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^ ) Muffins can help kecpyou'regiilar' Sy eating several every day, and drinking plenty of water, you can get •t constipation due to lack of dietary lullc"! II this is your trouble, try Keilogg's All-Bran Muffins t tablespoons % cup milk ahortenlnic 1 CUD sifted flout M cap sugar ]% teaspoun salt 2^ teaspoons bakins 1 cup KclloKK'a puwtU-r All-Biao TABLE TALKS SADIE B. CHAMBERS Blend shortening and sugar thorough- ly; add egg and beat well. Stir in JUI-Bran and mUk; let soak until most at moisture is taken up. Sift flour with nit and baking powder. Add to first mixture and stir only until flour dls- l^pears. Fill greased muffin pans two- Ibirds fvUl and bake in moderately hot •ven (400°P.) about 30 minutes.Yield: I larse muflSns. 4«^2^»^ ALL-BRAN Hade by Kellogg's In London, Canada When Mom's Down .When Mother is under the weather. Our household comes sort of unghied! You know what I mean. It's easily ceeu We're all in an unpleasant mood. Pop struggles downstairs in py- jamas Anf fixes the furnace and lights The teakettle fire. You'd simply expire To see Father put things to rights. H« turns 'on the light in our bed- room And says, "Mother's staving in bed; She's not feeling good." Then it's understood W« have to get breakfast, instead. There's no cheery talk at the tuble; We have to prepare our own lunch And pack it for school, according to rule: We're not an exuberant bunch. When Mother is under the weather There's no one checks clean necks and such; And nothing seems right cither morning or night; I'm glad she's not sick very much. â€" Casual, in Chicago Tribune. Khaki rayon stockings for talking out'' are being issued aaembers of the Canadian Women's Army Corps, it has been announc- •d at National Defence Headquar- Phonograph Records Tbousands of popular dunce â- elttcttons to uhoose from. Also Automatic Phonographa available for Rent. Write for particulurs. Vigneux Bros^ Automatic Phonographs 980 BAY ST., TORONTO Requests Here's hoping these "request" recipes will be useful and the results appctiniiiji. Bran Carrot Pudding y'l cup shortening 1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs V/i cups grated riiw cnrrots Yi cup all-bran V/i cups sifted flour '/i teaspoon mitnicg IJ-j teaspoon baking powder '/i teaspoon salt % cup milk 1 teaspoon lemon extract Blend shortening and sugar to- gctlier until fluffy. Add the un- beaten cRg yokes, beating well after each addition, Stir in carrots anilall-bran. .Sift tlbur and other dry ingredients, stirring into batter altern.ttely with the milk. Add flavoring; fold in the stiff y beaten egg whites. Bake in a greased baking pan for one hour in moderate" oven, .serve with orange sauce. Orange Sauce fi cup sugar ,1 tablespoons sifted flour }i teaspoon salt I'j rups boiling water 3 tablespoons grated carrot 2 tablespoons orange juice 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 tablespoons butter Mix sugar, flour and salt to- getlier. .Vdu water slowly, stirring constantly. Add carrot, juices and butter. Cook over hot water until thickened and flour is cooked, about 20 minutes. Serve hot on pud- ding. :H * * Carrot Custard Pie Cook three or four carrots in as little water as possible. Rub through a course sieve and use 1 cupful of mi.xture. Any left over could be use<l ill meat patties, etc. To 1 cup of sieved carrot add 1 scant cup of sugar, 2 or 3 eggs, X cup of milk, 1 teaspoon allspice, pinch of ginger, Ji teaspoon salt, J4 teaspoon vanilla, Pour into pastrj' lined plate and gake in moderate oven luitil done. t * * Mincemeat Pudding 1 cup mincemeat lYi cups .loiir 1 teaspoon baking powder 54 teapsoou salt }i cup butter Yi cup sngar 1 egg y^ cup milk Grease six muffin pans. Put a spoonful of mincemeat in each. Sift f4our; measure, and sift with baking powder and salt. Cream butter; blend in sugar. Add egg and beat until the mixture is light. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk. Add vanilla. Turn into pans over the mincemeat and and bake in moderate oven for abont .30 minutes. Remove from pans and serve hot, mincemeat side up, with a pudding sauce. MIr« Chambers welconica [leraonal letter* from ImtererBted reader*. Sbe la pleaaed to receive •UKKe*tlonB on toi»lea for her colunin, and la BinayM ready to llaten to your "vet peevea." lleqaeata (or reuipea or apeciol nienua are tn order. Addreaa your lettera to «MI» Sadie 11. Chanibern, 73 Weat Adelaide St., Toronto." Send atamped ael(-ad- dreued enTelope If Tou wlab a cepl7. CONSERVE FABRICS SAVE MONEY jTintex jr TINTS OR ' DYES BLACK DAWN ROSSEAU CHAPTER XVII SYNOPSIS Dave Bruce, out of a job, arrives at Wilbur Ferris' Cross-Bar ranch. Curran, the foreman, promises him o job if he can break a horse called Black Dawn, When he succeeds, he discovers Curran expected the horse to kill him. A girl named Lois rides up, angry with Dave for breaking 'her" horse. She re- fuses to speak to Dave even when he uses his savings to pay off the mortgage on the small ranch she shares with her foster father, a man named Hooker. But when Hooker is shot and Dave is charged with murder, Lois saves him from being lynched. Wounded, she guides hitn to a mountain cave where she thinks they will be safe from Curran and the sherif's posse. MeEinwhile. a quarrel between Fer- ris and Judge Lonergan reveals that Ferris had killed his partner, Blane Rowland, many years before. Lonergan ushered Ferris out into the street, closed the door, and strode briskly in the direction of the courthouse, outside which a knot of men was already milling. Ferris got on his horse and rode ilowly back toward his ranch, tak- casy in the, bunkhuusc after his night's ride. .-\nd when they reached the oifice, lie .said, "Cur- ran, 1 reckon you and nic haven't pulled together as well as we might have done. I'm in a jam now. Maybe us two could get together." jk « * Currans eyes narrowed. "I nev- er bore yuh no ill fceliu's, Mr. Ferris," he answered. "Course I knew yuh didn't exactly like Judge LoniTgan's puttin' nic in here, but I done my l)est lor yote spread." "Lonergan's got me by the ihruat," .said the ranchman bitterly, and recounted tlieir conversation of that morning. "But so far as I luiderstood, yuh've kept up the mortgage in- t'rest," said (Juran. "And the mortgage lias got another eighteen months to run." "Damn him, he's got something on me!" exploded Ferris. "Some- thing that happened before I came into the valley, that he could put me behind bars for. He's aimin' to treat mc the way lie was goin' to treat old Hooker. When he's cleaned up on my ranch, how long d'you think your job will last?" "Yeah, I been thinkin' about that myself," Curran confes.'icd. Ferris asked the question tliat he "Yuh ain'tâ€" ain't cryln", girl?' ing the opposite direction til! he got clear of the town. Suddenly blind rage filled Ferris' heart. .Vnd, according to the na- ture of the man, it did not show Itself upon his face, which became a mask. Stupidly, blindly trying to find reality in this new confus- ion, Ferris rode back toward his ranch house with a sudden resolu- tion formed. Weak, irresolute, he was follow- ing the traditional line of least re- •istance in seeking a confidant. And Curran, the foreman, was the man he sought. He was throwing himself upon the mercy of the man between whom and himself there had been undeclared enmity ever •ince Lonergan made Curran fore- man of the Cross-Bar outfit. "Want to see you in the office," he told Curran, who was taking it Smart Capelet Priorilies on fuel have made capelets ride the crest of fashion. When the furnace burns low throw this woolly bit of crocheted warmth about your chilly shoulde.'°s. Look pretty as only a capelet can make you look. The puff and knot stitch ar« quick to do. Pattern 761 con- tains directions for capelet. Send twenty cents in coins (stamps cainiot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Necdlccrnft Btpt., Room 421, T.-i Adelaide St. West. Toronto. VVritc plainly P.it- t«rn number, your name and Ad- dress. had asked Lonergan: "Why was Lonergan so interested in that Hooker girl?'' * * * Curran grinned. "Most folks think she's his daughter," he said. "Don't bear no resemblance to him, of course, but she may take arter her mother. I never seen Mrs. Hooker; she died before I come here." "I've heard that story, hut I don't believe it." "You think the sheriff will get Bruce and that girl?" he asked in the meanwliile. "I dunno,'' said Curran. "Lois Hooker, she knows the mountains like that herd of broncs she trails arter her. If they got eno\igh food, they kin hide up till all int'rest in the affair has died out, so far as the sheriff's concerned. But I'll tell yuh sometliing. I'm goin' to git her." Curran knew his man. "I dunno what Lonergan's got on yuh, Fer- ris," he said, "but I ain't trustin' that feller further than I kin see him. And I guess there's plenty of folks in Mescal who wouldn't cry their eyes out if anything happened to him." The ranchman's eyes met Cur- ran's. "You mean â€" you mean â€" ?" he stammered. "I could do with a share in the Cross-Bar," said Curran bluntly. "I ain't the kind who'd ride yuh down the way Lonergan's doin'. .And what I had on you, you'd have on mc, I guess. A third share's all I'd ask." ".Suppose â€" sujiposc lijane Row- land ever came back?" the ranch- man quavered. "He's still half- owner. If he hadn't made that m.nd break wlien he thought the (toss- Bar was goin' smarshâ€" " "Yuh needn't worry about him," grinned Curran. "He won't come back. First place, he'd be facin' a long term in the pen, and second place, he'd have to make restitu- tion of that money stole, which re- presents purty nigh half the value of tl'.e ranch." "What's your proposal?" "I ain't inakin' none. Ferris. It come from you. I was only sayin', nobody's goin' to lay roses on his grave.' "When â€" how â€" what's voiir plan?" whispered Fcrri.s, spilling a trail of whisky over the floor .is he WAKE UP VITAU1Y ^HOr BREAKHST * Nature stored more of the great growth and vitality element â€" pioteia â€" ia whole grain oatmealâ€" thao ia any other natural cereal you can serve your familyl Today, with less meat protein availablei your family needs this extra vitality protection of Quaker Oats more than ever! Quaker Oats is so outstanding that it con^ tains nine out of deren food elements abort in many present day diets! Serve delicious Quaker Oats daily; Children simply love Quaker Oats. It*! so smart to protect your family's health and vitality by serving the one best cereal when so many other foods are rationed; QUAKER OATS Tlie Quakiir Oats Company ot Caiuula Limited tried to rclill his drink. "Just leave it to me, and I'll keep- yuh posted, Ferris,'' answered Curran. "I've got to give Lonergan his answer within the next two days," the ranchman protested. "Stall liim off," said the foreman. "String him along a day or two more, and if he insists tell him to go plumb to hell. .'Vll you need to do is keep a stiff top lip. I'm glad you and me had this talk. It clears up things consid'rable. Yuh won't see much of me the next day or two, because I'll be on a lone wolf hunt in the mountains. But I'll let yuh know when the trap's sprung." He went out of the office, reeling slightly, humming a song. Ferris watched him with new, dawning hope. (Continued Next Week) The Sunflower As A Grain Crop Two Outstanciing Varieties Developed By Canadian Plant Breeders Interest in the sunflower as a grain crop came about largely be- cause of the shortage of edible vegetable oils in Canada soon after the outbreak of the present war, states Dr. T. M. Stevenson, Dominion Agrostologist. Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. The ensilige varieties which were tall growing and late matur- ing, were not suited as a grain crop in most areas. However, other types were availalbe. Can- adian plant breeders had, some years prior to the outbreak of â- war, recognized the possibility of using the sunflower as a grain crop, chiefly is a source of vege- table oil. They set about to de- velop varieties suitable for grain production on a large scale. They decided first of all that such varieties must be serai-dwarf in habit of growth and early m<itur- ing so that they could be harvest- ed satisfactorily by ordinary farm machinery. Furthermore, the new varieties had to meet certain standards of perfection respecting oid content and oil quality. Two Outstanding Varieties The two oiUstanding varieities which resulted from that work are "Sunrise" and "Mennonite". Ap- proximately ;!O,00O acres of these varieties were grown for grain in the prairie provinces in 1943. It is estimated that this crop will yield over ISJi million pounds of seed. This crop is capable of providing 4]'^ million pounds of high quality edible oil and more th;,n 2,2,')0 tons of excellent, high protein oil meal suitable for stock feed. Tn .nddition there will he .in abundance of seed available to enable us to meet the .10,000 acre objective set for 1944. The devclo.jment and produc- tion of sunflo .ers for grain con- stitutes another worthwhile con- tribution from agriculture to the war effort. Men o^ Canadian Navy Given Praise A. V. -Mcxander, First Lord ot the Admiralty paid tribute recent- ly to the men of the Royal ('ana- dian Navy. "Remarkable expansion of Cana- dnii naval and air forces engaged in the Battle of the .Atlantic, and their skilful deployment and gal- lant handling in appalling weather conditions have been important factors in the Uiiitcd Nations' ef- foiis to get the measure of Jhe U-boat," he said. He added the R.C.N, now pro- vides more than two-fifths of the ocean-going escorts in the North Atlantic, while the R.C.A.F. has undertaken one-quarter of the operations against U-boats in that theatre. Many Canadians .ii* also serv- ing in the Royal Kavy and the R..\.F., he said, riie R.C.X.'s man- power-strength now approaches tlat of the Royal Navy in peace- time. He enumerated the many dec- orations awarded Canadian Navy men and added that Canada and the Uilited Kingdom now were mainly responsible for the control and protection of the great North- ern Atlantic convoys. On the east coast of Eng-land miUions of tons of earth aro wash- ed away by the sea every year. MISTER BIG! He looks pretty small alongside Ruth Nunley, 6 ft. 1 in., 254 pounds. He's Johnny Houston. 4 it. 4 in., 180 rounds. Both work at Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., Evansville, Ind. ^^ ^^ YOU CAN'T BEAT BUCKLEY'S MIXTURE Skin Eruptions Ucro is a clean, stalnlc^.^, pone- tratiMK antiseptic nil tJiiit IjrinK!" spuedy relief from tlia itching unil dL-^comfort. Not onl.v docs this lic.aline ^ntip- cplii: oil promote rapid and lipalthy hcHliiiK in open sorts and wounds but boilH and simple ulcers are ul.so loliovcd. In skin :iffeolioiis tlie itciiimj of Bezema i.s quickly stopped. 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