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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1919-3-6, Page 6When buying Tea, insi$t on. getting 4:11U Tea with, a Quarter (A a Century a 1 atm 'Unrivalled Public $ervice. Keep Receipts en File. Take care a receipts. Have them there you .cen refer to the readily. The waiter learned that lemon in the ea,ely days of housekeeping. ,The :men of the:home enquired bee clay: . "Do you owe MK.anything?" . "Not that I knew a;, wee the re- ply. ,Well, they have sent in at bill for thirty dollars." •. , p.a1c1 that :bill weekego; do Yen tat remember—Yon gave me the Mogen for "Yes, I rementher; but Ittela. says it is still on his books and hare not been paid." .• "1 il1 get the receipt;" but to my enneteMiltnicin, the reeelpt wtis mot whom it ehould .he been .and I could' • uninfind iit after :diligent earth in all likely and unlikely plaices. I had O dietinct recollection a paying the still:hey,- but sin thee 'Went on and I worried over it I •began to hesitate • and Wonder if At Were possible that I -toad have made a mistake, :when one der—oh joyl—I found the bill, Nvith •"Received normant" written across it and -signed by MOK. This was an ex- perienee by which I profited. In these days a 'Jaelcieringahy telephone, rush • of ebuitieese etc., it 1$ increasingly desirable to proderve reCeilits. • OA. day, _about two yeers ago, my little dog was knocked down by an automadie and hit reg hreketin He use taken to tho veterinary, nate s.et the leg, sending in a bill for four donate which was promptly paid, the money 'being sent by a little office boy, who brought back a eeteipt, . Which was filed. Six months tater I received a bill Icv the same amount for that same Utile dog. My receipt was -fortunately still on file. If it had nin been, do you zee the position that innocent littie office boy would hove „gten•d,,,,wn for a Your aunt and— He stopped, and been placed in? As it was, I was a half started front his chair "You assured that it was a mistake, 'and salort; l'est u'irs°1'.0° "able detnt—you can't mean—you •atunt'S to It f eti tin e bein 'the tired a" Instead of gentling elteete for 011ie dishes 'that are to be baked, slice At In end tave time; Mined apples, baked tslowly in a etteeeveae With :batter .and hnown engage are served With ereen. The secret' of ibrotvii 'settee is hav- ing butter Ante 'flour well browned. before adding the milk or stook: - To_ reetore color to dried brann, ad a pindla of tale and a teaapoon- ful oa 'salt to their boiling water. If the bacon i$ out the night be- foi:e Will -make ,getting tweak -lest O much easier task. The knives: -with which. :fruits ore pared should lee vegY clean or -the fruits AIM be discolored: •e Nutbread man be need for sand- wiches, the filling consisting of a 'Mt- ge ehe Mixed With ehopped Oahe 'Ter 'seem up eaultillower'whOle and ,en•brolten 'in a dotal., As it May then -be 'ititted out 'of the eancenan wit/hod e. detriment to its ap- pearance. • • When a blaek strees, becomes itraiiied and spotted, try inonging at with 502110 strong cold tea This ebould cause the bleinishes to entirely dis- appear. When late -becomes tem instead of darning lie 'Ante a plant piece of net beneath the torn Plitt and oversaw. Trhis will he fen less notleealble than earning: A wheeling tray will save -a great 'many eteps In the ecesesemfea day, - A enediath sized -paint bensit is ex- cellent for dustirig out the cotners of the stairs. ' In the skit voom den't have the patient with hie face to the :window; he is 'Mire to Stlif07: from the light if ,you do. - •••••••••••••1. How to Rest, c Road to Undcrslauding —Wren 1.ettinOr 11.Pilittea Cot:talent-- Hough/toe Nielth Co, Funnelled by apeolal .arraneement Thee, Allen, Totonto tailAPTElle t Prated, and iblioefalay balmy in his vietnam, Burke Went to his anther; and to his father (so far as the letter himself wats ooncerned) ne creveleet0. "WdhIiromh,shelL 24Y boy, tVe -good to see youl wheee have you been heaping youreelf all these tem weeks?" "Why, dad, I've bon 'here- 4 ii neat, I've been very inalloltioght - here!" 'The eonacious. coke thot crept to the bey% tecillead -shesild hano been illuminating. But it was ,reeb. "aree; yet, vety aikaly, very likelen" areas/tee the man. "Bun or -course, with 130 Many nreencl— But goo:it we'll be by °ureic:Ives again. Not but what rm e-njoying Your auntie of ecantse he added hastray. • "But here Ms 'two weeks oa-yota vadatien ehould betting to your wife—that must belong to yoer wine ie ahe tato make yeu happy, it she is to'talca the place of—you' mother. And that ie the plate your wefe will take, a course, Burke," Under the reetraiiiing hands on tile enoulaers the boy- etirred restlesely. "Tastettl Training! 1Vintt clo X cere 01 (1114t? g)-1 5uita my tastee." • "She wouldn't--fOr long," "yoti waft and see allot) great a visit to run, my boy." "I'll leen it. I'm golitg to risk lt." A-gatn there, vaae riennentes el. enee. Again the ntern Hiles detheen- ed rewound the anatnellarte, Then very quietly there ,eame theatveras:— "Burke, if yeti nmeey thie.girl, ;you will choose between her and me, It sem to me that I 'ought not to need to tell you thdt .you eansiot bring beg gone, ancl Pve seatmelY seen you a here She ethical never oect1Py your minute" mother's ehair ars the mistress, of this "Yea; and thel'e one thing I wanted to batik ebout — college," lunged in the boy. "I've deckled I house. In time, however, a colon:maim was. effected. Berke ahoul leave on't want te finish my coarse, -and; college -intinectintely ahd 'go into the I'd rather go into businees ria:ht Works With his-'•afatiter,1 serving 411 it eliett appientiedellip free the bot - Y. • The inahi drew his levowe together, but did not look entirely displeased. "Hamm, well," he hesitated. "While I should hate not to 008 emu grade- ated, yet—at 0 not so bad . an idea, after all. I'd be glad to have en., yeer, he was not to see or to mints trete eer none thee nein, miter, 0'0;7 munleate with Helen Batmen If at I thought -you wareepnatieularly keen the end of the 'year, he Was still con- Bilt why this sudden right-abont face? for that degree," vinced that his only hope of lisp - Again the telltale eolor flamed in the 'boyish cheeks. "I- evaa--once, But, you see; then I wean% thinking of—getting par- ried." • "Mertiecl!" To John Denby it seemed ouddenly that a naralyzine skip a beat, This possible anture rn-ar- gemiewhat 'haughty rejoinder, Veen the ipeompt chill &ached les heart ad.madeFt .°81firrnistuneur had close conteanionship, :Wee ' 'the dread- much to the father' 'discomfiture. tinge of ads tem, haeakiria into their 'el thialow that !abetted. eVei, ahead. th?nrii7g4litillik=caeYatcvlitr itlyeltir 11: "Nonsense, boy Thee enough to 0" al310)11 Denby l'eatedato"face a fatherleas fu- esirl." gf:1; jon Illtaecyertoaf yettilitiM2 think of that when you've found the ' ."13ut I have found her, dad.." twelve emonths with the boy quite te JOIM, Denby paled perceptibly. himsetf,dfeee Iron? ic: bilvioteinfnoin and "Yon drin't -mean that you've— Who there coal be no queation a the re - 'Yon this esig13 ng young , You -have—What?" he demanded. sult—.in John Denby's mind. In all /./Neuit. -why, dad, you seem sur- confidence, therefore, and 'with every prised," laughed the boy. "Haven't tense alert to maae this ,yo,ar as _per - you xioticed—suspected?" xect as e year could be, John Denby "Well,. rio, I haven't," retorted the set himself to the task before him, man grzinly. "Why should I? It was here, hotvever, that for John neer heard of the young lady be - 1 Denby the ghosts waked—gin:fits of fore. What' is this—tome college innumerable toy pistols and frosted tomfoolery? I might have known, I carkes. Burke Denby, accustomed all his life to having What he wanted, suppose, what would bappenta and having it when he wanted it, "Colleae! Why, dad, she's here, moped the first week, .stiked the sec - You know her. It's lielem—Miss Bar- net." end, covertly rebelled the thine, and ran away the last day sof the 'fourth, "Hero! There's no one bere but leaning behind him the customary note, *bleb, in this ease, read:— Dear Dad: I've gone to Helen. I had to. I've lived a year of misery in this last month; ,so, as fav as I arn concerned, I have -waited my year al- ready. We shall be -married at once. I wrote Helen last week, end she con- sented. , dad, .you'll just have to for- give me. I'm twenty-one. I'm a mon now, Mt a boy, and a hutitheis to de- cide these things for himself. And Helen's a dear. You'll see when you know lion Weal be back in 'two weeks. Now don't bristle up. I'm not going to bring her home, of eourse.(at pres- ent), after the very cordial anyltetion you gave me not to! We're going into one of the Reddington apart- ments. With my allowance and my— have been absurd had it net been so •er—wages (I) wo can manage that palpably serious. "I can't stand nietell all right --until "the stern parent" of this sort of thing, even front you. relents and takes his daughter home Miss Barnet is everything that is —as he sheald. .... Goodabye, good and tree and lovely. She is in BURKE. every wa.y worthy --move thee wor- * (To be eon -tinned.) thy. Besides, the is the woman / love --the woman I have asked tto he , _—_,..--te—. mei wife. ,Please -remember that tone up, az had been planned for him, that he might be the master of the business, in deed es well no in name, when he should some day take his fatheee plate. Meanwhile, for one panees ley in marriage to this girl, all opposition would be Wtthdrawn and he might marim whoa- he pleased —though even then he must not ex- pect to bring his beide to the old home. They Must 'get -up an eitablien- ment for themselifeta , "We should Order that;—under the that the amount would be /narked eft ° W.' Ca 'is gl nurse • ' the nooks. One Meld think it would strain tin nerve end muscle. We are At the ecoe 'fel eirhaele an indigs have been safe then to deetroy that °-° used °"P from some deep mental (effort? or by a hard clia.ens Work, or nant red,' dyedn the "I didn'tthink .011 sof arm' , dad," reelpt. Judge ef my sutpeise then haunting anxiety, that we can not he rebuked. When, more' than a treat- and thae get Intl el the tierve end bratin len- - Angry as he was, the man MIS COW, months having elapsed since the acci- -• settles of the hurt the words gave dent, I again received a bill for four Blun' . him. But :he hele bis ground. The following remetly is roblend of dollars for mending that unfortunate "And I did not think this of you, mill paver and imagination, It was little puppy. -- Burke" he rejoiHned coldly. recommended. to hie .sevaral years ago "yeti me 1 reng up the vet. and enquired in he by one wile had fotmcl it a cure for rre • me ailed I ' Patience hid 001150(1 to be a virtue. - supposed my son did not think twelve dollars rather tired nerant, and I also have tested would shaonw some consideration as to • , the, woman he -ebose for his Wife," inuelt for settifig a puppy's leg. He its power to soothe. When vevy tired lay down with "Father!" The boyish /ace set into die:claimed hav,ing made eny • such chaeges. I informed him that three closed eyes, and Vet yourself hold lea atetn lines. The bo.yish figure drew itself erect with a majesty that would times four is twelve, and that if I one thought, think ormothing lkt-the had pain without demur the different P•ussing of a gentle, imeginery hand bMs, twelve dolliare wattle Ile t4it very softly, eve yom fotehead, firm - amount He goad: "It must have been lat _and 24te.n.derly :smoothing out the paid ee the other partner," inermured l'riu".-m7, me—. You will i --feel them something about sometimes one and li'`°-"an•-e' anima' unconsciously; to sometimes the other going to books,the restful Influence Thnelerain knots sending brills, eta The excuse weewall relax, and in a short time you as Irene ae the pup would have been will lose your strained feeling en - if big leg had not been set. However, ""•°"" n he a,seured me he would personally Even though the actuaa sleep thus see that the amount was marked off won may have lasted only a -few the books, aud up to date I have not ;minutes, you will the far better able received a merit hill, I conclude it to take up 'worn and go on with it baa been acme...3n the 'meantime I in a clear headed fashion. have the receipt OttlitTURE OF HUN FUGITIVES. • "Aids to then:Inter-Mine:. •— • Six teaspoonfuls of tea eel/al one Gernitan Raider's Commander arid ofince, This is sufficient fer six per- Party Captured In Pacific, sons. One pound scores Ginty people, IVIcaloatly hidden away ill a Treas. Allotv three slices of bread and but- 'fry White Paper dealing with the :to- ter for thme people:, iseitneemewiehes emits of the Pactflo cable boate is a dingle be esti-meted 071 tne same seale. story of an exciting chase for eseaped Latge cake, mat alite to" every two Gerinan prieoners by the onble Maim peeplent enall cakes, thtee fax two tenanee steams* hi% says a Lon - penile. ' ' tioe despatch. . One pound of sugar suffices for The boat was proceeding with its fifty:dive people; Dee •small teespoon- felt tettlotisenetear is. the -equivalent on one bilim, One vet of iee cream will lite enough fer twenty. smell helpings if tinnuetideta .4.-1 moulded only for half • tha number. laciesewife Blast The standard measuring` cup holds oneshalf olnt Honey elmula be kept in a warm, 'even hot, plate. Exeielent troeuettes can he 'matte of green. oweet corn. Knitting needles rney be *sharpen- ed by a keen penknife. Nuts should alwaye be considered as fate wten used in meat A kitchen. table having attiee ectstom eayes many steps. • Subititute mixtures shold brik- ne More elowly and longer. • -Mei 'fruit attest not be ctried, but ,fru-it Whieb is 'still a little -green. Browned inefiT ertenbe -end areem Make an exceltent breelciatet ;Sete ne inittee 'when you have iplenttr ell atitavy tor sauce at a Meal. . *Never stir rico as it causes it to to.tbe beton of the veesel luta Face Yelle eau be F1'tlitanod with • gen aralsie water it they have ite- _come limp, Never take out elothes' Maine wi-th teheaniceile until you have tried cold trate, Nolte put nserenm in the eefriger- htser—they Will turn bag& Matted of .t tape:Ina, t' Oen oyetere are eetvel What ots:teed gnat, honey, gruel or oediney work when it wee requisition- ed the Now Zealand Departmeet of I must say again I aide t think it of you, dad. septic:a:At-a' Deft:nee to ecinduct gefiech fax a par- ty of • German prisoners a war who had esacteed front the interannent camp -at Motelki Islaed, Auckland hater, on 'December 18, 1917, ' • 'The fugittve, untie the leaclerehiP of Lieutenant Commander Count Felt von Luckner, who had been in com. Mane of the German ratder Seeadler, Obtaill0C1 motor Much, they succeeded in getting away front Auckland', On December 16 they cap. tured the timber -laden scow Moe to 'which they trensferred themselves Zoom the laurtehe The -trig preceded from Aurecland on December 16 111 per. suit, and evertor:lc the IVIoa at Curtit Islend, teethe Kernettlemgeome All the escaped prisoners wore mope:Duct and the Trig . returnee to Auckland with the Moe in tow, arriving there on December 26. that when you speak a her." ' LEAVES OF LIFE John Denby laughed lightlt. Shorn Flesh -Eating Plants Which Darwin words had very evidently gen on - the end of his tongue, when) with a Fed With Roast Meat. sudden change of countenance, he .re, It ie a matter of conjecture wlieth- taxed in his chair, and said:— er Darwin would have been allowed 13urke• Your °anti- to carry out his experaments with ments do you credit, Pan sure. But aren't we getting a little nielodram- carnivorous plants had "he lived in We? I feel RFS if I were on the stage these days of rationing, says a Lon - of a seeond-rate theatre! Howevet, don newspaper. One summer be rega- 1 etand cerrected; and we'll sneak larly fed a hundred " plants of the very respectfully of the lady here- flesh -eating order with roast meat, to after. I have no doubt she is very tast whether they benefited more than good rind very lovelf, as yeti sat"; those which wete• left to forage on but"—his mouth hardened a little -- "I most still insist that she is no ° • their we - What those plants ate makes ones fit wite for my son." "Why not?" mouth water, but they well repaid the "Obvious -reasons." attention given to thern. At the end "I slippese you mean-nbeceuse she of the season they weighed 21 per has to work for her living," flashed cent.morethan those winch had lived tile boy. "But that--exeuse me— on Meets eaptured by themsehree. seems to me plain enobbisihneris. And Then: elowees, steins, and seed cap- sules were twice as heavy as 'those of the ended. - Another woltelefte splaut is "The Leaf .01 Life," found in Japan. Yoe' simply canuot kill this plant. If 4 leaf is cut in half, it will thrive With- out light or moist:ate. .Pressed be- tween J1 book, At has beeneknown to throw oub now roots mid leaves through the 04511.. , The only way botanists can keep a specimen is to kill it with a hot iron, or by pouring boiling:water over it. Even theta one cannot lto sure that it twill not hob up sereely. Will Not Have Mule. nnglish prejudice :against the mule is a deep-rooted one, Gaileral- Birk - hook tells els that people thee will not buy these aiiintele Yet they cest less, eat less, work hardet and longer ttan bovses, The etallioug, it is true, ore Isiolous but there is no- thing else 'siagainsi; them but their skimpy tails and leng earei DeSpite them defects, the great ifOiandermy mules, eepecielly 'when dapple grey, bayt or. chestnut in coloe, are fine, handsome•onitnale, nut, no; English* nem egtee with Kipling that "ae fax the tittle he% Smile!' and that is ,aellea; ere. . • enough coiRleinn. ,22;11," Gone, come, this has gone fax enoeeth," interrupted the dieteaught, sorely 'triedefother of mi Idolized eon. "You're ,only seboy. You don't know your melt Mind. Yee'll filmy yout- self ie love a dozen times yet. before the time comes for you to matey," ."I'm not a boy. I'm a men grown." "You're not twenty-one yet" "I shall be next ninth. And I do knew my own mind, You'll vet?, fa- ther, -when I'm -married." a "But you're not going to be mat - tied at peesent Aeid you're never going to m,ery this nurseneticl." ‘`failetheectiirevitat 1 say); "You woe% give youit coneene?" s "Thett—P11 do without, after. next mentb.° - There woe a tense moment a al- one°, Fathe,e and son faced eaoh Ohm:, angry vesearnen1. in their eyes. Then, with •a, sharp ejaculation, John Denby got to hie 'feet andeetrode to the Window, When he leveed a minute later and mane bata, the angry' resentment was.' gone.' His mouth was eerie but bis eye/ wore plettaing. lIo 'came atraight to his soli find pa bah bands an hie ehoul- dere, "Burke, listen to me," he bogged. "I'm donee: this for tevo teasone, First, to save yet :from yew:self,' You've known this girl scarcely two weskit --berdly an adequate prepavation for a lifetime of living together, And kat hers C011103 ill 1110 5000114 80110011. 'However gend and lovely she limy be, emariell; poseibly qualify for that ong lifetime together,.14urize, Shun - y because elm workl for her living ame nothAng te de with it, She hag 4)0 VII° taSttg- the training that • THE -NORTH ',POLE BY AIR Eritide • mid the Unite • States 1160t13 • Plannieg Air Tripe to Aretic .seeree that OaptainaBartiett 18 net going to have things entirely his own way in his airplane oxpedl-. tioit to the, North Pole, for at' the present Moment the 13ritielt 111.:0 also Planning for a similar undertakieg. So the airplane expeditien may teke on the 'omelet:1011 oC a saceistrianlike alr rite°, with the Americans repre- sented by paptain Bartlett and the British by Salisbury Zones of the llviLish Noilthern Exploration Co, Crept. Bartlett, eoutentplates going to the far north by way of. North Greenland, while Mr, Ionen is going by Way -of Spitzenbergem which, when redueed to mathematies, ietane that: the Ante/item will tame rome 2,000 miles' to go, While the British will linve oely 000 mile 011 :1000110,7, Mr, Xones hello/as- that his expodlIka tau make the «gilt 411 31±021 110111, SUFFERED IN HUN PRISON CAMPS STORIES OF CRUELTY INFLICTata • Ole CANADIANS. larleMers 'aroppeci With Leliorlous To Iteof a uperhe0±eitCok0 075 218, Followed lia-iExposure to Frost, The Cailadatu, eloverninent it new WI:Taring a reed of the ereatment of canadiane in German prispn eampg, The,,followina are :gime ef-the Stories tole byerepatriatett eoldierof— Pte.. 'VV. Batrese, e• oe the 75t11 Ilan' talien, tette of havina Beee Ptee'Jepite. eon, 1. Canadetut brought into elazar. ette.witlx a bad sbrapeel wound in hill Shoulder. A big doctor saaehee the wend open with att operathig knife and±0111,,flie. pee renew to ale et lout (srbl• Pte. G. Barbute a Toronto. NY/tea-Mkt the 4t11 9.M.11. -in Sanetuary Weed on tune and, 1910. The C.Ictnadiatte were outnunineren five to one, and 'few of the battalion eurvived tvhat eras +prole ably the lieanfeet bombardment of the iver to that time. fla Was lira ma tg Damen, and from thee to the Auguete Vinteria melee in Weetphalia. Then. Were attened elite to sixty ot them to- gethe;', in a•box our, with only one small aperture', widen, wits eleaelY, ittuardentby a reentry, sp Wet none of them coul(1 see anything of.the country through 10131014 . they paerted. They Were rout into the.notorious renpurnando 47. They were called•Englieh pig clogs -azte for:the ,Clanadians were reserved the dirtest and itieaneet teaks. Worcard in 'Coke Oven's. , 'We wore btonght out a theelion tett parts of the mine," gays Pte. Gar- butt, "and were compelled tcrstand bareheaded in freezing • temperatuve for upwards of an hour," at ,Pte. Garbutt tolls of the "Kokerien or coke ovens, the final punishment re- served for (site:niers. In stifle% heat, littippan of ietteeything but a pair of shorts, the prism/cies were compelled imale: a fixed teen -of loading five tons O day, wheeling it a eettain distance, and tipping it into wagene Pte Gar- butt, who had been ill, was. told by a •Civilian that it would kill or cure him In a month. All the food allowed dur. ing this hes,vn labor was a bowl of "soup." There were no holidays, Many Britishers collapsed, and were carried away. • "They never came back," says Pte. Garbutt, who supposes that they -clied. • Early in 1917 two Canadians escapee. and the reit were warned that they would receive draette treament if there were any other attempts. Never. theless, many plans 'wee made, and Lor weeks a number of them Worked on a tunnel -which was intended to bring them clear' of the enclosure. The work was detected a few houvs before the men intended to make their get -away. An investigation followed, but the 0001110210 were not able to fas- ten the plot upon anyone, and the only result was that discipline was tighten- ed up. .' Pte. -Garbutt managed to buy a map and a compass from some civilians, who, he said, would sell thetarsoulsgflos,r a piece of soap, and on Marh5,i wrenching some bars off a window, he managed to get away. He was three days in travelling the 70 kilometres to the Dutch frontier, and on March 8th crossed the Dutch border. There were none of the traps he had heard about —not even 'a strand of barbed wire: That day lie reached the Dutch village of 'Whiteetwijk, and front then on, he sraig , okfliot.tawa, "Pstet.r-. eFatliledamlibicecaptured at Neuve Chapelle, October 8, 1915, Was set to work in 0 nnmition -factory ateMulheirn loading shells on to ears, He and a number of others refused to do this work. They were compelled to stand to attention for a day and a half, and were then sent to Munster, where they were imprisoned for from thirty-five to forty-ilve days. During this time they were kept in a dark room, and their overcoats and mat- tresses were taken from them. They were allowed light for half an hour at noovnt e in Hcl. 8119900rtoieme , of m entreat, who Was talten.at Ypres in 1915, was ,for a time Into. college building at Rom tem which had been turned Into a hospital. Ile declares that a miming sister there murdered at least half a dozen English prisoners by giving them injections, On one occasion he saw a wounded man drop on the floor a piece of fat pork which was hi his soup and wheeh nealid not relteh, This sister picked it up, and with the words "Schwan fur seweln" (pig for pig); crammed it down his throat. • • The poem fellow -declared that he could die happy it he could take her to hell with him, He died.two hours later. Te had been shot in both arms and through the body. Pte. A. Cortnnek, 42.21 am.R., cap- tured at Lens in 1918, was sent to a coal intim in change of a aion-conimice stoned officer WM: had been wounded by the explosion of a. Canadian Mills bomb. This under.officer singled him out 023 a Canadian for harsh treatment, beating him with a hardwood stick for tip Pparent object. Borne ot these *11- ±001(9 took place after Cormack had beeu reduced by immense and lack et nourishment to 102 pounds,' On one ottemion two of -his ribs -were broken by a ltiolt from a horse, and Iteeevas re. fused treAtiment for flee days._ • The 13alance. Why, yes the eky is overcast' 'And west, a black cloud lowers, Them* is cold and dreary, too, And aunt:hill rain it falling feet, BM sontowhere, Dear, tbe sky is blue And sweet the sunlit air With fragrant breath of lovely flows. ea I - Take heart and -wear a smile. Turn you :from black despair Some other's burdens to beguile. 14'01,' thin ITS 111115t, even up, you knoW, As the .swiat hours come and go, The fair blue sky again be OUrfl Ana thanke to touch the timely ,• gli ONVCVS ](hr 11;1 3111/11 'be the ldoom of lifiwere, The glory of a slay toil fair, • " FOOD PRICES IN GERMANY ,jillITISH OFFICER, WITH TrIB .ARMY ocCupArrioN flame a Grephie peetenemee ee tee Present State Of Germany's Kitchens. • lamnyears we bave all been specula - !11g 136 to NOM 11173 130011 going on ne- bend that Inastlitigheelge of beyeeets planted all 'around the frontiers of the Q822110.21 Empire. Most '0± all were we concerned with the food question. Was the- blockade really effeetive? Were the Germans eel:al- ly starving their propaganda re- presented them to -be? Were the Gor- man 'etrillene ,going about in ragged clothes and Wooden shoes? Werethe ehildren dying for want of milk? • A Burning Question. All these were questions burning with adtuality whictr lent an added interest to the march of the British Aerny of 'Occu,petion into Germany. The Led known what the men meliert- • ed to•finannskeletons dragging them - saves along the highways, maybe. The fact remains that they entered O country looking noticeably elean 504 peosperous after the spectacle of ravaged France and the rathen de- peessing surroundings of. metyred Belgium. To the eye of the superficial neweomer there is nothing perceptib- ly emits With the oetvrard appearance of Germany or ofethe German people after four years of war. One must have known Germany before the War to 'appreciate the change. As a nation, the Germans have be- come thinner. Before the 1001' about fifty pee cent. of German men, after passing the age o.rforty (and many at an earlier age) boasted most respectable -paunch, the fruit -of meth beer, many meals (laity, greasy cook- ing and sedenthey habite. Well, the paunch hat all but vitaished in Ger- many. The number of men who in -Germany to -day are able to see their knees ie probably greater than it has ever been in the eventfal hietery of Germany's diffeent state, The cheery, pot-bellied German with little Road -makers are lortrunners or civilization. It is, important, there, fee, that we should know where, 'when and how roads should he con- etrueted. Men who 9005505 all of these qualifications have never been very -numerous Cameo.. The greet- er proportion of our 0±05±1114 rural road systems have been designed and (10115±1710±0(1 by farmers who had 110 special thinning for each work. For- tunately, diem concl•itions are rapidly changing. The counties, 1110 groyne. pig eyes 5(21±2 neck creased in deep displayed lor solo lin their windows These boots 112170 3112 uppers maserale 1Y thin strips of leather Masted on Pomo flimsy fouritlatiore and cloth tons. But—end it Is a big "but" ---ons never sees • anybody in the street! weAring these wooden -soled boots. In the poem quetert ot the cities and in' the 'villages, the housewives and ebilldren Wear sabots. resembling Lau. cashire.elogs; but these aro discarded for feather footwear on Sundays, The fancy goods einoinr whish abound in Germany have huge en:ail:lye of lea. thee handbags, vanity miles and the like at prices whirl, given the fallen value of the malt, minima vnost flevourably with London. It is, there- fore, difflealt to know eXactly what to think about the shortage of lea. thee • Their 'Boasted Organization. The sem:city of supplies doe not prevent one fent -obtaining a decent meal at a not too extortionate price 111 any. reputable restaupant. Roast hfintuall of -Ventien• with balten pont- . • toes end spinet*, eteveed apples end ei bottle a isoda water, at a second ratel hotel in Cologne, served quite at. tractively,- test twelve marks ,whleb,, at the preeent rate a the niernatrorks out at less than al.50- But et would be misleading to make deductions regandina the • German food situation front obseevation oitd All restaurants, hotels and enevate houses. I should thiolt that probably there lute always teen axe adequate; amount of food In Germany to /tour-, ish the po,pulatien, only it has never, been equitably distributed. The mote theist, as represented by big hotels or, wealthy private persons, ciornered food to the detriment of the small householder. • • , - THE MAKING 010 ROADS F.ssentiale of Good Read -Malang Art Here Set Forth. Tolls of fat seems to have ces and even the DOMill1011 rare as. On the other hand, there appear to he 40110 oat- sinning responsibility tor many of the more • important highways. But no plenty of photo and comfortable- matter what authoeity 41 reel:on:41)1e looking frees left for road construction atal maintemi Nothingare Go By. ante it is of first in:portal-me that the Apart fawn this, the people do not work should be done Intelligently at hear traces -of any great privations. to design and materials used. There are, it Is true, in the poorer The first and prime essential ot parts of the towns, a certain number °TB' good road is aual"re daal"age. .of palthl-looking ebildren about, but I sub -surf -nue drainage mei gide draine am not prepared to my that the num- bers. of those seen are above the aver- age. When finithectnthe road 01(15± shed -water. To do this, it must be age. For the most part the children . crowned for le to le of an ,inch to and the young folk, both boys and the foot depending. on the weaving girls, look fresh and ruddy, but the sueface, and must have en imetryt)1es: same NUS noticeable in Frame where, or watenproof ;levering, There must ae is well known, the civilian popula- he an urlimperled slope . -from the tion was kept by its 011170e500110 on crown _to the gutter or to tat-, side the verge ref starvation, It i3, 110W- ditch. The gutters or side diteltet ever, mainly in the old peonte that thould have a fall of ,,t 100t 5 Mae) eignis of the shortage of supplies •are Per 100 feet, and, if they are earthen ditches, they should hae ±1 inches per 100 Met, and free drainage a fres quont intervals into -natural creeks,. channele or, in the ea -se ao eity with sewerage 'system, into the aewers. To drain away the .sub-eurrace War has had upon the German people water mid prevent it softening the 08 a whole has something to do with foundation, it is well to len two lime of tilos. The secondesseenal is e mica -.1.:?,111- walk round the shops, you would not dation, and this is speciolly neeemery obtain the impressien that Germany for roads whore the. loads e ±0 coit• is ointhe verge ef •staryntion. Certain centrainci on small rumas. comestibles seen as coffee, emsr, and most forms of fat are only procurable at prohibitive figures; but vegetables, bread, meat, and other edibles are on sale- in the shone, many or them ea - to be seen. One gets a gena erinn pression that eldely folk are pre- maturely aged anti deerepit, and wit- tenawith a lassitude hardly justified by their years. No doubt the general sobering effect which the loss a the this. - From a stay in the haele, or n ileermse 1101100d11314 roads alto 111.0':`' expensive in first east teen gated toads, they 51401114 ±0 -beet very ease- fully. The materials in the (±11±3 ea thele excellence are—trap retin Meal, Honed, it (is true,. and peiced ahnorm- granite, ehert, tough Ernestone, oaten ally hie, but still procurable. In fact, ary limestone, tough enialstant, the leseon to be derived from a rather Paving beiek, eoncrete, esethed perfunctory glimpse of Rood concli- etone of various: Innate limettene, tions in •Germany seems to me to he trap rosin granite, sendstocie, chore that an adequete supply of food Is crushed gravel, bank greeel, seed met to be had—at a price. . leam mixed with enriane bituteme, Unristrained Profiteering, such as crude oils, void ter end en, . The meet prominent .reateire of the to improve them to sow vxtrot Omit /tee mod to make gnoil tomie or least. The (alnico n.f 4±0 ,211(1±0141(1 Fee ales paetitelar •stretch et Imail will kle- peiul upon, first, the thareeter of tvaile it mast sustain, eesse(1, tee taxable valuation oF thy memeels The resultwas that -namilies 51,011±51,011± 1)1090011,', 1)2110, the evaileale seine:at- -, their all on the lerder ane had no material, Wheee auto and norse ve- tifortey leftto buy emit thiegs •time mese, m heavy, et it enney thing else, were fiere.ed up to exorbi- en block, brick Mock, 00(11 ('(111' aisnind larger eitiee, ere.osoted amen clothes, or boots; width, like every, tent •pinces by the combined effect of bituminous home( macednum ere tie pavements to .be .selected. Propel: values will nearly -ammo warrant the cope:tees under • such eircum, stances, • : • The building et good rotuls.vequirm intelligent me of the construction materials. To use them carelessly whole food eittration An Germany seems to be the incompetence of the Government arrangements for thc: distribution of supplies, 1Vheeher orie went hungry 'Or not betaree sl question of the state or one's pros0. the blockade and unrest/shied profit- eering One corms across the effects of the British blockade • in many And unex- pected ways. -Gernian kitehann to- day are devoid of spices. _There is mustard, but no pepper, and an ab- solute thertege of cinnamon, clov.es) or ignorantly is worse than wasting mixed herbs, nutmeg, and seasoning them, bocauee the taxpayer) ave de. of «trey description. What we would frautleci, and the road will ea num "oogs:sa as 50051 15 110 longer seen. Instead a grisly substitute, dry end gritty, though drenched in perfume, is offered for rude at about five marks a coke. (A mark equals 28,8 cents.) Real coffee As said to cost fifty marks a pound; but for two marks one my obtain a cup of excellent eatabIT at a gond restanrant. In the edinary went at egos end beer hells, snbstituto coffee is served (without milk or s(1gar). Of this, all that can bo saki is ±1151 11 resembles coffee in appearance, It hes a fivint smell of coffee, reel testes horribly bitter. Xtegarding the alleged shortage of boots, it is a feet that all the boot shops at a big city liko Cologne, for instance, including the most inoderi± and hellion:hie ettoblisliments, have nothing but boots with wooden solee • 0 nor give satiefaction, and the nutter. ials out of which the road was cote strutted aro discredited. --Pe-- England to Have Memorial. The Leye Sehool liemortra Fr: ' now exceeds -$160,000 011 701030111 311`8t thane of 1100,000 has been laid for the foundation of entrance and leav- ing scholarships ±0 'memory of those who have fallen in the war. It Le antendee 11017 to secure adeiftimeat support to provide 10011 0t0Ct1011 memorial hall in honor of the patt' played in the war by the old boys of Lys, Designs for the hall eheady heve been drawn by Sir Allen Webb, "10110 foimiain of tentent /num amizst up in tha Xam,,344A