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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1917-12-13, Page 2Make Your Car Lasting. "There are meter car owners who sometimes wonder why their cars do E not last as long or give as much ! satisfaction es an automobile of the same make owned by a friend or an I acquaintance," says an expert. "The trouble with the average motor cai• owner is that he fails to realize that the automobile is a piece of very fine machinery and that it will render service in proportion to the at- tention it receives. It is not human ad will not cry out when abused. 'elle car owner should remember that evashing the body does not clean the motor; that tightening the nuts ainl b y • those under the car any tighter; that oil placed in the motor does not mean that onscan neglect the clutch, trans- mission or rear c.xle. "We recommend certain things which every factory indorses, because we have found from experience that they will bring the best results. Do not make changes or 'improvements' without first consulting , the dealer from whom you have bought the car, for there may be strong objections to these changes of which you are not aware. "If the motor car owner will re- ligiously observe these rules and give his automobile conscientious care it will be easy for him to get long and satisfactory service." How 'Po Loeato Engine 'Freebies. "While hunting for some obscure en- gine trouble keep constantly in mind the five -fold nature of the problem," says an expert "Four conditions aro absolutely necessary for an engine to start and one more to keep it eunnina. "The first four may be classed as ignition, compression, carburetion and lubrication, The last is cooling, Given the five conditions above nothing but an overload can stop the engine, If they are faulty the engine loses power, If they are deficient the engine will not run. "Lubrication may be -tested very easily by cranking by hand. Note if the crank turns easily without drag. There will be more or less stiffness in a new engine, which must be onside). - ed. Compression may be tested the same way. As each cylinder comes on compression it resists and shows a certain springiness or tendency to spring back, which is characteristic of good compression. "To distinguish between ignition and carburetion troubles prime engine with gasoline, either through the com- pression cocks or by removing spark plugs, Crank engine to start it. If it refuses to start ignition trouble is indicated. If it starts and stops carburetion trouble is shown. "Having eliminated above factors start engine and watch for overheat- ing. This will be shown by steam at radiator, smoky engine, loss of power, pre-ignition and knocking." hcurs were amazed to find that the oo ontrol Corner as b k SUN Han TO DISPLACE COAL. WORK OF bag In band, at beedquarters the off,- Fd C Question of Turning Sun's Energy Into Commercial Thiet$, Will it mi. be possible to turn into energy for industrial and commercial uses the vast amount of potential en- ergy in the solar radiation from desert surfaces? James Fairgrieve, a mem- ber of the faculty of the University of London, considers this question in his beok on "Geography and World Pow- er," in which he says: "In the hot dee sert of the Sahara, with clear sky and virtually no ram for years at a time, there is no vegetation and man has not been able to live; but ff it could be possible to use directly the energy of solar radiation, which continuously • from sunrise to sunset batters the lame in little less amount thin in lower latitudes, another region which is now vacant would be able to support great I populations and would become of -ex- traordinary import:ewe. Here, on an area comparable to that .of Greater London, is yearly directed as much ; solar energy as could be produced by ' complete combustion of the total , amount of mat annually mined in Brie , , tain. Experiments have been made with engines which give a high ther- ; mal efficiency, but it is too early to say whether or not the first steps which will lead to a great revolution have been taken. This is certain: That the nearer the equator one goes the greater the potentialities of saving energy; that there are supplies of en- ergy upon which we may draw when coal is exhausted, and that sooner or later these supplies of energy will be used. With their use, if the past is any criterion of the future, there must come an inevitable change in the dis- tribution of mankind—in habits of life and in all those matters which profoundly influence the course of his- tory." WOMEN PHYSICIANS IN THE 'HOSPITALS WITHIN THEWARZONE. WAR ZONE. "Angels of Mercy" Face Death From Shell Fire and Disease at the Front. - a On a wild and almost impassable Continent alone, ranging in size from road in the Macedonian mountains a 100 to 000 beds, are fully staffed by • ell'uld be needed for butter, it is correspondent of Le Figaro recently women, the moat important locations : recommended that the matter be re- reported he met an automobile driven back from the first-line trenches end , considered, The Committee states by a gracious and smiling young wo- graveat mess being given over to : that ice-cream, while of food value, is man, one of the staff of the Scottish them, and highest tribute paid themnot an essential f ood arid no hard- ! Women's Hospitals, with headquarters by the "director generals of the hos- t ship would be caused to the public by at Salonica, onthe prohibition of its use if necessity section of which is in pitals of the Allied envies as to the i leoctor --they I )ad Ca11 0d • out W a woman' "Y wl'11 aye to go °c The Milk Committee of the Food home; no woman is allowed in this Controller's Office has considered the service," they told her, despite the faet question of whether the manufactere that the wounded were already pour- ice-eream should bo prohibited on ing in, taxing the capacity of the hos- a menet tef the need for animal fate at pital. "But wait—loll up your s Gov and help we emeenepy aeeeeye, the present time, The Committee. And now, these years later, she is still Pointe out that the question is not a pressing one at this season bemuse at work, only officially now, side by the 'argot part of the trade in ice.. side with her men colleagues'having ' mearn is carried on between the woe bigh honors through expert skill and heavy responsibilities. I months .of May and October. If the situation should develop in which Now ten military hospitals on the everounce 'of cream and butter fat arose. In the meantime, it is sug. the mountains. Upon visiting their high standard of work, low death rate ! gested that the manufaetueer will • encampment in a wild and desolate 'and general hospital administration, spot on the Cornia River, he found the I and finding substitutes for cream ENGLAND'S HALL OF FAME. have an opportunity of experimenting hospital was not only founded by wo- I the manufacture of ices. in • men, but that all posts from surgeon - in -chief, doctors, orderlies and chauf- • Madame Tussaud's Waxworks Include The report explains that in the sum- feurs were held by them. In fact, the A1I Celel»otios. mac months there is a large surplus of milk resulting from increased pro - only capacity which a man could fill In France, it has been said, the de- duction when the cows are at pasture was that of patient, an honor that risive test of a rising favorite's pope- and by decreased consumption during wounded Russians, Frencheand Serbs larity is that his image in gingerbread the vaeation'eeason. and English ware gratafuljysharing shallcity baaaars and at This surplus cannot be utilized in For here, undaunted by the almost countfairs. In England it is the ad- the ,cities by direct consumption, and impassable roads, the desolation and dition of his effigy to Mme. Tussaud's yet the milk dealer under the contract primitive conditions, the now famous Waxworks. To this English Hall of system in vogue is required to take Scottish Women's Hospitals had set Fame the London newspapers report care of this ourplus. .The manufac- ' up one of the units in tents with many that Gen. Pershing, commander of the hire- of ice-cream from the surplus of the activities carried on hi the open United States' forces in France; has milk produced during the summer ' air. Here be saw a well-equipped just been admitted. His waxen image, enables the dealer to avoid a loss !operating TOM, kitchen and laundry, in correct uniform and posed with a which he would otherwise have to with tented dormitories and mosquito properly military air, is the present make up by a reduction in the price I bars for the flies in summer and crude centre 'of attraction in . the Tussaud •paid for milk to producer, or else by ' stoves for cold weather. Without the , Gallery, and it evokes many compile an increase in the price charged to women's ambulances, Which went di- ' ments to the general's indubitable the consumer. ' irect from this unit to the first line, I good looks and confident prophecies of The revenue from the sale of ice - the wounded would have otherwise had what will be his achievements in the cream, comae for the most pelt from to be carried on mule back twelve to ewe. those who are able to pay. The value fifteen hours, • • The famobs Wiaxwoeks- were first of the ice-cream trade, therefore, lies THE ROLE OF BRITAIN'S NAVY. SOUR MILK BY VIOLET RAYS. World's Commerce Would Have Been Method of Treating Milk Used by the Paralyzed Without Its Aid. Bulgarians. HUNTED BY AN ELEPHANT. Thrilling 'Experience Described by a Celebrated Hunter. The hunter and taxidermist, Mr. Mr, Lloyd George, in moving the It has always been commonly believe resolutions of parliamentary approval, Carl E. Akeley, who has spent a ed that milk curdles owing to the rightly characterizes the British navy great deal of painstaking effort in pre- change of temperature and that by us- es a great anchor of the Allied cause, paring the wonderful animal groups at ing ice this difficulty would be over - It has held fast when other seemingly the American Museum of Natural come, according to Dr. Humbert Buz - secure resources on which the firmest History, is known throughout South rent in the Electrical Experimenter, dependence was placed, have given Africa as an elephant hunter. Be has but this precaution does not take away way. It has done ite work largely in had many thrilling experiences, one the primal cauee. While germs in silence and always under conditions of of which he describes in the New milk remain latent under the unfavor- •h extraordinary stress and strain, York Sun as follows: The recital of the navy's service, re- Elephants are no more conspicuous gree, they develop inimediately upon , until one of the women cleverly de- duced to its simplest terms, is in a in their own country than jack rabbits being brought in contact with light . vised one of tomato cans soldered to - high degree. impressive. It is due to are in theirs. They are the color of and a more productive environment 1gether." Yet these instances were this bulwark of the empire that in the shadows in the forest and almost The moment ultra violet rays come I only typical of the endless minor ab - defiance of the U-boats soma 5000 ves- as indistinguishable. Intelligence and in contact with the infinitesimal life . stades which these women surgeons vindictiveness are two of their most development .begins and while it is' and doctors overcame by sheer grit i e prominent characteristics. When one true that some microbes are destroY- and determination. When forced to knows he is being hunted he will lie in ed by the ultra violet rays, it has been evacuate their camps in retreat with wait, still as a rock, and looking much found that the inferior organisms . armies by the advance of the enemy, like one, and will hunt his hunter as a generally develop more rapidly under as repeatedly hao a ea y happened in dog hunts a rat, the influence of these rays. I Serbia, Belgium and other Allied Her fortunate career was violently I had cut a big bull out from a herd The milk of the Bulgarians, well countries, their burdens and responsi- and terribly interrupted about the time and was following his spoor, knowing known all over the world for its sepal:- , bilities in caring for their gravely of her marriage. The French Revolu- 11 h that h lying " wait , for nutritive quality, is made by expos- !wounded and desperately ill patients tion broke out; the Terror swept- to Women's Initiative. exhibited more than a century ago— in 'the fact that the revenue obtained a hundred and thirteen years, to be from this source enables the dealers to sell milk which is in demand by all, including the poorer classes, at a low- er price than that at which they would be able to sell it if they had not some protection against loss on a heavy sur- plus of milk. Some of the harassing difficulties exact—and were successful from the encountered by these units were re- beginning. Mme. Marie Tussaud, born counted by Miss Kathleen Burke of Grosholtz, the daughter of a Swiss these same. Scottish women's units, in officer, was an able and intelligent wo- a recent address. "When tents arrive man; she had enjoyed both royal and ed from England; it was found no imperial patronage in -France, and tent poles were sent," she related. soon won that of the court in England. "Whereupon the women chopped down Much of her youth she had spent in Ecclesiastical Confectionery. trees, hauled them to the camp and set Paris as assistant in the atudio of an up their own. Again, with the stoves uncle who modelled in wax the cele- One Sunday a young man from the sent out there were no stovepipes. To brities of the day. She won the friend- north of Scotland, while waking out devise a makeshift seemed hopeless ship of many of these distinguished with his sweetheart,- noticed over a doorway the sign, "Dairy and Confec- men, among whom were Voltaire, tioner." Wishing to give the young Dick -nit, Rousseau, Mirabeau, and the lady a treat, the youth entered the two Americans then in the heyday of their Parisian vogue, John Paul. Jones shop and asked for chocolate - creams. "I dinna sell chocolate creams on and Benjamin Franklin. She soon took up modelling herself, for which the Sabbath," said the old lady behind she showed remarkable aptitude, and the counter severely. "But ye sett sweeties to the woman was engaged to give lessons in the art, then in -tamer with amateurs, to Mme, that has just gane oot," said the Elisabeth, sister of King Louis XVI. young fellow, who indeed had seen the transaction through .the window. "Ay, some ecclesiastical confection- ery, but nae chocolate creams," said the lady, and went on to explain; "Ec- clesiastical confectionery is pepper- mint drops, pan drops 'and time lozengers, but nae chocolate creams." ea sels are entering or leaving British ports each week. There have been transported 13,000,000 men with a loss of about 3500; and supplies to the amount of 130,000,000 tons have been carried, in .which .51,000,000 tons of coal and oil and 25,000,000 tons of ex- plosives principally figure. Eager for opportunities of fighting in the open, the British navy has had for me somewhere. The big beast, as ing it to the sun, the rapid develop- en route with their hospital equipment the scaffold many of the witty gentle- the- infinitely harder and more wear- it turned out afterwards, got my wind ment of the germs under the action of Piled in oxcarts immeasurably in- men and lovely ladies who had been er ing task of a vigilant patrol main- as. I was stalking him, and was search- the ultra violet rays being such that creased. hpatrons at court. Often she was mg for me. when it becomes dry they are in high- Russian Military Cross. 1 given the ghastly commiesion, which tamed while enemy ships remained in harbor. Whatever the ultimate critic- al estimate of the battle of Jutland, it I must have got within ten or twen- ly concentrated form. "Then it was that, pushing along she chired not decline, of executing in ty feet of him, because I remembered was the one -chance the Germans have afterwards that I heard a swift rush given their foes in the North Sea, and but did not catch sight -of him coin - their careful abstinence from provoke ing. The first I knew of his presence ing another battle like it is an elo- was a quick vision of his trunk as he quent commentary on their attitude. knocked me down. Then I caught one It is entirely true. as the Prime glimpse of his little eyes as he curled Minister has said. that the British up his trunk out of the way and tried ships have kept the marine highwaysito impale me with his tusks. clear for the world's commerce, which I had just time to grasp a tusk without their aid would have been with my left hand and twig myself paralysed. It is not only the great so that my body was between the two vessels of war that have held open the ' shafts of ivory. I felt the impact of seas; no tribute is commensurate his tusks as they dug into the ground with the deserts of those who, with the on either side of me, and his heavy mine -sweepers and the various small nose crushed against my chest. That auxiliary ships, have done their part is all I remember. and claimed no credit, in a most has- My hunter fortunately shot him ardous and yet monotonous employ- dead as he was preparing for another most. The men at sea do most of thrust. I was unconscious as they their work secretly and silently; no carried me to the camp, where I lay inkling escapes into the press. The for three months, with my chest so soldier of the land is not wholly cut crushed that it was doubtful whether off from reassuring human contacts, or not I should live. The honor that attaches to the service of the nation in war is greet enough for the twofold apportionment, at, through deep mud, the women often wax the portrait of a severed head. Military Pay. literally put their shoulders to the The leads of Denton, Marat and Ro- Tone and Joe quarrelled; The Canadian private soldier is the wheel," said Miss Burke. "One unit bespierre she modelled tires from the I've heard people tell, millionaire of fighters, He gets in retreating with the Russian army dreadful originals. Sometimes the task About a queer animal $33,45 a month on foreign service. found its progress blocked by a brok- was even a sadder one: to portray the Hid in a shell. The French soldier gets $1.50 a month. en bridge. The soldiers near it stood features of some former patroness, "I tell you, it walks, sir!" The Russian soldier receives 32 cents about, good-naturedly uncertain as to whose head she last remembered car- Said Tommy to Joe; , a month, and on the present basis of what to do. Undaunted by the fact ried with pride above a throat circled "It swims!" cried Joe loudly, value received is strongly suspected that the bridge was under direct shell- , with jewels; some young princess or "I've seen, and I knowl" of being overpaid at that, The Aus- fire, the women set to work with au. countess who had fluttered curiously "It walks!"—"No, it swims!"— t b'l lets and mended it so that about her studio like a rich butterfly. And the boys grew quite wroth. But the turtle peed out, Saying, "I can do both!" Save Ferns from Blight If blight is noticed on the tender growing tips of fern leaves some- times causing many leaflets a:long the main stem to die, bum the diseased parts and spray the rest with Bor- deaux mixture. Bordeaux mixture is made by dis- solving two level tablespoonfuls of oopper sulphate (bluevitriol) in water, and then mixing the solutions and diluting with water to make a gallon of mixtu re . A Queer "Animal." trian soldier gets 73 cents a month. Even the British "Tommy" gets only their own patients and 100 ambulances I In spite of her discretion she fell $7.00, Japanese soldiers are being of the Reagan army crossed to safes under suspicion, and was imprisoned, paid 38 a year. Turks get 92 cents a ty. For this act of valor the Russian She found favor with a fellow prison - month. Italy pays 0.83. , Government awarded the Russian er, Josephine de Beauharnais, and ea-- ;Military Cross to every woman in the 'after the rise of Napoleon, this lady, IPoultry houses should be disinfected unit. One of the women died later become the Empress Josephine, ac- ' once a month—everY two weeks is bet- . from wounds received there." -corded court patronage to Marie Tus- . . ter. 1 Yet it isn't alone shellfire, capture sand once more andtee oinduce her "The capability of quiet humor is or personal privations that these to give up the idea of going to Eng- ter across the place where the P105- just the quality that the surmounting heroic women doctors face. Typhus land. But Mme. Tuesaud had seen sime is felt most, at:aging the eloth of many difficulties will give a man." and other contagious diseases that too much in Paris and sheas soon as it becomesecool, This will could not be make the leather hape itself to the —Stewart Edward White. rage in the stricken countries, abetted dissaaded. foot by starvation and . privation of whole I • In England she lived and prospered In storing the farm implements in rations, have already claimed a heavy , until the age of ninety, bright-eyed, The Cultivation of Flax. the tool tilled it will pay to arrange The Tartarian alphabet contains In the report of the proceedings of them in such order as will save time toll from them. "When we lost from quick-witted, full of good stories and the convention of Canadian Flee and effort next spring - by =lane; . typhus seven of our women in a single thrilling reminiscences, a charm202 letters,ing being the longest in the ' • ' week in one hospital contracted during woman to the last. As for the gallery world. that she founded and that still bears The average duration of life in her name, it became scarcely less than towns is 88 yeaes; in the country 65 a national institution of her adopted Years' . country. Teach elle children to take natural .-----.: sweets aseemind in miens, prunes and Rural Development. other sweet fruits. - Honey is a whole.. The report on Rural Planning and some sweet and may be given to' chil- dren occasionally with whole Wheat. bread. Malt sugar or maltose may be eaten freely without injury, If the child has a well-balanced diet he is less likely to have an abnormal de- sire for sweets. —Agnes Lewis Mitchell, When Shaes Pinch. To prevent new shoos from pinch- ing lay a cloth moistened in hot wa- Growers held in the spring at London, Ont., just published, full information is furnished as to the present situa- tion regarding the cultivation, pre- paration and use of flax. Valuable papers by authorities on the subject those iis needede . a y , , the typhus epidemic that we woe "To shape a human body and mind, then lighting in Serbia," said Miss a new little hunian body and mind, Burke, "five hundred women at home for good—in place, perhaps, of one in fifteen days volunteered to take that has gone—there can be no great- er war work than that."—Baisl , their places." High Standard of Work. are given, as well as a full report of Clarke, discussions that took place and at Don't forget to mP3' lisichm to get actively in war ser- trim ss on ark the yearling The story goes that the first woman Development just published by the • h 'd' • Co i i of Conservatioli ie an that which much of valuable import was hens this fall so you can distin- v . elicited. The publication, which makes guish them from theParis,4,ecewho, pullets next sum- , epoch -marking work and should be in the hands of all public-spirited citizens rivecl official min that fatal Augustobilization of f interested in. this imporeant problem mem when culling the flock. A band ' s at mi n g o raper a once around one leg serves the purpose. et , 191 3 ht t t t a work of 64 pages, can be had free on application to the Publications Branch, Department of Agriculture, at Ottawa. Illetle,e4elealeame deka 16eree MI coRtsEr, tow v.iwc - \IOU Ifelfeel AeleUT t.. e.- 1113 .1,4,10.04.194. seldom paw: to keep a fowl beyond two laying seaeons. der al ...MAGS,Onsts. salte.i,e4eele for duty, When she appeared, kit and of national policy. 014 '14E1.E14, sea WHAT Foatele- I THOUGHT ThISTHU4G )4AD BEEN 114ROY414 1.014G AGO .'LL-l1ShOULD IAAvE 33E5-14 THE KINGDOM OF DESOLATION SHELL -WEPT RUINS OF FAIR FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE. Causeless and Brutal Destruction 'of Property is Not War But Crime. The skeleton of a man is a grue- some thing to centemplate. But the skeleton of a whole town le‘ the moat .appalling sight that the mind 0310n conceive. Picture a tremendous area 01 jagged walls, ' spectral chimneys, debrM-littered streets, rat-infeated ruins, yawning cellars. Imagine it as devoid of human life. Consider that not a bird sings from tbe leafless and shell -torn trees. I have seen scores of such phantom towns and villages, says a writer. The effect of the first levastated town is startlipg, but after one has ridden past scores of them through a country in which even the grass no longer rows, the sensation acquired is ra- ther one of utter bleakness. The weary eye turns from one scene of ruin to another wilderness of devast- ation at some other point of the com- pass. - Desolation Is Supreme. The absence of human life, of even a dog or a cat, in these ruins where the sun floods on pleasant days and the rain drives drearily during the interminable weeks of bad weather makes- their weathea-beaten walls more sepulchral in appearance. The village church always reeve some jagged peak upward as if even in its desolation it would Maintain a semblance of the spire that makes the sky line of the average French .vil- lage so cniaintly beautiful. But it ie only a shell. Its altar is buried under crumbling masonry and shell -riven debris. Next door is a peasant'e home, its hearthstone revealed to the curi- ous eye through the ruined walls. The villagers are gone. "The ashes of their fires are grown cold and gray." Desolation is supreme. "War" a elleaomer. "It is war," they say. What folly! Is it war to shoot the heart out of a beautiful old cathedral that has no strategic value? Is it war to go to the trouble of blowing up heaven knows how many hundred sweet little village churches one after another for no military purpose whatsoever? Is is war to cut down mile after mile of stately trees and let them rot where they lel' simply in order that no fu- ture generation of men may ever en- joy their shade? Is it war to gnaw through the throat of a little cheery tree just before blossom time in order that no human being alive or to elm born Might taste its fruit? War does not explain theee minute perfections of frightfulnees. Beyoni the scope of military strategy and eclipsing even the sternnese of mar- tial necessity is this great, sinister, thoroughgoing destruction of miles of countryside. It has the sullenness that is so truly Teutonic, the brutality that is so integral with the real na- ture of the TIun, and a hysterical in- tensity that suggests a real insanity, a real strange mental inclady has seeped into the minds of a whele pee - plc. Monument to Kultm. War explains haphazard artillery fire, ruining ancient and irreplacab'e art. It explains broken leridgee and shell -torn fields. But it doesn't ex- plain the detailed girdling of trees, the systematic ruining of humble cot- tages, the premeditated defilement of simple religious pictures. The locusts of the old Nile, the insect plagues of all -centuries, have obeyed impulse and instinct in devastating beauty. But no insect horde has even done their work so completely, so perfeetly, He Nebo doubts that German kultur means making the world a charnel house of death and destruction should stand some quiet afternoon in the Valley of the Aisne. He should glance, acmes those miles of ghost villages, thoae spectre forests of brain:bless and leafless trees, all needlessly ruined and destroyed. He should cm:complete a country whoto destruction is so com- plete and utter that the wildest and moat brutal pagea in history do not show its parallel. He should reed the German inscriptions chalked 111)011 the ruined houses and shell -shattered walls, inscriptions obscene, trim. phant, blatantly rejoicing in the mis- ey caused by the kaiser's men or taunting the poverty and misery of the helpless peasants who musi some day again make this barren wintry their home. Having done this, 1 think the nin'et ealloun apologist for the Mee world bow his head in shame. The early symptoms of measles ern cough, watery eyes and nose end sneezieg, much like an ordinary severe cold in the head. After three at f o. tr days the eruption appeers, fleet upon the face and neck, as mall red spots, and spreads slowly over the body, Old-Faehioned Mutton 523w.—tna one pound oe ?leek of mutton. Have the butcher track for stewing. Wipe with a damp cloth and cover with boil- ing teeter. Cook until tender adding four large: potatoes, four emali rdone, Season with salt and pepper. Thick- ert the gravy with eortietarch. Serve on a have platter and garnish with Minced green peepers, 5. er, et 4- 1 •'4