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>/" Keep your eye on this Brand The one Tea that never disappoints the most critical tasteSt on a Sealed Packet is Your Safeguard. 6671 MboiiJ > Helping Daughtor DrcKS Correctly. When a new dress is to be made for daufjhter it is so much easier to go ahead and buy the cloth and select the pattern one's self than to co-operate daughter regarding it, that more often than not the dress is made regardless of the wearer's wishes in the matter. f careful not to criticize any dirh her-] 'â- ' self, and did not allow it done by the i I others. She was watchful, however, | I that every thing was well cooked, and 1 the habit of fault-fiiulinp at the table in that family has entirely ceased. Oil Lamps. Our house is lighted by oil lanins and the work I hate most is cleaning the lamps. I have made it as easy as teaching your daujhter all you know "possible in the fonowing_ way and can learn about the why SAIiT All grades. Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS 0. J. CLIFF • • TORONTO and wherefore of the clothes she v.-ears. When .'^he grows up and finds work away from home, y(ft will forget the dust that showed on your chairs, the stove that needed blacking, and the many other duties neglected, to seek How to Dispose of Bores. A municipal government official who had an easy-going doorkeeper was for a long time pestered by a bore. Final- ly he hit upon a plan to get rid of hi;ii for good. Dick, do you know why Collins con- «r 1 Youth Writes a Letter to Love By EVELYN GILL. vi M?ny farni' '^«''" 0P"^"n and work with her on her girls become so used to we'aring what-; ^-lothcs, in the .satisfaction you have ever mother makes or buys, relying! of seemg her on her home-v.sits w.e- .so absolutely on mother's taste to be i'y. I'ecom.ngly, yet eeonomKally correct, that when they leave home lii'essed. and are thrown on their own res-| ponsibility, they find that they know nothing about cost of materials,] "Oh, tender heart, forgiving soul!" he calliid down to her. Muggins made a contemptuous .sound that was half a laugh and half; consist in learning sniff, and went on her way. In the kitclien she absentmindedly dismantled the children's tray, put- P.\KT II. "Well?" she impiired coldly, never so much as looking at him, but, head to one side, delicately and fastidious- ly rearranging on the counter the dis- play of periodicals with their pretty covers. "Well?" she inquired again, the hardness in her voice becoming almost metallic. "What was that?" he asked in a voice he tried to keep casual in spite, t^ .,, , of dry lips and dry throat. "' 'â-  /"''C'^'y -she took her mind from '•Tu.f " „ I 1 . ... ., I him, and directed it instead on t'le inat, condescended Miss Marv;> »/ u x -.^ , u r>'r««r.,ii .. «. 1 J "'"'.•' letter she must write to her sister Utonnell, "was Mr. Isador .Joseph, n â-  â-  iv ,. i i. vi What of if" *^ i Bessie in this next rest hour while ' the children's governess was staying Refrigerators Preserve Food. The principle of scientific food pre _ I suitability of colors or correctness ofjservation involved in a modern house- ^.jjjj, ^^ j,j,j style. Too many times they spend hold refrigerator is not always under- .^,j]j g^ine. their money on cheap, gaudy things, stood by housewives. All that is 1^ . â€" - or else wear dowdy, unbecoming, necessary to preserve food is to keep THAT WICKED PRINTER. clothes. it at a dry temperature low enough' Part of every girl's training should , to protect it from micro-organisms or; g^^^ ^^ ^^^ Ludicrous Blunders the lesson of, bacteria, which want to consume it Turn the wick low before blowing out the light so it won't smoke so j much. t Trim wicks and wipe burners every} day, so they won't smoke and black; tiniies to couie here so resularly?" he the burners. i asked. Set all the lamps in a row, open, j "No, sir." before beginning to fill. Use a light; "Well, Dick, I don't mind telling can with a well-placed spout to pour | you in confidence, he's after your job." oil from. I F'roiu that day on the official was Wipe lamps with paper. j never troubled by the bore. Wet a sheet of newspaper and rap- •- â-  idly wash all the chimney.^ setting | The ability to sing a simple pas them on the stove. Take off before , sage of music at sight without anj too hot and wiue with newspaper. accompaniment is something that Everything can oe done rapidly in! every choir member should strive tc ianip'i and chimneys ! acquire. He ting the egg shell!-, into the dishpan: stand the most simple of instructions, before she realized what ."he was do-! If you are making school dresses clothes, and the first steps along that as food just as we do, but which if line should be taken as soon in the allowed to work quickly render it un little girl's life as she can under- Has Made the World Laugh At. Printers often pervert the power of fit for human consumption. j the pen and turn tears into smiles by These bacteria lie dormant when, the change of a letter. ^ the air is kept cold and dry, but they; "Drunkenness is jolly," said a dean ing. The boy worried hcf; he looked i get samples of different materials! grow rapidly in water, hence it is in a temperance sermon duly reported j ;n ir -i. ! . , , ,. . , ., . ,.i_; i-i i.i.....:»:„- ^^f^rf jr, tT,a In.'Ql n., nov Whn t f Ii p il Par mail ill and fcveri.sh. "You never told me about him be- fore." he accused her. "I'll tell you now," she told him sharply. "He's the gentleni.in I'm K^jr to marry, .\nything more?" ^/en the youth's .spirit came bad: tow-in. Across the counter he seized her hanJs, and held them so hard that the rings cut into the white flesh. He talked vehemently and brokenly of the sin of selling one's self for a fat man's money, of love being the only thing that mattered, of his in- tention to seize her ;irJ take her away with him. He called her ciidear- injr names, uttered broken w(>rds of protestation, of avowal. "Quit!" sh? whispered angrijv. 'L.^t »'o!" He release<l her hand just with ihem. Bessie wanted her to give up nursing and go into the rooming- and ask daughter to choose that which j necessary to keep the air in a refrig- in the local paper. What the dear man she would like. Doubtless she will erator from becoming moist. The; meant was that drunkenness was folly. , make a wrong choice, selecting the 'drier the air the better the food But the printer was in playful mood, j most unsuitable. But don't laugh at keeps. Circulation of the air is for lower down in the dean's discourse her; don't make her ashamed. En- therefore an important feature, and he omitted a comma, and the emment deavor to show her Ver error in a the walls of the ice-box are insulated dtrine stood again a self-confessed way she can understand. Get her to so that the cold air will be kept in. drunkard, tell you what qualities, in her opinion,! It is necessary for the ice to melti "Only last Sunday," he said, "a house business, and she would have I a school dress should have. Of course,] in order to chill the air properly. As' young man died suddenly, while I was QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY KINGSTON, Onta&io ARTS Part of tlie Arts course ir..iy be covered by corrc^pondcuce. MEDICINE EDUCATION APPLIED SCIENCE Mining, Chemical, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical. Engineerin){ SUMMER SCHOOL NAVIGATION SCHOOL July aud Avigust. December to April 2(5 GEO. Y. CHOWN, Registrar. made an effort to rise without drop- ping her writing materials. "I want to talk a minute before we go up to I the kiddies. Do you think I had bet- -,_,„„„ „ . 1 . , .., . "i ter tell Mrs. Hammond that mv hospi- customer entered to buy, with pa ns- ^ , •. „ bo.v of cor res - taking selection pondeiice cards. Weak and trembling, d'odfrey wait- ed, leaning against another counter. It was hard to whip himself up again,! after the customer had gone, into the' first-time passion; and in the mean-' time the girl had acquired a gorgeous! hauteur. "Mr. Hammond," with a proud lift of her little blond head,-"Mr. Ham- mond, I must tell you that everything' is over between us, for I am marry-' ing a genlleman whom I honor and i re.spect. Ani^ you have got no right ^0 reproach me, for I have nevpi did anything to you." .So in the end there wa to deoido what to do. I you know it should wear well, wash \ the melting goes on the refrigerator Prrhaps she's b(:tter write to Bes- well and not show soil too easily, and; is chilled and the food absorbs the r-ie th.-.t she would do it. not be readily torn; but she may J cold. Thus while wrapping ice in a Bui she had scarcely taken her lit-' never have thought of those things. ' newspaper or flannel will undoubted- tlo portfolio, with its equipment of ; Let each sample, then, be analyzed to 1 ly keep it from melting, it defeats papers and envelopes and its un-! meet those requirements. | the purpose of the refrigerator, and answered letters, out to the arbor in; When the suitable material hai withholds the cold from the food. A the back yard, when Dr. Biggins, the been selected, attention should be steady melting must go on, and the (hildren'fi physician, coming to make! turned to the cloth's suitability to the modern refrigerator is built to keep his afternoon call, saw her there and; child in question. The color must be the melting to a necessary minimum, joined her. I one in which she looks well and the although precautions should be taken "Don't get up," he told her, as she^ pattern appropriate for her age. By suggestion, display and study famil- : iarize her with these requirements, ! and you will develop in her a taste I for simple, well made clothes she would be far less apt to have were she continually wearing dresses with ' foodstuffs which really absorb mois- no thought as to why they were of i ture should therefore be placed so ; such a color or material 'or cut in i that the cold air reaches them direct | tell her; and yet, I hate to worry heri ^"'^'i » w^V- . | from the ice, passing from them to before the cliildrcii are entirely well."' Though the desirability of simple 'those foods like melons and onions [ r''" inquired Mug-j''"' ^^ impressed upon her, do not! which give off odors. confound simpleness with plainness.] | A simply cut dress finished at neck and sleeves with a bit of lace, or brightened by contrasting material in ban<ling or piping, is attractive, but a plain dress, absolutely devoid to see that the ice-box does not stand where the sun's rays strike it. Nor should it stand near the fire. i ! Cold air falls and warm air rises, I and the coldest place is below the ice instead of above. Milk, butter and receive orders any time now, so I don't know when I will be leaving? It doesn't seem fair not to ho you are going gins. "Vej. -Aren't you'.'" "No, I am not going," she told him. lie stared at her thoughtfully. "Well, there have got to be some left here," he replied, as if to excuse her. "I may <iuit nur.^ing altogether," she told him flatly. "My sister wants me to take a rooming house in Winni- i peg "' endeavoring to preach the Word in a state of beastly intoxication." Here is another "clerical error," culled from a parish magazine: "There will be a collection in aid of the .Arch Kiend." The fiend of a printer should have put .\rch Fund. Doubtless he prevent- ed many old ladies of limited intel- igeiice from putting their liands in their pockets. The "war-scared" veteran was the printer's improvement on the "war- scarred" variety which the writer had in mind. The young man who wrote that love-letters were a never-fading ink was really informing his financee that such epistles would form a never- fading link between them throughout their lives. Imagine the dismay of the school- master whose prospectus read thus: "The distinctive feature of the school is the roughness " He was only referring to the thoroughness of his methods. "Our impending fate, eclip.se of em- ,, . , He opened his eyes wide in amaze as nothing 1 . hut to leave her and go stumbling' home, a wounded man. As he went alonrr the street, too dazed to think. it was his sen.ies rather than his mind that kept clinging to certain sweet fragments of memory; her| fragrant presence besid*' him in those' Hwift, secret rides through the star-j light in his little cr.r; the feel of her' breath against his cheek when she whispered to him; the feci of her little tihoulder in the hdlow of his hand when his arm was about her; the covert exchange of intimate glances botv/een them when there were other customers in the shop, I while he to all appearances stood per- '^ using with undivided inleresl the headlines of an eveninp paper. All this that was so precious Cduld not be gone forever! lie would write to her write something that would make her see. He got home somehow, and entered by a side door to avoid the caller.s who might be there with his mother on the front terrace. He could not hca>- facing anyone just now. "Rooming house in Winnipeg! Good Lord!" he ejaculated. "Well" â€" she faltered; and then, "There's good money in it," she de- fended herself. How could she make him under.stand, when she herself only I half understood ? I "It's deadly," he in.-'isted. "(Uean I tov/els, and worrying about the room- ers striking matches on the best furniture and smiking cigarettes in , bed." She put all she could <ȣ indifference , into her reply. 'Cigarettes and matches, or gall- tones and adenoids," she told him, "it's all the same. They use you as long as they want you and give you wii.it they must, and that's the end of it; so, I say, gel as much as you can out of them, and don't work any harder than you have to." (To be continued.) Do Not Permit Faultfinding at the Table. To have a comment made on dishes ' P're, is bound up with the League of at the table, as too much or too little Nations," said a politician in a local , of all "finishing touches" is actually ! seasoning, etc., is a habit into which paper recently. homely, and in all but the poorest of many families unconsciously fall. It ^^\ "e was an ardent advocate of families, wholly unnecessary. Teach ' is very trying to the housewife, and' the League of Nations, and what he ithe value of these simple means of besides has a tendency to make the really said was that our impending I finishing a dress. Contrast the sev- ' f ood appear less inviting, and gives, f<\t^. f'Pse or empire, was bound up lerely plain dress with the slightly a depressing effect, as all fault-find-! with it. In this mistake the printer •trimmed one. Also, when opportun- : ing does. I ^f« "«' to blame, but the reporter. ' ity presents itself, point out the mis-| One mother noticed that this habit' who lost his job through the politf 1 tak of overtrimming. A dress half was growing on her children, and de- I covered with lace and ribbons and , termined that some way must be , ornamental buttons is not only in bad found to stop it. She called a family taste, but is generally mere cheap ! meeting and told them that she did display. her best to have the food and table I If daughter lends a hand at the just as nice as she could, and that ' washing and ironing she will learn ] they should do their part and be kind even more about the materials her and polite, keep still about any dish 'dresses are made of, and will quickly they did not especially like. She sec why the dainty little party dress emphasized the fact that criticism at 1 would never do for school wear, and the table was not good manners. She told them that if they had anything special to criticize they could come to her alone after the clans fury. The hitters own poor elocution Wtis probably to blame. Punctuiitioii, or the want of it. Is proiilU' in humorous howlers. Here is one from an agricultui'al journal: 'Wanted, a woman to feed pigs with washing-board lodging over stables." At first reading one is apt to wonder whether the pigs liked their washing- board, and whether they were all lodging over the stables together. why, also, mother desires her to wear soft crepe underwear in sum- mer in preference to that which re- (piires starching and ironing. It takes time, of course, to teach these things, an<l there are but few farm mothers whose time is not lim- ited; yet other things can better be slighted than the opportunity of Incredibly large openings for our Dominion farm products are avail- meal and she would be glad to listen able in Great Britain, according to to the complaint. But strange to say,' the Canadian Trade Commission. being forbidden to criticize at the: table, the children made very few Ask for Mlnard's and take no other, private comments. | ^~ ^ Z ~ \ ClARO CANADIAN BOILED DINNER A FULL SATISFYING N[AL MEAT-VEGETABLES-CQMPLETc AND SERVE THIS LEGEND ON THE TIN IS A GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE OF PURITY. W.CLARK From that time on the mother was But, going up the hack stairs, he U. S. Owes Great Britain. England's bill for transporting a iiiilliDn Anii'rican soldiers across the Allantic amounts apijro.xjmalfly to did come face to face with Muggins, ' '"^^'â- '*""'"""- '"' "' ^''" ''•''" "f *'*- l"-'r white-capped and white-uniformed' i **"''''"''â-  which, in the opinion of tlio carrying down the children's supper, tray. She stood aside on the binding,' so he could pass. j Eor Godfrey to meet anyone Just now was the agony of exposing , wounds. He plunged into speech I II. K. Director of Transportation, is less than It woiilil have cost to trans- port them In .\nieri(iiii ships. lliilM. Well Done! liiviiig Duo Rc- c<)i>iiiti(iii To Olliers Wlio ilel|ic(l. WELL DONE, USl IT IS HKUKllY agreed that no one Friend (teasingly) -"What makes nation would have beiiten I'rusaia, tiiat new baby at your house cry so'iiavarla, Saxony, Wurteinburg. Aus- "Kiddies finished their supper?" he much. Tommy?" Tommy (indignant- 1 tiia-lluiigury, Itulgarin and Turkey, inquireil, looking over the tray with ly)-â€" "It doesn't cry so very much;! IT IS FlMri'll Kit agreed that it was its half-eaten bread crusts, empty egg and, anyway, if all your teeth were the gallant resistance of lielgium, the shells, and gay little egg cups paint- out aii<l your hair off, and your legs [ niagiiili<<'iil. liglitiug qualities of the ed with yellow chicks (he wondered dully how anyone evor happened to paint chicks on egg cups, as if it were worth the trouble). "There's nothing left for you if that is what you mean," said the cruel Muggins. "And if yon are hun- irry you had better go down to the kitchen and ha\e Maggie spread you a piece of bread and bijtler," I il-W«' .a"* if sfie took pleasure in keeping 11)) a feud between herself and the ;, oijng man of the house. He forced a little laugh an<l went on his way. "Thanks," Muggins called after him, "for forgetting my magazine." lie stopped in .-^uddeii penitent re niembering. He couliln't go back after it! "Oh, Muggins," he apologized, "I am beastly sorry." "Thank you jus' the game," she re- peated in exaggerated sarcagm. He forced him«elf to answer her in kind. your So weak you couldn't even stand on them, 1 fancy you'd feel like crying yourself." There are three good methods of communicating news and gossip. Telephone, telegraph, and tell a wo- man. I Lady 'iracious, Mury, how can you regulate baby's bath if you don't 1 use a Ihermomenter? Mary Lor' I bless you, mum! If the darling turns 1 blue, it's too cowlii if red, it's too hot! The Prince of Wales will visit Can- ada in August of fjiis year, and will open tie new Parliament Buildings at Ottawa. It is under.^tood that he will open the Canadian National Kx- hibition at Toronto the same month. He will spend two mt nths in the Do- minion. Smd Wnat.l'a IilnlmaBt U> th* honaa. Krencli, the devotion of the Uussians, the valor of tlit! Serbians, tho resource- fulness and wholehearted coopera- tion of the Americans, and (he superb struggles of the lloumaiiians which enabled us to secure a victory over the enemy. HAVING SAID THIS The Ilrltlsh have done it. The navy choked Kritz by the throat, and the army walloped the lite out of him. We have fought the devd all over the world, wo have beaten his legions In every latitude; we have llnaiiced the war and finiglit the war. We have car- ried the foodsfuffs, the raw material and the soldiers, both our own and our allies, lo and from the ends of lh« earth. We have fought a naval action which lasted for twoiityono months Bgulnst a fleet of U-boats iiuiuberlng over :tOO from first to lasj, an<l wo have destroyed Iwo-lhlrda of that fleet. We met the full stroke of his offensive In March and .Vprll aud smashed It. We carried the Impregnable lllndenburg line. We invented and brought to per- : tection the arm which produced tho i decision of the war- the tank. Wo i swept his aerial navies from the skies j and blinded him. We have, slngle- haiuli'd, crushed the Turk and secured a complete military decision. We have j fought four .African wars and have i been vlclcnlous. We have raised. | equipped and maintained an army of ] 7,000,000, and have equipped a Rus- sian army of 2,000,000. We have fouglil the Prussian, Havariaii, .Saxon, Austrian, Turk, Hulgarlan. .\skarl, Togoiiian and liolsheviki. Wo have established tho .Vrab In .\rabla aud the Jew 111 l^alestinc. 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