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EE TET TET © Bosemont is a pleawant little sub- urb, but its residents are not over burdened with cash. Everybody sham: bled along and lived as comfortably as they could, and talked about what a pretty place Rosemont, would be when all got ther and "fixed up." Then the Marshalls moved out there, © The family consisted of Mrs. Marshall, a pale, tired, elegant woman, Mr. Mar- ll, a sallow, petulant, stately man; Alice Marshall, aged sixteen, a slim, girl, whose underclothes were Pain girl. hose and whose 'shoes were made to order; Robert Marshall, a slim, silent boy of fourteen, whose Aipensive wardrobe awed Rosemont, ) atched pants and resoled shoes the correct costume for young u of his age. ~ "Belore three days dapsed Rosemont wan Hushing with shame and feeling the stings of poverty as it has never . felt them in all its laboring but un- sensitive past. The Marshalls had bought the old Lane place, a shabby, shaggy hall an acre with a shabby house, ln it they moved two carloads of mahogany furniture, ori ental 'rugs of every beautiful, dull shade, "cut glass," tall, expensive vases, imported lace curtains and in- ported silk curtains. Rosemont gasp- ed, looked and was ¢ast down. ln a week it knew that it was shabby and poor and shiftless. "Just shiftless, that's the only word," said Mrs. Cary bitterly, first to Jennie Cary, who retorted : "Mam- ma, 1 got to have new hair ribbon. I was so ashamed yesterday. Alice Marshall has got 'em twelve inches wide, and she wears different ones ev- ** And Mrs, Cary retorted, But I don't see how I can do any different." And then Mr. Cary, stoop-shouldered and weith hair getting gray, rushed to the LL" and enviously saw Mr. Marshall come down the avenue in a glistening new S80 Mr. Cary said it again to Mrs. Wilson across the street, who said in : "Sure, we're shiftless. And ipoor, 1 told Mr. Wilson fifteen years WE0 to buy some lot€ by the river and pow Be could have been rich. But = never take a wo- man's adviee No, my dear, did you see their dining room wall paper? It cost $2. a roll if it cost a cent. I just cried last might," Which tir- ade somewhat comforted both Mrs, Wilson and Mrs. Carey. The Marshalls were not purse- proud nor stand-offish. They were friendly, sociable, almost wistfully sociable it seemed. Otherwise Rose- mont could have solaced itself by ignoring them. But Mrs. Marshall joined the Ladies Civic club and paid her dues three years In. ad- vance. Mr. Marshall was generous with seat room in his roadster, and Baker, Cary, and others saved "I." fare once or twice a week. Alice Marshall never seemed to know that she was in a class apart from the other High school girls. Robert Marshall alone kept to himself and evidently didn't like to spoil his expensive clothes by playing with the other boys. : Yet for all the Marshall s' fonde- scension they never quite bridged the distance between themselves and the others. A gap remained. And it was a gap lined with envy, walled with mean feeling and floor- ed with discontent. The folks of Rosemont had, of course, always known that the world held rich, satisfied people, but they had never been brought in such close contact before with luxury a long way off became specifically rankling with heavy luxury stuck under Rose mont's nose. Rosemont at first tried to improve itself, but very soon sat down idly It simply didn't have the money. It was all Rosemont could do to buy 8 and school books and milk tickets. For most of Rosemont was young And newly - married when homes were brought. And why should you buy a home unless children are coming to fill it? Most of Rosemont's homes were well fill-- © And Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Cares and Mr. Baker and Mr. Carey and their respective children and most "of ibe. other parents and children t began to have a dreary ensures your getting it forlorn feeling that life was a poor business and living hardly worth while. Why, pray, should drs. Marshall Jud that quiet air of habitual e ce' "It isn't fair," said Mr. - Baker sullenly to Mr. Cary. " k at that old chap spinning along in his ease. 1 don't suppose he ever did a day's work in his life--ever knew what it was to get up on a, cold winter morning and build a fire." | "What 1 can't go," said Mr. Cary hotly, "is his aristocratic air. He offers you a ride, by George, but he does it In such a condescending way. As though he wanted to in- spect a poor devil at close range and see what he is like." At high school Alice and Robert finally had come to be let alone. Not that there was any tangible reason, but the other young people felt un- comfortable with ~ two who. did not know what it was to be poor or with: out carefare or ice cream money. Ciradually Mr." and Mrs. Marshall came to' be let 'alone. 'They didp't care, Rosemont observed. With all that money they doubtless had plenty of friends elsewhere, and they rather wondered why they had selected so un- important a place as Rosemont to live in. Then Mr. Cary bustled , home one night with important news fairly rads ating from him. He rushed from the "1" station, He stopped Baker on the corner. 'logether they soughs 'their wives and told. Rosemont the next day went around grinning sheepishly. And it patted Nr. Marshall on the back, and the women ran over informally to see Mrs. Mar- shall. And at high school Alice and Robert were generously allowed to treat the entire four classes. "You eould have knocked me' down with a feather," said Mr. Cary to his wife that night. "Old Marshall walk. ed in rather uneasylike, and said he'd like to go to lunch with me if Ldidn't mind. That sort of made me mad- that affected humbleness of his always got ny goat. It didn't go with his irritable eyes. But I said 'All right; where will we go? And he said he didn't know Pres. I laughed sar castically at that. And 1 said 1 guess you know plenty of places. And he said ;: "Oh, yes, cheap ones." But he'd like to go to a tony place. Wall, 1 know where they are, though I've nev: er _been in any," Mr, Cary laughed. 1; was a genial laugh, unhampered by the harsh note of envy. "And then he up and confessed he used to be a janitor till an uncle in Germany died and left him all this money. And he's heard Rosemont was a pleasant place with pleasant people, so he thought they'd slip in and be part of us. And they lit in and bought all the stuli they thought people like us had." "They looked aristocratic!" Mrs. Cary. "Sure they did. Any one with their background would. But they were anly scared. That was what give 'em that haughty air But, anyway, they're nice people." Mr. Cary laugh: ed. "And, do you know, I like the old gent now. I know he is no better than the rest of us." wailed THE PARTING. My heart is sad and ae, mither, To leave my native land-- Its bonnie glens, its hills sae blue, Its memory-hallowed strand, The friends I loved sae long and weel, weel, The hearts that feel for me; But, mither, mair than all | grieve At leaving thee. [he hand that saft my bed was made, When I was sick and sair, Will carefully my pillow lay And haud my head nae mair; The een that sleeplessly could watch When 1 was in my pain, Will ne'er for me from night to dawn, E'er wake again. There's a kindness the mither, And kindness | will meet, But nane can be what thou hast been, Nane's praise can be sae sweet; Nae ither o'er can love thy son Wi' love akin to thine, And nane ean love thee, mither, dear, Wi' love like mine. in warld, Ull keep thee in my inmost soul Until the day 1 dee, For saft, saft is may mither's hand, And kindly is ner e'e; And when God's spirits far away Tallim my soul shall bear, My deepest joy will be to moet, My mither there. NO SOILED When you Chew PAC CHEWING GENERAL FRENCH AND BOER. How the British General Tricked General Beyers. Sir Joy French came into promi- nence by a succession of unusual ac- hiavements. He held the Boer at Colesberg and held him on a 20-miic line with less troops than he now has in reserve. The story of Frenca at Colesberg is the story of a big hoax. He hoaxed the commandant com- manding the enemy's forces go suc- cessfully that although the Boer was In great numbers he never dared venture an attack. More than this, he had a heavy field gun dragged up the slopes of the almost inaccess ble Coleskop and shelled the laagers of the invader with such effect that the Boer general withdrew his forces to the other bank of the Orange River. This commandant, General Beyers aftorwards discussed the situation Wich Sir John French, and expressed his total incredulity when the Bri- teh general revealed the weakness off his force. ! "We could have eaten you," said, 'regretfully. |! "You tried to smiled Sir John. | The Boer commandant hie ounce or twice," nodded, "but unfortunately time we went to take a mouth- we struck the: bit the mustard!" After the Boer war there was a reat deal of fraternizing beiween the rival commanders, and there be- gan many friendships which have so splendidly fructified in tsiey prevere moment of crisis. Our peopie seaine much from their whilom cueiny, which they have since <urueca (to good advantage. I remyember. discussing the war with General De Wet in the train betwoeén Kroonstadt and the vuu-. » was particularly anxious to know which branch of the service most im- pregied the Boer. "Undoubtedly the indy otry," he replied promptly. "we sirted by feeling a little contemypy tor the foot soldiers---we finlsnea vy holding hits in a whosesale respecs. "The cavalry we did not mind --the cavalry divisions never got near enough to do any great damage. But we soon discovered that the infan- tryman was a different proposition. We shot at him. and killed nim--ous he came on. In long lines an cans mark; for our shots, he aavaucea. up hills, which we. could have held to doomsday, but there was some:n:mng £0 inevitable about that acvance his that our men Bot panic-stricxen I'"'Yes," he said, bevery fu wita "The British infantry is inevit- alle," the general went on. "You might ride away from him, »ut he followed. He would turn up as fresh as though he had been carried all the way by wagon. He might ve a way br two before he turned up. Vir there he would be, and at tie exw v~ the war when it was vitally neces sary that we should secure food and ammunition by attacking convoys, even our most desperate vurg-ers hesitate before they moved against 4 convoy guarded by British infan- ry." Where Italy's Heart Is. _ National self-interest will, of course, tecide Italy's final action. The pres- ent ministry is not yet prepared to forecast that action ." Probably Italy was caught last August more or less unprepared, in a military sense just as France was, and still needs several months 'to make good deficiencies in material. Probably, also, the choice to be made is not yet absolutely clear from the point of view of double-dis- tilled. prudence. But there can be no doubt as to where Italy's sympathies lie. The ery of the extreme left, "Viva Trieste !"" in the midst of the Premier's speech and the spontaneous greetings sent by the lower chamber to "heroic. and unfortunate Belgium" tell the whole story. Italy's heart is with the allies, although she still cau. tiously delays making common cause with them against Turkey, Austria- Hungary and Germany.--New York I'ribune. ---- No Slouch. A dumber of men were having a liscussion as to who was the greatest inventor. Some said Edison, some ald Watt, some Morse, some one and some another. Finally a pawn- uroker got in a word and said: "Vel, chentlemens, dose vas gread peoples, but 1 tells you dot man vot invented interest sas no slouch." HANDS OR POCKETS FIC because each plug is separatély wrapped in foil, In perfect condition, but keeps it which not only from becoming dry in your pocket. Cleanliness all the way through, from the time it is manufactured until you take your last bite, is the great feature with this \\ "DELICIOUSLY GOOD" CHEWING PLUG 'A satin insert highly prized by collectors because of the many beautiful things that _€an be made from them, is packed with each plug. See window displays toward the end and would not wait." | - . Cretonnes are 80 attractive that they ! bave inspired much designing of ar ticles for personal use und house dec- | oration. Recently linen crash and | flowered cretonnes have become more popular than any other fabrics for | tasteful and inexpensive fittings and | furnishing. Certain patterns have | been featured for living rooms and | porches, but it is in bedroom furnish. | ings that they take precedence of ev- | erything else. They are bright and | dainty and better still, they are wash- able. Crashes are embroidered in fast color embroidery silks or deco- rated with cut figures of cretonne ap- plied and button-hole stitched down. There 1s a long list of attractive things which are made of these dura- ble fabrics. Among them the dressing case sets, which cannot fail to please, are among the least costly and most effective of Christmas gifts. They are acceptable to either men or women friends. The flowered cretonnes are used for covering boxes made to hold handker- chiefs, gloves, neckwear, cravats and veils, and the large boxes for hats and shirtwaists. They are fine for laundry bags, shoe and slipper bags, pin cushions and pin trays, tea trays and . tea cosies. Dresser scarfs are | made of a plain fabric bordered with cretonne. Picture frames are covered with it and the cut-out figures are ap- plied to candle shades. Cushions for chairs help carry out the scheme for cretonne decorations, ' In the picture are thres candle shades, a fine tray and a frame for photographs. They ars made of cre. tonne or of linen. A set made up of the tray and frame and one or two | eandle shades all' matching ought to | rejoice the heart of any one who ap- | preciates a pretty dressing case. They | are all very easily made. | To make the pin tray a small oval | frame with glass and back is needed. Plenty of these are. to be found at | the ten cent stores framing pictures | which it is a decided satisfaction to take out and destroy. After cleaning the glass a stiff cardboard is to be out out (using the glass as a guide) into & backing for a cretonne covering. Paste the cretonne to this backing smooth'y or allow a half {ach around the edge and fasten the cretonne with stitches drawn across the back of the cardboard. Slip the covered form in- to the frame under the glass and re- place thé back; Paste a piece of plain paper or felt over the bottom of the tray. The photo frame is made me. of heary are a trifie over 3 inches If around and 1 inch about the oval o 4 It must be slashed at ths ay. make it fit and is pasted or glued down about the ovals first. 'The card: board is then mountell to four stwips' of cardboard (as heavy 28 co b board) which extend all r edge of the frame at the back. These strips are glued to the frame. The inch allowance in the material fs brought over the edge of the and 'glued down. A narrow glass is laid against the ings at the back and fastened means of of paper: d over it nd to the ot the ane ons ly | i the | crash. and Cretonne By JULIA BOTTOMLEY. & backing of, thin cardboard is pasted to the frame across the top and sides, leaving the bottom open for slipping in the pictures. A small wire ring is fastened in for a hanger or an easel support glued to the back by means of a cloth hinge. The tallest of the three candles has a shade made of a stiff pink linen fabric dnd decorated with garlands and a figure cutgfvom the cretonne, pasted down. It finished with a narrow silk fringe. A pair of candles with candle-sticks fitted with shades and holders make a gift that everyone enjoys. Glass or silver candlesticks are beat for bedrooms, Brass and iron ones are appropriate for living rooms. The plain iron candle-stick with rose-colored candle and fluted rose-colored shade is suited to a man's room. The shade is made of a smooth linen starched and fluted on an iron. It is pasted on a eardboard ring at the top and finished with a piece of fancy rose. colored braid The, dainty figured | shade = shown with the siiver candlestick is pure whita with a tiny flower - wreath. There is a lace adge about the top and bottom. [It {s made of a linen evi. dently woven for the purpose, stiffen- ed and fluted. It is mounted to a card- board ring and finished about the top with a white braid. One of the easiest ways to shade a candle as well a8 one of the prettiest, is to cut a disk of cardboard about § inches in diameter, with a circle cut out of the center to fit over the can- dle holder. Cover this with.a square of cretonne edged with baad fringe, cut the cretonne seven inches square allowing an extra half inch for a nar row hem. Hem the hem and sew the fringe over it. Cut an opening from the center to fit over the candle- holder and allow a half inch hem also. The pretty handkerchief case of crash shown in Fig. 1 hardly needs descrip tion, It is embroidered with small pink roses, green leaves and a ribbon design in light blue. It is lined: with pink wash silk, button-hole stitched about the edge and tied with wash ribbons. One corner is turned back. This is a gift which a man will appre clate. The bag in Fig. 2 may be made eith- er of cretonne or flowered silk. The handles are made of embroidery. rings wound with narrow blue ribbon. The upper part of the bag is gathered over one-half of each ring and the fulness' at the ends is also gathered Into small rings having one and a half inch diam- eter. Little ribbon bows, the handles, provide the finishing touch. A double bag of linen ornamented with embroidery, ceptacle for soiled handkerchiefs, or other small accessories. It is wash- able and will last a long tie. Men as well. as women like these handy bags. This is true of the little com- tonne, crash or silk, with pinked flan. nel leaves for the needles and ribbons for hanging. * Where one does not embroider a very pretty substitute is possible with cut out cretonne' flowers applied to linen and stitched down with button. hole or chain stitch. There is no end to the more than good looking pres ents which are made of cretonne and 5 trar of alieps, for a Passport to Chi- 1 A i Po OUR ARTISTS NEGLECTED? John Lane Says Canadian Connois.. seurs Go To Far Aboard. Mr. John Lane, the eminent Eog- lish publisher and connoisseur, who | was In Toronto a few days ago, saw most of the private collections of pic- tures in Toronto and in Montreal, and expressed the greatest admiration of the taste and discernment of Cana- dian eollectors. But there is, he says, one thing lacking in all of them--the work of Canadian artists, Mr. Lane wonders that these native artists, who rank, as a whole, with the modern Dutch school, do not receive more re- coguition. Such artists as Horatio Walker, Homer Watson, Edmund Morris, Gagnon, William Brymner, and James Frazer, have no peers in their own field. " Mr. Lane visited the galleries of Sir William Van Horne, Lady Druom- mond, and Mrs. Angus, in Montreal, and of Sir Edmund Walker, Sir Fd- mund Osler, Mrs. Timothy Raton, Mr. D. R. Wilkie, and Mr, Chester D. Massey, in Toronto, ~*~ ) "These connoisseurs Have fine re- presentative collections of the mod- ern Dutelr and French schools," said Mr. Lane. "There 1s & * rinkling of the work of British 5, such ag Hornel, McTaggart, Swan, Melville, and Lavery. I was somewhat dis- appointed at not finding more of the British school, and so few pictures of Canadian artists. One would like to see the same appreeistion of Canadian art as Canadians show to their great humorist, Prof. Stephen Leacock." Speaking of Leacock, Mr. Lane said that perhaps the professor's early recognition in 'Canada might be due to his endorsement by Eng- land and America! Mr. Lane has noticed a great in- crease in Canada's demand for Eng- lish books. There has been an awak- ening in this country's interest in the-life and letters of England and Europe, and not only English fiction, but English biography wd English essays and political writings are be- ing called for in surprising numbers. Just at present, fewer serious books are being published owing to the sudden demand for books relat- ing to the war in all its phases. Books that have long lain dead, books of obscure modern history and diplomacy, of description of the various countries involved in war, ) years ago -- Serves as a re are being revived. One volume that was suppressed by the Kaiser, and which had a doubtful popularity ten "Life in a Garrison Town," by Lieut. Bilse -- is now re- ceiving world-wide interest, as being a true picture of military and civilian life in Germany under the military regime. Books like "The Iron Year" and. "When William Came," novels that 'had indifferent success hereto- fore, are now among the "best sell- ers." "It is {interesting to note," said Mr. Lane, "that the most notable contribution to serious literature this year is the work of a Canadian, the study of the economie history of Rus- sia by Prof. James Mavor, of the University of Toronto. % Compromise Report. "=~" At one time a great many years ago s0 much counterfeit money was in circulation that business men found it advantageous to use a coun- terfei } banknote detector. A storekeeper in a Nova Scotian village came into possession of a banknote which he strongly suspect- ed to be counterfeit, so he sent it to a nearby city in charge of an old stage driver for examination. On two successive trips the old fel- low forgot this particular errand. A third time he was charged with it in terms unmistakably strong. Again he forgot. Fearing to confess his care- lessnres, he resolved to brave it out somehow. "Well," said the storekeeper anx- ayers, "did they say it was a bad bil »" "Why, no," responded the stage driver deliberately, "not exactly." "Not exactly?" ejaculated the oth- er; "What do you mean? Was it good?" 'No, not exactly that either,' d the old man brightened a little. "They said they guessed it was "bout mid- id Origin of Canada's Name, There is a great deal of digputs as to how Canada came to get its name, but many are disposed to the belief that Canada is a perverted Spanish phrase. he Spaniards visited here previous to the French and made search for gold and silver, and, find- ing none, they often eald amongst themselves, "Aca nada," meaning, "There is nothing here." The Indians, who watched closely, learned this sentence and its mean- ing. Then came the French, and the Indians, who did not want them, sup- posing they had come on the same mission as the S h, kept pouring into their ears the Spanish sentence, "Aca nada." The French, who knew as little of the Spanish language as they, supposed that the incessently recurring sound was the name of the country, and ultimately christened it Canada, whiclf it has borne ever since. McGill To Pass Soldier Boys. Following the example of several of the English universities, the facul- ty of arts at McGill will grant degrees to fourth year students who enlist with the Danadian Sayeditionary forces before the conclusion present college term. Students of. the first, second and third years will be given credit for a full term aca- demic work. On their return they will be admitted to the class immedi- ately above that in which they were anrolled previously to their enlisting. Mililon More Acres Sown. It was learned at the Ontario Agri- cultural Department that Ontario is seeding down one million more Ber history. This follows the appest . ws of the Federal and Provincial Govern- ments for the expansion of cereal pro- duction in view of next year's from Eusope. Definite figures aot yet obtainable, Toronto Fat Stock Show TORONTO and RETURN Fare $6.55 Good gelug 1". M, trains Dec: 10th. All trajus Dee. 11th and 12th. Neturn lm. it, Dec. 14th, 1014, For full particulars apply to J. P. 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