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2 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY. MAY 24, 1917 Between Cousins; OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. CHAPTER V. i provements" to lend him A year later the question of how!?d attention, this was no great they would "pull together" was being1 nce.-. * partially a ered. During this year to hii she saw from there was extremely touching: a young wife, living a life almost forlorn, cut off by her present delicate state of health from any assistance she might otherwise have given her husband, and thus virtually shut out from his life. Or, from another point of view, a woman of education and "aspirations," exiled in a land of semi-barbarians, and tied to a man who would not understand her real wants. The vision caused more undivid- than one flood of tears to rise to her t sacri-1 eyes during those idle days spent per-Reticence was far more natural force upon the sofa in the much-im-than expansion, which had, in! Proved sitting--no, "drawing-; ihase, artifi- \ That even the prospect of becoming thSir AWn'faceTlighr ThrougHhe I Fa% Peeked." With scarcely a pang I a-father should have.changed John sSrou^r18 °f mUSi0n hith-*f^un> f~ ^Hsfn^iftffi Things had not turned out just asI ^.tonall^ ^ ^e^^ ^ ^^hg*£^ ^™™lL™™?h> h? had ??*. be-! ™ J&JWJS ™± ?ive place it took in hi mind. belli to grasp the extent of his duties' aFor ____i position. It was all right, of j opening the door, the dessert course, his devoting himself to his and the finger-bowls (out of which ministry; but did his duty demand of he had began by trying to drink)-- him to be at the beck and call of every there were things so strange to him rheumatic old woman for miles around,1 as to be almost disquieting. Gently, who was too stiff on her legs to come! hut firmly, he had been trained i_ and fetch the spiritual consolation she! change his coat every evening, ( imagined herself in need of ? What I had got used to the silk blouse strength could he have remaining for I which Ella sat opposite to him as i the real, urgent calls, if he exhausted ■ dispensed the. roast mutton, without himself in those purely optional ones' quite realising that the increased --for this was a parish of widely scat- j smartness of her appearance belonged tered crofts, and many a mile of rough I to the process known as "dressing for walking was entailed ? It was for the1 dinner." Though unable to sake of his work itself that she pi_ tested, she assured him. As for her own claims, she did not wish to put them forward, though it was rather lonely sometimes of an evening, and tiresome too, to have to wait dinner at least four times a week. Once or twice she had hazarded a gently reproachful remark in which the word "neglect" had been playfully inter- necessity of these things-moments uneasily aware of something that jarred between them with his private conception of his life-task--he never actively resisted them, partly because they did not seem to him of enough importance, and partly because rebellion would have appeared ' ' ungrateful. Could he, in justi . proach Ella with wanting to beautify polated; but he had looked at her with! her home and his--with striving to minister to what she took to be hii bodily wants? Because, personally, he happened to be u born ascetic, i astonishment that perforce she held her tongue. And this blindness of his held good with regard to others of her wishes. Theoretically, she had of course been aware of . , , , -- the existence of all these humbly sit- touched by her efforts to do things uated blood relations, "But had not! which she evidently considered ought doubted that they could be "kept in j to please him ? their place" by judicious treatment. At the end of that year the situation And so they could have been, if only j might have been summed up as a John would hear reason. As matters, mutual but not yet acute disappoint-stood, they acted as a dead-weight to' nient, conscious on one side, subcons-the soarings of social aspirations.! cious on the other, and here still veil-The neighborhood of the quarries was! ed by the concentration of mind in itself a grievous trial. What the good of carefully avoiding every reference to them, when John on all possible occasions plumped out with some reminscence of his own working days? And that ubiquitous slate-stone, from which there was no getting away, in the shape of door-steps and seats, and even queer, irregular palings, just as though it took a special pleasure in provoking Ella by reminders of the see subject! If John, 0n his side, was only indistinctly aware of something in his marriage which fell short of his expectations, it was principally because the! marriage itself had never been to him I m the event which it had been to Ella. The Peevish twitch of the hps beg; If gradually he dropped out of the to predominate, betraying a growing habit of discussing his work with his' fretfulness. The excursions in the wife, whom he found generally too! mental balloon afore-mentioned had what had remained the chief object right through the episode of marriage. To say that Ella had entirely cooled towards her husband would be unfair. Her admiration for his person persisted, but of her enthusiasm for his work there remained but the ashes. The social drawbacks of her surroundings hopelessly outweighed, the delights she had expected to draw from their picturesque elements. The very picturesqueness was not of the sort which appealed to her, except in theory. All that rugged grandeur was too high and broad--in one word, too big for her personality, whether of mind or body. boy, Ella--oh, if it were a boy!" had been almost his first words. "What happiness to think that perhaps so to take up the boy. A daughter would be in many ways preferable, if only because she would be more exclusively given into her own hands to be trained up in the way she would consider fit. It was in favor of her wish that the balance of Pate inclined. The news met John six miles from home, and under circumstances which remained in his mind for many a day to come. He had been out of the house for twenty-four hours, summoned to dying woman in the wildest part of the hills. His task had been done ere nightfall, but a violent thunderstorm had kept him prisoner all night____ distant croft. Even by daylight the smaller burns, the slippery rocks made progress slow and difficult. As he tramped through the wet heather beaten all away by the violence of th< past downpour, he was thinking l good deal of Ella, and hoping that his absence would not have distressed her: but he was also thinking a good ..... deal of the old woman whose eyes he day he may be able had closed last night and of the ■k I shall be forced vellous way in which the lir - to lay down!" drawn by eighty years, had been Upon which Ella had only smiled a smoothed out in a few minutes by the little faintly, while inwardly register- hand of Death, ing the wish that it should not be a (To be continued.) PS |tf*.| M>qui the What the Doctor Orders. Often the doctor will say, "Give the baby barley water. Easily said, thinks the mother, but how does one make it? Or, worse still, she doesn't think at all and hurries home to cook up something that is far from the healthful thing the doctor intended. Here are a few recipes for foods frequently used in caring for the children. Barley Water.--Two tablespoonfuls of pearl barley, one quart of water. Boil continuously for six hours; as the water boils away, add more, keeping the quantity one quart. Strain through coarse muslin. It is well to soak the barley before cooking it Barley Water with Prepared Flour. -One tablespoonful of prepared barley flour, twelve ounces (one and one-half cupfuls) of water. Boil twenty minutes. Oatmeal Water.--One tablespoonful of oatmeal blended with one tablespoonful of cold water. Add speck of salt. Stir in one quart of boiling water. Boil three hours, adding water as it boils away. Strain through fine sieve or cheese-cloth. After the sixth month, either barley or oatmeal water may be used in preparing the infant's food, instead of plain water. Barley water is toJ>e used when thel ati | is looseness of A,e bo'tfeh '■>#,.1iicirtflFT.endeTicr Cleaning and Dyeing BLANKETS CARPETS 1ACE CURTAINS FEATHERS FURS DRAPERIES GOWNS TABLE COVERS QUILTS GENTS' CLOTHING Quick Service Excellent Work Send for our Catalogue on Cleaning and Dyeing Moderate Charges Wo Pa; Carriage Charge* One Way. PARKER'S DYE WORKS, Limited Cleaners and Dyers 791 Yonge Street • • Toronto tfi nST-endencyTs f stipatic Barley Gruel.--Blend two table spoonfuls of barley flour with a little cold milk, and stir into one quart of scalded milk. Cook in double boiler two hours. Add a little salt and sugar. Strain. Oatmeal Gruel.--To three cupfuls of boiling water add one-half cupful of coarse oatmeal and one-half tea-spoonful of salt. Cook five hours in double boiler. Dilute with hot milk, and strain. Farina Gruel.--One tablespoonful of farina, one pint of water, spoonful of sugar, one-half teaspoon-ful of salt. Put inio one pint of boiling water the salt and farina; cook for twenty minutes; strain, a.id add sufficient milk to obtain the desired con-listency. Rice Water.--Wash two tablespoonfuls of rice. Add one pint of cold water and a little salt. Cook one Dilute with boiling water, and Toast Water. -- Toast sufficient bread to make, when broken into small pieces, two cupfuls. Add to this one pint of boiling water, and let stand one hour. Strain through cheese-cloth. Serve hot or cold. Flaxseed Tea.--Wash carefully t tablespoonfuls of whole flaxseed. Add four cupfuls of cold water (one quart). Cook slowly one hour. Add a little lemon-juice and sugar. Dilute with hot water, if necessary, and strain. Plain Tapioca.--Add to one cupful of scalded milk, in double boiler, i ane one-half tablespoonfuls of granulated tapioca, two teaspoonfuls ^f sugar, a little salt, and a dash of nutmeg. Cook for fifteen minutes. Plain Bread Pudding.--Scald o cupful of milk. To a beaten egg add one tablespoonful of sugar and a pinch of salt. Pour on this mixture gradually the scalding milk. Add one cupful of stale bread cut into half-inch cubes. Bake in buttered pudding-dish, moderate oven, until custard is Serve with milk. Albuminized Milk.--Beat up white of an egg till light; add a good-sized pinch of salt, four ounces fresh sterilized milk, and sugar desired. Beef-Juice.--Chop and broil slightly lean meat from the round. Squeeze by means of small hand-press i lemon-squeezer into a warm cup. Salt Qne pound dlylrields from two 'to' three ounces of juice. Beef Tea.--Cut in small pieces o pound of round steak from which all fat has been removed; cover with one pint of cold water; let soak one-half hour; put into a preserve-jar, and < er closely. The jar is placed in other vessel containing cold water. Heat this slowly. Cook for two c three hours, strain and season. City Eye Specialists Tell How To Strengthen Eyesight 50% In a Week's Time In Many Instances Valu« of Cheese in Your Diet. i You Can Have , Mass.--V end otht. -„ who wear glasses, will be glad to kno-\ that Doctors and Eye Specialists no-v agree there is real hope and help fo them. Many whose eyes were failing tav they have had their eyes restored And--- tlx j ell. Noi thro tlu-r and i "I was !tn° re , ith* . ..t night they i dreadfully. Now they feel fine _.o used it says: "The atm... phere seemed hazy with or without glasses, but after using this prescription for fifteen days everything seems clear. I can read even fine print without glasses." Another who used ii Bays: "I was bothered with eye strain caused by overworked, tired eyes which Induced fierce headaches. I ha.ve wor Elasses for several years, both for "distance and work, and without them I could not read^ my^ own^na fciachlne before me. can do and have discarded my loni glasses altogether. I can fluttering leaves on the trees - which for sev< like i a green blur to my joy at what It has done fc. ... It is believed that thousands wl: Vear glasses can now discard them i la reasonable time, and multitudes moi Sonasbto bel6s t0 ^trenethen tb-eir pense of ever getting glasses. Dr. Beck, an eye specialist of near] twenty years practice, says: "A patier Blepharitis' Marginalia v. ah ":: 11 ' i 1 agglutination of the lid's, chronl^cui lad the dull, suf- fel.'i : j condition, but strange ler eyesight that she w; r headache and neuralgi i to 75 per cent ii diseases with B report ultimate and chronic cas office suffering The condition operation for < wide experi-:d in privat. us opthalmii i treatment I prescribed 1 gan to subside, and i >ed the tightened t dways instil Bon-Opto of foreign bodies --- y to all burns, ulc___ the eyeball or the lids utic effect. By clef - bad condition i.bly ■ S from protracted micro-xrch work. Bon-Opto used directions rendered a strengthened, have put aside my glasses without discomfort. Several of my colleagues have also used it and we are agreed as to its results. In a few days, under my observation, the eyes of an astigmatic case were so improved that glasses have been discarded by the patient." Eye troubles of many descriptions may be wonderfully benefited by the use of Bon-Opto and if you want to strengthen your eyes, go to any drug store and get a bottle of Bon-Onto Drop one Bon-Opto fourth of a Wit should i • '].....ly fiammati disappea tooPlate0 Mar have saved tlx and let i i liquid bathe thi iouz- times daily. Toi your eyes clear up per Canadian women have long regarded cheese merely as an accessory to the diet, and not as a staple supplying real food value. In fact, most women believe cheese, when used large quantities is indigestible and harmful. Experts of the Department of Agriculture have found that cheese is seldom a cause of physiological disturbances, and may easily be used as the chief source of nitrogeneous food. When cheese is served as a substitute for meat or other staple--and this has been done very successfully-- housekeepers should regulate carefully the other part of the same menu as they now select vegetables according to the meat they intend to have, as green peas with lamb. With cheese crisp, fresh vegetables, as lettuce, celery and water cress, should be used, with or without dressing. Fruits, plain or in salad form, are also very good. It is not generally known that cheese has nearly twice as much protein, weight for weight, as beef, and that its _ood value is more than ti as great. It contains 25 per. cent, more protein than the same weight of porterhouse steak as purchased, and nearly twice as much fat. Biscuits. Things to remember in biscuit mak- ight If your eyes ttle it is your duty gredients are well known to eminent eye specialists and widely prescribed by them. I bare e kept on band f( amlly." Bon-Opt< .'^all good druggists, includin tores; also by G. Tamblyn an & Co., Toronto. Select the best flour. Have flour thoroughly sifted. Have liquid chilled. Have shortening just soft enough to rub in with tips of fingers. After adding liquid, handle as wjH ^quickly tie and as lightly as possible. Baking Powder Biscuits.--2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup milk and water (half each), 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon lard. Sift the flour, salt and baking powder together, twice. Cream butter and lard together, and add to the dry ingredients, using the tips of fingers. Then add the liquid, mixing with a knife until you have a very soft dough. Place on a mixing board and pat out lightly until three-quarters of an inch thick. Cut out and bake in a hot oven for 15 minutes. This will make 2 dozen biscuits. Cheese can be combined with many more vegetables than is generally bud, posed. With leather prices still high, you may have several pairs of attractive Fleet Foot Summer bhoes for what one good pair of leather boots cost. Fleet Foot line is so complete, that there are many styles for work and play--for sports and outings--for men, women and children. Ask your dealer to show you the full line of Fleet Foot Shoea-and save money this summer. 205