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«s smm 1 bet we _ The Sealed Room weilhe liitle minister, trotting &IO0MA Petween Tom and the girl, chatted glowingly of the work he was doing among the city‘s outcasts. It was unâ€" doubtedly a worthy work, snctl’ his'racâ€" wH We‘ o lck mow be th M R wom _ But they even soon« tauranc., and it SeCMme0 dread calamity, a&pnu had come true with a ¢ wen regeattm ut is t n mt . from her, whose name he en know, at whom he kept carcely left his dip bsefore i was thrown violently open from . and there stood before them yâ€"haired, elderly woman, face and eyes distended, and tremblâ€" om head to foot. ank the Food Lord you‘ve come!" asped. "I was never so frightenâ€" my life. O terrible thing has CHAPTER IV & Afl_”_ THIS is THE TIME TO PUT OUR SHOULDERS TO THE WHEEL IN VERY TRUTH. WE ARE ON THE BROW OF THE HILLâ€"LET US MAKE THE SUPREME EFFORT. BUY VICTORY BONDS TO THE LIMIT OF YOUR PURSE THEN BORROW AND BUY MORE. wer tanding fterwar U 1 it seemed as if some ity, apprehended by her, CLEANING and DYEING sPACE AND POSITION pEDICATED TO THE CAUSE "BY THE SALADA TEA COMPANY PARKER‘S DYE WORKS, LiMITED Renew it at Parker‘s n Cleaners and Dyers, 791 Yonge St. ® 7 h of speculation, and ; sfeady, even & ere no Send articles by post or express. We pay carriage one way and our charges are reasonâ€" able. Drop us a card for out booklet on household helps that save money. th The clothes you were so proud of when * newâ€"can be made to appeéar new again. Fabrics that are dirty, shabby or spotted will be restored to their former beauty by sending them to Parker‘s. Is prop esiue MUCUT : e roughout the private r frien ing along Th By Edwin Baird y mee d tremblâ€" | t w ve c:)me!"‘ frighun-le thing has ;t e . Tom. the blueâ€"}a th tha res erlvy done at Parker‘ W yald one did U ney .nls the it "Dora!l Dora! Let me in, dear, its,. I, Winifred." | _‘ She paused, holding her breath as|‘ | she listened, ear to the panel. _ There â€" was no response. _ She tried the knob.| ‘The door was locked. _ Futher aslarmâ€"} ‘ed by this discovery, she turned disâ€"| | tractedly to Tom, who had â€"hurried‘ ‘aftor her down the hall, with the minister pattering close behind, | "You must break the door down!| Hurry! _ It‘s a case of life or death." ; | _ ‘Tom, caught in the full swirl of | | the mystel’iots adventure, was past' | bothering about explanations. }lei threw his weight awainst the doorâ€" / thrice, heavily, and at the third impact‘ J f Wis aturde «hanldar the door crashâ€"| The girl, first in the upper COPMIUO® â€"she had led the cthers all the way â€"sped in the direction indicated and began thumping the door with her knuckles, while calling frantically: stifling flood, and Tom dropped to the floor, dragging the girl and the 1ittle\ minister down beside him. _ "Lower| your heads," he commanded, “a\nd| Ton‘t breathe deep." Then, cautions* iy, on hands and knees, he stnrted\ across the threshold. "And don‘t folâ€" low me," he added. { In another moment he remembered something else. | "That gas jet at the end of the hall, turn it out quick! _ And open all the |window:4 you can find, wide!" | He crawled swiftly into the poisonâ€" ed room, across the uncarpeted floor ‘to a window which gave upon a fire Icscape. §X d a o Wickas? it The window was sealed with glue and rags, mute and tragic testimony to the careful preparation for death, Nauseated by the sickening fumes, he wrenched it open and leaned far out and breathed deeply of the warm night air. _ _ k C k fi‘i;el.i‘,“;vhir!inz, he surveyed the room in a hurried, sweeping glance, red back, gasping for air; zed now, with a sense of eboding, that the room r boen lockedâ€"it had been the upper gorridor m the room in _A "Tom dropped to the e girl and the little Toronto L 108 21200 M dadachate nb tuhuiiut: l "Is che alive? _ Is she?*" The words were tremulous with grief and ‘nifetyi s sc en mlates AEKE + abaih "Is she alive? _ Is she?" ,, â€" Ih@ :V:;';Lst ywero: tremulous with grief lnd\ .__ â€" Knowing and Learning ® There i Tom, kneeling beside the slight ail was once a woman who form, laid his thumb ‘to her 'p?.'{i’l'fi. ght herself an excellent houseâ€" while loosening her wailt â€" at the‘ err.‘becnuse she did thing exactly throat. _ He looked tip, his face very | as her mother had done, no better a““‘l "3;9('1 4 is ' | ;{0 worse. Then there came a guest, 2| c iping tbkmw' he said, and began| litHe girl who had learned _ many! pumping her arms back and forth u‘thmgs Trom reading th bue who revives a drowning person. And magazi ng the latestâ€"books "I‘m afraid not. _ But call an am!m:| learni gazines a girl who was always lance at once." > ces ing. And the woman who had i An hour later Tom was w"“kinglw};?] satisfied with knowing found that, slowly through a quiet thoroughfare | e a good housekeeper, she was not with Winifred Snowâ€"he knew her} 28 excellent one, for she was wasteâ€" ;last name now. | ful of both time and stren t; d h" %an‘é"iia‘l p;:t;y Qfme’" he blurted out,| had missed.all the'imnrovirfiez?s tisrmi Om "a tat a * c [ nmepily. ptly astounded at hxsi}t‘::d}:e:? ;n;ieton the ways and meâ€" | ‘ She, however, evinced no trac ¢ st generation. â€" She was ‘ annfusion 0 te. j dn '&Yg 1880 model of housewi iz ~ or selfâ€"consciousness. â€" She| with the 1918 type. wife competing "Iâ€"don‘t know," heâ€"said, and D°Gan :. pumping her arms back and forth u‘ one who revives a drowning person.|: "I‘m afraid not. _ But call an ambuâ€"| lance at once." ¢ ! An hour later Tom was wa.‘.kingl slowly through a quiet thoroughfare with Winifred Snowâ€"he knew her | last name now. | "It"s a pretty name," he burted out, | and was promptly astounded at his temerity. ‘ She, however, evinced no trace of ; confusion or selfâ€"consciousness, She | looked up at him in a sidelong wny,‘ and her wistful blue oyes, smiling ~at him from beneath her wideâ€"brimmed | hat, proved once more disquieting. ‘ "Do you think g0, really? So| many people joke about it. They | ‘saÂ¥ it sounds too cold." s y mfiulsively he thought to answer: "Nothing about you ever could be eold," but he said, instead, conventionâ€" ally enough: "Some people will joke about anything." j 2. Then she directed the talk into anâ€" other channel, shyly, as if she feared to become to friendly with this stranger who had misjudged her enâ€" ough to try to patch up an aequainâ€" tance with her on the street, and yet who had proved a friend in need so unexpectedly. _ is UHCRpCCERCIIE * "I don‘t believe he meant to be imperiinent," she thought, and then "D‘you know," she said, "I‘m so exâ€" cited over Dora, and everything, 1 con‘t think straight. _ But I do wnnt‘ to thank you, more than I _ say, for what you‘ve done. You‘ve been perâ€" fectly fine, and Iâ€"why, I a‘lmost owe you my life!" To wall beside her and.hear her uiter such thoughts as these was enâ€" ‘ough to turn the head of a man less effably, he trod on air, as on@e in & glorious dream. â€" Nor did he awake susteptible. Eestatic, exhilarated inâ€" | until he heard her say: _ |~ ) _, WERPLEE EW MRERC CCR COOH C "Weoil, here we are. . ‘This is Atrhere I live. _ Thank you for walking home with me." â€" £ ION® (@t. PWE CTCWEC ETT 1 grandeur, repelient in its unwz‘.shed\ aspect and air of slovenliness. _ Upon:| this structure Tom bent a disapproving | cye, and became aware of a window sign announcing "Furnished Rooms," and severalâ€" men in shirt «gleeves, lounging on the high front steps. The girl inclined her head toward them, and, turning to Tom with ,a‘ smile that was h%amusement and half contempt, expfAined: ‘ ‘ "My fellow lodgers." ‘ ‘Tom viewed them with dislike. | "Tell me," he blundered, "I don‘t quite understandâ€"why do youâ€"a girl | like youâ€"Iâ€"I mean to say I don‘t see | why a girl like youâ€"" He paused in | hopeless confusion. His tongue, not lfor the first time, had spoken his mind | too hastily. s 5 o o gn . tA WIGIE NCE They stood in a populous street, beâ€" fore a huge brick house of faeeq ed VOT AGRCCIY She, likewie, was embarrassed, and was g’rat;efu] for the darkness which hid t#e hot flush in her cheeks. "You mean to say you don‘t see why a girl like me 5houÂ¥d want to live in a shack like that?" He looked at the "shack," and then at her, and particularly at her neat attireâ€"lacy things and coel white linenâ€"and nodded, still perplexed. "I‘m sorry 1 spoke, and I beg your pardon, but you ‘sqeâ€"â€"~” nesane ECC 4 ces Ww o 20 n miel "Oh, don‘t apolgize. _ But if you were a girl, and worked in an affice for nine do‘lars a week, maybe you‘d inderstard. _ I‘il have to go in now," she said,~tming toward the steps, "and tnamk you again for all you‘ve done for meâ€"and Dora." Starh panic throttled Tom McKay. He was losing her! Perhaps forever! The thought was terrifying. Te stepped after her, faeeling Eke e stepped & one submerged. "Miss Snow â€"before you goâ€"+~â€"1 d like to give you y name and adâ€" dress. _ In etse our friendâ€"*" Le ‘urâ€" vriedly zdded, "in case I could be ef any help again." ie drew a card from one pocket, a pencil from another, employed both' busity, gave theâ€"eard to her, and bowâ€" ed and withdrew, ‘ He had gone three blocks before he remombered that he, in his agitation, Wad written on the card only the name of his hotel. It was considerably later _ before he discovered another mistake of importance: the card bore the name of Patritk J. Henneberry of ‘the Broadway Motor Car Company. (To be continued.) Fresh frozen fish is just as palaâ€" table as fresh fish. Onlyâ€"a good many women do not know how to handle it properly. ¢ R ®: im uP es pug uns . PEVECIOE * The thing to remember is that frozâ€" en fish must be deâ€"frosted in cold waâ€" ter. _ When this has %en done clean and prepare as you w uld any other fish and cook in whatever form you desire. .. 4 Fish which ha as nutrious as an ness should ma} known. No matter how much dripping 18 used, fish, when being fried, is gpt to stick to the pan‘s bottom. If a tableâ€" spoofiful of dry salt is put into the pan and rubbed over it it will be found satisfactory. y ee‘e" u; “/r/ \\‘ S})‘A .q \cGp) hn £ ~\\G4SJ] Hat Frozén Fish. has been frozen is just any other and its cheapâ€" rake it more ~widely ~__ ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO The little girl who read and learned | mixed the lard and flour for her pi¢ crusts with a fork and used ice water instead of any kind that happened to | be available, her crusts were flaky and | feather light. She put her dust cloths| in an old pail, poured in a libtk kero-'} sene oil and covered them tightly for an hour. Each cloth was us good asl those the woman had been buying of an agent at thirty cents each. She washed beans, peas, berries, etc., in a sieve and the work was wondrously l simplified. _ She kept a clean newspaâ€" per over the kitchen table, changing )papers as often as necessary and much scrubbing of the white oilcloth ‘was saved. â€" Â¥ : The woman who knew watched her| with a new interest in what had be-’i come prosaic, drargging housework. When she suggested that boiled salad | dressing could be canned juast as easily . as peaches the woman doubted, but experience proved that enough dressâ€" ing to last three months® could be made at one time and with a big sayâ€" ing of time, fuel and dishwashing. 1 The girl who read went back to school but the woman who thought she Inew subscribed for three good magaâ€" zines and set hefes!f the task of beâ€" coming the woman who could and | wou‘ld learn. ot <a» First. Corn Sym s y :Cm Here are a few suggested ways to use CROWN BRAND or LILY WHITE Corn Syrup to give to dishes a finer flavour than sugar gives: Use CROWN BRAND Corn Syrup as a Sauce . on Puddings. Use LILY! WHITE instead of Sugar in Cakes. Use eithe’i" brand in Cocoanut or other Puddings. Use LII;Y WHITE in making Marmalades, Jams and in all Stewed Fruits, | ~â€" _ , Canada is receiving only just enougnhn sugar 10Ff HCL dLvial PCA + There is no surplus for wastage. <a» First, all waste of sugar must éease; second, wherever possible, Corn Syrup must be used as an alternative for sugar. You will discover a real economy, and a delicious addition to your household supplies if you % ’ ’ s den All this tak it isâ€"a vo‘lunt mate victory In nothing do we show our patriotâ€" | ism more than in our willingness tot T fall in line with every request of the | government. _ One of the biggest pecli s PA the s > < + convenient quests is to get along with as little | suited wat wool as possible, a request which will | thick $Syru inconvenience the folks of our northâ€" | nay (f yrn ern clime nearly as much as the ban | €E ;ndoog.‘ on sugar. So far wool cards are in | :“h‘e Fibron the future, the giving up of wool is " sYrup i8 1 simply a test of our patriotism. . â€" _ !r;pigly, s neede: IRemodeling The Couar is tNgN GVNHC+ u4 The cuffs are sewed together and lacked on‘ the sleeve, the worn blue cuff being cut away. _ With the new white collor sewed in place, the old sweater has a quite dressed up look, for %he simple outlay of fifty cents in uqar A great many recipes are imâ€" proved by using half sugar and half Corn Syrup. Buy a can of LILY WHITE or CROWN BRAND Corn Syrup today and become acquainted with their great possibilities. Canada Starch Co., Limited jed sugar beot fields and northarn France and than 50,000,000 pounds of ent to the bottom of the o TUnited States coast reâ€" Sold by ~grocers everywhere in 2,~5, 10 ahd 20 Ib. tins. Child‘s Sweater. enough sugar for her actual needs! _ Pare the citron, cut in picces os‘ a ; ;'convenient size, and boii in slig tly | salted water until tender. ~ Make a| thick syrup, using one pound of su-i gar to one pint of water for cach| | pound of the prepared citron. Adad | | the citron and let simmer until the| |syrup is hearly absorbed, then boil‘. !tapid-ly, stirring constantiyv, until thei { pieces are well coated. â€" Dry in the | warming oven and store in 20y tig’htt | receptacle, fruit jars or pails with | | tightâ€"fitting lids. ‘ Canada lFood B money for the yarn and noon‘s work. 8 Pare the citron, c eonvenient size, and salted water until t thick syrup, using «< gar to one pint of pound of the prepar Use more SOlup The Brand is Important! BOVRIL Real Corn Syrup is GOOD~very good! If your experience tells you otherwise it is because you have not tasted the genuine, which is produced from the most nutritious part of the Corn by wholesome and scientific processes. Special Notice Remember the brands. {ILY WHITE and CROWN BRAND, and ingist on getting them, for purity, economy and flavor. Write to the Canada Food Board, Ottawa, for Bulletin on Corn Byrup. VICTORY BONDS Partial Payment __â€" Flan Easy monthly .p3ayâ€" ments secures them. Writé at once for exâ€" planatory Booklet and state how much you want to invest for each child. H. M. CONNOLLY & CO. §x â€"-m)lven'ab'r- Mongreal Stock Exchange 105â€"106 Transportation Bidg. MONTREAL . QUE. To Dry Citron Peel. Fathors and Mothers, you can invest in Put ia pleaty « vegetables and rice or. barley. Even with poor stock delicious soups can be made by adding a dash of for your children by using our e C »ard, licence No. 13 two afterâ€" â€"~142 23| [ M UE in char TRhEW 1 _ make eure whether they are paying | prices which are unreasonable and unfair or not" It may be that the ‘prices which the Committee considers ; to be fair and reasonable will not be | any lower than the present prices | charge4 by ratailers,â€" â€" In some cases | ‘they may be higher. . But that need ‘not bother the consumer S0 long as “ he is satisfied through the investigaâ€" \| , tion of the impartial Fair Price Comâ€" \mittee within his own municipality® * | that the prices published indicate 2 *\ fair and reasonabde standard to guids erâ€" both consumer and retailer, having in mind war conditions and the unsetâ€" ~â€"| tling of preâ€"war rices. If there is a Jesire on. the part a 'ogthe consumers to find out just where tly , they stand in regard to.prices which ; .‘lthey have to pay for {sodstufifs, they su. now have a golden opportunity to have ich | the matterâ€"dealt with once and for all 44| under the provisions of the: recent the | Orderâ€"inâ€"Council, frthered by the L»oil‘,Department of TLabor, relative to the the}appointment of municipal Fair Price the | Committees. Eie te c m L000 itc t We Te ~â€" Consumers UE NVWUW jusw, whethel opportunity of ascertaining whether the prices they pay for foodetufl‘s are reasonable and fair or possible extorâ€" tions by aileged profiteers. All they have to do in each municipality in ;Canad.a is to ask their municipal ;council to appoint a Fair Price Comâ€" mittee to investigate the prices asked Ay retailers and to draw conclusions | as to whether these prices are fair ;and reasonable. â€" These Fair Price | Committees will then publish their ifindings in the form of lists. |\ ~In this way the consumers . Will ‘ make sure whether they are paying \ prices which are unreasonable and USr L UX ‘ secvur tm mt Hitt CominiuLuees . In some quarters it is eaid that Fair Price Commitiees will not solve the food problem present in most houseâ€" holds. It may be pertinent to sugâ€" gest that municipal Fair Price Comâ€" mittees first should be piven a chance to show that they can find a solution before the principle of municipal Fair Price Committees is condemned out of hand. It is a good rule to support measures that seem to send in the right direction. A similar progrem ‘has been effected in the United States. ‘ The virtue of this Orderâ€"inâ€"Coancil, | giving authority to municipalities to appoint Fair Price Comumittees to inâ€" | vestigate the prices consumers have | to pay, 1iel in the publicity that will ind d tinl. PB NY ~, V60 PAP in this way EesdE CE t ns ie nc â€" be®given‘ to th¢ findings. In this way public opinion will be informed, and enlightened public opinion may . be trusted to coâ€"operate in all national food efforts if jt knows the facts. You can always give anything | a thorough trial once. STORY Ordeal of Riveting Plates in a GilaSsâ€" . gow Shipyard. A marvellous story is told of a vempikable picce of _ riveting work done recently in a Port Glasgow shipâ€" yard â€" It certainly furnishes a thriillâ€" ing example of courage and endurâ€" ance. Two plates had to be renewed and riveted onto a long iron derrick. Imagine a stecl tube sixty feet Jong and eighteen inches in diameter at its widest, tapering to ten inches. The new plates had to be riveted on to this at about forty fect from the open end where the diameter was only thirteen inches. Through this dark tube a man and _ ue had ts araiwt #or forty feet until v'l’hro-uâ€"zh'thu dark tube a man and a boy had to crawl for forty feet until they reached the exact spot«, The uis 1 lt lt i ctein P boy, gripping a long pair of tongs with which to catch the red hot rivets as they were dropped through â€" a small aperture, had to work his way along feet first, as he must face the "holder on." The latter crawled after the boy, face first, carrying his heavy hammer. _ There they lay, stretched at full length, unable to turn to right or left. The red hot rivets were dropped through one by one, caught by the boy. with his tongs, and put in posiâ€" tion by him and theh riveted from the outside, while the "holderâ€"on"â€"inâ€" side sustained with his hammer "the impact of the hammer strokes 1NOM without. The task lasted for days, and men and boys who could. endure for so long the darknesgs, confinement, strain, deafening noise of the hammers, only deafening noise of the hammers, only a few inches from their heads, and the terrife vibration, are surely masâ€" ters of their craft. It has indeed happened that the inon tube has had to be cut through from the outside to release a man whose nerve has given way under the ordeal. A Rope of Human Hair. A mighty witness to the vitality of vreligion in rural Japan, says Mr. Joseph 1. C. Clarke in Japan at First Hand, exists at Kyoto. A few years ago, when the Higashi Hongwanii temple was rebuilt, a rope of the greatest strength wat needed to hoist the great columnps and roofâ€"tree {imâ€" bers into place. Some zealot proposâ€" ed that it be of human hair, whicsh makes the strongest rope of all, Th« response was .enthusias®; thiis thousand women of a single provinc sacrificed their beautiful, long, darl "tresses. 5 k The rope thet performed its task without breaking is shown on the temple grounds toâ€"day. It is closely woven,. two hundred and twent.one feet long, thirtecn inches in circumâ€" _ ference apd more than four inthes in diameter. I touched its lustrous coils with reverengce; it meant §0 w/â€"h eacrifice; so many wishes from the ?eeu of the human heart went with t., Figs (if dried ones) should washed, drained and chilled, OF HUMAN ENXDURANCE of Canada have now aB Lo Io k calc ks ;ftl'\é hammer strokes from municipality . in their municipal Fair Price Comâ€" in a Glasâ€" at full O 5& The object of t vice of our farm r authority on all su Address all qi care of The Wilsor and answers will which they are r« this paper. _ As : mediate reply is envelope be enc will be imailed 4 Any reader will receive the 1 will re Enclose P clucing 4 moles wl yoar but have geveral years, busarels per ac ception, often that amount.. 11 acres ® could be desir« often is poor qw seasoms. . 3. with a few rai ith «nc h tom th \\'flI“ have ® slag per acte wheat this fa to get it. _ W this deld wi about 8 loads Ibs, of slag a vorn, â€"Is this not what is 1 »s we have a before the ca in provide ro#8 arles nier bushe ose slamj» 1. 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