TABLE TALKS SAOIE B. CHAMBERS Some Mushroom Suggestions We feel that the fine quality of Kushrooms on the market just â- ow entitilcs them to our respectful •ttention. Here are one or two fccipes worthy of the best efforts •f the best mushrooms and the best cooks. Mushrooms Au Gratin J4 lb. mushrooms 1 sliced onion £ tablespoons shortening a tablespoons flour 1 cup mushroom stock made from sterrs J4 cup bread crumbs dash of pepper yi teaspoon paprika 1 tab.espoon butter Ji teaspoon ^alt juice of one lemon Peel mushrocnu and sprinkle lalt over them to extract the water. Fry onion in shortening; add flour and brown; add stock and then •easonings; cook until it is thick- ened. Drain musnrooms aid add to the sauce. Place in baking, dish, sprinkle with buttered bread mimbs and bake until crtimbs are ilightly browned Rice with Mushrooms 1 tablespoon chopped onion 1 teaspoon chopped parsley 2 tablespoons chopped carrot S tablespoons chopped celery ii tablespoons butter or oil J4 cup hot water ISSUE 14â€"1944 My Growing cant wait for .Peace! That's Why I Need Whofe Grain Qaoker Oats . . . Richest of All Natural Cereals in Growing Factor Protein! Yes, realoitmenl leads all natural cereals in protein, the very thing that is meat's main element. Children must have pro- tein for normal growth, .\dults must have it for stamina and to help fight fatigue. Nature richly stored so many important food elements in Whole-Grain OatmeaL It stands alone among cereals. Give your £unily its wondertul protcctioa daily, now that so many foods •ra scarce and rationed. Get a package at your Srocers today â€" start each day with this whole- â- ome, delicious, VThole- â- â- Muni lal Grain breakfast. BsQEbI^ n« QcKkCT Oiti ComMaji ^ af Cbiads Linitod. QUAKER OATS 99 **I said good-bye to Constipation! Tve given up pills and harsh cathartics. I found my consti- Ction was due to :k of "bulk" in â- y diet â€" and I discovered that KELLOGG'S ALL- â- BAN is a perfectly . tpod way to get at the' cauae, and, hrip correct itl" If this is your trouble, stop dos- i«g" with harsh pur- grtivesâ€" with their lack of lasting nBef ! Try eating a serving of all-br.\n dkUy , with milk, or sprinkled over other •ncals. Or, eat several .AiL-BR.\N muf- â- â- daily 1 Drink plenty of water. Get KELLOGGS ALL BRAN at VOUT ^ocer's todayâ€" in either of 2 conveni- Mt sizes. Made by KeJlogg's in Lon- 9H, Canada. ARMY NURSING HEAD Principal Matron (Major) Dorothy I. MacRae, R.R.C. of Gould, Que., whose appointment as Matron in Chief of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Ser- vice and promotion to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel has been an- nounced. She succeeds Colonel Elizabeth L. Smellie, C. B. E., R. R. C. whose retirement from the R.C.A.M.C. and return to the Vic- torian Order of Nurses for Canada took place on March 23. 2 teaspoons salt J4 teaspoon pepper 10 small fresh mushrooms J4 cup rice 3 cups hot water J4 cup grated cheese Mix together onion, parsley, celery and carrot. Put in saucepan with two tablespoons of oil, and cook about 7 minutes, .^dd hot water, salt and pepper. Cut mushrooms into small pieces and add to the sauce. Sim- mer 30 minutes. Place 3 table- spoons oil in pan; add rice and saute until rice is dry and brown. Add 3 cups of hot water gradually and simmer 13 minutes. Cook until rice is tender. .\dd grated cheese just l)fiorc serving. Serves 4. Mushroom and Egg Stuffing 2 ci ps bread crumbs stock or water to moisten - inch cube of fat salt pork v. finely chopped) 1 hard cooked egg Ji lb. mushrooms (sliced and sauted in butter) Salt and pepper ;4 teaspoon poultrj' seasoning The amount of mushroom may be varied. This recipe makes 3 cups. When making for turkey of ten to twelve lbs. use 10 cups of bread cruiitbs jlnd add 1 beaten egg. Mis» I'bnnihcrs «%elcnntc9 pcrsunn) letters front tnterefitcd reaclem. Sbe !â- picuaed to receive â- acKCstiun* on topics for her colamn, and Is always ready to listen to your "pet peeves.'* Requests fur recipes or speoinl menus are Id order. Address your letters to ".Miss Sadie B. Chambers, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto." Send stamped self-ad- dressed envelope If you ivlsli e reply. Hydro May Build More Rural Lines Throe hu.'idred miles of rural Hydro lines will be constructed in Ontario next summer if the prob- lems of labor and materials do not interfere with the program, Hydro Qiairman George Challies (P.C, Grenville-Dundas) informed the Legislature recently. Mr. Challies said the commis- sion has accepted -l.OOO farm con- tracts and 2,000 urban contracts for electrical services, the largest volume in the history of the Prov- ince for a like period. "Last year 44 miles of rural Hy- dro line were constructed,'' said Mr. Challies. "We are asking the Dominion authorities to let us con- struct 300 miles of rural line this summer. If we can get labor and materials we will carry out this program as fast as possible." In reply to an Opposition ques- tion, Mr. Challies said the 300-mile program would be divided among all parts of the Province on the basis of need. Abolition of the rur- al service charge would result in a possible loss of revenue to the commission of $527,000, but increas- ed use of power would offset that, It was explained. Stubborn Dutch When the captain of a Nether- lands coastal vessel now operating in a British port received a remark about the extremely soiled flag he wa.s flying, he repHed: "With this flag I left the Netherlands dur- ing the invasion. I will not take it down till Holland is free again. Then my wife can launder it as she always did." â€" The Netherlands Government Information Bureau, Montreal. r^t' V BLACK DAWN By .^J VICTOR . -^ ROSSEAU CHAPTER XXIII SYNOPSIS Dave Bruce, out of a job, arrives at Wilbur Ferris' Cross-Bar ranch. Curran, the foreman, promises him a 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 refuses to speak to him even when he uses his savings to pay off the mortsage en the smail 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 him to a mountain cave where she thinks they will be safe from Cur- ran and the sheriff's posse. A quarrel between Ferris and Judge Lonergan reveals that Ferris had killed his partnci, Blane Rowland, many years before. Thoroughly the pen. Curran, who was stand- ing beside Ferris, interposed. "You was speakin' of killin' judge," he said, "and that sure hurt my feelings and Mr. Ferris.. Be- sides which, there was a little mis- understandin'. We got the funeral staged all right, but we ain't got the right corpse." Lonergan turned around. "Just what do you mean by that?" he demanded. "Youl" shouted Curran â€" not at Lonergan but at the ranclmian. With a bound he was upon Fer- ris, and had twisted the levolver out of his hand. At the same in- stant Lonergan's hand appeared from the flap of the saddle, holding another gun in it- In the brief interval before the shots that followed, Ferris saw the trap, and understood that he had foreseen Curran's treachery quite well, in the depths of his subcon- sciousness. He screamed twice as the two heavy slugs from the guns of Lonergan and Curran ploughed 'Lois:" His voice went out In a cry of fury. scared, Ferris takes Curran into his confidence. When Dave is away from the cave, Curran kidnaps Lois. Meanwhile Dave discovers a human skeleton with a bullet hole through the skull. When he later finds Lois gone, he heads straight for Hooker's ranch and there finds Sheriff Coggswell. He convinces Coggswell of his innocence and together they start for the cabin where they have learned Lois is being held prisoner and where un- known to them, Ferris and Curran are plannig to kill Judge Lonergan. Lonergan sat down witli a scowl. "I've got no time to waste, Ferris," he said in his most judicial man- ner.. "I consented to come here •nd talk with you, because Curran told me you had something here to show me. .Well, where is it, and what's the point ot it all?" Curran winked at Ferris as he atood behind Lonergan's back. Lon- ergan went on: "I understand you're willing to accept my oflei.. But what is it that you've got to show me here?" "Here's what I got o show yuh, Lonergan!'' shouteo the ranchman, luddeuly drawing a revolver from his armpit. "Desperate? Yeah, and you miscalculated, because you trusted the wrong party when you let Curran bring you here. You've houndc'I me too long, Lonergan. I warned you the other day in Mes- cal.. Now you're going to sign an agreement making over to me all yore claims on the Cross- Bar, or I'll kill youl" * * * Lonergan had sprung to his feet. But Curran .as at his side, cover- ing him too. The foreman stepped forward and drew a revolver from Longergan's 'potket. "That's right, Lonergan," grinned Curran. "You slipped up some when yuh come here. Now set down and sign the paper on this table. Yuh don't need to read it. .Ml yuh got to do is to .iffix yore signature. Mr. Ferris and me will do the rest." "And suppose I do sign," said Lonergan, apparently weakening, "how do I know you're not plan- ning to kill me afterward?" "Kil yuh, Mr. Lonergan?" jeered Curran. "Why, we ain't murder- ers, and you and Ferris has got too much on each other to make it seemly for to kill yuh. He's just aimin' to git back what yuh took from him by the processes of fraud. Nobody won't interfere with yuh alter we got yore name signed. Yuh can ride straight home." With a shrug of his shoulders Lonergan gave in. ".My pen's in my saddle-flap with some papers," he announced. "That's all right. Mr. Lonergan," said Curran. ."Mr. Ferris and me will just accompany yuh outside and help yuh find it. Keep him covered, Ferris. I guess he's uill «f tricks." • * • Loncrsan moved slowly out of the cabin to where his horse was standing, a litdc beyond tho others, the rein-, tlirown over the slump of a tree. He lilted the flap of his sad- dle and affcctc<l to be loiikir.jj for their way through the upper part of his body, reeled, and dropped like a log down the slope into the ravine. « « • Curran fired a second shot as Ferris'<y>edy was in the act of fsVijn' Slid turned to his companion wij5 a grin. *H\'elI- there-s one hombre won't INVASION BLOCKADE? Framed by the barrel of what Nazis say is a long-range cossial defense gun, are concrete fortificarions built by Germans aicr.g English Channel "invasion coast." Photo from neutral sources. spcn^T n:a:erial whicli itse;; has some shock-absorption qualiiies. Bomber crews wear them cnly over a target where the ack-a^rk is heavy and as soon as they are oui of range they remove them. The garmcr.ts weigh around 40 pounds. A navigator in a B-25, says he knows of only one instance in which a man was saved by a flak «u:t â€" "but one was enough to cor.-ince me they're worth wearing." make no more trouble, he said. "I'll spade him under in the niorn- in':" L-.ut Lonergan was shaking. "Get me that drink, Curran," he said. "Why did you make that play? There were moments when I wasn't sure you were not double-crossiny me." "Double-crossin' yuh, Mr. Loner- gan? Why, I thought yuh had more confidence in me than that," replied the foreman. "I made that play so as that girl inside wouldn't know just what was happenin'. Ferris Ixad to go. He was gittin' too wise. It sure was hard to keep from laughin', him thinkin' it was you who was goin' to be bumped off in- stead of himself. What's that?" (Continued Next Week's Flak Suits Given Airmen In Pacific The flak suit has arrived in the South Pacific airfields and while it is an uncomfortable item of haber- dashery the Ijoys are glad to have it. It is a sleeveless shoulders-tc- hips packet cont ining sheets of armor plate 'abricated into soft. iOVCHS ^^ ^^ vnii rANT p. 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