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5 Britain Increases 'Area Under Flax The area under flax in Britain has been increased from a few hun- dred acres in 1939 to over 50,000 acres in 1943. Northern Ireland has also made a remarkable increase in acreage from about 20,000 to 90, 000. From this effort have come large quantities of high grade wing fabric for aircraft, ~ lb Jie Do you feel older than you or suffer from delting up Nights, Bickache, Nervous- ness, Leg Palins, Rheumatic Pains, Burning, scanty or frequent passages? If 50, remem t r Kidneys are vital to health and that th toms Inay be ue to Kidney and Bl roubles--Iin such cases Cys x usually gives prompt and Joy. ous relief by helping the Kidneys clean t polsonous excess acids nd wastes. You fave everything to gain and nothing to lose in trying tex. TI ron clad money-back sgreement ass your money on return of empty packase unless fully { d. ont de eX ay. Get Oystex Slss-tex) from your lp Claas Hin gist today, Stop Dosing Constipation There Is a Better Way to Correct a Common Cause . Yes, you can free yourself from slavery to "dosing" --with its griping unpleas+ antness, its lack of lasting relief if your trouble is due to insufficient "bulk" in your diet! Do as thousands of others have done! Try the gentle-acting, ALL-BRAN way! KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN really "gets at' this common cause of constipation by 'supplying the missing "bulk-producing' material needed for casy, natural elimination. Try eating a daily serving of ALL-BRAN, or several ALL-BRAN muffins, Drink plenty of water, Get ALL-BRAN at your grocer's. 2 convenient sizes, Made by Kellogg's in London, Canada. WAR WORK DEMANDS THIS ny Loren NO OTHER NATURAL CEREAL GIVES IT SO RICHLY With: less meat today, wise women aro happy. to kaow that by setving Quaker Oats for breakfast, they can give thele bard.working family a rich source of meat's main element--proteln. No other natural cerealis so gich in this vital factor for energy and growth as whole-grain oatmeal, And it is richest of all natural cereals in Vitamin By nceded for sound -merves and: energyl No wonder more i es than ever are delicious, hot . of Quaker Oats daily a"must" for wartime diets, HEADACHES NEURALGIA | ECZEMA PIMPLES Price wre. 30c 50 IT'S BETTER S BUCKL THAT'S varied bedspreads; TABLE TALKS SADIE B. CHAMBERS For Vitamin "C" Eat Oranges Oranges top the list as an ex- cellent source of Vitamin "C" and Vitamin ["C" is the best possible thing in the Spring for that groggy feeling. So drink copiously of the juice and serye oranges in many other healthful lishes. When the small fruit is selling at low prices they are the best for juice, Do the squeezing at the last moment, as orange juice exposed to the air over a long period loses its vitamin content. ® Orange slices with a creamy smooth custard Is a favorite des- sert, espécially with children, An- other favorite is sliced oranges and bananas, Then there are the com- binations in which milk and eggs appear to make them doubly nour ishing for the children and grown. ups, too, Here are a few favorite orange recipes: Orange Blancmange 4 tablespoons cornstarch 14 tsp. salt 14 cup sugar %4 cup cold milk 2% cups hot milk 1 egg 3 tablespoons grated orange rind 2 oranges, cut in sections Mix cornstarch, sugar and salt an] blend -with cold milk. Add slowly to hot milk in top of double boiler and stir constantly until mix- ture thickens. Cook 20 to 30 min- utes, stirring occasionally, - Add well-beaten eggs and orange rind, Cook 3 minutes longer. Remove from heat and partially cool. Ar- range orange sections in serving dishes. Add blanc mange and garn- ish with a little grated orange rind, Orange Layer Cake 14 cup shortening 15 cup sugar --- 2 eggs, yolks and whites separ- ated 1 teaspoon lemon extract 14 cup stfainel orange juice 1% cups sifted cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 14 teaspoon salt Cream the shortening and: sugar " thoroughly; add beaten egg yolks, lemon extract, orange juice, then flour, baking powder and salt sift- ed together. Lastly fold in the egg whites, beaten stiff, and bake in 2 layers about 20 minutes at 375F, When cool, frost wiilt this icing: 2 tablespoons butter, melted 3 tablespoons orange juice 1 teaspoon lemon extract 135 cups sifted confectioner's sugar Mix ingredients and beat 1 min- ute. Let stand several minutes, then beat again until creamy. ard spread between the layers and on top of cake. Miss (Cbamhera weteomua personal lettera from Interested renders. She la plensed (0 recelve suggestions on. toples for her column, and Is always ready to listen to your "pet peeves," Requeats for recipes or special menus are In order. Address your leiters to "Mian Sndie 1. Chambers. 73 Weat Adelnlde * Send «ut d dressed envelope ceply. If you wish =» Enough material to line a war flier's sheepskin-lined Jacket is con- tained in a woman's mouton coat. by [ing Wheeles Make a new and charming bed- room for guests or one of the family, Transform a room at little expense with these matching bed- spreads and dressing tables, r oum! Instruc- contans directions for dressing-table skirts; screens; list of Materials,. Send twenty cents in , coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft ept, Room 421, 73 Adelaide~St. Dress' up that be tions 461 est, Toronto, 'Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. . The Squandering Of Soil Fertility Fertility of Soil Is Most Vital Of All Subjects To uman Race Soil fertility is a nation's most valuable resource 'and agriculture its most indispensable industry, says 'J. H. of the. Ottawa Farm Journal, It is through the efforts of those engaged in the farming business that humanity is clad and fed. As the prophet of old observ ed: "All flesh is grass", Waste of any rational resource is a national evil and the most regrettable waste is the reckless squandering of soil fertility, The natural tendency of the farm is to retrograde, Men having robbed one soil search for new soil to rob. Their patronage can be traced by the lack of fertility wherever they have set up their tents for a while. Every- time a crop is grown and removed the supply of raw material is drawn upon. Conserving soil fertility is as much a national movement as it is of individual benefit to the farmer who desires to succeed in his business. "Just A Farmer" There is no more dignified or wholesome way of earning a live ing than by farming along the lines of modern agricultural re- search. But many engaged at this, the greatest of all industries, take the inferiority complex attitude to- ward it, generated from persistence and old-time methods, In the long run nothing will prove truer than that the farmer who is resigned to his fate and is willing to be "just a- farmer" will be removed from the picture. Dean Swift in one of his books makes one of his characters give it as his opinion "that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow on a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential ser- vice to the country than the whole race of politicians put together." History Repeats Itself Though he was very much dis- posed to find fault with the poli- ticians he was sound on the rela- tion of corn and grass to human happiness. In the matter of grow- ing two stalks of a cereal crop in place of one, we have scen wheat surpluses some years to such an extent that we were disposed to question the advisability of such an increase. But in view of what is happening today the world is likely to need every grain of wheat it has stored or can store in the future. Even in normal tines his- tory is apt to repeat itself, the pro- verhial lean years may swallow up the years of plenty, Effort Of Canadian Railways Praised rLittle enough credit has been given to Canada for the truly spec- tacular service its railways have been rendering the war effort, says the 'Christian Science Monitor. The Dominion railways' task commenc- ed two years before that of the lines south of the border. And both the Canadian National and the Canadian Pacific Railways not only have carried war materials, but turned them out; for their loc- omotive shops in some places have been converted to the manufacture of tanks and big guns. The Canadian traffic prohlem has been accentuated by a labor short- ni stich as the United States 'does not know. Out on the wind-swept prairies or in the Rockies, the loss of even a dozen men in each com- munity, either to the army or to wa: plants, means that the railroads are virtually denuded of spare help for track work. Despite these obstacles, beset by severe winter. weather, unable to add to their rolling equipment ap- preciably, faced by the same calls for military trains as elsewhere, both the Canadian roads have shown sharp increases in net earn- ings. Even in the midst of war, the C.N.R. managed to complete its massive new Montreal terminal which was an aid to the war effort in itself. -Wages have been stabi- lized, after an increased cost-of- living "bonus," and in this respect, there is much the United States might learn from Canada, Britain's Food Safe In Hidden Depots Britain's emergency larders can if necessary feed the whole coun- try from now until the next har- vest without calling on extra ship ping. Millions of tons of canned foods, meat and flour are in 10,000 hidden depots, In the store are thousands of tons of Canadian and Australian flour, sugar, cases of tea, canned meat, fish and fruit, In addition there are carefully conserved food stocks on farms and record stores of grain immediately available in 'granaries, barns and even empty schoolrooms, The grain could 'he turned into flour and bread within 48 hours "in an emergency. " ROSSEAU DANA " SYNOPSIS Dave Bruce, out of a job, arrives at Wilbur Ferris' Cross-Bar ranch. Curran, the foreman, promises him a job if he can break a horse cal- led Black Dawn. When he suc- ceeds, he discovers Curan expected the horse to kill him. A girl nam- ed Lois rides up, angry with Dave for breaking "her" horse. She re- fuses to speak to him even when he uses his savings to pay off the mortgage on the small ranch she shares with her foster father, a man named Hooker. But when Hooker is shot and Dave is charg- ed with murder, Lois saves him from being lynched. Wounded, she guides him to a mountain cave where she thinks they will be safe from Curran and the sheriff's posse. A quarrél between Ferris and Judge Lonergan reveals that Ferris hal killed his partner, Blane Rowland, many years before. Thoroughly scared, Ferfis takes Curran into his confidence. When Dave is away from the cave Curran kidnaps Lois. Still unaware of Lois' danger, Dave has just discovered what he believes to be a human skeleton near the cave. He is examining the skull, Or CHAPTER XXI There was a clean, round hole at the back, such as a bullet would have made, and the frontal bone was mostly missing, with jagged edges about it. "Yore horse didn't slip, hombre," said Dave to the skull. "Yores is a case of plain murder. Yore part- ner shot yuh from behind, the dirty murdering hound!" Dave put on his socks and shoes again and hegan to reascend the side of the ravine. Arrived at the top, he looked at the sun and con- cluded that it was already well past noon. He had told Lois that he would be back to sce her around midday. But when Dave reached the cave, he found it empty. "Lois!" he called. "Lois, girl, where are yuh?" The echoes of his voice floated geance. Dave ran back to where Black Dawn was standing and sprang into the saddle. He adjust- ed his belt, bringing the holster close td his right hand. When he met Coggswell, it would be just too bad for Coggswell. Softly Dave edged the stallion along the trail, peering right and 'left for any hidden ambuscade, But the bootprints had changed to the prints of two horses' hoofs, If Coggswell had set an ambuscade along the route, he had certainly not joined it himself, Dave trailed the hoofprints as far as the canyon, and then lost them, It was impossible to dis- cover any signs of them on the flinty ground. But Dave was pretty sure Coggswell had taken Lois to Hooker's cabin, perhaps to leave her there and come back in search of him. * * . It was an hour after the discov- ery that Lois had been kidnapped before he suddenly saw Hooker's cabin before him, No horse was visible, but Dave dismounted and crept softly for- ward, peering through the under- growth. Foot by foot he. edged his way forward. The plaintive lowing of the unmilked cow came to his ears from somewhere on the mesa, Otherwise -- nothing, And when at last Dave entered Hooker's cabin, he found it empty, with no sign that anyone had been in it since Lois and he had left it. Grimly Dave turned the stallion and rode back through the canyons. Again he found the hoofprints, and again, in spite of casting about in a wide circle, he was unable to discover which way the horses had gone. The sun was well down in the west when Dave rode back toward Hooker's cabin, reckless now. He was almost through the scrubb when he reined in abrutly. He could see the cabin again, and this time a horse was standing saddled in front of it. . - Listening, Dave could hear foot- back 'mockingly from the cliffs across the ravine, and that was all. steps in the cabin. Someone was walking to and fro inside it. contracted pupils sharply as he saw the footprints of a man's boots on the other side of the cave, faint, but unmistakable n the groursi softened by the rains, Then Dave's Here, too, were the prints of Lois' little boots, and where they ceased there was a furrow in the soil<as if she had been dragged. Beyond, the prints of the man's boots were deeper, as if he had-- been carrying a burden. * * * It was all perfectly clear and un- mistakable, and told its story only too well. Coggswell must have got upon the trail and taken Lois away. The waddy's face was trans- formed into a grim mask of ven- Dave didn't dismount this time. He edged the black horse forward, its hoofs making no sound on the soft mesa. Now he was immedi- ately behind the house. He could hear the footsteps inside distinct- ly. Now he got out of his saddle and went quietly around the shack, As lhe reached the front angle he saw Sheriff Coggswell come out of |--the door and move toward his horse. Dave leaped forward. His at- titude was the crouch of a beast of prey, his voice a rumbling snarl: "Hold 'em high, sheriff, or I'll blow yore head off!" Taken utterly by surprise, Coggs- well put up his hands, "Well, you got the drop on me all right, Bruce," admitted Coggs- There is no prouder family in Can ada right now than that of Major Paul Triquet, of Cabano, Que, who has been awarded the Victoria Cross, highest award for valor in the British Empire, His wife and two children are shown above with Yolande, 8, on the left and Claude, 10, on the right. Mrs, Triquet, centre, is the former Alberte Chenier of Ottawa, The picture of Major Triquet was taken when he was a regimental serg- eant-major with the Royal 22nd Regiment, ; MAJOR TRIQUET AND FAMILY ar Thee TT Reb i on 0 The Allies' three invasion chiefs, commander of British land forces; and Air supreme Allied commander; AT INVASION REHEARSAL FAR 5 Gen, Sir Bernard Montgomery, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, General Eisenhower's deputy, are pictured as they watched pre-invasion maneuvers somewhere in England, well. "But killin' me won't do youn no good." : (Continued Next Week) Casualties Heavy Among Workers The office of war information reports that the United States has lost four times as many work- hours from industrial accidents as from wartime strikes; that indus trial accidents have killed thousand more people since Pearl Harbor than the guns of the enemy, and that 60 times as many people have been injured by such accidents as have been wounded in batttle or reported missing in action, ISSUE 12-1944 ° amous for flavour since 1892 -- the 'Salada' name assures you of a uniform blend of quality teas. O08 i TA\ THE FAMOUS HOME REMEDY invaluable for COUGHS --COLDS BRONCHITIS SIMPLE SORE THROAT DON'T DELAY-BUY A BOTTLE TODAY! ' UNUSUAL SUPPER TREAT The Whole Family will Enjoy 14 cup lives stock rs 2 tablespoons € Jeaves 2 Cele poons choppe d green peppet a 1 tablespoon lemo ve V2 Cup ver Christies, five