- By Jini Kjelgaard --have Cw 2 ir Werite to: PAULINE HARVEY ITS FRE, 4 Pauling ie Harvey day, 3 Ladies, now's the Hine that calle * for extra-special baking know-how. If Christmas baking ls important "ta you, why: not send today for your gift : oopy of my new recipe booklet ¢ : It's frée, and It will help you bake finer, tastier Plum Puddings, Christmas Cakes and other : delightful Holder fare this,yéur, P.O, Box 6400, Mentreal, P.Q. ' L i . for-all-purpase baking En; { AEN [ did what [ could. Then got uy -.A Little Knowled e.- he "I'll be back in a few hours," | : said. "Keep him quiet and," | B marist A Complete Story' raised my voice again, "before | NOBODY IN the Stannigy éver gets sick. Livery time I've been' there I've delivered a-baby, or set a broken leg. or patched up some yours hellion who thought he could ride an outlaw horse, or dug bullets. out of somebody else. [t's wild country settled by wild people. Some times | get so nad at those cattle men that | wish" . they 'd "all shoot each other. - And then at other times 7. - In spite of their hair-trigger sei and their tendency to express tempers with a gun, they their "goad qualities, I've known everybody in the Stannigy for forty years. | guesy ve de: livered half of them, On this trip. | pulled up in "front of old Jeb Créssfield's ranch house. The house is built on top-of a hill, and 'there are folks who say Jeb pers, those "built it there so he could look all: ways for those who'd come gun- ning for hiniz Jeb himself, as as strong, gnarled, and as talkative, as 'any tree that 'grows on the "Stanningy ridges, awaited me on "the porch. "Come in, Doc," he sand. : EF AVENT in through the Kitchen, | and if there was one person wait- img Tiere; tere must-have been-- thirty. 'I'he women were either. talking. or crying in one part of the room, and the men "weren't saying anything at all in another part. Every family in the Stannigy was represented. Tight-lipped as tl a 1 er age turtles," seven of the eight Cross- field boys sat in se én chairs that they had #ilted When those oy were the prop --about six--they each got a six-shooter . Now they could knock the ¢éitre out of _a silver dollar at fifty yards. It seemed sort of ominous to me because young Bud Cressfield was missing. Old Jeb ducked under the door, way that led to the next room, and I found out why Bud wasn't with _ his brothers. He lay on a cot with his. trousers still on and his shirt Hone 7 One vard of" 35.inch for the small size! Little mores for the other. As shown in diagram, this apron is. one picee, plusties and pockets. Whip up eeveral for gifts! Pattern 4718 comes iti sizes small (14, 16) and medium (18, 20) Small size. one yard 35-inch. - This pattern, easy to use, simple to sew; is tested for fit. Has com-- plete illustrated "instructions. > Send twenty-five cents (25¢) in coins (stamps. cannot be accepted) for this pattern, Print plainly size, name, address, style number: - teenth Street, New Toronto, Ont rma ----------------r-------- ISSUE 49 ==-1949 - off, and '| didn't have to look twice at the blood-stained patch of guaze "on his chest to know what had happened. Ed : This was an old, old story, one that, off and on, I'd been reading in the Stannigy' for. forty years. Bud Cresstield had been some- _~where. Maybe it was a dance, may- be any place at all. Anyhow, he'd got into an argument with some other hothead and the'd settled it with guns. . : The story from od% on had to follow ~a familiar pattern. seven brothers, and old Jeb, would find out who'd shot Bud. Then, naturally, one of them would go . pick him off. His male relatives would feel obliged to shoot a few Cressfields. Before the thing--was - settled five or six men could die. It was enough to. make anybody, mad, and sick too. . | took the bandage off and | looked at the bullet hole. It "was - harmless-looking,- not half as. big as the end of my finger. Well, the size of the hole makes no difference. I found it, and got up, mad. "This," and 1 raised my so' the people ia the other could hear, "is voice room Because | know the people ot --the--Stannigy, 1 know how old Jeb Cressfield's insides must have twisted when 1 said that, He loved his sons, but when 1 told him Bud was going to' die he didn't "even blink." His adam's apple worked a couple of times, and that's -- all except that his voice might have been a little strained wlien he said. CT Is there any thing --ar--att--yon--| can do for him, Doc?" "Nothing!" "Uh. Of course you know the caliber bullet you took out of him?" "Yes!" and 1 was still shouting. "1 know!" "Well, doc?" "Look," 1 said, "I've been com ing into this district and patching ~ you damn cowmen up when you tried to kill each other off, for forty years! ['m damned good and sick of it!! One of two men shot Bud and 1 could give you their names. | know -the guns you hot- heads use! ['m not going to tell! _ I'm going to the police with this bullet and with what | know! The man who shot Bud will hang by the neck until he's dead! Maybe that will make you fools think twice before you start any more of your cursed shooting frays!" I looked up to see the seven Cressfield boys, one behind the - otlier,- staring at me with hungry eyes. Old Jeb's adam's apple bob - bed a couple of more times. a "T'hat's mighty strong talk, Doc." ~ "Maybe vou think . you can do something about it!". 1 wouldn't have dared talk that way if every- body in the Stannigy hadn't thought God and 1 were fairly close relatives "Maybe you'd like to' try to stop me. going to the police." : Old Jeb said hoarsely, "Do what Bud's "| what you call mpc. | come back the police will be in to get the 'man who -shot Bud." IF. YOU want to kill a Stannigy cowboy, you'd better shoot him 'night through the heart. Of course I'd known from the first that Bud had at least a fighting chauce, and that's all a Cressfield needs. When I got back Bud was out of danger. "He must _be strong as a horse," { told old Jeb. "He'l live. In a couple of months he'.can do- his 'own shooting." "No." Old Jeb's eyes were very thoughtful. "1 don't reckon -he will, Doc. Did you know young- Tom Rainse has took and lit out? Did you know 'that ne police came here?" They -must have avoided Jeb's eyes. "But figured 1 good job. There had been body from. every family in the Stannigy waiting to see how Bud would make out and Cd raised my voice, and. . ol "Now that oy Cressfields knew definitely who had shot Bud they'd "be looking only for him. He'd forgotten." | - pretty some: 'd done a come back. There just couldn't be trouble in certainly have: more sense--than---to--|- the Stannigy. "Regardless of - Race, Religion, ' Creed or Cost" When the new Hospital for Sick Children opeus its doors on Uni- "versity. Avenue in Toronto to the children "of 'Qntario, next July, it "will include' an entire floor devoted to research' and diaguostic labora: tories "amoung the most modern; in fo North 'America, x No expense 15 being spared 'to provide the staff with every facility to speed the cure and prevention of children's diseases. Already a name distinguished in research -all - over the continent, the' Hospital for, Sick eid Children. is preparing to further work which at this time has helped - to eliminate or minimize such dis cases as smallpox,. typhoid, scarlet fever, -meningitis and diphtheria, rickets, TB. of the bones and lock jan ni SI A Mecacal research, so extensively - carried "on at the hospital, ac; counts an -part for the present ap- peal to the people of 'Ontario fo S4000.000 needed- ta complete the building and provide it with ali necessary equipment. This motrey must be obtained When A Feller Needs A Friend-cIniprov ed and extended re- "search facilities at the new Hospital for Sick Children will help doctors and nurses to speed the effective treatment of injured |. children, like this boy--all- -adding up to "Operation Happy, Healthy Kids" for Ontario and Canada. understand what it is all about bus it feads as. if there'is a nigger in the woodpile somewhere--farmers whe "buy millfecd willbe quite willing = to .believe that. One. paragraph is J particularly significant--it claims : yr that. the CNMA--the Millers As- A sociation, 1 presume--kept a double et of minutes--official minutes and - § 4 : 5 separate record for "confidential , : ® J 4 memoranda." That sounds like ; ak pi quite a stunt. "y 5 & . 'By the way, isn't it tiie we had some sort of dictionary to keep us up-to-date on. present day -ab- ~ breviatiorss? We get groups. of '| letters, or initials, representing this - and that organization, or special committee, with which we are sup- : 'posed to be conversant, but yet 1. & ir%el «venture to say that very few of us 'know what half the 'letters really stand for. We just take a guess and = ' 'go on reading. But wouldn't we : be on the spot in 'a Quizz pro- gramme? The worst teasers are of ih government origin. 1 wonder.does : Cok Z the government have a Special Department for Inventing Compli-~ cated Headings for other special . committees, That, you see, would be just another--the SDICH] 1 am pretty sure of- my ground. , when I read about the WCTU, WI, IODE, WMS, CCF and so on-- but after I have to do a lot of guessing. Here are a couple ot according to hospital staff, if they are to operate 'all vital facilities at 100 per cent. strength--in the in terests of happy and healthy Ca. : --tradian chuldren. = With = the largest 7 orthopaedic workshop in Canada, the Hospital tor Sick Children has pioneered in the manufacture of braces for cfip-~ pled children. [t has also devoted effort to the stucy of blue babies. and to the training and treatment _oi diabetic children, to the process of ageing and even to the eficct of school meals ou children's phys: _ical and mental 5 A) These are services which, in ad- dition to the daily care of children it "need of medical attention, are provided for all children in Ontario. regardless of race, creed or religion or cost. But only the whole-hearted support of the people of Ontario in the present. -$4,000,000--campaign- cin guafantee continuation of ope- did ing - rations ai full strength. cleaning them afterwards. Let's : ---------- see now, how many windows are CHEAPER 8Y "THE DOZEN there in this house? I never have EL -- counted them, but there's no time A 'woman went into a photo like the present, so here goes. We'll graphy shop and asked the=man start at" the cellar and work up, how much: he' charged for photo- Down "cellar there are five, "not granhing children. countinig the two that are blocked TE dollars a dozen." | up. Three of them have storm "The woman was puzzled. "Well. sash so that makes 'eight. On the ow much. for my family? I've first floor there are sixteen windows, only "seven." ae : § storm windows on eight, so that [ANNE HIRST] oul amily Counsefort "Dear married Anne Hirst: T havg been | twice. [ didn't stay with geither husband. long* start- ed drinking and goitg with lots of young -inen _ My mother "has "warned me, but | had to sce for myself just how wrong it was! "Now | have turned-- over a new leaf. - And "I've met a fine man who wants to "marry me. I love him dearly. But people are talking about my past life, and [ am afraid to tell him the truth. He doesn't even know | have ever been married! "I"am going strhight now. I've joined the clutch, and am organist there. I have a few piano pupils, and am also a beautician. This young man has joined the __same_ church, and. we -are--to--he-- married there. He has never brok en'a promise to me, and he has ro bad habits. Please, please help me! : Worried Girl." Tell The Truth-- * "Man's inhumanity to * etc." is heartbreaking, indeed. -- * When a wayward girl turns to * the right, people rise up on every Then | 4s Fleas Stuart * han nake her way hard In- you can for Bud." hang ig ke 3) = me ug 0. California 22. Greek (sland CROSSWORD . "4% nfm, "disagreement State (ab.) PUZZLE 11. Sma 36. Aslatic count \ 18. Work uakt 38. Pegceful ad . 4 13 Bildge part 40. Grdove ACROSS 2. Gone by 30 Ruma. iM Femots 1. Cake . 3. Orow leas stera 22. Large artery 45. Right qua: 4. Part ofa poam. 4 Pat lamb 23. Planet 48. Knock 9. Plant 5B ) , 85. City tn 47. Unity - Plan ustie Nebraska 48. Twitching _ 12. Bpoch 6. Notany, 28. Ramount 49. Plaything 18. Decorate 1. Waody blant 28. Sun god 50. Shee = 14. Color 8 Attack , 29, Amphibian 53. Creek letter . . 156. Kind of sword r cr re 17. Property | 2 L] 4 5 |§ pv I "MW 19. BeTira x ie i 20. Loo'. s 12 21. Blam b 28. Parent " 24. Private teachar #5 LJ ) 217. Decay 28 Nave 30. Not differant 31. Ahraham"s hirthplace L. Pastehoard ' hoxas - 24 Like i 35. Play the lead 27. Prétenss' *8. Tha gil 35. Rabbits ' 41. Man's - ; nicknamn 41. Accomp] ment . : 43. Perfu 15. Equal \y 1%, SF arioat . Cuckoo 125 .Styis of type S54. At onoa 7 SEnd ordér fo Box 1, 123 Eigh | #1. Optic i Doww | 1. Culgel Vagastable wuld "i Vioelantly man, |. to ~%GineER Well, "cation Prevention Week, and plenty more that [ can't recall at the moment. so to be really up-to-date, | thought we might as well have a special week at home. With that in mind | made_last week "Window Week" at Ginger Farm. makes stairs five windows, storm-windows-- on three, bringing the grand total "forty. : | _surely be enough fo lighten our .darkness--and it's no wonder right arm ached. I'll bet you don't: know, any more than I did, Sl h-- RONICLES rFaRM we have Book Week, Edu- Week, Health Week, Svendoline Yes, indeed--any I know it! From Tuesday to Friday inclusive 1 was either clean- ingide and out, or windows "painting storm" windows--and then scraping off the paint daubs and another twenty-four, Up- That number should my how "®t lof honoring her Tor colirage | © and will power, they tear hery © name to pieces, and throw hur- * les in hier path that can sap her stréngth-mnmeasurably. - Yet you will keep on as yon have started anew, secure. in. your determination to overcome the ditticulties that obsess you. But you must first clear your constience.- Tell your fiance the truth. If he is as fine as you say, he will understand, and respect you for your honesty. It is not likely. that he can long remain in ignorance, and the truth must come from you! Then he will : know your reform is complete; he will stand by you through all this gossip, protecting the woman who is to be his wife. And after you marry, he will do everything he can to help vou forget the past. For you, this is course (iet, it over relax. a oh Bi LENE TE the only with, and | rE BX + 2 Br Eros | | » ® : i To- "L.L.": You have brought this situation on yourself.- By de- ceiving your parents and meeting this. boy secretly, you have run a risk--which-no--sensible girl Would think of taking. . If you value your own integrity, you will right- about- face, and today! Ai Any boy who encourages a girl | .of 15 to micet him away from her l home is a boy of no character. If you were honest and told him that _your_ parents do not: allow--yeu---to Phe Hewes tonteh Mfound the; date anyone, he should have said, house--for linen's, to edge closer "I, understand, and I'll be around shelves . everywherel And for in agyear or so, when you can in- dresses, blouses, lingerie, too! troduce me to them," That he Useful edgings "to--make plain took advantage of your way wird- things look luxurious! Pattern 824, ness shows him up for what he is. directions; charts. You cannot grow up to be a girl whom nice boys. want to- know . unless you make peace with your- self. You must scorn treachery of "any kind, and keep yourself above suspicion. -Uriless you are honest with your father and mother, you A, i. Send twenty-five cents (25¢) in 'coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Box 1,.123 Eigh- teenth Street, New Toronto, Ont, Print plainly pattern number, your name and address, cannot expect 'them to think you can be trusted to go out with boys at all. d And besides, what do you think a boy really things of a girl who is a pick-up? Your parents have been wying to protect you against just sueh troubles as you are in now. Truet them, -and obey them. [t is the - only decent way. Do as they say . from now on, and as you put aside yout. present low ~ standards, your oo will: win their confidence. » YX * Tell your trouuizs to Anne Hirst. ~~ No matter how tliey might shock others, she will understand, and help you turn to the right. Address | her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. | New Toronto, Ont. ya aia tata {1.24 . 4 He "'Bure-fdoted 1'--Heh heh!" Fire a ~Yes, - itis --rotten--weather tobe} ----- ~to=-save--hydro--in--the--country=- ~ going to do it. Wouldn't-you-think-- --We don't need to ask now, * "species that "have built up a re- RE 4 3) saniples picked at. random. from many windows you have in your today's paper. NFPA and OPOS. - house. But if you have more than All right, don't worry--I didu't & we have I'd advise you not to know them either. ante = have a Window Weck or you might x have a Rest Week right after it, | - Sm Maybe | wouldn't have been so _ Upside down to prevent peeking, : : oe enthusiastic if it hadn't been for . ; EE our wonderful Indian' Summer. | CI S|ALS Xl njwlY ald] 3 knew it could not last indefinitely | ||M]OJWIgg Ol \iniof! Sia es RY ; and it always seems a good idea to' | » 3 BB me to make "one's work fit the : d weather--not that 1 always do it 3 but I think it is a splendid theory. r] I hate to think those windows M | 3 >! K<|BD |< J < o fod n os Ri<PEO|v| i would- have been like all winter-- on the outside--had it turned cold ; all of a sudden- 'So far it hasn't 4 been cold--just wet,- rough- and |! disagreeable, with an east wind blowing that reaches right to the marrow of your bones. : r) jet] {OO tj<ixlo =| lui wikivwiwiEe Ole IRON < | E]V lee Ql<]olm 9 a} v FE 31 FOR QUICK RELIEF "BEYOND BELIEF... out in. but quite: comfortable if you stay home and forget it. It would be better still if only we were back on. standard time--but .it won't be long now, thank good- ness. I don't like getting up in the middle of the night and getting breakfast before daylight. Daylight saving time certainly does polling rather the reverse, | would - say. Oh dear, my 'nerves! Partner just about made me jump out of my chair. He swatted a fly behind me without my knowing -hie was a man would let you "know each time he intended swatting a fly? 'whe (= do thé flies go in winter?" We know, because quite a few of them stay right here. They belong to the COME OUT FROM UNDER THE SHADOW OF PAINI For relief from the pain of ARTHRITIS, _. RHKUMATISM, NEURITIS, of SCIATICA «osgot a-bottle of DOLCIN Tablets sistance to DDT. Every so often' they disappear completely, --then today. DOLCIN has relieved the pains when the rooms .get nice and of 'thousands of sufferers. DOLCIN warm and comfortable, out they _ 'Tablets are not harmful, easy-to-take, come agai and buzz around the reasonable in cost -- 100 tablets for lights until they have us just about $2.39; the large economy-size bottle &f --CrABYy -- Seite : = 500 tablets, $10. If your Anyway, sollietiing is making } druggist cannot supply = my head spin. [f it isn't the flies DOLCIN wtite to DOLCIN' then it must be the McGregor LIMITED, Toroato 10, Ont. Report which I -have just been reading in thé Financial Post. Of DOLCIN : course you have heard about i= TABLETS = the report of an investigation that ° : accuses the milling industey of -- Peis tots, Dems me re price fixing: I don't pretend to " ; Se - : - . i => FO 2 48 ¢ ia Te ®. | - 7 a - : Recipe ~ Mecasure into bowl, VR cup hk warm water, 1 teaspoon granu- lated sugar; stir until sugar is digeolved | "Sprinkle with 1° en- velope. Ps pita 's Royal Fast Rising Yeast. Let stand 10 ide, THEN stir well. Scald 44 cup milk and stir in 3 cup. granulated sugar, 14 teaspoon "salt, 3 tablespoons shortening; cool to lukewarm. Beat in 1 cup once-sifted bread flour. Add yeast "wit melted butter or shortening. Cover and set in warm free = 'from draught. "Let rise unfil doubled in -bulk, Puhch down dough and divide' into 2 equal tions; form into smooth balls. Roll Il each piece into an oblong and fit into greased pans about 7 x. 3 3 11", Grease tops, cover and let rise IF : : : Te, until doubled in bulk. Peel, core [J fs : . and cut 8 apples into thin wedges. |i Sprinkle risen dough' with 3{ cup granulated sugar and lightly dpe wedges into cake tops, earn down and close. together, prin donate wh : ne mon; over. apples, Covee and ad Tie | i about Hour Bake oven, 350°, about 1 ia mindiea Bervo. : _hat, with Butter. ¥ New Fast-Acting Dry Yeast Needs NO Refrigeration! Stays fresh and full-stren our pantry shelf for wee Ti hens ow do: In a small amount (usuall fied) of lukewarm water, dissolve / thoroughly 1 teaspoon sugar for each envelope of yeakt, Sprinkle with dry yeast, Let stand 10, minutes, THEN stir well. (The water used with h to ¥ Ll -. 'the total liquid called fot in your recipe) Yeast counts as pare of iby Orotr 2 months spol! 0