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With the in Her Face
By ANNIE HAMILTON DONNELL,
PART ITL creriou: earnestness. "Dear boy, I
"The prisoner at the bar `till' am going to motor through old age --
please state her age." I motor, with the wind in my face No,"
"Same as yours, your Honor, lack her eyes lighting up again with their
ing a month and seventeen days. Yeti' inimitable humor, "No, I shan't get
know how it is to be seventy—give; to the end of the read any sooner
me a tip. I'm on the t•aggel edge' for I'm going a round -about way!"
myself. No, I'II give you a tip --.1 It was a ltpppy birthday to Grand -
speed up, William, and take t with mums. She fell in love with her girl's
the wind in your face! Open up the' num.
mirhy didn't you ask me to marry
throttle! Enjoy yourself while you
cart," you instead of Philippa? I'd have
"Fifteen dollars," the Jedge said jumped at the chance," laughed
Grandmums, plying him with cooling
sternly. ( drinks and having a beautiful time,
A few minutes later Luther and. She was in a queer garment of blue
Grandmums came face to face. Luth jeans and a little smudge of black.
er's hand shot out, admiration. relief,. over one eyebrow gave her a saucy,
delight shone in his eyes. This was
the kind of a Grandmums!
"Grandmums—"
"Who's calling me that? Must be
Philippa—"
"Or Philippa's man! How are you,
Grandmums? But I know—I've been
in at the scrap,"
"Wasn't it fun!—You really mean
you are Philippa's Luke? Splendid! we'll want a lot to -day." Her gaze'.
What are you doing in these parts?" rested joyously on her lovely gifts.
"I came down to start you on your "I shall ride all over town to show'
declining year. Proxy for Philippa. off. See if I don't!"
There's a wedding—" I The next day Philippa appeared,;
"So she sent you to comfort me in her lively young face subdued to ap-;
my old age? Nice child!—Day after preprint° gentlenees. Grandmums;
to -morrow shell come, you say? , met her at the station and a petrified.
Well, we'll make the most of it and speechless Philippa rode back beside
have a high old time in between! her in the natty little car. To Luther,:
Conte on—I'll drive you home in my; waiting joyously, the picture sudden -i
car. Ont here, round the corner," I ly assumed pathos. Poor Philippa!
She led the way to a natty little, Her illusions had been so tender and'
machine. With a whisk of dainty sweet. She had been ruthlessly rob-!
petticoats she was in behind the bed of a dear declining Grandmums.:
wheel and they were off. I "Don't speak to me," whispered;
"Isn't she a beauty? She's my, Philippa as she descended into Luth-i
third and I'm going to keep her.; cr'a arms. "Take me out of sight'',
When we got out of sight somewhere; somewhere and kiss me. I need it.!
I'll show you what she can do. I'veOh, yes, of course I'll laugh when I,
just paid fine enough to be entitled get my breath—of course I'll like it,:
to a little fun! You may be official; but I've got to have time."
honker for me if you want to. That's Out of sight, between kisses, Luth-I
one thing I'm very particular about er remembered something with an'
—honking. William Stickney can't awful jolt; Philippa's birthday!
say I've ever run over so much as a
fuzzy caterpillar. I'll tell you some-
thing-" she leaned sideways and
whispered sibilantly above the little
appearance. She had been turning
down the grease cups on her little:
car.
"Yes, I take rare of her myself,";
she nodded in answer to the. unasked:
question on Luther's face. "I don't'
trust anybody else. Guess you didn't
hear me before you got up. I drove,
down to Ephe Legget's for gas—,
"Dear," he said with anxiety temp-
ered with twinkles, "I'm afraid you'.
won't like what I've got for your',
birthday but it's the best I can do.'
ear's song. "I did run over a high It's—it's an Invalid Table and al
silk hat once. There wasn't a. soul Foot-werm—"
under it. A child must have left it Philippa got her breath then. They
there in the road—it's a low hat laughed together in each other's,
now!" and Grandmums' pleasant arms in joyous abandon while Table,
laugh rang out. The car was picking and Warmer reclined peacefully un -
up speed under Grandmums' urging der the lilacs.
toe. A long, clear stretch of road (The End.)
opened before them.
"Wicked to waste it—look behind
and see if Wiliam Stickney's ghost
is anywhere in sight! Now see my With the appointment of Queen
little lady go!" Mary as Colonel in Chief of the
Back in the hamlet of white houses, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, I
Grandmums drove up a curving drive Her Maiesty becomes the titular head
and stopped at the door of one of of two regiments. Already she was
them. Colonel in Chief of the Eighteenth
"Here we are, I'll let you out and Hussars—"Queen Mary's Own," And
then take the ear around. Won't be she is, of course, Conunander of Q. M,
but a minute." Over her shoulder A. C.
she called happily, "It's scrumptious There are, by the way, five royal ,
to have you at last—we don't need ladies who are Colonels in Chief.
Philippa!" Queen Alexandria holds this rank in
The minute she was gone was a the Yorkshire regiment and the Nine -
terribly short one for what Luther teeuth Hussars, the Princess Royal in'
had to do but he managed it. He the Seventh Dragoon Gaards. Prin-i
was actually panting a little when cc's Mary in lie Royal Scots and Prin-
Grandmums came hack but th.oec two cess Louise Duchess of Argyll in the
frightful birthday packages were no- Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
where in sight. They dict not even
protrude tell-tale knobs and ends
from under the great lilac thicket Food Conservation.
nearby. Two British soldiers went Into a res-'
"Good job!" thought Luther re-, teatrant in Salonika and ordered the
lievedly. Suppose he had not got .waiter to bring them "Turkey
against the front door! It had boo;Greece."
„Sorry, but I cannot Scrvla;' re -
a narrow escape. Luther', mind con- 1,1!erl the waiter,
pealed at the awful thought of pre- "Then bring the llospltrtrn,!" crier!
Queen Mary is Colonel In Chief.
there and discovered em leaning with
1Yonten's Sew National Wort:,
The Canadian Trade Commission
has a wide -extended undertaking to
promote expansion of Dominion,
fter.war trade. A return to pre-
war standard, cannot meet our need.;
Our war debt in four years has run
up to nearly $1,500,000,000, The in -1
terest payment on this will demand'
the most alert business gifts of the'
people.
The whole -hearted support given,
by the women of Canada, singly or:
through their organizations, to food
control and other war work showed;
how great their collective influence
could be.
For the immediate future women
should influence all purchases for 1
the home to be of Canadian -made'
goods and products, This will give
employment to returned soldiers and
to the many thousands who were
formerly in munition -making and
other war work.
Women who realize that every dol-
lar eent out of the country for those
things which can be produced at.
home adversely affects the financial
situation. We have already pur-
chased so heavily from abroad dur-
ing the four years of war that the
financial position is critical.
Canada has to remit to foreign
countries a sum of well over half a
million dollars a day merely to pay
our indebtedness abroad.
In our total, household purchases
figure very largely. As the women
of Canada buy about 90 per cent. of
all that is used in domestic life, the
first thing towards relieving and
safeguarding the situation is their
grasp of this all -essential fact. When
that is once clearly understood they
will gladly, as they did in food eon-
trol, bring about a reform,
For every million dollars retained
in Canada BY A REFUSAL TO
BUY OTHER THAN CANADIAN
GOODS, a year's unbroken employ-
ment can be given to at least 1,060
people.
The Canadian Trade Commission'
is by every means encouraging Cana -1
dian 'manufacturers to make the'
words, "Made in Canada," worthy of
the highest traditions of an indus-
trial people. That standard has al-!
ready largely been reached in our;
agricultural products.
Now we must turn to the best ac-'
count the work of. Canadians in the'
factory as well as in the field. Now:
we must induce our people in city.
and country to make at home and to;
produce at home the things we need
for our own use and comfort.
Large quantities of goods which
are of particular interest to women
have been for years imported into
the Dominion, when many of them
would have been, had we known what
could be effected by patriotic co-op-
eration such as marked war work,
manufactured or grown within our
own border. The one outstanding
-
thing for our national financial bet-
terment is that we at once CHECK
TIIE FLOW OF MONEY OUT-;
WARDS, and that we do everything'
possible to TURN THE STREAM
OF MONEY INWARDS to Canada.
That is. we must spend less abroad;
we must sell more abroad.
The following list, taken from of-
ficial returns, is only a partial com-
pilation of the many hundreds of
things mere which we annually im-
port from the United States, and
which, with a determined effort and
the co-operative good -will, without
the further use of fiscal machinery,
could bo largely removed from the
debit side of our national bookkeep-
ing. The list only deals with those
thing which principally concern eve-
men:—
Partial List of Canadian Imports.
Article 1918 Value
Cheese $ 114,000
Lard 288,000
Lard Compound, etc. , , , 409,000
Meats (general) 728,000
Beef 1,788,000
Mutton and Lamb , , 305,000
Pork (barrelled, etc.) 2,107,000
Garden and Field Seeds 368,000'
Tomatoes, a ones 804,000'
Tomatoes, fresh 530,000
Baked Bean; 457,000'
2,593,000
Peas 216,000
142,000
195,000
Canned Vegetables and
Beans
senting this Grandmums with an the soldiers. Cereal Foods
Invalid Table and Footwa.rme,'. He The boss ,.ante, and after hearing Breadetuffs
had seen no evidence of invalidism
the complaint answered, "1 regret to
or cold feet. Later, up in Grandmum'a Russia, but you cannot Roumania."
cozy guest room, nater a delightful So the soldiers went away Hnngery,
evening on the porch, he found him- Just them a Swede put his head in
self suddenly laughing. IIe sat up at the door and inquired anxiously,
in bed the better to do it. The sur-
prise that was coming to Philippa—
Luther fell bade on Grandmum's
-fluffy guest -pillows and rolled for joy.
The next day he presented Grand- The rnanufactnrns of Mesopotamia
mums with n nifty little dashboard are few and primitive. Steam met -
clock, two step -mats anda rear inir- oh(nery was used in the military cloth I
roc, They made a very presentable factory at Bagdad, but the ether in.
appearance spread out on the conch ,iustrlee may properly be classed as
and how Gran:innate, did lova them. handicrafts. Milling. tanning, boat, 1
Her bright blue eyes so much like building and brick making are carried
Philippa's fairly beamed delight. on Inc native consumption, and there
"You must have been inspired. you are a few manuf cturers of hurries, I
two!" cried she. "You must have such ns milk -weaving. metal -working, 1
known exactly what 'Grandntunts' and the distilling of the spirit. called,
want on their birthdays, And there arrack. The silk fnctnrlos of Bagdad'
1 was afraid Philippa might think I arP fantat515 for the beauty of their
was growing old! Dear boy---" sod- color and workmanship, and tho cuiti-
denly her hands were on his shoulders vation of the silkworm was at one thio
find she was loolcing up to him with' a (latlrishing industry,
"Alhnnla .
Industries of Mesopotamia.
Cotton Manufactures
(general . , . 8,882,000
Socks and Stockings 1,400,000
Other cotton manufactures ,1,166,000
Plums and Prunes 1,227,000
Traits in packages (,08,000
Furniture 1,121,000
Furs --caps, hats, mutts. 323,000
Gloves and Mitts 487,000
Boots and Shoes 2,000,000
Sill! Fabrics (general) ,3,669,000
Soap 866,000
Starch, etc 200,000
Woollen Manufactures
6,5,00,000
(all c ntries)
The Sick Child' and the School.
A day spent in school by a half -
:tick child may result in a week of
serious ilhteso, If, as so often hap-
pens, the slight in.liaposiC:gn proves
to ha the begioniag of some eoni-
municaldc dim lie other r',ildren
in the schooi a, c exposed, and those
who aro susceptiblo follow in turn,
School authorities are naturally anx-
ious to secure regularity of attend-
ante on the part of the scholars, and A lady teacher in a Glasgow school! Bittersweet,
many parents feel that they aro had just concluded the Bible lesson, A olden moon to mock the empty
simply doing their duty in forcing
children who complain of not feeling
well to go to school, It is much bet-
ter for a child to lora an occasional
day's schooling than to risk bringing
on an illness and exposing others.
The work which children lose in the
school from sickness can be made up
far more readily than that lost by
health. Satisfactory mental progress
can not be made unless health is first
considered.
On Good Manners.
Good manners Can he acquired only
by careful study. At least they can-
not be either laid down by rule or
obtained by the methods of a corres-
pondence. Truly good school man-
ners are said to conte from the inside
out, and time has not dulled the
truth of this assertion.
If you are a self-centred person
you must be extremely clever in order
to keep people from looking beneath
the cover, However, if you are
thoughtful of others, the habit will
grow with the least little bit of en-
couragement, and this is half the
battle. Observation is the other half,
and even if it is tagged with the
term "knocking" a little criticism of
other people's manners will help you
to avoid the sante pitfalls yourself.
The knocking may be done inwardly
just as well as outwardly, Incitation
is usually a bad way to go about
things, but observing some person
whose manners you approve will be
another tvay to go about things.
Table manners are really much
easier to acquire than might be sup-
posed. You have only to feel that
you can look well while eating and
it improves matters at once. This
gentle art of constantly feeling that
you don't make such a bad picture,
after all, is really the best and the
simplest way of all. It can be prac-
ticed at all times, but should never
be carried to the point where it ap-
proaches self-consciousness.
Mannerisms are, of course, to he
avoided. The person who does every-
thing possible to attract attention is
tiresome to look at and usually more
tiresome to listen to. A loud or
strident voice is wearying to listen
to, and one too low is almost as bad,
for the hearer has to strain attention
in order to make out what is being
said, If we could only hear ourselves
as others do, it would be of almost
as much aid as to see ourselves as
others see us.
Using White Enamel.
To !!bite enamel paint, the best re-
sults will be obtained by using two
coats of- flat house paint, then two
coats of good oil enamel paint, being
sure to let each coat dry. This treat-
ment is especially good for iron bed-
steads.
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of the caa.t of many colors. To as-
certain whether the lesson had been
closely followed, she asked one of the
boys to tell the class who Joseph was.
"He was the first Food Controller,"1
promptly replied the boy.
Trinidad's fine share in the war isl
to be commemorated by a ntonumentl
at Port-of-Spain. A meeting wast
held there recently at which the pre-'
ject was discussed and agreed to with
enthusiasm. The. Governor (Major
Sir J. R. Chancellor) presided, The:
site selected for the monument is atl
the top of Broadway, Pott-of-S,pain.I
i And greening ]tills, white clouds, all
life aware;
Sweet smells of worming earth and
songs of birds,
All things you ever loved-•-
Aud you ---not hero.
And I have wished again for frost and
ice
For storm to shroud zuy world with
skies of gzry.
For earth to tell the earth "there is no
hope"
It's easier --than spring
With you—away.
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BRITAIN'S EelIT T
SURPASSES ALL
ON AEA, LAND, ANI) IN T17E Alt.
SUE LEI) THE \YORLI)
Wonderful is the Achievement of
the British bltnpire, of Which
England Mac the Major Share,
Now that civilization has triumph-
ed over "Kultur," it might do Cana-
dians good, as part of air Great Brit-
ish Empire, to realize why --to appre-
ciate the wonderful Wort brought
into play by the Empire -_particular-
; ly by Good Old England, that modest
old bnekhone of ours—the poorest
advertiser the world has over known,
het the greatest of them all—indus-
trially, financially, as an educator, 05
a colonizer, and as a benefactor.
When the war commenced, the
Empire had 700,000 troops of all
sorts, many of them only partially
trained, By May, 1916, sho had re-
cruited for the army and navy over
5,000,000 men (rich men, poor men,
etc.) voluntarily.
Up to the time of the signing of
the armistice she had raised '7,500,000
men, and her army in France was
the finest equipped and trained army
the world has ever seen, (4,500,000
of these were Englishmen recruited
in England; 1,000,000 others of them
were Englishmen recruited else-
where.
Britain Lost One Million Dead.
Britain's total losses have been.
3,250,000, of whom 1,000,000 have
been killed. Her armies (three quar-
ters of them Englishmen) have
fought in East Africa, in Italy, in
Egypt, in the Balkans, have crushed.,
the Turks in Mesopotamia and Pales-
tine, and latterly have held the great-
er part of the lino on the Western
front.
The navy, which the Hun would
never meet, commenced the war with
145,000 men and 2,500,000 tons, with
12 patrol boats. She ended it with
406,000 men, 6,600,000 tons and 3,300
mine -sweepers and patrol boats.
The navy has convoyed the British
Mercantile Marine, has transported
22,000,000 men (and of these lost only
4,391 by German action), and among
other things, 2,000,000 horses and
mules, 25,000,000 tons of explosives
and supplies, 51,00(1,000 tons of ail
and fuel, 130,000,000 tons of food and
other supplies.
She bottled up the German navy
at the commencement of the war and
has kept it bottled up ever since.
The British army and naval air
forces in 1914 consisted of 130 ma-
chines and 900 men. When the
armistice was signed there were
many thousands of machines and tens
of thousands of men—they absolute-
ly dominated the air.
England, despite her call on man
power, by a supreme effort, agri-
culturally and industrially, has al -
moat fed herself. She has added over
2,000,000 acres to her cultivated area,
860,000 tons of ceeereals and 5,000,000
tons of potatoes, reduced import, of
lumber by 3,000,000 tons, replacing
shortage by 1,800,000 tons of timber
cut in England, and forestry work in
France for the balance.
Clothed the Allied Armies.
Her plants have clothed the Brit-
ish, French, Italian, Grecian, Serbian
and other armies, and have largely
equipped them with guns, rifles,
shells and aeroplanes—even our Am-
erican friends have been uniformed
from her mills.
In addition to 90 arsenals, Great
Britain now has over 6,000 Govern-
ment controlled factories, all work-
ing day and night on munitions and
supplies. She has increased her steel
output from 7,000,000 tons in 1914 to
12,000,000 tons in 1018. 1,000,000 of
her men produced 256,348,000 tons of
coal, a great deal of which went to
her allies.
British women—God bless theml-
5,000,000 of them, many of whom had
never worked in their lives before,
are working for their country in her
need -270,000 are on farms,
Britain has spent $38,000,000,000
on this war, of which $7,825,000,000
has been loaned to her allies.
The Englishman has lived on 11/e
lbs, of beef (or chicken) per week, 14
Ib. of butter per week, sea ib. of sugar
per week, and has faced other food
restrictions we can hardly imagine.
Flood costs have increased 110 per
cent,
Colossal suns, and at incalculable
sacrifice, have been raised for the
care of the sick and Wounded, for the
food and comfort of prisoners and for
the benefit and recreation of troops
at home and abroad.
And the British birth rate is now
greater than the total losses of our
men during the whole tear. The
population has increased during the
war years,
Just as England's armies in his-
tory put Napoleon Bonaparte in his
place, just as her navy in Elizabethan
days broke the power of all -conquer-
ing Spain, so does she now with her
children -the Scotch, tho Irisin, the
Canadians, the Australians, the Now
Zealanders, the South Africans, and
the Indians—and are we not intense-
ly proud to be one of them—with
wonderful France, with ravished Bel-
gium, witih Italy, and latterly with
still another of her otfrpring, tho
United States—from the motnent she
came in, a guarantee of vletory—so
sloe, elle now help 11100 thele world
fc :tu at greater calamity than any of
11., .11 -the Kultur of the unspeakable
h;;;n,