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There Was an awful lazy woman
in the little village where I grew
up. •At.least, the meet of the neigh-
bors said she was -=-and they could
prove- it. - She didn't work after-
noons! And she had a husband and
three children end a great big tear
room house. How any'tvoman. could
do all. the work that meant, and find
time to sit around afternoon, reaidng
or doing fancy work; or maybe gad-
ding the streets, was beyond the vir-1
teens housewives of our: town, That
is, it was beyond most of them. Some, i
•secretly, and two or three -quite open-'
ly, -weee frankly envious, and 'wished;
they could do .it, too,But they;
couldn't. "What would folks say?"
was too strong for them.
A neighbor girl found out how it 1
was done, One spring the woman,
was 111 and the girl -this was the good,
old days—went in to "help out." i
When the woman got up again the
girl stayed on and ethey worked to
gather.
"I've always planned every tvay I
could to do my work in the quickest
and easiest way," explained the. Wo-
man, "whether it eves the way my
grandmother did or a way, I just
thought up myself. When 1 was first
married I made a solemn vow I
would not spend all my time doing'
housework, and I haven't. I've al -I
ways had time every day, to change
my dress and rest and read in the
afternoon unless there was sickness.
Even in 'canning', time I make it a
point not to work every minute,
"To begin with, 'I have a schedule.
I never could get through just work-'
ing haphazard. 'Monday I tidy up,
mend and put the clothes to soak;
Tuesday, wash; Wednesday, clean
silver and cupboards; Thursday, iron;;
Friday, clean the hotese except the'
kitchen, and Saturday clean the kitch-
en and do all the baking that is done
for the Week. No woman can do
all the work expected of her and keep;
up,_so I leave out half' what 'the rest
do. My 'man' thougT"tt when we were,
married he had to Have home-made
bread, but it didn't take him long to
decide that he'd rather eat bakers'1
bread and have a companionable eviler!
than -to have home-made bread and a1
wife lVho was always tired out and,
catty, lie used tp like rich frosted
cakes, too, and he always had stony'
ach trouble, lie's found out with a
simple sponge cake once a week and;
fruit or plain puddings for dessert he'
is just as well pleased and much bet-
ter as to health. So I've net` only
D 01? SLACKER.
saved myself a lot of work, but I've
saved money and.improved our physi-
cal condition by g cutting out so much
baking
"Washing I've robbed of its terrors
by using preparations to loosen. the,
dirt and save rubbing,: Paraffin will
not inure the clothes, and if melted
with the' soap and added to the boiler
of clothes; half the rubbing is cut
out. Of course,'I have to rinse with
hot water, but that •Is easier than
breaking my back over a washboard.
Ironing is made simple by putting
away at once all knit . underwear,
l stockings, bath towels, dish towels
and dust cloths. I've seen some of
our women stand in a hot kitohen on a
boiling August day and iron salt -bag
dust cloths. But noir I, I'd rather
be on the porch.
"The beds we all throw open as soon
as we get up, and leave the' windows
open, At noon two boys go upstairs on
and 'with e on each side it takes
only a jiffy for thein to make them,
while the other boy and 1 whisk the
dishes out of the way. The boys
might better bo doing that then hang-
ing around a street corner, I figure,
and they still have plenty of rime/ for
play before the bell rings.
"When 1 get fruit to can I always
have it delivered late in the after-
noon. Then we all sit down after
supper, and-withefive working it is
soon cleanedi 1 let it stand in the
sugar over night, or put it on• the
cellar bottom, and can it first thing
in 'the morning. -
"You see I work It by -letting every-
body
help. I figured it out that an
unselfish mother meant selfish chil-
dren and a selfish husband, and worse'
—a mother always tired and seoiditig• 1
If each one does a little no one is. ever
tired out, and all have a little time to;
play. Of course, there are days;
when things pile up„ but 1 stop the
minute I begin to feel exhausted, I,
figure it out that the work will be here'
to -morrow, and if I keep on -too long I
may not, So I stop. and rest, and'
let the work wait for me. It away. 1
seemed wicked to me, for women to
work all day long and then entertain
the family at night with a tale of,
how tired they were and how abused.'
I hate a dusty room, but mit half .so I
much as I do a nagging woman, So!
if I have to choose between dusting;
and losing my temper, or keeping both'
dust and temper, I pick the hitter. ItI
is surely as necessary to feed your
mind and soul as to feed your body,
so I' try to take care of all three,"—'
D II
STRANGE BIRDS IN AUSTRALIA,
Custom of "Bird Day" Might'Well Be
Followed in Canada. •
It may not be generally•known that
a certain day is set apart in Ausralia
and celebrated as Bird Day. On this
day the boys and girls of the Com-
rnanweaith receive special instruction
with regerd to the habits of their na-
ive birds and their economic import-
ance to mankind. Bird songs are sung
by the children on this day and bird
stories are told to them by their teach-
ers. A quaint feature of a Bird. Day
celebration is the bird -call competi-
tion, in which prizes are awarded for•
the cleverest imitations of 'the notes
and cries of magpies, cuckoos, cur-
lews, wild duck, Iiukaburras, and other
typical Aesttalien birds,
idotutd building bieds that do not
sit on their eggs, cuckoos (one of the
14 Australian . species of that bird)
_that actually condescend to lay in their
own nests and to hatch their own
young; birds that run but cannot fly;
mocking birds and laughing birds;
brilliant honey eaters and flower eat-
era; ventriloquists! These are all to
be found in the bush,
The lyre bird, whose curiously
wrought tail plumage foretaste his
song, is strikingly beautiful, Form-
erly a more o• less characteristic
feature of Australia, it is now unfor-
tunately comparatively rare. Per-
haps the most melodious songster of
the bush, the lyre bird is also a hum-
orous •mimic, and is locally Tehown as
the mocking bird, The bower bird is
another. of rare beauty and unique
habit Its name is derived from-"' its
quaint practice, of construciftg a
"bower" bower or Ia house f i •s' el
o aft rwov t
p Y
twigs, lino with d v t flowering f; , i 1'aeeC5
g g
and decorated interiority with shells,
pebbles, add even small bones!
One of the World's famous song-
sters,
i
g
sters" the Att tr i r
, s .al a t magpie, is trite
the lyra bird, a clever mimic -There
t is that giant of the Kingfisher family,
theK"lcb
a aburra, a bird that laughs and
therefore of
Ora
is popularly
rent h the
.i t
WL as
91fu tin `a k "
ass. to is1
g 1 It
t# C greatly
Y
b
beloved A t
us cart
an. .
Y s an is u1cTe1
adapting itself to city life g` y
A curious i
b td ,s
the aTl e :fowl,
M e
*hoe' young' ale 'Machu! out fully
, fledged and 'ready 'fee imtnediete
flight. The ;greet birds, however,
take no part fr the hatching process,
but depend frillier lenge an improvised
lneubatoi' Cttrnposed of decaying voge.
i table matter, :he heet of decampesi-
tion -ben the means of incubation,
g
, ..
.Che g'or>~eou5• honey -eater's blend
erfectly tetra the flowerp amoftg
which they hover like beautiful, bi
butterflies; while the plain "light and
shadow" markings of the birds that
inhabi$ the rocks and open spaces
neutralize their effect with their sur-
roundings.
a'a..
MISTS IN BATTLE: -
Germans Choose rl Weather Screen
When Starting an Offensive.
The first requirement for a Getman
offensive, seems to be a weather screen
which will hide their movements and
enable them`t'o push up close to the'
opposing lines. This screen on 00-,
Basions has been a snowstorm, but
more usually it is a morning mist. I
Of course, in military history there
are many example§ in the wars of all
helloes where .attacks were carried
out under similar screens, but the.
Germans have developed this to a sci-
ence', and it carries a new significance.
In modern warfare against trenches,
Wire end heavy artillery, With aerial
observations going on overhead, the
mist acquires a high value, The en-
emy can creep up unobserved, cut
wires by hand, post machine guns and
bring up light field pieces within very
close striking clistaece of the front
defending lines, and nothing but the
very highest skill and courage of the
defenders:ean avert; a serious break
through if the attack is in force,
As a preliminary to the morning
mists the Germans appear to lilce a
spell of fine weather, as this enables
then to handle expeditiously the sin-
tense mass of transport Whirh is nee-
essary for the following up of the c1
first blow. If very broken weather 1•
;follo-t s after the morning mist or fog
the transport S )0'I•t
I over the s
ha11- '
fto
ciaten
A
becomes
so slow that the advance w
siacicens and he &fenders have time P
Which Shows the Attitude:ef Our Southern Neigllboi• Al the 'iletgnniitg of
theWtr, i How the ub•e' r
f and v .t 1 t 1 'c
, i t. attic N hle�rt Soo t ku�i 1
! . rl s elf d (. t b rte. s
Rohe to the Occasion, •
By' float Brown Itilikwood,
CHAPTER IY;
Alarjerae had not returned wie
AIr. Mena carpe hole • Mrs« Man
diad not 'stop for preliminaries,
"Edlva�r l," she asked, with straight
forward4aess. "Why did Crane go t
see you the other eight?"
"I told'yoa at ,noun,"
"You did not toll' ail-,"
"humph!" • IVIr Mann 'indulged i
his favorite. expletive.
Mrs, Pearn was relentless.
spoke to you of Marjorie?' Be, lays
her ?"
Iia spoke to me of Marjorie if yo
want to know,' he replied with ta.
noyanea, "Of enure° he -loves her
IIe'd Ire a chump if he didn't, wouldn'
he? - lie's got .energy- enough t
know a good thing—"
"'Jld'tvald!" Mrs,, Mann's voice we
not gentle. "And you made in
promise not to tell her ?" •
• "Regular Sherlock Hermes, eh
That's just what I did end I'm glad o
it," •
'Marjorie knew so ntuob about ;albite
n1thnoral ('her did she leurn''Gm?"
n "1 don't know, <vard, Sotnetimes
11 think the spirit -to-do le a �bplenrlld
teacher,"
el 'They had just settled 5beinselvee
for the usuttl,wait for Marjorie., Now-
adays dinner was served an hour later
that She might give the added thee to
n her Red Cross chitins, She eame
lin
at bit breathless,
or "Fatherr Mother!" slte said, tern:
e ling 50 thein both,'' "What would you
Isay. if.I left :for France ,to -morrow
n altghi?"
n° i Mrs, Mann's heart pounded; -Mr,
Malan laid down his paper.
t l"I told you -.sol" he muttered
• "What's Whats thie next thing Merjio?'
! "Some 0f us are well known as
a,supervisepes, :Father. The Coveryt-
m' ment caii use us, Please say I may
Igo. "We're to be a Red Cross unit
11 and we're to 'go to France to super-
vise the making of surgical dressings
and look after the unpacking of out's
e when they come. They must have
s l girls who can pay their owns ext
a•,penses. Father—Daddy; she went
- l to him in the old impulsive way, "I
t never was proud of your money bo.
- fore! Let me have part of my
s share now." : '
"it's for your' mother to decide."
an
Mr. Mans reverted to his old-time
y method of. avoiding difficult family
Mrs. Mane's reply was to ream
her work. Silence is not given it
due appreciation as a woman's' we
part, Her air of finality as to the con
versation wee as disconcerting as i
was intended to be. Mr. Mann pick
ed. up his evening paper but he wa
not as happy as he -had been.
Marjorie came in presently an
tossing her hat aside took,a chair b
the window.
"Mother," - she said quietly, "wit
you help Hie start a nurse's course?
"A 'what, dear?" queried" Mrs
Mann
1 The real -friendship •01 mother and
" daughter needs no words,
, "If you'll send the telegram saying
I'll join them in Chicago to -morrow,
s Daddy," replied Marjorie, 'Mother
and I will do some packing before
dedinner,"
e Many of the old "crowd" were at
e the station to see Marjorie off on her
s way to France. Marjorie 'wondered
e if soldiers felt as she was feeling—
y of how small she was in relation to
1 the need of that for which she was
h called.
Days of nerve -wrecking ocean vow
a age brought the unit finally to France,
u They journeyed on to Paris where
e through. long days they labored over
- the little and big pads of gauze that
n evert to stay the wounds of brave
t poilus. . If Crane had learned that
Marjorie had reached France, he had
had no opportunity of communicating
with her,' From -Dr, Bacon, busy at
o one of the hospitals, she had had a
bead greeting but friendly visits had
710 part in th, day q work.
(To be continued,)
A FAMILIAR TRICK
•
"A nurse's course—a. Red C1•os
home -nursing course. Mrs,• Chap
man tells me she had a talk with Te
Speer the other night when Cran
brought him home after the Iectur
and he says that Red (Moss worker
are badly needed. We should how
a branch here and learn emergent
nursing and tate making 'of surgiea
dressings. Tiehe French and Englis
women are working night mad day
Girls who never before have had
real task are working in the fields
England, If they can do that„ hay
we a right to he - comfortable and tak
ing life easy here? We're not i
the time but it seems to me we mus
help the others who are in distress
A lot of city girls—girls who can of
ford to bear their ,own expenses, yon
know—are getting into training to g
over—"
'Bally: nuisances ,they'll be, too,'
put int NIr, Manta«"That's the trou
ble with a° time like this, It gives
a lot of feather -brained women .•
chance to—" ,
' Do something for their country
and de be of use," interrupted Mrs
Mann. "Go on, Marjorie:" J
"Father's right, Mother, Untrain-
ed girls will be nuisances—so are un
trained soldier's. But if the boys
can get ready to defend us, the girls
can get ready -to take care of them
They're sending over trained nurses
to work with the doctors—nurses a.s
capable in their line as Dr. Bacon
is in his; but what they are asking of
us who are untrained is preparation
for emergency. Why, it takes mere
than nine thousand dressings for one
bad case! These mod be made,
We've got to be the background, the
workers, the servers, anything, that
we may be props if we are needed.
I'd like to get up a crass in Red Cross
work. Mrs. Chapman wilt help and
I`clon't believe it will take very long
to get the girls and women of Clinton
interested. 1Ve're so near the city
•we can have some one come down and
organise our unit. You will? I
knew you would. VII write Ted
Speer," '
"First thing you know she'll be
wanting to go to France;" remarkedlair. Mann from heeded his, paper as
Niariorie mounted the stairs to bei'
When King Albert, Then Heir to Bel-
gianThrone, Visited the Congo
Two incidents that occurred during
the trip -to the Congo that King Al-
bert made while he was 5510 the heir
to the Belgian throne are entertain-
• ingly described by a contributor to
We London Field.
On state occasions the prince and
tis staff always domed their uni-
forms. Albert was a general, and
consequently appeared in a very dark
frock coat and dark trousers, while
his principal aide-de-camp, Col. de
Moore, of the Guides, was adorned
with the gorgeous teniform of that
regiment: short green tunic, covered
with gold braid across the chest and
on - the sleeves, red breeches, high
boots,- and a busby with an egret.
One chief, when led,up by the master
of the ceremonies, looked round, star-
ed at the colonel, and then said to the
! prince, with a smile:
1 "Young nnae you can play your
tricks on others, but you can't catch
an old, experienced man like myself"
The prince Inquired what he meant,
"I mean that you can't ploy a game
on me that I have phtyed so often on
others. When the - district commis-
' sioner comes to my village I never
know what his visit has in store for
me; maybe he comes to give me a
!present, maybe it means trouble, I
don't want trouble, and so I have a
slave who impersonates me on these
occasions. If„he receives a gift, he
has to hand it over to nae; but if there
is trouble, he can keep,..it to himself.
'Now you` are up to the same trick,but
you don't know how 'to.do it. Look
-at yourself; look at that dark, ugly
Icoat of yours; do you think anybody
but a fool, would take you for a
iprince? Why, there is the son of
!Bela Metall!” he exclaimed, pointing
'triumphantly at the colonel. "I know
when I see hint"And notwithstandinc
all the eloquence of the interpreter•lte
stuck to his opinion.
But not always did the interpreter
!serve so faithfully as that one did,and
many a blunder: was 'disguised by
i careful editing. One troublesome
chief refused to shake hands with the
prince, and muttered excuses that
were translated by an official as fol-
lows; • '
"Mighty prince, I am your slave.
'ample me under your feet, take my
l e if so unworthy an object can be of
use to you, but ask me not to pre-
sume to touch your august hand:'
What Ile really said was this:
Your minions, those thieving ras-
cals who ought to be chopped to piec-
es
iecees as food for the hogs, prevented my
warriors front coming with me to you.
They have stolen my bow and arrows,
and dragged -me here unarmed, Do
you thinit I am going to be such a
fool as to put myself entirely at the
mercy of such a big chap 110 you, by
letting you grasp my
right hared?
d?
Now -you look sharp!"
Y i
In a second he had disoppettred in
the hushes,
room, •--
" il4'cll ?"
"110 you mean to say that you'd let
her—1 After he's gone over?",Mr,
Mann's anger Was rising, "Annie,
I don't krlpw what to make of you. I
honestly +believe you'd like Iter to
marry Crane Chapman,"
"F.dwar d, 1 want Che best man to
the world for Marjorie but most of
all I want iter to marry theeuurn she
loves."
• "All I have to stay is, 1_ have spent
my life trying to protect Marjorie
from this very thing, Anttie. I've
educated Iter and felled the collets for
her, Now she wants to go out into
..,
.
"To
"To fill her place just as she has a
right to do,' Edward. You can't
direct Marjorie's life as yoti have
directed the -business of Clinton. That
belongs to herr"
"Well, I'll be—!" began Mr, Mann.
"If I live to be a thousand, I'll never
understand you fool women!"
But what Mr. Mann really did not
understand was that in this war of
'wars, worn en was destined to play
such a part as never in history she
had played.
The fact that Marjorie dot inn start-
ed the Red Cross assurer its success.
Most of 'the girls and women of the
town entered the classes. Marjorie
went on to Chicago to prepare herself
for Clinton's supervisor, for while to
any the work was the next "new !
m
thing under the sun," to Marjorie it
was a serious, sacred service site was
utiderstakieg.
Somewhere within her she felt that
some day, somehow, somewhere ,the;
knowledge was to serve her, and serve
her well, Only her mother knew that
down in Washington her name el-
ready was registered among those el'
other girls of wealth who had voitul-1
toered not only to give up home a.nd.
oinfort to do their part in the world
isester ut to ask' not a penny's
dere for the doing.
'1 h ntut n
ehe April t 1 ala when
p y
nes teaw It
d o e to find he
s was at
an Tho waded had hapliencd,
re o d ?
Who eve is
prepared to
eon the expected? The
bone,led into training camps; looked
shy
n their new uniforms and only the elcl-
es whose fninds turned bask to die !
e war Clays or whew memories wereel
1 stories told vividly before the :•rate
re by bereft grandmothers, realized
full that wa • brings Y i t gs more titan for
g Y
ii its Wake.
The tame of Clutton as a -Rod Cross
centre had o
116 alar
od
g a ar •
Ili at to
j
found .herself ealretl upon to direct
the "drives" fbt the women just ss
Mr, Chapman Was directing the work
for the melt, Then came the Libor-
Loewe the Y,M=C.A. and the Y,-
W,C.A., drfives, Ovet the top..Went
• Tinto
C n over the oto n sin nd
a again,
p g ga 1,
ax `ort
a
i1i � e s cheeks ,grow thinner bit
the bt'ig1ltness in her eyes told her
ride ill her ,work
i, wort ,
Clinton 1 las
•
V
to. mass. • m
Ill
raid
WC
r
v attar
over
marshy vie-.•
i likee
gems these of that second offensive e
a co%ering mist may prevail all day, e
but the advantage of this serecu is 0
000ntorbelfiieod by the holding up of fi
I
Sransport over the mud sloughs. This
delaying y g eifoct is intensified by heavy
ar
artillery ry b raga frbrn the tlefetiders,
who sinal at
wiping g out roads s an
d
rail-
ways, Without adequate transport
no army can advance deeply enough
with seMeretit maternal to Imine a dee
•cisiott posslble.
Froth this reading' we .can take it
that any German offensive pushed
forward'-
itt
wet Weat er
h can
only have
shg lr e
, w net t'
o ra to a
n n Mid n r the p t
to enom
Y
POrsI
sts in assaults despite tato
*mallet
thea
it only shows how desperate; is his
situation.
awake,
"By George, Armlet," said Mr,
Moms dna evelrrng ' 1 .rlttlit't know
(;leo t.atra's Pearl
earl
Most persona know the story told
ofCep
Cl o atra to filed -el -etc het hexer -
sous habits of living, that she dissolv-
ed in het .wine a prec ous pearl. No
one auras yet
to have t1
oast a
o
d
What must have been the effect upon
the, drink bub ole
t s mists coil' n • t
, s t las
possibility, of such solution
The fact is pearls aro not solulrlo do
e h most, 6 erfui
wine. The w vinegar
Sitz
affects them sloW1y end never entirely
dined -Yee them, for the organic ,net-
t vendee behind in the ha e
er am 1 s o.f
p
a
spongy tease that is larger than the
i ai s 1.
art r n ear
g 1
A man's crookednese often gets hitn
feta fivated-MI strata.,
MQSUI TMB MOPSRN NIN5Vg11.
The 80000 of Many gvents In P ast
'History,
Mosul, the tn0dertt-lilnevatt, 'teemed
witieh et last necounte irba Papist
c5. moving, Y I ,
tureen were ant i l t6, In ar i11c'turasquo
but not altogether attractive- pity, ace
Healing to Mr. William Wtlrlle1d, wit°
dospribee the' town in his hook, The
Gate Of Mkt, The !rouses are built of
irregulrlr blocks of stet/tale in-tlle:It
mortar, They are. %lamely peered
with a white etnoco, made by burning
the local gYpou nt click, The rode, or
the same material as the walls, ere
usually fiat, with a walst•Jligh parapet,
`but are not infretftlbutly donned. Door-
trays• are often ntacle of slabs of the
easily carver! gypsum,
The streets ale narrow .and ajtntees,
ferinieg n mace of tangled lanes, As
there ie no, system of sowerege what-
ever, they serve ea repositoiles for
all tate filth of the ileuses-thatt Bordet'
on theta, They Hire rarely so wide
that more ,than two. Hien can walk
abreast As a result• of the line duet,
Lite filth and tate glare of the sun on
the white walls, ephthalnrla land lung
diseases abound, The :Edea, whlc(1
bread to the open rot'use heaps in as-
tonishing numbers, swarm over every-
thing. They cause -the' button, com-
mon also in Aleppo and Bagdad, au
ailment that 1•eaeinblos a carbuncle
and that persists for several months
and leaves an ugly scan •
Opposite Mosul across the river, are
the last vestages of Nineveh capital.
0f the second of the world's great em-
pires..
m-
pires. - In planes, groat walls of the.
ancient city, built of tremendous mass-
es of sun-dried brick ,laid on a high,
broad wall of gut stone, are still trace-
able. The elty was further protected
•by a moat into which the waters of,a
small river could be conducted. It
was hewn to a.xdepth of twenty feet
and a width of fifty yards and, like the
walls, is in evidence to -day.
Two ntigltty mounds, situated a
mile to the east of the river and solrte-
what more than that distance apart,
contain the pr•dacipal ruins. The more
northerly' is called Iiuyunjik, the
shambles; because hero a party of Yes-
idis, fleeing from' Kurdish "etersecutfon
to take refuge In the city, were over-
taken and slaughtered.
In this mound Layard found tine re-
; mains 0f Sennacherib's palace, btiitt
about 700 11.0. Its fluect trophies of
Assyrian art are now in the British
Museum. Layard was followed by the
equally thorough Prof. King, who has
left nothiug to be seen of the old
palace except dust and a single broken
bas-relief, destined, no doubt, to be
used for mortar before long.
The southern mound covers the
triunes of J11sarbaddon's palace, Be-
cause It is the site r villages
s o a it.whlch
is the reputed tomb of the prophet
Jonah it lute been jealously guarded.
GIVING YOURSELF AWAY.
Some Hints That May be Useful When
You Tallt About the War.
For four years, we have been wag-
ing war in France and Flanders, and
have been talking about it, but even
yet the majority of people do not,
know how to pronounce words the war'
has brought into prominence, and
which will remain a part of the Eng-
lishman's everyday vocabulary as long
as this War is remembered.
Ninety-nine people out of -:every
hundred are baulked by the word
"Aisne." They nearly all call it
"aecnee," whereas it is only a one -
syllable word—"ane"— and rhymes
with pane. "Amiens" is another
stumbling -block. Worthy people who
would never dream of pronouncing the
fipal "s" in "Calais" sound it in
"Amiens." "Ah-me-ahn" is as near-
ly correct es is possible with us. The
same rule about the "s" applies to
Beauvais"--"Bow-vay," But the "s"
is sounded in "Arras." It is pro-
nounced "ahr-rats"—both "a's" long,
"Oise" is pronounced "wahz," sound-
ing the "'a" as in "father,"
But it is not only in place names
that the average Briton makes blend -
res. War words geuers Ily are dread-
fully abused. How many people
know how; to pronounce General
Itch's name? If they don't call it,
"leek," they say "Folk." It ought to'
be " Fawsh."
Mispronunciation of the word
"Ails" is. perhaps, the most common
of mistakes. The majority lays
stress on .the first syllable, and the
majority is wrong. The accent it al-
ways on the last syllable, whether you
speak of "a -lie" or "A -lies."
• And don't say "communeelt" when
you meal communique. The word
has four syllables—"knh-moo-nee-
kay."
And, funnily enough, people' who
say "communeek" generally say "Ad-
miaral-ty," with the loud pedal down
on the "ral," All the stress should
be on the "Ad," with the rest of the
word puckered in.
"Poilu"—which, by the way, means
nothing more per less than bewhisitel•-
ed, hairy—is a word-. that hoe crept
Otto our vocabularies for "keeps." It
le pronounced "pwah-lit " Another war
nickname is "Roche," wide we call
"Bosh." There is nothing so irritat-
ing as to have one's name mispro-
nounced, so you have our kind per-:
mission to go on calling the German a i
"Bosh." But, strictly 'speaking, it!
ought to be "Rowell," from the French.
word ,'caboche," which, used Collo-
quially, means "thielchead."
Grow a Cash Crop.
The most suecessful'prlairymen. have
a system of crop rotationthat en b
roe
them to have ono market or cash crop,
i idoe the profit of tare dairy, The
1
as to o ( Ih 1
i Y
increased fertility. that is brought on
to the farm front the use concentra-
ted feed stuffs more than offsets the
amount et fertility removed bythe
o
sale of dairy preclude. Another fan
tor
is that the Same helprequired to
•properly minded it dairy eat find rho
time bttsada of routine dairy tv0r
IC t0
entre Por a profitable market or cash
crop.
Canada Food Bo,rd ordered the
Union Confectionery, Calgary, to
eea a making sandy
forthwith.
.
e`jixports wile have 0xm101105d • the
oOat (lo lOelte of S ri .z r
p
1156 eYt 11 et•.
1 1 g
ave eat-
000,000,000
mated that they contain more than 1.-
000,000,000 tons al fool of roauarltable
rir DENMARK
HAS PROSPERED
WILt'l' C0.OPIOXATION NAS D1)1111
1?O]I.'i 1fli r$AN].S
Nine-T,'nths of Fasters Sawn 'j'heir-
Land and Country Lentis
lu hairy Industry. ,
Denmark is le little niece than one-
half the size of New Brunswiclt. At
orie time much of it was a bleak waste
of sand dunes, Only the eastern por-
tion of the mainland and the neigh-
boring islands wore considered fit for
agriculture, In addition, the wen -
try was 'impoverished by the Napol-
eonic wars and by the robbery of the
province of Schleswig-Holetein by
Germany in 186G.. Yet ,to -day, Den-
nirirlc, in proportion to its population,
is the wealthiest =entry in Europe,
It is esseilttally' an sgrieultural eoutl-
try and poverty is very rare, Owing
to the excellent system of land tenure,
. 89 per emit, of 'the families owit their
own farm houses.
One of the (thief reasons for Don-
marlc'e Phenomena prosperity is to
be found in the system of education.
Thisincludes the long-term element-
ary schools, circulating schools, tra-
velling experts, school and state bul-
letins, farmers' clubs, educational
eamp meetings and the University of
Copenhagen. There are now 70 high
,schools atli 29 agricultural colleges
in Denmark and old as well as young
�people attend them—the farmer for
periods of a week or two at a time for
the purpose of studying social prob-
lems and kindred subjects as they ap-
1 pear in other countries all over the
world. After completing the high
school attd agricultural college courses
students enter the University of Cop-
enhagen. There they come to under-
stand the complexity of modern busi-
ness andto regard agriculture not
only as a science of production, bet
as a system of distribution.
The success of rural co-operation
depends in a very large measure upon
the terme end conditions of land
tenure. Co-operation .cannot well
succeed in a country where tenancy
predominates. In Denmark, legisla-
tion has beets in operation for a num-
ber of years providing for the acqui-
sition of land upon 50 -year loans at
four per cent. AL this rate, a laborer
who bas one-tenth Lite purchase price
of a parcel of land can borrow the
other nine -tenths, either from a state
bank, or from one of the 580 co-
operative savings banks. There are
approximately 240,000 farms in Den-
mark, averaging a little over 40 acres
each, and varying in size fyoru tae
acres to 150 acres, not including a
few large estates, Thee it will be
seen that land is not .so evenly dis-
tributed as to destroy personal itlilia-
tive, one of the dangers pointed out
by the opponents of co-operation. On
the contrary, co-operation in Dentnark
has encouraged personal initiative
and, in doing so, has.checked the evils
of individualism, a most important
and beneficent result.
Results of Co-operation.
Agricultural co-operation began
in Denmark in 1882 when the first co-
operative creamery was established.
Practically all the milk produced is
now handled by the hundreds of co-
operative dairies These, with the aid
of cow -testing associations, have made
Denmark on oef the leading dairy
countries of the world. Danish butter
his, for a generation at least, com-
manded a premium on the British
market. Then, too, co-operative
baron -curing and egg -export societies
orcrAli`S;s P10 ALUM
ama MADE IN CANADA
have developed the pork and 'poultry
i1:,lustries respectivbly in splendid
1'10111011,
(;o -incident with the growth of 0o -
operative mlu•keting there has de-
veloped co-operative 'Whole -Sale pur-
ehts:ng of such commodities as seeds,
fertilizers, machinery, and,, in fact,
every necessity for the operation and
upkeep of the farm.. In 1908, the
central wholesale agency transacted a
business valued -at 817,500,000,
LIKE CURES LIKE.
Remarkable Recovery of a Sheat-'
Shocked U. S. Soldier.
Many a soldier has been shtellaback•
ed in the terrible battles of this war,
but it is safe to say that few have been "
started on the road to recovery 1n as
singular a way as Mr. Waller M. Jones
of the 69th New Yoik Regiment.
While he was in a trench at the
front a shell from the German lines
fell close beside him, killing two of11-
core who stood near and wounding him
In the leg. He was removed to a hos-
pltal, where it was found that he could
neither (tear nor speak, In hospital
after hospital nothing could be done
for him to restore what had been lost,
and he was sent hone, hopelessly in-
cataci.tated for soldierly duties,
On the homeward Voyage the trona -
port was attacked by a German sub-
marine, and a lively fight followed.
The soldier was etandlug near ono of
the big guns of the transport when it
shot was fired, anti. in tit° explosion
and concussion that ensued, to his
amazement and delight. voice and
hearing carne baulk to him. lie is at
present ,in a base hospital, under
treatment for nervous disability, but
hopes for an early recovery and return
to duty,
For lubricating automobile springs
a tool has been invented to spread the
leaves and insert grease,
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TORONTO CANADA
1[ *t`ir"r31'tfeees a4ui
nig Men on the Farm
Whlo Cannot Go to War
CANADA Must Have Greater Agricultural Production.
CANADA Needs Men Trained in the Best Agricultural
Practices.
YOU..t-viil be of greater value- to your country and
to yourself if you acquire all available information re-
garding your business as a farmer, . You can obtain'
this information during the Fall and Winter months
at the
Mario Agricultural o e1
kauelpil
THE. COLLEGE TERM,—The College opens September 20th
and closes April 12th, This is convenient for most farm boyo, es
the hardest work of the summer Is completed before the ocm
meneoment of the term anti students can return to their homes
for the spring seeding.
COURSE8.—The Two -Year Course Is particularly deeiemed
for young men intendlug to be good practical Maniere. a he
°lades studies which are of veridical value in all the work or then
term. The Four -Year Cotu•so for the degree of B.S,A. is a twu-
year eoutiunation of the two-year course.
EXPENSE8.—ln order to encourage young melt to atteyrl the
, college, the tens are fixed et the lowest possible figure. 11,nrd,
$4,00"por Week; Tuition Fee, 820.00 per year.
Publics School l5ducatton 1s sufficient for admission,
COLLEGE OPENS SEPTEMBER 20TH
Write for a Calendar giving full particulars
G. Cy, CRE EL MAN, D.E.A., LL.D., President
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