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5 4 64 t * Ts min PART IX. Gran‘ma Bradley looked up as they eame out or the verandah again, a new Gran‘ma, radiant rejuvenated. "Emmic:‘ she gestzred toward the Wild Goosze quilt. "Mrs. Bennett here sold two of them for thirty dollars apiece to a newâ€"fangled Arts and Crafts Store in the city. Thirty dolâ€" lars for a quilt, Emmie!" Gran‘ma‘s tone was awed. "I got a dozen of them laid away up attic. She gave me the address of the store that buys them. â€" Emmie, you don‘t know how it is, growing old and not bein‘ able to help along!" dr The Bennetts‘ cordiality not only provided a supply of gasoline from their own automobile but insisted on dinner, and they had a merry meal round the big table on the screenedâ€"in back verandazh. The women exchanged recipes for bect pickles and the men discussed deep plowing and tractors. "Don‘t know much about these new soda fountain and Ma and Gran ma napped pleasantly on the soft cushions of the car. At last Pa appeared, eyes alight with enthusiasm. "It‘s a coâ€"operative creamery and laundry, Emmie!" he exclaimed. "They use the machinery and power of the creamery to run the laundry by. The farmers bring the cream and take home the clothes at one trip, and the profits of the whole thing are divided re..4"among the folks that support #1 th it to There is a photograph, with which most of us are no doubt familiar, of Mark Twain at work in bedâ€"holding his writingâ€"pad on his knees, and hayâ€" ing the things he needed for his labor disposed about on tables on either stide. But the idea of working in bed was not original with Mark. _ Many eminent men before him did the same thing. Indeed, no small part of the One of t lish pootry visit e‘clock in the morni )?_nudq nl wakened repeating, 7?"&\ s to M éast their shadows before." Ringing the bell sharply, he summoned a serâ€" vant. The man found Campbell with one foot in bed and one on the floor." "Are you ill, sir?" he asked. "I was never botter in my life," said the poet. "Leave the candle and bring me a cup of tea." P Seizing his pen he put down the happy thought, changing "events to eome" into "coming events," and over the non{nobrfating cup, he finished the first draft of "Lochiel‘s Warning." Longfellow‘s "Wreek of the Hesporâ€" us" came to him as he was sitting by Ir W The Legacy on Wheels The of the best known lines in Engâ€" otry came into its author‘s head 1e was actually asleep. While ; at Minto, Thomas Qis’mz_bfi} ening@ we d early, w & . Ratkh id ul of Pfi%;? Xbout 2 199 lengthened into half an ing people discovered a and Ma and Gran‘ma itly on the soft cushions t last Pa appeared, eyes Authors Who Wrote in Bed By Dorothy Donnell Calhoun. rnoon, At the lding In first I knewâ€"splash! And I‘d be in | soak all the rest of the meeting. But household goods, broken chairs and | tattered bedclothes, a woman sat hudâ€" dled on a matress, rocking a wailing | baby to her breast, three other chilâ€" \ dren crying bitterly at her skirts. seat pecring at the sprawling ugliness of this downâ€"town district. "This is never Toronto! It couldn‘t be!" A drunken man reeled from a saloon on the corner and kicked viciously but aimlessly at a group of wizened urchâ€" ins who were imitating him. Julie uttered a sharp cry of distress. uttered a snarp Cry of Gistress, "Oh!" she wailed. "How dreadful!" "We‘ll be out of this in a minute," said Geoffrey frowning above the wheel. "It is a short cut to the busiâ€" ness section that I want to show you first. If those confounded kids didn‘t use the streets as a playgroundâ€"but you can‘t blame them! They‘ve got to play somewhere." ‘ loo I expect it would cost a sight to start one of those things at the Cross Roads?" EP Pa‘s face clouded. "I expect it would be considerable to start off with, to put up the machinery and all. But it would pay for itself in the end in doctor‘s bills saved if nothing else." They spent the night in a countryâ€" town hotel, twenty miles from Toronto and at ten o‘clock the next day the outskirts of the city appeared. With hoarse honks of protest\Unele| ° °* " °_ °~°="*~ Henry bumped over the uneven as-l Now, slow before the lowering sun phalt, rounded a curve and came to| _A lucid vapor spreads, an abrupt stop on the edge of a little| Drifting in hazy coolness o‘er crowd that had gathered in the street.‘ The mallow‘s rosy heads. "What‘s the matter here?" Geoffrey set the brakes and sprang out indig.| Nature holds close and tenderly nantly. "You‘re blocking the publicl Her drowsy children dear; road." % * This is her hour of full contentâ€" 1 sc o cans cce ons o P s ces baseball in vacant lots. ; Then the weedâ€"grown lots gave place to wellâ€"kept lawns with pretty, suburban homes, standing in trim rows in treeâ€"shaded, newlyâ€"paved avenues. They rolled on toward the centre of the city, passing many fine houses, churches and schools set close together and interspersed with shops. The Flemings had only a lukewarm approval for this section. It didn‘t look homelike, Ma declared. Presently Uncle Henry turned into a district in the heart of the city; rows of low, ancient houses in various stages of disrepair, untidy children swarming over the sidewalk, corner vroceries with signs in foreign lanâ€" The wide green fields dwindled into vacant lots overgrown with burdock, dotted with gaudy billboards. _ Tin cans sprouted in the straggling grass like some uncouth vegetation. The hum of the reaper became the buzz saw voices of the children playing _ The group cowed to the voice of authority and drew back, revealing a mcture _of such utter misery as the Flemings had never dreamed existed. In the midst of a heap of wretched There was much gesticulating and rapid words in unknown tongues by the little crowd, but at last they got an explanation in intelligible English. M“i'e.s, Cardigan‘s Mary‘s been put out," an old crone informed them cheerfully. "She‘s behind with the rent." "Mother," asked the little girl, "does it make any difference which wide of the needle I put the thread in from?2" his fireside, the night after a violent storm. He went to bed, but could not sleep; the Hesperus would not be denied; and as he lay the verses flowâ€" ed on without let or hindrance until the poem was completed. One at least of Rossini‘s operas was composed in bed. It was when he was young, poor and unknown, and lived in wretched quarters. After writing a duet, the composer allowed his manuâ€" scripts to slip off the sheets and fall under the bed. Rossini was too comâ€" fortable to get out of bed, and moreâ€" over he believed it would be unlucky to pick the sheets up; so he went to work to rewrite the duet. To his disâ€" gust he could not remember it. ‘It was, therefore, necessary to write q now on& â€"This he bad finished when a e TA â€" ‘"Iry that," said the composer, "and tell me what you think of it." The verdict was favorable. "Now," said Rossint, "look under the bed. Y‘ou'll find another duet there. Try that, too." 1 The friend did so, and declared that the original composition was much the better. Then both were sung againâ€" Rossini in bed and his friend sitting on the edge, Both arrived at the same conclusion touching the merits of the two compogitions. & "What shail yGu do with the other one?" asked the friend. "Oh, I shall turn this into a terzetâ€" to," said Rossini, and he did. Flemings stared with troubled They did not know that every as an arca of slums where the ngs are old, unsanitary and ugly here Poverty abides. They only they had never smelled such nor seen such sights in all their (To be continued.) wail of,dismay. forward in her How France Discouraged Habit .of "Liquidation." A curious custom was prevalent in France during the sizteenth and sevenâ€" teenth centuries. Anyone who found it necessary to liquidate his affairs was obliged to wear a green capâ€"A humility to himself and a warning to others. At one time bankrupts were conâ€" sidered criminal offenders even in Engâ€" land. As a matter of fact,â€"certain cases of fraudulent bankruptcy have incurâ€" red the death pe;mlty in this country. Any concealment of books or the secreting of property by a debtor was so punished. Under, this law a man called John Perrot was hanged in 1761. Those who make a hobby of getting rid of their indebtedness by way of the Bankruptcy Court should at all costs steer clear of China. Bankruptâ€" cies are almost unknown in that counâ€" try, as they entail immediate execuâ€" tion. « md of their deblednesy by way oo | Nolishwonen‘s Werk ‘at ‘the Cansâ€" o 5. n dian Memorials Exhibi the Bankruptcy Court should at all emo ibit. ‘ costs steer clear of China. Bankruptâ€"| Three Englishwomen had the honor cies are almost unknown in that counâ€" ] of being commissioned by the Canaâ€" try, as they entail immediate execu~id|3fl Government to paint canvasses tion. 8 |to be used as mural decorations for A similar drastic punishment used the great War Memorial Building to be meted out to delinquents in Jaâ€"| which is to be erected at Ottawa, and pan. the three pictures which are the happy To come nearer home, one need only "result of these commissions hang in go back to a little before the Act of ; & conspicuous position at the Canadian Union to find that debtors in Scotland | War Memonials Exhibition which this were obliged to wear garmenis of year forms an interesting part of the diverse colors, a suit of grey and yelâ€" Canadian National Exhibition at Toâ€" low being the most common. ‘[ronto. In Siam, a man unable to meet his| Each of these canvasses depicts a liabilities was put in chains and COMâ€"| typical scene in army life, in which pelled to work as a slave for his crediâ€"‘ the figures are of heroic size, and tor. Should he escape, his wife, childâ€"| they are the very last pictures in ren, father, or other relative We".the entire collection that one would seized in his stead. | imagine to have been nainted hy woâ€" It is said that no bank failure has occurred in Chinaâ€"for over nine hunâ€" dred years. When such an event last happened an edict was promptly isâ€" sued stating that in future any such failure on the part of a bank would enâ€" tail the severest punishment on all reâ€" sponsible officials. The heads of the cashier, president and directors beâ€" camo forfeit. Shorn of their wealth, the harvest fields us Lie silent in the sun; Weary, beneath the languorous haze, Their gengrous labor done. The dreamy river trails its length Across the breadth of gold; Slowâ€"creeping, till it find its way By cedars grim and old. Gone are the lilies, but the leaves Float sullen on the stream; Above the shimmering underflow Where waterâ€"grasses gleam. The flashing pickerel snaps the fly Which careless skims the wave And circles widening to the shore Theâ€"rooty margins leave. The turtle warming on the log Prolongs his length of days; Unhcedful of the empty nest The puiling cattail sways. Nature holds close and tenderly Her drowsy children dear; This is her hour of full contentâ€" Her "restâ€"time" of the year! A man from the north of Scotland was on holiday in Glasgow. On Sunâ€" day evening he was walking along Argyll Street when he came upon a contingent of the Salvation Army, and a collectionâ€"bag was thrust in front of his nose. He dropt a penny into it. Turning up Queen Street, he enâ€" countered another contingent of the Salvation Army, and again a smiling "lass" Weld a collectionâ€"bag in front of him. "Na, na‘!" he said. "I gied a penny tae a squad o‘ your foik roon‘ the cerâ€" ner jist the noo." "Really?" said the lass. "That was very good of you. But, then, you can‘t do a good thing too often. And beâ€" sides, you know, the Lord will repay you a hundredfold." "Aweel," said the cautious Scot, we‘ll jist wait till the first transaction is feenished before we start the second." 4 Motor Traffic in Trinidad. It is stated that, for the last four years, the importation of motor veâ€" hicles into Trinidad has averaged 165 per annum, and this rate is likely to increase, as not only are stocks of new cars practically nonâ€"existent in the country, but their popmlarity is growâ€" ing rapidly. Estate owners in Trint dad are boginning to realize the adâ€" vantages of motor transport for conâ€" veying their produce to the railway or coast, and are eager to obtain comâ€" mercial trucks for this purpose.‘ At present about 600 miles of roads suitâ€" able for motor traffic exist in Trinidad, and lately there has been a proâ€" nounced movement towards the imâ€" provement of highways. Soak galgvfi;h &_ wmilk to freshen It for immediate use,." Do not slir jelly while cooking. Let it simmer sently. It will be clearer. Emall bresks in hot water bottles can be mended with adhesive plaster. When moking colored shirts save the pieces for trimming cotton dresses. Use berax in tepid water with a little soan to wash silX handkerchiefs. When cooking potatoes for salad, cook with skins on and peel afterwards. _ Wizard‘s Linlment Cores Garget in Cowm BANKRUPTS IN GREEN CAPS. TORONTO Canny Finance. August Each of these canvasses depicts a typical scene in army life, in which the figures are of heroic size, and they are the very last pictures in the entire collection that one would imagine to have been painted by woâ€" men, for they are all three distinctly "masculine," both in the subject and its treatment. The most striking of the three is called "The Boxers," and was painted by Laura Knight, a very well known artist in England, especially famous for her figure painting. Two Canadian soldiers stripped for combat stand out against a background of bright blue sky and heavy white clouds, surroundâ€" ed by their khakiâ€"clad comrades. Mrs. Knight is a woman in the early thirties, whose husband, Harold Knight, is also a well known artist. Their studio is in a charming, outâ€"ofâ€" theâ€"way village in Cornwall. If, as now seems probable, the conâ€" servative old Royal Academy decides at last to open its sacred portals to women painters, . Laura Knight is named as the most probable candidate for the honor of boing the first of her sex to affix the magic letters "R. A." to her name. The "Cookhouse" of the 156th Canaâ€" dian Infantry is the second picture. This picture is the work of Miss Anna Airy, another Englishwoman, whose work is very well known in her native land. It shows the huge caldrons of "chow" being prepared for the soldiers by the whiteâ€"capped chefs, and it is all in greys and white, with the excepâ€" tion of here and there the brilliant yellow of the flame under the kettles. Because of the success of this canâ€" vas, Miss Airy has recently been apâ€" pointed by the British Minister of Munitions to paint a series of pictures showing the workers in the different branches of munitions making for the Imperial War Museum in London. The third war canvas is by Claire Atwood and is called "On Leave." It shows the inside of a Y. M. C. A. hut at one of the great London termini at the hour just before the dawn. _ Here the Canadian soldiers have come for breakfast and a cigarâ€" ette before taking the train. Some have a few days‘ leave before them and some are on their way back to the trenches. A Canadian soldier in the uniform of the celebrated Black Watch is seen in the foreground givâ€" ing his sergeant a light from his cigarette. According to the testimony of the men themselves, some threshing day dinners are to be remembered for their excellencies, and others are to be remembered for other reasons. But if the energies of workingmen are to be kept at par, they must be well stoked. Workingmen _ appreciate plenty and a good flavor, The good flavor is attained by cooking to the right degree and seasoning carefully. Preparing the threshipg dinner is a heavy task for the housewife and she should have plenty of good help. Presumably she is informed beforeâ€" hand when to expect the threshers and to make her prelinvinary preparations. Then she must decide on her bill of fare. Here is one meant not to be arbitrary, but suggestive: Bread and butter, chicken pie, mashed potatoes, cottage cheese, new beets, fresh or canned fruit, fresh tomatoes, fried cakes, apple pie, tea, coffee and milk. The day before the threshing all the baking except the chicken pie hn 2 Ni ie n P Ne t 0e on higass ww ie The Canada Starch Co., Limited Cooking for Threshers. (BDomans ) .é;v%epe A little Benson‘s Corn Starch should be introduced into juicy fruit pies, such as rhuba_.rb_,fc’_herry, etc., to prevent running over. Orange Cream Pie is not difficult to make and will prove a happy addition to your dessert recipes. Serve custards, blanc mangse, sauces, gravies, cakes and puddings made with Benson‘s Corn Starch. Write for booklet. Pie Fillings! _ _ On this day also the chickens should be killed, dressed, and cut up. Thus the filavor of the meat will be improvâ€" ed and time and labor for the next day saved. Reckoning the proportion of chicken to the number of persons, there should be one good sized chicken to each six persons. The number of men required to run a threshing maâ€" chine varies with the conditions and neighborhood. Some need twenty men and others get along with fourteen or fifteen. should be got out ‘of the way, plenty| of white bread, half a dozen pies, a‘ lot of fried cakes, a big loaf or jelly: cake, or two small ones. i To accompany the chicken, rice may be cooked according to the Japanese method. This is delicious served with chicken pravy. Wash the rice in cold water over and over again until the water runs off clear. Then add cold water enough to stand in the pan three times as high as the rice, and salt. Cook fast until nearly dry. Then remove the lid and allow to dry on the back of the stove. Thus the grains will stand out white and flaky. Add no milk or butter or anything else, this would only spoil it. The chicken should be cooked tendâ€" er, boned, and made into pies because in this way it will go farthest. And everybody likes chicken pie. But it should be so managed that there will be plenty of good rich gravy for the potatoes and rice. If the threshing is to be prolonged to the supper hour, there must be another hearty meal. _ But by this time the housewife is very tired. So in the forencon, while the other foods are cooking, she should have a big pan of beans boiling. These can be baked for supper and if weli prepared will be appetizing. The following supper menu is sugâ€" gested and will not require a great deal of work: Bread and butter, bakâ€" ed pork and beans, roast potatoes with milk gravy, cabbage salad with sour cream dressing, apple sauce, cake, tea, coffee and milk. If the men with the machine stay all night, the breakfast may be the most awkward of all the meals. But that is because it crowds upon so many other early dutics of the day. It can be managed by simply expanding the family breakfast. Many parents are working kard and denying themsgelves in order to send their children to college. The sacriâ€" fices are worth while provided the girl or boy is willing to work out his or her education. A college education not only enables its possessor to obâ€" tain better business positions, but it enriches and enlarges the life in every way, if the student has made the most of his opportunities. _ But parents should be sure their children want an education and not merely a good time when they send them to college. If a solid groundwork of character and Value of College Training. enson‘s CORN STARCH ‘\'Ilét‘:bry Bwafiaé Beliers of Victory Bonds m find definite prices quoted on the page of the Toronto mornin® PAPOTSâ€" wW. L MeRINNON & CO. Dealers in Governmucat and Municipal Bonds MoKianon Bldg.. 19 Melinda St. Poront eleméntary knowledge has been given the child and the child is willing to work and study for an education, there need be no fear of the effect of colâ€" lege life on him. Bill and ‘Enry had not met for some time, when they quite unexpectedly came across each other in the street. Noticing that his chum was looking downcast, Bill clapped &on the back and said: Hotels For Babies. ; The babies‘ hotel is becoming a feaâ€" ture of the English national life. There is one at Bexhill, and there is another at Hampstead, and more are to follow, says the Manchester, Eng., Guardian. Parents are strictly excluded, and the babies engage rooms, suMect to the control of nurses and governesses only Generally &aki:;g. the babies‘ hotel is in miniature both as to beds and as to chairs and tables. The inâ€" dignity of the highchair is past, and it is the grownup who has to adjust herself to the new conditions. Meals are run on strictly nursery lines. Minard‘s Liniment Cures Diphtheria. "Hall?)l ‘Enry; how are you gettin‘ on? Still working for the same peoâ€" ple?" + . L 10 cenriel FEYC "Yes," was ‘Bury‘s sad reply. "Wife motherâ€"indaw and ten kids." S A L. T "p All I1 grades. Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS J. CLIFF . . TORONTO On the Same Job The Homestead Montreal 227 "WHAT CANADA DID FOR US" Py command of the Government of his Mzjests the: King of Belgium, writes the Boigian Consul at Ottawa, I wish, through the medium of the press, to thank heartily the people of Canada, whose great charity has been a constzut relief to the dire sorrows of Belgium during the war. Enclosed herewith is a "communiâ€" que" addressed to the press of my country by the "Comite National Belge de Secours ct d‘Alimentation." You will notice that my Government inâ€" gist upon the fact that Canada and the press of youf dear country are ©nâ€" titled to the deep and everlasting gratitude of the Belgian people for the splendid help given W# during the past years. 4 DEVAsSTATED BELGIUM‘S TUDE TO DOMINION. Belgian â€" Government Sends "Cf munique" Through Their Concul at Ottawa Thanking Canadians For Ald. Amongst the countries which, during the German occupation, have helped and relioved us in our distress, Canada was one of the most everâ€"ready and most generous. . It has been found there, in favor of Belgium, an outburst of common assistance and charity which one could hardly imagine had he not official and correct figures to show how important and magnificent was the work achieved. lmfiedlately after Liege had surrenâ€" dered, there was founded in Canada a commission of relief for the victims of the war in Belgium, said commission being under the most distinguished patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, and of his Excelâ€" lency the Duke of Devonshire, GCoverâ€" norâ€"General of Canada. The seat of the central executive committce was in Montreal, At the beginning, food and clothes were, above all other things, lacking in Belgium. The central committee of Montreal decided to forward to our country, throug\l the medium of the commissidn for relie{, the numerous gifts in food and clothes that they were receiving at their large store houses, and it was also decided to apâ€" ply the gifts in cash to the purchase in Cznada of Canadian products, When, at the end of two years and a half, through scarcity in the means of transportation, the, imports had forcâ€" Ibly to be limited, the commission for relief in Canada took the best course possiblé under the circumstances by applying the Canadian public grants to the Belgian charitable organizaâ€" tions, and more particularly to those connected with the children‘s welfare, Three Million and a Half Dollars. Up to the 15th June, 1917, the Cana dian people‘s subscriptions collected by the relief fund for the victims of the war in Bolgium had reached the total of $2,827,191. At the same date the gifts in goods of all kinds were estimated at $1,495,â€" 042. It is here proper to state that all the railways of Canada have handled the whole of these goods free of charge. The gifts in goods were mostly wheat, bariey, rice, cnnn? meats and other canned goods, potafoes, blankets quilts, new and old clothes. Up to the 15th June, 1917, the gifts in cash had reached the sum of $1,â€" $40,520, and up to the 31st January. 1919, $1,697,480 had been collected. Since the month of September, 1914, up to the 18th February, 1919, the colâ€" lection, in brief, totalized a sum of $3,241,105. If one adds to this amount the 234,365 dollars collected and transâ€" mitted by our general consulate to different _ charitable _ organizations apart from the relief fund, more than a total of three million and a half dolâ€" lare, that is to say, approximately seventeen million andâ€"a half francs will be obtained. .« Deeply Appreciated. Furthermore, the above mentioned dates do not exemplify in its conâ€" pleteness the magnitude of the genâ€" crosity Canada has shown us, for one must not forget that a great number of persons together with a great numâ€" ber of associations, have conveyed their funds to Belgian relief organizaâ€" tions etablished more particularly in Englard. * All of these figures bear a charactor which is pecullarly significant when it is considered that Canada has not yet a population of eight million inâ€" habitants, and that such a splendid exâ€" ample of generosity has been given more particularly by individuals, In conclusion, let us say that the fund has still on hand an available sum of $5,000 dollars. Said sum will forthwith be remitted to King Albert, who will personally see that it is disâ€" tributed amonget the principal relief organizations. A Link Established. Neediess to further exemplily the right of the Canadian public to the Belgians‘ gratitude. In expressing the gentiments which, indeed, we feel so glad to express, we consider it a duty to thank our confreres of the Canadian press, who not only were amongst the phalanx of standardâ€"bearers heartily sympathetic to our just cause, but also hawe never missed an occasion to echo the distress of Belginm, to stimulate the goodâ€"will of the Canaâ€" dian population, and thus to contriâ€" bute in the most effective way to the layving of an international fraternity which shall always be very dear to the heait of Polgium. Canada Ever Ready abeoy GRATIâ€" te» No