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THIN EDUCATION OW had shin hia "ehettiev ditic•
OUR "JOLLY TARS."
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ITWO FRENCH SOLDIERS.
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Meet Meetly* Scheel For Gentle. Steer el Private Loma awi His
am ks the Giue-Reees. et aeth
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'Wawa they terought Private Tartans
saawilmrd, BSliallta.
into the Ltglitheaso, where they reside
the Igied ta read Eel work, hays, Mr.
Will 'meta* la The Leitat at Wars he
Battlesidp.
All naval offieere below the rank ot
lieutenant mew in the guseroons whist
lefitset. Front time immemorial —send sisteee. R. Late rot amidituit Finta eete
*kat e*** ten, eek ill the N„avYsetit* cheerfulietea Name a tradition, ila
nsttx** has peg* tit* litelle*4 !Pet had lees far smiles, perhaps,
the ship. And there es event I dont anyene etse among thew, vietmat
(ration that it will renuein so, as mod- a met asisenity, for he Ind hot not
ern innovatione do not notiewahlY poly his eight but also One hand. The
Oman" its samewh*t riotous ttedi- nurses at 'tint Lighthenae ssiV that
*tett *ay* * **Yid °Meer. etireri tr" 2n0St a their =utiles try et time dur-
manor is a boy at hearts and • never tea the period of adjuatreent to a new
tffttatt bis Tetttk.fubme* of *rdtitetwoalimeneional world. But not Prle
en the stela ward -room he/quest*/ 'vats Leroux. When he began to learn
nine* in Pretax *et would seen the Braille 'Alphabet, when It dawned
'eery strange if practised by grown -11P on 'him that he could read again, he
aeon ashore. But the -goo -room has no
eftnitr to he pushed aside by a span-
iel:die burst of irresponsibility. Never -
tholes:, its code of etiquette and its
rules are very definite.
The senior eubdieuteaant rates it
Oven more autocratically than the Ut-
ter rules Germany. eltli the middies,
other °Mem( junior to him, must
to his will or trouble fella upon
them in a 'heap.
Like all absolute menarche 'the
"senior sub" hasinyrmidees to enforce
his behests, the said mymniaons being
a number of midshipmen who act as
*dogs of war"—That is their, time.
honored and official title. When tile
fienior aub desires anyone removed
Wrom his preaence, he orders, "Dogs
off war, out So -and -So!" and the
*dogs"gleefully obey his command.
"The Doie of War."
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Promptly they fall upon "Se-and-
ao"—an avalanche of hefty youth— heard thie he sat downandwrote bas
?Ind if he ie as big as a church out he commandant e. letter. He ma not
has to go, heck and crops from • the trust his own Imperfect typewriting,
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1 Moilleine Mori Dieeevored That Ia.
jApANEsEEAT mete Corry Many Meese..
11 That insects •are carrier* of reanY
diseases wei an accepted idee among
t NA:now NOTED FOR PHYSICAL Cherokee median. men long before
sTRENug AND ENDuitAisicus letisevans.e thought of by modern physi-
The theory of these eboriginal
witch doctors" was (and is to -day)
Belted Rice Iusteed of Bread and that 'meets, being honetently crushed
or otherwise destroyad bet human be
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Very Little, If Atty. togs, seek revenge by eiteblishing
Meet eoramunities under people's skins,
thus producing an irritation that re.
'The Japanese, noted aa it nation foe sults in feve , boils d other aIas
their pleseleal grength. and enduranee, Ai...
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are not meet Indere. Indeed, in Jepan ' t"
, Prhnitive medicine' is meetly magle,
only the rich at meet' and that fletioind the treatment of*a patient Con -
0 as a rule. Whet, then, do they Sett i Is 1 et 1 I h
*t are
Lady Arnold, the widow of Sir Ed •
---tisuppoeed to drive out the evil spirit
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win Arnold and daughter of Eurolusse or other mischief-malotr that censes
helpful hints to those who are
wa Mendel of Sendal! gives here some
wiee parapeeesseue, is employed, ell of it
the. trouble. Somewhat elaborate
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enough to wish to study 3
Methods, ler their tread ii -Pauli!: magical' The °lee* Oct" .40. tha
e----a-ee -tt - ----.I bedside wears a hideous mask. •
season a restricted meg ration*.
INDIAN uW/TCII DocToia.*
laughed like a. boy. They have a
typewriter at the Lightheuae for the
mutilated blind; the spacing ie done
by the feet. Private Leroux attacked
it with enthushisra and made little
eokes when the instructor lead him
hia first results with the teueli sesie
tem. Everyone held up Private Le-
roux as a model to tluese patients who
cried or sulked; '
He bad been a month or two at the
',lighthouse when news case° unex-
pectedly from his commandant, at
whose side he had been wounded. The
commandant, reported. , missing, long
ago judicially dead, had suddenly ap-
peared in Switzerland with a convoy
of prisoners, exchanged because they
were too badly mutilated for any use
of war. The 'Gomen medical corps
had picked libn up between the lines,
with his face shot across behind the
eyes.Be, too, was stone blind. •
• On the day after Private Leroux
gun -room. Naturally, this, -"eating" , but dictated it ed a nurse;- and ece the
business does not go through without people of the Lighthouse knew what
vfle commotion. Whenever the mar- heewrote. He told of all they had clone
sentry on 'elm half -deck outside . for him of all they Could do for the
es' the gun -room furniture begin : commandant. . Woeld he not come? It
y round, he knows that the dogs I was a great thing to read again and
Ott War have been unloosed, and thatto know that one might work again.
the dogsand their quarry will 200111"e didn't think there Was any more
come hurtling madly through the ill& for me," he concluded . simply,
r. 'A- niats may be "oeted" for "but nate I have found light. • Won't
eaking ?Wee, or • just because the you come, too; my dear gemmand.
aettior sub thinks he ought to be out- I tint?". Then every day he waited. for
*d. • The sub has not to give any an sower., ' , .
t reason for hie, decisions to ' anybody. The tomniandent never r replied. to
When, after dinner, the sub picks (this tettee. But One 'morning there
t:hiep a fork and strikes an overhead appeared in the doorway of the Direc-
s all the junior neeMbets of the
ant with it, or sticks it Into' the tory a tall map, "as tall," said Miss
guii-roote must- leave belter-skeltere [Holt, the directress, "as tall aa—aa
Albert' of Belgium:" He were ,an ofhe
shnd they obey the signal in: ettick- , certt uniform, and hewasleaning on
1st possible time, -tumbling over each the shoulder of the little nurse who
ther in their eagernests to get out, had brought hint all, the Way. from
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or the lailt,tos leave will be ,grabbed • Switzeitalidettnet introduced' hinitef
y the "deo of, war," who;; in 'their :, as the .eommandant, and, asked for
awn .effective Way, teach him. the 4 'Private Leroux,. '
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*ability, ' of being .quicker fp. /flies Holt tank him to the garden
-movements hot time. ' ' ' . and sent for Private Leroux. Presently
All this be done in an 'Outburst s of there came a tap! UPI' tee! tat)! of a
'buoyant, roysteritig animal spirit, blind man's stick nearer and nearer
kelt intends no harm, and succeeds ' along - the corridor, and elnevate . Le-
occomphshing some I good. Every roux stepped out, reaching eagerly
young officer has to go "through the with his stick. • es . . loop," and and it does not hurt him either, "Leroux," said the directress, ',glee°
' thee he is all. the better for the is your commandant," and "Command-
rough-ahdsready disciplining ,he gets ant; here is Leroux." She led them
st, the hands of his exuberant mess- together. t' a. , -•
'pates of the gunsroom, who -certainty They steed silent, holding . each
ossess this- virtee, that they are ne other by the forearms. Then Private
cophants, and wilt not tolerate any Leroux's' good hand and his stump be-
ellove "Putting on aide" whoever he an to traiel ,up, up—feeling, He
may be. And there is no better way reached the commandant's shoulders,
f teething any person sense than by his neck, his face; the fingers of the
etting All • the nensense 'be 'knocked one good band rested on the bandage
out qf him by those of his 'kind: coveting that place where the eyes
had been. •
"Sent to, the Suit." • "My ceihmandant! My comminict.
The lean -rot= is an adept at -this ant!" cried Private Lerclue.. And,
portof thing. Melting half -formed droellizig- hiss heat upon his coniitiand*;
Paterial Into the right shote, and in- ant's breast, Private Leroux,- who had
mica -Wig a due respect for discipline never shed a tear over his own blind -
re among the most time-honored of ness, Wept like &child. • ;
,
e functions, for under all the rough-
and-tumble Of the life there liessoma-
king of deeper import than Mere -high
elpirited frolicsomeness. • 001 . might
possibly not regard the gun -room as
le school of Manheria though it, 'is-
- ..eind the .disciplinary centre for limier
,anleete go well, etiouldeona, a its
Aerilaella he at fault he is "sent to the
Stedi
The Navy does net allely Its Young
Butter, with -finely- chopped. .can-
died peel. and raisins, makes a much -
liked sweet sandwich, and honey with
chopped eints is another sweet 'filling:
r.P0 Vi•vd• wheat plant fruit of. All
kinds—strawberries, , red and bleak
eestiberries, biaeltteiest..._antretieste
gooseberries, graPiietttAlt these pro-
duce- fruit within- o Abort time -after
planting. . •
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Here are t•he menus of a day's meats
in a homely family in Japan: •
Breakfast -Thick brown soup; toile
ed rice; eraelet; pickles; sweet beans;
tea. • • •
Luncheon—Clear sohp; fried s •er
grilled Ash; boiled rice; stewed veg-
etable.with ainall pieces of chicken;
It le very desirable to "stand in"
,with the modicine•rean, who nuiy in
• cidentelly deal. in slangerons "melba
selling theta to good customers who
wish to kill or effliet an enemy.
•The possession of a little of a per -
eon's ealivia, collected on the end of a
Jai*, enables the Cherokee doctor to
make life vely-uaenjeyable to that in.
tea: . , lie may cause it to. breeta
Dinner—Soup, chicken','. belled tut, animate or sprosut cern in the body of
Ask salmon or lobster fried in batter its termer ownett
and served with Japanese saucet*seel- For extreme cases the doctor tat a
ad; chestnuts, •or some other sweet special presteillaisa waisa is pa.aparst
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HINTS FOR
Roadside Patching.
• An inexilous expedient for hurry-
ing a tubespatehing job to completion
is this: Hew teat small *lab e of
wood, apply the pateh to the tube,
then place the job between, the two
Weeks a wood. Next place the iaor
au the upper block, slip the whole
under axle or frame of the machine
and raise it 40 that the ear is lifted
an inch er so. This bring e several
hundred Pounds ef pressure on the
pot& snd matetially luistehs the cam-
plgion of the repairs
•
e Straightening Wire.
Stray pieces of eoppee Wire have
many uses, but it 'atoll, is neeese
OW to straighten out wire that has
already been uied. See that there are
no sharp bend e or kinks in this wire
and straighten out by hand any such
that are found, Fasten an end of the
wire to some firm anchorage; grip it
in the Wise a need be. Loop the
other encl of the wire. around a ham-
mer handle or similar instrument and
then Pull out the length of the wire.
Repeat the *potation as often as- hoc,:
dish. t w re is, of soft Copper
by putting into a point of the poison-
ous wild parsnip 'seven' earthworm(
beaten to a paste and as many splin-
terfront a tree that has been struck
by lightning, Those.areburied with
proper eeremohy and the person
rao4 at is expected to shrivel tip-
andedie within seven days.
• Serving the Menlo.
Everything is sorted at. each.• meal
onee to ail* person ones square tray;
the soup in a lacquer curs, the rice in
a china cup and the fish in a fancy
china plate.. There is se hint here for
those "who feel that to secure "fair.
ness" individual diehes might be in-
stituted in our households after due.
weighing. In Japan each persoo helps
himself with•chopsticks
. et,Chicken, duck' or other birds are
eometimeit added to the luncheon or.
dinner menu," coptinued Lady Ar -
nets) "The. meat is always cut in
small pieces: before it is; cooked, and
then it is stewed with vegetables also
eta in small pieces,. Everything goes '
much farther this Way. When beet is
used it Is cut up also, One pound of
• steak in small pieces. cooked ,in Jape,
anese eauee with leeks cut small -
makes a dish for several people.
!"We ettek a greet many things' in.
Japanese saucd-asheyu--which we
burready prepared, and .add twit the,
flavoring, we want—a little sherry or
Wier if it is for a sweet dieh. Shoyu
is made of. white teens, and when -we
use it the result is much the sante 'as
if the food.had been cooked in gravy.
Butter la not Used for cooking in
Japan. We fry fish in oil, having first
*Peed t thebattelaelest 1J:17*s-egg and
hreadczumbs, , . •
. How Rice 'iseCOoked.
aSeveral vegetables are served. he-
getherein Japanesesesaueteessuch as
bamboo • shoots, sweat potatoes.' and
the roots of lotus flowers, also mush-
rooms/and raany green vegetables are
used in soups- and stewa. Chicken is
always the chief' ingredient in these
stews. In this country t should put
carrots-,.-iurnipse4d musliplows .Ao-
gether.
"Boiled rice is used with every...meal
instead of bread .in Japan, we have
eo bread. We do not bol the ewe' in
plenty of water as you do rn ehts
„country. We take one teacupful of
tics and wash it well and then cover
it with twe teacupfuls of water and
. cook it in a fireproof pan. It should
not ,betstirred. After about ten min-
utes the Water should have been ab-
sorbed, an then it should be steamed
until quite dry. The grains should be
whole when it is ready, but sticking
together: We do not .put any salt
with the rice, which, cooked in this
way, is Very nourishing.
- "We use boiled maearonealso but
eltaeis usually served in soup. Our
clear soup is madewith stock from
dried satiety fish flavoredeswith Japa-
nese -mace ahd. sherry„, TM& 'brown
soap is made with White beans,. fish
or vegetables:. Eggs are often added
to :the luncheon or diener menu, and
fieh will be mashed andmade into an.
• melet With, beaten egg's.
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' PLANT A GARDEN:
Day of Victory is Hastened by Evert' •
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Effort at Food Production.. , 1
The aeerage4 persoa who, for" pat-
riotic purposes, plants a ' garden
'thinks of it sinviet as 4,ineans wWere-
by the food .supply of the nation may
he .augmented. . •
In this way, of course, it is import-
ant. But it has a larger significance
which the feed administration islime
i10m -to have realized, .. .-
' The output of - such a garden Is
reedy delivered on the spot to the oohs
sumer. ' It takes the plebe of just so
it will stretch le little', which improves
It.
e • r
Ileat-Resisting Cement.
• It is oftei convenient to have a ce-
ment filet will resist considereble tem-
peratures. Here is the recipe for • a
good heatswithstanding eement: Take
flfty parts of sulphur, one part of
eosin -and one part of tallow-. Melt
„these ingredients together and add
fine powdered glass to form a paste.
This ieznent must be heated,. before
•being used. ,
• 'Bo . sure *to give the chitdten ' whole
;mire 'sees - etase see se eesessese.
•
Kesepjles_ie hens -confined 'tet the Own-.
.etr's land. •
ntuch food which �therwise would
have to he fetched from more or less
distant places. _Perhaps itewould be
only. a wagon haul- more likely, it
would be a shaul by railroad.
•Whatever in the Way' of food pro-
ducts is produced and deliveredby the
garden on the spot where it is to be
consumedeaves jnetetleat Mitch tidies-
partatierie-Iet these hare transporta-
tion is precious; Every ton Of it that
can be saved is just so much . hell!
toward -winning the watt. •
-Every. ton of foodstuffs precluded for
local consumption releases a transpor,...
tation ton for otter purposes—for the
carrying of food, fuel andsmunitionee
The' forwarding of , supplies for 'the
use "of our fighting Men abroad—tho.
very pushingetcetheefroht of -the -eerie
non on which we must chiefly depend.
for beating the helped by
even a small' patch of vegetables that
-a householder anywhere ineCariada,
may grew in his backyard. • •
. esa_setetee,_
'Spring. •
Bering has it thousand velem, s
A- thousand -notes of song,
And every heart rejoices
Her chorus to prolong.
She shigs. of brooldete datielig •
Along a 'Pebbled way, • -
Of forest glades entrancing
And blue birds' roundelay.-
Spring hath a thousand glories,.
thousand fairy heeds;
•- She tells us wondrous stories,
.She reaches lavish heeds.
Her gifts are golden • fruited; •
She pledges joy divine;
. In goblet's willow -fluted •
Of mapIe-seveeteneci vete. •
• Excellent polishing eloths ere made
froni-e14: VolveitsAnt...
The extermination of all flies 'ethes.
attiriateweeleritisirphysienimeeviarerte
aleperintentrilg with a parasitee that
kills the: insepte.„
CAR OWNERS. e
Copper Coating.
It is peemible to deposit a thin coat.
ing of copper on iron or steel by the
following pillow: Clean the metal
thoroughly, waaliing with, sesoda solu-
Om of sulphate a copper, which is
*leo known as blue vitriol, in proper -
time ef twe ounces of the sulphate te
• eight ounces. of water. While the
copper coating will not last as long
as electro -plating and will not stand
milese(tvy
al. friction, it is a good rough -and
• ready Method ef copper qoating, so as
• to prevent =resign of the, under
" ••.
- Old Platinum Cohtacts,
the Ohl days platinum was pot
quite 40 expensive as it la now, and
in the screws tof old magnetos arid
contact colls there Wafii often inserted
a goodseized piece of platinum. Ely
using a 1114 carefully it is poesible to
remove the lentils and reclaim„ the
platinura, whenit Call be aoldered Up=
the end of anew sere*.
Enteegency Carbon Brusheie
The email rods which are part of
the ordinary .pocket lamp batter? can
be filecl and trimmed down to make a
• very acceptable temporary eeplace-
meet. for. worn-out carbon breshetjn
the magneto::
Interior Examination.
• Whenever. it becomes necessary to
examine the interior of the motor,
for any cause Whatever, the car own-
er eliould make it a point to clean
the oil holes at the lower end Of the
•• connecting rods. • These holes. are
Peculiarly likely to. become, Clogged,
In which ease the bearing Is starved
• for its vital hibrieant • •
LOSS OF SHIPS
BY U-BOATS
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FIGURES .caymsi OUT BY THE
BRITISH ADMIRALTy..
• • '
;value' of Vessels Log • by Great
.Britaln is A.pProidnuity
• $832,940,000.
. .
-Oneswould bp hard put to It to esti-
mate the tonnage lost duripg the War
sfromethe aubmarine,-- campaigo-- -and
-Other-cm:ma-IL it_wera_not-for: the.
figures recently' given out by Brit-
ish authorities, The British Admiral-
ty: -exnerts-figtire- that -11,886;962 tone
were lost up to the end Of 1917. ' Of
this amount '7,079,402 tons were Brit-
ish ships and 4,8070170 were ships of
other nations, 'including the United
States. •
As the curve .of submarine losses
has -been --slowly 'descendlng it einabe
estiznated that in the seven months of
the ptesent year, up to August 1, al-
lowing for -a eubstantial decrease bas -
on the most .optimistie suggestion
of the decreasing number Of sinkings;
the lose would be 1,750,000 Of this
probably 1,250,000' reightebe classed as•
British losses, according to the pre-
ceding figures, and 500,000 tons might
be classed as: ether losses, including
That weeld give a total of 13,577,-
5.72 tone of shipping lodt in four years,'
In estimating the value of this lost'
tonnage one has to take intoaccount
the vaetdeg *ices ships bring at the
prenent. day according to whether they
satutalme a neutral be a *belligerent
flag. It will he found that although
the British hiss in tonnage is hearty
twice that of ether nations the :value
of the tentage lost by other' nations
le nearly twice that of England, . The
reasons for this are the .much. higher
price obtainable for a Ship that has
chance of escaning a torpedo because
of her neutrality ad the Much higher
east of 3ozs4getisit of Anna _ la. the
United • States.,• . • •
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erea-
Ittessalassit. eleesotetssetatesies
__Areerican ships Which before the
•War brought ftem $75 to $80 a ton
now. brine $200 a ton, while ships of
other: matrons, ,now neutral, which
brought $40 a ton now bring $300 a
ton. AS the proportioh' of neutral and
AMeitean ships lost may be said, for
•purposes of approximate calculations
to have been about the same, one can
strike a mean .valuation of $,250 a ton
for. 'ships not flying the British flag,
'which would give a valuatidn the
teenage lost, outside of ,England's, of
$1,312,020,000. Estimating the twine
of Mikhail' ships at the
value of these lost to England may ,be
fixed at $832,949,200, Or a total of $2,::
144,0 9,20e. • ,
T141s loss has been to 'Some extent
'offset- by:theelergelysehrereasect ship
_net:election, .which, 'howevereis far be...
low the optimietiospredictions made a
few Months ago; -The peimary reason
for Making publie-thesfigureeetseas to•
awaken -the public to, the crying need.
for (lips. •
'BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE.
Forced Agahwt Her Will• te Believe
• Stories of permapste Outrages.
-
•• At the (*teat of•the vsar and. for:
two years afteMeard there were occa-
sional ;suggestions • that Gerniariy's'
crimes matt- have been exaggerated,
says an English corespondent, '
-- The humanitarians of Great Britaincontendeh that no coUntrY
et:mid possibly be guilty of the out-
rages charged against °Germany'. The
attitude of all. has changed now. The
other' day the Bishop. of .Loedon had
this to sayIn public' '
"We know *here We are We know
from what lias happerieh in Rive&
that you., cannot -disarm the tiger by
smillng at it. We .know now, from
what 'happened Yesterday' that there
le no repentance or the most awful
Melee' of violence' which have .again
been, enacted, when the -Seventh hos-
pital :sltitt bas been sent to the batten,
"The 'criesof thedrowning nurses
will echo In ter -eats forever, ana will
*and- no as a hation.'of cowards: If
we ever eagle to strive that such elsp_
palling wickednees' may he mad g im-
4).4"IbilleSticestVee:ssitr ;Tee
&view; the .possibilitiee fer Saki and
raisesthe price :receivede Heise the
bolls and save :the' cost:of hauling.
ri4001312.WES coif - stime• 3C11101.111'ss.
IN* isykis`i's DAy-
•opt( AND °um is .
6'ntraIG
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WANT to STOP
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DEATH RATHER
• THAN EXILE
MANY CIVILIANS IN WAR ZONE
REFUSE TO LEAVE HOMES.
Incidente of Suffering by Flemish
People During Present Period
of Terror.
•
Ilundrede of Flemish homes, within
the theatre of the present offensives
have been shorn of their pro,tectors,
•who. have Iseen called to the Vrench
colors, and for theseethis has been a,
time: of double teeter, writes •a war
correspondent on April 17th. During
the general. exodue of civilians" now
In progress, some, of the peasants
clung to their cottages, amidst the
crashing of ehell, until British sol-
diers led -them away. Somehave died. •
fighting .by -their own hearths Were
they, could be removal, A host • of
these people mot have realized their
danger, but numbers refused to be
dragged from the holies which- they
had been keeping so patiently, await-
ing the return of husbands or bro. .
then Ir0A1 tbe war, There were many
pitiful, eases of homes in which there
Were bedridden invalids, whom their
Wends had 4' eg) mane of removing
without help from the soldiers.,
, Kindnese of British Officiate,
fl was only yesterelay that a British
official photographer, • who was ye -
cording the history of the war on has
films, discovered a helpless paralytic
lying in a house which had already
been partly. wrecked by shells, The
invalid had no relatives, apd his
friends who had *looked after hima
were dead or cut off front him. So
the photographer, with the assistance ....
of a soldier, carried the man to safety',
though their road lay. though what ,
might have been a horrible death at
any moment. This is. ine instance ,
among platy.
Sometimes there is eio way og Say-
ing ValUable13 oftbulk in towns which
come first undere.the fire , of the Ger-
man trooes. Relics and treasures have
been abandoned, to the flames and to.
plutxlerers. Malty things havebeen •
deliberately destroyed by their pwriers '
in order that the Germans mighenot
get, then• ,
The '‘ytTreci of a 'Ildme.
The correspondent spent '. a might ,
recently at a small hotel in it hamlet 4
•
Maoist( doom seemed to _be sealed:. The -
grey-haired matron. who presided over
the destinies of the inn was getting
ready to. leave. Her husband is an
officer'hi the French army, and she
was left atone to plan, pot onlyfor
'her establishment, - but• -for heretheeee es.-
childreie- It • was- as- touching-scene:10
see her going sadly- from room to ee ,
room of the plaee which had been. her • . • *I
home since the -day she Was marrIed.
The correspondent found her at one
thee gazing at a priceless piece Of an-
cient Oriental embroidery, whiCh had.
thheew
entauntficately -framed- andelteng on: • "
-"Have you a knife?" she . asked
suddenly, she reached int and re-
moved the treasure. • .
. The knife was produced. • She stood,
the frame befete the correspondeht
and said: "Cut it, please.. I will not
leave thiifor the boche." And so the -
silken fabric was slashed,. from. thee -
frame. It seemeci like sacrilege .ore
vandalism, but there . was no other
way. This enebroidery and a few More •
valuables were the ottly•thihgs which
could be removed from this combine
ed Intl and residence of one of tho
most prominent fainilied in that pare
of the country As the matron pass-
ed into another .room she was inurs
Inuring softly to herself, "Oh, my
'Wee; my homer -
- :THE SIZE ,OF THE SUN. ae.
•
Extra Depth. of Atmosphere Account-
able for, its Appearance. -.
'
During the day; When the stio ie
high, -nothing is 'near .71 to compare it
with ih di -stance, go we tiohic'it is .-
sniaii;. buteehenwe see it. teethe hori-
zon,' with houses and trees and cher* ,
spire e tateatiehleg, we holitiee itstnehess-e..
large. Xetit often have y_nn .gwAllotats4
this- extelentititie as the teetlete'littlthe
candid; it is ai :scientific fib. To prove
it, look at the :Moon from behind a,
'lace eurtain or from behind a bush. It
will appear not a- whit largee. -
The real explanation of ;the sureS ap-
parent dilation is •titis: 'Thesun is • en-
larged at sunset because the:air I -nage
riffles it 01 course the air is le a cOn-
ditien to magnify objects all dey, But • ,••
when the Sun stands high, we look lf Up • :
thrinigli-onIi,ti thin layer of airs
whereas et. eundown 'ger eyes have to.
Piercelhe entliteedepth of the' atmos-
phere—multiplied at least :1,11 times. .
Thee accounts, for the enlargement of.
the sun.: Dust arid heated eit appear
to be the catises of 'the magnification,
Thue .the phenomenon is more noticee • .
able an sutiiiter and autumn, our dusta.
.„
gowns, • • ••
Make sheceseion. plaothigs of the
quick -growing vegetables trete April'
testil the end of slime. s
To mike .petiltodamealy atthio
time of the , year, pare .them right
• after breakfast,. cover with Old water
until 'time to eook theta, _ then . put
them in beiliftg water, ' When they. .
are soft drain and sPrinkle With a
little salt, theft toss them, inieovered:
Serie in a. het. dish wieh a feli10 nap-
kin over theta.'•
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