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STORY OF WAR'S IR
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If the war has not inspired any
French artist as yet, it has already.
moved rnac4y pens. The following
Short story is by Rene Bazin of the
French Academy, and was printed
in the Echo de Paris:
Here is what I have seen in the
Vendee I love, Wlien autumn
comes the land of hills extends fine
burning sheaves toward the sky
where hazy clouds pass, driven on
by the wind from the sea. There
.are thickets on the hilitepei remains
of high -treed forests, orchards be-
longing to farmhouses or simply
trees planted along the banks,
among which are found the Moun—
tain ash, wild pear trees and a kind
of oak whose leaves die in splendor.
I know not what crazy owner,
long since departed, planted two
lines of crab-apples on the brow of
the hill whereon the farmhouse of
Le, Renandiere is built, looking to-
ward the setting sun. It takes
many years before such trees give
any fruit, and, as the avenue was
over two hundred yards long, it
was work for the metayer (farmer
who works on the basis of sharing
profits with the landlord, instead of
paying rent) to gather in the crop
in October, all the more as that he
had but little help, being married
to a wife who was not strong.
The farmer's wife at La Renan-
diere was one of those peasants
whose faces arouse pity; pale, not
pretty, with features long, drawn
downward and 'framed in the Von -
dean headdress which compresses
the temples. What was best about
her was her beautiful teeth, a rare
thing in that country. Before she
was married, when she laughed
more often, there was a brightness
in the. corner of her brown eyes
which made men say : "She's• not
altogether unpleasing ;. it's a pity
she's so frail." After being six,
years married she became a mother,
and her child was two years old
when the war began. Almost at
once her husband had to leave La
Renandiere and join his regiment.
No one could speak of having seen
Aimee Cottereau weep. Frail of
body she was, it is' true, but brave
withal, able to bear emotion"s.ient-
ly, and trained for centuries to
meet emergencies boldly. She ac-
companied her husband to the sta-
tion, and on her return entered the
village church, where were some
thirty women, come like,bet to con-
xsvocrcuta their •sa•crifice •arid pray for
courage. When she had .finished,
and she was not long, she entered
her house, took her little girl in her
arms and murmured:
"You are all I have now !"
I saw her the next day but one in
a field of wheat, so ripe that the
ears were letting the grain escape.
I caught sight of her, the soldier's
wife, cutting•the harvest. She was
working .so hard that it was only
when I spoke that she stood up, her
hair clinging to• her cheeks, satis
fled with the. realization of her
strength. "I promised him that our
share of ,the harvest should not he
lost, you see. At the end of Sep-
tember I will drive the plough if he
is not back. But he will be back."
She said this with the assurance
that seeks to . be assured. "You
have news?" I asked. "Yes, in-
deed, and it is good. He has passed
through Paris and is going to Bel-
gium. Is that far 2" "Yes, rather.
And the little one f" "She is sleep-
ing in her cradle down there."
In spite of the deference which
she had always shown me, I felt
that the farmer's wife pitied me be-
cause I could suppose that a mo-
ther would leave her child in the
house without anyone to look after
her. With a back -turned .thumb
she pointed to where at the side of
the field a little thing, white and
blue, was seated in the ;shade of an
apple tree.
The days passed, our armies
moved down, stopped and began to
move upward again. Aimee Cot-
tereau continued to work, and at 2
o'olookto watch for the postman at
the end of the ,erab-.apple avenue.
He eaine on his bicycle, leaning.
over the handles, but not moving
quickly all the same. "Nothing for
me 4" "Nothing. It will be for to-
morrow." Until tlhe end of Sep-
tember she never failed to come to
the same spot, ask the same ques-
tion and receive the same . answer.
The women of the little town would
say to her, "Write to bis captain !
Write to the Red Cross at Geneva!
They may know something. She
wrote, and then decided. to keep si-
lent and wait, busy with her little'
one, her house and the farm. Up
to a quarter to two each day she
felt joy quite near,; ready to enter
into her soul and show its face, and
yet it never carie. Her. friends
among the women soughtto avoid
"Meeting her, for i.hey' feared they
woad betray thea eelves. The re-
port was whrsper"M around that
Jean Cottereau: tits dead. A ser-
eant had seen 'tile 'farmer of Le
The„Scrap of Paper” German Chancellor.
"I did not want this war." "We Germans do not eherish hate." "a
have labored- steadily. to develop a good understanding with England."
These are some of the striking statements made by the Imperial Ger-
rnan Chancellor, Von Bethmann-Hollweg, in a long interview on the
war, its causes, and its probable results. The ravages of war have
not spared even th.e "Re:ictrkanzler," In his uniform of Lieutenant-
General, with grizzled, close -cropped beard, he seemed much older
than the scholarly, • frock -coated statesman of Reichstag debates. Only
recently his oldest son had been wounded on one of the battlefields of
Poland. As a reward for his efforts the Kaiser ha,s presented him
with an Iron Cross which is suspended from the ribbon in the ,third
buttonhole of his coat: The chancellor is firm and.obdur:ate, and,un
spite of many reverses is firmly confident of ultimate victory for Ger-
many.
Renandiere fall in a fight near Na-
mur, his arms crossed, losing his
rifle.
During the latter days of Sap-'
tember on the sloping lands the oiie-
cy ed farmhand held the plow while
the farmer's wife touched up the
four oxen with the goad. She did
not sing, it is true, asp a real ox
driver should, ,but she kept to the
right of the team and said the words
that should be said in a quiet tone,
which, however, penetrated the
hedgerows and moved the soul of
those an the hills. "Rougeaud
Caillard! Nobiet 1" She called her
oxen by their names and, • looking
at the opened furrows, smoking
with mist and dust, she thought:
"It is no work for a woman that I
am doing, but he will be tired, poor
Jean, when he returns, and I shall
be able to say : `Rest yourself !' "
Sheinterrupted herself quickly, for
the spring of hope had weakened
under her load of tail. Aimee Cot-
tereau persevered for more than a
week, and then the metayer from
Malabri, her old neighbor, came
one morning to take her place. Five
days later the plowing was finished,
and the metayer from Lachere came
to see her. "I)o not trouble your-
self," he earl, "I will harrow your
fallow land; your farmhand can roll
the plowed land, and I, as is only
fitting, will do the sowing." No'
one. spoke to her about her hus-
band, and yet she never, doubted
but their hearts were also heavy be-
cause of the long silence, I saw
them at work about the middle of
October.
The master of Lachere was throw-
ing out the seed; the farmhand led
the mare battling the granite roller,
While they worked Aimee Cotter -
eau could not remain in the house,
and, taking a mallet, she broke the
elods of earth missed by the harrow
in front of the sower. I went for-
ward into the field, but, quicker
than I, a boy ran toward the farm-
er's wife, who did not see biro, .a
boy of fifteen: He stopped three
paces from the fariner's wife and
raised his hat. "If you like," he
said, "I am strong; 1 willharvest
your crab-apples on the avenue,'
With, my sisters to help me I can
easily bring tlleni to your house."
She made no reply. The two men
hard stopped working. She looked
at the boy, the farmhand and the
old metayer. Herface became
whiter than the kerchief round her
neck. She seemed to have come out
of a dream and not to have strength
to say what she had seen. There
was silence for a time. At last she
said:
"They all want 't.o help me ; my
husband must 'be dead,"
No one answered her. She let
fall her mallet, took up her little
one, who was 'still sitting on the
grass by the edge of the field, and
clasped her tightly in her arms.
Then, with unseeing eyes, she went
slowly and with bowed back toward
the erab apple trees. She had be-
come a widow. She had ceased to
believe in life. Through the charity
of 'her friends she had become ac-
quainted with grief.
a�.
RANGE FINDING.
Two Instruments are Used to Find
the Distance.
In action, the quick -firing field guns
of the opposing European armies are
generally concealed from the enemy;
the gunners often, never see the .target
at all, and the guns are laid by clino'
meter elevation. The gunner determ-
ines how far to elevate his gun in or-
der to reach the target by means of a
spirit level on the sight, which can be
set at any desired 'angle; the grinner
has ` merely to lift the muzzle: of his
gun until the bubble of the spirit level
is in the centre, The battery com-
mander, who, posted at the observing
station perhaps half a mile away, is
the only man on the battery who can
see the target, either telephones or
signals the correct elevation to the
gunners. To obtain the distance, or
range, he uses two instruments. One
is the, director. That is a telescope
mounted on a circular graduated baser
plate, a simple form of theodolite with.
which he measures the angle between
the guns and the taiget. The other
is the range finder, with which he gets
the distance, or range, of the guns and
of the target. That is a telescope with
two' object glasses about thirty inches
apart; it gives two half images in the
eyepiece, which can be made to coin
tide -by turning a drum. When the
two images coincide, the graduation
opposite • the pointer on the drum.
shows the range 'in yards, The hate
tery commander now has two sides of
the triangle formed by the target, the
observing stetter', and the nearest gun,
and the angle between them Prom
then lie is able to fix the gauge from
the guns to the target, and the angle
at which the gtnis should be laid,
Better one boilil on the stove than
two on the neck,
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With Fhdh.
.10 'i'haw i'ozen 1+'ieh.---There are
two ways to thaw fish. If they are
thawed at room temperature there
fs no chance of their losing their
fliivur, unless they are allowed to
stand after they have thawed ou•t,.
lylien they will ''break down” some—
what and ,spoil more' quickly than
as fresh caught fish; which spoils
quickly enough, as everybody.
lfllows. A quicker way is to put
than in raid water, and as this is
the method used by dealers when
oustumers demand fresh caught fish,
although there rs none in the mar-
ket, or those to be had are at pro-
hibitively high prices.
BOW (I Trout Steak. --put two
strips 'of bacon under the. steak and
two over it, and then some fresh to-
matoes on top, and bake. It is ne-
eessary to understand that there is
Much gaud in . a fish, like the trout,
that is large enough fur steaks, al-
thuugh we like that species best in
the smaller sizes,
To Broil Any Fish Stealth—Do not
have your dealer cut the 'steaks too
thin A steak an inch thick can be
broiled in from twelve to fourteen
minutes, about six, minutes to a
side, and a fillet frehn the side of a
thick fish will cook `"in about the
same time. A fillet is a thick, fiat
slice of fish without, the bone, just
as a fillet of beef is strip or slice
of muscle or 'lean meat without,
bone. For a single large steak use
half a, teaspoonful of -salt, a pinch
of pepper, a tablespoon of vinegar
and three of oil, Mix these togethei
and add some slices of onion and
other seasoning if you choose, turn
the fish over and over in this sea-
soning, and let it lie for an hour
if there is time, turning •several
times. This is an excellent way to
season fish, even if you cannot let
it lie an hour. 'You will not taste
any of these things, but will know
that your fish has an excellent taste,
as it will not have unless well sea-
soned. Small fish need but little
seasoning; those of a coarser grain
need a good deal to make them fine.
Serve with Hollandaise sauce or
plain melted butter and slices or
quarters o£ lemon.
Dolled Fish Steaks.—Fish steaks
may be boiled on top of the stove
v!r in a chafing dish, ,A halibut steak
of a pound weight can be boiled'and
used with a sauce, or be boiled and
flaked and used as a salad or for
timbales. Cover the steak with•
boiling water and add a 'hit of bay
leaf, some green pepper, or carrot
and onion, and salt and pepper, and
cook gently until done. It •may
take twenty minutes. Save the
liquid in which ib is boiled for sauce
or soup.
If you want to make timbales
flake the fish, add to it about an
equal measure of cracker crumbs
and what seasoning' you .choose,
bind with white of e.gg, • allowing
one egg for each timbale cup two-
thirds full of the mixture, fill the
buttered timbale cups, set them in
hot water, and cook until the egg
is well set, turn otlt of timbale mold
and serve with a cheese sauce: You
may decorate the bottom of the
mold with strips of green pepper be-
fore you put in the fish, or you. Ynay
drop in an egg which is poached' in
the cooking of the whole. •
Cheese Sauce.—This sauce has
many names, but is simply a white
sauce made by cooking together a
large tablespoon of better with one
of flour, and then adding to it, stir-
ring all the time, a eup of hot milk.
When this is well blended, conked,
and seasoned, add from half a cup
to A, cup of grated cheese. Too
strong a cheese taste with fish is
not liked by some people If the
sauce should happen to be lumpy,
by any accident. put it through a
strainer before adding the cheese.
Butter Sauce.—The old fashioned
butter sauce for boiled fish is still
in favor, although there is some
question about its being.. whole-
some ; the white sauce is also ques-
tionable. This is made exactly like
thewhite sauce, except that boi'l-
ing water is used instead of milk,
or 'better yet, the boiling liquid in
which the fish was boiled. Finally
eu•b up one or two hard boiled eggs
into the sauce.
and rub it over the glass, after sip-
in.g down the framework with an
oiled cloth: Then proceed to the
next window and treat it similarly
on both, sides. After that go back
to the first one and wipe it dry
a large, clean cloth. No real polish-
ing is required and the window a:t^
glass will look clear • and shiny,
' Kerosene will clean your hands'
better than • anything else after
blacking a range or stove. Pour a
little in the water,, wash your hands
in it, then wash them in tepid wa-
ter, and finally with plenty at soap
and a stiff brash in hot water. Fin-
ish up by rubbing the hands with
lemon and rosewater and glycerine.
When your kitchen sink is rusty
rub it over with kerosene.
Squeaks in shoes are prevented
by dipping the soles in kerosene.
The white spots appearing in the
spring on the lining of your re-
frigerator will disappear if you rub
the zinc with kerosene. Leave the
refrigerator ojen se•eraI hours,
then wash with water, soap and am-
monia. The refrigerator will then
be elean and sweet and all spots
will have disappeared.
To elean painted walls wipe them.
first with a cloth wet in kerosene
and let stand fifteen minutes Then
wash the walls with good, warm
soapsuds, but do not rub soap on
the cloth or the paint will be
streaked. Rub spots of tar or pine
pitch on clothing in kerosene before
washing them.
Uses for 1+;eroselie Oil.
Here are nine uses to be made of
kerosene oil. Wash out your dust-
less mops in kerosene and soak
your dusters in kerosene. Let the
kerosene dry on your dusters and
you will have dustless dusters!
A spoonful of kerosene added to
a, kettle of very hot water will make
windows, looking ,glasses, and pie-
ture Masses bright and clear. Use
a small, clean cloth, wring it dry,
Ail
111 .. AOTIVITIEa 'Di? W01610 ic.,
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Russia has over 3,000 woman phy-
SieiaYiti,
About 35 ver cent" of the electo)r•
ate iri Sweden at present are ege
men.
()ver 50,000 working, girls in New
York eity attend night schools,
Over 50 per .cent. of the f 'males
in the United States are • unauer-
ried•.
Wom w school teachers in Den-
mark receive from $304 to $520 a
year salary,
If Michigan establishes a wo-
man's refbrmatory it will ,be con-
trolled and operated by women.
Mrs. Leonora Z. Meder receives
5,0100 a year as superintendent of
public welfare in Chicago. •
Mrs. Betsey Story of Carmi, 111,,
has never worn a corset in her life
and she is now 102 years of age.
'Mme. Sembrich, the opera singer,
is at the Bead of the Polish relief,
committee in the United States,
Three German soldiers taken as
prisoners by Russia proved to be
women wearing the regulation uni-
form.
Great Britain is refusing the
proffered help of English woman
doctors while Russia is gladly ac-
cepting, such assistance.
Women .are now employed : as
cashiers in the Waldorf hotel' in
New Ybrk city, because it is claim-
ed that they are .sharper about their
work than men.
Mile. Renaudiere has been award-
ed the Order of the Leopold by
King Albert of Belgium, as a re-
ward for her bravery under fire
while serving with the Red Cross
ambulance.
Among the laws of France which
have been suspended because of the
war is the one that requires that
the banns must be posted in the city
hall two weeks before the weddings
take place.
Emperor William of Germany has.
broken his ironclad rule against
feminine advice since he now allows
his only daughter, Pelmets Victoria
Louise, to express her opinions con-
cerning the military operations be-
ing carried on in that country.
Miss Jean T. Moehle, an automo-
bile saleswoman, recently showed
that she could handle machinery as
well as sell oars. In a leather apron
and blue jean she stood on a plat-
form in aNew York salesroom and
dismantled and assembled a motor
taken from a oar she had driven
over 10,000 miles.
DO A KINDLY DEED.
Blest be the tongue that speaks no i11
Whose words are always true, •
That keeps the law of kindness still,
Whatever others do.
Household) hints.
Tli0 home milliner generally
makes the mistake of using too
many stitches in sewing on flowers
or feathers. "Few but strong," is
the rule.
Brass polished with oil and rot-
ten -stone will have a deep rich
yellow tone. The whiter, more
brilliant tone is caused by acid
polishes.
If you have to pack bottles in a
trunk, tie in the corks, and wrap
them in soft towels, garments, etc.,
and place in the middle of the
trunk. •
If the stepladder ,slips, paste a
piece of old rubber over each sup-
port; this will not only prevent a
fall, but it will protect the floors,
If you have casters pub on your
woodbox, it will be much more
convenient to sweep around and
under it, or to move it from place
to place.
When cooking mushrooms ib is
safe to put a •silver .spoon in the
pan. If the spoon turns dark you
can be sure thorn. is a toadstool in
the span. •
Excellent school sandwiches are
made of large ripe olives stoned and
chopped fine and spread on bread
and butter sandwiches with may-
onnaise.
Apples pared, cored and set into
a dish with sugar and water to
hake until tender, but not broken,
are delicious served with custard
poured over them.
SOUND SLEEP
After Chance to Postunr.
"I have been a coffee drinker,
more or less, ever since I can re-
member, until a few months ago I
became more and more nervous and
irritable, and finally I could not
sleep • at night for I was horribly
disturbed by dreams of all sorts
and a species of distressing night-
mare." (The effects on the system
of tea and .coffee drinking are very
similar, because they each contain
the drug, caffeine.)
"Finally, after hearing the ex-
perience of numbers of friends who
had quit coffee and were drinking
Posture, and learning of the great
benefits they had derived, I con-
cluded coffee must be the cause of limitation of income owing to the
my trouble, so I got some Postuin war. The working classes, on the
•,
and had it Made strictly .ac:cultla.rg other hand, generally are all well
employed, except in certain trades.
The editorials urge economy in
the. use of foodstuffs with which the
Blest be the hands that toil to aid,
The great worlds ceaseless need—
The hands that never .are afraid
To do a kindly deed.
ECONOMY IN FOODSTUFFS.
Comfort in England Depends Large-
ly in Prevention of Waste.
The London newspapers are de-
voting prominent space to the con-
sideration of the steady increase in
the cost of foods and other neces-
saries, which in many cases are
from 20 to 50 per cent_ dearer than
before the war. Coal has risen 10
per cent. higher. Flour, which sold
in July at 25 shillings ($6), is now
45 shillings; and fish has trebled in
price.
The middle elasses particularly
are feeling the pinch because of the
to direetione.
"I was astonished at the flavour
and taste, It entirely took the
place et coffee, and lo my very great.' English households are proverbially
satisfaction, I began to sleep peace- prodigal and wasteful. The Daily
fully and sweetly, My nerves inn- Telegraph says:
proved, and 1 wish I could wean TIie war •strould teach. us that
every man, woman. child - e.rynlfort depends lea^geIy on tlu:epre-
velation.otf waste, We shall do well
to reform the, internal economy of
our homes wherever it, is ipossible.
This war will increase the -cost of
living throughout the world, in
neutral as well,as belligerent conn -
tries."
The Chronicle has thii t{:i say :
``Despite the increase, bread and
many other articles• aro cheaper iar
England than in any other conr:try
in the world. Therefore, 'we can-
not expect ;amelioration of the in.
crease, due largely to the -high
stripping rates, which have spiarl-
dupled in five months."
the unwholesome drug-drink—cof-
fee.
"People do not really appreciate
or realize what a Powerful drug it
is and what terrible effect it lues
on the human system. If they did,
hardly a pound of coffee would be
sold. I would' never think of going
back to toffee; again. I would al-
most 05 soon' think of putting my
hand in a fire after I had once
been burned. Yoaura for health."
Postunr comes in two forms:
Regular Postt= ---- must be well
boiled. 15c and 25e p•aeltaaes,
Instant Postern --ifs a soluble pow-
der, A teaspoonful dissolves quick-
ly iii a tuip of hot water and, with
cream •aencl sugar, makes a delicious
beverage instantly. 30e and 50e.
tins,
The cost per •cup of boi•h kinds is
about the same
"There's a Reason" toe Poston,.
---sold. by Grocers.
44.
Strength to Stains
Grateful' Patient --"13y the way, I
should be glad if ynu would send in
your hill soon,"
Eminent Physician- -"Never naiad.
about that, my dear madam: you
moat .get quite strong first."