The Exeter Times, 1919-7-3, Page 2Keep Your Eye on the Garage Man.
Getting good work done on your
ear is a problem, I have been up
against it at times when I have, been
too busy to do anything on the ma-
chine myself, and I know what it is
When it comes to finding ordinary
trouble I believe I am as good as the
average. But when it comes to some
which of thecar I have no tools
to fit and cannot afford to get them
for what little work I have to do, I
am ready to take the jobto a garage
man who is properly equipped.
I have found ways to get around
high-priced and unreliable garage
workers. There are a good many
efficient men who fix automobiles,
and there are a lot more who work
on your car to put in time and charge
you for it,
A small garage started up in our
town about ten years ago which does
no advertising, and no one would
know it was there except by hear-
say. I found out about it, and had
some work done and liked it. I have
sent others there. I am going there
within a few days for some valve -
grinding. This man says he gets
enough to do without advertising. I
once had a car run tight in the trans-
mission. He worked nearly a day on
it. After two days it tightened up
worse than ever. I got it back in his
shop. He fixed it again, and found
the real trouble. I asked him what
I was to be charged. He said it was
his fault, and no charge, of course.
There are probably such men in
your town. They usually own their
own buildings, and do not bother with'
gasoline sales. That takes time from
a regular garage man. and does not
pay very well.
Besides this there is another op-,
portunity to get first-class work done'
by a good man for less money—the
private chauffeur. He often has time
on his hands, and is an expert in
most cases. Perhaps he has room
for another car, and usually the
owners do not object to his making a!
little on the side so long as it does:
not interfere with their own driving
and care of ears.
Bill's "Hit -and -Miss Engine."
While over at BillMorgan's
the
e
other day something was said by me
about power farming.
''"Talking about farm power," said
Bill, "I've got one of the blanredest
1 engines you ever saw. I call it 'hit-
'
and -miss engine,' and the miss is so
much in the maj
�orltS that I guess
i I'll have to get a new one."
f"How does it act?" I asked.
I"
Well, Well, I can start it up all right,"
i Bill replied, "but after it runs about
ten minutes it will stop and I can't
{ get it started again for about an
hour. It used to be all right and
I only went to the bad recently. I had
I Bud Simpkins, who 'works at George
' Watson's blacksmith shop, to come
down and look it over, and he said it
was spavined or windbroken, I forget
which, and that I would have to buy
j a new engine."
i "When an hour has passed can you
start it again without any trouble?"
I inquired.
' "Goes off like a pet lamb," replied
Bill.
I `Looks as if the gasoline feed -pipe
might be clogged," I suA Bested. "Let's
Ilook at it."
We went out to the shed where the
1 engine was mounted and Bill started
; it on the first turn. True to his word,
it ran about ten minutes and then
stopped. We disconnected the gas -
1 oline feed-pipe'and made an examina-
L tion. Sure enough, it was almost
i completely stopped up near the tank
outlet. We washed it out thorough-
ly and then reconnected it. The whole
operation took about fifteen minutes.
We again started the engine and
it ran on past the regular ten-minute
period and did not show signs of stop-
ping. It was evident, therefore, that
we had hit the trouble. The engine
would simply run till it used all the
gasoline in the carbureter and then
stop because it could not get fuel
enough. The pipe was not entirely
stopped, however, and enough gas-
oline would seep through in an hour
to gain fill the carbureter bowl.
IWING ! INVENTED BY SPIN -31
I` wa.. claimed that the diving bell
was invented by a spider. At least. we
are certain that if it was not actually
invented by him it was used by him
long before our hydraulic engineers
made one for the same purposes.
The diving bell is, as is ne11 known,
a cup shaped body with open end
down which is let into the water. The
air is caught in the bell and keeps the
water from rising beyond a certain
level at any specified depth and of
course allowing any one inside' to
breathe and act as if he were on dry
land. The improvement of the diving
bell known as the caisson is a huge
pipe which has compartments, into
which air is pumped from above. The
,spider's bell is filled more in this man-
ner than in the other.
The name given to these little spi-
ders is very appropriate—the naiads,
of the family of -Arachnida. A naiad
will build a little house of waterproof
silk held fast by strands fixed to
neighboring blades of grass and stones
several feet under the water. He com-
pletes the entire structure before fill-
ing it with air—as if he knew that the
air would tend to make it rise to the
top and thus hinder the attaching of
the anchors.
But the method of getting air into
their houses in perhaps the most pe-
culiar and interesting of all instinc-
tive acts of animals. Their abdomens
are so made that a bubble of air can
be caught underneath them. This the
naiad does, and swims to his house
with it and turns it loose in the airy
structure. The process is repeated
several times until the little house
is full of air. Of course the open end
of this house is down and this has to
act also as the entrance to it. In the
Iittle water house the spider spends
the winter and rears its young. The
house also acts as a lair from which
the spider can jump on unsuspecting
prey.
A;iother peculiar thing about naiads
is that they never. get wet. They have
thousands of small hairs on their
bodies which hold and keep the air
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from being washed off when they en-
' ter a ater and so the air sticks and
1waier cannot approach.
E'ckntists are acquainted with many
other insect engineers but with none
;that approach naiads in intelligence
and skill. The water beetle is prob-
ably the only other one in their class.
It builds a waterproof nest under
water but does not live in it. It mere-
ly lays its eggs in the nest, seals it up
and leaves.
The Mason bee. as its name implies,
is a builder of structures of stone and
mortar. The nest is attached to al-
most any solid structure and actually
does consist of small stones cemented
together with mortar. The house con-
sists of many cells of oval shape, and
into each an egg is laid. The cell is
lined with silken webs by the mother,
which gets out of it by a hole in its
top. Before leaving, however, she
hermetically seals up the cell and
leaves the youngster to its fate.
However, such are the arrange-
ments of nature, as soon as he gets to
feeling his oats and consumes the food
Ieft him by his mother he finds him-
self supplied with tools hard and sharp
enough to cut through the walls to
freedom.
A member of this family found in
England makes its own bricks, select-
ing brown clay for the purpose, which
it mixes with saliva, rolls into small
balls, which soon become hard, and
then cements them together. These
pellets are as large as small peas and
one bee has been known to prepare as
many as one hundred and fifty in a
single day.
Could Probably Go.
"She seems a timid, flowerlike girl."
"Well?"
"Do you think her mother would al-
low her to go to the theatre without
a chaperon?"
"Why, I think so, my boy. She
drove a supply wagon in France dur-
ing the war,"
Two asbestos mats together will
serve as a good flatiron rest.
ENGLISH SURNAMES.
Some Cognomens That Cause a Smite
When. Heard,
"If a party had a voice," to quote an
unkind rhyme. "what mortal would be
Ilugg by choice?" And yet the pioneer
Bugg was. a man of substance, Wo
dwelt in a manor house, from wha
he derived his name. The first Coward
was nUoltroo cow -herd, who
n n, buta v w - rd,
tended his cattle; just as the first Ras-
cal was no knave, but a man who
'probably bore some resemblance to a
lean stag or rascal; and the original
Sneaks hailed from Sevenoaks, whose
corrupted name he bore.
Hobson, a name at which some affect
to scoff, is as venerable as it is re-
spectable, actable for � we
read of a Lowrie
Hobbesune, a Suffock landowner, in
the days of Edward the Confessor;
and the Buggins and Boggs, if they
did not come over with the Conqueror,
at least came over with some of his
race.
Gottobed is no name to smile at,
for it is a variant of Cuthbert, which
means "war -bright," and the first
Gotobed was probablly a warrior of
fame. Miggs is a synonym for
"strength"; and Wildgoose signifies
a "resolute hostage." Devil_.is-merely
De Ville, of honorable French ances-
try, and bears no relationship to Hell-
man, whose ancestor was a Helier, or
roof -maker, and probably a good
Christian.
The Doctor.
He entered; and the sunshine seemed
A golden graciousness he brought;
As if the room, from eyes that beamed
Benevolence, their warmth had
caught.
The air, that all night long had been
A fevered breath, became as cool
As ferns that swing, a fretting screen
Of shade, above a sleeping pool.
And. tender as a child's caress
His fingers touched the burning skin
With sympathetic tenderness;
And cooled the scorching fire within.
I felt that I could sleep; and closed
My eyes in one long sigh of rest;
And calmly, for a moment dozed
Like infants at their mother's breast.
Refreshing sleep, a breath's span long,
I had; and dreamed of sunny rills
That romped in radiance, lilting song
To heathered moors and brackened
hills.
And sometimes came, from voice or
eyes,
An influence that seemed to swathe
The soul with hope; like sunset skies
Whose golden calms are creeds of
faith.
I know that, soon, my song I'd sing,
Of joyous life to sun and sky;
And hear the litanies of Spring
Which gladden as they. glorify.
Morley Isn't Everything.
"looney isn't everything," says the
spendthrift as he scatters his wages
to the four winds. •
Then he reaches middle life, with
old age in the foreground, vainly wish-
ing for the return of the misspent coin.
It may be true that money isn't
everything, but one thing is absolutely
certain, Old Man Money, if he is cul-
tivated through life, will not desert
the friend who has cultivated him.
When every human friend has fled Old
Man Money sticks. You can start him
off with five or ten cents a day in ear-
ly life and keep feeding him that
amount all through life, and in old age
you will have on your hands a rich old
gentleman, albeit a pleasant and high-
ly agreeable one. "
If you find the rigors of the north-
ern winter too severe, you may simply
tap Old Man Money on the shoulder,
and he hies you to Bermuda; if' you
are sick another tap on the shoulder
brings you the best nurses e,nd special-
ists the world affords. He's an agree-
able old man, never disputes orders
and is always ready for duty. He
makes the proverbial busy -bee and the
equally industrious ant look like
pikers, for he never rests. He's one
size when you go to sleep and larger
when you wake up. The older he Vets
the stronger he becomes.: If you are
a stranger in a large city, with no
earthly friend to call upon, Old Man
Money opens the doors of the best
hotels and stakes you to the best the
town affords.
But money isn't everything at that.
Among all the women of European
royalty none has traveled so widely
as Queen Mary' of England, who has
visited every continent, with the ex-
ception of South America, and almost
every country of any importance.
•
ALCOCK AND BROWN
• WAR MR VETERANS'
BOTH HAVE HAD ,TI-IRILLINQ EX-
PERIENCIfS IN BATTLE.
Capt. Alcock Was First to Bomb Con
Stantinople—Lieut, Brown Fought
on Western Front,
The Vickers-Vimy 'trans -atlantic at
tempt was a success because the en-
gines and the structure of the plane
proved 1 ov d as reliable during the flight'
'as the men guiding the big bomber
have shown themselves in the past.
Both men have war records and ren-
dered much valiant service before
finally being brought down as prison-
ers during aerial exploits almost as
hazardous as their marvellous air
journey across the Atlantic.
Capt. John Alcock, leader of the ex-
pedition, is one of the comparatively
few Britons who could fly before the
outbreak of the war, His knowledge
of aviation made him exceedingly
valuable as an instructor, when Bri
tain, unprepared, set out in 1914 to
build 'up an air service to repel the
raids of Zeppelins and big German bi-
planes. Capt. Alcock, who was born
in Manchester in 1892, took out his
first flying license in 1912. His prin-
cipal pre-war exploit was the winning
of second place ' in a great sporting
event, the flight from Loudon to Man-
chester and return, which awoke
many Englishmen to the realization
'that flying was a fact and not a theory:
When war flamed out Capt. Alcock
became an instructor at the army fly-
ing school at Eastchurch. His skill
and daring in the air soon won for him
a more important, if more' dangerous
post, that of chief of the "stunt" flying
section. At that time "stunt" flying
had not been so greatly developed, but
it was realized nevertheless that a
pilot must know how to manoeuvre his
plane skillfully and intricately to con-
fuse his opponent in an aerial battle.
Capt. Alcock's risky -task was to teach
the young cadets these aerial acrobat-,
ics, hazardous in themselves, but pos-
sibly the means of avoiding the ma-
chine gun fire of the enemy.
Designed a Fighting Plane.
Later in the war Capt. Alcock was
transferred to the Turkish front,
where he was the first man to bomb
Constantinople. Light scout planes
-were not furnished the, aviators on
this front, so Capt. Alcock designed
and built a high speed fighting plane.
This is said to be the only plane built
by a flyer on active service with the
British forces during the war. It was
whilel harassing the 'Turks from the
air that Capt. Alcock established a re-
cord for a long distance bombing raid.
He remained in the, air seven hours
and flew.460 miles. On one of his
trips over the Turkish lines in a heavy
bomber Capt. Alcock s engine failed
and he was compelled . glide down.
He was taken prisoner and was held
until after the signing of the armis-
tice. He returned to Erfgland in the
middle of December, 1918.,
His experience with. bombing ma-
chines during the war convinced him
that the two engine type was capable
of covering much greater distances
than they had made on raids during
the war. - He expressed confidence
that the Vickers-Vimy plane would
take hila across and finish the flight in
Ireland with both engines running.
In appearance Capt. Alcock is typic
cally Anglo-Saxon. He is fair-haired,
with a round ruddy face, and is sturdi-
ly built. He is seemingly perpetually
cheerful and gives absolutely no, symp-
toms of temperament that sometimes
haunt fliers as well as prima donnas.
He is never addressed by his friends
except as Jack, for the formality of
John does .not fit his joyful, easy going
disposition.
Observer in Royal Flying Corps.
Lieut. Arthur Whitten Brown, who
fulfills the triple duty of navigator,
wireless man and relief pilot on the
Viekers craft, is almost the physical
opposite of his companion, although
both are quick thinking and quick act-
ing, traits picked up, or at least
strengthened, by their experience in
the war. kieut. Brown, who was born
in Glasgow in 1886, is quiet, slimly
built and sharp of features. His com-
plexion is dark and his eyes gray. He
resembles his chief in that he, too, is
of a cheerful disposition. Indeed, all
the flyers who intend to dare the At-
lantic may be described as constitu-
tionally optimistic, for the spanning of
Vickers Vir 'FISHING IN TIE
Atlantic Airplane, Was Built For GREAT YUON RIVER
anib 'ng Berlin.
*Both the Vickers-Yimy , and the
Handley -Page- machines •° were con-
structed in D land duringthe war
ng
with a single object in view, to rain
bombs upon Berlin with: the frequency
and, terrific destruction that the,Ger-
mans had hoped to reach in their Zep-
pelin raids on the British .capital.
Their outstanding characteristics
as bombing planes, groat cruising
range; heavy wet ht carrying capacit
y,
reliability
and swift speed, made them
almost ideal machines for 'the trans-
atlantic flight, toward which the eyes
of British flying men turned when the
necessity for bombing Berlin was past.
The Vickers-Yimy, although over-
shadowed by the huge Handley -Page,
in turn dwarfs the little. Sopwith in
which Harry Hawker set out 'to blaze
the North Atlantic trail. The Vickers-
Vimy.wing spread is 67 feet, while that
'of the Sopwith was 46 feet 6 inches.
The plane, like the Australian's, is a
land 'machine. Capt. Alcock and
Lieut.' Brown took- the stinee chance
as did Hawker, with the exception
that in their case they had two engines
to rely upon and did drop their land-
ing carriage and wheels as he did. On
the other hand, they carried no col-
lapsible boat,
Capt. Alcock and Lieut. Brown sat
side by side in the rounded nose of
the machine, with an instrument
board containing all the oil; gasolene,
air and engine speed and altitude
gauges in front of them. The cockpit
is just in front of the wings. On either
side of it, mounted between the wings,
are the two Rolls-Royce engines, with
their spinning, invisible, four -bladed
propellers in front of them acting as
tractors.
Gasolene Instead of Bombs.
Equipped as a bomber, with a crew
of three men, a bomb load of 1,146
pounds; 470 gallons of gasolene and
other military material. such 'as a ma-
chine gun, ammunition. etc., the ma-
chine weighed 12,500 pounds and could
fly at 100 miles an hour. The weight
of the armament and bombs is now
used for the great gasolene suppl-y
necessary. Both the gunner's cockpit,
behind the wings, and the bomb rack
have been replaced by great tanks.
Even with one engine out of com-
mission the Vimy-Vickers could "limp"
along at seventy miles an hour. Cap-
tain Alcock. before starting, firmly ex-
pressed the opinion that his plane
could finish the flight even if one en-
gine failed many miles from land. In
any event, he -could stay in the air long
enough to call by wireless for aid and
to hunt for a ship near which to land
if motor trouble hit the plane midway
in the journey.
Great strain was taken off the pilot
in the long journey by the fact that
the machine is exceedingly stable. Its'
inherent stability is such, it is said,
that, being fitted with a compensatizig
mechanism, it cep be flown upward,
downward or on the level without a
hand on the "stick." In other words,
the plane will fly itself, although the
pilot cannot, of course, relax his men-
tal as well as his physical exertions.
The motors are Rolls-Royce pro-
ducts, as are those of all the other
British n. aof
.contestants. Theyare 350
horse -power each and are generally
believed to be the most reliable Bri-
tish airplane motor - at the present.
time., They spin the great four -bladed
propellers at the rateepf 1,080 revolu-
tions per minute. The, diameter o
the four -bladed propelldrs is ten feet
five inches.
The engines are built with a stream-
line casing fitted about them so that
they offer the least possible resist-
ance to the great rush of the plane
through the air. The radiators, just
behind the propellers are. octagonal,
The great bomber had its trial flight
in Newfoundland on June 9. At that
time Capt. Alcock said his plane made
112 miles an. hour, although this, of
course, was not with the full load with
which he headed easirward.
Lost Wireless Apparatus.
The breaking away of the propeller
generating current for the wireless
apparatus soon after the start pre-
vented the men from communicating
with the shore. . When it happened,,
Lieut. Brown noticed that the propel-
ler had carried away with it part of
the stay wires, but hedid not tell
Captain Alcock until after they had
landed at Clifden. When Alcock
learned of the accident, he said: "We
would have turned back had known.':
Weather conditions were very bad
during the trip and Lieut. Brown had
to climb from his seat to clear the
ice away from the petrol gauge.
The two aviators said they were
only once in real danger, when the
machine went into a flat spin owing
to the pilot being unable to know how
the machine was moving. Lieut.
Brown, noticing that the compass
needle was swinging from side to side
was the first indication that some-
thing,was wrong, managed to get Cap-
tain Alcock to understand the difficul-
ty. The machine traveled at a rate
of 140 miles an hour at times, and the
pilot once found himself diving
straight toward the surface of the
ocean. He was so near the water that
he had to "snatch" the machine from
its' dive so quickly that it almost loop-
ed the loop. He says the machine
would have crumbled up had it touch-
ed the water at the speed it was then
traveling.
First Atlantic Postman.
CHIEF SUPPLIER' OF FOOD IN THE
ALASKAN REGIONS,
Traps For Ice Fishing Set in Holes
Dug by the Patient Indian in
Blocks Five Feet Thick.
f The Yukon River is the one big, out- t
standing supplier of food in Alaska.
Without it the Indians inhabiting the
alt.
v e s alongthe e lower stretches of
I
+ es
the river would either have to move to
the coast, go further inland toward
the headquarters of the river or die of
starvation.
Fishing goes on the year around, in
the Yukon. The summer catch of sal-
mon is far the most valuable, but the
winter ice fishing is' most picturesque
and gives, the Indians variety from
what would otherwise be a steady diet
of dried salmon. Eels, ling, whitefish,
pickerel and other species are caught.
The methods of ice fishing vary in
different localities, but the more im-
portant methods described my travel-
lers are practised between Anvik and
Tanana,
' While the ice is still thin holes are
cut through it at the mouths of the
tributaries of the Yukon and nets aro
set for the great whitefish which
weighs from fifteen to twenty-five
pounds.
Toward the end of Noovember the
annual migration of eels up stream
takes place. Fishing for them is one
of the picturesque and often exciting
features of autumn life along the
great river.
As, the eels are able to move but
slowly upstream against the swift
current, news of their approach is
passed from village to village and
the Indians are ready and waiting for
them when they approach.
How Eels Are Caught. I
The eels swim just under the ice
A. large hole is cut through the ice
and as the eels swim across the holes
the fishermen jerk them out of the
water. But little fishing gear is neces
sary. The Indian makes a sort of
rude hook, consisting of a slender stick
about six feet long, at one end of
which is tied at right angles another
short stick about five inches long,
making -a sort of capital "L."
The fisherman passes the arm of
the "L" under the long eel, jerks up
quickly with the handle and the eel
is landed, flopping and wriggling upon
the ice, where it soon freezes. The
day's catch' is thrown into sleds and
taken to the village. The run lasts
only one or two days, but in that time
an expert fisherman often catches one
thousand pounds of eels. The flesh is
good for the table, but the eel is more
valuable for its oil, which is used for
food and for llighting purposes.
The fish traps for ice fishing are nQt
set until the winter is more advanced,
but when the ice is frozen thick the
traps are set in favorable places along
the Yukon and in the smaller streams
which empty into it. These traps are
something like a. wire rat trap in con-
struction, only much larger. They aro
from five to ten feet long and three or
four feet high and cylindrical in shape.
The fish enters the trap, much like
a rat, through 'a funnel like mouth, a
yard or two square• which runs down
to a point in the trap,. leaving just
enough space for the fish to, get
through, Once in the trap there is no
likelihood of the piscatorial prisoner
ever escaping, .
Traps Catch 50 Pounds a Week.
Zhe trap is -,set with the current and
s made fast by tying it to stakes
driven into the Ice, It is taken up
every week or two, emptied and again
owered into the stream. The waters
of the Yukon are very muddy and the
fish cannot see the traps, The catch
Varies from twenty to two hundred
pounds a week. ' Fifty pounds a week
to a trap is a good, average yield.
Traps are often set under ice that
s from. four .to five feet thick. The
work of picking out the hole is done
y means of a rude instrument like a
arrow chisel; • fastened to the end of
stout pole, With this! the Indian,
with the temperature thirty degrees
r more below zero, patiently digs
through the ice.
Besides whitefish and pickerel, the
ing is one of the more important fish
aught: ` It is .p. large, smooth skinned
sh., similar in appearance to the cod,
nd, like the cod; has an enormous
iver which is rich in oil.
Capt. Alcock exhibited a bunch of
rain -soaked letters which he had been
asked to mail if the flight was success-
ful, saying: "I am the first trans -at-
lantic postman. and I think that with-
in twelve months we'll have an aerial
trans-A'tlanic service."
In landing in an Irish bog the py-
lons of the centre section, as well as
the main spar of the lower planee,
were broken, but the steel construc-
tion of the fuselage saved the machine
from further damage. The two engines
ran smoothly throughout the flight,
and when the airplane landed there
were still 290 gallons of petrol left in
the tank, sufficient for a further flight
of ten hours. •
the ocean by airplane , is at present
distinctly a job for anrbptimist.
Lieut. Brown's interest in aviation,
it is said, was first from an engineer-
ing standpoint, when he 'was connect-
ed with the British Westinghouse com-
pany, which is now associated with
Vickers, Ltd. This' is the great Bri-
tish manufacturing concern, the avia-
tion department of which built the
big bomber in whirih they fly, and
which entered the machine in the Lon-
don Daily Mail contest. When the
war began Lieut. Brown joined the
university and public school training
corps. After "some training he be-
came 'attached to a Manchester regi-
ment and went into France with this
outfit in 1915. Later.he was transfer-
red to the Royal Flying Corps, where
he served as an l5bserver.
Lieut. Brown very early had an op-
portunity to show his nerve in the air.
While making observations over the
German lines the plane in which he
was flying was struck by a -shell while
at a height of 8,000 feet, more than a
mile. The explosion set the plane on
fire without bringing it down. While
the pilot shot the plane toward the
British lines Lieut. Brown fought the
flames' in midair, battling to prevent
them from reaching ammunition or
gasolene or from burning the inflam-
mable wings. The plane reached the
British lines and descended safely, al-
though most of Lieut. Brown's clothes
were burned offand he himself suf-
fered considerably. Inanother obser-
vation cruise Lieut. Brown's plane
brought down an Albatross, despite
the fact that it was not officially a
fighting plane.
Accident Led to Imprisonment.
In November, 1915, Lieut. Brown
get out in a squadron on a long dis-
tance reconnaissance far behind the
German liner. The carburetor of the
plane went wrong in the air and the
plane was' compelled to glide to the
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ground. Brown was too busy destroy-
ing important military papers to brace
himself when the plane landed on
rough ground, and the crash landing
jammed hint so tightly into a corner
of the cockpit that he had to be cut
out. His thigh and one leg were
broken and he was badly cut.
After treatnient in German hospitals
he was transferred to a German prison
camp and eventually was sent to Swit-
zerland. In 1917 he reached England.
For the remainder of the war he was
occupied in technical work for the
Air Ministry,
A field marshal never retires, but
remains on the active list and draws
full pay till the day of his death.
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"Pill Boxes" as Cafes.
A Belgian Farmer who has returned -
to his shell -shattered fields near Poel-
oapelle has solved his own particular
housing problem by converting an un-
damaged "pial-bx" into a temporary
home for himself and family.
"Pill -box" was always an t zifortun-
ate and misleading term for these con-
crete forts, Nearly all were rectangu-
lar and 'contained four or more large
rooms Very little work Would be
necessary to turn them Into comfort-
able and everlasting homes Some
near Boesinghe are already `being fit-
ted up as cafes, in anticipation of the
tourist parties which will throng the
battlefields as soon as passport and
travel restrictions are relaxed,
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Pie chimneys— to be had in most'
china shops for a fe'YV cents—will
often save milk from boiling over.
The chinnzey should be placed in the
centre of the saucepan of ;milk.
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