The Merthyr Express

A penny packet of "Paislej Flour" r —the sure raising powder will raise 1 lb. of Flour. Instead of using cake mixtures or bun flours, give home baking with "Paisley Flour" a trial to-day. You are sure of three things-freshness- digestibility—(" Paisley Flour cakes are always light)—and less cost. The method of using Paisley Flour is simplicity itself. Mix dry i part to 8 parts of ordinary flour before adding the other ingredients. No other raising agent required. Paisley Flour" is sold in 7d., .ld.. .nd id. packets everywhere.

POET'S CORNER*, IN MEMORIAM Of the Rev. J. Hathren Davies, Hen-Dy-Cwrdd, Cef n -coed -y-cjm me r line more has gone !-another spirit fled l'o ) well the countless army of the dead; A nd we, who loved him, everlasting mourn His swift transition to the viewless bourne. None heard the call, for like a lightning flash tlis summons came. But as the thunder's csrash is followed by a stillness as of death, Mute Nature signalled his expiring breath. Our earthly loss may be his heavenly gain, But who shall gauge our never-ending pain, Or change the gushing fountain of our grief Into a soothing rivulet of Lethe? A gentle guide, philosopher, and friend, Benevolent and juet unto the end; He judged his fellows with exalted mind, And urged the plea. of mercy for mankind. His soul abhorred the shibboleth of sect, And spurn'd the specious claims of the elect; His book was man; Humanity his creed; The welfare of all men his pressing need. No chiaeil'd work of monumental art Can e'er appraise his worth, or e'en impart To aching hearts the anodyne of pain, Nor call the fleeting spirit back again. Than let us on the scroll of honour write A fadeless tribute to this shining light, 80 that unborn posterity may scan Haa hjfikory, and say—"Here was a man!" GEORGE H. THOMAS. (Composed by request.)

HER VENGEANCE BY E. R. PUNSHON. fAIÎihor of "The Choice," "The Spin of the J Coin," etc., etc. CHAPTER XXXI—AND LAST. It was the stinging pain in his cheek that -tabw Hugh back to life, and as his oonscious- n—» returned to him he discovered that some- one was doing something to it, and in dqing 10 was hurting him badly. "You leave that alone," be muttered, lifting hand which was at once caught in one small and cool, while another was laid upon his fore- fcpach "Oh, hush!" a voice said,' "you must let the doctor attend to you." When that voice spoke, Hugh was content to listen. He took the hand that had touched his, and held it, and, looking up, his eyes found Era's pale face, and tnef her deep and search- ing gaze. "Ah, you are safe!" he said. "Theresaid the doctor cheerfully; "a nasty burn, but it will be will be all right soon, and I don't think any scar will remain. The colour- jug is coming off the skin, too." Hugh was, in fact, practically white again bow, the colouring going with some rapidity as soon as it began to fade; indeed, the peculiar phininese it had, and that made the skia with which it was treated so like a negro's, only lasted about. twentv-four hours. But its inven- tor had calculated that that period would be long enough for the consummation of its plans, once he succeeded in getting the dye applied "Tha.t's so," agreed a new voice, "no doubt about his being a white man now, eh, is there, doc ? Hugh recognised this voice also, and sat up- right with a jerk. Behind the doctor, whom he bad been helping, was a man whose face fitill showed traces of a heavy bruise between the eyes, and in whom Hugh at once recog- nised Jabez Hunt. "What does he want? Take him &way!" ex- claimed Hugh quickly. "Now partner," said Jabez, mildly deprecat- ing, "doA't bear ill-will Mistakes will happen, you know, and ail us boys are really con- cerned." "Confound your impudence," said Hugh with some heat. "I know just how you feel," said Jabez sooth- ingly "I don't deny a little feeling on your par' is natural enough, but every man in this county, sir, is bent on being friends, and you can't help yourself about it. Friends we are, aDd friends we will remain, so why not mako the best of it Mr Tallentine?" "Jabez haJ never eleot since—since that even- ing," said ISira softly, "he has been sitting here by you or by Mr. Hetherington, all the time. I think you must try to forgive him." Hugh was going to reply, with temper that be would do nothing of the sort, but on the Contrary complain to the English and American authorities, when he caught a glance from Eira's eyes, at once compelling and appealing "All right, then," he said, with the worst grace in the world; -'I suppose J must look upon the way we were treated as a form of Western hospitality "Western hospitality, sir," said Jabez earnest- 1y, "will never :&-i you from this day hence- forth." "And now you must lie quiet, and try to go to sleep." said Eira, "you have not been very well, you know" He did as she told him, and was content to lie with her hand held in his Presently he fell off into a deep sleep, from which he only awoke for his supper, and then slept again all might, awakening in the morning very much better and stronger. The doctor came and dressed his cheek again, and said he might get pp, and Jabez Hunb eageriy volunteered to come and help him dress. Hugh objected, but Jabez reminds him triumphantly that he had Jorgiven him, and so had his own way Hugh found himself a little weak on the legs, but declined Jabez's offered arm, and went into the next room, where Eira was wait- ing for him, and where there sat an old and feeble man, with sunken cheeks and snow white hair, and at whom he had to look twice before he could recognise hie stalwart uncle. lie greeted Hugh, however, cheerfully enough, and his manner seemed much abow- the same. Hi* eyes, too, showed a good deal of his old vigour, and one of his first questions showed "fchat his old purpose retained its old force, for 'it was about the pa.per containing that secret of the process of diamond-making they had seen r. Siddle put into operation so successfully. "Miss Eira has promised I am to have it if it an be found," he Bfld, "so there may be com pensation yet for aJl I have gone through." "I promised Mr. Hetherington should have it in return for his promising to overlook all that, had happened," said Eira quietly, "but I ,am beginning to be aixaid that it never will be found." „ "So it will," said Jabez, "for every man for miles round is looking for it." "Mr Siddle had it ia his hand," observed Hugh. "I remember his waiving it in the ^fr &nd offering it as the price of"our release." "Oh, yes," said Jabez, "nut that was nothing —he was only trying to bluff us." "How do you know?" asked Hugh. "Because I picked it up to look," said Jabez calmly. "I thought if it said anything about diamonds I would like to read it, but it didn't— never a word. It was not even sense or Eng- lish, it was just a lot of letters jumbled to- gether, not even forming words." "The cipher!" exclaimed Eira. "What did you do with it?" cried Hugh. As for Mr Hetherington, he was incapable of speech, but he lifted both his hands in the &ir< "Why, I lit my pipe with it," said Jabez, "but it weren't no cipher, nor nothing; just a jumble of letters without no meaning. So, wanting a smoke, I lit my pipe with it." Eira and Hugh looked at each other, and Mr. Hetherington rose trembiingly to his feet. "He lit his pipe with it," he stammered, "with a secret that would have changed the .world," and he fell back-wards in a fresh fainting-fit, for he was still too weak to stand against new shocks. Later on, when Mr Hetherington had partly recovered, though still keeping to his bed, Hugh suggested to Eira that he should like a little stroll outside, if she would come with him. Hugh was still weak, it is true, ye one would not like to say it was so absolutely necessary as ,he pretended tha he should have her arm to ,lean on. They were out of sight of the house, and were resting behind a bluff that grew not far away, when Eira, looking at Hugh, said, somewhat abruptly: "You have never asked about Miss Hether- ington." "Why—er," said Hugh, who had almost for- gotten all about poor Delia, "no, where is she ?" "Asleep," said Eira, "she has been nursing her father, day and night, and last night she iell asleep over her supper So we put her to Jbed, and she has been there ever since." "Hum!" said Hugh, pulling his moustache Buco m f o r tabl y. "And now we are here alone," said Eira, "I want to tell you, you must forget anything I said to you—when—during that awful time 11 y Hugh looked obstinate "I have forgotten it," she said, "so must you" "You have forgotten it," he answered, "and I will not" "Ah, you are not kind," she exclaimed. "You spoke the truth once," he said, "when the truth has once been spoken, one cannot go back to lies. That is not possible." "HU5b, you must not speak so," she mur- mured faintly, "everything is different now, and Miss Hethermgton is waiting for you." "This is not different," he said "this is al- ways the same—I love you, Eira." She rose to her feet. "You have no right to say that," she said, her face very pale. "Y ou gave me the right when you risked your life, and so nearly lost it, to save us," he said. "No," she said, and repeated "No." "Very weU," he answered, "I will go and see Delia, and when I come back I shall be free. I never loved her, Eira. there was a horrible mistake. I will go to her, and tell her the truth, and then I will come back to you." "You must tell her the truth, but you must not come back to me." "Why?" he askfed sharply. "I will never marry Delia now; it would be a worse treachery to keep my promise than to break it. Don't you understand that?" "Ah, yes!" she said, "and I do not think you ought to keep a promise you did wrong to make. But it would not be that-, as soon as you have freed yourself from her, you should come back to me. When you part from Delia Hetherington, you Dart from me, too. Your broken promise can never make us happy. You cannot keep your promise to her. Well. But you must not scorn it, and her, by at onoo re- newing it to me." He was beginning a hot proiot, but she checked him. She gave him her hand, and looked at him from grave and serious eyes. "I feel that I am right," she said; "for it would seem you were breaking your word to her just to come to me. Her misery cannot be our happiness." Before Hugh could ply, they heard steps approaching. They had been standing very close together, and the\ jumped aside just in timp. as Delia herself came round the corner of the bluff, accompanied by Mr Tom Waters. They all four looked at each other rather sheepishly, and Hugh felt himself turning pale. He looked at Eira, a.nd saw that her face, on the contrary, was very flushed. Mr. Watenrs had turned his back and was looking abstracted- ly up into the clouds, while Delia was breathing rather more quickly than usual, a danger signal that Hugh knew from of old. Hugh put up his hand to his bandaged and wounded cheek, and was not quite sure he would not have preferred to face the flames again, rather than this interview. He only hoped there would be no soene, but remembering the heat of Delia's temper he felt mortally afraid of what she might do. "They told us you were out this way some- where," Delia began. "Well," Hugh said rather sharply, "anyhow. I am glad you have come, for we ought to have some explanation." "Yes, we must," said Delia, and her breast began to heave. "Let Miss Hetherington understand, first of all," said Eira, "that I am leaving here at onoe. I have some idea of going to the Bast as a missionary—to China, perhaps." "Ah!" muttered Hugh, and gave her a look of despair, but saw her face so inflexible he somehow understood that nothing would shake her resolution. "Very well, he said, turning to Delia, "but that doee not alter what I have to say to you, Delia, now it has beoome im- possible for me to keep the promise I made y°Delie started and looked quickly at Mr. Waters who, for his part, brought his eyes down from the sky to earth again and appeared once more interested in what was passing around him. „ "Well, I never," said Delia, "but how did you find out?" Hugh's pale face Bushed, and Eira started and put up one hand as if to shield herself. "Come, that is a cruel thing to ask," she said with deep feeling. "It does not matter how I have found it out, "I ju^^knew that old man could never keep his tongue still!" cned Delia, turning to Waters- "First time," said Waters, ever knew old Judge Sampson going back on his clients." "When he married us," said Delia, looking as if she were going to cry, "he promised so faith- ful not to say a word, and now I suppose he has just told everyone." "Married you? married who?" cned Hugh bewilderedly. "Marrioo 1" echoed Eira wildly. What do you mean?" "Why, married Tom and me, of course," said Delia; "what else should I mean ?" "Tied us up good and tight," observed Mr. Waters; "did the job in style." "Good heavens!" said Hugh blankly. "Do you mean you and Tom Waters are married?" cried Eira. I thought you said you knew," re- marked Delia, mildly surprised. "Married we are," said Waters. "I've stole a march on you, you see, sir," he added to Hugh. "I'm sure it's very good of you," murmured the dazed Hugh. "And if you feel you must scrap," said Waters, "scrap we will here and now, as you like, sir. But scrap or no scrap, married we are and married we shall remain, for those as the laws of this State in the person of Judge Sampson join together, only the laws of this State in the person of Judge Sampson or rome, other constituted and elected judge can put asunder again So for my part, I don't see no good in scrapping, except as a relief, of course, to your feelings, six." "But are you really married?" asked Hugh, hardly believing it "It seems to take a lot of telling," complain- ed Waters. "But if you didn't know," said Delia, "what did you mean just now?" "Oh, nothing!" said Hugh with an eye on Eira. "Well, Tom and I are married," said Delia decisively; "and while I feel you have been abominably badly treated, Hugh "Oh, pray don't mention that!" murmured Hugh generously. "Can you ever forgive us?" asked Delia earnestly. "If you can," said Waters, quite as earnestly, "we shall know you have the noblest heart of any man now alive, our happiness will be com- plete, and our graititude eternal If you can't, we will have to worry along without, I sup- pose." "My dear Delia. I forgive you from the bot- tom of my heart," said Hugh, shaking hands with her warmly. "Mr. Waters, pray permit me to congratulate you," and he shook hands with him too. "Waters is my name," said that gentleman, "and I perceive that for general nobleness of heart and magnanimity of character you lick creation, sir, and I'm proud to kpow you." "Only it's a secret," added Delia, "till we are able to tell oapa. You won't say anything. Miss Siddle, will you?" she added glancing at Eira. "Oh, no," said Eira., who was very red and very white by turns, and in swift succession. "If Miss Siddle is going to China as a mis- sionary," began Mr. Waters. "I am sure "Oh, that wa, a mistake!" interposed Hugh; "If least, Miss Siddle has changed her mind since then." Both Mr. Waters and the new Mrs. Waters looked a little surprised, but were too busy with their own affairs and their private happi- ness to have any time to spare on thinking of Eira's change of mind. They all turned back towards the house, and Delia, hangipg behind, signed to Hugh to join her while her husband and Eira walked on ahead. "Hugh, I am so sorry," she said penitently. "You have no need to be, I assure you," said Hugh truthfully. "Ah. you are so good and kind," said Delia. Hugh began to feel like a saint, but wished, nevertheless, that Delia would ceMe her com- pliments and give him a chanoe of talking to Eira. He wanted very badly indeed to talk to Eira. "You see," explained Delia, "we were mutu- ally struck with one another as soon as ever we met." "Yes, I remember that," said Hugh. "Tom went away the next morning, but he had to come said Delia happily; "and it happened that when he got back I was just in the most frantio rage possible to imagine, over the way you and pa had dodged off and never told me where you were going. When Tom arrived he found me thrashing the negro porter at the hotel while NJr. Robbina had run for help. I think I had frightened Mr. Rob- bins. I forget what the porter had done," said Delia mroitatively, "but I know be had made me furious, and I just wanted to kill him. So Tom found me thrashing him in the dining. room. Now, you would not have known what to do, and as for papa, he would simply have wondered how much compensation it would cost him." "And what did Mr. Waters do?" asked Hugh. "Why, he took the stick from me and thrashed me," said Delia, wriggling her shoul- ders with a happy sigh, "until the stick broke, and then it was I knew I loved him. And oh, he was so kind afterwards!" "Was he, though?" said Hugh. "But let me understand that every time I hit anyone or threw anything at anyone," Delia continued, "that be would give me twice as much. It is very soothing to feoow that." "I suppose so," agreed Hugh. "I tried it once or twice." Delia. went on, "just to see if he meant it. I found he did," she added thoughtfully. "He seems a man of his word," said Hugh. "Oh, he is," said Delia, beaming at this praise, "and so quick with his hands and such a splendid shot—I miss as often as not and he never does. I feel I have treated you very badly, Hugh, but you see he understands me and you never did.' "That makes a difference, of course," agreed Hugh. "But I wanted to say to yon," Delía. con- tinued, "that I do so hope your life is not utterly blighted." "I'll try not to let it be," Hugh assured her bravely. "Now, there is that nioe girl, Eira Siddle," Delia said, 'why have you sever thought of her, Hugh V- "Why, really, that is rather a, difficult ques- tion to answer," said Hugh. "I declare you are perfectly blind!" cried Delia impatiently "Can't you even eee what a pretty girl she is?—how striking, too, and with such a clever, interesting face. And, Hugh, if nothing else, mere ordinary gratitude for what she did and risked for yóu-" "I'll think about said Hugh. "If I could only bnng you two together," cried Delia, "I should feel my happiness was complete." She wenr forward then to join the other two, and took possession of Eira, sending Waters back to talk to Hugh. Wha4- she had to say, Eira seemed to find very interesting, to judge from the intent way in which she listened to it; and when the next morning Hugh and Kira confessed that the- had become engaged, Delia was as proud as can be well imagined. But for herself there was a troublous moment to be passed through when it should become necessary to inform her father of her mar- riage. it was a shock to the old man—he look- ed, and was, an old man now, with his feeble ways and snow.white hair—but after what he had recently endured he had. no longer the strength to oppose to it the energy of resist- ance he would have shown earlier. Besides, as Delia justly pointed out, the thing was done and could not be undone. Mr. Hetherington objected that he d d not know Mr. Waters, and Mr. Waters observed that this was a mutual difficulty, but that he hoped that now they were relatives they would become better ac- quainted. "As my wife's pa," said Mr. Waters, "I look upon you as my own pa, and I am prepared to show you a filial love a.nd obedience in every single thing that don't matter much." I Mr. Hetherington pointed out that he was himself a rich man, but Mr. Waters, as he un. derstood, was a pauper. Mr. Waters admitted this fact cheerfully, but said he hardly saw how the son-in-law of a reputed millionaire could be called a pauper Mr. Hetherington announced his intention of founding a hospital with his fortune, and Mr Waters cheerfully ad- miited his right to do what he liked with his own. "Only do it on a big scale," he said. T like size—and then when I have made my pile I'll endow if with two dollars for every one of yours. I daresay I could make a dollar or two," he added thoughtfully, "over the contract for putting it up." In the end his new' relative's breezy con-, fidence and superb faith in himself overcame Mr. Hetherington's objections. When he re- turned to Europe, which he did as soon as he was fit to travel, it was with Mr. Waters as his accepted son-in-law; and as his health was still bad, the son-in-law soon became confidential secretary as wel!, in which capacity he showed himself so useful, capable, alert, and enterpris- ing, that Mr. Hetherington asked him to con- tinue in that capacity after their arrival in England. Waters soon made his influence felt throughout the whole business, which began to show itself as alert and enterprising as any of its younger rivals. To-day, Mr. Thomas Waters, junior partner in the firm of Mers. Hetherington and Co., of London, Paris, Benin, New York, Chicago, Ssn Francisco, and Buenos Ayre", ;8 one of the best known I men in the City ,f London. And he is happy at home. where his wife shows him r -oeekly adoring love, which all his indrigenc" of her—for he spoils her as much as the goort American always spoils his wife—never makes in any way exacting. If he can spare her time she is happy, and if he says he is busy she is content to sit a long way away and watch. It is rumoured that she has a temper, but exhibitions of it are now-a-days so rare, one hardly believes the tales told of her past doings. As for Hugh and Eira, they are certainly a good deal less wealthy, but perhaps none the less happy for that. Hugh does not push his affairs with the feverish activity Tom Waters shows, and he and his partner, old Mr. Logan, are content with the sound, steady business, quietly but firmly prosperous, that they have now built up. Hugh feels sometimes as sorry for Tom Waters, rushing from meeting to meeting in the city and only returning home to snatch a, hasty meal before retiring into his study for more work, as Eira often feels for Delia, who, she says, has generallv to content herself with the sight of her husband's coat- tails whisking through a door. On their side, Waters is equally sorry for Hugh, whom he privately considers rather slow. He still has a feeling that Hugh was treated badly, and salved his conscience recent- ly by an offer to amalgamate their two con- cerns, Hugh to be a partner in the joint busi- ness. It was, of course, an exceedingly advan- tageous offer for Hugh, but he guessed the motive that inspired it and declined it with many thanks, though the knowledge that the two firms are in close alliance has often proved useful, possibly to both of them but certainly to the smaller of the two. For the rest, Hugh and Eira have now ft boy and girl. who keep them busy enough; and as Mr. and Mrs. Waters have no children, and as bothtake a great interest in Hugh's two little ones, pr. haps Eira sometimes has dreams concerning the ultimated destination of that huge fortune which Tom Waters gives long nights and laborious days to building up. But these are dreams—dreams such as that past dream of winning from old Mother Nature the intimate secrets she keeps so well guarded; dreams all, whether of wealth or of power or revenge or of terror, like that past dream of an unheard-of doom that long ago threatened her and him who is now her husband; all are dreams together, and in a life that is but a sea of dreams: glad is she to have found a dream so sweet as that of the love which between her and Hugh grows deeper every day. [The End.]

Next weekwiJI commence a new story of in- tense domestic interest, entitled THE ¡ PEARL NECKLACE! i (A Story of a Mysterious Robbery), I BY ARTHUR APPLIN, Author of "The Chorus Girl," "The Stage Door," "Van Dylk Diamonds," "The Butcher of Bruton-street," etc., etc. This is the story of a great theft and its consequences. The scene opens at a. oountry house, at which there is a big party. Michael and Ruth Villette, brother and sister, in a discussion, disclose that Mike is in love with a gamekeeper's daughter, around whom there is some mystery, while Ruth is as good as en- gaged to a Mr. Harvey, M.P. But Miriam, Ruth's supposed friend, has designs on Mr. Harvey. The Villette family are dreadfully in need of money, and Ruth gives her brother her jewels to pawn. He takes them away, and when showing them to his /sweetheart, dis- covers a pearl necklace, which he recognises as belonging to Miriam, in the box. Miriam oontrives that Harvey shall witness this scene. Both Mike and Harvey jump to the conclusion that Ruth has stolen the necklace, and Mike, to divert suspicion and so that his sister's chances of marriage shall not be jeopardised, disappears. But Harvey knows of the theft, and believes Ruth guilty. Misled and tricked, he allows himself to become engaged to Miri- am, although he does not care for her. They are married, and then the trouble begins. Miriam's conscience begins to trouble her her husband finds she is deceitful; all this time Mike is having a very rough life; and Ruth is grieving over things. She, of course, thinks it was her brother who stole the neck- lace. There are quite a number of powerful soenes in this exciting and enthralling story which can- not be recounted here. All ends happily in a dramatic denouement, when it is proved that Miriam herself placed the necklace in Ruth's jewel box. This is quite the most moving and holding tale its author has ever written.

FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. SPRING-TIME. Little brown seed, oh little brown brotlo., Are you awake in the dark ? Here we lie cosily, close to each other, Hark to the song of the lark I "Waken" the lark says, "Waken and dress you, Put on your green coats and gay, Blue sky will shine on you, Sunshine caress you, Waken 'tis morning! 'tis May Little brown seed, oh little brown brother What kind of flower will you be? I'll lie poppy, all white like my mother, Do be a poppy like me! What! you're a sunflower ? How I shall miss you! When you're grown golden and high, But I shall send all the bees up to kiss you, Little brown brother good-bye!" A DISCOVERY. Johnny was six years old, and had been taken for the first time to hear a lecture on the mi- croscope and what it reveals. The lecturer had a lantern and sheet, and threw upon his screen all sorts of striking objects. Several slides were shown containing live animalcule, but Johnny was too interested to make any com- ment. Then came a slide that seemed more wriggly than any of the others. Curious crea- tures chased each other and twisted on the sheet. The lecturer explained that this was just a drop of pond water full of oountless creatures that live in it. But Jchnny was too absorbed in the live creatures to listen for the explana- tion. He felt that he was making a discovery: and cried out:— "Oh, mother, now I know I I know what it [u thjtt bite* you wh«p yoa driftk ioift-Wfttfir!" [

I How to Destroy the Dandruff Germ. By A SPECIALIST. That the dandruff germ is responsible for nearly all the diseases to which the scalp is heir, as well as for baldness and premature grey hair, is a well-known fact, but when we realise that it is also indirectly responsible for many of the worst cases of catarrh and consumption, we appreciate the importance of any agent that will destroy its power. We are therefore particularly pleased to give herewith the prescription which an eminent scientist and specalist states he has found, after repeated tests, to completely destroy the dandruff germ in from one to three applica- tions. This prescription can be made up at home, or any chemist will put it up for you: 3 ounces Bay Rhum, I ounce Lavona de Com- posee, t dram Menthol Crystals. Mix thoroughly and after standing half an hour it is ready for use. Apply night and morning, rubbing into the scalp with finger-tips. If you wish it per- fumed, add half-teasponoful of French Fon Fleur perfume, which unites perfectly with the other ingredients. This preparation is not a dye, but is unequalled for promoting a growth of new hair, and for restoring grey hair to its original colour. CAUTION.-Do not apply where hair is not desired, and be sure to avoid tonics containing poisonous wood alcohol.

FOR MATRON AND MAID. GET A CHEERFUL RESPONSE. The only cure for a perpetual grumble is a grim determination to see things differently. The bravest people face the inevitable and say, "If things can't be changed, I must make the best of them as they are." One woman who was oppressed by deep sor- row and many cares said that she deliberately stood in front of the mirror each morning, and smiled and smiled and smiled until the expres- sion was fixed, as it were, for the day. No one saw her with the shadow of gloom on her face, and the very fact that she forced herself to smile made a difference in the world's atti- tude towards her. Why not try this plan next time you feel thar. every hand is against you? Give a cheer- ful greeting to everyone, and see how quickly you get a cheerful response. AVOID AGE. You may not have found the fountain of per- petual youth, but it isn't difficult to avoid many of the infirmities of age. These are a few of the simple rules that should be followed: Be moderate in all things. Do not eat too much at any time, but eat nourishing food. Get plenty of sleep and exercise. If the re- pair was equal to the waste there would be little, if any, evidence of age. Take a batb daily. Keep in touch with all the events of the day. Seek young people, and have them around you as much as possible. Take good care of your hands and feet. SUITABLE DRESS. The girl who would make the most of herself should dress as well as she can afford. She should have no qualms of conscience on that score; should only make sure that she knows what it is to be well-dressed. A woman of the world, noted for being one of the best dressed members of her set, was onoe asked to define a well-dressed person. Her answer was one word-suitability. Let suitable dressing be the key to your costuming. Business and social dress will then be as unmixable as oil and water, and over- dressing beyond one's income, will cease to be. BE EVER BRAVE. Courage is the wand that works the magic and lifts the load from the souls of those who fancy that some mistaken drift in their lives is failure. Whatever the difficulties and troubles that come, lose no time in repining. Make a fresh beginning and look at each thing you have to meet in the hopeful, honest, sincere spirit. Try to get into clear seas again. If women would only learn to cultivate a healthfully active mood, they would the easier throw off matters they regard as irretrievable. DETAILS OF FASHION. Crochet-covered buttons will be seen every- where. Self-coloured striped materials are for sum- mer wear. Light linen tailored costumes will show pip- ings of black. Embroidered dots in varying sizes appear on woollen gowns. The Japanese or the Raglan sleeve is to the front again. Pinafore dresses and blouses welcome its ef- fective lines. A checked hem to the knees is a new finish to the simple linen dress. Chiffon veiling foulard makes up long tunics as well as blouses. The yellow that verges on leather brown will, in linen, take white trimmings. A spotted or ringed cotton material is used as decoration for innumerable liner, costumes. Sleeves that are rather full finish with a lace cuff just below the elbow. Pompadour ribbon veiled with chiffon makes some baby blouses with high skirl, and long coat costumes. Tricorne hats of gathered tulle with Bowered crowns have a big rosette of narrow lace at the left. Dark plain border bands to rich foulards showing lighter tones of the same colour are the popular finish Tiny floral sprigs come on many of the pretty Swiss muslins which are for summer wear. Bordered materials will be seen for tub frocks; generally the main part of the gown is spotted or sprigged, too. HINTS FOR THE HOME. To prevent lamp glasses breaking, always keep a common hairpin hanging on the chim- ney. A teaspoonful of castor oil poured on the soil at the roots of dying palm or a forlorn aspar- agus fern will make it grow like magic. To Prevent the Ordinary House Fly Coming into the Kitchen, etc.—Have a piece of elder- berry in the house. The flies do not like the strong smell of the flowers and leaves. When Storing away Blankets, Shawls, and various goods, it is a good plan to cut up some well-dried yellibw soap and lay the pieces among the folds. This will be found a sure preventive from moths. Nice Dish for Breakfast.-H lb. to 2 lb. of thick streaky pork put into a piedish half filled with cold water and lightly salted, with a greasy paper over the top, and put in a quick oven. When done, serve cold. This eats equal to bacon. Rhubarb Water.—To four sticks of rhubarb use two breakfastcupsful of water; sugar to taste, and the rind of half a lemon. Wipe the rhubarb in a cloth, peel the lemon very thinly (the white of the lemon is bitter, and should not be used). Put rhubarb and lemon rind into a saucepan, add the water, simmer very slowly a quarter cf an hour, strain when cold, add sugar to taste. Suet Cake.—Take 2 oz. beef suet, grate as finely as possible, mix with 1 lb. flour, then add ok lb. castor sugar, i lb. currants, a little peel, and a sprinkle of essence of lemon, half a tea- spoonful of carbonate of soda, and a half-tea- spoonful of cream of tartar. Mix with milk and bake in a moderate oven for one hour or a little longer. This wilJ pe found a cheap and delicious cake, and one we always enjoy. Home-made Sweets.-Barley-sugar: Put one tablespoonful of vinegar into a half-pint cup and fill up with water. Put into a saucepan with 2 lb. of sugar, boil without stirring until it turns a nice lemon colour, then pour on to an oiled slab. When cooled a little, cut into strips with a knife and twist. Chocolate Toffee Quarter of a pound castor sugar, 3 oz of butter 2 oz. of chocolate, half teacupfol of milk, a few drops vanilla essence. Boil together fifteen to twenty minutes; when it seta in a soft ball in water it is ready. Pour into buttered plates, cut into squares. This is rather soft caramel toffee. CAKES AND PUDDINGS.—No. 22. Last week's recipe was for a plain Ginger- bread more suitable for the children. This week we are giving a richer and rather more expansive one which will be appreciated by the adults. RICH GINGERBREAD. 1 packet of Cakeoma. I Half a teaspoonful of Ground Ginger. Half a teaspoonful of Mixed Spice. 4 ozs. of Butter or Lard. 4 ozs. of Raisins (optional). 4 ozs. of Lemon Peel (optional). 2 Eggs. 3f tablespoonfuls of Syrup. 2 tablespoonfuls of Milk. METHOD. Mix the ginger and spioe with the Cakeoma and rub the butter or lard in very fine, then add the ra'sins and lemon peel. Beat up the eggs and add them with the milk and syrup (which should be warmed). Mix well and bake in a rather cool oven. Next week a Valencia Cake recipe. Recipe book will be sent post free on request to Latham and Co., Ltd., Liverpool. Cakeoma is sold only in 3id. packets by Grocers and Stores everywhere.

SJ\N',rJtL:M.lDYe Superior to Copaiba, Cubebs and Injections. 1 No nauseating effects with these Capsules. I Thousands use them with universal success. I I

_-+_ + + I MERTHYR WOMAN: t 4GONISING BACKACHE, DIZZY SPELLS. ♦ '■ E3I! Every Picture ♦ MTm-y Tells a Story." ♦ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + £ One long struggle against that worn-out, dizzy feefing those + 4. dragging backaches and neuralgic headaches-the + + bearing-down pains that make housework so hard J Mrs. Annie Pound, of 37, Primrose Hill, ♦ Merthyr, says :—" Ever since I had my + last child, five years ago, I have been + subject to terrible backache. My house- work was a difficulty to me, as at the least attempt to stoop I was in agony. I ▼ would come over so dizzy that I was + afraid I should fall. My head ached, and + there appeared to be specks floating in a front of my eyes. ♦ My father advised me to try Doan's backache kidney pills. I did so, and now + I feel I can't praise the pills too highly. ♦ One box of Doan's pills made my back so strong that I was able to stoop + and do my work, or carry in the coals without my back giving way. I became v brighter, and was better than I had been + for many a long day. I was determined + to be cured, so I kept on with Doan's + backache kidney pills, and I improved a daily. But it is not right for women to be always ailing. Mrs. Pound's cure by Doan's Pills shows that you top can be ▼ well if you keep the kidneys well. They + are the most important organs of the ▲ body because they have the most work to do. All the blood passes through X them every 3 minutes. They filter and ▼ purify it. + But when the kidneys are weak or + diseased, kidney poisons are left in the blood, and these poisons make you feel Jk tired, drowsy and low; they bring on urinary disorders, gravel, dropsy, and J rheumatism; they make your head bad, ▼ and your back weak, and you grow ▼ despondent and irritable. + If, therefore, you are ill, don't brood + over imaginary ills, but give your kid. + neys help in Doan's Backache Kidney JL Pills, the special kidney and bladder 7 J "At the end IT of six weeks + I was well + and strong, + and free k from all aches Y and pains. ▼ I can now + sleep well, + and do my a work with- X out feeling any strain." + ow LIKE Mrs. POUND HAD. medicine, of ▼ which your ▼ n e i g h b o u r speaks 80. highly, a Sj9 a box, 6 y boxes 1319; all + dealers,or from Foster Me. CUUan Co., 8, ▼ Wells street, + Oxford-street, ± London, W. X } A Heart to Heart Don't judge, sir, and don't r-ondemn U Park Drives" at Ii Ten for Twopence" tried them. Their flavour, their fragrance, their coolness is such that, not knowing, you'd never Fork Drive guess their price. There are thou- Park Drive lo/^d sands smoking Park Drives to-day who but a few weeks ago would have scoffed at the idea of getting ten such splendid cigarettes for 2d. PARK DRIVE CIGARETTES It's onjy a matter of making up your mind to give these Park Drive Cigarettes a trial after <. that it's a matter of reckoning up how much Park Driva enjoyment you've been missing all along. Park ihives sold by all gold aU Tobacconist. TEN FIR TWOPENCE. T*b*cc<mitts. Made by GALL iMR, Ltd., Belfast and London. /1'¡,, ¡:t;?!r?:T:í ;-0'<'r: > f" li[. y should you exhaust your strength unnecesrily in climbing hills and cycling generally ? Why not W&MW have your bicycle fitted with the genuin and UlfMr STORM EY MM ARCHER 3-Speed Gear or "Triceaster"? the gear that makes cycling easy and fascinating, the gear that Jcvels the hills and the gear that makes a spin in the country an e- bilaratiDg treat. Senti a P.C. for booklet to It STURMEY-ARCHER GEARS, LTD. "Makes cycling eaiy." f .( "Me* 7> L-7n CYCLCS r THE WORLD'S BEST. No cycle deserves better of the cycling public than the half. century old "Swift." Its designers are competent cyole engineers, its builders the best mechanics the world oan supply or money command, the material the finest, irrespec- tive pf cost. Yet despite its high grade qualities, prices are in striot keeping with the needs of the age. > From Ae, 10 0 CASH. Or from 10/- per month. t See the 1910 Models at J. LEWIS, 354, High Street, Penydarren, MERTHYR TYDFIL The SWIFT CYCLE 00, Ltd., coveffity. LoNDOJt1 15.10. Bolboru