THE HUMAN’ TOUCH

'Tls the human touch in this world that counts, The touch of your hand and mine, Which meanl for more to the fainting heart

Than shelter and bfefld llld wine; For shelter is gone when the niglli is o'er,

And bread lasts only l dfly.

But the touch of the hand and the sound of the Voife

Sing on in the scul alway.

ispcncer Michael Free.

Here are some beauty hints that you can paste into your note book for future use as “P11 H! f0!‘ u" [Qday thy Lois Leeds).

Cold cream, hcaten in an elec- tric mixer. with a few drops of fresh strawberry’ Juice, is dcliillll" fiii to use and more QfFQCIlVP-

Cucumber riiiils ziid in whitening the hands, Rub ‘he rind directly on the shin. Leave on for fivc minutes, then rinse clear colcl \\'illt‘l‘.

your fcct and logs for that smooth finish. _ To keep face powder light and

quentiy.

If your knees are fir)’. "Pub them with warm, suafll’ slldi Rina“ (hen apply vanishing cream. ‘Result-smooth knee H6110“ lllldel‘ your nylons!

Freshly laundered underwear can be perfumed delightfully ll)’ Slim)" lng with a simple fragrance, such as apple blossom cologne.

Little muslin bags, filled with

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"The Handsome Read." E10-

"You shouldn't b8. l‘ Y0“ Se?» Eleanor, I love Yoll- I love yOu more than I've ever been able t0 tell, you. You couldn't get rid of

, lame unless you threw me out and

l flocked the doors.’

1 she put her hand over the 0119 that lay near her on the stéetlnll wheel, and pressed it.

The market hesitated uni-ll Ml’-

. Wilson was safely rc-elected, then

. cotton leaped to eighteen cents a.

‘ ipound. It was a mfl-Eflulcelli price; though they had had to raise the wages of their laborers

. their profits were higllfl‘ than m9)’ had dared to expect.

By the time the excitement of Christmas was over they beta-mt? aware of a feeling of expectancy. 1t did not come suddenly; it had been growing. as ivllen a sound o! rain becomes noticeable and one realizes that one has been hear- ing it, without noticing, for a i011! time. The United States uia-s 8°‘ ing into the war. Nobody knew ,_iust ivhen but there it was im- imistakably about to happen-

_ Eleanor was not surprised when

the United States did enter the

war, but. she was increasingly ir- ritated that with cotwn now all

ed to think the plantation could run itself while he watched iii-F- ades and read and talked about the war.

One day Kester came in haP- pily, singing at the ioP 0f hi! voice, and burst into the room where she was working on her re- cords and at the same time try- ing to keep an eye on Cornelia and Philip, who were playing on ‘the floor. He picked up Cornell“ and gwung ller around and as he put her down he turned to Eleanor. "How do you think you'll like me tin a uniform?”

She dropped her pen, making a ‘iblot on the figures. "Kesl-Efl Y°l1 haven't!"

He grinned and nodded. “Yes. I have."

"You've signed up?" she asked in '1 VOlCe that came out of a throat Atight with dismay.

"r... promised w. I'm slsntns up finally this afternoon."

Eleanor got up ‘SIOWlY- She walked to the wail where the beli- cord hung and pulled ll- Wllfl pllcy Insured nu toil Mr l0 take the children out A: the door closed behind them she turn- ed back to Kester. who was watch- ing 1m. ivith puzzled astonish- Inent. "Eleanor. what's the "wt- ter? Don't you \va.nt me t0 80?"

she held the back of "a chair: tight with both hands. Kester, she exclaimed sternly. "you WM do this i0 me. If you've only 1""- mlied somebody you'll enllit- W“

why Gamble?

Be sure of the best pickling

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Powdered pumice, added to coldl cream. is “onilcrfui for massaginl!‘

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uncooked oatmeal, should be pack- ed in a t1n box and kept on your bath shelf. Toss one of the bags into a tub of hot water and you will have n beauty bath instead of Just a bath.

Add a few drops of perfume to the water in which you wash your powder puff.

Store sterile cotton balls in a pretty glass jar and keep them handy on your makeup table.

It helps to keep a large basket partially packed with the neces- sities for outdoor eating. Napkins, plates, can openers, salt and pep- per shakers and other useful equipment can be put back into the basket after each picnic so

they'll be ready to go tho next time.

Appctites will be hearty in the open air so be prepared with ipicnty of sandwich variety. Your own special potato salad, alonl: with some dill pickles, seasonal fruit, cookies and frosty fruit punch or hot coffee with sand- wiches will complete the picnic

spread.

Watercress must ha\'e care to ikeep its freshness so that it mhy ireally garnish the dish and not prove a wilted adjunct. Wash it

fluffy Si]; it with a spatula frc- 1 in cold water, removing all coarse,

stems. Then wrap it in waxed pa- lpcr with some of the water still on tiie leaves. Place in the refrig- erator until ready for use.

To insure chilled desserts reach- ing the table very cold and appe- itizing. place the glasses or plates i in which they are to be served in ‘the refrigerator for l5 minutes be-

fore serving.

don't. have to do happen to Ardeith away?"

Kc-stefs face went blank. Eleanor, you know all now!"

"Knowing about it is one thing. Doing it is something else." She tried to plead with him. “Kester, this plantation is a full-time 10b- Runnlng this house and taking care of two children is too much to add to it. If I were a helpless featherbrain you'd be more con- cerned sbout Ai-deith than about saving tile world. But you know when I've started a job I don't quit ln the middle of it. so you can run off to a new adventure." She ended with a. scomful shrill;-

"My patience is of the durable variety," said Kester, "bul- YOU have a positive Genius for takinz the color out of anything I want to do. It must be a gift." He went to the door and opened it. "Have a good time bein! vir- queus," he said over his shoulder, “because I'm going to town to en- list."

l-Ie went out. Eleanor sat down and rested her head on her hands. feeling as if the burden of the months ahead was already weigh- ing on her shoulders. But after a few minutes she began to re- ‘gret what she had said. It. was no .1155 arguing with him. Kester was |incapable of accepting the tire- ‘some challenges of everyday living,

it. if

What will you go

"Why. about it

land scolding him for it. simply made him indignant without changing him in the slightest.

With a sigh Eleanor turned over the blotted sheet of her ledger and started again on a fresh P1189- When he came In Eleanor told him she was sorry for her out- burst. Kester, who was so de- lighted with himself that he had already forgotten it, replied that it didn't. matter in the least, every man expected his wife to make a scene when he joined the army. He thereupon sat down and be- gan giving her innumerable in- structions about operating the plantation in his absence. talking to her a-s if she were a dear. 11°- ble creature but not very brlBllii- Eleanor drove to the station to see him off to the training camp. And suddenly, as he kissed her good-by, she felt. a lump like a potato in her throat. Tears be- gan b0 gush out of her eyes and lshe found herself clinging to him in agony of terror. Somehow it had not actually come into her con- sciousness until this moment that

men were being killed.

A; the train pulled out she stumbled back into the ctr and put her head down and lobbed like any other frightened wife who adored her husband and could not keep him out: of the war. It was a long time before she could quiet herself sufficiently to drive the car home.

(To be continued)

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Dy Genevieve Ramble

For Wednesday, August 8i - WHILE the mentality and inner drives seem to encourage forging ahead into new entfuntried fields o! accomplishment, it might be as

support or endorsement from in- fluential loin-cu. Indeed there may be ctive opposition to the most clever or progressive propositions. with stubborn efforts to thwart or weft. clever and astute action. with biook rather than assist. Qnly feat detorminltlon. can expect to win out.

In: the Iktlilw ‘. Thou whose birthday it ll, may be active. energetic and full of tai- ents and ideas for m‘ amtliitiouund progressive career n 0. "I versatile and entcrvrislnl. with

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‘THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

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A Country Garden

By. Mrs. Gordon Macmillan

"I am of many moods and many

shapes;

I strip the chestnuts and I tread

the grapes.

The pulse oi’ life runs high with-

in my veins;

My hands and lips are red with

berry stains.

I bid the leaves from all their

dances cease

And die a golden death, and I

release

The spell of Summer, so that all

resemble

Winter and death at beck of me,

September."

September has been called the garden new year, because this is the month we plan and work for next year's garden.

It is not as easy to garden now as in the Spring. We must have vision to plant and divide alid do the necessary work as different plants reach their rest period, but then they begin their growth very early in the Spring and so are a jump ahead of the plants moved in the Spring. Early blooming plants should be moved now. I have transplanted good sized plants of Foxglove and Sweet William to their permanent places in tiic bor- tier and Lupincs, Wallflower and Delphiniums are ready.

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Early blooming Phlox has been divided and clumps planted in rlch earth. The moisture in the soil has helped in the transplanting and the new seeds sown a short time ago are up and thrifty look- lnfi.

The Belgian Azalea has been re- ported and looks good for bloom- ing about Christmas time, and the Oleander that was given tn me by a neighbour gardener has been fragrant \vitli bloom on the sunny side of the house, I can remem- ber this plant in my grandmother's garden and the particular frag- rance of it.

Fuschizis are beautiful just now and very different from the woody specimens brought from the base- ment where they wintcrcd without much care, they look well for sev- eral weeks.

Gaitonia, the Summer Hyacinth. hangs out its white bells aiirl makes an interesting plant for the border. I have had success in wintering the bulbs from year to year.

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Evergreen hedges and specimen trees are very comforting in the winds we have been having lately. They never blow over, and always look well and also act as a shelter to trailer plants. I am happy we have so many of them in the gar- den. They may be planted in September and October if there is good moisture in the soil and care is taken to have a ball of earth adhering to the roots, Thcre is nothing you can plant in your gar- dens that will give better satisfac- tion through the ycars than these native evergreens. Costing nothin: but the time to dig up and trans- plant, they rival the yew tree of England and lend themselves to the zirt of topiary very well, many lovely shapes being possible with them and nothing is fincr as a background for your flowers.

Agcratum (Floss Flower), a na- tive of Mexico, is blooming now and is liked very much by this gardener for edging flower beds and also as a ground cover. Its soft mauvy blue flowers are long- lastlng and they begin early if started in beat. Mine were sown ln the open ground, The color seems to blend very well with all colors of flowers and this makes it more valuable for garden use.

This is the month my small red wheelbarrow is used every day. bringing seedlings from the field and carrying good earth, and stones for rock wall and manure to add to the humus in the per- ennial borders.

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It is light and easy for a woman not so young to use. I well re- member the day I bought it. l fully intended to buy a bat and had almost decided on a particular one that I thought "might do something for me" when I spied this nice small red wheelbarrow in a window. I know then I nced- ed tbls much more than a hat. I went back to the hat shop and told the nice proprletress that I had decided on a wheelbarrow in- stead, and I have never regretted the choice, it has been such a help

used by others for various tasks. The sides are detachable and this makes it more useful.

You know gardeners do not like buying clothes anyway. They are always thinking, this twenty dol- lars I will have to pay for this dress will buy fifteen roses, or if I do without these shoes I can buy a hundred tulips for next Spring. It is only when you no- tlce your family is irbit ashamed of your appearance thav you spend the money given to you for the purchase of clothes, instead of the way you wish. on this business of making a garden.

~ have enjoyed meeting many garden friends here this Summer. One visitor laid, "It is succession of bloom in the borders that bothers me" and I agreed that la the most difficult part of garden- ing. A garden lovely every day from May to November is a goal worth striving for.

may be active interference or 0p- posttion from those whose coopera- tion seems vital and essential as well-as eagerly desired. Only swift action. patience. insight and de- termination to go on against all odds or limitations can be expected ultimately to win.

A child born on this day. while versatile, clever, shrewd l-nd ven- tureeclne, may and itself blocked for want of cooperation or through active opposition. Its success may spring from its own keen mental

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DOROTH DIX SAYS-

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Marrying For Money

Wealth Often Deterrent Rather Than Guarantee Of Happiness

DEAR MISS DIX: If a girl marries a rich man who can give her all sorts of luxuries is she assured of happiness? What, if any, are the trials of the rich wife?

ANSWER: Nobody can deny that money ls a comfortable thing in the house and that it brings many indulgences which a woman en- joys and saves her from many of the anxieties that vex her soul, but

. Just the possession of money does not make a man a desirable husband, nor does money insure a successful marriage. '

A woman can be just as lonely in a palace as she can ln a two-by-four flat or a bungalow, She can be just ns bored by a dull millionaire as she can by n dull $I8-a-week clerk. She can find a rich husband Just as uncongenial and hard to live with as a poor -- one.

When it comes to the essence of marriage. which is the happiness that a husband and wife get from being together, the rlch wife has no advantage over the poor one. Each is made happy or miserable by the character of the one he or she is married to, not by what he or she possesses. '

Many a woman married to a big business man is virtually widow- ed. Often she hardly sees him except for a few hurried minutes n day, and when he comes home he is too tired, too absorbed in gigantic projects to give her more than perfunctory attention. He may be truly fond of her and lavish on her everything that money will buy, but he does not give her himself, and that is what u woman wants most, if she loves her husband.

More than that, he lives a life filled with plans and interests that she cannot share. There ls no such comradeship between her and him as tlicre is between the poor husband and wife who must consult over buying the baby a pair of new sbccs and what they will have for din- ner. I have heard many rich women soy that the happiest time of their lives was when they were poor young wives helping their hus- bands get a start in the world.

Another trial of the poor rich wife is that she lives in constant fear of her husband's being taken away from her. Every rich man is a shining mark for cvcry predatory woman lie meets. l-le is set upon by beautiful young creatures who tempt him with every lure of the flesh and the dcvil, and it takes a strong and resolute Joseph to turn his back upon them and remain faithful to liis wife.

In marriage a woman might well pray, as did the psalmlst of old, for neither riches nor poverty. The happiest couples are those in which neither the wolf nor the gold-digger are trying to break into the home. Nothing binds a mon and woman together as does the com- mon interest of working together and saving together and building up a home together and being dependent upon each other for their pleasure and interest in life.

DOROTHY DIX

DEAR DOROTHY DIX: What makes married women have that insufferable smugncss, that silly look of the cat that has swallowed the canary that so many assume as soon as they get a Mrs. tacked fin :10 their name? I marvel at it after looking at many of their hus- DTI S.

E. W. N.

ANSWER: Well, considering that marriage is the chief objective of practically every woman's life, don't you think she has a right to wear an nir of triumph when she has puilcd it off? ,

As long as she is single, no matter iio\v clever and highly edu- cated and successful shc may be, she is still a person of no import- zmce in the grand conciave of wives. But let iicr not married and her status is immensely changed, no mutter what sort of human shrimp she got as a husband.

She is given the high sign and password and admitted into the lnncrmost circle of the matron. She is free to go and come as she pleases without. criticism, for marriage seems to put some sort of an aura of protection about a woman. Immediately siie becomes an oracle whose words are wisdom to which even her own mother listens.

All of ‘these honors and emoluments are tlie sole perquisites of the married woman, so you need not wonder that wives exploit them for all they are worth. Nor should you begrudge them what pleasure they get out of putting it over the women who are unmarried and have no man to flaunt in their sisters‘ faces. Every good hunter beams with delight when he displays the game he has bagged or the fish he has caught.

Heaven knows marriage has enough drawbacks to dampen any woman's enthusiasm, so if she gets any moral support out of looking smug ovcr it. let her have it.

DOROTHY DIX

DOROTHY DIX cannot reply personally to readers, but will answer problems of general interest through her column.

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James W. Barton, M. D. 4o@co@cc¢>oc@oe<aloe A NEW mwo. FOR. EPILEPSY

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"Just. when did your husband leave you?"

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