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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-7-3, Page 6Keep your eye on this Brand The one Tea that never disappoints the most critical taste& esra on a Sealed Packet is. Your Safeguard. ,j The Gunner's lVtate Spins a Yarn By N. W. JENKINS. "You see," said the Gunner's Mate , the middle of an old field, with a cold to me, "all these stunts soldiers and full moon lookin' down on it from the sailors pulls off in time of war, and! sky. No other house of no kind was gets crosses and medals for, don't I in sight. Not a glim was showin'— amount to a row of beans. It's just unless you counted the lights in the a part of their regular job. A soldier I navy yard, and they were three miles ain't afraid of getting shot. It's all ' away, in the day's work, and he's some sur- "I brought along a club, two Iengths prised every time it don't happen to ' of rope, and a blanket. The blanket him. No sailor man cares shucks was for Daisy, and the ropes and club about gettin' drowned. It's the nit- for the watchman. But I didn't have uralist way to die, for a sea sucker to club the old guy, as it turned out like him, Them Germans who thought —he ben asleep. I tied him up good, they could scare the British Navy and it didn't take me long to locate with their little old U-boats had an- Daisy, who was sobbin' softly to her - other think corrin'. self in her cot. Her hand was like a "But every man is afraid of some- little live coal for fever. I said to thing, away down in his heart. When her quick, before she could be seamed he goes out and faces the thing, cool. of me: and quiet, I calls that brave. I did '" 'It's me, Daisy, come to take you a middlin' brave act myself one time. away. It's your Jackie—your own "Mate, there's one thing I'm afraid boy.' of—sickness. Death I can put up; "Maybe she didn't know I was her with, but sickness—the very thought own before that, but she knew it then. of it gives me jimjams. I was always, What small show of fight the night that -a -way, And of all sorts of sick- nurse put up didn't count. I wrapped nese the one that always scared me my girl up in the blanket I had the worst was the smallpox. The; brought, and carried her off like a name of it seemed kind of awful to,hawk carries a chicken. me. long as I can recollect. "When I had tucked her up in the "Some six months m the a o I wasdocked do ed enice bed dIhad'aireadyforher,Igave flown to a Jamaica port, my ship be-! her a stearnin' cup of tea. Maybe she In' up for repairs, As I hadn't had was goin' to die anyhow, but she had a day off for a long time, there was a' -not a chance now to die like a lady, and nice little furlough_comin' to me:- And, f not like•"=a rat in a trap. Navin no way to spend money where, "I hadn't forgot to buy a doctor's 1'd been, I had a pretty good roll ;book, and when my darlin' fell asleep saved up. So far ,I was in luck. I studied- that good and hard where "Me and my friends used to go a it told what was good for smallpox. whole lot round the clothing factory "Every day my bunkie came to an at the yard, tryin' to maks up to the old blazed tree, and I stood off and good-lookin' Janes that worked there. shouted to him how things were and And from such foolin' I got mine,: what I wanted him to bring from good and hard. Fell for the prettiest, , town for me. Next day he would nicest, smartest kid I ever see. Name: bring it. of Daisy. Blue eyes. Light hair that Once in a while I took the patient's curled without bein' jacked up on temprye' oor. Don't know what good marlinspikes, Neat, trim figger, it done, but the book said to do it. I "She looked at me kind of special, kept a rubber hot-water bag to her and I just hauled down my colors I feet when they was cold, and I gave did, you know. I told her to call me her all it said she ought to have. I Jack, for I was ashamed to let her talked to her like a Dutch uncle, and know the dirt my folks done by she done everything I tell her like callin me Elijah. Didn't name marry- she was my baby, which she was," in so many words, but you may "Did she get well?" I asked. bet your boots she knew how the "sure she got well! And I never land lay. "She was an unpertected orphan. I liked that, for I never cared much about in-laws, and I was competent for the pertectin' myself. So I counted up my roll, got my furlough, and calculated to spend both on Daisy. "Next day, when I dropped into the factory, I seen another girl at my girl's machine. A wall -eyed fe- male. painful to look at. " 'How's this?' says I. 'Where's Daisy?' " 'You Daisy's beau?" she asks. " 'That's as it may be,' says I, non- committal. " 'I knew it,' says the female. 'Oh,: you poor, poor young man!' " 'Explain yourself—do:' says I. " 'You'll never see Daisy no more,' took the smallpox." . "Some luck!" "Greenhorn's luck. I never was no doctor before or since. That one time I was a swell doctor. The day she was all safe, according to the book, I mde my bunkie put some clean clothes for me under the blazed tree. I put 'em on after I'd gone swimmin' and cut my hair. Then I went to town and bought riggin"Tor Daisy. I knew how to pick out some nice shoes and silk stockin's, and I got a blue flannel sailor's sweetheart, also a big black sailor's wseetheart, also a big black tie. I told the young lady I'"•bought them from: "You put in the right kind of underpinning to go with these ac- eordin' to specifications.' says she hysterical. 'Daisy is took,'] "And she understood and put in " 'Took where? To jail?' i everything needful. So I got a lot " 'Worse—whole lot worse! Took, for Daisy, and I went to the shack to the pesthouse. She's got the small-: and put on a b'iler of water, and pox. and they took her this morning.' made myself scarce till she bathed She'll die—nobody ever come out of and dressed; and, gee, didn't she look that pesthouse any way but feet fore- sweet! most.: I "Then I set fire to the old shack, "Out of that place I flashed Iikeand we watched it burn down. After - a streak of lightning. Knew I had to wards I hunted up the owner and lied act. and act quick. I had heard things an said I had set fire to it by accident about that pesthouse. Maybe they. while I was huntin', and offered to wasn't all true. Half of 'em was pay the price. lie said' I was too enough, with Daisy there, and scared honest for those parts, and woulan't to death, as I knew she must be. ; take no money. "I found my bunkie, a smart lad "The very day furlough was up, I named Harrison. We trailed out and" went to the chapl'in. spotted that place where my girl! " 'Reverend,' says I, 'you got o was. =Then we nosed around the splice us. I couldn't trust et done out country thereabouts till we found a' of the service—a lifetime job like lfittle cabin on the edge of a lonesome this!' wood. We could tell no one had lived, "So he spliced us." in it for an age, by the way the' "And you think you were pretty eines was tied and knotted together brave, eh?" across the door. I took possession of. "Nary yellow streak in me that that shack in the name of the British' time." Navy, and then I hiked back to town' "Deserve a medal or a cross eh?" and bought me a lot of stuff—a can- "No—I can't say that." vas cot, and pillow and blankets and , "Why not?" eomfortable's and sheets, an ax, a "Cause I done better—I gots a broom, a kettle, a pot, a water bucket,! Daisy." matches, tea, sugar,crackers, canned ' --- tailk and soup, and a lot of eggs, U. S. Owes Great Britain. Which fell by the wayside and got England's bill for transporting a mashed. But the rest of the dun- million American soldiers across the nage my bunkie and I managed to' ' Atlantic amounts approximately to deserted shack, ! $82,000,000. or at the rate of $82 per "it was just like settin' up house-, soldier, which, in the opinion of the ikeepin' or goin' out West in the old U. S. Director of Transportation, is clays, only it wasn't no fun thinks' less than it would have cost to trans- oked too darn serious. Harrison,! port them in American ships, ho was awful, handy with h'rp elf pett rvade up the11 ger ew pt and aired fir the ed, final cut steel; wood n nab, �v he qI �in -weed to the yad, he noiehelp' �lrch, enemy?" Tommy (indignant- i6n furlough, X pet with my head in ly)—"fit (10"n't cry so very much; q hands by the hi fire he left for and, anyway, if All you.' teeth were and my tboug ts was �terxib e, out and your 61r off, and your legs ds e sok an'with tie When he ?Iven , and : � think he S po 'Weak you �eoulcln> t even, stand on lingo ext, reijf , fancy you'd feel like crying li con back to get the igen! i , y'burself," ''l Bet there that High it e�i .tr ed likes the majority of obey ollir aria y1bs e a e three good methods of Mras In bed' and isles . " e 13 'a uil , 'l+ip the fire roarin', hid I It i)nt tot 6a04ill014atiiig news and gossip. the pesthou• e.- Telephone, telegraph, and tell a wo- "It was the lonesornest sig' t T *ever mill,' ' • see --that big, ugly frame house a- Satin' up 1..r, Aself s'az long lain in arras) iiztneaa'n X.lnanant in Oa j,mnxo, Friend (teasingly)*"W' at makes Viet ne baby at your bowie cry ao I;'elping Daughter Dress Correctly, When a new dress is to be made fur daughter it is so much easier to go ahead, and buy the cloth and select the pattern one's self than to co-operate daughter regarding it, that more often than not the dress is made regardless of the 'wearer's wishes in the matter. Many farm girls become so used to wearing what- ever mother makes or' buys, relying so absolutely on mother's taste to be correct, that when they leave home and are thrown on their` own, res- ponsibility, they find that they know nothing about cost of materials, suitability of colors or correctness of style. Too many times they spend their money on cheap, gaudy things, or else wear dowdy, unbecoming clothes. Part of every girl's training should consist in learning the lesson of clothes, and the first steps along that lisle should be taken as soon in the little girl's life as 'she can under- stand the most simple of instructions. If you are making school dresses, get samples of different materials and ask daughter to cheese that which she would like. Doubtless she will make a wrong choice, obelecting the most unsuitable. But don't laugh at her; don't make her ashamed. En- deavor to show her her error in a way she can understand. Get her to tell you what qualities, in her opinion, a school dress should have. Of course, you know it should wear well, wash well and not show soil too easily, and not be readily torn; but she may never have thought of those things. Let each sample, then, be analyzed -to meet those requirements. When the suitable material has been selected, attention should be turned to the cloth's suitability to the child in question. The color must 'be one in which she looks well and the pattern appropriate for her age. By suggestion, display and study famiI- iarize her with these requirements, and you will develop in her a taste for simple, well made clothes she would be far less apt to have were she continually wearing dresses with no thought as to why they were of such a color or material or cut in such a way. Though the desirability of simple cut be impressed upon her, do not confound simpleness with plainness. A simply cut dress finished at neck and sleeves with a bit of lace, or brightened by contrasting material in banding or piping, is attractive, but a plain dress, absolutely devoid of all "finishing touches" is actually homely, and in all but the poorest of families, wholly unnecessary. Teach the value of these simple means of finishing a dress. Contrast the sev- erely plain dress with the slightly trimmed one. Also, when opportun- ity presents itself, point out the mis- tak of overtrimming. A dress half covered with lace and ribbons and ornamental buttons is not only in bad taste, but is generally mere cheap display. If daughter lends a hand at /the washing and ironing .she will learn even more about the materials her dresses are made of, and will quickly see why the dainty little party dress would never do for school wear, and why, also, mother desires her to wear soft crepe underwear in sum- mer in preference to that which re- quires starching and ironing. It takes time, of course, to teach these things, and there are but few farm mothers whose time is not lim- ited; yet other things can better be slighted than the opportunity of teaching your daughter all you know and can learn about the why and wherefore of the clothes she wears. When she grows up and finds work away from home, you will forget the dust that showed on your chairs, the stove that needed blacking, and the many other duties neglected, to seek mer opinion and work with her on her clothes, in the satisfaction yon have of seeing hex on her home -visits wise- ly, becomingly, yet economically dressed. Refrigerators Preserve Food.' The principle of scientific food pre- servation involved in a modern house- hold refrigerator is not always under- stood by housewives. All that is necessary, to preserve feed is to keep it at a dry temperature low enough to protect it from micro-organisms or bacteria, which • want to consume it as food just as we do, but which if allowed to work quickly render it un- fit for human consumption. These bacteria lie dormant when the air is kept cold and dry, but they grow rapidly in water, hence kit is necessary to keep the air in a refrig- erator from becoming moist. The drier the air the' better the food keeps. Circulation of the air is therefore an important feature, and the walls of the ice -box are insulated so' that the cold air will be kept in. It is necessary for the ice to melt in order to chill the air properly. As the melting goes on the refrigerator is chilled and the food ' absorbs the cold. Thus while wrapping ice in a newspaper or flannel will undoubted- ly keep' it from melting, it defeats the purpose of the refrigerator, and withholds the cold from the, food. A steady melting must go on, and the modern refrigerator is built to keep the melting -to a necessary minimum, although precautions should be taken to see that the ice -box does not stand where the sun's rays strike it. Nor should it stand near the fire. Cold air falls and warm air rises, and the coldest place is below the ice instead of above. Milk, butter and foodstuffs which really absorb mois- ture should therefore be placed so that the cold air reaches them direct from the ice, passing from them to those foods like melons and onions which give off odors. Do Not Permit Faultfinding at the Table. To have a comment made on dishes at the table, as too much or too little seasoning, etc., is a habit into which' many families unconsciously fall. It is very trying to the housewife, and besides has a tendency to make the food appear less inviting, and gives a depressing effect, as all fault-find- ing does. One mother noticed that this habit was growing on her children, and de- termined that some way must be found to stop it. 'She called a family meeting and told them that she did her best to have the food and table just as nice as she could, and that they should do their part and be kind - and polite, keep still about any dish they did not' especially like. 'She emphasized the fact that criticism at the table was not good manners. She told 'them that if they had anything special to criticize they could come to her alone after the meal and she would be glad to listen to the complaint. But strange to say; being forbidden to criticize at the table, the children made very few private comments. From that time on the mother was t British, Well Done! Giving Due Re- cognition To Others Who Helped. WELL DONE, US! IT IS HEREBY agreed that no o'ne nation would have beaten Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemburg, Aus- tria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. IT IS FURTHER agreed that it was the gallant resistance qt Belgium, the magnificent fighting qualities of the French, the devotion of the Russians, the valor of the Serbians, the resource- fulness and whole -hearted co-opera- tion of the Americans, and the superb struggles of the Roumanians which enabled us to secure a victory over the enemy. HAVING SAID THIS. The British have done It, The navy choked Fritz by the`throat and the army walloped the ' life out of him. We have fought the devil alj over the world, we have beaten his legions in every latitude' we have financed the war and fought tfie War. We have Car- ried the foodstuffs, the raw material and the eeldiers, both our own and cur allies, to and from the ends of the east ,, We have fought a naval action which lasted for v' entyy-one months against a fleet of U'boate bum,bering o've 800 Vein first to 1 at apd, We,h ye des royed'two-thirds o a Set We met the full stroke of bie•bffensive In March and April and smashed it. We carried the impregnable Hindenburg I line. We invented and brought to per fection the arm which produced the decision of the war—the tank. We swept his aerial navies from the skies and blinded him. We have, single- handed, crushed the Turk and secured a complete military decision. We have fought four African wars and have been victorious, We have raised, equipped and maintained an army of 7,000,000,- and have equipped a Rus- sian army of 2,000,000. We have fought the Prussian, Bavarian, Saxon, Austrian, Turk, Bulgarian, Askari, Togoman and Bolshevik!. We have established the Arab ind+Arabia and the Jew in Palestine. BUT IT S I3EI3,EP,Y agreed that no ons ria on 'Wdtiid have beaten Prufa ia, Bavaria, baxony, Wurtemburg, Aus- tria-Hungary, bulgaria and Turkey. IT I9 FIIR.'HER agreed that it was the gallant resistance of Belgium, the agidittoent fighing qualities of the once the devotiOII of the Russians, the aloft al the Serbians, the re- douroefujne and wholehearted co - Operatic) of the Americans, and the superb Struggles of the Romanians Which enabled ws to secure a victory over the enemy: -From Town. Topics, London, England. careful not to criticize any dish her- self, and did not allow it done by the others. She was watchful, however, i that every thing was well cooked, and the habit of fault-finding at the table in that fanily has entirely ceased, Oil Lamps, Our house is lighted by oil lamps and the work I hate most is cleaning the lamps. I have made it as easy as• possible in the following way: Turn the wick low before blowing out the light so it won't smoke so much, Trim wicks and wipe burners every day, so they won't smoke and black the burners. Set all the lamps in a row, open, before beginning to fill. Use a light can with a well-placed .spout to pour oil from. Wipe lamps with paper. Wet a sheet of newspaper and rap- idly wash all the chimneys, setting them on the stove. Take off before. too hot and wipe with newspaper. Everything can be done rapidly in this way and lamps and chimneys will shine. THAT WICKED PRINTER. • Some of the Ludicrous. Blunders He Has Made the World Laugh At. Printers often pervert the power of the pen and turn tears into smiles by the change of a letter. "Drunkenness is jolly," said a dean in a temperance sermon duly reported in the local paper. What the dear man meant was that drunkenness was folly. But the printer was in playful mood, for lower down in the dean's discourse he omitted a comma, and the eminent divine stood again a self-confessed drunkard. "Only last Sunday," he said, "a young man died suddenly, while I was endeavoring to preach the Word in a state of beastly intoxication." Here is another "clerical error," culled from a parish magazine: "There will be a collection in aid of the Arch Fiend." The fiend ofa Printer n r I? to should have put Arch Fund. Doubtless he prevent- ed many old ladies of limited intel- igence from putting their hands in their pockets. . The "war -scared" veteran 'was tub printer's improvement on the "war - scarred" variety which the writer had in mind. The young man who wrote that lov-letters were a never -fading ink was really informing his finances that such epistles would -form a never - fading link between them throughout their lives. Imagine the dismay of the school- master whose prospectus read thus: "The distinctive feature of the school is the roughness—" ife was only referring to the thoroughness of his methods. "Our impending fate, eclipse of em- pire, is bound up with the League of Nations," said a politician in a local paper recently. Yet he was an ardent advocate of the League of Nations, and what he really said was that our impending fate, eclipse or empire, was bound up with it. In this mistake the printer was not to blame, but the reporter. who lost his job through the politi- cian's fury. The latter's own poor elocution was probably to blame. Punctuation, or the want of it, is prolific in humorous howlers. Here is one from an agricultural journal.: "Wanted, a woman to feed.pigs with washing -board lodging over stables." At first reading one is apt to wonder whether the, pigs liked their washing - board, and whether they were all lodging over the stables together, Incredibly large openings for our Dominion farm products are avail- able in Great Britain, according to the Canadian Trade Commission. Ask for Minard's and take no other. T All grades, Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS' Q, J. CLIFF TORONTO How to: Dispose of Bores. A municipal government official who had an easy-gding doorkeeper was for a long time pestered by a bore. Final- ly lie hit upon a • plan to get"rid of him for good, "Dick, do you know why Collin con- tinues to come here' so regularly'?" he asked. "No, sir." "Well, Dick, I don't mind telling you in confidence, he's' after your job.".. ' From that day on the official was never troublet by the bore. The ability to sing a simple pas- sage assage of music at sight without any accompaniment is something that every choir member should strive to acquire, r w 9 MEEK S UNIVERSITY KINGSTON, ONTARIO ARTS Part of the Arts course may be covered 'by correspondence. MEDICINE EDUCATION APPLIED SCIENCE Mining, Chemical, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering SUMMER SCIIOOLe IIAVIGATI®R SCIIOUd, fiilyand.August. December to April 28 GEO. Y. CHOWN, Registrar. teea. CLARK'S t ANN BOILED DIP1NE1 A FULL SATISFYING MEAL MEAT-VEGETAn1ES - COMPLETE JUST HEAT AND SERVE THIS LEGEND ON THE TIN IS A GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE OF PURITY. W.CLARK LIMITIO MONTM[AL ,tt ria 9 • For Table Use and All Cooking Purposes Everybody's happy, when there is Corn Syrup�on the table. Do you know that there is a White Syrup as well as the delicious, golden CROWN BRAND CORN SYRUP Crown Brand is unequalled as a Syrup for Pan. cakes, Muffins, as a spread for bread, for making candy, sauces, and in cooking, generally. LILY WHITE CORN . SYR Best for Preserving anti m �a Q- ak"n e It is a clear white Colot and Jells" excellently; Sold In 2,$, .anil ' -40 tin • the Cana. &WA tlt \ Montrea 4 ADAPT THEMSELVES TO SURROUNDINGS HOW ANIMALS CHANGE WITH! THEIR MODE OF LIFE. Hoofed Beasts, Such as Sheep andi Pigs, Have Lost Power of Tree Climbing Through Disuse, Every one of the higher animals is. in some way mechanically adapted to• its mode of life and surroundings, a. horse or an antelope being from one• point of view a living galloping or. trotting machine. Putting 006,0 ex - =pies aside, there are nus 'erous• cases of more peculiar adaptations to' which attention may be confined. For example, the climbing creatures. It may _be noted that a number of" species, such as Old World monkeys and squirrels, present special modifi- cations for a life in the trees, the es- sential being that they should have. the power of rotating the forearm on the upper portion of the limb and , that their toes should be mobile' air - furnished with claws or nails. There is one group 'of African ro- dents, designated scaly tailed squir- rels, the members of which seem to. have felt the necessity of additional aid for the purpose of tree climbing. 'They have accordingly developed on the under surface of the tail certain. structures 'which may be compared to. the climbing irons used by workmen. These take the. form of a few trans- verse rows of large, triangular, horny scales, with their points directed back- ward. These scales, when pressed. against the Durk of a tree, must afford material aid in climbing. The Anteaters' Climbing Scales. Another group of animals in which "climbing irons" havg<been'developed Is that 'of the scaly anteaters or pan- golins, of India and Asia --'creatures which look more like living fir cones• than mai nal s. The scales—much larger tha n__Lthose of the scaly tailed squirrels—cover both surfaces of the. body, as well as the head and limbs, so that it can scarcely be supposed they have been developed for climb- ing. Indeed, only a few species climb; but these have found the assistance - afforded by the scales on theAtder• side of value in an ascent, anci'?li i$it- ually make use of them as climbing icons. Quite a different type of climbing, or rather hanging, apparatus, has been developed in the sloths of tropical America, which spend their time in the treetops, where they remain sus- pended hack downward by their lrhtnaftc like claws, These claws, winch mrzdr, be three or two, have been modified. from ordinary claws and afford a striking instance of adaptation to an abnormal mode of life. The thumb of bats is likewise modified into a hook- like claw—also used for suspending purposes when the creatures hang head upward, Generally, however, hats suspend themselves head downward by the hind claws, grasping power be- ing retained by the toes, so that the modification has not been carried to the same extent as in sloths, in which the claws set in a mechanical mariner. Suction Plates on Bats. Certain bats appear to have found their book like thumbs and hind feet insufficient for suspension and have made use of the suction principle for this purpose. This mode of suspen- sion has been developed independent- ly in two distinct bats, one lk native of Brazil and the other of Madagascar. In the Brazilian species the suckers take the form of,staikecl discs attach- ed to the palms of -the thumbs and the soles of time feet. The suckers of the Malagasy species are horseshoe like. By means of the suckers these bats are able to ascend vertical surfaces. Very curious .it is to note the similari- ty between the suckers of these bats and those on the arms of the' cattle- fishes. The geckos which run up the walls and over the ceilings of houses in warm countries acord another in- stance of the sucker principle. Bats are not the only mammals which have availed themselves of the sucker. In the Malay Islands and the Philippines dwell large eyed and slender aim d little lemur -like creatures known tarsiers, whose habits are nocturnal. In these weird little animals the tips of the toes are expanded into cushion- like discs, capable of acting as suck- ers, by means of which they ascend such smooth surfaces as the stems of bamboos. Hoofed or ungulate animals, such as sheep, pigs, camels and elephants, have given up using their fore limbs., in a handlike manner, and employ them solely for progression, Conse- quently tree climbing is out of their line. In Africa and Syria occur, how- ever, certain representatives of the order known as rack rabbits, or hyrax, the Syrian species being the one re- ferred to in the bible as the coney (the old name of the rabbit). Certain African hyraxes have, however, taken 'to tree climbing, and the way they manage it is this: In each. foot -the sole is somewhat cup shaped, and by, the aid of muscular action the Centre can be more elevated, so that when idle :edges are applied to the bark the foot sots like a sucker, Summer-=-19'It, After >}ilonths of aching pain— Sprlipfl sgaial • Fi lower'ing fields and birds awing; Budding trees and summer rain, And my 'heart that sings and sings -•a Lad is home again& • 1 I fa !! hy� TEA The one Tea that never disappoints the most critical taste& esra on a Sealed Packet is. Your Safeguard. ,j The Gunner's lVtate Spins a Yarn By N. W. JENKINS. "You see," said the Gunner's Mate , the middle of an old field, with a cold to me, "all these stunts soldiers and full moon lookin' down on it from the sailors pulls off in time of war, and! sky. No other house of no kind was gets crosses and medals for, don't I in sight. Not a glim was showin'— amount to a row of beans. It's just unless you counted the lights in the a part of their regular job. A soldier I navy yard, and they were three miles ain't afraid of getting shot. It's all ' away, in the day's work, and he's some sur- "I brought along a club, two Iengths prised every time it don't happen to ' of rope, and a blanket. The blanket him. No sailor man cares shucks was for Daisy, and the ropes and club about gettin' drowned. It's the nit- for the watchman. But I didn't have uralist way to die, for a sea sucker to club the old guy, as it turned out like him, Them Germans who thought —he ben asleep. I tied him up good, they could scare the British Navy and it didn't take me long to locate with their little old U-boats had an- Daisy, who was sobbin' softly to her - other think corrin'. self in her cot. Her hand was like a "But every man is afraid of some- little live coal for fever. I said to thing, away down in his heart. When her quick, before she could be seamed he goes out and faces the thing, cool. of me: and quiet, I calls that brave. I did '" 'It's me, Daisy, come to take you a middlin' brave act myself one time. away. It's your Jackie—your own "Mate, there's one thing I'm afraid boy.' of—sickness. Death I can put up; "Maybe she didn't know I was her with, but sickness—the very thought own before that, but she knew it then. of it gives me jimjams. I was always, What small show of fight the night that -a -way, And of all sorts of sick- nurse put up didn't count. I wrapped nese the one that always scared me my girl up in the blanket I had the worst was the smallpox. The; brought, and carried her off like a name of it seemed kind of awful to,hawk carries a chicken. me. long as I can recollect. "When I had tucked her up in the "Some six months m the a o I wasdocked do ed enice bed dIhad'aireadyforher,Igave flown to a Jamaica port, my ship be-! her a stearnin' cup of tea. Maybe she In' up for repairs, As I hadn't had was goin' to die anyhow, but she had a day off for a long time, there was a' -not a chance now to die like a lady, and nice little furlough_comin' to me:- And, f not like•"=a rat in a trap. Navin no way to spend money where, "I hadn't forgot to buy a doctor's 1'd been, I had a pretty good roll ;book, and when my darlin' fell asleep saved up. So far ,I was in luck. I studied- that good and hard where "Me and my friends used to go a it told what was good for smallpox. whole lot round the clothing factory "Every day my bunkie came to an at the yard, tryin' to maks up to the old blazed tree, and I stood off and good-lookin' Janes that worked there. shouted to him how things were and And from such foolin' I got mine,: what I wanted him to bring from good and hard. Fell for the prettiest, , town for me. Next day he would nicest, smartest kid I ever see. Name: bring it. of Daisy. Blue eyes. Light hair that Once in a while I took the patient's curled without bein' jacked up on temprye' oor. Don't know what good marlinspikes, Neat, trim figger, it done, but the book said to do it. I "She looked at me kind of special, kept a rubber hot-water bag to her and I just hauled down my colors I feet when they was cold, and I gave did, you know. I told her to call me her all it said she ought to have. I Jack, for I was ashamed to let her talked to her like a Dutch uncle, and know the dirt my folks done by she done everything I tell her like callin me Elijah. Didn't name marry- she was my baby, which she was," in so many words, but you may "Did she get well?" I asked. bet your boots she knew how the "sure she got well! And I never land lay. "She was an unpertected orphan. I liked that, for I never cared much about in-laws, and I was competent for the pertectin' myself. So I counted up my roll, got my furlough, and calculated to spend both on Daisy. "Next day, when I dropped into the factory, I seen another girl at my girl's machine. A wall -eyed fe- male. painful to look at. " 'How's this?' says I. 'Where's Daisy?' " 'You Daisy's beau?" she asks. " 'That's as it may be,' says I, non- committal. " 'I knew it,' says the female. 'Oh,: you poor, poor young man!' " 'Explain yourself—do:' says I. " 'You'll never see Daisy no more,' took the smallpox." . "Some luck!" "Greenhorn's luck. I never was no doctor before or since. That one time I was a swell doctor. The day she was all safe, according to the book, I mde my bunkie put some clean clothes for me under the blazed tree. I put 'em on after I'd gone swimmin' and cut my hair. Then I went to town and bought riggin"Tor Daisy. I knew how to pick out some nice shoes and silk stockin's, and I got a blue flannel sailor's sweetheart, also a big black sailor's wseetheart, also a big black tie. I told the young lady I'"•bought them from: "You put in the right kind of underpinning to go with these ac- eordin' to specifications.' says she hysterical. 'Daisy is took,'] "And she understood and put in " 'Took where? To jail?' i everything needful. So I got a lot " 'Worse—whole lot worse! Took, for Daisy, and I went to the shack to the pesthouse. She's got the small-: and put on a b'iler of water, and pox. and they took her this morning.' made myself scarce till she bathed She'll die—nobody ever come out of and dressed; and, gee, didn't she look that pesthouse any way but feet fore- sweet! most.: I "Then I set fire to the old shack, "Out of that place I flashed Iikeand we watched it burn down. After - a streak of lightning. Knew I had to wards I hunted up the owner and lied act. and act quick. I had heard things an said I had set fire to it by accident about that pesthouse. Maybe they. while I was huntin', and offered to wasn't all true. Half of 'em was pay the price. lie said' I was too enough, with Daisy there, and scared honest for those parts, and woulan't to death, as I knew she must be. ; take no money. "I found my bunkie, a smart lad "The very day furlough was up, I named Harrison. We trailed out and" went to the chapl'in. spotted that place where my girl! " 'Reverend,' says I, 'you got o was. =Then we nosed around the splice us. I couldn't trust et done out country thereabouts till we found a' of the service—a lifetime job like lfittle cabin on the edge of a lonesome this!' wood. We could tell no one had lived, "So he spliced us." in it for an age, by the way the' "And you think you were pretty eines was tied and knotted together brave, eh?" across the door. I took possession of. "Nary yellow streak in me that that shack in the name of the British' time." Navy, and then I hiked back to town' "Deserve a medal or a cross eh?" and bought me a lot of stuff—a can- "No—I can't say that." vas cot, and pillow and blankets and , "Why not?" eomfortable's and sheets, an ax, a "Cause I done better—I gots a broom, a kettle, a pot, a water bucket,! Daisy." matches, tea, sugar,crackers, canned ' --- tailk and soup, and a lot of eggs, U. S. Owes Great Britain. Which fell by the wayside and got England's bill for transporting a mashed. But the rest of the dun- million American soldiers across the nage my bunkie and I managed to' ' Atlantic amounts approximately to deserted shack, ! $82,000,000. or at the rate of $82 per "it was just like settin' up house-, soldier, which, in the opinion of the ikeepin' or goin' out West in the old U. S. Director of Transportation, is clays, only it wasn't no fun thinks' less than it would have cost to trans- oked too darn serious. Harrison,! port them in American ships, ho was awful, handy with h'rp elf pett rvade up the11 ger ew pt and aired fir the ed, final cut steel; wood n nab, �v he qI �in -weed to the yad, he noiehelp' �lrch, enemy?" Tommy (indignant- i6n furlough, X pet with my head in ly)—"fit (10"n't cry so very much; q hands by the hi fire he left for and, anyway, if All you.' teeth were and my tboug ts was �terxib e, out and your 61r off, and your legs ds e sok an'with tie When he ?Iven , and : � think he S po 'Weak you �eoulcln> t even, stand on lingo ext, reijf , fancy you'd feel like crying li con back to get the igen! i , y'burself," ''l Bet there that High it e�i .tr ed likes the majority of obey ollir aria y1bs e a e three good methods of Mras In bed' and isles . " e 13 'a uil , 'l+ip the fire roarin', hid I It i)nt tot 6a04ill014atiiig news and gossip. the pesthou• e.- Telephone, telegraph, and tell a wo- "It was the lonesornest sig' t T *ever mill,' ' • see --that big, ugly frame house a- Satin' up 1..r, Aself s'az long lain in arras) iiztneaa'n X.lnanant in Oa j,mnxo, Friend (teasingly)*"W' at makes Viet ne baby at your bowie cry ao I;'elping Daughter Dress Correctly, When a new dress is to be made fur daughter it is so much easier to go ahead, and buy the cloth and select the pattern one's self than to co-operate daughter regarding it, that more often than not the dress is made regardless of the 'wearer's wishes in the matter. Many farm girls become so used to wearing what- ever mother makes or' buys, relying so absolutely on mother's taste to be correct, that when they leave home and are thrown on their` own, res- ponsibility, they find that they know nothing about cost of materials, suitability of colors or correctness of style. Too many times they spend their money on cheap, gaudy things, or else wear dowdy, unbecoming clothes. Part of every girl's training should consist in learning the lesson of clothes, and the first steps along that lisle should be taken as soon in the little girl's life as 'she can under- stand the most simple of instructions. If you are making school dresses, get samples of different materials and ask daughter to cheese that which she would like. Doubtless she will make a wrong choice, obelecting the most unsuitable. But don't laugh at her; don't make her ashamed. En- deavor to show her her error in a way she can understand. Get her to tell you what qualities, in her opinion, a school dress should have. Of course, you know it should wear well, wash well and not show soil too easily, and not be readily torn; but she may never have thought of those things. Let each sample, then, be analyzed -to meet those requirements. When the suitable material has been selected, attention should be turned to the cloth's suitability to the child in question. The color must 'be one in which she looks well and the pattern appropriate for her age. By suggestion, display and study famiI- iarize her with these requirements, and you will develop in her a taste for simple, well made clothes she would be far less apt to have were she continually wearing dresses with no thought as to why they were of such a color or material or cut in such a way. Though the desirability of simple cut be impressed upon her, do not confound simpleness with plainness. A simply cut dress finished at neck and sleeves with a bit of lace, or brightened by contrasting material in banding or piping, is attractive, but a plain dress, absolutely devoid of all "finishing touches" is actually homely, and in all but the poorest of families, wholly unnecessary. Teach the value of these simple means of finishing a dress. Contrast the sev- erely plain dress with the slightly trimmed one. Also, when opportun- ity presents itself, point out the mis- tak of overtrimming. A dress half covered with lace and ribbons and ornamental buttons is not only in bad taste, but is generally mere cheap display. If daughter lends a hand at /the washing and ironing .she will learn even more about the materials her dresses are made of, and will quickly see why the dainty little party dress would never do for school wear, and why, also, mother desires her to wear soft crepe underwear in sum- mer in preference to that which re- quires starching and ironing. It takes time, of course, to teach these things, and there are but few farm mothers whose time is not lim- ited; yet other things can better be slighted than the opportunity of teaching your daughter all you know and can learn about the why and wherefore of the clothes she wears. When she grows up and finds work away from home, you will forget the dust that showed on your chairs, the stove that needed blacking, and the many other duties neglected, to seek mer opinion and work with her on her clothes, in the satisfaction yon have of seeing hex on her home -visits wise- ly, becomingly, yet economically dressed. Refrigerators Preserve Food.' The principle of scientific food pre- servation involved in a modern house- hold refrigerator is not always under- stood by housewives. All that is necessary, to preserve feed is to keep it at a dry temperature low enough to protect it from micro-organisms or bacteria, which • want to consume it as food just as we do, but which if allowed to work quickly render it un- fit for human consumption. These bacteria lie dormant when the air is kept cold and dry, but they grow rapidly in water, hence kit is necessary to keep the air in a refrig- erator from becoming moist. The drier the air the' better the food keeps. Circulation of the air is therefore an important feature, and the walls of the ice -box are insulated so' that the cold air will be kept in. It is necessary for the ice to melt in order to chill the air properly. As the melting goes on the refrigerator is chilled and the food ' absorbs the cold. Thus while wrapping ice in a newspaper or flannel will undoubted- ly keep' it from melting, it defeats the purpose of the refrigerator, and withholds the cold from the, food. A steady melting must go on, and the modern refrigerator is built to keep the melting -to a necessary minimum, although precautions should be taken to see that the ice -box does not stand where the sun's rays strike it. Nor should it stand near the fire. Cold air falls and warm air rises, and the coldest place is below the ice instead of above. Milk, butter and foodstuffs which really absorb mois- ture should therefore be placed so that the cold air reaches them direct from the ice, passing from them to those foods like melons and onions which give off odors. Do Not Permit Faultfinding at the Table. To have a comment made on dishes at the table, as too much or too little seasoning, etc., is a habit into which' many families unconsciously fall. It is very trying to the housewife, and besides has a tendency to make the food appear less inviting, and gives a depressing effect, as all fault-find- ing does. One mother noticed that this habit was growing on her children, and de- termined that some way must be found to stop it. 'She called a family meeting and told them that she did her best to have the food and table just as nice as she could, and that they should do their part and be kind - and polite, keep still about any dish they did not' especially like. 'She emphasized the fact that criticism at the table was not good manners. She told 'them that if they had anything special to criticize they could come to her alone after the meal and she would be glad to listen to the complaint. But strange to say; being forbidden to criticize at the table, the children made very few private comments. From that time on the mother was t British, Well Done! Giving Due Re- cognition To Others Who Helped. WELL DONE, US! IT IS HEREBY agreed that no o'ne nation would have beaten Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemburg, Aus- tria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. IT IS FURTHER agreed that it was the gallant resistance qt Belgium, the magnificent fighting qualities of the French, the devotion of the Russians, the valor of the Serbians, the resource- fulness and whole -hearted co-opera- tion of the Americans, and the superb struggles of the Roumanians which enabled us to secure a victory over the enemy. HAVING SAID THIS. The British have done It, The navy choked Fritz by the`throat and the army walloped the ' life out of him. We have fought the devil alj over the world, we have beaten his legions in every latitude' we have financed the war and fought tfie War. We have Car- ried the foodstuffs, the raw material and the eeldiers, both our own and cur allies, to and from the ends of the east ,, We have fought a naval action which lasted for v' entyy-one months against a fleet of U'boate bum,bering o've 800 Vein first to 1 at apd, We,h ye des royed'two-thirds o a Set We met the full stroke of bie•bffensive In March and April and smashed it. We carried the impregnable Hindenburg I line. We invented and brought to per fection the arm which produced the decision of the war—the tank. We swept his aerial navies from the skies and blinded him. We have, single- handed, crushed the Turk and secured a complete military decision. We have fought four African wars and have been victorious, We have raised, equipped and maintained an army of 7,000,000,- and have equipped a Rus- sian army of 2,000,000. We have fought the Prussian, Bavarian, Saxon, Austrian, Turk, Bulgarian, Askari, Togoman and Bolshevik!. We have established the Arab ind+Arabia and the Jew in Palestine. BUT IT S I3EI3,EP,Y agreed that no ons ria on 'Wdtiid have beaten Prufa ia, Bavaria, baxony, Wurtemburg, Aus- tria-Hungary, bulgaria and Turkey. IT I9 FIIR.'HER agreed that it was the gallant resistance of Belgium, the agidittoent fighing qualities of the once the devotiOII of the Russians, the aloft al the Serbians, the re- douroefujne and wholehearted co - Operatic) of the Americans, and the superb Struggles of the Romanians Which enabled ws to secure a victory over the enemy: -From Town. Topics, London, England. careful not to criticize any dish her- self, and did not allow it done by the others. She was watchful, however, i that every thing was well cooked, and the habit of fault-finding at the table in that fanily has entirely ceased, Oil Lamps, Our house is lighted by oil lamps and the work I hate most is cleaning the lamps. I have made it as easy as• possible in the following way: Turn the wick low before blowing out the light so it won't smoke so much, Trim wicks and wipe burners every day, so they won't smoke and black the burners. Set all the lamps in a row, open, before beginning to fill. Use a light can with a well-placed .spout to pour oil from. Wipe lamps with paper. Wet a sheet of newspaper and rap- idly wash all the chimneys, setting them on the stove. Take off before. too hot and wipe with newspaper. Everything can be done rapidly in this way and lamps and chimneys will shine. THAT WICKED PRINTER. • Some of the Ludicrous. Blunders He Has Made the World Laugh At. Printers often pervert the power of the pen and turn tears into smiles by the change of a letter. "Drunkenness is jolly," said a dean in a temperance sermon duly reported in the local paper. What the dear man meant was that drunkenness was folly. But the printer was in playful mood, for lower down in the dean's discourse he omitted a comma, and the eminent divine stood again a self-confessed drunkard. "Only last Sunday," he said, "a young man died suddenly, while I was endeavoring to preach the Word in a state of beastly intoxication." Here is another "clerical error," culled from a parish magazine: "There will be a collection in aid of the Arch Fiend." The fiend ofa Printer n r I? to should have put Arch Fund. Doubtless he prevent- ed many old ladies of limited intel- igence from putting their hands in their pockets. . The "war -scared" veteran 'was tub printer's improvement on the "war - scarred" variety which the writer had in mind. The young man who wrote that lov-letters were a never -fading ink was really informing his finances that such epistles would -form a never - fading link between them throughout their lives. Imagine the dismay of the school- master whose prospectus read thus: "The distinctive feature of the school is the roughness—" ife was only referring to the thoroughness of his methods. "Our impending fate, eclipse of em- pire, is bound up with the League of Nations," said a politician in a local paper recently. Yet he was an ardent advocate of the League of Nations, and what he really said was that our impending fate, eclipse or empire, was bound up with it. In this mistake the printer was not to blame, but the reporter. who lost his job through the politi- cian's fury. The latter's own poor elocution was probably to blame. Punctuation, or the want of it, is prolific in humorous howlers. Here is one from an agricultural journal.: "Wanted, a woman to feed.pigs with washing -board lodging over stables." At first reading one is apt to wonder whether the, pigs liked their washing - board, and whether they were all lodging over the stables together, Incredibly large openings for our Dominion farm products are avail- able in Great Britain, according to the Canadian Trade Commission. Ask for Minard's and take no other. T All grades, Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS' Q, J. CLIFF TORONTO How to: Dispose of Bores. A municipal government official who had an easy-gding doorkeeper was for a long time pestered by a bore. Final- ly lie hit upon a • plan to get"rid of him for good, "Dick, do you know why Collin con- tinues to come here' so regularly'?" he asked. "No, sir." "Well, Dick, I don't mind telling you in confidence, he's' after your job.".. ' From that day on the official was never troublet by the bore. The ability to sing a simple pas- sage assage of music at sight without any accompaniment is something that every choir member should strive to acquire, r w 9 MEEK S UNIVERSITY KINGSTON, ONTARIO ARTS Part of the Arts course may be covered 'by correspondence. MEDICINE EDUCATION APPLIED SCIENCE Mining, Chemical, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering SUMMER SCIIOOLe IIAVIGATI®R SCIIOUd, fiilyand.August. December to April 28 GEO. Y. CHOWN, Registrar. teea. CLARK'S t ANN BOILED DIP1NE1 A FULL SATISFYING MEAL MEAT-VEGETAn1ES - COMPLETE JUST HEAT AND SERVE THIS LEGEND ON THE TIN IS A GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE OF PURITY. W.CLARK LIMITIO MONTM[AL ,tt ria 9 • For Table Use and All Cooking Purposes Everybody's happy, when there is Corn Syrup�on the table. Do you know that there is a White Syrup as well as the delicious, golden CROWN BRAND CORN SYRUP Crown Brand is unequalled as a Syrup for Pan. cakes, Muffins, as a spread for bread, for making candy, sauces, and in cooking, generally. LILY WHITE CORN . SYR Best for Preserving anti m �a Q- ak"n e It is a clear white Colot and Jells" excellently; Sold In 2,$, .anil ' -40 tin • the Cana. &WA tlt \ Montrea 4 ADAPT THEMSELVES TO SURROUNDINGS HOW ANIMALS CHANGE WITH! THEIR MODE OF LIFE. Hoofed Beasts, Such as Sheep andi Pigs, Have Lost Power of Tree Climbing Through Disuse, Every one of the higher animals is. in some way mechanically adapted to• its mode of life and surroundings, a. horse or an antelope being from one• point of view a living galloping or. trotting machine. Putting 006,0 ex - =pies aside, there are nus 'erous• cases of more peculiar adaptations to' which attention may be confined. For example, the climbing creatures. It may _be noted that a number of" species, such as Old World monkeys and squirrels, present special modifi- cations for a life in the trees, the es- sential being that they should have. the power of rotating the forearm on the upper portion of the limb and , that their toes should be mobile' air - furnished with claws or nails. There is one group 'of African ro- dents, designated scaly tailed squir- rels, the members of which seem to. have felt the necessity of additional aid for the purpose of tree climbing. 'They have accordingly developed on the under surface of the tail certain. structures 'which may be compared to. the climbing irons used by workmen. These take the. form of a few trans- verse rows of large, triangular, horny scales, with their points directed back- ward. These scales, when pressed. against the Durk of a tree, must afford material aid in climbing. The Anteaters' Climbing Scales. Another group of animals in which "climbing irons" havg<been'developed Is that 'of the scaly anteaters or pan- golins, of India and Asia --'creatures which look more like living fir cones• than mai nal s. The scales—much larger tha n__Lthose of the scaly tailed squirrels—cover both surfaces of the. body, as well as the head and limbs, so that it can scarcely be supposed they have been developed for climb- ing. Indeed, only a few species climb; but these have found the assistance - afforded by the scales on theAtder• side of value in an ascent, anci'?li i$it- ually make use of them as climbing icons. Quite a different type of climbing, or rather hanging, apparatus, has been developed in the sloths of tropical America, which spend their time in the treetops, where they remain sus- pended hack downward by their lrhtnaftc like claws, These claws, winch mrzdr, be three or two, have been modified. from ordinary claws and afford a striking instance of adaptation to an abnormal mode of life. The thumb of bats is likewise modified into a hook- like claw—also used for suspending purposes when the creatures hang head upward, Generally, however, hats suspend themselves head downward by the hind claws, grasping power be- ing retained by the toes, so that the modification has not been carried to the same extent as in sloths, in which the claws set in a mechanical mariner. Suction Plates on Bats. Certain bats appear to have found their book like thumbs and hind feet insufficient for suspension and have made use of the suction principle for this purpose. This mode of suspen- sion has been developed independent- ly in two distinct bats, one lk native of Brazil and the other of Madagascar. In the Brazilian species the suckers take the form of,staikecl discs attach- ed to the palms of -the thumbs and the soles of time feet. The suckers of the Malagasy species are horseshoe like. By means of the suckers these bats are able to ascend vertical surfaces. Very curious .it is to note the similari- ty between the suckers of these bats and those on the arms of the' cattle- fishes. The geckos which run up the walls and over the ceilings of houses in warm countries acord another in- stance of the sucker principle. Bats are not the only mammals which have availed themselves of the sucker. In the Malay Islands and the Philippines dwell large eyed and slender aim d little lemur -like creatures known tarsiers, whose habits are nocturnal. In these weird little animals the tips of the toes are expanded into cushion- like discs, capable of acting as suck- ers, by means of which they ascend such smooth surfaces as the stems of bamboos. Hoofed or ungulate animals, such as sheep, pigs, camels and elephants, have given up using their fore limbs., in a handlike manner, and employ them solely for progression, Conse- quently tree climbing is out of their line. In Africa and Syria occur, how- ever, certain representatives of the order known as rack rabbits, or hyrax, the Syrian species being the one re- ferred to in the bible as the coney (the old name of the rabbit). Certain African hyraxes have, however, taken 'to tree climbing, and the way they manage it is this: In each. foot -the sole is somewhat cup shaped, and by, the aid of muscular action the Centre can be more elevated, so that when idle :edges are applied to the bark the foot sots like a sucker, Summer-=-19'It, After >}ilonths of aching pain— Sprlipfl sgaial • Fi lower'ing fields and birds awing; Budding trees and summer rain, And my 'heart that sings and sings -•a Lad is home again& • 1 I