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thought it was so terrible. She had!
praised little Lill, and Rose and Dan-|
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other children in the block for s look |
at the child. |

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sengers homeward bound, and 2 coal}
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ed by disregarding the traffic law. At
newsboy in an overcoat much too)
long for him shouted “Evening Jour-
nal, all about the suicide.”

Two men, waiting to get across,
were talking about it. “She took a
room at the St. Petersburg . . . left
her baby there.”

Helmi shuddered and hurried on.
She wanted to feel the little warm
cheek against her own, and to listen
to the regular breathing, and get

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4 CHAPTER AS LEH
_ “My dear,” said one, “it is our pat-
riotic duty to save every cent. I cut
down my cook ten dollars at once,
and changed my dressmaker." Her
voice fell. “My dear, there’s a won-
derful German woman on the south
_ side—I will give you her address —
and she made me a stunning little af-
ternoon dress, with so much hand-
work on it, for ten dollars. Madam
Frouchette would have charged thir-
ty-five. She is a positive find. She's
frightened to death that she will lose
her trade, and so has cut her prices
away down. We're keeping it among

back the d she had lost.
There must be someone in this city
who would let her work.

The next day Miss Ritchie had an
address for her. The lady there want-
ed someone to come by the day and |”
go home at night. Helmi set out at
once, taking a street car to save
time. When she arrived she found that
the lady had alréady Becured a Aelp-
er for the day.

After Helmi had gone the lady re-
marked to her friend that the girl
whom Miss Ritchie had sent looked
rather pale, and she wished she had
given her a street car ticket. The
friend advised her not to worry over
it—"no doubt a brisk Nias would do
the girl good.”

Helmi walked slowiy over the long
bridge, whose great iron pillars
frowned coldly at her. On the river
below men were drawing sleighloads
of ice, glistening blue against the
white snow. They looked so warm and
happy in their fur coats. Helmi stop-
ped for a moment to watch them, but
soon hurried on, for it made her
dizzy to look down, and yet it drew
her back again in a horrible way that
made her heart beat sickeningly. She
compelled herself to think of little
Lili’s pink fingers, with their long,
tapering nails, and the satiny feel of
her little cheek. :

Helmi knew there were kind wo-
men in the city; there were women
like Miss ABbie and Miss Rodgers,
and men like Mr. Terry and the Doc-
‘tor. She would not give up—two
days was not long to be looking.

‘When Helmi got back to the Bu-
reau Miss Ritchie's assistant was
there, a young lady with a metallic
voice and stiff white collar which

ourselves, my dear. You know some
of the 1.0.D.E.’s would be up in arms
if they knew. They say we should
patronize our own, but, my dear, the
German woman has to live.”

When Helmi walked wearily buck
to the “North Star” that night she
was beginning to wonder if to bring
a-ehild intogthe world were not the
great transgression for which there
could be no pardon. Ouly the thought
of the blessed shelter of her room,
and the warm-lparted Irish family
who had befriended her kept her heart

' from despair. Mrs. Corbett had not

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seemed to choke her. She motioned
Helmi to sit down.

Helmi laid her purse on her knee
and leaned back against the wall.
Such a weariness came over her that
even the hard seat could not prevent
sleep. She was awakened by the me~
tallic voice of the assistant and
sprang up in confusion. It was near
closing time and the seats were
empty. Then she noticed that her
purse was gone, The blood rushed to
her head, and it seemed_as if some-
thing snapped. She hunted wildly,
talking in her own language excited-
ly.

The metallic voice was saying:
“We cannot be responsible for pro-
perty—you should have held on to
your purse—was there much in it?”

“All that I have in the world,” said
Helmi brokehly.

“Too bad,” came from the stiff col-
lar, “but you can’t blame us.”

Helmi walked down the street
empty handed and distraught. She
had a desire to tear her hair—to
scream-—to break something—-to kill
someone, It couldn't, couldn’t, couldn’t
be—all that she had—her seventeen
dollars, her marriage certificate —
God could not be so cruel.

A man was speaking at the corner
of the street, catching the six o’clock
crowd. Helmi could not make her way
through the mob, and so found these
words beating in upon her through
the confusion of street sounds: “Can-
ada calls you, as it has called me,
Canada is good enough to fight for—

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Looking up, Helmi saw a big}
policeman shaking his head warning-|
ly at her. She turned and ran. Fear}
gave fieetness to her feet—she dared}

Took behind—it seemed as if the|
whole police force were in pursuit. |
Heavy steps pounded behind her. At
the corner of Nambo Street a sign in
a window glared at her ,a sign in
black letters on a blue card. Helmi
read it aloud in her eagerness, then
darted in the door.

“GIRL WANTED”
said the sign. Pale and trembling,
Helmi approached the desk,

“Do you want a girl? Will yor
take me?” she said, before she no-
ticed the person who sat there.

A tall, old Chinaman rose-from his
high stool. “You washee dish, cook,
waitee table?” he asked.

“J will do anything,” said Helmi;
“give me a chance.”

“Sure, you nice liddle girl; old
Sam give you chance. Want girl for
night—seven till twelve every night.
Nice liddle parties—lots of nice fel-
lows come eat at old Sanm’s—like
nice liddle girl carry chop suey —
pace nice in Re apron, liddle
cap.”

“J'll work hard if you'll give me a
chance,” said Helmi.

And so it happened that when Ma-
jor Gowsett, who was recruiting for
the Canadian Army, came in after a
late meeting the next night for a cup
of coffee and a sandwich, he saw
Helmi carrying the trays from the
kitchen. She was dressed very
smartly in her black dress, with
white apron and cap, and carried the
trays with the old air of aloofness.

Deeply concernéd as Major Gowsett
was over the dishonoring of the Bel-
gium women—and he spoke of them
with deep feeling every night in his
recruiting speeches; indeed, with an
almost fatherly solicitude—he did not
hesitate to tell Helmi’s story now to
his young officer friend.

“Our haughty looking waitress is
a lady with a past—a real purple
past,” he said, in a low voice. I
could swear to that head of hair any
place, aud that Boadicea manner,
though she was not looking quite so
haughty nor quite so»svelte when I
saw her last—she “evidently has got-
ten over her trouble and is back to
her old haunts. No decent girl works
in a Chinese restaurant at night. Old
Blackwood, at Bannerman, had the
whole story in a newspaper. and shov-
ed it in front of her.”

The younger man looked after Hel-
mi as she walked noiselessly past
them with her tray of dishes. “She's
a good-looking girl,” he said, ‘and
certainly has not the face of a
crook.”

“Look out Jim,” laughed the Ma-
jor; “Go slow on this girl, she’s a
wild cat.”

“She would need to be,” said the

oung officer, “if she wants to keep

straight. The girl is earning an hon-
est living here now, anyway. Why
not let her past go?”

But in spite of this rebuke, which
made Major Gawsett shrug his beefy
shoulders, he took time the next day

don’t fail her now in her need. How
would you like to be ruled by Ger-
many? How would you like to bow
the knee to Kaiser Wilhelm? Think
of our lives here in Canada, where
we are free as the air we breathe,
with all our wealth of wheat-fields,
oil wells, mines and forests, enough
for all enough for ever—yours and
mine. Canada, the land of plenty, is
our country. Let us fight for it—the
land of the maple leaf, where there
is room enough and work enough for
everyone.”

A shift in the crowd revealed the

speaker's face, Helmi remembered
him—it was Major Gowsett, the man
who had been with Colonel Black-
wood, Black rage filled Helmi’s heart.
Oby the liar! how could he say there
is work in Canada ‘for everybody?
There's nothing in Canada but heart-
| break.” Clenching her empty hands
jin an agony of hopeless rage—‘He's
a liar!” she cried aloud,
} to him.” —

, W. N, U. 1732

[tat ma girl,” said @ deep voice.

“don't listen |

tapped her arm. ‘None of]

Tn ECUENA
ON BABYS FACE

Broke Out in Wate Watery Pim-
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“Eczema broke out in watery
pimples on my baby’s face. It itch-
ed and burned so badly that she
scratched, and her face was covered
with sore eruptions. When she
scratched the eruptions they used
to bleed something dreadful. She
used to fret and stay awake nights.
It caused disfigdrement for a while.

“I sent for a free sample of Cuti-
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|is in a Chinese restaurant, working

from his arduous task of recruiting
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friend Col. Blackwood, at Banner-
man: “I. saw the Finn girl again. She

at night,” and he ee the last
three words.
(To Be Continued.)

Little Helps For This Week

“Many shall be purified, and made
white, and tried —Daniel xii. 10.

A Water Lily

O Star on the breast of the river
O marvel of bloom and grace!
Did you fall straight’ down from
heaven,
Out of the sweetest place?
You are white as the thoughts of an

angel,
Your heart is steeped in the sun:
Did you grow in the golden city,
My pure and radiant one?_
Nay, nay, I fell not out of heaven,
None gave me my saintly white,
It slowly grew from the blackness,
Far down in the dreary night;
From the ooze of the silent river
I won my glory and grace;
White souls fall not, O my poet,
They rise to the sweetest place.
—Mary Frances Butts.
If we could only think of the pain
and the suffering, the unpleasant sur-
roundings and all the things that
make living so hard, as the bed out
of which the lily hearts may come,
and, with our hidden hearts golden
and glowing, just climb up slowly
through the deep waters, until the
soul shall open out all white and love-
ly under the full sunlight of God,
would itgpot pay for all we have to
bear?—Mary Lowe Dickenson.

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WHAT LOOSENS THE B8ABY
\ TEETH

You have watched in your small
son these little teeth that were once
so firmly rooted, gradually loosen and}
begin to wobble. For fear lest’ he
might swallow one you tied a string
round it and jerked it out; or else
you just picked it off, and finding no
root, you wondered what had been
holding itin place, and you asked
yourself was it always so.

Now as a matter of fact, the “baby
teeth," upon eruption, did possess a
normal root; then where has it gone?
Well you see, that as the incoming
permanent tooth begins to develop
and push up, it must find room. So
nature removes these little tempor-
ary teeth through absorption of the
root, allowing the crown to fall away
—a process that is attended with no
pain or outward disturbances what-
soever.

But occasionally it happens that
this natural process of root ‘Absorp-
tion-is retarded, or it may he, does
not occur at all, with the result that
the little tooth does not loosen by the
time the shedding process should take
place.

This is due probably, to the death
of its pulp or nerve, preventing a
quick natural absorption, or it may
be, to the tardy development of the
TeRIECINE: permanent or to its erup-
tiomr into an abnormal position, or
possibly to the non-development of
what should have been the succeeding
tooth,

In any case, your dentist will be
best able to advise you as to whether
this unloosened “baby tooth’ should
come out now or at a later date.

The unit of currency in Greece is
calied the Urachma.

Aerial Views Of Alberta

Photographs Of Northern Terrain To
Be Taken From Aeroplanes

Aerial surveys of the north coun-
try, up at the top of Alberta, will be
commenced this summer, It_ is ex-
pected that g programme covering
three or four years will be undertalx-
en, and a beginning will be made*this
season in the vicinity of Lake Atha-
baska, coming south along the river-
ways to McMurray.

Flying machines, fully manned and
outfitted for the work, will be em-
ployed, and complete photographic
and topographical surveys of the area
will be made.

Worms cause fretfulness and rob
the infant of sleep, the great nourish-
er, Mother Graves’ Worm Extermin-
ator will-clear the stomach and in-
testines and restore healthfulness.

“By jove, this chap’s taking a long
time to come round.”

‘It's all right, doctor, that’s his
style; he’s a plumber.”
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A wife is a person who interrupts
your funny story to ask if you want
another cup of coffee.

Neuralgia succumbs to Minard’s Lini-

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Wheat Map Of Canada

Preparation of a wheat map show-
ing the varieties best suited in each
locality of the Prairie Provinces is
announced by L. H. Newman, Domin-
ion Cerealist. New varieties of wheat,
particularly suitable to Canadian con-
ditions, are being produced by the
Canadian Government, and the map
will indicate to farmers at a glance
the variety best suited to their local-
ity,

The pessimist is a man who set an
optimist up in business.

More Timber mused Than Used

Since exploitation of Canada’s for-
est resources began from four to five
times the amount of timber actually
used has been burned through forest
fires.

What puzzles us a little now and
then is why people who do not want
to take up any of our valuable time

invariably do. é

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your ability to persuade others to
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