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« « ^ *T7ieyVc So Convenient WJM SERIAL STORY BRIDE ON A BUDGET BY JANET DORAN Copyrickt. 1939, NEA Servica, Inc. CAST OF CHARACTERS IRIS IVES â€" m radiaot bria* who Ikaaf kt Iot« cwne first mai monay coaU take care of iUelf. BART WHITTAKERâ€" s right. â- â€¢ut bri'esroom who looked at Am baakbook first ' uni kia wife afterward. CHAPTER III It was, declared &ie new Mrs. Bart Whittaker, just like her to b« that rattled over her wedding, •Bd the supper at the Tivoli, afterward, to completely forget about Sunday, and shops being closed. It was just their luck to face the very first day «f their married life with not a thing in the pantry to cook. "No Sunday dinner â€" Bart, I'm a wretched woman," Iris wailed. "We can throw something to- gather from odds and ends â€" I'm â- ot fussy about any bij; dinner Smiday," said the bridegroom cheerfully. But his bride was not to be consoled. "There are no odds and ends, •h lord and master," she stated hollowly, "looks like the young Whittakers gnaw a hotdog at a binch-wagon. Oh well, it could be worse, Bart. I might have forgot- ten your breakfast bacon, and your favourite shirred eg^s." "Can you make an omelet?" he asked suddenly, inspiration lend- ing wings to his imagination. Iris made a grimace. "Can," she agreed, "but won't. This is the first day of our mar- riage Mister Whittaker, and we •tart out right." Worth It For Atmoapkere They had roast chicken and fresh strawberry sherbet at the very swank little Pickwick GriU, m popular dine and dance adjunct to the old Hostler's Inn, overlook- ing Linwood Common in the busi- ness district. They had romaine â- alad and black coffee in eggshell tiny cups, and a single yellow jon- quil nodding in a slender vase in the center of their tiny table. They had music by the famous Four Horsemen Orchestra, and Uie check was §3.20, but Iris said it was worth it. They had atmo- q>here, didn't they? On the way out, a flower vend- er accosted them, and Bart never knew that Iris picked the Pick- wick Grill because past experience had taught her that there was al- ways a flower woman prowling the street in front of the old Hostler's Inn, and the Bon Ton Cafe. "Flowers for the pretty lady?" the old woman whined. Bart made an impatient gesture but Iris' fing- ers tightened pleadingly on his arm. "Dam-i-ling," she cooed plain- tively, "isn't it too funny? I think she knew all along that you want- ed me to wear violets! Kemember how you insisted, yesterday? And then promised you'd buy me some to wear on my suit after?" If Bart remembered that it had been she who did the planning on the violet issue, the day before, he said nothing. But already, in one day, he had spent as much as Iris invested in her entire week's gro- ceries. The First Day Still, it was the first day of their married life. It wius their »ery first day of being Mr. and Mrs. Bart Whittaker. You couldn't tote an adding niacliine and a doable entry bookkeeping system iround with you on that day. They wont for a wiilk out be- irond the I.owei- Falls, because it was such a beautiful, warm spring Jay, and they had to be indoors all week, but by the time they'd reached the spot where Bart hop- ed to find training arbutus un- der the warm dry leaves. Iris dis- eovercd her feet hurt. "It's walking so far, darlins}-," she said plaintively, "I guess I'm just a sissy after all. Do you sup- pose there's a bus back to town?" There was. And in the campus Chocolate Shop they had toasted chee.se sandwiches and hot coffee and cake, and Iris deeided they most see the new feature at the downtown Met. Eatinc Out All Week "It's Carole iKinibaid, Bart, and jou know how you always like ker. So gay iiiid peppy, and tuch daffy stories «he pbyn in," wid Iris. Going to sleep that night, with her blond head curved into the warm hollow of Bart's shoulder. Iris decided they'd eat out all next week, too. It was such fun, and the food was so grand. And it didn't cost much more than cook- ing- aft home did. She even planned what she'd do with the money she saved. Money she wouldn't Iiave to spend on groceries and meat and fruit and cream ii Bart took her out to dine. There was that jonquil yellow knitted dress she'd wanted so, and the new honey-beige kid sandals, and the little burnt orange straw hat that was scarcely more than an inverted waffle with a perky bow at one edge. It would mean budget payments for seven or eight weeks, but she was married now. And Bart would help with expenses. It would be easier now. It was that very Monday noon that the girls in the office insisted she lunch with them, and intro- duce the brand-new husband. Iris tried to evade the invitation, but had to capitulate when they crowd- ed her. "Bart may not be able to make it," she explained uneasily. "He'd better," Ellen Kent chuckled, "or we'll ask a proxy â€" someone so devastating he'll re- gret playing hooky." "All right," Bart said a trifle shortly, when Iris telephoned him at the shop a few minutes later, "though I have only an hour. Iris. I have to get right back to the shop and relieve Henry so he can go to lunch." "Henry won't die if you're a few minutes late, Bart; after all he works for you and you've some say about things, I should think." Bait didn't answer that. He felt tliat women rarely understood the dmies and responsibilities of a man toward his help, and attempts to explain the bond only confus- ed the issue further. "We're all going EHitch,'' Iris explained promptly, when Ellen told him they'd decided on the Tivoli, "everyone loves the Mon- day Italian specials they have at the Tivoli, so we thought if each one paid for her lunch we'd have something really good, and not be a burden to anyone." When You've No Pantry That night Bart brought home a pound and a half of steak, a cauliflower and a pineapple and suggested they eat at home. "But of course, darling," his bride exclaimed wistfully, "'you know how 1 love to hide away in our little nest here. Only â€" well I wish I'd known. There are so many thnigs we have to have to make a really good dinner." "Don't you buy your groceries ahead. Iris?" Bart asked bluntly. She dimplecl a shy smile at him as she wriggled into the lilac sat- in housecoat and hauled the zipper up, patting the purple sash into position fondly. "Mostly, things have to be bought as they're used. Bait, when you've no pautry. These small places Ivave a cabinet and refrig- erator, and it means buying as you go along. It isn't such a bad plan, really." "It's an expensive one, Iris! Look, you save dollars, buying bar. gains in large lots. But you know th.it, naturally." "Yes. I know, Bart. It makes me so mad. It seems as if the people with money enough to not worry over savings, get all the bargain chances while the folks who really need to economize, make ii up by paying extra for small quantities of everything." "Well, let's see what we need, honey; can't be helped." He went to the little store arojnd the corner and spent $2.70 on the list Iri.-! gave hiui. Ami by the time she had the meal i-ooked her head was aching, and Hare had the dishes wished onto him as an after-dinner token. But he whistled cheerfully as he cleane<l up the kitchen, confident that he had married the one and only wonder girl in the world, and that their future was a wide, serene road to Paraiiise. It look time to get things organized, and get ad- justed to changes, and Iris was not used to running a home foi I wo. The next day her headiiche Win* exchanged for a sciatchy throat, and Iris insisted she felt too punk to care about eating much of any- thing. They could go around the comer to the Campus Chocolate shop and have a hot vegetable soap and rolls, and she'd go straight home and to bed after. Only the hot soup was so goo«l. Her throat felt much better after she'd had the invigorating broth, and a lamb chop, and the regular menu followed, with Spanish CJream extra. Bart thought of the triangle of left-aviL steak he had planned to dine on, supplemented with a chop for Iris, and his bud- get book had a severe crimp in it, even without consulting Uie fig- ures. To Tired To Cook That first week was but a fore- runner of weeks to corae that were to fall into the same pattern. Iris was tired after her day at the office, too tired to cook supper for them. But not too tired to dance at the Cove Inn, or the Koyal Palace Arcadia, or the Blue Moon. And after a while, Bart .stopped arguing, stopped protesting. After a while, he grew to dread the menacing threat of her swift tears, and stormy sobbing if he tried to remonstrate with her, or deviate from the course she wanted their matrimonial bark to cruise on. "Why, Bart? Money isn't every- thing, and we're only young once," she cried petulantly. Thei!, winding her warm round arms tight about his neck, "Don't you love me, darling? Don't you want your little wife ta have any fun? It isn't as if you weren't the hand- somest man on the dance floor, and by far the best dancer. It isn't as if I weren't half dizzy with pride over my big habby!" So they went. And the holes in the budget grew bigger and big- ger. Until the budget became prac- tically laccr Badly torn lace. Held together with the fragile, delicate thread of Bart's love for her, his belief that everything would come out all right. It v/as giddy now, but she'd get it out of her sys- tem and settle down. All girls did. (To Be Continued) 1 NOVEL YOKE ON GAY HOUSEFROCK P.ATTKRN 1321 By ANNE ADAMS There's a li.du-hearied pea.'iant- girl look about this little house- frock, Pattern 4321. Don't you lov« the shape of the neck, that's en- cored in the yoke? A delightful effect that you may play up cith- er by using ric-rac at the yoke, pointed sleeve bands and high, double-peaked waistline, or by making the yoke and sleeve bands in vivid contrast. The slim wai.st and hips are emphasized by uii- usu.il softne.-s through the l)odice and Adl skirt lines. Make comfort, ably flared slocve,s if you prefer, and choose a gayly flowei-ed print fabric for this young charmer. Pattern -1324 is available in mi.sses' and women's sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30. 32, 34. .3r,. 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 3\ yards 35 inch fabric and 2 yards ric-rac. Send TWKNTY CENTS 1 20c ! in coins i stamps cannot be accept- ed) for this Anne Adam's pattovn. Write plainly HV/.K. N.^.MF., AD- URKSS and STYI.K NLMBKi;. Sen<l y ur order to .\nne -Vd- T wm m^ T A ^Ml ^H ^ B |P? ^M ^ £ ' ^i mt K £ lyi IC-A Bv SADIE C. CHAMBERS BRCAO AND CUSTARD DESSERTS Of special iniporaiice just fol- lowiui; the holiaay season are lUe simplH. nourishing Uesserts, for two reasons. Firstly, thoy are inexpen- sive, secondly, they are exiellent, food value incorporating milk and egs.; as they do, thirdly, tills type of dish Is a much needed changa from the rich foods ot tradition of the Yuletide season. CHOCOLATE BREAD PUDDING 1 cup dry bread crumbs 1 square of chocolate (unsweeten- ed) shaved 2 cups of rallk scalded 1 taoiespoon butter 1 cup sugar ';i teaspoon salt I teaspoon vanilla 1 (yge «'*!! beaten Mix crumbs witii shaved ciioco- late and add to scalded milk in saucepan. Stir over low beat until chocolate melts. Add butter .and cool slightly. Add the remaiuing Ingredients and mil thorougii^y. Pour Into buttered casserole and bake one hour in oven 375. Test with silver knife to see It it comes out cl«in ^which is the best test for all custards). Serve hoc with sweetened whippetl cream, spruik- led with chocolato shot. BUTTERSCOTCH PUDDING Combine two tablespoons of but- ter and three-fourths cup ot brown sugar in the top of a double boiler and cook over direct heat, until well blended, about one minute. Add two cups milk and place over hot water to scald. .Vdd slowly 'i-wo well-beaten eggs and season with a pinch of salt and Ys teaspoon of vanilla. Arrange one and one-halt ot buttered bread cubes In a greas- ed baking dish and add the cust- ard mixture. Have oven 350 de- grees, baking until firm in the centre. Cover with a meringue made of two ogg whites, one-fourtk cup of brown sugar and vanilla to flavor. Return to oven to brown. CREAM PIE This simple basic pie is one v.-hich should be cultivated in every family, it leads itself to many in- twesting variations. Mix one third cup flour ami two-thirds cup sn^ar and U teaspoot) salt. A.ild two cups scalded milk, stirring constauily. Cook over hot water, stirring until thick about 15 minutes. AdJ two tablespoons hutlor. Pour mixtii'-e over tlireo beaten egg yolks. sUr- ring constantly. Cook two minuros longer. Cool and add Vi taispoon of vanilla extract. VARIATIONS FOR CREAM PIE Fill a batsd s'lell with aitenf.ite layers of cream lining aud sliced bananas aud top with whipped cream. Or this: lucr;>a3e the su^ar to one cup, and add two squu'ts of bitter chocolate to t!ie sealdo<i milk to melt; top the dessert with wH'p- ped cream and chocolate shot. If a butterscotch flavor is dejir- ed. siibstituto one cup of browu su- gar tor the grauu!:Ue<i in the basic recipe. Or still auoiher surprise: Servo a date dessert by adding ';* lb chopped truit and one teaspoon grated lemon rind ta the milk mi.v turo before thickening. And still again, add ono ci p shredded cocoa nut to the filling and sprinkle an addiiional half cup over the merin- guo before browuins, for another des-iovr. READERS, WRITE IN! Miss Chambers wclcoiiiei pcrsooal letters from interest- ed readers. She is pi biased to receive suggestions ou topics for her column, and >s even ready lo listen to yov'r 'pet peeves." Requests for recipes or «pecial menus are i.-i order. Address your letters lo "IVliss Sadie B. Chambers, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toroiilu. " Hunter Borrows Wife's Corsets The new sLreamlined corsets are lacing canine figures now. A Kulton, -Mo., sp)rtsmao tried adhesive tape to protect stitches in the side of his « ounded hunting ilog but when that failed to sticU he borrowed a corset from hs wife. l.accd in, little could be .seen jt Crb dog e.xcept his head and tail. Itcsu'ts .<f the hiint, 10 l>ird.s. ain.^. Uocni 42.'>, 7M W,- A lol.iid ' i St., Tnroino, »ti)Olai-$}|ip. Achievements of Canadian Women During Year 1939 Review of Events During Pa:.t Year Contains Interesting Data in Feminine Accomp- ' lishments Suiiling Ijuisca Ell:iai)eih whose Kraciousness and charm won mi!- llmis of hearts and lel't ';heriBho<I niem,>ri<-s in the mountains, plains, woodlands, cities and towus ot the Dom;:iiou, earned an outstaudlng placo in the achievements ot wo- men in Canada in the past yoar. l.ady Twer-damulr. wife ot Can- ada's present Governor-General, 1:1 turn 18 pulling the weight of her : esceptional abilities in lejdersUi:) of Canadian women In the present stress of w^ar. In War Service From coast to coast more than 200.000 women rallied to the call tor service tbrough the channels of the Voluntary Registratiou ot Can- adian Women under the chairman- ship of .Miss Margaret Hyudman, K.C., of Toronto. In The Alp Canadian women took to ihe air also in 1939. Twenty trim just-over- five-foot iflrls donned navy blue un- iforms and became stewardesses at the Inauguration ot a trans-Can- ada air line schedule. In another angle from the air, Jlrs. Erua Wat- son of -Montreal distinguished her- self Dy keeping pilot Captain -And- erson afloat until rescued when the flying boat Cavalier fell into the sea en route from New York *o Bermuda In January. In Literature A Toronto woman and a Mont- realer now Itving in Taroato, up- held the feminine place in literary fields. Gwethalyn Graha-m was awarded ono of the Governor-Ue-n- erals prizes for her novel "Swiss Sonata." Joyce Marshall formerly ot Montreal, won the Canadian Wo- men's Press Club award for Her short story "And the Hilltop Was Elizabeth." Two Canadians, well Itnown in welfare aad nursing circles, Miss Charlotte Whitton, O.B.K., and Miss E-ditU Kathleen Russell, were called to Kings College, Halifax, to receive the honorary degree of l>oetor of Law. Women were accepted la many rolas heretofore confined to men. From the Maritimes Molly Kooi of Alma, N.B., became Canada's first woman master marin-n-. Dr. Jessie Gray, of Toronto, was the tirst wo- man to receive the degree .il .Mast- er of Surgery. Elsie Gregory Mac- Gill, first woman in Canada to re- ceive a master's degrsa in aero- nautical engineering, has become the first woman to design, build and test her own airplane. Dr. .Mary Wong, daiishler or a Chinese restaurateur, ot Loudon, Ont. was appointed to the staff of the Medical Research, Banting In- stitute. University of Toronto. The Hor»c Seems To Like Him Politeness In Hand-shake Firm But Not Tight, and Never Fishy, Not Pumphandle Pumn-hunOle handshakes are ev- en Worse than '•fi.shy" liandsiiakos; pump-handles are often painful. The polite hand-shaker will grasp a hand firmly, i)ut not too rightly. He won't shake up and down; ho won't snueev.e so iiHoi that finger rings cut the person who.se hand he is shaking, says the .A.ssociated Press. It's a woman's place to off.'r lior hand to a man. I'hat is especially true if she is being hostess in her own honx'. Jlo.st men, however, are so u.sed to shaking hands they are likely to take it for i;-ranted they should .'^liake hands w-ith women. Four persons shouldn't shai.o hands all at once â€" in \vheel-r;v.sh- ion. riiai has nothing to do with superstition; it simply saves every- body from feeling awkward. VVhen two men and two wonii n meet, it u.sually works out to everybody's advantage if the men shake hands and the women greoi each other verbally and with a no! or a smile. Robert Montgomery l« th« well- drasaed homeman ks It* Kiv<>« his ' '" horse 118 dally workout on Uie bridlo paths Deur bis home. Fashion Evolves Through Ages Development of Clothes Trac- ed From 1100 B.C. to Pres- ent Day â€" Byzuitine Emp- ire Once Style Centre The evolution of clothing f.-om early days down to the beginning of modern times last week was sketched by Miss Ruth Dingle, ot the drama department oi McOilt Tiniversity, Montreal. Ahe First Petticoais The only example of women that wore as a regular piece ot apparel a bifurcated gai-ment, before 1870, the lecturer said, was In the Min- oan period, and down to 1100 B.C. Th.e first "petticoats" were worn by Egyptian women, late Egyptian art Indicating a thick petticoat un- der a stiff transparent dress. The German lady added to cosiutne a brassiere and continued the waist witti a "zone." From the fifth to the twelfth cen- tury the Byzantine Empire, the cen- tre of the civilized world, was the seat ai all that was original in fa- shion ftnd culture, c'ostume design took salient features of the culture ot both East and West, the "•mingl- ing of the emotional color of the East with the intellectual lino and form of the West." 1 Learning From Orient ' Miss Dingle traced various in fluc-uoes that affected dress for botb men and women in European countries. In the Plautagenoi iiev- iod, the crusades and other travels further familiarized the English with Eastern cultures md afCacled the dress of the 'iiue.^. GorgS'ius f;y.jrics and profuse eiabroidory made garnients highly djcorative. In the tonrt.eenth century women's iJr&ss showed the "princess" iiae, i fitted at the waist ai-d with wido, gored skirts and long titted sleevas with cuff over the baud. At this time plucked eyebrows became "the fashion." The reign of H >:iry VIH showed nnparalieled magnifi- cence in dress both for men aud women. The women added lo tlieir array of sarments tho hoop or the •farthingale" as it was called in Kngland. It was a wide stiff petti- coat mounted on hoops of iron, wood or wh.aJebone. The time ot Kiizabpfh Tudor was the ' age ot the ruff, of perfume an 1 wigs, of padded sleeves, spreading farthiiig- alo. peaked bodice â€" of cve-ry arti- fice tiiat luiiiian nature could d> vise." NH«I t-n^h MWMriK for ti*<-r)1«»rl*»llH itlHKicNl f*im|tt*MHinnn ,>frrr«-fl (•* rnnniltnnM «f rllh^-r nr\ iinrfer -'- \rnrn ft H|fe. I'he 4 'output ,-l«f«fN >t»r,.|| I. IIMrt: ••»lr.» forins bbiI il»lnll<*«I infurmntlon mny hr »r- â- â€¢T»ml irttiii Th,. I'.'inatlinn IVr- f,»rmlnj4 UUIn »«><-l>'l.v, l.imKril K*«.* Hi llittik lliiiltMnff. I'oronr,*, Letter Mailed In Last War Returns Kninia William:-, of .Spokani, Wash., one day last week opened her mail bo.\, took out a letter, then wept softly. It was one she had mailed 21 years ago to her hrolher, Cscar Birkland, soldier with the .American army in France. He died several months after ri- turning home. Clues to its joiu'- nrys mostly viere undecipherable. There was a purple notation "wounded 10 - 18 Tours," sev. eral illcRihle red ink marks an,3 Miss Williams' return addres-. "He must have been in a hospital when the letter got to France," ^he said, "and they didn't find liint. 1 don't even remember wha; J in the letter. I'd like to kno»i - in a way. But. I'm never goirjj 13 open it." Girls, Wear More In Cold Weather And Have Long Life â€" Wom- an of 105 Celebrates ICoth Birthday at Her Heme in Mcrewood, Ontario -•X. little white-haired woman who lived under the reigns of six British sovereigns looked back on 105 years of life la.st month and tipined that girls could do witli more respect for cold v'cather. "If Ihey dressed warmly, the way I ilo, girls would be healthier and live a good deal longer,'* said .VI rs. -May .lane Uogait. of More- wood, Ontario, who was celebrat- ing her lOotii birihday aiintvoi ;- ary. Mrs. B.)gart came to Canada in 1845 as a little girl when her par- ents moved from I'ernianagil (,'ounty, Kire. She ha.s yet to sut'- fer a serious iilncss, another point in her argument for more wintot garments for Tanadian womtri- hood. Mrs. Bogart can i-ecall many in- cidents during the sailboat trip ,jf seven weeks and four days awo-^s the .Atl.wtic Ocean '.11 years ago. "MIDDLE ACT WOMEIl Thousaritis «<> thru t 'lis 1 'inkiia 'm'* - w* 1! knotcn f'-riuh'iri; ft rnuI^f^»n*-- LYMA E. PfNKHAM'S VtCETABLE COMPOUND ISSUE NO. 2â€"40 c