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The Clinton News Record, 1919-1-2, Page 6Tonio, The Clown 117%iunded; iVoaponlon, in a War Pospit01, Ile Played Hig "Little Joke a fl10411011 COUVage• By F,dna Howell. _ • ea#6,leaeletelleseReilailite,ffitakaliete610.01 I ClIAPTEftITL Totkin s,prang ent of bed inth the movnlight, ' The loan lifted hie two .liande to hire, "130 quiet! Oh, do mit Move!" cried T • "°41 WI' US toqt 11iS .11S S till Thither, . Wham; than the white moonlight bine Toni'e lace, "Whitt"—he etammored—"what do you -went of 'the? What do you want of ine?" ho eriod to Moroi, balmicingon his white-uaretaged feet, 111Q1 -0I$ of pain, • The eick man's monotonous 140/3-311," BWOred hini. Rina, Rine, Baal" He looked at Timrio and a faiikt stone twitched his lips, "You take nie—MD—for your—for Rine 7 " said Tonio The deliriOng man nodded • and reached out his him& .to Toxtio "Rim! Rine!" he called softlY and smiled. Slelvly as 8 man moves in a dream, Tonto moved closer. The Moon now elothed.his white' figure, his head bandaged in its white turban, in sirci1 iiitoj and heo'stood looking down en Moroi: "Eh," said Moroi in 8 lucid mo- ment, "rhe was 'one of those•women that a man can't forget—can't live without, don't you understand?" Tonie's head suddenly 'fell against his breast like a weight, too heavy to hold up and he sank bask against his cot as from a bloW At that the man looked up again and called to him fretfully, "Rine, aren't yen ever coming?" With inarticulate tenderness a soft, voice, answered him, "Si, euro— 'os, clear, I am here!" . Morosi's, feverish hand closed tight- ly over the clown's and he Slept,'hold- in it tight. The surgeon, /4 his early morning visit, found the. half -fainting figure of Tonle, his stlifenect. fingers still tight .in that vise, and as the surgeon unclasped his hand, the sick man openedhis eyes again and s'eepily murmured, "Rina!" It would have worn out an ordin- ary man but with steady faithfulness Tomo nursed his enemy, He spoke old phrases,. soft terms that Rina alone used and they never failed to quiet the 51e11 man. That Nary Thursday as he wasi bending over Morosi, Tonio.,stopped thc gay words., with the sense some one was ,standing behind him. It was Rine. She stood watching him. How long she had lieen there he did not know. Surgeons, muses, had come end gone and he had paid little at- tention. His heart stopped com- pletely then with swift short throbs beat madly on. She stood more like some spectral spectator -than a wdman, leaning over the foot of Morosi's bed; only her eyes were riveted on Tonio's face and seemed starting out of her head. She was distning to a strange love -mak ing, listening eo her own words and, they were wonderfully tender. Once Tolilo'e %wee lifted. In a long .Penetrating glance lie elm her us ho hadknown her. She was tio longer a girl from Moms City or from any 01 She was dresaed iu the long ago. A browo velvet bodice?, was drawn with silken laces and showed the love- ly contour of Ilea hens, while soft against beg :face Was the . white batiete, with bishop sleeves of the same caught in with bands of brown velvet; below was the apron of Ro- 1111111 stripes, the colors of the rain- bow, Round the neck, so low that they rested' on the broad bosom, which 11011 rose and fell. with deep , breathing, 'were three strings 'of Scarlet oorals which bless the wearer; !enameled drops fell from her oars. :The brown velvet of the bodiee was ! the same brown as her eyee. On her head was the whete• ,VItzoletto, its eiribroiclered fringe just touching her ehouldera. j Tenio eaw every detail; not a thing escaried him. He beciconecleeher to tako his place but, she -shook her , head; besides, Maros' would not have unclasped his grasp and was in _that state of delirium which would eot permit him to know the difference. Tonle 'went on ae if entirely uncon- scious of her. "Yee, yes, care mio, I shall never leave you. I am here, I close. beside you, Yes, I am listen- ing." ' Then . came a long. sigh, not from the dying man but from the clown. "What -what is it ---I cannot hear—oh, he was a funny fellow—a clown, yes, yes --he forgave and for- got long ago—'1 There was a' movenfent from the woman at the fool% of the bed. Yes—dear—dear-1T— came the soft Words front the clown. He changed his weight to his other foot sm-as to relieve the pressure on his wound . - The surgeon watehed at the foot of the bed. The dying man's hand clasped over the,' clown's, a smile of ineffable peace elosed_about his lips. . Not once had the eyes of the wo- man standing at the foot of the ,bed Ised on every move and gesture. the hifted to Morosi; they remained fix- ' clown made. WO. a soft sigh Morosi slipped far away.. e It was only then as Tonle' raised hislieaci, the bright brown eyes vivid- ly alight; that he shrugged and with the shrug turned to the woman at the foot of the bed. She moved.to- wards him, as if impelled by some irresistible force, her hands reaching out .10 the clown's., . I „always must have my little— joke, playing- a part," said -Tonio shyly. Perhaps it was the only time in his career that an inedience of any kind had Seen the great artist em- barrassed. A sigh escaped him, and he stood as the eyes of nurse and sure meona and -of Rine were fixed or. Min, a strangely appealing, wistful figure that held, them Ali. -He- had played to a finish the part opants—had set hearts op fire with the holiest joy hearts can -know. HOW CANADIANS WON THE V.C. DEEDS or VALOR IN CLOSING DAYS OF WAR "For 'Most Conspicuous Bravery, De- votion to Duty and Initiative," Highest Honor Awarded. The London Gazette gives an official account of .how Lieut. Graham Thom- son Lyall, 102n11 Battalion, 2nd Cen- eral Ontario Regiment, won the Vic- toria Cross. The official citation say% that the Cross was awarded for "most sonspicuous brawery,and skillful lead - Jug 'during operations north of Cam- brai. On July 29 last, while leading a platoon against Bourlon Wood, he rendered invaluable support to a leading company which was. 'Aid up by a strong point, which he captured by a flank movement, together with 18 prisoners, the field gen, and; four machine guns. Later his platoon, now nuch weidiened by casualties, was held up by :machine guns at the southern, end of Bourlon Wood. Collecting any nmn available' he leds them tewards a strongpoint anti springing forward alone, . rushed the position single.; handeciekilkd the officer in charge and enbsequently captured at this point 45 prisoners and five machine guns:. Having made good his final objective with a- further capture of 47 prison- ' ers, he consolidated the position and thus protected the remainder of the company. On August 4, in he neigh- borhopd j of .Blecennt, when command- ing aeweak ,compatly by ekililul dis- poeitions he captured a steongly de; funded position, which yielded eiglitY prisoners and 17 machine gene. Dure ing two days' operations, Lyall had thus.capturecl altogether 8 officers, 182 other eanki, 26inachine guns emd one field gun; exclusive of the heavy cas- ualties inflicted. He showed through- out the. etinos•t valor and high powers of command, . Through Barrage to Outpost. P10. G. S. P. Nunney, 141.M., 88th 13attalioo, Eastern Ontario Regi- ment, is vented a Victoria Cross, ac- cording to the Gazette, for 1110/41 C011- ispieuous bravery' durhig .operatione against the Drobourt-taueant 11110 oti September 1 and 2, 1018," 0)1 Sep- tember 1, when his battalion was in the vieinity of. Vice and Artoi, pree paratoty te advancing, the enemy laid down a, heavy barrage and counter- attacked. leitniney, who at this time 110.5' at company headqoartere, immediately on his Own initiatiVe, , proceeded theollgt the barrage id the eempany °inquiet. 1hie, goleg front poet to post, encouraging the men by 111Z OWn fearless example, The enemy were repuleed and a ceitical eituation :owed, tering the attack Of Septette bar 2, his clash continually placed hint in advance of Ms coMpanions. His - leitelees example uncloubtecity helped es' greatly to cerrythe eompantaforiVard to its objectives. He displayed throughout the highest degree of valor. until severely wounded. Pte. Walter L. Rayfield, 7th Bat- talion, l3ritish Columbia Regiment, according te the 'Gazette secures the Victoria Pross for most conspicuous bravery, devotion to .duty and blithe., tive during:the. operations 'east of Areas from September 2 to September. di 1918. Ahead of his company he rushed -a trench occupied by a large party of the enemy and -personally •bayonettedetwo and captured ten men. He later located and engaged with great skill under constant rifle fire an enemy sniper, who was causing many casualties; He then rushed the section of the trench front which the sniper -had been operating and so demoralized the enemy by his coolness and .daring that 80 others surrendered to him. Again, regardless of personal safety he left cover under a heavy machine gun fire and carried a badly wounded comrade. His indomitable courage, cool foresight, and daring re- connaisanco were_ invaluable to his company commander and an inspira- tion to all ranks, BUT GREAT BRITAIN DID! Royal Navy is Foundation Stone of the Allied Success in War. The American Admiral Sims, ad- dressing recently the journalists of the 'United States, aid: ---"There has boon an idea in the American mind that the American 'Navy had been' doing the bulk of the work over liere—at least 1111011. That is not correct. 'The statement had been made in American newspeperti that, by a Mir- acle of efficiency, their Fleet had brought a minion' and 'a half of troops to title side of the Atlantic in the Couese oe a few weeks, "We/ didn't," said Admiral Stets, "but Great Britain did. She brought oyey tieetlitrcls of them, and escorted - a hall. We escort only a half of the merchant vessels that come over." The reason, he tontinued, why the :British shave been able to do thiS is "becatise, np la the North See somewhere, 114 lying the. great British Grand Fleet. They can do thie woak because the,' British Graffa Fleet its so powerful that the German High, Seae Fleet has 10 stay at home, if a catastrophe slioula happea ti the British Gland Fleet, there is 11.0 pewee on earth that can, aatn US, *for then the German High Serie Fleet canemote out auct sweep the imam The. Ciraild Pleat is the founitatiometone of the cause -of theewhole of the Allies," This Is it tine Mid generous tribute from the Americao Navy to the super; latiVe iMportattee ot th.e work which the Britiali Navy- haa s,ocohipllslie,d 1s8 the war, says a Lohdon newellaner. DepriVed oli. hoe Fleet Goemany sinke at_ence to the peettioe of a sixtla into naval poWer, aa. nod..• Young fowl cart be ;indeed by 'the elfin of its feet. With yening ellickene the eltin is tender elId there is net nmeli fat, An .ohleil thieken has hard arid seely *elcin Mend the feet, ISARP11$ 'FOCH .41:IE VICTOR DESCRIBED SY A !PERSONAL ANG INTIMATE FBMNio, A Vivid Aporeclatien of the Allied Commander -In -Chief Who Nos Won The World'al-BratItude, • Miele is tr,' tomtit Sohlier, great Chureineau, and a groat gentle - Men. , No has finno$, 'toiled Prussian tyranny in the (11151, 1)0 hies .holdit; re- effiemed the Christian creed; and hag borne witnees to the Catholic faith, and rem:mete in hinmelf those qualb ties which in four and a half yearS have iierVed tO'bind 111 th)115so1111118 MAY his country with ow: own, )3'och's eoldierly heet itt partialiseto 110 ascribed to atavieni, for although his father waa a .elvillan functionary, hie mOthee vtatt tho danghter of an officer whose dietingelehed eervicee'in Spain were nothel ana rewarded by Napoleon. Like most great eolcliers,, ' he was 'bowl in modest circutestances, and, like malty great eoldiers, his boyhood showed little sig -mot coming greatness. Ills Mk:cation eras carried 011 In si'mrlotts towns where", his father's dates eansod Min to reside, was com- pletedat a fainoes Jesuit institetton at Metz, and rounded off, like that of his friend, Lord ICItchoner, with a few moths' service in the, Firaneo,Prus• sian, War: . In 1907 Clemenceau WaS Prime Min - toter, and—all honor to him—lie an - Meted on the command 'of the Ecole Superieure de Guerre being, bestowed ortj the !militant artillery officer who had, meant:1111e, pushed his way gitiet- ly to brigade rank. Thus Poch's "Tao - tics" became the text ,book ()fettle French Army, loodh's teaching the tuil- vernal, prescription for every officer who wished to advance in his profes- sion, Foch% example the Ideal for every French soldier to set before 111111. self. - Arch.Apostle of the Offensive. As 4 tactician he was—as he is— the arch-aPostle of the offensive, and never wearied in advocating the prim- ary importance of the attack, the mere thought' of which Is to buoy the moral and build the character of the soldier. "A chief 'should evenorder an at- tack which Promises no immediate material advantage, solely as a moral precaution, on the principle that an at- tackiug mood is a pre -requisite even to a good defence." If Foch had held no actve command in., the war, hissia- flueece would still have permeated, not only senior officers, hut the count- less students in arms who had been saturated with his doctrine. For four years he presieed over the great military school, and the stamp he set on it is indelible. Then in 1911 Hun insolence exhibited itself, and France smelt"Powder. Foch, after a few months with a division, was post- ed in command of the 20111 Army Corps statioreed in Lorraine, which in- cluded in its cativo the 111h --"Division of Iron," and the 89th--"Divlsion. of Steel." • In. 1912 General Foch attended the Autumn Manoeuvres hi England. He was selected by the French Govern- ment to represent France oit an '00' 0415011 considered to be of some impor- tance. The operations ,of mimic war- fare were to be on an unusually ela- borate scale. Generals Haig and Grierson were to command the oppos- ing forces; aircraft was beam em- ployed. Wm the first time, and staff work was to be thoroughly tested. The French genera- lodged together with the King and Sir John French—who Was Chief T.Jinpire for the Manoeuvres -,at Trinity College, Cambridge, Foch spoke little English, or, like many Frenchmen, professed to speak but little English; little, however, that was said, and nothing. that WaS done, escaped him. Hie overflowing good humour and sense Of fun, hies evi- dent profound Inemeiledge of his call- ing, Ida quick al:Prehension of things which might seem foreign to him, and his perpetual cigar, were the points which struck all who came in tench with him. One evening at dinner in the tollege hall a, "promising" staff officer propounded the rather haeknei- ed and slightly embarrassing ques- tiou, "If France should fight Germany, hole Many men would sho really ex- pect us to send to hor support?" aSencl nie one man," was the answer. .1 will take perstinal care that lie shall be slain in the forefront 'of the battle; and we shall have the British nation' injarms to evenge him." An Army of Athletes, For four dayS the Freneh general followed closely the movenients of -tho troops. One of the officere, who, 1111 Et fluent French speaker, wee deputed to attend him, asked him what struck him most as regards the work and evorth 0)1 11)0 British soldier. "First," he replied, "the ludicrously small size Or your army: imeonely, the keennese or the officers; •and thirdly, the pate et the infantry Ile making an attack across the open. How eau they keen 11 )19?' It 18 es if they were all trained ruun.orma The officer explained that this was.. partly clue ' to the habit of playing gamine and especially to our sYstem of regimental sports. . "01," ..sald Foch, 0"11. WO had regimental sports In Femme, the colonel would haws to win emery tweet 0.0. 11111(0 the -thing go!" The -operations panned put a little inconeltisivelyabut they gore Foch a etrong and plea:ant taste jot the Bib' tell Army, and established a firm and lasting. between him and the goldier who ivas to come to the'ttid of Franco two years later, . Foeli Was 'early eixty-theoe whem at the head of his splemlid 20111 Comm.; he Put ifie eheories to the' test end protract himself tie groat in tho field as he had bee11 in the motoseloriel eliair, Although etratogg wee in the haude 00 General Jolted, Poch was able to vin- dicate Many of his pet tectieel 00110111' 1101111, as niell as to show 1111110011 a ',Mat loader oe. ll1cn ,olul it te not alines in, thee° hustling clan Of tole. phone aml et/Pee/Mee to remember that foe the first twelve menthe et the will' In his own Maier halidwalting. • . Feel) pointed a loeit totter e1017 (1,3' to Me saner, Priticel Hemel ficeetted. Militeey leletery 10111 111111)1 detail' of Weelfe exploit,: with tho valiant fith Anne ngijihnit the het groat German ourneli; thee 001)10 500 seaward, ;Met before the Atli of elite wean of Me ladenlitable enerr,y ing theee oriticel liours: when the'fate -of Ypres trembled in the balaneo. Nor will It page over his' nettvitiee during Um whole or 1935e-whi1e hie brain wise eagerly working out an oftensve 18111611 111 the following Year elm Willi to set afoot, and' teem evIllele "-linked as it was to the empoth action et tee Pito tish Army—Geethany began to Miter` 411:idiTion.ththe day, MONO; that the open- ine note of the wee iemuclod until the moment when he hospitably 01)1411'- 11 111 ceatemptuously1dbunlesed, the Geernan signatoras -lei the Armis- tice, Foch 1lEIS never nemetited a full day's holiday, atol seldom enjoyed a. fell night's reat. A hurried 10)11110, to Italy In Noveul- Inr, t9]'/e-when, 51 concert WWII (or, rather, in control o)1three Prime -Minh:tem he made good the piens for the (le:fence ancl security 01 111y—bas been his ecile ititerlude strenuoue work on the Western Front. Keynoto of Suceess. in Doulens, in the hour of suprenie strife and stress which marked the Easter of 1918, a little council of war decided to entrust Foeli with supreme eonunand from Switzerland to the sea. Be 11 known that there was no warna-, er advocate of this step than the -Bri- tish Comnitinder-in-Chief. He knew by experience that, the Marshal of France would,leave to the Marshal of England 'a iferfeetly tree hand to dliect the great armies which another British marshal had ralaed; and experience has since gone to prove that mutual loyalty of purpose and re- ciprocal confidence have given the keynote of success. Before Foch delivered his great Jul,y1 stroke he told the Premier that he must accord him a long morning in or- der to unfold to him the plan. of coun- ter-attack. "I do net want to he your plan," said M. Olereenceau, "I might not un- derstand it, and I should certainly not interfere with it. Ge ahead. Do as Y011 think right. 13oat the Boehm that is all I ask."—G. A. DELIVERY IN ALASKA Letters Are Carried to Interior On Sleds Drawn by Dogs; The mails -in Alaska recently have been seriously 'delayed and impeded by a lack of fish. It is winter most of the year in that Arctic territory, and during the cold months the /flails are carried to 1 the interior of Alaska on sleds drawn liy dogs. The dogs arefed on fish, bought in quantities, frozen. But latterly there has been a scarcity oi fish. The Alaskan dog wentsefish to eat, and nothing else satisfies his raven- ous appetite. He vastly prefers it to meat, raw or scooleed, es,Fisheis what; he has been broughtmwon.- The nat- ural history- booke assert . that the canine brute is an Omnivorous animal, but this -remark 'dabs -not apply t� the dog of Alaska. He; will staiwo before he will touch anything of vegetable origin, even a biscuit. , Owners of mail teams tried starva- tion, but it didn't work. The dogs, liefore they would Conseut to eat corn- meal mush' or other such truck, be- came so emaciatedand weak that they could not pull the sleds. Dog -team mail routes in Alaska average 200 miles -in length. In de- liveeing postal zeititter to theepeople of the interior last winter these teams pulled loaded sleds 176,700 miles Over the trails of the frozen country. ,Dog -teams, polling 500 pounds of mail each trip, give to Nome, on the northern shore of the frozen -up Ber- ing Sea, a regular twice -a -week mail delivery. over 1200 miles of trail through the winter seasen from Cor- dova when postal 5011 10 by steemer is impossible on account of solid ice. From points on the main Cordova - to -Nome route other carriers with dog teams start, serving raimerous distant villages. Thus`, for, example, mails for Poiet Barrow (the northeastermost point of Alaska) leave'lle main route at Solomon, a short dietetic° east of Nome. From Solomon a dog team makes regular tieti?'to 'Kotiebue, talc- ing the nfitite beybent theaArctie 280 miles• and from Ieotzeube another teiun starts fol? Point Barrow, 650 miles farther noeth. Tire:cover this' dfstante of 650 milee merely once iniglit well be considered a remarlceble'peeformance,,jbut the man whose 'clog 'team does the work has a conteact-with the-postidlice Dee pertinent to make three wound trips each whiter (froM November 1 to May 10), carrying'000 potrids oh each northbeund trip -and 800pouinds on eachssouth_bould_lto.u_rteLy. GOAL Fi9L6S PF PRANCE. .New Deposite Reoently Ritmo in the Rhone Basin. -The fact that in tiorinal times France consumes approximately ono! third rliore coal than it prodoces—oe a total coneureplion of 18,009,000 tons vaeious inteeeete-to make it E10111011 1:01' addittonal coal ilolds in the republic.' Several surveye gaVO 910111181, 'Or. 11110,1,,14 emre interrupted by 1110 0011. I 1,1W0101j 111105 tigatione in the Blume lemie, in tile vicinity of Lyon, linve lit en ia preset:we ror some time, 181.1. 11191(114 1 egarditits the same have been- recto:111y made litublie, It has bee11 found that there arc three thin layers of coin 4)00011 1,000 feet be, lew the stinface, eatilt layer beinglese than 8 -feet thick, while at lower levels are *101115 0 10 10 feet thick. Tho ex- tent of these 'deposits is not known, but it Is ihought Unit they will be of considerable local importance became of the large inamifeeturinis iiitereste at Lyon. Tho (iota iS prirtimilarly 1311110(1 to gas product fon, It in said, Cold whipped cream put oo top of the eup of oeffee is an, abominations cooling the bete -mega as well ae being deli-Went:al to the (laver. Taints )or ;The Home Deese:in-:her, The leogth of ma teelal. to be ai lowed when cuttiog reifies is one ands 0 half times the length required when liniehed, onless the ruffle is wished' very - full, then twice tile length must be salloived. ..lOcie box plfeits, thime tines the length is needed; for itilting by maehine, three times the length. To prevent, erushing -velvet; . when bowleg 11, pub a small piece -of velvet pIle dowowarde under the thumb that holde the work, In cutting velgot great Care 1111101 be takcie se thet hall luttles alike on looking limns tho top cloWnwarcle. This car easily be aseertained hy lvet in . the hand and to do these things line cundenuted holding the ve through imitation of the halate and simmers of their elders. "Thank you," and "If you pleitse," and "EX - ease Me, pleaee," tOrne early to the tongue:11 they ars frequently heard, and th buy Who sees hisefather riee when a lady coulee into the room will instinctively follow ' Li11.11.0 exarrinle, 010i1 with vevy little direct instruc- tion. 'Good mannere at table are so eecessary to the comfore of everyone eanceraed that rnothem will hardly negletit to watch and direct thelr chil- (leen 111081 carefully in 'this rept, 11- is very eaty to teach children the. right use of the knife and fork. Lo ask for whet they want politely, and to thew their food quietly, To fail looking .eivw.igeway. down it; orko malty a num as 0 boor :Mel 8 nuisance. lack of m ether. The pile of velvet or velve, tIn Other .word, mannere otter make he uteri; cert00111)11117y the j an - AY it will ehade lighter than the teen feels roughed 'toward the hand nere nmy unmake hint t'hon ibis rightly placed, and should . • be brushed in the contrary direction to other Materials; thus, you would brueh a 'velvet bodice from the waist to the throat. yci.ti cannot deelde which is the right and wren side of twilled 1111.1- 1ork! I, bold' the eelvedge down 1511 a see that the ttvill goes from iiglm to lel upwards. It is on pressing that so muci, of the well finished appearance of a gar- stlant depends. Peessing, although dene with an froneis not Ironing, but a real pressing, of a hot iron system - al -featly on differeet parts, The iron , RUMOR. IN THE PARLOR pAR -- A Pullman Porter Tells Some Funny Stories. That, the professional gravity of a sleeping -ear porter often conceals a- 101180 of humor is indicated by an article ill a 'recent number of the Am- erican Magazine, the author of which is a porter Who has been travelling back end forth on -the Twentieth Cen- tury Limited between New York and Chicago for the last sixteen.yeare. Probably the frenniest thing I ever must be heavy and not too notespes sew, he sire's, was a very tat lady chilly for woolen gocids; as they axe falling out .01 ztn .upper berth, ta very liable to scorch undee a eveey cannot 111899(11 now because we have hot iron. Try a piece of the stuff straps 011 the sides of 1110 berthe to • with the iron before touching; the gar- prevent accidents of that sort. But in mente then you will see what heat it the old days there 11010 no such safe- j 1 guards, and when the train rounded In pressinga coat or waiet, preis a curve the fat lady toppled out. It the Seams from the armhole to waist. was a wonder she was not injured; T1111t be careful with the curved eeams, that they are in exact curve and are net stretched when pressing, but all theft got MIA WEIS, her vanity. It happened in the in,ld of night, and I Win, of course, to pick her up, She For pressing seams in sleeves, coy- was frightened and kept saying that el' a rolling pin br roll ofwood, or , she was killed, but nfter togging at roll up several 'magazines tightlY,I IlOr for n while I said. wrap with fine thread and cover with "Madam, for a dead person 7011 0101 some suitable material to make the mighty lively. Yee, eir, Mighty live - roll smooth to press on. These ere 1" better to use' than a sleeve board, as just the point of the iroo can be rub:. bed up the seant without touching the other part of the sleeve, as in some materials -the mark 'oe the fold will ehow through to the right side if iron- ed flat. Such ..an ironing roll will also be found useful when pressing other parts of a dress, especially curv- ed seam5. and little parts of a dress that cannot be pressed otherwise. When pressing Seams in vesw thick -cloth, 'rub a little soap inside of seams and press the iron over it. When pressing very thick pieces, such as the hem or facing up of a skirt, put right side down on the board, not on the blanket, and press .from the wrong side. Kilted skirts and flat pleats gen- erally require careful pressing to keep them in form, especially if they are not taped at the back. Do not press them on a blanket, but just cover the skirt -board with a sheet and place the pleats right side down 011 it. Press With a hot—beat not too hot—hon. If the material is very thick or springly, place a damp cloth over the pleats and prose entil the cloth is dry. Po not, however, make the cloth very wet. In pressing; curved seams it is well to use a hard, round cushion or pad,, inch as tailors use. Meat Substitutes. - With meat prices at the highest al- titude within the memory of man, substitutes are eagerly looked for. These will be found very palatable. Kidney Beim Stew.—One and a hall cups of driedekidney beans, two cups of calmed tomatoes; half cup of rice, twit tablespoons flour, one onion, one tablespoon salt. Wash the beans, put in a covered kettle and soak over night in two quarts of cold wa- ter. Cook slowly in water he which they weresoaked. If necessary, add more water to cover and continue 'the cooking until they are tender, usually about two hours. Wash the rice, cut tip the 0111011 and add, with tomatoes, to beans. C.00k until rice is tender, about thirty minutes. Mix flour with cold water and stir in care- fully to thicken. A email piece of salt peak cut; up in .culies and added to the beans at the beginning of the cooking improves the flavor. Calcutta Rico,—Two cups rice, two cups tomatoes, half pound: of choose, one tablespoon Salt, peppers and cel- ery or 'onions added if desired. Boil rice, mix with tomatoes, grated dices° and seasoniege and pour into baking :lisle Bake half hour. If peppers or celery are uscel, cut up and boil with rico. These (1151100 have as much building material as a ponntl and a half of solid Intuit. Savory Spaghetti and Kidney Beans --One cup spaghetti, two cupfuls deied kidney beans, ono te0590011 salt. Wash and sorik the beano over night, add the emit and cook until tender. 13roaic spaghetti into pieces about an inch long, 06011 in boiling' salted wa- iter until sofa. Drain and rime ivith ,cold waters Melte,: a tomato eauce as follows: Three tablespoons fat, ehree thbleepoons flour, two cups etenved tomatoes. Melt; tlit fat, add the flour and cook until bubbling. Add the tomato and cook all natil thickened mut well blended. Mix- tog.etiun. the eooked beans, spaghetti, and gtonutto entice, season with salt, popper and red pepper, and setve hoG, This. May be Varied by substituting one ,0119 or More of boiled rice for the PpaglietLi, Coed Moutons To teach ehildren geed mannere meet be the Work of eroey day and hour, "Lille upon liee" they will Imam the littIo colietefeee, Children nett so imitative that 7011 suneh I'd hen, auwaal ret envie eroni her this will he tmecinseionely acquired eeeeeta, y. The next day she saw how funny it all was, and she enjoyed the incident as much as eve did. Another time I was watching an old lady say trood-bye to her daughter. We see many -pathetic farewells, you know; but this one was so sad that it almost ;nought tears to my eyes. When the train started I said to the old lady: "You must be going a long dietance, madam. It does feel like a wrench, doesn't 11?" The old lady nodded her head and sobbed out, "Yes, it ist I'm going in Knoxville to stay two weeks." Knoxville was thirty miles up 'The road. One of the first questions that pas- sengers always ask a porter is, "Have you ever been in wrecks?" I have been in several; but the most inter- esting was the one in which thee° trains got jammed up together just outside Cleveland few years ago. That was most peculiar wreelf in many ways: two trains had collided OD an outside track, and the force of the collision jammed one traiu or: to the track 011 NV111011 the Twentieth Cen- tury Limited WaS speeding: Aboet twenty seconds later, much too soon for any, signals to be set against us, along tee came anti ploughed through this wreck, killing a lot of people, but it.,rejlaAsti,:telte;i1111o-811111011011 up been going on here'? We've been in a jwilkeenicd' tilialsVena:11;111‘1)'02:af tor it had hara not killing anyone on our train, his berth, emoking a cigar! He looked up at me sleepily, ancl in a p.oevish were out until an hour later, when I went back and saw a stout man, still in his pyjamas, sitting on the edge of tone said: my head. The first thing I always think of in a wreck is to get ont and train. That is, I thought all the ()there a cemplete somersault and landed on see what's happened; end so I got 'out together with all the others in the morning, and 1 was doziag in my chair, when all of a sudden I turned "Say; George, what the dickens has That was obot t-cve o'clock in ,the ginother evrecic once when my inly are powerful sleepers. another train but did not receive much injury itself, and inan in a berth "slept. throtigh the entire thing and never knew wo had been in a wreck uotil seven o'clocic the noxt moreing. Townshend of Coostalitteople- One of the lions of tho munieut 11) General Townsheml, who, after being so, long prisoner in Turkey, ie doub- ly able to appreciate the turning, oil the tide. 'Unlike inaily other prisoners who had fallen into enemy hancle, Gen. Townshene seems to have. boon quite well treatecl, and was described dur- ing his term of captivity as "the best - dressed man in Constantinople." Title retails the amusing meesage which he Beet by wireless from Ieut to London in tho early part of 1916. Ile slated that he would be wantlug 1,1 eveting-elothes tet, an early detol Thera were some who took this seriously, mut woudurod why a Britielt temeral should trouble himself. over such trival matters as this- in. war - 1111011.1. tee %vise lniew that the evire WaS El0111. 10 reassure -1113 !Valli:7 and to perplex the Tuelte, Arabs In Science. - The Arabi: intend-nee:I zimplo Prin. eiptee into mathemettes atul extended me nee and applica.tion-of that scieuce, They added Le arithmetic the decimal syetem Mid the Arable numer015, Which are, In:we:vow of libido,: origin, British Columbia derives one-third 1 'A BEWILDERINC EXPERIENCI? The True Storyof Teneept, th: tiTnbi se0;j41.)ewikiering (21951'10110'5 4111 i' Lauder- describes in 71. Minstrel '1,11 ',trance, bee .actlially been shaved many a poor fellowe-and by matey another- win> might have cotiiited him- calczyli,farnhezolilladdidin,st no More than In a Glatigow bospital- a Man who had gone- to see a friend- stopped slid - :Willy at the side of a Cot. He looked down .at featuree that ,weee.. familiar titotniboisn, tiablaz ellioneesitt°.oadttalE(alOtibg831 the t - "I say, man," he ashetbat last, ‘.`10,0 ye not Tamen, the' baker?". un'Idlileool.kroodunudpcdwIenaallilyo.poned, cyce - "Ay," he said. "Pre Poulson, tiv baker." His voice wen weak and he looked tired. , "Well, Tameen, man, what's the matter wit ye?"' asked the Other, ."I didim hear that ye were nick or Cal. it be' that ye ha' been to the war, num. and we not bearing ef it at ell?" . "Ay, I think ee," Buhl Tamson, still weakly, but 8123 if he were rather glad ofu chance to talk. • we'je think so?" .asked hie friend in greater astonishment then ever. "Man if ye've been to he Will', do yo tot know it for sure and certain?" - "Well, I will toll ye how m is," said Tamson, very slowly and 115115.17. "I W80 in the reserve, d'ye ken, And I - was standing in front of lety hoose - one day in August, thinkin' of within' at all. 1 marked a Man who WE10 coming doon the street, .wit a blue paper in hie heed, and studyin' tho.. numbers on the doorplatee. But paid no great heed to him nail he stopped and spoke to me. " 'Are ye Tamson, the baker?' he Just asked me—juet am you asked me that same question the noo, j - "And- I said to him, just as I said it to ye, 'Ay. I'm 'Samson, the baker.' "Then it's Hamilton Barracks for ye, Tallman,' he said, and handed isle the blue paper. "Four hours from the time when he , handed 1110 the 'paper in front of my hoose in Glasgow I wee at Hamilton" , Barracks. In twelve hours I Was in , Southampton. -In lAkenty hours I was in Franco. And as soon as I got there was in a lot of shooting and running this way and that wjjay, that they tel me WEIS file battle el the Marne, "And in twenty-four hours more WaS 011 my way back to Glasgow. rn forty-eight hours I woke -up in Stolle Hill infirmnry, end the nurse was 5117- 1 1141 in my ear, 'Ye're all richt the nom , Tamson. We ha' only just Amp:at:W:04 littink. I ha' boon to the war. . but t can 08137 SOY I think so. I only 15110W what I was told. T've 110101 seen it (4Tleivaltmins tYtV' lemtrrie store: of Temsom the baker. Peace. !Lovely word, flying like a light across the happy land When the buds brenlf and all the earth is changed, Bringing back the sailor front his watch upon the perilled seas, Re -joining shores long severed and estranged, Peace, like the Spring, that makes the torment dance afrish And bursts the bough with sap of beauty pent, Flower from our hearts into passion- ate recovery Of all the Mind lost in that banieb- inent. Come to us mighty as a . young and glad deliverer From wrong's old canker and out- dated lease, Then will we sin41 thee in thy triumph . and thy majesty, Then from our throes shall be pro- • Pared out peace. Soft J011. Parmer—Do,you want tt Job ,potatoes? Tired Tim—Yes' provided it's 11141- 41111' 'one out of gravy, The Substitute—"No; 1 5001'415110 him his medicine and forgot to shake it, so I ant doing it 11011." ------------ :?Plr /kmelst:411 t'll,v1 1 tqAto NORM 0 M. 4. p •0,10,1„ero ' EZ XIMAIJAJ tAlentfail'Rill'antIMMVAI