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TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 102% PRIZES Given Away on the Day of Demonstration --E. D. Smith & Son Famous Jams and Jellies. --Eby Blain Gold Medal Tea with cup and saucer. --Chase & Sanborn Seal Brand Tea and Coffee. : --Harry Horne Neu-Jell. .. --Glassco Ltd. Celebrated Jams, + Jellies and Marmalades. --W. J. Crothers Ltd., Meadow Cream Sodas. . You are cordially invited to attend an HONEST WEIGHT D 19th. This is the First Demonstration of its kind that has been h beneficial information as to how you can reduce the cost of eatin, In order to repay you partly for your time, and to make you remember this event pon, which you can fill out with your name and address. Tear off and kee pose. Drawings will be held during the day and MAIN STREET The Story of Carol Kennicott By SINCLAIR LEWIS Carol again studied the carving- nife. Blood on the whiteness of a tablecloth night be gorgeous. Then: v "Fool! Neurotic impossibilist! elling yourself orchard fairy-tales Dear Lord, am I ly thirty? That boy can't be more A twenty-five." Iv She went calling. Boarding with the Widow Bogart as Fern Mullins, a girl of twenty- 0 who was to be teacher of Eng- h, French, and gymnastics In the high school this coming session. Fern [Mullins had come to town early, for six-weeks normal course for puntry teachers. Carol had noticed her on the street, had heard almost much about her as About Erik alborg. She was tall, weedy, pretty, d incurably rakish. Whether she | house, { laughing with Cy Bogart who, though | still a junior In high school, was now 3 wore a low middy collar or dressed reticently for school in a black suit with a high-necked blouse, she was airy, flippant. "She looks like an absolute totty," said all the Mrs. Sam Clarks, disapprovingly, and all the Juanita HaydocRs, enviously, That Sunday evening, sitting in baggy canvas lawn-chairs beside the the Kennicotts - saw Fern a lump of a man, only .two or three years younger than Fern. Cy had to go downtown for weighty matters connected with the pool-parlor. Fern drooped on the Bogart porch, her chin in her hands. "She looks lonely," said Keani- cott, "She does, poor soul. I believe I'll go over and speak to her. I was in- troduced to her at Dave's but I have- n't called." Carol was slipping across the lawn, a white figure in the dim- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG - '300 PRIZES Somet hing Different-----Don't Miss It Honest Weight Demonstration and Pure Food Show WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19th | ANDERSON BROS' BIG STORE EMONSTRATION and PURE FOOD SHOW to be held in our store on WEDNESDAY, APRIL eld in this vicinity. We are making great preparations so that.you will enjoy yourself and receive g. There will be good Music and also Souvenirs for the Ladies. VALUABLE PRIZES FREE tomers to get the best possible protection and system of TOLEDO NO SPRINGS, HONEST WEI are famous as being both the highest priced and most antee a square deal, and this is what wholesome food. Special attendants will be at our store on A vantages of buying your goods where this affects the cost of eating. Don't Forget the Date--Wednesday, April 19th BRING YOUR FAM Store opens Seven O'clock a. ANDERSON BROS, Limited ES ----. -- ee w------------ A -------- ~---- ness, faintly brushing the dewy grass. She was thinking of Erik and of the fact that her feet were wet, and she was casual in her greeting: "Hello! The doctor and I wondered if you were lonely." Resenttully, "I am!" Carol concentrated on her, "My dear, you sound so! I know how it Is. I used to be tired when I/was on the job.--I was a librarian. What was your college? I was Blodgett." More interestedly, "I went to the U." Fern meant the University of Minnesota, "You must have had a splendid time, Blodgett was a bit dull." "Where were you a librarian?" challengingly. "St. Paul---the main library." Honest? Oh dear, I wish I was back in the Cities! This is my first year of teaching, and I'm scared stiff. I did have the best time in college: dramatics and basket-ball and fuss- ing and dancing--I'm eimply crazy about dancing. And here, when I have the kids in gymnasium class, or when I'm chaperoning the basket-ball team on a trip out-of- town, I won't dare to move above a whisper. I guess they don't care much if you put any pep into teach- | | except | | ; rupted each other, ing or not, as long as you look like a'| Good Influence out of school-hours-- | and that means never doing anything | you want to. This normal course is | came unremarkable, { might easily have been poetry. She , We are goin p the stub, and deposit th handsome prizes awarded the winners. have, therefore, PRIZES Given Away on the Day of Demonstration --St. Thomas Elgin Brand Hams. --Swift's Premium Brand Smoked Hams. " --Canadian Packing Co. Brand Smoked Hams. --Gunn's Easy First Shortening. --Green Bros' Spring Lambs, Legs of Lamb, Loins of Lamb, Fore- quarteys of Lamb. --William Davies Co. Perfection brand sides of Bacon. Rose g to distribute 300 PRIZES during the day. You will receive a Cou- e Coupon in the box'in our store, which will be provided for that pur- Do you realize that 43 cents out of every dollar earned by the average family is spent in food. Think how important it iz that you get full 16 ounces to the pound. We want our cus- just recently installed a complete GHT SCALES. TOLEDO SCALES accurate Scales in the world. They guar- we want you to have. We also want you to get pure and pril 19th, to demonstrate to you the many ad- you are assured of honest weight and good food, and how ILY AND FRIENDS AND ENJOY YOURSELF m. and Remains Open Unti].Ten O'clock in the Evening PHONES 458-459, WHOLESALE 1767. wore AAAS ET bad enough, but the regular school will be fierce! If it wasn't too late to get a job in the Cities, I swear I'd resign here, 80 to a single dande all winter. If I cut loose and danced the way I like | to, they'd think I was a perfect hel- | lion--poor harmless me! Oh, I oughtn't to be talking like this. Fern, ) you never could be cagey!" ] "Don't be frightened, my dear! Doesn't that sound atroc- fously old and kind! I'm talking to you the way Mrs. Westlake talks to me! That's having a husband and a | kitchen range, I suppose. But I feel young, and I want to dance like a-- like a hellion?--too0. So I sympath- | ize." Fern made a sound of gratitude. Carol inquired, "What experience did you have with college dramati¢s? I tried to start a kind of Little Thea- ter here. It was dreadful. I must tell you gbout ft--" Two. hours later, when Kennicott came over to greet Fern and to yawn, | "Look here, Carrie, don't you sup- pose you better be thinking about | turning in? I've got a hard day to- | morrow," the two were talking so in- | timately that they constantly inter- | As she went respeotably home, con- voyed by a husband, and decorously | holding up her skirts, Carol rejoiced, "Everything has changed! two friends, Fern and--- But who's | the other? That's queer; I thought there was-- Oh, how absurd!" Vv She often passed Erik Valborg on the street; the brown jersey coat be- When she was driving with Kennicott, in early evening, she saw him on the lake shore, reading a thin book which saying curtly, "Can I get these press- ed; please?" Not rising from the sewing-ma- I ket I won't dare to (chine he stuck out his hand, mumbl- ed, "When do you want them?" "Oh, Monday." The adventure. was over, marching out. "What name?" he called after her, He had risen and, despite the far- She was |cicality of Dr. Will Kennicott's bulgy trousers draped over his arm, he had the grace of a cat, '"'Kennicott." a "Kennicott, Oh! Oh say, you're Mrs. Dr. Kennicott then, aren't you?" "Yes." . She stood at the door. Now that she had 'carried out her preposterous impulse to see what he was like, she was cold, she was as ready to detect familiarities as the virtuous Miss Ella Stowbody, "I've heard about you, Myrtle Cass was saying you got up a drama- tic club and gave a dandy play, I've always wished I had a chance to be- long to a Little Theater, 'and give some European plays, or whimsical like Barrie, or a pageant." He pronounced it 'pagent'; rhymed "pag with "rag." Carol modded in the manner of a he I have |' ee -- signs." She knew that he was trying to keep her from going, trying to indi- to a tradesman, and He was appealing). "Do you sup- pose it would be possible to get up another dramatic club this coming fall?" "Well, it might be worth thinking of." She came out of her several conflicting poses, and said sincerely, "There's a new teacher, Miss Mullins, who might have some talent, That would make three of us for a nucleus. It we could scrape up half a dozen we might give a real play with a small cast. Have you had any ex- perience?" "Just @ bum club that some of us got up in Minneapolis when I was working there. We had one good man, an interior decorator--maybe he was kind of sis and effeminate, but he really was an artist, and we gave on dandy play. But I--Of course I've always had to work hard, and study myself, and I'm probably sloppy, and I'd love it if I had train- ing in rehearsing--I means the crankier the director was, the bet- ter I'd like it. If you didn't want to use me as an actor, I'd love to de- sign the costumes. I'm crazy about fabrics--4axtures and colors and de- cate that he was something more than a person to whom one brought trousers for pressing. He besought: "Some day'I hope I can get away from this fool repairing, when I have the money saved up. I want to go East and work for some big drees- maker, and study art drawing, and become a high-class designer, Or do you think that's a kind of fiddlin' ambition for a fellow? I was brought up on a farm, And them monkeyin® round with silks! I dom't know. What do you think? Myrtle Cass says you're awfully educated." "I am, Awfully. Tell me: Have the boys made fun of your ambi tion?" She was seventy years old, and sexless, and more advisory than Vida Sherwin (To be Continued.) -------- A man never appreciates beauty, unadorned more than at the time he gets the bill for his wife's winter furs, { Many a man has lost chanceg on & sure thing because he was afraid to take chances, With a Hundred Dollars The advice they gave him for getting on in the world was simple and familiar enough: "Keep what you have, and build on it. Be careful what you do and it will grow into more." It's a safe fule--with money or health, but a good many overlook the rule with j noted that he was the only person in the motorized town who still took long walks, Delicious Fragrant 15¢, package abo packed in X Ih tins ~|coat on a scaléy sewing-machine, in She told herself that she was the daughter of a judge, the wife of a doctor, and that she did not care to know a capering taflor. She told hor- self that she was not responsive to men . . . . not even to Percy Bres- cahan. She told herself that a wo- man of thirty who heeded a hoy of twenty-five was ridiculous. And on Friday, when she had convinced her- self that the errand was necessary, she went to Nat Hick's shop, bear- ing the mot very romantic burden of a pair of her husband's trousers. Hicks was 'in the back poom. She faced the Greek gol who, in a some- what ungodly way, was stitching a a room of smutted plaster walls, She saw that his hands were not in keaping with a Hellenic face, They were thick, roughened with needle and hot iron and plow-handle. Even in the shop he persisted in his finery. He wore a silk shirt, a topaz scarf, thin tan shoes, This she absorbed while she was very common drug elements coffee--whose effects on nervous system any doctor can gh health, until they have lost what they had. Then it's hard to get a new supply. "and it's free from element. Thousands of people who think it wise to be as careful of their health as they are of their dol- lars are users of Postum. They find this famous cereal a delightful drink with any meal, pe any disturbing You can begin with Postum to- day, with an order to your for 20 minutes Postum for Health --"There's a Reason" Mads by Canadian Postar Cereal Co., Limited, Windsor, Ont. *