Explorers of the Dawn By MAZO DE LA ROCHE. ,1, LT tone should have III. I petals blown ajcainrt a wall. The picr- My brother was looking over my . lfl"ss had caupht all the tflory of the , •houlder now. We were filled with' '"o'"'''?. «â- ''' ";»« ';elpas'nff '^ '« ^u'^v *> .?X'*„ „,r^^^ conjecture. i f '"K sP^ars of liRbt that dazzled me ""« J^'"'- • "Lucy." said Angel, "owned all this f""" » moment. | '•'..qI'^. "yj^.j ttuff, and Charles was her lover, of' I rubbe<l my oycs and stared, and ,„o,ie=.ty "It's just a little one course. Rut who was ^he? Mra. Hand-: shook a little, for .'n tl>e midst of all' somebody never had a dauKht«r, I : this splendor I saw Lucy! to explain," he traid sulkily. "Juiit went I was burning to do her service, yeti hood. Weight and rate of gain form nn' did It." " { the paxsage that led to the attic I one of the beet tests of h«alth in "Oh, 1 thought so," said our govern- ' stronghold was well guarded, '^wo' children ness. "It was just one of thos? seem- ' days had parsed before I made the iiigly irrtiistiblc im^piiK^CH that have attempt. I had been sent upstairs 80 often proved di^a.itrous for all^jon- 1 from the teatablc to warh my hands, â€" ccincd. If your lather kntw" â€" She|uIthouKh they were only comfortably bit off the words a.s .if they had a j 8oile<l, â€" and after I had dipped them ' in a basin of water that had done service for both Angel and The Ser- aph, I gave them a good ru'b on my ti-ouser-leps, as I tip-toed to the foot of the attic stairs. Cautiously, with fasl^beating heart, I mounted, and tried the door. It was locked fast. I pressed my eye against the keyhole, and made out in the he went on, with easy gloom the dark shape of the trunk, Iti sinister, forbidding, inascessible. No ,,., can't w.'ggleâ€" like yours â€" ^l)ut it's | rustle of lilac silk, no faintest per- iso pallid,; g^yp^^jujj nicely. Would you care to | fume, no appealing sigh from the gen- plensant, if acrid tasteâ€" "If your poor father in South America knew your criminal pi-ociivities, he would lie a crushed iiiaii -a crushed man!" The Seraph was staring at her chin. Then. "I have one loo," he said know ; and if she had, she'd never have; njf Id ghost, but something warm, -gp j^,-. i tie Lucy greeted me. All was darkand allowedhertowear these things. Look I eaKcr with life, .spreadin.-r tne foWs, jyj,., Ilandsomebody affected not to quiet. "Bide the time!" -Who knew how 6*ie jaws when Mary hllen spends of the lilac gown like a hutterfly . jjear him. He stared sombrely at An- but that some' day I miglit set her her wages on finery. I'll bet Lucy was warming its new wings in the strength' g^) ,,„j ,'„p (,uj j believe The Seraph a beauty. And she's dead too, you can , of the sun. \ ^g^i^j „„r f„tg_ j^^.^ ^^^^^ ^ moment's " ' - .. . .J ^j^^jj hot, pour over th* wnrinr oi k< cream. Creole Chieken. â€" Cut in pi*ees for serving, season with salt and pepper ami brorwn in four tablespoons of hot- ter melted, to which bag been added one-fourth cup of finely chopped onion. When the chicken i« browned remove from frying pan, thicken mixture in pan with four tablespoons of flour, add two cups of stock or boiling water, two cups canned tomato, one finely choppe<l red pepper, one-half cup of almost feel the cold spray and the chopped celery, and salt to taste. Re- strength of the salt air. Another win- 1 place chicken and simmer until tender. dow gavcVhim a view of i' 2 moointftins,! Serve on platter eurrounded with with all of the uplift of a daily climb,! sauce, and gamirhed w.iih parsley. in thought, to their summits. j â€" _ â€" ^ â€" _â€" The influence of such silent teach- i '"U'ara'* i-inlm.n. Oarei Cold.. *o. cr.t in the home can hardly be estimat- ' ed, but in nothing else is the average] Home Decoration. Henry Van Dyke calls the pictures on hi» walls the windows of hie home. Through them he gets glimpses of the beauty which V.e« beyond the section of living space bounded by the stone walls of his home. Through one such window, he could see the ocean, and In this world it is not what we take bet; and Charles was her lover, and likely lie's dead too. 'Bide the time,' eh? You see, they're waitin' around yet â€" somewheres. I.<n't it queer?" The Seraph's voice came from the window in a sort of chant,-- "The little white star has fallen down the cobbler's chimney!" "It has fallen down, and the cobbler is sewing it .'nto a yhoc!" "A milkman in wunning down the â- tweet!" "Tell you what," whispered .^ngel; Til show you what Lucy was like â€" Just a little. I'll make a picture of er." Her bosom rose and fell quickly, her deliberation, Khs said curtly, eyes were fixed on me with a beseech- have to beat you for this." free again? " ^ home so poorly furnished. Good Ustej "P- b"* ^h^' we give up that makes Yet my throat ached as I slowly! may be displayed in "the choice of ;"»''"=''•â€" H«"'"y Ward Beecher. made my way back to the Ublc. pre- L-arpets and easy chairs. Wall paper! â- * sented my hands for a rather skeptical' ,^gy t,g selected in quiet restful tints,! In Scandinavia wood is the usual . .ing look, it seemed. I drew nearer,â€" She gave us six apiece, .nnd I could j inspection by Mrs. Ilandsomebody, and ' tut the decorations mav be family por-'i fuel, while the towns and viWages art incur enough to smell the faint per- „ot help noticing that, though The dropped languidly into my seat. . ."' .V .'^^^^ !"' v^r?.::!!!," iTJj »W ri^ 1i<rht«i hv waf*.^ow*r near enough to smell the faint per- not help noticing that, though The dropped languidly into my seat fume of her,- and I saw then that she SeJ'aph was the youngest and tender- 1 The Seraph gave me a look of sym was not looking at me, hut at the fat est, his .six were the ino.st sting.ing. I pathy â€" even under.-jtanding. Perhaps little liook, The My.-teries of Udolpho,' Whan we bad been sent to our bed- he had heard me mount the distant which I still held in my hands. The room to say our prayer.«, and change attic stairs; h's hearing was wonder- bonk that Charle.^ had given her! | our pitifully inadequate night clothes | fully acute. He chewed in silence for "Bide the time!" he had written, but for day things, I put the question that | a moment, and then he made one of she could bide the time no lunger. , was burning in my mind. those seemingly irrelevant remarks of Proud as any knight before his lady,' I strode forward, and iiressed the book: into her hands, â€" .'•aw her .slender fin- 1 pcrs riiri around it, â€" heard her little | Tk^ ..,o»„ Xs^i-^,^^^ »„.^ loll nViocfc! ?*^P °f i<>y- ' !>hould not have been atl «f^r^Jil, Jn^lTr^nr^of .VovP In U" Surprised had the door opened andi is that the dragon took that spy-glaas. body. of drawers formed a sort of a.cove, in (;:harles walked in. ' You see if I don't get it yet." (Mrs. "Lucy," repeated The Seraph. "Such which stood a pier-gla.^s. whose tarn-i ^^ ^_ ^^^^^__ ^^^. ^^^ ^^^^ ^,.^ Handsomebody was "the dragon" in a sweet-t.empud gell!'' 1-„ X jjj.._ Ilandsomebody leaned over 'l).id cither of you see her?" "Who?" "Lucy, sitting there in the chair." Angel's brown eyes were blank. "I saw her clothes. What sickens me his which, somehow, always r,et our little world a-rocking. "One fing about Lucy," he said, "she was always sweet-^empud." "Who?" snapped Mrs. Handsome- traits framed in objectionable ornate electrically lighted by waterpower. mouldings, cromos, representations of Norway has no coal, but Sweden has Indians in gaudy war paint, or so-call- j lately discovered that she has good e<l ail paintings, purchased perhaps of | supplies, some itinerant vendor and suggestive of nothing in the heavens above or the earth beneath. tshed frame was draped in white net.i ••â- ' •• •â- •"•.•.vi .^i ^u^i, i.i.-,- i.^oi ...u, „<»,nariilnv i Before it Angel drew (without niuch | open and-Mrs. Handsomebody walked o",':^.^'";^;;"^^^) ,,^^. j,^^.^^^,,, ^.^^ ^^^, ^^^j^^ ^^^ threatened. The paution) a high-backed chair, and on '"• , - ,. i The Seraph was .sit! ing on the floor,; Seraph preserved a remarkable calm, it he began h.s picture. She gave a sort of gurgling cry, as,},is head on his knees. He raised a considering that he was the storm- Over the seat and almost touching if 9he were being str^^^^^^ centre. He even raised h's small fore- .,. ,- . h f^n f«hl,. the floor, he draped a frilled petticoat, The Seraph faced about to look at .ier,l ..j.^ ,„,^^^^ too cwushcd to wemem- finger before his face and looked atl 'â- "'^^ salt and pepper, and two table- •nd against the back of the chairâ€" I in consternation, their hair wild in the ber," he said His speculative gaze ^ sPoons of sugar. Pour in hot soup ~r.ith a foundation of formidable etay«,wind,_ and the rising sun making an^^.^^ f^t. It's a vewy bad fing to be 'traveled from it to Mrs. Handsome- 1 dishes and place one tablespoon of Seasonable Recipes. Bisque Soup. â€" Simmer Mock Bisque Soup.â€" Simmer one quart of tomatoes until they will go through the sptra'ner, adding one- fourth teaspoon of soda just before re- moving from the fire. Strain, and add to a white sauce made with one quart of milk, two tablespoons of butter and a half cup of flour. Seasm to suit To ^^^ or supportâ€" he hung a garment i aureole about them. The four of us^f^^ t^os the cane hurts worser. which, even then, he seemed to know j stared at each other in silence for aj i' turned from such infantile imbe- for a camisole. Over all he laid a ^ space, while the attic-room, with its,ji]jty to the exhilarating reflection rharming lilac-silk gown, and under cobwebs, reeled, the .sun rose and sank, tj,gtj ^as th" only one to whom Lucy tlie hem, in the most natural attitude, i like a foundering ship, and Mrs. Hand-; j^^^j shown herselfâ€" -her chosen knight! |>eepe<l the little party slippers. A somebodyâ€" resembling in my ''"â- "-yi imall lace and velvet bonnet, with ' a hungry spider in curl-papers â€" con-; itreamcrs, wa« hung at the apex of;sidered which victim was ripest fori Jie creation; and in her lap â€" for the slaughter. j :ime has come to use the feminine: '•Youâ€" and youâ€" and you!" .shei Bronounâ€" he spread the gauzy fan. I pobblcd. "Oh, to thiijk of it! No place' le hung over her tenderly as an safe! What you need is a strong man. irti.'^.t over his subject,â€" each fold We shall see! The very windowsâ€" I nust be in place.â€" the empty sleeves burst from their bolts!" | rurved just so; one fancied a rounde<l| qv,. „i„„,„„,i tv,^ „.-„„.«, .,t „„,• ..» .•hin beneath the velvet streamers, so', .Jj^f i^'7'"t' l^^, TvTrLt l,t' .rtfully was it .idjusted. Her reflec- : f "^^ '^ :^"f • f "'^ ^''' ^'''^"P^ '^•^'^'-| tion in the pier-glass was superb! ' , '"J> ^'O'" h" path. "It is here!" chanted The Seraph.' ' Lven a dead woman s dothes-to "Evwy bit of evwyfing is shin,=n'. Oh, make a scarecrow ot!" | Angel an' John, please look!" { She pounced upon them. I hid my We flew to the window and leaned face while she did it, but I heard a body's chin. I perceived then that he was comparing warts! (The End.) -_ -:, . Hinaril'a i;inim«nt OnzM SlphtbaTla. vmQn. c Sph Qpe acro-ss the sill. I sinister ruptling and the snap of a' last week "As the Twig is Bent." others and made him return the toy A sad case came to light in school Would he have deliberately stolen ..,, ^ â- , ,. , ,^ - ,.„.-, ,, , , For some time numerous I money when he was twelve years old?: melts aeain It was a happy world that morning ; trunk-hd. It was over. 'Bide the things had been missed. A book, a' It seemed hardly probable to the etr ';;?oke" o^^r ^;:ottnd"''crmS^!' "7^nominiously she herded us down' "^1 ^^^ ^7"\,^ ^-^'""'s J-<='^. « -others who discussed the case. No potH. The earth sang as she danced the stair.s. The Seraph, making only! ^^^' " P«ir of rubbers, apples, and age is too young to begin to teach the her dewv way among the pajing stars., one step at a time, led the way. I'arl ""nierous other small things. Ten nroperty rights of others, they all de- The little gray clouds blushed, pink: down the drab vista of the back stairs; "^y^ »gro someone obtained the key to "tided. If you begin with the littlest against the azure sky. Blossoming' that ended in the scullery, Mary El-i ^"^ teacher's desk, opened it and stolej things and dnsist on absolute honesty boughs of peach and apricot hung over; leu's red round face was seen for a' tvtro dollars out of her purse. The! regardless of what the other fellow the gates of heaven, and rosy spirals moment, like a rising sun; but vanish- teacher said nothing, but watched. AJ does, the big things will take car« of curled upward from two chimneys. 'cd as suddenly as it had appeared, at twelve-year-old bov from one of the I themselves P.^nk-footed pigeons sli-utled, rooket-la shout from Mrs Handsomebody. best homes, but who had never had ty-cooing along the roofs. Tliey nod- We were m the schoolroom now,' -non/iin.* r^,,^^,, „„j i i. i ded their heads, as if to affirin the' placed before her in a row, as was hei^' f ^f "t^ money, suddenly began consummation of a miracle. "It is; wont in times of retribution. Seated, ^'^^'^.'"^ everyone in school A little so." they seemed to say; "it is indeed behind her desk, she wore her purple; •'""'^'<'"s questioning brought out the so." One of them hopped up on the' dressing-gown with magisterial dig- truth; this boy had taken not only the cobbler's chimney, peering earnestly nity- the wart upon her chin quivered teacher's money but everything else into its depths. 1 as she prepared to speak. \ that had been missing. "It sees the star!" shouted The Ser-| "Now, David," she said, addressing aph, 'I whipped cream on each servica. Then sprinkle minced parsley on the cream. Pear and Cheese Salad.â€" Select halves of large canned Bartlet pears. Place on lettuce leaf on serving plate, fill hollow in p€.ir with cottage cheese, and cover w.ith sweetened whipped cream or boiled salad dressing. Sailor's Duff. â€" One egg, two table- spoons of sugar, two tablespoons of butter, one-half cup of molasses, one teaspoon of soda dissolved in one-half cup of hot water, one and one-half cups flour. Mix in order named and steam one hour in buttered pudding dish. Burnt Oeam Sauce. â€" Melt one-half cup granulated sugar in enameled saucepan, add one pint o{ thin cream and set over hot watei until the sugar ATLANTIC FUGHT! Wonderful exttmple of the value of OXO. Captain Sir J. ALCOCK. vrita:-^ "You will be interested to learn that '°0X0 was a gicat help to us during our "Trans-Atlantic Flight; it sustained us "wonderlully during our 16 hours "journey. "We had found out what a good thing "it is when flying in France, and so "decided to carry it with us on tliis "occarion, and we can assure you that "hot 0X0 is most acceptable tmder such "cold and arduous conditions. 0X0 "was the only article of its kind which "wo carried." J. ALCOCK, Capt., D.S.C SALT AD grades. Write tor prtoM. TORONTO SALT WORKS g J. CLIFF • â- TOWOWTO^ The entire neighborhood was upset â- - "\ â€" -•"^ - -" -â- • -••- -â€" .â- I T ,' -â- -.•â€"' ' "I i"<= entire iieigiiuornoou was upset _ph. "It sees the star and nods to it Anffcl by his proper name as usual,' by the incident. How could it be that 1 am higher now than you,' it says!", "can you say anything .m explanation, x. • . ,, , „„,„„.„ . „. Something-was ,it a breath? a' of this outrage upon my property? ^^^f.^^y' ^''f ^°" .''.^''"^"u ,, h' sigh?-^made me look back into the! Hold your head up and toe out,! t^^^^e honesty, could be a thief ? «« attic, where Lucy's clothes clung to please." 1^^^ °«en brought up in the Sunday the high-backed chair, like flower-! Angel looked at his hands. "Nuffin', School, told the difference between rig^ht and wrong, had all sorts of ad- vantages, and yet had gone wrong. Now if it had been young Peterkins who.<5e family hadn't much, and who probably never was taught anything at home, you could understand it. But Raspberry and Currant Ice. â€" Boil four cups of water and one and one- third cups of sugar twenty minute-J. Put two cups of canned raspberries and two of canned currants through ricer and strain through double cheese- cloth to remove seeds. When the syrup is cool, add fruit juice and freeze. Lemon Ice Cream.â€" Scald one pint; Parents, Attention! ^f rich milk and stir into it one level j The astounding discovery that ap- tablespoonful of cornstarch. Add one- j proximately five hundred thousand; half cup of sugar and cook in double j school children in Canada to-day are | boiler ten minutes, stirring frequently. ! under weight has naturally and pro- 1 Then add the yolks of two eggs, beaten; perly led to concerted action to the] with a half cup of sugar, stir until j end that this appalling condition of i well blended, add one pint of cream: affairs may be rectified as soon as and strain. Wh-en cold add one table- 1 BABY'S OWN SOAP England Wages War on Race Suicide England Is waging a re.-.olnle war sgainst race suicido and infant mor- tality. Unless she ran oduoato her people In the ctpediency of Increasing the Uritlsli population by Hritlsh births and of conserving llio lives and health of cliildren already born she knows that Germany in twenty years will be able to wage ag;ilnst her a war that fJermany will win, then. Medical statistics confound the aver- age Englishman, who has not been given until the present time to think- ing seriously of the death rate and the birth rate per so. A recent publica- tion of these medical statistics has given him food for dlquletlng thought. Hntween 1910 and 1919 a yearly average of 100,000 babies died at birth or were stillborn. The yearly birth rate averaged 700,000, cxcliislvo of those babicH that I'afl dieil within tweniy-four hours of birth. Hut of the 700,000 given to the coun- try 90,000 died each year before they il2^. ."•'Hlned their first twelvemonth's pirthday. Those who survived display an alarming health condition. Ono In •very four children In the working elassfls Is mentally deficient, ten in one hundred siiJfur from malnutrition, thirty In each hundred have defective eyes, twenty-live have adonolds and sighty out of every hundred need the jentittt badly. The poor baby, of coiiTse, suffers more than the infant whose parents •re well to do. The death rate of children below ono month In profes- •ional classes averages twenty-one In ono thousand, but In the working olesKes 48.3 per thousand Is the rate. Now, the largi! percentage of work- ing class children who grew Into adults below par was not so appalling a clrcunist; nee before -ikxf; war came to Kngland I do not mean that their number was less then or that tho con- dition was unknown. Those statistics cover H period of nino years. Put be- ffirf tl'.n war I'JnglaiicI still had Ihul p(i;,ii!;ill()n of healthy, wholesome young iiiiiihood now lying out in ITan-'tTs Melds, and the status of the workInK <â- !:;«« was hucIi that their he.ilth did not coiiHlltutfj a grave ina- lerli'l menace to the future cC tho Kni- the mentally deficient. Whoever ar- rived a traveller In Enfiland prior to , thij, jjoy's mother was so good and August, 1914, ami romemlierr, the tat- ; the soul of honesty. It did seem queer to the ones who (.ered touts who huni; about Hteain- [ boat piers and especially London rail- way terminals and ran panting miles after a cab for the solo purpose of unloading its bags and trunks for a penny or two will find no trouble In bellevInK that the figures relative to mental dellciency among slum peoples there are not exaggerated. Hut It did not matter so signally while the working classes of Kngland were content. Their women scrubbed and slaved as servants or underpaid factory hands; their men were quite frankly underdogs and the writer of- ten Biispectod that they wore prowd of being just that. An exceptional mem- ber of a lower class family roao above his station because ho was not ham- pered by stupidity and had heiilth, and the others were never dono marveling at hlni. To-day the great majority ot those men and women have made up their minds that they are, or must be, the exceptional members ot the working class family. They would not accept a penny now for a service! They would not run a block after a cab for u pound sterling! They propose to rule In England, but If they are not uplifted, mentally and pliywlcally, they will wreck the Drltlsh Empire. Parsenlng Englishmen know this and havn accepted It. Docause of their knowledge, thoy are urging politic legislation and reform anent the un- derdog of five years ago. Welfare centres, the first step In all infant saving, are multlplyLng In every EnRllsh town and city. It Is ostl- mated that $•'> n year will save ono baby's life at ft British welfare centre. Half this sum is furnished by the gov- ernment and half by voluntary contri- bution. At the present writing there are 2V.> UrltlsU Towns that have these welfare hnnsea. The largest one In London had 700 enlHoK In the year ending .Inue 30. 1910. Klfty babies and forty-two mothers caiiie there every day for possible. Draft statistics show thati seventy per cent, of the men were re- jected for defects that could have been prevented or cured by care in child-' spoon of lemon extract and freeze. | Hot Maple Sauce. â€" Boil two cups of | maple syrup with a half cup of cream j or butter until it threads. While still i The Creamr Lathor of^ BABY'S OWN SOAF •often* and whitens, refrcihes and deli- cately aromatize* the ikin. Albert Soaps Umlloil, Min., Montrnl 4et5j didn't go below the surface. But those who had watched the boy grow up rather felt that they could explain it. Two or three mothers got together and exchanged confidences. There was the time when the boy 'was two and he carried home Jackie Smith's auto- mobile. Of course, it only came from j the ten-cent store, but .it was dear to Jackie's heart. The lad's mother ex- plained that he was too young to know it was naughty, and it was such a little thing and her son wanted it so badly, it seemed a .shame to make a fuss about it and have him return it, so she kept it. A year or so later it was a sack of pop corn he took away from Jenny Jones. Jennie cried and told his mother, but it was silly to cry over a little sack of pop com. She did give Jennie a nickle, however, to buy an- other. All sorts of incidents came up. One told of half a dozen fresh cookies disappearing off the table while the boy and his nio her were calling; an- other had her early roses picked by the hoy, who, his mother explained, was so fond of flowers. The conversation narrowed down to the mother. Wa^ she exactly honest? She never went by a candy counter without picking up one or.- two pieces, and fruit vendors knew her afar off i;nd hastily covered their choice peach- es and plums when she approached. Two or three books with tell-tale lib- rary tags were on her book shelves and had been for months. And she I prided herself on seeing how many I times a week she could gel the better ' of the grocer or butcher in making \ change. Her argument always was' that they always charged her too much I and she had the rieht to get even. The mother would not dclibe'-ately , go out and put imm- hand in sir.noone's' ))ocket to rob them. Hi.t was shei liOne<t? Had she ta.'ght tho boy' honesty? 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To us, thi^ Is , no great Innovation, but It murks the I auto, away back in his 1 aby days, the tion applies even to p.Tslnr 'f an old order In JCngL^uO. 'had rxplr.intd to him the right!! of ~^:^A^.