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Practical Recipes. Even home-made awnings and nam -
Lemon Bater.-This is an exeellent mocks, if, one cannot have any other
filling for tarts or a spread for bread, kind, will add greatly to the comfort
aril is delicious on hot biscuits: Juice of a farm porch„
of two lemons, three eggs beaten When bleaching linen or lace keep
lightly, piece of butter the size of an
egg. Mix all together and cook in a
double boiler until about the coots -
teary of custard. This will keep
fresh if preserved as jelly or pre-
serves,
Apple Relish. -Chop or coarsely
grind in food chopper enough apples
to make about six pints; also inimento
or sweet Spanish peppers to. make
about two cups. Mix with two cups
sugar and two tablespoonfuls salt,
Cover with cider vinegar and seal in
(Sass cans. Chopped celery or eel-
•sry seed added gives a delicious flay -
.-THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
it in the bright sunshine, To 'keep
dust out of the bowl place a piece of
glass over it.
An excellent omelet is made in the
usual way, with two cupfuls of cold
boiled and chopped cabbage added to
every two eggs.
When milk, solsp or other footle boil
over on the stove, cover the spot
quickly with salt. It will do tiway
with an unpleasant odor.
A good sand's -ion Mien: is made of
hard-boiled eggs combined with finely
chopped sweet peppers and molutened
with mayonnaise.
Dr. The small pin feathers that are so
Gooseberry Conserve. -One quart
hard to clean from very young chick-
poseberries, one orange, one-fourth ells tan be wiped off with a damp
box seel:led raisins, two pints gran- cloth m much less time.
o
ulated sugar, one-fourth pint water. It is wrong tput shoes near a
Put whole orange through fine knife fire to dry. The heat is bad for the
of meat grinder. Mix all ingredients leather. Fill damp shoes with paper
and stanid them where it is warm.
and cook for twenty or twenty-five
minutes. Pour in jelly glasses and
when cold pour over a thin covering
of parafin. Fill six glasses.
Quince and Cranberry Jelly, -Cub in
pieces one pound of quinces, add one -
HELP THE VERDUN REITTGEES.
To the Editor :-
On Friday July 14th., the Toronto
half pound of cranberries. Cover Branch of the Secours National cele -
with cold water and cook until soft. • brated the French National holiday by
Drain. Measure the juice, boil five a flag day in aid of the Verdun re -
minutes, add three-fourths quantity of fugees.
sugar, boil five minutes and pour into The receipts amounted to more than
sterilized glasses. the sum asked for, being $25,000. This
Pickled Crab Apples. -Seven contribution, generous though it is, is
pounds whole apples, four pounds small compared with the needs of our
sugar, two cups vinegar, one stick brave ally. Refugees are coining in
cinnamon, cloves in blossom end, boil in hundreds from the war zone and
until apples are tender, then remove, the relief committees have been able
boil syrup down and pour over. to give them only Army bread. These
Canning Cherries. -Select medium suffering people have lost all their
ripe cherries; wash and pit carefully possessions and are in danger of los-
t() keep fruit firm. Fill a kettle full ing life itself. Since the need has
of fruit and allow it to come to a good become known several cities and
boil. Stir and pour all this through towns throlughout the province, among
a colander to allow all the juice ta be them Oshawa, Goderich, and Seaforth
s taken from the cherries. Take a ket- and far away Saskatoon have written
the and fill half full of clear, cold expressing a wish to help these suf-
water adding sugar to sweeten well.
Put in the cherries which have grain-
ed thoroughly by this time, and cook
slowly until they come to a good boil
The cherries should be cooked and the
juice a bright pink color. Pour into
cans and seal.
Pineapple Whip. -Ono -fourth box
gelatin, one can grated pineapple one-
half cup sugar, one pint cream. Soak
gelatin in as little water as possible.
Mix pineapple and sugar together
and bring to boil. Add gelatin and
let stand until it begins to get stiff
(about threo hours). Beat in whips
Pal cream. Serve very cold, in tall
glasses, topped with maraschino
cherry.
Raisin Puffs. -Two tablespoons am- be to France, France struggling,
gar, one-half cup butter, one egg, one bleeding, yet triumphant. These are
clap milk, two cups flour, two tea- days of deeds; we realize, as never
spoons baking powder, one cup Chop- before the futility of words; it is empty
ped raisins. Cream butter and sugar, to say as we sit at our well filled
add egg, well beaten, milk, flour sift- tables "be thou fed." Our expres-
ed with baking powder, then chopped sion of sympathy must go further, go
raisins. Pour into small butter jelly forth accompanied by a gift which
tumblers. and steam one-half to three- will helpto feed the hungry homeless
quarters of an hour. This recipe will wanderers. A gift in some small
make six large puffs. measure commensurate with our great
Red Cabbage PicIdes.-Chop two plenty and France's dire necessity.
heads of red cabbage, one large cauli- For information as to flags, etc.,
flower, one-half pint of red kidney aPP1Y bo
beans and eighteen cloves of garlic. Mrs. W. A. Johnstone,
Boil and then drain them on a sieve, Hon. Secretary Secours National,
and then separate theta leaf by leaf 51 King St. West, Toronto.
and salt them and let dry, Now pre- Tean McPhedran, Toronto.
pare the pickle; Boil together one
galIon of vinegar, two pints of tvater, THE CHINESE POSTMAN.
one-half cupful of ealt, one ounce of
pepper, and let stand till cold.. Cut
four ounces of ginger in pieces and
sprinkle it with salt. Let it stand
for a week. Wash, dry and bruise
one-fourth pound of mustard seeds.
Put a layer of cabbage in a jar, then first place, an applicant must have
a layer of cauliflower and beans, and strength and courage, and in order to
sprinkle between layers ,ho bruised gain these he must be prepared to
nmetard seed, some whole mustard undergo a very queer method of train -
seeds, ginger, garlic, pepper, allspice ing. He must wander through moun-
and one ounce of turmeric powdeis tains and valleys, forests and coves.
Pour in the pickle and seal. Thi, The exact time to be occupied in a
will be ready for use in about two to trip of this sort is fixed by the law,
and a very heavy fine is imposed for,
any unnecessary delay.
The would-be postman must repeat
these trips at night, and if he listens
to the bad spirit, thereby failing to
appear at the required time at a spe-
cified place, he is sure to lose his
thence of eing a postman,
But that is not all, for he is oblig-
ed to carry enormous weights for
many miles, and must return with his
burden within st given time, though his
road usually takes him through dis-
trieta thick with bandits.
In traieieg, the postman oats very
little -though he is used to this -and
trio every straining exercise. Then
collies his real examination, under the
direction of the Government officials.
He is taken into a large room, where,
suspended from a high beam, are very
heavy sacks filled with rocks. He
fering people. They propose having
"French days" and joining their gifts
with that of Toronto, in this practical
way expressing their sympathy with
and admiration for France. In order
to facilitate the holding of these
French days, the Executive of the
Secours National offers to send free
of all expense the shields, flags and
decorations used in Toronto for July
14th., also the small flags to sell, to
any town or city applying for them.
Perhaps it is too much to ask but it
hes occurred to the writer, that if,
following the precedent of Trafalgar
day a sum could be raised in the pro-
vince equal to that raised M Toronto,
what a magnificent tribute it would
The Training He Must Go Through
Before He Is Qualified.
To get into the postal service in
China is not an easy msitter. In the
three months, and will be found to bo
very delicious.
Useful Hints.
An aluminum spoon is excellent to
use in preserving fruit,
Wood ashes mixed with kerosene
will remove rust from iron.
To prepare 'horseradish quickly put
it through the meat chopper.
String beans are good cooked' with
tomatoes and a dash of onion.
.A. nesv way to cook squash is to
slice it and cook like eggplant.
To mend matting, simply darn it
with raffia in colors to match.
Ice cream, eaten slowly, is a per-
fectly good food in hot weather,
A small square of asbestos kept on
the ironing board will save the iron-
ing sheet.
A slice of lemon added to the water must give a swinging /notion
them beautifully. o w 'tens these sacks, run to and fro between
to all
n svluch clothes are I '1 d h'
A teaspoonful of vinegar put into
home-made candy will prevent it
from being sticky.
To prevent broiled chicken from
being dry, butter it occasionally
while it is boiling,
To bleeds a garineht hang it CM
the line during nice weathes and let
It take thew and onshine, but no rain.
thern, carefully guarding himself
against a blow from the heavy
weights.
Time is money to a man who burl
on time,
The first electric railway in Ameri-
ca and the second in the world was
operated a the Canadian National
INTERNATIONAL LESSON.
AUGUST 6.
Lesson VL -The Greatest Thing in
The World, 1 Cor, 13. Golden
Text,-). Cor, 13. 13.
Chapter 12: Verse 3L -This last
clause belongs properly to the new
chapter, which it introduces. The
way takes us to Him who said, "I am
the way," whose name May bo set
in each of the jeweled places where
love is named.
Chapter 18. Verse 1. Tongues-
Cles,rly languages in the usual sense.
This passage is. enough to disprove
the conception of mere abracadabra
which some scholars have found in
the "tongues" of this epistle. The
meaning is identical with that of the
Pentecost story. The after -thought
and of angels merely heightens the
-note of scorn, and need not be pro-
saically interpreted. Else we might
say that the "angels" or "princes' of
of the nations in Daniel might he sup-
posed to speak the languages of their
peoples, as well as the one language
of the heavenly world. Cymbal -
Specially used in the orgiastic wor-
ship of Cybele, characteristic of Asia
Minor.
2. Mysteries -There is more than a
half reference to bhe sham mysteries
the people of "Knowledge" were al-
ways professing to have fathomed, to
the scorn of plain folks who coul)i
not see below the surface of a stone
wall Knowledge, or rather insight
(gnosis, whence carne bhe later name
gnostic), was the special boast of
these clever people, to whom Paul at
tributed "the falsely named know-
ledge" (1 Tim. 6. 20). In its full
development it answers exactly to the
, always foolish and often foul stuff
j now called theosophy. But Paul's
' words 'would still be true if the "my-
steries" and "insight" were true and
divine; even the deepest theology is
futile without love. "The heart
makes the theologian." Remove
mountains -The phrase. of course,
suggests Matt. 17. 20, but it may have
been proverbial. The question might
be asked how such faith is possible
in a loveless man -a question often
recurring in these verses. Paul does
nob say it is: he is only isolating these
graces for comparison.
8. All nay goods -The rich young
I ruler was told that for doing this he
I Would have treasure in heaven. A
good illustration of the danger of
!prosaic literalness in interpretation!
ITo be burned -The marginal reading,
ithat I may glory, differing only in a
I single letter, is rather better attested.
But the point seems rather to demand
a heightening of the sacrifice than. a
scornful belittling of it. Both read-
ings are well illustrated by the farn-
ens story of the philosopher
". . . who to be deemed
A good leaped fondly into Etnaliames,
Empedocles."
4. Suffereth long -Or is patient, as
rendered in, James 5. 7. Is Kind -
The word is one often used of God,
who "is Love." Puffed up -A favor-
ite word of PauL Compare 1 Cor. 8.
1, which we might colloquially render,
"Insight" gives swelled head, it is
love that builds up."
5. Unseemly -Perhaps the leading
thought is of the pitiful exhibition
self -assertiveness often makes. Love
never loses dignity when. she stoops
to the lowest service -how supremely
regal was Jesus washing the feet of
the twelve! The adjective answer-
ing as opposite to the word here is
the usual Greek word for a 'gentle-
man" (as M Acts 17. 12). Provoked
-The corresponding noun is rendered
"sharp contention" in Acts 15. 39. So
at least once Paul himself "walked not
in love" -he was human! .akete.:
not account -A conunercial word.
Love's ledger has no debit side.
6. The Antithesis of this is seen
in Rome. 1. 82.
7. Covereth all things (margin) is
suggested by the great declaration
that love "covers a multitude of eins"
(1 Pet. 4. 8), where, however, the
word used is different. We must
rather go back to 1 Cor. 9. 12.: love
puts up with insults and injuries, Be-
lieveth all things -The words might
be misinterpreted of sheer good-na-
tured credulity; hence the turn given
in the paraphrase above.
8. "Aye, and when prophecy her
tale hath finished,
Knowledge hath withered from
the trembling tongue.
Love shall survive, mei love be
undiminished.
Love be imperishable, love be
young."
Paileth-Literally, "falieth." Com-
pare 1 Sam. 3. 19. "The young men
shall utterly fall." (Isa, 40. 80), but
love will never stumble. Done away
-Literally, 'made idle," a favorite
word with Paul. The beat comments.
ary is Jer, 31. 84, which tells of the
day when the prophet will have noth-
ing More to do, since "all the Lord's
people will be prophets," Knowledge
-Time and discovery often make sup-
erior "insight" look supremely foolish.
I came aeroes a "gnestic" in Jan -
aim who fixed the "Millennia Dawn"
for 19151
9 . Wo know -More exactly, wo
leant or come to know. Phopliesy-
Set forth God's Message, which in
nature of things we can only partially
realize. Hence the progressive.
character 04 Old Testament prophecy.
The Mysteries of French Money
IsVOU owes me two francs and 1 owes you one that's got in the lining oi
• me coat; that makes it right, don't it?" -Brawn by Captain Bairns,
Cattier in the London Bystander.
11. Put away -The same word as
done away.
12. In a mirror -Ancient mirrors
were of metal, and to identify objects
must often have deen like a riddle
(margin). Paul's figure reminds us
of Plato's famous allegory of the cave-
men confined in a cave with their
backs to the entrance, and knowing
the external world only through the
shadows cast on the inner wall. Even
so men try to read the "Riddle of the
Umverse," anti fail the more egregi-
ously as they show more confidence in
their powers. Shall I know fully -
The Greek verb is a compound as
, against the simple form in I know
I [learn, come to know] in part. But
the rendering "know fully" is now dis-
proved; the compound verb deals with
particular Idowledge, the simple with
knowledge in general. Ib was known
-By God.
13. Abideth-It is a great mistake
to suggest that faith and hope are less
than love because they have no place
in heaven. The real distinction is
that they belong to the creature, while
love belongs also to the creator. The
greatest -It is perhaps not superflu-
ous to reminel the student of Henry
Drurnmond's superb little book The
Greatest Thing- in the World. Few
Christian thinkers have been more
pfiitetceed to comment on Paul's master-
CURIOUSWAGERS. '
The King and Court Witnessed a
Freak Performance.
In the "good old days" extraordin-
ary wagers were more common than
they are to -day. In 1670, for instance,
Lord Digby staked fifty pounds that
he would walk five miles round New-
market Heath in a certain time, bare-
footed and stark naked, and had the
misfortune of losing by tha narrow
margin of half a minute, the Ring and
the Court being witnesses of the per-
formance, says London Answers.
In the latter half of the eighteenth
century a Liverpool scientist bet a
brothel. scientist that he would read
a newspaper by the light of a farth-
ing dip at a distance of thirty feet.
The wager was cheerfully accepted.
The first scientist merely coated the
inside of a shallow wooden box with
sloping pieces of looking -glass, so as
to form a concave lens, placed it be-
hind his farthing dip, and easily read
the small print at the distance named.
The winning of the wager was wit-
nessed by a Liverpool dockmaster, who
ultimately applied the idea to light-
house requirements, and evolved the
modern reflected light.
About two years ago, during a
yachting trip of members of the Mer-
sey Docks and Harbor Board, Mr. A.
W. Willmer, a leading Liverpool cot-
ton -broker, was presented with a pair
of wooden shoes for his birthday, and
another member of the Board offered
to contribute a sum of money to two
charities if Mr. Williner would go to
the Cotton Exchange wearing them.
Por sweet charity's sake, Mr. Willmer
appeared on 'Change wearing the
wooden shoes, and the stakes were
handed over to him.
Perhaps the limit was reached in a
certain town in Canada, where a man
propelled a green pea with a tooth-
pick for about eighty yards along the
pavement within half an hour of the
stipulated time, and won his wager.
Ithnith is a 1 el 't her
remarked viLl
"He'sine is agreednes, 'Why
EroN.:1:re.gily;oi
if he tumbled ant of an aeroplane he
-would fall right through a hospital
skylight and on to an operating table"
Every Governor-General since Duf-
ferin has Opened the Canadian Na-
tional Exhibition,
HARDSHIPS OF TURKS.
Three to Six Persons Share Loaf of
2 1-5 Pounds,
A story of the tremendous hardships
now being undergone by the Turkish
people and an estimate of the enorm-
ous losses which have been suffered
by the Turks has been received from
the Rev. Charles T. Riggs, for the past
sixteen years a missionary at Con-
stantinople, Turkey. Mr. Riggs, who
is editor of The Orient. has recently
returned from Turkey after a hazard -
0113 journey.
According to Mr. Riggs, the Turks
estimate that their minimum loss in
the Dardanelles campaign was 300,000
and the number of killed is some-
times placed at 600,000. The Govern-
ment allotment of bread which is the
Iprincipal food of the Turks, Mr. Riggs
states, is almost on a starvation ba-
sis, from three to six persons fre-
quently sharing a loaf of two and one-
fifth pounds. Conditions are steadily
becoming worse, it is stated.
Says Mr. Riggs in part: 'Morning
by morning in Constantinople, around
the different bakeries of the city,
gathers a crowd of women and chil-
dren, with a sprinkling of old men
whose official papers prove their
right to secure a daily stipend of
bread from that particular oven, They
often wait for hours and the supply of
flour has become so short that when ;
the bread finally comes each loaf of
two and a fifth pounds must be shared
by from three to six persons. Most
natives of Turkey live mainly on
bread and with other staples from five
to fifteen times their normal price it
is small wonder that the poor are
starving. The people have tried sev-
eral substitutes for wheat flour,
among them rye bread, corn bread and
barley bread, but these have been ob-
tained only in very small quantities.
"It is a sad picture to see the ma-
terial from which the Turkish army
is now being made. Long lines of
young men with bovine eyes, shuffling
gait and an expression of utter apathy
are daily being brought into the city
from the Anatolian provinces to be
made into soldiers. Shod with san-
dals, coatless, with homespun shirt
flapping outside their ono white
nether garments, they look as unpro-
mising material as one could imagine.
In these days the recruits include
boys of seventeen and men of fifty-
five and among them are the half -
blind, the sick and the crippled. After
a fesv weeks of drill they make a far
better impression as they march away
in their smart new German imported
accoutrements to entrain for the
East."
CARGO MADE RATS WEEP.
Sat Round Sacks of Onions and Wiped
Tears From Their Eyes.
The French steamship Ville du
Havre, arrived in New York harbor
recently from Gandia, Spain, bringing
1,600 tons of Spanish onions. The
odor from the fosehold was. so power.
ful, it was said, that the crew in the
fo'c'sle were in tears all the voyage,
and were forced to sleep on deck.
When the customs inspectors went
into the fo'c'sle to see if the men had
any tobacco or cigars concealed in
their bunks, the heat and the onione
combined drove them out for air,
Old Jules Bibot, the quartermaster,
declared that when he went down in-
to the forehold to get up a coil of
rope, he saw hundreds of rats sitting
in a circle around the sacks of onione,
wiping the tears from their beady
black eyes with their paws, which was
quite pathetic, old Jules said,
Electricity, as a street
was introduced to Canada nt the Can
adian National Exhibition in 1882.
IT IS A COMMON
CHILD DISEASE
IS INFANTILE PARALYSIS, SAY
PHYSICIANS.
Adults Are Immune Because They
Had It and Did Not
Know It,
There are probably a few adults
who didn't have infantile paralysis
when young -a very few -Dr, G.
Wilse Robinson and Dr. II. E. Pearse,
acting surgeon in Kansas City of the
'United States Public Health Service,
say medical science believes. That's
the reason adults "can't have it" -
they had it when babies and nobody
knew it.
Mild Cases Like Colds.
Many imperfectly developed cases
of infantile paralysis occur without
any paralysis. The child will have
la grippe, a fever, its bones will ache
and it will suffer with constipation.
Then after a few days it will recover
and forever be immune from the par-
alysis,which, when severe,
themay de-
form little body if it does not
kni
Horror of Paralysis.
"It's the horror of paralysis which
makes persons fear the disease so
much," Doctor Robinson says. "Half
of the cases don't develop paralysis.
In the mild cases there may be some
irritation of the spinal cord or weaken-
ing and soreness of muscles, but the
paralysis doesn'e creep up toward the
base of the brain high enough to stop
respiration.
"The danger is in its distribution
by other members of the family.
There may be one mild case in a
family of twelve, and each of those
twelve may carry the germ of the
disease in their throats and scatter
it broadcast. A severe case may re-
sult in this way from a mild one."
Attack May Be Rapid.
While about half of the cases are
so mild no paralysis develops, the
disease is so severe when at its worst
that no chances of spreading the
germs should be taken. Even in!
cases suffering with paralysis 20 per
cent. recover completely. In others
celluloid splints are used to prevent
deformities and the child is able to
walk, probably within a year. Some
it leaves unable to move around with-
aut braces, and with bodies crooked.
And its attack may be so rapid that a
child well the night before may be
found with high fever and even with
paralysis in the morning.
Childhood Disease.
"It's just a common childhood dis-
ease," Doctor Robinson says. "Medi-
cine is no preventive. Just keep the
baby away from insects which bite
and don't let it fondle pet dogs, cats
and other animals too much. Keep
the baby's nose and throat clean. The
virus enters through the nose and
throat. Keep the teeth clean. A 1
per cent. solution of hydrogen peroxide
is good to use in irrigating the threat.
Give the baby clean food and especial-
ly keep away from public drinking
cups."
"Let nature take its course," Doc-
tor Pearse says. "Keep the baby
clean and cool and away from in-
sects."
And there's no use worrying. Prac-
tically every adult alive to -day had
the disease in youth, many doctors
who have studied the paralysis be-
lieve.
A SOAP FAMINE.
Every Country Is Increasing Its De-
mands for the Article.
The increasing demand for soap
throughout the civilized world raises
the question of a possible famine in
that commodity.
The world's increasing cleanliness
presents a weird problem to those who
deal in soap.
The average yearly consumption of
soap for every person in Britain is
estimated to be as much as 211b.
America comes next, and other Eu-
ropean countries use less and less un-
til one comes to P,ussia'with 21b. a
year consumption per head.
But the trouble seems to be that
we are all increasing our demands for
soap,
This advance is illustrated by avail-
able figures proving that while in 1900
the Bulgarians, for instance, bought
315,000 kilogrammes of soap, in 1011
they imported 2,1.38,000 kilogrammes.
In 1900 Britain exported 48,630 tons
of soap. In 1910, 74,712 tons were
exported.
To China we send about 6,620 tons
a year; to South Africa, 6,311 tons; to
the East Indies, 14,806 tons; to other
British possessions, 17,767 tons; and
to other countries, 21,864 tons. -Lon-
don Answers,
FROM SUNSET COAST
WHAT THE WESTERN FEOPIeli
ARE DOING.
Progress of the Great West Told
in a Few Pointed
Paragraphs,
11(fichael Philips, J.P., a Western
old-timer, is dead at Tobacco Plains,
B.C.
A large colony of storks hove re, -
cantly taken up their nesting at
Ushucklesit Harbor.
Premier Bowser unveiled the Burn-
aby, B.C., roll of honor at the ,Muni-
cipal Hall, Edmonds, B.C.
The steamer Northland loaded 200,-
000 feet of lumber last week at Port
Alberni for Anchorage, Alaska.
Strawberries six inches in circum-
ference have been grown this year by
Mr, Carr Hilton, at Quamichan.
To bead off competition, ice cream
dealers at Steveston, B.C., are now
selling ice cream eones at 5 for 5c.
As a result of the recent fete at
Duncan $272.40 has been divided be-
tween the Blue and Red Cross Soci-
.
A planer named Smith had his
arm badly smashed last week in the
Alberni Lumber Company's mill at
Vancouver.
Mr. George Swanson, second en-
gineer of Port Alberni, has been ap-
pointed city electrician. There were
jlfty applicants.
Lionel D. Curtis, father of South
African municipal system and noted
author, was a distinguished visitor
at Victoria recently.
A Japanese named T. Sato is under
arrest at Vancouver on the charge
of obtaining money by false pre-
tenses from a number of his com-
patriots.
Quarrelling about going to a picnic,
Louis Mann, of Vancouver, B.C., threw
a pot of boiling soup at his wife, bad-
ly burning her neck and -shdulders.
Parcels of food sent from New
Westminster to a prisoner in Germany
were never received by him, as he had
been exchanged. The parcels came
back in good condition.
It has been found that the fire which
broke out in Victoria, B.C., last week
was the work of an incendiary, who
wished to hide his crime of stealing
$850 from three Chinamen.
Edward W. Berry of Murrayville,
13.C., has been awarded the highest
honor in the gift of B. C. education-
ists, being selected to receive the
Rhodes Scholarship for that province.
Major W. H. Belson, who was
organizer and inspector of cadets in
British Columbia for some time, and
who went away with the First Pion-
eer Corps, recently has been appoint-
ed aide-de-camp to Lieut. -General Sir
Percy Lake, commander-in-chief of
the•forces in Mesopotamia.
FARM HOME CONVENIENCES.
Needed Improvements to Make the
Rural Home Attractive.
At the last annual meeting of the
Commission of Conservation a report
of a survey conducted on 400 farms
during 1915 was presented. Some in-
teresting data were secured respecting •
conditions in many rural homes.
Keeping- the young people on the
farm is one of Canada's national pro-
blems. Many causes have been sug-
gested for the yearning for the city.
The conveniences of the city home con-
stitute one of the chief attractions.
Notwithstanding this, however, very
few farmers have introduced these
conveniences into their home'es•
Of the 400 farmers visited, 53 per
cent have young people in their fami-
lies. With this large percentage of
young people it is a regrettable fact
that only two farmers out of every
hundred have bathrooms in their
homes. Only 6.2 per cent. have water
closets, only 2.5 per cent. have a com-
plete service, and only 2.2 per cent.
have electric light. In these 400 homes
coilsr 16.5 per cent. have the water
piped to the house, and but 17,5 per
cent. have furnaces in the home. These
conditions are entirely within the con-
trol of the farmers, 86.7 per cent. of
whom are the owners of farms aver-
aging 126.5 acres.
In contrast with the foregoing the
conveniences which have been supplied'
by the government and public utility
companies and of which the farmer
has availed himself stand out promin-
ently. The Post Office Department
has carried to 76 per cent, of those 400
farmers rural free mail delivery, al-
lowing 77 per cent. of them to be sup.
plied with daily newspapers, while
53.2 per cent, have the convenience of
a telephone.
Only 2.5 per cont. have complete
sanitary. service in their home, while
5 per cent. have automobiles, and 31.5 •
per cent. have either automobiles er
horse and buggy for the young peo-
ple.
Much has been said and written of.
late to interest the farmer in the auto.
mobile, but 'little is heard of such
household conveniences AS the bath
tub, kitchen sink, sanitary closet, etc&
The autiomobile may carry the rural'
hotisewife away from her drudgery
for a few hairs a week, and to that
extent proves a blessing, but the"
price of an automobile would provide
a water supply and other convenience
that go with it, and render the home a
home both to the housewife and the
young people.
From 1868 until 1878 the Toronto
Pair was held in the Oki Asylum
grounds en Xing Street 'Vilest.
Leather and canvas covers to be
laced over automobile springs to keep
them clean and dry have been patent-
ed,
"Howard,' said the visitor, "are you
going to be a minister, ?Ike Your fabb,
or, when you grow up?" "No,
ma'am," answered lIewo.46. "I'm go-
ing to be a waiter." "Why?" queried
the surprised visitor, "'Canso papa
says all things come to Ithn who
waits," was the reply.