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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-3-9, Page 3ziseivi e eoriier Clothes Are Grateful For Care, large red beans. If dried beans' are THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 12. Heroes and Martyrs of Faith• -=Hob. 11. 1 to 12. 2. Golden Text: Hob. 12. 1, 2. Many women are careless in put., used, soak over night before mixing Mg away hats, yet there is rarely aIwith the other vegetables. Pour in Verse 1. Assurance -Of various shape which cannot be altered into a; one cup stewed tomatoes with one-half renderings of this somewhat doubt- new style, or if the hat is not'usod cup uncooked ribbon macaroni. Add fill word -which occurs in Heb, 1. 3 again the trimming may be. Care-, two quarts water and a soup bone. as "substance" -the best seems to be fully clean and free hats from dust Cook slowly one hour or more, season suggested by a legal use found in using for ;felt, velvet or beaver a with salt and pepper and pass grated papyri,The docket of papersina soft camel's-hair 'brush, which will Parmesan cheese, p office, bearing on the possession not scratch the fibers of the. material: I Cranberry Raisin Pie. -One and of land, was called by this word, which Roll ribbon -or silk carefully after' i one-half cups cranberries, one-half answered etymologically to the Lat- cleaning and .sew or pin flowers to cup seeded raisins, one cup sugar, one in substantia: the papers eubstanti- tapes and string them across the lid,tablespon cornstarch. Wash and pick ated" a claim. Faith accordingly is, of a box. A hat supporter should bo' over cranberries, dropin saucepan the "title -deeds" of our promised pos- in every bandbox, and this is easily r containing hot water and cooly until session. Throughout this chapter we made from a stick with a knob at the almost soft, but not mashed, Take up find it describing• the spiritual faculty end, which should be padded so the with skimn\er and drop raisins irito which enables its possessor to treat hat can be pinned to it and thus kept same water. As soon as well plumped the unseen and still future good as a from being jammed out of shape., sugaryaM and throughacd to and 'fills pie tin hrries. at God's r nt reality, when guaranteed by promise. This is quite distinct Wads of soft paper should be used „ freely to keep the hat steady, M case has been lined with- paste. Roll an- from Paul's use of "faith" as trust, or the box is moved, other, piece of paste, cut into narrow James's as creed, Conviction- The life of shoes can be much pro- strips and lay across fruit lattice fa- "Test" (margin). The Greek is elen- longed, of they are properly put away. shion. Lay strip around edge and chos, which 'became a technical term Both shoes and slippers should be press down. Bake in brisk heat until for the method of ,Socrates, who ex - treed. Trees are really not a lux crust is nicely browned. When serv- posed sham knowledge of cross -ex - cry but an economy and cost as low ing sift confectioners' sugar over. as ten cents a pair. If, however, Useful Hints. these are out of the question, stuff the shoes well with paper before; Insects dilike both salt and alum. amination. Faith is accordingly the faculty which can sift things unseen, and select those which are real. The chapter is to show how the men and wrapping each one separately; if hid. Meat should not be salted before women of the canonized past-im- or leather shoes are given a thin coat- cooking. mensely .different in 'character and ing of ordinary vasgline before put- Always boil new iron ware bfeore spiritual achievement -exhibited this ting them away, they will be soft using it. faculty of verifying promises truly and pliable when they come forth in Never apply hot water to frostbit- from God, and when verified acting the fall and will not crack with the the flesh. upon them as realized assets. first walk. I -During the winter it is proper to 32. Gideon. the noblest of the jud- air blankets and bedding well. ges, illustrates verse 1 peculiarly. Be- 1l?resarration of Furs. Food cooked in vessels that are not fore the "test" of faith had put the Good furs ,are each year becoming thoroughly washed cannot have a good ,divine leading beyond question he was more expensive, so it behooves those flavor. 'timid and hesitant as a captain should who have them to give them special Save time when knife cleaning by be who is to risk livesona forlorn attention. The Russian method of previously warming the knife board hope. Once assured he can treat his cleaning furs is excellent. Put some before the fire. I contemptible little army as an al - rye flour into a saucepan and beat as Turnips and beets are improved by; ready victorious host. Barak is an hot as the hand can bear it, stirring adding one or two tablespoonfuls of example of the same kind of faith on constantly; spread the flour over the sugar when cooking. I a 'smaller scale. Samson, whom we fur and rub well into it, brush thor- The clothes wringer will last twice I must not endow with Miltonic gran oughly with a clean brush or beat as long if the pressure at the top is deur, tells us how faith could work gently until the flour is removed. This loosened after using. in a man of one talent; he really be method is for dark furs. For white When boiling vegetables never let hexed that his strength lay in the furs such as white fox or ermine, dip them stop boiling until they are done, hair that symbolized his Nazirite vow, a •perfectly clean whisk broom into or they will be soggy and heavy. I and put forth that strength to the pure . alcohol and mop the, fur well To polish oilcloth add a tablespoon- ruin of the foe. Jephthah, a mere ' with it, rewetting it often until the ful of paraffin to the water used for I robber captain, accepted victory as fur is soaked. Have ready as abund- washing it, and it will look as if assured by the terrible p;ice he of- ance of powder starch and with a polished with beeswax. fered, and never dreamed of with - flour dredger fill the wet hairs full of 1 When mice have intruded into the holding the price when the victory starch, working it down into the skin pantry find their entrance hole and was won. Of David, enough to say • with the fingers. Then dry, powder seal it up with 'soft soap heavily that intense belief in the reality of again thickly and shut up in a box charged with red pepper. God's th h t promise is a one character - be arae er- MOUNT CAVELL, B.C. This mountain has been re -named to commemorate theheroism of the British nurse who was put to death by the Germans some time ago. The peak rises to an elevation of 11,020 feet, and is visible for twelve miles from the observation cars of the Canadian Northern Railway. An ex- cellent trail has been made, giving easy access to the mountain from the railway: be quite general. I11 -treated -The word recurs in Heb. 13. 3 and Iteb. 11. 25. 38. No worthy -For it is at bot- tom the subconsciousness of this un- worthiness which prompts the world to be cruellest to men and women far above its own standard. 39. Witness borne -The word of verse 2, repeated at the end as a thes- es that is now proved. Received not -For the best is always yet to be; only imperfect religions place their golden age in the past. 40. The thought that we never can be fully blest till we are all blessed. together inspires Paul's magnificent picture of the destiny of creation in Rom. 8. "Thou wouldst not be saved alone" -Matthew Arnold's address to his ,great father -has the widest pos- sible application. 12. 1. Witnesses -Not spectators. The word is attached closely to the keyword of the last chapter. The great names there have received wit- ness from inspiration that theymay stand on the roll of examples to man- kind. In their turn they witness of the power of that faculty by which they did their deeds. Lay aside -The figure of the footrace in this verse is a link with Paul, whose perpetual use of it is characteristic of his live- ly sympathy with everything that was healthy in other people. The weight is hardly superfluous fat, of which a modern athlete would think; it is ra- ther clothing, which a Greek gymnast (as the word itself implies) put away altogether. The sin is similarly pic- tured as a graceful robe which "close- ly clings to us" (margin). Patience - Rather, endurance, which should be substituted everywhere except in places like James 5. 7, 8, where a word describing "long -mindedness" occurs. It is important to keep the close con- nection with endured in verse 2. 2, 3. Author and perfecter --For faith is "begun, continued, and ended" in him whose earthly life was the supreme example of it, and his living Spirit the one power that can pro- duce it in us. hence the human name Jesus, for we are to realize the Un- seen as he did in the days of his flesh. The lesson of Calvary here is that the joy of our Lord, in the present reality of redeemed humanity, a new heaven, and a new earth, empowered him to endure the most appalling tor- ture man's fiendishness ever devised, and to treat as nothing the scorn and contempt with which men regarded the sufferer, Every example of faith recounted in the last chapter is only a broken light of him. Note that the supreme agony of the cross was the "gainsaying' of sinners -against themselves so margin, beyond all question the right reading -the knowledge that Wren for whom he died would not let hits same them. So if he despised shame it was not through proud indifference to men's thoughts of him. It was foe their sakes that he eared, not for his own. for two days. Beat out the powder' For wagon grease or tar spots rub lustre that redeemed a man of many in the open air with a whisk, shake well with kerosene while the grease grave faults, albeit of obvious and un - and toss u2til free of starch. If moth is fresh, then wash out in cold, soft limited lovableness. He and Samuel larvae are discovered in furs, a solu-'water, using no soap. 'and the prophets are a new and higher tion of acetate of potash and spirit oft To clean a greasy stove dip a cloth' class, as the structure of the origin - rosemary, 15 grains to one pint, will in dry _soot and rub over the greasy el suggests. Samuel is especially the. destroy them. Neck furs should be places. Then apply blacklead and founder of the prophetic order, whose carefully wrapped, never packed tight- the spots will disappear. whole function arose from the pas -. I ly, or the fur will flatten. Muffs , session of faith. I should be hung on a rod, stuffed with BIRDS LIKE WAR SOUNDS. 33. Subdued dynasties, like Elijah paper to keep inform, and furs not ._ _or Samuel as kingmakers. Wrought' in a moth-proofcloset should be Have Accustomed; Themselves to the -The integrity of Samuel's admin - carefully sealed in tar paper, or if Noise of Explosives. istration (1 Sam. 12. 4), and the pie -i newspaper must be used, camphor,. ture of David's just reign (2 Sam. 8_f moth flakes or spices had better be Bird life along the battle front ap 15) will illustrate. Obtained -Prot i put in before sealing, as one is not pears to have been little disturbed by ably David again is in mind, See 2 I always sure that every stray eggehas the continual thundering of the guns. Sam 7. 11, etc. Stopped -David's been destroyed. Birds disappeared from the war zone youthful exploit might be referred Draperies, carpets and rugs, if soil- after the battle of the Marne, and to, but the next clause shows that the. ed, should be cleaned before putting some naturalists attributed their mi- writer has passed on to the book of them away. If out of reach of a pro- gration to the din of war. They came Daniel fessional, the amateur oan accomp- back again, however, and little by 34. Escaped, like Elisha at Dothan. lisle splendid results. After removing little accustomed themselves to the From weakness, like Samson for his as much dirt as possible by brushing :noise of -explosives and even find an last exploit. War -The Old Test-; i and beating, wash the draperies in a advantage in being close to the eon- anent abounds in instances of a gasoline siap solution, using a pound that where there is ample nourish- thought classicaly expressed in Psa. of; good white soap to a gallon of gas- ment around the soldiers' quarters. 18. The story of the Maccabees rises ohne, then rinse in pure gasoline. Doves and wild pigeons are the most above all, almost unique in history, Carpets and rugs should be brushed abundant, while there are many cue- as a true "holy war." The problems started by the teaching of Jesus had not yet emerged, and faith could work upon the battlefield without mis- with this solution and then with clear koos, thrushes, crows, magpies and gasoline and finally rubbed well with jays. Starlings are very common, dry cloths, This will raise the nap as nesting in trees as close as they find well as cleat) the. carpet. It seems them in the trenches. Monsieur giving. Aliens -Philistines especial - needless to add that this should be Louis .Rousseau, a well-known ornith- ly; Jonathan and his armor -bearer are done in the open air, away from any ologist, has discovered that the war in mind. building. Roll them on poles, scat- ter through them a preservative and seal in newspapers.. Choice Recipes. Current Croquettes. -Pour one cup }lot milk over two cups stale cake crumbs, stir and cook over boiling water for five minutes, then add one- half cup carrants, one-half cup chop ped nut meats and one-eighth tea spoon salt. Remove from fire, add immediately beaten yolks of two eggs, flavor with one teaspoon vanilla and spread on buttered plate to cool. Shape into croquettes, roll in fine crumbs, flip in beaten egg, roll again in crumbs enol fry in deep hot fat. Serve fruit er foamy sauce. English 'Brown Padding. -Two eggs one -Half cupful sugar, one-third cup- ful butter, one-half cupful bread flour, one -tablespoonful warm water, four: tablespoonfuls tart preserves ' (cherry or plum will' do), one-half tablespoonful soda, and a few grains salt,, Beat eggs very light, add su- gar, then butter creamed very soft, then flour, Dissolve soda hi water, add to mixture; beat well, per; in pre- serves, and beat until .well mixed. Put in ,six well buttered individual molds and steam one hour. If one .nage mold is used, steam one and 'r<he-half hours. Soap With Vegetables, -This soup is called "minestone" in Italy, and is very nourishing; The Italians make meal of it Metre. Chop one slice raw haat, three or four strips of ba- eon and a foto stalks of celery. Cut entail cabbage in linger -length strips and one carrot, end onion and ono 100111p into 'dict. Add one-luilf orae has changed the character of these birds and made: them thrifty. He has found their nests in the holes of„dead oaks, with a provision of breadcrumbs stored away prudently underneath. Doves fly about between the two lines, paying no attention to the bursting shrapnel, and none of them appears to be afraid of either aeroplanes, ob- servation balloons or dirigibles. Buzzards are everywhere along the front, and they seem to find particu- lar amusement in circling around the observation balloons. Monsieur Rousseau- finds game very abundant in the section of the front where lie is, due partly to the sup- pression of sheeting since the tear be- gan, but mostly, he thinks, to the in- vasion which drove game ahead of it toward the Marne. Deer and stag are very numerous, in spite of a great deal of poaching on bhe part of the peasants. On the other hand, rabbits are very rare, Wild boars are seen in places they were never known to frequent; a litter of wolves was found in a ditch beside the road near which territorials were: digging a trench, and two others were found in an aband- oned trench, 1,550 -yards away from any stream. Polecats, martins and weasels have almost entirely disap- peared, their places taken by.tate and mice. If, men had to work in order to earn a living they- wouldn't live very long. Son. "1 hope, governor, that When I attain to your. years I'll know Move than you do." Father- -"I'fl g"o you one better, my bey, and hope that when you reach Iny age you'll know tie numb as you think you know now." 35. Women -the widow of Zare- phath and the Shunammite are thought of. Others -The allusion • is probably to the fine story in 2 Mac- cabees of the woman who saw her seven sons martyred for the faith of Israel: the woman's point of view is accordingly prominent here also. A better resurrection -Expressly allud- ed to more than once in that story. It will be remembered that in the days of Elijah and Mishit the hereafter .was still dell:, and nothing better than a return to this life could be dreamed of. Not till the gospel came did ;mon fully know, but such glimps- es as Dan. 12, 3 were caught by the latest seers of the Old Testament. - 86. Others --A different word in the Greek; the thought is apparently turning to new fields of illustration. The supreme prophet, Jeremiah, sup- plies this verse with comment from every part of his tragedy. 87. Stoned-Zechariah,son of •le- hoiada, is thespecial example (see 2 Citron. 24. 20-22; Matt, 23. 25). Our Lord's allusions to the , stoning of prophets may well take in other in- stances, Sawn -Such was in ,lewish story, the martyrdom of 'Isaiah, Tempted -It is hard to escape the impression of an anticlimax. A very slight change in the Greek will give' the meaning adapted in the para- phrase. Sword -From Elijah's words In 1 Kings 19. 10, Compare also Jer. 26. 23. • Sheepskins -The nearest parallel would be the skin worn by Elijah, adopted by later times as a ]lied of clerical garb. Compare Zecir. 18. 4 for. these wolves in sheep's clothing. But the reference is not ,very satisfactory, and the words may RUNS THE GERMAN _ WAR MACHINES THE LOST LEGION OF THE PRESENT WAR NOT THE SLIGH'T'EST TRACE HAS BEEN MET WITH. Fate of 5th Norfolks in Dardanelles. the Biggest Mystery of Present Conflict. The fate of a portion of the 1st Battalion of the 5th Norfolks in the abandoned Dardanelles operations will rank as the biggest mystery of the war. Rudyard Kipling's weird story, "The Lot Legion," has been matched, for Colonel Sir H. Proctor Beauchamp, fifteen offeers and 238 men have absolutely disappeared from human ken. , Sir Ian Hamilton has told how they } charged the enemy's position, passed through a village, and on to a dense wood beyond, "pushing on, driving the enemy before them.' The rest , is silence. "Nothing more was ever seen or heard of them. They charg- ed into the forest, and were lost to sight or sound. Not one of them ever came back." The forest into tvhich they charged was scoured through and through the, next day, but not one of this band of heroes, dead or alive, was found. Though there have been reports of certain belongings having been re- covered, there has been no verification of this. Not the slightest trace has been met with, despite every effort. They are the Lost Legion. A Squadron Disappeared. STOPPED SHELL :WITH HIS HEAD. In the late South African War there was an instance of a British force apparently being swallowed into the ground. An entire squadron of the 18th Hussars galloped into the darkness and utterly disappeared. Nearly a week later ib was found that the squadron had been captured by the Boers, who had lain in wait for the too adventurous body. There were several somewhat simi- lar instances where large bodies of VERY DIFFICULT MATTER Td men were captured without leaving MEET THE KAISER. ' any trace. Here the parallel with the case of the Norfolks ceases, for the only men known to be captives in the hands of the Turks are one offi- cer and twelve men who fell before the wood was reached, when the full body consisted of seventeen officers and 250 men. Mrs. Hendrick Hudson, a neutral' In the earlier South African War,; who has returned recently to France in December, 1880, the 94th Bat - after after a prolonged visit 1n Germany, 1 talion left a station and disappeared,, has contributed a very 'interesting - Many weeks later, little parties of i artitile to the Paris Temps, from !footsore and ragged men wearily which the subsequent passages are crossed the Natal frontier, bringing quoted: I tidings of the Lost Legion. According "General Von Falkenhayn, who was 1to the tale of the survivors, the bat - placed at the bead of the great gen-1 talion had been surrounded by the eral staff when Field Marshal Von Boers at Bronker's Spruit, and the Moltke fell into disgrace immediately; colonel, with a number of men, had ; after the battle of the Marne, is at 1 been put to death; the remainder had ; the present horn the most powerful been disarmed and set adrift on the ' man in Germany. In regard to his veldt. antecedents, one knows that Von Fal-: - The Mystery Explained. kenhayn, while a young officer, was iA troop of the 10th Hussars once obliged to give up his military ca- i reer on account of having. run scandal- disappeared when out on active ser- ously into debt. He left for China,' claesuf 1879 thetroop n. In the went intodarkest the where he obtained employment in a. y N commercial house. 'bitterly cold night, not a man living "When the expedition against the) to tell the tale of disaster. Except Boxers was organized, in 1900, Von' for a riderless borse which galloped Falkenhayn was permitted to re-enter back to camp, no intimation of _ill the army service, because of his valu-i was received. able knowledge of the country 111 Long afterwards the mystery was which the military operations were 1 explained by the finding of forty-six conducted. Since then he has risen1bodies, which were buried in one steadily in rank, but he has not been grave at ,lalRlabad. It is relieved able to shake off his previous repast- that the men took the wrong road, :tion. !and tried to ford the Kabul River at I Maximilian Hardenthe well known! an impassable part. The leading ;filewere swept away by g r jourrnnalist, was unsparing in his ansti j torrent, the others 2ollntving until clam of General Von kalkenhayns, every ratan had been swallowed up selection as Von Mothe Ze's successor. by the swirling waters. In his publication, the polit, he de-{ The same country provides an ap- , elated that "it was bad pollcy,to i»- I, haling example. of a Lost Legion. In • trust the fate of Germany to a' ganr- 839 an Rimy of 21.,000 men, under bier, even if he were a good one uE Sir John Keane, entered Kabul. The the game.'This told Zunra cans -1 story of what followed is too long to led the suppression of the .Zukunftfor irelate in detail. It is sufficient that a whole week. Neutral Writer Describes Control Exercised by Gen. Von Falkenhayn. SOLDIER'S RECOVERY AMAZES SURGEONS. Large Pieces of Shell Removed Frond His Forehead and Cheek. During the present, war medical men have reported many remarkable cases of the recovery of wounded men -cases where a fatal termination seemed inevitable -but it is doubtful, says the London Star, if there has been any as astonishing as the case of. Private G. A. Dawson, of the Tenth Yorkshire Regiment, who is now in the King George Military Hospital, Stamford Street, S.E. Private Dawson has caused so much interest among members of the medical profession that he has been seen by scores of leading surgeons. Bead Full of Shell. Enough shell has been removed from Private Dawson's head to kill many men. As Kipling said of the late Lord Roberts: "If you stood 'im on 'is head You could spill a quart o' lead." But with it all this "Tommy" is able to sit up in his bed, and he is one of the brightest and cheeriest souls in the ward. Private Dawson, who is the son of a news agent of Bishop Auckland, Dur- ' ham, went to France with his regi- ment last year, and after serving five months in the trenches he was wound- ed on December 12. 1 He was in a village ' behind the lines which was being shelled, and before he could get to his "dug out" la shell knocked hint out. I Unconscious, he was taken to the base hospital, and there, from a great hole in the centre of his forehead directly above his nose, -there were re- moved a large piece of shell, a piece 1 of wood and part of his cap. For twenty days Dawson hovered between life and death. His face became swol- len and black and nothing the sur- geons could do seemed to reduce the swelling. On December 31 Dawson was re- moved to a hospital at Boulogne, and there he was put under the X-rays immediately on his arrival. In the private's left cheek was found a large piece of shell, which must, have en- tered through the hole in the forehead and passed down the side of the nose. Another Removal. On New Year's Day Private Daw- son was operated upon again, and this piece of shell, which weighed two and three-quarter ounces, was remov- ed emoveed by the way it had entered, so that there should not be a scar of any sort on the private's cheek. The piece of shell -about a quar- ter of an inch thick, with torn and jagged edges -is a relic prized great- ly by Private Dawson. Another re- markable feabure about the case is that by a further operation at the King George Hospital the sight of his left ,eye was- saved. To use his wn expression, the piece of shell, when passing into his cheek, "turned the lens of my left eye over." A celebrated opthalmic surgeon has righted the lens of the eye, and in a few days Private Dawson will be able to see again with his left eye. PRAISE FOR WAR OFFICE. Kitchener's Bureau Finds Friend in Pharmacy Journal. the rusltin 1 there were massacres of high -placed Boss of the Kaiser. 1 British officers, a sixty-five days' "Being extremely jealous of h•ist siege of the Anglo-Indian Army, and atithority, General Von Fallcenhayn1 a capitulation followed by a promise keeps away from the general head - of escort back to India. The retreat lguarters all persons whom he ms -I began in severe weather, and of the I pacts of trying to gaits tate confidence • 16'500 men who set forth, only one of he Kaiser. Manycont t officials man, Dr. Dryden, lived to carry the dismal tidings back to General Sale Ihave on different occasions tried to g get audiences with their sovereign, at Jalalabad. only to be invariably rebuffed by Von Falkenhayn. Sometimes the refusal More English Spelling. is very curt and ungracious. In other A reader \the teas amused by the l instances diplomacy requires that little article in which the various some thinly veiled excuse be givers pronunciations of the letter: ough" The chief of staff then usually lit- were illustrated sends us this annis- 'forms the petitioner that His Majesty ing proof of the fact that the Englishts just getting ready to depart for language is as versatile in spelling another front, but that he will grant nne sound in 0 80000 of ways its it is the desired audience on his return to in pronouncing one of of headquarters.' This promise, however, inners after a dozen fashions. is never kept, It is by such means "Mr, Hughes, on his son Hugh's that Count August au Euleaberg, ,.raise, took to booze when lie heard Grand Marshal of the Imperial Court the news that he would lose his dues 1890, has been prevented from seeing and gain the noose if he did not use his shoes in the elouglu to take some views of the ewes, and also learn to make hie u',e and c1 s and spell his you's and queue's and who's and loci's and to's and two's." lloweve+', we must protest against riming hews" with "booze" or "lose"! Severe Winter in Petrograd, . According to the Novoo Vremya, the present winter in Petrograd is the most severe in years, and there. is considerable suffering. In the Wiborg section of the city the streets aro no longer illuminated at night owing to the scarcity ofcoal. which has closed most of the electric light plants. The scarcity of coal is felt particularly by the poorer classes, Weed .is in great demand, but that, too, is difficult to obtain. Because of lack of heat the' schools have been closed for the winter. Within a few weeks forty persons have been found frozen to death its the streets. Emperor William for several months. The isolation of the Kaiser is an im- portant factor in the plans of the militarist party. The ruler does not learn any more of trio real situation and events than General Von Falken- hayn designs to let him know,. Wil- liam II. is to -day actually the prison- er of his own military camarilia." A note of thanks to the cafe mans tigers ended the celebration, Better a homely wife than 0110 Whee isn't hone mushy "The honest prnay is better th,u the stolen dollen, Iflniploytr-"Why did you leave tl place in which you were previousl employ ed1" Prospective Office tie -'-"I"tbink the brass teas iifrairl if stayed 1 might get hie place." The much abused British War Of- fice, which has popularly been held responsible for the ammunition short- age, the lack of high explosives and machine guns, the Gallipoli failure and all of the ether military misfor- tunes of the war, has at last come in for u round of praise from a scientific source. The War Office has been the sub- ject of well -merited obloquy in these cohimns in connection with its wrong- headed conceptions of the valeta of phortnaceutical qualifications," says the London Pharmaceutical Journal, "and it is our duty, as well as ourpleasure, to now record equally de- served praise on the emancipation of the department from its former shack- les of ignorance, official pride and traditional prejudice." The journal then goes on to com- mend the appointment of women in military hospitals and better pay and increased sympathy for qualified men and women. It continues: "The enlightened view that the War Office will in the future give prece- dence in reeognitlon over the compara- tively untrained will give an immense imp'rtus to effective end thorough methods of te.chnii•al training andW111 deal a heavy; blow to 'short entters and flashy ittefficients who have been the bane aP,rifiah are, 8t'ienee nail i'eminerce," British Food Prices. Since the war began the Olive of food in the United hbind om has iu- 'ereas,'d -17 per cent. in prise. ;leveed- ing to sIatisties issued by the Board of Trade. 1'1nwives, this is less than the int reale 81 Berlin and , Viriina. Arenrding to the figures, food leas ad-. winced 81 per rent:, in the ' Clctmuit to rnpi[n1 And 17'3 pry cent.. m the Awl - , I Neleave stock to read in a satteepnn. ,