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The Brussels Post, 1914-5-14, Page 3ONVEST YOUR MONEY iu the Preferred Sleek of MODEL DAIRIES, Limited, of Montreal. Provident. Sir H. Monvt'agu Allan, - Pro idenb Memdhants Rank o1 Gatna da, viae-Prepident. Me, John A. Gana, - - President Genies'. Limited. Directo:0. Mr. IL S, ]loft, President. Royal Bank of Canada; Director, Canadian Ya. clic I'tallwaY. Mr. C. It. fiosmei•, Preatdent, Ogilvie Flour MIIIH, Ltd„ Dirootor, Hank of Montreal; Director, Canadian Pacldo Ra11waY. Mr. C.. H, 'Gordon, President, Do- minion Textile Co„ Ltd.; Director, Bank of Montreal. Mr. 3ank; Mi. ieeeior, Bun Life Aaduns auce Co, Mr. holm McICergow, Director, Sun Life Assurance Co. :Ion. Senator Dandurand. 'Director. Sun Lite Assurance Co.; Director, ("rand Trunk Patine Rahway. Mr. R. J, Youngo, of R. 3. Younge and Company. For further partiowlare drop a Poet Card to: R. J. YOUNCE AND COMPANY, - 170 St. James Street, Montreal, Canada. `mos INVESTMENT HAS PAID 7% PER ANNUM half yearly since the Seourllleo of this Corporation were placed on the market 10 years ago. Business established 28 years. Investment may be withdrawn in part or whole any time after one year. Safe as a mortgage. Pull par- ticulars and booklet gladly furnished on request. NATIONAL SECURITIES CORPORATION, LIMITED, CONFEDERATION LIFE BUILDING - TORONTO, ONT. MilMt II BARMAIDS OF ENGLAND 22,000 ARle ENG:I.G•ED IN THE CALLING. 'Where Hoare Are Long and 'Wages Miserable—Foreed to Re- tire at 30. Not every visitor to England makes the aoquainitance of the Bri- tish barmaid, but it is fairly safe to say that a fairly high percentage of touristrs does so to a more or less limited extent, writes a London correspondent. The 13rit1sle barmaid is not one of the oldest features of this country. Goldsmith speaks of the "unblush- ing barmaid at the country inn," and other writers of the eighteenth century mention the barmaid, but the employment of women in "pub- lic h.uuees" was nob general hero until the middle of the nineteenth century. Tu -day there are abort 22,000 bar- maids in Great Britain and Ire- land, etil.l spoken of as the "United Kingdwn." Thee figures are taken from the current quarterly member of the Women's Industrial News, in which apprdrs a report of an investiga- tion into the business made by that organ. Even now, it seems, the barmaid is not common in Scotland or Ire- land, where men are gen,arally em- ployed in public houses and women only in hotels and' places which ea• ter to the tourist rind visitor rather than to local clients, The rep•ost suggests that this may be attributable bo one or other of two reasons. Either the Scotsonan and the Irishman have a greater re- spect fur women than the English- man, or else their "in yeinveterate habit of drink" makes "other at- tractions superfluous nod diversion impertinent." Barmaids More Industrious. Ae the cams time itsua'g ested that perhaps the Englishman is no more than indifferent, and that the bar- maid with him displaces the bar- man "because she is deeper, more ineltt£trlena, nwlre Sober, more amenable to the wishes of her em- ployer, less rebellious against the hard oosiditiows of public house life." Of the 22,000 women now employ- ed in Britain as barmaids about one-half are bebween 18 and 25 rears of age. The following ex -bracts from this report, whibh is the rest/lb of care- ful inveaiblgat'ion., persion,a1 inter- views and inforreation from various as00ciatio1is aril clubs dealing with this particular branch of work, may be of interest to die conmiees thou- sands who have been served with some form of liquid refreslemen't by. the 13 deka barmaid, "The barmaid belongs to every. grade of tho working and lower .middle class. She is the daugilebes of the small tradesman, the drilled artisan, the general laborer. She 15 somuetnnee the daughter of the publicans (0011 from leer youth up- ward has had eicpeoienee of the pubie house. The bas is in this coon her natuaal career; and she re- mains, often lentil 'gibe maniere in 11(1• Bather's house. Comment on Events Canada, 1s ;Fiolpang. Among the muse of legislation nneer- laken by the orates House Of Commune IL is probuble that the Plumage 100 will be pulsed Into 10w this eesslr.n. 11 coin - moods a maluri ty in the llouse of Cern- mmre and has the supmen or the gee- orntuent, and it Is an effort made to save those rare and esrluislto speales which are threatened with extinction by the States 4ashalrea yirsetearsplendidnle - ample 111 this matter, and Canada has novo passed a law .lay whlvlr after la0- uary 1, 1910, it w111 be illegal to bring Into Canada aigrettes, plurnes, wings, 1)01(10.0• any other parte of wild birds. It is lime the nations took ahand 1n protecting the wild birds for some of the instances of slaughter aro perfectly horrible. Take theease of the Iirland of Lsyean, the grout breeding -place .00 the albutros. 1;y the efforts of one man, assisted by a gang of twenty-two or twenty-three employees, that Island has been turned front a glorious colony of happy birds into a charnel -house of bones. It 10 computed that something. like one-half of the entire species has there been destroyed, and the hideous work would assuredly have been Com- pleted If the United States had not hap- pily wakened just Intime to what was going on. The Plumage Bill of itself will not suffice. Nothing but an Inter- national agreement will prevent the egret and the bird of paradise dlsap- nearing from the world forever. Exoursloh to the Arctic. There w111 be none of the usual priva- tions and hardships attached to an Arc- tic trip in the excursion planned by a London exploration company. For the sum of $1,000 the firm will provide a polar de luxe voyage that Includes hunt- ing and fishing. Bach passenger will be allowed one polar bear, one seal, one walrus, two musk ox, one wolf and two white fox, which he must shoot for him- self. To make it easy and comfortable for all of the polar explorers, the ship w111 be fitted with electric lights, bath- rooms •with hotand cold. water, a com- petent ship's doctor, and a selected ehef, as well as a supply of cigars and tobac- co, wines, spirits and mineral water of the best brands and qualities. Dr. Cook or Captain Bernier could not desire any- thing more. The Search for Enowledge. Industrial slums, huge.,. armaments, extremes of wealth and poverty seem but examples of the truth that know- ledge wrongly applied may bo a curse rather than a blessing. The seeker after knowledge for its own sake is in no way responsible for the errors of shales - men or the faults of mankind. The true disciple of knowledge will ever bear in mind the words- of Bacon; "Knowledge Is not a couch for the curious spirit, nor a terrace for the wandering, nor a tower of state for the proudmind, nor a Vant- age ground for the haughty, nor a shop for profit and sale, but a storehouse for the glory of God and the endowment or mankind." Those biologists who devoted their energies—and perchance their lives—to the study of the mosquito had no con- ception that they would be the ohief contributors to the successful construc- tion or the Panama Canal. Yet the story of the search for knowledge is an endless one. Glance back at those great names of the past—Pasteur, Faraday, Hertz, Humphrey Davy, Kelvin, Lister, Darwin and Huxley. Inevitably one asks: 'Will the coming generation be able to produce mein capable of doing seen work as theirs? Some pessimists seem to think that the field of enquiry is ex- hausted, that the last stages of the march have been so rapid and the ad- vance so great that there is little terri- tory left to explore. But each succeed- ing generationpossibly thinks that of the one preceding it. The world pro= grasses and men go on developing. They can not stand still. it is the law of life --excelsior. The Trade of Canada. Official trade figures for the twelve months of the fiscal year ending March 91 last were issued by the Customs De- partment recently and show a grand total for the year of $1,119,562,107, a record in Canadian history. The total trade of the preceding year, which was up to then the high water mark, was $1,063,060,226. Tho feature of the year recently clos- ed is the enormousincrease in exports of Canadian produce, the total being $431,589,053, an increase of eighty mil- lions. The imports on the other hand, which amounted to $018,929,874. showed a de- crease from the previous year of a lit- tie over fifty millions. The biggest increase In exports was in 'agricultural products which rose 43 millions over the previous year. Manu- factures Jumped 14 millions and fisher- ies showed an increase of tour millions. The trade for the month of March showed a decline from the previous year the total being 592,387,453 as against $101,148,252. Germ -Destroying Devioe. A new ,marvel of science promises water and milk without typhoid germs. Sunlight is a great enemy of bacteria, and what are known as the ultra -violet rays are thechief purifying agent. To imitate and Improve noon .nature by creating a miniature sun and harnessing its ultra -violet rays for the use of man was the idea of scientists, and wonder- ful success in many climes has rewarded their ingenuity. A mercury vapor arc is enclosed in rock crystal, the only so - 24d which the ultra: violet rays pene- trate. Typhoid epidemics in France, Morocco, the Philippines and i0nrvla have been cheeped by this germ -destroy- ing device. The ray's .may also be used to purify public baths. "Many barmaids are again. straight from home. Tho ease is not uncommon in which a young girl; in direct defiance of her parents' wish- es, runs away to join a friend in the bar. And many barmaids are orphans. The girl who has always lived at home, being thrown out at the death of a parent on her own resources, sees sometimes in the high wage of a `learner', in the bar and the living -in system a way which seems very easy and safe and is more to her taste than domestic servioe. Majority Are Sober and honest:. "There is yet one other girl, often of good education, the daughter of a tradesman or of a small profes- sional man, a typist, a nurse, the 'girl who has once made a false steep and to whom the bar is the only career which is open. Rut she is the exception. For the barmaid be- longs to the type of normal and average working girl, industrious, sober and honest," And wha,b is this "high wage of a learner"'1 The report says: "There are two ways by which a barmaid enters her trade, and to some ex- tent the dietinotion runs right through her careerand separates one typo of barmaid from another. The old fashioned barmaid, the daughter of the general laborer, the factory hand, the general servant, starts work as a rule as a house- maid in a small working-class pub- lic house, being occupied in domes- tic dutiesin the morning and serv- ing in the bas in.the afternoon and evening, generally Drone 12 to 9 o'clock. Her first wage ie five or six schillings ($1.25 or $1.50) aweek and her keep, and she commences her trade at 17 or 18 years of ago, "The second and modern type of barmaid -gives her whole time in the bar from the first. She belongs to a class which is comfortable. In her 'home life and early training sho • is accustomed to social and other amenities. The functions of the public house present little or no difficulties. By the side of her hum- ble sinter she is a self-assured and Sophisticated Young Lady. She, too; commences work at about 18 years of age, Bet her wage is from the first 8 or 10 shillings ($2 or $2,50) a wade and her keep; and her rise is more rapid, her full wage .of 12 or 1.4 shillings ($3 or $3,501, being generally reached with- in six months or a year. "She is employed in every variety of up-to-date public house, as well as in the theatre, the music hall, the railway ,refreshment room, the smoking room, the lounge and in the boa or buffet of thellotelor res- taurant. "The hotel barmakl stands a 'little apart and isbetter educated and more refined than amy of her sis- ters." . Her wage, however, is no higher. • Of' learn -elide, in general, the re - pont says: "She reaches the torp of her career between the ages of 20 and 25 and unless she has more than common fortune •or parts she is com- pelled to retibe ab about the age of 30. "Thee, outcast from einployanenb, cheated eif marriage, old at 25, too old at, 30, the barmaid sees before her •only the streets. Froni the great mass of women broken on the wheel of profit-making industry comes n0 more tragic cry than that. of the barmaid, `Before 4 as •boo late do, only do help mo to find work.' " GIN t� "Asfd6 f4:,j�'N I µtap r are just as good. for ood- for the Bladder as they aro for the Kidneys. If there is tremble in retaining aria( --if you hove to get up throe or four times or oftener aureate tilonight-4.0 tho mine is hot and soaltiing—G•in rills will quickly relieve alio trouble. They cure the kidneys and heal the ireiteteel bladder. OOe. a box; 8 for 132.50. At all dealers or sent on receipt of pricey Sample free if you mention this paper, les NATIONAL MUG AND CHEMICALM OF CANADA LIMITED. TORONTO. A BERM US 011111. G1'lI)K. tNr'�d4'a•;s The Standard Lge of Canada. Has Milan( Imitations blla<t no equal —a A[ODa3L DAIRIES, LIMITED. It seldom happens that private investors are given the opportunity of securing stook in such attractive enterprises as Model Dairies, Limi- ted, Montreal, advertised in this issue. Large dairy companies in all the large cities of North'Amer- ica are paying handaolne dividends to their shareholders every year, Model Dairies has been organized by a number of the keenest and most sneeeesfn l business men • in Oauacla. The names of these mon insure permanence and good man- agement, It pays to follow good leaders., •T Mips in fleury IV's Time. There have been many ohne:gee of opinion concerning hops in England, evens although it has been lefe to the tweiebieth eentu,ry to regard them as a manufaoturecl aitiele. Though the hopwas being culti- vated in England as early as Henry IV., Henry VIII, forbade its mix tike with becr,•and in 1040 the citi- vans of London petitioned Pariica.- Irene against "this wicked weed which would moil the do illk and en- danger thelives of..the people," At. that time troops were mionly e;seeem- ed as a medicine for the. liver noel Iciclneys, -andoven' today the hold pillow for ineorm.nia is eat unknown. A Visitor to England. • One of the body of German Girl Guides who recently paid a visit to England. She is dressed in full ser- vice outfit. d' LET NATURE 13E THE GUIDE. Is the Early Riser Really Healthy, Wealthy and Wise? It almost seems as if there ought to be a society to protect us from the effect of the old adages. Most of us, for instance, have been taught that: "Early to bed, and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." mI IIInr. S1 xc' ro ote'outrrvu� 6Y1 cera Yll'eekti7+fal JPYl irelefegi' NOTES OF SCIENCE I If mill( be used to irefteu shoe pul- ish it will improve the gloss. Italy will add abouts 130 aero- planes to its army equipment this year. In some parts of Germany and Switzerland churches are heated with electricity. British war vessels annually con- sume 31900400 lung tons of coal and 200,000 ;long tuns of oil fuel. Ching, has the world's'oldest chain bridges stretching for half a mile from one mountain top to another. Nearly 500 acres of land near Paris are devoted to raising young trees Cir a peculiar shape for um- brella lehndles. Six Swedish scientists plan to spend five years in the antarctic, chiefly in exploring the land around the south pole. India leads eastern d'ountries in the number of its blind, having about 000,000 to 600,000 in China and 100,000 in Japan. Eminent opthmologists have an- neunced that the eyes are not in- jured by watching motion pictures, but often gain some benefit. The entire lamp of an English lighthouse can be lowered to near sea level in foggy weather when it would be secured in its usual posi- tion. Government chemists in the Phil- ippines are'investigating the soap making possibililies of a new spe- cies of oil -hearing nut that has been discovered. Wood paving block is used on Berlin streets only 013 the steepest grades to give abetter footing and on bridges and their approaches to lessen the jar. But is this really true nowadaysb In times gone by, when artificial light had not been invented—or was too costly for general use—it is easy to understand that those people who got up at sunrise made the best bar- gain, because they got their light- ing practically free of charge, says London Answers. Besides, this adage, like many others of its kind, was horn amid agricultural communities, where economy of daylight is and must al- ways'be one of the secrets of mak- ing money. Nowadays, however, most people dive and work in towns, and their work is often done—sometimes ne- cessarily done—by artificial light. It doe's 'mot make any differeneo to your wages whether your work is clone by daylight or by the glare of a jet of gas. Therefore, unless yon are engaged in the agricultural business, early rising will certainly nob make you any wealthier. Will it make you any healthier 1 It is doubtful. IvLost people have an idea that they ought to get up early in'the morning. Nevertheless, they very rarely do it:. It may be that it is more natural to rise with the lark; but we have been living on all artificial system for eo many 'generations now that our constitutions are getting used to the change. Who are the people who get up early in the morning nowadays'1 Do they rep.resonb the "wealthy and wise" of the popula- tion 4 Hardly, The early risers are usually the "hands" who have to bo at their job early in the morning. Wealthy people do 110t as a rule commence business before ten O'olook in the morning; and if they had to be up early in order to be wealthy, half the big offices in the cities would be poverty-stricken to -morrow. Then, docs early rising really make people "wise" 1 Probably the earliest risen in the country are the agricultnr'al labormi's; but we do not usually hold this estimable Class of men pp as samples of our national wisdom. On tho other hand, Beane el the keenest intellects of our times are to be found among our legislators, who begili business about noon, and are rarely' able eo get to bed t111 the email hours of the enol Ring: Of course, it you Have gee teasel: up early in the manning because your business Compels you to do so it is no use leaguing about the Mate ter, But if yo0 have the option of Ott extra hour's rest you Recd not get the idea into your Beard that it is re 01'hne to yield to the very plea- santinstinet for a little more sleep. Mee. toll, Nature is not t;L bad guide When she talks to els indivi- dually. let may bo very biit,ve and Spartan -like to spring rout of boil at five in the reora ig. Hut basila' lllat, is mime pour gliandpe used to deo, it dorm!!; ,fo.l:Unty that it is going to do your nervous system any good as iho yea.m '111.1 by. , FOUND GEMS OF ElliflIPIA PROF. GAR STANG'S It0MANTIC RESEARCH. • iluilding of =Queen Candeee'e A'SIM (dent ('ailital ('outing to J4glit. The story of Queen (landace'e an- cient capital should melee iatere*st- ing reading when the excavatiocee now 10 progress under Prof. Gar,. slang are complebed. The Royal ol,ty of Meroo lies between Amhara and IChartum, on the Nile The story of these diecoverfcs is indeed one of the meat rueeentr:o pages of aivodeen research; no one, A novel l ranch heater fur rooms unless it were Prof. Seayse; had ihmea.- ined or old h ve i, ferrel how consists of a carpet in which ase g a n woven wires to take current from extensive the ruins ,of it•ho eity were,: a lig°lit socket and distribute the nor flow remarkable in charadt.er. electric heat evenly. Wheal the ex(avabors first arrived, Prizes amounting to $12,500 will three or four seasons ago, the only be awarded in Paris in October ate visible trace of aalei.ent handiwork the ounclusion of a series of con-' was a simple line of wall ,anti three tests to stimulate the use of kero- or four carved stone rams in the serve as automobile fuel. A German musician has invented an electrically operated machine which records on a roll of paper avenue of approach toward the every note of a Composition as he great temple of Ammon, which in ' more ancient history nvas one of the plays it upon a piano. Plants have been established in chief features of the city. The stone wall which rose an Isolated ruin is found to be only a portion of a great ,enolosure, inside }Which there are taming to light the stone built palaoes, offleial buildings and the Royal baths whioh form the Royal city of ttradition. Egyptian, Greek and Roman. The broken potsherds begin to tell their story and to disclose to expert same • vecinity, Now, huwever, all is changed; the stone rams are found to line the Sweden, Scotland and Germany for the manufacture of steel said to be equal to crucible steel in quality by a new process. For smaller cities and towns a recently devised fire alarm employe an enlarged and more than ustually- powerful automobile born, electri- cally operated, to sound signals. A German physician has invented a sprayer for iodine which permits its use for dressing wounds with-examiinatioll three main sue•oessive out the danger of bad results activity; the firs4 through its violent caustic proper- periods of local y i ties. subjece to Egyptian influence, the. English physicians are investigat- seeo�nd marked Py ing the discovery of an alleged cure al) rrlflirti n£ e. ur Greek ideas, and idle third suggest- for tuberculosis by means of the hie, a Roman occupation or colony. ammoniated gases generated in the production of maggots for fish bait. In the Malay Peninsula an Eng- lish naturalist has discovered a species of ant that makes its nest in the fleshy stems of ferns that grow on the limbs of trees high in the air. "Did you ever see a smile.on the mouth of a river 1" "No; nor a frown on the brow of a hill.' Outdoors or in—this is the Stands the test of Canada's trying weather as no other paint you have ever used. Icor barns and other buildings. for your implements andwagons, and for your home, both outside and In there is a Ramsay finish that is the best of its kind. To the man who doeshis own painting the convenience and economy of Ramsay's Saint is self evident. The man who hires painters to do his work for him will do well to specify Ramsay's Paints—they wear so well and protect wood and metal so thoroughly from deterreratbOn. The local Ramsay dealer will give you splendid service and suggestions. Or write direct to the factory. A. RAMSAY & SON CO. (Established 1842) MONTREAL, Que. paint that gives satisfaction (3) ITCHEN ECON i Y One burner, or four—low flame or ]high—a slow fire or a hot one. No coal soot or ashes. Wadi rt 11.t Icrst '.zl dun means better' cooking at less cost—ant:' a cool, clean kitchen, In 1, 2, 3 anti 4 burner sizes, with cabinet top, drop shelves, towel- racks, etc. Also a new stove with Fireless Cooking Oven. At ell dealers and general stone. Rdyalifb Oil Giaes nest Remits THEMPERICO.,Limited• I AL 0ILC Toronto Quet,es Hellllun Walled 90, John Winnipeg Vancouver The historical material confirms these evidences, showing the city to have been founded about' the eighth century, B,C•., possibly when the Ethiopian power sal Egypt began to decline before the advance of As- syria, impelling the King and the ownit to seek the security of a re- fuge further up the Nile than their previous capital of Nalpate afforded. Many tombs of the Necropolis have been examined and show that the development of local funerary art and customs pursued a parallel course. These ere arehaelogically divisible into theee separate groups corresponding to the main historical divisions, and, it would appear, to. the groups of pyramides. Even a fourth period, later 'in date than the third century A.D., is suggested in some of the north- ernmost tombs, agreeing with evi- dence, as yet not fully developed, which the excavators have remark- ed amid the ruins of the city. This is accordant with the last historical refere,noe to Meros, found in an Ethiopian text published by Bent, which records the seek of the •city, apparently- its final overthrow, in the seventh century, A.D. Adjoining the royal palaces in which a considerable hoard of tradi- tionel gold treasure and jewels of. the Ethiopian kings has been dis- covered theme was Found an exten- sire series of ,buil dings forming the royal baths,. The excavation of these is still proceeding, but so far as it has gone, it has been rewarded with remarkable and in tructive finds. Statues. t f local execution based upon familiar classical ideas decorate the colummade and the facade of its central feature ; ,this was a sort of plunge and shower bath, fed by cascades, of water frown a system of storage tanks 01111 Pa- ter conduits. Near at hand a anmi-circular rooms with carved stone seats correspond:3 to the eepideriunl in the plac•A of Greek and Ronan baths, but the precise disposition toed relation to tho Chambers 22111 be a chief, fee- tltl0 of the investigations. Ju•8t to the north and kill within the Royal City, though not etage10- poraay with its original buildings, a . smell Roman temple Was found, of the simple design which one might readily asso•clate with a detaches( garrison of Roman soldiers or al small colony of artisans with special privileges. Whole Sermon From Memory. One of the wog, remarkable blind gals ii1 Lomclon, England, :is Miss Mnbol Green, who has boon blind eiaide infancy; Miss:Green is en- gaged in se•crei:arial work, olid is all accompIlshl1•d rhorthand writer nod an tecen0abe and qui,ok typist, but her outstanding gift is that of it pre¢digiolls memory, She went t0 _.. . the m 1111118 seavice. at the Baptist (21111.01:11, Park Square, duct,cd by the Itev, %. B, Meyer°, and ,ll,ttnlro�i;;; ,, o dkl' nob talr.o a single. note, exoept nseilf411 ; hhTl" afterward reported' the evhole sra', 'non in shorthand on a special :Braille machine invented by Ileory Stesnsby, the iseclur1ary general of the National Institution for the Blind.