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Then Dirkin, Chicago star, drops dead after hitting a homer, from poison on a photograph needle fixed in the han- dle of his bat. boy, disappears. Clark sends Doyle to Newark but. he is soon sold to Boston, When- the Blues go to St. Louis, Scotter, the Rubes' star pitch- er, is found dead from a gas given off by a mysterious powder in the box with a jigsaw puzzle sent anony. mously. Craven, a. New York news. paper man who handled the puzzle, is also gassed but lives. Each time Burke has a beat on these sensational happenings and masked gunmen truss him up, question him and warn him he knows too much, When Inspector Dowell suggests that Doyle may have had an accomplice mall the puzzle, Terry asks "What would be the "point?" Doyle admits he'd" rather play on the Blues than any other team," In- spector Dowell replied. "He probably would like to see the Blues win. He ia in love with Pop Clark's daughter and he may have some money up on them to win."' "I've got money on the Blues my- self!" Terry exploded. "It's funny as hell how you two 'boys keep bobbing up whenever there is a murder done." "It's my job and Doyle's hard luck," Terry answered. 4 "You say there was sucker money put up on the Blues through New York?" . "Sure, quite abit of ft, I under stand," Terry replied. "It was put out all over the country. There's prob. ably a poolroom right here in St. Louis, perhaps several, which are re- gretting taking it too. You don't be- lieve Murallo kept it all to himself, do you?" "What has New York been doing about Murallo?"" VIMY REUNION- : -1937- THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY VISIT to VIMY RIDGE AT REDUCED OCEAN RATES for Members of the Canadian Legion and thelr dependent families etc. Sailings from Montreal July 9th--"AURANIA," "LETITIA" » '* 16th--"ALAUNIA," "ANDANIA" *! 23rd--""AUSONIA,"" ATHENIA" Tours of four weeks du- ration, will visit Vimy Ridge, The Battlefields, Paris, Versailles, Mal maison and London. Inclusive costs from 2, $256. hs 'according to class selected. Optional tours to Germany are ? also available, cw : tel Hl to the Yor complete njormat on apply 0 CUNARD WHITE STAR DONALDSON ATLANTIC LINE Toronto bo so ae our afent KROL L LOE Oo oo) Pictro, Chicago's bat' "Kelly has his 'eye on them. Mur. allo isn't a bigtimer. He runs a res- taurant and is in on the betting, but he isn't the man to operate this out. fit. He hasn't got the nerve, and be- sides Kelly can't get anything on him. I've thought it was Murallo my- self, but it doesn't seem to hold water somehow." "Has he always had a restaurant?" "No. He used to run a speakeasy in the Fortles and was in on a bet- ting ring. It was a hang-out." "If T were Kelly, I'd watch him, just the same." Back at the hotel Terry found a wire from his editor which read: YOU ARE SLIPPING LEADER BEAT US WITH SCOOP BY AT LEAST HALF AN HOUR, Terry was sore as a boil. He was so sure that the Star and Craven's paper would be first with the news. Sid Reynolds was over in the corner of the lobby talking to his brother. Terry sauntered up. "What's eating you, Burke?" Sid Reynolds asked. "Just got h-- from the boss, and when I thought I had scooped this one, too!" : "Who beat you to it?" "Don't you know?" "I might have an idea," Reynolds replied. "How in hell did you do it?" Terry asked glumly. "I followed your tactics. When Scotter didn't show up, I called the hotel and they told me Scotter was dead. I wired immediately. You did it once yourself!" Terry slept late the next morning. As soon as he had had his breakfast he hurried round to the hospital to see Craven, who was feeling much better. The doctors, however, had de: cided that he needed another day in their care, Terry had- lunch with" Doc Blers, 'Mullins and Hover. Luncheon over, they sauntered into the lobby. "If I were a ball-player on any team but the Blues and was any good, 1 would quit the game until this whole- sale murder was over," Biers sald. "You and me. both," Hover agreed: "I hope you fellows won't write any such stuff as that," Terry said, real. ly alarmed. "It would. demoralize the whole game. This may be a coinci- dence, after all, you know." "It may be, but I'll bet it isn't. It's the same. old dodge. I've never seen any group of men as skittish as the Rubes were yesterday afternoon. No wonder the Blues won." "I'd be uneasy as hell," Mullins cut in, "if I played on the Cleveland, De. troit or Washington team. They are - the only ones who haven't been hit so far." _ "The Washington team has nothing to worry about, They are in sixth Place now and there isn't a man on the team who is overly important, They are all good ball-players and if they had the right kind of short-stop they might go places. Philadelphia and Boston 'are out of the running now. Philadelphia 18 in seventh place and the Boston Indians, due to losing four good men, are in the cellar, and even Terry's friend Doyle can't pull them out. The race now is concerned with the other six. The Rubes are demoralized by what happened yes.. terday. I'll bet the Chicago team fis as nervous as hell. They have lost one good man and are still second." "And the Blues play in Chicago next week," Mullins said. Business Opportunity- 'For Active Personalities Local Agents Wanted: Canadian concern, marketing a natural soll and plant food, approved by leading Geologists and Befentists of the Dominion, Capital required to carry stock from $200 to $2,000, in accordance with territory granted. Agencies allotted on a ninety day approval basis with a guaran- tee by the Company to refund full pur- chase price of 'merchandise left on hand at expiration of approval period, YOUR OPPORTUNITY to estab- lish a Proftable bustness or side ne. Trevor-Soren Limited 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto Issue No. 24--'37 C--2 RR EE ERR RRR ELROD Home Hints By LAURA KNIGH1 Before the summer gets any fur- ther under way and before holidays and all the round of summer activi- ties are started, do stop and consider your winter, food needs." Nothing, of course, is farther from our minds during these lovely summer days, than cold winter weather, but it's. a good idea to prepare for it. Jams and jellies are things which no house- hold can do without at breakfast time on chilly' mornings and there are so many other uses for them as well. Every housewife uses a flash of jelly here and there to brighten up and add sparkle to her dishes, The first Canadian fruit to be used in this way is strawberries and as the season is not long, the sooner you make up your bottles of jam and Jelly, the better. But that does not mean long hours of hard labor and hot, tiring work over a cook stove. There is a new way of doing this job which really makes it a pleasure; not SBE only because of the time 'saved but also because the net result is really something to be proud of. ' By mak- ing your jams and 'jellies with bot- tled fruit pectin, you can be sure of the result--a perfect, tender product which has a pb beyond compare. Not all fruits, as you may have found out to your sorrow, have the same amount of pectin and that is the cause of the trouble when your jelly won't jell. This is just where bottled fruit pectin comes in. It takes the guess work out of jelly making and insures the results by applying just the right amount of pectin for whichever fruit you may be using. Strawberries, particularly, lack enough pectin to be used for jelly making unless pectin is added. The following recipe gives you just 'the right amount of each ingredient to' control the relationship between the sugar, pectin and acid and 'so get HOW TO SEW--By RUTH WYETH SPEARS Can You Make an Original Embroidery Design? A" PATTERN NO. ¢-b, In just about every country in the world but our own, women have no end of enjoyment from originating embroidery designs, We all have this c.eative instinct, but we don't use it. We have grown used to a stamping pattern that shows us exactly where to make each stitch and we don't experiment with color to find a tion for ourselves. happy combina- wel If you are one of those persons who think you have no or.ginal- /-ity start by copying without a stamping pattern, some simple piece of embroidery. . Before you know it you will be improvizing and ex- perimenting a little and that is where the fun begins, The use of your judgment in deciding whether be crtical you know. But you must something you do looks well or whether it should be ripped out and something else tried is the hazard that makes the game: exciting, You. might start like this. You have or you buy a piece of linen for a dresser scarf. . You cat it the right size, crease ana, baste a hem along the edges, then with a ruler and pencil you mark the:edges off in squares, You decide to outline the squares in chain stitch and put some sort of pert little flower in the center of each square, come to choosing your colors, your flowers and there will be Now you You will have to have green leaves for the predominating color used in the bedroom, but don't be satisfied with just two colors. four with one of thém considerably darker than. the others. Choose at least With green for leaves and your bedroom color in mind, look about you-- at cretons, at pictures, at china, color scheme. You will know it able to pick out your embroidery When you have done a at rugs. suddenly you will see your when you see it, and you will be threads in those colors, little of the chain stiching you planned, as shown here at A, you may discover that you can make it more in- teresting by back stitching ovér each link with another color as at B. You will nd that it is easy to ma grouping simple stitches or you m thimble or around a dime and fi to the blanket stitch as shown here the loop stitch, known as the lazy It is made as at D. A tiny version ke qua'nt little flowers merely by ay draw around the base of your 11 the circle with a stitch similar at C. You will certainly find that da'sy stitch. is extremely useful. of it appears at'E, Stems may be made with back stitches as well as outline stitch and often a single slanting stitch will make a leaf. NOTE:--Mrs. Spears' new book, "Sewing For cointains 47 other fascinat'ng things to home with step-by-step instructions. receipt of 14c (10c plus 4c postage). Decorator," Spears, 73 Adelaide Street West, { the Interior I make for the Now ready for maiiing upon Address: Mrs. Ruth Wyeth Toronto. "And Detroit on tire ay Hover pri "I'll bet Big Boy Planer is- shaking in his boots," Doc Biers went on. "He is the most important man in the league right now and if he keeps slugging them the way he has in the past few weeks, nothing will take the Cleveland team out of first place, not even murder." . "You're wrong there, Doc," Mullins said. "Any of the first six have a chance. Look at the percentages." "lI said if he keeps slugging the way he has been doing, If there is anyone who doesn't want Cleveland to win the penant they'd better do home," something about Planer right now,". Biers ground out vehemently, f There's no hurry," Mullins retort- ed. "We're only half through the sea- son and there are three good months of baseball ahead of us." \ "You boys-are cheerful!" Terry broke in, as a page started away from the bell-captain's desk. "Calling Mr, Burke. Call for Mr, Burke. Terry beckoned to the boy, _ - "There's a telephone call for you sir," the boy said, leading the way. Terry received a call from Dowell, who asked him to go to a small res- taurant on Sixth street just off Olive and wait for him there in a booth. "But--" Terry started to protest. "I won't keep you a minute, I know you want to get out to the game." (To be concluded) In measuring time on earth, we have several natural units. One is the time required by the earth to turn on -its axis, or the day. An- other is the time the earth takes to travel'around the sun, or the year, and a third is the time between sue- cessive appearances of the moon in the same phase, or the month. / Hi pt Fn HIL CHOICE FOR THOSE WHO ROLL THEIR ~ OWN . successful jams and jellies every time, . . Here are the recipes for both strawberry jam and jelly which you can make at the same time or within a few days of each other. Strawberry Jelly 4 cups (2 lbs.) juice 8 cups (3% lbs.) sugar 2 tablespoons lemon. juice 1 bottle fruit pectin Measure sugar and juice into a large saucepan and mix, Bring to a boil over hottest fire and at once add bottled fruit. pectin, stirring con- stantly. Then-bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard one-half minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quick- : ly. Paraffin hot jelly at once. Makes about 12 8-cunce glasses. To prepare juice for jelly making, crush" thoroughly or grind about 3 quarts fully ripe berries. Place fruit in jelly cloth or bag and -squeeze out juice, Strawberry Jam 4 cups (2 lbs.) strawberries 7 cups (3 lbs.) sugar J bottle fruit pectin Measure 'sugar and fruit into a large kettle, mix well, and bring to a full rolling boil over hottest. fire. St'v. constantly before and while boiling. 'Boil hard 8 minutes. Re- move from fire and stir in bottled fruit pectin. Pour quickly. ~Paraf- fin hot jam at once. Makes about 10 -8-ounce glasses. Kitchen Friend Porhant you didn't know that salt wills i } ' ' 1. Remove egg staing on silver or China 'if' 'applied damp with cold water. *3! £4 Zi 2. Take away the taste from slightly burned. milk if a pinch of it | is added. 8. Prevent colors from running when 'washing colored articles, if a spoonful is 'added to the rinsing water. BY . 4.-Stop the contents of a cracked egg boiling out into 'the water if a teaspoonful is added quickly. : 5. Make wicker furniture look like Athletics Ensure ore Efficient EN IR "Lungs For Man The idea that strong men and athletes are more "red-blooded" than the average man may provide good reading in a:dime novel but as far as scientific confirmation goes--well, there jdst isn't any. . Nor is there any evidence to support the popular conception that a champion athlete has bigger lungs than the average man, ~~ With ordinary-sized lungs, however, he can handle half again as much oxygen as-the average man. Research by Dr. David B. Dill, of Harvard's Fatigue Laboratory, re- ported to the American Association of Physical Anthropologists shows that hemoglobin, the red coloring 'matter .of blood used for transport- ing oxygen, is just as concentrated in the arteries of the average man as it is in those of the superman. The .athlete does have an advan- tage, however, in addition to more efficient lungs. When increas'ng age begins to take its toll of man's physique, the man who has stayed "in trim" "and 'has trained, is able to resist the general slowing down of the body mechanism far better than the man who' has not. His lungs are still more efficient. Man is at his physical peak, for example, between the ages of 20 and 30. As far as utilization of life-giv- ing oxygen is concerned, men in their 'twenties are about the same. But when they turn.80 the athlete's efficiency decreases at a much slow-, er rate, new if scrubbed with salt and water (no soap), as 'it stiffens the basket work as well as cleaning it. 6. Make brooms gnd brushes last twice as long 'if they are soaked 'in salted water before using. Lia 7. Make new potatoes much easier to scrape if they are laid in salted water, i CVE a TE 8. Sweeten the kitchen sink if a "handful is thrown down the sink drain. : WHAT J ALL THESE EXTRA FEATURES COS r PN | 3 oo - TED 4 (58% Sth qeh ) . so we 2 Joo doa E98. y NEW LXTRE RIDER STRIP ~ « ; i _ EE SCIENTIFICALLY DESIGNED A SREETY TRERD yy pha TOT GUM OIPPED COROS 4 a -the 'The Hurry Habit Should be Avoided x imes on The Farm These Ti At this busy time of the year and from now until 'the last yield of na- ture's production has been garnered in the Autumn, farm folk will be busy, and there will be a temptation to cultivate the hurry habit. It should be remembered, however, that it is rush, rather than orderly work, that brings on nervous prostration. Ab do a full day's work is necessary 9 the farm, but proper rest should be taken before beginning another day's labor. One should take things eas ily, be through and not worry. - A professor in dealing with the question of relaxation vs. efficlency writes: : a "Yotir intense, convulsive worker breaks down and has moods so often that you never know where he may be when you most need his help, I suspect that neither the amount nor the nature of our work is accountable for the sevewity and frequency of breakdowns, but that their cause lies rather in those absurd feelings of: hurry and having no time, in that breathlessness and tension, that anx- iety of future and solicitude of re- Sults, that lack of inner harmony and ease. It is the relaxed and easy worker, who is in no hurry, and quite thoughtless most of the while of con- sequences, who is the efficient work- er, Tension and anxiety, and present and future, all mixed in one mind at once. are the. surest drags upon steady progress, and hindrances to - success." The worker who concentrates, thinking of his work and his work only, as he does it, the person who keeps cool and avoids friction, the person who systematizes things' so as to run as evenly as possible, forges ahead faster than the one who hust- les and hurries, wastes a lot of nerv- ous energy. and tries to do every- thing too fast. Think Of This At 50 m. p. h. The other day in the Ottawa area a provincial constable stopped a truck for examination, and when he checked it over this fs what he 'found, according to his report: The front tires were defective; The emergency brake was useless; The foot brake was effective on one wheel only; - The steering action was bad, with column" twisted against the shackles; 3 : The tail light and rear reflectors were missing. The constable sent the vehicle to a garage, and it cannot be taken out until the necessary repairs and | replacements are made. Meanwhile "the driver facés sundry charges. At that he is lucky--Ilucky in. having been stopped: before the inevitable accident occurred, - he Another truck ordered off the highway 'by the same officer had four tires in the last stages of dis- solution. It also was a menace to public safety. Sa : The broad authority given police, provincial and municipal, to banish dangerous vehicles from streets and. - 'roads until repairs are made is one of the most useful safeguards in the Traffic Act against conditions that imperil public safety, more especially' with the new speed limits. The King- ston Whig-Standard says that on the aftefnoon of May 24 a statistical driver counted the cars he met in the thirty miles between Toronto and Oshawa-- and there were -2,000 of them, Probably as many were going in the other direction. Imagine what might have happened had there been "in the line a vehicle with bad brakes, steering and tires! Nightfall When peaceful evening wafts tha darkness here And changing ~ scenes caress the weary 'eye, Like sentinels that watch oth edrth and sky The old, familiar lights appear. pr Will-o-the-wisps outline the home- sites dear, Long rows of street lamps bid the day good-bye, J 3 And flashing signs a rainbow might "defy 4 Among the sable smoke-plumes wav- ing near, eT once more Then moonbeams kiss the -hills and | valleys round And paint a pathway on the crystal sea ; Wherein . the bright-robed Venus, Jewel-crowned, . Is mirrored in celestial majesty, And choirs of stars with glowing candles bright a Take up the muted melody of night. Amy Bissett England. FRACS ARAL SMD Sunlight, announces a European scientist, is 618,000 times as strong as full moonlight, : = LS