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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-4-15, Page 7ke t Secret Ink From Black Socks. One of the most difficult problems that was eat by the Germane for our 000nter•esptonage service was pro.• sided by an invisible ink used by the 'ostensible American journalist, George 'Vaux Bacon, who was sentenced to death, but afterwards reprieved and returned to America, where ho gave evidence against some of the most important enemy agents there, says an English writer. It was easily the best. Ink for writ- ing invisibly which eamo our way dur. Ing the war; very exhaustive experi- ments had to bo carried out before we could disoever the developer, And even when that had been done, the writing when revealed faded so quick- ly that it was impassible to snake the hidden message permanent. However, being of a persevering turn of mind, We eventually found something which would fix the ink once it was shown up, and thereby drove another nail in the coffin of the fast -decaying enemy spy organisation, This ink was not carried about by the spy in a bottle or any other re- cognizable form. Bacon, in a con- fession, told how he received it. from a certain "Davis," the German agent in America, by whom he was sent hero. "Have you got a pair of black wool- len seeke?" Davis asked, Bacon stared in astonishment. "Good gracious, no," was his .reply, "I have plenty of fancy sociis, but nothing in plait black." "Well, go and buy a pair at once." Bacon duly went downstaira, and in .a shop close by purchased a pair of socks for a dollar. When he returned Davis produced a collapsible tube, similar to that used for holding tooth paste. "Give me your socks,' he said. Bacon handed them over, and with wondering eyes watched Davis squeeze out of the tube a thick brown liquid. This he smeared all round the tops of the sock. "Thera," he said, gloatingly, "that is a secret ink which the English will never discover. When. you write a letter to Holland 'with your reports, soak the top of these socks In water And use the fluid as ink. You will need to use a ball -pointed pen and a hard, rough paper, so that the ink will not run, We will give you these be- fore you leave. Whenever you write a report you must mark it 'M.,' so that those who receive it in Holland will know it is for 'Marina,' Antwerp. That is the only place which knows how to develop the ink; even !u the 'Wilhelmstrasse they do not know the secret." The Ease of Men. There is a certain ease in the re- lat:ons of men among themselves that women never quite know. When wo- men get together, there is plenty of fun and frolic, there is an ample show of personal affection. Perhaps there is even more real personal affection than men often feel; but there is a 'careless, forgetful, golden ease among a company of men that women seem never to achieve, no matter how hard they strive for .11. When a woman sees her best friend coming to the house, she instinctively "tidies up." She thinks whether her hair is right, whether her dress is right. Is the house properly dusted. and in order, furniture in its place, those things carefully out of sight that ought to be? If not, she knows her best friend will comment; she herself would. But when a man sees his best friend coming to the door. his one thought is: 05, how glad I am to see Bills Old clothes make no difference. Bill has seen them often before and likes them. The only thing that would worry Bill would be new clothes and now fashions, The friendship is old, and old clothes be- come it and do grace to it. It is precisely that inimitable ease which makes your husband seek his friends, in spite of all the original and piquant social attractions you can offer him. You invite bright girls, charming girls, to entertain him. He likes then and enjoys them, will make a desperate effort to be agreeable to them, both for your sake and for his own; but there is always an effort, and he hates it. With that group of fellows at the club he does not have' to think of manners or propriety. He! has no desire to be ill-mannered ori improper. Ho just does not want to think about the matter at all. He, wants that delicious sense of ease, 1 without which social life .is never quite perfect. Some wives never understand this. Some wives fight it furiously or fur- tively, almost always unsuccessfully. Do net fight it. Sympathize with it, encourage it. Adm;t that you under- stxnd and envy. Just this one thing that your husband's men friends can give him you cannot give him. Make up your mind to it and remember that there are a thousand things that you can give that the chub or the golf course cannot give, and that in the end he Will surely and always return to you ;for them. ' Making of Hair Nets. Human hair goes through many pro- cesses before reaching the user ht the shape of a hair net, and, the best are claisned to be made front half prepared M England, The hair is bleached, chemically treated to reduce its thlalo tress, and then dyed and combed into lengths ready for tlottlug, After bee ins thus treated it is sent to,Cltina to bo dlateibutod through peeperle ap- pointed agencies and made into nets by hand by natt;tea. SPRING IMPURr1IES MEAN WEAK BLOOD A Tonic Medicine is a Necessity at This Season, Dr. Williams' Pink PIl15 aro an all year round tonic, blood builder and nerve strengthener, But they are especially valuable in the spring when the system le clogged with impurities as a result of the Indoor 'life of the winter months. There Is no other season when the bloo: la so much in need of purlfying and enriching. In the spring one foals weak and tired— Dr, Williams' Pink Pills give strength, In the spring the appetite 1s often poor—Dr. Williams' Pink Pills im- prove the appetite, tone the stomach and aid weak digestion. It Is in the spring that poisons In the blood most often find an outlet in disfiguring pimples, eruptions and boils, Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills speedily clear the skin because they go to the root of the trouble in the blood. In spring anaemia, indigestion, neuralgia, rheu- matism and many other troubles are most persistent because of weak, watery blood and it is at this time when all nature takes on new life that the blood most seriously needs attention. Among those who have proved the value of Dr. Wllliama Pink Pills is Mr. Archie R. Carmichael; Tarbot, N.S„ who says:—"For a num- ber of years I was bothered with pimples which would break out on my face and body. The trouble was al- ways worse in the spring, and al- though I tried different treatments, it was without much success. In the oaring of two years ago, the trouble was worse than usual, and although I was taking medicine it did not help me until I finally decided to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pulls. Under this treat- ment the pimples disappeared, and there has since been absolutely no re- turn of the trouble." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can be ob- tained from any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont, World Freed From Yellow Fever. Science has. at last oonquered yellow fever. It has been a long and tedious struggle, in which sanitation was the chief weapon. The last stand of the disease was in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Experts from the United States who fought an epidemic there finally brought It under subjection, and no cases have been reported in the city for about six months. MONEY ORDERS. It Is always safe to send a Dominion Express Money Order. Five dollars colts three cents. Chili irrigated more than 2,000,000 acres. of land and has neatly as many more available for irrigation. minard's aiatment Lumbermen'a Friona. First daily paper (Courant) ap- peared in England, March 11, 1703. Because the hollow fibres of cotton are loaded with oxygen they burn with a quick finish. When you add to cotton, which ie already loaded with oxygen, oil,.which is also loaded with oxygen, the excess of oxygen is likely sooner or later to make the cotton burst into flame. That is stow spontaneous combustion occurs among oily rags. STYLES FOR CHILDREN 90554—Boy's Double -Breasted. Over- coat and Cap. Price, 20 cents. In 4 sizes, 1 to 6 years., Size 4 requires 1% yds. 42 ins. wide; lining, 1% yds. 36 ins. wide. 9360—Girl's Blouse Coat (with lin- ing; convertible collar; two styles of sleeve; three-piece straight skirt). Price, 25 cents. In 6 sizes, 4 to 14 years. Size 10 requires 2% yds. 42 ins. wide, or 2 yds. 54 ins, wide. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. Garden Furniture Made From Concrete. Few people realize that anything of a real' artistic nature can, be made from concrete, which material is generaity looked upon as suited only to foundations, piers and re -enforced building construction, The truth. is however, that some of the most beauti- ful garden furniture is made from core ante, By means of improved processes in molding and curing oast cement ware, the texture and color obtained are such that the casual observer cannot tell the work from carved limestone. }liven old stonecutters are sometimes misled by the perfect appearance of this artificial stone. Among the artic- les manufactured are tree pote, urns, Rower and shrubbery boxes, sun dials, fountains, birdbaths, Japanese lan- terns and gate -pests. Artificial stone manutaoturers have virtually discarded the original cast- ing method, by which a cement mix- ture was poured into a mold in a semi -fluid state, with the result that the flulshed product took on a very smooth and extremely hard surface, which finish was considered objection- able because of its lifeless appearance and because the surface was likely to crack under severe climatic changes. In the improved process a cement mixture which le barely moist is toned and tamped into every detail of the mold. As soon as this casting has set It is submerged tri water for five or six days, or until the concrete has cured and ha sieuetl, with a crisp and natural appearance. It Le then impervious• to climatic changes, and will last indefinitely. A well grown male ostrich stands eight feet high. Making Use of the Useless What to do with the immense amount of furnace alag that accumu- lates in the iron foundaries was suc- cessfully solved soma time ago by an English concern, which has converted this slag into paving flags, paving tiles, bricks, etc, The process of making the paving flags is about as follows: The slag is carried to a crusher having a capacity of about one hundred tons daily, where it is brokers up and then taken to screens, where it is graded, the coarse being run into cars to be used as ballast and the rest subjected to further crashing, The excess dust le removed by screening and need tor the manufacture of tiles, Tho slag suitable for paving flags le mixed in a dry state with a oemeut like material and then water ie added and the whole thoroughly inoorpor- atod. A pressure of four hundred tons is exercised upon this mixture by a hydrahlio.press and all the moisture is forced out, leaving a hard, dense bloclt of uniform character. A different cementing material Is employed in marring tiles from the dust, the effect being to give the mix- ture a certain amount of plasticity which allows it to be moulded by me- chanioal means and permits it setting into a dense mass. It rapidity of pro- duetiom is desired the action of set- ting can be accelerated by artificial means and the goods made ready for use within twenty -tour hours.. The ad- dition of coloring matter allows the oonstruction of billeting blocks of various hues. Experience with these slag materials shows that exposure to cold and frost has no effect except to produce a greater hardness in the material, FOOD FORTIFIES ag,ainst exhaustion and illness—if its the right kind of food. Nuts is easily digested and with cream or good milk its a well balanced ration that builds tissue and increases strengths &body},ands. mind. "The%'t✓V- AJ�'f *Reason" The Cause of Failure. To be successful, farming most be; made a business. Failures in farm- ing aro as often due to neglecting the business side as to any other cause. Farmers who neglect to keep exact records of their receipts and. expenditures should ponder the foie lowing extract from the February "Teller," issued by the Sterling Bank: "When asked recently by the Na- tional Aseoolatlon of Credit Men what in their opinion was the chief cause of business failures, 10,000 merchants replied almost to a man: 'Failure to keep books.' About the amine time, another investigation among 6,000 merchants taken at random from all parts of the coun-1 try showed that only 10 per cent.) kept records that told them; What they had in stock; what profit they were making; what their expendi- ture was for selling, advertising and other items of overhead; what particular part of their business was profitable or unprofitable." Every farmer who does not keep books should make up his mind to begin. Send to the Commission of Conservation for a free copy of the "Farmer's Account Book," • JOY AND GLADNESS FOR THE CHILDREN Every child—whether it be poor or rich—is entitled to Joy and gladness. Health is the birthright of all and there le absolutely no do'ibt that the healthy baby le a happy baby. It is the baby's nature to he happy—not cross. Only the sickly baby is erose. The well child is a joy to the home— It is a laughing, gurgling, happy little piece of humanity which drives dull care from the household. The sickly baby is the opposite—he is crass and peevish; cries a great deal and Is a source of constant worry to the mother. But mothers ' there is no need of your little ones being sickly. Regulate the baby's bowels and sweet- en his stomach with a gentle but thorough laxative and baby will soon be well and happy again. Thousands of mothers have proved this through their use of Baby's Own Tablets -- there is a smile in every doge of the Tablets. Give them to your baby and make him happy. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Thackeray's Appetite. It was at Antwerp that Thackeray, who loved his food as well as any man, enjoyed one of the best dinners of his lifer. It consisted, he wrote, "of green pea soup, boiled salmon, mussels, crimpled skate, roast meat patties, melon, carp stewed with mushrooms and onions, roast turkey, cauliflower, filets of venison, stewed calf's ear, roast veal, roast lamb, stewed cher- ries, Gruyere cheese and about twen- ty-four weety-four Oakes of different kinds. Ex- cept five, thirteen and fourteen, I ate all, with time rolls of bread and a score of potatoes." Those twenty potatoes that Thaoke- ray enjoyed at Antwerp to maintain his six -foot -three of hulk remind one of the dreadful disfiluaion of Char- lotte Brenta when she came to Lon- don and eat opposite her literary man at dinner. "Oh, Mr. Thackeray!" she cried in shocked surprise as she watched him eat.. She had never imagined a hero who ate potatoes by the score, 100% PEP! If Constipated, Bilious or Headachy, take "Cascarets." Feel bully! Be efficient! Don't stay sick, bilious, headachy, constipated. Remove the liver and bowel poison watch is keeping your head dizzy, your tongue coated, your breath bad and stomach sour. Why not spend a few cents for a box of Caecarets and enjoy the nicest, gentlest laxative- cathartic you ever experienced? Cas - carets never gripe, sicken of incon- venience one like Salts, 011, Calomel or harsh Pills. They worst while you sleep, Musical Mistakes. Two ladles were 'fleeing Westmins- ter Abbey, says Sir Frederick Bridge, the • famous organist at the Abbey, when one of them suddenly raised her hand. "Hush, listen!" see !aid. "There's the organ! Isn't it splendid? X always love to hear Sir Frederick p1ey," "Beautiful, dear," replied, the other, "For a Moment 1 thought it was Sir Walter Parrott, but of course he can't play like that. One can usually die. tdngutsh them by their touch." AS a matter of fact, 1t was the ve- euum cleaner buzzing away le prepara- tion tar the coronation, Str Froderielt tells another 51017 of a musical party at whieh ait automatic piano was. in use, 1 could not make out the miters at all, he soyas. It sounded very abstruse, and 1 telt that I was not educated up to it, although sometimes 1 seemed to recognize it, I whispered t0 one of the ladles and ittgnt od what it'wae, "Back's fugue In D miner," sbe said. Afterwards I found that the per - N E IJRALCIA► If you know the nerve- rao .ing agonies of Neural- fliaou will blow the day Templeton's Ftheumatio Capsules Were discovered. This famous remedy le abso- lutely guaranteed to give relief to sufferers trona N• uralgla. r.ond for free sample to Tomplotons, 142 fling Bt, W., Toronto. Doctors recommend thorn, and reliable drug - stets everywhere sell them for 51.01 a bolt. ASTH MA Templeton's RAZ -MA 14 Dab - sales are guaranteed to relieve ASTHMA. Don't suffer an- other day. Write Templeton, 142 Ring Bt. W., Toronto, for lreesampie. Reliable druggists sell' them et 01.04 a box. Anti -Aircraft Projectile. A new anti-aircraft projectile is made in many parts, linked together, and these expand into a large ring as they pass through the aur, until they cover a Large area. Some part of it is likely to catch C -e plane at which it is armed. A Health Saving Reminder. Dent Walt until you get the Spanteh Influent. TJBID Miaard's Liniment At the drat algn of 11 Its Healing Qualities ere amazing, THE OLD RELIABLE. MINARD'S LINIMENT CO., Yarmouth. N.B. Limited, Plants do not do as well in fancy, glazed china pots as in the common red clay pots. The latter are porous and permit the water to evaporate and the soil to become dry. The glazed pots hold the moisture In the soil, keeping it wet and cold, and the plants are likely soon to droop and die. Very few plants commonly used In conservatories or window gardens will stand "wet feet"; that is, cold wet soil. Lift off Corns! Doesn't hurt a bit and Freezone costs only a few cents. With your fingers! You can lift off any hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the hard akin calluses from bottom of feet. A tiny bottle of'Treezone" costs little at any drug store; apply a few drops upon the corn or callus. Instantly it stops hurting, then shortly you lift that bothersome corn or callus right off, root and nil, without one bit of pain or sorer meso '"rely! No humbug! DARTING, PIERCING SCIATIC PAINS Give way before the pene- trating effects of Sloan's Liniment So do those rheumatic twinges and the loins -aches of lumbago, the nerve - inflammation of neuritis, the wry neck, the joint wrench, the ligament sprain, the muscle strain, and the throbbing bruise. The ease of applying, the quickness of relief, the positive results, the cleanliness, and the economy of Sloan's Liniment make it universally preferred, Made in Canada, 36c., 70o., $1.10, Pioneer Deg Remedios Book on DOD DISEASE'S and How to Vona Mailed Free to any Ad- dress by the Author, H. Olay Glover Co., Sus, 118 West Slat Street New York, 11.S.A. SINCE 061870 MI borated 'paper ked been put into the Oh, 30 DRttl>4P�1r� p' STOPS ��.6 RJ' being played backward! ED. 7. 13811E Ne. piano upside down, and the fugue was NTS OF MCA FROM HERE &THEM Everybody Happy. Much to his annoyance, they were late for the genie, arriving at the sixth. inning. "What's the score, Fred?" he asked a tan. "Nothing to nothing." "0h, apiendld!" she exclaimed radi- antly, "We haven't missed a thing." His Revenge. He was being demobbed and didn't care what happened. "Now, my man," snarled the ser- geant -major, haughtily, "answer my questions smartly. What did you do I for a living before you joined the 1 iArmy?" "I was a clerk in an office," replied the private, happily. "Washing out the ink -Pete, 1 'simile?" sneered the autocrat. "No, sir!" replied the private, sweetly. "We employed a retired ser. geant-major for that sort of work." • Ask for Mlnard'n and take no other. AtiNferherneri 7011 PALM IV ELL EQDIOPICD 4011w8HAp1Dti r Y turd fob printlpg plant' Jn glastrirrs Ontario. Insurenep carried' 41,4110. WIT go for 81.200 on quick sale. B a Wilson 1 ubnshing Co., Ltd., 'reroutes e Cs TEVENS' COIIPLLTI'1 FDATIL- ez Igor will pay you. Write for price*. Gr HIP TOUR EMPTY SAGS-8UGAN,. 0 flour, Iran sacks to Stevens. I;Igh- est prices, Cleo, Stevens, 804 Mark 112 tf ICTXTWIISCt Y®uNP i7 N1TT1Nli YARNS, bJW1'1' I''UT.h .L8. nolt,lalnbs' wool tour -ph' ringer^ Mg yarns in. sixteen colors. Just the thing for sweaters. pullovers, toques and children's wear, Made in Canada by Canadians from pure Lembn' Wool, and nothing else and somewhat resembles the. high .lass English yarns, but 00 Much, cheaper, ae you buy direct troa1 the spinners. Price twenty trouts per skein or titres dollars per pound, small sample skein, twenty cents, postage free. Also heavier yarns In homespun style, alt woolhiee wat pet; pound. Large sample skein, thlrtY cents, postage free. footage extra on all orders under ten dollars. George- town Woollen Mitis Georgetown. On- tario, Note—Carders andd Spinners Want- ed. used to country Life. E108001, TEAOHE88 Q. OHOOL TIACIIERS--MAIC0 'REAL l money In spare time --nand pont card to Ratepayer Publishing Co„ 8 Columbine, Toronto. SOFT ELM WANTED. OFT ELM WANTED, 2 114. AND Work will soon start with the aid tt'% thicker, shipped green from saw. of the British Admiralty on salvag-' ng r'geenan Bros 3Liml ed OwentSountd, ing 1,000 torpedoed ships, ranging ont from 200 to 10,000 tons, Located in moos AarfEa not more than 120 feet of water. r YOU HAVE A CAR FOR f3hL81 around the British Isles.1. write me. Geo. Stevens, 301 Mark Street, Peterboro. DANDRUFF SOON GETS YOUR HAIR Let "Danderine" check nasty scurf and stop hair falling out To stop tailing hair at once and rid the ecalp of every particle of dandruff, get a small bottle of "Danderine" at any drug or toilet counter for a Pew cents, pour a little in your hand and rub it into the scalp, Alter several applications the hair usually stops coming out and you can't find any dandruff. Soon every hair on your Scalp shows new life, vigor, bright- nor-, thickne:. and more color CUTICURA HEALS RASH ON 14ILD On Body and Face, Red and tchy, Cried For Hours. Lasted a Year, "A rash started all over my little girl's body, and she had some on her face. It started in pimple that was full of water, and it got red and itchy, She cried for hours. This trouble lasted a year. Then I started with a free sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I bought more, and I used four cakes of soap and three boxes of Ointesentwhich healed her." (Signed) Mrs. Dora Langly, 1032 Gertrude St., Verdun, Que., August 11, 1918. The Cuticura Toilet Trio Consisting of Soap, Ointment and Talcum is an Indispensable adjunct of the daily toilet in maintaining skin purity and skin health. Seep 25c, Ointment 25 and SOS. Sold througboutthetominion. CanadtmsDepot! L mane, Limited, St. Paul St., MenAld, Cuticle% Soap shoves without tore, MO1aAP raoir. ji F YOU ILIVJt A FIRE AND HAVE 1. a car or more of scrap iron I will come and Quote you where it lays. Geo. Stevens, 804 Mark Street, Peterboro. 14XSO1ELLANeoua. CANCER, TUMORS, LUMPS, ETC.. ‘./ internal and external, cured without pain by our home treatment Write 111 before too tate Dr. Hellman Medico/ Co,. Limited. Collingwood. Oat There are people in the world for whom self-preservation is a process of canning. "SYRUP OF FIGS" CHILD'S LAXATIVE Look at tongue! Remove poi- sons from little stomach, liver and bowels Accept "California Syrup of Figs only—look for the name California on the package, then you are sure your child is having the beet and most harmless laxative or physic for the little stomach, liver and bowels. Child- ren love its delicious fruity taste. Full directions for child's dose on each bot- tle. Give It without fear. Mother! You must say "California." QeOa°o°p00"p°eOeO60°"°°" II Dyspepsia Cure ° M. D. advises : "Persons who 0 esuffer from severe indigestion and constipation can cure them- selves by taking fifteen to a thirty drops of Extract of Roots after each meal and at bedtime. This remedy is known as Nether �® Seigel's CereIive Syrup in the drug e) trade." Get the genuine. 50c. to) and $1.00 Bottles. l. eliet(,yWe7m.P°°°Ave°e°e°04 ONLY TABLETS MARKED "BAYER" ARE ASPIRIN Not Aspirin at Ail without the "Bayer Cross's For Colds, Pain, Rheumatism, Aoh- paekagg which contains complete ttG 3nl; Joints, Lumbago, Sciatica, Neu. roetfons. Then yon aro getting rent setts. and for ITondaahe . Neuralgia, A slhin-th o genuine in e Aspirin pre.Poothacle Laraeho, take Aspirin scribed b physicians far over unte• suarked with the name "Bayer"or teen yam. Now Inde in Oanacla, you are not taking Aspirin at all. Mandy tilt boxes containing 12 tab. Accept only "Bayer Tablets of rote cost but a fele' cents. Druggists Aspirin in an unbroken "Bayer" alai) sell larger "Bayer" packages, There :le only ono Aspirin—"Sayer"—Yon rune* say "Barb"' Aei+lrin le the trade mark (roglaterau In Canada) of Bayer Menufaeture of Moto, neetionctdoetor of Sallerllaaetd, while It Is well known that Aspirin moms )1/0+11 manufacture, to 'ambit the pallid er,ntet imlt4ttoee, the Taa ate 60 Beyer Cetus/my *111 be stalapMi septi their several trade 'mark, the "Bayer Creep" 0 m 0