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PAGE 'EIGHT Er THE. DAILY BRITISH WHIG do dA 'In the Realm of Women---Some Interesting Features J TUESDAY, AUGUST 210190. 26, 5 805; 7 # IF ONE IS CONTEMPLATING GINGHAMS, A @elightful way fo make a plaid gingham would te after the Piece dress pictured here ne - The simple skirt is gathered to the waist un- aer a belt of plain gingham, the collar and cuffs being of the plain mate- vial alsa, One very fashionable may substi desi tute organdy for gingham, if Ted. Medium size requires 5% yards plaid and ¥ yard plain material, . The. blouse costume is in white linen with a vest of tucked organdy. {Poskets, collar and cuffs of seif-lnd® amartly finished with a deep ham, material First Model: bust. Price, 25 cents. Second Model: 25 cents Skirt No. 8295. Sizes, 24 to Pictorial Review Dress No, Blouse No. 8245 Sizes, 34 to 44 inches bust. trim the blouse, while ths skirt is Medium size requires 6 yards 36-inch 825), Stzes, 34 to 46 inches Price, 36 Inches waist. Price, 20 cents, MCF. aul's Old Stand ----For Sale by ---- NEWMAN & SHAW Princess Street EARLY CLOSING For the benefit hi our employees our store will close at § o'clock 3 every evening except Saturday. A. GLOVER License No. R-4838 A ---- A ee aa G. WASHINGTON. PREPARED COFFEE made in the cup at the table. All size eans in-stock, Prompt Delivery. D. COUPER pe1-3 Princess stret, Phone Ta F---- QUICK'S WESTERNS MEAT MARKET Choice Sirloin Steak ...35e Iy Choice T. Bone Staak . .35c. ib. Round Steak ..... 30c. Ib. _-Rib and Shoulder Roeasts 23¢ Ib Stewing Beef . .15¢. to 20¢. Ib. Balt Pork, for boiling, 23c. Choice Lamb, Pork, etc. 1b. Ha CLERGY STREET. 3 druggists of mai PHONE 2011. ~-- hgaped gray snow between the con- Tic Luck of KATHLE Author of "rhe Story of Julia Pa Wife," "Si r "Luckily she didn't sell it da reg- nlar customer, or she would have thad Lucas in her wool!" remarked another young woman. 'Lucas does~ n't ike us to work off biue tags on old customers," she elucidated, to] Geraldine. 'Now, let's see--you get two per cent., anyway, that's one-for- | ty, and seven more, that's eight-for- | ty--not so worse!" Geraldine smiled n "Emelie's." After that, suddenly feel at home there, Coughing and i headachy, ashe was timidly friendly | with the fitters. And'she tried to un- | derstand the saleswomen themselves, | but this was more difficult, | They were smooth-headed and { rdée-skinned, like young actresses. | They wore marvelously fitting ecor- sets, and heavy silk stockings, and outrageously high-heeled boots. They had an-alarmine armor-of jabber-and whisper, but under it they were quite simple, almost childish, and always | glad to, be amused. There were tv mannikins, who displayed the gowns, {rather stupid girls for ail their red- {dened lips-and absurd .shoes, six. ov |eight saleswomien, three or four fit- { ters, and the messengers; besides Mrs. | Lucas, who made occasional sales, and {the three boo kkeepers. Among them all Geraldine was as strange as a {child in a jungle;they had seen much, {but never her kind before, and they { rather liked her Having accepted her, icume to love "Mollie," they called | {her. They confided in her, while they changed to their shop stockings 1and shoes, and they laughed at her, iand said that she was' "cute," She | gave them no cause for { Upon one occasion she remarked that [she was just twenty-six She saw | that nobody believed her, ed with a little pang that she must look more than a few years older, Women and clothes-- women and clothes -- women and clothes «-- the {whole world began to revolve about { them, to Geraldine. tice types. and costumes; {daring, what was really smart, [wa as simply handsome for the first time | she began to the girls as what was {to look thinner .thin women ecorpla- { cently eyeing their angles in long | mirrors. all women trying -to buy | clothes for less money than was | sonable, trying to look prettier | veunger than thev were. Many of {them stooped' aquite admittedly to {cheap and humiliating devices, to buy t"Emelie's" frocks, and some of them had lost everything else in life--place, amily, position and honour, wife: hood and motherhood--for these fas- cinating combinations of spangles and crepe, for stretches of creamy lace, {and the coquettish tip of bie hats. Weeks flew by, and there was ntly moving stream of limpusines fon the Avenue, Geraldine, in the { quiet mornings, would stand musing {at the window--a window exquisite- [ly draped in pear) with one hat, and | ome mahoganv vhair, and one care- {lessly-flung furred wrap its only Nn | dressing. . : pearly white ap- : ----g, from all blemishes, will be com- § parable to the perfect beauty of your skin and )¥ com if you will use Oriental (FT| EERD.Y, HOPKINS & SON yt Wood's The Great English Remedy. Tones and invigorates the whole Er em, 3akes res Blood in ens, ures ervous Debility, Mental and Brain if dency, [oss 4 Energy, 2 lpitarion x the Heart, Failing Memory. Price §1 per box, six forss' One wil please, : six will cure. Eola | by all fed in plain pkg. on receipt of et mailed free. THE WOOD EE hot (Formerly Win ur) | oa 4 Every [oF ARE DD WILSON' S + almost fiked She 'wondered if she had been a happy wife, in a small town, only a short time ago: a happy mother who came down to breakfast with the de- licious bunch of warm little double rown and fat little fists that was Janey, under her arm. Had she really sat darning ,while Dean talk- ied plans; had she been stopped, at the foot of the stairs, for his apprecia- + tive kiss on Sunday mornings when she was looking particularly well? Hag jt been her happy privilege once to gd into his 'office, and announce that she had 'come to take-lim to lunch; to 'take the girls shopping in a Christmas week only a few years ago; and laugh and whisper over the right selegtion for Dad? In a word, had happ) been hers, all its dear intimacies and homeliness. and was -she standing hgre now, alone in New York, watoh- ing the holiday crowd jam bv,' and tlling furs and hats for "Emelie" of Fifth Avenue? She missed her mother, and her children, but it was to Dean that her heart clung with an absolute passion of love. The others had leaned -on her, but it had been her right, for Se many years, to lean dn him! There, were many days when she "Emelie's It was al- ways warm and luxurious and softly lighted, and that, in the bitter Win- and reflect- | She began to no- | what | and expensive: | She lived among stout women trying | rea- | and commonplace matrimony Geraldine Laird EN NORRI ge," "Heart of Racael," sters," ete. "Josselyn's ter, was a consideration. She dis-| liked Sundays more than any other day, simply because the distraction of her work and of the girls' conver- | sation and of the little life of the shop was missing, ! ( She saw no particular future at "Emelie's," and yet in spite of her- self she made herself useful there. | In spite of the leaden weight at her | heart and the heavy cold and head- ache she continually fought, she ad-| apted herself to the new calling, and | somewhat distinguished herself in| it. - One day Mis. Lycas, whom she | rather disliked, asked her to word a rather partieular note to one of the really important customers, and Ger- ! aldine was quite disproporti onately pleased when her employ€r ex ressed | satisfaction with it. "When we have the sales, I'll have | you write those personal notes to about-twenty-of Jem; Mrs buenas said | | reflectively. "That nice handwriting-- | Li sense to have it copied by the sten- | ographer; I'll send it just that way-- it'll 'make a hit!" The customer duly came in for the. requeste:l interview, and Gerald- ine displayed her the Spring furs. © "What's vour name?" 'asked customer, de ed. | "Mrs. | hoarsely, Yi | EEEEm-- | TALKGIT OVER | the O'Brien," Geraldine "Mary O'Brien." (To be Continued.) said jealousy i | ~¥ith Lorna Mooa-- IN Kimono Lizzies. 'I. have called upon her three af- | ernoons this month and each time | 1 have caught her in the kimono." *The wise matron was speaking of the bride who | had (been .married | sardly six} months. "It's a pretty kimono, I grant it.' An ki- mono Haties begin by wearing pretty clean kimonos,and end b wearing a faded, girty ones. | "Wiyes have I ness gjris ary ness she » the right sont, best wife in the world. she begins tg be sorry for all the number of yemars she has had to put her dress [sss five- | thirty, she takes it out|in kimono | wearing after marriage 4nd she be- comes the worst kimond lizzie of | them all. "1 know a woman. who, before | she was married, had charge of an insurance office staff. She was a! model in neatness for the girls un- der her. Her dresses were the tail- ored serge sort that spelt! style with- out nonsense, and 'her hair was al- ways becomingly and (tidily ar- ranged. She got married, and in her trousseau" she included several | 'very. beautiful negligees. 'I've. | never had time to wear them' be- fore', she 'said. But she made up for it! Four years after her mar- | riage, the beautiful negligees were worn. out, and she had become a frowsy fat hillock forever shuffling around, with a faded wrapper pin- ned around her and she couldn't | have gotten herself inside one of her | former time smart business gowns to saye her life! "She didn't know ease in moderation. That 'is the whole trouble with girls of that J type; they can't be made to realize | that ease is only a luxury up to a| certain point; after that it becomes | & «drug, which saps the intelligence | and duls self-respect." girl, { TAR the | But when 1for herself vow to take | E, Gartiey, Tweed, has sold his re- sidence to Hopkins, Corbyville, a for- mer resident of Hungerford, and will Eive possession on November 1st. Ex-Mayor Allan McGee, Belleville, died on Friday aged eighty-six years. He had been a resident of Belleville. for fifty-one years. 1% ) e Germans i Five years ago today; August 2, Find a Belgian. Answer % yamirlayy gale: Lett side down nose at right shoulder. NUISTO 1914, She Germans burned Logsain, who was a great lady in- | IC NATURES LAXATIVE a8 FOR MAN is the whole wheat grain properly cooked, wi e outer bran- coat pr in such a way as not to irri- tate "the intestines. In making Shredded Wheat iscuit we retain the outer bran- coat, so useful in promo- ting" exercise; at the same time supply- ing all the rich,body- ing material in the hol e wheat grain in petiile f form. The os real food for the least money. Deliciously nourishing' for any meal with sliced bananas, peaches or other fruits. * EI We have a supply of cut hard wood and - kividling. J. Sowards Coal Co. Notice «1 will be pleased to give you estimates on all kinds of new and repair work in. the car- pentering line. I assure you that all orders will receive prompt and person: al attention. Overton Aykroyd 21 MAIN 871 PHONE 1070 a A TALKING: MACHINES All makes of cleaned, repaired, adjusted. Parts for all makes supplied, expert worffmanship, moderate charges, quick service. J. M. PATRICK 149 Sydenham St. Phone 2056) STREETER OAR EMPIRE GROCERY High Grade Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables, Cooked aud Uncooked Meats, LEWIS ORR 320 King St. Phone 34p License No. 8.27448 Phonographs Charm Black Tea "Sold in Packages Only GEO. ROBERTSON & SON, Limited Lake Ontario Trout and Whitefish, Fresh Sea Salmon, Had- dock, Halibut and Cod. 0M MON FISH C0., Canada Foou Bussd hil No. $-32 tet Pl et, A ares a eo nim, oy "-- The | Genuine Original TOASTED CORN FLAKE! were first made in Canada in 1907 and have been continuously made and sold by The Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, Limited, London, Ontario. : These are the Corn Flakes that the Canadian consumer has enjoyed with i increasing Spprecistion during the past twelve years. In quality and flavor they are in Patsed. Refuse all substituted imitations and protect yourself 'by seeing that fy Made in Canada " 'and "london, Ont." are printed in red ink on: the face of every package. The Battle Creek 1 Toasted ~ Corn Flake Company, Limited "and Pa LONDON, ONT.