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ER CRRA 7 WAI I Aero true enough. like you in them, and I'll buy 'em or JERRY Arthur A Pier. /0 Pi 7 Copyright Houghton Mifflin CHAPTER XXXIX, Then Jerry smiled, remembering that the encouraging bit of news that he had meant to give Nora he had never delivered. Yet it was import- ant, too quite as important as the matters that had caused him tempor- erily to forget all about it. He had intended to bell Nora of Trask's as- surance that after the election would find a place for him in somelaw office. She would be so relieved to know that the question of getting a Shalt weed no longer cause them an- ora strolled along the spacious aisles of the fourth floor of Bilbow and Slosson's. As usual, the young women who presided over the millin- ery and ligerie counters gazed at her enviously, the floorwalker with the neat black mustache and emotional dark eyes greeted her with affability, and the customers whom she passed turned their heads to follow her with interest. But these demonstrations and dresses displayed upon the forms failed to win her critica] scrutiny, the! pérsuasive perfumes that the discreet and subtle management caused to | meade this aristocratic section of their establishment failed to give pleasure to the most fastidious of her senses. Even the survey of herself in the long mirrors at the ends of the aisles was look, mechanical, abstracted, indifferent. Patrick Maguire emerged from the and came towards her. Nora apptvached each other, vy, she preased a hand to her throat; her heart was jumping "* and battering. Maguire looked grave and determined; he lifted his pea- freen Fedora hat and replaced it on head without a smile. "I got your letter," he said, as he tarned and walked with her. "After getting it, I had one or two things to ttend to, and then I came round here t once. It doesn't go, Nora, it doesn't "What do you mean?" she asked faintly. "You're going to kmock off work here and come out with me while I "I can't possibly do that." think I want to lose my job. "You won't lose it. 'ell 'em you'll ou have on; that's y suit you well; I Nora laughed ose, J , "I wouldn't let you." "Oh," said Maguire with a faint emjile, "I guess you will." The forewoman came bustling up, interested, and pleasant, "Oh, ps, Corcoran," she said, "Mr. t= ton has jusi sent up word that you're to have a holiday. you're excused, of course. What a nico day for it!" "A holiday!" cried Nora. "I don't ven't asked for it. I---" don't you form the habit of erything that's. offered to for a p He turned to oman. "Mrs. Corcorap's go Ma- it's t is not, «1 won't hear of such Now, now, what did T just tell you ora," interposed u'll go awful wrong if you adopt gz dy oronto "Sometimes," said Maguire, "it's necessary to take radical measures." He summoned the elevator; Nora entered it without protest. She had no idea he could be so decisive, and she was interested in discovening how what his intentions were. - In the automobile he glanced at his watch. "Eleven 0" Too bad he ' you should have had to miss 0 much getting of your holiday. But after your letter I had things to do that | prevented me. from coming earlier." "Tell me, how were you able to get me this holiday?" . will do Ad "Would Likes." | strength. 2 lee por. ob. of . would never follow and "plans" _ which 1 : with the 4 dopt my plan for I have a strong leaning towards masculine styles in housekeeping. and "would likes." The "must haves" include plain food, clean clothes and rooms and lots of soap and water ap- plied to bodies and house furnishings. The "would likes" include fancy work, crocheted doilies, pillow shams, em- broidered- towels, bric-a-brac stuck |up alt over the mantel - and. piano, | photographs in like places, plate rails | covered with fancy china, fancy pil- lows, lace curtains which take a week's time to "do/up,"--in short, all the frills and furbelows so dear to the feminine soul, and so conspicuous by {hele absence in a bachelor's bunga- ow. All these things are nice, if you like them. I'l grant they, or a few of them, play a part in our aesthetic "Oh, Bilbow and S anything for me, within reason. fixed matters for them so that they could throw a bridge across Exchange Alley to their new building; it meant getting 8] 1 legislation through the City Council. And I never held 'em up for it--not to any great ex- tent He made no allusion to. the letter, but when he had driven out beyond the suburbs he stopped the car and drew a small box from his pocket. He handed it to her. "There's one of the things I had. to 'do," 'he said. "See how you like it." She opened it with a premonition of what she should find. Yet she 'was unprepared for the splendor that | she uncovered--a ring in which was i set a magnificent diamond. | "It's very handsome," she #aid. She ed at it a moment longer and then held it out to him. "Put iit on," he said. "See how it , looks, on your finger." "Oh, all right." She began to teke off her right glove. "The other glove," he suggested. "It's on the left hand that it's worn," "Anything to oblige you. Of course I don't bind myself in any way." "Of course not." She sli; the ning on her finger and held it up so that the light played on it, "Does it happen to fit?" he asked. "Yes, it's just about right." "Of course if it weren't and you liked the stone, it could be set in a ring of the right size." "You don't expect me to accept such a gift." a aa ui have bougin Ju I n't expected you to accept it." "It's out of the questi I should tion, but 1 tend they are non- essential. And O, the time they take to make them and then keep them nice. Along with the furnishing, which I eliminate as timekillers, I include faney cooking, frosted cakes, fearful and 'wonderful entrees, desserts and salads that fake an hour to make and two minutes to eat, and all the relat- ed line of dishes which call for a half- dozen ingredients and give you an at- tack of indigestion. These has taught me, are not only non-essen- tials, they are criminals. Dyspepsia lurks in their train and women's strength is wasted in their making. Add to this list of things cut out, the daily wearing of delicate lingerie and house dresses which require much ironing and you have, stricken out ahout all that beauty-loving women dote on. So you see why I say I know beforehand that no one is go- ing to follow my advice. I think perhaps the hardest part of being a young mother is the getting used to the sacrifices you have to make for your children. Up to the time of your first baby's arrival you have been expecting other folks to cater to you. the time your firstborn arrives you begin to live a new life, a life of service to others. At first the nurse and your mother tell you you must do this dnd that for the baby's sake, but before many months you wake up to find the young tyrant telling you himself. For some inscrutable reason, children as- sume from thelr earliest conscious ts that their mother ig their take a ring like that only from the man I was engaged to." "Well, let's not angde the point. Just wear it to-day to celebrate the holiday, Don't you like to see it on your finger?" ; "It's perfectly wonderful," she eating and t hand " and seeing it on your yi give you Pleasure to-day, wont t "Yes, I suppose it will." "That's all that's necessary." He started the car 3 without further speech. His silence and his ajr of purposefulness seemed to Nora formidable; this ride became exciting; che was unable to think of { things to say, because she was so i keenly expectant and apprehensive. Indeed, she couldn't tell whether it was expectancy or apprehensiveness that agitated her, { "Maguire observed that she did not .put on the glove that she had taken { off. She kept her bare hand in her {lap and frequently out the fingers and set new (in the stone. out in the open country. duced another little et |ed it to her. "See what you | that." k drove on th own personal property with no rights which they are bound to respect. And after awhile cientious thers begin to feel a little themselves as though their duty to their children was paramount, \ And as a matter of fact it is. 1 heartily believe: that the most impor- tant thing a mother has to do it to serve her children. Children first, house next, is the. true way. Too many mothers turn it about and make o $ ey will have many years to keep up the house after the into right habits of living and think- ing are all too few. should sit down 'with a pencil and paper and make a list of everything I to keep up in good health and what I want to de because ryone else is at the outset that the aver- To begin with, I make a strong line . of demarcation between "must haves"! , and they will cook into and flavor the whole apple. The fruit will also keep in shape bet- er than 'when the entire core is taken ou " Use a bean pot to bake your apple sauce by cooking as you would on top of the stove, only do not - til done, then add su spice while hot. The flayor is cious thus baked. All dried fruits are im- proved by this mode of cooking. Who has not opened their cream separator in winter to find from one to three spoons of cream the parts and thereby wasted? I did, until I evolved this for myself and would like to pass it on to other farm women, if any have that trouble: After the machine is in motion turn through a generous half-cup of boil- ing water and follow immediately with the milk; then, if water instead of skim-milk is used to flush the bowl, have it a little warmer than fresh milk instead of cold, as in warm weather, Warming the cones, etc., before screwing the bowl together, also helps. > » dh WHAT ABOUT CLOTHES? British Officer in London Comments on Problem of Prices. "With this armistice being signed," I said the tailor, "I expect I shall be wanting some civilian clothes soon; | but I suppose if I leave it for a time! the prices will go down a lot, will they not?" "No, sir," he replied; "on the con- jij Ae i THasaka Lap Oa 3 wird rhe TASK OF "pemobrLIzNG THE pension or discharge, /| the benefit of these changes. The vi NAVY SERNIGR, How British Ex-Saflors Will Make Their Re-Entrance Into the Civilian Life. The demobilization of go Navy will be a.busy time for those con- cerned with the "preparation of the war has put an end to. the somew callous methods previously in fore -- "AIG WANTS YER!" Care for the Enemy Wounded iv Characteristic of Tommy. The British Tommy has carried with him into the trenches his love various documents, and with the ex- tion of the procedure the velease of the different classes of | men, says 8 Jude newspaper. Many innovations will be encountered by | the clerical staff; but all of them are for the better. Before the war, the discharge of men to the shore was a simple pro- cess for the paymaster and his staff. There was only active service ratings and occasional reservists to be dealt Lwith. The man of the Royal Navy tl proper signed on for a period of twelve years' service, at the end of which he was free to sever his con- nection with the Navy,\but without pension. If he was a man of good | character he had the alternative of of chaff as well as his love for hum- - e necessary for anity. A correspondent reports an ; incident that well illustrates qualities: % "Any winklin' to be done i ere?" asked one of the % victors. "Or do we get a bit of a rest and a chainge?" a "Coom on, let's get on wi't," ans- wered the Yorkshire lad. y So they moved along the captured trench, "winkling"--that is to say, digging the cowering Germans out = of their holes, if necessary, with the point of the bayonet, 'and with bombs in readiness. There were four of then on this expedition--a cockney, a Yorkshire- xed 8 young fellow from Liverpod and a Berkshire rustic. The cockney, signing on for a further ten years-- | nd ie, until the age of forty, when he was entitled to leave the Service with a pension. - Then there were the ra- ther exceptional cases of men who were discharged "Service no longer required," or who- purchased their discharge to obtain more congenial employment ashore. In Pre-War Days. In all these cases the procedure was much the same. , The men fell in at the ship's office and received their pay, to which was added the sum realized by the auction of their kit; they then passed along to the cap- tain's office, where they were handed their Service certificates, a railway pass to their homes, with a meal al- lowance for their journey; and, then, |- trary, they will go up. There will be so many like yourself requiring civil- fan clothes that the price of cloth is | bound to go higher. If I was you, I should most certainly order your clothes now." "I'll think about it," said I, and walked out of the shop. As I had to go back to France on the completion of my leave, and, be- | ing in the Royal Engineers, it was! generally expected that we should have to remain out clearing up, laying , railways, making roads, rebuilding bridges, etc., for months, if not years, | I decided I would not follow the! tailor's advice, and so I sauntered further down the Strand. Having to wait near one of the many Government offices which seem to full of immaculately-dressed offi- cers, it was borne in upon me that | unless they joined the Fleet Reserve, the Navy said good-bye to them. The paymaster closed their ac- counts, forwarded their National Health Certificates to the Admiralty, and other men/were drafted to the ship they had left in their place. Under this system no arrangements were made for the future of unpen- sioned men, The ratings discharged at the end of twelve years' service were often smart men who had de- cided to better themselves; these were a distinct loss to the service. They were generally helped by the Navy Employment Agency, or some similar institution; often they obtained good jobs on their' own initiative: The others--men unwilling, or not allowed to re-engage, or men who had earned a very small pension at the end of their twenty-two years, or men inval- .| very much down shortly, as they will children are grown, but the years! when they can' train their children! If I were a young mother. to-day I! | and again walked out of the shop. i8| peregrinations kiss, hav. rh to myself why, peace should ' special enga "| by<be-the feason of still further in- 38 Fd the exorbitant prices that war ES my own old - tunic was extremely ided just found themselves adrift in shabby, and that perhaps I had better | a sailor's suit, with a few pounds in réally invest in one more new khaki : their podkets and a railway pass. rig-out, if only for the sake of the On the other hand, the men of the old corps, so I called in another "civil reserves and coastguard who were and military" tailor's establishment. | called up for fourteen or twenty-eight Said I to the manager: "I am afraid | days' annual training were able to I shall have to get another tunic some | return to. their civilian work at once, time; but I suppose the prices will be so their discharge involved no hard- ship. / " not be required, so perhaps I had bet- The New System. ter wait a few weeks." But during the war the naval per- "On. the contrary, sir," he replied. | sonnel has grown from 120,000 to "1f I might offer you advice, you will | some 500,000. Apart from the men place your order at once, as the | the Navy proper, there are pen- the prices are sure to go up by leaps sioners, Fleet Reserve, Royal Naval and bounds, because they will be stop- | Reserve, R.N.V.R., coastguards men ping the making of khaki cloth, in for "Hostilities only," men of the order to cope with the civilian trade." | trawler section, mercantile ratings, "Pll--er--think about it," I said,!and the Australian, Canadian, and South African branches of our naval' forces, all serving afloat under differ- ent systems of pay and different agreements. . My account with Messrs. Cox & Co. not 'showing the huge credit balance "that one would expect for an officer e : | on*leave from the Front--well, I just| Unlike the soldiers, the sailors were {left it at that, and continued my |not called up in groups, buf entered down the Strand," voluntarily, for the most under | The extracting of the balance of pay due to each man will be no light task, and, in addition, each will be furnished with a civil employment form, a protection and identity , certificate, 8 demobilization tions. ©. bring about a scarcity of both khaki and civilian clothes, and should there- has produced. in 'which dur Allies sailor. After. 1 from ship or r of the milita @ will receive twenty-eight bands have - th ¢ his final | of the Cgzecho-Slovak National Hymn, and some aré" sional Hin, ov per. diem. Befo allowance was but 2%d. a was not cre 1 these circum. | Harry Taylor, otherwise known as Chippy, was in civil life a conductor on the Underground; the Yorkshire- man, Sam Sykes, otherwise Bill,-- the corinection is obvious,--was a wool comber; Dicky Sam, from Liverpool, had been a stevedore, and Piggy, from Berkshire, shad been a farm laborer. "Oxford-circus, all chainge!" shout ed Chippy into a black hole. "Come along, Fritz, 'Aig wants yer." The dugout proved to be empty, "Non-stop Goldexr's Green!" shouted Chippy into the next opening. "Off the car first, please!" A wailing shout of surrender came from. within, and six pale Huns hur- ried out, one saying eagerly that he lived at Golder's Green. "Now, if you gentlemen will kindly wait your turn, an assistant will be disengaged very shortly," commen Chippy. "Next gentleman, please!" Dicky Sam watched over the prison- ers, while the others went on to. the third and last opening. "Pass along down the car, please!" cried Chippy. "Anybody at 'ome?" He peered inte the gloom and at last made out one recumbent form. "Come on, Fritzie, then," he said persuasively, "and nurse'll div 'im a ickle sausage." ; "Pig-dog Englander!" snarled the "winkle," "Pig-dog yerself!" cried Chippy. in- dignantly. "Give yer a taste of bay'- nit in a minute." To their surprise the German burst into tears. Chippy hesitated no longer, but entered the dugout, and knelt by the prostrate man. =~ = " 'E's wounded!" . he called out, "Get the others back and pass. the word for stretcher bearers. . There, matey," he added soothingly, "Cleer up, we're all soldiers ere." RE a rL L A Natural Enquiry. Lord George Wellesley said a) # luncheon: "One result of this war will be __ that the English workingman will be better paid. He'll be content no longer with his wages of the past. "The English workingman is show- ing in numberless ways his resolve to have a better share of the good things his labor creates. I know a lady who; when the submarine crisis was at its worst, lectured in the east end of London on 'Cheap and Tasty Dishes for the Masses.' : " 'My next dish,' the lady said in the course. of her lecture, is \ cods' heads. A boiled cod's head, dear friends, is, properly prepared, a dish fit for the gods. You take four cods' heads of good size and quality, them in a casserole with salt and pepe 'per, an onion and--' : " 'Wait a bit, ma'am!' "A gaunt chap had risen front seat. He was pointing his long™ forefinger at the lady and ther | the cod?" = r hich "h: been a of fhe Tiechinaed | ¥ SR - fi "Who is dumb? He who does 1 Ee iL i, i "at proper time." --Hindu Saying. FLL TE ps a gh » LINES BA