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.•***»Wi! â- I 5 ;:• THe Quality "SAUDA" I Kssa Is most appreciated in tHe rlcH* delicious flavor. Try it todar. PENNY PLAIN BY O. DOUGLAS lhopm*a nfou may !«»»• your chole* â€" penny plain or two-penc« '"soi^n Small Boyâ€" "Peiiay pUln, plMS*. It's betUr value for th* monay." Copyright by G*org* U. Donut Ca. CHAPTER VI. Woman's Sphere THE SUMMER CHRISTMAS SHELF. Instead of waiting until Chrirtma* 1b almost here and then rushing mad- ly about to purchase gifts for your friends, why not aUrt a Christmas shelf now? Every walk and drive about the country and every trip away from home may be made to con- tribute to the collection. Sofa pillows stuffed with balsam have long been in use and will ever bring delight to the weary city dwell- er. Less known, but not less delight- ful, are cushions filled with sweet fern and bayberry leaves. The sweet fern should be gathered when in full leaf, but before it has begun to dry. The ideal place to dry them is in a hot dry room indoors. Use two-thirds sweet fern to one-third bayberry leaves. Those who live where the white birch grows will find it a contributor. Unique and rustic looking place cards may be made for the friend who is always looking for something a lit- tle different for her luncheon enter- tainments. Your camper friends would like napkin rings made of birch bark. Anyone who has at her command an old-fashioned herb garden can pre- pare gifts which will be appreciated by any housekeeping friend. Who would not be glad to have the spicy fragrance of herbs greet them when shaking out the woolens and furs in the fall rather than evil-smelling moth balls? The following formula of carefully dried herbs is a good preventive against moths: rosemary and spear- mint, each u half pound; tansy and thyme, each four ounces; and freshly ground cloves, two tablespoonfuls. Mix and store in well-closed boxes un- til the holiday season. No perfumes made by man can com- pare with some of those which are the product of the garden. If there are a few bushes of lavender at com- mand one has material for many nice remembrances. If there is lemon verbena around, it is well to know it combines wonderfully with lavender, one improving the other. Think how delighted would be the dainty house- keeper who likes her linens and sheets to have the old-time lavender smell to receive a bag of this mixture well dried. Last summer I met a girl who was filling her Christmas shelf with vege- tables canned in glass, not the ordi- About this time Jean wrot« a letter to David at Oxford. It is wonderful how much news there Is that people write eveay other day; if they wait for a month there u nothing that eeems worth telling. Jean wrote: ". . . You have been away now for four days, and we still miss you badly. Nobody sits in your place at the table, and it gives us such a horrid, bereav- ed feeling when we look at it. Mhor was waiting at the gate for the post rterday and brought your letter in nary run oi ve»,^u.« ...... ^ -. , triumph. He was particularly in- '' , • . i.,.i„_ „v^„ !„iterested in hearmg about your scout, put up. In a rnost «='=1"»'^« "^'^P '"I and has added his name to the list he the city she had seen beets about the,pj.^yg ^^^ y^^ ^,, ^^ ^j^j ^ y^^^^ sise of big marbles, tmy lima beans, ^jj^^ j,g j,^g g^^ ^y^j. j^jg prejudice string beans and peas in pint jars,! against going to heaven. It seems it and such were the dainty first fruits . was because someone told him that of the vine which were to appease the ! dogs couldn't go there, and he appetites of her friends. Then there j wouldn't desert Micawberâ€" Peter, in the out-of-the-ordinary jellies, I pther words. Jock has put it right f^itsTr piTkTe^rruyrb jelly .'eider- 1 by Celling him that the tfanslators of t . .r ., , , . ui ' V .,„» 'the Biblo probably made a slip, and berry jelly, wild plum or black cuf-,j^,,„^ „^^ '^ earnestly every rant jellies. Spiced currants and^night: Let everyone in The Rigs go spiced cranberries can seldom be to heaven,' hoping thus to smuggle in bought. I his dear companion. If you start a Christmas shelf now, "It is an extraordinary thing, but when the season of gift giving is at 'almost the very minute you left hand you will be neither hurried nor i i'riorsford things began to happen. ,,i^ "I told you in the note I wrote tho day you left that Bella worried uncompromising, and she positively glories In the drab ugliness of her rooms. Ugliness means to Bella re- spectability; any attempt at adorn- ment is 'daft-like.' "Pamela (she has asked me to call her that) trembles before her, and that makes Bella worse. She wants someone to stand up to her, to laugh at her grimness; she simply thinks when Pamela is charming to her that she is a poor creature. "She is charming to everyone, this lodger of Bella's. Jock and Mhor and and Mrs. M'Cosh are all at her feet. She brings us books and papers and chocolates and fruit, and makes us feel we are conferring the favor by accepting them. She is a real charm- er, for when she speaks to you she makes you feel that no one matters to her but just you yourself. And she is simple (or at least appears to be) ; she hasn't the Now-I-am-going-to-be- charming manner that is so difficult to bear. It is such fun talking to her, for she is very â€" pliable I think is the word I want. Accustomed to converse with people who constantly pull one up slvort with an 'Ah, now I don't agree,' or 'There, I think you are quite wrong,' it is wonderfully soothing to discuss things with someone who has the air of being convinced by one's I know, but ' make up • little, but he was diffleuit He was staying at the Temperance, and it seemed so forlorn that he should have no on* of bis own to come home to. He didn't look as if anybody liad ever made a fuss of him. I asked him to stay with u« for a week, but he wouldn't. I think he thought I was rather mad to ask him, and Pamela laughed at me about it . . She laughs , at me a good deal and calls me a sentimentalist.' .... "There is the luncheon bell. "We are longing for your letter to- morrow to hear how vou are settling down. Mrs. M'Coeh has baked some shortbread for you, which I shall post this afternoon. "Love from each of us, and Peter. â€"Your "Jean." arguments. It is weak, „ , , I'm afraid I agree with Mrs. M'Cosh, , , , , . , , ^f'V'"f*** 51 who described a friend as 'a rale nice lodger had arrived and that I had seen her, but I didn't realize then what a difference her coming would make to us. I never knew such a She clinks wi' every word buddy, ye say, "I am thinking to myself how Greataunt Alison would have dread CHAPTER VII. "You should never wear a short string of beads when you are wearing big earrings," Pamela said. "But why?" asked Jean. "Well, see for yourself. I am wear- ing big round earrings â€" right. I put on the oeads that match â€" quite wrong. It's a question of line." "I see," said Jean thoughtfully. "But how do you learn those things?" "You don't learn them. You either know them, or you don't. A sort of instinct for dress, I suppose." Jean was sitting in Pamela's bed- room. Pamela's bedroom it was now, certainly not Bella Bathgate's. The swinging looking-glass wneuYS ^JUr every meal â- BiaSMcaM* •Mr«el â- â- < • â-  -â- â€¢â- -M-B-0 bCD«lll â- â€¢ wrcll. Oo«4 imw Makes th« aczt clffar taste kcttsr. friendly person; she comes in at any Lj Pamela's influence. She would have sort of timeâ€" after 'breakfast, a few' ec„ {„ l^„ the personification of the minutes before luncheon, for tea, be-|^orld, the Flesh, and the Devilâ€" al tween nine and ten at night. Did I beit she would have been much im- tell you her name is Pamela Roston, pres.sed by her long descent: dear and her brother, who seems to be ^y^t Alison !:a"^"e. „«''0"*' .'"^ia somewhere is ..^11 the same, Davie, it is odd what Lord Bidborough ('A lord-no-less, as | g,, effect one's early training has. Mrs. M'Cosh would say). She calls : p.y^u remember how discouraged G.- him Biddy, and seems devoted to him. I ^ Alison was about our levity â€" espe- "Although she is horribly rich and cially mine? She once said bitterly an 'honorable,' and all that sort of ! that I was life the ell-womanâ€" hollow thing, she isn't in the least grand. She I because I laughed in the middle of never impresses one with her opulence the Bible lesson. And how antiquated as, for instance, Mrs. Duff-Whallcy ' ^nj gtuffy we thought her views, and does. Her clothes are Loautiful, but took pleasure "in assuring ourselves so much a part of her personality that | that we had got far beyond them, and you never think of them. Her pearls y^^ gpgnt an evening tea-less in your don't hit you in the face as niost oth-.'r ; ,.oom because you said you would no un-' rather be a Buddhist than a Disrup- , , - - , . ' ,^1""'' , tion Worthy â€" do you remember that? she IS lovely. Jock says she is like a, ..yps, but Great-Aunt Alison had greyhound, and I know what he means , builded better than she knew. When --It IS the long, swift, graceful way | p^mela laughs 'How Biblical' or says she has of moving. She says she is )„ her pretty, soft voice that our forty. I always thought forty wos'^rp^t-aunt's religion must have been quite old. but now It seem.s to me the „ hard and ugly thing, I get hot with clothing may be folded and hung on i hooks out of the way. Stockings and had other articles of daily use hung in been replaced^ by one which, according' marked bags solve the shortage-of- to Pamela, was at least truthful. "The j drawer question. Make with tight other one," she complained, "made me ; drawstring for articles stored awaj look pale green and drowned." ^ j^j^ opening in front like a A cloth of fine linen and lace cover-! , " 7 . , tvs-»o ;„ A^u-a m* ed the toilet-table, which was spread laundry bag for things in daily use. with brushes and boxes in tortoise- , Hats, shoes, furs and even extra sll- shell and gold, quaint^shaped bottles ' ver can thus be put away, for scent, and roses in a tall glass. I • â-  A jewel box stood o^n and Pamela I Highest Part of New Zealand, was pulling out earrings and neck- | ^he highest peak In New Zealand Is laces, rings and brooches for Jean's ^j jg^ feet high, amusement 1 ' "Most of my things are at the ~~" bank," Pamela was saying as she held up a pair of Spanish earrings made of rows of pearls. "They generally people's do. Because she is conscious of them, I suppose. are there, for I don't care a bit about ordinary jewels. These are what I like â€" odd things, old things, things picked up in odd corners of the world, things that have a story and a mean- ing. Biddy got me these tiirquoises in Tibet: that is a devil chtrm: isn't that jade delicious? I think I like Chinese things, best of all." She threw a string of cloudy amber round Jean's neck and cried, "My dear, how it becomes you. It brings out all the golden lights in your hair and eyes." Jean sat forward in her chair and looked at her reflection in the glass with a pleased smile. "I do like dressing-up," she con- fessed. "Pretty things are a great temptation to me. I m afraid if I had money I would spend a lot in adorning my vile body. ("To be continued.) 9 For Sore Feet â€" MInard's Llnlmtnt. lOOZ Striking Frock of Summer Silk Note the simple, graceful lines of the seml-fltted, long-walsted bodice with smart bateau neck and Bertba collar. Two styles of sleeves are provided, either of which are in good taste: the longer sleeves finished with a tuck above hem. Attached two-piece slightly gathered skirt with graduated tucks. Plain or printed stiks, challles or cotton fabrics may be used for thie model. Misses' dresfl No. 10O2 cut in sizes K, 18 and 20 jrears. Size 18 requires i^ yards 40 or 44 Inch mafertal, with yi yard plain material 86 or 40 lncb«a wide for Bertha ooUar. very prettiest age. Age doesn't roa.ly anger and I feel I must stick un- matter at all to people who have Kut , g.jygr^jngiy to the antiquated views faces and figures and manner.s iike ig jt because poor Great-aunt isn Pamela Reston. They will always make whatever age they are seem the perfect age. "I do wonder what brings her to Priorsford! I rather think that hav- ing been all her life so very 'twopence colored' she wants the 'penny plain' for a change; Perhaps that is why she likes The Rigs and us. There is no mistake about our 'penny-plainness' â€" it jumps to the eye! "1 am just afraid she won't stay very long. There are so many pretty little houses in Priorsford, and so many kind and forthcoming land- ladies, it was bad luck that she should choose Hillview and Bella Bathgate. Bella is almost liku a stage-caracature of a Scotswoman, so dour she is and NEW PATTERN SERVICE. Pattern mailed to any address on Itiade in Canada. PAY $5 DOWN And Get Yourself a REMINGTON PORTABLE To-day The Remington Portable has the regular keyboard and all other features of the Standard Reming- ton. It responds to the lightest and swiftest touch. It It strong and dependable. The beauty of Its writing It noteworthy. Yet It It at eaty to carry as a small hand-bag. For the professional man, the commercial traveller, the retail store-keeper, the ttudent. for all who with their corretpondence to be eaty and pleatant to read. the Remington Portable la the typewriter. Pay $5 down and you can have a Remington Port- able sent to your home immedi- ately. Further payments of $6 a month will complete purchaie. H. F. STILES VIce-Pies. and Managing Director. J. A. WRIGHT Sec'y and Provincial Manager. Mail (Ai.s coupon before you forget it. receipt of 20c in silver, by the Wilson Pattern Service, 78 Adelaide St West, Toronto. OUR NEW LIVING ROOM. I say "our" living room, for I have had the co-operation of the entire family consisting of my husband, daughter aged fourlee.-:, two smaller boys, the youngest eleven, and a wee toddler. Our kitchen and dini.ig room have always been on the north side of the house with a small window In the north and a larger one In the east This did verv well in summer when the doors could he open, but on cloudy winter days it was dreary from day- light till dark. This year we have changed things. The two south rooms which have al- ways been parlor and spare bedroom, u.iied only occasionally, will be kitchen and living room. There are two large double windowF in the south and the same in the west, a glass door and large window in the east container for needlework and games. When our room is finished, it will be 80 cozy we shall almost welcome the long winter evenings. Daughter is anxious for the room to be finished so she can invite her school friends in to spend the night with her. Tha boys are just as en- thusiastic. Their part will be to fix the windows for the plants and the box for baby's playthings. Father has ordered the rug and we shall soon be snug in the brightest room.s in the house. I have no fear that my chil- dren and husband will hunt amuse- ment in town or elsewhere. â€" P. H. J. poor here to make me? I don't know. "Mhor is really surprisingly naughty. Yesterday I heard angry shouts from the road, and then I met Mhor sauntering in. on his face the seraphic expression he wears when some nefarious scheme has prospered and in his hand the brass breakfast kettle. Me had been pouring water on the passers-by from the top of the wall. 'Only,' he explained to me, 'on tho men who wore hard black hats, who could swear.' "I told him the police would probab- ly visit us in the course of the after- noon, and pointed out to him how un- gentleman-likc was his behaviour, and ne said he was sorry; but I'm afraid he will .soon think of soma other wickedness. "He thinks he can do Anything he hasn't been told not to do, but how could I foresee that he would want to pour water on men with hard blaclft hats, capable of swearing? "I had almost forgotten to tell you, an old man came yesterday and want- ed to see over the house. You can im- agine what a scare I got â€" I made sure ho wanted to buy it; liut it turned out that he had lived at The Rigs as a bov, and had come back for old sake's sake. He looked ill and rather shabby and I don't believe life had been very good to him. I did want to try and DO YOU KNOWâ€" That bags of various sizes will help solve the question of lack of closet, shelf or drawer room? Made of cre- tonne or just plain sugar-sack muslin, all kinds of winter outer and under Here Is The Pump You Need SMART'S TANDEM DOUate ACTINO PXJMP Pumps more easily, more silently and moreefftoientlythantheAMn^Vpe I model which it has defmitelv repbced Repairs easily made with household tooa Can be drained to prevent freezing Easily primed. „.„„„. J^KABOUTITATVOUR HAROWASe STOBt ^ kJAMES SMARTPLANT BROCKVlU.i;.0NT. ' « Remington Typewriter Company of Canada. Limited 68 King St. West, Toronto, Ont, Pleflfo send me particulars re- garding the KeminKton Portable, Including p'.ana of purchase. Name AMress . â- ", W.L. A BATH BOARD FOR BABY. No one thing has been of greater value as a back, foot and time saver to me, In the care of my baby, than the bath board which my husband made to put across tho tub for baby's diapering and bath. We have n small house and a small- er bathroom. A nursery table was out of the question, so my" husband made a board to fit across one end of the bathtub. It is made with cleats under- neath so that it cannot slip and \%\ covered with oilcloth. The board is: 32 by 23 inches. \ On this board when baby was tiny; there was room for bath basket, small: I tub and baby himself. Later when he| In our living room will be comfy] was big enough to put into the big, rockers, an inviting couch, a warm tu^ '^ was so convenient to lift him' rug. a cozy corner back of the heater onto t^o board which I had previou.nly, with a pretty box for baby's play- covered with a large towel, wrap him things, plenty of geraniums in the' in the towel and continue with the windows, sofa pillows covered with rites of his bath with al! his thing.? i.i flowered cretonne. The same cretonne h'S basket in front of me. When hoj will be at double doors in place of por- tieres and also for overdrapes at the windows over inexpensive white cur- tain." whidh can be easily laundered. We shall have a library table in the! grew lirger the basket had to be , moved from the board to make room : for him, but there was always room for thj stack of diapers. | As long a.s diapering was necessary, ISSUE No. 24. centre of the room (with a good lamp i we used the board for that, and found land the late magazines and daily , it saved dozens of steps. Everything i paper) large enough so that the fam-l i.cedud wi>s right there. We are using lily can gather around in the evening the board yet for hath and dressing, 'i to study, read or play games. 1 have and 1 don't know what I will dn when \ a flat-top trunk which I shall pad baby outgrow* his bnlh board. .1. i with an old comforter and cover with I.. W. I ""^ u"*^""/ ^°' r»,''*"''m â- '?* t "'! Minard't Lmrment^HMli'^ute. I south window; this will also be • "" AERC CUSHION INNER TIRES Cdiiiio.sed of Pure Para Rub- ber, Highly Porous. PUNCTURES BLOW OUTS Rides Easy a.s Air. Doubles Mileage of Casings. WRITE FOR PARTICULARS. NO Aero Cushion Inner Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. Wingham - Ont. ISSUE No. 2eâ€" -24. paus9 and Yourseli A glass or a bottle •of Coca-Cola- Ice-cold, **with beaded bubbles 'winking at the brim/' invites you to delight taste, satisfy thirst and refresh yourself* Drink Sold everywhere at fountains and in bot- tles. The price is oo|y afcwpcnoict. Delicious and Refreshing The Coca-Cola Company of Canada, Ltd. Hwud Offie*t Toronto

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