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The Brussels Post, 1916-1-6, Page 71 • 11+:' d *Va IF a .4 •1 BRITAIN'S NAVY of time to renlize, that his superior f oUieers keep him inside because they' � Tsar death outside• And he, toga TEUTON E laains to fast it. And rho longer ha hides in safety the mato ho comes to fear the ordeal of battle, ' "This is no mexo'theory.` Ever and SLOWLY 'BUT SURELY CHOKING always the sailor who, acted on the defensive and kept in who, has been GERMANY, 1defeated when dhaven to come out end 1try conclusions with his offensive ad- versery, Kaiser Weald Be Emperor of Europe , "There is small Chance that the 'A1-' But for Fleet, Declares lies will ever maroh into Berlin, But e 'invisible invr^ton is there al- F. l-P. T. lana. the ready. Tho,Britiall pavy is making its Fred T. Jane, the naval writer, con- hand felt from the far awaY• tributes to the London 'Sunday Pic- "Germany, flourished on her export torial an article praising the work trade, That we have killed. Sho has done by the British navy since the be- to fight on what she can import. ginning of the war. While Mr. Jane These imports the •British navy is does net believe that the Allies will strangling, and will go on strangling. ever march into Berlin, he is eon The, storm -tossed sailors of Jellicoe winced that an "invisible invasion" is are doing their job." being carried out day by day by the British navy and that the effects are FRANCE' HAS FARM AbADEMY, being felt more and more by Ger- u any. Extracts from Mr.• Jane's article 7oIIow• "Many years ago the Kaiser de- r Claimed that Germany's future lay on which has adopted as 'its title "The the water. It does, and a very black Academy of Agriculture of France," future it is! land is in fact only a new form of the On land, the ICaisex has parried.ex-National Society of Agriculture. The new academy is actively employ - New Body Will Help and House Workers After the War. There is a new aeademy in Paris, IN ENEMY'S ENTANGLEMENTS ,t1 wouUei'Yal . snapshot ' Falcon near the crest or "Mtge. Despite a hall of shrapnel; Preach soldiers are seen getting ready to make the dash forward, which resulted lu the capture of the enemy trench at the top of the picture on the right. MAKING ARTIFICIAL LIMBS. War's Injuries Alleviated by Clever Counterfeits. No industry, considered relatively FRENCH READY FOR WINTER, British Army Also Well Supplied with Warm Clothing. ,� Signs are plentiful that winter is ness. We were for the time being ft is our expenditure for 'war is enormous, He has conquered Bel- to its importance, seems likely to pro close upon the troops in the North of just it seems -but yesterday (certainly every blow. q ed in organizing the agricultural iha- line upon line of white sava• gesand itis largely rum portions of Russia, and is now 13 nee ed after the fit more by the war than the Manu- France. The nights are already cold, run amuck, and yet, sub -consciously not more than a year) when a woman in which we are increased ourtheAt g glum, chinery that wo be d facture of false arms and legs. One busy exterminating Serbia. No hos-war and in placing out on farms thefar too cold for comfort, and the .e you like, the training held and quid- driving a car of any size was a most g American concern is said to have al -characteristic winter -night mist from ed us in our madness, From one rush- unusual sight and created quite a financially. We arety at the present ready received orders from the British the marshes is in the air. The trees in group I heard among the strange stir. To -day there are hundreds of none pr oviidin� grata o wellFrancemond and French Governments for $15,000, are not yet bare,' but the leaves that noises and the panting, a magnificent ladies handling cars with' the confi Y s 000 worth of . artificial limbs. The remain have turned to a sere yellow, ell of 'On the ball Dundeel' An- dente of a man and navigating the' Russia combined. How long can we ynormal producing capacity of this es- while the roadways are covered with o er fello was u] in as he ran, traffic with extraordinary skill. The go on doing it? Far longer than Ger- other is 250 legs a month, but fallen leaves which the soldiers here 'five, five five.' 1 wonder if he made fact, however, remains that it is ex- many can go on bearing her expendi- it perience alone that can make the ture, to say nothing of her casualties six at the next trench. in the field which are •ei ht toes as "In case there should be any dis- really competent driver. There aro g Watch being the but •a few women who have this ex heavy as ours. Financially, we have to BATTLE CRY OF B;<.ACII.' WATCH. Famous Regiment "'I.'ransfermed Into. Howling Fiends," The Edinburgh Scotsman tells from the lips of one of tile Bleck Watch, bow that famous regiment went in- to the battle of Loos, He says; "We were over the parapet when the .older came, yelling. like fiends,. and into the . Germans almost before they knelt' what was up. We had • no time to' wait to polish off the Ger- mans in the first line. There were 'other bayonets coming behind Burs. Right Hon, Sir Thomas Whitteker, M.P,, discussing Great Britain's finan- cial position as related to the war, I' kept The Germans „ recently is "sound as a : siert must Took for breakers ahead in bell." He is one of a committee of were steadier there, but we made a every direction, writes u woman financiers who advise the Government chauffeur in 'London. regarding new issues of capital by Considering that the day is still corporations during the war,. and is alive in our memory when the petrol chairman and managing director of ing. 'We were out for trenches,not engines was distrusted as a means of one of the largest British insurance " loeoznotion and regarded as a suspi- companies. Sir Thomas was one of Prisoners, and trenches we got, too. "It was just my little `crowded mous alien, it is not surprising that the initiators of the project for the the idea of the lady chauffeur will acquiring by the Government of for a short time be met with much American securities held in Great Bri- disapproval. It remains for the wo. tain, as a means of meeting British man to prove herself competent and obligations in the United States for careful in driving, efficient in the care munitions and other imports. of the engine, and, above all, reliable "What is the real financial position and serious in her work. �of England as regards the war?" This is going to be a great task, for LADY CHAUFFEURS GREAT BRITAIN DOING 'EINE SERVICE "SOUND AS A BELL" ON CONSTANT DUTY IN LONDON FINANCIALLY, SAYS Silt TIIt)S. WHITTAKER, Declares the Kaiser's Is "in fawn to Itself," TO HELP ZEPP. SUFFERER . They Are Now Being Used to Trans port the Munitions of War, Country We spent just a little more time at The old order :changes slowly, and the second line,'but we heard the only with infinite difficulty in this old roaring lines of our chaps coining up country of ours: the woman . who and we plunged again. The third chooses to make motoring a profee- ane us busy, good job of that line, and raced for the fourth. Then I got my sick leave. The work in the third trench was slaughter. We did the slaughter - hour,'" said another Highlander. "I never knew that in less than five minutes a crowd of sober respect- able Scotties could be transformed to a perfect torrent of howling fiends. The extraordinary thing about the charge was its beastly methodical - "It is as sound as a bell. 0£ course, tile army has done more than here and there check his victorious advance. Yet on the, throat of the German Em pire is an inbisible hand, slowlythrot- refugees from the invaded depart- ments, The new academy is also providing for the erection of temporary houses tling it to death—the hand of the Bri- and refuges to be put up in districts fish navy! But for the British navy that have been desolated and razed by the enemy's guns. There are, of course, several schemes for housing unfortunate fam- ilies rendered homeless by the war. have The Quakers are. puttingupand Q build- ings bu rof tem umbo y uta an P P P t gs P the Kaiser would by now be Emperor of Europe, and possibly of most of the gest of the world. "Years ago he saw the shadow possible b- •o is path, the one ossr o er ash p m p That dreams. iswhy Itis 1 0 Y tate t any Public man in the past who de- Oared could draw practically unlimited e German gold for the asking. Not di- rectly, of course, for the Kaiser is no fool its output is expected soon to'be mul- tiplied by five. Another American manufacturer, and there heap into little piles for a fragrant, warming fire. It is evident that there is to be an - who has a factoryin France has just fats as a the t Black W t e crag erience and so to thegreat majority not yet reached the stage at whieh r other winter campaign; robbed, how- finest regiment in the world, I perience, y returned to this country to secure ever, of much of the horror of last think themattershould be referred remains the worthy task of pioneering Germany began. At the very outset additional machinery and workmen. year's ordeal in boggy trenches anal to the Germans. The Seaforths and this great chance for hundreds of wo-: enormous amounts were raised by 1 v raised loans have been r taxation and oa in the future. ' n made of hanks. An improve- To obtain the ]atter is not easy, for along impassable roads. In Northern the Gordons and the Camerons and men freely, promptly an • d ]ared that the British navy was `too ment on the type now offered is a false legs and arms, especially the France, at least, winter will find the the Argylls might be as good. We'll Needs Muck Resole. freely, easily, to any thimblerand withoutout 11 1' 't d rather picturesque kind of chalet former, are complex pieceshp mech- rival armies well prepared to receive settle the matter in Berlin. But the anism, and to construct them properly The only way for this to be done whatever. We already increased our requires much practice and long train- ing. Germany's Chief Obstacle. • "As often as not, perhaps; the 'Little Navyite' apostle knew not why he prospered in business, and regard- ed it merely as a coincidence that he shalets are made in pieces, which only earned enough to enable him to ex- have to be put together on the site pound his peculiar views. The fact chosen a couple of hours sufficing to remains that no 'Little Navyite' was do the work. The builder of these chalets claims for them ten years of satisfactory existence. They are very inexpensive. Five hundred dollars provides one which will • accommodate a couple, complete down to the statuette of the generalissimo that adorns a tiny niche. BIRDS AND BATTLES. built of double wood panels, not planks, placed on a skeleton frame, with an air chamber between, calcu- lated to make the buildings warmer The cork leg is familiar in works of in winter and cooler in summer. fiction. In real life such a thing is ther than the, rule this year. The shel- into the charge, and hardly 500 an - One of these is on view at the de- not, and never has been, cork being ters, even in the advance trenches, swered the rollcall afterwards. signer's workshops on the banks of just about the most 'unsuitable ma- be Y 3• it. it. The wet mud, the ice-cold water Black Watch made a charge on Sept. successfully is to dispel the general taxation by considerably more than 50 knee-deep itt the communication 26 which is going to take some beat- idea that motoring is too strenuous per cent., and shall willingly make it e and discomfort of h,g much higher shortly. tenches, the ooz as a profession for the fair sex. the dugouts, will be the exception ra- Four battalions, 4,000 men, went Therefore, let the woman who is not both mentally and physically sound the Seine, and is worth a visit. The terial for the purpose that could be imagined. Artificial limbs are made of basswood or willow, supplemented to some extent with leather. The lumber for them is carefully selected, and the first step in the mak- ing of a false leg is to cut from the raw material a block eight inches square and of the requisite 'length. Through it a hole is bored lengthwise with a large auger, and then the block is put aside in a dry place and allow- ed to season. It ought to season for three years. It is then carved in imi- tation of a real leg, sandpapered to an intangible pressure against which smoothness, holloyved out so as to con - •millions of German soldiers are of no Soldiers' Letters Tell Some Astonish- vert lit into a mere shell, and rendered avail. So invisible was the invasion • int Stories. waterproof by a coating of a special that the Germans felt it before they A recent issue of the journal of the kind of varnish. It may be covered understood; so silent and invisible also Royal Society for the Protection of with kid, but methods of manufacture was it that we, too, as a nation found Birds contained notes on bird life vary, it difficult to see and understand. made by soldiers in the trenches of Tho leg is made hollow for the sake There have been no Trafalgars; there France and Belgium. Everyone ex- of lightness, and also to provide room have been no sea fights, save a few for the introduction of a strong spiral small skirmishes. But these have been Petted that the din of battle would spring and other elements of the me - ever hard up. It.was the Kaiser's answer to the *one danger that he foresaw. "His answer failed because bodies like 'the Navy League flogged up pub lie opinion and kept the British navy up to strength, and so insured the de- feat of Germany before ever a shot was fired. With the first shot came the invisible invasion, of Germany— merely milestones on the road of the great invasion. "One by one and without much de- lay, all German oversea possessions were captured. Germany attempted to distract attention with a commerce war. "Fora while the promised success— drive the birds away from a war charism that is to reader the limb a area, but soldiers' letters record an useful and comfortable counterfeit of astonishingly lively bird life. Ihien a real one. An artificial leg of up -to - write of the pleasure with which they date pattern is an ingenious piece of hear larks, thrushes, and even night - apparatus, and there is manya man ingales singing with absolute un- ' concern in. places where the sound to -day who wears one without betray - of bursting shells and the rattle of mg the fact to the casual observer. the rifle continues day and night. A Of course, if the natural limb has the British navy was busy destroying gunner tells of the eccentric behavior been cut dr high up, the artificial one the 'earths,' before it bothered about of a• family of blackbirds that built must be in two parts, connected by a chasing the vermin which issued ,their nest in the body of a field gun. lctteejomt. If one must lose a portion therefrom. That accomplished, the The gun hacl not been fired for four of one's ambulatory machinery the rest was easy. And so Germany was days, and during that time the nest most desirable place for the amputa- • tion is between the knee and the an - isolated and the invisible invasion made complete. Exactly how com- plete we can as yet only dimly guess. But since all private copper orna- ments and utensils have been requi- sitioned to make up for a deficit in that article, we may reckon that the and getfr g pressure is extremely severe. Espe- The bird sat on a bough shove and through life. chilly is this so when we remember ' they h d finished" Sol The foot of the artificial leg is in that Germany is, in most ways, a self- supporting country. "There are, however, certain things was built and three eggs laid. A]^ kle. Under such circumstances a false though the gun was fired each of the member may enable one to walk with - three days afterward, two more eggs out lin in or one may even tango were laid. "Last night when the bird satisfactorily, but loss of part of theg came back to her nest,"writes the foot or of the whole foot at the ankle gunner, "the men were standing -to it the gun. toady for action, joint means that one must go halting waited until a itself an exceedingly clever counter - diens who have been through night at- felt. Its core is part of the same tacks in which the enemy used gas piece of wood that makes the body of which Germany cannot produce at say that she behavior of the birds the leg. Enveloping this core is rub- home—as for example cotton, copper, gave them warning. Before they bet, vulcanized on in a series of thin could detect the smell of_ the fumes ' 1a ors, the result being to give the tubber, and, to a considerable extent, the noise of the birds awakened y iron ore. For all these things she has foot a, lively springiness, rendering it from their night perches made the comfortable for walking and helping to give the wearer a natural gait. An artificial arm is of similar con- struction, with a wooden core for the hand, which is of vulcanized rubber. But as a substitute for the natural limb it is a poor thing compared to a false leg. -The band 1s useless for purposes of manipulation and has to be kept covered with a glove. Wires extend through the fingers, so that the latter may be bent into any de- sired position. an urgent need. She requires them watchers in the trenches aware of the for her war material, and, deprived of danger. LADY FRENCH'S CANTEENS. They Supply Munition Workers With Food at Cost, them, she must eventually find herself in exactly the same position as she would 11 allied troops occupied all her munition works. Or a worse, position,. shall we say? Distant but Effective. "Hostile invading soldiery in posses- sion of Krupp's great works at Essen might be driven out again—at any rate, there would be always that hope. But what soldier, shout 'Hoch der Kaiser!' or 'Deutschland ueber apes!' as he may, can reach the enemy who strikes him deadly blows from 500 miles away? "He can bellow 'Gott strafe Eng- land!' as he will;.but of what avail? Far away out at sear -`somewhere'— lies the British fleet. If his own ships go out to meet it their deetruction is. certain. It is more certain now than it was twelve months or so ago. "Twelve months 01 so ago the Ger- man fleet was in a state of high effi- ciency, due to long practice itt sea. Only at sea can a sailor be kept in training. 1f alloweoi ashen, love and liquor appeal to him more than battle and bloodshed. If kept aa, board in Lady French is at the head of the canteens which are being operated in England for the benefit of the muni- tion workers. The need for such can- teens is caused by the munition fac- tories taking on such a large number of workers that often it is impossible for these extra fiends to get living ac- commodations within a reasonable distance of the factory. In some towns where the manufac- ture of munitions is being rushed to the utmost capacity of the factory there are no restaurants, In others the facilities for supplying meals is by far below' the demand. So the women of England, under the leader- ship of Lady French, have under- taken to supply the need to do for the munition worker wharf' the army service corps hes done for the men in the field. Good food, freshly cooked and well served, is supplied to muni- tion workers at minimum cost, which hatbox- he grows flatter still, and as means that the workers pay for all like as not more or less mutinous. In they get, but not enough for the can- any en,GO he xehal10es, and has plenty, teens to make a profit, Donald Was Fidgety, A. wet Sunday is a trying time for small boys and girls, and still more so for their parents. On- one such day little Donald was very fidgety. First he asked his mother if he could play with his bricks, "00, .nol" was the shocked reply. "You don't play with bricks on a Snndayl" In turn his trumpet, his drum and ball were also banned. The little chap was silent for a short time, then he asked for his horse. "No, no, sonny,?.', achnoeished his mother. 'Horses dont, work on the Sabbath." "But, mother," argued Donald, "mine's a milkman's horse! generally 1 fain livable, thanks to the plentiful use of concrete and tar, and the skilful employment of drainage. Moreover, the armies will be pro- perly clad and amply fed. The Bri- tish soldiers will again don their Frederick Palmer, a war corre- sheepskins, supplemented by ample spondent, who recently returned to her work seriously and soberly, ren- country supplies of warm caps socks and New York, said that when he left the 'ming, ere she commences, that while heavy boots of rather better type than British front the British soldiers be- The thing can go on so long as the driving a car for pleasure is unrival- People there aro prepared to accept last year's. fore a charge would shout all along . led as a sport, it is a far different from each other the Government pa - Many of the trenches . now have; the line, "Far Miss Cavell!" matter as a work. She must be pre- Per, secured on their own houses and brick floors; and virtually all are, „Miss Cavell's execution did more pared to face cheerfully and with de- Property, but who else will look at it?; drained and protected against land- for" or recruiting than all the Zeppelin termination the cold, wet winter days Germany is Being bled in the moan - slide by timbers. raids," he said. "I happened to be, in store. while, and when the war is over she The great problem of the winter with the French when the news of With that malign influence that ter- will be bankrupt. She keeps the spi- will be the billeting of all the new , her death was received. Its effect ; tainly governs inanimate •objects to ,tits of her people up by talking of the divisions which have come out since on the troops was instant, electric.' contend with, ons can always expect !indemnities she will get. She will last year. In the villages well bo - 'The woman's sacrifice had a Joan of magneto trouble, burst tires, and never get a penny, because she will hind the firing lines, every outbuilding ; Are character that struck home to choked petrol pipes—and the thou- never win the war. In reality she is cleaned, repaired and made into shet it as an event that had done more to ' _,a , t been .. French beaten now, although it may be an - end sand and one petty troubles—to come along just on the day when all the' other year before she admits it, be - world goes wrong and aching heads cause a concession of defeat means her utter ruin, and she will stave it off as long as she can. "The demands on us are heavy and the unprecedented strain is great, but we can bear it and we are doing it, and will do it cheerfully, knowing we are fighting the battle of right, truth and justice, for the sanctity of treat- ies and the rights of small peoples. Heavy as is the cost of doing our duty, wo should despise ourselves if ova had stoodaside." A Great Delusion. Asked what insurance concerns like his own were doing, Whittaker. said:, "I can only speak for ourselves. We put £100,000 into the first loan. We made our holding in the second loan: £300,000. At the present time the Government has got £1,000,000 from their bad news broadcast. The Ger- tvitlt whom one will naturally be its, and early itt the new year I ex- pect we shall have given them £1,500, - steel curtain which is drawn over jority are careful not to oveaworl, 000. FOR MISS CAVELL. New British Cry as Soldiers Charge Trenches. of the Huns.. Pig -on -Bacon Transactions. stand aside and be driven—not at- "Germany has not dared increase tempt to drive. Certainly driving and her taxes. She is living on paper, She the general care of a car is a strain herself lends to her people money she to both mind and body. The feminine borrows from them and then again spirit is very apt to allow enthusiasm she makes loans to them or bonds she to run away with discretion and liable gave them and she borrows that, to overdo. The lady chauffeur should Three times has she gone through that avoid this above all things; take up pig -on -bacon transaction until the e lm'c,ely in uawn to itself. ter against the wind and cold, u' cement the alliance of France and nearer the firing lines most of the England to fight to the last man than buildings have been smashed into all the speeches 6f statesmen and con - ruins, and although they were usable ,ferences of generals. for housing purposes during the sum- . "Miss Cavell's picture, taken from mer, they are plainly impossible after the newspapers, is pinned on cottage mid-November. The problem is being walls all over France. Deep as the dealt with to some etxent by the impression was on the civil popula- building of portable houses and huts, tions of both England and France, it variably ensure a wet day. but the armies grow too' fast for the was slight beside that made on the carpenters. soldiers. I returned from the French Chauffeurs Resentful. The work of the aeroplane observ- to the British front the day after the There are but few cars possessed of era gets more difficult as winter an- news, so I was able to judge the ef- sufficient sense of decency to run otit preaches. The fogs of the late au- facts on both the British and French of petrol within a reasonable walking tumn cling to the ground in little armies. The thought that went home distance of a supply, unless when one patches 'well into the day, while the was the fact that Miss Cavell was a is open to derision from the men who, evening mists make observations dint- nurse. Men who have been wounded having failed to answer the call to cult soon after mid-afternoon, know what a nurse's care means. fight, are ever ready to jeer and That a nurse under any circumstances , laugh at the woman who is helping at should be shot was an unspeakable home. • horror to them: Another great difficulty to be over - their are spreading all come is the attitude of the chauffeurs mans are suppressing theirs. If that thrown into daily contact. The ma - it, however." Canadian soldiers at the front are Germany were lifted the revelations their thinking capacities, and the only "The county has enormous re paid ata rate which compares favor- might_ amaze the world. Only peace thing that occurs to'them is that wesources. Of course it is not easy to ably with those of the rest of the will men are doing their work. They fail make them liquid and available at and realize that to -day men must fight short notice, but we shall available do what is Women must work for the Old required. The spirit and determine• felloCountry; and so instead of the good- tion, as well as the confidence of our fellowship usually existing in a gar- people ore greater than ever. We arc age yard, one is apt to find criticism nota people of brag and buncombe. and resentment, The tactful girl will We are rather prone to self-deprecia- soon realize that an endless stock of tion, which sometimes results in other' peoples failing to understand us, but are to the fore. Disappointments will be many. An early rising (for hours that might have been spent in well-earned rest) to clean the engine, will often be 're- warded by plug troubles and squeaks; an extra polish on the brass will itt- CANADIANS ARE WELL PAID. Only Australia Has Higher Pay For Empire, and is decidedly above that of some of the belligerents. In the field the Canadian gets $1 per day. Australia pays her men $1.50, and New Zealand $1. The Australian general rate is higher by 50 cents per day, but as far as married men are concerned, the separation allowance in that dominion is con- siderably less than allowed Can- ada. The British soldier gets a shil- ling per day. In France and Germany, and all countries where the service is universal, the men get little more than a pittance. Germany pays them a cent a day, and France six cents. Officers of all units of the Canadian divisions, cavalry, artillery and in- fantry, get the same pay. Including field and mess allowance, it ranges from $3.60 per day 201: a lieutenant, but the particularly good -bits of work to $5.00 for a full colonel, and $13 for done by the men I shall paste upon a Brigadier -General. This scale is a bulletin board where all may read." slightly higher than the British pay And the result of this scheme of for infantry officers, and a little less heart instead of fist? A quick drop of two-thirds in the number of men who required discipline. This was pure gain, and a big one, for the rail- road; but the men profited even more. There was a decrease of more than 70 per cent, in loss of wages through suapensione, '0'- DeathFostered Industry. It used to be compulsory in Eng- land that the dead should be buried in woollen shrouds. This law was M. ti•odnced in order to enoourage the. Manufacture of woollen cloth within the kingdom. PRAISE BEATS FAULT-FINDING. Many Parents Have Tried It Success- fully With Their Boy. Praise a boy for his good deeds rather than spank hint for his bad ones. Many a parent has tried it, with successful results, as well as pleasant ones for the boy, Hard-headed business has made a similar discovery. A Pennsylvania Railroad superintendent found that posting in public places the faults of his employes failed to reduce the num: ber of delinquencies. "I'll try a new game," he said. "The failuresI shall keep to myself, than the British pay to artillery and engineering officers. It is practically the same as the rates paid in New Zealand and Australia.' —Talking Big. "Marriage, sir, is a failure." "Are you in a position to know, sir," "I ant, sir, and in a position to say so—I've just been divoreed• In blast furnaces, itt whieh cast iron is noacle, the fires burst for years with- out ever going out, good humor and a smiling face will do infinitely more than the affecta- tion of masculine clothes and man- ners. As long as a ovommt retains herready to help her. To smoke and absolutely certain of complete victory, femininity she 'will always find then is cherishing a great delusion. The effort we have made and are making is vastly greater than those who do- not really know imagine, and we can truly say at present we 010 proud of our successes and are confident as to the future." any one who fancies we are in the slightest degree faltering or weaken- ing in this business, or that wo are not swagger about the garage ,yard may prove amusing for a time, but it will kill both respect and that inborn spi- tit to help. A Resourceful Woman. Why They Gave Him Up.. "I wish, John, that I had had more sense when we were engaged," said "Do you see that strong, healthy looking man over there?" "I was just admiring his physique:: "The doctors gave him up fears ago." "You surprise lie." "Yes. They found they couldn't g nnything out of him." the wife, thoughtfully. "Then I wouldn't have destroyed all the letters you wrote to me in the eighteen months of our courtship." The husband smiled in a gratified w.:,. "I knew you would be sorry for that some day," he said. "Indee.d, I am," was the reply. "I need a .little extra money very badly just new, end 'a man called to -day to buy old papers. How wasteful we Ware I" Ana automatically his hand sought lois pocket.. A resourceful woman sel- dom has to ask for money straight out. t Nighties Gane. Little Elsie entered the parlor: one morning and her quick eye discovered that the slip covering% had been re- moved from the furniture.. ":Gook, rnamnral" s]te exclaimed. "Some one lam takers the nighties off ,,the chairs."