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The Brussels Post, 1915-12-30, Page 3WAR CRIPPLES IN TRADE SCHOOLS FRENCH GOVERNMENT AIDS How Little Bear Learned to Sw m. WOUNDED 'SOLDIERS. Last summer, Little Bear went on a long journey with his father and me - they. The three bears had a bcauti- Photographs of Wounds Aid in $ys ful time travelling through the big tematizing Scientific Treat forest until they reached the banks of ' a deep, swift river. Then there was ment. trouble, for Little Boar could not Mina, nor did.he wish to learn how to The French Government recently i h a th gave facilities to the Associated Press Water. and a party of foreign journalists to "Father Bear can early me inspect some of the remarkable work over which. is being done for the regenera- " " ether tion of the ranks of stricken, crippled, Nonsense) replied big F ma• imed and the river," he suggested,. Bear inruff tones. "Nonsense m apparently hopeless son! You are old enough and strong wounded, who are borne 'seri from g enough to learn to swim. I will not thelfighting line at Champagne: carry you across the stream; neither shall your mother." Just then there came Father Otter, swimming like a seal, and twisting and turning in the water like a fish, "Perhaps the good otter will teach Little Bear to swim," Mother Bear said, and then. called to him. "It is the easiest thing in the world to teacha little bear to swim," an - Under the escort of French officers, the party was taken to St. Maurice, a short distance outside Paris, where wounded are brought after, the physi- cal cares of surgery have been given, ,to be nursed into convalescence, di- verted from thought of the loss of limbs, and gradually educated into :some new line which re-creates them into useful members of society. St. swered Father Otter. "Just throw Maurice is of vast dimensions, the him in!" And away he went, laugh- ing over his shoulder. "He must be joking," observed Mo- ther Bear quickly, because she was two-storeystone structures so that afraid that Father Bear would' toss, Little Bear into the river, and shedid the cripples are not climbing long not like the idea. At that moment Mother Otter cane swimming down the river with her children.. One of them climbed upon her shoulders and stared solemnly at Little Bear on the river bank buildings and grounds occupying au area probably greater than Central Park in New York. The buildings stretch as far as the eye can see; low, "Good morning!" said Mother Bear. • "Good morning!" answered Mother Otter. "Your children are fine swimmers," added Mother Bear. "Certainly," answered Mother Ot- ter. "Every one, of them knows that our people have been famous swim- mers for centuries:" "I suppose, then," ventured Mother Bear, "that your children were born swimmers. You probably had trouble in keeping them out of the water when they were babies." Mother Otter laughed. "The trouble stairs, and are near the gardens, everywhere abundant with flowers and shrubbery, to lend cheer to the oc- cupants.' In the Receiving Ward. "Two hundred more wounded are coming," said an attendant, as the officerled the way into the first build- ing, the receiving ward. "Hero they are," said the officer, pointing to 200 large glass photogra- phic plates ranged and numbered in a case. The photographs of the 200 wound- ed had been sent ahead, the plates showing with precision the exact wound and its process of healing, some of them being X-ray plates. "See this one," said the officer, holding up a large glass plate show- ing the, side profile of a wounded sol - was to get them into the water,' she dier, with a gaping bullet hole back said, "because the silly little things of the ear, and around the hole little were afraid. All young otters are sutures or cracks of the skull. afraid of the water and have to be put into it by force." "You do not mean it!" exclaimed Mother bear, with great amazement in her tones. "Indeed I do," replied Mother Ot- ter. "We had to push every one of our children into the water. Does Little Bear know how to swim?", "No," answered Mother Bear, shak- "It is not a fractured skull—that would be hopeless," said the officer. "No, that man can be made over." But this receiving ward was merely the first stage in a sort of ascending scale, which improved the wounded man's condition at each stage until he was finally landed in the cchool where he was made over into a condition more useful to himself and society ing her head, "he is afraid to try." than he was before. It was to this "Duck him," advised Mother Otter, school that chief interest was directed. "duck him. There is no other way to teach a little bear to swim." And away she went down the stream intending to overtake Father Otter. A Hive of Workshops. This enormous school at St. Mau- rice is a hive of workshops of all The little Otters kept looking back, kinds—shoemaking shops, machine hoping to see Father Bear toss Little shops, auto repair shops, blacksmith Bear into the river; but Mother Bear shops with blazing forges, and . begged him" not to teach Little Bear' clothes -making shops, and the work - to swim that day, and so the little men were the wounded soldiers from Otters missed the fun, the firing line, minus an arm, leg or That night the three bears camped eye, on which they had before depend - beside the deep, swift river. After ed, but now launched on a new line Little Bear was cuddled down in his bed of leaves and springy boughs, Mother Bear made Father Bear pro - which did not need that arm, leg or eye. As a whole, it was as efficient a body of workmen as one would find mise not to toss Little Bear into the in any well -regulated factory. The river unless Little Bear said he men had smiling faces. Those work- ing in groups were chatting and laughing. Attention was also given to the fine arts and the professions, and here came across the stream and went into also were schools for sculpture and the woods told Father Bear and Mo- painting and architecture, so that leg- less or armless or eyeless soldiers who had a taste for the esthetic could be led into some new line which did not wanted to. The next morning Father Bear was `sorry that he had made the promise, because an honest-loolcing polecat who flier Bear that the largest, sweetest blackberries in the forest were ripe on the other shoe "And now," whispered Mother Bear require the use of the lost `member. to Father Bear, "now aren't you sorry' One pale -faced young soldier, his left that you told him that we wouldn't carry him over?" "Sure enough I am," agreed Father Bear; and then he laughed at the joke 011 himself. "Well," suggested Mother Boar at arches and columns, and calculating last, "I shall coax Little Bear to let the strength of walls and roofs.' All you .toss him gently into the river, of these men had something missing, and I shall catch him if he finds lie but their work was so chosen as to cannot swim." make absolutely negligible the lost "Nonsense!" grumbledii'athor Bear, member, and to make what remained and stopped laughing. "While you of their members entirely efficient for coaly" be said, "I shall go for a walk." Coaxing did not do any good. When Little Bear saw his father wander 'away, he told his mother that he did not feel like going into the water that morning; he helped she would please excuse him. And so alio ex- cused him. Soon Father Bear came back, smil- ing and happy. "I have found a bridge," said he. "An old log has fallen a$toss the river a little way upstream, where, on the other side,. blackberries are almost as big es ducks' eggs. Little. Bear can walk across on the log." "All right, I'll do it," promised Lit- tle Bear, and gladly followed his fa- ther until the three bears reached the bridge. But while Little Bear was skipping joyfully 'over the log, trying to reach the opposite lank before his father and mother could swim across, the log turned over and sent Little Bear head first into the river. Fortunate- ly, Ile knew enough to keep his mouth shut, and in a little while he bobbed up, shaking.. his heart lo get the water out of Itis eyes and his ears and pad-. dling liire a cluck. That was all there was to it, because, ever after, Little Bear could swim. arm gone near the elbow, was deli- cately modelling a Venus de Milo with his remaining hand. The soldier architects were malting designs, with blueprints, of girders, this particular work. Near the sol- dier architects were ranged two long lines of soldier typewriters, men who had lost a foot or some other mem- ber, but whose hands had now been taught a skill they had not ]mown before in rapid typewriting. In the Sltoe Shop. the men were turning out a good grade of shoes, selling •for 23 fret= (about $4.60); also wallets and purses of all kinds, leather watch chains and belts. • A large glass case exhibited the diversity of their product, It was the same in 'the machine shop, the blacksmith shop and all the other brandies of this hive of industry, "One soldier, with both hands gone," said the officer, "is making 18 flans a day as a carpenter." He explained that specialtools had been made for this handless carpenter, fitting on to the steel hooks on his arm stumps. The planes, for in- stance, nstance, automatically permitted the carpenter to do his work with preci- dion, a bell ringingif pressure was too great to the right, another bell if pressure was too groat on the loft, and other bells of forward and dear pressure. So ,that the handi'.,s sol- dier carpenter learned his trade auto - matieally, bells warning him of each false MOW Until be had become ex- pert. The St, Maurice institution and school, which is thus making soldiers over fora new and useful oeeupa- tlon, has a capacity of 800 men, who have their wounds dressed so far as remains necessary, are housed and fed, and, attire same time, carry on these extensive shops, which turn out useful men, skilled in the arts, archi- tecture, mechanical arts and the many branches. of manufacture, d, How You May Throw y s Awa Your Gla sus The statement is made that thousends wear eyeglasses . who do not really need them,. If you are one of these unfortu- nates, then these giasaes may be •ruining your eyes instead of helping them. Thee - sands who wear these windows" may prose for themselves that they can dts• pause with glasses If they will got' the following preaeelption Rllod et once • Go to any active drug. store and got a reale oe Bon-Opto tablets; 811 a twp-ounce bot-. tlo with warm water and drop in one Bon•. Opto tablet. With 11115 harmless lquld solution bathe the eyes two to four times daily, and you aro likely to be astonished at the results right from the start. Many who have been told that they have sati8g- n,atism, eye•strata, ectarnet, sono eyellde, weak eyes, e'oujunctivitls and other eye disorders, report }wonderful benefits .from the use of this preserlption, Got this pre- scription Ailed and use it;you may so strengthen your eyes that glasses wlll not bo necessary. Taonsends w110 aro hilae or nearly so, or who weer gins es might: hover have required them if they had cared Afor their 0308 in time. Save 3'our eyes 1e- re it is too late i Do not become en¢ of these victims of neglect. Eyeglasses are only tike crutches, and every /ow years they must be changed to fit the ever-in- creasing weakened condition, so better 000 10 you stn, like many others get clear, healthy, strong. magnetic eyes through the prescription here given. The Valmas Drug Co. of Toronto will 011 the above prescrip- tion by mail, If your.druggist cannot. +-- HORSES DIE ON WAR TRIP. Animals Purchased for 'French Army Badly Treated. A gruesome story of the suffering and death of horses being sent to France for army work is told by J. V. Povall, a horse trainer and doe tor. He has just returned to New York after taking 1,026 Western horses to France. "As a lover of horses I hate to pic- ture the horrors of that trip," he de- clared. "I was supposed to be doctor for all the horses. There was work for a dozen doctors. The horses were from ranches all over the United States. Some of them were unbrand- ed and unbroken. The domesticated horses were in terror of the wild horses. Many of the domesticated horses died of fright. Suppose you had to ride for two weeks between two savages. "The horses were crowded into nar- row stalls. For the entire two weeks' sea voyage they had to stand up. They could move but a few inches. Their stalls were not cleaned during the voyage. The men hired to feed them were picked up along the New York waterfornt. They did not understand horses. The men were paid $15 for the round trip. They did as little work as possible. "I don't blame the men for shirking. They were treated worse than the horses. For breakfast they had a black fluid, supposed to be coffee, without milk or sugar. There were 86 men—not enough for the work. Their food was bad and their beds were worse. They were a tough crew and were on the verge of mutiny most of the time. "When we reached France, the cap- tain of the ship ordered the men to unload the horses. They refused, It was not in their contract, they said. Ile threatened to put them in ,a French prison. They still refused. "They did not have to do the work. Unloading horses from a ship is a job for an expert. The Frenchmen who did the unloading were not experts. Several horses fell from the sling that lifted them from the hold to the deck and their ribs and backs were broken. ."When we reached the Gulf Stream —the cemetery of horses—conditions on board the ship were as bad as those on a slave ship in the old days. The horses, sick, wounded and driven crazy by fear as the ship pitched about, shrieked and kicked and bit each other. Many of them died. A school of sharks was soon following the boat. It did not go hungry. "These horses weren't low-grade stock, by any means. They were fot cavalry and artillery duty in the French army. They were handsome animals, but the voyage ruined many of those it did not hill. Her Wish. Granted. They were dining off fowl in a res- taurant. "You see," he explained, as the showed her the wishbone, "you take hold here. Then we must both make a wish and pull, and when it breaks the one who has the bigger part of it will have his or her wish granted." "But I don't know what to wish for," she protested. • "Oh, you can think of something," he said. "No, I can't," she replied. "I can't think of anything I want very much," "Well, I'll wish for you," he ex- claimed. "Will you, really?" she asked, "Yes:' "Well, then, there's no use fooling with the old wishbone," she Interrupt, ed him with a glgd smile, you earl have me." You will never,be aeduse4-of cheat- ing at cards, he long as Voll lose, tt. CTIMBEII,. AND CO, Englamd Adds a Few to tht; Lang List of Strange Nulnea, In the long main street of a Mid, - land town in England the following names appear 01, the shop fronts, sup- plemented by a few from side streets: Sparrow, Martin, Pigeon, Partridge, Dove, Starling, Cockrill, Lark, Crowe, Finob and Nightingale, A local wag proposed in the town council to re- name the street' Birdcage Walk, Sin. gularly enough, Mr, Dove appeared in the court lately for abusing his wife. Ill a small town in Sussex Mr, Sav- age is the leading, butcher, Mr, Death makes the staff of life, Mr, Gray is a green grocer, Mr, Delicate is the blacksmith, and the "muscles of his brawny arms are as strong as iron bands,' as the poet sings, while the local shaver makes no attempt to con- ceal the fact that you are in for Marks if you go to him! On a farm lately twolaborers worked in the same field often enough who were named Pill and Pothecary; while neighboring villages were blest with incumbents who rejoiced in the names of the Rev. Paschal Lamb and the Rev. Vivero Rabbits. And the re- cent occurrence of the centenary of the great battle reminds one of the death lately of a nonagenarian named Wellington Waterloo Travers. It is very unfortunate that a Cana- dian's name bestowed upon him at the font should be Quintus, because, al- though it is quite a fine name, his sur- name happens to be Cumber, and he is constantly referred to in the law re- ports, being a barrister, as Mr. Q. Cumber. Still, this is no worse than such names as Mr. Mineral Waters, Mr. Frosty Winters, and Mr. Alfred Day Weeks, which are perfectly genuine cases of nomenclature. Sometimes marriage plays queer tricks with names. For instance, Miss Wild Rose had a sweetly pretty name till she wedded a handsome young fellow named Bull. Then she saw it. In conclusion it seems hardly prob- able that the names of Thinn and Freshwater for the partners in a dairy business could have been pur- posely chosen for trade purposes. Lady Ralph Paget, who has been made a prisoner of war by the Bulgarians. Lady Paget was a leader in the British Red Cross work in Serbia and has been very active in this work of mercy ever since the. war began. Before she went to Ser- bia she made several trips to France to help nurse the wounded soldiers. PARIS "ANTI-ZEP." DEVICE. "Listening Posts" Enable Soldiers to Hear Airboats' Motors. Listening devices are scattered round Paris, by means of which long warning is given of the approach of hostile aircraft. Each of these listening posts con- sists of four huge horns—very much like phonograph horns to leek at, only much bigger which gather up the slightest sound and magnify it by means of an instrument called a microphone. A microphone is only a special kind of telephone receiver. 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