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'Ir—Thnrday, De& 2S, 191e.
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Story of Queen Mary.
1 his slay n told about a visit paid by
Queen Mary to a communal kitchen.
itc Wes
in
London's East Did, belong g
leyan mission. the very kitchen which. by
its success, led t0 their establishment in
on
et
the West End. The Queer lis
moving helmet the counter. 10 the great
dehrht of the customers. One small
in the flurry of the mome-
ent. gave a ttwe
penny duke( for a twope my pie. The
ac
Qcit asked h[m *hat he would like for
the e• 1 eism. "Oh. you can keen, it for
yuue'eff. tidy." was the prompt answer.
Ask the time
Those who speak of their sons or
brother coining through the war "with-
out a scratch" about abt the cooties.
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BELGIANS GREET
TEs . $IG*AL
GODUIC , OE?.
_me
bit atreAuotr tor the. horses• er.pecully in a( iapyIlfSAHtN?S otlr 1NATRl110Ni,
the transport and aralkry. but. even so.
the Belgians say enure kick wonderfully whet "Newly Weds^ should esti
CANADIANS WARMLY. well in abmpa raon with those of the ftun, I dlhould Not Do.
• whose animals were thin and in poor con 1. You shall not glee your Atts-
dittota t' band "beaus" other than kidney and
"Vitro les Casadieoacm." haricot. for "strafing" Is the bane ot
"Viet lbs ober i •,%I" the crowds malrfmony, and the wile who glees
sh sit. as we soler the •*lieges, lIe the back -talk Is seeking trouble.
tern reply with "Vint la pomnlc de
2. You shall not "pop down to
lever' and of het pat ri tic erre+. breakfast" camouflaged In curl -
I ha* the pleasure of arriving in Lon
Tro.Da on March to Germane Reeeh•ed
sills gage. Muale and Cheers.
The Lxtdon Free Press publishes the
ollowing tetters from Sergi. W. E. El-
liott (son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Elliott
of town I :
Buret. jlelgium, Nov. 22.—(On the
gtarcb to Get maree.)--At test we are
treading the great march through Bel-
gium which tor w Wog we only dreamed
—a great conquering.ermy. with the 1st
Battalion. Canadian infantry. properly
the head of column. Everywhere therf
has been a wonderful welcome from the
inhabitants of the villages four years uh•
der Hun domination. Nowhere has the
enthusiasm exceeded that shown by the
people of this little town rear the famous
old battlefield of Quatre Bras. A depu-
tation of frock -coated dell authortttes
met us outside the town. Hundreds of
little children marched through the red
• *tree s ahead of us. waving Belgian. add at least.
French ind lttttl-h flags and cheering and 7. You shall not expect your wife
singing, whsle their mothers and sisters division *as. and no one cared a qualt-
danced by the roadside to the music o(' fled cur I bd etted myself with the 2nd 10 sweet and amiable morning,
the bands. The kt:al band headed the C. M. R.'s. shared a b•rnk with a comes' soon, and Dight; for it you do, you
tet scion. and behind it. in the glory of are going to be badly disappointed
pr in that era, got in the breakfast 6rnrup- 6 You *hall not tell your wife
don fro¢t'Manchester on Novembe��e
the day the armistice was signed
were wild scenes that night on the Strapd,
in Piccadilly. the Haymarket and bei
Shaftestrli avenue. Redtabbed staff of.
fusers. Ott whom dignity hitherto rested
like a mantle, rode on the topsof
taxi-
while
cab.. waving sticks and flags,
everything oo wheels was crowded with
eotdters and girlie bound nowhere in par-
ticular and paving no fares whatever.
The celebration was still on when I left
nearly a erek later. It showed itself in
increased cordiality towards visiting
troops. Once 1 even got sugar in my tea
m a London l . M. C. A.' took for better or worse that he V
It took four days and a half for me td tot half a bad Bort.
find the battalkan, and some of the lads For Husbands.
papers, pins. or potent (rtzaers.
3. You shall by no means ask your
husband what be would like for dia-
ler, as there is nothing he likes bet-
ter than a guess in the evening; and
• good wife knows her husband's
likes getter than he does himself.
4. Remember that your husband
Is a man and not an archangel; and
that blessed 1s she who expects lit-
tle. for she may haply get more.
6. You shall not wish. (aloud)
that your Wieland were such a one
aa Mrs. Sof .ebody Else's paragon of
all the virtues. but shall. if you be
wt.e, occasionally tell the man you
who left France before me are still miss-
ing. Valenciemg♦es was the railhead, and
there was plenty of motor lorry traffic to
Mans. but there the tr disappeared.
No one knee where the first Canadian
6. You shall not bring home any
other fellow than yourself to take
"pot luck" without two days' notice
cadet and gold, came the huge Nag of alit! thrtyptoceeded in the general three.
the corporation. It was the end of a tion of Get many.
six a en•nuR "hike" over Loud roads, but At noon, having tramped over eighteen
out brass band put its entire resnairung kilometers, I found myself in No Man's
energy into the regimental air. "John land. with no troops visible. and where
Ped," and Judging by the chetrine most staring Gvtlians accepted money for coffee.
of the inhabitant: must "teen John Peel' Taking a cast oft to the east I struck a
very welt. lode company of the. 7Sth King's Own
Under the terms o1 the armistice. the Scottish Botderers. Nothing could be
Hun had to leave this part of the coup- more aimpiete than their ignorance of
try in good condition. Crops are in and the location of any Canadian unit, but
look well. There are quite a few cattle
and horses. though so many of the latter
have been taken away that oxen and
cow.; are more often seen hauluig the
plough. The largl has not been fought
over (we are minty nortt.east of Mins)
' and the houses are undamaged ,in the
Old Saying Amended. main. Undoubtedly they have been pie
"What's come over the girls nowadays: lagrd to some extent. There isn't a bit
they dont seem to want to marry .'" of brass to be wren; even the knobs have
"Perhaps they think: Where sfngleneas been removed from ( ons and window
is bliss, 'its folly tote wises." fastenings.
One of the men was grumbling in the
their officers gave me a hot dinner. a
madame at the officers' mess. olio had
never seen a Canadian, contributed two
"'erring
1 dangled on my way.
During the afternoon. farther east. 1
encountered Canadian Engineers. and
then the Royal Montreal Regiment. A
driver of a lien took me to Soignies.'
altere the brigade was. Brigade
headquarters could tell me nothe g as to
the loc'aition of my own lot, but gave
me supperes bed. breakfast and ctgar-
ettes and tent me away next morning.
Her Complaint. ranks yeeterdav ever the k.ng march m 1 made my way to division headquarters
the mud. with he ivy pack.lend ancther re- in Neufvilles and there learned where the,
"If it ain't enough to drive a poa oved him atter this fashion: Aw,
woman barmy'. i Morino won ie'" ex- Pr battalion lay—in the village of Naast. prologue of the great war, declares
ahut�up: you railer history for Your back over the rand t had float travelled.; the London Chronicle. She would
dairned Mrs. Mixup to a sympathizing grandchlldrenl'' It will be something for A couple of kilos' ride on a spare artillery I meddle in minor matters, especially
group of friends and nrighbers. "Ere s Canadians to look back on with pride in horse out and I made •'hone' in ;when she could appear censorious of
me met od'me feet again after triplets— years to cant. when the mud and fatigue time dinner. an individual's morals, but so far u
triplets. rnefk ver !—and they've got eve have i.wn more or teas forgotten. Something similar k the experience of I any understanding of the Intricate
all men returning from leave to the! problems of race or frontier or na-
United Kingdom throve days. It is often, tlonality was concerned. she had net -
more trying. and i know ol cases where' ther the wish nor the capability to
men have declined their leave recently , interest herself in subjects which she
rather than undergo the trip during i imagined concerned only the men.
prevent unsettled conditions. It was the Kaiser's parvenu Idea to
when you find her "tired to death,"
that the house was clean enough and
that to go and turn every room mut
was a piece of blithering tomfoolery.
'here is no surer road to strife and
bitter tears.
4. Remember to bring your wife
chocolates like you used to. for a few
shillings thus spent—a pound of the
best—brings a week of content; for
where thoughtfulness is concerned a
little goes a long way•
10. You shall not covet the last
word. but shall let your wife have 1t
for her own. shutting your mouth
like a rat -trap teat a worse thing
befall.
KAIAF.RiS .AND THE WAR.
impress
Played Small Part In
Pn,logwe.
The Empress of Germany ptayi
but the smallest part in the political
ole man down at the training camp. and
they're a-tearnin' 'tin 'os to tam fours !"
- Fair Play.
1f a men's mina is ever filled
burring thought., 0 - when he
the gas 1,111.
aith
pays
-e
In the meantime, discipline has
tightened up. rather tl an relaxed, and
there is constant shining of brass and
cleaning of leather. presumably for the
edification of the admiring civil popula-
tion. the long marches are proving a
BREEDING SHETLAND PONIES IN CANADA
Edith of Tranay and her foal, and a foal she is nursing beside.
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For the name's sake 1 visited London make the court of Berlin a brilliant
South while in the metropolis. and there! and fascinating assemblage which
Ian George and his royal mous I would rival the lost glories of Ver -
met i g
out driving. escorted only by a few sallies and surpass anything his fore -
mounted police. A few hundred thous- ; fathers had evolved. This last ambi-
and other people had gathered to see the! tion was not difficult of realization.
same sight. War s upheaval doesn't . But there was neither the money nor
seem to have shaken the throne in Great was Augusta Victoria the ornamental
Britain. `' type of woman calculated to be a
On the Field of Waterloo. 1point of orientation for the splendor
iud brilliancy which the young hus-
Beuzet, Belgium. Nov. 28th.—Today `band's 'animus had prescribed. A11
the Canlltians are on the Field' of Water• j the pearls of the Indies and the biro -
too. About a hundred ysars or so late.,] cedes of Lyons and the sables of Si -
butt still they're there. 7 he battalia[ ill
beria could not transform this plain
resting for a day so near the famous battle- and ill -poised princess into an ideal
field that a lorry load of officers and N. C.
Youthful viaitnra— the two children on the left Irelong to Mr. Percy Colons, of Montreal, who taker
an active intnrtnt in the Victory Loan Campaign.
Fr wart in 1112 that Mr. T. B. Man
auley. President of the dun Life
Aaloran,•e Comteaoy of ('►nada.
Orin Imported Shetland inmates to
('coeds, but long before thin date
he
had made s uteri!' and very
close
attidy of the hreedimt ,e( Iheae ponies:
11 was, therefore, very natural that
during Mr Macanlay's ti:ett to the
snrth of Scotland he 'Dol 'f ler sod
secured the he -it possible pedigreed
ponies On his beautiful estate. which
Is 'situated nn the Heights at Hudaoa.
Quebec, near Montreal. there are to.
day some of the most (aurone pare
bred Shetland ponies le existence'
The Canadtaa Pacille Railway passes
through part of the estate and pas-
sengers to Point Fortune and Ottawa
'save very often wondered to whom
the little jet black pontes belong.
Mount Vtrtnrla Pony paid Farm at
iludson Iletghta welcomes rtsltnra. It
is a sight well
canworth
1,0 omen -fromPonies the
U all
typos tier twelve
or eighteen Inch foal to
the tether of the herd. Pulver Star of
T , ehamplon of ell ir-otland.
wtin steads hut tbirt llin -baa 4,
b.ighi Possessed e la
and tail Ater looks 'he Mn. i. H 14 d
ol
let Mark *04 Miasma ten Tion there d
Is le protons evrodlklw.
hi
Math of Triomf, aan(lser prise oh-
/tr r. and a fine type of germine IWO-
Mind pony •
Moocher pony tinier all •lsitere se*
est ,hist*
M std, Dorothea gibe 1
years old, but yon asset tell her s4
op just Hokum at her, for ab leaks
sat ao well M the tree yaltgt
Ar y sae M the rwest fa+•5 1
b,w40 In me wort... wilt a OAtSM-
*tloa eft here( bleed N SheNaSd
etnpress-geeen. The Kaiser was often
O.'a went over to visit it.
wont to coattast the empress with
(kir triumphal march to the Rhine . the contemporary occupants of
contmuett* featured by cheering Belgians thrones — the mystic and ill-f}ted
waving flags—and mud' The country Alia of Russia, the young andAnt-
is full of rolling contour 'those greasy• etous Queen of Spain. the beautiful
slopes [nay be useful to the slide from I and gracious royal women of Italy
bones burare highly unpopular with the who have recently reigned fn Rome.
transport However. they managed to ' But the most envy anti invidious cum -
get a be Canadian mail up today. and . parison were called forth when the
we are enjoying the pleasures of antici- . imperial eyes scanned the sauve and
peUon. Meanwhile Harry Bennet has smart court life of London. where
been out garnering a harvest of perfectly King Edward and Queen Alexandra.
good Hun helmets, left behind to the the idols of their people, continued
scramble to get back to the Vsomber
little
their peaceful sway.
How the flags light up thesese somber
little tillages. We were accustomed to Riede Helping Win the War.
the French trico'or, nearly always of
modest oar but every Belgian who can' Iver, since this terrible war start -
manage it displays from an upper win- ed a great feathered arm':- ?:.ea been
dow of his house an immense specimen of fighting day and night. summer and
the national banner. in all its glory of ' winter, to help the Allies win. With -
purple and yellow and scarlet, sometimes wit the help of these feathered sot -
bordered in gold. with tassels swinging' Were oar fluting meg would- .not
from a shiny spearhead. It was a mys•
tent to us where these people kept their
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would have been facing starvation
and we ourselves Mould have been
little better off. The margin between
sumcient food for absolute necessi-
ties and famine has been and still is
uncomfortably narrow. hence the
food restrictions with which we have
all become so familiar. The margin
Is harrow. but It Is sufficient. Have
you ever realised that but for the
birds, the feathered soldiers, the mar-
gin might not. end probably would
not, exist to -day' It is an Indisput-
able fact. Had a great disaster de-
stroyed all insect -eating and vermtn-
destroying birds two years. or evea
a year. ago. we would to -day be fac-
ing such a on aborta maa antn all
probabilllY w
loss of tag war. Even is it Is the
loss from insets and from such ver-
min as rata and mice totals a sum
so vast as to be ■Imoat unbelievable.
What '1l would be without the aid of
birds In keeping the pests in check
fairly staggers the Imagination.—
People's Home Journal. •
Champion Silver Star of Tra
--Pttnee or Theile, the strain which
[yr. Douglas. author of "The Shet-
land Pony.. says is the scores of the
Yost riding blond In the breed.
Dorothea Is believed to be t1'i. naly
Shetland pony living to -day which U
practically Dire bred to Prince of
TYa1e nn both sides. f
Tim ponies In th. hard •re black,
Attestant and white. and black and
white. Poets' suited e*Derts1I7 for
the nee of ektlde in Inc bre&, while
experiments are Aetng eondnrtsd to
predate' • sew breed of posy by UMW
nay. the head of the herd.
lag pellgreed Ebetani mares with •
prise wtnnfaag� Hackney pony stallloa.
Tlls 1s calculated to Mag out • posy
with all the (otitis characteristics of
the Ph.tlasd and a'1 the fine action
et the Haekooy pony.
Besides posies and all the stock
that to fogad to • prosperous farm
,them U • herd of elk on the slopes of
[indent Helens. Thee run Isom
winter and minamer Mad add to the
attracttoes or ons of the beauty *pets
attar Montrs.:L 5
. , , , A. 11. O. •
hatlot.al flags ail these years while under
German rife, but it has been stated that ;
Fritz's commercial instincts overcame
sentiment and he entered the market'
with a m,tde•inl ermany stock when the
retirement began.
However that may he, it is certeio
that he sold no British flags The Union
Jack, wherever seen along our line iii
march. is homemade. The mesdames,
who sewe »em together. were not always
sure of the extort makeup of the Jack, and
there are some curious St. Andrew's
crosses in the corner. but we appreciate
the effort all the more.
The mottos displayed on arches and
windows and walls are likewise eloquent
of god feeling. They are
"1. Due Aux Allies."
"Hontteur Aux Liberateurs "
"Vive la'Detiverulce."
"Hnnneut Aux Soldats de la Semnme,
de In Verdun." and many other welcom-
ing phrasett
(Jur hands rouse tt em to a great pitch
of excitement. In Beuzet the local
musical chsnTnizattrm turned out and
played a imicert in "I -a ['lace its first
public appearance and eta fust tune in
tower years' And its first number was
.'God Save the Kinge' As may be im-
agined. the bandsmen were a bit shaky
on some of the notes, but there was no
thing uncertain about the cordial feeling
thus expressed The colonel ordered nut
our braes hand and bugle band to r, turn
the compliment; in fact. w we
rest a day our hands play on the village
streets. [Jur bugle bond is at present in
chine of Cara Ford. [ truism. of Wind-
sor. Sergt. Day being in Engiand on
leave.
What tors the bard play on the march?
Well, "Over There." ' Gypland " ^C.ori-
temptibk Army," "To the Front," "On
to Victory; aLsoAiy' is ibaki,-
•• Voice of the Gum'," and all that sort of
chi . In future "TlseGirl i Left behind
M.' is to he our farewell musk on leav-
ing a town. just ss the regimental "John
Peel" is the inevitable marching in nium-
box.
The gumlike is. what are we gning to
ppiItty7 newt** into Germany, and what
kiwi of ti will
In thea meantime
Mtilne axe tie finest sights
we have ae in weeks was • real loco-
motive and win. running over the track
between Natrik and Brussels. last night
t'they 'Mean.
The atesaaingly meanlinglesa figures
as the lining of your shoes are en-
tirely Intelligible to the shoe clerk.
Tbey are to code. and the code is a
tribute to twinan vanity. There are
several codes, the most common of
which Is termed the western For
In-
stance, 376 means 7 % C, The
•umber. 3, indicates the width, 1
meaning A; 2, B: 3. C, etc. The
second figure Is the length. if a 5
appears after it, that adds a half-
s1se. An 0 indicates a whole six-:,;
6D. for.tnatance, would be 460.
Sweet Omors.
Sweet odors are of three kinds—
the floral, the aromal and the bal-
samic. The first group Includes all
those derived from sweet smelling
Bowers and plants: the second. those
derived front *tusks and resins; the
third. those derived from leaves and
gums. The Otto. or essential oil of
perfume. is obtained In th:ee differ-
etweys—d1st illation. maceration
and encourage.
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F'arnous Pass over the Rockies
WHEN Sir George Simpson, In
1841 made his overland jour-
ney round the world, in the
interests of the Hudson's Hay Com-
pany. no region Impressed him with
Its sublimity and wild grandeur more
tbau the ridge of the Rockies bstwa'n
the prairies and the Upper Coiumbba
Valley. The pass by
which crossed this ridge still bears his
name std 1s used by a few of the
more adventurous tourists. hut still
more by Alpine climbers with am-
bitions to irate Mount Asetnibolne. a
pytamldal monarch of dearly 12,000
feet high The description of this
pans across the Great Divide le con-
tained 10 the journal written by
Simpson. After crossing the How,
following one of Its tributaries which
to evidently Healy Creek near Hang
to the southeast of Mount Brett, be
says "We were surrounded by peaks
and crags on whose summits Me per'
petusl snow; and the only strunds
which d*tnified the solltude were the
crackling of prostrate branches tinder
the tread of our borsch and the roar-
ing of the stream as It leaped down
uta [rocky course.
'About seven hours of hard work
brought us to the height of land. the
hinge as 1t were between the eastern
and western waters We breakfasted
on the level Isthmus, which did not
exceed fourteen paces to width. filling
ear kettles for this one Lonely meal
al ones from the crystal sources of
the Columbia sad the Saskatchewan.
while these willing feeders of two
o.Woslts oceans. murmuring over their
beds of mossy stones. as if to bbd each
o; her • Iona farewell. reek hardly
fall to atlas* our minds to Use sub-
limity of the wens.
Bet between throe kindred Nes
tater, the common progeny as Odaof tlie
snow wreaths. there
remarkable d$f.re•oe of temperature.
thau the source of the Columbia
Moored 41 . *1141. ileal of tb letakag,
skew$* raised oke woman to M.
Line of the Great Divide Separating Alberta and British Columbia
the thermometer meanwhile striking
as ►Igh as 71' In the shads.
"From the vicinity of perpetual
anew, we estimated the elevation of
the height of lard to be given or
eight thousand feet above the level
est tot sea. while the surrounding
peaks appeared to rise nearly half
that altitude above our heads
"in addition to the physical mag•
nttleenre of the scene 1 here met an
unexpected reminiscent., of my owe
>ytive hill■ 1• the elope of a plant.
which •peear.d to me to be the very
heather of the Highlands of Scotland.
1 tarried away two specimens white.
however. ea a '*tante cs.Dartees i
Oland to Mar fres% oke guanine
staple of Use brows beaebe of the
land et cakes"
TM Massa Naas M user end
e1Nb be gseltstam*, wbe tad this s
emaysstost way of reheats", flu woo -
Aortal heaths' gresod• of the Zoete
may 1elle1 hem Banff. the tile( evt-
At1M pet la the Caaadlaa POO.
Rockies. The route Is also being used
by the more adventurous toprtsts who
desire to go ramptng and fishing en
a week or fortslght's trip In oY
taking their 'vacation In
leisurely way near the big
such party of tourists m
last July. finding the
freer from snow than
led to believe from A
son's deeerjpfien. 1
Alone meadow. os
found ■weft and a
panorama of the,
moontalsa was
stone honndary
Ilse at the 0
beets and Nr1
Jim Drew
the Rendre.
age. oke tr
Mures P
their tear
was rut
farther
rite i