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Home My WebLink AboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-08-08, Page 6y t—tte it,•teoe A Positive cot. iftfusi 1 Pure Teas, without admixture ofsAny nind$ foreign, to its growth. has the reputation a nearly a quarter a a century behind every packet sold - INTERNATIONAL BABY SAVING. For once the civilized world is be- be made to open and shut or yen can Roving what Germany says when she have a hanging door which simp speaks incessantly of the next war, drops over the opening. For once the world being fore -warned Now set a vessel of water on top by Germany's attempts to increase her of the refrigerator. Of old woollen birth rate by whatever means, is fore- cloth make strips two or three inches armed and is starting out for the first wide and dip them in the water. time on organized baby saving. In- Place one end in the vessel and lay stead of this work being conducted the strips out over the sides of the in isolated communities there is a refrigerator. These make wicks and conviction that if the future citizens gently draw the water on to the sack - of the world are to be saved all the ing. Evaporation immediately sets the babies must be saved no matter in, and you will be surprised to find in where they live. There is a convic- a short time that your butter is hard - tion that no one knows quite as much ening and your milk growing cold. A res he should know about baby welfare few gallons of water will keep this and that no one is doing all he should refrigerator in operation throughout to secure fair treatment for this "lit- the day and night, but the vessel tle infant soldier" who has had to should be filled morning, noon and tight far too many of his battles un- night. ahled, in the past. This refrigerator will give good ser - England is thoroughly roused on vice if placed in the sun, but better this subject. First of all she means service if placed in a shaded Mace. to effect a radical reform at home. The water used may be either cold or The t`lhildrent; Jewel Fund has yield- warm, the object being to have free ed i127,052 for baby welfare work in circulation of the air force evapora- England. Added to this fund is a tion and keep the sides of the refrig- eontribution of 4,000 guineas from the crater wet at all Limes. American Red Cross to go to the sane work in England: The Baby Week Council in celebrating its Reading Matter For Our Soldiers. organization this year intend to con- centrate on getting its propaganda into otherwise neglected places and to levy on all available help—especial- Sir Douglas Haig, writing to Dame Eva Anstruther recently said: "Urge all at home to buy books and maga- eines and pass them on freely to the b'teachers and children. Camps Library for circulation among Travelling movies will be used as the troops, The demand that has helps and the climax will be reached now to be met is very great." The last in a great conference in Lemke sentence was underlined, where all queetba; mg:4mile% to baby The Earl of Derby wrote: "We feel welfare are to be considered with a we have only to ask for every man, view to instaat adoptton. It is in- woman and child to respond to an un- tended to inelude the provinces in this peal which will add so great a pastime conference, by proxy, as it were. Sec- to the life of his or her own belong - Venal confuse ice.; in the provinces ings and friends at the Front. The will link the whelp English-speaking Hellish world in one groat body of Baby Welfare workers. An attempt -will be made to induce local author- ities in all overseas dominions to or- ganize far-reaching schemes looking matter is urgent." Here also the last sentence was underlined. Do Canadians keep their boys sup- plied with papers and magazines? Do we share the good stories, the little poems that say what we would like to the preservation of baby life. to say and cannot, the jokes, tae tun? Jo view of this earnest effort hi the "If not, why not?" as the dreadful ex - motherland it is most gratifying to amination questions used to say. know of the splendid work that has Another thing: Because we have ;already been accomplished in Canada, gloomy solemn thoughts should we this year. Three well organized send them over there? Every one Baby Welfare Week programmes have says: "Make your letters smile," Why been carried out in our large cities.' not send smiling, rollicking printed The work for summer should not end matter—even the kind we do not like there and, in view of Germany's but know that our boy likes it? Why ceaseless activity along that line cir- not? cumstances seem to warrant a repeti- tion later in the summer of those same Welfare Weeks. What is real- ly needed is a "Get Together Confer - —_—_— The Gift. You marched away and my soul was was proud enee for the Dominion" with nation- For yours was the praise of the cheer - wide, standardized warfare for the sake of Canadian babies. An Iceless Refrigerator. The woman who cannot convenient- ly get ice, or who cannot of- ing crowd, And yours was the chance to do and dare And have in the conflict for right a share; My boy, with a thousand women's ford it, resorts to all sorts of, sons contrivances to keep her milk To go over the top with their eager sweet and her butter hard. guns. Here is a plan for a home-made milk house that will answer the pur- But, after that, in the dust alone pose. In the little room that we long had Make your framework the size you known, want the refrigerator, making the bot- My eyes were moist as the past re - tom a trifle larger than the top. Cover turned the framework with ordinary "bag" And the heart of the mother grieved sacking—clean potato sacks will do, and yearned, Stretch this covering tight and secure Yet I still was glad with a holy joy it with small nails. The door is made In the gift I gave when I gave my of the same material. The door can boy. 4fLE AVey •••=" (.7teeerie.wen.varttell._ -777 • beneath her ehin. iCegttYtightme t r CHAPTER XXV.— (eont'd.) sosort of apology mai Yet, Frightened, she ((Inspect her handl; when I come to frame it, 1 find my - His eyes demanded a reply, for home as soon Os possible—prob- self baffled. Of course I'm leaving 4J -.__,J told her what the doctors told ably to -morrow. Of Num if I had 1 shou known the tret me, Don't loolt at me so, Peter!" la rd have left long ago, "You tried to win her sympathy for and that letter would never Me t" have had any maiden for being writ - "They told 0(0 if you stopped ten. Pm assuming, Covingtoe, that you will believe that without and gun - worrying, your sight would come back. I told " on, You knew what I did not her that, Peter. "You told her more?" know and did not tell me even after couldn't help RI" you knew how I felt. I suppose you "That if she could love you—oh, felt so confident of her that you trust.- I "So that is why she listened to you; ed her absolutely to handle an alter why she listened to me. You gt of this sort herself. ged for her pity, and—she gave it. 1 I want to say right here you were thought at least I could leave her justified. Whatever in that other letter I Beatrice began to sob. believe she had. come to care for me may have said to lead you to with my. head up." in the slightest was a result solely of "I—I did tbe best I knew how," she pleaded. . my own self-delusion and her innate His head was bowed. He looked gentleness. I have discovered that meaning no harm, went to crushed. Throwing herself upon her knees in front of him, Beatrice reach- }ITV sitter, and told her that the restore - ed for his clasped hands. tion of my sight depended upon her "I did the best I knew!" she moan- interest in me. It was manifestly ed. unfair of my sister to put it that way, "Yes," he answered dully; "you did but the little woman was thinking that. Every one has done that. Only onlyof me. I'm sorry it was done. —nothing should have been done at .1 tl it thebasisupon which eve en y was all. Nothing can ever be done." she made the feeble promise I spoke "Yes." of, and which I exaggerated into "You—you forgive me, Peter?" something more. But his voice was dead. It had no Now for myself. In the light of meaning. what I know to -day, I could not have "It may all be for the best," she ran written you of her as 1 did. Yet, had I remained on, anxious to revive him. "We'll go silent, all I said would back to New York, Peter—you and I. Perhaps you'll let me stay with you there. We'll get a little apartment to- gether, so that I can care for you. I'll do that all the days of my life, if youtll let me." "I want a better fate than that for you, little sister," he answered. Rising, he helped her to her feet He smoothed back her hair from her forehead and kissed her there. "It won't do to look ahead very far, or backwards either just noW,', he said. "But if 1 can believe there is something still left in life for me, I must believe there is a great deal more left for you. Only we must get away from her as soon as pos- sible." "You have your eyes, Peter," she exclaimed exultingly. "She can't take those away from you again!" "Hush," he warned. "You must never blame her for anything." "You mean you still—" "Still and forever, little sister," he answered, "But we must not tak of that," "Poor Peter," she trembled. "Rich Peter!" he corrected, with a wan smile. "There are so many who haven't as much as that." He went back to his room. The next thing to do was to write some sort of explanation to Covington. His ears burned as he thought of the other letter he had sent. Hov it must have bored into the man! How it must have hurt! He had been forced to read the confession of live of an- other man for his wife. The wonder was that he had not taken the next train back and knocked down the writ - have remained just as much God's truth as then. Though I must ad- mit the utter hopelessness of my love I see no reason why I should think of attempting to deny that love. It wouldn't be decent to myself, to you, or to her. It began before you came into her life at all. It has grown bigger and cleaner since then. It persists to -day. I'm talking to you as man to man, Covington. I know you won't confuse that statement with any desire on my part—with any hope however remote—to see that love ful- filled further than it is fulfilled to- day. That delusion has vanished forever. I shall never entertain it again, no matter what course your destiny or her destiny may take. I cannot make that emphatic enough, Covington. It is based upon a cer- knowledge of fade which, unfortun- ately, I am not at liberty to reveal to I don't suppose it's in particularly! you. good taste for me to talk to you of your wife in this fashion; but it' e my dying speech, old man, as far as this' subject is concerned, and I'm talking to you and to no one else. There's 'est one thing more I want to say. don't want either you or Marjory to think Pm going off to pine and die. The first time she left me I made an ass of myself, and that was because I had not then got hold of the essential fact of love As I see it now, love—real love—does not lie in the personal gratification of selfish desires The wanting is only the first stage Perhaps. it is a ruse of Nature to entice men to the second stage, which is giving. er. It must be that he understood I'm going away, Covington. That the hopelessness of such a passion. 'will leave her here alone. Wherever Perhaps he had smiled! Only that you are, there must be trains back to was not like Covington. Rather, he Nice—startmg perhaps within thei boned end gagged; not to Care, and Yet to feel ()We vitals oaten With caring; to obtain one's ect, and then to be Morooned there like gfor- t41.11ten miller on a desert island—thie WOS unsuet. Ah, but she did care! 11, was as if some portion of her retitled abtiolute- ly to obey her will in this neater, In ellepee she might declare her determi natfon not to care, or through tense lips she might mutter the same thing in spoken words; but this inade no difference. She was 0 free agent, to be }lure. She hod the right to dictate terms to hersielf. She had the sole right to be arbiter °flier &stint. It was to that end she had craved freedom. (To be eontinued.) Food Control Corner Arrangements have been completed by the Canada Food Board with the United States Food Administration by 'which 15,000 tons of linseed oil cake and meal will be supplied to relieve the conditione which prevail in Canada owing to the scarcity of feed and fodder. The Food Board Will be responsible for the allocation of the oil cake and meal. All dealers who wish to im- port these commodities must attach to the regular import application blanks O sworn statement of the quantities sold during the three yearprior te July lst and distribution will be made on this basis. Applications should be sent direct to tlfe Canada Food Board. Every city, town and village in Canada should have a farm employ- ment agency in charge of some good, live local man. Farmers want help, and it is the duty of the towns and cities to provide it if there is no other ; source' of supply.. Able bodied iyoung men of all classes have been enlisted for the army, and the fee - 1 tories had already drained the coun- try of regular farm laborers. There is no immigration to help the situa- tion. The United States wants about a million or more men for its own harvest. Some of those men will doubtless be available in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba for the ICanadian wheat after the American crop is in, but the great bulk of the extra labor required on Canadian farms this year, •will have to come from Canadian towns and cities. To enable these men to be distribut- ed when they do come forward, as by their Registration cards they have promised to do, there should be ma- chinery ready and well organized. In some Provinces the local Government has established employment agencies. Every province might well have simi- lar offices supplemented by voluntary organizations in every centre. Busi- ness men in every other Canadian town, should become active in this matter because it vitally con- cerns them. Employers of labor should do everything in their power to ar- range their worlc so as to release men who are willing to go to the aid of the farmers Every encouragement should be given these men, for this week is of first importance. Farm- ers, of course, prefer experienced men, and men who have been brought up on farms or spent some years on the land should be specially encouraged to devote a few weeks of their time and the capital of their experience to the harvest of 1918. Extra men for the harvest are wanted in every province —in British Columbia 3,000, in Al- berta 6,000 to 7,000, in Saskatchewan 20,000, in Manitoba 10,000, Ontario 12,000, Quebec 12,000, New Brunswick 2,000, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island all the men locally available. Leading business men of every cen- tre should get together in a com- mittee and open up a farm labor bur- eau, where there is none already. There should be no trouble for the farmer in learning whereto find such an office, and there should be no trou- ble for the man who is willing to go on the farm to find opt where to go and leave his name and address for the farmer looking for hint. We are in receipt of two very artis- tic posters issued by the Canada Food Board. One reads; "Fish and Vege- table Meals will save wheat, meat, and fats for our Soldiers and Allies." The other represents a child on his mother's knee at breakfast saying: "Remember we must feed Daddy too." The mother's eyes see in vision her husband on the battlefield. "Three parts of good conversation consist of good manners."—E. F. Ben- son. had gripped his jaws and stood it. But if it had hurt and he hankered for revenge, he was to have it now, Be, Noyes, had bared his soul to the husband and confessed a love that now he must stand up and recant. That was punishment enough for any man. He must do that, too, without hour. So long. Peter J. Noyes. CHAPTER XXVI. Freedom N. With the departure of Peter and his sister—Peter had made his leave-tak— violating any of Marjory's confidences ing easy by securing an earlier tram —without helping in any way to dis- than she expected and sending her a entangle the pitiful snarl that it was brief note of farewell—Marjory within his power to disentangle. She found herself near that ideal state of whose happiness might partly have perfect freedom she had craved. There, recompensed him for what he had to was now no outside influence to check do, he must still leave unhappy. As her movements. If she remained far as he himself was concerned, where she was, there was no one to however, he was entitled to tell the interrupt her in the solitary pursuit truth. He could not recant his love. of her own pleasure. Safe from any That would be false. But he had no possibility of intrusion, she was at right to it—that was what he must liberty- to remain in the seclusion of make Covington understand. Dear Covington [he began]: I am her room; but, if she preferred, she writing this with my eyes open. The could walk the quay without the miracle I spoke of carne to puss. Also slightest prospect in the world of be - a great many other things have come ing forced to recognize the friendly to pass. You'll realize how hard it is grpeting eetof any one. to write about them after that other er was gone; Beatrice was gone; letter, when I tell you I have learned and Monte was gone. There was no one else—unleas by the truth; that Marjory is Mrs. Cov- ington. She told me heuself, when .Teddy Hamilton should turn up, our relations reached a crisis where which was so unlikely that he did not even consider it. Yet there she had to tell. I feel, naturally, as H'I owed you were moments when, if she had met Teddy, she would have sinned a wel- come. She would not have feared him. There was only one person in the world now of whom she stood in fear, and he wee somewhere along the English coast, playing a poor game of golf. She was free beyond her most ex- travagant dreams—absolutely free. She was so free that it seemed aim- less to rise in the morning, because there was nothing awaiting her atten- tion. She was so free that there was no object in breakfasting, because there was no obligation demanding her strength, She was so free that whether she should go out or remain indoors depended merely upon the whim of the moment. There Was for her nothing either without or within, was the whole t.hing in a nut- shell. There were some who might consider this to be an ideal state. Not to care about anything at all was not to have anyhing at all to wpm about. Certain philosophies Were leased upon this state of mind, 111 brpee4t4, _„Monittre smi,otevino 1:olaiirleosotap,..iliyoetvuuts were well, tiler not&ire at all Shenk' be bet( tt phoplet .hteve ohe utterly and Suhliniely lrere. But mild it also leave one utterly miser - let Ti41'0 wag soniething inconsistent in that—emenething unfair. To be ; freeand yet to feel like a prisoner "IrsT,C, • Atit ,11.i24ktAtglicLA,!2WItOwgekt, Tho Germane do not even resp ect the clead, Dere Is a photolirept of a cemetery tidal' Lone which the Canadiane found with broken tombs and graves robbed both of the dead and of their jewelg.--Clunadian °Meta] Fhotographe g • eg Cream Wanted We ere to the market for elegem ail through the yoga We pay the liftelinifer market pees, Our pint s right up -te- e oldness moo 501, Oren U0 41 misteard for particulars, Mutual Dairy and flrealuery 00. V40.5 Mag 00, Wind Woreate COLLEGES ON THE flEl3I Canada is the Pioneer in Establish.. ment of Soldiere' Universities. We are glad to see that field col' leges (Inc gradually being eettiblishod in all our arinieS at the: Front, soya the Manchester GUardian. The idea was, we thinit, first put into practice hy the Canadians, whose "Univereity of Vim), Ridge" was so popular with the niqn thief. the United States Gov. ornmellt at o -ace followed the ex- ample and introduced as a component part of the American army an organi- Sation known as the Soldiers' Univer, sity. Now the Australian force is to have a einnar instffution—one, in fact, even more ambitious than the ahem. The British Army le also undertak- ing an educational ;whom° which will doubtless adept as its foundation the Y.M,C.A, camp elasees, whose teach. Mg eters. have for 5 long time de- served adequate official recognition and encouragement. The snows of these field universities is large and will accommodate the needs of the student, the professional man, and -the craftsman net only during the war but in the period of demobilization. The Germans have had similar institu- tions for long enough. It is a scheme that will be welcomed by nobody so mach as by the Men theneselves. Every 0110 of us has heard the lament of young soldiers— their. only lament, in fact—that they are growing more and more conedous of 0 widentng gulf in their careers as the war prolongs itself. For much, too long, it must be confessed, our sol- diers hp,ve been without any systema- tised opportunities of maintaining with civilian some point cif contact habits of mind and vocation, and it is a thousand pities there were no soldiers' colleges for the men who went through the first weary months of trench warfare, Still, though these educational in- stitutions may have come late in the day, time future before them is- eurely considerable. There is no reason why they should pass away until the busts nese of arms itself is obsolete • Life in barracks must be a vastly different thing in the daysto come from what it was in the past. These soldiers' universities, in fact, are an overdue official recognition that, the old pro- fessional soldier no longer exists and that the modern fighting man 15 a civilian first and last. Bread is the staff of life, but how the staff crumbles these days. tegettyetteteeseeteweetteuggeetteesegteele tteit.etie, geg gasetestee e-gette, tee. ihe best tru rilastslaatim in 0 Mims -. , ejimineact all gator ZS'ork. Make. light. rwholesome bread, roll., etc., without .00)51o. Saves lions • 'and helps conserve the tnod .upPlY. 4 Convenient, gulch ,'end dean—handa do not touch dough. Delivered all chain,, paid to your homa or through your dealer— four loaf size , $2.75 tight loaf size $3.25. 0.1'. nen" 00. HAMILTON CANADA 4 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa au we ••• 1...g•-••.••1 cam a mk• /el A APIr . l '' . • .411. . •:,...0. • .<> <>. • ^..... ...0. • ......6&,3...,...i.:.; <>:.... '''' . . ..' al;•••• aisi ma 0 'II „,. 0 0 ........ rr Georgian , s THE e ... • .'', , ILL ,371.. '7 6-- . •''1, .'1' ee Mt. 1 , .,. , ,• e. g 0 .. k e. ' Model, e500, WILLIAMS PIANO Canada's Oldest ft-' . --.% 0 , - " '1, . a lit, 0 CO*, and Tti Trzi AIJ '...--.1...• , I A NJ HE Pure, tone, responsiveness famous bine to ilft mm the coonplace, , pia no that Its enduring generations. LIMED, Largest Plane, , and instrument It will OSHAWA, Makers ,,, rich, the high charm ., -.--. S s mellow sensitive 0 f ibis come above It is a maintain for ONT. 1 I 1 i i A i' Iv i ', e ? 1 ' s i i i . . ; . l • I ; i 1 I I ; . ... .. . -4-?--c-4-...o....o•••<›. . 4). •,0,.. . ..C> . .0" . 4" 1 4 8 RATION ROOKS FOR FACH FAMILY BRITAIN ISSUES NATI011Ai. TI ON 500 1(0. Ministry of Food Find the New Plan 01 Greet improvement on Former Cerci Syetem. Since the Ministry of Food began its wurk two billion forum have been prielod anti dhaributed. Out of this number only ono net hoe bad to be onnetilati, the tome being lees than $250. Of the new nationel ration book; which ea 1110 imito toles) on July 15, 62, 000,000 Copies were iseued. This windier Includes the individual books and the supplemental books granted to agricultural laborers, munition workers awl, those engaged on heavy work, Over 700 long tons of paper were used in their maeufacture, while 3,000 pertains were employed iii the manufacture of the books. The new book is a great improve- ment on the card sysem. It is of handy size, 5 inches by 3%, antic:ow tains coupons for 4111 the- rationed foods—eugsir, meat, bacon, butter and margarine—and lard, of which the Food Controller hoped to have suf- Went to allow two ounees per head per week from July 14. Printed in' colors by a spode.] pro - ewes of photogravure and :medal ink. the delicate design of the book should prove a great deterrent to would-be forgers. The hook for the general public con. tains nine pages, orange color for sugar, blue for fats, red for meat and bacon, brown and blue for other foods which may be rationed and green for reference purposes.. A special book has been prepared for children, and withsupplementary ration books for workers engaged in heavy work it will be possible for a, household to have eight different 'kinds of ration books. With the 'corning into force of the new books the coupons collected by retailers have to be forwarded to the local food office, whore bels are taken by means of weighing the coupon, and lf they do not reasonably come up to the weight corresponding with the rationed food supplied prosecution will follow. Every book IS numbe-red and beam a code or reference number so that it can be traced without difficulty. Books will have to be surrendered before leaving the country, or In the event of the death of the holder the book must be returned to either- the local food office ar handed' to the re- gistrar deatbs at the time of regis- tration. MANY WOMEN 1N SHIPYARDS. Included Among Them are Riveters, Joiners, Engineers, Blacksmiths. The introduction of woman labor into the British shipyards is one of the most striking developments brought about by the war in the field of woman's work. To -day women are to be found among the riveters, taking the place of boys 15 the 'heating and conveying of the rivets to the men who drive them home. They are working in blacksmiths' forges; they red -lead iron work and do certain portions of the paint work. Al] over a shipyard they may be seen tidying up, shift- ing scrap iron, carrying baulks of timber, pieces of angle iron, and iron bare. A more valuable part of their work is clone with machinery. Their work in the joiners' shops is particularly valuable in all the various items treated, especially with the planing machines, with which women work- ers produce a noticeably large output. For engineering work women are mutt in demand. Experienced girls aro very skilful in the manipulation of ouch powerful machines as those used for cutting angle iron and for keel -bending. They even drive dos - trio cranes and winches, 'work which demands the greatest steadiness and care, and a large amount of nerve, as the lives of others depend on them. CHINA AND THE BEAN. The bean playm an important part in Chinese domestic economy, and, nes carding to East and West News, ono ef the specially desired quellficatIone of the Chinese nietron, throughout the northern provinces, to her ability to Concoct from beans—green, black and yellow—those staple dishes that the Chinese know as ton feu and hong fen, The bean seldom apnoea's; on the Chinese' table whole; it is not 430C1- sidered aa fit for food entil It 'has been reduced to its essences and put up in the tone tif bean curd, ar bean gelatin, which are for st1° in every roadside foodshop at northern Chlim, • The art of producing these nourish. ing foods, which are the bleat al the poor, Is to the rated ChiW0311.011 what the making of butter, cheese and jam is, to the Occidental houssewiro. In the large cities bean manlpelatten, of that sat is a craft and a commers Wel totivitY, Just as the malting of Jane and butter It in the large eitiog of the West; but it can hard1,7 • called hn indugitry, dime it, lo calite without ortourigatiou. Thu booze met be entitled, embed, baited, boiled, gtrained and go on, befnsw the einielleeti wear, • (es -«11' i• 0