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# 1% *« 4 i# to ed a plot of land or an animal. They had their regular work, allowance and hours for recreation but they had no hope of profit from any enterprise, exâ€" clusively their own. "Why," I said to myself, "should our boys be excludâ€" ed from share in enterprises which, when they are grown, will probably be their greatest impulse to success?" I therefore made up my mind that we well could afford our sons some constructive opportunity that would soon convince them that they could make money at home. I talked the subject over with my husband and we decided on pigeons. We had none on the farm and we reasoned that someâ€" thing new would be more interesting to the boys and we were right. When we presented them with six pairs of pigeons and an acre of land as their very own, their joy was too great for words. They went to work the next mornâ€" ing making a pigeon house in an unâ€" used shed and we were surprised to see how heartily they carried the work through. The simple fact was that their sympathies were enlisted in a cause exclusively their own and they kept at work as diligently as if they expected to get rich fi; it. The boys‘ acre was sown to grain for the pigeons‘ rations and the boys required little assistance in harvestâ€" ing it. At the age of six months, the pigeons began to pair and the ‘flock kept increasing. Much more important than the money they make is the fact that they are so well satisfied and so interested with something to do on their own home farm. They loved their home but were anxious to do something for themselves. It was not money they were craving but mental interest.â€" Mrs. M. E. C. Cheeseâ€"Cake is seasonable. To make, add one egg to one cupful of fresh cottageâ€"cheese, beat _ until smooth, then add oneâ€"half cupful of sugar and a piece of butter the size of a walnut, or oneâ€"half cupful of rich cream. Flavor with vanilla, or nutmeg. Line a pie plate with nice pieâ€"crust, fill with the cheese mixture and bake without a top crust. Strawberry Delight is well named. Crush ripe strawherries through a sieve, cut marshmallows into quarters and soak in the strawberry juice for one hour. When ready to serve mix lightly with very cold whipped cream. place in individual glasses, and garâ€" nish with a whole strawberry. Serve with sponge cake. address. â€";u”:;lm of charaeter, vocstional . ap Witndas appsarano# And marriage and partnertbip Strawberry Rice requires oneâ€"half eupful of rice, one and oneâ€"quarter eupfuls of butter, two cupfuls of milk, one box strawberries, oneâ€"half teaâ€" spoonful of salt. Wash rice and cook in the milk until soft, adding oneâ€" quarter cupful of sugar and the salt. Remove the cover and allow the mixâ€" ture to thicken. Pick over, wash and mash the strawberries. Add oneâ€" third cupful of sugar, and set in warm place for a couple of hours in order to extract the juice. Make a hard sauce of the butter and remaining sugar and, when ready to serve, stir the strawberries into it. Have the rice steaming hot and serve with it a generous helping of the sauce. CHOOSE YOUR HUSBAND Rhubarb Conserve is delicious. It requires three pounds of rhubarb cut Into pieces, three oranges, three pounds of sugar, threeâ€"quarters of a eupful of water, one pound of raisins, oneâ€"half pound of shelled nuts (if deâ€" slred). Wash and slice the oranges, Including the rind, wash the raisins ;Tuw('a Linimem} for Headache Unsurpassed is superior to the finest Japans, Young Hysons or Gunpowder. Try it today. J F2EE SAMPLE of GREEN TEA UPON REQUEST. "SALADA," RELIABLE RECIPES Woman‘s Sphere for pure, rich flavor 4746. For afternoon or evening wear this model is delightful. It is pretty in changeable taffeta, crepe de chine, chiffon or in the new printed voilles or figured silks. The puff aleeves may be omitted. The Pattern is cut in 3 sizes, 16, 18 and 20 years. An 18â€"year size reâ€" quires 5%4 yards of material $2 inches wide. The width at the foot of the dress is 24% yards. Send 15¢ in silver for our upâ€"toâ€" date Spring and Summer 1924 Book of Fashions. ROACHES HAVE GYPSY NATURE. That roaches have a gypsy nature is declared by R. L. Webster, entoâ€" mologist. Damp localities, such as the neighâ€" borhood of the kitchen sink, is their favorite habitat. They are night prowlers and usually remain hidden during the daytime. Roaches may be recognized by their brown or black color and their size, which is usually a half inch or more in length. Their flat bodies are well fitted for hiding away in cracks under baseboards. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 15¢ in silver, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Allow two weeks for receipt of pattern. "In towns roaches may move from house to house," said Mr. Webster. "They have even been known to leave one house in large numbers and miâ€" grate to another. But whether they enter in bands or singly they are a pest that is especially repulsive." They are probably the most fln'i “Are'}’ou comfortable at the Temâ€" noying of common insects, “L‘Ol‘diflglperance." she asked. "Because if you to Mr. Webster, and some time in the don‘t much care for hotels we would history of nearly every home they love to put {ou up here. Mhor is apt make their appearance and cause the to be noisy, but I‘m sure he would try housewife no end of trouble. | nmpmoompmmmmmumenmmmmmmmmmmmm Roaches reproduce by means of eggs and the young roach is similar in apâ€" pearance to the mature forms, exceptâ€" ing in size and in the absence of wings that indicate the full grown insect. "Probably the most effective method of controlling roaches is by the use of sodium fuoride," Mr. Webster exâ€" plained. "This is a white powder that may be purchased gt almost any drug store. The powder should be dusted in liberal quantities into all locations in the house frequented by the insects, especially in pantries and under sinks. Sodium fluoride should never come in contact with any foodstuffs, however, since it is poisonous." "On the market there are a number of preparations for the control of cockroaches. Many of these contain borax or boric acid, which may be purchased as such from the druggist and aopdplied in the same manner as the sodium fAuoride previously menâ€" tioned." Any treatment for cockroaches must be continued for several weeks, if sucâ€" cess is to be attained. Persistence is necessary, regardless of whatever measure is used against these troubleâ€" some insects. Special care should be taien never to allow bread crumbs or 1c c ts h‘fl“@‘!‘!‘ /m Nes esns on iJ E:i}Oh, * ully. ‘I‘ve be been p \a villa ‘mre qu » thOJfl'u | an st ‘Do you, by any chance, know our \landlord in London? Mr. Peter Reid is his name." | "I know him." | _ "He‘s frightfully rich, they say. I {don‘t suppose you know him well }enough to ask him not to sell The Rigs? It can‘t make much difference to him thought it means so much to |us. Is he old, our landlord?" Could he afford a holiday? she wonâ€"‘ |\dered. Even temperance hotels were‘ \rather expensive when you hadn‘t‘ | much money. Would it be very rash| 'and impulsive to ask him to stay at‘ |\ The Rigs? wat .+. § .. o 6 CHAPTER V.â€"(Cont‘d.) "No? Well, your housekeeper, then. You couldn‘t buy a house without getâ€" ting to know all about the hot water and pantries." "Oh, isn‘t there?" cried Jean joyâ€" fully. "What a relief! All the time I‘ve been showing you the house I‘ve been picturing us removing ud!{ to a villa in the Langhope Road. They are (gllte nice villas as villas go, but thol ave only tiny strips of gardens, and stairs that come to meet you as you go in at the front door, and anyâ€" way no house could ever be home to us after The Rigsâ€"not though it had hot and cold water in every room and "Dear me," said Peter Reid. He felt perplexed, and annoyed with himself for being perplexed. All he had to do was to tellpthls girl with the frank eyes that The Rigs was his, that he wanted to live in it himself, that if they would turn out at once he w make it worth their while. Quit leâ€"â€" They were nice peoâ€" gle, ntly, and would make no uss. ‘Pe would say it nowâ€"but Jean "Oh," said Jean, and into that "Oh" she put all manner of things she could not say. Sho had been observing her visitor, and she was sure that this shabby little man (Peter Reid cared not at all for appearances and never bought a new suit of clothes unless compelled) had returned no Whittinfâ€" ton, Lord Mayor of London. Probably he was one of the "faithful failures" of the world, one who had tried and missed, and had come back, old and tired and shabby, to see his boyhood‘s home. The tenJ;ereet corner of Jean‘s tender heart was given to shabby peoâ€" ple, and she longed to try to comfort and console, but dared not in case of appearing impertinent. She reflected dismally that he had not even a wife to be nice to him, and he was far too old to have a mother. "I think I know why you wanted to see through this house," she was sayâ€" ing. "I think you must have known it Tong ago when you were a bog. Perâ€" haps {ou loved it tooâ€"and had to leave it." it was speaking. "I went to London when eighteen to make my fortune. "Are you staying in Priorsford?" she asked gently. neviit "I‘m at the Temperance Hotel for a few days. Iâ€"the fact is, I haven‘t been well. I had to take a rest, so I came back hereâ€"after thirty years." "Have you really been a'w'aiwf'(')r thirti years? Greatâ€"aunt Alison came to The Rigs about thirty years ago. "‘That‘s pretty old, isn‘t it?" said Jeanâ€""about sixty, I think. Of course," hastily, "sixty isn‘t really old. When I‘m sixtyâ€"if I‘m sparedâ€"I exâ€" pect I shall feel myself good for anâ€" other twenty years." _ _ «w 34 "A man in his prime," said Peter Reid. "I thought I was," said Peter Reid, "until I broke down." The edges of the yardâ€"square sling were neatly hemmed on the sewing machine. The sling was then folded into a triangle and was ready for use. The forearm was placed in the centre of the sling and the outer end of the sling was carried over the arm and at the hack of the neck. The inner side of the triangle was carried up between the arm and the chest and to the back of the neck, where it met the other end and was tied behind Jack‘s collar, first being adjusted as to length for it to be entirely comâ€" fortable. "Oh, but a rest at Priorsford will put you all right." â€"â€"â€"= .. . Jack was unfortunate enough to break his arm, and being at the bashâ€" ful age, refused to stir out of the house with his unsightly white bandâ€" ages that shouted his injury loudly at every one he met. Finally, Jack‘s mother thought of a remedy for his trouble. _ She made a darkâ€"colored sling out of an old silk skirt. other food of any description to reâ€" main exposed about the house, since this encourages the insect. With his dark sling partly concealâ€" ed by his coat, Jack went forth into the world again without fear of being noticeable and strange, a thing a boy never wishes to be. The third point of the sling was then folded around the elbow in such a way that it gave support and kept the elbow from sagging and was pinâ€" ned in place with safety pins. The pins were biack to be as unobtrusive as possible. Minard‘s Liniment for Aches and Pains "There is no question of my buying antry on every floor." {‘)_Degx: me,”_aa:?:i Peter BASHFUL JACK‘S SLING PENNY PLAIN riâ€""You may have your choiceâ€"penny plain or twoâ€"pence gmn Boyâ€"‘"‘Penny plain, please. It‘s better value for Copyright by George H. Doran Co. was 1 ‘"You see, we have a burn in our eter garden with a little bridge over it; {ulmost no one else has a burn and a said bridge of their very own. There are Of minnows in it and ail sorts of things old. â€"waterâ€"beetles, you know. And here : ex.| are my puddockâ€"stools." an-] When Mr. Reid came back from the § ;fiarden Mhor had a firm hold on his teid, hand and was telling him a long story :about a "mavisâ€"bird" that the cat had will ‘caught and eaten. tto be quiet when he knew that you ‘needed a rest." \ _ "My dear young lady," gasped Peter Reid. "I‘m afraid you are rash. You know nothing of me. I might be an limpostor, a burglarâ€"â€"" _ _ ¢ laughed luugloed. "Do forgive me, but the thought of You with a jemmy and a dark lantern s so funny." "You don‘t even know my name." "I don‘t," said Jean, "but does that matter? You will tell it me when you want to." _ _ _ "A connection." It was not what he meant to say, but he said it. "How odd!" said Jean. She was trying to remember if she had said anything unbecoming of one relative to another. _ "Oh, here‘s Jock and Mhor," as two figures ran past the windows; "you must stay and have tea with us, Mr. Reld." _ "But I‘m not stayin% to tea," cried the unhappfi owner of The Rigs. Why, he asked himself, had he not told them at once that he was their landâ€" lord? A connection! Fool that he was! He would say it nowâ€""L only cameâ€"â€"" "Then," said Jean, "are you a relaâ€" tive of his?" * "But I oulght to be getting back to the hotel. had no intention of inâ€" flicting myself on you in this way." He rose to his feet and looked about for his hat. "The fact isâ€"I must tell The door burst open and Mhor apâ€" fiienred. He had forgotten to remove s cap, or wipe his muddy boots, so eager was he to tell his news. Jean," he shouted, oblivious in his excitement of the presence of a stranâ€" gerâ€""Jean, there are six red puddockâ€" stools at the bottom of the gardenâ€" bright red puddockâ€"stools." He noâ€" ticed Mr. Reid and, going ue‘ to him _and looking earnestly into his face, he repeated, "Six!" "Indeed," said Peter Reid. He had no acquaintance with boys, and felt extremely ill at ease, but Mhor, after studying him for a minâ€" vte, was seized with a violent fancy for this new friend. _ "My name is Reid, the same as your landlord." "You‘re going to stay to tea, aren‘t you? Would you mind coming with me just now to look at the puddockâ€" stools? It might be too dark after tes. Here is your hat." â€" â€" â€" _ â€" "It was very nice of you to come," said Jean soothingly. "But, Mhor, don‘t worry Mr. Reid. _ Everybody hasn‘t your passion for pu!dock- stools." "But you would like to see them," Mhor assured him. "I‘m going to fill a bow!l with chuckyâ€"stones and moss and stick the puddockâ€"stools among them and make a fairy garden for Jean. And if I can find any more I‘ll make one for the Honorable; she is very kind about giving me chocclates." They were out of doors by this time, and ‘Mhor was pointing out the glories of the garden. "Tea‘s ready," he said, as they enâ€" tered the rooms; "you can‘t go away now, Mr. Reid. See these cookies? I went for them myself to Davidson the baker‘s, and they were so hot and newlyâ€"baked that the bag burst and they all fell out on the road." "Mhor! You horrid little boy." "They‘re none the worse, Jean. I dusted them all with me useful little hanky, and the road wasn‘t so very dirty." . _ 1 4o oo y Bs m giiar d â€" "All the same," said Jean, "I think we‘ll leave the cookies to you and Jock. The other things are baked at home, Mr. Reid, and are quite safe. Mhor, tell Jock tea‘s in, and wash your hands." _ _ gus y w _ So Peter Reid found himself, like Balaam, remaining to bless. After all, why should he turn these people out IS§SUE No. 26â€"24. TORONTO and WHeke NC S eC Reaimd s EC tle ?rofltabf:‘did leisure seem to him that he cared little when the end came, Mhor and his delight over a burn of his own, and a garden that irew red suddock-ltooll, had made up his mind or him. He would never be the ange! with the flaming sword who turned Mhor out of paradise. He had not known that a boII could be such n pleasant Eerson. e had avoided chilâ€" dren as he had avoided women, and now he found himself seated, the centre of irterest, at a family teaâ€" table, with Jcan, anxiously mal.ing tea to his liking, while Mhor (with a wellâ€"soaped, shining face, but a highâ€" water mark of dirt where the sponge hedc not reached) sat close besid> him, and Jock, the big schoolâ€"hoy, shyly handed him scones, and Peter walked among the feet of the company, waitâ€" ing for what he could get. s Peter Reid quite shone through the meal. He remembered episodes of his boyhood, forgotten for forty years, and told them to Jock and Mhor, who listened with most gratlfying interest. ile questicned Jock about riorsford Grammar School and recalle1 stories of the maters who had taught there in his day. o = golte«> + Jean told him about David gotnf‘ta Oxford, and about Greatâ€"aunt Alison who had "come out at the Disruption" about her father‘s life in India, and about her mother, and he became everg minute more human and interâ€" ested. He even made one or two small jokes which were received with great applause by Jock and Mhor, who were grateful to :niono who tried, howâ€" ever feebly, to be funny. They wonld have said with Touchstone, "It is meat and drink to me to see a elown." (To be continued.) 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Think of | And I,Sh Md! :OVQT lities in all sommmmmmmenmemes ‘ry out the @ [ | Ana . »“\ Th ; E3 |~~ MP/A / re // i "% | ‘ to the or esmm / [ , F :m / ) t lout z]: Ary [ they | lack of seventyâ€"ning, Although it is a generally accepted optnion that John and Setastien Cabot were the pioneers of the St. Lawrence it is very probable that this great in land waterway was known to wander ing European fAshermen centuries be fore their time. It is Rnown that the early Norse Vikings touched on the coast of Labrador and discovered America approximately one thousand years before Columbus was born, but no tapyible records have been reco, ered to prove the surmise that the; also liscovered the 8t. Lawrense. The Cabots, father and son, received finan clal backing from both Portugal and England, but It was the French wh. followed up the discovery systematl cally and established the Fronch co ony of Canada. * Following the example of the Danish and Angloâ€"Saxon settlers in Britain the new emigrants settled along the banks of the river, and for many years the French "Couriers des Bois" ca: rled on a brisk trade in furs with the Indians of Canada and the Middle West States during the eighteenth cer tury. The St. Lawrence river . was well surveyed by topograplueal ex perts of several countries, chief among whom being Captain Cook, whose su: veys cf the St. Lawrence valley are considered authentic and very accur ate even tqday. Captain â€" Cook achieved fame as the man who first planted the British flag on Australlam goil. The following information was taken from an old chart .aade after the fa mous battle between the English un der Wolfe and the French under Mont calm, on the MHeights of Abraham when Canada was annexed to the Bri tish Empire. On the receipt of the news of the defeat and death of the French hero, Montcalm, at Quebec, the French king made light of it, exciaim ing that Canada was only a few acres of rocks and snow at best, and its only native inbhabitants were red Indians and polar beare. . The king‘s press agent was not & good prophet. Toâ€"day the St. Lawrence river during the sum mer months is the scene of everin creasing shipping activity. Every year ships of larger tonnage sail to the in land ports of Quebec=and Montreal and an extensive and very popular transâ€"Atlantic service has sprung into ‘oxmeuco from these ports. Passen ger trafiic in general between the New World and the Old has increased con siderably since the war, and there is every infdication that it will continue to expand. The Atlantic is not the irrevoceble Rubicon it was a few years ago, when a passenger usually crossed once to make a home for him 4 m self abroad. Settlers formed the bulk of the ocean travellers, At the pre sent time it is a matter of conjecture as to whether the tourists and sight seers compose the larger group of ocean travellers. The New World is figuratively muc) nearer to the Old than it was a few years ago; the passage across is quicl er and much more comfortable, and what was an ordeal then is a pastime toâ€"day. _ Thousands of Canadian an American ~exâ€"soldiers and exâ€"nurse« saw Britain and the Continent undâ€" the stress of war, and left conuntloss friends and warm associations behind when they returned home, but <! way back is always open and the we come is always sure. 4 I think earth does not know a lov thing Than a hedge of curraut blossom the spring. * Who would have guessed that ch« sod could hold So much of flame and fragrance, & and gold ; Who would have dreamed capric winds of May Could conjure forth this exgquisitc ray Of vagrant stars, blown earthy from the night, To capture weary souls with new light? 1 never catch their windâ€"blown strangse perfume, Drifting from fragrant banks of foa» gold bloom, But that an ancient memory bears me far To an old house beneath an evening star, To an old yard where youfi; leaved trees would trace High on the sunset sky their fmms= And from the hedge that marked > garden rim Night after night the evening wind would brim With perfume lovelier for than eve: blew From Eden‘s garden when the world was new, And beauty and dusk and dreams came drifting low Over an old house, lorg and long a_ And so I think there is no lovelier thing Than a hedge of currant blogekoms in the apring. Forty thousand 7bcy| and girls are out of work in I ondon large‘y because they had to take casual fabor through lack of training. Scotland has fourteen . monuments to the poet Burns. Scottish Tributes to Gurns The Currant Hedge. The Battle of the Plains By 8. L. Cullea l s &[ ET Ted Olzon WHICH ONE FPORGA "Oh yes, I‘ll forgive you, I murmurs Prue. ‘ *You say you are #orry al will do Buch a mean thing again. 1‘ you, of course, But still, Nelly Baker," P this with force "You were horrid and cross: never forget ‘ Some things that you sai just hear them yet!" "Of course I‘ll forgive worry a speck!" Says Mazie, all dimples ‘round the neck Of little friend Betty, "a feel bad. I‘m going to forget al\ a glad That we‘re such good fri now s‘pose we rur As fast as we can to t! some fun!‘" HOW YOGINA It was a hot day i teen girls sat arouw large room, studyin They wore members which, Lakshmabai, dian woman, had # the open windows th priests in a temple chanting to the go for there was a fam! were quiet and sad them had relatives i were starving. Suddenly they heard a outside, and the sound woices, raised in anger. mabai came in carrying a in her arms. She laid h« and sent two of the gir broth. The others crow asking . questions. _ Laksh enced them, and as ske fed slowly to the child, she told "This little girl," she said ed Yogina. She, her fath and brother came to this < food, for they were starvi mother and brother died on ney, and her father, brought her here. _ But has J tated on th mans. "Grand I be finish« Aithough (h the Town Hal tiful Gothic which shocke bombardment Bixteenth Cer and the "Peti troade of Flem from the end o One of the old timbered const Thirteenth Ce: having been l 1200. Howeve were of stone been designate 1688. At the time of the houses ed and all t! Pierre Paquet historica! mo sisted that th the support 0 or of Beaux A under State able. I propert work < began, ments t Picture p part in the were consu construction #d to disclo All fragme: tures were and numbe: in the now 1020. bouses later t On the only a feow commod chased toâ€"da» fore the war low« back Shattered Arras Dw Restored to 19 Condition The The The re win he time of (he houses were : d all the res Pagquet, arch cal monumer that they be pport of Paul Beaux Arts, t Picture Post Cards H ble bit a Boys The f1 GTA tit© en C ns 48 the PreWar Pric=s d ompi that 1t near th @1