The Brussels Post, 1920-12-30, Page 2Pure, Clean, I
Preserved 82 sold only in
Sealed air -tight packets
to preserve Its native
goodness.
Ea -t
g ed Millionz F` .- ' ly
Fashions in Fish.
British Columbia salmon provides
one of our roast important food fishes,
Three eperies, et' rias fish are utilized
by the canners, namely, sockeye,
pfllks ofd • all]t. Tiw 3JCkeye is
what is 1..,:awn as the red salmon and
is always t demand; as a result of
the heavy demand, the speeeies is
threttc: el with ultimate extinction.!
P'ri::ei have titin to the pont where
cockeye 5: a1znee may lie weseaered al -
mast a ive ry.
7. anomalous • em diti.n. masted
durteg the recent •'almca fishing zee -
stet en the British Columbia coast.
whce the Alaslea. fisheries •were ship-
ping their red talraan to British C"o-
lurucva, „hili British Cottontail ftsh-
erie; wear shipping their tanks and
eltems to lje!eel. :a.. ='r,meneries.
Thla was due to the leek of a market
in Canada for pis ami elitime;
nacrreta there was a dimmed for them
in. the United States.
Brei salmon is in ,k na::d only ho-
cries,:
o-
ca :s,: it has been ateepted by fash-
ion tea a=_age as its tholes. Dr. Ed-
weel Prince, ehGirman of the BiJ-
Iogiral Board o Canada, in address-
ing tate Commission of C0:5ervation.
said: "When I say that the value of
earned. salmon rest-, more en the color
of the meat ot the fish than npon its
threw, you see how important it is
to l.m tv to what the color is due. The
beat fla:•ored salmon en the. Pacific
Boast is least In demand en the market
wecause the color is pale. The in -
feeler salmon, of a rich red eclrr.
3t'Ings the best price, end takes the•
lead, because of its color, this ifaeing
no relation to excellence of flat :r or
edible superiority."
With pink salmon priced at one-
balf that of the red, we seem to be
paying a high price for a preference'
of color only, while at the same time
we are neglecting a food supply 'winch
is available at a very moderate price.
Why You Are Irritable.
D' -ti it ever occur to you that, there
is not always a disadvantage, but
sometimes quite the reverse, in being
irritable? In fact, sometimes the wo-
Maa who is by temperament irritable
is a tar more agreeable helpmate than
the wife who is lacking in irritability.
Bat, mind you, being irritable does
not mean that you show that you are
irritated, or that you actually are irri-
tated often. It means that you are
sensitive enough to your serround-
rings so that you are constantly try-
ing to improve them or to '.[cep them
imp to a high standard. If there
never had been any irritable hou'se-
wivee doubtless we should all be do-
ing housework in the mode of our
grandmothers. We would still be dip-
ping eandles and cooking over open
*replaces and sewing by hand instead
of by machines and keeping warm by
stoves instead of by the heat from a
central furnace.
It isn't elevate an advantage to be
entirety long :offering It isiat an
I pieces the jelly-like mess the , form-
. ---_ _
0d, Rcct,rn to ill:' 0,1,1 heat t, 11; _
degrees, bilin t :h t tees t a ��
stood P1 a seat... P.. eta:
,1
liquid,salt thetest t! : into •h''
flour such, frit. the
press and on ton put r it fieri
seek to absorb tit.• moittere, Plc
for item one to fah h cit the
BY EDEN P1IIT.LPO1"P:I.
longee the cheese i, in press, the
longer it will lamp. This riwaren ekes
f,,ur ca• flee pounds of tuiie, meanly
chime- which kill ke it fns a lepl;
time if O'repped and hemi coal,
Mrs. Stewart, mics a home n ale
pro..- for her ch.e=c. tach a i- l -
0f incl., on top to give the ne,yeuy
weight.
1)o not toy to mehe the cheese en-'
lees yeti have a thermometer, 5J that
you ran exactly de:eemile the degre3
of heat.
advatrage, or at all to your crecit,
that you put up day affer day w th'
inconveniences in your 11ouee, and
that ton school yom'se'.f not to be-
come irritated by- these things. The.
sensitive, thinking housewife becomes
irrivaed at having to put up with
the caprices of a wood stove for cook-
ing, And her irritability sonde her
to the point where she sees to it that
her house is equipped with an up-to-
date gee stove Jr a new fashioned
oil stove,
It becomes irritating to the house-
wife t0 have to use the old-fashioned
scouring brick to sou knives and
other metals; she looks abut her for
remedy and discovers one of the
many scouring powders that save
time and do away with the irritating
scouring brick. Tha housewife who
is irritated by an inconvenient kitchen
takes steps to make ler kitchen more
convenient. The housewife who is
irritated over a house that is always
in confusion and disorder is the house-
wife who keeps her house shipshape.
Diet for the Aged.
The evening tide of life needs a
carefully selected and conservative
diet, if the old folk are to be kept in
a healthy condition. Intestinal dis-
turbances that are due to diet are
prone to make grandma and grandpa
very uncomfortable.
Ae to the actual diet, keep firmly*
in mind that the body requires just
sufficient food to maintain life and
for this reason the heavy protein
foods are usually taboo.
Well -cooked cereals with cream
and some stewed fruit for breakfast.
Milk is much better than tea or coffee.
It is the wisest plan to eat the
heaviest meal in the middle of the
day. Remember that a diet of bread,
meat and potatoes will surely produce
uric acid conditions, try to avoid this
and use plenty of the fresh vege-
tables.
For the evening tacoa cereal and
milk and light puddings, milk toast,
cup custards will be sufficient.
Home-made Cheese.
Mrs. Stewart, an Ontario farm wo-
man, so successfully makes a brick
oreani.cheese that she has a market
for all she can make right in her own
neighborhood. She has not only
taught many other women how to
make it tut has given demonstra-
tions of her method as well.
This cheese when finished looks like
factory -made Canadian cheese, but is
a little lighter in color. The fallow-
ing is her recipe:
25 quarts whole milk.
1 tablespoonful salt.
la rennet tablet.
Heat milk In porcelain container to
86 degrees, and while keeping it at
this temperature for five minutes, stir
into it one-half melted rennet tablet.
Remove from stove and let stand two
hours. With a knife, cut into fine
How Faces Fit Occupations.
It teenie to be pretty well agreed
among those In a position to steak
authoritatively that antedated vrith
the various occupations in life there
Atm undoubtedly a type of face which
more or less betrays the calling of its
owner.
Medical mem especially in hospital
geraotice, find acquaintance with these
types valuable, They may not be able,
with the shrewdness of Sherlock
Rolmoe or of other acute persona, to
read a man's past, present and future
by a glance at him in the street, but
they are able to gauge with consider-
able aecuracy how far the bistory of
the case, as given by the patient, is a
truthful one, and how far it fits with
his probable occupation In life.
Calling must certainly have tome
influence over the physiognomy of the
cabman, the iniitier at ie groom; eaoh
frequently possesses a type of face
wbich wears so characteristic as ex-
pression as to stake it not difficult to
identify the vocation accompanying it,
We speak also of the legal face, the
musical face, the dramatic face, and
the military face. This 1s merely a
broad clasaiflcati. , and the beat
authorities disbelieve in the claims of
the keen observer that he can differ-
entiate to a finer degree.
There aro trace of hospital physi-
cians who claim to bo able to say from
a g1:111"3 at the face that this or that
1.. nF .1 tellelmor, a grocer, a bank
t1,..,. ' . 1+rt :t 'r;...lcial
It is thought that the fame of these
medical men as rough and ready de-
tectives has been largely manufactur-
ed for them by enthusiastic friends,
But that many medical men do pos-
sose great insight into the occupations
of those that come before them is true.
The question le often debated whether
physiognomy is a growth of vocation
or whether it allows that the vocation
chosen is in accordance with the par-
ticular
artloular capacity and ability of the per-
eon
enson to whom it belongs. In other
words, If the lawyer does not ehow
the "legal race," the eeplring minister
the "ecclesiastical face," the medical
student. the "physlelaa.ly face,' the
soldier the "military face," and so 011,
the question arises, Is that a elgn that
they have mistaken their calling?
18 the man who doesn't loop a bit
like a doctor" iikely to fail because his
physiognomic qualification is wanting?
Or will he, whatever his original fear
tures, gradually come to acquire the
typo of the profession to which he
belongs 7
The answer to the question is, of
course, that both theorlos are right, A
certain kind of face, the eo-called
solentido taco, Is so Often seen among
medical students* its to prove that the
owner of tbat cast of countenance le
likely to adopt medicine se a career.
Oonvereely, whatever the original cast
of features a nodical man may have
possessed, the anxious, delicate and
absorbing werl, nP medlta1 praetics>
tele •..,:u't;+ epee them.
Unknown War'rior's Grave in
Westminster Abbey.
Unnamed. unnumbered, ]tore he rests,
This warrior unknown;
Around him group the Empire crests,
Nor bow they there alone.
The noblest nations stood in line
In that most crucial hour;
Regarding duty as divine,
To crush the tyrant's power.
Who Is this -warrior unknown
Who ]sere in glory sleeps,
While Royal mourned from the throne
With Empire round him weeps?
Their tears are mingled with the joy
That Liberty still lives;
In virtue of the noble boy
That "mother" freely gives,
In him there stands a countless list
Of Britain's valiant sons,
Of whom the Empire makes her boast
While course of Empire runs,
From north and south, from east and
west,
They came from regions far;
The noblest, at their own behest,
When blared the trump of war.
From Southern Cross to Polar Star,
Around the girdled world;
They came in millions from afar,
'Neath Britain's flag unfurled,
The world's dread tyrant there they
met
On France and Flanders field;
Nor shall that tyrant e'er forget,
For Britons never yield.
Till Truth and Liberty, unchained
From fetters, shall be free,
And Righteousness, that God ordained,
Shall dwell from sea to sea.
Now rest, ye brave, in glory here,
With Britain's mighty dead;
Free from the haughty tyrant's fear,
While laurels crown your head.
Proposals by Hair.
A correspondent who recently re-
turned from Japan, says it Is leap year
all the time In that country.
Japanese women have certain ways
of arranging their hair to indicate
.their feelings and do not wear hats.
Girls who wish to wed arrange the
hair in front in the form of a fan or
butterfly and adorn it with silver or
colored ornaments.
Widowe who are looking for second
husbands fasten their hair at the back
of the head by means of tortoiseshell
pins, and widows who are determined
to remain faithful to their departed
spouses cut thier hair short.
Make Believe.
"I wish my dolly didn't have such a
round face and such rosy cheeks," said
little four-year-old Dorothy.
"Oh, that makes her look strong and
healthy," said her mother.
"'Yes, that's the trouble," replied
Dorothy, "When I want to play that
she's sick and almost dying elm looks
so awfully fat and healthy I just can't
feel one bit sorry for hen"
Child Marriages to End.
Child marriages in China must stop
for the Minister of the Interior has
just issued an edict that any person
who marries under 15 years of age
will be punished,
Canada has a very heavy annual
fire lues that is steadily increasing,
amounting in 1919 to $23,500,000, or
$2.90 per capita. Much of it is clalim-
od to have been preventable.
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✓l
PART IV.
Pet the -1 wetele1,1 vara done in the
Levi nnd the v;i !ov, of old hoot 111 Art
Jack bones 00.1 proved to be In 1113
right; in • .heti t1.0;13,1 to Protule0(10
ihroo;th thick end thin and 131013(1
that. in the bele run Providence never
kt dowu nobody that really trusted.
It twee :stout, cf 111 places, tit the
li int ! born"e1e of the. Primitive Bap-
tists at Ashburton, and them most
concerned in the besiness heard with
their own ears mid saw with their
own eyes. Aud a very great lesson
I'm sure, to all unbelieving people
and such as say the Lord of Hosts
be tired of mankind an general and
weary of their goings on.
There was a revival meeting, and
Mr. Blade had got down a very fine
gospeler with a wonderful flow of
speech' and a way of searching to the
heart. He was a big success from
the first evening, for he had the bless-
ed gift of throwing light into the
dark places and waking the sleeping
soul with the trumpet of righteous-
ness. A big hearted, hard-bitten man,
but genial and not puffed up; because
he'd been a bad 'un himself in his
time, and only saved from the burn-
ing by the voice of God111 the mouth
of his fellow man. And now it was
his Pride and privilege to do to others
as he'd been done by and bring old
and young to the penitent bench and
help the good work of gathering souls
to the harvest. 'Twas his third even-
ing and, of course, Farmer Turtle and
his wife supported the Chapel, be-
cause their daughter was married to;
the minister.
Their son went also, and being turn-!
ed a good .bit more serious of late,
had took to showing an interest in the
business of the soul, which ain't com-
mon among young men with their
way to make In the world.
Anyway, he attended the revival
meetings with his parents, and Susan
always sat beside 'inn when they
came. But much to the amazement
of his fancily after the discourses on
the third evening, when the people
who had caught the holy fire rose to
go to the bench Lir testify, if young
Tom didn't rise up also! As he'd
had the light for years, there didn't
seen! no reason why he should do any
such thing, and I believe his father
was a bit annoyed with him for the
moment; but young Tom didn't go up'
he went out, and so Farmer's mint_
was set at rest, for he doubted not the
youth had business elsewhere that
called him.
If he'd known, however, what that
business was, Mr. Turtle might have
been a good bit eurprised- and indeed
he was so before the night had ended.
In a word, the heart of the amaz-
ing young man was smote at last.
He'd gone to the police station, as a
fitter place for him in his opinion
than the penitent's bench; and there
he'd told his story as far as the de-
tails was concerned, though all the
fire and agony and horror behind it
he never told. It was left far under-
standing men and women, who knew
where love may land a man, to see his
sufferings and his madness through
the veil darkly.
Young Tom had fallen into a frantic
passion for Joanna from the moment
she set foot in Four Ways. He'd
made love to her fierce and terrible
from the first, and she'd told him
from the beginning that it couldn't
be and she didn't love shim. She'd
made it clear also that her 'heart was
not her own; but since her engage-
ment to the sailor was a secret and
she'd promised Bob Truscett never to
speak of it, she didn't; and young
Tom didn't believe it, or wouldn't
believe. when she spoke of an under-
standing with another man. In secret
he fought for her with all the fire
and fury of first love, and made her
life a very difficult business, no doubt;
but he hid his heart from his par-
ents' eyes, and her sense of right was
such that she felt she couldn't do any-
thing about it or tell her trouble, but
only appeal to him to spare her. He
was deaf and blind, however, and
didn't see that he was persecuting a
woman who'd got no use for him and
never would have. He kept on hop-
ing against hope, as lovers will, and
at last the time came for Joanna to
go, for she couldn't stand no more.
She never for a moment thought that
love would drive the man into crime
nor did she guess that after he'd
made her mad one evening and she
had spoke bitter words to him and
called ham a mean coward and bid
him leave her alone, that his baffled
passions would turn into bitter bat.
THE WEI.COMI!'lni COMMli"i EP.I
rod. Rut so anti had bone, and all
the flood of love in 131111 turned to bit -
tet' gall :old he r'e.t 000 to main her.
Which lie 1h,,.1 de f e.
ell hoping fires drove him to
ibie el -sliminess and he made his plot
:et—ordain, stole the 'Wives one by
on,', and then planted 'em upon her,
lie kaawed, when dallying with her
in the past, that slue kept the key of
her lox in her little handbag, and
when she was in the dairy and the
house empt heti gone to her room
and go! an impression of the key in
a bit oidough and had 0113 made far
leap off, whirl: he wasn't ]mown.
Then, the day 8110 was out; be put
all the things in her box, and having
already planned the fire, took a hand-
kercher and a letter, The devil never
put an easier job into the mind of a
mad man. And when she'd gone,
everything was ripe for the wheat
stacks. He sot a Light to them him-
self and went to bed; and when all
had gone to rest after the fire, he
crept Bowan again and put the letter
he'd half burned and the handkerclter
mitre they must be found after. And
everything fell out exactly as he had
ordained.
But then he had to pay the devil's
wages, and after three months of tidy
torment, with the thought of his ruin-
ed life and that girl in prison, the be-
gan to wish he was dead. In truth,
he thought to slay himself, and if he
had, without confessing, the wrong
would have gone hidden till the
Trump; but that's where Providence
took up the running, and it was mer-
cifully put in his knit to 01311 Up and
take the consequences. Somebody
had to pay, of course, but 'tis the way
of great evils that often the innocent
be called to suffer worse than the
guilty. It killed his mother. She
wilted away like a gathered flower,
and died six months after. By then
young Tem was in Canada, for he left
England :immediate and was away al-
most before the full size of the truth
came to be known. He wanted to go
to prison, I believe; but his father
sent him to Canada instead, and
Joanna and her mother never did any-
thing against hint, though they vrell
might, twas thought in law.
Joanna, however, decided that she
wasn't much surprised to hear the
bitter truth. She knew before the
end that the man aated her with a
deadly hatred, and when she was ask-
ed why she never told about him per-
secuting her for love, or tried to make
a case against him for her own good
name's sake, she explained that like
the simple creature she was.
"Father always told me that if a
man offered :marriage and I didn't';
take him, I must never mention the
subject, or name the man's name, out
of honor and fairness to him," she
said, "and whatever father told me
to do, I always did do."
That was Joanna; and when she
came out of prison a generous gov-
ernment only said she was dismissed
without a stain on her character, but
never offered a penny piece for all
she'd ;meta called to endure! Govern-
ments never got no spare money
when 'tis only a question of their
honor. That never troubles 'em. But
the nation's a thought higher minded
than the government, thank God, and
a very tidy purse coned along afore
the girl took her •sailor. And such a
wedding she had at Ashburton as
would have done credit to a royal
princess.
(The End.)
Which Was Crusoe's Island?
There is a report that the Chilean
Government 1s about to make Robin-
son Crusoe's island into a national
park and tourist resort.
But to what Island does this report
refer? To the island of Juan Fernan-
dez situated off the toast of Chili,
somewhere about 33 degrees south
latitude?
But is this Robineon Crusoe's is-
land? It is Alexander Selkirk's island,
and that famous Scottish sailorman,
the subject of an essay by Addison,
and of a poem—"I am monarch of all
I survey"—by Cowper, was unques-
tionably the prototype in fact, of his
far more famous fictional successor,
Robinson Crusoe,
Defoe, though not a travelled mal.,
had a constructive imagination. of the
first order. He was ignorant of the
position of Juan Fernandez, the 'stand
upon which Selkirk had been maroon-
ed for tour years and four months,
and whose adventures Defoe had read
in the "Spectator," i
What can easily bo determined, by
the most casual re -reading ot the great
romance, ie that Juan Fernandez,
though Selkirk's island, hs not Cru-
soe's.
Defoe was nothing if not exact, Hie
"Diary of the Great Plague o3 Lon-
don," although pure fiction, would de-
ceive the very elect. Robinson Cru-
eoe, In telling his eery, misses no de-
tail of latitude and longitude, and he
not only gives us a fair idea of the
size of his !eland, but states that itI
was near the moat'. of the River Ori -I
noco, about latitude 12 degrees 18 min-
utes north,
Even if this had rot been stated
plainly, the fact that the ship, upon
which Crusue was a supere0.rgo, was
setting out on a [,laving expedition
from. Brazil to the west coast of
Africa, and was blown by a tornado
out of its course towards the West,
Indies, would of itself rule out, Juan
Fernandez by th.0uaanda of
There is only one 1.' mei whieh, by
size mid position, answer's to 1)ofoe's
requirements. Thi. is the island of
Tobago, about: twenty-four miles north.
east of Trinidad, It is ono )t the
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under the flag of Britain.
This is no new discovery. The To -
begotten know all aloe" it, If you
ventured to inform a n nve of Tobago
that Juan Fernandez was Robinson
Crus ..'s island, yo" would he '1 dan-
ger of becoming a boapital patient, for
they are very jealous of this title to
fame.
Mysteries of Hidden Heat.
Vast stoles of heat and power lie
hidden in the bowels of the earth,
waiting to be tapped.
We could do without coal and oil
could we but develop the heat re-
sources of the earth.
And in so doing we should probably
find new ohemicals and :minerals of
the greatest value to the world's com-
merce.
That is the conclusion scientists
have mime to, and they are urging
expeditions to solve the mysteries of
the crust of the earth. Already some
use 1s being made of the internal heat
of the earth in volcanic regions of
Italy, where the steam is issuing from
time ground is trapped an dent to vara
ons uses.
It is auggosted that bores should be
sunk to admit writer, which would be
converted into steam and could then
be utilized for mechanical purposes.
Excavation methods and machinery
have been improved so much of re-
cent years that it may be possible to
sink such bores and shafts to a depth,
of thirty miles.
At present the deepest well ever
bored Is a hole six inches in diameter
on a farm in the United States. It
has been driven to a depth of 7,679
feet, or nearly a mile and a half.
The deepest mine shaft is at Morro
Velho, Brazil, which goes dein about
a mile and a fifth.
As one expert points out, we have
only succeeded In scratching the
earth's crust. The real wonders have
yet to be revealed to us.
M,Inard's Liniment Relieves Colds, Etc.
Clever Johnny.
"Now, boys," said the schoolmaster,
"I want you to bear in mind that the
word'stan' at the end of a word means
'the place of.' Thus we have Afghan-
istan—the place of Afghans; also Hin-
dustan—the place of the Hindus. Can
anyone give me another example?"
No one appeared very anxious to do
so until little Johnny Snags rose and
said proudly, "Yes, ah', 1 ` can. Um-
brellastan—the place for umbrellas."
Average perspiration from nn adult
amounts to abort 214 pounds a day.
d
The first bicycle driven by pedals
was built in Paris in 1866.
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A BATTLEFIELD
IN DAYS OF PEACE
MESSINES RIDGE IS NOW
TRANSFORMED
Visitor to Famous Eielg€ant
War Centre is Impressed by
Progress of Restoration.
One of the most famous and blood-
iest of Che Belglau battlefields, Mee -
sines Ridge, has been transformed by
the coming of peace Into a place of
work and idyllic pleasure.
Midway between Ypres and Armen -
tierce, writes a special correspondent
in The Morning Post, stretches it ridge
famous In the history of the war.
Messines, on its southern spur, domin-
ates a wide reach or the valley of the
Lys, and about two utiles to the north-
west Wytsehaete, set on the highest
part of the ridge, looks down on the
ruins of old Ypres and the bright
roofs of the new. Westward the blue -
gray hills of Flanders, with Kemmel
and Scherpenberg in front, rise high
above Wytachaete, and to the north-
east are seen Hill 60 (the Cote dee
Amants) and the heights of "Clapham
Junction" and Paschendaele. I pass-
ed front Ypres through the Lille gate
and tool[ the long road to Messines
by Shrapnel Corner, Dickebnah, La
Clytte, Locre and Iiemmel Bill. At
the Cafe Beige crossroads, as I rend on
a board, "All waste lengthens the
war," I heard a terrific explosion that
made me jump and the dogs bark. It
30135 only the bursting of an oitl :shell
heap, an operation common in the
hemmel area. A few yards from this
spot a most artistic cottage with green
shutters and outhouses came into
sight. The framework was mads of
old beams filled in with time -stained
bricks and timber. But the main
charm of the bulldil:gs lay in their
outlines, which rose and fell like sad,
gay notes in a quaint ftlltsong.
Loved the English Soldiers.
From the banks of Dickebush Lake
1 looped across the reed -scarred water
to Kemmel Hill, a western Fujlyama,.
silver -capped with sunshine. On the
right the village sprawled gayly in
red, blue and green, accentuated here
and there by the drab and buff tones
of wooden cottages, One woman told
me hew much the Inhabitants loved
the English soldiers, who were so long
stationed in the ne'ghborllix,', and the
old dance of the Au Risquons-Tout
Tavern, while admitting that it was
very snug, said, ruefully: "But it cost
6,000 francs." A ghl (perhaps the
teacher) said "Bon jour" as she taint-
ed the windows, of the trim school.
bouse; and at La Clytte, where our
armies helped to stop the last onrush.
of the Germans in 1918, I saw a school
wholly different in character and con-
struction. It consisted of several
caravans formed into a square, each
bearing the legend, "Boole Menagere
Agricola de l'Etat." Tne purpose of
these perambulating schools is to take
children around the country le the
summer menthe and instruct them in
agricultural matters and housekeep-
ing. From the hygienic standpoint,
also, this scheme is highly beneficial,
as the healthy, happy faces of the
youngsters prove.
Prom La Clytte I followed the road
skirting the precipitous western flank
of Seherpenberg, past Ilyde Park
Corner of tragic memory, to Locre.
growing again under the shell -shat-
tered head of Mout Rogue, thence to
Messines. There were signs of pro.
gress on every hand. itIen were hard
at work leveling the torn soli and
plows were busy on the lower slopes
of kennel Hill. The Ypres-Warneton
tram -line, which at present stops at
Maumee el village, will soon he running
along the top of the Messines-Wyt-
sohnete Ridge, carrying food and visi-
tors to this once 3alectabl0 region,
where in pre-war days beets were
grown. in abundance and huntsmen
brought custom to all in the season.
The villagers and field worltere are
not downhearted. They enjoy pro-
vender, such as fish, all the more be-
cause it 3011195 only once a week, and
it at times the young girls find life
somewhat triste (many ltelver, have
gong with the forests), yet, on the
whole, they are wonderfully happy-.
Dancing goes on each night at Mee -
sines, and recently the village was gay
for a week with merry-go-rounds,
bowling, dartthrowing and "all the
fun of the fair."
Restoring salient Roads.
The rain routes in the salient are
already in remarkable condition. At
St, Blot, south of Ypres, whore the
road not long ago gaped with mine
craters and shell holes, traffic is still
barely possible. But a big squad of
melt 15 working hard, and near by
there are at Toast teed tempting little
cafes (Ntouw St, E1o1 and IIerberg
den Tygor) where they may oat and
Quench their thirst, Ileyond the eighth
10010 of the empty Ypres Canal 1 out
some fine bulrushes from a pool close
to Bedford House. This beautiful
plant was almost unknown in ceratin
parts of Belgium before the war, and
obildren believe the "cats' teals" were
shot out of the gena,
Peace.
The happiest heart that over beat
was in some quiet boost,
That found the common [daylight
eiveet,
And loft to Iteaveu the rest.
Sileuoe Is an rxeelient remedy for
gossip.