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€2 *« A «6 «* «4 Ub Cp geiw w If interested in Sporting and Athletic | Supplies, or in Motorcycles, adviso us, | when Catalogue and Prices on these | goods will be malled. ‘ FROM $30 TO $50 Write for description and our special cash prices. It means buying a Bicycle for at least $5 less than you will pay elsewhere, and all our Bicycles are thoroughly guarantsed. Just address letter â€" But the secret of making the room bright and attractive ‘ies in getting the right color and the right texture. The color must match the wall paper, be a little stronger, so as to separate the window from the wall a little, and also be something like the rug and uphoilstery in tone. For example, tan walls may have tan, ecru, brown, or, for contrast, blue, or blue and tan, or blue, tan, and brown. They may even show a little orange or red. But be sure that some of the colors in the eurtains are in walls, rugs, and chair coverings. First of all, have you looked over the ginghams and chambrays in your local dryâ€"goods store? Have you conâ€" sidered the possibilitics of the voiles, or cheesecloth, or dress muslins, and unbleached cotton cloth? Every one of these materials offers an almost unâ€" limited opportunity for pretty and inâ€" expensive curtains, with the addition of a little ingenuity and a little taste. For the bedroom plain color that is shade as the color o{ paper. If the pape 1t takes only a tiny touch of bright colors to set a room off, and the first thing we know, instead of a dreary, stupid, rather tiresome feeling place, we have a bright, cheerful, attractive room. The curtains and draperies afâ€" ford a chance to indulge in livelier color than we can use in the wall paper, rugs, or upholstery. They need not be expensive. There are innumerable materials with which we may get the prettiest of effects without paying an enormous sum of money. The peach trees will be bearing in three years, at which time the boy will be seven and the girl fve. The cherâ€" ries, pears, and other varicties will of course come along later. We plan to prune, spray, and care for the trees ourselves until they are older, and allow the children to market the fruit to their own profit. We are within twenty minutes of a good market, and of course thorea will ha anm»s wnawlik picke older 'rhl high aside for four and twenty f; for them Th CURTAINS ARE IMPORTANT PERCY A. McBRIDE 406 YONGE sT.. TCRonto w LOOKI 0 are also setting out berry plants them on the border of our place. se will be bearing soon, and can be ed by the children when they are When Exposed to Air "CALADA" For that reason is never sold in bulk, 1 NEW BICYCLES CHILDREN. acre of our farm has been set or the children. Our boy is d our girl is two. We planted fruit trees on a recent holiday m, about five of each variety. ‘re had not been used, and it located for a small orchard. ach trees will be bearing in 188E No Woman‘s Sphere tea loses its freshness and flavor, ASU iutes of a good market, and there will be some market te, which is on the public + AHEAD FOR THE I green leaves and blue flowers, the cur we often choose a exactly the same the flowers in the Â¥ is white with xpensive. There rials with which ttiest of effects normous sum of iutomatically "°" $ A. gt | _ A heaping teaspoonful of an instanâ€" {tameous tapioca sprinkled over the‘ | bottom crust or mixed with the juice‘ |of fruit pies makes a more palatable ; thickening than either flour or cornâ€"‘ Ishrch. | Send 15¢ in silver for our upâ€"toâ€" date Spring & Summer 1924 Book of Fashions. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 15¢ in silver, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adclaide St., Toronto. Allow two weeks for receipnt of pattern. | used, these could be a simple, plain, | clear white voile or scrim, possibly | with a narrow tatting edge. Usually | these glass curtains follow the tone of | the background color of the paper. 1f that is warm and creamy, then keep ! the curtains similarâ€"quite creamy. If | yellowish, then use a more yellowish | tone. If the background is white, a | white curtain is used. The Pattern is cut in 5 Sizes: 2 3, 4, 5 and 6 years. A 4â€"year size re quires 24% yards of 36â€"inch material To trim as illustrated will require 4 yard «of 36â€"inch contrasting material | tains would naturally be blue, the same as the flowers. A little blue | gingham would be perfect. And if | inside curtains of thinner material are 4242. Here is a new and preasing version of the Romper style, with outâ€" standing pocket sections, and comfortâ€" able sleeve. _ Chambrey, gingham, khaki, linen and cretonne are good for this design. â€"â€"and a dipping in the dyeâ€"pot will make it any color you wish. The light filters through it very nicely, and it is very pretty for almost any room in the house. Texture needs a word. Some maâ€" terials are rough, some are smooth. If your wall paper is very smooth, it is biost to avoid using a coarse texâ€" ture or roughâ€"feeling materia! at the window. If the paper or wall is rather rough, then avoid the smoothâ€" firished materia!l. These are small points, but they often make a great difference in the way a room fecls to you. The mixture of textures is iike having two people contradictiag you at the same momentâ€"very disturbing. Many of these simpler glass curtain materials may be used to brighten the room by the addition of a tiny bund or edging of color to match the paper. With the heavier cloth like the unâ€" bleached cotton, crossway bands in cretonne, sateen, or colored cotton are often very pretty and effective. Fspeâ€" cially is this true in the bedrooms where bed covers may be made to match. Checsecloth is likewise a senâ€" sitive and fascinating material to use A PRACTICAL PLAY SUIT For BOY OR GIRL. Minard‘s Liniment tor Dandruft. THAT SMELL OF COOKING PIE THICKENING H5561 &. At the far end of the room, in a deep wincow, a small boy, with a dog and a cat, was playing at veing on a raft. The boy‘s name was Cervase i aunton, but he was known to a large eircle of acquaintances as "the Mhor," which, as Jean would have explained to you, is Gaelic for "the great one." Thus had greatness been thrust upon him. He was seven, and he had lived at The Rigs since he was two. He was a hangsome child with an almost uncanny charm of manrer anrd a gift of makeâ€"believe that made his days ane long excitement. David, busy packing books into a wooden box, was the reason for the comparative quiet. He was nincteen, and in the morning he was going to Oxford to begin his first term there. He had so long looked forward to it that he felt dazed by the nearness of his goal. He was a goodâ€"looking boy, with honest eyes and a firm mouth. His only sister, Jean, four years older than himself. left the table and :at on the edge of the boxz wat hins His only sister, Jean, four years older than himself. left the table and int on the edge of the boxz wat hing him _ She did not offer to help, for she knew that every man knows best how to pack his own books, but she humâ€" med a gay tune to prove to herscif how happy was the occasion, and once she patted David‘s grey tweed shoulâ€" der as he leant over her. Perhaps she felt that he needed encourageâ€" ment this last night at home. Jock. the cther brother, a scaoolboy of fourteen, with a rough head and a voice cver which he had no control, It was a queer little house, and a queer little faily lived in it. Jardine was their name, and they sat together in their livingâ€"room on this October evening. Generally they all talked at once, and the loudest voice prevailed, but toâ€"night there was not so much competition, and Jean frequently found herself holding the floor alone. This little house was called The Rigs. little rough stone cottage, standing at the end of a row of villas, its back turned to its parvenu neighbors, its eyes lifted to the hills. A flagged path led up to the front door through a herbaceous border, which now only held a few chrysanthemums and Michaelmas daisies (Perdita would have scorned them as flowers for the old age); but in spring and in sumâ€" mer blazed in a sweet disordcr of oldâ€" fashioned blossoms. Most of the smaller houses in Priorsford were very much of one pattern and all fairly recently built, but there was one old house, an odd bMenindatn ch Aly tz enc udsn it ts has 0 Th . 90. 3.5nt The schools had skeiled, and the sons toâ€"night." | children, finding in the weather little! He sat down on the upturned table,| encouragement to linger, had gone to his legs sprawling on the carpet, and their homes. In the little houses down hummed "Tom Bowling," but the! by the riverside brown teapots stood Mhor leaned from his post as steersâ€"‘ on the hobs, and rosyâ€"faced women cut man and said gravely, "Don‘t dangle| bread and buttered scones, and slapâ€"| your legs, Jock; there are sharks ing ped their children with a fine impar-ithese waters." So Jock obediently tiality; while in the big houses on the crumpled his legs until his chin rested Hill, servants, walking delicately, laid on his knees. f out tempting teaâ€"tables, am{ thel Mrs. M‘Cosh piled the teaâ€"things on solacing smell of hot toast filled the‘a tray and fofiied the cloth. "Ay,| air. i Datar " ‘ale CadA4n 2 prge t e rack ui ho & The good health of the King is partially explained by the above photoâ€" graph, showing His Majesty out for his regular morning ride in Windsor Fark. The first generation travels at a sedate pace, but at the same time manages to stay on. a sternly Presbyterian steeple. No need any longer for Peel to Yight the beacon telling of the coming of sur troublesome English neighbors. Toleâ€" graph wires now carried the matter, and a large bus met them at the trains and conveyed them to that flamboyant pile in red stonc, with its glorious views, its medicinal baths, and its bandâ€"enlivened meals, krown as Pri'ox_'sford Hydropathic. ; As 1 have sai(i,'it was teaâ€"time in Priorsford. The hills circling the little town were shrouded with mist. The wide bridge that spanned the Tweed and divided the town properâ€"the Highâ€" gate, the Nethergate, the Eastgateâ€" from the residential part, was almost deserted. (On the left bank of the river, Peel Tower loomed ghostly in the gathering dusk. Round its grey walls still stood woods of larch and fir, and in front the links of Tweed moved through pleasant green pasâ€" tures. But where once ladies on palâ€" freys hun§ with bells hunted with their cavaliers there now stood the neat little dwellings of prosperous, decent folk; and where the good King James wrote his rhymes, and listencd to the singing of Mass from the Virâ€" gin‘s Chapej, the Parish Kirk reared It was teaâ€"time in Priorsford: fourâ€" thirty by the clock on a chill October afternoon. He now étood like some "grave Tyâ€" Shopman colored." Solemn the money CHAPTER I PENNY PLAIN §mall Boyâ€"-“l’emiy plain, please. It‘s better value for You may have your choiceâ€"penny plain or twoâ€"pence Copyright by George H. Doran Co BY O. DOUGLAS "Ay," â€" Mrs. ©M‘Cosh continued, "Bella Bathgate‘s kinna pit oot aboot it. She disna ken how she‘s to cook for an Honourableâ€"she niver saw yin." "Have you seen one?" Jock asked. "No‘ that I know of, but when I wis pew opener at St. George‘s I let in some verra braw folk. One Sunday "I canna mind the exact name, but she‘s ca‘ed the Honourable an‘ she‘s bringin‘ a leddy‘s maid." "Gosh, Maggie!" ejaculated Jock. "I asked you not to say that, Jock," Jean reminded him. "Oh, is she?" said Jean. "Who is it that‘s coming?". Once when the house had been upâ€" set by illness, and trained nurses were in occupation, Jean had rung the bell repeatedly, and, receiving no answer, had gone to the kitchen. There she foung the Mhor, then a very small boy, seated on a chair playing a mouthâ€"organ, while Mrs. M‘Cosh, her skirts held coquettishly aloft, danced a fow steps to the music. Jeanâ€"beâ€" ing Jeanâ€"had withdrawn unnoticed and slipped upstairs to the sickâ€"room much cfieered by the sight of such deâ€" tachment. Mirs, M‘Cosh had been eight years with the Jardines, and was in many ways such a treasure, and always such an amusement, that they would not have parted from her for much red gold. . "Bella Bathgate‘s expectin‘ her lodâ€" ger the morn." The teaâ€"tray was ready to be carried away, but Mrs. M‘Cosh lingered. "Poeter was kinna late last night," she would say, as if referring to an erring husband, "an‘ I juist sat up for him." She had also infinite leiâ€" sure. It was no use Jean trying to hurry the work forward by offering to do some task. Mrs. M‘Cosh simply stood beside her and conversed until the job was done. Jean never knew whether to laugh or be cross, but she generally laughed. | _ _Jock hesitated, but he was the soul of good nature. "Well, only for five { minutes, remember. I‘ve a lot of lesâ€" _sons toâ€"night." deeply shocked at the accusation, and Mrs. M‘Cosh, with the teaâ€"cloth over her arm, regarded him with an indulâ€" gent smile. She had infinite tolerance for Peter‘s shortâ€"comings.. * Mrs. M‘Cosh piled the teaâ€"things on a tray and fofiied the cloth. "Ay, Peter," she said, catching sight of that notorious character, "ye look real good, but I wis hearin‘ ye were efter the sheep again the day." Peter turned away his head as if Send for list of inventions wanted b.; Manufac» turers. Fortunes have been made from simple féeas, ‘‘Patent Protection" beoklet on reouest . HAROLD C. SHIPMAN ¢ Cco. PATENT ATTORNEYS â€" 21.»®anx stase: INVENTIONS Jock rose from the table reluctantâ€" ly, and was at once hailed by the Mhor and invited on to the raft. "Haven‘t you finished eating yet, Jock?" Jean asked. "Here is Mrs. M‘Cosh for the teaâ€"things." The only servant The Rigs possessâ€" #1 was a imiddleâ€"aged woman, the widow of one, Andrew M‘Cosh, a Clyde riveter, who had drifted from her native city of Glasgow to Priorsâ€" ford. She had a sweet, worn face, and a neat cap with a black velvet bow in front. rian trader" on the table turned upâ€" side down that was his raft, as serious and intent as if it had been the navy of Tarshish bringing Solomon gold and silver, ivory ung apes and peaâ€" cocks. With one arm he clutched the cat and assured that unwilling voyâ€" ager, ‘"You‘re on the dangerous sea, me old puss. You don‘t want to get drowned, do you*" The cat struggled and scratched. "Then goâ€"to your ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO OTTAWA. booklet on request, | swept them as if to certain death |\ _ Just below them on the bank stood | Max Fladt, the innkeeper of Kehlâ€"onâ€" ‘ theâ€"Rhine, opposite Strasbourg. The | two men were enemies of his country, | and he knew that seven Germans had | recently been condemned to death for | damaging French property and were | even then in prison at Mayence. Neverâ€" | theless, flinging off his coat, he ‘ plunged into the river. A strong man and an expert swimmer, he caught the |two Frenchmen as they wore passing Lhim and brought them safe to the | shore. Don‘t wonder whother you can d4ve or tist successfully, becauso perfect kome dyeing is guarsnteed with "Dia. mond Dyes" even if you Lave never dyed before. Druggists have all colâ€" ors. Directions in cach package. Simplicity is the halimark th tinguishes the fine gold of the great from the alloy of the ; tious. WOMEN CAN DYE ANY _ GARMENT, DRAPERY Dye or Tint Worn, Faded Things New for 15 Cents. He thought it safer to write to the girl‘s father asking for ber hand. He was an ardent lover, but a poor spellâ€" er, and his note ran: "I want your daughterâ€"the flour of your family," "The four of my family is good,"" reâ€" plied the old man; "are you sure it isn‘t my dough you‘re after?" Max promptly asked that as his only reward the lives of his fellow countryâ€" men lying in prison at Mayence under sentence of death might be spared. The general replied that he would make the wish known in the proper quarter, and that he himself would give it his earnest support. In the atâ€" titude of these two men, the French goneral and the German innkeeper, lies the germ of peace and understandâ€" ing. A day or so later Max received a‘ visit from the French general in comâ€"| mand, General Niche!. "Whatever you may wish for will be regarded as do-: served and recommended to grateful‘ France, who hbas received two sons| back from the jaws of death," said the | general. N Across the Rhine a company of| mum." French engineers were building a pon-' "That so? toon bridge to join their restored proâ€"| to0." vince of Alsace with the German land | ===â€"â€"â€"==â€"â€" on the other side, which France holds g@=â€"=_==â€"â€"» as a defensive bridgehoad. One of the pontcons gave a lurch, and in a moâ€" C ment two French enginecers were in We want the stream. Away the swift current highest p swept them as if to certain death Make dai Listens to Fiction Now. Old Friendâ€""Do you read fiction at night like you used to do?" Wifeâ€""No, not at all. 1 have my husband to listen to now every evenâ€" ing, you know." ":Mhorâ€"-j'ou’re talking too much," said David, who was jotting down figures in a notebook. _ “Wéfl," said Mhor, "there‘s Naâ€" poleon and Dick Turpin and Graham ofd(Jlnw:rhouse and Prince Charlie andâ€"â€"‘" ‘"Haw, haw," laughed Jock, who was consistently amuses by Mhor and his antics. "I‘m sorry for your friends, old chap. Do I know them?" The Innkeeper of the Rhine. Minard‘s Linimen:t Heals Cuts Qa mond Dye/E Flower or Dough. (To be continued.) the pretenâ€" ao disâ€" really H AND PUT _ Money in Your Stocking! Money in Your Purse! Money in the Bank ! "Give him some bread and coffee Jane." "He seems to have seen better cCays, Consideration. "There‘s a man outside who wants something to eat." To remove the ofending spots, rub gently with clean art gum, erasing as much of the stain as possible without damaging the texture of the paper. Usually this process will rub the color out of the design, but this is not alarming, as it may be easily and quickly restored by the waterâ€"color process. To do this merely moisten a small, fine camel‘sâ€"hair brushâ€"such as is found in toy paint boxesâ€"and apply in turn to the desired colors in the leftâ€"over paper. Deftly paint over the rubbedâ€"out design, supplying with the brush the proper tone and form. To avoid smears and running colors, cleanse the brush each time before atâ€" tempting to apply a different color or tone. Use the water sparingly. This restoration method has been used successfully by an experienced decorâ€" ator in renovating fine wall papers. will find them exceedingly useful in the elimination of marks and stains that have been left from contact with soiled hands, broom handles or chair backs. Each time a room is freshly paperâ€" ed be sure to put away a few pieces of the various kinds of papers used. You Act as our Agent. Seil ourB. & E. 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"What is there remarkable about Petunia®" Borne on the tempost‘s threshing wings Between the sky and spum» They rode the elemental etrifo And vanished in the gloomâ€" The clouds before the nortber #5, Unquiet ghosts of sails Blown long ago from hapless abips That foundered in the gales. Brown sails of barks from tropte part Below the stormy capes, With cargoes of mahogany And parokets and apesâ€" Gray sails of schooners odorous Of fish and briny sea, White sails of clippers eweoet wit scents Of cinnamon and tea. The snowy cloths that towered al! ft On frigates proud and tall, Patched canvas lost from dingy sloops In hurricane or squall. Topgallants, royals, flying Jbs Bellooning in the blast, Ripped from the stays and ewop! away To black abysses vast. The clouds before the nortber scud Across the wintry sky, Like sails in ribbons blown away From all the ships gone byâ€"â€" The ships that labored in the wind And wallowed in the foam, And sometimes never saw again The harbor lights of home Though the modern water‘s day procession lacks this particular trait the procession is still very picturâ€" esque. After the church ceremony is over, the king views a parade of his solâ€" diers. In former times, before King Carol became sovereign of Roumania, the princes, called voyvods or boyars, and their wives appeared at the proâ€" cession in their exquisitely beautiful national costumes on special twoâ€" wheeled carriages pulled by two, four or six horses, according to the rank of the owner. That was a colorful sight. Picturesque Procession. The bigger the town is the more splendid is this procession. In Buâ€" charest, where are situated the king‘s residence and the homes of the highâ€" est Roumanian clergy, the procession is particularly brilliant. The train goes from the king‘s palace, through the main street, the Calea Victorici, down to Slatar church and thence to the Dambovita river. At the head of the procession walk two pricsts with the goiden cross, The metropolitanâ€"primas follow with the king, other members of the royal house and foreign princes, Next comes the entire retinue of the king, the ministers and foreign ambassadors, the city authorities and high army officers. Men go out that morning: to have ice cold water from the pump in the yard run over their head and bodies so that they may be protected against all sicknoees during the year, Everyâ€" where processions are held by the clergy, followed by the town authorâ€" ities, soldiers and the people. The procession goes to the nearest river. There a golden cross is thrown into the water by the highest clergyman. Two men of the people jump into the ice cold water to get the cross out again. Since the winters are exâ€" tremely cold in Russia and Rumania, a hole must be made in the ice for this ceremony. In Russia a soldier used to be ordered to dive for the cross. In Rumania, however, it is usually a peasant who offers himself for this service in the hope of a big reward. day." This is one of the greatest festival days of the church, It is devoted to the remembrance of the day when Christ went down to the River Jordan to be baptized by John the Baptist, writes Hanne Serno. In all orthodox countries, as in Russia, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Armenia and Rumania, the day is celebrated with great splendor. The running â€" water, â€" wells, _ rivulets, streams and lakes, is hallowed on water‘s day and possesses at that time a miraculous power. 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