HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1917-9-13, Page 2Handy Things for the Mortorist and o1` the line js attached to a tree
Occasionally a bucket for carrying or stake directly in front of the car,
water is a much -naiad convenience; and taking the mired othe rope around
.sits the man Who searches the territory the hub•ei wheel the other
around his Car for a'tin can or other is fastened around the wheel by means
receptacle has found. One that is of the manila sling,
Apply power the motion of the
wheal makes a winch of the hub that
gradually pulls the car toward the fix-
ed end of the rope.
A compressed -air starter to. be
readily carried is made of heavy wa-
terproof canvas, with metal frame
members rust -proofed. ,Its capacity
is over a gallon,
PUSSY AND null BIRDS,.
What Shall We Do in Defence of Our
Feathered Friends?
It is asserted on good authority that
the average cat Bills fifty birds per
annum, The cat has"iindeecl become a
very ,serious; economic menace by
reason of its activities as a wholesale
destroyer of the birds that eatthe in-
sect' enemies of the crops, In this in-
direct way cats operate to diminish
our production of foodstuffs by hun,.
deeds of millions of dollars' "Worth an-
nually,
Bet pussies are chronic and incur-
able bird hunters, They killafor mere
sport. Fledglings in the nest are
their helpless and accustomed prey.
But in the rural districts there are
In shape its top is rectangular, withmounted on the front of the Ford m hundreds of thousands of cats that,
pile of the narrow sides bent out to f h starting crank is operated having reverted' to the wild state,
lace
t
facilitate pouring, This shape is said Tlever placed on th•e steering hunt fora living: Trappers in the
y a eve p
to make it easy to handle and easy to iyheel Air pressure is carried in a New England States catch them in
fill from a shallow stream. tank under the rear of the ear and the
Folded the bucket is one-half inch ,nressure is automatically maintained
thick, four inches wide and ten inchesIn this tank by the stater, which also
long "and can be kept under the seat, acts as a pump. This air may be used
or in the door pocket, where it is'for inflating the tires.
quickly available. Folding or open- To save automobilists eye strain
ing the bucket consists merely of a there has been invented a disk of col -
simple motion. , ored glass that can be attached to
Another thing that comes in very windshields with a vaeuunrcup.
!randy and is often needed on long, Among the new automobile locks is
trips is a towline. There is one strong one which, when fastened on a steer -
enough to pull a two -ton car up a 20 , lug column, fastens the steering me -
per cent. grade, yet which can be roll- I chanism, gas and spark controls.
ed tip under the seat out of the way A portable vulcanizer for autotno-
until it is needed. ! bile tires gets its heat from a burner
The outfit weighs complete but four; filled with asbestos, which is satur-
and one-half pounds. It is twenty -later with gasoline or alcohol.
five feet long, made of steel wire! To save weight a new English auto-
twisted into a strand a half inch in' mobile has mud guards like a bicycle
diameter, At each end is a patent- nand single steps instead of running
Large numbers for the fur market,
their pelta fetching from fifty cents
to 52 apiece.
These wild pussies prey upon all
kinds of small'game, such as squirrels
and rabbits. They carry off the farm-
er's chickens.
The cat is presumably of African
origin. It was first domesticated in
Egypt, where the city of Bubastis (be-
tween the arms of the Nile) was dedi-
cated to cats and cat worship. When
a cat died all the members of the fem..;
ily that owned it shaved their eye-
brows, and the sacred animal was em-
balmed and buried with ceremony. In
the Temple of Bubastis, the "fairest in
all Egypt," the sacred cats were clad
in costly robes, and their necks and
ears were hung with jewels and gold -
ed snaffle hook, which fastens into a boards. en ornaments. Great cat cemeteries
th tbalmed and bu
in h ave sen ug
secured around the axle of the car. ry additional baggage an Englishman up within recent years.
Another useful feature claimed for has invented a trailerto be attached There is nothing so cruel as reli-
the device is that a car may be made 1 to the rear corners of a car and he gious superstition, and it is hardly H%HCH !1 Hl.�l
to pull itself out of a mud hole. One supported by a single wheel.
Gas School, Where Soldiers Wearing Masks Are Tested,
pORTtJGLipEn soldiers waiting -their turn at the gas school behind the
British lines in France. The troops go into the gas house or school
wearingtheir masks to see if they canendurethe poisonous gas. If, because
of some physical disability, the soldier cannot stand Bike "attack," other work
than fighting is foundfor,him. The masks they aro: shown weciring in the
'photo are of a new type only recently Invented. The signs on the gas school
indicate the danger of going in without the mask.
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DEEDS OF THE
} surprising to learn that in those days
cats werebl'ic1 li d Lent
HEROISM OF A
CANADIAN g
The g-reatto "backthe land" move-
pu y urns in en ,
In England they were roasted alive in
"BACK TO THE LAND." !brick ovens, as a fgrm of pious cele-
bration, In Metz they were, sacrificed
A :Movement in Britain of Far -Reach- by hundreds in bonfires, and in Flan-
ders they were hurled from high tow-
ers—a custom that survived in Ypres
I went grew out of the national service as late as 1868.
WITH AR,,! BLOWN OFF, CARRJED
MESSAGE TO DESTINATION
Russian Private in Same Battalion
Captured Six Germans and
Their Machine Gun
One of the most heroic deeds put
on record in the Canadian corps since
the war began is that of a runner of
Colonel Ormonder's Alberta battalion.
The company to which he was attach-
ed was hotly engaged near the chalk -
pits, and he was given a message to
take back to the battalion headquar-
ters, oyer ground on which shells were
falling continuously, He had not
gone far when he was seen to fall, and
another runner was at once sent out
with a duplicate of the message. The
second messenger was killed midway
on his journey, but two hours after-
wards the first one arrived at the bat-
talion headquarters with his left arm
blown off near the shoulder. His
terrible wound had been roughly
dressed in the field, and the mes-
senger, far spent from loss of blood,
had then staggered on to do his duty.
He was removed in a dying condition,
but he carried his message to its
destination.
Resourcefulness of a Russian
A fine example of bravery very and re-
sourcefulness was given by a Russian
private in the same battalion. As
the platoon to which he belonged ap-
proached the chalk pits they came!
under machine gun fire. The Russian, 1
going forward, found the muzzles of �
two machine guns sticking out of the.
entrance to a dugout. One of them was'
in action, • sweeping the line of ad -1
vance. To gtet in front of it, the only;
way of tackling the crew, meant in -1
stant death. A piece of planking lay,
nearby. To the Russian it was a
heaven-sent weapon. With it he
struck the protruding gun barrels so
hard a blow that they and their crews
went clattering down to the bottom
of the dugout, whence came cries of
"Kamerad, kamerad," At that mo-
ment a rifle bullet struck the elbow
of the Russian and deprived him of
the use, of one arm. Holding his rifle
with is fixedbayonet,
a
tthe charge,
in one hand, he Ordered the Germans
to come lip. They came, an officer and,
five men, who were duly turned in'
with their machine guns.
Veal has been 'barred from the t
tables of hotels in the United States,
awakening. The merciless sinking of Now the cat is coming into its own
food ships brought England bang up again. It is no longer worshipped,
against the alternative that she must but it rivals the dog in the affection
cultivate more ground or face inter -
capable
upon itaithough it is in-
mittent crises so long as the U-boats capable of entertaining real affection
for any human being. We have cat
ravaged the seas,
clubs, cat magazines, •cat homes and
One of the first things that the new
Food Director did was to issue the cat shows Not long ago in Berlin a
newspaper printed
following dramatic appeal: the following
"ad."
"To all plowmen and workers on "Wanted, by a lady of rank, for
the land: adequate remuneration, a few well -
"In the trenches, German shells behaved and respectably dressed chit;
come over on Sunday - as on week- dren, to amuse a eat in delicate health,
days!
"German submarines are _just as o or three hours every day,"
ac-
tive on Sundays as on any other day! APPLAUD HEROIC TEACHER.
"The enemy takes NO HOLIDAYS.
TIe uses every hour to destroy your Who Conducted School in Bombard -
country and kill your- brothers. ed Rheims Cellar,
"Will you not work every hour from
daybreak to dark, week -day and Sun- Mile. Fourcaux, the heroic school
day, for the next few weeks? Your mistress of Rheims, who continued to
work now may make just the differ- teach her young charges in a cellar
ence between winning the war and los- during the bombardment of the city,
ing it. which still suffers more or less in -
"Put in your best work. Inferior tensely from German shells, was
work means poor crops." warmly applauded recently by her fel-
So deeply was the country . stirred low teachers at a congress in Paris of
over the farm situation that clergy- friendly societies connected with the
men not only preached the gospel of scholastic profession. A moving re -
Sunday plowing from the pulpit, but ference was made to the large number
went out in the fields on Sunday after- of schoolmasters who "have fallen
noon and `worked with their hands gloriously on the field of honor in de -
themselves. fence of the country."
In order to speed up things hun- Women workers have readily found
dreds of tractors were introduced on employment in France during the war
the farms. The British farmer for in many departments formerly reserv-
the first time in his life is using the ed to men. Their activity now ex -
latest scientific aids to farming tends to the Hotel de Ville and
other
Not the least interesting phase was muhicipal .offices controlled by M. De.
the commandeering of a host of wo- lanney, Prefect of the Seine, who has
men farm workers. They wear over- given clerical posts to 2,600 wives or
ells and have become very efficient. ' daughters of soldiers
More ground is under cultivation in Many of these, who have now be -
Great Britain to -day than at any other come widows or orphans, would have
time in its history. Although the been unable to subsist on their mea-
country can never raise enough wheat gre pensions. In the city service
and corn to sustain itself, she has at their` earnings .average six francs
least taken out definite insurance daily, and to this is added a further
againstefuture shortage in the grain one franc 50 centimes daily to meet
import.
the .increased cost of living, The wo-
men have given such complete satis-
faction that their positions will be
Have you ever tried growing cover permanent even after the war, and
crops among your vegetables? The thustheir independence is assured.
supply of humus can be increased at a
minimum cost by sowing winter vetch
or crimson clover with sweet corn, to-
matoes, cucumbers, melons, eggplant,
peppers, and the like.
"To wash in one of God's rivers in
the open air seems to me a sort of
cheerful solemnity, or semipagan act
of worship. To dabble among dishes
n one's bedroom may, perhas,
cleanse the body, but the imagination
akes no share in such cleansing." --R.
L. Stevenson.
To disinfect a sink, pour down a
galldn of bailing water mixed with
two tablespoonfuls of soda and a tea-
spoonful of ammonia. This will dis-
solve all greasy matter in both sink
and pipe.
-Avoid wetting the leaves in water-
ing cucumbers.
In order to keep a paint brush clean,
when it is not in use, a wire clip has
been invented which holds the brush
out of the paint in a can.
RIVAL FEATS/OF CRUSADERS
OF THE,OLDFW DAYS
Perform Miracles of Daring Over
German Lines, Fighting
Single -Handed
"One of our men went out to attack
an enemy airdrome," writes a war cor-
respondent. "He found the machine
just about to rise, so he dived and his
fire wrecked it. Ile then circled
round and continued to shatter the
wreckage. He made a"tour of the
airdrome, firing into the sheds from
the level roof. He went away and
found a German battery in action. He.
stopped and fired, along • the line of
guns, silencing the lot. Then he sat
on the battery five 'minutes, lest they
should recommence firing. . He used
the remainder of his ammunition on
the enemy trenches.
"Another airman took the first
enemy airdrome, then a battery, then
a train and finally the infantry.
trenches at Polygon Wood. Another
had the luck to find a large body of
troops ready. He went along above
them, firing into hidden ditches and a
wood - road which was dotted with
dead. .,
Silenced Batteries
Another spent some time ,in alti-
tudes of from fifty to 100 feet and
found three enemy machines getting
ready to start from- their airdrojne,
so he wrecked them.all. Then he
found a wagon and horses on the road.
He shot both horses. He next visiit-
ed. the railway station, shot the guard
on duty and finished up by attacking
and stampeding a column of horse
transport.
"Another airman flew up and down
the main street of Zonnebeke at a
height of 500 feet, firing on the troops
which covered the street till they had
all taken to cover. Then he visited the
train and railway siding. Then find -
'ng a battery firing he silenced that
nd dived on, and raided trenches on
the way home.. Another started by
visiting an airdrome, where be bomb-
ed a group of machines in the ground.
He fired into the sheds, went off and
found a railway siding full of troops
waiting for a train, He scattered
them and returned 'to'the airdrome,
One machine was just rising, so he at-
tacked it and crashed it to the ground,
A second rose, but he attacked that
also. When only twenty feet up it
sideslipped likewise and crashed down,
As he left a machine gun opened fire
on him, so he went for that and silenc-
ed it."
"But I have so many things to do,"
s the usual excuse for procrastina-
tion. -
- MY LAD.
Take his brain and brawn, my Country,
Poi: thy need,
Let him fight; and if he must,
Let him bleed.,„,*
Take his valiant spirit, God;
Tt was given ' e
As a free and gracious gift:.
For life leaven.
Take his broken body, Earth,
It is thine.
Sinew, strength and fair young flesh
Firm and fine.
But, 0 Justice, loose your bandage!
Doff it now!
Bind it close about his eyes,
Round his brow!
Lest brutality should scorch him
Soon to die;
Hot brutality that sickens
A young eye.
Ay, be merciful, and blind him
In the fight.
Lest red hatred scar and warp him,
Sear his sight!
Let him keep his friendly, human,
Kindly soul!
Lethimdie with genial heart
Warm and whole!
-Helen Coale Crew.
WS FACE.
At the Supper in Simon's House an
Unknown Disciple Sees a Vision.
"It was in the house of Simon that
I first saw Jesus," says "An Unknown
Disciple," who relates an ancient tale
in the Nation.
"It was not its beauty that chained
my eyes, though it was a face beauti.
ful to look upon. Nor was it the light
in the eyes, though that rejoiced the
heart. It was thetranquility
of the
face that held me; a tranquility, not of
sloth or emptiness, but of surety; the
tranquility of one who rested in a
certainty greater than _ other Menknew. ' -
"'That man has Hthe secret of life,'
I thought, andas if I had -spoken the
words aloud the man's eyes turned,
and his gaze met mine.
"There was something in the look
that stirred my soul. The tranquility
did not leave his face, but there came.
a questioning into his eyes, and then a
wistfulness that melted me to pity.
"'He is lonely,' I thought. 'Ile
seeks friends. He asks somewhat of
nye:' And my heart leapt within me.
The eyes held .mine for a moment,and
then some man spoke and he turned to
answer.
"I do not remember the next thing.
I was like a man who sees a vision, .in
a crowd and straightway forgets all
but his vision,"
In the base of a new shaving mug
is a lamp to heat the water,
The trade in dried shark meat and
fins at Aden! Arabia, has increased
since the beginning of the war.
STORIES FROM
THE FIRING LINE
STIRRING TALES 'OF HEROISM
' AND SACRIFICE.
Modest and Refiring Are Our 'Brave
Men and Not Prone, to Speak
Of Their Adventures.
Modest is the hero of the laid raid,
trench attack or of the ambulance,
and details of their adventures must permit they people -to'use wheat bread
be > thorn. StSl ories literally squeersomeed out of to the extent they formerly have, the
got cwt, times told laws and regulations have ro uh'od
to, their superior pincers; sometimes that other cereals or vegetables hould
livedcent over again perhaps in a reminia be mixed with wheat flour,
cent way mouths after. One of the
most pathetic and admirable comrade- In havgland rice, barley and Indian
ships of the British "Tommy" was re- corn have bean the most important in:
counted by'g Canadian officer in meds- gredionts,used as adulterants;' On the
ca] cervico in a letter written Homo. V Continent, however, a considerable
"I had been ordered forward" he variety of vegetables have been used,'
writes, "and high explosives were. and In Germany it is said that the
breaking all around, but ultra did not chemists/have discovered a treatment
for certain kinds 'of wood pulp which
prevent us from forcing our, way past makes it possible to use it as an ndul•
what had been the first line German
tranches: We knew ' theref were -tbrant, 'Wood bread, it Is needless to
wounded about, and as the'shell fire say, ig not particularly popular, ' de.
increased, I was hit.' When 1 camp to spite the assurance of the scientists
my face was badly torn by flying frag- that it as a first class food.
menta and I fel as 11 1 had had a diad Allies Look to America.
shave. I crawled into a shell holo and America will make no mistake if it
found two wounded men. They had takes early note of Europe's expert.
Deem there four days with nothing to ,ences with this problem of bread,
} advises an English -writer, for just as
certainly as the war lasts two years
*longer, and quite possibly long before
while the otherwas not seriously hurt, that time, America will -be casting
about for m
We got them back all right: I asked . eans to splice out its sup-
the man why he didn't try to save him-- ply of breadstuffs. Doubtless the
self and he said, pointing to his tom- United States and Canada will always
rade, 'I couldn't leave ani, sir." Ha be able to provide themselves 'amply
will probably get a modal for that." with foodstuffs. But they will dis-
- cover, -as England and France and
How They Got Even: Italy and even Russia have discovered
The' Canadians hate snipers. Se- that -when a errantry gots ireally into
cluded perhaps- half a mile from the the war it cannot be sufficient unto it-
trenchee, • where they could not be self, North America; agriculture will
seen, the snipers would pick off the have to contribute very heavily to
men. ,The only way the'score could be ward the maintenance of the Euro-
evened
uro.
evened up was by retaliation. This pean allies, and the time will come
they accomplished in rather a novel when these contributio�ns will make It
way. The trenches then were only necessary seriously to consider how
thirty-five yards apart, and a Canadian to stretch the food -supply •d'ver home
officer installed a phonograph on the requirements:
parapet and set it going. Soon Ger-
man heads bobbed up along the line, vantageThe overnitedStateany has of the European
only to be met with a sharp fire from countries. except Italy in this regard
the Canadians, because of the established taste for
During the activity at Ypres in tie earn bread. Unfortunately 101' Eng -
early part of the war that city' received land and Prance, they were never
such punctual bombardment from Ger-willing to learn the tastefulness of
man artillery that classes of new of- 'Properly. prepared corn. If the Eng-
lish people were willing today to use
daily or weekly to observe the city , corn bread and griddle cakes on the
under fire. They were nicknamed breakfast table to the extent they are
"Cook's Tourists." The 'Germans 1 used in America it would be umroces-
ware so systematic that it could be `sard to mix cord meal with wheat
determined .wben and where the next flour. Theresult would be that good
shell would strike. The first ahell corn bread could be eaten at break
would be sent at a spot on the rim of fast and indeed at .other meals and
Ypres, the next two hundred yards genuine wheat bread would be pos-
deeper, until all structures in such a sible at other times. As it is, the only
line would be demolished, The guns, way to get the Britishers to eat corn
i _ is to disguise it in the mixture with
wheat flour, .with the result that the
combination is thoroughly undesir-
able. It doesn't possess the nutritive
quality. nor the tastefulness of either
wheat bread or corn bread,
Need of Culinary Reform.
Much attention has been devoted
gin, Canadian soldiers would write in lately by serious minded people to the
Charcoal on a slab of wood "Business necessity for culinary reform in Eng.
To -day as Usual" and fix it on that land. For many 'years travelled Bug -
parapet so the Germans would have lishmen and particularly English -
something to expect, women" have been pointing out that.
The British trenches in France are these islands live an about the most
so arranged that dressing or first aid monotonous' and least varied dier'of
country in the world.
atregular inter- anyenlightened o y
stations are,situated eg g
vals a short distance in the -rear. An The French and `Italians know more
officer in• the medical service and in about good cooking and how to make
charge of one of these stations tells the most of materials available, than
the story of the death 'of his servant, perhaps' anybody else'in:Europe; and
who insisted on following him from there is the authority of good and
Canada to the front - patriotic English experts for the
"We had Worked together,"said the statement that ,thes'Snglislt seem to
officer, "from the beginning of the war know less.
and had learned to fall flat on our face The use of fresh fruit in iingland is
when we heard a shell coming, He particularly 111nited, This seems a
was always by my side. On this par curious Pact considering that England
tioulez day' we had -been ordered for, has for generations been a heavy in-
ward, and the high eliplosives were' porter of all kinds of foods, It would
coming like bail. One large shell seem natural that the country should
came screaming in our direction and have learned to levy upon the fruit
we Were impelled to drop, It explod supplies of the whole world as it has
ed with tremanjious force, and for an upon the meat and•"cereal resources.
instant I thought it was, all otter. I But it lids not learned the lesson. "The
got up, and there at my feet he lay, a art or refrigeration is very- poorly de-
torn mase of humanity: The whole veloped, and there is -only limited and
impact of the flying shell struclr.him inadequate cold storage capacity in,
squarely. He had saved my life." - the country. The need of more cold
storage and of its mere scientific utl-
lization is now owning to be"fu'ily
realized for the first time,
WAR , BREAD CAUSE
OF MUCH WORRYING
IN GERMANY WOOR ,PULL' IS
USED WITH FLOUR,
,Rice, Barley, Indian Corn and Some
vegetables Are Now Employed_
ASAdulterants.
War.' bread has been giving, the
people' of all the European eountriee a
vast„ampnnt ef- worry' lately, - ;It ie
made in different wars in different
countries, but the theory of 114 pretty
much the same everywhere, Inas-
much as there is not enough whesit to
eatbu4. flteir emergency rations.
"One of the men was so badly
Rounded that he could not move,
.would then be shifted .and the adjoin-
ing
djo n
ing buildings torn to pieces,"and so on
until the whole city was thoroughly
raked.
"Greater Love Hath No Man."
In the early morning, just before the
'dally British bombardment would be -
Wooden forks for picnickers that
are— ealed in sanitary paper envelopes
are a novelty.
A tree has bean discovered in Aus-
tralia the
ustrajia.the loaves of which yield an oil
from which camphor can be made.
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Fish and Sea Food.
The waters of our coasts and lakes
are enormously rich in food fish and
shellfish. ',Our streams, too, contri-
bute a great quantity of fish, Many
varieties are now not used for human
food but are thrown away or used for
fertilizer, Habit has confined our
use .of fish to a few varieties, and in-
adequate methods of commercial hand-
ling have limited our use of these
largely to only certain cloys in the
week. With bettor marketing facili-
ties,
a ilities, with better understanding of how
to use the, most varieties, with proper
preservation by smoking and salting'
and by establishing plants for frozen
fish, wo can increase greatly our sup-
ply and thus relieve largely the pens-
sure due to the inadequate supply of
moat We only have to harvest our
own fish stlpply, It feeds itsolf. Every
fish eaten le that much gained in salty
ing the present problem of living,
The products of the land are con-
served by eating those of the sea.
Buy perishable food and.eat ploiby
of it --but don't waste it: