The Brussels Post, 1916-7-6, Page 2r•rr.rrrr's•••rw,ror;;;r•r.,
THE LAPSE OP
• ENOCH WENTWORTH
By. ISABEL GORDON CURTIS,
Author of "The Woman from Wolvertous"
CHAPTER V.—(Cont'd.) to hive grown strangely cool and.im-
He dropped lightly upon his knee% pervious to contempt or anger. "The
inefront of Wentworth when he finieh- play is mine," he repeated; "it IS the
ed, due and forfeit of my bond,"
"I await thine ordere; most grave The eyes of the actor narrowed and
and reverend seigneur," Then"he Iaid he laughed savagely. e
his fingers upon Wentworth's arm and
"Take you pound of flesh," he
looked up with an expectant smile. cried • "What will you do with it?"
Enoch wrenched his arm free and "Everything we had planned."
rose awkwardly to his feet. Tha Enoch's voice was calm. "Give it a
comedian drew back with a seartlecl! big production, advertise it as a play
expression, as if fear struggled with never was advertised before, and build
bewilderment up your fame as an emotional actor."
"What, will you not play the con
-
"You, see," Enoch's lips were per -
feeble, colorless, "Your mental ability viet 9"
,is pledged to me." "II 0:f course not. There is only
Merry started at him, curious and one actor in America who can play
perplexed. `John Esterbrook ' "
"It is your mental ability which I
crahn now/' Enoch said deliberately.
Andrew spoke in a coarse whisper,
"I don't understand."
"I demand your play!"
"You demand my play? To sell?"
"No; of course not" Wentworth
jerked out the wads abruptly, "Why
should I want to sell? 2 want to pro-
duce it—as mine, as one—I have writ-
ten." -
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chapped hands and lips.
Keeps the skin soft. Sold
in metal boxes and tin tubes
at chemists and general
stores everywhere.
Refuse substitutes.
Free booklet on request
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(ConsolIdAed)
1880 Chabot Ave. Montreal
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During 1915, an agriculthral survey entative of this paper before seeding
was conducted by the Commission of started that he had sold 200 pounds
Conservation on 400 farms in Ontario, of formalin and expected to sell 75
answer to the queetion "Are the pounds more before the season was
Was found that 53 per cent. of the where his sales of this material
replies were in the negative. 1n amounted to very little in 1915. There
travelling over Canada one cannot but are farmers in the Province who have
be impressed by the general untidi- treated their seed for the past ten or
nest; and the absence of plan or ay's- fifteen years annually, and without
tem in the planting and care of the fail, and the respite have well repaid
farm home grounds. them for their trouble, We have also
Olean -up and Arbor Day campaigns, known of farmers who have never
Ieonducted each spring in many of our treated for smut, and their grain has
towns and cities, should be extended become so badly infested and their
Ito rural communities. The first ques- threshings so dirty that the neighbors
Ition the farmer asks is: "What will refuse to assist them at threshing time
It cost?" feeling that he cannot af- Fruit growers are obliged to spray
ford it. 'It will cost a little time in. in order to produce a marketable
p anning and work in planting, but commodity, and the time may come
these will be well repaid by the added when farmers generally will be oblig-
opy which littered his attraction and consequently increased ed to treat their seed grain in order
he walked to the safe value of the farm. In many parts of to prevent severe loss. Anyway, A
e it. He had just open- . Canada trees and shrubs for planting is
grounds around the house neat?" it over. This is significant, especially
Andrew rushed across the room in a clippings and c
blind fury. He stretched out his hand ' table. Then
and dealth Wentworth a stinging blow, and knelt befor
ed the door tine
across the mouth. "That neer won't
play it. Do you understand?" 'manuscript whe
Wentworth lifted his arm fiereelyd Dorcas,ran in,
rying a suit en
then it dropped nervelessly by his
side. The veins rose in his neck and! Wentworth for
forehead like taut corde. He stoolj inner room.
staringat Merry, who strode about?, yo'u'Bble:cskrhehe
the room in ademoniac fury.
Merry moved toward him with an , God! You're not a man You're al myshliefehheladvehTims
agony of terror in his eyes. "You damned, low -clown scurrilous black -
want to take from me my one cam- ' leg. think of you standing gazed at him el
And to
plete effort, my one ambition, my there, looking me in the face—God!" Icecoualdlosoeideeaci,ntledu
• everything—the work which is making! Merry raised his hand again as if to
steadily for weeks? You would de ' strike, then he dropped it by his side, stay right here.
shuddenii, and dashed across the who can manage
a man of me, on which I have toiled i
that!! Do you understand—while II room, He picked up his hat and "I beg your p
turned to the door. guest here." H
wrote I scarcely stopped to eat or i
the inner room
Where are you going? asked;
caller to her.
Enoch sternly.
"I'm going straight to—hell." "Me ^ geld a
laid his hand upon the can often be secured from the wild, leapt labor and trouble, and, rfot know-
n the door opened and. Nothing is better for home planting ing what the season will be like, it
Jason followed, car -I than the common trees from the sur- will probably pay to make it an an For a minete;rounding woodland; no shrubs Pur- nual practice just as is the seeding is!:
1 ,
self.—Fariner's Aevocate.
got the visitor in hisi chased from an agent are superior to
those native to the district, and no
cried. "Never ' 11'
art, I'm glad to have , Purchased vines can marl)
i , ass some of
s e LT -
those r ----
. Harrow or Roller?
een you look so well." ginia creeper, bitter sweet or the wild
at arm's length arid grape, Many of the choicest wild fe
•iethcailloyr. "I wish e flowers, when transplanted to the fl
you, Enoch, flower bonier,. often flourish more than ro
ly seedy, Ie got to in 'the wild. Yet in spite of the ease ho
I'm the only one !
with which these attractions may be , ro
you." , obtained, many farm home grounds . Pe
melee, DOreas, I've a are Implanted, untidy and unattractive I of
.
sleep? When I did sleep I dreamed of
it and—
He stopped, too much affected to
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trust his voice. He laid one hand He lifted his gloves from the table. busier ':, Dorry—not exactly
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he was trembling. j play. He stretched out his hand and wish and hear a play.
Beside them lay the marcusciipt of hisi nesi e e You may stay a you
over t e other as if to s
h till himself, for;
I was just go -
Wentworth stood looking at the; turned his eyes on the other mar., ing to read to him. If he likes it he
younger man. Something cold and 'enoching him as a thief might, who I will star Andrew Merry in it."
relentless crepe into his eyes, He laid; fears being caught in an act of rob- I "Oh!" A glow of antieipation shone
There is often a considerable dif-
rence of opinion as to whether a!
eld of grain should be harrowed or
lied in the spring, and if it is to be
th harrowed and rolled, whether the
Meg or the harrowing should bed
'Termed first. The proper method
procedure is nail d t
er brother led her t
and inbroduced his
nd I were havi
bus -
his hand on Merry's arm. .
• "Let me talk to you, Andrew."
"Tallc! Talk! You damned thief!!"
He pushed Enoch aside with quick re-
pulsion. His face was blazing with
wrath. He went trampling about the
room in a vague heedless, half -blind-
ed fashion. A thought seemed to
etirike him abruptly. He wheeled. longs to me. Money does not count' was of the happiness in store for
g
around suddenly and faced the man with me in this transaction. You may Merry.
beside him. take all the royalties. I want nothing Wentworth Iaid the pages of mane -
"Why in the devil's name, Enoch, but the authorship of the play." script on the table and clearee his
should you do this? Have I ever done - "Nothing' but the authorship—" II throat. Oswald sat ready to bestow a
you one cruel, disloyal act in all my; Merry's glance was a malediction. ; business -like attention upon the read.
life')" He dropped the pages and tossed his; ing. When Enoch lifted the first
Wentworth del not anssver. He re- l hat upon his head. Wentveorth watch- 1 Page his visitor asked: "May I know
turnee the terror in Merry's eyes with ed him curiously. The outer shell of 1 who wrote the play?"
a ccol, stubborn glance. the man had changed. His clothes ly.
"Ind you have this hellish 1 d • I immaculate an hour ago looked die!! "Ah!" said th E
ery. , in the girl's eyes. She laid her coat
"Take it," cried Enoch. "I have a I and hat on the window seat and drop..
copy of it, a. copy in my own hand -!ped into a low chair beside her bro-
writing." ther. Once or twice she patted 11'n
Merry stood fingering the pages. ( affectionately on the shoulder, The
"What do you propose to do with .E.nglishman watched her. There was
your—swag?" vivid admiration in his eyes, but Dor-
"Call it by a decent name. It be- cas did not see ie H • 1 a
, e nglishman. He
scheme in mind when you drew up
p un ei
heveled. A lock of fair hair strayed noticed the startled look on Dorcas'
that bond'!" he asked unsbeadily.1 down over his forehead, his linen had face. It escaped her brother, who set
"What did you have in mind when ! a battered appearance, the white turned half way from her,
, you reside me your slaval" I hyacinths drooped from his buttonhole; Wentworth began to read. He was
"I don't know—exactly." Wentworth! like blossoms which had been touch-, an excellent reader e his enunciation
s ia g i oiwarc g z ed by frost. He stood 'fbr a moment, wail slow ani distinct.- -The story
turned such a t• i 1 tf • 1 a e t
upon Merry that he reailzed the man with the door -knob in his hand star- ! quickly unfolded itself in strong, vivid
was speaking"thetruth. "As I told ing at Wentworth, who returned his! lenguage. Grant Oswald, who was an
you that night, and I am telling the gaie with a cold, ruthless scrutiny.; ardent student of dramtic literature,
truth, it was nothing but a fancy of Merry's eyes fell before them, It, fell immediately under 03 spell and
Mine, When you came 1,3 me with WAS the first palpable concession toj listened with intent quiet.
• this," Enoch's haril dropped on - the Enoeh's stronger will. 1 The minds of both men were so
"Good -by," he said with an unsteady 1 vitally concentrated upon the drama
laugh. He closed the door behind him. that they were scarcely conscious of a
Wentworth turned to the table, lifted , movement when Dorcas crept from her
the manuscript and steed glancing ' low chair be the wi d •
manuscript which lay upon the table
"you tame with a great temptation; it
teas too much for Inc."
"Evidently," cried Merry. His tone • lay
was withering in its scorn. He seated through the closely scrawled pages. I back against a pinow, gathered the
himself and his eyes turned fiercely : Then he crossed the roem, dropped it, folds of a silky portiere around her,
upon Wentworth. The muscles of his ! upon the mantel, and watched until, and stared; down at the square. She
cheek twitched as regularly as a each gray ash became a filmy atom of , heard her brother's voice in fregrnente.
• pulse. 1 dust. I Those fragments were always the
"The play is mine." Enoch seemed --- I words of the girl, Cordelia, or of the
CEIAPTER VI. !father fallen to pitiful estate,. She
"Jason, this is nobody I know.", clasped her hands together with such
Wentworth sat staring at a card his, a grip that it numbed her fingers. A
man laid before him. He knitted his' strange pain and a horrible suspicion
brows querulously. "Make him un I were seeping through her body and
clerstand that I'm engaged." burning in her veins. Outwardly she
"He's terrible masterful, Meese was inert.
Enoch," said the darky apologetically; ! Suddenly she was awake again, wide
"he's boun' he'll ace ye', He's a gen- , awake, tingling. with life and emotion
Homan all light. I don' believe I kin listening to her brother's vibrar
"Tell Wm 25501 spare ten minutee.," for John Esthrbrook. Ho toocl with
git ied ob him nosy." , voice The day of relcaeo had come
: jaeon ueliered the visitor into Went j halting, tremuloue stops, fearful at
worth'e library. He was a tall (listen-, the eight of the world ha had left
guiebed man, with a fine, highbreel , twenty years before hiding his eyes
, face His manners were exceeeingly'from its tumult. Then Cordelia ran
gracious, yet simple to meet him—young, hopeful, loving
! "I don't believe, air, Oswald, I've and eager, Dorcas forgot the horror
met you befcree, said Enoch. I anti doubt which had
"You haven't." Grant Oswald emit., for a moment, ehe w
i al cordially. "Your man tells me nothing but the play,
1 you have exactly ten minutes to Heave, ! more human, than ski
I'llu go straight to businee i. I'm an , of that day when An
1, neellehman. I have been in New . walked home over the
Don't buy sugar by York for three weeks. I want to in- er Point. Her eyes
the"quarter's worth" vest money in something along the; pity, then she smiled
) theatrical line." , ceased to, be d protean
or "dollar's worth" I "Ob." Enoch looked up sharply.; Love heil come, and th
•1"Andrew Merry mentioned you," i to work out what W110
when you can. huy 1 "Yes, I spoke to Merry one eight -lure.
! on the elevated. He's ane of your! (To lee emit
fi•! few Amer;ene actors whom I alenre. I
ereenseueneeeteee4eo wuteaValettee • him --lee :e.elo3 of having ono - I'M
, .• will hue i 0 yen hire a hundral thous.. ' cel
the u leer ho', "win you go down to
gl n W.I4ttAlt`V SJ
! If a play meal be fiiund thet fitted Cals-Up.
"Sevilla.' Aid her rnietrese during
and •e,l'ne . on ite pencluction." th i
in these fall weight 1 "A hew': e 1 thee eand! ,:rilt,t, Wi.111(1, sfulth oent„.i,,,i, nivinuter„.
tits ottaunient told gn't Ow osoin, vt
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at is needed to make them real-
ly beautiful is a little planting and
care.
The morning glories, used to beauti-
fy the cabin were pla33ted )33, the
housewife. In fact, it is usually the 1 rolling should bef 11
owed
y every case the
.
Y a ght 0 seriously indeed. His staff work has
woman who takes an interest; thee, harrowing with a chain harrow or a 1 included carrying despatches, acting
man is too busy with the crops to , set of very light seed harrows, so that j as ineerpreter, superintending the
bother •with such things.—F,C.N. in the top half inch or so shall be again making of trenches, and duty as as-
Conservation1 broken up. When the soil is inclined sistant transport officer, and he has
to be solid, then rolling is generally been en imminent danger of death
Try Alfalfa Again.
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a mistake and should not be under- scores of times.
ei
taken unless it is necessary to smooth - There is nothing aggressive about
Although it is now generally admit- the surface somewhat or press hithe
ted that alfalfa is the one best feed- . .
, the state of the soil. If the soil is
'lying very light and open on the sur-
face, then the rolling is the best, for
it will consolidate the soil round the
plants; but in nears
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Flaky Pie Crust I
of olherrecipos for =king
We lo our Recipe Pooh -with n lot
nood Plan,
But -we're going to tell you tight
here how always to have the top epi
crust fine and flaky -and how to hare
the Uhilot cruet just right, even when
using fresh fruit.
Just me port
Instead of all wheat Aur. Try It.
and prove It.-
Get a package of BENSON'S at your
grocer% and write to our &footrest
Office for copy of our new recipe
hook, "Desserts and Candies.' that
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15.
WHAT THEY DOING FOR TUB
MEN AT THE FRONT.
War's Silver Lining Is Their Rally.
ing to Aid of the
Fighters.
It is difficult, after reading day
after day of the horrors of war, of the
hecatombs at the front, of the (Jeanie.
tion of the world's choicest achieve -
meets, of the utter ruin of entirecountrjes, countries, of peaceful homes ravaged,
of women and children outraged and oe
thousands of innocent peasants shot
in cold blood or brutally treated—it le
difficult, I say, to see how any good
has come of this hicleotte war, writes
Sallie Wister in the Philadelphia,
Ledger. .Arld yet, on looking back
ten years, and remembering the tem-
per of the men and women of Eng-
land toward one another, especially
that of the working women of England
• THE PRINCE OF WALES. , toward the men in power; and remem-
bering, also, it one reach Mrs. Hump-
s
Is Unaggressive, But Will Not Stand hey Ward's recent account, the man-
leaaveu
!
for Nonsense.
When the Prince of Wales got short helped the Goveriunent to save Eng -
tiler in which the English women of all
classes, at the moat enicial moments,
by coming forward -in hundreds
y
lg000dg-obytoe"BtuocklolinsghapmarePnatlaaceantland do ;
of thousands to take the places in
brothers and sister before going to the factories of the striking men and
the front, Prince John asked him:0of those at the front—who, then, can
"What are you going to do when you deny a silver lining to the cloud,
get there, David?" (David being the The lives of heroic Englishmen at
name by which he is called at home). I the second battle of Ypres were cruel -
"David" rubbed his chin and smil-I ly, uselessly sacrificed, because the xll=M
ed. "I think I'll grow a beard for ons were not there. The men
one thing," he answered.
I now might strike—the women had
Figuratively speaking, the Prince come to the rescue of the Government
of Wales has "g,rown a beard" since and their own men at the front.
the war bega—,nthat is to say, he has
ceased to be a boy and has become a
man. The change is very apparent
to all who come in contact with him.
Always inclined to seriousness, he
has taken his share in the war ver
ing crop for live stock., and despite
the fact that it has been proved suit-
able to nearly every district in On-
tario, many farmers refuse to give the
plant a trial on their farm, while °the
ers give* up trying to grow it after
making a very feeble effort for suc-
cess.
Those who wish to excuse them-
selves for neglecting to even try al-
falfa say that it interperes with their
rotation, is hard to break up if once j
established, and is not suited for pas-
turing; while those who give up trying
s anticipation of harvest. Roll-
ing is very seldom really required un,
less the, and is quite light on the sur-
face.
Little Potato Disease.
to grow the crop say that their land
is unsuited for it.
The first reason given for not sow-
ing alfalfa is perhaps the best, but it
is not a very good reason at that.
alfa is known to improve with the
ic
length of time that it occupies a field,
but even if the third or fourth year
are sacrificed to maintaining a rota- i
tion the whole benefit of the crop is I s
not lost; and what cuttings are made f
in the first few years of its life 'are;
equal, if not superico. in value tb cut- 1w
tings of any other crop in the same f
period. iN
As for the trouble of 13
a
affectedspots.They up al
field of alfalfa, this only occurrs in,
very old fields; and the fault faun(
by the ploevman—that the -coots run
11 Doctor Tells How To Strengthen
The world can get along without
you but that's no reason for not try-
; ing to be one,,that the world doesn't
want to get along without.
When a mother begins to tell her
children how smart their father is,
• they look at her as reproachfully as
if they thought she was losing her
mind.
his plow out—is often due to the oo-
he
plow
currenee of an odd plant of alfalfa
that comes as a surprise after the
plow has been running through light
or poor sod for some thne.
The third reason for objection to al-
yesvght 50 per cent in One
- Week's Time In Many Instances
falfa cannot be very wen rnaintaineel A Pree Prescription con gat, Have
by many ' who make it, because the Filled and lese at Homo.
crop is so valuable as hay, and is cap-IAell1.1"sssPlNrre00Inelje'1l)e
P;bt'able of producting so many cuttings M wtiknee? If ;0,tutl
15 IsisO 0,
a season that other ground than he), kuri teat nreortiluto Dr. Lewiss th:.re Is
to pasture and the alfalfa crop used 1 Stored through the principle of tam Won-
alfelfe field may well be given over Kiii„kf'-aeFaer,°r0,3;•Ve,„'\er,',"LITaa,'Nesee4.‘,1",7
for soiling if the Summer feed is' in- u1,f900 1?"" "
ll't1"' One '0"
'1
sufl'icierlt,
The Contented Cow.
0050Jill-11(.4ft blind ;
could 110A we to rend nt all. Now 1 ono
road everything without any amm
uses ut
my eyes do not water tiny more. At' Matt
tl •
n
pt, c teadiu 1,v; now They feel
There is a firm, whose business it is I ,01e."
fine all the thne. It was like it nitwit, to
A lady who ascii it says: "irtio,nt•
to supply milk to city consumers, who I g-010/Z3e,reburenTredr itisag yiltili or without
make a speeialty of advertising that' for fifteen days everYgng's8eminrsestgliref.11
their milk is drawn from contented; it I
! can oven vend tine print without glassen
strengthen their eyon 00 118 to be spitted
the trouble and expense of ever getting
sluseus, lib'e troubles ot many cluserlp.
ilons tutty be wonderfully benefited by t1 -
lowing the simple rules, Here IS the pre-
erriptIon tie to any active drug store
Ind get a 110505 ,0' iloii-Opto tablets, Drop
one 5011.0900 tablet th fourth of ti glass
of water nod allow 1.0 dissolve. 'With this
intuit) bathe the eyes two to four times
daily. 'You should notice your eyes ;deer
Op perceptibly right from the sMrt and in-
Ilinutintilon will quickly disuMmur, •if your
eyes are bothering you, even n little, take
steps to KM them now before It is too
into, Aluity hopelessly blind udgitt have
been RIIV011 if they had cart d for then eyes
in time,
er&e4.11grZaTirli1P014trtr 400`,7,4171Z7.
,Innody, Ito conIlhient ingredients ilre melt I.e. to:10,m1.1.,
swept her down, COWS. There is a lot in this for the; lines (em now ilnirsci&rgilgial? ;t7r E,112
e Ulna and multitudes more 1Onola tau,. I fr
hitti'd"Alr'N
es thinking of
it 'Was greater 1 tion bears close velationship to nerv-
faiener to consider.. produc-
15 ie sold In Toronto by V:Mts":"1'.;:mg Co
e had dreamesi!
ous condition. An excited cow will not •
drew and se„ readily "let down" her milk, as every -1
heath at Juni"; body knows. Excitement is an intim-
grew wet with ntion that she may require her ener-
happily ar8deIrct0 gies for self-preservation; and the
1 for milkComaking process adjourns its act-
ivities to allow her to meet the ap5re-
0 father threat heeded emergency,
left of a fu- Annoyance in any form produces
some degree of worry, irritability, arid
inue(1.) consequently excitement. Keep the
cows contented, and functional activ-
ity ip milk secretion will be the more
genercius.
Hence it is that dogs, unusual odors,
vitiated air, sudden chills or draughts
af ail, irregular feeding or watering,
7. eet fleenme noiee, roughness in handlieg, all help
A., tehertlyto decrenee the milk yield. Keep the
Ile ;roe the ineimel quirt and contehted, in well
1 vontilut,!.I but, quiet quarter, feed re-
, • • " i r'.'11)171y, mei act in a kindly and gentle
numnee when about the Nettle,
The War on Smut
The emelt-nee of smut in th 0
e
IG;FI crop last season induced
ee • tei 4:1uy fermere to treat their seed be-
fore sewing this spring. One druge
A comtkatice of both liquid and
paste. Tlie7 nodose a brilliant,
lastiugshinaseithrerylittle effort.
These polishescontahl no acid and
will sot cm& the leather. They
preserve die katherand increase
the life of 'silt 811084
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The Invasion of Women.
Indeed, the women of England, the
women of France, have come forward
freely, without reserve. In England
there are at least 250,000 so employ-
ed. In one factory visited 600 were
engaged in dangerous -work. In the
largest fuse shops 1400 are at work.
On the Clyde, the invasion of wo-
men has been more startling to the
men than anywhere else. Mrs. Ward
was amazed at the magnitude of the
work done, but especially at the im-
mense share of the women in it. And
the whole of Engle* now is given
over to the manufacture of munitions
and war supplies.
It was thought at first that, in the
shrapnel shop for heavy shell work,
men must bo furnished to lift the
metal in and out of the machines.
But "the women thrust the men aside
in five minutes," and Mrs. Ward adds
that "war may be postponed for whole
generations, but England will never
fail to be ready for it, aa a necessary
part of the education of the race."
Mrs. Ward visited a great centre
with an official of the Ministry. She
saw the superintendent, who, discuss-
ing the women ancl their work, said:
"As to the women"—he threw up
his hands—"they are saving the coun-
try. They don't mind what they do.
Hours? They work ten and a half or,
with overtime twelve hours a day,
seven days a week. At least, that's
what they'd like to do, The Gov-
ernment is insisting on one Sunday—
or two Sundays—a month off. I don't
say they're not right. But the wo-
men resent it. 'We're not tired!' they
say. And you look at themi—they're
not tired.
They Laugh and Sing.
"If I go down to the sled and say:
'Girls there's a bit of work the Gov-
ernment is pushing for—it says it
must have—can you get it done?"
Why, they'll stay and get i,t done,
and thee pour out of the works laugh-
ing and singing. I can tell you of a
surgical careening factory near here
where for nearly ,a year the 1.0011100
never had a holiday. They simply
wouldn't take one. 'And what'll our
meh at the front d.o if ive go holiday -
making ? they ask."
And he told how the night before
there had been a Zeppelin raid and he
kept them in, fearing to let them go
out, Of course, lights were put out
The wornet sat in the dark, sieging,
"Keep the home fires burning" and
"Tipperary," and such war songs; and
the man "felt a bit choky," he said.
For he knew they were thinlchtg of
tt)hieicll.re, sweethearts and husbarele over
Yes, those women of England and
France aro passing' through a -fiery
furnace, and it would seem as though
.oni the burning there remained no-
lcing but pure gold. IIow could the
/rkingman etrike, leaving those men
the front, who were fighting to pre-
ent England's sharing the fat
unprovided with ammunition,
hen half a million women stood
tidy to do their duty?
And the workingmen 11.000 are tench-
er the women their trades,
The Englaili women asked Inc equal-
; it seeme to me they have won it.
4110 say to -day they have not?
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