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Show I Iwomanage Her Side and His The Value of Quince Juice Has Strange Power Over Hiccoughs Recipe for Quince Chips -To Dry Parsley. MILLIE CRIES. L Janet Stedman had earned her llv- mmM Inf? smco she was sixteen. She had be?n fairly well equipped for business H me by her Inheritance. She had come of "nice" people. That is. her parents I were educated and refined and, al- MWmW thouch dad had never made much of a ! living, he had always managed to pro- vide a decent home and fed his fam-H fam-H jjy well. It had never been hard for Janet H to set work. She was good looking, neatly dressed, fairly educated, pos-j pos-j sessed of that priceless gift, personal- B Ity, and was eager to adventure into Mmm life and the earning of money. mW She had usually left places of her LU own accord to do bettor. Her employ- mW ers had been mostly successful, busy, high-class men. They had not pur, S her with evil IntenUons. That is, not often. B Now and then some man lacking in perception made an attempt to ingrat-ate ingrat-ate himself. Janet ignored bis ef- forts, sometimes with dignity some- times with humor, occasionally with mmM severity, but always effectually. In- LWi deed, she had often wondered why girls suffered so through the machina-fl machina-fl tions of men. , mW One night the subject arose through LM a paragraph Walt read out of his eve- 1 ning paper. ,. mW "That reminds me," grinned Walt, fl "you've never told me any of your Mmt adventures in the business world, Jan. You must have had bunches of 'em W a giri lth your looks." "Mighty few," laughed Janet, and B somehow the subject dropped. mWi The very next day, however, some- Hl thing happened at the office that re- B minded her of the Incident and show- ed her why some girls are "pursued." B Janet had a small room opening off mWM the suite used by the tenement com- missloner, David Temple. She usu'al-B usu'al-B ly came and went through Temple's rooms. But there was a door leading B from her office into the main office, where many persons worked. Bj Janet was surprised when this door B opened and a girl with flushed face and tea-wet eyes came hastily inside, fl "Oh, Mrs. Stedman, can I talk to B you a few minutes? I suppose you're B terrible busy, but I ain't got a soul I can go to, and you always look kind and and smaVt, too." Janet recognized her as the keeper B of the files and papers an inefficient 1 girl, but willing enough, and rather B pretty. Her name was Millie. B "I am busy. Tell me in a hurry," B Janet smiled. "It It's Prader," said the girl brief-B brief-B ly, tears starting fresh. B "What about Mr. Prader?" asked B Janet. Prader was one of Commls- B sioner Temple's assistants, a stocky, B partly-bald, unattractive man who B knew a great deal about east side B politics. He was important in the of- B B "He he's going to fire me. Oh, Mis' B Stedman, please, if you could only fl sav something to make him keep j me I B "What have you done made more B mistakes? You aren't awfully careful, B Millie. Twice, last week you gave me B the wrong file and " B "Oh, it ain't that. Can't you see B what a skunk that man is, Mis' Sted- B man? He pesters me day in, day out. B He bothers all the girls you know that" B Janet .didn't know it In fact, she had never noticed Prader any more B than to give him messages from Tern- pie or recoivo reports and business details from him now and then. And she had been too busy with her own affairs to notice what went on, socially social-ly speaking, in the outer office. Now her conscience smote her. At -the same time, sho had scant sympathy for Millies in general. Millie read this in Janet's face, and renewed her pleading. At tliat moment, however, Tomplo called her to help on some important work. The teary, white face of Millie impressed her. Turning, she said with a friendly smile: "Like to go home with me for dinner and tell me the rest?" Millie nodded so vigorously that her tears actually spattered. "All right. Be ready at five. I'll pick you up at tho door." DO YOU KNOW QUINCE'S VALUE. This is the season when the small quince tree and its acid fruit makes its usual appeal to the public. While it is not generally known tne juice of the quince possesses a strange power over the most violent cases of hiccoughs. When all other remedies have failed, fail-ed, a lablespoonful of the juice of quinces has relieved the spasmodic Inspirations which produce the cough. Boil the juice with a little sugar, seal while hot and it will keep a year at least. DELICIOUS QUINCE CHIPS. Prepare quinces as for preserves, chip with vegetable cutter, steam three minutes in water enough to cover, add cup of sugar to cup of fruit; boil until the juice begins to thicken. Seal in glasses or jars. TO DRY PARSLEY. Remove leaves from parsley and discard all stems. Place parsley on table or on a hardwood board and gather between thumb and fingers, pressing compactly. With a sharp vegetable knife cut ' through and through until all is cut. Place In the sun to dry. Put in fruit jar and it's ready for winter use. |
