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` IOMEN'8 PART
IN THE GREAT WAR
MANY DEEDS (F BRAVERY' AND
DEVOTION,
,.`vv JAS. NORMAN UAL, I�, '"
CHAPTER VIII,--(Cent'd.)
"llfiosed 'the blighter!" he said,
Then he told.me that it wasn't a good
place for a sniper's nest at all, For
one thing'„it was too far back, nearly
A half.mtle from the German trenches,
Furthermore, it we.s a mistake to
plant a nest hi a solitary clump of
willows such as this: a clump of
trees dims too good an aiming mark
for artillery: much better to make .n
ositiolt right put in the open, T•IoW-
ver so far he had notbeen annoyed
,
a -
gun h
hell fire. Amachine d
searched for him, buhad dequate
cover from machine-gun fire,
"But, blimy! You ought to 'a 'eard
the row w'en the bullets was a -smack-
in' against the sandbags! Somebody
Was a-itnockin' at the door, I give you
eny word!”
However, it wasn't such : a' "dusty
little coop" and he had a good field of
fire. He coop,"
registered four hits dur-
ing the day, and he proudly displayed
four new. notehes on a badly notched
butt in proof of the fact.
"There's abig-'ole w'ere the artill'ry
ushed in their , parapet larst night.
hat's w'ere I caught me lent one,
/ 9
)Oke goes
bout a 'arf-hour o ag
by every little wile' an' fergets to
duck 'is napper. Tyke •yer field -
glasses an' watch me clip the next
one. Quarter left it is, this side tho
old 'ouse with the 'ole -in the wall,"
I focused my glasses and waited.
Presently he said, in a very cool,
matter-of-fact voice:—
"There's one comi»', See'im? `E's
carryin' a plank. You' can see it
stickin' up above the parapet./ 'E's
a-go'n' to get a nasty one if 'e don't
duck w'en he comes to that 'ole."
I found the moving plank and fol-
lowed it along the trench as it ap-
proached nearer and nearer to the
opening; and I was guilty of the most
unprofessional conduct, for I kept
,thinking, as hard as I could, "Duck,
Fritzie! Whatever you do, duck when
you come to that hole!" And surely
enough, he did. The plank was lower-
ed into the trench just before the.
opening was reached, and the top of
it reappeared again, a moment later,
on the other side of the opening. The
sniper was greatly disappointed.
"Now, wouldn't that give you the
camel's 'ump?" he said. "I believe
you're a Joner to me, matey."
Presently another man carrying a
plank went along the trench and he
c ducked, too.
"Grease off, Jerry!".said the butt-
notcher. "Yer bring -in' me bad duck.
'Owever, they prob'ly got that place
taped. They lost one man there an'
they won't lose another, not%if they
knows it."
I talked with many snipers at dif-
ferent parts of- the line. It was in-
teresting to get their points of view,
to learn what their reaction was to
their work. The butt-notchers were
very few. Although snipers invariably
took pride in their work, it was the
sportsman's pride in good marksman-.
ship rather than the love of killing
for its own sake. The general at-
titude was that of a corporal whom 1
knew. He never fired hastily, but
tvhen he did pull the trigger, his bull
let went true to the mark.
"You can't 'elp feelin' sorry for the
poor blighters," he would say, "but'
it's us or them, an' every one you'
knocks over means one of our blokes
saved."
• I have no doubt that the Germans
felt the same way abput us. At any
rate, they thoroughly believed in the
policy of attrition, and in carrying it
out they often wasted thousands of
rounds in sniping every yard of our;
parapet. The sound was deafening;
at times, particularly when there were
ruined walls of houses or a row of.
trees just back of our trenches. The
ear-splitting reports were hurled
against them' and seemed to be shat
tared into thousands of fragments, the
sound rattling and tumbling on until
it died away far in the distance,
III. Night Routine
Meanwhile, like furtive inhabitants
of an infamous underworld, we re-
mained hidden in our lairs in the day-'
time, waiting for night when we could
creep out of our holes and go about
our business under cover of darkness.'
Sleep is a luxury indulged in but rareel
ly in the first-line trenches. When,
not on sentry duty at night, the men
were organized into working parties,'
and sent out in front of the trenches
to mend the barbed-wire entangle-'
meats which are being constantly de-
stroyed• by artillery Are; or, in sum-
mer, to cut the tall grass and the
tweeds which would otherwise offer
concealment to enemy listening pa-
trols or bombing parties. Ration
fatigues of twenty or thirty men per
company went back to meet the bat-
talion transport wagons at some point
several miles in rear of the firing -
line. There were trench supplies
•and stores to be brought up as: well,
and the never -finished business of
mending and improving the. trenches
kept many off-duty n1en employed
during the hours of darkness.
The men on duty in front of;. the
trenches were always in great danger.
They worked swiftly and silently, hunt
they were often discovered, in which
ease the only warning they received
was a sudden burst of machine-gun
fire. Then would come urgent calls
for "Stretcher bearers!" and soon the
wreckage was brought in over the
parapet. The stretchers were set
down in the bottom of the'trench and
hasty examinations made by the light
of a flash lamp.
"W'ere's fe caught it?"
"'Ere it is, through the leg. -Tyke
'is puttee off, one of yon!"
"Easy, nowl It's smashed the bone!
Stick it matey! We'll soot ave you
as right as rain!"
"For Gawd's sake, boys, go easy!
ft's givin' me 'ell! Let tip! Let up
eust•a minute!"
Many a conversation of. this sort did
We hear at night when the field-tdress-
engs were being put on, But even
In his sufi'ering Tommy never forgot
a) be unrlghteotiely indignant if, he
ptad been wounded when on a' work -
log party. What could he say to the
'women of England who would bring
inn fruit and flowers in hospital, call
Jul a "poor brave fellow," and ask
Ipow lie was wounded? He had enillsi
and as a soldier, and as a reward for.
his patriotism the Government• had
given ]nim a shovel, "an' 'ere I alai
avorkin' iiko a bloomin' navvy, fnllinl
Sandbags full o' France, Wen rue) an'
get plugged!" The men who most
bitterly resent the pick-and.shovel
phase of army life were given a great
deal of it to do for that very reason,
One of my comrades was shot in the
leg while digging a refuse: pit. 'Phe
wound was a bad one and he suffered
much pain, but the humiliation was
even harder to bear, What could
he tell them at home?
"Do you drink I'm a go'n' to s'y'i
a-1
a e r e n a sandbag full of old
was a ryi sa dbag
jam tins back to the tj'efuee pit w'en
Fritzie gave me this 'ere one to the
leg? Not so bloomin' likely! I' was
afraid I'd get one like this! Ain't it
a rotten bit o' lack!"
If ho had to be a casualty Tommy
Wanted to be an interesting one. He
wanted to fall in the heat of battle,
not in the -heat of inglorious fatigue
duty.
But there was more.heroic.woi'k'rto
be done: going out on listening patrol,:
for example. One patrol, consisting of
a sergeant or a corporal and four or
five privates, was sent out from each 1
company. It was the duty of these.
men to cover the area immediately in
front of the company line of trench,
to see and hear without being discov-
ered,• and to report immediately any
activity of the enemy, above or be-
low ground, of which they might
learn, They were on duty for from
three to five hours, and might'use a
wide discretion in their .prowlings„
provided they kept within the limits
of frontage aPetted to their own mine
pane,: and returned to the .meeting -
place where the change of reliefs teas
mode. These requirements were not
easily complied with, unless there were
trees or other prominent landmarks
standing out, against the• sky by
means of which a patrol could keep
its direction.
. The work required, above every-
thing else, cool heads and stout hearts,
There was the ever-present danger of
meeting an enemy patrol or bombing
party, in which case, if they could not
be -avoided, there would be a hand-to-
hand encounter with bayonets, or a
noisy exchange of hand -grenades.
There was danger,.. too, of a false
alarm started by a nervous sentry, It
needs but a moment for such an alarm
to become general, so great is the
nervous tension at which men live on
the. firing line. Terrific fusillades
from both sides followed while :the
listening patrols flattened themselves
out on the ground, and listened, in no
pleasant frame of mind, to the bullets
whistling over their heads. But at
night, and under. the stress of great
excitement, men .fare high. Strange
as it may seem, one is comparatively
safe even in the open, when lying flat
on the ground,
Bombing affairs were of almost
nightly occurrence. Tommy enjoy-
ed these extremely hazardous ad-
ventures vvldich he called-s`Carryin' a
'app'orth o' 'ate 16 Fritzie,' a half-
penny worth of hate, consisting of
six or a dozen hand -grenades which
he hurled into the German- trenches
from the far side of their entangle-
ments. The more hardy spirits often
worked their way through the barbed
wire and, from a position'close under
the parapet, they waited for the sound
of voices. When they had located
the position of the sentries, they toss-
ed their bombs over with. -deadly ef-
fect. The sound of the explosions
called forth an immediate and heavy
fire from sentries near and far; but
lying close under the very muzzles of
the German rifles, the bombers were -in
no danger unless a party were sent
out in search of. them. This, of
course, constituted the chief element
of risk. The strain of wetting for
developments was a severe one. I
have seen men come in from a "bomb-
ing stunt" worn out and trembling
from nervous fatigue. And yet many
of them enjoyed it, and were sent out
night after night. The excitement of
the thing worked into their blood,
Throughout the summer there was
a great deal more digging to do than
fighting.d'or it was not until the arrival
on active service. of Kitchener's
armies that the construction , of the
double line of reserve or support
trenches was undertaken, From
June until September this work was
pushed rapidly forward. There were
also trenches tp be made in advance
of the original firing -line, for the pur-
pose of connecting up advanced points
and removing dangerous salients. At
1 such times there was no loafing until
we had reached a depth sufficient to
protect us both from view and from
I fire. We picked and shoveled with
might and main, working in absolute
silence, throwing ourselves flat on the
ground whenever a trench rocket was
sent up from the German clines.
1 Casualties were frequent, but this was
inevitable, working, as we did, in the
open, exposed to every chance shot
of an enemy sentry. The stretcher,
;bearers lay in the tall grass close at
hand awaiting the whispered word,
"Stretcher-bearers this way!" and
they were kept busy during much of
the time we were at work, carrying
the wounded to the tear,
•(To be continued.)
MAKING *AR WASTE .USEFUL.
How the British. Have Solved This
Difficult Problem,
To dispose of the enormous quan-
tities of food -wastes of great military
encampments has always been the
most .difficult problem, But the Brit-
ish in this war"Iiavc solved it very
cleverly. •
All bf the fat, says Mrs. Humphrey
Ward, is boiled out for tho mane -face
turn of glycerine -a harmless, sweet,
colorless liquid, which, when mixed
with nitric acid, makes an explosive.
of. enormous }power. Many millions of
shells have been loaded with nitro,
glycerin derived from this eotiree.
All the. bones are calcined for use as
fertilizer, and the by-products are
shipped to France to help feed the
P1.813.
Mrs. Weed says that all the cotton
waste of the military hospitals
(bandages, old surgical dressings,
etc,), is disinfected and converted into
gun -cotton (likewise for war use) by
treating it with. nitric and sulphurio
'wide,
Thug that which feeds and that
which heals becomes in the end that
whdeh kills,
'Sow a few cabbage 'seed in with
008 row Of the Mengel crop and thee
redone the labor of production.
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A New Era Fpr Womanhood Has Been
Brought About by the World
Conflict.
"Women," said a noted general re-
cently, "have truly surprised the
World in this terrible war, and they
are of all nationalities:'
Certainly, if 'bravery and devotion
to their country are the tests for the
r an
award of the cross of courage, many
women would have received jt, says a
London correspondent.
Think of such hefoines as that little
seventeen -year-old French girl—a
modern Joan of Arc --who, he addition
to tending' the British wounded, fought
side by side with the soldiers -in an
hour of crisis and was seen to hill
five Germans with a revolver and with
grenades. Her valor inspired the men
and led them on to victory, Her name
is Emilienne Moreau, and she has been
awarded the Croix de Guerre.
There are the heroic women, too,- of
shell -swept -Flanders, who lived con-
stantly under fire in the Belgian Bobs
in the famous cellar house of Pervyse
—the Baroness de T'Serelaee and Miss
Mairi Chisholm. Always in danger;
with the German shells eontinuoasly
raining around them, they kept the
men in the trenches,supplies] with hot
cocoa and soup and sayed hundreds of
wounded men's lives by their first aid.
There's famous Sergeant Flora
Sands, also, who fought with the Ser-
bian 'array and who showed amazing
.resource and bravery in helping the
Serbs to clear out an enemy trench -8 -
in which action she was badly wound-
ed by a Bulgarian hand -bomb,
An Heroic Doctor.
And now I conic to -one of the most
heroic women of the • groat i' ar—one
who laid down her life gladly for
others—she was buried withethe high-
est military honors and around whose
grave congregated all the great ones
of this world. 'I write of that intrepid
woman doctor from Edinburgh, Scot-
land—the head of. the Sceitl:ish Wo-
men's Hospitals for Foreign Service—
Dr. Elsie Inglis, who shared -in all the
horrors and hardships of the Ruman-
ian and Serbian campaigns, who refus-
ed to leave the sick and dying in i
Krushevatz under German onslaught,
whose hospital was .bombarded night;
and clay for three days by the oncom-
lag Germans and Aurtrians,' who was!
taken prisoner by the enemy, who'.
never once lost spirit and who, j'hough'
broken in health, headed another hos-
pital unit into Russia and stuck to
her post there till her work was fin-
ished—when she died. .
"She has all the great qualities of
both sexes, and none of the small,
ones," was often said of her, I have
known her personally all my life, and'
have never met a finer woman. When
I attended her burial service in Lon-
don and, looking around, saw ambassa-
dors from every part of the world'
come there to do her homage, states-
men, princes, royalty—those whom
the world calls great—it seemed to me
that a new era for womanhood had
been brought about by the great war.'
Patriotism and Courage.
The patriotism and courage of the I
martyred Edith Cavell need no detail -1
ing, They are known already. And
there are lots of women, too, like Mrs.'
Harley, sister '•Of Lord french, who
met a heroine's death at Monastir
when in charge of a motor -ambulance
unit.
The th men who stay at home may,
be doing work as noble, though per-
haps not so spectacular. Certainly
this war has brought certain women to^
the front—types that hitherto have
been quite unnoticed.
For instance, there's that new per-
sonage in the feminine world—the
woman who can work with women!
She is a complete -revelation to men,
and to most women. Women have al-
ways preferred to work with men
because they found their own sex to
be too petty and jealous. A type of
woman has arisen -during this war who
is a born leader—and popular! Other
women will do anything for her. She
adds.understanding to the qualities
possessed by men leaders.
The Scottish woman -doctor to whom
I have previouely referred was such an
one, i'We would do anything for
herr" the girl doctors who worked un-
der her at the front often assured me.
Another new war type is the middle-
aged woman, who has come into her
own at last! No one thought she was
any good for employment before the
war. She rather agreed with them
herself, too—which was a 'distinct
pity!
Then patriotism fired her blood and
she started to persuade people that
common sense .Ind experience do
count.
The Meddie-Aged Worker.
It took some doing—particularly in
conservative 'Great Britain)—but •no
war agency now dares to fix. an age
limit 'for its workers. It is open to
be persuaded that midcIo age is not
a handicap. The middle-aged yeoman
used to dye her hair when first she
Wed the employment' agencies, but
rho has • given that up 110W, Gray
beads have won a place :for themselves
in munitions, in the "Wears" (Wo-
men's Auxiliary Army Corps), iu the
'Women's Land Arley and in Govern-
ment offices. -
, A. `much criticized being-e.in pre-
war times—was that bugbear, the
mothereln-law! Now a1ie`ie immensely
popularl
And why?.
Before the war, few people found
out her use, Bat when the trumpet of
Mars sounded, and homes had to be
broken up, elle held out her arms to
*Ivor' and children. Everything else
has changed but ber home, So when-
ever there is a change elsewhere, or
a heave; She is the refuge. Children
have been tuft with her while the wife
flew to her heebend in hespital, furnik
ture hue been !dumped' upon hor, her
house has been expanded like elastic,
and all ata moment's notice, That is
why she is popular, She knows how
to rise to an emergency,
Another type of war woman who
has sprung into being is the domesti-
Gated woman! Her talent was buried
hefore the war -..particularly in .Great
Britain, that home of the "cheap ser.
vent," The domesticated woman felt
the attraction of the kitchen --but der-
od not go'into it. The cook burred the
ways -and her own colossal ignorance
macre her afraid. She did riot know
rho had -'t great talent for domestic
economy until the war came.
Then it became patriotic and the
fashion to cook and scheme, Besides,
the cook left,Like hundred's
_and
thousands of other naturally domeeti-
eated women, the "mistress" has come
into hor own during the war, and it
is a kingdom of pots and pails, She
ham di:movored a now world in domes-
ticity, and it is full of interest;
Daughters will in the future be
brought up to enjoy the game, too,
and it je Rafe to may that no domestic
Went will be hidden In a napkin• in
future—to please the cook,
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SCIIOOLBOY HUMOR.
Entertaining "Examples of .Youthful
Reasoning.
A contributor to the Nineteenth
Century gives some entertaining ex-
amples of the thought tangles and
oddities of schoolboys, and introduces
them with .the statement that as a
rule the perpetrators of blunders see
nothing comic in their mistakes, al-
though they may admit that there is
something wrong. '
To the question, "What: was the
latus clavus?" one boy returned the
answer, "An ornament on - the toga
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WA3.1. AND FQOD SERI ES. No. 1U--YEGE1TABlehale
more especially if they araemasiteo
and put through a stove. t;Doetors
claim that the tired -out feeling that
comes over people as spring ap-
proaches is clue to la* Of vegetables
demand ti] o to which contain much mineral matter,
are invigorating and serve as a 'tonne
To stop using vegetables in winter to the system.
is to deprive the body of the best of
reales' and; in war time, it inearls us- The winter vegetables are .parti-
ing emote than one should of other etilarly geed when coxnbinetl with
na
wl
foodstafls which ought to be going moats: to make savory status.
overseas. 6 could conceive of a tasty stew tvithotlt
It is patriotic to eat eat,'otables. it
its quota of carrots and stew W
means that you save moat and wheat. f1rs winter vogotab es land tltem-
Whon ,you eat potatoes and carrots selves to many farms of with
$Otlg,
Lind anions You aro not depriving, the They can be need in stew, with soup,
soldleirs of anything, but you ars
save or covered with a simple as
do )oat andflour j Tho water -in which vegetables is
g n n for them,
cooked should never be thrown away.
In. Canada great quantities of s es--'; It can be saved for soap or gravy,
tables are grown, On the farms It is best of all to bake or st.
padnlly the cellar is usually wall the vegetables. Then the valuable
esene
rntgrlcecl in wlnler with potatoes, car- saitq,are not wasted,
rota, onions, turnips .and cabbage. • 1 It is real patriotism to use vege-
Croat vnricty can bo given to "the tables. It is 0 rule that both the
daily menu by the use of vegetables. farmer and the city dweller may safe.
They are excellent Lor tho children, ly follow.
In reparation Lies Variety. "e. Dinzier No,U. •
>? - Rs V e y.
Gonerally speaking, people are more
inclined to eat vegetables in enamor
than in winter. For one.thing they
are not so easy to got; for another
thing, the system does not seem to
m the same extent,
Too often the farmer's wife coin- Pork Pio Baked Potatoes
plaint that her meal' lack variety and/Scalloped Cabbage with Cheese
attributor this to the fact that she is Apple Fritters
tot within reach of the city grocery; Dinner No, 7.
with its infinite variety of foods, Va-
riety Iles not so much in many kinds
of food as in the, ways in which they
aii prepared. With two vegetables,
potatoes and cabbage; one fruit, ap-
ples; two meats, ham and fresh pork,
an almost infinite number of dinners
Worn by senators in ancient Rome." So can be prepared, each appetizing and
far he was fairly Correct, but he wi`hout repeating a single dish. The
thought that his remark needed following are samples:
rounding off; and so he et'clded, "It
gave the the right of admission to the Dinner No. 1.
Cloaca maxima." Roast Pork Sauerkraut
A very 'diverting way of teaching
English literature is to dictate Dome
stanzas of a poem, leaving out cer-
tain words to be filled in by the boys.
Their conjectures are always interest- Pork Loaf Delicate Cabbage
ing; and sometimes let down a shaft Potato Salad with Dressing
into the abys of their mental' pro-
cesses. A child of eleven was told
to finish the quotation, ""Tie better to
have loved and lost," and his experi-
ence of life 'suggested the excellently
metrical line, "Than uevor to have
loved end won."
A schoolmaster once read the -1641y
serenade of Sir W. Davenant's Thi
Lark Now Leaves His Watery Ne,t, Fried fresh Pork Mashed Potatoes
and when he came to the end of the Ilot Slaw
second stanza, "Then draw your cur-; Baked Apples and Cream
tains and begin the dawn," he omitted
the last two words and produced the 1 Dinner No, 5.
hie:affable emendation, !'Then draw I Cold Sliced Ham curtsine
o and begin to yawn." i French Fried Potatoes
One examination question rend, Boiled Cabbage
"Write an account of your life as you Apple Dumplings
foresee it up to the. Lige of forty-five."
The writer, with the snows of thirteen
winters on his head, described the," .
AN
prosperous finish to his school and i 51 � 1 U i
university career, the entry into a
urofeeeion and the rewards of• labor.
"Then at twenty-eight years of age," 1
he wrote, "I married, and when I was'
twenty-nine my wife _presented ma
With- a $on and heir. No one can nos- BRITISH COMPANY REFUSED TO
sibly know the full joys of fatherhood SURRENDER.
save one who has been a father." {
A schoolmaster had fully explained
to a class of boys the meaning of the Gallant Stand by 13th Essex Regiment
saying that a prophet is not without -
honor save in his own country, and When Cut Off From Main
had illustrated it by a reference to Army.
the parallel, "No hero is a hero to 1111
own valet" The explanation took a!Tho authoritative story of thogal-
good ten minutes, but the result, when dant stated British troops made when
the pupils tried to state the meaning the Germans attacked them in over -
in their own words, was discouraging. whelmin' force near Cambrai is told
Boiled Potatoes in their Jackets
Apple Brown Betty
Dinner No. 2.
Apple Snow'
Dinner N. 3. -
`Boiled Ham
Potatoes Cooked in IIam Broth
Cabbage with Sour Sauce
Apple Pie
Dinner No. 4.
FACING ThF
E
"This text means that no prophet is a
prophet- to his own valet," said one
boy. "This means that we ought to
be very kind to servants."
A Remarkable.New Psalm.
"Three new Psalms tracing the
founding of the British Empire and
then the bur,ating of the storm in 101d,
and how the, men of our blood came to
o'ur aid, have been composed by eMr.
A. W. Pollard, assistant keeper, in the
library of the . British Museum. We
give below the words of the third
psalm, and," says the Church Family
Newspaper, "we do not • hesitate to
say that during the war, at any rate,
these psalms ought to be used periodi-
cally in our churches.:
"Let us praise God for the Dead:
for the Dead who die in our cause.
"They went forth first a little army:
all its men were true es steel.
"The hordes of the 'enemy WWI
hurled against them: they fell back,
but their heart failed not,
"They went forward again and held
their ground: though their foes were
as five to one.
"They gave time for our host to
muster: the host of the men who never
thought to fight.
"A great host ands mighty: worthy
of the men who 'died to gain them
times.
mon who never thought to
fight have not been found wanting: in
the strength God has given them they
are great of heart,
"They fight against those who love
war:, they fight, and by faith in God,
t11e,,eha11 prevail, •
"Let us praise God for these men:
let us remember them before Him all
our drays.
"Let us care for the widows and
orphans: and for the men who come
home maimed,
"Truly God has been with us: these
things have not been done without His
help.
"O Lord our God, be Thou still our
helpers make us worthy of those who
diel"
Where Ire Waa"At:
A. certain British soldlefis lottery
according, to Pnuehy rune thuet
"I am sorry I cannot toll you
where I am, because I sun not Allow-
ed to say, But f venture to state
that T am not whore I wee, but where
I was before I left here to go where
have just come from.".
Minced Hone with Gravy
Browned Potatoes
d law
DutchColAppSle Calve
Dinner No° 8.
Pork Croquettes Creamed Potatoes
Cabbage and Celery Salad
Ample Tapioca
Dinner No, 9,
Browned Hash Potato Soup
' Cabbage and Olive Salad
Apple Pudding
/° Dinner No. 10.
'Baked Ilam Stuffed Baked Potatoes
Fried Cabbage
Apple Sauce Cake
Dinner No. I1.
Fried Ham with Cream Dr•ossing
Mashed Brown Pot�jjatces
Cabbage and Green 'Pepper
Apple Charlotte
Dinuer No. 12.
Rolled Stuffed Steak.^ -'Rived Potatoes
Steamed Cabbage with Drawn Butter
Sauce
Apple tmd Date Salad
Dinner No. 13.
lfroiled Steak French Fried Potatoes
- Creamed Cabbage with Cheese
Apple Sauce with Sponge Cake
Those dinners with brown or white
bread, butter, tea or coffee and cook-
ies make meals fit for the king's
table.' `
but all attempts failed against the
overwhelming strength of the enemy.
The last that is known of this gal-
lant company is that !t was ,fighting
it out and maintaining to the last bul-
wark their stand against the tide of
attacking Germans. It is impossible.
to estimate the value of this magnifi-
cent fight to the death which relieved
the pressure on the main line of de-
fence,
These Shall Prevail
War laid bugle to his lips, blew one
blast—and then
The seas answered h:m with ships, the
earth with men.
Straight, Death caught his sickle up,
called bis reapers grim,
Famine with his empty cup came after
now for the 'first time. The fiercest him.
fighting of the bottle took place on
the Bourlon-Moeuvres front, and the Down the stairs of Paradise hastenel
story is so brimful of heroism that it! angels three,
deserves to take its place in English :Pity, and Sell%-Sacriiice� and Charity.
history. The most determined at- Where'he curved, black ridges sweep,
tacks of four German divisions with ; the
pale Famine clings,
three other German divisions in sup- '
Where gaunt women watch and weep,
port, were utterly crushed by the three u come these of wings.
British divisions that were in line,.)
November 80, 1917, will be a proud day , When the red wrath perisheth, when
in the-ldves of all those splendid Brit- I the dulled swords fail,
ish soldiers who, by their single- I These three who have walked with
hearted devotion to duty, prevented Death—these shall prevail.
what would have become a serious sit-
uation had they given way.
After considerable shelling during
the night on Bourlon wood the enemy
attacked in force. Four posts on the
right of the 2nd division were wiped
out'and the situation was critical. The
survivors of the 2nd division's posts,
however, succeeded in getting to shell-•
holes farther back and held on,, and
the enemy was eventually driven back
after three hours' hard fighting.
Fought to the End.
Further west, the enemy's advance
broke upon the 17th Royal Fusiliers,
which was withdrawing from an ad-
vanced,,sap and trench which ware
judged too exposed to be maintained.
in the face of an ,attack so powerful.
Owing to the enemy being• concealed
in dead ground, the attack developed
with unexpected speed, and the com-
pany holding the advanced position
was ordered to leave a roe; -guard to
cover the withdrawal of the remainder.
Captain W N. Stone, who was in come
mend of the company, sent back three
platoons, and himself elected to remain
with the -rear -guard, together with.
Lieut. Benzccry,
Thie rear -guard, assisted by machine
guns, held off the whole of the Ger-
man attack until the main position of
the 17th Royal Fusiliers was.fuliy or-
ganized, and they died to a man with
their faces bo the enemy. Later in
the evening another attack in force.
was made southeast of Ittoeuvre, and
the enemy once more effected an en-
try, isolating a company of the lAth
kleseit Reghnent. This gallant com-
ppany, realizing the improbability of
being extricated, held a council of war
at whlell it was unaititnously detormin.
ed to light to the last and have nor, sur-
render, Two runners who siieceedod fo
getting through were sent back to he-
tify the battalion headquarters oC this
docisdon, Throughout the night of No-
vember 80 many efrerts were made to
effect the relief of those -brave men,
Hell bade all its millions rise; Para-
dise' sends three;
Pity, and Self -Sacrifice and Charity.
—Theodosia Garrison.
She Had. Not The Heart.
A country \Oman came along the
railway platform and sat on a seat
beside a hospital nurse who was
waiting for a train, 'With a sigh of
relief she disposed of her parcels and
umbrella. Then, she began to cleat,
"Ale" site said, looking at the
nurse's uniform admiringly, "I don't
know what we'd do without the likes
of you.".
"Oh, you are ,too kind!" protested
the nurse, "I'm sure you do things
as worthy every day."
"Not me, mise," said the old lady.
"I can hill a duck or fowl with the
best—that I admit, But when it
comes to human bein's, my heart fails
me,"
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Food Coatrol •CQN.zi°
Rationing is a subject that is re-
ceiving much newspaper attention in
Canada at present, It a thing thee
is as new to us it, theory enet I r't .lice
as . war was three years and 1 b if
ago. That must be the only onewie
for soma things n hkl1 ere wiit'cn.
The general assumption i; that ration-
ing can be carried out, jue.t as seam
people thought pric 1 • g could, by
a mere wave of r: meek r pen. When
it is remembered, 110, ever, that
Canada's seven and 0 half minion pec'
pie are scattered over al, area geesit.
er than Europe the question at .race
arises: "Who is to see to the every-
ing out of the rationing 501100??"
For rations mean that rash f •Drily
would bo under aerlibligation not to
eat more on any day or in any week
than a certain setamount of particular
foods.
It would not be hard to make a rule
that so much bread should be used by
each person at a meal. But bow
many million police would be wanted
to attend to the execution of the
order? Even the making. of orders
that would be fair in a large city no
compared with a country home of-
fers difficulties little thought of. In
the Maritime Provinces fish is plenti-
ful and comparatively cheap as in
the West, are wheat and beef. But
more fish is not needed "at the front"
to anything like the same extent that
beef and wheat most urgently aro
wanted.
What rationing plan could ignore
the "customs of the country"? Yet
immediately here a discrepancy arises.
One might prescribe the use of beef and
wheat in Canada by decree but its in-
cidence would be unequal from tho
first. There is, however, one way in
which the food saving could be made
which is the whole end and object of
rationing. It is by a voluntary
pledge of each home. In three words
this is nothing else than by unrent5t-
ting patriotic saving of the foodstuffs
that are known to be wanted by the
allies. No amount of talking can
make up for this, It is not a legal
question at all but a moral one, which
must be left to the conscience of
each household head. There is no
better way for the present in which
those who cannot go to the trenches
can actually help in the fight in
Europe for moral uprightness and
;pure ideals of life than in practicing
rin each home at all times of the 'day
that honest carefulness to avoid
waste which would have to be clone
under a compulsory rationing scheme.
In a way this is a new factor which
hitherto it has not Been possible to
utilise. The Canadian women .is
here especially indicated to aid. Se
far woman's work in the Dominion
has had to do with Red Cross and
similar works of mercy. This opens
out the field enormously. Every woe
man who saves bread, beef and porn
products is in fact and deed wielding
an unseen weapon in the war as truly
as her sisters behind the trenches are
in caring for the broken and the maim
ed. .-.
Before baking apples stun there
with raisins. '
Seed oats are likely to sell higher
this spring and be harder to find thar
in any season within memory.
Send it to Parker's
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that are shabby, dirty or spotted are
grade like new. We can restore the
most delicate articles.
Send one article or a parcel of goods
by post or express. We: will pay car•
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When you think of cleaning and dye.
Lug, think of PARKER'S,
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