The Brussels Post, 1916-7-27, Page 70011
Leftover Luncheons.
"It isn't worth while getting any-
thing in just for my lunch,?" says the
housekeeper who's alone all day, and
so she takes the proverbial cup of•
tea or coffee and any,odd "left -avers"
that happen to be in the pantry, It's
an unappetizing meal anda hurried
one, and, therefore, nearly as bad as
no meal at all. It is a foolish habit
likely to lead to headaches, weariness
and frazzled nerves, and cite un-
necessary, even in these clays of
"high cost of living," for there is no
need to buy anything fresh. The
left -overs can be transformed with
- very little trouble into something
savory and tempting,
Take that tablespoonful of cold
cereal, for instance. It wouldn't be
particularly inviting as a luncheon
dish in its left -over state, but it could
be kneaded with enough flour to make
a pliable paste, shaped into twothin
small cakes,and fried to a golden
brown, or baked on a gridle. Served
on a very hot plate, with a little but-
ter and maple or golden 'syrup, they
would be delicious.
Scallop shells are a boon to the
lunch -fur -one person. The tiniest
scrap of cold fish—even a dessert-
spoonful—can be mixed with a couple
of tablespoonfuls of nicely seasoned
white sauce and baked in a buttered
shell. If the top is dotted with biny
bits of margarine or sprinkled with
grated cheese, so much the better. •
Odds and ends o£ cold vegetables,
such as potatoes, cauliflower, sprouts
or carrots, can be mixed with sauce
in the same way, seasoned with a
sprinkling of cheese and baked to a
golden brown. Half a baked potato
can be transformed into a tasty in-
dividual dish. It may not be very
substantial, but, being hot and savory,
it will probably make the person en-
joying it eat plenty of bread and but-
ter, or be ready for a satisfying sec-
ond course of bread or biscuits and
cheese.
Cold peas, beans or potatoes make a
splendid basis for a cupful of hot
cream soup. Mash the vegetable,
season to taste, add enough fresh
milk to make the amount required
and boil for a minute or so. A tea-
spoonful of cream will add nutrition.
A slice of cold lamb should be cut
up very small and cooked for seven
or eight minutes in half a cupful of
white sauce (made rather thick), sea-
soned to taste, and served .on hot
toast.
Cold meat may be served up very
temptingly in jelly. Cut it into neat
cubes, pour over enough 'gelatine to
cover well and leave till set. Turn
it oub, cut into squares and mix with
a couple of young lettuce loaves, finely
shredded, or any other salad, and
sprinkle with some mayonnaise sauce
or cream salad dressing. To make
the jelly, dissolve about half a sheet
of gelatine in a gill of nicely seasoned
stock or water.
In a thousand ways the odds and
ends can be so resuscitated that they
will stimulate the appetite] and make
the lonely "snach" a pleasant meal.
How To Wash Woollen Goods.
To wash woollen goods successfully
the water should be soft and warm,
not hot, and of uniform temilerabrrre
throughout the operation. Only the
milder soaps sho4iid be used and these
not applied directly to the fabric. If
much dirt is present, a volatile alkali
such as ammonium carbonate may be
added to the wash water.
The scrubbing to which fabric is
subjected should be genble, and the
wringing through loosely set wring-
ers.
Once washed, the goods should not
be allowed to lie about wet, but
should be immediately hung up to dry
preferably out of doors, if the air is
dry and the temperature above freez-
ing.
Tho reason for this careful treat-
ment is found ire the peculiar nature
o£ the wool fibro. Its outer or epi-
dermal layer is made up of minute
serrations which are arranged in
some such manner as the scales on a
fish. Now these scales are softened
and opened upby hot water and by
such alkalis•as are found in the
harsher soaps. In this softened con-
dition
ondition the pressure due to hard
scrubbing is sufficient to cause the
serrated edges of bhe fibres to inter -
leek or felt. Felted fibres are usual-
ly hard and brittle. This is because
the alkali which has helped in fel-
turing process has removed from the
cells certain fatty aubsbances which
servo to 'make the fibre soft and till-
able.
Fabrics which have become hard
and felt have nob only lost their
attractiveness, . but also most of
their usefulness as a protection from
the cold. This latter mighty is due
to the "air blanket" which forms in
the spaces between tho fibres, for
quiet air is, as we know, a very
poor conductor of heat and cold.
When the fibres have become felted
t#eeo air spaces are lost and cense
quently the, fabric is no longer able
materially aid the bod to retain
to m
Y body.
heat.
Useful Hints.
Always use ice water when mixing
piecrust.
When broiling chickens, lay them
skin sire up.
Carrots and peas put together and
seasoned are a very good summer
dish,
All. bacon is improved by having
boiling water poured over it before
frying.
A delicious and economival dessert
is stewed figs and boiled rice served
together,
Tea jelly can be made in the same
way as coffee jelly, and it ie a plea-
sant change.
A teaspoonful of vinegar put into
home-made candy will prevent it from
being sticky,
Preserve cherries and blanched al-
monds aro a delightful addition to
the fruit salad.
Use fresh green grape leaves to
place on top of pickles in crocks in-
stead of a cloth.
Milk bottles should be filled with
cold water the instant the milk is tak-
en out then they wash easily.
If you use a brick for an iron
stand, your iron will remain hot lon-
ger than with the ordinary iron stand.
Grapefruit seeds will grow and
make a pretty ornament for the
breakfast table in winber.
Put a tablespoonful of ammonia in-
to
nto a quart of water and wash your
brushes in it. Never put soap on a
hairbrush.
A little powdered alum rubbed on
gilt braid or lace, after ib has been
brushed well will restore the bright-
ness, Alum should be left on for a
few hours, then brushed off.
Often the yoke of an egg will re-
move stains from wash goods. The
egg should be applied before putting
into the wash.
Left -over macaroni can be retook-
ed by putting in a dish with cream
sauce and a little minced green and
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THE STO RM IS ON
—Baltimore American.
CHILDREN ARE
ITS VICTIMS
INFANTILE PARALYSIS STILL A
DREAD MYSTERY.
Almost Invariably Leaves Some Ter-
rible Mark .After It and Re-
coveries Are Rare.
It is earnestly to be hoped that the
epidemic of infantile paralysis which
is raging in New York and has spread
rod peppers, and baked with bread, to several other states will not reach
crumbs and•cheese sprinkled over the this country. There are a few cases
top. in Montreal, but otherwise Canada
appears to be clear of it, and there is
rep reason to believe that the Montreal
utbreak is to be traced to the cases in
the United States. There have been
no real epidemics of poliomyelitis in
Canada, though there were several in
Toronto and vicinity a few years ago,
and in scores of homes there are chil-
dren who will never run or walk again
as a result of this visitation. There
is no more dreadful disease known to
medical science, and perhaps the most
terrible thing about it is the fact that
it usually selects children as its vic-
tims, although no age is exempt from
it. Complete recoveries are extremely
rare. Almost invariably infantile
paralysis leaves some dreadful mark
behind it, and so far medical science
has been unable either to provide a
cure or even to understand the na-
ture of the deadly organism.
SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS.
Medical Corps Has Taken 11000 and
Wants 4,000 More.
The British Government is calling
for more doctors for the army, Sur-
geon -General Sir Alfred Keogh has
appealed to the medical profession to
"mobilize" voluntarily, other wise, it
is suggested recourse will have to be
heel to medical conscription. A Lon-
don coddespondent of the Associated
Press says many of the doctors in
private practice at home object to
mobilizing, even voluntarily. Many
members of the British Medical As-
sociation maintain that the army has
already all the doctors it requires, if
it would only learn how to employ
them to the best advantage: Soma
of them even suggest that the War
Office should learn how to do it from
the enemy. Ono authority says:
"Already the Royal Army Medical
Corps has taken 11,000 doctors from
private practice and they are asking
for another 4,000, making in all 15,-
000. This 15,000 medical officers in
the permanent service gives a total
of 16.500 to abtend to an army of
about 4,000,000. The Germans, for
an army of 10,000,000, have 14,000
medical officers.
"The position at home is serious, as
there are only 30,000 medical men and
women in practice, With 15,000 tak-
en away, no more than 15,000 are left
to attend to a population of 41,000,000
men, women and children. How
grave the position is may be suggest-
ed by recalling that more than 500,000
industrial casualties occur in this
country every year, which is hugely
heavier than the casualties. at the
British front in a year of the present,
war.”
It is maintained that the whole pro-
blem could be solved without with-
drawing any more doctors by n reor-
ganization of the Royal Army Medical
Corps. Among the reforms they
urge are: Substitution of the army
for the division as the medical unit,
no doctors being thus kept idle be-
cobse their division is not in action.
Adoption of a new system of hospitals
at the front and abolition of field am-
bulances. It is estimated that the
latter change alone would save 1,500
doctors in an army of 1,000,000 men.
Relesae of doctors for home work
when there is no work for them to do
at the base hospitals. Under modern
conditions it is always known when
an attack is imminent, and tits staff,
would have 24 hours to return to
their base.
Kaiser Pensions Seven Generals.
A despatch from Rotterdam says:
According to The Berliner Tageblatt,
the Kaiser has decided to pension sev-
en Prussian Generals. I'ivo of the
Generals, namely, von $rodew, Von
Wiennstkowsky, Glokke, Cramer, and
von Heuer, will leave the,army, while
Generals von Kleist and ICrahreer will
bo given garrison commands. No
reasons for the dismissals of the Gen-
orals have been made public,
Too Small for Microscope.
That it is indeed an organism, a
germ, was learned only a few years
ago, the discovery being made almost
simultaneously in the United States
and France, where epidemics had
drawn some of the best medical ex-
perts in the two countries to study the
disease. Dr. Simon Flexner, of the
Rockefeller Institute, who is a noted
authority on the disease, says that it
is extremely doubtful if the virus Inas
been seen. Certainly the germ is ex-
ceedingly minute. The closest ob-
servers have been able only to ob-
serve under the most powerful micro-
scope little points, circular or slightly
oval in fornn, and these, possibly,
though not certainly, represent the
parasite. Another feature of the virus
is its resistance to external agencies.
It withstands glycerination for
months, and drying over caustic
potash for weeks without any marked
reduction of potency.
More Robust Than Rabies.
In these respects it is even more
robust than the virus of rabies. More-
over, it shows no diminution in
virulence after having passed through
several bodies. Experiments rracle
With monkeys showed that the germs
after having passed through 25 sep-
arate series of monkeys, were more
powerful if anything than before. It
is this fact that drove investigators to
the conclusion that the virus is a liv-
ing organism, but, as stated, it is so
minute that it cannot be said with
certainty that the germ has ever been
seen. It passes with great readiness
and little or no loss in potency
through the densese and finest porce-
lain filters, when in aqueous suspen-
sion, and on this, as on other ac-
counts, is extremely difficult to deal
with in laboratory experiments.
Enters Through Nose.
Dr, Floxner says:
"The infectious agent enters the
body chiefly, if not exclusively,
through the mucous membranes of
the nose and throat" The virus ex-
ists in the secretions of the nose and
throat and in the intestines. Hence
the mode of spread may be by kiss-
ing, coughing and sneezing, which
carry the secretions of the nose and peeled. Athens, He had not sapressed the
throat from one person who may be Consider what might happen, alnd cross there, but: tinev heti laughed
infected to other persons, Sitio the then, without delay, eliminate the Min down just 'elan h•• getting to
disease attacks by preference young menace of the rubbish heap. Iib, an is obvious fr m ` '. ?a -t emelt
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIeeese
ONAL LESSON
JULY 80.
Lesson V.—The Word of the Cross—
1 Cor. 1. 1 to 2. 5. Golden
Text,—Gal. 6. 14. . ,
Verse 18. Them that are perishing
us who are being saved
(margin)—Tho text is a most un -
"fortunate mistranslation, ignoring the
significant Greek tenses altogether.
The New Testament represents "per-.
dition"! and "salvation" as future,
fully attained only when probation is
over. Except twice, where salvation
is described as ideally complete by
God's grace, Christians are always
"being saved,"—traveling on the nar-
row way that leads to life.
19. Paul uses Ise, 29. 14 as express-
ing an!d endorsing the thought,
20, Scribe—The Jewish " Scripture
scholar. Disputer of this age (mar-
gin)—Not world as below. Paul
appeals from the fashionable philo-
sophy of the day to the wisrom of
the future which will know.
21. In the wisdom of God—It is pro-
videntially ordained that knowledge
based only on conceit and arrogance
must always fail to gain any true ap-
prehension of God. The law has
been illustrated in the history of the
church as well as the world: Jewish
theology and Greek rhetorical spec-
ulation failed, ani everything since
that has worked in the same spirit.
The Foolishness of the thing preach-
ed (margin)With daring irony, Paul
appropriates the term used by the Su-
perior Person. "They may laugh
who win," and as Paul knows the
gospel is God's plan, he can afford to
repeat with proud satire what clever
men choose bo say about it. Toleay
the church historian would give a
great deal if he could get hold 01'
those primitive criticisms, but they
survive only in the quotations of
Christian writers. -
22, Signs—As they did of the Mas-
ter. He gave them one, but those
who ask in such a spirit "will nob be
persuaded though one rise from the
dead.'
23. A Messiah crucified (margin)
—And therefore accursed (Gal. 3.13).
Stumbling block—The Greek word
(which we have borrowed as scandal)
more probably means a snare or trap.
Their own obstinate prejudices were
the bait, and they made God's own
means of salvation into a means of
destruction, like a wild animal pull-
ing down on him the heavy stone of
children and infants whose nasal and
mouth secretions are wiped away by
mother or nurse, the fingers of these
persons readily become contaminated.
The care of other children by persons
with contaminated fingers may there-
fore lead to the conveying of the in-
fectious micro-organism indirectly
from the sick to the healthy. This
danger also exists in connection with
vendors of food which is eaten uncook-
ed. The existence of cases of infan-
tile paralysis in the homes of vendors
of food is therefore a perpetual source
of danger. Dissemination can be
made by means of house flies."
How Death is Produced.
The chief terror of the disease lies
in its appalling power to produce de-
formities. • When death does occur it
is not the result, as in many infec-
tions, of a process of poisoning that
robs the patient of strength and con-
sciousness before its imminence, but
is caused solely by paralysis of the
respiratory function, sometimes with
merciful suddenness, but often with
painful slowness, without in any de-
gree obscuring the consciousness of
the suffocating victim until just be-
fore the end is reached. No more ter- the trap. Compare
are 1 Pet 2. 8.
rible tragedy can be witnessed. For Foolishness—Weeasily imagine
some years experiments have been how a cultured Greek would scoff at
made with a view of producing a
curative or preventive serum, and
some progress has been made with a
drug called hexametliylenamin, or
urotropin, which possesses a degree
of antiseptic action. This drug, how-
ever, must be very carefully adminis-
tered because it is more or less dan-
gerous to many of the vital organs of
the body. No doubt the present
epidemic will result in still greater
efforts being made to fully under-
stand the virus of infantile paralysis
and to develop a serum that will rob
it of much of its deadly powers.
the idea of being saved by a Gali-
laean carpenter who was not even
alive, but dead on a malefactor's cross
of shame.
24, Called—Since God's call has two
necessary elemenbs, God's invitation
and man's acceptance, the former be-
ing universal, but the latter limited,
the term is naturally used of those in
whom the call becomes effective.
26. Not many—Yet there were some
from all these classes, and every one
of them counboi for a great deal in
their influence with others. In the
first century, as in the twentieth
' FROZEN FISH REVIVED. Christianity was mostly a middle
Problem of Shipping Them for Lon 1 class movement, in this respect agree-
DShipp e g The . g l ing with every other great movement
is upward in human history. But
. The feat of freezing live fish and i then, as now,+it also laid hold of the
reviving them several weeks or lowest. So in India to -day a few
months later has been achieved by
the Swiss scientist, i1i, Pictat.
The scientist put twenty-eight live
fish in a box that contained water
rich in oxygen, in which several
Brahmans And a great many out -
castes recruit the church—till bhe
flood comes!
27. Even so in Benares we have de-
graded outcasbes whom Christ Ins
pieces of ice floated. The temperature educated, awl proud Brahmans who
of the water was then reduced slowly
until it froze.
At the end of about two months the
cannot read.
28. Base—The opposite of noble
(verso 26). of birth. And the things
mice was gradually thawed, and the that are not=For the Creator still
fish, it is said, were found alive. In makes his world ex nihilo. The com-
such an experiment, the scientist re- montaries, forgetting that this is not
ports, it is essential that the water classical Greek, often render "count -
be gradually frozen, and that it
shall have contained ,pjeces of ice
for from fifteen to eighteen hours
before tine whole mass is frozen..
The process bf thawing must also
be slow, Through this process it is
believed that Siberian sturgeon and
Alaskan salmon can be exported alive
to distant markets. •
RUBBISH HEAPS,
Many Serious Fires Traceable to
Such Accumulations.
there, The eptaltuel blindneee of the
phllps9phers had mere than ever dis-
usted Paul with more human wis-
do Ile, the learned and cultured
rabbi would be 4 men of 0110 idea.
And him—Not as the wonderful
Teacher and Worker of miracles, the
winsome Example, the supreme Flow-
er
lower of humanity, but as crateified. The
cross must Como first in every theo-
logy that is going to save men.
ed as nothing, cyphers"; but this
would repeat only the word despised;
literally, made nothing of. Bring to
nought—Literally, make idle, a fa-
vorite word of Paul's (for example,
I cor. 13. S; 15.26).
29. No flesh -"All flesh" in this
phrase is a common Old Testament
term for the whole human family. --
30. Both righteousness etc, (mar-
gin)—These three are elements in
the comprehensive wisdom which was
incarnated in the Saviour.
31. Quotes from Jer, 9. 2e., the
More tiros originate in rubbish passage so magnificently used in
heaps than from any other source. To Wesley's great little lryinn.
permit rubbish to remain in the build- "Let not the wise his wisdom boast,
The mighty glory in his might."
2. 1, And I—lie has been enforcing
his point from their case, now he turns
to his own. Excellency—Nob lute a
visiting sophist with a big reputa-
tion for eloquence and philosophy.
Testimony (text) and mystery (mar-
gin), two very similar words, ere
about equally balanced . in the MSS.
The latter is perhaps better, It
was for the Greeks a religious rite
which it was unutterable sacri-
lege to reveal to any but initiates.
ing not only invites a fire to visit
your home or place of business, and
render your family temporarily home-
less, or cripple your business at a
time when you can least afford it, but
also endangers the lives of your fam-
ily or employees. • In addition to de-
stroying an average of $23,000,000 in
property value in Canada each year,
fire caused the death of 141 persons.
The home is built to protect our
loved ones, and we want to do every-
thing to insure absolute protection to
those who live in it.
That rubbish heap Qin the attic, So with the gospel—only !nitrates, So
storeroom or basement is a menace to with the gospel—only fuitation was
your :household, because there is al-
ways a possibility of fire starting in
it, and it may start when ]east ex -
open to all,
2. The "determination" was colored
by Paul's disbn•ess at Inc failure in
KITCHENER AND HAMPSIIIRE
Family Came From the County of
Same Name as Ship,
Lord Kitchener of Hampshire des-
cent, says a writer in the Hampshire
Chroniele, although the family have
been settled in Suffolk for some gen-
erations namely, at the little village
of Lakenheath, close to Ely, and just
a few miles from where the three
counties of Norfolk, suffalk, and
Cambridge meet. Lord Kitchener
showed a tenderness for the village.
He spent hundreds of pounds for the
repair of bhe ancient church and
churchyard where his forefathers lie.
In their own homely form the inscrip-
tions on the gravestones there tell
their own tale. The iscription on
one reads thus; "Here lyeth the
body of Thomas Kitchener, who mig-
rated from Binged, Alton, Hamp-
shire, in the year A. D. 1693. as agent
to ye Honble. Sir. Nicholas Stuart,
Bart., dep. this life April ye 5th,
1731, aged 65 years." This Thomas
Kitchener, who bhus left Binsted as
a young man of 27 years, may be con-
sidered to all intents and purposes the
founder of the Kitchener family.
There is also the grave of his son
Robert, who lived to sustain the fam-
ily honor for 60 years, and was gath-
ered to his fathers.
There are two remarkable coinci-
dences with regard to Lord Kitchen-
er.
itchener. The family sprang from Hamp-
shire and Lord Kitchener was drown-
ed in H.M.S. Hampshire. The oth-
er was that Lord Kitchener was born
in June and was drowned in June.
HEROIC MAJOR DECORATED.
t Surrounded By Germans on Dead Man
Hill, Fights Way Back.
The battle of Veniun has been pro-
lific of heroic deeds. One of the mosb
drastic episodes of the righting round
Dead Man Hill occurred to the west
of that position, where a French regi-
ment was face to face with a Pom-
erania brigade. During the hottest,
momenb a major commanding the
Third Battalion of a French regiment
disappeared.
Suddenly they heard a well known
voice shouting, "Bravo, boys! Give
them beans!" and the major came in-
to view, his uniform in shreds, his
face covered; with blood and his left
arm hanging limp. He had been cut
off with a handful of men, and at where the land has been cultivated for
their head fought his way thrciagh the centuries, the gentle germ is always
enemy ranks until he was sent to the ready to enter the smallest wound and
ground with a terrible blow from a bring about tetanus and other dis-
NELSON ON THE GERMAN'S.
"Thank God, the Superiority of the
British Navy Rmains,
In a letter dated September 17,
1796, Nelson wrote some words which
tersely sum up the European situation
as it stands at the present moment:
"As for the German generals, war
is their trade and peace is ruin to
them, therefore we cannot expect
they have any wish to finish the
War,"
The remarkable series of love let-
ters written by Nelson to his wife,
from which this extract is taken, is
now saved to Englund. When the
letters were put up to sell before the
war Mr, Edward Dring made it his
patriotic duty to obtain and hold the
letters for England, and accordingly
outbid all comers at $1.1,000, Now
Mr. Dring says that, after nearly two
years, an enthusiastic patriot has.
come forward to buy the letters from
him, promising that they shall re-
main in England, also hinting that
some day he may leave them to the
nation.
At the present time these 230 let-
ters have a vivid interest, particu-
larly those passages in which the
great Admiral writes proudly about
the British fleet. A few extracts
prove the truth.
"September 11, 1793.—The perse-
verance of our fleet has been great,
and to that only can be attributed
our unexampled success."
"March 4, 1794,—My seamen are
now what British seamen ought to
be—almost invincible."
"July 1, 1795.—Thank God, the su-
periority of the British Navy re-
mains, and, I hope, ever will,"
With these fascinating letters is a
manuscript account of the battle of
the Nile, written by E. Poussielque,
the French Controller General of Ex-
penses in those days. On the first
leaf of this Nelson wrote an illumin-
ating comment:—"This gentleman
seems to know so much more about
the battle than I do, that I will not
venture to contradict him. I am satis-
fied with it, if he is."
Lastly there is the cheery note of
optimism when he lost his eye, a
spirit which animates so many of
England's wounded heroes to-day:—
"You will expect me to say some-
thing about my aye. It is no blemish,
so my beauty is saved."
WOUNDS AND INFECTION.
Plenty of Fresh Air Is Found to Work
Marvels.
The professional healer, like the
professional fighter, has found that
many of the things he learnt in South
Africa lie has had to unlearn in Flan-
ders. Wounds seldom proved trouble-
some in the Boer War, because the
South African veldt was almost vir-
gin ; but in Belgium and France,
rifle butt, which smashed his left eases.
shoulder, . Dragging himself on his
At first the eugeons were in despair,
hands, and knees for a mile, he had fearing that our much -vaunted anti -
eventually rejoined his men, and his septics were of no avail. It required
first thougrt was to lead them once long search and experiment before
more into action. The French were methods of overcoming new difficul-
euceessfui in driving the Germans ! ties could be discovered. Then, owing
bade, but the gallant major received to the lavish use of high -explosive
a second dangerous wound, So ex- shells, wounds are more . complicated
while ting was the pain he suffered and more difficult to keep clean, while
the pointed bullet works more harm
while ngbeing operated the en that eito avoid than the blunt one of the "good old
groaning he sang "Marseillaise" days.'
at the top of his voice. A few min- Plenty of fresh air is found to work
marvels, so there is at least one hos-
pital in which the patients live prac-
tically in the open, It has also been
found that wounds remain clean if
water continually flows over them, so
the clever surgeon has constructed
little baths Which fit over the wound.,
athrough, supply of warm water impregnated
Then Old Love Missive was Found with oxygen continually flowing
and Sweethearts United. e
utes later the general commanding his
unit arrived at the hospital, and tak-
ing the Cross of the Legion of Honor
from his own uniform pinned it on
the breast of the brave officer,
LIVES WERE BLIGHTED.
The French have a classic case of
mail delay. A timid man, who could
not summon up courage to propose
10 person to the woman he loved,
wdote to her confessing his devotion
and telling her if she shared his af-
fection to answer, but if she did nob Guards, which tells how (little squad
reply he would know his suit was of men, led by their manned chaplain,
hopeless. laid down their lives to avenge the
Thirty-five or more years later, in' desecration by the Germans of a little
tearing down the Parra post -orrice d :! church behind the lines, is given by
many letters were discovered bohirid s mann guards.
d
some svoinscoting, and among them officer of iTho chaplain mrd the men came to
one to thian. It was not until tine church early one Sunday morn-
ing only to find it iu ruins, the Ilost
scattered in fragments, tine crucifix
and statues shattered and the pictures
torn to bits.
Tho entire party thereupon knelt
down and in prayer solemnly conse-
crated their lives to God in reparation
for the sacrilege, the prayer to this
effect being written out, signed by
each of them and pinned to a pillar of
the church,
A few days later it came to the lot
of the Irish Guards to load a charge
AVENGED DESECRATION.
Irish Guards Made Gallant Charge on
German Trenches.
A remarkable story of the Irish
months later that he was found in
a disant part of the city. The man,
when he read the letter, was grief-
stricken, It was from the love of his
youth and carried word to him that
she loved him all had loved him al-
ways. Some hint of the tragedy got
to the Government officials. A search
was made for the girl who wrote the
long -lost letter. She was traced with.
oub much difficulty. She never had
married and she still cherished the
memory of the love of her youth, oil the German trenches. This party
Through the efforts of the Govern- was in the front rank, the chaplain
ment the two old people whose lives with them, -calling out : "Remember
had been blighted by neglect on the that prayer 1" They charged straight
part of Government service were through the German lines until every
brought together. They were mar- mean was slain, but not before, it is'
ried. believed, they had killed at least twice
their number of Germans.
Predicts 20,000,000 in London.
Arthus Crow, a leading economist,
predicts the city of London will have
20,000,000 population in 1975, or two
generations hence. The ciby, to give
adequate housing for this number,
should have (radius of eighteen miles, to a place where they always catch
he added, and a great scheme for main fish, and I've never had abite, in one
roads must be worked out soon. of those famous spots yet,"
A Bad Outlook.
"I'm going fishing, but don'bexpect
to catch anything."
"You don't?"
"No; a friend of mine is taking mo