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" "That's niee," she Answered. "I like this quiet corner." Jimmy, who had set his cracked eyeglasses athwart his nose. famed over them at Doctor Mellick. w o was jolt entering the dining room and moving toward the next table. The doctor grinned tt,ei'",'dTf2 through his 1%,t',',',',t rd and aeated him- oolf. . young woman was scanning the bill of fire. tromulouuly; fo ported taltimate not prepared f, 'Te kept your it She had paused for an instant, her glance swaying the room, to rest at st on fatherly old Jimmy, with his shock of white hair and his wrinkled, kindly face. Then she had made her way straixht to Jimmy’s corner table -the one which usuali was tacitly mowed for Doctor 'IIE,)'., and Jim- my had drawn out the chair for her without even a hint that the next table was just as desirable. Even Doctor Meliick. coming in later, lost his first look of annoyance when he met the innocent glance of those demure and lovely eyes. Billy Niles, who had been in a hurry. forgot his haste, dawdled over his eofteo and atole one look after another, while the 'i",',',',',,', woman at a modest dinner, paid immg, and departed. I So illy Miles had managed to come to Shea's for his dinner the next night; and the 1"/,T"lg,t't'go,',t, Inordinate appetite for Englie pa. Old Jimmy who always saw every-' thing, easily read the reason; and Jimmy was very thoughtful. and re-' doubled his no icitous watchfulneu over the young woman's needs, 7 l and 50 had dropped in for a bite be- fore going buck to the office of the Evening Star to write his story. Juat on Jimmy was bringing his order he tratl. hro.ketl up and pad Been her. _ You must not think that young wo- hen were I urity " Shee’e. Many of the petrone who lodged in the neigh- borhood brought their wives for e chop or e steak and e mug of musty. But thin one we. different. She wee un- eccompenled. Moreover, eke was neither meture nor eommorrplaee. You noted Brat her quiet 'ye)t-pmesion--: the Iurenese with which ehe moved toward Jimmy's comer table. But it wee her big, dark-lashed my eye: that arrested your heart for e moment. They were wonderful eyes; and Billy like yea under their spell._ _ The Brst evening she who he was in 'duet. of one of his cuul visit; to eau. A special usignmont Mght_ him. to {nag-by kqildipg, For the. evenings, at exactly 6 (clock, the door " the dingy dining tool: " Shah had opened to Admit a young woman. "Will you try a bit o' fitrh In; READY TO SERVE tjui_Ittct Dollars saved by Bovrll CANADIAN Inlll,tll DINNER JUST HEAT AND EAT The Two Guardsmen It makes nourishing hat dishes out of cold food which would Bot otherwae be eaten. But see that you get the real thing. " it in not in the Bovnl bottle it is not Bovril. And it out be Bow“. . Bovrtt and in the Kitchen menu dollars saved in the 9’3: tor it a mile like in" table for you." ' she Answered. "l By BANISTER MERWIN " The man who entered Shea’s with! the girl the next day was neither', , young nor attractive. Heavily built,l Lwith a deeply lined face, there was 3; ‘look about him that indicated a more', or less Rmetionable quality of exper-' ience. shrewd observer could readl‘ signs of A character gone t oseed. ‘Buth Ii manner was fel-i-ret,',',',',, innd businemslike--tutd the gir tell',': "ently accepted him at his own value- man. 1 Jimmy scowled as he went out with! ithe order. He was uneasy about this) hunger. He threw a questioning,; [troubled glance " Billy Miles, who, oddly enough. had come to Shea's tol lunch tor t e first time in his life. I We}; friii N will p. These hits came to Jimmy in the man’a voice. And again; "My experience gain“ your mone - al division-- at will 'ds1%'IT, ham} You lee. Miss Fitch--" So her name wan Fitch! Al for Min Fitch, her talk aeemed to be limited to brief questions, but Jimmy thought he detected a faint obadow of doubt in those tray eyes of hers. Did she, too, feel something was wron‘g about the man? Were the credentia a of a Calgary acquaintance axtttleientt Whatever the girl may have thought of her companion. Jimmy decided to “at him in his own way. The time had come to present the bill. Jimmy a on his Tgtttr and reckoned . . . slim y.r.i.tly 1. my of. a pencil. m tfel'.,""',:-.".,,','",':,,",',',,', 1isrto--ndver.. in? Yes, in the farm 8pertr--eon- tine it to women-straight invest, mom." Of the convérsation that werCon between the girl and her companion Maggy .etmtltt. a feyjragmgnu. "Mi tmoiriedke of ttiiitiiriuC-you in clause of tbvomce anti the com:- "Does she come here for lunch, tet" demanded Miles giggly: A - Jimmy stared thoughtfully and yet} humbly, as became his position, intoi the eyes of Billy Miles. They were clear, clean eyes. After all, he thought,’ he could trust any young man whose. cheeks blushed so honestly; and be-i rides he knew Mr. Miles. l "She's 'ere on business of 'er own,"! he explained slowly. "She 'as a rooml at Mrs. 1i.restt.q.r's-183 West. I 'avel a feelin', Mr. Miletr, air, that 'GC-air,) air, that she don't know so much about) Montreal, an' as long as she comer 'ere for lunch and dinner--" I "Good Lord, Jimmy'." he exclaimed. "What do you take me for? Can't you stPve Just got to know?" He stopped short and fumbled at his eyeglasses. He liked Mr. Miles-had once helped him to unravel a big, tangled story. Suddenly Miles under- lto . The girl had scarcely gone when Billy Miles, with a crook of his finger, summoned Jimmy. He looked the old man squarely in the eyes. "Jimmy," he said, "who is she?" "Who is who?" Jimmy evaded. "The girl.” . "I don't know 'er name, Mr. Miles, sir," said Jimmy. Ile wrinkled his grow. "But she’s new to the city. . he-" “She's ’ero on business,” he thought, "and Pit not a buyer or she’d be " one of t e 'oteU. She's 'ere on 'er otrt.--on'. ghg needs lookin' out for!" - "It', a way we all 'ave when we're lonesome. min,” said Jimmy. "We jutL!m.sst. talk t? sqmebogy." A “I get my own breakfast in my room," she continued. "To-morroir there will be some one here with me for lunch---. man who mid u lot of books to the store in Calgary not long before I left. He is going to--" She stopped short, then laughed aloud and cold: "I don't know why I am telling you_all this." "Oh, yes," remarked Jimmy. "Bhe's let furnished room: there for flfteen yegfs to my knowledge.” _ "Thank you," she said. "You Are very good. This in a convenient place for me," she added in sudden eonfi- dence. "l have a room around the corner-at Mrs. Cressup'ts. Do you know of her?" He might have added that strangers were seldom permitted at hits tables, for Jimmy was not merely a waiter, he was an institution. The girl look- ed up and her face softened as the saw his lindiiness and genuineness. "You 'ave no intention to stay long in the city?" His persistence brought buck I touch of her reserve. "it may. It depends." "I've been 'ere many yenrs, miss," Jimmy went on. “Everybody in this part o' town knows me. Why, I could tel]_you . thousand names." "Yes," she said, and added irrele- vtttly, "on business." "Yes," she answered doubtfully. Then, half to herself: "But it's hard to get used to it utter the West." “Then you come from the West, inquired Jimmy. "It's very good this evening. . While she was decldirg he looked furtiveiy toward Billy Miles. That young man was shamelessly taking ud- vantage of the irl's absorption to stare " her lid';', Jimmys brows wrinkled anxiously. Later Jimniy haurded a further lead. Indetinatrly her manner had told him that the was new to the city. "Do you like Montreal, mast" he asked. ld the bill before the rttiiii, N will pay it." "id Mm mu "No, no.' couldn't hear of 9n hear 76!" it." x than“ mum“: can Cotta, to. l, "is it, sir?" inmxired Jimmv, run- ' ning his eye over the firrures. "Indeed. ou’re right, sir. Thank you very Kindly for te"in' me, sir'." 1' Surely an hams: act on the part lor Mr. Pronty! Irst Jimmy, who had hid the trap of a wror‘g addition. was ,nttt "tirfied; for be rearzed that the other man had not only avoided the "rap, but had turned it to his own ‘advantage in the eyes of the young _woman. l "What's the use in harping on that ', when you won't make daddy raise my [ allowance?" Doris sat up very l straight. "You know that I can't buy a stocking that will last two minutes I for less than a dollar end a half-at) the least. By the way, there's a sale _ of Italian silk ones this afternoon; if lyou make that five a ten, I can getI lsome bargains. That would be reall leconomy. Please, mother!" "Doris, don't! You nearly' got that! lneedle in your eye. Yes, of course C like to be hugged, dear child, but not (when I'm sewing. And it doesn't do ', a bit of good to coax and wheedle, for'! l I'm not going to give you another cent, _ for clothes til your allowance is due." The nth" straightened her ‘collar. "You know what daddy saidl I when he heard what your new bathing' I suit cost. And I don't like--" I The stranger was running his eyes) over the reckoning. ; "But, Mr. Pronty-" l "My dear Miss Fitch, please don't! will of it: Tne stranger looked It! Jimmy. “Waiter._ you';er Giiiri G cheat yourself. The sidition is forty cents short." "Oh, please, mother, just this once! Honestly, I won't ask for a single other thing, not even the stockings, if you’ll let me get the Iweater. I need one worst way, end it's, I crime not to take advantage of that "le." She thrust an amusing elbow under her . The screens should not be stored: gance. You had no business to buy away in any old plare in order to get: that expensive blouse; it's ridiculous ‘them out of the way. It is beat to for a schoolgirl! No, don't coax me. pack them all together and cover them My mind's made up." She bit " n up nicely-somewhere in the house ncedleful of Mark cotton, carefully where it is dry and clean. If covered avoiding her daughter's eye. with cloth or paper they th/p,?, be-) Contrary to her 0 :pcetation, there i come 80 dusty and it is a sn.a matter," was no argument, merely a look that indeed to get them ready for use next!, overflowed with reproach. Doris went lseason. If rubbed lightly with an; to the telephone, and presently the lolled cloth, they are again ready for; mother heard.. use, look bright and clean, and with an' "That you, Irene?. . . .No, I cen’t a additional touching up with oil, theyI come. It's all off. . . . .. Yes, I know, l will not easily rust. ihut she says she won't give it to me. , It is best to oil the screens with all Of course I need it worst my, but [cloth that is saturated in oil, as by; what's the use?....0h, cut it out, I this method the screens are evenly; Irene, it's all oft, I tell you!" The click 2 covered. and too much oil will not get of the disconnected telephone chimed on them, us would be the case if a, in with e disconsolate sob. brush were used for the purpose. Too "----Tr.ara..----t'---%"r'-N"-T---'--ra---%=". much oil would soil curtains or drap-l tat "d - I [ cries coming in contact with screen. aeEiri"t2lb53Rtfil5-:a. "EL-tsf-ode:',".".'.')', . She burst into the living room, call- mg, "Mother, wher’e are you, mother?" quite as if her parent had broken the habit of a lifetime and had deserted the mending basket on Thursday after- noon. "Listen, mother! I've got to get a new sweater. Can you let me have five dollars? They're four- ninety-tive at Kleinhr--sorne bargain!" She flung herself into the morris chair. "Wow, but I'm tired! I would- n't stir one step if I wasn't afraid all the pastel shades would be snapped up before I get there. What's the matter, mu_PtW--ireen . ghost t" The mother had put down her darn- ing and was looking at a slender calf in old-rose silk. "No, dear, but I see a great deal of leg, and a hole that's getting bigger every minute. I warned you there'd be no wear in that kind of stocking, Doris." Screens are a necessity' in every home during the summer months. They are also a great convenience and make the house cool and attractive when properly cared for. The time spent in caring for them is time profit- ably employed and will save many dollars besides in the course of a few years' time. A good time to do this work is late in autumn when we will have no fur- ther use for the screen: until next season. By painting and oiling them at this time, the wood is preserved, will look better when the screen is brought out next season, and the oil- ing prevents the screens from rusting, which is important if we want them to last many seasons. Great are should be token of window screens. " they represent quite an item of. expense. especislly when many large ones have to be used. When the season is Over for using the screens, I take a oort of inventory of them, discarding those that are completely worn out. It is not enough to mercly take an in- ventory of the screens on hand at the end of the season and properly place them away in some corner of the house where they will not be in the way until wanted again next season. This is indeed the way I used to do it, but I have found it a poor method and a costly one as well. All new screens bought each season" are carefully painted over the woodwork or metal parts as the case may he, and the screening is carefully oiled with lin- seed oil. By this method I have been able to make the screens last many seasons. _ (To be cqntlnued.) Oil and Puint Screens. Discipline. TORONTO maps lparent's nose. "Pipe that thin p1ue.i ‘will you? It'll be a hole first thingi you know. You don't want to see me; Ve in rags, do you'." She waited fer :8 Bere' sign of surrender. A full minute pass-', tion fm sed. . Then the mother said uneerri Diviain: tainly: ; the col Contrary to her 0 :pcctation, there was no argument, merely a look that overflowed with reproach. Doris went to the telephone, and presqntly the mother heard.. "That settles it, Doris," the mother said firmly. "Pm not going to en- courage you in any more extrava- Rance. You had no business to buy that expensive blouse; it's ridiculous for a schoolgirl! No, don't coax me. My mind's made up." She bit off a n:edleful of black cotton, carefully avoiding her dautrhter's eye. "At the Florentine Shoppe. Isn't it a peach?" She turned nowly round. "Did you ever see such handworkt Just look at the daisies on the yoke. It cost nine dollars, reduced from twetve-fifty. Where's your purse, mother? I've got to beat it." that?" - "Doris, where did you waist t" The worktable was overturned in the mad rush of gratitude. “Mumsy. you're a good old scout!" The despis- ed sweater hurtled through the air and lay in a crumpled pink heap. "Thank goodnesa I needn't wear that old ruin another minute! Where's your purse, mother? I want to meet Irene at Klein's at fivc. Why, what's the mat- ter? What makes you look at me like "If I do let you get the sweater, Doris, please understand that it's only because the one you hove on in getting shabby, not because I approve of Four losing your head over bargain sales. Now, will you promise me---" get that ,l For dipping, mix this compound in the proportion of one gallon to 100 I gallons of water. ... ..._ ...., -. _-_._e -- - ! They took 24 lousy hogs and divided i them into two lots as nearly equal as i to quality of animus as possible. The I two lots were fed and cared for identi- fcally the same, except that one was I treatedAo prevent lice. At the end of the fattening period it was found that the pork put on by the lousy animals _ cost a cent more for every pound than that added by the pen free from ' "eooties." And keeping hogs free from lice is not an expenaivemiera- 1 tion. although vigorous and persistent treatment is required to eradicate l them. Dipping in cresol compound 1 (U.S.P.). two or more times, at inter- ': vals of fifteen days, will free the ani- 5 male of lice. No persons need hope to be suc- cessful unless they enjoy their work more than any reeretiun they can find. Recreation is all right occasion- ally, but as a steady diet give us work in which we are interested and in the doing of which we are happy "Doris? she 7iiiGentir, "youll find my purse in the left-hand back corner of my top bureau drawer." Here's a neat little cost-of-produc- tion fact from the Animal Hulhandry Division: Lice add I cent I pound to the colt of producing pork; that is, it costs $4 more to produce a lousy 400- pound hog than to raise one of the same size free of these parasites. This is the way they found it out: , , he mother got up suddenly and went over to the Mini smut. She picked fLup and examined the worn db“. “I eat} mend that in two min- utes, deer.” in amid; with a consolinx patoathe Mankind tatttmriedin the sofa pillows. A sob answered her; then another. She sighed and laid the sweater down attain, Parker’s Will Do It Vermin Are ExpensAr. Parker’s m Works Cleaning or Dyeing Cleaners and Dyers, 791 Yonge M. Parcels may be sent Post or Express. We pay Carriage one way on ali orders. Advice upon Cleaning or Dyeing any ar- ticle will be promptly given upon request. By cleaning or dyeing-restore any articles to their former appearance and return them to you, good 96 new. Sénd snything hom household draper- ies down to the finest of delicate fabrics. We pay postage or express charges one way. When you think of Think of Parker's. unuy n..u5 u..- _v_, a Maid of Honor to Queen Alexandria. Her twin si,ster, the Hon. Violet i Vivian, holds this appointment at the Ipresent time. Lady Haig has little Hiking for society, and is rarely seen, a save at the houses of her rally inti- , mate friends. The homes of I nation are itl el'.""" WWWW'W- - - .-eW9is.. strongest forts. nation, which did not even undergo _ I the blood-letting to which most of the “a" W“ m mum surrounding countries have "vent sub. The Island of Guerttaey-the hunts jected, aspires to ita place in the sun of the Guernsey breed of eattle--ia In much as any other. But not every about 12,600 acre: in extent, end sup» country has the privilegv or being ports some 6,000 heed of enttle---one able. when trying to satisfy that up- to each two acre-3 of land. 5 petite, to extend its fruniiors an It is hot generally recalled new that though they were In elastic cord, and Lady Haig was before her marriage to keep its emigrants withfn its own - --. . n.._-_ n-..-...a,;. territory. Holland'u conquests art- of SALT All grades. Write tor W10“- TORONTO ML? wont. s. A cup! . . TORONTO , Limited choublo (at! and natural - attracts (iv. BABY'S OWN SOAP In wonderfully ”fining and unmade hiker} Soid everywhere. “but Soup: Linn“. Mir... Hum-ll Toronto l .Without waging war who! any of I In neighbors, without risk of shedding (the blood of u uncle one of its citi. s sens, Holland in preparing to were”. 3m territory by one-sixteenth of its (mite? sun-tam. Land-hunger there :must be In a npldly increasing an]. cultural community, and the Dutch inftiott, which did not even undergo I the blood-letting to which most of the nurrmmdlnx countries have ltrstttt sub. " is imerasiinx hosever, to min that the greatest deposits ot iron I '9 in the world that are brim; telittrd ti? in the arctic and subarctic regions. or in lone. where nearly In." the your .5 winner. to in the lake Superior com:~ try. The grater commercial activity in the colder region- may partly ac- count tor this. for there are extensive iron ore formations in the tropics and subtroplu. But tin: fact remains that Iron buterlu live in pure waiter and that in the colder tvtrious water in most likely to be pure. ”the a cream puts out of hot qvattqt and "no, and you will lid that an zinc mt under Four "on will Iool Fright ma clean. Ute qld clove. when you polish the slug tor the mm" . an to rougher: the sun. Although iron Inn-1min are manu» tncturlng new deposit" all the time. this Is not of great Importance as tar " the supply of iron is concerned. Bodies ot ore are being formed moro - than we used to think. but na- tam probably cannot create iron as tut " we are nuns it. Shut!“ of dead Iron bacteria have been found in multitudes In Immune deposits. and enormous deposits or several kinds ot iron ore are known to result from their work. Yet we luv-m little about them. They may ever: l,r. " the very threshold of life. Iron bacteria live in either standing or running clear waters that contain iron compounds; not in turbid waters and those containing much organic mutter. So native are they in estab- lishing deposit: at ferric hydroxide tint water pipes pt cilieI where the water contain: ferrous carbonate have been known to be completely closed by them. The most imaginative among us would hardly suspect that bugs are responsible, at least in part, tor the common tiatiron and other useful ar- ticles made from the name metal. Yet Europe"! physician have known for lame time that there are “mm-ore btcterlu." Ind the fact is now com. monly accepted in America. These Min! are not the must ttttV Intim- ot theta that have been pro- pounded. The more hazardous one- luve been put acld'e, but the system now adopted by no means preclude-s further work: at I later date. But they will be left to a following gonm‘n- tion. Care has been taken to reclaim only fertile clay, while Kandy parts only fertile clay, while sandy parts will rennin submerged. but in such a way, the engineers expect that a lax-or ot good soil will gradually form on lop ot them. m due course, In place of the Zuyder Zoe. with its salt water. its tides. its tempeau, end its human. tions, the laat ot which occurred in IN6, there will come tout. agNcuitural districts and a freshwater llke. the Yselmeer. the level of which can be regulated by Iluicee. Bacteria That Make Iron Ore. a peaceful character. but conquests they are, and fruit- ot I herd and un- relenting struggle with a terrible and treactterotts enemy. At peace with men tor generations, Holland has been lighting the see. with varying for. tunes. Defeats there have been, ('8- tutrophes. such as the loss of the Bieebosch in 1421. when on St. Eliza- beth's Day s great ttood broke the dykes and kept submerged evcr since s rich portion of the province of South Holland. or when, earlier still, the North See, out of the smell Lake Fle- vo, mode what is now the Zuydcr Zee. Ilsmelees Annexation. It is Igninst the Zuyder Zee that Holland will now concentrate her ci- torts. Within the hut fortnight tho works have begun which will, in 1mg than twenty years. reclaim 49mm acres ot good Bott from the see. 1.in the Chumel tunnel, the reclamation of the Zuyder Zee hes its history. Prim) L848 onwards plans have been drawn and books published advocating vari. ous schemes. A society was form-d. which collected oil the data. and final» Ir decided tor one of the plans, on which it concentrated. and by an in- tense propsgsnds raised a now turn: of snneutionisus in the Dutch nation. Perlisment expressed the unanimous will of the country when in March. "u, it passed the bill which cnt- powered the State forthwith to under. take the works at reclamation in ne- cordnnce with the plans of the "Zuy- der-Zee Vereettitring." Tine Hint. for " tl Pe