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Volume . e eel Arguments. 0549
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"Must Hares" and "Would Likes."
• I'know at the outset'that the awes
age w sewn would never follow the
"shut; cuts" 0114 "phtn5" which I
adapt to g'ot through with the work
y�d]•cli hills to the lot o£ mothers, with
or without- help. As ea matter of
feet, no woman will foam exactly
any other woman's anethods, for in-
dividuality asserts itself in housework
as ,in everything: else and we must all
cut
g
our •
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dota suit ourpat
true i i
.. t.' Bet
as women .are Women, I feel. pretty
sure that might,, few would even try
to adopt my plan ?or I have 0 strong.
ares n]aa,al as ,stales les in ,
it •I;;t ] ,
By Flay Tolbert Barnard houssk2
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st�rongt'h. A large: per cent'. of the
things'mo.im'en,y� do are done for no other
reason than'beea'mtse "folks will 'talk,"
Let them talk. You can afford to if
your refusal to e•oef em to their sten-
dards gives You ,a few hours extra
.tine for pleasure or rest,—D. H.
•Short Cuts. To Housekeeping.
• Ten cents worth of camphor gum,
one pint of gasoline mixed is one of
a
the best th tmgss for :chilblains.
In preparing grapefruit for the
table; If it is rolled, as one rolls a
lemon, the fruit is more juicy end the
map iss loosened, giving a boater
p 1mgfleece..
• , ro .-, ereWave.
Cil:l`P'II;R VI. laps for a tolig leek acrese the field, oT denia:ke.atiaii Lotmveen "must lla-res" P,sakinc ripples lay s2y way:
In gnhc't, Ton•.]•rs�eed Wen,`, . ye- after wai she ma.e,a be. lineforeIid "would 111{e$»" `I�h " ,,, n ilio corer en r,Lrt wi i t!roug,11.
and was gene a month. �4'12'eu he. re- i the figuee under the ebb at the .n II nlnet 1_da°e , and I12ta ,.'‚2;9 little Cup plw•?e �l Sager,
turned the first thing he dila was to thea .corner, taking the horse ever all in.
�a p:aia2 food, clean clothes spice and a initis batter, and they ti�'iil
eal'1 up the Dunkard preacherand time intervening obstacles l: ela ricnLs -and lots of Soap and water°aP- caolc into ¢Incl flavor the whole apple.
Mrs. Davis report that he said: . Aaron i.urried to a point of v n a.g t' re'. d to bodies and house fuiniahit1gs. '.Gene fruit will alsokeepfir ,sole bet -
"Hello, Uncle Aare& This ie t and d.i ib 1 ..:�i salad an 'her, ;Tee `'rt r c ci likes" include fancy work, ter than
vhcn the entire core is taken
Townsend talking, Say, old wont! { , T wnee e el? rled els rely faecal,: at • ere --ese (lenses, pillow shams, ern_ OUt.
She's a go! They sm nply fell for her! + tole t..1 d eT o.,30,.0.1„, as - 01 tl.z� .,...iii• I e ..ccrO,1 towels, brie -a bbrac stucd. Use a bean potato bakeyour apple
I almost telegraphed to you to come fence. IN hen the line .-...;c over;h o:; over the mantel and •Nano p pp
oe for the try out. Oh, yes, I sup - 'the gate argil :YopkE.d l ue h .... g ,t,:c rp},s in .like places, plata rails sauce by cooking as you would on top
pees s'he'll melteme rich but that's;hcldiiig out her erns E"tea i...1'.:13, astt cover; l with f;tncy china fanc yl•- of the stove,.only do not sweeten un-
• nethiing to the fun I've had with her., in in pantomime to be taken,;=.e lift-. I Y P til done, then add sugar and spice
We got her into shape •so I can show ed her clown without a wore. For `\'.S, laces curtains Which tel a while hot, The flavor is delicious
y'ou roil work now. Come over to; an instant tauy steed I��ek-in g at eaza. wt
eek's time to "do up, —in chem, all thus baked. All dried fruits are im-
dinner. ' I other then Rhoda began to cry- Dery- the frills tint furbelows so dear to the proved by,tiers anode of cooking
Bars, Davis Elays that when she went; ou- y, sobbrre }mit: F� r feminine soul, and so conspicuous by' Who has not opened theircreamup to the a,btec while he wee rut talk- "You cutin t whi_ ble—•ger me, their absence hi a imeheloe's bungee. separator in winter to find from one
ing with Davis, there wasn't anybody Ward, but I c—came anyway!" ; low.. '
up there. Anyhow, Davis met him; Townsend took her in Iris arms and All these things are nice, if you like
with th d 1 h ki s -•e d hex.
To bc4 1 n 1 :nares a s` ro '
to three spoons of cream sticking to
co a roadster 'an she
news e : them. I'll grant the or a few of -the parts and thereby wasted? I did,
come home alone. Yet when hint Uncle Aaron could not hear their, , y, until I evolved this for myself and
and Aaron Dudley come down out of . words but• he tightened up the reins thelrm, play apart in our aesthetic would like to polos it en to 'other farm
the attic late that night—she was with a satisfied smile and drove off, else ation, blit 14:ontend they ora non
se,tfimn uplate with seine menial] —; talkin to the Desert Queen.
essential. And 0, the time theytake' women, if any have that trouble:
a Q After the machine is in motion turn
Aaron Dudley was ,samiiata all over his `'I reckon Ward will be spared the; to make them and then keep them' through a generous half -cup of boil -
face, and Ward Townsend, he was heartache of never being sure she nice.
grinnin' just as bad. Uncle Aaron liked hien, farmer or no farmer, and! Along with the furnishing, which I witlirthe Drill. thenr and , if wear instead
surprised wh n shately
semarked that y he a. or haskes sae won't have to live feeling prove as time -killers I include ,of skim -]Wilk pis used to flush the
o she doesn't an famecooking feasted cakes,fearful
let her know? Ward, he gives that to him that sooner or later she would a'laoM1vl, have it a little warmer than
twitch to his shoulders you've seen have married him even if he hadn't and wonderful entrees, desserts and fresh m1k instead of cold,. as in waren
him give and says he hasn't told heti. worked out a stereoccopie movinga! salads that take an hour to make and weather Warming the cones etc
Said elle'd find out hi plenty of time. picture camera and a projector that', two minutes to eat, and all the relat- before screwing the bowl together,a
"Ward Townsend has been up to has those •flat -looking pictures we - ed line of dishes which call for a half-, also
something!" quath Mrs. Dirvds with a been loo�:ng at, discounted. When dozen ingredients and. give you en at -
"mowing nod, "and mark my words! they get to talking things over, I ;tack of indigestion. These has
He will never get her now though I reckon they are -going to find' me aut. taught me, are not only non-essen-
have reason to -believe he could a got I reckon I'll get to marry .them just; •tial's they are criminals. D *-. spa
her if he'd a tended to his farmin' and the same. Get along there, Queen. lurks in their train and women's
drone what was right. I misdoubt.I wonder, new,
if every man isn't.
he ever will—now!" I something of a genius if he'd stop his strength is wasted in their making.
All through September the uncon- . farming or his storekeeping—and I Add to this list of things -cut out,
scious object of all this espionage maybe even his meddlli- g --acid let. the daily wearing of delicate lingerie
idled happily, riding, driving, fishing; himself play round for a year. 'Six' and house dresses which require much
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°a ��{y,�++ ®,�q».,��� rival home, There is also the prize-
qm TAR
money, etc., to look forward to, This
o�` �v, t will add grist to the mill.
E 1 The long service man who is ' re -
TASK OF DEMOBILIZING THE
NAVY SERVICE
How, British Ex -Sailors Will Make
Their Re -Entrance Into the
Civilian Life.
The demobilization of the Navy
will be a busy thee for those con-
cerned with the preparation of the
various documents, and with the ex-
ecution of the procedure necessary for
the release of the different classes of
men, says a London newspaper. Many
innovations will be encountered by
the clerical staff, but all of them are
for the better.
Before the war, the discharge of
men to the shore was a simple pro-
cess for the paymaster and his staff.
There was only active service ratings
and occasional reservists to be dealt
with. The man of the Royal Navy
proper signed on for a period of
twelve years' service, at the end of
which he was free to sever his con-
nection with the Navy, but without
pension, If he was a /nen of good
character he had the alternative of
signing on for a further ten years—
i.e., until the age of forty, when lie
was entitled to leave the Service with
a pension. 'Then there were the ra-
ther exceptional eases of men who
were discharged "Service no longer
required," or who purchased their
discharge to obtain more congenial
employment ashore.
In Pre -War Days.
In all these cases the procedure was
much the same. The men fell in at
the ship's office and received their
moaning in the Navy will not receive
.ail these concessions !tminediately;
but later on, when his time comes for
pension or discharge, he also will reap
the benefit of these' changes. The
war has put an end to the somewhat
callous methods previously in force.
"'AIG WANTS YER!"
Care for the Enemy Wounded is
Characteristic of Tommy.
The British Tommy has carried
with him into the trenches his love
of chaff as well as his love for bum
aitity. A correspondent reports an
incident 'that .well illustrates both
qualities : .
"Any winklin' to be clone along
'ere?" asked one of the perspiring
victors, "Or do we get a bit of a rest
and a chainge?"
"Coom on, let's get -•on wi't," ans-
wered the Yorkshire lad.
RUSSIA HAS FOOD
BUT 71
LACK OF TRANSPORTATION IS
CAUSE OF SUI''l'ERING
Peasant Dias Food But'Will Net Part
With It --•Represents 85 Per
Cent. of Population.
Demoralized transportation, not
lack of food is responsible for the
famine eonditioilp in Russian cities
and towns, according' to .Leslie Urqu-
hart, a capitalist, with large metal-
lurgical and mining interests in Si-
beria, says a London despatch. Mr.
• Urquhart, who recently returned from
Russia, has been appointed by the
British Government. to assist in the
revival of Siberia's economic life,
Considering the depreciation of the
ruble he told a representative of the
Associated Press, food prices in Si-
beria are virtually normal. In western
Siberia, he said, there is so much food
on hand that a considerable surplus
could be sent into other parts of Rus-
sia, and the same applies, he under-
stood,' to southeastern Russia and to
the Ukraine.
"Broadly speaking," he declared, "it
can be said that in the country, as a
whole, there is no shortage of food,
and although the large towns of north
So they moved along the captured and central Russia are starving there
trench, ' "winkling"—that is to say, .is plenty, of food in the villages. The
digging the cowering Germans out difficulty of transuort, due to the dis-
of their holes, if necessary, with the organization of the railways, the in -
point of the bayonet, and with bombs dustrial strikes and risings which
in readiness. brought about the flooding of the Don -
There were four of then on this etz coal mines and the decrease in the
expedition—a cockney, a 'Yorkshire- supply of fuel to less than 25 per cent.
man, a young fellow from Liverpool of normal production, civil war in the
and a Berkshire rustic. The cockney, ! country and economic chaos generally
Harry Taylor, otherwise known as , are all reasons for the State border-
Chippy, was in civil life a conductor ing on famine in the towns.
on the Underground; the Yorkshire- I "Ekibastous, the greatest wheat -
man, Sam Sykes, otherwise Bill,—, producing province in Siberia, with
the connection is obvious,—was a wool i large stocks of wheat lying less than
comber; Dicky Sam, from Liverpool, j 100 miles away, is living from hand
had been a stevedore, and Piggy, from j to mouth as it is virtually impossible
helps. Berkshire, had been a farm laborer. Ito transport the wheat for lack of
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— O "Oxford -circus, all chainge!" shout- r scrap iron with which to make tires
WHAT ABOUT CLOTHES? ed Chippy into a black hole. "Come ; for wagon wheels.
along, Fritz. 'Aig wants yea." Peasants Holding Grain.
British Officer ine London Comments
The dugout proved to be empty. "The continual increase of wages in
Non-stop Goldex's Green!" shouted .. aetu •in
an Problem o� Prices.
he industrial and manufacturing
g
realized b the auction of their kit i„ towns has raised the cost of iron,
I said to the tailor, "I expect I shall y , the car first, please. steel, clothing, boots and other es -
be wanting some civilian clothes soon; they then passed along to the cap- A wailing shout of surrender came se*+tials of everything indeed that the
"With this armistice being signed," pay, to rvliich was added the sum Chippy into the next opening. "Off t
tains office, where they were handed
but I suppose if I leave it fora time from -within, arid six pale Huns hue -
e
even aecep,bing some invitations from years thou shalt prune thy vineyard"' ironing and you have stricken out their Service certificates,a railway peasant wears and uses—and the peat�rri
social favorites in the town where —the rich old: voice gave to the words about all that beaut ovine women the prices�� will go down a lot, will pass to their homes,with a meal al- ried out, one saying eagerly that he `‘
Rhcd,a'sant represents 85 per cent. of the
parents lived, where his fox a suddenhes vn-b strange ear s dance, °' `—blit date on. So you see why I say I theyNo,osir," he replied; t°on the con- ! awance for their earns lived at' Goder' Green. population of the cons ttheir o normal
twenty
trotting seem -ed to be more in favor in the seventh yeas shall be a sob -y y j y, and, then, Now if you gentlemen vvzll kindly
than with Mrs. Davis. He seemed to bath of rest unto the land, a sabbath know beforehand that no one is -go- ' I unless they joined the Fleet Reserve will b
and even fifty time
have forgotten the attic and the my- for the Lord.' "
sterious "sire" that was a "go." Then, He fell into a little reverie, from
one morning, he gladdened the Davis' whiMc'h he roused himself to say:
hearts- by saying: "I shoul ddn't be surprised if those
"Well, the ion's all over! You can . old law -markers knew more about us make for your children. Up to the
get the plows out, Davis. The farm ! than we do shout ourselves, and time. of your first: baby's arrival you
ought to be able to raise 'ten -penny, thought up that way to help us find have been expecting other folks to
nails by this- time."out what's in us as well as what's in' cater to you. From the time
Two days later Uncle Aaron labari- the land. Do you know, Queen, I your
curly wrote this letter: don't beaeve religio 1 is religious at firstborn arrives you begin to live a
Dear Rhoda: I been 'thanking about � all! I think it ,is just real sense new life, a life of -service to others.
you and Ward Townsend considerable, seen from the genius side of folks At first the nurse end your mother
lately. There isn't anything serious instead of from their •common-sense tell you you must do this and that for
the matter with him, I n -uses but I side. We set too much store by corn— the baby's sake, but before many
months you wake up to find the young
tyrant telling you 'himself. For
some inscrutable reason, children as-
sume from their earliest conscyious
moments that their mother is their
own personal property with no rights
which they are bound to respect. And
after awhile conscientious mothers
begin to feel a little themselves as
though 'their duty to their chiidh'en
was paramount.
And as a matter of fact at is. I
heartily believe that the most impor-
tant thing a mother has to die it to
serve her children. Children first,
house next, is the true way. Too
many mothers turn it about and make
the children second. A clean, well -
kept house is to them -of more impor-
tance ,than 'happy children. But they
are wrong. They will have many
years to keep up the house after the
see you. I am fine and. meddling as 1870 the "Watch on the Rhine" be- children are grown, but the years
usual and you •won't hurt my eyes came a dud as far as a national an- when they can train their children
any, them for Germany was concerned. It into right habits of living and think -
Aaron "Those men are specialists inn pat- was completely out of date, supersed- ing are all too few.
ents," he justified himself, li-eking a ed, on the shelf. Now it must be If,I were a young mother to day I
stamp, "and Ward Doesn't look bad. taken down and refurbished, for the should sit down with a pencil and
Fact is, I never saw him look betted Rhine will henceforth,for a consider- Pal and make a list of everything I
When she gets what Ann cans wise able part of its course be again the try to 'clo in a week. Then I wo ad go
ing to follow my advice.
I think perhaps the hardest part of
being a young mother is the getting
used to - the sacrifices you have to
feel you ought to know It's my
opinion that if you don't come back
right away, you will be sorry all the
rest of your life. If I didn't know
you thought a sight of Ward, I
wouldn't write and if he had done the
going away, I wouldn't ask you to
do the coming back. He :is a rea-
sonable man even if he is stubborn
in spots, and he won't expect you to
give up your acting, which he is Y
proud of. I think he is a good deal
of -a man even if lie is only a plain
farmer. He has begun hie fall
plowing but I don't know how long
he will last. He has been East, to
see some specialists 'though it isn't
generally known yet Se I hope to
see you jumping fences round the
neighborhood soon. October is set-
tixmg in to be grand for riding. Ward
doesn't look bad and I think the rid-
ing helps him some but I believe you
won't regret it if you come. Mother
is well as usual and will be glad to
man sense. What we need is some
uncommon! I'll' tell you another
thing. too! I'd be put out of the
church for this 'so don't you go whan-
nying it about! I believe that it's
the extravagant. brother who always
gets the best robe and the ring; I be-
lieve he is the only one the Father
ever runs to meet. Look at Ward!
Lets a whole year's profits go, just
as joyousl amid di:dn't the Father
come bringing him an invention that
will make him more money than he
seemed to be wasting? ? And the
desire of his heart besides! Rhoda is
a fine, good girl' and as spunky as—
as—Mother!"
(The End.) )
NATIONAL ANTHEMS
Most of Them Are Out of Date at
the Present Time»
After the Franco-Prussian War of
to my duplicity she will come gallop- bounder between France and Ger- thx°ugh at and puck out the thn gs I My account with Messrs. Cox & Co. , forces, all serving afloat under differ-
ing over Pell—mell to tell me what's y get done and those I never manage to not showingthe huge credit balance eat systems of pay and different
what. The paint is, she will be here many- :at. - I should stud both lists :and g
and I hate to have folks where the-; Nevertheless, it is probable that geteoide'on what must be done in order onleavefromwoul the Front—well, Id expect for an ffjust ' cer agreements. the soldiers, the sailors were
ought to be just for lack of a little the Germans for some time to come to keep up in good health and what I
meddling." I will taboo this once -popular song, be= left it at that, and continued my not called up in groups, but entered
Ten days later he was called out ofwant to de because everyone else as ere rinations down the Strand, voluntarily, for the most pant, under
laud late at night to answer the tele-' debts, it probable that the paid his !doing it. Those last Ings I'd• kiss p
phone and early next morning he 1 a fond good) -bye until the children wondering to myself why peace should special engagements. The extracting
appeared at early
theend'�s gate, driving will do much of the watching on the are•grown wP• bring about a scarcity of both khaki of the balance of pay due to each man
the Queen and with a conspicuous Rhine. In fact, the song may be said ' If there was anyone in the neigh- and civilian clothes, and should there-
about.
here w111 be no fight task and in addition in -
collection of aluminum in the runs; to have changed hands. That high boehood whom I could get to help me Hating the exorbita t pricesbv be the reason of still uthat war
and mighty song, too, Deutschland ° a few hours each weep I should 'hire
has produced.
Band Medley Wanted. •
British bandmasters have a busy
"Mother and I were here the dayto sing it at present. Possibly there ance than as deed to a farm. And I time ahead of them. For it may be
that wallow row was piTanted, beforare still some Germans who sing ft, should buy everything I could in the presumed that this year there will be
you were born, when the Ga-rdin-ens but as a 'national anthem it is quite way of. labor-saving devices to •save many festivities in which our Allies
owned: 'the place. I was saying to' out of date. - - !myself trhe drudgery of helvy farm will participate. Most of the military
teary, they will go up. There will be wait your turn, an assistant. e value. The town worker, or 15 per
so many like yourself requiring civil- the Navy said good-bye to them. disengaged very shortly," commented
ian clothes that the price of cloth is i The paymaster closed their ac -
bound to go higher. If I was you, I counts, forwarded their National
should most certainly order your Health Certificates to the Admiralty,
clothes clow." land other men were drafted to the
"I'll think about its'"• said I, and - ship they had left in their place.
walked out of the shop. Under this system no arrangements
As I had to go back to France on were made for the future of unpen-
the completion of my leave, and, be-
at
men. The ratings discharged
ing in the Royal Engineers, it was at the end of twelve years'service
generally expected that we should were often smart men who had Be-
have to remain out clearing up, laying cided to better themselves; these were
railways, making roads, rebuilding a distinct loss to the service. They
bridges, etc., for months, if not years, were generally helped by the Navy
I decided I would not follow the Employment Agency, or some similar
tailor's advice, and so I sauntered institution; often they obtained good
further down the Strand. !jobs on their own initiative. The
Having to wait near one of the 1 others—men unwilling, or not allowed
many Government offices which seem to re-engage, or men who had earned
to -full of immaculately -dressed offi- a very small pension at the end of
aero, it was borne in upon me that their twenty-two years, or men inval-
my own old tunic was extremely iced just found themselves adrift in
shabby, and that perhaps I had better a sailor's suit, with a few pounds in
really invest in one more new khaki their pockets and a railway pass.
rig -out, if only for the sake of the On the other hand, the men of the
old corps, so I called in another "ciy;il reserves and coastguard who were
and military" tailor's estabLahment. i called up for fourteen or twenty-eight
Said I to the manager: "I am -afraid days' annual training were able to
I shall have to get another tunic some return to their civilian work at once,
time; but I suppose the prices will be so their discharge involved' no hard -
very much down shortly, as they will ship•
not be required, so perhaps I had bet- The New System.
ter wait a few weeks." But during the war the naval per -
"On the contrary, sir," he replied. sonnel has grown from 120,0.00 to
"If I might offer you advice, you will some 500,000. Apart from the men
place your order at once, as the of the Navy proper, there are pen -
the prices are sure to go up by leaps sioners, Fleet Reserve, Royal Naval
and bounds, because they will be stop- Reserve, R.N.V.R., coastguards men
ping the making of khaki cloth, in for "Hostilities only," men of the
order to cope with the civilian trade." trawler section, mercantile ratings,
"I'll—er—think about it," I said, r and the Australian, Canadian, and
and again walked out of the shop. I South African branches of our naval
He explained guilelessly to Town-' ober Alles," which, broadly translated , them, even if the farm is not paid for
send that he wanted a. picture of the means "Germany Top -dog," is also in the time limit I'd like, A little
willow row ,taken from down about either dead or dying. • It would cer- helpnow and time and strength to
where the elm on the east seventy-' g
five stood tainly need a very optimistic vocalist enjoy your babies is of more import -
Mother at • re�ekfast that I believed
those trees -would make a pretty., pic-
ture against the sky.
"I'll be glad o get some views fax
In fact, there is at present a slump i wee, You will have enough of it bands have mastered the intricacies
hi national anthems, seeing that most if you save yourself all' you can. No' of the Czecho-Slovak National Hymn,
of them are laudatory of kings and , doubt you have a •cream separator.1 and some are making acquaintances
you Uncle Aaron I can finish them emperors who no longer occupy their Don't stop with that. Geta power with the Hediaz Chant. What is
so they will look like etchings, I'lrI thrones. Seeing that at least a score , washing machine, a mangle; a char- wanted is a comliosition containing a
call you up or ride Tommy over if I of petty kinglets are out of work in ; coal or gasoline iron, bread mixer, a recognizable bar or.. two of all the
have any beak." Germany alone, that Russia and Aus fil el•ere cooker, everything you hear ;Allied- patriotic melodies which may
t
Uncle Aaron drove . three • - t seas i tris have both lost their emperors, -1 of that will help cave your strength. be played, for instance, whenever the
around the section east of Townsend'si and that new racial eginbiimations and 'These things are no longer exneri- toast of the Allies is honored. Fid., to provide himself with a civilian
farmwithoutstol,pnng to make a; permutations are being formed every- meat, any mare than tractors and mo.
s1ng, sale of aluxn�num. Thhh third where, it is no wonder that such 11 for trucks. They are 'things . you
tow d Tow, as di turned ev nhyrayli the case, and that the "Marseillaise" really need and should insist on hay
toward Townsend's e�ar_,t seventy-five � ,
lois abstraction vanished. Ahead of, Is taking its part as a sort of universal ing,
hien was a sl -hr ''hoiy'is'h fl -g to on al national anthem. Above alt, he your own mistress.
horse, ''going ,quite a dip' toward' --.— -- • Don't let nes:ghbo•]vhoot habits or •opsin- "Yes " that Naval Reserve men can draw
that east seventy -Ave. At' the corner Praising all alike is prole,* nom ions influence you to try to do things "Anel I believe in letting well their accumulated war=retainers at
the taplicd, standing up in the sflirr- • . r,As,. for .v l,'ich y-ott have txeithFx :e*s,:,fs norm enough alone."e. local post -offices soon after their ar-
Chippy. "Next gentleman, please!"
Dicky Sam watched over the prison-
ers, while the others went - on to the
third and last opening. "Pass lalong I unnaturally incensed the peasant.
down the car, please!"cried Chippy. pay ! While he had to pay twenty and fifty
"Anybody gloomat at l" He peered into i times the normal price for all essen•'
the and at last made out one
recumbent form.
"Come on, Fritzie, then," he said
persuasively, "and nuise'll div 'im a
icicle sausage" pre-war price for the produce of his
"Pigedog „Englander!" snarled the
own labor.
"Therefore, the peasant sits tight
on his grain. He refuses to sell wheat
to the Bolshevists at the rccp'isition
price of 1.% cents a pound when he
can sell it at ninety-six cents a pound
into tears. Chippy hesitated no or even more. When it can be got,
longer, but entered the dugout, and bread to -day in Petrograd or Moscow
is sixteen rubles or more a pound. The •
knelt the wounded!" c he an.
called out. peasant is willing to barter his food
"Get the others back and pass the for cloth,
word for stretcher lZearers. There, necessaries, matey," he added soothingly, "Cheer being produced—there is nothing to
up, we're all soldiers 'are:' barter with. The peasants have large
accumulations of paper money, but
this is of no value for they can buy
nothing with it. Meanwhile the pea-
sants are hoarding their produce.
"In a sense then the peasant is
master of the situation. He has the
food, the townspeople have not. The
Bolshevists have tried with varying
success to take wheat and other pro-
duce by force to feed the proletariat
of the towns, but neither the Germans
in the Ukraine, as they have found to
their cost, nor the workmen in the
towns can get food from the Russian
peasant, if he does not choose to
let them have it."
cent. of the population, however, would
net permit the Soviet government to
raise the maximum prices fixed for
food. This one-sided legislation not
tial commodities produced by the in-
dustrial workers in the towns, he re-
ceived only about double the normal
"winkle."
"Pig -dog yerself!" cried Chippy in-
dignantly. "Give yer a taste of bay' -
nit in a minute."
To their surprise the German burst
steel,textiles and other
but the industrial work-
ers have ruined industry. Nothing is
A Natural Enquiry.
Lord George Wellesley said at a
luncheon:
"One result of this war will be
that the English workingman will be
better paid. IIe'Il be content no longer
with his wages of the past.
"The English workingman is show-
ing in numberless ways his resolve to
have a better share of the good things
his labor creates. I know a lady who,
when the submarine crisis was at its
worst, Iectured in the east- end of
London on `Cheap and Tasty Dishes
for the Masses.'
" 'My next dish,' the lady said in
the course of her lecture, is boiled
cods' heads. A boiled cod's head, dear
friends, is, properly prepared, a dish
fit for the gods. You take four cods'
heads of good size and quality, place
them in a casserole with salt and pep -
will per, an onion and--'
each will be furnished with a civil ; " `Wait a bit, ma'am!'
employment form, a protection and ! A gaunt chap had risen from a
identity certificate, a demobilization front seat. He was pointing his long
forefinger
ration-book—all of them war innova- at the lady and scowling.
tions. ° " 'Wait a bit, ma'am!' he repeated.
Equally necessary are some further 'What I want to know is, - who gets
arrangements which have been made the cod?' "
for the well-being of the discharged I
sailor. After dispersal from ship orWho is dumb? He who •does not
barracks he will receive twenty-eight know how to say kind things at the
days' leave before his final discharge, !proper roper time. "—Hindu . Saying.
during which period he will be paid
leave allowance at the rate of 2s. 1d.
per diem. Before the war, leave
allowance was but 2%d. a day, and
was not credited in these circum-
stances. Before he goes home the
sailor will receive a sons of £2 12s.
Ile Explains.
"Are you down on matrimony?"
"Not at all," said' the old bachelor.
"Matrinmony is well enough."
suit; an overcoat will be loaned him,
if necessary; and he will be provided
with food for his free journey,
Sack's "Perks," '
Arrangements are being made so
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Then and Now.
No more apt illustration of the
changed conditions in London during
the past score of years could beareflapd
than the story which Sir William Mu-
Iock tells of his experience in the
British metropolis about 20 years ago.
Walking along the Strand with a dis-
tinguished- London lawyer, whose
name need not be mentioned, he was
inveighing fiercely against English
lack of knowledgesof Canada. As the
lawyer pooh-poohed Sir. William's
statements, the then Postmaster -Gen-
eral determined to ask any three peo-
ple in succession whom they might
meet if they had ever heard of Can-
ada. All were Londoners. °The first
said "No." The second, an old man,
said he hail been around those parts
very near to 70 years, and it was
nowhere near the Strand. In his
most amiable manner Sir William
then accosted a Cockney floe -or -girl,
hut as she looked as though she might
have been at a boarding -school, he
altered his question and asked her if
she was familiar with Ottawa. "Fam-
iliar with who?" she replied. "You
411st go along or I'll smack your dirty
face."
A whale's able, which in placee
':ho feat 'thick, is the !thickest hide on
any living creature, -