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. eehedule of work and set Henrietta at
Slim, fair and in inimaculate uni. .her study and drill for the new posi-
fort; Henrietta .08good stood by the tion. Henrietta worked as she had
deskof the stianintendent of nursesnever worked before—studied, prac-
e 'Yeti wanted Me, Miss Bendel]?" she tieed, watched the nurse in charge,
Said. ... tried to make sure of everything, tried
.rteadent ilaished sorting to be exact, tried to learn all that
.ife • suneain
..a haridful of •record eards. eyes, Miss there Was to be dene. She knew that
She had never tried so hard. Miss
Osgood, I wished to tell you that you
are to assist in the operating room Randall and Miss Sinclair, the head '
twoeeks from to -day." nurse, put her through an interaiin-
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"0 Mss Randall!" There was blank able drill,
• • dismay on the pup:I's faee. Yet all the time Henrietta felt that
"What is- the trouble?" her efforts were futile. What was the,
"I jest don't
of knowing a routine .thoroughly
le -now how I shall ever use
llo • it; it seerrie to me that I can't." . when, by one curt word of criticism,
the surgeon could make her forget it
•• The nurse's eyes filled and her lips
were unsteady, all? What was the use of her think -
"I don't , Mus O
ing that, merely by hard work, she
anderstand yous s -d
good. Sit down and tell ire about it, eould eyer conquer her terror of the
operating room? Success meant hay-.
You certainly knew thiwork was i
s n,
store for you; _it's part a your train-. ing exactly right all that bewildering
ing." !mass of detail; it meant hurrying, yet,
"Yes, Miss Randall," answered the never making a mistake; it meant
girl, -seating herself wath an air of pleas.ng every one cf that exacting,
utter diecouragement, ti've known group of surgeons. Just trying and
• only too well and have, been dreading working would not bring success in
ell along. I'M afraid of it!" ; this task. Then a startling thing hap -
Why?" .Mi sa . Randall's tone was Pealed: Miss Sinclair, whose slaty it
kindly. although she leoked keenly at tvas to care for the inatruments and
the !eel. the sterilizing, and who prepared the •
The nurse's eyes darketed, and her ! mom for each operation, fell sick and
stela( th ferehead wrinkled. had to take a vricat:on. That struck
"I've aiwaYs felt that if I ever had new terror to Henrietta's soul; but,
to help in an operation I should make in a sort of desperation, and with Miss,
somedreadful blunder. and some pa, i Randall's steady help, she faced even
tient would lose hie 1.1e or never be this new situation bravely.
well afterwards beeauee of it. When SG the day came when Henrietta,
I l'irst eame in training—yon weren't ; with Miss Fowler, a new assistant
•here then—something went wrong m: nurse, took full charge of the operat-
the operating room, and a patient, big room.
died. They blamed the mane. and she "An easy morning for your ,first,"
was zsint away. She didn't look like; sa'si Miss Randall, "Only two minor
.a err:aces girl, and everyone said she cases, both for Dr.. Mlnturn, who is
wae juet unferturate. What if that very considerate. I shall be here to
should happen to mei" help you, and you'll have no trouble,'
Iut y.en have leen etherizer in the Dr. Minturn was pleasant and want -
operating room alecsay, and have done ed nothing out of the ordinary. Miss
geed weak." Randall, who was busy directing the
"-That's different though I was new nurse, paid very little attention
peered even then. Bat this—why, you to Henrietta. Everyone treated Hen -
know, Miss Randall. I could make a ' rietta as if she were merely part of
lelmaler in Itty technique and not : the hospital machinery. That helped
notice i. and you would never know her to put her whole mind on her work.
or anycne ease, and the patient ; When the surgeons had gone, Miss
eceld get lefeted or—something, and Randall .came to Henrletta with a
I'd, he, to hlame." The tears were smile. "Where were the mistakes you
core -lea egin, but she held them back. were going to make? I didn't see any
• "Oh. I didn't mean to say so nrachn of them."
Len MSS. Tharelall—" ! "I guess things did go pretty well,"
ta•-t -eel- only trouble?"
admitted Henrietta.
alco, :t isn't:. D. Joslin, the chief, "Of course they did," said Miss-Ran-
earls:son, deesn't Vke me. Something
areeeeed. hi my first year, when I was "But thiswas easy. Dr. Minturn is
etherizing,—about a patient,—nothing slow and good-natured. It won't be
aerreue, but dreadfully annoying, and . the same when 1 have long, hard cases
ite'e never forgoten it, I know. He for Dr. Joslin, who asks for six things
gets me so rattled that. I don't know : at once, and says 'Hurry up' every
what I'm about." two minutes."
"1 nether think, Mies Osgood, that • "He won't say 'Hurry up' if you
yeti exaggerate his feeling. He's pro -n have everything ready to put into his
baby forgotten all about it. I haven't hand before he knows that he needs
seetieed anything in his manner to- I it. What if he does want six things
were eou. Dr. Joslin is rather abrupt,at once? Yotfli have them for him.
but he's really kind." You had better stop thinking of Dr.
"Teit he frightens me so that I know Joslin."
-I'd Make mistakes sometimes event Dr. Joslin had been called out of
when I knew better. 0 Miss Randall, town and so had ncr operations sched-
ean't 1 leave that part of my training uled lentil the following Tuesday. On
out? 111 take anything in its place--. Monday Miss Randall posted the list
the hardest, wore,,t work you ask of , of operations for the next day:
9.00 a.m.—Cholecystotomy, Dr. Jos -
The superintendent's face cleared.lin.
':Miss Osgood, the operating room is 10.30 .a.m.—Laparotorny, Dr. Joslin.
your bugaboo, your great fear. We all 11.30 a.m.—Gastroenterostomy, Dr.
of . us have one, and at one time or Joslin.
another we must conquer it. Now is "It will be a hard day to -morrow,"
your thne. If you don't de it now; it's she said to the two nurses, "with three
going to hart your nursing, career an.d major operations. I'll come in later
our wnole fife. The head nurse will and go over some points with you.
help you, and you must succeed; and There's a special drainage that :Dr.
it will not be at the expense of any Joslin will want for the first case, and
person's life or health. You shall a special suture for the last. I'll be
practice beforehatd until it will be in the operating room myself."
Impossible for you to make a mistake." (To be concluded next issue.)
"Oh, I don't think it's possible!"
"Will you try?" How Do They Live?
"Yes. but—" Ten per cent. of the women in fac-
The teacher rose and put her hand tories and three per cent. of women
Oil the nurse's shoulder-. "Then we'll
begin to -morrow morning, and I shall
eapeet • you to succeed; I know you
can."
. As Henrietta .went back to her work, the same per cent. in mercantile es -
she was almost sorry for her teacher. tablishments earn less than $14 per
"If Miss Randall had been here long-. week. „
er." she said to herself, "she'd know
what she was undertaking. I can do
well enough if I have time to th:nk,
but when everything happens at once,
as it does in the operating room—
well, I've Old her I'll tey, and I will."
The next morning Miss Randall ap-
peared with a long, - typewritten
--as.-
in departmental stores in New York
City earn less than $6 per week, *while
68 per cent. of women in factories and
It is one hundred years since chairs
were first placed in Hyde Park, Lon-
don. There are now nearly 40,000 of
them.
Minard's Liniment used by Physicians.
Shakespeare's Medicine
The diseovery or :some ancient medi-
cine phials in what was once Shake-
aneare's garden at New Place, Strat-
ford -on -Avon, serves to conjure up a
vivid pictare of the last illness of the
world's greatest dramatist. The phials
were found by workmen engaged in
the trenching operations in connection
with the reetoretior of the great
bard's garden,
The phials bear the impress of old
age„ and, moreover, were found in soil
wherein were other articles of the
Tudor and early Jacobean periods,
ehowing that they found their way
theie lust about the time of Shake-
speare's death, And, as the very spot
wlaere they were found was within,
easy throwing distance from the win-
doev of his house, there is but little
stretch of imagination required to plc -
re Doctor Hall, Shakespeare's sondn-
law, who attended the latter itt his last
Meets, summarily hurling theough. the
Window sucli of the Way 'bottles as
happened to break during use at the
gickbed. DoCtor Hall was the easband
of Shakeepeare's eldest daughter, Eli-
zabeth.
• The garden, Which Is being laid out
mew fn. !Ike Elizabethan style in honer
4td Shaleede)eseret Memory, wee the
last place his dying glances rested. on.
In It are to be all the flowers and
plants of which be wrote so beauti-
fully; and from all parts of England
contributions are being sent by those
to whom the writings of that trans-
cendent genius are an ever -gushing
fount of inspiration.
Among those who have already sent
large consignments are King George,
Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, and
the Prince of Wales; and the Ilst of
contributors of money for the needs of
the garden is headed by the novelist,
Marie Corelli, with $250,
Some of the flowers still wanting
are golden and dwarf box sufficient to
form a run of about 5,000 feet of
"edging;" 16,000 golden and glaucous
thyme, thrift and lavender cotton, the
last-named. of which is known to the
modern scientific floricuIturists by the
high -Sounding title of "Santolina,
Ohamae Cypttrissus.' '
Moreover, there are needed thou -
ands of violas, espeoially the mauve
and dark purple colored ones; 2,000
pansies cSf the loveisibeidleness"
Variety; pinke; streaked gilly-fiowere;
and, above all, fragrant purple
woi-
land violets, "dim, but sweeter then
the lids of junols eyes or Cytherea'S
breath."
AS THE BANK
OF ENGLAND!
"OLD LADY OF THREAD -
NEEDLE STREET."
Fascinating Stories of Institu.
tion Famed Throughout
the World.
The Bank of England buildings cover
about four acres of ground, and the
screen wall around, which is all tne
passing public sees, encloses a very
pretty garden court, once the old
churchyard of St. Christopher -le -
Stocks. The purpose of the great wall
for protection has passed away, for
the Bank's treasure is now guarded
by other means. But ever since the
Gordon Riots, in 1780, the Bank has
had a military guard at night. It is
one of the sights of London to see the
Guards detachment marching through
the City from their barracks each
evening to take up their nightly vigil
at the Bank of England.
Started by a Scotsman,
It is generally known that the origin
of the great national institution was
really the result of the financial straits
of the Stuarts, who were always want-
ing to raise money, and not over-
scrupulous in the ways of doing so.
In the sixteenth century the mer-
chants of London used to deposit
their surplus cash with the Mint or the
Exchequer, Ring James II., ,just prior
to his flight to the Continent, laid
thievish hands on this money, and the
merchants were ruined, and English
credit was brought to a, sorry state.
The Government of William III, were
later on approached by a Scottish
banker, William Paterson, and with
its aid the Bank of England was
founded to accommodate the mer-
chants .and then to raise money for
the Government to prosecute the war
against France. The sum of $6,000,-
000 asked for from the public was
subscribed in a few hours.
This was 'then lent to the Govern-
ment at eight per gent., and thus was
the first of the great national War
Loans with which we have become so
familiar.
"Safe as the Bank of England" is a
phrase which has been justified
through all the 206 years' history of
the world-famous institution, in spite
of all the attacks made upon it by.
crime, failure, "runs," or any other of
the various causes which operate
against the banking system of a coun-
try.
"Runs" on the Bank.
The first "run" on the Bank of Eng-
land was in 1707, when a call of twen-
ty per cent. was made on its propriet-
ors; but such was the trust in the
Bank's stability that many of its cus-
tomers, instead of withdrawing their
accounts, paid in as much as possible.
A second "run" came at the death of
Queen Anne, when Bank stock fell
from 126 to 116, and the crisis lasted
for several days.
A third "run" occurred when a sup-
posed conspiracy to dethrone the Ring
and send him back to Hanover was an-
nounced. The Pretender was to be
brought over from France and placed
on -the Throne. A camp was formed
in Hyde Park. The display of armed
force had a good. moral effect and the
trouble to the Bank soon ceased.
The greatest "run" in the Bank of
England's history occurred at the time
of the invasion of England by the
young Pretender. When the news
reached London. that he was at Derby,
only 120 miles away, the City was
panic-stricken. All having accounts
at the Bank wished to draw their
money out, and everybody wanted to
cash the notes they held.
The directors managed to check the
great rush by an ingenious stratagem.
Persons in the employ of the Bank
were given notes to present for pay-
ment at the counter, and the cashiers
paid these in sixpences. Those who
received the cash, after leaving the
office, returned by another door and
paid the money back again. This
method of delay and hindrance of pay-
ment to the real customers saved the
Bank until the panic had subsided.
Preyed •on by Criminals.
Crimes against the Bank have been
many, and they have caused it great
trouble and inconvenience in the past.
The forgeries of Charles Price and
his clever methods of getting rid of
the counterfeit notes were quite won-
derful. He would alter the amnunts
on banknotes to higher sums in a way
absolutely undetectable. Priceae
frauds lasted over a period of many.
years, but when at last he was run to
earth he committed suicide.
One of the most remarkable forgers
of modern times was Henry Fauntle-
roy. On his arrest as a fraudulent
trustee a long list of forgeries on the
Bank of England was found, by which
he had caused a loss to that institu-
tion of no Tess that $1,800,000. His
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ingenious reason for his crimes was
that be bore a grudge a.gainst the Bank
for destroying the credit of his bust -
times, and he had sworn that it should
smart for doing so.
The embezzlement of Exchequer
bale to the extent of $1,600,000 by one
of the Dank's, cashiers, Robert Aelett,
was one of the gre,atest blows it ever
had. A remarkable defence was a, fea-
ture of his trial, and he was ultimately
acquitted,
Among the great scenes which
stand out prominently in the history
of the "Old Lady" are tlae times when
great loans have been floated. The
taking up of what was called the
Loyalty Loan, in the 18th century, fur-
nished a, memorable scene. Mr. Pitt
demanded a sum of $90,000,000 for
political and patriotic purposes.
The first day $25,000,000 was sub-
scribed, the second saw the sal:rem-la-
den reacb. $60,000,000, and on the third
clay so great was the crowd that num-
bers could not get near the counters,
but called out their names to those
in front. The total subscription for
this sum was completed in just over
fifteen hours. The Loans launched
during the Great War, of course,
dwarf all the figures of the Bank's pre-
vious history, and provided many
eventful scenes in the City and
throughout the British Isles.
True Tales of Profiteers.
A lady, whose wealth was of ob-
viously recent origin, marched into a
piano dealer's shop and asked to be
shown the most expensive instrument
in. stock. It was a lovely rosewood
grand, and she bought it wan brand
new Treasury notes., says a London
newspaper. A month later she re-
turned in quest of a piano stool, and
was shown several 'which would har-
monize With the rosewood of the
piano. She rejected these, and de-
clared that she wanted a green one to
harmonize with the color scheme of
the room.
"But, madam," said the dealer, "the
color of the piano would scarcely
blend with the green room, would it?"
"Oh, that's all right," said the lady.
"We had it painted green!"
motor dealer friend assures me
that, when a very uncouth pair came
to buy a car, the most expensive one
they had was not irapreseive enough to
suit the woman, who said she wanted
"gold 'Beadles to the car." Gold
handles she had, too, though my friend
was discreetly silent as to the locality
of her garage!
A tale is also told a a certain pro-
fiteer who was showing a frienaround
his newly -built and • bdentifiii-fitted
mansion. When they reached the
bathroom the friend was speechless
with adiniration of the gorgeously -
furnished chatuber. It was a vision
of marble, alabaster and gold. Every
possible convenience was -there, and
every article was of the best and most
expensive that could be obtained.
When the visitor regained his
breath he congratulated the profiteer
on the possession of such a lovely
bath -room.
"Yes," said that gentleman, "it is a
lovely bath -room, all right. It is' a
great pleasure to 'ave a bath in a place
like this. You can guess tow.mucki
look forward to Saturday nights!"
Cup and Sorcery.
To leave the lid of the teapot off ina
variably nee:kns that a stranger. will
soon enter the house.
To spill tea when pouring out is sup-
posedto foretell hasty words.
To knock over a cup of tea before
any has been taken out of it indicates
that a past worry has cast its shackle,/
over the future, and, will result in
small annoyances at no distant date.
Two spoons in one saucer means
that. there will stem be a wedding in
the family.
Bubbles that rise to the top of the
tea indicate kisses or money. If round
the edge of the cup, kisses. If in the
centre, money. To ensdre success they
should all be sipped np.
A tealeaf floating on the top indi-
cates a stranger, If short, thick,- and
hard, your visitor will be a short man.
If long and thin, then a tall, thin per-
son may be expected.
A lot of odd tealeaves floating rbout
on the top of the tea usually means
worries. If yeu can gather them all
up in a spoon the worries will be but
slight ones,
To find you have got sweetened tea
when you prefer it without sugar is a
very lucky omen. To the unmarried
it means a lover and wedded bliss; to
the married the best of luck and pros-
perity,
Another good omen is to get two
saucers. A happy future is assured.
Two plates, on the other hand, means
an unexpected gift of something to
wear.
, Ex -Soldiers In Housework.
In various parts at England, dis-
abled soldiers are being employed in
housework.
Spare moments and fat year are
tearly related.
A camera has been ineented which
combnaes the features of en ord:nary
standard camera with those of a lane-
mategratili caroera. it eleo serve the
ettr*poee of a kinetnntograph laraern
for showing the filsee on a screen.
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, Stemmer Visitors,
The world is , divided into two
classes --those who do not like to work
and don't; and,,those who .don't like
to work, bat do evertiane.to take care
of their own Sobs and those of the
idlers. A. clever club woman aptly
dubbed the two classes "Diggers" and
'Shiners," and paid her respects . in
verse to the women who always want
to pour tea, while someone else stays
in the kitchen to keep the kettle boil-
ing. But we don't need to go Into
the clubs to see the distinction, we can
find it in every family that is large
enough to boast of four or five mem-
bers. There are always some who slip
out from under all the hard work with
the easy assurance that "George," or
"Mary," as the case may be, will .do
it, be.cause they just "love to work."
Here's Aunt Mary, for instance. She
lives on a farm where butter and
ere= and milk and eggs and fresh
fruit and vegetables don't cost her a
thing. They just g -row. She has a
number of loving nieces and nephews
and sisters and brothers living an ,cities
and small towns. As soon as school
is out in June, all thoughts turn fond-
ly to Aunt Mary. She just loves chil-
dren. They don't bother her a bit.
Besides, she hasn't anything in her
house they can hurt. So along about
knee deep in June, Sister Susie writes
the thildren are so anxious to see Aunt
Mary she has decided to let them come
up for a couple of weeks „as soon as
school is out.
Brother John hates a city holiday
with its noise, and his soul yearns for
country quiet. He drops a line, the first
in a year, saying that he and "Mother"
will run up for the First with the
kiddies. He leaves the city's din, but
brings along enough crackers and toy
cannon fodder to turn the peaceful
countryside into a miniature:Marne."
Brother John gees home after the holi-
day, but leaves "Mother" andthe boy's
for a little outing with Mary. Sister
Susie's children are there, and the
children can have such a good time
together. And Mary just loves it.
The July guests depart in due time,
and reluctantly, Mary manages to
clean house for the second time, and
is just wondering if she can't get away
to lake for a week, when fresh let-
ters arrive. Brother Toni has his va-
cation the first two weeks in August,
and thare is no place like Mary's to
spend it. Her blackberries are at their
best. He and the wife and baby will
be up the first of August, Tom is
followed by a cousin or two with their
descendants, even to the third and
fourth generation, and it is really the
middle of September and fair time, be-
fore Mary is sure of an empty house.
In between she is trying to can and
pickle and tend the garden. Keeping,
the sewing and mending up is out. of I
the question.
Of course Mary loves company and
is glad to see her friends. But I won-
der if she just loves to have the whole
family camp out on the farm every
summer. I wonder if she is so fond of
work that she really enjoys getting up
at daybreak and "digging" until dark,
while a houseful of guests "shine on
the verandah or in the lawn swing. • I
wonder, too, if through the fall, vvinter
and spring, she enjoys working every
'minute so that -father and the ehildren
can have the best to eat and wear, and
leisure for reading and play. Don't
you think Mary would just love a little
division of labor, a little -help with
picking up and cooking and dishwash-
ing so that she might have some of
the spare time?
Candy Making Without Cooking.
In warm weather, when the heat
makes it a disagreeable' task to work
over a stove, the ordinary kind of
.cancly making is not a pleasant oc-
cupation—the results seem hardly
worth while. The following recipes
are for sweetmeats that can be made
without heating any of the materials.
Mock Oranges.—Mix a tablespoon-
ful of orange juice with the finely
grated outside yellow rind of one
orange, being careful. not to grate
into the white part, for that gives a
bitter taste. Stir in the unbeaten yolk
of one egg, and enough tonlectioners'
sugar to rnake a paste that is stiff
enough to handle. Form it into balls
about as large as a hazelnut, and in-
sert at one end of each a bit of grats
or tiny flower stalk. • Place the candy
on waxed paper to dry.
Mack Lerrions.-1The the grated rind
of lemon, and mix the sugar with the
white of the egg. Add a trace of the
yolk to give a faint yellow tint. Form
the paste into miniature lemons.
Smothered Dates. ---Stuff dates with
nuts and wrap them in the following
paste: two tablespoonfuls of softened
butter, two of powdered cocoa, two of
water, and enough confectioners'
sugar to stiffen the mixture.
Peanut Butter Whirls. --Mix a tea-
spoonful of melted butter and a few
drops of vanilla with one pound of
confectioners' sugar,. and add enough
milk to bring the mixture to the con-
risteney of stiff dough. Reif the Paste
• iato a sheet a quarter or an inch fhicla
spaead a thin layer of peanut 'lintel!
over ;t, and make it into a rahliaturc
jelly roll about, an inch u diameter.
Slice ihe brcwn and white roll neatly
into thin wheel e or "whirls,"
I Tea and Coffee Ballsse-Steee eithee
et.keee:
tea or coffee in twice its volume of
water—for example, two tablespoon-
fuls of either in four of water,.. Drain
off the liquid and.etir in. arnifeetionere'
sugar to make a paste. Form it into
balls or cut it into squares. This con-
fection is refreshing and stimulating
on a journey or a long tramp.
Edna and Efficiency.
* "All I can say is, I think it's a nice
state of affairs if I can't be away from
office one day without finding things
so muddled up when I get back that
I have to spead half an Wu: getting
my desk straightened!"
Edaa's voice was sharp witivanaoy-
ance. There was a deep line between
her level brows, and her very fingers
'showed her vexation. Sophie Oleson
looked at her with a sort of amused
contrition. Sophie did not know the
meaning of the word order; yet every-
one in the office liked her; no one
could help it, she was so frank and
friendly and kind-hearted.
"Believe me, Edna Walker, I never
saw anybody like you in my life. You'd
know it if a fly flew across your desk!
I wasn't there ten minutes, and I
didn't touch a thing except your clips,
and I put those back in the identical
spot I took them from."
'Well, I didn't say you were res-
ponsible, Sophie, but it is certainly
strange how my seissors and knife and
'blotter all disappeared! I found the
blotter in the wastebasket and the
scissors in the filing cabinet. I haven't
found the knife yet, but I haven't look-
ed M the water cooler; probably I
shall Dad it there."
Edna herself was cooling down now;
.the -look in Sophie's eyes made .her
ashained. , Yet' she* was • surethat she
had the right on her side. It was the
inefficiencY of it. thatfretted her, ..she
told herself. She had explained to
SePhie a 'hundred times how the west-
edanoments counted up.
Mr. Allen's bell rang just then, and
• Edna picked, up her notebook and went
into the office. She flushed a bit as
she noticed that his door was ajar,
She was sorry that she had. called
Sophie down so hard; yet she was sure
that Mr. Allen would understand. If
Mr. Allen had heard, however, he
made no comment.
An hour later Edna laid. the finished
work on Mr; Allen's desk. -Edna was
proud of her typewriting. She could
hardly believe her ears, _therefore,
when Mr. Allen called her back and
pointed out a couple of errors, one in
tranecription and one in Spelling.
"I' overheard your lecture to Miss
Oleson," Mr. Allen remarked with a
smile. "I infer that you were a -trifle
wrought up." . .
"I'm afraid I was," Edna acknowl-
• edged. "But it's such a needless waste
of thne."
Mr. Allen nodded. "I know, You
are _very conscientious about your
time, Miss Walker. I appreciate it.
But did you, aver stop to think .that
to let a thing get on your nerves iis
a worse kind. of inefficiency than to
naisplace a pair of scissors? .These
mistakes of yours, which it will lie -
quire twenty minutes to rectify, are
the direct reault of your loss of poise.
That's something to think of. The
real loss is yours, not mine. Do you
seer'
Aliot color swept Edna's face; but
she .took the kindly .reproof in the
right spirit.
"Thank you, Mr. Allen," she said.
'
ncep Minard's Liniment in the house.
Unhealthy When He Died.
Little Emma had begun to study
physiology, and her teacher had lec-
tured forcefully against the evils .of
alcohol. 'So Emma was perturbed
when cider appeared at the family
table. "Cider," she proclaimed
promptly, "is ba,d for us. Poacher
says It contains 10 per cont. alcohol."
"Well," said her father, "how do You
account for the fact that old Mr.
Franklin, who lived next door, lived
to be 94 though he drank a great' deal
of cider?" It looked bad for Einrna's
cause, but she advaneed excitedly to
its defence. "Well, I'll bet he wasn't
very healthy when he died."
• •e ---
The escapement wheel of a watch
makes 781,000 revolutions every
twelve months.
Beautiful Women
of Society.duringthepast
seventy years have relied
upon It for their distin-
guithed Appearance. The
Oft, refined,, pearly
.4thite •complexion It
renders instantly, is
always tha sOurce of
flattering comment.
•COARSE SALT
LAND SALT
, Bulk Cadets
TORONTO ,SIALT WORKS
C. J. CLIFF •TORONTO
BRITISH GAINS
IN THE GREAT WAR
AS REVIEWED BY A LON• -
DON NEWSPAPER: .
--
A United Empire, a Deepened;
• Love for SoverPigni a -True
Have we gained anything from the
Great War? The cynical query of a
Bradford manufacturer—"What's the
good of- having a War if we don't get
something out et RV—gives, bY im-
plication, one answer to the questiou,
says London Answers,
Some people have, literally, gained
much from the war. But what, as a
nation, have we gained? .
• Certain territories have become ours
--Mesopotamia, and the German Colon-
ies. But gain in acreage is not all
gain. It is counter -balanced by a vast
accession of responsibility and expen-
diture. Financially, our territorial
gains will, for many long years, be
losses.
One great gain is that workers, from
the ,terribly low -paid agricultural
• laborer upwards, have obtained higher
wages, shortened hours of toil, and
better conditions generally.
• This gain, in view of the consequent
increased cost of production and liv-
• ing, may seem to be more apparent
than actual, but, sooner than many of
us think, the cost of living will fall,
exactly as it did after its tremendous,
rise after the Napoleonic wars, and.
then, as wages will never go back to
their old level, the gain will be a real
gain. None will be worse off, and mil-
lions will be better off. Is net that a
gain? The "poverty line" will be ex-
tinguished, because all workers will
be well above it. No patriot, no de-
cent citizen, no Christian, would de-
sire to live cheaply by sweated labor.
In a few years we shall be living
cheaply by well-paid labor.
Re -uniting the Family.
And another, and no small gain, is
that the war has bound our Empire -to-
gether. A common danger brought
the Dominionsto the aid of the old
Mother Country, and the gain bas
been immense.
Once it seemed that the links of Em-
pire had worn thin; now, theough the '
war, they have been re -forged, and -
strongly. It is a gain—that the fanolly
should keep together, and not serr.4
ate..,
We have, too, gained much in know-
ledge—scientific, medical, and , the
like. Not all this knowledge has yet
been utilized, nor is all of it yet public
property. But when we have settled
clown, and it is used—not, perforce, as
It bad to be, for defence and destruc-
tion, but for development and con-
struction—we shall be leagues ahead
of the -old world of 1914!
And is it not a gala that we have
learned, solely. owing to the war, the
worth and value of women? .
And is it not a gain that we htyve
lost some pf • our self -complacency?
We were, in those old pre-war clays,
far toe much inclined to rest on our
reputation. and on our traditions. The
ehocks of wax have evoke ue up. We
shall keep our place in the world now.
We were near—very near—to losing
It onacvee.
H
we gained religiously? Yes—
and no, Yes, because there is a
quickened demand, a yearning almost,
for a real religion. No, because the
churches seem incapable of meeting
the demend.
Guarding the Children.
We have gained mentally. The
standard of intelligence is vastly high-
er. Thousands tit naen, from wartcon-
tact with their fellows, have begun to
think, and to take a vital interest in
the problems of -life. It is a gain.
We have gained, too, in sobriety.
That is undeniable. •-
It is a ,gain, too, that :despite the
"riot of 'spending," milliorai have learn- ).
ed the hebit of sating.
Finally, there is this. A .good King,
beloved of his people, is thee greatest
stabilizing power that a. nation • can
possess. 'The war has made sell of us
feel that our Royal Family is one of
ourselves. "Unrest" there may be,
but there is no disloyalty in this is-
land. It is a vast gain, this, war-reade
increase of esteem azad affection for
our King. God bless him, one of uss
one of the best! If we didn't khow
It in 1914 we know it now. A great
gain that!
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•
Russians Deeply -Religious.
The Ruseian people, from, the most
remote time, have been deeply religi-
• ous.by mature. In every :public estab-
lishment, in every office, railroad sta-
tion, •postollice, bank, taVerre store,
mad in almost every room of a private
dwelling, there is an, ikon (holy pic-
ture) placed in a corner, with an oil
light before it, steadily burning. These
ikons look like basrelief; only the
head and hand of the image are
painted oil the background; the rest of
the picture is compcaod of engraved,
gilded metal, very often of real gold
and silver incrusted with diamonds
and other preclotte stones, according
to Constantin Praboni, writing on re-
ligious customanin Russia in Current
History.
The Russian believes that the Ikon
has • a protecting and healing power,
Soine ikons are belleaed to be 'Wren.
lous and are brought M. proeettelon,
with great solormite, fr0111 01143 town
to another, followed by many eicrgy.
mein' and 5 crOwd Of dovoteea,
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• 1,
et