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FIFTH EPISODE—(Cont'd,)
As Pat walked, about the drawing
room Kolly'a 'ttchnitiing gaze followed
her every. movement. : blur
"Kelly, you're slipping," the Sp
said to himself. `4You better lookout
or you'll be in love';"
Then as if toyepr•imancl himself for
"even thinking of such nonsense," Kel-
ly turned abruptly on his heel, and
wanted into an adjoining room.
It was some little time before Pat
came face to face with the Sphinx m
the Crosby drawing room.
"How churning you loo]c, Miss
Pat," was Kelly',s stammered cavil -
Ment when he carne face' to face with
the beautiful Patricia. '
"You are even more lovely than you
seemed to be when looking down upon
me as I lingered near *the jugs ,of
death," the Sphinx. continued i
"Hush! Please be careful, and don't
ever mention that scene again," Pat
implored, as her face flashed scarlet.
"I may not mention it, but I shall
ever be grateful to you, Miss Pat,"
the Sphinx responded; and. then to
change the subject he continued:
"Rather surprised to see me here,
Miss Pat?" he said inquiringly.
"Not in the least," the beautiful girl
replied. She fixed her great eyes full
upon Kelly's face and continued de-
liberately:
"I had heard you were called to
guard the jewels, and I wonder if you
can prevent then being stolen." She
kept her gaze fixed upon the Sphinx,
as she waited for his answer.
"Miss Pat," he finally said, vyith
great deliberation, "I'11 prevent the
Apaches from getting the jewels if I
am compelled . to expose their leader
and arrest every guest iii attendance
here,"
"Hoiv dramatic that would be," said
Pat, accompanying her remark with
one of her musical little laughs. '
This is a good time to laugh, Miss
Pat," the Sphinx, remarked, as he turn-
ed from the girl .and abruptly ended
the conversation.
"He.is just as rude as ever," Pat
said_to herself ms she stood where Kel-;
ly had -so ungallantly left her.
Pat's eyes -flashed with resolution.
She went to a low French window that
looked out upon the. Crosby grounds
arid' signalled to see if the Apaches
were assembled and ready to take or-
ders. The response quickly assured
her.
The Crosby guests were assenmbl-
ing round a monster punch bowl,on
a table in the center of the drawing
room, when Pat turned from the win-
dow. As she started toward the
table there was an ominous crash, of
a heisting bomb, as it fell in the
grounds near the mansion.
Women screamed with terror, and
the male guests rushed out upon the
lawn, with excited shouts that an air
raid upon Par% was in progress. The
guests surged in and out of doors,
rushing from one room to the other
while Pat waited patiently behind the
window portieres for her chance to -
act.
The jewels hal h„ -r. been brought
into the drawing room to be admired
by the. guests when the crashing of
the bomb turnea`thp scene into bedlam
and everyone began to rush aimlessly
about. Ever Kelly, usually cool and
unexcitable, was thrown off his guard.
He rushed out of doors with the other
men end -gazed wonderingly upward.
Far above them an airplane circled
overhsad,•the whirr of 'its engine be-
iiig plainly heard.
The time Kelly had consumed upon
the lawn was enough- for Pat to ac-
complish; by quick action, what the
Sphinx had been hired to prevent. She
fied from her cover, behind the por-
tieres, r•an to the punah,howi table at
a rdennerit - the drawing roma was
deserted and there, where she'had.but
to reach out her hand and take them,
gleamed .the :Crosby: gems in plain
view.
Pat snatched the jewels from the
box, containing them, -and' quickly die
appeared from the- scene: She had
,gone to 'another room, when the men
returned from watching the airplane.
'Kelly ran straight to the table—and
found only tilt) empty jewel box. As
he'Waned for a moment to hastily sur-
vey the room, the Sphinx saw a trim
alight figiue, dressed in Apache 'cos-
tume, disappear through the low
rrencli window.
Pat' had gone into an- adjoining
room, and hurriedly divested herself of
the evening gown she had put on over
her Apache costume. Watching her
opportunity, she slipped through the
window ar.d was fleeing toward her
automobile when Kelly bounded from
'the Crosby mansion in hot pursuit.
Straight to the airplane hangar Pat
was driven by her faithful chauffeur.
-As close behind as he could speed his
machine came Kelly in eager chase,
"I was going to give this package to
you,” Pat shouted as she reached the
hangar and was met by De saint, "but
I am too closely pursued tc get away
Wveelf. So yot),;1] have to take mo
with you in the "air and land me at a
cafe place—then I can make my way
home."
In the brief moment Pat had taken
to explain, Kelly had reached the
. hangar and was hurrying into the
yard. DeSaint signaled to the Apaches
Who were there to protect their lead-
ep, and the Sphinx was surprised: by
the opposition that confronted and
quickly started to overpower him
while he dashed toward Pat and De
Saint as they were preparing to go
aloft' in the airplane,
There was a sharp stiff fight, with
Kelly out -matched ie strength by the
numbers who assailed him. Just as
elle- airplane began its short run oh
e ground in preparation to ascend,
ggsg�e of the Apaches landed a spell?)ng
new on Kelly's chin, and he un-
pnscious into the machine's structure,
De Saint and his fair passenger starts
ed to rthe ground. •ou d. Tho
rise front h
achiiie was acting queer and De
lhint shouted to Pat that there was
Oinething *tong. The girl turned
p'her seat, by partly unloosening the
gaps
that at bound her, and beheld a
s h that unnerved her for the mo,,
Mltihlt acid fully oicplained the cause
of the trouble.
The limp form of, 0. niau rested on
IMO of ha airplane's wings, and put
the orae Ana ouik of bala<rice,
IIa)f dazed by terror, and elmqeti
paralyzed by the surprise of her dis-
coYory, Pat managed to shout to De
Saint that the cause of hie trouble
had been disclosed. • a.
"There is a man lying 'seneolese on
one of the wings," she screamed in De
Saint's oar,
"Try and hatil hint in here," an
-
filmed the aviatpi', recognizing the
Sphinx's body.
obeyns
trn -
Pttur a
But as d toi c
Pat n
tions the airplane suddenly swerved.
De Saint worked desperately at the
controlling handles --but to no pur-
pose.
The frail. airship began to descend
with lightning spend . toward the
ground, Pat closed her eyes, in re.,
signatlon to the fate that threatened,
There was a crash of breaking
branches a swish of leaves and"bend-
ing boughs, and the airplane came to
a sudden stop, caught safely in the
top of a giant tree,
Then another frightful and mere
terrible fate than the one they had
seeminglyse narrowly escaped, faced
the imperiled trio. Flame burst sud-
denly forth from the ignited gasoline
and began to envelop the frail struc-
ture with leaping tongues o4 fire.
(To be continued.)
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B ITISH TROOPS
.'FILL FRENCH SOIL
ARTILLERY HORSES ARE MORE
USEFUL THAN MEN.
Rest Periods Between Battles Are
Employed in Reclaiming
War -Swept Areas.•
A new and fruitful occupation has
been found for the British troops
when they retire for rest from the bat-
tle into the hospitality of French vil-
lages, writes a correspondent from
Paris. They see about them fields
sadly in need of hands; sometimes
now that the enemy has run away,
sadly in need of reclamation.
Soldiers here and there have often
offered to lend a hand in the 'fields,
but these occasional and partial ef-
forts are becoming a regular part of
life in rest billeets. Men and horses
are officially used in the work of pro-
duction, and for that purpose releas-
ed from a certain amount of purely
military routine.
There is being attached'to an army
'headquarters a sort of department of
agriculture, which is doing in' the
most literal sense, yeoman• work for
French fields. If it is not turning
the bayonet into the plowshare, it is
harnessing the artillery horse into the
plow, using gun tractors to draw
threshing- machines and helping till
nearly a million acres. No single
thing in France has given such genu-
ine pleasure as the sight of this wise,
plucky and unselfish, effort to heal the
maledies of war, even while war is at
its height.
•
A Department of Agriculture.
The first definite command of Sir
Douglas Haig's that ever came direct-
ly to the writer's ears. was an in-
struction to -a photographer to take
pictures" of French men and women
busy in the fields. It is not known
whether the commander -in -chief's
deep admiration for . these French
workers and his perception of the
vital value of their toil finally pro-
duced the new department, but it
stands at ,any rate for evidence the
British army's homelike interest in
the land of France. Even at that
date a year ago while searching for
suitable views the correspondent came
across more than one picture of a
British Tommy handling the plow, and
later piling ' the sheaves along with
French children, their mothers ' and
grandparents:
In February of this year . an excel-
lent .farrier—ancf soldier—who. has
owned farms in parts of the world as
far apart as Australia and Sussex,
/England, formed a little department
of agriculture, with branch offices.
He himself was given an office in a
spacious town hall, where •he is at
the elbow of the mayor, and can be
sure of the quickest and readiest help
from French authority.
Much Land Reclaimed.
His •method is this. Wherever Bri-
tish soldiers are at rest 'and 'can be
temporarily ,freed from routine mili-
tary work, they are asked' to. lend a
hand to any French' farmer or culti-
vator who is _ short of labor. The
work to be done is of all sorts and
kinds, In 'some places, lately freed
from the marauder, these men fill in
trenches, thus permanently reclaiming
the land, or pull up barb wire; but
the more immediate need is to drag
back to cultivation the thousands of
waste and fallow acres over which the
enemy has retreated or which are out
of range of his guns, and to help
with apses from which the population
have departed.
The horses are more useful even
than the men, and you may see many
a veteran artillery horse learning to
plow and straightening out the land
1effectively1 ' it
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UBOAT� PIRATES!
BUINMARY by EXPERT or soma
COMBATIVE MEASURES
The Navies of the World Are Battling
With the Sternest Menace in
,Britain's History,
There is no infallible remedy againet
the submarine at the moment, but
there is just as much rose n to be-
lieve that we shall ultimatolp master
the U -beat as there was diet we
should master file Zeppelin, writes i n
English authority. And we know ndw
that the high -flying, owlft-travelling
aeroplane is more than a-ruatoh fpr
the gasbag..
The submarine" will be conquered
not by one means, but by a variety of
means, cleverly co-ordinated, The
problem, while it galls for new inven-
t10 s, also'demands the intensifica-
tion of existing anti-submardne mea-
sures,
Hussars of t'e Sea.
Whitt are the ways in which the
pubmarine can be fought 7 There is,
to begin with, the simple expedient of
destroying its frail carcase with shell-
fire. The armed merchantman that
gets rte shot in first stands a good
chance of sinkfngits U-boat assailant.
That is why the properly -armed ship
with expert gunners has ton lives com-
pared to the one life of the unarmed
ship.
The U-boat -positively loathes the
armed trawler, and with good cause,
for our trawlers have sent many of
the sea -pirates to their doom, either
with well -directed fire, or by crashing
into them. But more than the armed
trawler, the submarine hakes the thir-
ty -knot destroyer, at the sight of which
she at once prepares to submerge, and,
happily for us, often too late. There
are any numbor of instances where U-
boats have been cut in two by violent
collision with the Hussars of the
ocean, and it can bo imagined what it
must be like for a U-boat commander
to see the sharp, ominous form of a
destroyer racing 'towards him, its
track marked by a ribbon of white
foam. '
Duels In the Deep. •
Catching the U-boat in nets is a
source which worked successfully in
the earlier days•of the war, when the
aubmarines specialized in local waters.
Tho advent of the ocean-going U-boat,
however, has limited the possibilities
of netting the pirates, since it is
obvious"""lliat there are not enough
nets in the world to apply to the sea -
lanes of traffic.
The U-boat fears the mine, and it
generally moves in the daylight to
avoid it, • resting at night below the
surface of the water, on the sea-bed.
Mines, nevertheless, take a substan-
tial toll of submarines, and it may be
that in a far greater extension of
mines lies a, much more effective U-
boat menace.
The submarine can also bo fought
by the submarine. If when the war
broke out we had had Zeppelins, they
would certainly have been used to
fight their kind, An Italian submarine
has shown hew practicable it is to op-
pose submarine. to submarine. Each
can seek the other out, and in the
dramatic duel below the water victory
will go to the better boat and the bet-
ter crew; which, after all, is all that
any sportsmanlike and fair-minded
nation could wish for. We shall sure-
ly live to see not isolated encounters
between U-boats and E -Boats, hit act-
ual battles, in which half a dozen units
on either side may participate.
Importance of Aircraft.
. Seaplanes are a splendid means of
combating the submarines. They can
spot the U-boat, and attack It with
bombs- or with charges, the tremen-
dous violence of whose explosion must
destroy any light craft in the immed-
iate vicinity, and there is no more deli-
cate floating craft than a submarine.
The importance of. aircraft in warning
-merchantmen of the presence of U.
boats can hardly be exaggerated.
If we sum up the generally known
means of fighting the 17 -boat, they., are'
as follotivs : . .
(1) Sinkcing; by shell -lire.
(2) Destruction by collision.
(3) Catolting with nets. .
(4) Blowing up -with mines,
(5) Destroying by submarine attack.
(6) Sinking by aircraft bombs or
"depth charges,"
In addition, there are other devices
belonging to anti-submarine organiza-
tions, such as fouling the periscopes
with fatty or resinous matter, over
which a veil roust be drawn.
The U-boat, in presence of all these
measures aiming at its destruction,
seeks safety largely by avoiding, as
far as possible, the protected areas,
or by piercing the cordon of protec-
tive measures. It is a reasonable ar-
gument, then, that the more the scope
of the anti-submarine measures is
widonic", the greater the menace to
We,/ere told that in default of g,:
sovereign remedyagainet the 'U -bolt$;
our boat And oplplan 10 taredaoe the
demaiide on a9ailable shipping by etits
Ong 4s t imports to theutmost ldmits,
and bt ill told 0hip6 ett.thet 80 postlblot
tile is 4 Wl8e woo ing, but it would'
be folly to argue from it that it fill:
plies any cessation in the efforts to
fight the submarines,.
The Uuwearying Hunt,
The U-boats must be hunted with
an ever—increasing number of patrols,
destroyers, deapl'aues, and submarines;
Siete must be bundi'ede of soaplanee
to spot them and bomb them, and
many more,mineflelde to make their
movements -in the lanes of traffic far
More precanlous,
The genius of Allied inventors
might, in the course of their expert.
meats, devise more effective means of
betraying the presence of U-boats,
and, with their location, amore effec-
tive means of securing their destruc-
tion, •
What man builds, man can destroy.
in essence, the 'problem of the U-boat
is no greater than the problem of the
Zeppelin, which we'have succoss'fully
oountei'ed., It is a question of tireless
study—concentration—just as :air as-
condaney is a question of increasing
improvement and experimentation.
Given a multiplicatioh, even of exist-
ing anti-submarine measures, and,
with confidence, it can bo said that
the U-bont menace loses nine-teentlis
of its graldty,
The destruction of U-boat lairs,
needless to say, enters into the pro-
blem; but that is rather a matter of
Grand Fleet etatogy.
ARTILLERY OF THE
i e
PRSN I° WAR
FACTS CONCERNING WE&PONS
OF PAST AGES.
•
Modern Guns, Although Much More
Effective, Are Small Compared
With Past "Monsters."
Although ono is astounded to hear
of the immense size of, the heavy ar-
tillery used by both sides in the pre.
sent war, it should be borne in mind
that projectiles of even larger diame•
ter were used long ago.
Tho first piece of artillery recorded
was made by Schwartz, a German,
soon after the invent)ou of gunpowder
in 1330, while the first use of artillery
in warfare was probably made by the
Moors of Algeciras, Spain, in 1343.
The town is situated on the same bay
and opposite to Gibraltar. It is in-
teresting to remember that the pre-
sent Spanish governor's full title is
"Governor of Algeciras and Gibraltar,
temporarily in the occupation of the
British," an example of optimism that
surely deserves to become classical.
Edward III., at Crecy, in 1346, had
four pieces of cannon, and he also
used artillery at the siege of Calais
during the following year.
Stone Ammunition.
In Edinburgh, to which it was trans-
ferred from London at the request of
Sir Walter Scott, may be seen Mons
Meg, a largo cannon, 13 feet long and
20 incites calibre, which is said to
have been used by James II, at the
siego of Thrieve Castle in 1455, This
gun used stone shot. Five years later
the King met his death at Roxburgh
by the bursting of a similar cannon,
the Lion.
The "Queen Elizabeth's pocket-pls-
tol"—a quaint fancy—at Dover Castle,
a present from Charles V. -Co Good
King Hal (Flonry VIII,), is 24 feet.
long, and has given rise to the well-
known lines:
"Load me well and keep me clean,
I'll carry a ball to Calais Green,"
The largest bore recorded is a gun
of 28 inches calibre, rnado at Beeja-
poor, India, during the seventeenth
century, and known as "Malick a Mal-
dan,' signifying "Lord of the Plains,"
By some authorities it is said to have
been made of cast-iron, and by others
of bronze.
A Formidable Weapon.
Cast-iron cannon were not made un-
til the latter half of the flfteenth cen-
tury. Previously they were always
made of bronze. As the Beejapoor
gun was not, however, completed till
nearly two hundued years after the in-
troduction of cast-iron for guns, the
question may be genuinely open to
doubt.
Be that as it may, the projectile
fired by the gun weighed 1,600 lb., and
at the time it roust have been a
formidable weapon. TIte'111-ton guns
of the Benbow, a British battleship,
built in 1885, used a projoctile of
1,500 lb., s0 the Malrrattas, said to be
responsible for the Indian gun, have
no cause to feel ashamed of the capa-
bilities of their earlier weapon.
Italy purchased in 1884 from the
Krupp firm a gtur weighing 119 tons,
and the same firm, six years later,
rnado a 135 -tet gun, which is at Crou-
nruet more enc, rapidly
y stadt, at the head of the Gulf of Fin-
than
in Russia.
than even the shells upset it. By a the pirates, As It r )uires jtt least fifteen months
simple system of dividing the work Seen in this light, the problem re- to construct a heavy gun of tho largest
into areas the system has rapidly ex- solves itself into one of constructing calibre, and even longer, if any of the
tended and by next August the food combative moans quloltor tlh{til the ingots from which the got is 10 • be
supply of France will be greater by Germans can build or replace sub- made ten out faulty, 1t is easy to
many quarters and bushels for the marines, and the greater encourage- realize the enormous advantage that
assistance of war horses and warriors, trent of those restless, mechanical-sourenemieshad over us at the be,
A great effort le to be directed to the geutuses-"mechaulcal" here being ginning of the war,
production of crops for 1918. used In the engineering sense—who,
The retreat of the enemy hag given when called upon by Mr. Lloyd George
infinite scope for -such labor for the at the time he was organizing the
fields' have been untouched, Some Ministry of Munitions, helped us first
crops even of potatoes have rotted 111.10 cope with, and then to eclipse, the
the ground, and everywhere behind trench warfare matol'lal of the enemy.
the German rotrcat,you see the heaps
of manure put out on fields two ,years
ago by French peasants, converted by
time and weeds into green molehills.
Shoddy German Uniforms,
A prominent worsted manufaotukee
in this country cured sem ie ofthe
i u yso p gro
goods used in the Uniforree of Oeri'an
soldiers recently captured, His anal yy-
sis of the 'fahrte showed 26 per eezit,
of cotton; 46 per cent. of paper yarns
groin "L Ole ,ellulose cls+.
rived i'roai'Weoas and grasses, while
the Something 35. per oent, was on-
tiroly shade up of wool shoddy. There eampetont judges it lo not so dietant
W(t4, pQb a1i ounce Of raw Weal used, ,i,s some pooplo Wittet1Q
-A Wise Warning,
Tile U'boat, with its travel radius of
three tha t:and miles,-mtiet over have
SOme successes; but the number of
them can itv reduced in time as
scarcely to affect the issue. If a dyizoit
Zeppelllns eora.e over England to -tray,
000 or two tial. st111 lin e to 68'34 p11
the fact that heavy 100005, howetvi(,
itt`e Nasal** 1ev tgllle n)01c6e thea
game hardlyo4'tr the otndlq, When;
the day in *holy ai;°ynQo''e Il boatii Oa
seek than "ban he htiiit jtrriy'bs, that
day sees the Gering siibnissine pees
perly ootfiitered, acid in the ballet of
Britain's Heavy Weapons.
But sufficient time has now elapsed
for the Allies to nave completed it
largo number of these gene.
The tendency of the authorities, as
Colonel Dunlop wrote some years ago,
was to depend bn lighter guns with
quicker firing, .
Hat the efficacy of heavier weapons
having been demonstrated by tate
enemy, the Miles were only '.'the
pecessary time for rrl00111noture"
teat:wing tilt load, and the cloy 10 nog
awning Mhah, by the aid of o
h we shall pound o�t'
IteavY fittingly,' .
andfoie
ori 1 a d
Way on, etle, Vint ,1 s y,
Ala Gornto y,(yek 1s(o their own teff
tory bayou, the Rhine:
The lieavy hares preduces the most
powortor toed consumed when draw
flit a load at the rate of two and one.
half Mlles per hours,
A COURSE IN HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE COMPLETE IN
TWENTY-ii'I'VE LESSONS,
Leeson I. Why
The fundamental principle of all
'food is the nutritive value of the food
itself. If food lathe the necessary
elements that are se important, it falls
to accomplish its minima in the body.
We eat in order that we may work,
That the workers may eat in an intelli-
gent manner; it is most .ile`cessary for
the housewife to know the -principles
and laws governing digestion. For
instance, while the heavy protein of
pork is very acceptable during cold
weather, it would be unwise to supply
it to the family during tho hot season
of the year, Many of the heavy and
coarse foods that we eat during cold
weather are actually needed. This
is especially true of a .person who
works out of doors doing heavy man-
ual labor,
When the sedentary or indoor work-
er realizes that his diet should be de-
cidedly different from the diet of a
person whose workexposes him to the
open, much ill -health and disease will
disappear, In order to secure good
health, it behooves us to know just
what we are eating.
The five principal constituents of
food are: Proteins, carbohydrates,
fats, mineral salts and water.
Proteins aro contained in meat, milk,
cheese, butter, eggs, fish, grains, and
legumes. Proteins contain hydro-
gen, carbon, nitrogen, sulphtu and
sometimes 'phosphorus. Their chief
use is tissue building, repairing- waste
and making muscle. They also sup-
ply heat,
Carbohydrates are found in starches
and sugars, green vegetables, grains
-and fruits, They are composed of
carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. :Carbo-
hydrates are used to supply energy or
We Need Feed.
power to do work, They enter, to a
small extent, ipto the process of build-
ing tissue. They also furnish heat.
Starch, by the promos of digestion, is
converted into a dextrine, and then
made into 'a convert sugar. This
change takes place in the intestines.
Fate,—The source of fats is in beef,
lard, chicken and other compounds of
an animal source, and in olives, corn,
peanut and cottonseed _oil of 'a vege-
table source, Vegetable oils are free
from all disease. Corn oil is superior
to all domestic oils, it is the•by-pro-
duct of Born from which cornstarch Is
made. In composition fats contain
carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Fats in
the body furnish a greater amount of
heat than starches. They areused
also for building tissue, A largo
amount of fat must be used during
cold weather than in hot"weather,for,
the heat radiating over the surface
evaporates more quickly in the cold,
or, in other words, the cold oxidizes
this body fuel,
Mineral Salts.—The source of inor-
ganic salts 1s principally in green
vegetables, grains, milk, meats, eggs
and fish. The salts found in foods
are calcium, iron, chlorine, phos-
phorus, magnesium, sodium, sulphur
and potassium. Salts are used to re-
gulate the body; they are also needed
for the formation of bone and teeth
structure and appear in tissue build-
ing.
Water.—Water is the most neces-
sary of all foods; it forms a part of
all tissues and is the important fac-
tor in the blood stream. It is pre-
sent in large amount in all body fluids.
It carries nourishment to the blood
and regulates the bodily process of
elimination.
Cooking Green Vegetables.
Tho use of salt, bicarbonate of soda,
vinegar or lemon juice while cooking
vegetables is strictly forbidden. The
chemical action of these agents when
combined with the mineral salts con-
tained in the vegetables produce a
compound that is not desirable. The
cellular tissues of. the vegetables hard-
en, and cause a loss of valuable min-
eral salts in the water used for cook-
ing. Steaming is the very best
method of cooking all succulent vege-
tables, but when this is not possible
they may be boiled. '
Thoroughly cleanse the vegetables,
rinsing them in plenty of clear, cool
water. Now plane them in a casserole
dish, cover and bake in the oven:
One hour for green peas and lima
beans.
Forty minutes for asparagus.
Thirty-five minutes for corn cut
from cob. -
Do not add any water. Have the
oven hot.
To steam, use a regular steamer, or,
in the absence of this, use a stand to
fit inside of the saucepan in which the
vegetables are to bo cooked. This
method may be used for asparagus,
corn, potatoes, beets, turnips, etc.
To cook in ordinary saucepan, add
one pint of boiling water to each
quart of peas, lima beans, celery, let-
tuce or cabbage. Put an asbestos mat
under the saucepan and cook.
Remember that using large amounts
of water lessens the nutritive value of
these vegetables.
FRENCH CHILDREN
Everything that can bo done to
cure and care for them is now being
done, constituting one of the most
SUFFER C DELL l important immediate tasks of the
is li u French committees on reconstruction,
The first step was to remove them
well behind the front areas. Those
who were orphans were taken far
away from the sight and sound of
shells, many of them to the south of
France, The mildest cases were there
put under the care of farm mothers.
The more serious cases must, of
course, be kept under close medical
supervision in special institutions.
One French organization has a hos-
pital with 400 child patients all under
twelve years of age. Most of them
are, wounded. Some have lost legs or
arms,' others their sight, others are
suffering from brain fever or a puz-
zling anemia under which they -rapid-
ly waste away.
DEAF FROM SHELL, SHOCK AND
SOMETIMES BLINDED,
Many Are Wounded or are Losing
-.Their Reason After Months in
Zone of Fighting.
The French children found in the
villages of northern France evacuated
by the Germans under the pressure of
the British and French offensives,!
present a picture of the savagery of
modern warfare as characteristic as!
the Somme forest, shattered and
broken by months of shell fire.
Many of these children are orphans,
without 'home or relatives. Many
have been grievously wounded. Most
of them suffer from a peculiar species
of` shell shock, which afflicts them
generally with a sort of tremor' not
unlike St. Vitus dance.
They have had life and death, hor-
'rors human and inhuman, revealed to
them -in guises so terrible that they
will never be quite normal again. All
are underfed and frail from confine-
ment in cellars. Cut off suddenly
from relatives and friends,. perhaps
two years ago, they have continued to
live within a few hundred yards of
the front -lines, listening always to
the thud of shells and the crash of -ex-
plosives, until their idea of heaven is
"a place that is very quiet:"
A Pressing Problem.
The condition of peasant men and
women who have been living under
the shadow of the invader through
these long menthe and years has been
bad enough, but the condition of the
half-starved, wounded and mentally
deranged little children has been far
worse. All the children were collect-
ed and shepherded by the first En-
tente troops into the newly occupied
areas,
GUARDIANS OF THE PEACE.
Federation of English-speaking Races
Would Ensure Peace.
Some pooplo are optimistic enough
to think that, by this present war,
war itself has committed suicide, has
destroyed itself. That is a large hope,
and perhaps does not take sufficient
account of the vagaries and follies of
human nature.
But the best guarantee of 'the
world'speace is undoubtedly a feder-
ation of the English-speaking races
of ttye world. United, they hold the
lcey of the gates, of war and peace.
Whether any alliance is made or not
between all the English-speaking
communities of the globe, and main-
tained through the centuries, the
friendship of true freedom, untram-
melled by dynasties and autocracies,
will be all on the side of peace, and
the time may come when British ideas
of justice and toleration will become
universal.
Two Paris surgeons have discov-
ered the germ that causes gangrene,
and they have prepared a serum to
combat it,
MAKES P REk4TBREAD
RING GEORGE WIN-.
SUBJECTS' HEARTS'
MANY RECRUITS GAINED BY HIS
SOLICITUDE.
War Has Brought 8overolgn Into
Closer Touch With Hle People
'Than Ever'Before, .
Ring Edward and Queen Alexandra,
during the many years they were
Prince and Princess of Wales, had
long lived in the country's'
affection,'
and the present Ring and Queen had
before them a difficult task in filling'
the place vacated to therm by the
death of. King Edward and the tem-'
porary retirement from social life of
the bereaved Queen Mother.
But the war brought them Into`
closer touch with the people than ever
any sovereign had been. Their in.
terest 1n the work and welfare of the'
people, their kindly sympathy with'
the suffering and the bereaved, quick-'
ly won the hearts of their humbleeti
subjects. Their heartfelt solicitude -
won thousands of recruits from amou'i4
the stubbornest shirkers,
Their Majesties' Sympathy
Again some touching stories argil
told of the recent tour of the Ring and •
Queen to the industrial towns of thel
north,
At one large plant the Queen asked
a woman, "Flow long have you been
working here ?"
"Ever ainoe it started, Your,Majes-
ty," she replied.
"And are. any of your family at the
front?"
"Ohl yes, Your Majesty, All my
mein aro fighting, or have died fight-
ing. My husband and three sons are
at the front, two in Egypt and two in
France, and I have lost a nephew,"
No doubt Queen Mary has heard
many such replies to her questions,'
but it was with deep emotion and vith1
an impulsive hand clasp that the!
Queen said, "What a splendid record."
The Ring's geniality is illustrated;
by his brief 'conversation with a'
workman who had lost his leg in'
action. Going straight up to him and
shaking hands, the King asked,•
"What regiment did you fight in ?"
"In the Royal Welsh Fusiliers," was
the
"Olt,"replysaid the Ring, "that was myy.
old regiment"
Learning that the man was wounded
in Gallipoli, the Ring asked had he
not got an artificial limb. "Yes," re-,
plied the man, "but I can't wear
my leg is too tender."
/The Duke of Lancaster.
The' King, on the"occasion of his
last trip to Lancashire, in 1913,
aroused great enthusiasm and no lit-
tle
ittle consternation at a banquet by slag
gesting that during his tours in the:
county he should always be referred
to as the Duke of Lancaster, which is
one of'his right titles, The idea did
not appeal to some of the court of-
ficials, however, and in subsequent
correspondence with the Lord Mayor
of Manchester, the King's Secretary
stated' that while it wus Nis Majesty's
wish that he should not be called the
Duke of Lancaster on formol nes
casions, he nevertheless hoped that in
the County Palatine he should be
toasted in -those terms, and this prac-
tice has been unanimously followed
ever since that time.
The Princess Mary
There are increasing indications
that Princess Mary is to play a larger
part as her mother's "deputy" in the
Royal family's association with chant
able' efforts than has heretofore been
the ease. Recently, while the Queen
has been touring in the North with
the Icing, the Princess represented
her mother at the Duchess of Wel-
lington's variety entertainment at
Apsley lIouse tor rho benefit of the
Mesopotamia sufferers, and after-
wards of war medals,
Her Royal Highness has grow
reached: her twenty-first year, hitt up
to the present she has seldom been
semi in public except in company of
the Queen. Indeed the Princess has
no "household," and is only accom-
panied by one of Her Majesty's maids
of honor,
In pilus of trn.sh or old rags a pro-
cess sets in that, under certain condi-
tions, may produce heating, and some-
times, ,in the' end, fire. Greasy or
oily rags are especially dangerous,
The opening of a railroad that pro-
vides an outlet for the product has led
to the dynamiting of one of Switzer-
land's most famous gllrie•e, an.. til
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