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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-4-7, Page 6• ••r ff4,4444444++++ '4'414 1.+444 A DUAL VICTORY • est•iweetieHeessiwtweeletieeel'fiefili He stood anent on the threshold, tegarding her. aihe did not look up. With feverishenergy she continued her packing, thrusting lice belougings rutblessiy into the yawning trunk, be- fore which she knelt. His impassive gaze went round the dismantled room, noting the disordered dressing -table, the open doors of the .wavdrobe, the venpty pegs where her clotees had been. "You are• going'?" ''What else cap. I do?" Her voice trembled slightly. "You can -trust ine!" ""Frust you? 'ellen you refuse me tny explanation -when you---" She went an buudling all her finery into the trunk. • He came further into the room and put her aside. "Heavy articles first. You will crusk your !al-lals if you don't take *are." She knelt, or rather huddled, ou the floor in mute misery, as he busi- ed bimself with her packing, folding skirts and skilfully *depositing, hoot - trees. In a, few. minutes he looked roued with a brisk inquiry; "Is that all?". "Yes -thank you." "X may strap it up teen." The lid of the trunk shut clown with a prolonged creak. He set his knee against it and fas- tened the strap securely; She scram- bled to her feet and took up her hat from the dressing- table. As she ad- justed it, tee black feathers nodded With a disraal effect, above her suffer- ing white face and hollow eyes. She had no jewels to tear off and fling on the table, like the heroine of oa novel. They were not rich. Beside her wedding -ring she only . wore one other, that would never leave her finger. rt is just woman- hood that she could turn her back oa him -and cling, as to an anchor, to his little forget-me-not. ring. He leant his shoulders against the mantelpiece as she searched vainly for her gloves. "Let us understand each other. I am hazy as to the cause of this - this -whirlwind of effect. You take my breath away." "You know it is because you will not tell me--" She turned and faced him, her eyes mournful, her mouth Quivering. "Why should I tell you? You go rummaging in my desk" -the flicker of amusement in his eees hurt her more than a blow-"aud come across a mysterious packet, which arouses the curiosity of Eve within your lit- tle heart. You burst in upon nie, and tax me with a disloyal secret- egerietie handwriting, end secured by kt greet red selase of sag -wax, Sealed with his on seal, a nettled hand. "Take it with you," he said Seem-. "I'Vlien your curiosity grows unbearable you may break the seal and View the contents -but that will be the end. You don't mistake me? The syrebol of a dead faith may stand for a. -dead love, too." • He opened the door for her, She put out, an uncertaiu hand te Lim, but it slid dowa untouehed •by' her side. "You will not bid me 'Good -bee'?" "No," he said gravely; "it is you who are bidding me 'Good-bye.' " An hour hater there was nothing left her but to face bee life without him. There had beetle° difficulty in find- ing a lodging. Her sweet face and voice had appealed to the first land- lady she accosted, and she had crept thankfully into a small, unlovely room out of the chill November fog. The room was in a street 'of :the same Iodality- as her home -a stone's throwaway from • - peace, happiness, and hen. • • • ••• • !ct. 11 appear, Ascertain •whether there But peace .ahd"happiness had been has been • so send fa, fraure or dislocation or a physician a,s soon as possible, and keep perfectly quiet un- til be arrives. /1 there is no feecture or displacement of bones, but only excessive swelling about the joint, bathe the injured member in hot wa- ter as long as. possible. Bathe for 15 to 80 minutes, renewing the Wit - London streets ao that she ter occasionally, and applying with a could 00-efeleer-e-efelteet. to AbOot..4.0 Misessitiontatiolooisse USEFUL HINTS, For Sore Throat. -Half a teeSp001).- ful of 0111i:irate of potaeli dissolved in ft gill of water, to which a teespeon- ful of glycerine ha.s been added Will be found a reliable gargle 'for sore throat. A Complexion IlinteeNever eat any- thing that you know • disagrees with YOU if you want to keep e, good -com- plexion. Indigestion is min of the greatest enemies of the skin, and for this reason the simpler the food one eats the better. Fruit, either fresh, or cooked, and green vegetablea should be part of the daily diet. Hew to- Treat a Spain -When sprain occurs lose no time in a- t ending to it, hoseover trivial it may destroyeri by her find.. that morning, end he -had hidden sauteing from her all these • months. The words, 'My secret," danced' before her eyes aseshe crouched over the ;ere in the unfamiliar room that was hers for to -night, She had only 'taken it for .so long, in a desire to get out of the [ think, and plan her future. .The rent sponge. Then wrap the hewed mem- of the email room was. beyond her; it had alre,ady (paid in •ndvance) made a serious, hole in her little sum of money. But the past refused to be ousted by her future; she could not plan. Ner brain revolved about her prev- ious happiness and present 'deeper'. His face was before her; tender, as she had been wont to see it; stern to cruelty, as sho had looked upon it last. T1ie. packet, with the seal showing as a splash of blood, lay on the rug at lier feet. Yes: she would soon learn his sec- ret; have indisputable proof that • he tion of hot fomentations. After that had not always been. hers (she had no witch ha.zel, vinegar and hot water, doubt that she would find sorae love - or alcohol, put on with a bandage token). • But if she open.ed the back - Her and often moistened. et -there was no turning back. Headache. Remedy. -If your head action would kUl any regard be had for her as •surely as he had said it. aches or you are nervous, take offyour boots and stockings, and let She slipped down on the floor, bury - your feet breathe by sitting on a ing her face in the pridely horsehair chair and wriggling your toes or seat on her chair. She must, not walking up and down the room. A think of the past -she must. not • think— well-known society lady does this, and afterwards her maid gentle chafes A clocg somewhere struck eight. They would now be cosily settled her feet till she drops into a deep • at the Bre in les den, he and she, She sleep. A strong solution of common wash - 'would have pushed away his papers ing soda. applied to ea.ch..cern by and brought her own, chair to his el- bow. He would puff blue clouds in- to space from a huge cigar, while she lit (scorching one side) a mild, very mild, cigarette her own self, and put it delicately between her lips, for the sake of sociability. She would hold it in her fingers while it burnt out, assisted by a very few puffs - you demand an explanation -and is and he would pretend not to sce the it so much that I ask of you?" ash growing long as she held it His voice softened. "Is it so much?" he repeated. She hung her head sullenly. ' "It is too much. You refuse to .tell me what secret the packet holds -a.nd you ask me to trust you." ber in strips of flaand saturated with hot water, and cover with dry cloths. 1)0 not use the sprained member until recovered. Complete rest is the only cure foie a sprain. Simple Remedy for Sunburn.- A little lemon juice added -to the water in which the face is washed will quickly remove sunburn. • Insect Bites. -To • prevent insect bites rub the skin with a little vine- gar and water. Scented verbena. leaves are said to have the same ef- fect. For Bruises. -For a bruise the best treatment is an inunediate applies, dawn--- Obeying a wild imoulse, she seized the packet from the rug and poked it between the bars of the grate. The thick substance refused to ignite, but in brick-dustand rub it well on to wetting a smell piece of linen• and binding round the foot will entirely remcive corns. Keep In the honsemaid's cupboard a woollen cloth which is soaked twice a week -in petroleum. Use this to •pre- serve the polish of the stained • and varnished floor, rubbirie; it over the boards every morning after tee clitst has been removed, After the juice has been squeezed from a lemon,. the peel and pulp should be saved for cleanin.g brasses. Dip the lemon.first in milk and then , atid baking powder. Mash the pota- • a little scorched patch widened at one the tarzushed bLass. to fled rub into the dry ingredients; ere is a hint for readers who an' add sufficient water to mix smoothly 'So we have reached a cul-de-sac," corner. The next moment she had d rapidly into a still batter, about Wash . -them n It. This treatment will render, than alelost •equal to ue1v. Turpentine will remoVe paint from woollen oleeilk eabrics. Saturate the spots with spirits of turpentine, rind allow it to 'remain for A few hours, Rub the Oath between the fingers, and • the paint will amebic off with- out injuring the goods. Wash new glasses in cold water for the first thne or two, and they will be found to have a much clear- er appearance than if waehed in but. To soften old putty apply to it a red-hot poker, and then you will find it quite easy to serape off. DOMESTIC RECIPES.. Spice Cakes.--levo-thirds cup •of butter, one cup each of sugar and molasses, three eggs, one cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful each of soda And nutmeg, one and a lialf teaspoon- fuls cinnamon and half a teasPoonful ofcloves, one cup raisins and three cups of flour. Ono 'Egg Cake,-Ilelf a cup of but- ter creamed with one cmi sugar, one egg beatenlight, one cup sweet milk and two cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder and one of vanilla. • Corn Bread. -One egg, two table- spoonfuls sugar, half a teaspoOnful salt, two large tablespoonfuls of 'Mel- ted butter; (me large cup milk, two cups sifted flour', one scant cup core - Meal, and two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Buttermilk Pie. -A healthful 'pie and Well liked by many is made as follows: Into a lined pie tin our a mixture made of 1 egg well beaten, e cup . sugar, 1 tablespoon. flare-, a pinch cif .salt, flavoring to suit (mit- meg is ver3,- nice) and a pint of butterfnilk, fresh and good, 'all well beatee. Bake half an hour in a. mod- erate oven. Lem.on Pies. -For three small pies grate 1. lemon, add 1 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons flour, 3 eggs, Beat all and pour in cold water to make 1 qt. 'of the mixture. Bake with upnet crusts. Curried Sardines. -Mix together one teaspoonful each of sugar and curry powder and a saltspoonful of salt. Put these into the blazer with • ono cup of cream and half a teaspoonful of lemon juice. Stir until hot, then put in ten or twelve sardines. In the meantime heat some butter or oil in a second blazer, and in it saute some bits of bread a little larger than the sardines, and round slices of tart apple. Serve each eardine on a bit of .bread; pour a. little of the •souce over the top and garaish with a round of apple. The slices of ae- ple will keep their shape if the apples be cored and • then cut into rounds without parting. • To Cook a Beef Heart. -Clean cut away tallow and then boil till tender. Make a dressing of bread crumbs, • salt,pepper, butter and a few bits of celery cat up. Stuff the heart and put it back on the stove and let it .cook brown in the grease, Putting a little water in oc- casionally to keep it moist. Serve •either cold or hot. Baking Powder Bread. -Take 1 qt. flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 ta,eleseoon sugar, 3 heaping • teaspoons baking powder, 1 small potato. Sift to- gether thoroughly, flour, salt, sewer said he quietly. "You desire my em- taken hold• of it again-eurning have canaries and singing birds in. fidence, and I desire your trust -un- her finers against the bars- and tee house. If at any time you are troubled with insects infestin•,g the questioning faith is what I would drawn it out. If she iturnt it would bird's cage, hang up a small bag cif he believe that she had not opened it? She had refused to. believe him. Misery might ever be hers if • she destroyed the proofs of her surren- der. can be made which does not come off She stood up, the precious packet on dresses, and is not so easily wash - held. to her heart and stumbled out There had dwelt a, ho the b k - have in my wife." . . ' • She ivinced. His creed appealed to the better side of her nature. to a nobility of soul that jut fell short of surrender. "Where are you going?" To find a lod in " p ac used. Dissolve * lb. of size in a pint ground that he would exert his au- He was in his den, as she had fae- thority, thwart her intention to alum- * d tl d te f h and a half of water: when melted in don bim. But he was letting her go --six months after their wedding - day. "You have no. money." "I have three polinds." It was a sum he had given her that morning for household purposes. In taking his money with her she was a thief, but without it she was powerless. Nothing- eseseied hen. If he chose he could demand his three sovereigns back from her, but he refrained -not in mercy, she. knew. He was merely giving lies rope to hang herself with. "And when it is all gone'?" She flung out her hands paeeion- ately. "I CUM work!" "With these?" He crushed her small fingers into the compass of his broad palm and dropped them. "You cannot %York', and I cannot alloer you to starve. There must be a sum. placed at your disposal -so, erciii see, you will have your revenge. I am a poor man, and the expenses of a divided household will cramp inc still further. I sbaIl have to go Without nay cigars!' • "Do you think -after this -that I would touch a penny'?" "Alas! my cigars," lie reiterated, and laughed. • leer gloves caught her eye, where they lay on chair. She drew than on slowly, "When you have found 0, lodging, imepose you will seed for the trunk?" "That is my intention," There were, perhapS, ten seconds "I believe you are getting the bet - More left her-ehe Might give in. She eta of ine," he breathed. "You ceunted ten heart -beats that sounded I won't trust me -but you have conic heavily in ber ears. Give int beek because----" "X love yott," she finished, "You still think that I have de - caved you --that scent is of a nature that should come between 'us, if you could clo without oze?" • "It, may be. But X cannot do without you, and "Yoe refuse in learn my lesson in faith?" he said slowly. "Ilut-ef love • much -and that is expiation, is it not?" He beeireated a moment and then laid the packet in her lap. "Open he said. • She looked up, white and desperate, her thieve on the seal, "Under- stand," she said deggedly, "that no- thing I find Call Malta arty difference." "Whet do yeti expect'?" sulphur mei e t wires. This will not haat the bird, but will keep away the pests. For Front Door Steps. -A. whiting the roorn-outdoff in the rain as that generally . 1 pt. of water to 1 qt. of flour. Do not make a stiff dough, as in yeast bread. Four the batter into •a greased pan 4e by 8 inches and 4 inches deep. The loaf will rise to fill the pan when baked, 13e1:0 Very het oven 45 minutes, placing pager ver first 15 minutes to prevent drusting too soon. Bake immediately after mixing. a saucepan gradually stir in 1 We of and smoking furiously. Iris thoughts lelaleWhen cold this will be wore hidden frOM her when she open_ g• rather stiff, and will need to be ap- ed the door. So that he seemed any- plied with a stiff brush. thing but an object of pity, lounging Care of Brooms. -The cleansing of in the warm fire -light. brooms is rarely thought necessary; She shivered as he went slowly but they require cleaning as much as ferware, his well-being smiting heranything else, and if washed occe- Without her, he was as she saw him.; semen _ y will be found to last far without eim-what was slue? longer than • otherwise. About once "You have come bace?" "I have come back." a week prepare a good lather of hot water end soap, and into it dip the, Ile rose to his feet and put her gen- broom. Shake it mitil it is nearly tly down into his own chair, asking no questions as he. pulled all her dry, and hang it up with the bristles - gloves, and began rapidly to unlace her muddy boots. "I was going to burn the packet -- seal" she said wearily. She held out the scorched corer to him, and his keen eye saw tee scar of a burn disfiguring her finger, "I was going to burn it without opening it --and then I thought that you might not believe me, so I have brought it back." "I should have believed you," he said. • "Anyhow, the seal is unbroken," slie responded spiritlessly. Ile removed her hat. She poirited to the packet she had passed to him. "Don't let me know -I only want you -I don't carer" "Then you have not come back be- cause you trust me?" "I don't Want to trust; love you," she said. ITe turned the packet with its flar- ing red seal rotind in his hand'. did not knew the meaning af the phrase. He Was master, as ha had ewe •an hie life, by reason of a level head end iron Will. She stole a gianee at hint -at his cold eyes, powerful jaw, and dear, re- lendese mouth. Pfe peeled herieelf upon justice; but reererewelemeney? As well risk the MilIetettee to silo* these to thn grain it ground. • Ile• Would make his own ternul with liar,' Or none, She had tie en -thee preteXt for lingering. As she moved he took the eatise ,r5f their quarrel froin 110 inner pocket of hi8 coat and gave it into her keeping. Tt waS tr. egtiare pad:et, :lone up in White pepele With the words -"My se - gra.," wittAtcle atrOes it in ele chat -AG - downward imtil quite so. 'To Seal Letters so that their Can- not be Opened. ---Steam or hot water will open envelopes closed with muci- lage ad even a wafer; a hot iron or a spirit -lamp dissolves sealing -wax, an impression in plaster having been token of the seal. • By the combined use of water and sealing -wax, how- ever, all attempts to open the letter otherwise than by force can be frus- trated. All that is necessary is to close the letter first with a small, well -moistened wafer, and to pierce the letter with a coarse •needle (the same applies to .mucilage), whereupon sealing -wax may be used upon it in the usual manner. This seal can neither be opened by dry heat nor by moisture. In cases of acute indigestion the banana. ie of innnense service. Ba- nanas should be eaten as a dessert, and care should' be taken that they are quite ripe. To clean eine articles rue them well all oVer with paraffin oil applied on a piece of flannel; then make • a lather of hot water and soap and "The proof of your love for---". She could not go on. • "You are right; it is a proof of aity lore." She broke the Seal eleliberetely, and tore away the paper. •, The back of a photograph lay up- permost, "Stolen" scrawled upon it. She turned it over and a, thar fell on the trice—her own face! It was en old lilipness of her. She had miss- ed it eff the mantelpiece at home, some tiMe before her niarriag'0, miss- ed it before she knew that he had desired to be more to her than friend -- He lifted her handd and tylt his lipe to the teen on the finger.-PeareOn'e Weekly, TO ORNAMENT WINDOWS. For a window in a door, or one which looks •out on ma unpleasant prospect, these directions for orna- menting windows will be found use- ful. • To imitate ground glass, dissolve one-fourth pound 01 gum arable in a pint of boiling water, then add enough whiting to :make it like stiff paint. Paint the inside of the glass with a sponge or coarse brush, laying the mixture on as smoothly as pos- sible. If clear marks are desired to lay out a border, they can be made while the glass is still wet, using a ruler and a pointed stick. If figured ground glass is desired, first cover the glass with a thin coat of varnish and before it dries lay on a piece of • figured lace or bobinet, stretching it smoothly. When dry, give two coats of varnish, after gloss. it can be wa.sbed like ordinary Another way of ornamenting glass is to use a -solution of epsom salts, salsecle or Glauber's salts, which will crystalize and make a beautiful win- dow, Put tho salts iti an earthen Jar and add enough hot water to barely dissolve it. Apply while hot with a brush. The three stibstances men- tioned will each give a different ap- Peatance, but all are beautiful. • POTATO PEN -WIPER. A big hotel 10 London uice bush- els of potatoes a .year for pen -wip- ers on • the tables. • in the writing,- roome. Every morning a large po- teto is put in a compartment of the pen -box, aed after twenty-four hours it is removed, and another put in. Pens in penholders are etuck into the potato half a dozen at a time, giving itethe apperirande Of a porcu- pine. It is claimed that •a potato is the best, preservative against Peat and mildew available for pens, ''Hare you nothing else ?" inquir- ed Mrs. SchoPpen, who Was looking a,t half -hose .for her husband: "No, ma'am," replied the shopman. "I've shown you every pair in stoek,') "Are you Sure," she persisted, lean- ing over the couoter, "there are nOne there 1 haven't seen Stammered the shopman, "eXeept-er-the pair I'm wearing." PeoPle who OOnle to bigh worde 810 apt te .inclulgein low °ilea, FEEDING THE TWO ARIES SYSTEMS OP RUSSIA AND JAPAN COMPARED. Czar's Soldiers Apt to Go Hungry -The Japanese Marching Order. The war in the East is affording a test of the ti anspeet and commissate•- at systems ,of Itessia and japan. OF ley the Russian system an army corps 01 eregoe men is supposed to be accompanied by 2,400 wagons. When campaigning, .the Russian soldier is supposed to carry two days' rations .on his person. The reg- imental trains carry rations for each man for two days longer, and the divisional trains for item two to four days. It is reckoned that fresh, supplies should always be obtainable from the surrounding country or along the line of coMmurreations within the six or eiget days .ellowed. Tho system is a good one, but sledges across Lake Baikal. the transport and commissariat broke In the present campaige the Mika - down miserably in every important do's fighting Man is carrying a great war waged by Russia during the fast deal more food with him than his century.' The experience of the past Russian adversary. Against the late indicates that the Cessacke tiers the ter's two days' rations he carries two only Russian soldiers who are mo-• cooked rations of rice in addition. to bile and well fed in a campaign. They six emergency rations. These are are mobilo because they always have contained in an aluMinum mess pan, and as the rice has been boiled and large numbers of spare horses -often two for each man; they are well fed dried in the sun, the entire weight is because of their skill in foraging. trifling. Meseta officers spend freely out It is commonly supposed that the of their private fends during a cam- Japanese soldier lives on rice and paign in order to remedy the defects dried fish, Let such is not the fact. ' of the official transport and commis- lee can live, and fight well, on - that sariet. They have been obliged es, spare diet, if necessary; but he is do so even during manoeuvres. elven meat end other sustaining The example was set by Skobeleff, foods whatever practicable, as well Russia's greatest General ofmodern as beer or saki. . times, during Several years ago a military cam- . THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR. do to ascertain why the physique of mission was appointed by the Mika- ' He was a rich man, and every rubble the Japanese troops was inferior to he owed was at the disposal of his that of the British, German and oth- beloved soldiers when they needed it. er countries. The commission came the officiel arrangements for to the conclusion that beef and beer • helped ' to build up the stalwart feeding the men and caring for the Ira of Occidental fighting men, and sick and wounded broke down utter:, since then beef and beer have e been ly, and Skobeleff was always putting included M the diet scale of the Jap - campaign. in On one occasion he spent axles° el:m3e • 15,000 rubbles to charter a steamer to take a number of wounded men DIVORCE IN JAPAN. to Odessa for treatment. He neva recovered from the Government the Nearly One Marriage Out of Four Is a Failure. Instead of using heavy wagons li- able to be bogged or to tire out the horses, the Japarese had a g,reat number of light hand carts. ' Thew.) carts were cli•awn by coolies or by the soldiers themselves, and they were so lightly laden that they inter- fered little, if at au, with the mobil- ity of the force. The horee and mule carts were ef, the smallesttype and iightly Imilt. Spare animals were made to carry their own fodder, and that of the other animals as well. These measures were rendered neces- sary by tee smallness and weakness of the Japanese horses, which .t.re iibout the ecrawniest animals of their kind. 'rho leuSsians, on tee con- trary, are well supplhod with large, strong, • WELL-1111ED HORSES. In the lin coinan campaigns in Cea- tral Asia camels WOrtf employed, but they are hardly ever used to -day by Russian troops, .Thousands of dogs aro pressed into service, mainly for transportieg soldiers and supplies in large sums he expended. When Skobeleff was praised for his generosity toward his troops, he re - Riled unaffectedly: "I owe everything to these men, and the least I can do li to spend a few thousand rubles to help them in their need." That spirit animates most officers in the Russian -army to -day. Gen, Kouropatein, Gen. Grodekoff • and other famous Russian officers trained under Skobeleff followed his ex.emple. Now it is regarded as the regular thing in the Russian army for an of- ficer to have to spend money on his men to remedy °Mad shortcomings. It is to be feared that graft has ,a great deal to do with those short- comings. • These defects are, however, largely offset by the patient endurance of the Russian soldier, born of his dog- like • LOYALTY TO THE CZAR. The American military attache was A recent issue of a Japanese steels- tieal pamphlet in Japanese and French reveals some curious facts of a social character. According to this report there were Japan in the year 1889 297,428 marriages. The age of marriage seems to be nearer that •commonly prevailing in Europe and America than most persens suppose. Of men only 5 married under the ago of 13, and only 108 under the age of 16. Tearly 5,400 married be- tween the ages of 16 and 18. The nuniber of marriages increased rapid- ly up to the age of 24; when it was rather more than 9(3,000. After that age fewer and fewer men married end less than a thousand married be- tweea the ages of 48 and 49, though' a few men married in extreme old age. In the case of girls there were only 58 marriages under the age of 14, and the age at whicli the greatest num- unpress.ed by that quality. "When his battles result in defeats, between- ber of marriages was reported was 20 and 21. Only about when his biscuits ere fee 01 meg_ 900 women were reported as marry-- gotswhen his clothes are shabby ! ing between tee ages of 40 end 41, ', , 1 -all out slowly and can only come to when his boots drop to pieces, the Russian soldier,"- he said, reasons it the conclusion, so pathetic in its shire ipcIL.7;fVth: `Ah, if the Czar only "Every one within' his reach he freely discusses,•criticizes and blames; rhe half suspects that bis Generals i may be fools, and be is sure•that his ;commissaries are rascals; :but • no Ithought • of censure aver crosses • his mind against the Czar." • It is hardi3r necessary to point out the value of this mental attitude as a military asset. • The Russian soldier:4 appear, as a general rule, to lack the ability • to 'shift for themselves in metters of 1 transport and commissariat. If their elaborate system of baggage trains breaks down, as it May well do un- der the .strain of a., hard campaign, they arautterly at a loss -unless they are Cossacks, Kalmucks or Turcorn- alio, accustomed • from boyhood . to pitking un their meals, wherever and whenever they can find them. The Japanese, on the contrary, sbow.ed during ;their. war with China a remarkable ability to create their trensport and commissarial apparent- ly out of nothing as they went along. They did not trouble much about beggaee trains, they had, them, to be sure, well supplied and Well or- ganized, but the troops enoved so quickly that they were out of touch with their wagons half the time. • They travelled in the lightest pos- sible order and picked up any old na- tive carts or. mules or coolies they chanced to meet, making them serve tee necessities of the moment, and wonetn probably detere wealthy Wiv- then letting teem go rind getting es from Seeking divoi.ce. others further on, • but perhans Japanese women are prone, like their Western sisters, to cease • having birthdays alter they pass 30. There were a few marriag- es of very old women, tip to and be- yond the ago of 80. The civil state of the women mare rying is eignificaut. More than 247,- 000 bf the whole number are report- ed as maidens, and nearly 8,600 as widows, while nearly 33,500 were•cli- vorced W0121011. Astoniehine are time divorca statis- tics of Japan. • Di this report it is shown that with fewer than 300,000 marriages reported in the year, there were more than 66,000 dovorces. The proportion of divoi•ces to marriages was about 1 to 4. • The fact is that Japanese civiliza- tion is most conspicuously weak in the matter of the status el women. Divorce is easy.,„ In fact the seven causes laid down by Confucius are allowed. One of these permits a man to divorce his wife for -talking too much. Among tile lower classes divorce iri extremely frequent. It is less SO among the upper classes, mainly be -- cause concubinage is common. The divorced wife patiently endures her lotand leaves the house ofher lord • with a blessing for him upon her lips. It is a rare thing for a weinan 111 Japan to seek divorce, though hus- bands frequently give sufficient cause. The fact that the care of the chil- dren would fall upon the wife should she obtain a divoiTC iS a sufficient de- terrent to the meted% who are poor, and the condition of extreine sub- jection suffered by nearly all Japanese . •ONLY DR A le13 A. CIe of ithie systole was that as the cam- paign advanced the armies became :Jogged by large numbers of Coolies arid other camp followeee wee creat- ed a great .decii• of troubletend cora- netted exceesee, which were wrangfill- ly charged .to 'the regular ti•oops, Seine of the Japanese conansenclere adopted a short way with these oh in xious persons, driving than out of the a.rity on pain of death as soon as their services were ,over, After the War it was pvetty generally •agreed that n.o iniu1ar nuisanee semild be tolerated in enother carepaign. During the advance to the' relief of tee besieged leeritiona t rekiii the Japaneeri Coirtnissary Was, by coms sport •agreenIent ef the foreign .ofecern, better than that of any of the Euro- pean troops, ane th Taptenese sae chore showed a genius for 1011 ging • c101 acconnnorlatieg their rippetitee to the foocl available in the country, Chri Ss ie (reedit% letter );......erses please you I would penetrate tee pathless ferest; I would traverse broad °Cams and explore. tee un- known regions, of tbe earth; I would ' ascend the loftiest peaks of the neigh ties t m oen tains end brage the raging 1011 bit wl,tli peer down their precipitous eides: woidd as -- sail the Arctic len-pack and, over- coming every obstatee, carve my way 10 the undisce-,rered Pole. For you, deur, I would dare '1(1117thint; and everything,'' '`Oh, lee brave boy!'' Continuing will come and see you toenoPr 0 ,• weather Per- ini ing." l'Ir.fdeakin (wee is boereing out for Et few C11t10;-1ty lho way, l‘frs. 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