HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-01-02, Page 6Mother is Takieg Her Chartae.
wondea if you he noticed in.
;velar neighborhood these past few
months an increased tendency on the
part of horne-keeping women towards
eelt-expreseion? That is, a greater
number of married women, mothers
and excellent housekeepers who are
beginniag to do some of the things
they have wanted to do all their lives
but have never done because oe the
press of housework? I have seen
quite a little of it in my own little
eiacle, and I have been wondering if
it is "purely local," or if it is nation-
wide.
For instance, there is one woman
of thirty-six who has always wanted
te atudy art. Up uetil this fall her
artistic instinct has exptessed itself
in cutting over her old dresses for
daughter, and euttina down father's
old pants for son. The dresses have
been really rather wonderfal for style,
and all cut without a pattern. The
mother had excellent edeas, but with
no training whatever she did not
know how to express them. This fall
she made a great resolve. Across
tbe road from her home is a school
house where night classes are -held.
Among other subjects taught is
dressmaking deign, and a part of
the course is lessons in drawing. She
decided to take up the work. last
week she showed ine a design for lace
which she had drawn, and which her
teacher said was better than the work
of some of the students in his day
elasses who had studied drawing for
years,
"You never can tell what you're go-
ieg to be called on to do these days,",
ehe says, and "Tom and I thought I
might as well be getting prepared. If
I can do something with dressmaking
Fll be in better shape to take eare of
mytelf. And, anyway, I've elways.
waded to draw. I hoped one of the
ehildeen would take it up, but they
can't draw a. straight line, so I am at
it. after all these years wishing."
Then there is the woman next door.
Before her marriage she studied mu-
eac. But like many another woman
music went into•the discard when the
babies arrived and aishwashing and
a:Tubbing stiffened her fingers. The
girls are now fifteen and seventeen
years old. They have had several
terms of piano lessons, and still have
to be driven to practice. A month
ego the mother said over the back
t ertee:
"I want the girls to begin their mu-
sic, but I dread it. There is al-
ways snail a time to get them to
practice. Seems funny, when I've
always loved it and would give a
good deal even now for their chance."
I thought of my friend who is
hawing. "Why don't you take the
:hence?" I asked, "Let the girls wash
the dishes and mop the floor and you
take the music lessons. They are
old enough to show some talent. if
they have it, and if they don't care
enough about music to practice for
love of it, why drive thern to it? You
apend the money on yourself."
"Do you think I could?" she asked
wistfully. "George wants me to.
We were talking about it just last
night." „
"Of course you could," I said. "You
can play better now than either of the
girls."
A half hour later I heard her at
the piano, and for two hours she
played scales and finger exercises.
At noon she called across, "My fin-
gers aren't near as stiff as I thought
they'd be. I am going down this
afternoon to see about my lessons."
Perhaps the most surprising per -
eon, though, is the quiet neighbor
around the corner who always comes
in if anyone is sick and does more in
ten minutes than the average woman
would &tin an hour. She has had a
large family, six children. The
youngest is now fourteen, and they all
assume that mother is their personal
property and, incidentally, that she
isn't quite so wise as they are and
needs carefel watching. They have
been in the habit all their pert young
lives of telling mother what ihe ought
to do ami deciding things for her.
This fall the made a decision for her-
self. She deadesi to go down and
take the Red Cross nurses' aid course.
The family was aghast. The idea
of mother going down town to do
anything was beyond them. They
told her outright she was too old,
and politely hinted that she wasn't
bright enough. But for once mother
was "sot"
"I've always wanted to be a
nurse," she stuck to it, "and doctors
all say I do better in a 01'0k -room
than lots of trained nurses. You
never ban tell what's going to hap-
pen. Father mayaarop off any mi-
nute with his weak heart, and the
children won't want ene in their
homes. I'm going to get in shape to
be independent 11 the need comes,"
So mother carried the, day, and is
now, and proudly tell everybody how
lessons she brings hoina on her twice -
a -week tripe down to her classee.
The family think it quite tlae thing
now, and produly tell everybody how
the folks in cherge 'of the ,course say
that mother is the best in the doe.
I don't know whether Itis the war
'which has brought thee Women out
or not. But whatever it is, I like it,
Children i.i c out of the way and ino-
Veer still hits a long tinte to Ns:. Why
ac. same of the things ehi1i she
eectetly 'kilted to do for yaarst
▪ ccanchat because of the claims of
(Rhea? She will do tam bettev
than she wild have done yore ado,
for age and experience have taught
her their value.
Would it not be a splendid thing for
us .to think that school days never
are over?—D.II.
Hot or Cold.
ATI aversion for lukewarnmese,
whether in matters of political and
religMus allegiance or in affairs of
diet, is charaeteristic of the race.
Arid the hostess makes . no mistake
when she gerves a 'beverage either
piping, steMnitig hot or very, very
cold; ,but when the tea is brought in
neither hot or cold, but just in. 'be-
tween, she ie sure of pleasing no one.
One of the first rules that the mei-
fessional coo,k is given is to Serve
hot things hot, and cold things cold,
and to serve nothing in between. Otte
wonders why this is. One wonders
Why, aince we have been told that
iced drinks are not entirely beneficial,
and it has even been suggested that
cancerous growths in the digestive
system are sometimes produced of
very hot liquids—one wonders. why
there should be an innate repugnance
on the part of human folk for the
lukewarm drink or viand.
This is as good an explanation as
anyone can suggest: Bacteria breed
in lukewarm temperatures. They
cannot breed as long as the temper-
ature is quite as unfavorable to'their
breeding, and likewise kMe bacteria
already developed. Hence instinct
teaches the savage to dritik water
fa= the pool whose water is cold and
to avoid the pool or spring where the
water is warm. Or rather nature
Makes the one palatable and the oth-
er unpalatable.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
_
Relating to War Activate's.. in Which
Women Have a Part.
In the Women's 'War Museum now
on exhibition in the Whitechapel Art
Gallery, London, there is a -stall de-
voted to the Queen's Wee Work for
Women Fund. Among: the many ex-
hibits is a portrait a Queen Mary
which ie. being given to every woman
In India who had a relative killee in
-the war.
One of the trades calling for the
greatest skill is the making of coin -
Passes. This work had never been un-
dertaken by wonien until dilution of
labor became necessary. Of the in-
finite number of delicate parts de-
manding absolute accuracy, ev,omen
have micceeded in malting all but two
or three and even these will shortly be
to their credit.
The Roll of Honor of British women
who have given up their lives that Bre
tain might endure now numbers 650
and the list is by no means complete.
This roll regards service and not rank
and shows that, to England, this "choir
invisilele" is indeed immortal.
-It is the intention of the British
Governmeut to make the Imperial War
IVIuseum a record as Complete as is
humanly possible of the way In which
England did her part in winning this
war. Every British subJect should in-
form himself thoroughly as to what
this exhibit includes. Where each
works at high. pressure to contrilaute
the port expected from him he is not
prepared to either lmow or appreciate
what other equally devoted patriots
have given as their share towards vic-
tory. This exhibit will do much to dis-
pel that lack and create genuine ap-
preciation of the fact that all work
was equally valuable.
During the war the corporation of
Glasgow employed women in its parks,
on its tramways, in its clevical de-
partments and its bacteriological la-
boratory.
Mrs. Burlefgh. Leach, Chief Control-
ler of Queen Mary's Anxilliary Corps
RAPID PROGRESS
OF ART JE FLYING
a..tRPLANE IS ONLY FIFTEEN
YEARS OLD
First Flight Lasted laietyeNine Sec-
onds, Prescat Record is Twenty-
.- Four ROUT'S.
It IS jilit about 15 years ago' that
the Wright Brothers made their first
successful flight in an airplane, .and
now tieople are talking about flying
-across the Atlantic. Machines ,have
been built in the IAA year capable of
a speed of about three miles a minute;
an aviator has risen 28,900 feet in,the
air, and we have airplanes capable of
lifting 15 tons. The single flight re-
cord is 24 hours, as compared with the
first 59 seconds' flight of Wilbur
Wright. It is doubtful if in the his-
tory of invention there has been anY
such record of progress in an equal
time.
In view of the thousands of 'Wes
that have been lost in airplane clash-
es it is worth noting that Wilbur
Wright liveeto succumb 'years later
to typhoid, never having had an acci-
dent, and that his brother Orville still
survives and bids fair to reach a ripe
old age. He was in one accident, in
which he suffered a broken leg, his
companion, Lieut. Selfridge, losing his
life and becoming the first victim of
an airplane disaster.
A Toy Was the Inspiration. ,
It is said that the interest of , the
Wright Brothers in flying was first
aroused when their father presented
them with a toy called a belieoptre,
a fragile thing that would fly for at
short distanco. The playthingaatur-
ally did not long survive, but its
wonders never faded from the minds
of the boys, though years were to
intervene before they began the seri-
MIS study of the flying problem. •
At school in Dayton, Ohib, they are
Said to have taken little interest in
the literary or artistic branches of
their study', but early showed them -
saves possessed of a strong analytical
faculty and were keen on methematies.
Their school studies were cut short,
however, and they opened a small
bicycle repair shop, which they latex
developed into a modest little factory.
Here, besides making a comfortable
living, they developed their mechanic-
al skill. Which of them thought of
the flying machine first is a moot
point. It appears that the idea was
in the mind of both for years before
either ventured to speak of it serious-
ly to the other for fear of good-
natured ridicule.
However, the notice) at last got it-
self expressed somehow, and they
set to work in their spate time with
the conviction that in the development
of the idea of the gliding plane lay
the secret 51 ultimate success. Their
first model, a sort of improved kite,
gave them reason to believe that they
were on the right track, and after a
teouple of experiments they built a
bigger model on the same principle.
Model followed model, each a little
bigger than its predecessor, and each
of them adding to the enthusiasm of
the young inventors.
How They Obtained Capital.
Then came the time when they had I
spent about all their money, without, I
of course, having received a dollar in1
return. It -became necessary that they
should either give up the fascinating
pursuit or -raise more capital. They
appealed to their father, a retired
bishop of the United Brethren Church,
whose sole property consisted of a
small farm in Iowa, and be, without a
moments hesitation, sold it and gave
his sons the necessary cash.
With the first machine built with
these funds they moved to the sand
dunes of North Carolina, there to
continue in more favorable circum-
stances the Investigations that they
I had begun in Ohio. Their first tenta-
tive flights were made at Kitty
Hawk in 1900, and their machine
was supposed to fly on the kite prin-
ciple and carry a man against wind
(Woe's) began doing "her bit" as one
of the first recruits of that splendid
mother of patriotic British women's
organizations the "Women's Legion."
That was in September, 1915, and
from that day Mrs. Leach has never
rested. When the armistice was sign-
ed Mrs, Leach had under her 40,000
women and girls of whom nearly 7,000
were in France. She was about to ask
for 30,000 more. Althpugh one age
limit was eighteen years, Mrs. Leach
refused to place the ether limit, say
ing she had found that some women
at sixty were infinitely more usefu
than others at forty. In spite of lies
real importance Mrs. Leach is one o
the most unassuming women imagin
able, therefore delightfel. She has
none of the pushing, masculine traits
of the woman who commands badly
Her smile is ready and her laugh in
eectious and genial. Knowing Ger
many thoroughly she paophesied the
war long before it came. Her busband
is Brigadier -General Leach, in cone
mend of the famous South Wales
Borderers.
In November, 1914, the Mayor and
Council of the city of Lyons worked
out a system of re-education for th
French disabled soldiers and the work
was begun the- following month a
L'ecole Soffre. That work spread eve
at that early date all over France an
has been adopted by England wit
variations stilted to the °Waste an
the nationality of British maimed,
servetion§ to give thedi tvlia;t they re
(mired. By thice time they tied aerieaa,
fait that it Was impoesible.to dies°, age them, thorn, and so they pereevered ur
oil Deceraber 1908', they Mode :ed ,
a machine which rose froin the gn md
by means of its own potent mare a
shoat direle and aligliteci safely.
It \ea s nearly tWoyears later be -
/ore their mediate waia capnbie of fly-
ing six miles. This accomplita-d, the
Waiglits, had all the) capital thee re-
amed at their taisposal. They vete
on the highway to fame and foreine,
and never afterward we,ite they. oblige.'
10 leek bads.
By Flew Totaert Barnard ,
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CHAPTER I.
hNo,), that the harvest WaS over the
land looked tired to Ward Townsend.
The impression first surprised; 'there
emused Ern.
"I •shoUldn't wonder, old fermi," he
yawned. "reit was some creel" I jooyed eat of rthe twinclear jaet be -
The impression persisted', delaying` Lard ,aoing ltedt elle land thd look
ahlerese,Iteleepee alter r hhee. was 121 blierel. haiefdt ear intirletv.,:d. /salt ce.8uhledn't ogetoniti out raytt
' ',Hee • • a
Tosao1gold laughed i'llid:indieated his
farm by a motion of his heads- "This -
land has been asking something of
me to -night. That is 'Mir,' I
couldn't sleep. Possibly I'm touch -
ad_ with latffeuetanypelf "ilea
td eat,' setedits degree; r f aney'l 'When
• • r y
tea , a rich imanation but as a rule he was were so areastal 'eat' came out 10
TIIE FUTURE OF not fanciful anti he laughed a a clieeover tho taang wee putting pp
, at himself that his searehing ;leak at to' nte if I' aolila. ' Sotinds craey but
!the moon -flooded acres did -not exor- pd been all over the place., when I
1
eise the foolish mood, inatead, tp the heard Queen hitting it. oft a mile
fl look of wearineee there seemed, now
to' be added it curious expectancy.
-- 1 "What ails you?" he Suddenly. de-
tnanded aloud, • "What do you. want?"
MAY RECLAIM OCEAN'S aiDDEN Aater a lang'minute he leaned out ef
the .open window murmuring a good -
T R E AS It R ES.
nathre,d' threat, "I'm coming to
-- find. mit!" ' •
He dressed swiftly and was pre -
Also Increase Food Supply, and Aid sently wandering over the farm like
a friendly ghost but with this dif-
Navigation and Undersea
ference; he was not trying to della-
Engineering. et a message; he was trying tce re-
ceive one. -
ferenee be swept frain the table into
Will the submarine at the peace con- So still was the night -that tare
hours later theret. enaln: .t-
d.m against
gway, and came tothe gate just to
watch you pass."
The older man sat quite" stilt for
several rainutes before he milted
-slowly:
"What are you going to do about
Townsend's 1'dt-a Was both amused
and elaillenging when he answered:"
"I shall let the land rest this whi-
ter—not a furrow of fall ploweag!
And I alien let 01 play next summer.
Then I'll go on with my farming. I
have tried out the intensive farming
I learned at the Ag, and have proved
it ta be successful for six years bat
darned, if I don't think the spirit of
r —
SURGEON'S SKILL
.NERVES RE-EDUCATED, ,Slalleasa"-'
AND BONE TRANSPLANTED
'Wonderful Aehievenientel of ArinY
Doctors Are Result of Experience
• • • "
in the Battle Zones.
• th
' Modern surgery dates Lona e
introduction of 'anaesthetics, It is
not easy nowadays to realize the
horrars a hospital preetice, when
eery movement•of thesurgeon's knife
severed the patient's soul as well as
his body. Prof. George Wilson, the
second patient on whom the famoue
Same petformed his operation of
antputafion at the ankle -joint (first .
carried out in 1842), hasleft on record
his emations during the ordeal.
"During the onerationr wroteWile
son, "I watched all the eurgeorts did
with a fascinated curioeity. Of the
agony' it qeasioneq ' wilLsay nothing.
Suffering so great as 1 minerwent-een-
not be expressed in words, alid thue,
fortunatelyi minnot ha recalled. The
nes; as an "intolerable thing"—or will
. rh rthenic staccato roundel !Ile
was in the orchard and for roundelay.
nd this farm was trying to remain me
that all work and no play is no bet- particular pangs are now forgotten;
but the black Whirlwind of emotion,
the waste basket of civilization—ban-
he thought he Was not 'alone, that ter for land than it is for a boy." the horror of great darkness, and the
it remein a member "persona grata," of
future status of the submarine? vigil. listening intently, he relax- aelcearAcuton Dudley after another
'our Bible, Ward?" sense of desertion by God an . ,
'd man
the navies of the world? What Is the some other prowler was sharing his "Ever react
"Guess .-I've go 'em to -night, That since
silence, Townsend stared. "Not swept through my mind and over -
bordering close en despair, whielt
righting the 1J -Boat and the cow- ?SIL chuckling to timself. •
welly beast cunningly concealed within.I wore knickers and got my whelmeal my heart, I can never forget„
ts sheee coat of steel has so engrossed is the Desert Queen, stretching. out
li.t the )) ), Senclay-schbol lesson under my mo,thi- bowever gladly I would do so.
1
civilization that the question of the
The Desert Queen was
future status of this instrument of bred Arabian mare, belonging • to
warfare has of necessity been defer- Aaron Dudley, Dunkard poacher,
red. Now, with the time of eeckoning successful farmer, storekeeper,
at hand, a great towering interr'oga- aluininum-ware agent and biome -
thin point emerges from the thhi mists , ble meddler in the affairs. of his
of the sea at the bow of the manor- neighborhood. Nor did the neigh-
: borhood rsesent the meddlIng or the
ine; upon its slipperY decks and evil-
-meddler, for 'his meddling -was like
eyed periscopes is Cast this shadow of
the impending inqiiisition, reflected tihat of Jethro, Moses' father -in -)a,
n the famous case in Exodus, great -
full and free upon the culprit by the
ly to the advantage of the one med-
blowing from 15 to 20 miles an bour.
The first experiment was successful,
although there was no man aboard,
and they concluded that they had only
to increase the wing surface by a
comparatively small area to get the
necosary lifting power. To their
astonishment they found that this in-
erease made an almost imperceptible
difference, and they came to the con -
elusion that they were either on the
wrong track altogether or that the
tables of air presseie in common use
were at fault. It developed that the
latter was the coo, and the Wrights
contimied
For seine lime thereafter they con-
- tented themselves with gliding' down
the hills against the wind, and found
it was 'easy to make flights of several
' hundred yards in this way without
clangor or difficulty. In 1902 they
buil their first motor. It weighed
750 pounds, but here again they re-
, ceived a check.
Obetaeles Encountered.
They had supposed that there were
in existence tables by which they
could calculate from their own knowl-
e edge of air preseure the speed at
which it woula be necessary for the
t propellers to spin in order to drive
n the machine. , They teamed that there
d were no such tables, but only it set of
11 attiquated empirical formulae. Here
d again theytlead to make then own ex -
searchiug sun of a reclaimed civilize- dim with
tion. Already it has been decreed that
er's commanding eye. Don't Yea Time was torture then, and the,
spell our good. friendship by trying
bionate hand on the preacher's knee. long, deliberate °petition's of to -day
to convert me. He laid an affec- were impracticable.
bil time S '
ars ery. ,
'Pia not likely to, Ward." Aaron Horroi's of 0 - a ,
dropped a short, broad, practical- -- If the hospitalt, was a torture -
looking hand over the hand' on his ahendeer theta the battlefield was an
knee and involuntarily picked -it alp
for closer inspection in the pale light. 'inferno. The visitor to the scene of a.
great action (so we are told by one
"You got a nice hand, Ward. Strong,
of thinking hand. No! I've noticed Solferino) ha an 1 usua .
went over the stricken field of
fine, knowing ancl skillful. A itind who
d 'll • i of being on
that if folks are let alone, they gen- the-seashoie; the miserable eries of
the wounded resembled the rhythmic
"Good old stout," Ward Towneenea erally get- around to converting thorn-
y:ayes I just thought n ' tit es; there was a salt tang
Germany must pay, and pay to the ut- . mused, looking down tl road."Who
le ilex 'been- reading -Levitical lava •
You 4 denier of War
neared from the turrets of the Thboats phy but no philoeophers nowadays? a fool evlian that will get the tvhole1 been
in the air from the blood that had
pouredtout. The progress of the
mostefor the diabolical carnage engi- ' says there are professors cf ehilos0-1 "-&liat lia. that to do with me and
and from the chambers of the German Somebotta sick and gent foa hint, I ' country aown on inel" • 1.surgeons, alivays far too few, was
;
Admiralty, where "unrestricted war- suppose. If he sees nee, he will i "Nothing," mused the elder enan' marked by the breaking out here and
fare" was ordered by the archarillians blamed curious and added, .mith a , sudden chuckle,' there of dismal wailing. War has
stop—he will be so
of the woald. The case of she sub-
marine vs. the world is about to be ibri"
to know what 'lin out at one o'clockl "You bet the whale country will be _been purged of half its horror by the
As the hoof beats turned the down on you. Three hundred acres invention of anaesthetics and of move
called. • aWata of the fineat land' In °Titari° lying than half its destructiveness of life
- corner a quarter of a mile
growing nearer in a steady crescendo ' idle with. no excuse that on a night
Science that gave the world the sub- "If he doesn't see me, I'll not spealal looked tired! I have my task all cut by the aseptic technique, which pre-
vents infection, and has put an end to.
Provide An Antidote. of rhythm, Ward added to himself, in the last half a the moon, the land
marine may settle the future of the The old boy probably needs sleep 1 out keeping you out of the asylum. the "hospital diseases" that so puz-
"scorpion of the deep" by providing an . I But maybe you'll feel different, come zled the pre-Listerian practitioners—
worse than I do."
antidote that will Completely neutral -
that insistein expectancy which hov- The hand Aaron Dudley was Still periodical,' destruction of ' hospital
--
He stood still, keenly conscious of 1 morning, Seen Rhoda Brookes yet?". some of them actually proposed the
ize the "sting" of -the hidden monster.
Indeed, it is not altogether unlikely tinetd ireilitid Mend al Ile el r s 1 , g et grew tense but T
'the side lookin acavnt buildings- as a heroic remedy. ,
not t seenden'e Vince betrayed no, emotion. as To -day the eux'geon can carry out
that when the curtain is fielly lifted invading theroadin.froillist olnIfierii. h id: •
and the remarkable exploits of our touehieg the farm across the road. (To be continued.) the most complicated example of
naval scientists revealed it will be It came to him, with a fleeting smile, o.---.-. • "reconstructive surgery" with the -
Sound that the taboat hae been robbea that the land Across the way wee not ' : deliberate carefulnese ole chessplayer
of its terror. Already we know of even dreaming, to say nothing of 1
WOOD AND 3.14E WAR arid be can be sure that the wounds
pestering its peer owner with its
"zigzagging," torpedoes, mines, sound its owner were capable of being pes- ' will heal healthily without matter
depth bombs, nets, smoke screens,
dumb.. wakefidness, even supposing ' many a Lovely English Landscape forming. to destroy his artistic handl-
and various other anti-submarine de- Aaron Dudley reined in -.sharply. Those of us who have taken a hell.
. Has Been Despoiled. worlr. And the present war has so
detectors, underwater guns, magnets tered by mon-haunted land!
vices. In peace time the submarine "What you doing out here at Oils day in the country this year have been vastly increased his opportunities lantll
for wartime. . • without pralimMaries. "Had a ic•eacnonnostwruacetai°onin Pthisart
may be made ineffectual altogether taste of night, Ward ?" .he demanded
... saddened by theaeight of vast tracts 2fe,exopteerieonfepeityli,saitoohle
left aaked to the heavene, says an
manitl in peace times in various ways Fell, I get a mind to atop! Nothing
That the submarine may serve Ms- Eand to let me go by, didn't you? were utterly undrarneel of int peace
of land, once beautifully wooded, now
Is contended' by those in authority. Townsend opened the gate, going f ew of the most obvious uses of wood
likely to challenge the saying of a
Already it develops that the submarine out to stand between the wheels. I int war is sulfide* to explain this
famous military surgeon: "There is
will lead the way in undoing some of "No, nothing is wrong. I'm ;Mit , wholesale tree -felling.
the wrong of the TJ -boat. In the sal- having a seance with insemmia.". something to be said for a great war,
vaging of sunlcen ships and the re- --"Insomm.a, eh?" Aaron reacheld ,
I Wood is needed for shipbuildMg.
Wood is needed for thousands of army practice after all, A century of peace -time
ti could hardly have told us
covery ot lost cargoes the submarine under the seat for a thick, snofte wooto,
pant we know now—and our new
ill play an important part. Even. be- len blanket, which he lia d ci : huts, for pontoone, for duckboards in '
42- n ' ° . 'W ' ' the end enable us to
I the tren'elies, for army es/ ago s f i
time. Nobody wio lmows the mo-
ven made by surgery on every sciefi-
wrong?' 'English writer. Tbe recital of just a tific front in the last four years is
fore the war this was proved feasible. Townsend. "This 54^ is chiliy and
merchaadise atvatts reclamation on blanket had been put over the friend- is packed in wooden cases for our sol-
Food knowledge may in
Millions of dollars' worth of ememble been driving quite a clip." When thelvailvtay sleepers at the Front,
the bottom of the sea. Many vessels IYe spibritekd marc and he had diers, and even if cardboard is used e more lives than the War has cost
Soft, absorbent; sergical eotthn
TI transplantingf flesh nd
Wenders of Modern Surgery.
o s c n,
we heeels ro , acided, 'Can wood has beenalecessary to make 1t,
were .sunk in the North Sea and the actineloo p floe between, th,et '
comparatively shallow. Engineering "You having the 08.200 trouble9" .made of wood tellulose in many cases; ''bone -a -often contributed by others—is
thought now le directed toward the de- smiled Townsend. "Or how do you splints crutches—a thousand and one the neW method which most amazes
velopment of the best diving and lift- account fbr being abroad at such an ,110iipita:1 necessities—ate made of wood the lay mind. In one military hospi-
tal there is a patient whose defects
ing aeparatus for this work. hour 1" Charcoal, used in gunpowder, comes
Eaglish Channel, -where `the water is sleep, lauh?"
Peace Time Pursuits. ' The versatile preacher chuelilecl, a from wood. Wood alcohol is used for have been made good by bone borrow-
c'Ab°adi'nealine-°uding. m' uflitions s Rifle so.cc
s are made ot ed from three comrades. The repair
Navigation underace fields is au- wolfotcrlving tolwsonandek
other peace pursuit mapped out for `Abroad!' Kind of traveled -sounding.
the submarine. Ports bound with ice ' No. I haven't got insammia to -night.
fields during great parts of the .y.ear ' A woman in Dawson Inicatit thotag'h,
may be made` cominunicable, accord- Let it, get aggravating. She even
th got to wondering eth41she hadn't com-
ing to submarine engineers. Nor - mitted e u npardonable sin!" . He
Pole explorations via the submarine laughedtaichly. "Get so worked up
also are halted at, the underwater over it, she had Henderson send eor
craft escaping the long rigorous de- me!'
lays due to Me fielde. As submarines "Henderson!" echoed Townsend,
in wartime have dynanated their way "Not Curt Hend'erson's wife?" At
ahead with torpedoes, so, it is held, the quizzical affirmieg ieed, he ejacu-
wood. Poles for telegraphs and tele-
phones wires it the FT011t afe made
About 200 teet of the choicest tim-
of wood.
ber is used in making an aeroplane.
That means that -I0,000 feet of timber
-must be cut to get enough perfect are aven move wonderful. The last -
not only devastating the fair land of to the Italian surgeons,
named advance, which is mainly due
is nothing
wood foi• one aevoplane. The Hun is
France; he is ruining many an English less than a revolution in amputation.
"Thatfadel little o lady! It is no longer a question of preserv-
landscape. And every time we see a
may they clear their pathwaybare hillside,- once tree covered, we ing a mere stump—every bit of mode
ot it, !atm,,,
"you can't imagine her committing to some purpose.
shall remember, and, I hope, real ember and sinew that can be kept is now
In engineering lines also it is ex- an ; re e ' ee '
is too-" utilized as motive powers for the rnov-
masses.
mpo an sin, can you inter- able parts of wonderfully designed
peded to work revoititionary changes. rupted Aaron Dudley. "Well, she „ • artifieial limbs. As a wounded soldier
"1'n _general subutarine engineering didn't either, even tie she -was so Pasta good plan to put something y,
work," says an expert, "in the con- worried about herself. She hasn't by for a rainy day; a little sunshine .
told me the other day: "Why, I can
middling. sin hif she had hap- ' feel and think (lawn this new leg d
struction of breakwaters, lighthouses, spunk, enough to have committed for inetance," a a.
ge 7118iTiltilgst mine!" -
driving pilee and Gilding abutments, even a
ment of waterways and harborse the Lennield 1 to 0r
ravieb twhoonulgd• tb oupirfoT. I
and in the deepening and improve -
will he utilized. In pros. forloim. Now don't you
submarine
that to folks for a good storyNot
I3eeting for and the recovery and sep- unless you happen to run across John
.
aration 01 gold from river bads and Tracey. He is the only man with a
of shattered -and dehumanized faces'is
another crowd -compelling wonder. But
the making of new joints, the re -plac-
ing and re-education of nerves, ad,
above all, the new idea of a useful
'Oman though less easily explained,
In the secohd quarter of the pre-
sent year 2,441 members of egg dr -
dos Ontario -shipped $151,892
worth of eggs.
seacoast bottoms, submarine devices
have been found to be very efficient
and econothical. A new method Of
wife •and you're the only one with-
out one, I talk to indiscreetly."
"Did\ you get het comforted ?"
laying tunnels under water has been grinned Townsend.
proposed in which adaptations of the "Sure. I even proved it to her!
submarine will play a great part. Thus „And then all the way home I've been
wondering if maybe she hasn't om-
it is evident that the submarine has mitted the only unpardonable sen,
a utility entirely apart from that of a after at. She has worked herself
military weapon!' about to" death, What ails herIsWhat you'd call extreme fatigue,. She
needs to rest a little vahile and then
To aceep the cut edge of a ehatf_ke playa long time. I'm of the °Pill -
from hardening, smear a little. bi.flter 1 at
"I've go_t itl" shoutea Townsend,
over it,and so keep it fvom the air.
rrupting, in his turn.
When boiling fish always tie it up Fati,avdenegloYt r!e
in a thin cloth atid addta, little vine- "You sound some likhe it! But
fish firm and keeps it whiee. , "My farm wants to rest and then
gar to the water. Thie makes .the what'?" stared the preac er.•
It has been 'esttinad that P171'
aron Dudley leanedcloser teth
g .
ark was 547 feet long, 91 feet broad peerinscrutiny. "I never' heard
and 54 -feet high. Its capacity, ac- of yon being a drinking rnan but your
cording to Bisbop Wilkins, was 72,- apple cider, nowt Maybe it's turned
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