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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-4-22, Page 6iuuu The Other Story "Blab je a habit you must overcome.," said Aunt HOnora with decfsio'n se her nieee, Mrs. Leeds, returned from laaelding good-bye to Mrs. Stevens, the miniater's wire. The walk from the sitting -room to the piazza was the longest Mrs. Leeds toad taken ten- anted since she came back from the hospital the• week before. • "Habit," elm exclaimed, es the leaned against the deur far a mom- ent. . "I thought the habit of walk- ing was au excellent one for an invalid." "Walking 1" sniffed Aunt Hon- ore. "Talking would be more to the point," "Did I talk too much?" Mrs. needs asked, "I was so glad to see Mrs. Stevens that I forgot the doe - toes advice." Aunt Eonera looked at her niece over tier gold -rimmed glasses, crbolteted another scallop, and asked: "How many appendicitis recitale do you suppose Mrs. Stevens has listened to since she came to Nor- well?" "Why, I don't know," Mrs, Leeds answered. "Several of my friends have had operations for ap- pendicitis during the last ten years." "And as many who are not your particular friends, continued her aunt. "Mrs. Stevens doubtless called on every one of them within two weeks of their return from the hospital. I have no doubt she has heard the same story not less than twenty times." "The same story I" Mrs. Leeds exclaimed. "My case was the worst ever—" "They all are." quoth Aunt Hon- ore. "One story differs from an- other only in the choice ca adjec- tives.'' "But Mrs, Stevens seemed intcr- est•ed---" "In every detail of your opera- tion," finished Aunt Honors. "Of source she slid—that was her busi- ness. But I pitied her from. the bottom of my heart, for I knew how much more interested she would have been in the side lights." ''The side lights." "Yes, the side lights," repeated Aunt 11:,nnra, `'Phe --ide lights of hospital lifer that you have given me from day to day, The story of the poor n man who never Duce looked aleut her after the nurses put her to he<l, bot covered her face with the shoets and cried, And after she lad entcyed that luxury a few min- tasa she felt something fall on her fnr.•,ead, and putting out her hand, she fc"und a slip of Taper weighted a lemon drop. And on the pa- per see read: 'Dear New Friend. /saes eut. I want to get acquaint- ed with you. Your right hand neighbor'.' " "And the Woman did look out." Mrs. Leeds went on, "and saw in fh:• bed next to hers the smiling, motherly fare of the broken -hip pa- tient --and decided that she, too, would like to get acquainted. And when her eyes were wholly dried, Ida .res introduced to all the other patients in the ward. In half an hour the newcomer discovered that the dreaded ho'pitai ward was only a lame room in which there were eleven women who were anxious to lissome her friends. And so the wo- man Forget to worry about her hus- bar: i and four small children, and Ian filed and told stories with the rest—and in three weeks she was renewed in body and in mind. Why, I never thought of telling Mrs. Ste- vens about her, or the laughing - eyed girl in the wheel chair who travelled from bed to bed writing letter, for the patients—such let- ters ! er the florist's wife who di- vided her beautiful flowers among. us. I teeny wonder, Aunt Honors, if—yes, there is Deacon Lowry's wife. I will toy it on her," Treatment or Smut. Commissioner Clark, writing 1n the Agricultural War Book on "Treatment for Smut Prevention," says that in Eastern Canada there is considerable smut in the grain crops each yea't, but that it has not been sufficiently prevalent to make treatment for its prevention general. The losses, however, are much greater than is commonly re- alized, and the value of the crop could be considerably increased if treatment for smut prevention were more generally practiced. Over half the samples of fall wheat col- lected in Ontario contain emut, and it is also very common in the spring crops, especially oats. Reports on the samples treated indicate that forman, one pound in forty gal- lons of water, is much more popu• lar than b.luestone as a preventive. Caro for the Birds. Dr. 0. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist, urges farmers to en- courage birds by building nesting boxes and learoamg Weds untlisbterb- etrrn weodlots. Bushes 'and 'thiole. e s should, .be permitted to grow fo their reglter. Ue say very few o Our birds are r wai y h ful, a Moist of these d a soy euorinoua quantities of itvseett Dm. Rem' 14 'aeserbe that too much stress cannot be laid on thus urgency of protract- ing native bin+d'o. rarmeas cthould never permit ehe,atting wild birds, es -Comedian Voreetry Journal. WIT AND WISDOM, Some men are good beeause they find it oheemer than (being 'bad. fieme man who toast that they pay as they go never manage to get very far. • Men wouldn't care how much their wives talked if they would only use the sign language, Newspaper advertising is the least expensive and most produc- tive of all forms of advertising, "Have you .ever thought serious- ly of marriage, sir?" "Indeed I have; ever since the ceremony." "Was it a bad accident? "Well, I was knocked speechless and my wheel was 'knocked spaimless." Things show the true nature of a man more than humor. The finest humor Domes from the finest spirit. "Somehow you seem to have grown shorter instead of taller eince I last saw you." "Well, I've married and settled down." Teacher—"Have you ever seen bananas growing?" Archibald— No, ma'am; I never had time to stand ;and watch them," If you succeed in convincing a girl that she has 'beautiful hands her mother will have to do the dish.- washing ishwashing thereafterward. "What are the relations now be- tween your wife and yourself l "Oh, only her mother, two uncles, a sister and a few cousins." "Did he propose to her?" "Well, he pressed his suit." "Why didn't he suit?" "Because he hadn't pressed his suit before he came." A woman is capable of a higher, nobler and more unselfish love than that of a. man, and she often sacri- fiees herself for those she loves, "Do you mean to say, Pat, that your last master treated you better than I do?" "Yes, sorr," replied the Irishman—"and oftener." Rich Uncle Ebenezer—"So you are named after me, are you?" Small Nephew—"Yes, ma said it was too bad, but we wanted your money badly." If you would be happy keep your mind and your heart full of kind thoughts for others. If you would be miserable just think about and pity yourself. Septimus (he delights to quote Scripture) -"The way of the trans- gressor is hard." Bobby Marshall —"Yes, but the trouble is that it's usually hard on somebody else." "What's that piece of cord tied around your finger for?" "My wife put it there to remind me to post a letter." "And did you post it?" "No: she forgot to give it to me." Old Husband—"Didn't you marry me for my money? Answer me that, madam!" Young Wile—"Certainly I did. And we'd get along splen- didly if you were nut so mean with it." O'Brien—"Come home an' take supper avid me, Flannigan." Flan- nigan—"Shure it's past yer supper time, arj it's furious yer wife'l1 be." O'Brien That's just it; she can't lick the two av us." Coronor—"We found nothing in the man's pockets, ma'am. except three buttons, one handkerchief and a receipted bill. The Sobbing Inquirer—"A receipted bill. Thea 'taint my husband!' Marjorie—"Angelina, doesn't 'like her new gown. Ib's pretty and all that, but she thinks it still needs something to improve its shape." Mabel—"Well, why doesn't she let some other girl wear it?" Irishman—"What would a man be that was born in Ireland, chris- tened in Scotland, married in. Eng- land and died in America?" Eng lishman—"I don't know; what would he be?" Irishman—"A corpse." "Tommy," said the Sunday school teacher, who had been giving les- sons on the baptismal covenant, "can you tell me the two things ne- cessary to baptism?" "Yes'm," said Tommy, "water and a baby." "Well, my boy," said the visitor to Bobby, "I suppose some day you expect to step into your father's shoes?" "Oh, I suppose so," said Bobby, gloomily, "I been wearin' out everythin' else he wears eince mother learned how to cut 'em down for me." Scot Invents Mine Destroyer. Dr, Watford Bodies who has al- ready offered two of is latest elec- trical inventions to the British Government—a mine destroyer, and submarine searchlight — has just completed another invention, which he callsa Bodieite shell, He claims that when the shell is fired near a trench or amongst a regiment, the fumes, although perfectly harmless to the enemy, places therm for a time hors de combat, making the foe helpless long enough for the allies to dash in and take them prisoners. Each shell is powerful enough to overcome at least 600 men. He has offered this invention to the Government, and his own ser - visas for base hospital work, be- sides offering his own home, the Manor House, Maociu , and 20 beds for an emergency hospital Pushed Off tete Dock. "She hesitated along while, I wonder how the finally came to de- oide to take the mabrimonlel plunge," "1 think her younger sietere pue1h1ecl her off the deck, so to 1peatlt.' ]iITCUI1Nllt, TIIIh SILDNT. aterest-ing Comment Made by• au Authority, rf e "He lives," says :Mr, A. G• Ga diner, in writing of Lord Kitehenc "in deeds, not words. No one o his time has at once said so littl and done so mueh. Nor has an one et his time gone se far with s entire a reliance on his own meri and so complete a, scorn of the art of advertisement, There is wbou him something of the quality o General Kleber, of whom it wa said that it made men brave to loo at him, If she does nob make yo feel {brave, .at least he makes yo feel strong. lint he has not th magic that Napoleon exercised ove the minds of men, nor- the apooaipy tic fervor with which . Cromwel fired them,nor the swift instinct b which' Charles XII. assured them o victory. His mind is slow and poi derous; but it moves with the ma' and the certainty of the Nasmyt hammer. Perhaps the man of gen ius would crack the nut without the hammer. But at all events Kitchen- er does crack the nut. He belongs to the school of Wollington or Grant more than to he school of Napoleon or Lee. He will "fight it out on that line if it takes all sum- mer." He has the patience of Tor- res Vedras rather than the swift inspiration of Austerlitz. His merit, in short, is for organizationrather than for battle. He is not a great warrior but, like Carnot or Moltke, a great organizer of victory. Both in Egypt and in South Africa his record was that of the engineer, slowly sapping and mining the fastnesses of the enemy, here build- ing a railway to penetrate the de- sert, there carrying out a vast scheme of blockhouses to round up the Boers—striking only when his schemes were complete and the hour had struck. "His probit is splendid. No army ever had such acleansing fire. Corruption, jobbery, intrigue flee before him. While he was in South Africa, the contractor was held in an iron grasp. It was only when he left for India that the infamous tale of, plunder, exposed by the War Stores Commission, began. In In- dia he found the Army overrun with the friends of some powerful per- sonage—not infrequently a lady. He swept the stables clean. It used to be said that the home -coming ships were filled with rubbish that he had ruthlessly discarded. He has only one test for men. It is no use painting out that the candidate is good at polo, that his uncle is the Duke of Blankshire, and that he was at Eton. His test is Napole- on's—'What has he done?' If he doesn't answer that successfully he has no use for him even though he were his own brother. His fidelity to the public interest has made him the most economical general of his time. After his conquest of the Soudan, Lord Salisbury said of him that he was the only general who had fought a campaign for less — £300,000 less—titan he promised to fight it for. And Lord Cromer de - dared that if he had not been or,e of the first generals of the world he would have been one of the first Chancellors of the Exchequer, "Egypt, the land of mysteries over which the Sphinx looks out with inscrutable and immerorial calm, is the proper home of this si- lent, phinx-like man. It was there that he got his foot on the ladder. He left Palestine, where he had been working -for the Exploration Fund, and offered himself for the new Egyptian cavalry. It is one of the little ironies of history that he was nearly rejected because he rode so badly. But for a complacent ex- aminer he would have remained in the ibackwater of the Engineers, waiting for a pension... It is a comment on the futility of litbge tests. And it is in Egypt that his most enduring work has' been done. He found the . Egyptian troops 'splendid soldiers if only they would The Russian not run away.' He taught them not to run away. With them he won beck the' Soudan and brought peace and the railway into the desert." Commander -in -Chief. 1' 0 The Grand Duke Nicholas (writes a visitor to North Berwick) has frequently played golf there. I have heard one of his eadchee re- mark, "He isna anuolcle o' a gowf- er; we dinna, tak' muekle notice o' him here." Yet he is enbhusdastio enough wearing little else when he plays than a shirt and grey trou- sers. Ono the old plain-spoken worthy who kept the ginger beer shanby on the links flew a couple of flags in honor (as the duke thought) of his presence. "It is very good of you," graciously said the duke, "to pay ane this conmpli- ment. "Na, •nal" replied the Scot, "It's no' for you; lb's for a better man nor yeu—it's for Mr, Balfour." . Doubtless the duke, who speaks English well, under- stood the drift of this reply, ~which he took quite good-humoredly. The increasing industrial use of wood alcohol has <treated,conditions 0/ .carelessness in the handling of it. Wood alcohol is ata active smite on, and all hobbles,cans or other eontalners ofthis iquid should be iti0dnhy aid o0nspfeuensly marked 'Poison,' GIiAD1/1I; TfOMSOI', "The Greatest Transport Officer • Since Noab." A few weeks ago the name of Graeme Thomson would have core 'Wed nothing to the; great British public. To -day it suggests to everybody 'the' sudden and well - merited rise to• reputation of a man who has done the State some ser- vice during his nionths of warfare. The hour produces the man, and at the Admiralty, as well as at the War Ofiioe and in the field„ the right person has appeared in not a few instances. It is in accordance with the generous and outspolsee nature of the First Lord that when he seas outstanding merit in a col- league he permits no official pedan try to hold -him silent. And so, in his memorable etatemeet of Feb- ruary 16, Mr. Churchill let the na- tion know to whom it is indebted for the unparalleled feats of sea - transport by which our navy has been kept in abundant supplies and our vast armies carried overseas without:the loss of a single life or mishap to a single ship. That man is Mr. Graeme Thomson, who four months ago was superintending clerk ip the Admiralty transport under Rear -Admiral H. W. Savory, and who is now director of that department. During November Mr. Thomeon was made assistant di- rector, and on December 1, when Admiral Savory retired, he' became director, Mr. Churchill 'has al- luded to him as "one of the dis- coveries of the war." That dis- covery began when Mr. Thomson, as superintending clerk, first casae into contact with the First Lord, who marked him as "a very likely man." Very soon he was placed in full control of a section of the trarf'sport, where he showed suoh Mr. Graeme Thomson. mastery of detail and administra- tive ability that he was promoted to the second step already noted. %t was not long before the First Lord, now assured of his man by daily consultations, put him in his pre- sent position of huge responsibility. His rise has been extraordinarily rapid—it _ probably creates a "re- cord" ; but Mr. Thomson has earn- ed it all. And long years of pre- paration, 14 in the Admiralty ser- vice, have gone to fit him for his task. He is a native of Cheshire; but, as his name implies, he is of Scottish lineage, a son in matters academic of William of Wykeham, for he is a member of both Wil- liam's foundations, Winchester Col- lege and New College, Oxford. From New College he passed to the Admiralty as a higher division clerk. His record is now before the world in Mr. Cdiurohill's eulogy: "A man who stepped into the place when the emergency carne, who has organized • and pre- sided over performances and tran- sactions the like of whidh were ne- ver contemplated by any State in history." Mr. Thomson is not yet 40; to be/precise, he is 39, and he is the youngest director of naval- transport the British Admiralty has ever known. He takes his blushing horrors modestly. "There is really nothing in it," he said to the inevitable interviewer; but the public is inelined to think that there is a good deal in it, Over one million men, to say nothing of colossal stores, carried without mis hap in tats face of the enemy, is a. considerable performance, At the Admiralty they are said to parody Sir George Wthite'•s epigrams on Sir Edward Ward and to call Mr. Thomson "the greatest transport officer eince Noah." s Overdraw. The banks, by order, will agree No overdrafts must honored be, Sub whet will ladyw"ife now say Should banks her cheques refuse to payl War and Tips. The Gourmand—I suppose you've had to put up with "Tipperary" ever since the war stetted? The Waiter (his labors unreward- ed)—Yes, sir, and tip a rariby. Knocked Iter Abaht. Rather unexpected WAS the reply of e Mrs. Tommy Atkins to a gen- tleman who inquired if her husband was at the front, "Yus," she said; "an' I'ape'0'11 serve the Germans as 'e eerved me, YEASTUYINC CAKES BE CAREFUL TO E,W'GILLETT CO, LTD. SPECIFY. TORONTO. ROYALCAKES w'NN,eee' MONTREAL. DIMWIT t:o tit esee a a TO.OrN,oH,Me. DECLINE SUBSTITUTES. Life Insurance. It is secretly and by stealth, and also with trepidation, that a man goes. about the business of insuring his life. Intuition 'bells him that his wife, if he gave her his confidence, would denounce the project and be grieved by it; and for his own part, he cannot help shrinking at the thought of the steps; that it de- mands. He contemplates the an- nual or semiannutsl payment that the engagement imposes on him with less concern than offering him- self to the medical examiner for approval or rejection; Unaware of any serious physical disabilities, he yet does not know what fatal defects the skilled investigator may discover; ,and if he has indeed only a precarious hold upon life, he would much rather not' be told of it, But the persuasions of the life - insurance agent and his own un- easy conscience, which reminds him that he has not made .provision for his family in the event of his un- timely demise, prevail over his ap- prehension, and he presents him- self for m.edioal inspection. Let' us assume that he finds it a less fear- ful ordeal than he had anticipated, and that the doctor, instead of looking grave and keeping an omi- nous silence, congratulates him on his large chest expansion and vig- orous heart action—gives him, in short, a clean bill of health. ' He emerges from the interview a happy than, in a glow of kindliness for all the world and of particular esteem for himself. It has been, he thinks, worth his while to be thoroughly overhauled by a physician, if only to be told that he is all right; otherwise, he might have done a lot of needless worrying about his health. Now he need never give it a moment's thought. What a blessing- Also, the consciousness that he has done his duty by his family is elevating; feeling that he need no longer have a secret from his wife, and hopefully expectant of praise and gratitude, he goes home and tells her what he has done. Perhaps• she rewards him as he anticipates; but it is quite as likely that she will be distressed and dis- turbed, and feel that he would ne- ver have insured his life if he had nob been going to die. Even after he has striven to remove this con- viction from her mind, she will probably declare that the idea of life insurance is revolting to her; that she does not want to be finan- cially compensated for his death, and that she wishes be had arrang- ed to make some other use of his savin. Butgsthis disconoerbing attitude changes im time, and the wife as well as the husband comes to recog- nize the importance of life insur- ance. Just what proportion of savings should be invested in it is a question that each man must de- cide for himself; but that some proportion should be so applied ie desirable in the case of alamest everyone. The virtue of sacrifice is united to that of thrift, and the home that is the mom's pride rests upon a more secure foundation. —Youth's Companion. a When Animals Sleep. Elephants sleep standing up. When in a herd a certain number will always stand watch while the others sleep, for the big, powerful beasts aro timid and cautious at nighb and will not go to Bleep un- guarded, Bats sleep head downward, hang- ing by their hind claws. Birds, with few exceptions, sleep with their -heads turned tailward over the back and the beak thrust beneath the wing. Storks, gulls and other long-leg- ged birds sleep standing on one leg. ucks sleep on open water. To avoid drifting ashore, they keep paddling with one toot, thus snak- ing them move in a eirole. Foxes and wolves sleep curled up, their noses and the soles of their feet close together and blan- ketted by their bushy tail, Lions, tigers and cat animals stretch themselves out flat upon the side. Their muscles Itwitdh and throb, indicabing that they are light andestless sleepers. Owls, in addition to their eye- lids, have a screen that they Craw sidewayn aorose their eyes {e glint. out the light, for bhe slleep in day- time. 1b bake an unusually cheerful liar to melte a living at it, • Treatment of Painful Feet. The discomfort end distress that pain in the feet causes aro very great, and few persons are. likely to neglecb a condition that forces itself so constantly on their atten- tion. When corns cause the pain, they can .be removed by moderate paring and the application of a salicylic acid paste every night, Any physician can write the formulator this paste. A bunion of ordinary severity is usually greatly relieved by forcing the great toe over to- ward the inner side of the foot by means of a pad 'between :the first and second toes, and by wearing a bunion plaster, .which prevents frie- iicn on the "apex o' the bunion, Of course the shoe must be so shaped that it permits the toe to stay in the line of the foot. The early pain of flatfoot can be quiebed,by having • both 'sole and heel of the shoe made wedgeshaped, with tthe thick edge on the `inner side. That throws the weight of the body on the outer side of the foot. Sometimes the Sufferer has to have an "arch" in the sole of the shoe, brit he had better do without it if be can, and discard it as soon as the arch ceases to show signs of giving way.Cold douches, or alter- nate cold and hot douches, will also strengthen the fibrous. structures that normally hold up the arch of the foot. It is much more difficult to relieve the opposite condition—an overhigh arch, Orthopedic treatment, by stretching with an appropriate ap- paratus, or even more serious oper- ative work, is often necessary. The gouty, rheumatic, or "uric - acid" foot is cured by the dietetic and medicinal'measures that relieve the disordered condition of the sys- tem. Some alleviation will follow if the feet are bathed morning and evening in a strong solution of Eip- som salts, and it is often possible to get temporary relief from "anti - gout" and "antirheum'atio" reme- dies; :but a permanent and lasting cure depends on strict' attention to the diet. That should contain uo animal food, excepb an occasional wing of chicken, milk, eggs (in great moderation), and a little fish, and there should be no tea or coffee or alcohol. A course of baths at some mineral spring often supplements the diet cure to advantage, but that is something for the physician to re- commend. Dickens' Cat. Charles Dickens was a lever of animals, and, dike all true lovers, he was likely to become the slave of his pets. Williamina, a little white, cat, was a favorite with the entire household, but ehowed an especial devotion to its:master. She selected a corner of his study for her kittens, and brought them in from the kitchen • one by one. • Mr. Dickens bad them taken away again, but Williamine, only brought them quietly back. Again they were removed, but the.t rd time of their return she did nob leave thein in the corner, Instead, she placed their at her an.aster's feet, and, taking her stand beside them, looked imploringly up at him. `Pkat settled the question, There- after the kittens belonged to the etudy, and they made themselves royally at home, swarming on the curtains, playing about the writ- ing -table, and scampering behind tho bookshelves, - IVI.ost of the family were given away; only one remained, entirely deaf, and known from her devotion to Dickens, as "the master's cat," This little creature followed him about like a dog, and sat beside him while he wroto. One evening Diekems was reading by a small table wtereon stood a lighted candle. As usual the oat was at his elbow. Suddenly the light went out. Dickens was much interested in his book, and he pro- ceeded. to relight this candle, strok- ing the eat as he did so. After- wards he remembered that puss had looked at Itim some what repteaab- faller while ,she reooiived•the, caress, It, was only when the light again• became dim that the reason of her �elancholy sudd'onlyy dawned upon i Turning quickly, be found Puern delibematel i• putting ya, pt tt ng out ate Locaddie with her paw, and again, elle oked at him, ,appealingly, She was lonesome' site wanted to be petted, and this was her device for gaining her end, Hard work is the only sure cure for an Ingrowing grouch. WILL ;Gll:OW POTATOES. 1,1,00114 Dept. of Agriculture to Supply `reit Thousand Bushels as Seed. If the plans of the Ontario De- partment of Agrieulure work eta smoethly, 45,00 ohilelren will this Summer be bending their youthful energies to raising "was potatoes," from the, pale of 'which a fund will be provided for soma 'specific patri• one undertaking. 4Siace the system of rural school fairs was established the number of contestants h& inorsaed' by leaps and bounds. Thedepartment title year figures upon having •entries from upwards of 2,460 soheels, and each entrant will be encouraged to raise 'at least one bushel of pota- toes for patriotic purposes, For some time past 'the department has been sounding 'sentiment upon the proposition through the teachers and local school -authorities, and almost without exception the re- eporese has been an enthusiastic en- ` donation, In one little eehoo'l in Dundas/County 30 children 'signified their neediness to raise "war .po- tatoes," The growing of potatoes will be an .added enterprise. The 246 school fairs will 'have the usual variety of exhibits, but emery contestant, iq addition be his other effonts, wilt be expected to plant one -eightieth of an mere to potatoes. The seed will be furnished by the Depart- ment of Agriculture, which is un- dertaking, through .the district re- presentatives, to assist the children in every way, and by offering, a prize for the best kept plot will encourage them to do their best. An extra prize will be offered at each fair for the 'beat exhibit of potatoes, and as a special induce- ment'prizes will be offered for the three largest yields in each county. The department is confident that at least 60,000 (bushels of potatoes wi1T•be gathered in the Fall. These will be sent to a depot in the near- est largest centre, the present plan being to ship to London, Toronto, Hamilton, Peterboro, and Ottawa. They will then be advertised and sold from trucks in the residential sections without recourse to middle- men. More Poultry Needed. Canada is short fifteen hundred thousand hens, averaging one hun- dred eggs per year. Canada, is 1914, imporbed two hundred thou- sand dollars' worth more poultry than she exported, and imported eggs bo the enormous amount in value of $2,500,000 in excess of her shipments abroad. These are the somewhat surprising, if not einrni- ing, statements made by the Poul- try Division of the Dominion De- partment of Agriculture, irotu which also •emanates the importanb announcement that Britain took from Belgium, Fiance, Russia, Ger- many and Austria-Hungary, in the available months of 1914, three mil- lion dollars' worth of poultry and 136,000,000 dozen, or sixteen hun- dred and bhlnby-two million eggs— sufficient to give two million two hundred and sixteen people two eggs apiece for every day in the year. Such facts most surely con- vey a world of meaning to poultry breeders in Canada, These facts are further emphasized by the statement that the average egg yield per hen in this country is but 80 eggs per year, which we are fur- ther assured by experts could, by careful selection, feeding and hous- ing, he increased to 180 eggs per leen per year. As the head of the Division at Ottawa remarks, "It would be a profitable thing to strive for." Pamphlets particular- ly bearing on the subject, which can be had free on addressing tho Publications Branch, Dept. of Agri- culture, Ottawa, are: No, 1, "Win- ter Egg Production:," by W. A. Brown; No, 2, "The Crate Fatten- ing of Poultry," by T. A. Benson ; No. 3, "The Candling of Eggs," by W. A. Brown; No. 4, "Mie Organ- ization of Co-operative Egg Cir- cles," by W. A. Brown; No. 5, "Plan of Permanent Laying House for Poultry," by W. A. Brown and T. A. Benson, and No. 6, "The Payment of Eggs According to Quality," by W. A. Brown, J. H. Hare and W. H. Ault, Other pub- lications that can be had are by F. 0. Elford, dealing with "Incu- bation" and "The Fwtvner's Poul- try House," and by Victor Fortier, on "Duck Raising" and "The Mali - agement of Turkeys and Geese." Altogether a lemon is one of the best and cheapest' household doc- tors that can •be found in any coun- try. Toothache that is eaueed by some acid penetrating a cavity may fre- quently be relieved by rinsing . the mouth with a little bicarbonate of soda and water. The 'best remedy for breeding rat the nose is in the vigorous motion of the jaws, ausiif im the acbof chew- ing, In the ease of a ehiid it wad of paper should be inserted, to chew it hard, It is the., motion of the jaws chat dope the flow of blood. Recant experiments llavo shown that the endurance of the thin peo- isis much greater than that of the stoat. This is doe to several causes, The eirculatiott of thin pea- pie is better, their heart citron us- ually better, and they more easily eliminate the waste molter Nen the system.