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9 hate me for what I‘ve got to tell you! But you‘ll have to know. We‘re not M b M- r‘ch 'M .“â€"-â€"” C Alicia uttered a queer, smothered sound, like a sob that had got tanglâ€" ed up in a laugh. Remorsefully her busband hurried onâ€" arms and beg him to forgive me. Well, I‘m not going to, that‘s all!" She did not look around as he came into the room and stood behind ing stumbling words. ‘!‘,Am{‘mwm ;x'ro #oing to With a sickening throb of relief she saw his big bulk loom out of the dusk and turn up the little brick Ik, She determinedly hardened L}Joq’. k *He did it just on purpose to frighten me," she thought. "I supâ€" pose he expects me to fall into his Late the next evening Alicia sat in the casement window staring into the woolly spring dusk, with blue eyes in which resentment was rapidly giving way to terror as the sixâ€"sevenâ€" teen and sixâ€"forty puffed into the tiny Netherbrook station and out again, and still Billy did not come. A sob caught in her throat as she watched the beaded lights of the seven o‘clock express disappear across the field. If Billy wasn‘t on that oneâ€"â€" Tears of anger stung Alitia‘s eyes but she managed to hold them back until their callers had left, then they flowed fast and freely. "Such a dear snug little nest!" She eooed, glancing patronizingly about. "But of course, it will hardly do for you now. Do tell meâ€"I‘m dying to know what kind of a place you are thinking of building." "Off the drawingâ€"room, you mean," her husband corrected calmly; his tone seeming to leave her quite out of the question. "I‘m inclined to think I prefer the stucco and hollow tile type of construction. It is more permanent as well as efficientâ€"â€"" Alicia glanced at Billy. "We are planning a colonial house," she said slowly, distinctly, "aren‘t we, Billy? with a conservatory opening off the diningâ€"room!" That very evening the Eastman woman who was related to the Winâ€" nipeg millionaire, brought her husâ€" band to call. The words seemed to open a chasm between her and the women who had been her neighbors and friends. Across it they looked at her coldly, distantly. They would have gladly helped her in difficulty, generously defended her from calumny but they could not forgive her for her goodâ€" fortune. Human nature is a strange thing. "Let them be horrid about it, if they want to!" Alicia thought indigâ€" nantly as she hurried home. "People with money don‘t need to worry for fear they won‘t have friends." "We think of building," Alicia said in a rather flat tone, "a colonial house with a conservatoryâ€"â€"" "I suppose you‘ll be moving away from Netherbrook?" Mrs. Fred Masâ€" ters said acidly. "A cheap little out of the way development like this would hardly appeal to rich people." "No, we are not in the millionaire class though the tradesâ€"people seem to think we are!" Lauretta Clark laughed unpleasantly. "We couldn‘t hope to keep you here, my dear." By afternoon all Netherbrook had heard of the Brents‘ good fortune. When Alicia dropped in at the Tayâ€" lor‘s to return a borrowed book she found a dozen women gathered in the living room talking, as she guesâ€" sed from the hush that succeeded her appearance, about her. She had her little unworthy moment of triâ€" umph as she caught the envy in their faces, yet there was something lackâ€" ing in it, something lacking, too, in the wordiality of their oong'ratuh-l tions. The zest was gone out of the daily routine. The little house seemed oddly unfriendly and chill, as she moved about it, mechanically setting it to rights. It was not worth while to linger to admire its views toâ€"day or to make busy little curtainâ€"andâ€" furniture plans for its furnishing when they would be leaving it so soon. Alicia‘s appearance the next mornâ€" ing as she stood hidden behind the eretonge curtains at the casement window watching Billy‘s broad back march away toward the station, was hardly in accord with her bright new prospect. For the first time since they were married he had gone off without kissing her goodâ€"bye! Is the Purest & Finest Flavored Tea yJur money can purchase. A Teaâ€"Pot Test is better than a page of Advertisement. To Prove Our Claims In a Little Crooked House PART III BY DOROTHY DONNELL CALHOUN. The manufactures of Mesopotamia are fow and primitive. â€" Steam â€"maâ€" chinery was used in the military cloth factory at Bagdad, but the other inâ€" dustries may properly be classed as handicrafts. _ Milling, tanning, boatâ€" building and brick making are carried on for native consumption, and there are a fow manufacturers of luxeries, such as silkâ€"weaving. metalâ€"working, and the distilling of the spirit called arrack. The silk factories of Bagdad are famous for the beauty of their color and workmanship, and the cultiâ€" vation of the silkworm was at one time a flourishing industry. Women throughout the Dominion are endorsing the Can. Trade Com.‘s efforts to restore the balance of trade, aspecially with the United States, by a voluntary undertaking to buy Canadianâ€"made gouds wherâ€" Every order secured urder Canaâ€" dian credits in Europe must be open to a bid from every Canadian wanuâ€" facturer in the line who desires it, That is a fixed rule made by tise Canadian Trade Commission. ever possible. tion sion eredits arranged abroad. Money and position without happiâ€" ness are like a table loaded with good things and no appetite to eat. The boss came, and after hearing the complaint answered, "I regret to Russia, but you cannot Roumania." Bo the soldiers went away Hungary. Just then a Swede put his head in at the door and inquired anxiously, "Albania ?" Two British soldiers went into a resâ€" taurant in Saloniki and ordered the waiter to bring them "Turkey with Greece." "Then bring the Bosphorus!" cried the soldiers. "Sorry, but I cannot Servia," reâ€" plied the waiter. There are, by the way, five royal ladies who are Colonels in Chief. Queen Alexandria holds this rank in the Yorkshire regiment and the Nineâ€" teenth Hussars, the Princess Royal in the Seventh Dragoon Guards. > Prinâ€" cess Mary in the Royal Scots and Prinâ€" cess Louise Duchess of Argyll in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. With the appointment of Queen Mary as Coloncel in Chief of the Queen‘s Own Oxforashire Hussars, Her Majesty becomes the titular head of two regiments. Already she was Colonel in Chief of the Eighteenth Hussarsâ€""Queen Mary‘s Own." And she is, of course, Commander of Q. M. Suddenly she caught up the teleâ€" phone. Over the top of it her eyes, whimsical, tender, met Billy‘s wonâ€" dering gaze. 4 "I‘m going to call up Marjorie Taylor this minute," Alicia said joyâ€" ously, "and ask for that recipe for waffles without eggs!" The Crooked Little House seemed to feel what had happened for it twinkled and smiled from every corâ€" ner and Alicia declared it was singâ€" ing a dumb song of joy. (The End.) "And I don‘t want a Grand Big House! I‘ve been homesick for the last three days. I want youâ€"you dearest Little Crooked House, just exactly you!" She reached up aâ€"tipâ€"toe and drew his face down to hers. Then, with a little laugh she ran across the room to lay her cheek against the rough plastered wall. He got no further for all at once, in a little whirl of tenderness Alicia was in his arms. "Oh, you stupid! Can‘t you see I‘m crying because I‘m glad? I hated being rich! I wanted my old friends back! I want you back!" "Wait, dear! It isn‘t that they‘ve entirely turned Maggie down, but they aren‘t quite sure of herâ€"they‘re willing to try her out and let me share in the profits by and by. But that means time, Ally, and it‘ll come slowly if it comes at all. I‘m afraid we‘ll have to give up the new house, Hon‘, and keep on economizing for a while." I Queen Mary is Colonel in Chief. Industries of Mesopotamia. Food Conservation. Creneral > ......;«>; .1s Socks and Stockings ..... Other cotton manufactures Plums and Prunes ...... Fruits in packages ...... Furniture ......‘.‘..%...., The Sick Child and the School. A day spent in school by a halfâ€" sick child may result in a week of serious illness. If, as so often hap» pens, the slight indisposition proves to be the beginning of some comâ€" municable disease, the other children in the school are exposed, and those who are susceptible follow in turn. Starch, ete ........« Woollen Manufactures (all countries) ..... Baked Beans .... Test. * vir.r...:.+*¢, Cereal Foods ...... Breadstuffs ........ Cotton Manufactures Muttn and Lamb ... Pork (barrelled, etc.) . Garien and Field Seeds Tomatoes, eanned .... Tomatoes, fresh ..... Canned Véegetables and The following list, taken from ofâ€" ficial returns, is only a partial comâ€" pilation of the many hundreds of things more which we annually imâ€" port from the United States, and which, with a determined effort and the coâ€"operative goodâ€"will, without the further use of fiscal machinery, could be largely removed from the debit side of our national bookkeepâ€" ing. The list only deals with those thing which principally concern woâ€" men:â€" Partial List of Canadian Imports. Article 1918 Value Cheeso ...............+, §$*114,000 LARE! x+« ?rirrs++rsk iir% 288,000 Lard Compound, ete. .... 469,000 Meats (general) ........ 728,000 Large quantitiee of goods which are of particular interest to women have been for years imported into the Dominion, when many of them would have been, had we known what could be effected by patriotic coâ€"opâ€" eration such as marked war work, manufactured or grown within our own border. The one outstanding thing for our national financial betâ€" terment is that we at once CHECK THE FLOW OF MONEY OUTâ€" WARDS, and that we do everything possible to TURN THE STREAM OF MONEY INWARDS to Canada. That is, we must spend less abroad; we must sell more abroad. Now we must turn to the best acâ€" count the work of Canadians in the factory as well as in the field. Now we must induce our people in city and country to make at home and to produce at home the things we need for our own use and comfort. The Canadiar Trade Commission is by every means encouraging Canaâ€" dian manufacturers to make the words, "Made in Cansda," worthy of the highest traditions of an indusâ€" trial people. That standard has alâ€" ready largely been reached in our agricultural products. In our total, household purchases figure very largely. As the women of Canada buy about 90 per cent. of all that is used in domestic life, the first thing towards relieving and safeguarding the situation is their grasp of this allâ€"essential fact. When that is once clearly understood they will gladly, as they did in food conâ€" trol, bring about a reform. For every million dollars retained in Canada BY A REFUSAL TO BUY OTHER THAN CANADIAN GOODS, a year‘s unbroken employâ€" ment can be given to at least 1,000 people. Canada has to remit to foreign countries a sum of well over half a million dollars a day merely to pay our indebtedness abroad. Women who realize that every dolâ€" lar sent out of the country for those things whigh can be produced at home adversely affects the financial situation. We have already purâ€" chased so heavily from abroad durâ€" ing the four years of war that the financial position is critical. For the immediate future women should influence all ~purchases for the home to be of Canadianâ€"made goods and products. This will give employment to returned soldiers and to the many thousands who were formerly in munitionâ€"making and other war work. The Canadian Trade Commission has a wideâ€"extended undertaking to promote expansion «of Dominion afterâ€"war trade. A return to preâ€" war standards cannot meet our need. Our war debt in four years has run up to nearly $1,500,000,000. The inâ€" terest payment on this will demand the most alert business gifts of the people. The ‘wholeâ€"hearted support given by the women of Canada, singly or through their organizations, to food control and other war work showed how great their collective influence could be. und, ete. .... fal) :: ..i.+« Lamb ‘;..;.. ed, ete.y: ... . 4 Field Seeds .. ° mned: ... ... fesh >:..... tables and ME s is n rice ns TORONTO 1,121,000 823,000 437,000 2,099,000 3,669,000 8,832,000 1,400,000 1,166,000 1,227,000 6,500,000 457,000 2,593,000 216,000 142,000 195,000 469,000 728,000 1,788,000 355,000 2,167,000 368,000 694,000 530,000 | Table manners are really much easier to acquire than might be supâ€" |posed. You have only to feel that you can look well while eating and it improves matters at once. This gentle art of constantly feeling that | you don‘t make such a bad picture, , after all, is really the best and the simplest way of all. It can be pracâ€" | ticed at all times, bui should never be carried to the point where it apâ€" ! proaches selfâ€"consciousness. $ ._ _ Using White Enamel. To white enamel paint, the best reâ€" sults will be obtained by using two coats of flat house paint, then two coats of good oil enamel paint, being sure to let each coat dry. This treatâ€" ment is especially good for iron bedâ€" steads. Mannerisms are, of course, to be avoided. The person who does everyâ€" thing possible to attract attention is tiresome to look at and usually more tiresome to listen to. A loud or strident voice is wearying to listen to, and one too low is almost as bad, for the hearer has to strain attention in order to make out . what is being said. If we could only hear ourselves as others do, it would be of almost as much aid as to see ourselves as others see us. If you are a selfâ€"centred person you must be extremely clever in order to keep people from looking beneath the cover. However, if you â€" are thoughtful of others, the habit will grow with the least little bit of enâ€" couragement, and this is half the battle. Observation is the other half, and even if it is tagged with the term "knocking" a little criticism of other people‘s manners will help you to avoid the same pitfalls yourself. The knocking may be done inwardly just as well as outwardly. Imitation is usually a bad way to go about things, but observing some person. whose manners you approve will be another way to go about things. _ On Good Manners. Good manners can be acquired only by careful study. At least they canâ€" not be either laid down by rule or obtained by the methods of a corresâ€" pondence. Truly good school manâ€" ners are said to come from the inside out, and time has not dulled the truth of this assertion. School authorities are naturally anXâ€" ious to secure regularity of attendâ€" ance on the part of the scholars, and many parents feel that they are simply ‘doing. theic duty in forcing children who complain of not feeling well to go to school. It is much betâ€" ter for a child to lose an occasional day‘s schooling than to risk bringing on an illness and exposing others. The work which children lose in the school from sickness can be made up far more readily than that lost by health. Satisfactory mental progress can not be made unless health is first considered. S A L T All grades. Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS G. J. CLIFF . . TORONTO CUARANTEES PURITY COVERNMENT LEGEND AND . _...â€" [3 BEANS Trinidad‘s fine share in the war is to be commemorated by a monument at Portâ€"ofâ€"Spain. _ A meeting was held there rocently at which the proâ€" ject was discussed and agreed to with enthusiasm. _ The Governor (Major Sir J. R. Chancellor) presided. The site selected for the monument is at the top of Broadway, Portâ€"ofâ€"Spain. A lady teacher in a Glasgow school had just concluded the Bible lesson, having taken for her subject the hero of the coat of many colors. To asâ€" certain whether the lesson had been closely followed, she asked one of the boys to tell the class who Joseph was. "He was the first Food Controller," promptly replied the boy. C coRrN S The Syrup for Pancakes Ward it off! Grace your table daily with a generous Crown Brand Corn Syrup for making puddings, candies, cakes, etc. Sad the day when you are too big to enjoy a siice of Could that day ever come? it will truly "crown". A golden stream of Crown Brand Corn Syrup is the most delicious touch you can give to Pancakes! In the Kitchen, there is a constant call for : Stands rough wear and resists water For Sale by all Dealers. "AGATE" FLOOR VARNISH [ | will renew them. We pay carriage charges one way and guarantee satisfactory work. Our booklet on household helps that save money will be sent free on request to PARKER‘S DYE WORKS, Limited Cleaners and Dyers 791 Yonge St. & = « Toronto RAM S AYS CROWN BRANDâ€" of Crown Brand Corn ip, ready for the dozen SEND I1T TO ,S EXPERTS 'PARKER Parker‘s can clean or dye carpets, curtains, laces, draperies, gowns, etc., and make them look like new. Send your faded or spotted clothing or household goods, and PARKER‘S hoursâ€" And greening hills, white <louds. all % life aware; ; Sweet smells of warming earth and songs of birds, All things you ever lovedâ€" + And youâ€"not here. And I have wished again for frost and ice For storm to shroud my world with skies of grey, For earth to tell the earth "there is no ho”” It‘s easierâ€"than spring With youâ€"away. A golden Bittersweet. moon to mock the empty Just as England‘s armics ie tory put Napoleon Bonaparte 8 place, just as her navy in Elizabet»an days broke the power of allâ€"con==© ing Spain, so does she now wit} ! childrenâ€"the Scotch, the Irish, tb* Canadians, the Australians, the N* Zealanders, the South Africans, and the Indiansâ€"and are we not intons¢â€" ly proud to be one of themâ€"with wonderful France, with ravished Polâ€" wonderful France, with ravishes ©©‘â€" gium, with Italy, and latterly with still another of her offspring, th* United Statesâ€"from the moment s»* came in, a guarantee of victory 40 does she now help save this world from a greater calamity than any of ;;Cfl\â€"the Kultur of the unspeakable uUn. Colossal sums, and at inca} sacrifice, have been raised 1: care of the sick and wounded, food and comfort of prisoners : the benefit and recreation of at home and abroad. And the British birth rate is greater than the total losses o‘ men during the whole war population ‘has increased durin; cent .In addition to 90 arsenals, Gro~t Britain now has over 5,000 Governâ€" ment controlled factories, all workâ€" ing day and night on munitions and supplies. She has increased her sto»l output from 7,000,000 tons in 1914 to 12,000,000 tons in 1918. 1,000,000 of her men produced 256,348,000 tons ©‘ coal, a great deal of which wen! her allies. British womenâ€"God bless then 5,000,000 of them, many of whom never worked in their lives bef are working for their country i: needâ€"270,000 are on farms. Britain has spent $38,000,000 .( on this war, of which $7,325,00 has been loaned to her allies. The Englishman has lived 0: lbs. of beef (or chicken) per wee Ib. of butter per week, %4 1b. of : per week, and has faced oth«: restrictions we can hardly ima Food costs have increased 1! England, despite her call on man power, by a supreme effort, agri culturally and industrially, 'hls al most fed herself. She has added over 2,000,000 acres to her cultivatel ares, 850,000 tons of cereals and 5,000,000 tons of potatoes, reduced imports of lumber by 3,000,000 tons, replacing shortage by 1,800,000 tons of timber cut in England, and forestry work in France for the balance. Clothed .the Allied Armicsâ€" Her plants have clothed the Bri: k!l, F'rench. ltala’:n. Grecian. Serbian and other armies, and have large); equipped them with guns, rifcs, shells and meroplanesâ€"even our An erican friends have been uniforme| from her mills. The British army and naval air forces in 1914 consisted of 130 maâ€" chines and 900 men. When the armistice was signed there were many thousands of machines and tens of thousands of menâ€"they absoluteâ€" ly dominated the air. She bottled up the German navy at the commencement of the war and has kept it bottled up ever since. The navy has convoyed the British Mercantile Marine, has transported 22,000,000 men (and of these lost on!y 4,391 by German action), and amony other things> 2,000,000 horses and mules, 25,000,000 tons of explosives and supplies, 51,000,000 tons of 0:} and fuel, 130,000,000 tons of food and other supplies. |BRITAIN‘S EFFORT â€"â€" SUDRPASSES ALL The navy, which the Hun would never meet, commenced the war wit) 145,000 men and 2,500,000 tons, with 12 patrol boats. She ended it wit) 406,000 men, 6,500,000 tons and 3,%0 mineâ€"sweepers and patrol boats. Britain‘s total losses have been 8,250,000, of whom 1,000,000 haw, been killed. Her armies (three qua» ters of them Englishmen) haw fought in East Africa, in Italy, in Egypt, in the Balkans, have crushed the Turks in Mesopotamia and Palesâ€" tine, and latterly have held the grea: er part of the line on the Wester front. Up to the time of the signing of the armistice she had raised 7,500,00( men, and her army in France was the finest equipped and trained army the world has ever seen. (4,500,000 of these were Englishmen recruited in England; 1,000,000 others of them were Englishmen recruited | cls: where. Now that civilization has triumphâ€" ed over "Kultur," it might do Cana dians good, as part of our Great Britâ€" ish E-‘gil!, to realize whyâ€"to appreâ€" ciate wonderful effort brough into play by the Empireâ€"particular ly by GM Old En‘llnd. that modest old backbone of oursâ€"the poorest advertiser the world has ever know! but . the greatest of them allâ€"indus trially, financially, as an educator, as a colonizer, and as a benefactor, When the war commenced, the Empire had 700,000 troops of all sorts, many of them only partially trained. By May, 1916, she had r« cruited for the army and navy ove» 5,000,000 . men (rich men, poor men etc.) voluntarily. ON SEA, LAND, AND IN THE AaAir sHE LED THE WORLD Wonderful is the _ Achievement of the British Empfre, of Which England Has the Major Share. Britain Lost One Million Dead iF Soldty the â€" {({O lao&:;‘ Dealers t3 ] Bicyclo DOM! STAND UP To Ev AY mo an to put like to earlier land t quirt« me to use | Our potato year and I *Test them for q workmanshipâ€" for speed and mi their sturdy se easy ridingâ€"and find Dominion T questionably ‘I ough are : shoul soil. are lime plant drille« fertili befor do no izer s W necess; contair it is p to the beet. fertiliz 4 per c phosph amoun how re just Some high acre. OFr sor nure i start grow est ; yield betto field nas heot you um grov tend lo“. grou stin Ttow th th please the soil yields. Author :; Adcress ail tare of The Wi} and answers wo; awhich they are f this Papet, . 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