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GIVE CLOTHES TO WAR VICTIMS OCt. 1st fo 20th Taka your conlrlbullenf to your noarotl Peit Offlc* or any official «<*». COULECTION DEPOT. TEA i;iI10NICLES ol GiNGER FARM By Gwendoline P. Clarke Having scpniatcd tlie skins anil the pulp from three basicets ol ferapes; and having sel tlie same on tho stove to simmer, I .may, percliance, snatcli a few moments to have a chat with you. When I was leaving the Ititchen just now son Bob called out "Come quickly, Mom, before It's too late . . .see what's on the win- dow-sill." 1 came . . .'.uul 'on tlje dining-room sill what did' i see but a roal live hen-pheasant; Un- (o.-tunately our movements scared the bird and it flew down and a- way. Feathe.red foul around here seem to be fond of finding queer places hi which to roost. We keop an en'n pail hanging from a beam In the hen-pen and yesterday wliat should I find but a pullet making her nost in that .same pail. How she ever got to it 1 will never know. And every night in the \vs chstnut tree at the back of the house tliere are about twenty-five chickens â€" some pullets, some roosters, perched on the highest branches of the tree. We are not afraid of chicken thieves getting them because before anyone could climb the tree tlie birds would be FQuawking and fluttering to the fround. Naturally birds that are fond of the high spots are not too particu- lar where they lay their eggs so that we find nests in the most In- accessible places. A favourite place is in the straw mow where Relieve Headache Quick! Jake ASPIRIN I It's r$ady to go to work in K4S 2 secojtds \ I lo prova how fast Aspirin U ready to go to work, just drop one in a glaaa of water. "Clock" its disintc(rat- ing action with a itopwatch. Within two teconda, you'll ace it itart to diainttgrate. It doca the aame in your â- tomach. Thot'a why it atopa head- ache! in quickly. Oct Aspirin todoy I The "B"yrr" croaa on each tablet ia | your guarantee *hat iff Aspirin, AspiÂ¥ii ^^(i^>NewLowPri€es! Pocka* box of 1 2i , . , . only II* Economy bottla of 24 . . only Mt Family lit* of 100 • . . onlyTVi <.o reach them one must slither and slide, getting one's hair and shoes lull of prickly bits of straw, often so small they are almost Im- possible to find. . . . brother, can they scratch! • • • Well, how does everybody like being back on standard time'f Personally we haven't noticed any difference at all We get up at the same time as before. Irrespective of clocks â€" only it just means wait- ing an hour longer for our dinner. Which just reminds me of some- thing I was tliinking about the other day. Circumstances drove me to the conclusion that it doesn't pay to be out of step with the rest of the world. It was like this: For the first time in â€" ^I don't know how many years â€" we didn't rut in an appearance at our local fair. Partner is still in the hos- pital and 1 didn't feel much like going. But still I had to go down town some time to I thought It might be a good idea to get my chopping done while the rest of the folks were fairing. But it did- n't work out that way. You see every store I went to had a notice tacked upâ€" "Closed until 5. p.m." So you see what 1 mean when 1 say it doesn't pay to be out of step with the rest of the world, particularly in one's own com- munity. • • • Now 1 must fly â€" my ears and nose tell me that my grapes are no longer simmering â€" the.y are boiling over. Bob says it smells like a still in the house. I must make a note of that and ask him what he knows about stills. And now tho telephone is ringing. . . The grapes have been pushed to one side. I don't feel much like attending to them now because the telephone call was from Daughter. She had just came from tho hospital and left her Dad just coming out from sui anae- sthetic â€" an anaesthetic which was necessary for an examination that had to be made. Now I'm wondering whether 1 should be there. I was at the hospital yes- terday, and shall be tomorrow but right now I am here and wishing I was there. Oh dear . . . It*« Easy To Soften Hard Brown Susrar In this day when no liousewife handles sugar with reckless hands, the bricklikc aspect sometimes as- sumed by brown sugar can be especially baffling, according to the Christian Science Monitor- But there's an easy way to soften it, so that it can be measured just as thriftily as its present value dictates. First, break the sugar up â€" using a hammer or hatchet if necessary (I)ut carefully!) â€" suffi- ciently to get it into a jar or can for which you have a tight cover. Then put in with the sugar, a slice oif bread and cover the jar. That's all there is to it! In a few days, the sugar will be in a soft and measurable <<tatc. COlOOR^ACte/ ALL-FABRIC CURIOSITY â€" %^.-J Curiosity didn't kill "Mac," New York kitty, but it sure did cure ins nosiness. In top photo Mac pokes around a box and knocks off the lid. Look out there I Well, we told you, Mac â€" and that wasn't any catnip you got; it was "V-J," a turtle, who nipped your nose. TARLEJ'ALKS Supper Dishes With a golden sunset, an au- tumn breeze and a purple haze over the fields we wonder what's cooking for supper. Perhaps Mo- ther will catch the spirit of the evening and serve a typically au- tumn supper. The three suggestions given l)y the Consumer Section of the Do- minion Department of Agricul- ture arc for good hot supper dishes. The stuffed peppers have a grand flavor and the meat pan- cakes are guaranteed to make a hit with men folk. Stuffed Peppers 1 cup macaroni or spaghetti, K> inch pieces 4 cups boiling water 1 teaspoon salt 6 sweet red or green peppers J4 cup chopped onion 2 tal)lcs-poons fat 1 cup ground cooked beef 1 teaspoon salt Dash of pepper 1 tablespoon chopped parsley J-4 cup whole wheat bread crunilis Cook I lie macaroni or spaghetti in salted boiling water for 20 minutes; drain and rinse. Mean- while cook the peppers S minutes in salted boiling water. Rinse in cold water, cut in half lengtluvise or crosswise, remove the seeds, drain well. Saute the onion in fat until clear, add beef, salt, pepper, parsley, tlien macaroiji or spa- ghetti; mix thoroughly. Remove from heat. Kill the peppers with the meat mi.xture. Sprinkle the bread crumbs on top and bake in moderately hot oven, 375 deg. F, until peppers are tender but not shrivelled, about 20 minutes. Six servings. Meat Pancakes 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour OR 2J4 cups sHted pastry flour 3 tea.spoons baking powder _ A lingerie lovely that will mil ride up â€" it fits so well! Pattern 47J4 inctude.<! matching panties and an embroidery transfer pattern. Pattern 474 1 in sizes K'. 14, 1«, 18, 20; 30, 32, 34, :ifi, 3S, 40, 42, 4i. Size Ifi, slip, S'ii yds. :)'.lincli fabric; panties, 1!^ yds. Send twenty rents (20c.) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Ro«iii 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print plainly size, name, ad<lress, style number. 5^ teaspoon salt l'/3 cups milk 2 eggs, well beaten 1 tablespoon fat, melted 1 cup ground cooked beef Mi.x and sift dry ingredients. Add milk to beaten eggs and stir into dry ingredients; mix until smooth, add melted fat and meat. Pour from a pitcher or cpiarter- cup measure on to a hot, lightly greasted griddle. Cook until edges are done and bubbles on top begin to break. Turn and cook on other side Serve at once with tomato sauce. Makes IG pancakes about 5 inches in diameter. Egg Plant Creole 8 tablespoons fat J-'j small green pepper, cut in strips 2 tablespoons chopped onion 1 medium eggplant, peeled and diced 5 large tomatoes Salt and pepper Melt fat in frying pan. Add chopped green pepper and onion, and cook for a few minutes. Add eggplant. Cover â- w\ steam lor .'.bout 5 minute.^. Peel and chop tomatoes, add to eggplant and cook uncovered until eggplant is tender, about 15 minutes. Season to taste. Six servings. How Can 11 By Anne Ashley Q. How can I determine the cor- rect time for boiling chicken, fish, and ham? A. A good table is: Chicken, per pound, 20 minutes. Fish, per pound, 10 minutes. Ham, per pound, 25 minutes. U. How can I give a \j;hite layer cake a good flavor? A. When baking a white layer cake, a very delicate flavor may be obtained by placing two or three rosc-gcraniuni leaves in the bot- tom of the pan. Remove them when the cake is put together. Q. Should iron utensils be boiled before using? A. Ves; before using new uten- sils of ironware boil them witli so- da. VVlien in the store they are greased to keep them from rusting. Q. How can I bleach. laces and fine muslins? A. Wash in one gallon of water to which has been added one table- spoonful borax dissolved in a little boiling water. Q. How can I prevent the linen tablecknh from sticking to the ta- ble? A. .\ piece of wa.xed paper or oil- cloth placed under the linen which covers a tabic will prevent .sticking to the polished surface during hot weather. It also prevents stains from overturned receptacles. Britain Tries Out New Small Thresher A new simple harvester of spe- cial value foi small farms is being tried out at Kveshani in central F.ngland. Although it costs no more than a binder the machine threshes standing ciirn (wheat) and preliminary trials over fifteen acres have shown it doe.-t the work smoothly and speedily. The grain is guided by prongs in the front of the liarvestcr so that the heads are caught in a miniature drum, tbieshed and then released. A sacking board at the back carries two sacks of grain. The York- jhiie IV>st states that apart from the siie and cost it differs from the ordinary eondilne harvester in that it d.M's not cul citu but sim- ply threshes it, lea\ing the straw standing in the field. THAT COUNTS Oitp, OTcn-freth flavour . . . uni.'ormir tender temiire.,.perfe«t l>akiaj{,..all add op to duiitie Qualitr. No voodcf folks prtier Chrinie'l Premium Soda Crackeral ChruAies Biscuits '.^â- Â«â- :â- ^;*:â- >»eâ- :•^:wM^^;Kâ- :â- ^W Chriilies PREMIUM SODA CRACKERS DARK UGHTNING gr HELEN TOPPING MILLER CHAPTER I Mona Lee Mason was lost the moment she looked at Gary Tall- man, standing there waiting for a ride at the filling station. He had sandy, curly hair and an engaging smile, and he walked up calmly and with naive confidence., "I'm Gary Tallman, from .Alaba- ma," he said, in an educated voice overlaid withi^i southern drawl. "Would you let me ride into town with you? I missed the bus, and it's pretty important that I get into San Antonio tomorrow. I assure you that I'm perfectly safe. You can have this man search me, if you like." Mona Lee locked at him. He was a nice looking young man, with frank gray eyes- His tan riding pants and boots had cost money, and his one suitcase was of good leather. She said as kindly as she could, "I'm not in the habit of picking up people. . ." "Xatiirally," he agreed. "I knew that when I looked at you." "My husband â€" " began Mona Lee uneasily. "I know. He's probably a very wise husband." He smiled at her. "But I'ni a petroleum engineer from â€" " he named a good univer- sity â€" "on the way to a job." "My son-in-law is in oil. Leases." Mona Lee mentioned the company, stalling for time. "Up with the big fellows, is he? I've been tr_>-ing to get in there, but they're not taking on any geo- physic men. But there's a chance in Mexico â€" if you're willing to work cheap!}-." * • * Gary Tallman smiled- For the last seventeen years, Mona Lee Ma- son had been feeling a sick jerk of agony wlicnever she saw a tall boy with sandy, curly hair. Because little Phi! w'ould have grown up looking like that â€" tall and swag- gering and audacious, with hair ex- actly this color. "I don't go all the way to town." Mona Lee told him. "Our place is two miles this side. But probably you can get a ride the rest of the way." The boy put his suitcase on the floor in the back. But he opened the front door and got in beside her. "You've been over in the oil fields?'' she asked- "Pretty hard work isn't it?" "I've been rigging â€" and that is tou.nh. Especially if you're itching to be doing something that you've been trained to do." "My son," Mona Lee went on, "is third year law at the University of Virginia." "Swell school," approved her passenger. * • * Mona Lee thought of Harvey Junior â€" dark and lean and tall, dark like her but not like her in other ways â€" he was too quick and smooth and sarcastic. \ot much like his father, cither. Har- vey Senior was blunt and earthy and direct. Mona Lee admitted to herself that slie was a little afraid of her son. But little Phil would have been like this stranger here. Phil had loved the soil and had al- wavs opened his big gray eyes wide and told the truth naivelv. ^^Our Family Regulator is Dr. CHASE'S ''T.W PILLS' "The law," Gary Tallman went on, "is pretty crowded. Y'our hus- band is in law?" "Oh, no â€" he's a ranclier. He raises grade Brahma stock and buys cattle. " She felt his eyes move over her and was glad that her new spring suit and her straw liat were becom- ing. She was forty-three, but the " young boys stijL danced with her at parties, and that pleased Harvey -though he w-ouldn't say so. Thcy had been married twenty-four years, and they had been happy years. * * « This boy talked well. He had seen a lot of the world. His fa- ther, so he said, was in cotton in Brazil and his mother had died when he was seven. Mona Lee felt a chocking lump of sympathy at that. She loved boys so nmch. She mothered every lanky male crea- ture Plarvey hired on the place. The irony was that she had never been able to mother Harvey Ju- nior.'at all. Nor her yount; son-in- law, Oliver Kimball. Harvey Junior had always been * terribly self-sufficient, resenting au- thority, reading books that worried his mother. But this boy here in the car was pleasantly easy. He had been around the world on a tramp freighter, he told her. He had worked, rigging wells and wad- ing hot mud in a Louisiana swamp. "But you can't be more than twenty?" she said. "I'm twenty-four. I worked in summers, played football in the fall, and w-aitcd on tables in the dormitory to get through school. My father married again â€" and â-  though my stepmother's a good scout, she has three kids of her â-  own, and I didn't want to take help from them." * * • She found herself telling him about her daughter, Adelaide, who was fair and calm and quick-mind- ed like Harvey. "She didn't want to go to col* lege. She's at home this year, but I think she's a little bit lost. Sh« has beau.x hanging around, but I don't think she cares much about any of them." "You," said the boy abruptly, "have good hands for a horse. In Brazil last year, I rode a lot. Thost fellows down there are terrific oa horseback." Mona Lee smiled a Uttle. "Soil, I grew up in a western saddle. And I can generally make a horse do what I want him to do-" "Does your daughter ride, too?" "She used to. .\nd then her fa- ther bought her a little car an4 now she says horses don't go fast enough. This is our place now â€" it begins at tliis fence." "Good looking cattle," approved- Gary Tallman. "Kvery last head of that herd it eliKible for registry. Of course, sonic of our stuff is just beef stuff. â€" " "Look outi" barked the boy. It was Slim's fault, of course. ( To Be Continued) HARNESS & COLLARS Farmers Attention â€" Consult your nearest Harness Shop about Staeo Harness Supplies. We sell our goods only through your local Staco Leather lioods dealer. The goods are right, and so are our prices. We manufacture in our fac- tories â€" Harness, Horse Col- lars, Sweat Pads, Horse Blan- kets, and Leather Travelling Goods. Insist on Staco Brand Trade .Marked Goods, and you ret satisfaction. Made only oy â-  SAMUEL TREES CO., LTD. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE 42 Wellington St. E., Toronto You Will tnjoy Staymg At The ST. REGIS HOTEL I'OltdlVTO S Kvrr> Kiioiii »|||, iimii, skoM- et HBil retrphuB*. • NlKKlr. Vi.no -jpâ€" Duuhle. |.l.,na up, « (load Kovd. 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