Henri had correctly surmised. From her window she had been watching him for the matter of half an hour as he &‘eod 03.“‘ down &.muwm»u:.: from !v‘.ry at the end of l‘t. she held hc.‘g.tl She had run away as if in fear. She had not dared even to talk over with him the cause for her uneasiness. And heâ€"blind fool that he wasâ€"had not detected anything unusual. ‘He had gone off mooning, leaving her to fight er own fight. He had been so conâ€" foundedly selfâ€"satisfied and content because she was here with him, where heretofore he had always been alone, that he had gone stony blind to her comfort. That was the crude fact. "Eh?" snapped Monte. _ "Repeat that again." "Mademoiselle Stockton," the clerk obeyed . "She signed the register with that name ?" "But yes. If monsieurâ€"" "Al right; thanks." ; "You {gound her?" inquired Henri solicitously. "Yes." nodded Monte. and went ant "Yes," nodded Monte, and went out into the night again. _ ._"We have had no arrivals here withâ€" in that time except a Mademoiselle Stockton and her maid." « "I wish to know if a Madame Covâ€" ington has recently arrived." "Non, monsieur," was the response. "Look here," said Monte sharply. "Make sure of that. She must have reached there within fifteen minutes." Monte waved the man aside, went to the telephone, and rang up the Hotel d‘Angleterre. He had then made so bold as to sugâ€" gest that a messenger be sent out to find monsieur. mt "By all means," she had answered. ;;I will give you a note to take to im ." She had sat down and written the note and Henri had dispatched it imâ€" mediately. _ But, also immediately, madame and her maid had left. | "I beg monsieur to believe that if there is anythingâ€"" "No, no," she had answered; "it is not that. _ You are very kind, Henri." shawlâ€"to meet monsieur, as Henri supposed. In some fifteen minutes madame had returned, appearing somewhat excited, if it were permissâ€" ible to say so. _ Thereupon she had given orders to have her luggage and the luggage of her maid removed at once to the _ Hotel d‘Angleterre. Henri had assured her that if her rooms were not suitable he would turn the house upside down to please her. . ‘ CHAPTER XIV. The Bride Runs Away Henri, who was greatly disturbed, explained to Monte that madame came downstairs shortly after monsieur left for his walk and asked for him. Beâ€" Ing told that monsieur had gone out, she too had gone out, wearing a light shawlâ€"to meet monsieur, as Henri _ I‘ve gone to the Hotel d‘Angleterre. Please don‘t try to see me toâ€"night Hastily, He did not stray far. _ He walked contentedly back and forth for the matter of an hour. He might have kept on until midnight, had it not been for a messenger from the hotel who handed him a note. _ Indifferentâ€" ly he opened it and read: Monte lighted a cigarette and went out upon the Quai Massena for a stroll, _ It was late in the season for the crowds. _ They had long since adâ€" journed to the mountains or to Paris. But still there were plenty remaining. ‘_ Every one else about the hotel was equally friendly, racking his brains to find a way of serving Monte, by serving madame. _ It made him feel‘ quite like those lordly personages who used to come here with a title and | }turn the glace topsyâ€"turvy for themâ€" selves and for their womenâ€"folk. He ',recalled a certain count of something who arrived with his young wife and | who in a day had hal!of Nice in his| service . hÂ¥onte felt like him, only ; more so. _ There was a certain ob-,' sequiousness that the count demandâ€" ed which vanished the moment his| back was turned; but the interest of Felix had his fellows now was based upon something finer than fear. Monte felt it had to do with Marâ€"| jory herself, and alsoâ€"well, in a sense| she was carrying a title too. _ She , was, to these others, a bride. Felix, who was in charge of the salleâ€"aâ€"manger, hovered near Monte as if he felt the latter to be his special charge. â€" He served as Monte‘s right handâ€"the hand of the sling. He was very much disturbed because madame refused her dinner, and every now and then thought of something new that possibly might tempt her. _ _ That evening Marjory begged to be excused from dinner, and Monte dinâ€" ed alone. He dined alone in the small salleâ€"aâ€"manger where he had always dined alone, and where the last time he was here he had grown in an inâ€" stant from twentyâ€"two to thirtyâ€"two. Now, in another instent, it was as if he had gone back to twentyâ€"two. It was even almost as if Edhart had reâ€" turned to life. _ The mellow glow of the long twilight tinted the room just as it used to do. _ Across the bouleâ€" vard he saw the Mediterranean, lnng-‘ uid and blue. take in the distribution of the lugâ€" gage, if not previously informed Marjory Nutlets.â€"1 cupful shortening, 1 cupful honey, 1 cupful brown sugar, 1 cupful chopped nut meats, 1 egg, 2 scant teaspoonfuls soda, 1 teaspoonâ€" ful salt, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 4 cupfuls pastry flour. Sift the dry inâ€" gredients togevher, beat the egg well, and mix in order given. This will Honey is unequaled for making small cakes. The following will keep indefinitely : \ _ Honey Plum Cake.â€"% cupful shortâ€" , ening, %4 cupful brown sugar, 4 cupâ€" ful honey, 1 egg, % cupful milk, 2 'cupfuls pastry flour, 1. teaspoonful soda, %teaspoonful salt, % teaspoonâ€" ful ginger, %4 teaspoonful nutmeg, 4 teasponful cloves, 1 teaspoonful cinnaâ€" mon, 1 cupful raisins or mixed fruit. Cream the shortening and brown suâ€" gar together, add honey and egg well beaten. _ Mix and sift together all the dry ingredients, reserving a little of the flour to dust over the raisins. Add dry ingredients alternately with the milk to the first mixture; beat well, add raisins and bake in a wellâ€"greased and floured loaf pan in a moderate oven. ‘ Honey cakes, as we have said, are noted for their keeping qualities. For this reason, the use of honey is reâ€" commended for wedding or black fruit cake, while it gives a richness of flavâ€" or and texture to even a plain raisin loaf like the following: ’ Honey is much more easily digested than sugar, and much more quickly assimilated. It has the peculiarity of retaining moisture, keeping bread and cakes, for instance, fresh and soft for a long time. _ It is delicious on dry cereals of all kinds, even dry bran. In combination with most fresh fruits and nuts, there is no sweet like honey. Try it with baked apples, baked peaches, sour cherries, boiled or bakâ€" ed quinces, grapefruit, cocoanut, al-l monds and Brazil nuts and you will surely want it a second time. Raisins, spices and spicy seeds blend well with honey. 1 sPONGE BOX AS KITCHEN COMMODITY. A homeâ€"made sponge box or bread, been‘bored through the centre to adâ€" ’,raiser will prove a great convenience“mit a straight thermometer is insertâ€" ‘in the wartime kitchen. _ It enables ed in one of the holes in the top of the | the housekeeper to keep her sponge or; box. _A Fahrenheit chemical therâ€" dough at the right temperature so mometer that registers as high as 100 !that it will rise in less time. A;degrees can be used. Such a therâ€" sponge box or bread raiser, thereâ€" mometer may be ordered through a 'fore, takes much of the uncertainty| hardware dealer or directly from an | out of bread baking. It can be made { instrument dealer. from an ordinary dry goods packing _ To avoid all danger of fire, the box }box, and the government has sent|should be lined with asbestos or tin | out directions for making it, as folâ€"|\ when a kerosene lamp is used for | lows: heating the box. If an electrie lioht Several small holes are bored in the lower and upper parts of the »sides and in the top of the box to promote circulation of air. A cork which has _A box 26 by 20 by 20 inches is a convenient size. _ About ten inches from the bottom of the box a shelf made of slats or strips of wood rests on cleats fastened to the sides of the box. A secopd shelf is placed four inches above the lower one. The shelves can be removed when cleaning the box. _ Below the lower shelf a sheet of galvanized iron slightly wider than the shelf is inserted. â€"It is curved in order to make it slip in and stay in place securely. This prevents scorching of the lower shelf when a lamp is placed below and also helps to distribute the heat more evenâ€" 1 ly. _ The door is hinged and fastened with a thumbâ€"latch or hook and staple. | After that the roses in her room and the attention of every one to her as to a brideâ€"all those things had frightened her at first. â€" \Yet she knew they were bowing low, not to She had left him to dine alone, and without a irotest he had submitted. That was like him; and yet, if he had only as much as looked his disappointâ€" ment, she would have dressed and come down. She had been ready to do so. _ It was only the initial exciteâ€" ment that prompted ker at first to shut herself up. Coming to this hotel, where for ten years he had been comâ€" ing alone, was almost like iointg back into his life for that length of time. Then, Monte had signed the register "Monsieur and Madame Covington." With bated breath she had watched him do it. until he appeared again. Every time he appeared again, her heart beat faster. He seemed such a lonely figure that her conscience troubled Ker. He was so good, was Monteâ€"so good and fourâ€"square. Honey a Sugar Substitute. >1 TIOLLSC onT Hhe ONTARIO ARCHIVES ' TORONTO Honey Hermits.â€"â€"% cupful shortenâ€" ing, % cupful honey, % teaspoonful mixed spices, 1 cupful chopped raisins, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful soda, !4 tsaâ€" spoonful salt, about 3 cupfuls pastry make a stiff batter; drop by teaspoonâ€" fuls on a greased pan and bake in a moderate oven, as cakes made with honey will burn easily. This recipe makes about eight dozen small cakes. The bowl of sponge or pans of dough are placed on the upper shelf. The temperature of the box should be kept as near 86 degrees F. as posâ€" sible (80 degrees to 88 degrees F.) when bread is being made in the quick way. _ If a sponge is set over night 65 to 70 degrees F. is the better temâ€" perature until the dough is made in the morning, after which the temperaâ€" ture may be increased to 86 degrees F. The temperature in the box may be varied by raising or lowering the flame of the lamp or by using warm or cold water in the shallow pan. ‘ A sixteenâ€"candle power light will heat the box nicely. A small and inexâ€" pensive night lamp‘is placed in the bottom of the box and a shallow pan of water is placed on the lower shelf so that the air in the box will be kept moist. To avoid all danger of fire, the box should be lined with asbestos or tin when a kerosene lamp is used for heating the box. If an electric light is used the lining is not necessary. Sitting by the open window, she watched Monte as he walked alone, with a queer little ache in her heart. How faithfully he had lived up to his bargain!‘ _ He had given her every title of the freedom she had craved. In all things he had sought her wishes, asking nothing for himself. It was she who gave the order for starting every morning, for stopping at night. She chose this inn or that, as pleased her fancy. She talked when she wished to talk, and remained silent when she preferred. If, instead of coming to Nice and Etois, she had expressed a desire to turn in some other ‘direction, she knew he would merely have nodded. her, but to Madame Covington. This was what made her ears burn. This was what made her seek the seclusion of her room. She left like an impostâ€" er, claiming honors that did not beâ€" long to her. It made her so uncomâ€" fortable that she could not face even Marie. â€" She sent her off. +To be continuel.) 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It‘s the starch that is to be savedâ€"valuable foodstuff that ought not to be wasted on collars, _ The separate starched collar was invented about ninetyâ€"two years ago by the wife of a blacksmith of Troy, N.Y., who made one for her husband. Since thenfit has grown in popularity until there is probably nobody who has not worn a starched collar at some time or other. Now its popularâ€" ity is on the decline again, partly on the score of comfort and partly as a result of the war. Better Uses Are Found at This Time For Starch and Linen. flour. Heat the shortening and the honey together until the shortening is melted, add the mixed spices, using cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Allow it to cool. Then add the egg, well beaten; raisins, and two cupfuls of flour in which the soda and salt have been sifted. â€"Add more flour if needâ€" ed to make a dough stiff enough to roll out. Roll, cut in squares and bake in a moderate oven. \ Send it to Parker‘s OU will be astonished at the results we get by our Y modern system of dyeing and cleaning. Fabrics that are shabby, dirty or spotted are made like new. We can restore the most delicate articles. Send one article or a parcel of goods by post or express. We will pay carriage one way, and our charges are most reasonable. % FEWER STIFF COLLARS. think of PARKER‘S § Let us mail you our booklet of household helps we can render. CLEANERS AND DYERS 791 Yonge Street % is PARKER‘S DYE WORKS, LIMITED CLEANING AND DYEING When you think of Eradicate cedar trees growing near orchards to keep down apple rust. It is chiefly a foliage disease, but also attacks the fruit." If left to themselves, they multiâ€" property and spread disease. Destroy these pests! These facts show why it is necesâ€" sary to trap and kill rats and mice to keep them from overruning a house. ply, destroy food and other valuable The common mouse increases alâ€" most as fast as the rat. A single pair of rats, breeding unâ€" interruptedly and without deaths, would at the end of three years be inâ€" creased to 359,709,482 individual rats. Coast to [R.arvoncrte . the Rat. Toronto The continued high prices of mutâ€" ton and lamb have made it desirable that more sheep be kept on the farms Dr. Holmes produced with his little old gold pen. And when you come to think of the comparative valuess of the words the reflection becomes posiâ€" tively humiliating. Canada. In many parts of the :untry&uw‘::::gemudm land, weedy grown up fen rows which afford an excellent oppor« tunity for feeding sheep. f This economy in the use of writing utensils seems aweâ€"irfspiring toâ€"day. In the last ten years we personally have knocked out two typewriters and have started on our third, and in that time have probably turned out less than half the number of words that That, we may consider, is genuine pen conservation, and it may be typiâ€" cal of a general economy that was far more prevalent in the days of Thackâ€" eray and Holmes than it is toâ€"iny,. Pens, in the last quarter of a century, have come to be rather lightly estccm ed by most persons who find a conâ€" ‘ tinual use for them. One throws aws y an old pen and puts a new one in the penholder with little thought of the potential waste. A gold pen, of courss, is exceptionally durable, as a rule, but the one that performed service for Dr. Holmes for more than thiriy years must have been a marvel. Anyâ€" way, it was obviously a far better one than the one that served Thackerey for only two years. His was probably an oldâ€"time quill pen, but even then &A quill pen that would last through the writing of two novels as extensive as those produced by Thackeray must be regarded with profound respect. One Used by Thackeray, Other by Oliver Wendeli Holmes. "For two years," announces one of those eccentric persons who make a business of collecting strange and startling facts, "Thackeray did all his writing with one pen, which aiso served him for writing two novels. Oliver Wendell Holmes used a gold pen for more than thirty years, durâ€" ing which he wrote twelve million words." | __Further, if local authorities learn !thnt food is being held when it should be sold for fear of spoiling, they have l only to notify the Canada Food Board. Ihe Board is in its turn, authorized to ‘notify the offender that the goods must be immediately sold_and in deâ€" |fault of obedience, the Board itself may step in and seize the goods and | sell them. Most people in this country realize that there is a great war raging and that people on whom the world deâ€" pends are in da of starvation. Some few nppon:tfi;r do not. This new law will do much to teach them. fines being limited to amounts beâ€" tween $100 and $1,000 with the a!â€" ternative of imprisonment up to three months. _ If circumstances warrant it, and wastefulness by neglect be flagrant, both fine and imprisonment may be imposed. |\ _In the past it has been the habit of | many people to complain bitterly mbout lack of regulations in regard | to waste and to lay responsibility ‘ upon the Dominion Government. The | constant remark was "Why does not | the Government do something?" The | cold storage in some far off city like ‘Winnipeg would develop some imperâ€" | fection and some thousands of pounds of food would be spoiled, then immediâ€" ately would arise the question "Why doesn‘t the Government do someâ€" thing?" _ The fact that local initiaâ€" tive might "do something" was slow to occur to many good people. The new order against waste makes it ‘nbund.ntly clear that the Government has "done something." It has, in fact done all it could without creating ‘lpechl and expensive machinery to do more. _ It has followed the principle of local enforcement and the decenâ€" tralization of authority. 1t has proâ€" vided stiff fines for those who break the Jaw against waste of food and it has providedâ€"that prosecutions be unâ€" dertaken by local officers. Thus, if the municipal health inspector or any municipal officer discovers waste in a local cold storage warehouse, he lays the charge before a police magistrate or two justices of the peace and, securing a conviction, secures oneâ€" half the fine for his municipality. Similarly in the case of a provincial officer securing a conviction. The genllties are fe‘rly stiff ones. The that a cold storage warchouse, store, restaurant or hotel is wasting food in any way, he has now the opportunity of making a complaint to the muniâ€" cipal authorities with the knowledge that the law is behind him. At a time like this, when food is so scarce in the world and so high in price even in Canada where comparative abundâ€" ance still prevails, it is the positive duty of the private citizen to uphold the law against waste and to carry out the full spirit of the law in his own household and in his own daily routine. of this Order, responsibility is laid upon private citizens to see that no food is lost by being kept too long or kept in improper conditions. â€" If a private citizen has reason to believe Wilful waste of any food or foo} products or waste resulting from care. products or waste resulting from care. lessness or from imperfect storage facilities, has been made illegal and subject to penalties by Order of the Canada Food Board. By the terms TWO LONGâ€"LIVED PEXS. Food Control Corner ground by the lertilzer grill or a broadcast lim spreader. If it is appli lime spreader the gre« thoroughly disised and fore the beets are sow lizer will be well worke R. 8.:â€"I intend zow #trip in my garden th mifalla and orchard gra rows, I thought as 1 gbout the same time th " good combination hat do you think of how far should the row? Answer:â€"Alfaifa _ 4 g:u ripen about th s of any sort ten alfalfa. _ You will do pows of alfalfa if you . this crop or if you wa yjuantity of feed 1 woulq sow ensilage corn, _ If ground since muck ghort of this type best results apply % lizer through the f« of your sugarâ€"beet fil‘ the seed. Th fertilizer should Ing a emall acroage of coming season and as first experience alon; would like to have yo what analysis of Lertil Kheld is heavy ground w The other is black grou ly bottom. Answer:â€"For fertill beets use from 400 to mcre of fertilizer analy cent, ammonia, 8 to 12 whle phosphoric acid, 1 beets use from mwere of fertilize cent, ammonia, whle phosphoric cent. potash. T lizer should be 1 will y highes for l{ulus, {‘Iml:m‘ln: ":u raw furs 20 years of relie Referenceâ€"Union 1 1 N. ESIL oC HE, zers. H. P.;â€"1 have i loam soil that 1 in I have sown alfalfa ol ground two previ late and I wish 10 oats this year, _ C if lime sown with t jure them? Would 1i the straw so they What kind and how m How many pounds of BWny D each s n Wh the the f« drill. | sprc ET B\ G. 0.:â€" I have rolling clay soil 10 year, Would like fertilizer. _ Would fertilizer on this 1 much per acre, and Address all ques care of The Wiison F and answers will at which they are rece able where immedia and addressed enve when the answer wil The object of vice of our farm éuthority on all sul MUSKRATS SREE TRIAL le #t. Pas! Bt. W p y appiyin fertitizer . Many b ading the re plantit have a # and ¢ t dro pi An ferti from CAPITAL HEA Conducted pel O h (0) Larn B cont C3 m