The Brussels Post, 1917-8-9, Page 2RECREATION IN
est the girls at home to know, that lin "TANKS" S»
the cinema girls, though a poor sub- HO ('Jrj13N
statute for their own sweet solves,
]� ARMY RANKS NKS are always welcomed. Loud cheers ARE CARED FOR
sP and audible evidences of appreciation
1 stteh'as one occasionally hears conning
from the veranda when the moon is at —
DURING REST PERIODS DRILL IS the full and the daughter of the house SOME INSIDE INFORMATION ON
KEPT UP. is ,entertaining company greet the la- INTERESTING SUBJECT. DRAMATIC ENCOUNTERS WITH
Hee of the cinema, and while they FORMER FRIENDS
Dangers of Overheating, knock. On hearing this the careful " — stop runaway trains, dive from" tre- ^-^
"The man who speeds file motor to is caused by having the spank too far Sports and Entertainments WhichRe
motorist retards the spark to see if it mendous heights or ride hitherto un -
Engines ines Are Given Preference in Mat- . bzolten horses, the war is a very poor
the limit little realizes the danger in advanced, If the knock continues he lieve the Tension of the second in the minds of the onlookers. ter of Protection—Tank Opera- Some Amazing, Others Amusing, and
Volved," says and exapert. "If the opens the switch, but the engine keeps Battle F ant. Sports Enthusiasts. tors Have No Sinecure. Now and Then One Truly
cooling system proves equal to the running. It is running by self -ignition, Sports are also followed with en- Tragic;
extra work wall andgood,but if any- that is, overheated parte fire the It is not true, as has been believed, thusiasm, not only by the troops in Under the shelter of a green ridge
charge without the electric system. that our soldiers hold their lines for1 toward the of shell -peeked farm land, about fif• The battlefield Is probably the last
thing fails the engine is in danger ofthero back area, but well up w d
m, Of oourse this will not happen Tshts is, a perplexing problem when in long periods without relief or rest be- front. Not very long ago the writer teen miles behind the present front place where one would expect to drop
ru p rst ocurs. In these circumstances
without some preliminary symptom of clutch,lade gears in yond the range of the enemy's guns. saw a hotly -contested ball game on a line trenches, one may some upon, across a long -lost relative or elusive
t throw out the P In the earlier stages of the vrar, when bit of land subject to frequent fire and the encampment of the tanks. A! debtor, But Chess things have hal/-
Germany's
ap
Germany's available man -power was dozen of the monsters are living pend scores of times in the war which
on which the enemy airmen has were stretched out in the warm afternoon has brought men from the ends of the
much greater on the western front liable to drop bombs. Sport dons
than that of France or Britain, it was almost as much as patriotic Ardor .to sun, being combed and oiled and earth to the trenches of France and
infantry in the acouzad by their industrious attend- Flanders;
Not long ago a raiding party from
one of the London regiments "went
over the top." In the darkness one of
the raiders found himself separated
MEETINGS ON
THE BATTLEFIELDS
trouble. The radiates will seam, high speed, apply loot brake, then en_
slightly at first, but .if this warning gage the clutch, This stalls the en -
signal is disregarded and the motor gine. It will also help t pa-
is still forced ahead the cylinder walla is retarded and the throttle theis closed.
park
and piston zings will score, causing So heed the warning given you by- necessary to keep the t an y steady the nerves of the Empire's ants. Over at the edge
loss of Compression and power. But steam from the radiator and.favor the front line, that is, actually holding the , sons for the great ordeal of war. The g of the parade
this cannot continue long before the motor until the steaming has stopped." trenches, and liable to attack at any , recreation and sport. organization ser- two ar three of the big iron horses are
piston seizes, the motor stalls and can- moment of the day or night, for per1-1 vices have been of incalculable value being put through their paces, Grunt -
not -be cranked. Oda of two weeks•at a time. In sup-; in malting and keeping the men fit for .ng and pufiing, creaking and com-
The Cause of Accident.
"If this happens while engine is be- port, still well within field gun range,' duty and in lessening the amount of Platning, they move along.` They from his companions in the enemy
ing run at a rapid rate the flywheel Every day we read that the cause ofat was not uncommon to keep batta- I mischief idle hands are prone to do !mount a terrace five feet high with the trenches. Dodging round one of the
will try to continue its motion but the automobile accident was losing lionsfora month or more. There was, in the field as well as at home. same clumsy, complaining nonchalance traverses, he almost ran into a tall
will, be unable to free the piston The control of the car. This means just one period during which all Canadian; a that they negotiate a mole hill, and' Young German 'Poised ready to fling a
result will be to twist the crankshaft one thing: The driver did not have battalions in the line and in support A ROYAL PROCLAMATION. the steady Paco of their caterpillars is bomb.
out of true, wreck a few bearings and proper control o£ himself. Every mo- were subject to all the hazards of war _ ut_changed whether climbing up a At that moment a star -shell went up,.
Brack the crankcase. This is a per- ment that a man is driving he is meet- for several months, without any rest Issued by His Majesty George V. to steep slope or clamoring blunderingly and in the dazzling light the two men
manent injury which can be remedied ing and overcoming emergencies. .If periods. Only the urgent necessity of along the level. recognised each other. With a gasp
only at considerable expense. So do he is intoxicated, overtired or partly those days justified the subjecting of! Great Britain and Ireland. (lard To Be A Tank Man. of astonishment each cried out the
not disregard the warning given you exhausted from lack of sleep, he Is un- "By other's name.
g large bodies of men to such an laces- the King, a Proclamation: The job of a tank man is no sine
by the radiator. safe. Every driver should remember sant strain. "We, being persuaded that the ab- cure. The interior is not built for Tommy and His Tailor.
"Occasionally an engine is overheat -this. Whether some part breaks, or As the use of artillery increases and stention from all unnecessary con comfort. It is crowded with ma- They had been schoolmates from
ed without doing all the harm men- a vehicle is met unexpectedly, or a guns of heavier calibre are brought sumption of grain will furnish the chinery and guns and armor, and in their kindergarten days until they had
tioned above. In that case it develops grade or turn surprises him, he should forward to smash trenches and other surest and most effectual means of de-
previously
the deck sways and bucks finally left school, about six years
a peculiar knock. This is caused by at all times be in the pink of physical , defence positions the need for more fearing the devices of Our enemies like that of a little torpedo boat in Previously 1
the piston and parts of the cylinder condition and mental poise, so that he
frequent rest periods for the men and thereby of bringing the war to a a storm. Nor is the roof high "Confess that I've got the advant-
becoming red hot and so pre -igniting can conquer the emergency instantly, holding the line increases also. Sel- speedy and successful termination, enough to prevent danger of receiving ago,' laughed the German.
the charge of gasoline vapor in the Too little sleep is a fertile cause of ac- dem now are they kept in the front and out of Our resolve to leave noth-a sound thumping if one is too tall. "I admit it; said the Londoner
cylinders, As this explosion starts talents. Thousands have caught line trenches for more than eight clays. dubiously, "but—
g y ing undone which can contribute to Men for tanks are picked for small
before the piston reaches top dead themselves nodding above the steering Often an even shorter "tour" is ar- these ends or to the welfare of Our stature and slender bulk. "Righto 1" broke in the other.
centre it list a tendency to reverse the 'wheel. Hundreds have awakened in ed. Sometimes an entire division,"Then I'll surrender. Lead on, you
direction of the piston, causing a the ditch, in a. hospital or in eternity. ranged. people in these times of grave stress I£ you would spend a few minutes
after a trying time, is taken back to and anxiety, have thought fit, by and on board a tank you must have your silly old ass !"
This was perhaps the quaintest
rest billets for lengthy periods of re- with the advice of Our Privy Council, steel helmet with you and your gas
eupd'ration. to issue this Our Royal Proclamation, mask carefully encased in its water- 'capture" that has yet been made.
Life in the Rest Billets, most earnestly exhorting and charg- proof bag, ready for emergency. The two arrived' safely in the Bri-
ing all those of Our loving subjectsClimbing through the manhole re- fish lines. There it transpired that,
the men and women of Our Realm quires a little knack of its own. Legs although English by training and
who have the means of procuring first is the approved technique, but sympathy, the prisoner was German
articles of food other than wheaten one is in danger of placing a foot by birth. Being in Frankfort at the
corn, as they tender their own imme- against a hot engine case. outbreak of war, he had perforce -to
LEATHER FROM
OCEAN'S DEPTHS
HS
Were this source of supply ade-
quately developed, leather would be-
come very much cheaper, because dog-
fish are easily caught—in fact, they
are the greatest of nuisances to fisher-
men—and their numbers are unlimit-
1 ed. Vast schools of them are at all
SAID TO BE OBTAINABLE FROM times running along our coasts, and
THE SKINS OF FISHES. they could be netted by millions.
Sharkskin shoes would wear won-
- derfully, and they would have the ad -
Hides of Sharks, and Especially of vantage of being absolutely water-
proof. The skins of the larger
Dogfish, Furnish Leather of species have a reticulated pattern,
Excellent Quality. highly ornamental, which should en-
able the leather made from them to
Scarcely any problem has given to command a fancy price in the market,
inventors more vexation and discour- Indeed, sharkskin, under the name
agement than that of producing a of "shagreen," has held high repute -
satisfactory artificial leather. It real- tion for centuries as the most durable
ly seems as if the thing could not be
"did." The hides of mammals --in-
cluding that of human beings, which
closely resembles pigskin—are com-
plex structures, marvelously adapted
for wear, impermeability to water, and
other requirements; and to make a
fabric that will be an efficient sub-
stitute may well prove hopeless.
The United States Government Fish-
eries Bureau, however, is of opinion
that efforts in this direction are un-
necessary—in
nnecessary—in fact, a waste of time
and ingenuity,inasmuch as the fishes
of the sea can°always garnish unlimit-
ed quantities of leather excellent in
quality and available for most of the
purposes to which the hides of mam-
mals are put.
Rest billets are a sort of terrestrial
paradise for the men who are lucky
enough to spend a month in them. One
is awakened there long before reveille
by the horn of the small boy or girl
who sells "latest Angliees papers,
M'sieu tuppence each.' The voices of
women and children are heard again,
and the voices of the guns, if heard at use of every species of grain; And We
all, are but a faint rumble in the dis- do for this purpose more particularly
tance—a noise insufficient to disturb exhort and charge all heads of house -
the nerves of the most "jumpy." holds to reduce the consumption of
It must not be supposed that rest bread in their respective families by
billets are places where all play and at least one-fourth of the quantity
no work makes Jack Canuck lazy. He consumed in ordinary times; to ab -
is kept in condition by physical drill, stain from the use of flour in pastry,
bayonet instruction, musketry exer- and moreover, carefully to restrict or
wherever possible to abandon the use
thereof in all other articles than
bread :And We do also, in like man-
ner, exhort and charge all persons
who keep horses to abandon the prac-
diate interests, and feel for the wants
of others, especially to practise the
greatest economy and frugality in the
of all leathers. Its durability and�cises, and visits to the rifle ranges or
waterproof quality render it valuable iperhaps at the trench mortar or bomb -
for instrument cases, swordhilt cov- forag sowerchool. baths
is given caopn not be
erings and certain other purposes. In shower baths, such as can not be
view of which fact, there is reason for
surprise that more extended use of it
has not hitherto been suggested,
MAKE BREAD FROM CLOVER.
Latest German Substitute Claimed to
Be the "Best Ever."
"Bread of the Future!" is the title
of a book recently published at Jena,
which sets forth the view that one
of Germany's enduring war lessons
will be the introduction of a sort of
bread hitherto unknown. It will be
from a combination of both colors of
provided nearer the front, and, if spe-
cially fortunate, may even be able to tics of feeding the same on oats or
have a swim in running water, or con- other grain, unless they shall have re-
venient pond. Whatever their duties ceived from Our Food Controller a
the men in reserve or in rest billets license to feed horses on oats or other
grain to be given only in cases where
it is necessary to do so with a view
to maintain the breed of horses in the
national interest: And We do hereby
further charge and enjoin all Minis-
ters of Religion in their respective
have a good deal of leisure, and are
built up rapidly by forgetting about
the front for the time, and becoming
absorbed in sport and amusement.
Baseball and the cinema are the su-
preme delights of our Canadians. They
have also adopted the English idea of dhurches and chapels within Our
travelling concert and dramatic com-
panies, which vary the cinema pro-
grammes by occasionally putting on
original plays or operettas.
As a result of experiments which
have been for some time in progress, flours, with a liberal mixture of clover Plays and Concerts.
the Fisheries Bureau declares that the meal. Many well-known concert singers
skins of many kinds of fishes can be! The dietary authority who advances and actors are in the ranks and among
utilized for leather. But most im-, this theory says that the world has I the holders of commissions, besides
portant of them all for the purpose are mistakenly been giving all its clover amateurs of distinction. The concert
the sharks. to animals, although it contains, he I company of one corps will occasional -
Big sharks are very numerous in says, exactly that "mineral energy"' ly visit the entertainment centres of
warm latitudes, and, to help out the which is required not only of bodily those adjacent to it. There is an even
experiments, the United States Gov- nourishment but of "mental sub-
stance" as well.
ernment has called upon keepers of
lighthouses and life-saving stations
along the Florida coast to catch as
many as possible of these fishes and
forward the skins to Washington— As an experiment, the Minneapolis,
the Fisheries Bureau furnishing the 'St. Paul and Sault Sainte Marie Rail -
requisite hooks and tackle. Hundreds way has planted trees along its right
of the skins have been tanned, and of way to serve as snow screens. On
thus converted into leather of excel- the south side of the tracks, at the
lent quality, adapted for "uppers" of sheltered points there are four rows
shoes (though not for soles) and for
other worth -while uses.
Trees For Snow Screens.
Shoes of Sharkskin.
By far the most important source
of sea -leather supply that offers itself,
however, is the small shark commonly
known as the "dogfish," It attains a
length of about three feet, and its
!tide is of an exceeding toughness.
Properly tanned, dogfish leather would
make beautiful uppers for women's
shoes, and would be utilizable in count-
less other ways.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland to read, or cause to be read,
this Our Proclamation on the Lord's
Day, for four successive weeks after
the issue thereof."
Tales That Are Told.
The two anglers were swopping
stories. They had exhausted the
topic of their marvellous catches, and
went on to enlarge upon the wonders
intercourse amen diva_ of their native countries from the
more frequent
g anglers point of view.
sions. The names of these troupes "Why, near my home,' said George
are delightfully unconventional. Big Washington's rival, "we have a pond
posters may invite the passer-by to where a chap can catch fish as fast as
visit the "Tykes," which means that a he can drop his line in and pull 'em
Yorkshire company holds the boards, mat"
or to see the "Very Lights," or to ac- "Really?" said the man who beat
cept the hospitality of the "Rum Baron Munchausen by two lengths,
Jars," or listen to the "Whizz- "We have a lake not far from us where
Bangs." one has to get a stick to knock the
Much talent is devoted to the writ- fish away before you can get your line
in at all!"
ing of original sketches for the en -
and. on the north side eight rows, 8tartainments, and everybody from the
1
feet apart. The four rows farthest general in command down comes in
for a bit of their satire. The girl
parts are immensely popular, and al-
ways bring wild applause to the
young bare -faced lads who take them,
aided by the illusion produced by bor-
rowing some feminine apparel from
some friend across the Channel or
from the village belle, "Ain't he a
peach," is the highest compliment
which can be paid to a soldier -actor
who dons the petticoat. It may inter -
to the north are willows and the other
rows on that side, in their order, are
box elder, green ash, poplar, and an-
other hardy variety, The tracts de-
voted to these living snow fences were
plowed and twice harrowed, and then
allowed to stand a year before the
trees were set out. A tree -planting
machine which, it is said, is able to
plant as many as 20,000 trees a day,
is used to expedite the work.
WEAR 'fbM CoMIN6-"loo?E0pI.n.
HIDE IN lIE12E AND I't.L FREIENO
'MAY YOU DIDN'T COME — I
WE'LL SURPRISE
\,HIM .0
ToM WHAT DOYou --((�i�INK? ova_
bINN R 6uESTS DIDN5r come. -- t
He Might Be.
Dinah had been troubled with a
toothache for some time 'Before she
got up enough courage to go to a den-
tist. The moment he touched her
tooth she screamed.
"What are you malting such a noise
for?" he demanded. "Don't you
know I'm a `painless dentist'?"
"Well, sah," retorted Dinah, "mebbe
yo' is painless, but Ah isn't,"
Engines Well Protected. join the German army.
Everything is spick and span,
shining with abundance of oil, but
no superfluous luxuries of brass or
nickel to take away the business -like
bareness and grimness of grey
black armor plate which obtrudes
everywhere. As in a battleships, the
preferential position from the point of
view of safety is given to the en-
gines. They lie just above the floor,
stretching in a longitudinal position
through the centre of the craft, while
shafts and cranks run under a special
armor casing -at the back to the cams
which operate the caterpillars, and the
big push wheel at the rear.
Artistic Displays. k,
The painting of the tank is a great
The writer' once witnessed an emus -
ONE ASPECT OF
THE NAVY'S WORK
OVgRSEA TRADE OF GERMANY
HD
AS DISAPPEARS!).
Our •Mercantlle Marine Maintains lta
Ceaseless Watch Over Every
• German Harbor:`
The work of the British navy during
this war Ears fallen under two main
dtvlsione—military and commercial,
There is the fighting fleet and there
is the blockading fleet, writes Sydney
Brooks, Some day, perhaps, when
peace returns, we shall hear the tale
of what our armada in the North Sea
has accomplished in the way of pre-
venting German trade. I am not sure
that even now Canadians realize the
extent of the British btooade.. It
stretches from Ireland to the Mediter-
ranean, from the Arctic to .the Equat-
or, but the meshes of the net aro thick-
est and strongest, of course, in the
North Sea and the Atlantic.
Several hundred—I should say about
800 vessels of all types and charac-
ters, cruisers, destroyers, converted
liners, armed trawlers, drifters and
yachts, make up our blockading squad-
ron. The officers aro mainly drawn
from the naval reserve, and most of
them, having served in the mercantile
marine, know all there is to be known
about ship's manifests and papers and
the inspection of cargoes.
Tireless Watch and Ward
If you have been used to crossing
the Atlantic on British boats, you
would find many oldfriends at this
moment engaged in .maintaining our
strangle -bold on Germany in the NorthSea. They know their job. A ship
with a double bottom or double decks
or double bulkheads or hollow masts
for concealing rifles and ammunition
hasn't much of a chance of getting
past them. A neutral skipper with a
faked manifest soon realizes that the
game is up. They have developed an
X-ray power of detecting copper in
keels . and plates and Germans in
Swiss and Alsatians and cotton in
ing encounter between a Tommy who• barrels of flour, and when they come
was something of a "nut" in the old across a cargo of onions and drop one
days and his tailor, to whoin h0 still
of themon deck and it bounces ten
feet, they have quite enough Intelli-
gence tosuspect somewhere the pree-
encs of rubber.
Split up ihto patrolling squadrons,
steaming up and down a beaten track
owed a big bill. The two were in dif-
ferent regiments, although. at the time
they were engaged in the same work-
ing -party.
It was bitterly cold, and there was
an issue of rum that morning. Tha ` of open sea in total darkness by night,
tailor was unlucky enough to upsetsharpiy on the lookout by day for
his mess -tin in which he had just I mines and submarinee, most of thorn
drawn his ration. I fifty days continuously at sea—and the
He glanced around In despair, and North Sea in winter time is probably
discovered his old but unprofitable the dirtiest, dreariest stretch of water
customer with an unusually liberal to be found anywhere round the earth
share of the comforting spirit. now having a brush with a disguised
'Let's have a mouthful, old eon," raider; now warding off n submarinesaid the tailor persuasively, attack; now launching a boarding
"Why should I ?" asked the other,
pastime in the encampment. Modern
with his mouth to his mess -tin. Party In a sea that would make even a
protective coloring of battlefi"Well, considering that I clothed Gloucester fisherman think twice;
weapons'offexs a wide field for the de- now rescuing a neutral vessel in a
velopment of the cubist art, and the you for a couple of years and never gale or saving it -from destruction by
decorative appearance of a tank go-
ing into battle suggests that some
painter who all his life had special-
ized in barber poles had suddenly gone
amuck with paint brush and -color pot.
man. Have a 'Mighty' cigarette I and mistakable, s p
WORLD'S JUMP
RECORD. And, I say, I'll really settle that bill inspiring, exceedingly dangerous but
01 Yours as soon as we get back ! " absolutely essential vigil over every
First Honors Go to the Flesi, and Sec- "Don't seen !" said the 1t"ilor, one of Germany's exits end entrances.
and to the Salmon, smacking his lips. "We'll call it quits Exceptions Are Few
While the flea holds the world's after that drink I" You remember how, when Doctor
jumping record, he is so small and in- Found—and Loath Johnson observed that a certain'orch•
considerable except from the stand- During the Somme offensive last' and had no fruit and the irritating ,
point of the discomfort he causes year one of the Shtopahires found Doswell replied that he saw two ap•
that amuck more valuable discovery himself crossing "No Man's Land" by pies and one pear• --you remember how
of science is that which gives the sec- the side of an Australian• the sage fell upon him for his untruth•
and honors to the salmon. "Look out ! Here's a 'Minnie' I" ful love of truth, bis wholly huaceurate
This fish, it has been demonstrated, yelled the Australian, as a big shell accuracy. Well, with the sumo robust
can jump on the average sixteen feet hurtled through the air. preference for realities over appear -
vertically. He can swim with ap- The Shropshire sprang into a antes, one may say that not a single
parent nonchalance and then suddenly spring out of the water and strike a second too late, He stopped a...jet of
crater, but the Australian was a , sh'ip has been able to work its way
through the Dritish cordon unob-
served; and one may leave the other
side to jubilate as it pleases over the
exceptions. They are so few as to be
got a penny for my pains, I don's see a Gelman torpedo --It Is so one must
why you shouldn't give me a drop of picture to oneself that -i'nst and
ruin," said the tailor. variegated farce, manned by men of
Good heavens I You're not— •the mercantile marine, that for nearly
Yes, you are old Snip 1" exclaimed the ,three years has maintained, unshaken
other. "Here, take what you want, old it unspectacular, un•
mark sixteen feet above him. Scien-in his side, and began slaw•
tists measured his leaps on the Rhine' ing up the ground,
and on the Elbe rivers, where his ath- Crawling out of the hole, the Shrop-
letic powers were put to their severest shire carefully turned the wounded ridiculous. The oversea trade of Ger
fast. I man on his back, and found to his hor- manY bas disappeared, Not a single
The high-water falls and natural . ror that be was a brother of whom he German merchant vessel dare show
barriers in these turbulent streams had lost all trace for some years.
make it necessary that the salmon in The recognition was mutual.
fighting his way inward from the sea "Hallo, Jim 1" the wounded man
shall climb and leap ceaselessly be- managed to gasp. They were the last
fore he penetrates to the source of the , words he ever spoke.
waters, The Shropshire had found and lost
That American fish have equalled his brother in the space of half a
this sixteen -foot record is probable, minute.
although fishermen in our mountain Lieut. Patrick Chubb says in a re -
streams have made no exact measure- Soap rubbed into the finger nails
sent letter from the western front:
meats. Previous to this discovery the before working in the garden will keep «On the river Anere, about 600 yards
kangaroo was popularly supposed to out much of the dirt and keep the nails from the trendiesthere are numbers
,
be second to the flea. from locking dirty. of coots and moorhens, who ere appar_
"-"" catty entirely oblivious to the tremen-
dous battle all around them. Before
the 'push' they were about 400 yards
from our front line trenches, opposite
Thiepval, and in front of our field
guns." "
Philip Gibbs, writing from the
neighborhood of Lens, says:
"All through the night tate battle of
the guns went on and the sky was fill-
ed with the rush of tate shells and the
moon veiled his face from this horror
which made a Bell an earth.
"But In n little wood a nightingale
sang all through the night in n little
wood in the curve of a crescent o$
guns, and every shell flesh lit it'Up
with white light so that the 'delicate
tracery of the boughs and branches
was ruffled anal Ito tiny green leaves
were ti'etnuleue.
"Iii the heart of that thicket a'nights
legate sang with little thrift and Hut -
tors of song-, trying to reach higher
notes, to rise higher in ]ts ocetatic out—
pooling, then warbling Bi' snatches
of melody."
her nose, or, for the matter of that,
even her periscope,, out of harbor.
'i' 11,
BIRDS ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
Writers Tell How Birds Are Oblivious
of Bursting Shells.
`ems.:;',
FoR My PART CM D0d6oiE
61.AD THEY DIDN'T CoMF.
-114eRe A CODPJ,t_ of
POOR MUT7s
A Sal WAY
Selo ROCKER
fHE 8oh'f?