™ her fears: e Carry CATARRHOZONE Inhaler In ~ dents of RISER IS Tea ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS | but I could not see myself taking any NOSE COLDS $} Of them seriously. I liked to skate $} with them, to dance with them, ‘to | preach to them when I thought they ¢| needed it dnd, if nevessary, to put any “outside girl in lier place. But tliat eres ally Comparéd with*the men I QUICKLY STOPPED pisos Aen, i A Nnegletted cold ist ; Consumption. To quickly stop a cold, thé best way fs | to Glear the alr pas-j sages, of the nose} and throat; free | them of germs, and | jet the hedling cel a | fUly immature; th lacked the glam- or and* tlie’ assurance of succe But to get back to the “pros as'T called him, to Mother's unconced- ed horror. , He was Benjamin Frank- lin Jones, Maudie Jones’ uncle, the man who had so bewildered me when first 1 went to work. Mother and I | g 5 or of CATARRHO-' had khown him. for yer for he lived XONE do tiie rest, | with: the Elbert Jones’, but never in- _ One breath of CA-|'timately. He was always ve nice A RR AO ZONE to.Maudie and me in a help! sort brings instant relief. “Your suffering’ of’ wa =the kind of man who asks stops, Hoarseness is relieved, about your dolls when you are fifteen, throat hose are cleared, in-| and-who does { know when to begin flamed chial tubes re’ healed{ bringing choc@fates by the box instead all danees of Catarrh is, prevented. | of in a bag. Maudie told me on that he had been engaged years before your purse, in your vest pocket, and “to- girl who died of consumption, and use it when the, first shiver or sneeze that he had never looked at anyone comes. Complete outfit, One Dollar, e. I was living in the Middle Ages small size 50c. At all druggists. ‘of Romance at the time and for about efuse a substitute. By mail from 4 week I made up stories about him. The Catarrhozone @o., Montreal. | But except for the fact that he was ————=_—_—_ = = prematurely grey he was not the stuff | of which heroes are made. He was ell, not exactly fat, but undeniably i . OPENING well padded, His eyes were admit- tedly kind, but they were not thrilling. ‘ And he invariably wore what I have | Since learned to la “fat man’s col- BY lar,"" whilevhis taste in ties was atro- cious. Af BLINOR MARSDEN BLIOT Autor of ““) and Other When I went into the covered that. “B. s he there, had another £ t have omitted to explain that I worked for a large*and very ‘solid Mortgage office I dis- ' Published bY Speciag ares engement : 2 > i » hen with she: ANbeD, , Company.) He 7 at the head of i the Insurance Department, and was a veritable carddindex of all that had (Contintied) Ar | gone on in the office for twenty y He wi perhaps, not conspicuous for ‘execitive abili but such was his “grasp of details that in his department the routine work waS/carried on witli the precision of a welboiledtnachine: | And woe betide anyone whose ignor- ance or carelessness interfered with his schedule. indispensabl Outside of office hours I lived m as I had lived*in «my. Colleginte da Some of the giris § knéw wert wes ing, two were training a more were in -eollege, tennis anid had piéni skated, went for long walks or snow shoe tramps, and met at each other's hotses in the winter. © Of course we were not always just girls alone. But, “the bo: were mostly ardent stu: oung' fellows just beginning thoughtful, sensible wa a business career,-and their pleasures pfne reeklessn of youth, were naturally as simple—and econo- | B.F, and I had very-Jittle to do with mical—as our own. There were one! each other in the office, and one thing or two semi-engagements in our cir- I liked about him was that he was al- cle, and the usual youthful tragedies Ww careful to treat me exactly as he “and ‘comedies, but aS I look back it treated the othei girls. 1 doubt if seems to me that until war broke out’ two people in the place knew that we we were nothing more or less than. were. old friends Outside of the of- happy, ‘irresponsible children. Ot; fice lie was as he had always been, un- course we had our ambitions, and ttl some three years after it had oc- some of us have realized them: 3ut curred he half apologized for the time far more than do the boys and girls. he had “called me@own.’ The next who are growing up nOw, we seemed morning he was os calmly impersonal fo feel that life’was Jong and that the, as ever, But when a few Sundays period of youth and learning need not later he Walked Nome from church If his own way he was of the the and he was one best-paid,.men in thé service of Company—generous . toa, he was, the open gateway (a met during office hoars they were pain- { IN VaOCas ONY 7402 FINEST VIRGINIA’ = for OEDENTS FINE CUT (green label) 2 idnship he des red. » He liked to see me playing aroun nO doubt, and I be hurried. with Mother and me, and.almost ask Mother loyed young people, especi-| ed ion an ihyitatién’ to come in for a ally yeung men, and she was the ideal | chat, I goneluded that he had discoy- chaperone, Nothing pleased her more | ered Mother. \ than to think that I was popular so-| Maudie was) delightedy and we al- cially, and I believe that at the bot-| most qvarrelled because I could not} tom of her heart her greatest h was; see that it would be a perfectly de- | to see me married, She feared for lightful thing for her uncle to marry me the fescination of the commercial, ny mother. | environment and what she called, “the “He is good enough for anyone!"’ subtle danger of financial independ-’ Maudie declared loyally. “He isn’t ence.” Perhaps she had reason for really old, and -you know that he is just as kind as he can be.” I suppose I was unnecessarily dense, Margaret was in the ascend- ant at that time, and Mother knew me} too well to believe that I would ever, but there was some excuse for me. be satisfied with half a li She had | When B.F, cam® to the house he al- been married when he Ww ways talked to Mother more than to “And I have never me, and he never asked me to go out with him alone. When we went to the theatre pr to a concert Mother was tell s have me.’” Al my been small compared with the happiness that you always ingluded in the / invitation. and your father brought me. It is all And often ‘I would come home in the very fine to be independent when yo evening, after having been ont with | young, Margarent-Anne, but a ‘Ione one of the girls, to find him playing woman’ is the loneliest thing in crea-'’ whist with Mother and the Robertsons, lion, don’t make any mistake about, or prosing comfortably over a cup of that.” sa—he did not take coffee at night Cae 1 it kept him awake. . TER PV, fother, naturally, was more world- CHAPTER TWO se than I. But as I avoided It was rather a joke on Mother that ng of him to her, I had no means when my Brst “prdspeet” appeared on i while she mis- the scene she was, in spite of her silence, and. feared theories, not at all pleased, and I am_ that I was losing my head, if not my afraid I paid her back for many a well-; heart. It was the first shadow that} meant lecture. Whenever one ot had come between us, the first matter} not discussed fully and} know it a relief after six mont “the boys” showed sighs of having ac-| that we had quired a temporary preference for her freely, and I Margaret-Anne she would immediately us both when, adopt him, if he were the adoptable’ sort of thing, B.F. changed his tactic kind, and 1 used to tél her that the’ and gave us to understand that he was | boys came to our house more to be) prepared to bestow on mé his heart, than because of me. boys, dearer now} them lie in France, | it mothered by her They were dear when so many of account hand and bank I shall, hoy believe a that} whose compan- @ was really Mother : | “I Had Bilious Attacks | and Stomach Weakness” Mrs. Wm. Robinson, Yon- ker, Sask., writes: “L suffered from stomach and liver trouble, and used to have bilious attacks so bad that I could do nothing for weeks at a time. My, stomach would be so’ weak that not even a drink of water would stay on it. On my sister's advice, I began to use Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills, and must say*thar they have made me feel like a new woman.’ DR. CHASE’S KIDNEY-LIVER PILLS One pill a dose, 25 Cents a box, all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Ltd., Toronto. Suppose it flattered him to be seen in} public with a girl young enough to bel his daughiter—though he was really } the least conceited of men—but he} must have known that we had nothing | | in commen, and that a girl could ney- | er really fall in love with a man who| | had glued on her dolls’ wigs and help-| ed her with her lessons. I remember beir very much puz-| zied, at the time, by the remark of an} amateur palmist who said that I was rather precocious mentally but of slow | development otherwise. what she meant. B.F. y alternate- ly a joke and a Nafkanee A joke | when I could hold him oyer Mother's | head and quofe her advice to me on} the subject of early marriages; a nuis-| ance when I helplessly allowed him to monopolize me, while the boys_glow- | d in the dim distance and only oc- jionally came close enough to I¢t drop some youthful sarcastie saying about “Old chaps with money who could give a girl a good time.” 1 did not want his good times, nor his can- dies, no: his improying books, but I couldn't very well ask the boys to take me to the pink or to a picture | show, could 1? And until BP. me to marry him fT could scarcely fuse his attentions without an awfully | good exe! ~ In one way he used met very much as he had always done, and I thought’ it would Jiave looked very silly to let him amow that I noticed anything new. I *know I those days. I know now) was a blinking idiot in The palmist was right, even yet cannot convince me that B.F, cared for me in the same way that Murray does. I think it was j what in women we call the maternal | instinét, running wild—or rather, fore- ed into the conventional course by a man to whom a fyle out of place was the keenest of torture, He took my refusal very nicely, hop- ed it weuld make no difference in our long friendship, and that Mother and I would ¢ ys feel free to call on him at any lime when a man could be of use to us, Rather. surprisingly, he gave m¢ tonderstand that he would | not takeymy refuSal as final. But hie | would not expect me to let him know } if 1 changed my mind, “That was too} much tows esetiny girl with fine feel- ings—he really had-some awfully nice | old-fashio#et chivalrous idea So if I did nat thing*h&avould just ask me occasionally if T still looked upon him in the same way: It was ter this that Mother began io feel sorvy for B.F., and 1 had to be very severe with her. Once Mother's sympathy was roused she was_ abso- lutely irresponsible—almost to the point, I used to tell her, of giving away her last crust or her only daught But. by this time she was qui sure of me, 60 I suppose she felt that she’ could afford to be generous. The next year was a very quiet but "U. 1489 Sy WON, / | So close to each other. very happy oe BF. practically’ dis: | | orpate a commotion in the susceptible posed? of) I &lipped~back into» my Old Hearts of the two junior stenographers. circle. And, such is the inconsist-| . ' (To be continued) ency of human nature, I discovered | é Zz that I was looked up to as one of wide! experience. Eyen the boys who had | s Back to the Producer glowered seemed to treat me with! “you guaranteed these eggs,” She” g@reater respect than had been their} : RS t ere ar custom. We were very young, And} said) to the grocer. “Here: are Bee before been | that are distinctly bad.” I thought at “I'm sorry,” said the grocer. SL the time that when she made the most! yeturn them to the hen who laid them ey » were rg oe eyes Ma male Nh ORere Teeeaan an and see what, she intends to do about er than her child, it was because she |lt.’—Detroit Free Press. had feared that she might lose me. 1) Mother and I had neve (ee Keeps EYES Clear, Bright and Beautiful Write Murine Co. Chicago, forEye CareBook believe now that she knew what was coming. It y in the fall of 1918 that I met | Murray Aylwin @ had been sent) } from Head Office to take charge of jour newly-formed Savings Bank De- partment, and when I-came back from my holidays he had been in the office for ten days, multe: Ou entyen lo | UNLESS you see the name “Bayer” om tablets, you are not getting Aspirin at all Accept only an “unbroken package” of “Bayer Tablets of / _Aspirin,’* which contains directions and dose worked out by - physicians during 22,years and proved.safe by millions for f Colds ~*~ Headache ‘Rheumatism Toothache Neuralgia Neuritis Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets—Also bottles of 24 and 100—Drugglsts. Aspirin {se the trade mark (registered in Canada) of Bayer Manufacture of Mono- eceticacidester of Salicylicacid. While it is well known that Aspirin means Bayer manufacture, to assist the public againagt imitations, the Tablets of Bayer Company Will be etamped with their genvra) trade ‘rte the “ Baxen Cross,”