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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-10-26, Page 6csm. use. xu sxts,:trra:aierrae=aM Fol a Quick Pick Up Luncheon try that most delicious, nourishing, whole wheat food, Trincuit, the shreddeit wheat wafer -toast. It contains all the body- building material in the whole wheat grain, including the bran coat which pro- motes henalthful and natural bowel movement. It is real whole wheat bread without yeast, baking powder or chemicals of any kind—an ideal food for children be- cause it compels thorough mastication and ensures per- fect digestion. A crisp, tasty "snack" for picnics or excur- sions. Toast in the. oven and serve with butter, soft cheese or marmalades. Made in Canada THEY MUST FIND SUBSTITUTES GERMANY IS NOW IN A VERY BAD POSITION: Wood Meal One of Things German Have Tried to Find Palatable. No more convincing testimony t the effectiveness of our sea meas ores against Germany can be con eeived than that afforded by a study of the advertisement columns in the leading newspapers of th country. In the remote days before the war these columns were filled with matte which differed only slightly from co responding columns in British jour ale. The stress of war away up in the mists of the northern seas,' have given an entirely different complexion to them. The wants of the German nation now are not what they were 18 months ago. The eager demands of purchasers all over the gamut of desire have been concentrated into one strident and uniform demand - the demand for food. Before the war we never encountered the advertise- ments of traders in search of food, or advertisements from those with food to sell. To -day the advertisements are a good indication of the grinding pressure on the German nation "Prime sunflower oil" takes the place of olive oil, one of a score of sub- stitutes, some of which must be ex- tremely nasty. "Pure linseed oil" is chemically deprived of its peculiar taste by the "Continental Isola Fac- tory" of Birkesdorf (Rhenish Prus- sia), and to the oil so purified is add- ed "that peculiarly delicate flavor" which the best Italian oil possesses. A Splendid Liar Dick Trevor read the letter through again, then erumpled it in his hand. "Dear old Dick,—Just a line to tell you all is well with yours always as this leaves me at present. I am glad I came out to Canada. It is the place to make money. I suppose you are still jogging on at the old pitch. You did not have to trouble about the cash, How's Milly Barton? Dina the cook- ing as well as ever? That brings me to the most important point. I have got married, old man, and Clary is the sunniest girl ever born. My love to Milly." There was a deal more, which did not signify. His love to lenity! A stony look was on Dick Trevor's face, He knew what Milly Barton hoped, She and her mother had looked after the rooms Trevor had shared with Tom Collyer, and had since kept an alone. Mrs. Barton entered the room with a supper -tray, which she set down on the table by the window; afterwards drawing the curtains and lighting up. Trevor slipped the note into his poc- ket. "How's Milly this evening?" he asked. "Nothing to boast about, sir," said the woman, with a sigh. "She just worries. Always thinking of Mr. Tom —wondering how it is he hasn't writ- ten. Ah, Canada must be a woeful place!" s "She ought to have a change," said ' Trevor, as he sat down. "There's no change for folks Iike Milly and me," replied Mrs. Barton. "If it wasn't for you stopping on, sir, o I don't know where we should be now, - for people don't seem to need lodgings any more." Trevor gave the speaker an odd look, at els Milly well enough to see me to- night?" he asked. "Oh, if you would come and talk to r her, sir! It always does her a power r- of good, you knowing Mr. Tom as n- you did." Artificial Honey. We are fascinated by a wonderful array of "artificial honeys." The fascination lies in their mystery. We wonder what they are, what those ingredients are which those wizzards of chemists have excogitated. In the Berliner Tageblatt, Ernst Colditz, of Leipzig, advertises four distinct var- ieties of this honey: (1) Solid; (2) Resembling lard; (3) FIuid; (4) Pow- der. They are all "excellent," and they possess an "unapproachable na- tural aroma." The "Nutriment Fac- tory, Apis, of Namslau, in Silesia, sells honey powder at 5d. a packet, both of. them "analyzed by Dr. Way, of Breslau." Famine of Fat. Of course, the great trouble is to get something to spread on the war - bread. This war -bread is not vary palatable, and must have something on it to alleviate its asperities. But- ter is all right, so is goose fat, so is lard, so is any sort of grease, but there is a famine of fat in the land, and, that is where the artificial honeys and jams and artificiai mar- tlerines, etc., come in. Better the racist artificial of honeys than plain, Unadulterated war bread by itself. Here is a recipe for artificial honey advertised by the manufacturer of one of the ingredients: "Two pounds of sugar, half-pint of water, and a package of Salus Honey Aroma. Dissolve over a fire, boil briskly, and let cool. The result is easily digestible, and tastes as good as bees' honey." What is Wood Meal? These chemists. We produce the advertisement of one of them offering his services to the public, What .is wood meal orflour? We find it advertised in the Berliner Tage- blatt" and in other journals of less ride. It is not sawdust. It is clearly an article of food. Some months ago a professor of chemistry declared that there were unsuspected stores of nu- triment in wood and etraw, and that a slight admixture with potatoes and rye need not necessarily be indigent- ible. Is this wood meal the response? Unkind, "They say that igno'nnee is bliss." "flow perfectly blissful you must be than." Milly Barton was lying back on the couch in the neatly -furnished sitting - room as Trevor entered. She started up as he crossed to her, holding out his hand. "No, stay as you were, please," said the man, taking the chair at her side and gazing at her sadly. Milly Barton was really pretty, and something more, for there was sym- pathy and understanding in her grey eyes. "How good of you to come and talk to me, Mr. Trevor!" she murmured' softly. "I know how busy you are. Ts there any news?" Trevor nodded. He knew—how well; —that Tom Collyer was her hero. Tom was a brilliant. ready talker, a' splendid interpreter of the superficial. "He has written to you again?" questioned the girl, "Of course he has to about all the business. He would not have time to write to me, I know, not since those wonderful let- ters he sent me when I was ill." Her eyes searched the man's face, "I like to think of them. I remember every word." Trevor nodded. "Tom's all right," he said gravely. "There is a message for you. He thinks about you." It was well to carry on the decep- tion. The doctor had let him know that much pretty clearly, for the poor girl had nearly died. "0f course it is a hard life out there," he added. Milly's hand fluttered towards him. "Tell me all," she said quietly. "I love to hear," Mrs. Barton placed an iron which was time -expired in front of the fire and went slowly out of the room. "It is a wonderfully big country," said Trevor, with an effort. "Tom has a farm of hundreds and hundreds of acres. He is ready to laugh at the Old Country now, because he thinks it is so small." Ile went on talking about the ab- sent one, about the vast land out there beyond the firelight, the rolling plains, the stretching forests where the beav- er made its home; and Milly nestled back amidst the cushions, a smile of interest on her lips. Suddenly she looked at Trevor. "It is so good of you," she said wilt fully. "But I must not keep you from your work. I know you have to write to -night. I can lie here and think— about Canada and England and—and all you have said. You have been so kind to me!" Her eyes filled with tears. "I hardly know how to thank you!" Trevor bent over her. "Don't cry, little girl!" he said, as he left. From the kitchen eame the sound of washing-up. The fire was burning low. Milly sat up and put her hand to her eyes. In the room beyond she saw Trevor seated at hie desk, "I wonder if there is anything I could send Tom," she said to herself, "Mr, Trevor never told me his ad- dress. I will ask him for it." She rose slowly and stood a mo- ment, her hand resting on the back of a chair. Then she went carefully to- wards the door. "Why, he's asleep!" she cried. "lie has been working much too hard." She stooped over him, to see the commencement of a .letter lying be- fore him—a letter in which /ter name was mentioned—and a erimson flush 'suffused her face as she read the words: "You speak of 1YIilly. You little know the harm your lightly -spoken words have done. It was no jest to her. The poor girl loves you, thinks of you every second of her beautiful life, anti your silence caused her to worry herself into an illness from which we feared she would never re - I cover, You talk in your letter of me. As if Milly ever gave Inc a single thought, or ever could! "May you be happy, Tom! I sup- pose you sinned.from want of knowl- edge rather than by intent; but I am in distress when I keep the news of your marriage from her, dreading what will happen when she knows, for then—." The girl drew back, a deep sigh es- caping her. Trevor stirred, murmur ed a word—her name. She glide back to her accustomed place, Whe Mrs, Barton came in it was to se Milly seated there, her chin .resting i her hand, her eyes peering into t fire's glow. nd e n he + * * * * * "I suppose there was no such thing as a letter from where the beavers live, where the great lakes are, to- day?" Trevor stared curiously at the girl as she stood facing him in the garden of the old-world cottage which he had come to regard as home. She had changed so much during the past few weeks, and he did not understand, • "No; no new,, is to hand this morn- ing;' lie replied. "I am sorry!" Milly watched him, a quaint little smile at the corners of her mouth, as Trevor sat down on a rustic bench and began to fill his pipe. How strange that Tom should not have written!" she said, her eyes misty now, Trevor looked up. "Next mail, perhaps," he said blunt- ly. "I do declare you are getting stronger!" "Time I slid, I should say!" said the girl, seating herself at the man's side. "I have been ill so Iong that the work well, mother has been doing the best she could, but of course she can- not do everything.' She clasped her hands in her lap and looked at the flowers in the grass. "I mean to make up now," "What are you worrying about?" asked Trevor. "You have been ill. People can't help being ill." "I could!" said Milly intently. "I have been thinking about you stop- ping down here working so hard. Riverdale isn't such a nice place as all that—to make a man like you remain here always when there is the great world outside." "The great world is just wherever we choose to put it," said Trevor, with a sideways glance at his com- panion. "Not taking to philosophy, are you, Milly?" "No; I am not clever, like you." Trevor shrugged his shoulders. "I am only just able to squeeze in with the average, and I assure you there was an awful crowd at the en- trance." The girl laughed. "How splendid you are!" she cried. "Thank you, dear lady, for your (rind and encouraging words! I shall remember them next time something occurs to annoy me." "But—but—"there were tears close now—"you stay on with us; you do • CONTAINS NO ALUM — MiADE IN CANADA well as anybody else! My dear Milly, what do you mean?" "It is hard to explain," said the gir'1. "But I am thinking of a man who acted nobly always, who never troubled about his own convenience— the man who, before I was ill, let me help him with his work, I want to do that again." Trevor rose and took a step or two down the garden -path, while Milly sat watching him, an odd, little, su- perior look in her eyes. Trevor faced round and resumed lois seat. "You can do the work if you are strong enough," he said. "You mean that? You are not an- gry with me?" cried the girl, as she slipped her hand through his arm. "I could not be angry with you," murmured Trevor, darting her a look and then averting his gaze. "Then talk to me, please! Talk about the things you used to before "About Tom?" "No; it wasn't Tom Collyer at all, but somebody quite different whom I eared for—the man who was a frien in the sad days, the man who proved so true and great, the man who lie "TROOPS OF ATTACK." Special Divisions Used Only For Charges on Trenches. During the first part of the wa eareful watch was kept by the Frew General Staff over the way ever regiment and division acted. In th acid test of battle this division prov ed its ability to advance under fire that regiment failed. Gradually th "crack" organizations were known. These picked men are quartered about twenty or thirty miles behind the lines, and they live like athletes training for a prize fight. They have great athletic fields, where they play football and practice field sports Theatres and music are provided for their amusement. While things ar quiet at the front they are kept in a perfect physical and mental condition as art and science can devise. Then when the commanders at the front need men for a charge against German trenches across the shell swept open fields, word is sent back d for these special troops. The needed d +number are told off, they are loaded into automobiles, carried swiftly to the front, singing and eager; they make . their charge; trench troops move up and occupy the ground they have gained, and the attackers—such as are left of them—go back to their football and training, to get ready to go to the next point in the line that needs them. What the French have done Ger- mans and the British have done like- wise. These "troops of attack" are a development of modern warfare.— World's Worlc. AFFECTS ANIMALS. Heavy Gun Firing Has Driven Garne Out of War Zone. MIRACLES OF WWAR SURGERY Frew Y PORTION OF NERVE GRAFTED IN o AN ARM. e Bullet Taken From a Lung and Shrap- nel From the Heart. Visits paid to military hospitals in England show that the ravages of ' war are being more successfully corn - bated than ever before. • Limbs are being saved which for- s merly would have had to come off for gangrene, and cripples are being uncrippled who formerly would have become cripples for life. The X-rays and the new antiseptic treatments have resulted in miracles. Some of the successful operations performed are little short of the mira- culous. Ono resourceful surgeon at the Royal Herbert Hospital at Shooter's Hill, for instance, found four inches of a nerve in an arm gone. He telephoned to the other London hospitals to inquire if an amputation ,was in prospect, and learned that a man was to have Me leg off that afternoon. - He asked that the limb, a healthy one, should be put at once in a saline bath and brought to him by taxi. He had his patient ready under an anaes- thetic on the arrival of the limb, still bl.00dwarm, and promptly transferred four inches of nerve from the ampu- tated leg to the arm of the patient, with the best results. Operation—Then a Smoke. I —for—" She was staring down at his hand, and the other gave a start as he felt a tear fall on his palm. "Really, Milly, you are talking in riddles! I don't understand you at all." "Don't you? Yet you know the man I mean. You know him quite well." "I'm afraid I— You don't mean the doctor's son—the handsome Geof- fray ?" "Oh, how silly you are! Of course not!" "Then please explain, fair lady, for I admit I am very dense to -day." "You—you showed me once that I was something to you," she whisper- ed, "and you—it was like coming back to life—I knew the truth, knew that all the rest was only a stupid mistake, and if you care still--" She gave a sigh, then came the murmured words: "Oh, Dick!" as Trevor gathered her in his arms. — London Answers. BRITAIN MUST WIN. Maoris Pledge Revenge for Losses In the Great War. A striking speech was made just before the end of the recent session of the New Zealand House of Represent- atives by Dr. D. Pomare, a member of not go away, because it would be so the Cabinet and a Maori—one of the hard for us if you did!" Trevor said aboriginals of New Zealand. A resolu- nothing, only laid his hand gently on hers. "You see, while I was ill there was time to think such a lot, and this place—you must find it very dull." "Never, on my life!" Milly regarded him steadily. "That's because you never think of yourself, I expect." "No," said Trevor, with a shake of his head. "I am merely a selfish beast, like most of the others." "You can tell me that, but you are only laughing at me, and I—I have been wondering how mother and I can ever repay you for all you have done." "Oh, just a smile now and then from you!" said the man, trying to speak casually. "That will meet all require- ments." "A smile! And you—you a busy man, you walked five miles for the doctor that night I was taken bad — for me, the daughter of the landlady, nothing more!" "It beats me why the daughter of a landlady shouldn't have a doctor as AFTER A DAY OUT DOORS You can prevent chapped hands and lips by using • sf ; 4J�e Trade Matic CamphoraNd Cream It. allays all irritations of the skin. Sold in clean, handy tin tubes at chemists, department and general stores everywhere. Refuse substitutes. n ysenmed booklet tree on mom. CHESEBROUGH 1411,'G. CQ$. 1880 Chabot Ave seusl Montreal tion was before the House expressing Parliament's "inflexible determination to continue the war to a successful is- sue," when Doctor Pomare rose and said: "To -day Aegean breezes stir the grasses over the graves of mine and yours, and wherever a Maori hears the moan of the wind, whenever he hears the boom of guns, it reminds him that away beyond the seas Utu (revenge) has got to be brought about for the dead. For that reason the Maoris' determination to end the war victoriously is just as inflexible as that of the pakeha (white man). One result of the war will be the cohesion of the empire and the understanding between the different races under the British flag. The spirit of Rowi and other big fighters live in the Maori to -day, and he cries in the same spirit of defiance, 'Ake! Ake! Ake!' (forever and forever)." In calling for vengeance for the Maori dead Doctor Pomare had par- ticular reference to the handful of soldiers of his race who, with a few white New Zealanders, reached, after desperate fighting, and held for a few minutes during the Suvya Bay opera- tions, a position from which they could see the central Dardanelles. This, it is said, was the utmost point reached by any of the Allied troops in the Gallipoli campaign. "Anzac." The definition of the newly -coined word "Anzac" may still puzzle some people. 'The word is formed of the initials of the following: "Australia New Zealand Army Corps." And the Anzacs will ever be remembered by a grateful Mother Country for the wonderful work they did in Gallipoli, and the splendid services they are now rendering in France. Knew The Effect. Tommy (dictating letters to be sent his wlfo)--The nurses hero are a very plain lot-- Nurse—Oh, come, I say, that's not very polite to as. Some curious and interesting ob- servations upon the psychological ef- fect produced on animals by the de- tonations of big guns have been re- cently made. The animals considered are the horses and dogs used for mili- tary purposes, and the game in the area of warfare. It was noticed soon after the beginning of the war that the latter began to migrate into Lux- emburg, Switzerland, and the portions of France and Belgium not the seat of hostilities. The first to flee was the "black game" (a term which includes the wild boar, the badger, and the bear), whose senses are specially acute. Then the roebuck and the red deer followed; but, strange to say, the hare, whose timidity is proverbial, continued to occupy its usual terri- tory.. The larger birds likewise, such as the grouse, the pheasant, the sea - eagle, and the wild duck, were driven away by the heavy firing, Strange to say, the wolf, which was expected to regain lost ground in the present war, has shown itself very gun-shy. Another curious fact is that the song -birds, such as the lark, the thrush, and the finch, have not been driven away by the thunder o1 the cannon, and continue to hold their nests and sing their songs in their accustomed haunts. Other birds which remain -unfrightened are vari-' ous kinds of owls, falcons, sparrow - hawks, etc. BOOKS CARRY NO DISEASE. _ r Experiments Dispel Superstition That Leaves Attract Germs. Old superstitions that books are carriers of disease seem to have been dispelled for once and all by experi- ments recently made in London. We all know the familiar argument that Mr. Bo -and -So caught this or that by reading an old book that old Mr, Such -and -Such read a few months before he died with the same disease. ! Now we are told that germs cannot Hee he such surroundings as are of- fered by the dry pages of books, says Farming Business, and that sneezing, coughing gl g and talking while reading a book do not make that book a carrier of the disease the reader may have. Washings from boolts read by tuber- cular patients were fed to guinea pigs, but none developed the disease. Worth While, At an evening party two men, strangers to each other, began chat- ting, Presently one indicated a lady 1 across the room and remarked: "What a beautiful woman that is over there!" "Glad you think so," nailed the oth- er, with a smile. "She is my wife." g "Then I congratulate you, old chap. It must be quite a pleasure to lose every argument to a woman like that" Many thousands of persons every clay are being given anaesthetics, and within a quarter of an hour of the completion of anaesthesia, after an operation which may have lasted three or four hours, the patient can ,be brought round completely enough to enable him, if he wishes, to smoke a cigarette. Two of the most remarkable opera- tions performed have succeeded in removing a bullet from a man's Lung in the one case and a niece of shran- nel from a man's heart in the other. In the former case a young Irish- man was shot in the abdomen with a bullet, which struck upwards and lodged in the lung. It was found by the X-rays and removed, and the man is on the point of leaving hospital almost quite well. In the second case the man com- plained of severe pain in the region of the heart, especially when he bent, and he had great difficulty in walk- ing. The rays showed a hard ' sub- stance at the back of the heart, and the surgeon, in the course of the operation, had to put his hand behind the heart and take away the shrap- nel—which was the size of a half- penny—with his fingers. Air was pumped into the man's lungs through- out, and all other precautions were taken to keep him alive during this touch-and-go process, Fortunately, there was no sport of blood when the shrapnel was removed, and the man is now perfectly well.' Making New Faces: In the Third London General Hos pital at Wandsworth are 1,600 pa- tients. An A,R.A., with the rank of lieu- tenant, can be seen here patching up damaged faces by means of masks and making plaster caste, The arti- ficial coverings are formed in copper, then silvered, and painted a flesh color. Photographs of men taken before and after "restoration" disclosed some truly astonishing successes. That an ex -Guardsman who had his nose and the lower portion of his face shot away should be now follow- ing a useful occupation, with his in- juries lsi juries so effectively masked as to be scarcely distinguishable, is a striking proof of what mechanleal skill can accomplish. Substitute for Gold. - A substitut f e ;for gold is obtained by combining 04 parts of copper with six parts of antimohy and add - ng a little magnesium carbonate to ncrease the weight. It is sold that this alloy can be drawn, wrought and oldered very much like gold, and that it also receives and retains a olden polish. It is worth something like 25 cents a pound, Tommy—Never mind, nurse, put it Some people are too busy to tatend v' down. It'll please her. to their own business. Proud, "Ile's proud of hie boy, isn't he?" "I should say SO. Me thinks the oral is just waiting foe him to grow. ACROSS THE BORDER WHAT IS GOING ON OVER IN THE STATES. Latest Happenings in Big Republic I[eadere; Condensed for Bray Creat swarms of butterflies have bean seen passing through and over Greenville, S.C., making their way southward. The first woman to take out a hunter's license in Cumberland county for 1916 was Mrs. E. 0. Hatfield, of West -Fairview, Pa. A. Bueh Sons Company, of Elizae bethtown, Pa., a $250,000 corporation manufacturing machinery, has gone into receivers' hands. The town of Deerfield, Conn,, re- cently entertained a reunion of 100 descendants of Sergt. John Plynnpton, who settled in Deerfield in 1673. It -has been learned that three Chi- cago students of the University of Michigan are involved as victims in the nation-wide blackmail investiga- tion. Efforts of volunteer rescuers were futile when Frederick Davidson, wealthy Pittsburg steel man, became exhausted when swimming and was drowned off Virginia avenue, Atlantic City. After working in the service of the Federal Government since .1866, Dr. Caroline Asenah Gran Burghard was rewarded with an increase in sal- ary from $900 to $1,000 year. Nation-wide prohibition in the United States within ten years, and a victory for Charles E. Hughes in the Presidential election, were predicted by Frank A. Munsey, the American publisher. The annual report of the treasurer of Yale University shows the institu- tion now has an endowment aggregat- ing $18,431,444.64. There was an in- crease of $2,256,356.69 for the year ended June 30th, 1916. It was 'said in Chicago recently that British ships would hereafter be allowed to carry a greater pro- portion of corn than they have for months, and that as much as pos- sible Europeans would substitute corn for wheat. According to testimony offered in Mayor's Court at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Joseph Norman, a leper who is sup- posed to be under strict quarantine night and day, left his home and went to the home of a neighbor and engaged in a poker game. Some innocent looking sausage in Oakland, Cal., contains the end of the middle finger of a man's hand lost during an accident. Where tho sausage is that has the fragment of this finger is a dark mystery. The finger belongs to Fred Peterson, of 1239 Allston way, Berkley, who, work- ing in a meat packing house, shoved meat too far into a sausage machine. RAIDS ON FORTIFIED LINES. The British Evolve New Tactics In Attacking. The plan of operation which is be- ing used by the British troops on the French front, and which the French neem to be adopting, is the "last word in scientific warfare," according to a French officer who has been in close touch with operations since the be- ginning of the war, He said: "The nocturnal expeditions of Brit- ish patrolling parties into German first-line trenches, which seem to many of the uninitiated as without re- sult, became the essential feature of the attack on lines fortified as those held by the Germans on this front. "The first thing in order is the de- struction by heavy artillery of the concrete shelters, perfected with con- summate science. The second is to reconnoitre and make sure that the destruction is complete, for a single machine gun left intact under a shel- ter alone can stop an infantry assault, The third is the destruction of the barbed wire defences, and it is only Chen that infantry can be prudently officered to attack. "The only means of gaining the absolute assurance of the first object attained is to go to the spot, and in these operations British troops aro showing the Germans, as well as the French, something new in the tactics of siege operations. Personally, I think important results will be ob- tained;' Tho sporting aspect of these raids and the indefiniteness of the results thus far made known have puzzled the public, which experts caution against the hope of immediate and sweeping success, as the demolition of defence works is a long operation, and must be effected over a wide front before an advancecan be under- taken. To Issue Sliver Badge. 'The announcement has been made officially in London that his Mttjeuty has approved the issue of a silver war badge for men discharged from the army on account of age or sick- ness. The badge will go to olfioers and men of the British, Ionian and overseas forces who have serval at home or abroad since August 4, '.1911, and who on Mccoutt or age, or physi- cal infirmity arising from wounds or sickness caused by military service, have, in the cane of o"ivers, retired o• relinquished admit: commissions, or, in tine case bf Mien, been dis- charged from the meta',