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AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE
BY WEATHERi3Y CHESNEY
CHAPTER XIX,--•(Cont'd,)
"The crops or the weather, or the
'a''ful expense of foreign travel,' as he
is a Scot;" said Varney.
"The frivolity of women if my fath-
er chose the subject," said Muriel.
"Neither. We discussed apostolic
succession, end • he claims that the
Scotch Kirk has got it through auld
Johnnie Knox, as he called hire. I
haven't spent such an interesting half
hour for a long time."
Later in the day they came across
the man again in the village of Fur-
nas. His donkey- was waiting for him
outsi; Ie the door of the inn, and he
himself was inside having a meal.
Davis lett the other two to amuse!
themselves by wandering about the
village, whilst he went in to continue
the discussion me optrstolie succession
with the man who had interested him
so much.
"Now," said Varney, when he had
come to this point, "he's our man, isn't
he? It was your ,ftying to Miss Car-;
rington that perhaps you would dis-
cuss John Knox with him that made
me eemember him. He's hunting for
the diamonds, and he's doing it on a
donkey, because he looks like an:.
Azorean naturally, and every second
Azorean peasant you meet is riding:
one . What did you find out in the ,
yenta ?"
S<:arborough told him. and at the
end Varney said:
"Well, if Carrington's enemy who is
well known to ire,' the hooded woman,
the man in the boat, Mrs Carrington's
burglar, anti Andrew Cillies, are one
and the sante person, he's a pretty
lively fighter. But will the dates
fit?"
"Yes," said Scarborough. "You met
him the day before yesterday, the
Ring -Rock business was yesterday,
and the theft of the letter was this
morning. But if he did get about the
island like that, I don't see where we'
are to put our hands on his shoulder,
as you :aid."
"In the Furnas district," said Var-
ney, "He'll go back there,"
"Why?"
"Because, for some reason, that's
where he thinks the stones are, or he
wouldn't be pottering about there on •
his donkey. Thatt was were Mona!
met Carrington, you remember, so it's
a likely enough place. But as Gil-
lies has that letter now, we eha.Ll have
to be energetic. Are you on duty to-
night?" !f
"Yes, from midnight till eight."
"Then I shall have to take first
watch in the country. I'll go and have
supper at the Casa Davis, strap a'
sleeping bag on my 1-.anrlle-bars, and
ride on afterwards to Furnas. It will
', ing sleepy in the, instrument room;
there's not often uch coming, the
other man would wake me. How
about you, though'?"
"Oh, I shall be all right," said Var-
ney. "I'll start now, and you had
better go back to the Chinelas and
1 see that the girls are all right. I
suppose Mona will stay the night
there. We'll tell Montague that she
, won't return to -night, or he'll fidget.
Better tell her, when, you see her to
keep her eye of Mrs. Carrington, and
if she. sees anything suspicious, she
should send a message to you And
there's another thing; when you ride
f over to join me to -morrow, bring the
scratched stone with you, and stop at
the Casa Davis on. the way. Davis
knows the island very well, and he
may be able to make a shot at the
meaning of tache—blue—n, drip,'"
"Right," said Scarborough, "I will.'
"Then, I'll be off. Ta-ta, old plan;
and keep your eyes on Mrs. Carring-
ton. We've rather left her oub of the
reckoning; but she's a factor that will
have to be counted Don't let her
steal a march. on you."
Scarborough `:smiled. He did not
think that Mrs Carrington was likely
to be very dangerous now. By allow-
ing her husband's letter to be stolen
from her, she had let the best card in
the whole game slip out of her hands,
and he therefore rather despised her
powers as a fighter.
His judgment in the matter was
prem. ature, He was to learn shortly
that Rachel Carrington was most of
all to be feared at that moment, when
to others it appeared that she was
wholly oat of the garle,
CHAPTER XX.
It was nearly nine o'clock when
Scarborough role up the gravel path
to the door of the Chinel as again.
He had been on duty from seven till
ten that morning; then had come the
message from Elsa, the visit to the
veleta in the north road, and the ride
back; he had had a tiring day already,
and he was due for duty again at
midnight. But he hardly knew that
he was tired. Te joy of at last
doing something, the knowledge that
Elsa was now co-operating with
him in the fight, instead of tacitly
putting obstacles in the way, the
hope that now the misunderstanding
between them was at an end a closer
understanding would follow in its
place, when he had put to her the
questions he was hungering to put—
the.-e things had been tonics, and
weald have been enough to counter-
balance the fatigue of even greater
exertions.
He hoped to be able to get an
hour's sleep ye, before he had to be-
gin his watch in the instrument -room;
bub first, as Verney had said, he must
see that the girls were all right.
He found them together in the
draw ng -room and it seemed to him
that Elea's stiffness with the other
girl lead worn off considerably since
the afternoon. I•Ied anything hap-
pened to bring then closer together?
Or was it simply that Mona's sunny
nature hail melted a coldness that
was making artificial, and her persis-
tent= offering of friendship had broken
down the barrier which Else's sensi-
tive fancy had set up ?
Scarborough, seeing them, sitting
together, in outward amity at least,.
had the thought borne in upon him
irresistibly that they were surely and
obviously meant to be friends. The
very difference in the types of their
beauty made them such admirable
foils to each other—Elsa's the deli-
cate, dainty beauty of carv-
ed ivory and Mona's the
vivacity of • flashing brown
eyes, black hair, and rich creamy
coloring. The one was an anemone
of the woods, fragile but exquisite;
the other a rich blossom of the sun-
light.
"Mother has gone bo bed with a
Ileadac he," said Elsa., "and Mona is
going to stay with me for the night."
Scarborough noted with pleasure
that she said Mona, and nob Miss
Ryan nt• Miss de la Mar.
"What has happened?" he asked
smiling.
Mona caught his meaning at once.
"Oh," she said,. "we've been through
a battle together dace was saw you.
We went into it. Miss Carrington
and Miss Ryan, antd we came out of
it Elsa and Mona. Are you pleased?"
"Very," he answered: "But
against whom was the battle?" Not
against each other?"
"No," said Elsa, "against mother."
"That is why she has• gone•to bed
with a headache," said Mona laugh-
ng. "It was a hot engagement, you
cnow, .and she was utterly routed. She
objecta:l to my presence in the house,
and Elsa stuck up boldly for me, and
or the rites of hospitality, and- said I
hould stay, Mrs. Carrington retort-
ed that.1t shouldn't, and they fought it
out, and that pale fragile little girl
here scored a complete. victory. • I
was proud of her It was glorious."
Did you sit quietly by and listen?"
asked Scarboruogh with a smile.
`Five pounds to nothing you didn't,"
'"Oh, I chipped in with a remark ter
two toward.s the end," said Mona
gaily, "I couldn't resist it, you know,
But Elsa bore the real brunt of the
battle; ,iiia was nilly a cavalry pur
be no hardship to spend a night in the
open in this weather.
".Gut why net go to the inn?"
"Betterthee-el
r,e..r,er not. Gillies might bs
and there's no need to alarm hint. If "
he knows where to look for the dia-
mends we had better let him do it,'
and watch for him in the process. I'll
camp out. I know the very place—a
stack of maize cobs en the hill -side,
from which there is a wile prospect.
Muriel and I sat• there for an hour.!
I know the trick of waking ab day- I
light, so if Gillies and his donkey are
in evidence in the morning, I shall be
ready for them,"
"Right," said Scarborough cheer -
"I'll ride over and join you'
after breakfast. I'm on duty for the
next week, so l shall be able to take
the day watehe�, if ycu will do the
nights. It won't matter about; my be -
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Who is His Majesty's third son, and a
private in the Eton O.T.C., the rein-
carnation of the old Eton College
Volunteers, for which O,E,'s who were
in them in those primitive days had a
pet name that was more expressive
than polite. Prince Henry has also
recently elected to pursue the amphi-
bious existence of a Wet Bob. We do
not know whether the ancient mariner
who used to rescue aspiring oarsmen
from the watery depths of Father
Thames is still alive, but we hope so.
His nom de guerre used to be " Gin-
ger," so far as memory serves us.
suit at the finish, to cut up the dis-
organized forces of the enemy, and
drive the victory home. I think Mrs.
Carrington's headache is probably
rather bad. At least that is the only
reason I can think of to explain why
she made the mistake of losing her
temper and blurting out something
that we very much wanted to know."
"She told you what was in the let-
ter that was stolen?" cried Scarbor-
ough eagerly.
"She admitted that it contained a
plan of the place where the diamonds
are hidden," said Mona, "and she
seemed to think that it was Elsa's
fault that ib had been stolen. I didn't
follow her reasoning there, and I took
the liberty of pointing out some -of
her mistakes. In the first place I
reminpled her that she went to an
hotel instead of coming straight
home; secondly, she put the plan in
her purse instead of handing it over
with her other valuables to the cash -
Ler to keep; thirdly, she had a large
cup of coffee sent up to her the last
thing at night, and didn't suspect that
someone had been paid to put an opi-
ate into it, until she awoke next morn-
ing about eleven to find that the plan
was gone. Of course the man in the
small boat had shadowed her from
the Ring -Rock, and by sleeping lir the
hotel she gave him his chance. After
all that, instead of abusing herself for
her folly, she abuses Elsa. The un-
reasonableness of this was also one of
the things I took the liberty of poitit-
ing out to her."
"On what grounds does she blame
you ?" Scarborough asked Elsa.
"Because I hid that stone jar at the
Ring -Rock at all," said Elsa. "But
never mind that. We found out from
her that the plan was not complete, be-
cause it gave no inrication of where
the place to which it referred was to
be found. Father said he dared not
put that informatidn in the letter, be-
cause it might get into the wrong
hands, but that he would convey th
knowledge to her in some other way.
She believes that I have that kno=.-
ledge, and that I am keeping it back
from her purposely."
"Well, so you are," said Scarbor-
ough, smiling.
Elsa sprang to her feet.
"The scratched stone!" she eic-
claimed. "Blue—N. drip!"
"Exactly," said Scarborough. "By
the way, that lock of yours hadn't
been tampered with ?"
"No."
"Good. Will you give me the stone
to keep for you?"
Elsa unlocked the desk and took the
stone out. "But, after all, ib's unin-
telligible," she said. "What does
`ache—blue—N. drip' mean?"
"I haven't an idea," 'said Scarbor-
ough. "But if we had the full text,
including the words that that idoit of ae
bean -seller rubbed out with his blouse,
I haven't a doubt but that it would
prove. to be the message that Mrs.
Carrington wants."
"Well, now," said Mona approvingly
"I think that's sense, and I'm surpris-
ed Elsa and I didn't think of it. Do
you know it seerns to me rather a pret-
ty situation. The man whostolethe
plan .won't be' able to use it, because
he hasn't the scratched stone; we have
the scratched stone, but it's no use to
us because we can't interpret it with- e
out the plan; and. your mother, Elsa,
h lost th I and never heart! of s
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THE LITTLEST LIEUTENANT.
Russian Officer, ,Alined Thirteen, Wears
Two Decorations.
" I should have put him down as
ten, but an officer's word is not to be
doubted."
So wrote a correspondent of the
London Times who recently shared a
railway compartment with Lieut. Mis-
ha Turukhanis, aged thirteen, wound-
ed in the shoulder, wearing two de-
corations for valor, and on his way to
Petrograd' to join his mother—an
army nurse—because the orders were
that " all women and children serving
in the army" were to be mustered
out.
" No smoking here !"
In the crowded station, awaiting the
start, the correspondent saw a big
Cossack drop his cigarette and come
hastily to the salute.
" The order, shrill, incisive, seemed
to come from• somewhere near my el-
bow, and, looking down, I saw beside
me on the crowded platform a trim
little figure in the uniform of a Cos-
sack officer. It was not much more
than four feet high, and its boots
seemed to come nearly up to where,
on its breast, two Georges glimmered
in the sun. The station gong struck
twice ; the voice shrilled again,
Come, children !' The burly Cos-
sacks who had been lounging about
the platform climbed into third-class
carriage, and as the train began to
move, the amazing little person swung
himself aboard at the tail of the pro-
cession and followed his `children' into
their stuffy quarters."
He was travelling with his " child-
ren " because they liked to have him
with them ; but later he visited the
first-class carriage in which were the
correspondent and some ladies.
" For all his dignity he was of quite
a friendly disposition,, and he was
soon free of all the compartments in
our carriage. He knew his world, too,
and the iron hand of discipline that
had been in evidence on the platform
of the way station was now appro-
priately concealed in the velvet glove.
The sweets an admirer gave him he
duly handed to ' ladies first.' Only in
the dining car he was a little per-
plexed by the variety of cutlery. But
he would not resort to natural weap-
ons, and when I ventured to come to
his rescue on the pretext that his
wounded shoulder put him at a dis-
advantage in the struggle with a stub-
born drumstick, his ready abandon-
ment of the unfamiliar knife to me
betrayed no consciousness that any-
one might suspect the possibility of
another reason.
"He has been on service in Poland,
and with a child's facility had mas-
tered Polish so well that he was able
to give lessons in that language to
the colonel of his regiment. This at-
tainment gave him a decided advan-
tage over his brother officers with
the ladies, chiefly Poles, in our train."
From Misha himself and the other
officers the story of the two Georges
on the boy's breast was elicited. The
first George he had won—and with it
his promotion—by a singularly dar-
ing and clever escape from six uhlans
who had taken him prisoner while re-
connoitring. He had shot one of
them, searched his clothes, and cap-
tured important dispatches. The
second medal he obtained when he led
a forlorn hope in the taking of a re-
doubt, and was wounded in two places.
It was a record of which any sol-
dier might be proud ; but the ques-
tion of discipline still lurked in the'
correspondent's mind, despite the '"no
smokinging " episode. He ventured
delicately to inquire : .
How do your men like your mak-
ing them throw away their cigar-
ettes ?"
" Well, you see," answered Misha,
simply, " they couldn't be expected to
mind a little boy like me if I were
nothing else ; but I am an officer."
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Helping Out Grass Feed.
Natural grass pastures provide the
cheapest and best feed for all ani-
mals, except horses that are expect-
ed to do heavy or fast work, but an
addition of oats, bran or even more
concentrated feed will bring paying
results in nearly all eases and most
decidedly when big production'of milk
or quick fattening is desired.
All cattle, from the calf • to the
steer ready for finishing, need forcing
to keep up with the demand of the
present day. Lambs may be satis-
factorily finished on pasture if clover
acid raps are aadde dto the natural
grasses, but better speed can be made
if a little grain is added to the ration.
It is doubtful if any of the recent
milking records have been made on
pasture alone and most of the good
dairymen use soiling crops and grain
or millfeed to keep up the milk yield
of the whole herd.
Hogs, have as a general thing been
denied pasture to boo great an ex -
,tent, some people refusing to let them
have a run on grass, even for exer-
cise; but the other extreme should not
be jumpd to if best results are desir-
ed. Hogs at all ages may be kept
on pasture to their advantage, but
"kept" must not be taken to mean
maintained, or improved. A run on
clover or rape plus milk and some
grain, will grow the animal satis-
factorily to within a few weeks of
butchering, when they should be per:•
ned, not too closely, and finished on
good hard feed. Al, present prices
for hogs, a great deal of. wheat can be
!fed to advantage in the pro duction of
!pork, but judgment must be used re-
! garding the size of each feed. Ground
iwheat alone cannot be considered a
satisfactory grain ration for hogs; as
it is likely to bring on digestion trou-
bles, but mixed with other grains it
gives good results.
Horses and colts at pasture make
their best and quickest growth when
some grain is fed with the pasture
grass and it is ,generally understooi.l
that the colt should be encouraged to
eat oats, preferably crushed and mix-
ed with bran, early in his lifetime.
When it comes to the feeding of
horses that are at hard work for long
hours as are farm horses during near-
ly the whole of the summer season,
it is necessary to increase the amount
of grain fed, to double or more than
double the amount fed for ordinary
maintanence. The amount prescribed
in such a case by the Dominion An-
imal Husbandman, is 1?i pounds per
100 lbs., of horse, of a mixture of 85
per cent. oats, and 15 per cent. bran.
i To keep the work horse in good health,
it is also necessary that he be fed a
bran mash at regular intervals. Sat-
urday night being the time best suited
for this, on account of the day's rest
that follows.
Turning out the work horse to
grass, on Sundays, work all right if
;the grass is not too soft and if the
flies do not trouble the animal. This
scheme works well with horses that
are given to stocking up when kept in
,the stall for long after hard work, but
such a condition should by rights be
made impossible by a treatment for
the benefit of the blood. The idea of
trying to save grain by pasturing the
working horse over night, should not
• be considered, and it is a question if
he does as well outside, as in the
stable, even if fed his full ration be-
fore being turned out. With this
last mentioned practise there is alio
the extra work and time of the team-
iter to be considered, and the horse is
likely to get better treatment, du •'
ring
the work if the man who drives him
starts off in the morning in a satisfied
frame of mind.
A cool, clean stable, screened so
as to keep out flies and regularly dis-
infected with a wholesome -smelling
wash,, will make the horse more com-
fortable at night; than will the aver-
age pasture field,.
Points in Cattle Feeding .
At the end of the third year of
fattening steers in the open air at
. Lacombe, Alberta, Mr, Hutton, the
superintendent, draws the following
" deductions :
1. Three-year-old steers seem bet-
ter adapted tar straight wheat feeding
than are two-year-old steers.
as os e p an,
the scratched stone. It rather looks
as though the diamonds stood a good
chance of staying undisturbed, where
they are for a year or two.. You and I
needn't have bothered about deciding
what we were going to do with them
when eve got then!"
(To be continued,)
Many a man dcosn't realize what
he is up to until he is called down.
Simple Enough. ,
"When do you think, peace will
orae?"
"When some of the.belligerents
end.it an invitation."
Luck.
"There's one thing I've noticed
about !good luck."
"What is it?'
"It falls oftenest to the men who
use good judgment."
It was Josh Billings who said that
silence is the best substibute :far wis-
dom that has yet been discovered.
*',ten
2. From the results of the three
years' work, it is evident that low-
grade grains may be made to bring
the producer a higher price per bushel.
sold through steers than will high-
grade grains sold through the eleva-
tors.
3. Hay, green feed and straw amy
be profitably fed at home.
4. From experimental work conduct-
ed with grain plots at this station, a
valuation - of the manure produced
through feeding cattle at .$1 per ton
applied is warranted. The fertile
soil of our Western prairies will not
retain its fertility indefinitely without
a return of at least a portion of tlu
constituents drawn fro mit in the pro-
duction of crops.
5. It is not necessary to provide an
extravagant equipment in order to be
able to undertake the satisfactory
feeding of steers for the production of
beef in this climate. ,
6. Bankers consider the -lending of
money for the purpose of feeding cat-
tle a safe loan.
7. From the figures submitted it
would appear wise for the breeder to
be a feeder also ancl market his pro-
duct in finished condition. •
Requirements of a Good Animal.
An animal is like a machine. A
good machine requires that each part
beof good material and just the right
weight and strength. The good ani-
mal must have its parts developed in
the right proportion to make the type
desired. The adaptability of a ma-
chine and the proportioning of its
parts can largely be determined by
looking at it. However, the make of
the machine is the guarantee as to its
possessing or lacking quality. Like-
wise in the animal a good deal can be
determined as to its type by looking at
it. Its real, quality, however, can
not be determined in this way, To
get at this it becomes necessary to go
further back. The quality was put
into the animal by its parents, its
grandparents, its greatgrandparents,
etc. . This makes it important to
know that all these parents had qual-
ities that would contribute to the
making of a good animal of the type
wanted. A predigree is a scheme for
keeping track of th eparents of an ani-
mal. Ib is a guarantee of what is
' back of the animal, of what has con-
i tributed to its make up. It is this
fact that makes the pure-bred ani-
; mat valuable.—North Dakota Eperi-
i ment Station.
Windbreaks Pay Dividends
Windbreaks are usually more or less
orrl'amental on a farm, and add to the
contentment of the owner. Bub it is
not generally known that windbreaks
actually pay dividends. - It must 1
admitted that windbreaks occupy
space that could be profitably devoted
, io agricultural crops, and that th
roots of the trees and their shade
t ground a strip of on either
, side of the windbreak relatively un-
productive. Yet in spite of these
drawbacks, efficient windbreaks do
more good than evil.
The windbreak reduces the velocity
of the wind, and, consequently, the
loss of soil water from evaporation
from the soil surface and from the
field crops. This is equivalent to ad-
ditional rainfall, just as "a dollar sav-
ed is a dollar made." It seems that
the greater yield of field crops and ap-
ples behind the protection of a good
windbreak is enough to warrant every
farmer in planting windbreaks,—W. J.
Morrill, in Farm and Dairy.
A Saggestign.
A politician who was seeking the
votes of a certain community thought
it worth while to make mention of
his humble origin and early struggles.
"I got a start in Life by serving in
a grocery store at $3• a week, and yet
I have managed to save," he announc-
ed.
"Was that before the invention of
cash registers ?"
Apply the Remedy.
"I -see you no longer call your place
Idle Hour." "Nape; that name
seemed to attractive to tramps. So
I changed it to Woodpile Villa.'' ,
,Doctor Tells Ho t) To Strengthen
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Philadeiphin, Pa. 7)o you wear glasses?
Are you a victim of eye sti:.iu or ether eye.
weaknesses? If so, you will be glad to
know that nccortling to I)r. Lewis there is
real Lope for AIM/,you. AI, �t9tose eyes were
failing' say they "nava had their ryes re-
Otored -through the principle of this won-
derful free prescription, Ono ratan, says,'
after trying It: - "I was almost blind;
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my eyesdo not water env more, At night•
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glassc:,•t, but nfter"using thlls preserlption.
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it Is . believed thtit thousands who Wear
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it is sold in x`nrar,n
to streugtbon their eyes so as to br,epared
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and get a bottle oC lion-Opto tablets,. Drop.
one Bon-Opto tablet in a fourth of a glass
of Miter and allow to dissolve, with -21115
1ir111id bathe the eyes two to four tines
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flammation will quickly disappear. If your
byes are bothering yeti, even a little take
steps tel save there now before ft is too
1:16e Many hopelessly blind might' have
:been -saved if they had cared for thelt• oyes
its fling, •
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eye specln1sts and wltIely preserfbcrl by them,.•',rho innm,tle.
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by VeIinas Drug Co.
MANY'TRA1S ARE -
TAUGHT TO WOMEN
SEVEN' MILLION AT WORK •IN'
BRITAIN NOW.
375,000 Filling Places of Men Whi
Have Been Called to
War.
It is estimated that the number of
women now working in war and peace
jobs in Great Britain exceeds 7,000,-
000, writes a London correspondent,
Nothing is more noticeable in the
aspect of the streets than thg' dis
appearance of the youthful and
die aged civilian, and next' month will
probably see a marked riminution of
even khaki clad youngster's. Then.
there will remain only the oldsters
and weaklings.
The wholesale withdrawal of men„
from the commercial and industrial
ranks has resulted in a huge substitu-
tion of female labor for the purpose of
maintaining the industrial output of,
the country. Many hundreds Of women
are training to become milkers and
dairy hands. In Scotland and North-
umberland this sort of work is being
regularly undertaken by women, while
in Devonshire and other counties milk-
ing is being done even by young girls
before they go to school.
Women are at the lathe, in overalls
and cap, in the powder shed, working'
twelve hour shifts on the motor buses
or fashioning metal, timber and leath-
er, carting, driving and distributing.
Before the war it used to be said that
every Jack had his trade. The same
can now be said of every Jill.
Women in trousers are becoming
more and more numerous, they are
donning them in greater numbers
every day, in order to cope with work
where the skirt is found to be a hind-
rance. They do not dislike the change
and it cannot be said to detract in any
way from their native grace or car-
riage.
Napoleon Favored Trousers.
Napoleon, it seems, was a great be-
liever in arraying women in masculine
attire in time of war. " Dress does not,
make the man," says the proverb ;
but Napoleon found that it made the •
woman, and that putting her into
trousers made a world of difference to
her work and strength.
Reliable English opinion is inclined
to encourage women to adopt mascu-
line attire for what, after all, ought
to be ,man's work, convinced that so
dressed woman will give as good an
account of herself as her absent mate. '
Many thousands of women and girls`
are serving the nation as munition
workers. The Ministry of Munitions ' st"-
considers every case thoroughly, plac-
ing the workers not only according to
industrial fitness and home locality,
but also with thought for the lives
women have previously led and are
likely to lead after the war. Many of
the women engaged in munition work
are art students, musicians, embroid-
resses—girls who had been engaged
in the fine arts and hope to be again.
Once drafted into a factory, the work-
ers are specially looked after by the
l\linistry as to hours, accommodation
and rate of payment. The wages are
$5 a week as a minimum, and fit work-
ers are soon able to earn $15 to $20
a week by piece work.
The Ministry of Munitions has es-
tablished nearly seventy free training •
centres throughout the country, and
at these centres learners are prepared
for the lighter varieties of munition
work. In the newly organized Air
Department, in the various Govern-
ment offices, in banks, insurance of`4116.
fices and commercial establishments
thousands of young women are now
struggling with stacks of official
documents.
Employments for Women.
The Withdrawal o many men from
all trades and the transference of a
large body of female labor from the
staple industries to munition making
and various other avenues of employ-
ment has led the Home Office and the
Board of Trade to issue a series of
pamphlets pointing out in detail the
branches in which women can be em-
ployed—what relavation of the re-
quirements of the factory acts is per-
mitted and what arrangements are
necessary to be made in factories to
meet the introduction of female labor.
The industries and trades dealt with
in this way so far are : china and
earthen ware, india rubber, wool, cot-
ton, woodworking, pottery and brick,
color, paint, varnish, papermaking,
hosiery, heavy clothing and others.
. The estimated .number' of females
engaged in work in substitution °fee -
male labor is as follows :.
Dec. Feb. April
1015 1916 • 1916.
All trades -267,100 267,100 309,200 375,000
Under this cateory the main in-
creases are as follows
Dec. April.
1915 1916
Engineering trades.. . 70,300 11.7,400
Chemical trades ..... 9,600 16,200
Textile trades 57,C00 73,400
Clothing trades , . 30,400 42,800
1'ot trades .... , , 29,500 35,000
Pa ly 'trades
printing trades 22,500 23,000
Wood trades 11,404 17,400
Other trades ..... , . . 27,000 _37,000
Bet.tet' That Shakespeare,
"How silly of that Shakespeare."
said the girl, "to drown Ophelia and
1.111 Manrlet, Why they ought t o
have .married!"
"I ain't no high brow critic," the
young• marl agreed, "but that's how
i'cl a. fixed it