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Economy II f \JThouf IS not only the most economical on account of its great strenj^th but you have the reireshing and delicious qualities as well. ^^,.^ Ask your Grocer, In Sealed Metal Packets. larn cifc'hty-four to the Allies la^t year. We saved Ihat at the table too. ,| We liope to save 100,000 ton» of I eugar a year by spoonfalj. All this has I'cen <io):e just as '"Lit-' tie (It-ops of water, Little ^iain« of; sands, Make the might ocean, And the ' plea«art land." i Will you remember it ij in your hands ? ; NURSING E<n> Ir >ie tn tH a wmk. Lmm wttkoirtlMviM (rM. Miueaujtciw M itUim^im., ^m .My I'ooi F'cft. ; I'lcm Wiicn my sLsti-r b«t visite.l me she , ''•'*'?•''• >rave me a iie\.- n:ime, Woman Who' I'Vom barq to windmill, thirty gteps^ Walks. 1 sai.l th-it a better name, i'Vom Iwirn to pifpt-n, out ' would liave bcoii, Woman Who Weepi,' >*t«ps. j for I wa.< fiitreritig so much with mv ' J"'*"'" ^intitnin to pi,rpen (laden j fcft that I hail rrcquent tiyiiiy spells.' v.''h tv-,o paiLs of water) one hundred! There v/i-re countless rL'aaon.i mi ths.*"** thirty -stops. (lively when it countless steps I have to take every j raina and bIow»!) ; d«y> a lonK day of liftepsi hour.i that! ^'''â- Â°'" Pantry to kitihen table, fojr^ r»'iieat.s itself .seven times ii week be i te^n .".leps. I cause ihoieg.ar.d housework have aj '"'"cm kitchen table to di.-iing tabic,' way of claiming oi.e with deadly re- j t6^_ e**?" tfularity even on Su.'ulays and holi- FUO.M C.M'TIVE HI NS â-  »>i:s:.i Ilouibtoa kllRlla Ccuiii«Dr kr ir^claJ Arr*.'.(rin*r.t (la^VS. The ni({ht before sister'.* visit end- ed I was uiiusiiaKy footsore. I threw my.self on the loiinye ami cried so hard that .she w-as alarmed. A few day? later there came from her a package and letter, and read: "Dear Sister: For the first time since you were 'Big Sister' and I was Baby, tugging at your skirts, I find ho'.ies a couple of times a week you down and out â€" down as to cour From kiti-hen up?tair3 to my bed- room, fifty .«tep.s. I could go on piling m^ figures by counting Die steps I took every day hack and forth and criss-cross, over and over, with heels run down, shoes not well adapted to my work, stock- l"op^n"ed the letteT fiTstl'"^* "-""S^^^'y l!^'."!"?'' ^â- "[j"''''"!-/",*: none too well bathed, nails not al- ways trimmed. But the time! Ho-* , find time for fussing over my feet? Sister's la"bels in«istent:ly ans-wered ' <'ii > •.â- ni^.. „,.,,. ,^ .,v 1 u 1 » 1- 1 J . .- , i me and I realized how I had been fool- (IIAIMKK XMV.â€" (Cont'd.) liio ho.ies a couple of times a week you down and outâ€" down as to cour- = . , ^n-tefui of mv strenrth and •I doM-t believe it .li.l. I think it ""'' ^i^^ ^^' '^^le girl lessons on the 'age and decidedly ou^at-heel as to l,^?,^^"*"^"' "^ ""^ '"''"^^ """^ proUbly dcprcs.eJ him; I ._hink he P'«^°-j, ^j^ Maguire!" exclaJm.d ! f^l^^^^^f ^^^^^^^^^^^^ "I will reform," I resolved, "and I v.-,i.s prohHl.Iy unhappicr after il than >jora. "How did you ever think of. '^"^'""^ ^"^ « Present. Kyj,j ^pfo^^ methodically and sensi- l»efore. If I .>,w!d have aj-umed .such a thing! Of course I'd love to; "Smce those two feet of yours form ! Uy." it would take resolution and Komeihing F didn't fee! while I was, do it! Why, I ne-.-cr had the least the actual physical connection between time but if it saved me from fits of undred ThoughtB of Home Amid the CoiB> , forts of Priiioa Camps. ! The excellent treatment received by ' (ierman prisoners of war in Stobs, i Scotland, ran Lc gleaned from the ; columns of the Stobstade, a little peri- odical i3.<?ued in the prison camp in their owr lan<;uage. A recent i«»ue which has mrived here tells of thea- trical performances in the camp thea- tre, of concerts, dancing and laughter. ' But now and then the merriment . gives way to sadness and melancholy, as the followng extract shows: ''Despite all our comforts and con- veniences^here, thoughts of home now : and then overwhelm us. Are we to remain here forever ? Yonder ia a prisoner standing on the hill, calmly smoking his pipe. He is thinking. He looks around at the vista before him and he sees the houses with the red roofs in the valley. Then he thinks of home, of wife and children. Those red roofs remind him of little houses on the Rhine. Yet how long back that wondrous happy time now seem.s? His heart is heavy and gloomy thoughts overwhelm him. Those red roofs have brou{;ht back memories, and he turns slowly and walks dowo the hill, still thinking." » - . . Described. "What sqrt of a patriot is he?" "He's the kind that will cheer the boys marchiPi^ off to war, and thet grumble abo-it having to pay an income tax." Nfltking Utter is made r with him- but I couldn't. Sitting in | idea of being a.=ked. I know I shall your body and your daily 'path of t/iat place I felt a 5 if I was polluted, i ''^ ^o proud of my little pupil some duty,' why don't you take as good care I don't do Dave any gooil by Jjoingi ''»>', '^l^^"'' I- Laur.i dear?" ^ of your feet as I saw you take of the to see him, and I do mvself harm." I, ^"'- pyps--"' the child affectionate- jitter-carrier, the day it screeched on Jerry nue.tioned tha't assertion, but |;J;i\,ra^e'eL:S-crnf,dlnr^1c.'"i ''â- \-''t T1. T '""' " ^T ^^^"'1 .-^he insistei that rt was true. Of In her heart Nora felt a litllc as- """^ °'''''' *'"= bearings and observed coiirse. shs explained, she did not'hamcd of her subterfuge. But, as ^^""= yo" worked over it, 'I always mean that -he would entirely give up 'she .said to her:;elf, who wouldn't be fee! sorry for neglected machinery, going to see Dav3. And perhaps in !•'"-'â-  ^^ disingenou-i, scheming, ;md^ It is made to give service and since it time ?hc might get iis«d to the sur- ' '"'^'^•X a* necessary to. get a brother, cannot repair itself I am always cofi- »/«,n,i;„.,» »., I .,,t _â-  I »u _ _ • I out of prison â€" a brother unjustly sen- roundmgj and not mind them io mucn. tg„,p,l 'f„r twenty yeftrs? Again Jerry had a vague desire I How she was going to accomplish such ai hs had felt when Dave had in- , her purpose she didn't yet know: but tima'.cd ilL-ipFointinent over Nora's 'already she felt ceitaiii that Patrict .Maguire would be her tool. CHAI'TKK XXVI. Ju.'t what burlfii Nora bad taken upon herself in L-ng.iging to give , .. , , j , , •. , .i- music lessons t<, Laura O'Brien she •'een, .strong-bladcd knife for cutting demned when I do not give it chance to do its best work.' "Please use the contents of the box I am sending to give your feet a chance!" Here is what .sister sent me. A shoemaker's iron last; a shoemak- er's hammer and sharp-pointed nwl; a crying and crossness, if I could dO; my work better, if I could be a bet-, ter partner and wife, surely it was worth while. That night I bathed by feet in hotj water, plunged them for a minute into) cold water, dried them thoroughly and then gave them a good massaging i with oil. What relieved feet! My , whole body felt the comfort. I slept like a baby. . j In the morning I put on a pair of the new stockings and my best- shoes, j resolving to cobble the crooked heels ^ of the old ones as soon as breakfast' was over. I am handy with tools so , in an hour the heels were straight and \ I had mastered the sharp nail on the inside of the shoe over which I shift \ le.c.sly had been keeping a pad of vtrv scon learned The child so' leather: a bow of shoemaker's nails:!, V" i i. ^ f' a i. »i.i> souM iLaiiiea. ine iiuui, no. . , ^n f .. -i ^-I'Hlolded paper to protect my flesh. After dinner my feet were not so | tired as usual. I had some sewing to do. Off came my shoes and for five; niiiuitos I vigorously pinched and, slapi>ed and limbered them", leaving my | shoes ofl' until, again I had to be on the ; run. • * . ! "What ill the world are jbu doing?" j attitude â€" a de.«irc to defend and pro- tect herâ€" thi.s time again?l herself. He knt-.v that .she did not do her.self justice when fhe talked in such a sitrain. He wilj-.held, hoAOver, that p«ciili::rly in-ituting comment, and contented himself with feeling sorrier for her than before. Poor little far from proving a prodigv of promi.se,' an extra large bottle of sweet oil and soul, with her sensitiv€ne.-3 and her revealed a Mnguhir inaptitude and a a dozen pairs of new stockings. softm.^s, It was not to be wondered disposition, after the fir.t novelty of : Kvppv nrlicle bore i tiir and th- at that she rebelled go bitterly against interest wore off. frcouentlv sullen I , ^ ? ° tag and UK thi.s last, this uttermost sordid and and ^:be't indifferent!' T^teach a' ^^'"^'•â- T^ '' '?'^^ ^ags were charac or- eqiialid exp-rieiiL-e. Utupil pupil i.s a sup-oortable trial, onej '^'"^ ''^ ^'"^ writer This was on the He did net go to see her very oft^n. of the commonest, endured creditably! *''« fastened to the iron last: As he faid to himself quiiu truly, he by ((uite unheioic persons; but to| "When the engine of your lighting had no time for calling on people, maintain the pretense, against all the^ plant broke down you were provided But his relil rea-on for .-laying away evidence of one's .senses and the con-| v.ith tocds and knew how to make the 1 asked mv husband, coming in as I was exno'se h\7ff'eMim,^;. "."' "''V' ^° of r'n"n'^'^, "T ' 'P,l'\^^''^ '}"' 'lyl'est ,i,„pie repairs needed. Why noti putting "away the bottle of oil after expose nis elteciions again to capture, of scno.ars IS briliantly endowed and » ;_i i„. „„ .i „ _ . , i i i i, ., • . ,,• .<â-  * .,,u * and he f.-arcd her power, even in- is making extraordinary progress- : 'â- *'"'»'"^" "" the rundown heels on ^bathing ami rubbing my feet 'that voluntarily, to annex them. It would i that was the t/a-k that Nora had reck-' >""'" '''"""' ""'* hammer down the be mo;., un-ottling if ho again found ! Icisly assume I and that grew daily S"^''^ that bruise your soles? A wo- him.-clfthinkinir of h?r and looking at more oppressive. Kiiher Mrs. | man's feet are more precious than a her with di sir.' in his heart, and this O'Brien or Patrick Maguire â€"and j I'hop made machine. Take care of was too critical a period in his life to .sometinus both of thtm - sat wilhin i*"'"' " justify his niniiiug the risk of such hearing nf the lesson; and Nura soon uni-ettlement. Even as it was. he, wondered at the blindness to obvious had l.jr for a while too much on his facts that maternal and avuncular af- ">in(l. _ * Ifection could engender â€" wondered at ' _ Not until ths next autumn d'id Nora it, was irritated l>y it, and grateful for linaily secure emplojment. and then it. Without its assistance she could It was desultory and net very re- never have carried through her part; niuiierinive. Twice a week she served it .seemed almost right to trade upon ;is j)i-4«r.it i(ir a children's dancing- ' such .â- â- eri-ne, complacent ignorance- i-las.s. .Aniong the pupils wa " Parker's will do it- By cleaning or dyeingâ€" restore any articles to their former appearance and return them to you, good as new. Send anything from household draperies dowTi to the finest of delicate fabrics. We pay postage or express charges one way. AVheii you think of CLEANING or DYEING Think of Parkers Our booklet on household suggestions that savs you money will be seat free o:" cha:ge. Write to-day to Parker's Dye Works, Limited Cleaners ^nd Dyers 791 Yonge St. - - Toronto This wa.s fastened to the stockings: "These stockings are a gift. .\ evening. I told him the whole story. He listened thoughtfully. "This house certainly was not built for a step-saver," he said when 1 con- cluded. "I could move the pigpen and I've been thinking how to pipe wa- ter to the barn and the poultry yard â€" «^i person' .,[1 miles 1 walked every day, l"t hatl been hers until afU'rwards, when ^ tra .._ ,„ ,,>..-,„....., ihc- dancing-teacher < nlightened her. j <lignity. But i ho k<'pt her great aim ! '"'h<-'--one must do the best .slio can., Nora at once graspe.l an idea. Patrick always b-.d'oro her, and knew Ihat to' Martin h;»d not luiilt the big incoii-1 bought walking shoes and decided that woman's feetâ€" but perhaps you now , maybe to the pigs too." can say the rest for your.self!" "Oh, if you could, Martin, there'd I wa.s touched by my ,'sl.fter's be so much less to do 1 could raise thoughtfulness. A bit of resentment | turkeys! There's money in tuikey.s. too crept in as I hurried away to thC; When wo arc out of debt â€" " "Now isn't that like a woman! Take one load off her and she goes hunting for another!" There wius a worUl fection in his voice. "That's the way to tin." The next time 1 wont to town of tender af- advance, Mar- I Maguire was a power, a political pow- er. Kvcryboily knew that in some mysterious way he l-.ad but to com- mand and hid bidding was done. He . ould j;ct Dave pai.loned if he chose ">. .>he must improve her acquain- :.iii.;e with Patrick Maguire; she must win his friendship and sinypathy ami the liking I venient house or planned tiie location' it was poor business to use worn-out of Patrick Maguire. And to d.i that j of the farm buildings. We had best shoes to work in she must alwa.vs !>(• nice to the little; hmighl the place and it was a vahiablo girl, even ui the ^-â- ' ' Life looks better to nie now! The able moment.s, and .fhe must iiever tell ;'''u''' >â-  . c'l^i • niKhtiy bathing, the every-olhei-night ,' the truth alioiit her. ' ^ ^^'"^ *'""'-' '" '^'â- '*''' "'•" I""'"'- ^Vithj oil nib, the .-hoe heels kept m repair. FIndingthe man jso gullible caused! â- "'''*''''•'' pi'eaehment sounding in, ihe piped water and the lino broocl of her both to like liini and i'„ "l',o I '"y 'houghls in .vpite of my flash of ' young turkeys are reasons enough for p.fvail on him to u^ • his inllueiice in | contemptuous of him. He was boih a! restiitmont. 1 set myself to counting my gain in llesh, in nerve and in good nicer and a stupider per.son than .•â- lie! my steps. Il grew interesting. By j temper. I am still the Woman Who- had supposed one of siicli polilica! I.ediinie I lia<l begun an impo.eiiig ar- \Valk.s and ray husband ^ay.s I am also IMiwer could po-sibly be. Men were! r;,v of figures: j .he Womi\n Who-Smiles. pieer creatures lo let themselves be' ' i Itave's behalf She did not thiak it worth v/hi!e to corJid,' liii.s brilliant in.sjiiration to •Icii-y. Fortune favored her inten- lions; one day when ^he wa-i tin- first 'o i.niveat the hall, Patrick IMaguire tame without his rii-ter, leading his niece by the hand. Mrs. (rilrien, it appealed, wai not well -no, nolliing -"•rioiiK, ihank you, just a bad cold; and as l.aur.i had wanted to come, ho bad volinil.'cied to liring her. Nora itgrted that it would have been the greaicfl pi I â- :ayeil away- .he was .-ucli a goud lit •|<' dan-er -one of tho.v«> that Nora lik. d eapeeially t i watch. It v/as rjuite unusual for aj-hild m young to .'how Midi a .sev.M' iif time; hhe inii: t be very â- 'lusiiiil. .\Ir. Maguire thouuht like- iy; .'he had never taken any lessons bossd by tiuit kind of a prson. Bo.-s -yes, that w.i. tin- woril usually ap- plied to Patrick Alagiiire. ."^he knew he deserved the name, because he sal at home and had men come to .-ce him - -policnieii, tough-looking, roughly dressed men, and sometimes well- dre.s.^ed men too- .-ho taw them all when they passed the open d<.or of the Food Control Corner 11CS3 of fifteen months ago, we have done well. Hut a higlver standard I than ever has been set by our own I success. To-day we have the organiza- "How can we help the Food Board?" tion; we have a much better under •sitntdL A Picture with Each Purchase Bach time you buy it package of Ingram's Toilet aids or Pet- tume your druggist will give you, without charge, a large portrait of B world-famed motion picture uctress. Kach time yoa get a difTercnt portrait so you make a collection for your home. A>W your droggitt, F. F. Ingram ouvcrainc Face Powder You need never be embarrassed by an oily, shiny ekin. Just apply a Ught touch of Ingrain's Velveola .Souveiaine Face Powder. It is so delicately text- ured that you can scarcely see it and yet il hides tiny blemishes and givea the complezloD.a smooth, sofi appear- ance. It adheres until washed off even though the skin becomes moist ftom perspiration. SOc. Ingram's Milkweed Cream is an Ideal preparation for softening and cleansing the skin and keeping tba complexion clear and youthful looklns. It hai a pro- iio-.in«d therapeutic Quality that "tone* up" the complexion. T .f e a»c8, SOcanatl. There la a complete llnr i : (njritni'a toilet aUt. in- cluding Zodcnta l,.t the teeth tiSc), •t your ilruKKljt'j. Co., Windior, Ontario (118) if the little girl hadi parlor where she sat giving the lesson ''hen the ihioi- of Patrick Maguire's} cial Commitees of httle room et the end (jf the hall,' deal. Ui where he wa.i an unseen auditor, Would be (loesd, andâ€" if .Mrs. D'lliieii was not somewhere about tiie hou.se listening Nora's manner could re The qiie~;tion i< the most frequent in the correspondence with which the central staff at Ottawa and the Proviii the Food llonnl s an expression not merely j of individual good will, but of an I underlying desire, a restless aspira- I lion, felt in a far wiiler circle than la.x. She was careful, though, never I "'""'*' "''? ''=!>' "• '^'* ''» i»onu>thing to »^"'L S:^: ^^.. ^;i..^^: l.""!^* '^ '""^^^V: '•â- ^^'-'b "v-n thougln «">â- ''« '"-ingiMg the war at tne piano and try a little (iiigeriiig; .the .voung ludy, in an amiable frame of mind aft^.T ^o much flattering, was • othing loatli. ami almost immediately \von .MirpriMed, enthusiastic admiration 'or her iislurHl talent, her manner of •onching the keys, the tone that ahe traducedâ€" it was almost as if kIh- had HM instill* for the inatrumenl. Wha/t to the onlv t leehiig resentful at times of the inex- licable alteration in treatment, never ad any grievance to treasure up. and make a ground of comphiint. When .Nora Knew that Maguire was at home an, I unoccupied with callers .she wjHild finish th with iiistruclion iicriod > singing lesson -which always meant that by w-ny of illustration siio I'emarkable".'" ho niiked. ••Think!" vxclainicd Norn. "All I can (toy is, I'd rsther teach that child than any ten ordinary children. I 'Un«)w \vnat I'w talking about," she adde<l. "We adde<l. "I \e shidie.l both piano Hn.l|hiH hope that Lauia w.u.l.i - â€" - ,Jn,e <.«!..« .r . ' ''KiHervatory for four U*-" *- ' ,•, .u * '-ri'"" vi V)!"* «t iii» - rt,„.,^i,' II.-* .- , .o sing like that. I hen Nora ,aiii, I ;'1"A'»VJ' '"."v*"'- .... II I tried omitting this featuru, of the los- . ovild hi.d ),K'^. ...le rignt kind of be- ton; and promptly the pupil's uncle gmner I'd love to teach Mr. .Maguire miide no icspoi..,c (o ihat, and Nora had a fear that her re- mark had lacked sul tl»y. Hut ut the next meeting of the dancingclH.Ji he approach'?d her with the proposal that flic had loiige I yet hardly darctl to hear. "I've talked things over with my 'loiter." Iio Mii'l. "She want* to k'- w if ytu'ii be willitiif to i-one lo end we^ dare cantemplato. Beyond ijueslion, the most pressing thing for which the Board now carl ask the aid ol" outside workers is the combating of the misconception that we may '•rest on our oars." Kurther food having ami greater farm produc- tion are as imperativf as ever. The clearer one sees the world's nee :1s. the more <loe"f methodic saving seem re quisite. Tension in the food sltiwtion in Wearing of the ("Ire'c'ii."' They wOtlM f '"â- ""<'. b^'. it bo reneplad, has been draw Maguire from his retreat as a i '****'' â-  ''^6 acute hlioita^e of last luirdy gunly draws a child; he would I winter is not ])rcscr.t. But they come 11, anil seat himself to liMitcn, audi imvc not relaxed a particle of their "!.. u*!..!'.' .i''.^''\'*.°;\'''^*"'V?'"*'«'-''^" indiviiiml rationing in tlrent. lititain, Fra '.c or Italy. Tlesides thl'i* W Ihe gauiii fact that neorly r>,OOO,00i» people have died of slarvntl'm or nialnutrUion through appeal I'sl and askeil her as a special iiething before she went home. He listened with inpt H'l«'ntioii to the olil Irish melodies. Nora >j)Mit a con-iilerabV purl of I lie interval between les.ions In committing to memory aixl prac- ticing other Irish songs, of a kind like- ly to ploHse his tasio rather than h.-r own. ( To be contintied.) favor if she wouldn't sing {.omethiinjl the ^''*'- ^'*" ^^'''' •'"''' ^^'''' '" Caimdiv Ignore a decimation which wool.! total over one half of our own population'? l''ood workers at the beginning ' f the winter seH«on can do nothing bet ter, nothing more patriotic than to re peat again and again thai otir »hare of food war work is only ju»t.b*ljin liin(t. .Menttired by our unprepared- standing among the people, and we have, consequently, n far greater obligation. The work must be car- ried on. You surely have not missed the lit- tle less wheat in your bread? Yet it has reduced our C-anadian consumption by 'J00,000 barrels a month, or 12,01H),- 00(1 bushels a year. Wc sent 125,000,000 pounds more pork and 7ri,000,000 pounds, more beef jRitiKtltli UNION MADE OVERALLS SHIRTS 8. 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