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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-12-06, Page 2i'..e.-;.....1E=M4ZatOnglEM.ECOMOEM4E100E'Elatii311PRE354, PlUlaMaaBt4137.11MMESSOOSEZEISISSO1 Hold Dci Coronado Coronado Beach, California Near sap Diem) POLO, MOTORING, TENNIS, BAY AND SURF BATHING, FISHING AND BOATING. /8.14cte. Gob Course Ilobo1 is equipped throughout with Automatic Sprinkler System, AMERICAN PLAN JOHN J. HERMAN, Maneger DOMESTIC SCIENCE AT Henn Twentw.First Lunn—Milk and Its Derivetivee. Alilk may be called a perfect food,1 the !minim miring' end manner of containing as it does the five nue...teary etoring. give many varieties. Chem food elements required by the WO' te h a velealil o t(X)d, Vontaia4 a large maintn!e life. It is the first food amount of protein in the fern of fat infants; it forms also a perfect; caseio. 1 ie a concentrated food, food for small ohadren, the protein and when properly combined with nth - being in the form of casein, which is er foods furnishes an ecenemieel nutr1. readily digested. The adult requires tivo diet. ki 11°41111 fi.(iTeta' nry to the tictivities. The by-moduct of butter hi butter- r.,60haylkatthees naereede4 1,;tiropo. many which te greatly esteemed in of the foreign race elements. The the form of mire sugar Lind fat; the contend that the use of buttermilk emmimeneemeearmom=rereamemeteimezeeeenterememee ree •.=..iese>-zezessisieemizalaiesaa fat le suspended in the Milk in the prolongs life by neutralizing the bac- __ form of tiny globefes. 1:hu s giving to tensa of the intestines, Buttermilk the milk its elem., white color. Theis also strained, the curd salted end etr.;•,'.ee "maze!, e. 11,Flk )1iYi e„. ---- • osef/ye oeitzt Author of "All for a Scrap of ctirer," "Dearrr Than 1 He," etc. ruhltslied by Hodder & Stoughton. Limited. Loudon and To* 0010 CHAPTER VIII.—(Cont'd.) "Ay," laughed another, and the voice was as sweet music to Tom, "I've seen thee worse nor this i' the Brunford Cup Tie match." "That thee, Nick?" he said, lapsing into the Brunford vernacular, which be had been trying to correct lately. "Ay, Tom, it's me; tha'st donea good neet's work to-neet." Tom's brain was clearer now; he knew where he Wee! knew, too, that he had sameeded. Something was still hammering at hie temples, and his head was aching terribly, but he didn't mind; his heart wes light. • "You have done well, Pollard." - It was Major Blundell who spoke. "Was what I got any good, sir?" "Good! I should think it was." "And Captain Waterman, have you got him?" "That's all right, Pollard, he's safe enough," replied the Major. "Thank you, sir," said Tom, "I don't caje now." - What happened after that Tom didn't remember. He had a confused idea that he was carried down a long line Of trenches, and that he heard cheering words during his journey. But nothing was plain to him, except e. burning sensation in his left arm and in his right shoulder; for the rest he was faint, sick, and weary. "You are feeling better now, are you not, P 11 .d9" It was the doctor who spoke. "Yes, sir, I am feeling all right," re- plied Tom; "there is not much the matter with me, is there ?" "You are simply a miracle," replied the doctor, "only a couple of flesh wounds, that's all. You have lost a' great deal of blood, of course, but you: will soon be as fit as a fiddle again. I wonder that a hundred bullets did not go through you!' "They came mighty near," was Tom's reply. "You must be removed from here at once," said the doctor, "this region's too unhealthy for you." An hour later Tom found himself away from the screech of shells. I As he reflected afterwards, it secin-I ed to him a miracle that he had not been killed. No sooner had he mas- tered the German and seized the paper than bullets showered upon, him like rein, and yet beyond these two slight flesh wounds he was wholly imeouched. It was true he was very stiff and sore, but he knew that he would soon be as well as ever. On the evening of the same day Colonel Blount came to see him. "Pollard, my lad," said the colonel, "I felt I must come to see you. You have rendered the British Army and your country a great service, and you Will get your reward." "Thank you, sir, but I never thought. about, reward," said Tom simply. "I'm sure you didn't," replied the colonel, "but this job's not at an end . yet, my lad." "No, sir," said Toni, mistaking his Toronto's Famous Hata Many People Make a B -Line for the Walker E.rouse (The House of 1'lety ei soon as they arrive in Toronto. The meals, the service and the home -like appointments constitute the magnet that draws them there, Loo Dinner 00c, ing Divi THE WALKER HOUSE Zoronto'a Famous Hard TORONTO, CANADA Rat -1 Reasonable Geo. Wright Sr Co., Prone. FIELD CASHIERS MIS PAYMASTERS IN FRANCE CASH DOMINION EXPRESS FOREIGN CHEQUES THE BEST WAY TO SEND MONEY 0 THE BOYS IN THE TAENEHES meaning, "eve have got a stiff job be- fore we lick the Germans." "I didn't mean that," replied the colonel. "I mean this Waterman businese is not at an end yet." "No sr," said Toni, "of course you will ehoot him.„ "He deserves a worse death than. that,” replied the Colonel grimly, "but you will have to give evidence against him." "Yes. sir," replied Tom. • "Will you be well enough to come to -morrow night?" - "Yes, sir." • • The Colonel knew he was not act- ing according to strict regimental rules and regulations in speaking to a: private in nil fashion, but it was no ordinary case, and Colonel Blount was. not a man to betied down to military etiquette. Private though Tom ,Pol- lard was, he had rendered, as be had! said, a signal service, not only to the' Array, but to the British Nation. The next evening Tom found himself in a large room amongst a nuniber of end standing at one corner, carefully guarded, was Waterman. proportions of fat in the milk Vary beaten with a wooden 'non, the from 2.8 to 8 per sent. This variation worked into a smooth mass, This is tte called buttermilk cheese and was greatly esteemed by our grandmoth- is due to age, eondition .u.d feeding of the cows, Cream. Wheel milk taken directly from the ers. To Make Butter at Honie. cow is placed in suitable containers Collect left -over portions of cream; and permitted to stand for a period of in a clean bowl. Permit it to stand, time, the fat globules, which are light- for three or four days to turn. NoW er than the water of the milk, will rise plan one cupful of this cream in a to the top and form a coating over the one -quart Mason fruit jar. Add one entire surface of the milk, This is I ' cupful of warm water, testing the calleil ci earn. Cream is a wholesome, 1 cream and water, rth a thermometer. CHA PTER IX, The evidence against Waterman was so clear, so overwhelming that there was not the slightest doubt' the verdict which would be passed! upon him. He Lad been caught' practically red-handed in his. deed all treachery; but this was not all. Tom Pollard's action had led to a number of other facts coming to light. He had by many cunning devices been in communication with the enemy; he had constantly made known the plans which he had learnt at the Divisional, Headquarters, and had thus prepared the Germans for many of the attacks which we had made. Tom could not help being impressed by the fact that even although Wa-' terman's guilt was as clear as day- light, it was the evident desire of those who tried him to act fairly, and, even generously, towards him. Every- thing that could be said in his favor was carefully listened to, and noted; and on the faces of more than one present was a look of concern Omit amounting to pain. This, however, did not hide the truth that every man regarded him with horror, almost amounting to loathing. They re- spected an enemy who fought openly and fairly, but for a man who was a staff officer in the British Army and who consequently learnt many of the plans of that Army; for a man who had taken the oath to be faithful to his King and Country, and yet to act as he had acted, was ignominy too vile for expreesion. But Waterman seemed to have no shame. no sense of guilt; he uttered no word of regret, but stood erect and almost motionless. His face was hard set, in his eyes was a steely glit- ter; it seemed as though he defied his judges to do their worst, and to mock at their evident disgust. Tom gave his evidence clearly, and without any waste of words. "You knew him before you went into the Army, then?" "Yee, sir," replied Tom. "Tell us where." Whereupon Tom told of Water - man's association with him in Brun - ford, and of the conversations he had had with the prisoner. "I didn't quite understand at the time," said Tom, "why he seemed so sure of the Germans getting' the best of it. He seemed to be glad when • he told me of the tremendous strength of the German army, and the prepara- • tions they had made, He said he had • been in Germany to sehool, and had lived there a long time; that was how he came to know so much about it, could never quite make it out how an Englishman whir loved his country could be so sure that the Germans would win. Besides, he didn't talk about it as though it would be a calamity, but something be would be proud of; but I don't know that I thought much of it at the time, es- ' pecially when be told me he was going to receive a commission in our Army; but later on, when I found out the Germans knew what we were going to do, I wondered how they'd found out, and that led me to put one thing to another." This was not strict evideece, and the officers knew it, but they allowed Tom to tell his etory his own way. "That was why I determined to watch him," went on Tom, "and ---well, sir, that was how things turned out as they did." When Tom's evidence chine to an end he was told to retire. The lad was sorely grieved at this, because he would like to remain to the end; but after all, he was only a private, and he was there simply to give his evi- dence. "Shooting's too geed for Min," thought Toni as he left the room. palatable form of fat, Modern methbds!It should be aixty-five degrees Fah - now use a machine for separating renheit Place rubber lid on Jan cream by gravity from the milk; this Shake continuously for a few mom - eliminates the period of time for ents, and you will feel the contents of standing to permit cream to rise to the jar become lumpy. the top of the vessel. The derivations Drain off the buttermilk andplace or byproducts of milk are butter and. th Butter. e butter in a bowl of clear, cold wa- eheese. Item Add one-fourth teaspoonful of p salt and work, changing the water un - Cream is permitted to stand a cm - til it shows no trace of milk. For twin length of time to develoan acid the butter in pats and place in re - ferment. The object of this is to give aromli, or this ferment may be added frigerarm ator to cool. Care must be the butter a desirable flavor and taken not to scald the cream by using The cream -As then churned, the but- Addefdewtodigoiviles to the cream in the form of lactic acid. lovfatceall,rtohtatjuiiscetomo may be e ti ' the butter a color. Grate a small car- ter -milk drained off and the butter. rot and place in cheese cloth and worked with pure, cold water. Salt wring to obtain the juice. This but - is added to the butter to preserve and tsr may be given to mall children or improve the flavor. Butter contains: to ineeitee. about 88 per cent. fat and is a valuable food for energy. ! Let the buttermilk stand a few Sweet butter is made from fresh' hours and drain off the water that has It risen to the top. Then place a piece cream and is usually sold unsalted, will not keep any length of time,' of cheese cloth in strainer, turn in the usually turning eheesm , buttermilk and let drain for two hours. Now place the curd in a bowl and add: Cheese. I I Ono -fourth teaspoonful of salt, Cheese is made from milk by special Work well with wooden spoon to a process of fermenting milk with a ' smooth mass. actio acid ferment and then coajulat-i One-half green or red pepper, chop- ed with rennet. This cheese when used ped veryfine. fresh cream and called creaan d cottage I Mold into balls, and place a piece cheese. I of nut on the top and serve on lettuce. Many other varieties are made' by 1 Sour milk may be used in place of special processes which, together with buttermilk, USING THE CHEAPER CUTS OF MEAT. Cheap cuts of meat—that is to say, meat hammer for the purpose or a the tougher or less choice cuts—can potato masher or even a large heavy be made acceptable to fastidious spoone. Heat a frying pan and brown palates by thorough and careful cook- the meat on both sides, then put into ng. Here are suggestions that lend a baking pan. Rinse the frying pan variety to the ways in which beef, ham with boiling water so as to save all and chicken may be served at the the browned meat juice and pour this one meal a day to which we have water over the steak, using enough patriotically reduced our meat -eating. to come up halfway. Add seasoning Broiled Flank Steak and cover. Bake until tender. This is a very economical dish and there 1 flank steak, salt, pepper, 1 tea- is no waste. spoonful butter. Buy a flank steak Baked Meat Hash the size required for your family needs. Ask the butcher to score it Medium white sauce, hot mashed on each side or, if you do this self, use a sharp knife and diagonally acrosa the meat, in one inch apart; turn meat and in opnoe,ite direction, making diamoeds. Score both sides. scoring cuts across the tough and makes the meat tender like s red hot drop potato, left overs of meat Put meat your- ' r through a food chopeer, first remov- slcnoiees ing all gristle and bone. Season high - score ly with salt and mum,. Butter an small earthenware baking dish. Add en - The ough medium white sauce to the fibres ground meat to moisten and bind it to- irloin. gether. Turn into the baking dish, in the * read over in a layer, the hot wen - seasoned, mashed potato. Bake in a hot oven until brown. Jellied Ham 2 tablespoonfuls butter, 2 table- spoonfuls flour, li. teaspoonful salt, 1 cupful chicken stock, 4 tablespoon- fuls cream, 1 teaspoonful granulated gelatine 1,4 cupfrsl cold water, 11/e. cup- fuls cold boiled halm Make a white sauce of the butter, flour and stock. Add the salt and pepper. Soften the gelatine in the cold water and add to the white sauce, add the cream and the finely chopped barn, Turut into a shallow pan, pack solid -end let chill, steak, turn quickly back and forth to scar the whole surface and then re- duce the heat and cook more slowly. Turn steak frequently to cook evenly. A flank steak will conk in ten to twelve minutee. Season with salt and pepper, remove to a hot platter, spread with butter and serve. Round Steak in Casserole 1 round steak cut lle inches thick, 1 cupful -flour, lea. teaspoonfuls salt, Pepper, 1 tablespoonful butter. Pound the flour, a little at a time, into both sides d the steak, using a "What a lookhe did give me! If a look could murder a raaa. I should not be alive now!" "Now then," said the President to Waterman, When Toni had gone, "what have you got to say fur your- self ?" "Nailing," replied Waterman. He was no longer reepectful or polite. His every word suggested insolence. "You admit, then, that you are guilty of the charges that have been brought againet you?" "You admit that you, an ofFieer hi the Britieh Army, have given away your country's secrets and become an ally to the enemy?" • Waterman laughed, "I have simply tried to serve my own country," was his reply, "the country which wil soon conquer yours." Every eye was fixed upon him; the man's brazen (=fusion almost stag gered them. - "Then you are a German!" "Yes," replied Waterman proudly. The President looked at him keen ly, and then turned towards some papers.. "I • see that you claim English birth that you were educated at an English public school, and that you went to an Fennell house' of business." "That doesn't make nee cease to be a German," replied Waterman. "I find, too, that you boasted of be- ing an Englishman." "That helped me to do. my work," was the jeering answer, • For some seconds there was a death ly silence save for the rustle of th papers which the President read Eachrnan who set in the room liken ed almost breathlessly; each was s intensely interested that no orie brok the •sdence. "My father and my mother are German," went on Wuterman; "when they lived in Germany they spelt their name German fashion, and there were ' two n's„ not one, at the end of my name; but evhen they were in England they thought it would serve them best to spell it English fashion. Bat they never °caged being Germans. When I was a boy I was taught to love my country above all things; that was my religion, and I was always faithful to it. 'When I went to your British O eehool I was always a German at heart; the other boys used to say that I was not a sportsman, and that I could not play the game." "Evidently they spokethe truth," Waterman shrugged his shoulders earelesely. "Then you mean to say that you, horn in England, educated in England, - and receiving all the benefits of 01.11" country, were all the time a German at heart, and sought to act in Ger- Many'e interests," - "Certainly." "And you didn't feel that you were acting Meanly, ungratefully?" "Lthought only of ray own country," was the reply. "I knew that Ibis war was coming, knew too that 1 could best serve my country by pro- feseing to be an Englishman, and by entering the British Army. 'I proved myself in the right too, he acided significaritly. "But didn't you realize that such conduct as yours must inevitably end in disgrace an death?" o "Disgrace?" cried the 'other. "No, it is glory. As for death, what does that matter? My death is of no im- o portance; the victory of ray country e 15.everything." (To be continued.) Old Te Loo.sf, All Rigid; Old tea and freshtea, poor tea aid good tea,, all look alike. No wonder a woman often gets a bulk tea she doesn't like, Red Rose Tea in eeetereee,ri7e.-% eee„,eeeerttmee tane, the sealed paelrege is All'ex.reeeee .0everMe "7 always fresh, always ii good, always worth the price on the label. Kept Good by the Sealed Package v Mi ole A Profession For The Blind. In the animal kingdom it is observed that no creatures are favorites, buk certain compensation balances every gift, and every defect. That is a truth expounded in his Essay on Com- pensation in which Emerson puts it down for a fact that for everything one has missed he has gained some- thing else. When Nature deprives a person of the sense of sight, it is an immeasurable loss, yet that same Na- ture, once thought cruel, now benefic- ent, makes up the deficiency by an ex- traordinary endowment along some other line. So often it is that finest of compen- sations, the talent for music. There is no doubt that music is one of the most suitable professions for the blind. In a Government report recently issued in Britain on the welfare of the blind it is stated that there are almost 1000- 947 to be exact—persons in the United Kingdom thus afflicted who are fol- lowing the professions of music, mak- ing of musical instruments, piano tuning, etc. There are at least one hundred blind organiets ili Deltain, many of whom are choir masters au well, It is expected that these num- bers will be materially thereased owing to the fact thata greater amount of attention is now being given to music in the institutions for the blind. The aforesaid report shows from an investigation among several -hundeed persons that 86 per cent, of the men and 81 per cent, of the women are known to have been succeseful in their musical occupations. This report sug- gests the desirability for a blind per- son to combine the position of orgaraet, or music teacher, or profes- sional singer as the case may be with that of pianoforte tuning, so that in the event of a falling off in his profes- sional work he can resort to the more .practical occupation, or the other way ayound, as • circumstances dictate. Fertilizing the soil increases farm labor efficiency and adds greatly to the farmer's net income. The extra yield, less.than the cost of the fertili- zer, is largely pure profit. -70,1114log‘gairin• , er 11 Jr 51 Ea:4' 4 4 14" The business of being a man has its advantages these days as well as its responsibilities—especi- ally if someone thinks enough about him, his needs and his wishes, to choose for his Christmas gift eciliette-safetamor Mos men are practical. 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The Arabian Nights wizard who turned old lamps into new Wales the veriest emateur compared with the modern French woman through !whose liaods passes i.110 debris of the hnttle- field. At the beginning of the war, partly owing to the rapid movements of the armies, waste was prevalent evi;rywhere, The correspondent of. the A !odatod Frees, while marching with the eoldiers, then saw thoosands of tomcats andentielee of equipment strewn over the fields lied along the roadsidee where the tinopo bad fought, emeeuvered, advanced or retreated. Nobody thought of saNing the tens of thettennde of dollars' worth of (Use carded clothing zeed items thrown aside when rapid movement was -ne- cessery. Cycreoets,- tunics, shoos, sweaters, scarfs, cartridge pouches, havereneks, belts, caps end waterproof sheets lay about the ground in thou- sands. The Spirit of Ecopomy. Since that time the :toilet of econ- omy—gtmerally present with the French people—has reaeseeted its elle thority, and now everything that can be salved is picked up and made use- ful. Each of the armies has been pro- vided with what is known as a recu- peration depot, whose duty it is to ex- amine and retrieve all that is possible from the debris found on the field of batthlep. T correspondent visited one of these depote uot Orleans and there found in operation a scheme of sal-, vage which- saves the French nation many millions of dollars a year. It is run under the superintendence of offi- cers of the army reserve, mobilized at the opening of hostilities and choeen for their experience in commercial af- fairs. Among them are bankers, man- ufacturers and men drawn from many trades. They have at their disposal machines ef- the latest model, mostly of American origin, while the workers are drawn from among the wives, widows and children of soldiers, Ger- than prisoners and men of the oldest classes of the French army. Sonia idea of the extent of the work done in this centre alone may be ga- thered from the wages paid to the wo- men and girls employed, which amounted in the month of August to. approximately $100;000. There are at all times stored in the depot articles of military equipment to the value of $10,000,000. Every day in summer an average of thirty motor wagons full of debris from the battlefields arrive and in winter this -number is increas- ed to an average of forty-five wagons. New Shoes Froin Old. Thousands of odd shoes, worn and muddy and torn, are sorted out into pairs and then cleaned, repaired and made ready to be issued again. Some- times they are in such a condition that they cannot be used as soldiers' marching boots and then the uppers are detached and refitted to wooden eolee, forming clogs which are much appreciated by the soldiers during !their service in wet and muddy !trenches. Odd Meees of leather are stamped nut into buttons for the pris- oners' uniforms. More than 6,000 women are em- ployed in this depot -alone. A few figures as to the results ob- tained in this depot will demonstrate the economic value of , the system adopted. Two thousand cartridge pouches are repaired on an average every clay at a cost of about one cent each, whereas new ones would cost eighty cents each. I3y the repair of soiled and torn sheepskin jackets a profit of $1,600 daily is made. The mending of overcoats saves the Gov- ernment about $8.000 daily. With pieces of cloth cut from old uniforms the women make 8,000 pairs of cloth slippers daily, each pair worth forty cents, while by piecing together old shoes 600 pairs ,of new ones are made , every (ley. ALL TRADES OPEN TO HEROES. 1M.H.C. Perfects Tans Which Will Make Factories Training. Centres. There are now 30 different voca- tins being Weight in the vocational training centres of the Military Hos- pitals -Commission linked across Can- ada. This number will be increased in- definitely to embrace the whole cate- gory of industries in Canada if neces- sary when the present plans of the Commission to place men needing to learn new trades by reason of their injeries, in the factories . have been pet into operation, • • The to -operation of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association has made it possible for the Commission to of- fer the men this inestimable advant- age of working under actual industrial conditions in learning their new trades. Immediately after a cold is taken a very hot bath is often very useful, but for relief of a chronic cold, warm baths are less useful than cold ones. Periele with a tendency, to take coin "lierden" themselves by daily cote be, Mi ole A Profession For The Blind. In the animal kingdom it is observed that no creatures are favorites, buk certain compensation balances every gift, and every defect. That is a truth expounded in his Essay on Com- pensation in which Emerson puts it down for a fact that for everything one has missed he has gained some- thing else. When Nature deprives a person of the sense of sight, it is an immeasurable loss, yet that same Na- ture, once thought cruel, now benefic- ent, makes up the deficiency by an ex- traordinary endowment along some other line. So often it is that finest of compen- sations, the talent for music. There is no doubt that music is one of the most suitable professions for the blind. In a Government report recently issued in Britain on the welfare of the blind it is stated that there are almost 1000- 947 to be exact—persons in the United Kingdom thus afflicted who are fol- lowing the professions of music, mak- ing of musical instruments, piano tuning, etc. There are at least one hundred blind organiets ili Deltain, many of whom are choir masters au well, It is expected that these num- bers will be materially thereased owing to the fact thata greater amount of attention is now being given to music in the institutions for the blind. The aforesaid report shows from an investigation among several -hundeed persons that 86 per cent, of the men and 81 per cent, of the women are known to have been succeseful in their musical occupations. This report sug- gests the desirability for a blind per- son to combine the position of orgaraet, or music teacher, or profes- sional singer as the case may be with that of pianoforte tuning, so that in the event of a falling off in his profes- sional work he can resort to the more .practical occupation, or the other way ayound, as • circumstances dictate. Fertilizing the soil increases farm labor efficiency and adds greatly to the farmer's net income. The extra yield, less.than the cost of the fertili- zer, is largely pure profit. -70,1114log‘gairin• , er 11 Jr 51 Ea:4' 4 4 14" The business of being a man has its advantages these days as well as its responsibilities—especi- ally if someone thinks enough about him, his needs and his wishes, to choose for his Christmas gift eciliette-safetamor Mos men are practical. The welcome gift is the useful gift—the Gillette—that fits right into a man's intimate personal life, makes things easier for him, and proves its quality by the way it shaves. At any good Hardware, Drug or Jewelry Store you can pick out a Gillette Set that will be sure to give him lasting pleasure. If you have any trouble getting what you want, write us and we will see that you are supplied. GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR, CO. OF CANADA, LIMITED, Cake &rand** ; Mete &Ming, Neutered, 281 t ADE ed)r P!, ' . W6'iC6"6V14r111111111111PrVW1 4t, 010 te4.: -..7f 101 rIO 001 H•LIDAY 10 ULLET THE SEASON'S BEST FICTION DODO LIVB THE RING - 31,50 sesneeeneve BABY 111,23 Ily Mary Roberts Binehart, By emery Irving Dodge. 017511 prove the r,remast of Mrs. Hine- riven mere amusing than "Skinner's hart's suecesses."—New Yorh Vines, Dross Suit." WPM 25133004. 31101150 $1,30 A nmveliesx:ane1 SANTA CLADS DY WSihant MoDiarg and Edwin Balmer - 31,00 .A mystery, of the Great Lakes, es By Meredith Nicholson, good if not better, than "The 131ind Man's Byes," 15300 51103I15 Or 30215, or Those Who Wait and Wonder - 51,25 By Nellie 0,, MoOlung. This hook reflects public feeling In typical towns and eountry clistriets tBroughout Canada, and Shows with telling effect how Canadian men and Women are doing their bit In the. war. The whole book is strong and eeariees, bust always 00mforting and healing, TDB TOAD 150lIZTDDILSTANDIN0 — 31,40 Ey Blattner IL Porter. A delightful love story, by the author of "Just David" A C.Ihristmas story of mysterious our - arises and a joyful holiday spirit, bi' the author of 'Vile House of a non- ' sand Candles." pOrailr AND Tart VI1215013.110, 31.511 By Mauna O. Dowd. All sevum of "Polly of the 'Hospital Star and "roily of Lady Gay Cot- tage" will want to read this new story by the same author. 101551 memeorins 81.50 005 Pradaidok Oslo Dartlett Herr a charming heiress attempts to aseaue a, horde of suitors by at mat, Hasa of convenience. • ....1.1gIceorrartgatertearramatexcemottenstar.........a.g TWO BIG WAR STORIES 0311155100 who mom Tale a o, cohaatoh =ieirmeetaremee aeomt who. Went - 31435 not .„ By routs Beene, 0.503'.By jamas Norman Ball. A vivid and grauldo aceoUnt 04 ono of A now edition of this famous tribute tbo Ylrat Contingent, Illustrated by to Ititeheneret Army, One of the best the author, books of the war, Toronto 171105. ALLEN pub FRENCH RECLAIM DEBRIS OF BATTLE , EACH ARMY EQUIPPED WITH A RECUPEIIATION DEPOT, Salvage Labor Saves Millions of Dol- lars Yearly to the • Nation. The Arabian Nights wizard who turned old lamps into new Wales the veriest emateur compared with the modern French woman through !whose liaods passes i.110 debris of the hnttle- field. At the beginning of the war, partly owing to the rapid movements of the armies, waste was prevalent evi;rywhere, The correspondent of. the A !odatod Frees, while marching with the eoldiers, then saw thoosands of tomcats andentielee of equipment strewn over the fields lied along the roadsidee where the tinopo bad fought, emeeuvered, advanced or retreated. Nobody thought of saNing the tens of thettennde of dollars' worth of (Use carded clothing zeed items thrown aside when rapid movement was -ne- cessery. Cycreoets,- tunics, shoos, sweaters, scarfs, cartridge pouches, havereneks, belts, caps end waterproof sheets lay about the ground in thou- sands. The Spirit of Ecopomy. Since that time the :toilet of econ- omy—gtmerally present with the French people—has reaeseeted its elle thority, and now everything that can be salved is picked up and made use- ful. Each of the armies has been pro- vided with what is known as a recu- peration depot, whose duty it is to ex- amine and retrieve all that is possible from the debris found on the field of batthlep. T correspondent visited one of these depote uot Orleans and there found in operation a scheme of sal-, vage which- saves the French nation many millions of dollars a year. It is run under the superintendence of offi- cers of the army reserve, mobilized at the opening of hostilities and choeen for their experience in commercial af- fairs. Among them are bankers, man- ufacturers and men drawn from many trades. They have at their disposal machines ef- the latest model, mostly of American origin, while the workers are drawn from among the wives, widows and children of soldiers, Ger- than prisoners and men of the oldest classes of the French army. Sonia idea of the extent of the work done in this centre alone may be ga- thered from the wages paid to the wo- men and girls employed, which amounted in the month of August to. approximately $100;000. There are at all times stored in the depot articles of military equipment to the value of $10,000,000. Every day in summer an average of thirty motor wagons full of debris from the battlefields arrive and in winter this -number is increas- ed to an average of forty-five wagons. New Shoes Froin Old. Thousands of odd shoes, worn and muddy and torn, are sorted out into pairs and then cleaned, repaired and made ready to be issued again. Some- times they are in such a condition that they cannot be used as soldiers' marching boots and then the uppers are detached and refitted to wooden eolee, forming clogs which are much appreciated by the soldiers during !their service in wet and muddy !trenches. Odd Meees of leather are stamped nut into buttons for the pris- oners' uniforms. More than 6,000 women are em- ployed in this depot -alone. A few figures as to the results ob- tained in this depot will demonstrate the economic value of , the system adopted. Two thousand cartridge pouches are repaired on an average every clay at a cost of about one cent each, whereas new ones would cost eighty cents each. I3y the repair of soiled and torn sheepskin jackets a profit of $1,600 daily is made. The mending of overcoats saves the Gov- ernment about $8.000 daily. With pieces of cloth cut from old uniforms the women make 8,000 pairs of cloth slippers daily, each pair worth forty cents, while by piecing together old shoes 600 pairs ,of new ones are made , every (ley. ALL TRADES OPEN TO HEROES. 1M.H.C. Perfects Tans Which Will Make Factories Training. Centres. There are now 30 different voca- tins being Weight in the vocational training centres of the Military Hos- pitals -Commission linked across Can- ada. This number will be increased in- definitely to embrace the whole cate- gory of industries in Canada if neces- sary when the present plans of the Commission to place men needing to learn new trades by reason of their injeries, in the factories . have been pet into operation, • • The to -operation of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association has made it possible for the Commission to of- fer the men this inestimable advant- age of working under actual industrial conditions in learning their new trades. Immediately after a cold is taken a very hot bath is often very useful, but for relief of a chronic cold, warm baths are less useful than cold ones. Periele with a tendency, to take coin "lierden" themselves by daily cote be,