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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-7-25, Page 6Runaway Juliet d`" Sy Artliur Henry Gooden CHAPTER XIII, handed it to her, She surveyed it She Direovers, icer True Kingdom The Thorpe ranch was not es Julr- e"tta remembered it, The old frame heuse was one, and in its p1'aee was sandstone building erected. around three sides of a patio, nestling in a group of tall eucalypti that were ever green, And now, coming u>Pon, it, lanced through the trees by the soft moonlight, Julietta exclaimed in sur- prise; "You said you'd built a new house, but why on earth didn't you tell me' more?" "You kike it?" ho- queried, smiling, "Like it? It's a dream place! Wherever did you get the idea?" "From a ranch I saw in Mexico," Juliette t d upon him amazedly. "Why not?" He laughed, "Can't She touched them curiously Had she a ranchman see a little of the world? , But here's Tom." A Chinaman opened to them, and Clay led the somewhat dazed girl up the 'steps and into the house, The Celestial Informed Clay that his aunt had gone to bed, so, ordering some lemonade and seed cake brought to them, the young rancher led Julietta to what he called hiseaoffiee" It was an office in reality, she saw With fresh surprise—a severe room, through her suspicious bulwarks. lined with books, many of.these being "Andy Burt didn't like your run - law books. In the centre of the oons nin' off with young Thorpe last night, • was a large flat-topped desk withLizzie, after he took the trouble to typev•riter beside it. drive out from town to see you." "You're not --not a lawyer?" •'he "I'm sorry," murmured the girl. 'stood. "Why didn't you tell nus--" "He tallied a lot after you went off, "No, Pre not; but I'm to be e.,a-r.- From what he said, I guess Andy is ined next month for the bee. Here, kinder took with you He ain't so nearsit down!" the desklc ee nd, sitting aced tr in a down" byi the young, rincould do a sight worse."ut he ain't so old a typewriter, slipped a sheat of• paper Julietta studied her coffee cup, into the machine and set to work. ) "Did he commission you to speak Julietta watched in idle,,_strange on his behalf Auntie?".• contentment. She -liked this place—I "Well, Andy did talk kinder free," Clay's home. Home! As though admitted the other. "He's. just like through a window: of colored glass, a boy about not bein' able to; keep his she mistily perceived things new to feelin's to himself. He says he's al - her things that had never appealed, ways been one of them as laughs with a satisfied air, "I'll have it recorded to -morrow," she said with cool finality, They drove home slowly, and for the most part silently. At the dark- ened Wurrell ranch he helped her out to the veranda step. "Good night," she said, extending her hand, And thank you so much —vainly she tried to adopt the old business tone—"for taking me into partnership on this water -right af- fair." His hand tightened upon hers. She was never very sure how it 'happened, for neither of them said a word more, but somehow hie face had come to hers, and— urns She stood inside the door, slope, "You—in Mexico?'" breathless, trembling,, her lips afire. kissed him, then ?— She reached out a steadying hand to the table, thank- ful for the darkness that cloaked her in friendly secrecy. CHAPTER XIV, She Comes to a Ilard Reckoning and Faces it Squarely At the breakfast. table the next morning Mrs. Worrell eyed her niece furtively. At last speech broke CANADIANS IN PERILOUS VOYAGE SAW THE "oflssA" of THEIR CONVOY TORPEDOED, previously to what was deepest with- in her. , The harsh, elbowing world of busi- ness --that was not woman's kingdom of the spirit. In the newer realm, or newer as Julietta saw it, there was a deeper "business,rr a higher and more ennobling field of action. She thought vaguely, shyly, of children, and thrill- ed even as she dismissed the thought. The woman, she reflected, was the home -maker; the true sphere of a wo- man was strictly business, which was not saying at all that women could not strike pay dirt in the field .of man's business— "A penny for your thoughts'" Shell Was Meant For Them—Dee- troyere Sunk the U -Boats With Depth Charges. Back from the perils of the sea, saved miraculously from the fate that befell the Llandovery Castle on the same day in the same deadly Irish waters, a number of Canadians, in- cluding it cpntingent of Torontonians, have the events of theh' recent trans- Atlantic voyage stamped' indelibly up- on their memories, The coast of Ireland had faded into the horizon as the convoy steamed westward over a pleasant sunnier sea. The ocean was not as tranqull as the Proverbial mill -pond, but though the long, low-lying torpedo-boat destroyers which guarded the flanks of the con- voy of some eight ships, pitched and less noise than the depth -charges, tossed as they plowed through the The effect at close quarters upon the waters, the bigger vessels glided fragile plates of a U-boat can well be smoothly along, A crowd of women imagined. If within a certain radius, the U-boat's plates aro dented by the shock, and water porn's in along the started rivets. Even if too far off for this, and the undersea boat escapes, her delicate interior machinery is liable to serious damage from the jar - when folks talk about love at first sight; but he won't never laugh at it no more, because you're the girl he's been waitin' for all these years." "Oh!" said Julietta pensively. "Perhaps he's more interested in a certain note than he is in me." se Mrs. Wurrell's fork clattered nois- ily to her plate. "Land sakes, child! What are you drivin' at?" So terrified, helpless, and suddenly. aged did the older woman seem that Julietta repented. "Nothing," she said kindly. "I say silly things at times, Auntie." "I feel all shook up," muttered Mrs. Julietta glanced up to find Clay's Wurrell. "I feel—" She broke off, merry dark eyes peering at her above staring at the door as Jim Wurrell the machine, "Oh, just thinking! Why are you studying law, Clay? " "Oh, just to know the law!" he mimicked her tone. "Well, why?" "I'm a bit interested in good gov- ernment I" She nodded gravely. "I'm glad' you didn't say 'politics'. I'd hate to have you a politician." "Then you care about what I do or tun?" His eyes were suddenly widened, tensed upon her, but she was on guard. "Of course. Why not?" The clicking recommenced. Juli- ette surveyed the littered desk. She noted the, great inkwell formed of a steer's horn mounted in silver, the polished Mexican' dagger, the docu- ments, a file of blank deeds— For a moment her eyes dwelt upon the -file of deeds,•slowly dilating as the idea seized upon her with growing force. As the typewriter fell silent she turned impatiently, that idea now excluding all else. "How's' this?" Clay ran out the paper, and began to read whale Juli- etta forced her attended' to the words. She suggested a change here, another there; frowingly he found her sugges- tions good, and complied. As finish- ed, that petition, if ever signed by Andrew Burt, would give everyone in the valley exactly what they wanted. "Chances are he won't sign it," laughed Clay, putting in a fresh sheet of paper and falling to work on the job of copying the corrected petition. Food conservation has. directed at - "But at least it will make clear what tention to the inland lakes and rivers everyone wants, and who wants it." of Canada, in that from these much Julietta leaned forward and took up of the fish being marketed in interior one of the blank deeds. When at towns and cities is secured, The pia Sensedth heh had completed tohim. his task she teotion of btese_waters, therefore, be - "I wish form to him. "I you'd make me out a deed," comes a' paramount duty, and one she said quietly. • which must be strictly enforced, His brows lifted in surprise. The opening of the vacation season, "Think I cau't do it?' Well, don't and the • exodus to summer resorts came rushing in. "Andy Burt's big haystack was set afire last night!" he cried excitedly. "A clean -thousand ton gone up in smoke'" "Set afire'" echoed Julietta. "How do you know it was set afire?" "Why, 'count o' this." Wurrell opened his hand, disclosing a dirty paper. "Found it pinned on the barn door this mornin', and Stebbins' milk driver told me there was one just like it fastened up on Andy Burt's bank in -town." Upon the paper was scrawled "Let the wicked beware, lest they burn!" in pencil.,Mrs. Wurrell uttered a startled cry. "It's that Jake Robbins! He's al- ways sayin' them scripture things. If Andy Burt don't throw him in jail for it he ain't got the spine of a jelly - "Now, Auntie, don't worry about anyone setting it otitersh-MMMMgM anyone setting fire to this place," de- murred Julietta, and turned to her uncle. "May I have the horse and buggy this morning, Uncle Jim? I want to get to town right away." The Wurrells exchanged looks, then Jim moved to the door half sullenly to hitch up. No automobile was on this ranch, almost out of the whole valley. (To be continued.) PROTECTING INLAND WATERS. Every Care Should be Taken to Pre- vent Contamination. elements, ter the torpedo hit, aur neighbors, the destroyers, whisked around like live things and, putting on full speed, rushed through the aoas' in the direction of the hidden 1J -boat, of which we on our vessel caught pot tate slightest glimpse, Drop Depth Charges. A series of Heavy explosions *mind- ed ae the warships dropped their depth chargee into the eea right and left a Mlle or more away, At each explo- sion of these fearsome under.water bombs, even at that distance, the stout steel plates of our ship rang a,9 though from the blows of a 'giant's sledge• hammer, Geysers of black smoke and spray ahot skyward at each thunder- ous detonation, Two sly periscopes, almost invisible in the choppy great sea, were'•busY trying to spot more victims among the convoy, but though the Huns fired six. torpedoes all told, five went wide of the mark._ The clang of our ship's plates at every blast was rather trying to the nervus of the passengers, who felt in each impact the blow of a torpedo it- self, though for that matter the ex- plosion of the missile made actually and children returning to Canada, a sprinkling of invalided Canadian of- ficers and a party of discharged Cana- dian men, invalids and cripples, going home, comprised the passenger list 01 our ship. We were practically a hos- pital 'ship of convalescent cases. It , ring. was about 4.30 in the afternoon of Just after our unfortunate escort Tuesday, 26th June, and many, follow- I had disappeared bow -up into the sea ing English custot':, were sitting in j amid'a cloud of steam, some 24 min - the saloon enjoying a c>;,^ of tea and ,utes after she had been hit, a de- ft biscuit. The writer was sanding on'stroyer wirelessed us the joyful news decit in conversation with a Toronto that they had got the TJ -boat. A cer- lady, who has lost two splendid sons Iain black volcano we had seen up - in the war. We were about the only heaved from the ocean's depths had passengers on that side of the deck been her funeral. Some time later just then, and,we leaned over the rail her sister U-boat, whose presence had gazing out across the sunlit sea 'been detected before She had done any watching the "Orissa," a small freight- harm, met with a similar fate. er of over 5,000 tons, which was plow- ing along right abreast of us, and some 600 yards away. Torpedo Shook Shlp, Suddenly a metallic clang sounded, and a violent tremor shook our ship, white -bearded Scotch captain never "What is that?" exclaimed my left the bridge. Never known to swear, neighbor in a startled voice. Then, even as she uttered the words, a dull roar came over the water, and from the stern of the "'Orissa" a geyser of water and white smoke shot up. Almost immediately the stricken vessel began to droop at the stern and to drop behind. She had been hit by a torpedo. And that torpedo had been aimed at us, the largest .vessel in the convoy, and managed things all through the vog- placed in the centre of the convoy for age. Major (Soldier Bill) Grant, forms safety. By a strange chance, the erly sergeant -major of the 16th, was "Orissa" had just quickened her pace 0.0.; Lieut, H. Anderson, a Toronto and moved up abreast of us a few lawyer, and formerly secretary to Sir William Meredith, was adjutant, and Capt. W. Marsden, of the P,P.C.L.L, who holds the proud position of being No 1 in the C.E.F., was O.C. civilians. It 1s no exaggeration to say that every passenger sighted the coast of the stern. By this time her life -boats North America, not only with a feel - were in the water and bobbing around ing of profound thankfulness to Pro - like corks on the slight sea, with the vidence, but with a true sense of the crews rowing hard for the nearest magnificent work of the British navy, destroyer. The whole happening had whose swift ships and gallant sailor, been inconceivably rapid—from steam- men outwitted the Hun, sent him to ing ship to sinking wreck. the bottom, and convoyed them safely Women Very Brave, through the dire peril to the dear gamble on my ignorance, young 'lady." Ile cleared his throat with assumed importance. "What are the metes and bounds?" - "The which?" . • "The metes and bounds the 'de- ; sciiption of the property." carries wttfi it a threatened danger. In many places, little attempt is made to protect the waters; in fast, the takes and rivers are considered a con- venient moans of disposing of refuse. It is not possible for inspectors to visit every nook and corner to see Enlightened, --Julietta took from her that cottagers or campers are obeying blouse a folded sheet of paper," the law. The responsibility must rest "Here's the description as I copied upon ,and be accepted by the people it from the records—the Wurrell themselves, ranch, my ranch." The inland .waters belong to the His 'eyes met hers with sudden Canadian people; and It is not too gravity. , . - much to ask that every care be taken "'You're going to sue Wurrell— to prevent contamination, either• 1 make him disgorge, then?" ! "No' and es," returned Juliette directly or by drainage or seepage, i thoughtfully. "I don't want the place Only by the people exercising this 1 myself. But it's my ranch—mine, care can the waters be saved from poi - ; Well, I'm going to deed it to Maggie lution and this source of food supply -Worrell—and Maggie's baby." bq conserved, Clay's mouth tightened for a mo - Ment. He was still thinking of the Johnny Knew. Wurrells. Last summer little Johnny paid his "You'd better make them give up first visit to a farm. All his life he some of the accumulated profits for bad lived in the heart of a great city, the baby also," he said. "They'll and when he suddenly came In sight try' to fight, and you'll have to smash of a haystack he stopped and gazed 'em." earnestly at whet appealed to him as Gallant Ship's Officers. The finest traditions of the British merchant service were lived up to all through the voyage by the ship's of- ficers. For days the gallant old "No!" She held up a protesting a new brand of architect hand. "Jim Wurrell ie good at bot- a ore. tont he'd be a lot different if it Say, Mr' Smith;' he remarked to the farmer, a r ar ointir ,.t ng tothe ha haystack, too, r ie, She'sgood weren't for At t h n W„ "Why don't they have 1 Y t to n but sine's crusted her spirit with sal- doors end win- ilehness, hardness jealousy, and petty down in 11?” spite, and she's poiaoned herself with "Doors and windows," smiled the s itefu!l intolerance. She just got! farmer, "That ain't a house, Johnny, p iregrown and that's iia " started wrong,' and Y, grown until the real woman is all cov- ered up." She leaned forward earnestly and unburdened he soul. f've bean thinkinga lot about it !nee coming haolc, If a woman like 11 * q thou 't9 iklUntie Wurrell gets her gin ru ri- ft on the ust n ,ted Oki g, Y I t wits her skill rho ktenlQ I Oice hr bachtA Itt ' �e1 i bring h' - th' cru and ri t ntl`e can brae'. ask d g foal Auntto out ram beneath—swell, I t ink it will make th1 e a lot differs "bt�t, So melte out the deed, Clay,") He turned silently to the type'Wrlt- ea` and obeyed, t ith a bolt patter of feat the Malentered the clout, bearing fan t;irr -nuts ,h he .aood on the n 1wt. While Gla waked on 9110 ad �e y � i oto nt � low d rose illk ;hofs, the deed mafi0 otit, he "Don't try to josh Inc, Mr. Stn!titl" waitin groups of women and childretr, wad Who scornful rejoinder of the city Everyone realized, he peril of our posi- o�v. "Don't you suppose that 1 know tion, Everyone momentarily expected nti hay'4ort't .grew in lumpt like to ]roar the crash, to feel the shudder diets" aft a torpedo struck our own ship. It and Aft was a trying bisye for the strongest Before a f nd After, r, en --•bate h In everyone smiled and t 5 o ers i Women, O , v at Ori of ,an engaged a upjei en their behaviour was beyond " 'o t' allrte, h t hes re pas Though agonies anxiety }� act s' d a o os of a W Y o im+ she g Y erre ?, Ir nrurlfiured. mutt have tortured those mothers, not, "Because your eyes are so bright?" se Whimper did they titter, 'hot an ex' ho whispered, claination of fear, With theft arms Conversation of same couple mar- about their little once they sat there meta. swotting the worst., calmly, bravely, t ke to reaeh froth All Fro,it. hese tt the stars'"' she mused, ht tile tine time those congregated on hese .4 s eche, ft, it Were long'. enough, Why 4eok had been witneeeimg a torrlile don't yeti taut soifixo?,' Perforreantce Of the flea nioae by, A the skipper broke his record this time. The first officer, a splendid type of British seaman, told the writer that the old skipper paced the bridge all through the submarine attack, hearti- ly cursing "those d— dirty dogs of Huns." As for the Canadian military officers in charge of the civilians and invalided soldiers, too much cannot be said for the manner in which they COOKING WITH OILS. At no time of the year is the use of I A woman told me she had no time green vegetables in the diet of more to read but I observed that she found' importance' than in the spring and early summer. When combined In a salad with a good vegetable oil, we have a tonic which is both appetiz- ing and refreshing. The body must have a liberal supply of mineral salts in order to maintain itself properly, Lettuce, spinach, cabbage, water cress, aspar'a•gue, cel- ery, radishes, string beans and carrots contain a high percentage of miner- als d should befreely d minutes before the Hun hit her.. In less than three minutes' time the torpedoed vessel had stopped com- pletely and stewed around, and lay there with her exhaust blowing off and momentarily settling deeper at home land. Meantime things where astir aboard our vessel, though not the slightest panic prevailed. Everyone, excepting Dispose of Old Hens and Breeding a few stragglers who were sipping tea Stock Early - and playing bridge in the saloon, bad at first actually not known what was As soon as the breeding season is taking place, trooped In orderly fast- over, get rid of all male birds used in ion to the life -boat stations which had the breeding pens. When the egg been assigned to them but a'slnort yield drops in the early summer, or time before. when the egg yield does not pay for It was, indeed, a pathetic sight to the feed, sell off all hens over two see those groups of women and child- years old and even the year-olds cull ren thus exposed to the vielence of pretty well. Poultry at this time of the U-boat murderers. Not a matt the year will bring a better. price aboard but whose blood boiled at sight than later and feed and space will be of it, The plight of these women and saved for the best of the year-olds children, and how to help them should and the growing chicks. Old hens, as it have been necessary,' to take to the a rule, especially of the heavier varie- boats, was the sole anxiety of every` ties do not pay for their feed in late man. summer eggs. Grey-haired mothers there were Sell the young cockerels whenever with grown-up fighting sons and with they are ready throughout the snm- grandchildren, mothers with little mar. Don't keep everything till the children who hugged Teddy ears as fall. Whenever the price is good, sell they sat waiting for the worst, the cockerels as broilers or as small mothers with tiny babies. One ma. roasters. jor's wite sat In a corner of the deck In an experiment carried on at the with her little family of four. Every Experimental Farm in the spring of one of these tots was under five. Two 1917 with Leghorn chickens, the sale were twins of six months, sitting of the cockerels paid all expenses for there without a whimper in their big incubation, brooding and feed for wicker basket, The other two ware themselves and pullets up until the a flaxen -haired boy and girl, "Sonny" first of September. When the pullets and "Ciseie," cute kiddies in bare legs went into winter quarters on Nevem- and pink sweaters, These last two, ber 1st, they had cost over and above like a dozen other youngsters of their what had been paid by the sale of the own age on the boat, came scamper- cockerels just 8.9 cents each. This ing -along the deck clad in the big, experiment showed not only that 'it down-flllod adult -sized life -belts, which paid to sell the cockerels early, but it they like all the grown-up passengers, also demonstrated that pullets could had been obliged to wear continuous- be raised much cheaper than they ly since the vessel started au her could be bought in the fall. perilous voyage. ` •h Trying Time of Waiting. The Charge. One baby girl of three, who had cut Lance pennants, fluttering, a droll figure the 11rst day of tate voy- - Kettle drums crashing, age, running about the deck crying Ride shots sputtering, and trying to pull off her unwelcome fie shots points flushing; life -preserver, now toddled along quite Trumpets call blaringly, resigned to the unwieldly apparatus, "Squadrons—advance!" tugging on the leather leading strings Gallop on daringly, to which her mother kept, her harness- Hussars of Prance! ed. Near them sat a mother whose hoofs clattering, 0 a Canadian Armored g, f the .auadian doc- husb nd was one o t t a tors killed in Prance act be was oper- Battle flags flying; Ming. She was taking her little On, through 'cool spattering! daughter home, On, through men dying! loom hazily-, • Cannon t .b t wraps ndcuso f,Y Rugs, shawls and w al s a p tea were brought out to the anxious Crimson each lance; Troopers reel hazily— Hussars of France! time to do yards and yards of crochet work., The result was a beautiful piece of handiwork of which She was! proud to say that she had done it all I th odd t f month n e momen s o one Does this not indicate that she would rather crochet than read in her odd mutes?BLINDED m ENEMY MAGIC BAKING POWDER CONTAINS NO ALUM MADE IN CANADA I myself should rather read and I .r think every' woman should hews the reading habit to some extent, It s an s on d ret y use . makes her a better companion for I -- The vegetable oils, the most impar- herself and her family. tont of which are olive, peanut and In the morning afar breakfast I AFTER RESULTS OF GAS SHELL corn oil, contain' just as much furl run through the daily paper, There' BOMBARDMENT. BY HIS OWN GAS value as high-priced butter or com- I learn that some of my friends and bined with vegetables in a salad the acquaintances have left fawn or have; furnish us with enough food withoutreturned. Next I read the headlines the additional use of butter. of the world's happenings and some - Vegetable oils aro pure, healthfultimes take in the whole of an editor - I and economical for all cooking pur- 1,,1. This probably consumes fifteen poses. While the cost is not notice- minutes, Then I go to my work in ably much lase than butter, the same the house (Ind garden. amount will go nearly twice as i'ar• Often in the middle of the forenoon French Dressing for Green Salads. I drop down for a little rest in the —%s teaspoonful salt, "2 poor- rocking chair or on the lounge and full vinegar, dash red peppeer,r, 6 6 table- then I read in full the most important coning and stir spoonfuls vegetable into nto the oft. Add the oil, Mix the sea- news in the paper that I had only glanced at earlier. In this way I vinegar and beat vigorously until the i keep pace with the world news. mixture thickens. Serve on fresh vegetables at the time of serving at the table. Combination Salad. --Crisp lettuce, sliced cucumber, coolced string beans or cooked asparagus, celery, sliced radishes, French dressing. Wash the lettuce thoroughly in several waters; let stand until crisp then dry between towel and put in a cold place until ready to use. A little muslin bag may be kept for the purpose of keep- ing clean salad greens ready for use. At serving time arrange the lettuce on a large plate or in a salad bowl. Put the sliced cucumber together in one place, the sliced radishes in an- other, the celery cut into- one -inch pieces in another pile, and the other vegetables each in separate piles. Just before serving mix in the French dressing in a big bowl. Chocolate Cake. -6 tablespoonfuls. oil, 1 cupful corn syrup, 2 squares chocolate, 1 cupful mashed potatoes, 2 eggs, % cupful milk or water, 11 cupfuls barley flour, 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoonful cinna- mon, 1 teaspoonful cloves, 'r/z tea- spoonful nutmeg. Add the oil to the mashed potatoes, then the corn syrup and melted chocolate. Beat the eggs separately and add the beaten yolks to the mixture then part of the flour then part of the mills, the remainder of the flour sifted with the spices and the remainder of the milk. Fold in quickly the stiffly beaten egg whites and the baking powder; turn into a well -greased pan and bake in a mod- erate oven about forty to forty-five Oatmeal Quick Bread or Muffins.— " wonder how many telegraph heroics kinswomen of the Canadiaste In the afternoon, as late as three or four' o'clock on my busiest days, I come to the end of my work except sewing which like the poor we always have with us; but at this time I take up a magazine for long enough at least to read one article or one bright, cheerful story. If I have started a book, I take time -tor a chapter or two or three unless a neighbor comes in or I go out somewhere. In the even- ing I rarely miss an hour's reacting, often enjoying two or three before bedtime. This question of reading is after all much more a natter of ideals and standards than a question of finding time.—E.F. To Be Or Not To Be—Efficient. She who spends two hours in wash- ing dishes, that with ordinary effici- ency could he done in half an hour, is working an hour and a half overtime h ht beimproving-her op New Weapon So Subtlle in Its Effee,ts That It Does Inventors Greater InJury. German ingenuity in producing gas with which, to overwhelm the enemy fL�.. has not always wonted out as intend- • ed or wholly to the advantage of those employing it. In the recent offensive the intensive gas shell bombardment will which the German precedes his attacica has had occasionally unfore- seen after effects upon the Germans themselves. For the purpose of the offensive the enemy employs a shell containing a double purpose chemical, affecting first the eyes and then the skin. It is a modification of the normal "tear gas" shell, and the usual distinctive odor is very much reduced, so that the gas Is not so easy to detect. Men who suffer from its effects are tem- porarily blinded, and close contact with the fumes produces an unpleas' j ant skin 1rrt•tatlon, For the average case eight or ten days' hospital treat. ' ment is neceseary, but the gas is neither fatal nor does it inflict per- manent injuries, for our men are not exposed to it long. So much for our side of the question, New Weapon Two Edged. From the German point of view the weapon has proved decidedly double edged. This was especially the case when she might on the Somme during the last often- portunities or doing something she sive. The chemical was so Concentra• would better like to do. ted that it was markedly less volatile The woman who putters around all than the usual gas content, and where. day until dark, doing a washing that ever a shell exploded a considerable could have been finished in the fore- proportion of the charge impregnated noon if she had only known how, is in. the surrounding ground. The fumes efficient and wears herself out in suspended in the air dispersed fairly, strain of body and mind. rapidly, but the actual site of the ex-; When I tell you that a good break- plosion remained virulently poisonous. ,. In the usual way the spot where a gas asst for six people can be prepared shall has burst is dangerous for forty. minutes, tut on the table in twenty-five eight hours or so, but this concentra- minutes, the average woman will not I ted, chemical remained active for a believe me. To do this you must much longer period. have everything where you can put The result was decidedly comic, for minutes. your hands upon it without extra it was evidently one of the many little moves. 1t1 was that the "Grosserof General It is easier to peelthe potatoes and , 2 cupfuls ,rolled oats, 1 egg, 1 table- Stab" omitted in its calculations.- The spoonful cooking oil, 4 teaspoonfuls get the vegetables and dessert ready German artillery lathered the Allied baking powder, 1 cupfuls milk, 2 while doing the morning work than to positions with gas shells in the most tablespoonfuls syrup, 1 cupful wheat prepare them et the last possible mr lavish manner. Every redoubt, sup - flour, la teaspoonful salt. Pour the nuts and rush through the cooking, port line, ruined village and road ceu- hot milk over the oats and let stand I knew a woman who insisted on was plastered with the stuff, Tha until having her washing on the line on great laswas launched and the sy+ropes, d the oold. d theThen addttheen edry Monday, rain or shine, and latesting at line yielded ground, The Ger- and sifted together. Beat hard, her ironing done at the by meed moved up and occupied It.h Their Wednesday noon. If it was not done pour into well -greased muffin pans at that time everyone in the house bombardment had been miles deep; and bake about one-half hour in a their advance was in proportion. moderate oven. thought s e poured I Find Time to Read. I hear busy women say, "I never can find any time for reading," Tire circumstance* aro rare in which any woman is obliged to work al'1 of the time. Most of us have our hours for rest a.nd relaxation, for calls or shopping and there can always be found some time for reading if the desire Is sufficiently strong. Steeds canter aimlessly; Wounded are calling; Soldiers weep shamelessly— d re fa ilia , o rmd a Cm g i usl lar v�etor o C n Y, g4 g Strlviisg with Chance, Pertah.ing gloriously r Ilussars of Frannce! v2 A Scottish soldier, very badly r 1 to n m C to - r nes d a A wounded e p q Y lain to write a letter for him to his to lli e . The chs lain atnxious o > wits g , p started off with—"My dent wilier "Na, na," said the Scotsman; "dinna. pi.t that boon Ma wife canna Ste a jelte," was made most uncomfortable. S'he h was efficient and method- lc'al but she was not. She tired her- self body and soul. She was unfit to do the things that made life really worth the living, Efficiency means nothing more nor less than doing what we must do or want to do in the way that brings best results to our everyday lives and makes us glad we can do things and glad to live, THIRTY YEARS A KAISER. Three Decades Last Month Since Ger- man Emperor. Came to the Throne. On the fifteenth of June, 1888,tblrty years ago, the present Kaiser ascend- ed the throne of his ancestors—that is, so far as the Brandenburg and Prus- sian portion ie concerned. The Im- perial distinction was then only of seventeen years' standing. quote what "The Times" said of the Enmperor's speech. About this period Potsdam fell foul of "Punch," The foundation was laid. The Ger- man State became a Secret Society a year after the death of the old Emper- in that year he reviewed twenty-five thousand Volunteers at Wimbledon. One way and another a glance at the three decades is very illuminating. In 1890 Heligoland became a part of the German Empire. In 1892 William w'as busy lecturing his more or less faith- ful Brandenburgers on the duty of not grumbling at his wishes. On March 3rd, 1892, several newspapers were confiscated In Berlin for daring to Kaiser Wilhelm the Second assumed the power immediately on the death of lila fathhr, the Emperor Frederick, who reigned only three months. Wil- liam the Imperial Wangler,had pre- vious to that exercised considerable- or. The advautuge of the Junkers was power•, for, during his grandfather's worked for the benefit of the dishonest last illness and while his father• was and corrupt eamariila in Berlin—see at San Remo, struggling against the the Eulenberg and Liebenberg Castle incurable disease which carried him revelations of ten years since, off, the then Prince William acted as The Fifteenth of June was a date Regent, and was "run" by Bismarck as of promise. William's inheritance was a promising pupil, who little dreamed in a fairly• flourishing condition when that less than two years later—March he took it over on June 16th, 1888. I -ie 18th, 1890-110, the Chancellor anal has brought the property to—well, Man of Blood and Iron, the "Pilot," those whose busines it will be to look would be "outed" by his Imperial and Into the accounts and inquire into the headstrong master, the young ruler balance -sheet can be lett to do the who is to go clown to posterity as the wont. prime mischief -maker of all time. The Kaiser succeeded to a fine pro- perty, so far as size is concerned. The Empire has been widened by acts of i t heft i Etlot mite. Itisa it br lad l Y g g n the seizure of of. half Denmark std Hanover ares overlooked when the day of Ilial rekoning comes along. f r t Parliament h f1 William opened s s on June 281h, 1888. Ile made a vain- glorious speech; which sotnowhat ovorlooked`lls father's brief reign. Thirty years' has brought e. complete change in the method of German odu- oatton, The Education Bill of 1890 ef- fectually shackled the German pooplo h ?resent g eneration into and ut t e g p i in rin s. load sl g g William was known as the Iroise Kai er, the traveller, early on, He was ever on the move, He found a real pleaatn'e in garrison -alarms, no 1 e was at Ti a YO ei nt at tl sa as ro fion, was g SodaltsGmuzzling. NImllch was rhdl' Girling him in the nlnetlos. f I lam hire I-Tls aye was oil ihb,Brltsl 1 a.s a future suburb of Germany natty years ago, itis fotirnoylngs brought liim to Engiaird alt 1891. On July 10131 Poisoried.by Their Own Gas. Thousands of German troops up into the gas infected area, sat down for cover in virulently poisoned shell holes, billeted themseves In abandon- ed hutmeuts sprayed with their own gas—and only began to notice the ef- fect about six hours later! During the action our men hacl been exposed to the fumes for a short period, but the Germans came and in their ignor- ance literally steeped themselves it Exhausted men la.y down in the dusk on dew wet ground where the stuff had burst; the3. woke later on to fltul the venom actually corroding their Clit bodies through their clothes. For- ward machine gun units dug emplace. manta in innocent looking shell holes, Two houra later the men were wan- d•ering about blind and screaming in their pain and terior. A day or -two ofswet weather seemed to cleat- the infected areal; new troops wore marched up, the remnants of the old divisions withdrawn and the ter- ror of their own ga.s hushed up and forgotten. Then came the blazing sun drying up the May and loam, beating the earth surface inches deep, The latent poison awoke again and for no apparent reasen shelters and dugouts that that .been safe and habitable for days became deadly as puff adders, The unsuspecting troops were ovet, wheimect Hens should not bo permitted to take young broods out in the morning while the dew is on the grass. 1 tlli•!•;,1 s � .�". _..ni B THta'IVidt I £ZL'1AN.IM r�,•;tli�&-"'i'�?il. lA >�'Jr, h ng WILLIAMS._ 171 t , t..� ^'v ,,. G it $. i ,,r.,•. , al W Modal o PIANO C nada's Oldest 1 , �� THE outward �N -..;,,r that dlstingulehce `v t.. Williams New Seale x ie an Index of Its , � worth. 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