HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-1-13, Page 6FACT ANO FICTION
"BIG EATERS"
INTERESTING TALES OP VALI-
ANT ACHIEVEMENT.
A Subject Which at This Season Is
Entirely Proper and
Permissible.
Boys are especially notes( for eating
well, but' not always wisely, Take
Peeled,,lor instance. It recorded
that on a certain afternoon, when a
circus was in town, he consumed the'
fo1!owieg articles in the order here set
down: A pickle, raspberry, lemonade,
sardines, eider, watermelon, peanuts,
popcorn, waffles, ice cream, taffy,
sausage. He survived, as almost all
boys do under similar circumstances, ++
albeit the doctor was called to the
aid of Providence.
A Comic Song Cure.
As we increase in stature we are
supposed to increase in dietary dis-
cretion. This is, indeed, more or less
a supposition, according to particular
oases. if the case, perchance, should
require a doctor, let a word to the
wise be sufficient. Esculapius is said
to have written comic songs to pro-
mote the digestion of his patients.
Perhaps, if you make the request tact-
fully, your doctor will sing you a
comic song. Maybe it will cure you
of dyspepsia, but maybe not. You
never can tell till you try.
We confess to a liking for the very
phrase, "valiant trencherman." We
shall not hold to a strict interpreta-
tion, but employ the words as will best
suit our present purposes,
Our thought turns at once to the
pages of Dean Swift, wherein he de-
scribes the noonday meal of a farmer
fairly well known in literature. In
the middle of the table was set "a
substantial dish of meat (fit for the
plain condition of a husbandman) in
a dish of about four and twenty feet
diameter." Queen Glumdalclitch, to
accept the statement of the same an-
ther, was another Big Eater. "She
would craunch the wing of a lark,
weigh 24 .of arose in London), , one
new -laid egg and a haudsome porrin-
ger of wltito bread and milk, With
this diet, notwithstanding, the menaces
of my wise doctor, I am now con-
vinced that I ant no longer in danger
of starving,"
Even in Prance, where epicureanism
flourishes, there are Big Eaters, Du-
mas toile of the Viscount de Vieil-
Castel and the wager he made. To a
company of friende the Viscount said:
"A single person can eat a dinner
costing 500 frame,"
"Impossible!" was the simultane,
ous exclamation
"It is well understood," resumed
the Viscount, "that by the term eating
is included drinking as well."
"Parbleul" replied his friends,
"Very well; I say that a man, and
by a man I do not mean a carter, but
an epicure—a pupil of Montron or of
Courehamps—can eat a dinner of 500
francs."
"You, for example?"
"I, or any one else."
"Can you?"
And he did, at the Cafe de Paris.
IIe had breakfasted as usual and his
bill for dinner was close to 550 francs.
Ah, but the rates were high? Ah,
again, but you should read the story
as Dumas tells it. The Viscount won
a place for all time among the big-
gest of Big Eaters.
Two "Valiant Trenchermen."
Among the statesmen to whom the
term "valiant trencherman" has been
correctly applied was Bismarck, Be
was also a hard drinker, and if we
may follow the precedent set by the
Viscount de Vieil-Castel and include
drinking under the head of eating,
let's have the story. An American of-
ficer tells of an evening he spent with
the creator of an empire. "I thought,"
says the officer, "that I had seen hard
drinkers, but I found during the even-
ing with Bismarck that the drinking
men I had met were tipplers in com-
parison with this great man." Toss-
ing off a pint of violent brandy had no
visible effect on Bismarck, and he
must have deserved his title as the
Iron Chancellor.,
LIFE IN UGANDA.
Where the Efficiency Engineer Is
bones and all, between her teeth, al-' Needed.
though it were nine times as large as
that of a full grown turkey, and put a
bit of bread in her mouth as big as
two twelve -penny loaves. She drank
out of a golden cup about a hogshead
at a draught." This description would
be quite unfair to any reasonable tur-
key, but for the fact that it is quot-
ed from the "Voyage to Brobdignag."
While we are absent from the world
of, ordinary proportions we may visit
the Northland, where Thrym.brought
home the fraudulent Freya as his
bride. Mr. Bulfinch is authority for
the statement that Thrym was
"greatly surprised at seeing her eat
for het supper eight salmon and a
full-grown ox, washing the whole
down with three tans of mead." No
wonder he said:
I never saw a bride
Eat so much
And Haver a maid
Drink more mead.
The Escape From Grub Street.
."Washing it down," is a delectable
expression and reminds one of old
Samuel Johnson, whose remarkable
way of washing his food down has
been described in one of the impec-
cable essays of Mr. Macaulay. John-
son's century is famous for its solid
eating and hard drinking. ; Not that
the dictionary maker was a hard
drinker. As to the other matter, his
Grub Street experiences had made
him anything but delicate in his eat-
inet when he had something to eat.
"Being often very hungry when he
sat down to his meals," says Macau-
lay, he contracted a habit of eating
with ravenous greediness. Even to
the end of his life, and even at the
tables of the great, the sight of food
affected him as it affects wild beasts
and birds of prey." At the tables of
the great in that period at the six -
battle man and dinners were often
eight hours long.
A little earlier than Johnson's time
Swift describes a dinner at the house
of Lord Smart, where the fare con-
sisted of:
First course—Sirloin of beef, fish,
shoulder of veal and tongue, claret.
Second course --Almond pudding
fritters, chickens, black puddings and
soup. Wine and small beer.
Third course—Hot venison pasty, a
hare, a rabbit, some pigeons, part.
ridges, a goose and a ham, Beer and I
wine.
A tankard of brown October passed
from hand to hand, and when the
ladies withdrew to sip their tea the
men remained to drink Burgundy,
Mrs. Montagu, Lady Mary's cousin;
by marriage, wrote the following!
amazing confession: "I wake general -
let' about 7 and drink half a pint of
Vann asses' rnillq after. which I sleep
two hours; as soon as 1 am risen, I
constantly take three cups of milk
coffee, and two hours after that a
large cup of milk chocolate: two hours ,
more brings my dinner, where I never
fail swallowing a good dish (I mean
plate) of gravy soup, with all the
bread, roots, eta., belonging to it. I
then eat a wing and the whole body of
a large fat capon and
A Veal Sweetbread,
concluding with a competent quantity
of custard and some refitted chests
huts. At five in the afternoon I take
another dose of asses' mills; and for
dapper 12 chestnuts (which would`
Building, when you have any to do,
writes Mr. A. L. Kitching in "On the
Back Waters of the Nile," is a very
worrying piece of business in Uganda;
for the incapacity of the workmen is
exceeded only by their laziness. One
gang of men engaged in building a
church in Kabarole was told to deep-
en the hole for one of the poles and
then to put the pole in place.
Two hours afterward the entire
gang was discovered seated round the
pole, each with a hand upon it lest it
should fall over and crush them. They
were waiting patiently for some one
to come and tell them whether the
hole was now deep enough. They
would have sat there contentedly fax
the rest of the day, if no one in au-
thority had appeared.
The general desire to "boss" some
one else interferes with speedy ac-
complishment. A considerable crowd
of men will turn up to work on a job
—the making of a road, the building
of a house, or the clearing of an area
of jungle. At the head conies the
chief, who does no more than walk
about and give tone to the proceed-
ings by his presence. The men are
set to work on different parts of the
job by the subchiefs. Having argued
the matter to a finish, the subchiefs
leave each a katikiro in charge of their
men and retire to discuss the news of
the day.
These overseers then in turn choose
katikiras from the men of each vil-
lage. In all probability these kati-
kiros again -will each appoint one or
two deputies, and as no one labeled
"katikiro" expects to do any work
himself, the number of ordinary un-
varnished laborers left to do the real
work is very small. As the day goes
on, even these men often put boys to
work in their places and join the
ranks of the "sitters -out"; some who
have been at work fon an hour or two
will recollect that once they were
appointed vice subdepnty to some-
body's under -assistant katikiro. They
will thereupon join one of the groups
in the shade; and at length there will
be left only a half dozen boys, and
they scarcely make more than a pre-
tense of working.
'FARING PLACES OF MEN.
1.50,000 Women to Be Employed as
Clerks in England.
Women are to take the place of
150,000 clerks employed by the Bri-
tish Government, who will be released
for active service.
Preference will be given to the
wives and sisters of the recruits in
filling the vacancies. There are more
than 800,000 Government clerks em-
ployed in England and Wales alone
who are of military age, but part of
them ate physically unfit for the army
and others have a specialized know-
ledge of their work that makes them
invaluable in their departments.
The women clerks, after a short
training course, will receive the
wages of the men whose places they
take,
Leek.
Jack—Congratulate me, old man,
Tom --What's up? Are you en-
gaged?
Jack ---No. Miss R6xleigh refused
me the day before her father made'
an assignment.
THE TASTEOPGOOD FOOD.
Why Four Mouth Waters for Certain
iDishes,
"You get precisely as much stimu-
NEWPREMIER ORIGIN 01? BLIND MAN'S RUM HOLY SANCTA SOPHIA.
NEW PREMIER j� OF
BRITISH COLUMBIA
lotion from a bill of fare as you do ^"
from seeing the food itself." So says HON. 1YILLIAM BOWSER IS COLD
Br. Anton J, Carlson.
The times you have stood with your AND CLEVER,
nose flattened against the plate glass
that separated you from the tempting,
spread of viands in the restaurant Do Is a Native of New Brunswick
window might well have been spent
in reading a menu for all the good it
did you. Your digestion received
exactly the same benefits.
The fact is that you get hungry
from remembering how those things
tasted. "A pleasurable recollection
of the tastes of good food," Dr. Carl-
son calls it. The scanning of the
printed lists of food stir your memo-
ries of just how certain things tasted.
If you see unfamiliar foods in the
'window your mouth doesn't water.
Strange smells wafting upward from
unrecognized dishes do not whet your
appetite like the familiar scents from
roast turkey or frying potatoes.
As a matter of fact neither sight
nor smell of food does what you think
it does. You imagine that it actually
makes you hungry, and that they
make your mouth water. Dr. Carl-
son says "No."
"The fact that a man smells and
sees food has no effect whatever on
his hunger contractions and only a
negligible effect on the flow of gastric
juice."
What it does is to stir your imagin-
ation of just how things you have eat-
en would taste again. The effect they
produce is amental, not physical. The
hunger contractions do not occur at
such times than at. any other.
Hunger itself is frequently not re -
cognized. It is indicated by head-'
aches. When the blood pressure is
high the head throbs and pains. When ,
hunger is keenest the blood pressure
rises in height correspondingly and
consequently the presence of head-
aches is quite apt to indicate the ne-
cessity of a large meal. ,
THE CANALS OF MARS.
Said to be Life and Intelligence on
That Planet.
Latest observations of the so-called
canals on Mars indicate more clear-
ly than ever before, according to Pro-
fessor William H. Pickering of Har-
vard University, that there is life and
intelligence on that planet and that
these mysterious lines are one of the
results of the presence there of think-
ing creatures.
The canals, Professor Pickering
believes, indicate a shortage of sup-
plies for vegetation, and he surmises
that the Martians may be struggling
along on a scanty allowance of nitro-
gen or oxygen or carbondioxide, each
of which is essential to vegetation.
Water, too, probably is scarce on
Mars, he adds, saying:
"According to this theory, invisible
water vapor is evaporated by the
heat of the sun from the snowy pole in
the springtime and transported by
the planetary circulation to the other
pole, where the sun is setting for the
long winter night. Here the vapor,
which forms a much larger proportion
of the planet's• atmosphere than with
us, is condensed as snow, a con-
stant distillation going on by the
sun's heat from pole to the other.
"During the. nighttime a portion of
this travelling vapor is deposited as
fog, and this fog is possibly artificial-
ly directed to form elongated areas by
means of liberated electrons or other-
wise.
"In the early morning on Mars when
the sun is rising we can sometimes
see the fog clear away. and it is in
these moistened regions that the vege-
tation springs up and forms the so-
called canals."
AS TO THE KILT.
More Popular With the Scottish High-
landers Than Ever.
The exact origin of that interesting
garment, the kilt, is lost in the mist
of antiquity, although its history goes
back to the time when it was a part
of national dress of Ireland and Wales
as well as of Scotland, says a writer
in Pearson's Magazine. In the Middle
Ages the kilt was a kind of a shirt
called a "leen." It was worn,with a
jacket and a single piece of cloth.
thrown over the shoulders, In those
days, although the "lean" was colored,
it had nothing like the variety of col-
ors of the present -clay plaids.
The Scot found that this garment,
reaching below the knees, interfered
with his freedom of movement in a
fight or an athletic game, and so he
Welted or kilted it just above his
knees.
Back in the Middle Ages the Scot-
tish clans were always fighting
amongst themselves, and each clan
found it advisable to wear a dis-
tinctive color. Why tartans were chos-
en no one knows, As a matter of fact
tartans were not very common even
as late as the early eighteenth cen-
tury.
In 1747 aApecial act—the Highland
Garb Act—was peeled in the effort to
abolish the costume of the Scottish
Highlanders, but fortunately its only
effect was to make the kilt more
popular than ever,
Per everywho f
roan flecks glory, at
the cennon's mouth, ninety -trine seek
It at their own mouths,
and Forty -Eight Years "
Old,
British Columbia's new Premier,
Hon. William Bowser, .is, ,like most
prominent Westerners, an Easterner.
Mr, Bowser is from a long way
East, having been born in Rexton,
New Brunswiok,.forty-eight years ago
--the year of Confederation, He was
graduated from Dalhousie University,
Nova Scotia, with honors and the de-
gree of LL.D., and was called to the
bur in New Brunswick i
the following year he loft for the
West, which was then very raw and
undeveloped, and located in Vancouver,
where he became one of the leading
lawyers of the Coast Province.
Mr, Bowser took naturally to poli-
tics, and since his election to the Bri-
tish: Columbia Legislature in 1903 he
has steadily advanced in prominence,
having been since 1907 the Provincial
Attorney -General and Sir Richard
McBride's right-hand man, or, in fact,
"the man behind" the Government. It
is the general impression while Me -
Bride was the picturesque figure
round which diversified elements
among the electors were rallied, the
smooth, skilful Mr, Bowser was loop-
ing after the organization and things
in general.
Hon. William Bowser,
New Premier of British Columbia. J
He is said to resemble Napolean
Bonaparte in features and stature.i
And his methods also suggest the
Little Corporal. No other Attorney -
General in the history of British
Columbia has enforced the law so ma-
jestically as he. But there is one man
in Victoria, a chauffeur, who occasion-
ally unfolds a tale of collision between
Mr. Bowser and the law.
Concluding his part of a public
function at Esgnimalt, the historic
naval base on the pretty little harbor
'about three miles from the border of
Victoria, Mr. Bowser, who was to at- e
tend an important meeting in Van- 1
couver the same evening, hastened in-
to a taxicab and instructed the chauf-
feur
to drive him to the C.P.R. wharf s
in Victoria Harbor.
"There is just time to catch the 17
steamer if you hurry," said the At-
torney -General.
"Yes, Sir."
Stuck to the Law.
Half way to the wharf Mr. Bowser .0
looked at his watch, b
"I said I wanted to catch the steam- i
er to Vancouver," said Mr, Bowser in- c
eisively. I a
"Yes, sir," the chauffeur replied, but
he neglected to do anything to acceI-
orate the speed of the taxi.
A little Iater Mr, Bowser again con -1:
suited his watch,
"There are just three minutes left,"I
he shouted, able to contain himself.
no longer. "Why don't you hurry?" i
"I must not drive any faster," said t
the chauffeur. "I am making ten
miles an hour, and that is the speed i
limit in Victoria." t
How the Game So Dear to Childre
. ' Originated.
Liege and Louvain, in this year o
war and desolation, are .names the
breathe the very echo of tragedy.
is hard to associate them with any
t thing as gay and innocent as the chi;
dren's game of blindman's buff—al
'though that game, indeed, owes it
origin to a tragic feud between tw
warriors of the rival cities, as ion
ago as the year 999.
dean Colin of Liege was a might
g
fighter of gigantic stature an
strength, whose chosen weapon wa
neither sword nor spear, but :. heav
'mallet, which he wielded with such
terrific effect that it soon earned him
the nickname of "Maniere," or th
mallet -man. Throughout his own an
all the' neighboring provinces he be
came known and dreaded as Colin
Milliard, Everywhere he was vi
torious, until only one chieftain, the
Count of Louvain, still held the fight
against'him. At length they met in
final battle. At the first onset, be-
fore the terrible mallet could reach
him, the Count of Louvain, with his
long spear, thrust straight for the
giant's face, and clestroyed the sight
of both his eyes, With the leader of
his foes thus disabled, he had no
doubt of putting them to flight; he
counted the victory as good as won.
But the blinded giant rallied pre-
sently from the shock, ordered his
esquire to take him into the thickest
of the fight, and dashed raging
against his enemies, brandishing his
mallet on either hand as' he rode. He
slew many a man he could not see,
and the terror inspired by his dread-
ful aspect, the execution done by the
swinging mallet, and the renewed
courage of his followers, charging
close at his heels, first dismayed and
then destroyed the men of Louvain.
Not one survived to tell the tale.
Robert the Devout, then King of
France, was an ardent admirer of
deeds of valor. Such an exploit as
Colin Mail]ard's was entirely to his
taste. He not only showered gifts and
honors upon the hero, but caused
the players of the court to produce a
pantomime, representing his achieve-
ments, on the stage. They mado, as
may easily be imagined, an exciting
melodrama, which soon became so
popular that it was played every-
where, and imitated even by the chil-
dren on the streets. The great scene
was, of course, the blind man seek-
ing fax his enemies; and the lad who
played Colin was blindfolded and giv-
en a stick, while his playmates dodg-
ed and ran as he pursued and struck
or clutched at them.
To -day the drama, the chieftains
and the king are forgotten; they are
relegated to dry and dusty chronicles.
But the game still lives. To .'English
and. American children it is blindman's
buff; in Europe it is still called "colin-
maillard," -
n A Mosque Since Constantinople Be-
came Moslent,
f Constantinople just now, is an ob-
t ject of absorbing interest to the world
It because of the attempt of the allied
- nations to force the Dardanelles, to
- taste the ancient capital of the Eastern
- Empire, and to restore it and its fan-
s ora church—Sancta Sophia --to the
O keeping of a Christian people. Prof,
g Edwin A. Grosvenor, in his "Constane
tinople," speaking of the• mosque
—
Y for Sancta Sophia has•been a mosque
d sinco Constantinople became Moslem
s says:
y "The first question every stranger
eons as his steamer rounds Seraglio
Point from the Marmora, os' descends
e tho Bosphorus from the Black Sea, is,
d 'Where is Sancta Sophia?' To catch
- 'the earliest possible' glimpse of :its
outline, every traveller strains his
c- eyes, In after years it i$ the colossal
form of Sancta Sophia that stands out
t most distinct among the memories of
Constantinople, To many Constan-
tinople means only Sancta Sophia. Ta
all it is the symbol of what is grand-
est, most historic, and most sacred in
Christian architecture.
"The Ottomans regard Sancta So-
phia with the utmost reverence. The
first official act of Mohammed Ih, the
• conqueror of Constantinople, was to
convert it into a masque. Alone, of
all the churches seized by Islam, it re-
tains its Christian name. The Mos-
lems have tried hard to transform
Sancta' Sophia, but its Christian char-
acteristics can be effaced only by de-
stroying it. It resembles a mighty
captive, ever mutely protesting
against its chains. The long rows of
prayer carpets stretch in'diagonal
lines, inharmonious, across the floor,
and the devotees, facing Mecca, are
forced to bend in an unnatural three-
., don toward the corner of the church.
1 "In the prostituted church, the
Christian, weary of Arabic inscrip-
tions'and Ottoman traditions, grows
heartsick and hungry fax something
that is his. Let him ascend the south-
ern gallery and gaze from among the
six colonnaded columns toward the
vaulted ceiling above the five win-
' dews of the central apse, Gradually,
in the dim, half -veiled surface, he dis-
cerns the mosaic form of a colossal
Christ. The hair, the forehead, the
mild eyes of the Saviour may be
traced, and the indistinct outline of
His forin, The right hard, gentle
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BENEFITS OF SOUR MILK-
A Vi orous 'Phosphate I'o d
gFood, Says
Medical Profession.
Why is sour milk good fax you?
Why should it be so when everything
else in the realm of edibles is thrown
away when it "sours"? Sour grapes
are a by -word for uselessness; cook -
d food set away too long "turns" and
s delivered to the pigs.
But sour milk, the medical profess
ion insists, not only is better than
weet milk but in it lies the secret of
ongevity.
Science marshals these facts and
advances them in formidable array.
The rich lactic ferment in curdled milk
clears the intestines of microbes and
does much to prevent intestinal pais
Hing, which is generally believed to
e the most pernicious force in bring- ,
ng on old age. The digestive tubes
ontain these germs that bring on
enility and lack of vigor. When the
sour milk fluids come in contact with
these microbes the Iittle forms of ani-
mal life give up the ghost. The anti- '
eptic forces in the lactic substances
re too strong fax the bugs.
Sour milk is a strong vigorous
phosphate food, acquiring this qual
ty in the process of. clotting, which
ekes place when it is left in a warm
place for some little time before be-
ng taken as food. It excites the in. Z
estines and acts as a brisk tonic upon
as when
In love and in meekness He moved
among men,
is extended still in unutterable bless-
ing, and in its comprehensive reach
seems to embrace the stranger. With-
in the shadow, you feel that Christ is
keeping watch above His own"
BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH.
Thrilling Exploit of a British Airman
When in Mkt -air.
The flying corps of a ll the armies
es
have distinguished themselves for
daring and gallantry during the pre-
sent war. An eyewitness at the Brit-
ish headquarters, says the Field, tells
about one thrilling episode that was ,
more sensational than most of the i
adventurous exploits that occur along
the front alinost daily.
A British airman, alone in e. single-
seated aeroplane, saw and pursued a
Garman machine. While trying to re-
load his machine gun he lost control of
his steering gear, and the aeroplane
turned upside down, The belt round
the man's waist was rather loose, and ,
thejerk almost threw him out of
the machine; but he saved himself by
clutching hold of the rear centre strut
while the belt slipped down round his
legs.
As he hung thus, head downward,
making desperate efforts to disengage
his. legs, the aeroplane fell from a
height of eight thousand feet to about
twenty-five hundred feet, spinning
round and round like a falling leaf.
At last he managed to free his legs
and reach the control lever with his
foot. Then he succeeded in righting
the machine, which turned slowly over ,
completely "looping the loop." There-'
'upon the pilot slid back into his seat.
and eame composedly to the ground.
{
"Oh bother the speed limit, Never
mind the regulations. I am the At-
torney -General," thundered. Mr. Bow- t
ser.
"I can't help that, sir; I know the
law," replied the chauffeur, glancing,
at a blue uniform as he passed a cor-
ner and recalling a fine for speeding 1
a few days before.
When the chauffeur deposited his
fare at the wharf, the steamer was
two cable -lengths out. Thus it came
to pass that the speed regulations of
Victoria were still intact, but Mr.
Bowser missed an important political
meeting in Vancouver.
um
Simmer Resorts In Galilee,
It is generally agreed that the vic-
tory of the allies will result In free.,
ing the Holy Land completely from
the Turks, in opening it up to all
civilized people as well as to the He-
brews, and in malting it a safe, de-
lightful and supremely interesting
resort ter tourists and travellers. As
enterprlsing British syndicate, backed
by religious organisations, is already
planning the network of resorts and
railroad lines connecting them, with
which they will cover the Hely Land
after the war.
the whole digestive system.
The long lives of the Balkan moun-
aineers is attributed by scientific
men to their copious use of sour milk
as a drink. In times of peace Serbia
was known to have more septua-
genarians and more inhabitants over
00 yenta of age in proportion to its.
population than any other country in
the world. The Bingen, too, boast of
their longevity. Each nation uses
curdled milk as food and refreshment,
Massage Cure for War Ills.
Mrs. Almerie Paget is organizing
and equipping massage camps in Eng-
land. Miss French, a 'daughter of
Gen, Sir John French, is in charge of
one of these. It is reported that great
benefits have resulted in many cases
of woanded men from the front and
those suffering from the result of
shattered nerves.
Just a Lapse.
Hokus--I actually caught Longbow
telling the truth yesterday,
Pokus--Wesn't he embarrassed'
Hokus—Only momentarily. Ile im-
mediately tried to lie out of it.
Calming Wild Waters.
"Pouring oil on the troubled we -a 1
tors" has long bean known as an ef-
ficient method of preventing the
breaking of the waves. A novel in-
vention which will pour oil from a
sea anchor to windward and spread'
it'for two or three hundred feet
around the vessel has recently been
offered. The apparatus consists of a
small oil -tank on the vessel, a suitable
pipe far the oil, supported by a haw-
ser from which a drag anchor is
hung. A drag anchor is made of
heavy canvas stretched over a frame-
work so as to form a largo cone-
shaped object that floats in the water
to windward as fax as (necessary.
'Upon the drag anchor is a nozzle
through which the oil le discharged on
each side of the drag.
London Crime Decreases.
NEWS FROM ENGLAND
NEWS EY MAIL ABOUT JOHN
BUIL AND HIS PEOPLI,..
Occurrences in the Land That Reigns
Supreme in the Comnier<
sial World.
At Newcastle an alderman has got
twelve months hard labor fax mis-
appxapriating funds.
Glove making, which was once an
important Tyneside industry, is ,now
being revived in Newcastle.
Women window cleaners have made
their eppearanee at Newcastle. They
wear a smock and khaki trousers.
Children in a Whitechapel elemen-
tary school have bought' over a thou-
sand ti`ve-shilling War Loan coupons,
Mr. Henry Collis of Cnmbrige,' a
retired warrant officer of 33 years'
service, has 27 relatives serving with
the colors.
Owing to the Iack of labor the Keir-
sington Borough Council announce
that they rely upon householders to
clean away snow.
With the support of the cliief con -
stabile, a detachment of women police
assistants has been formed in Black-
burn with Mr. Ramsay as captain.
Fax having a bonfire in his garden
without permission of the naval or
military authorities, William Bunting
of Brixton was at Lambeth fined $10.
One of the workers at the Mayor of
Kingston's Ladies' Guild, who aro
sending comforts to the East Sur-
reys at the Front, is an old lady,
aged 86 years.
Sir Wm. James Thomas has contri-
buted $5,500 fax the endowment of a
bed fax the King Edward Seventh
Hospital, to the memory of Nurse
Edith Cavell. -
Alderman William James Hughes,
J.P., has been selected Mayor of Sand-
wich fax the thirteenth time. During
his mayoralty he has been presented
with a silver cradle.
Despite the fact that fuel is to cost
the London Education Committee $50,-
000 more next year, -it is proposed to
save $1,804,850 on next year's esti-
mates of $27,375,425.
At a conference in Canterbury, it
was decided that each Kentish man
now a prisoner of war in Germany
should be sent a weekly parcel of food.
as well as clothing.
It is stated in Huddersfield that the'
new dye works there will require a
stair of 10,000 men, which means an
addition to the population of the town
of about 40,000 persons.
Bedfordshire Education Committee
have decided to close the schools half
an hour earlier in order to save fu
and have ordered that the fires are
not to be made up in the afternoon,
Over 1,000 new old -age pensions
were granted in London last quarter,
It has been decided that pensions are
not to be reduced where incomes have
been increased because of separation
allowances.
Coventrycity y council have accepted
n tender amounting to $955,000 for the
immediate erection of 600 houses fax
munition workers, The Ministry of
2lunitions will pay 20 per cent. of the
cost.
One of the guns captured by the
Royal Sussex Regiment and alloted to
Brighton by the military authorities,
has now been accepted on behalf of
the town by the mayor, at the Town
HaIl Square.
An expert on the Kent County
Council esthnates that fax every year
of. the war Kont aIoue will be called
upon to contribute a million a year
in extra taxation to pay the interest
on the new national debt,
SPY THAI'S ABOUND,
Britain Taking Extensive Precautions
Against Espionage.
There is, very little ehcuice of a
German spy remaining at liberty in
England these days, It i:; iteee rted
as an axiom here thut cvcrr (A-rman
or pro -German person is u ; otval ial
spy.
It is unsafe these drays far anyone
frankly to express his olpininn, for
everywhere there arc ears to hear,
and the slightest comment on the pro-
gress of events which is unfavorable
to the British is more than likely to
teach Scotlend yard, where the al.
'e:detecting, efficient ataff of detect: -, hrs
been augmented so that all `tips," nom
natter how trivial they nv uppcar
on the surface, are thoroughly inves-
tigated.
It is particularly undesirable for a
foreigner to permit himself to say
anything derogatory of England or
the allies, or anything favorable about
the Germans. Americans, whoare
spotted by their accent, are
marks of suspicion, fax the people
fere are now thoroughly familiar with
?he "hyphenated" American,
An Englishman may say dreadful
things about his government, about
Cabinet Ministers, the situation in the
Dardanelles, and so on, • nd nothing
may happen, but for an American or
other neutral foreigner to express
similar opinions is, to say the least,
injudicious,
One More Was Enough.
Precocious Offspring—Pa, may I
ask jest one more question?
Patient Pater --Yes, my song Just
one more,
Precocious Offspring --Well, then,
pa, how is it that while the night fulls
it's the day that tweaks?
There has been no increase in
crime in London as a result of the
darkening of the streets, says a re-
port from the superintendent of po-
lice, All classes of offenses but one
show a steady decrease since the be-
ginning of the war. The one excep-
tion is in pocket -picking during the
daylight hours,
seeneentnel