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THE NEW LORDS
OF HEIGHT
MAN'S HIGHEST CLIMB IN THE
SKY—S1X MILES UP
AhAustralian and a Canadian Assail
Heaven's Gates and Return With
a Marvellous Story.
The world's altitude record .of 30,-
500 ft, (Dearly six sidles) in 66 min -
;Ms, 15 seconds, made on January 2,
and achieeed by Captain Andrew
LangelS,A.F., and Lieutenaot-Blowes,
on a Mittel' built and British engined
.biplaa, near Ipswich; was -made with
a HAP, designed by Mr. Holt Thom -
n' 'Crilinistny, the Aircraft. Manufac-
turing 'Cdmpany (Limited); the me-
ehine beMg fitted with the Napier
Lion engine, of 450 hp, The D..H9
• was desgned and used for bombing
the gerneen Rhine towns in daylight,
the ipechine being very fast and
- carrying 'big weights. When carry-
ing full military load and passengers
it attains a. speed of 140 miles ' per
hour at 10,000 feet,
Canadian and Australian. d
. Captain Lang had made two pre-
vious attacks on the altitude record,
• whichhad been held by America. He
is well known hi Australian motor
circles, and in 1910 drove a mothr cdr
across Northern Australia for his
Government in an exploring expedi-
tion, Lieutenant Blowes is an ex-
perienced pilot, who in France,
brought down several Hun planes.
Ho comes from Mitchell, in Ontario,
Canada.
s Through a fault in the oxygen ap-
paratus Lietitenant Blowes collapsed,
and at 28,000 ft. the heating appar-
atus began to work erratically. The
machine was brought to a stop
through lack Of petrol pump pressure,
owing to rarefaction of the air.
Luckily Captain Lang was able to
descend slowly, and at 20,000 feet
Lieut Blowes recovered consciousness.
The two airmen have suffered bad-
ly from frost on hands and fame. The
younger, Lieut. Blowes—who is only
19, and has been in the Air Force
one and a half years—has serious
injuries to his hands, whith are very
painful. 'Captain Lang, who has been
flying since 1915,is very keen on ex-
perimental work, and while delighted
with his performance, regards it as
little mare than part of an ordinary
day's work.
Busy 'Up On High.
"I have," said Captain Lang, "far
more instruments to pay attention to
than the -observer" (to whom lie paid
svarm tribute for his pluck under a
terribly trying ordeal). "I have to
make the most minute observations
at every thousand feet, and these are
recorded on a board strapped to my
right; leg, I have also to note downe
how the temperature changes, the''
speed -at which' the machine is climb:
ing, the revolutions, water temper-
attuze the engine, oil temperature,
petrol pressure, and gallons of petrol
consumed per hour, emcl occasionally
to look over the side to note our bear-
ings."
Thursday's flight, Capt.. Lang said,
had been contemplated for some time,
and to -prepare for it he and his col-
league had remained strict teetotal -
lees and had never indulged in a.
Smoke -fa weeks. The machine they
rad Was a DeHaviland bombing ma-
chine, fitted with a 450 h.p. Napier
•.onginen • ' They started ae half -pat
eleven on Thursday morning, in a
gale of wind.
Seventy Degrees of Frost.
Both men We've' specially clad for
this .occesion, and the need for this
is indiated by the fact that when
the nuseleine reached an altitude of
30,500 feet, they entionntered Oat
70 degeees of -frost,
' I
During the fbist.8,000 feet the pia- .
chine togged about like a leaf," said
Capt. Lang, -"but afterwards we set -
tied down to far mere comfortable
flying. Generally we climb by taking
big. sweeping circles, but we were
blown out of oer course, and whee WC
were nearly 525 nnles im we were
about 25 miles out at sea, oft Yar-
month."
Asked what; were the prevailing
conditions at ,that height, Captain
Lang said the sun was shining
brightly, and, although it was a Jade -
hazy, be could see chips far anray out
at sea, and occasionally glimpses of
the Thames.
Eye Trouble. I
"AL 2400 feet had to take off my
goggles owinseto the oeygen frosting
on. the glass. Thereupon my left eye
watered and froze, and was soon its
big as a plum. l'Or the next 10,000 ft. '
:I was flying with onlymnit eye. After 1
the first 8,000 feet flying became
geeduelly better, old at 20000 feet I
fib . cable in the revoletion courner
foetunately trona Ana inem e
to take the. reeords of the involution I
counter took the itionospheric tem- I
peratuae; afel it iirro1 MAT f did so,
:for Blosves had, ufficeoWn tO
cellepeed gwough •the breekage
Of the. tube width wog euppining hies
with oxygen from one of the two
.clffirdere seething litter) ter th•e
QinCitain Leese aid it, wait meet ,
loriairate he VAS able te 001111111(141
Olde• 131002 "ellitttit .aild take
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• CH PTER 1.
If fiurke DintbYhed not been, given
aila the frosted aka end toy shaken'
he wanted at,the sign of ten, it ;nigh
net have been so difficult to conele
• him at the age of twenty that he
not want to marry Helen llama.
Between the boy and hie father al
t dinrieg the years of Childhood an(
s Youth, the relationship was very
beautiful that the ontlee town saw, i
and expressed ibs apProeadi pu:bll
by nods .and admiring adjective; in
private by frequent admonitions to
wayward eons and thoughtless father
e to fallow the pattern so glostiousler se
fpr them.
One word alwinis, howetehi vow
held before the boy from the very
. firsts—mother; yet it wile not tais•
word, either, but as a lining presence.
!Always be was taught that she was
• with them, a .bright, beauteous, graci-
ous befog, loving,- tender, perfect
Whatever they sew was seen through
her dyes. Whatever they did was
e done with her &betties of hetv beauty
tharm, and .go.osiness filled many an
hon of intimate Milk. She was the
Ione flawless woman horn into the
world—so said Bunke's father to his
son.
- Burke was nearly twenty-one, and
- !half through allege, when he saw
Helen Barnet, She was sitting In the
- '14* west Window in the libraew, with
t s ing ies. won-
derfullinikr to gad. In her arms
!the held a sleeping two-year-old boy.
With the marvelous light on her face,
• rid the•be
, hind her, she looked not 11111k:a Pie-
' tiered Madonna. It was net, indeed.,
• Until' a very lifelike red *wept to the
rots of tho irl's It • ti, t young
man, staring at her from the door-
way, realized that she was not, in
truth, a masterpiece on an onistime
well, but a very much alive, very
much embarrassed young woman in
his father's library.
With a :blush that rivaled hers, end
an incoherent apology, he hacked
hastily from the room. He event
then in search of his father. He
had returned frozn college an hour
before to find his father's youngest
sister, Euttice,,and her family, guests
ie the house. But this stranger—
this bewilderingly beautiful girl—
, In the upper hag he carne face -bo
face With his father.
"Dad, who in Heaven's nam.e Is
she?" he •dentanded witlipet preamble.
I"Sh
"That exquisitely beautiful girl in
the library. Who is she?"
"In the library? Gin? Nonsense!
Yetnre dreaming, Blake. Mends/
. no one here but your aunt."
"Bat I jest cone from there. I
saw her. She held a child in her
81.11"Htso.7" John Denby gave a gesture
as ff -tossing n somegthig aside.
"You're dreaming' again, Bueke. The
nursemaid, probably. Your aunt
brought one with her. But, see here,
son. I was looking for you. Come
into my room. I wanted to know--"
And he plunged into a subject far re-
moved from nurse/halide and their
charges.
.Burke, however, was not to be .so
lightty diverted. True, he eitanain-
ed for ten minutes at his father's side,
and he listened dutifully to what his.
father said; but the day was not an
hour older before he had sought end
flloburn!dry.the gin. he had seen in the
She was not tin the libeauisr now. She
was on .the wide verandah, swinging
the cherubic boy in the ham/neck. To
Burke she looked even more bewitch-
ing than she had before. silis a pictured
saint, hung about veith the aloofness
of the intangible and the unreal, she
had been beautiful end !aillorMg en-
ough; but now, as a breathing, mov-
ing etcetera treading his. own familiar
verandah and touching with her -white
hands his own common hammock, sbe
sy,as bewildeeingly entraIning.
Combating ,ageun an almost over-
whelming desire to stand in awed
worthip, !advanced hastily,. speak-
ing with a diffidence and an another-
ence utterly foreign to his usual blithe
boyishness.
"Oh, I hope—I didn't, did I? Did
I wake—the baby up?"
With a start the girl turned, her
blue eyes wide.
• "You? Oh, in the librasiy—"
"Yes; an home ago. I de hope I
didn't—Wake him up!".
Before the ardent admiration M the
young mania eyes, the girl's fell.
"041, no, sir. Ile just—woke him-
self,"
"Oh, Pm so glad! .A.nd—and want
you to forgive me for—for staring at
you so rudely. You see, / was a
• enrprised to—lie see you there like—
like a picture, and— You will for-
give me—or—I don't know gm:
"Ilaiinet—Helen Bentet.".,She bIush
ed peebtilee then ehe 'laughed, throw-
ing iffin a misthievous glance. • "Oh,
yes, I'g forgive you; buissI don't
know your mune, either."
"Thank yen. I knew you'd—un-
derstand, Pm Denby—Burke Deni
"Mr. Denbsde son'?"
oymo
';i0thilille1"atianiratlon in her eyes and
voice he unconseiouely alesisplitenen
himself, I
"And do you live—here?" keenest
e gal .
To hide the inostnidaable emotion I
that seemed auddenly to be swelling
him, the young man laughed .
1 ,
5li!htly. 00111%!0 -when Pirt not away!" '
oes,s thailengsed !fen nun she zoet
the Rai with a gurgle of laughter.
"011, 1 mousit—when you've not
away ," she ..hei.died. • •
He watehed the wild -rose color
:neap to her .templies—and stepped 4
1102grti; you hanorat told ma a
of' yoursoll•—yet,", he ariepilanied,
She isighedt-eind at the sigh an Uri -
reasoning wrath nob.* tnt unknown
soniething .reet. within (him •t
"Thetp'e nothing' to Sell," Ate num.
Dewed. "Vim just liere—a nonce to .1
Mester Peal and lels iniother." Size '
eigbed again esid, a !hie semtal Sigh, 4
Barite Pair weeth become iteaeon,
ng simi vie MM. it wee direetedI
nand the world in .iiimetais and
sena particalar, that they should,
Meat for titte instant this gloriotizi; t
ere4fre to merino hoe <halm lied!
A:Vanes on the eltat 'Tlf menial enen
Vira ter a 'couple of unappiseiatim t
Mite, r
,,chia, Pia a sem!" beesethedd 1
•
mospheric temperatures. Withou
them the tat would have been worth
Jess,
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MUNITION MAKING sIN CANADA
65,000,000 Shell§ Ranging in Calibe
From 13-Pdrs. to the 9,2 Inches.
Over 65,00,0,000 shells, ranging' in
size from 13 -pounders to 9.2 inchee
calibre, were purchased Cangda bylo
the Imperial Munitions Board sine
its inception in Di cember, 1915. The
entire outlay, in Canada by the Board
M behalf of the Imperial Government
foe shells Alone reached almost th
billion doillar mark, the actual value
of the orders placed beteg 2037,456,
826.
I To this vast sum -must bo added
the outlay on shells before the Im
phial Munition§ Board was organ
.ized, and that for orders placed in
behalf ofslite 'United States .Govern
snout, the fl-etnes for which am not
' available at present. '
; The following gives the quantities
of the different size shells produced
in Canada for the Imperial author-
ities:
18 -pd. shrapnel (empty), 8,664,920
18 -pd. shrapnel( filled), 24,939,798
18 -pd. high explosive, 5,692,411.
4.6 -pd. low explosive, 12,571,344.
60 -pd. low explosive, 10,519,219.
8 -inch low explosive, 753,517.
9.2 -inch low aplosive, 782,355.
15 -pd. shrapnel, 299,258.
14 -pd. shrapnel, 79,50.
Total, 65,343,648.
Before August, 1914, no Canadian
manufacturer had ever made a shell
or a cartridge -ease or a fuse, yet in
the second half of 1917, Canada -was
producing 55 per cent. of the shrap-
nel shells, 42 per bent. of the 4.5
shells, 27 per cent. of the 6 -inch, 15
per cent. of the 8 -inch, and 16 per
cent. of the 9.2 -inch shells used by
the British armies.' The record of the
Dominion from that time . on was
equally creditable.
In addition to the expenditure on
shells, the Imperial Munitions Board
have spent nearly $300,000,000 in
Canada on other meterials and equip -
rant for the Beitish Government, in-
cluding aeroplanes, ships, chemicals,
etc.
THE ROYAL ENGAGEMENT
"Princess Pat" May Drop Title, But
Her Admirers Will Not.
The heroine of the most popular
royal engagement of this century will
be known when married as the Prin-
cess Patricia, Lady Patricia Ramsay
she may elect to be called, but to
everybody she will aver be other
than "Princess Pat." The romance
of her engagement M Coinmander
Ramsag is sufficient:for the plot of a
good sized novel. It; is a story of
truelove thwarted, lag waiting, 'and
all obstacles finally overcome.
They first met M 1908, when the
Duke of Connaught was. at Malta,
and it has been a .love affair ever
since. Command Rams'ay joined the
Duke's staff when he went to Canada
and spent eight months there. Dur-
ing that time •the young folk often
were seen together on the Ottawa golf
links and also at . the Rideau and
Minto skating clubs.
When the Duke first heard of the
engagement he opposed it and it was
broken off. The Duchess of Con-
naught just before hey death express-
ed a wish that her daughter's choice
'should be approved and that the en-
gagement formally should be eeneveed.
And now the King and Duke have
given their approval.
The return te the good old _British
custom whereby royalty chose their
partners from Among the people has
given great pleasure. People are apt
to forget that for many centuries
marriages: between royal and an -
royal persons were quite feequent.
To name only an instance, of the' six
wives of Henry VIII. only one—
Princess Catherine—was a king's
daughter; two others were daughters
of dukes, hut• the remainieg three
were Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and
Catherine Parr.
Quite a Different Thiag,
When Joachim, the celebrated viol-
inist, wee concert roaster in Hanover
he could look out of his window and
see skaters enjoying their favorite
sport Catching their enthusiasm
the trelist decided to pavticipato. As
he stepPed on the ice an 'aenunintance
catne up' to him ad asked if he
wanton his «hates strapeed. on. Jo-
achim simmered affirmatively, but
added that he did not item how to
Anita
"Oh, that,doesint matter," aid the
thiiter, "I will teach you."
An mon
os the arlitit noel his rikates
tin he mini:sett the Word, "Now, Mr
joachies, dried erect, so—now throw
out your right leg, so --now You left,
so --and 'now go ahead."
Joachim, following direetions, made
some myeterfoos moveteeete, fled
vitt& his ritzlit Toole then with bis left,
but SoOn found himself spraMing
upon the fee,
"Yes, ye.s, nip deer eir," Said the
ostrueter, pinking ethe violinist lip
and eating blot en his lege agaio,
'oat ean eliatiee 7106 SO eriey ari
flinging!"
at;:frait A: m;Silt singib denies
tonic on IWO Woad '4 piefkiroi. d
litre le beet
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11
HUNGER BLOCKADE
STIRS HUN ANGER
TUTU 010 VOOD StrUATM
GIIRMANY
Most of the Sbortege Cenfined to the
plainly aglow at the intimate near- Organiation.
ness of thee heart-to-heart talk
"Bet I'm g•11011—you're here!" . The action on the pert of England
"Cone, r want you to g,o to which the Germans have felt roost
want with Me. 1 went 10 show Yee keenly and resent moat bitterly is
the view from Pike's Ildli," he timed. „,
ccigee go vete? Why, me! nen. aehat they call the "Huger Block -
1 . YS Ant cle•H
I Again the wild -Tose flush mane and The most restrained German knows
1 giirt.—.Reaareet• again Burke. Denby step- no moderation in sPeahillg of tffisould
1 odd as it sounds to English ears fron
e "Why not?" - • such a source, professes to beta his
"WIhy, I couldn't leave the children; indignation chiefly on the fact that
besides—it's 1Vinstee Pool's nab hour," ite proclamation w45'0against the law
s "What u pity-awhen it's so beauti- ee e, u
t ful mitt To -morrow, then, in the ht 214"0718' •
morning?" 1 The teat about the German food
s She shook her head. shortage seems to be that it fas con-
fined to the towns ,apd that meth of
it oven there "was due to had organize -
tion, says a correspondent. Germans
admit that the country people have
. • At the laic of longing the leaped no gone short of food at all, and that,
to net. ince, nee thonetoe 3,11th fo3 beeitle keeping full supplies for them -
again the fierce wrath he had known selves, they smuggled food into the
, the first day a their meeting.
,I t heAis:dal they i
1 She dimpled into shy laughter. saAdn:el'veoeft nsehgolPeestele.elaannon°1ybviii°;ufsooind-.
day—after three."
time -Us yourself?"
ed. "Don% they .ever give you any Even in, the towns the tea shops
,"Then, by Jove, you Isbell" ho vow- at high Prim.
g ha a few h
'If remember. WAS
went, -ours Thmts "But -.what difference do thirty tea
ee shops tnake in a town of 600,000 *in-
habitants like Cologne?" said one of
the municipal doctors. "Without a
towns to .sell, contrary to regulation*,
I 110 Burke Denby it 154.15 11 wonderful few places where people could go red
'and a beandsneel experience. Never ea a few Cakes and enjoy themeelves
had the eley been so Nue, the air so
soft, the woods a enchantingly the spirits of the population would
have suffered even more than they
e
"I couldn't, Mr, Denby,"
"The afternoon, then?"
"Is it because you don't want to?"
"Want to!"
beautiful. And he was SO glad that
they were thus -.for her.
! At the top of the htl they sat down
to rest, before them the wonderful
panoreann of grandeur—the green
vageymthe :silvery river, the far -
tains.
reaching =nye and purple senoun-
"My, ism% this real pretty!" ex-
claisned the girl.
The young man scarcely heard the
swede, else he would have frowned un-
consciously at the "reel pretty." He
was looking at her lovely, glorified
fate.
"I thougiht you'd like it," he
breathed.
"Oh, I• do."
"I know another just as fine. Weill
go there next."
A shadow like a cloud crosseuj her
face.
"But I have se little time!"
The eloud leaped ,to his face now
and bectame thunderous.
"Shake! I forgot, What a nuis-
ance! Oh, I say, you know, I don't
think you ought to be doing—such
work. Do you—forgive me, but do
you reelly—have to?' taken into the hospitals to see signs
"Yes, I have to." of -it, and in the case of sick peade
She had turned her face half away, one cannot be sure how much of their
did." One could only reely that Lon-
don had to do without them and nev-
ertheless made no fuss about it.
Fat Men Thinner.
• Of Course, in restricting the Ger-
mans' food supply we were touching
them on a tender spot: One hears of
impressive quentities of weight being
lost owing to food shortage, but many
of the losers could well spare it.
I was shown one roan who hrsd shed
three stone "through sheer lack of
nouvishment." He looked for all that
perfectly natal. "How were you be-
fore the war?" I asked. He held his
hand about twelve...it-mhos in front of
his waistcoat. "I was very stout," he
said promptly.
That the shortage of food has been
seriously felt it would be absurd to
deoy, but one can only say that the
effecte of it are not by any means ob-
vious ,upon the people as one moves
about among them Ono has to be
hut be thought he ooplt1 ems teats'in
her etres.
"Are you—all alone, then? Haven't
you any—people?" His visite had
grown very tender.
"No—no one. Father died, then
mother. There was TIO este else—to
care; and no—money."
"Olt, Pm so—so 'stingy!"
thin and weak appearance is due to
illness and how much to insufficient
nourishment.
I have been shown a tumber of ex-
tremely undeveloped children in
these hoepitols aged from three to
twelve meeths. Their average weight
at five months old, the doctors tell
11 to eirht
He spoke owkwardly, with obvious me. 15 SSVOfl anSi lo 1
one
restraint. He wanted euddenly. to Pounds, or only what it should be at
take her in his enne—to eoothe and birth.
comfort her es elle would a child. But They attribute this to inherited
she was not a child, .and it would not weakness ()wine to underfeeding of
.do, of course. But she looked so the parents atul to poverty of the
iorleen, BO appealing, so sweet, so
absolutely. deer—
Burke Denby began the very next
morning to be a. friend to Miss Bar-
net. Accepting as irrevocable the
fact that ehe could not he separated
freest her work, he made no plans that
did not Maude Masters Paul land
Percy Aileen,
"I'm going to take petit sons for a
drive this morning, if you don't
mind," he mid briskly to his ant at
the breakfaat table."
"Mind? Of !course I don't, you dear
boy," answered the pleased mother,
fondly. "You're the one that •1v -ill
mind—as chscoven 1 fear, when
you find yeomen with a couple of
niischievous entail boys on youe
iterate!"
"I'in not wcrrying," laughed the
youth. "I shall take Miss Barnet
oolong, too."
"Oh—IIelen? That's 1l right, then.
You'll do nicely ;with her," smiled
Mrs. Allen, its ehe rose from the table.
"Ie you1,1 mouse me, PM go and see
that the by are :made ready for
then., treat."
(To he continued.)
TIIIIF,E TREATIES IN WAY
Adriatic Coast, .Gertnan Islands, and
Damascus Involved.
'In 'connectiorthwith the territorial
questions before it, the Peace Con-
ference is confronted by no less than brought at tendencies to tuberculosis
throe. secret troaies, says the Paris that would otherwise have remained
edition of the London•Daily Mail to- latent. One in fous of the deaths in
day. the town are now due to consumption.
"The Rest is the ' treaty between The general dhath rate has risen,
Greet Britain, Femme and Italy, (Us- I was informdd bytthe head of the
posing of the Adriatic coast, width Public Health Department at the City
conflicts violently with Tugo-Slav and Hall, from fourteen per 1000 before
CiechosSlovak interests,!' the Mail the war to thirty-seven 'per 1000. For
says. "The second. is the treaty be- tbis increase, no doubt, influenza is
tween Great Britain and Japan, under largely Vesponsible; 1,500 persons are
syhich Japan gets the German islands eaid to have died of it here since the
in the North ?ileitis. The third is summer.
the treaty between Great Britain and • Rations old Prices,
milk in the mother or foster -mother
owing to the insufficiency of fats in
her nourishment. -
Babies Who Died,
was shown, too, incidentally, suck-
ers of feeding bottles made of glass
or a hard rubber substitute owing to
the shertage of rubber, which prevent
the children drinking easily. The I
soap with which the babies are wash- 1
ed is also a very inadequate imitation
of the real article.
How much tile the weakness of these
puny children ft directly attributable
to food shortage I cannot say. I am
told that their death rate in the first
year of life has risen from fourteen
to nineteen per 100.
The doctor's exclamation as he
showed these poor wizened little mites I
was: "These are the effects of your
hunger blocludel Fier this is Emtland
responsible! If Germany in 1938 has
to fight nattier war, of such stuff will I
be her soldierel" However, as ono I
reminded him, these children, though
weaklyeare at any rate alive, while mei
children drowned by the German sub-
marine blockade lie dead at the bot-
tom of the sea.
An especial inerense in the number
Of, eases of consumption is attributed
by tIte numicipal doctors of Cologne
to . the food shortage, which has
-
the
of,
of the Hedjaz, under which
Damaseue forms a part or the terri-
tory given to the Hecljaz kingdom.
"Damascus lies emir the border
±00 of the spheres of Octant in Syria
ond Palestine agreed upon betewee»
the British met French, Under this
am
greeent! Palestiee, from the Sea of
Galilee to the Egyptian border, is a
British proteetorate administered for
he special benefit of the Jews, while
North or the Sea of Galilee, to Min
Minor, it 0011305 under the Frenth,
rha letter, however, are most anxious
in have Daum% included WiLltill
heir spbore, while the 'Iodine dele-
gates, are. equally anxious to retain
:imams, as it is already -undo, theie
n ideation. ,
Soles Last Longo'.
A thin coat of varnish applied to
he soles al' lilting once a forteight
dile to their sneering quality. Give
wo coats the first time and Ole oftee
hat. This is an ald-latititioned idea
avived,
But the blockade is still in exis-
tence, and if its effects on the health
of the German people were as disas-
trous as Germans make out one evoeld
etirely notice Emma signs 011 111 arntng
the individuals of all classes whom
one sees in thr
e etreets. At pesent
the weekly 5151110315 is as :follows:
Sugar, 5 oz.; coffee, 21/4 oz.; 'nor-
malade, 7 on; potatoes, 7 lb.; bread,
4 1-4 lb.; meat, '7 oz.; butter, 2 oz.;
fat, 1 oz.
Other food to be bought at high
prime by a system of smuggling,
Which seems to be connived at Or at
last generally practiced.
Butler is difficult to obtain, and
cods $6.25 a pound, white I am told
that the supply of milk Cologne
is only emegdeth of, witat it was in
pouts time, and Oa coneemience
none is alleged except to Andean
mister six and invaids, Who get half a
pint e den,
-.Sugar 11074 beim known to the Chi.
tea •ror at 1st ,A4000 yam
The 014 "Piece in the 8,811."
We fere itil seeing afil aorta of
things that wig pow out of the wan
A new civilization ie to he born, we
noelfin 711,1Sest1110'olod%tionvila:ii.yf v.w%exmaeg.ti inwriebove
righted and entice soul justice !will
rule on meth. All the problems
width distressed ma snipe to 1914, and
even up to tele writing, are to be
solved, and no class is to have any
cause fel` C001p11170b.
Be 14111011 005 it may, undoebtedly there
will he a change in semis] divections,
and 4 few ox prOblems will no
doubt be tiolired. We ali see the oohs
'ion o11 a few of them, and perhaps
the ritost marked one to be seen sets
Ming itself just now is the problem
of what 'we shall do with oue aged, Ib
is not so very long ago that a doctor
made himself :famous or notorious,
by advocating the chloroforming of
men when they reached the age of
sixty years. Employers at lihn the
ex.ainple by retiring their help witlea
pension at ages running from sixtsr
yews to seventy -Om years, anti the
wild damn. ter "adourig blood" was
head in all lines of business.
There didn't eeem to be any plate
foe old folks, male or female. No-
body wanted them in habeas, end at
home young folks wore inclined to
think dependent patients or griundper-
ents, 'uncles and aunts very snitch of
a mamma. They were shelved,
left without anything to do to fill
mind or hands, and -Of auese they be-
come a burden to themselves and
everyone else. Sons and daughters,
filled with a fase pride, refused to let
mother and fathee do any sort of
work to earn a penny from others,
and then grumbled bemase they had
the old folks "on their bands."
'Inie problem of the egad had be-
eoine rather acute. And then came
the wan As in everything elIse, the
cry was for "young blood." It wee
OUT boys with thir splendid Strength
arid great posses of endurance who
had to go across. Millions of pl'aces
which they had filled were left vacant
and ntsist be filled. Girls sprang for-
ward to take the plame of the boys,
, butstiR there 'was room, There didn't
I seem to be girls enough to fill the
:places left by the young men end then
there Were grat gaps where the girl's
leadbeen which must bo stopped up
, by somone.
! The problem of the aged saved
itself. The old ran could not go to
war; the old women !could net exactly
take the places left vacant by the
young, etrong glris, but they could do
their list, .and a ing het, towards mak-
ing up the defieleney. Employers,
glad to get amy sort of help, began
I hieing old men to do certain forms of
light work which they had hired geis
to do before. POT the meet rsart.
they were openly delighted with the,
change. One men, a job printer,. de-
clares he will never hire girls again;
he'll stick to his ad race
"Girls are flightier," was leis
Sail. "You "You were changing every ,
month or so and evhile you byee-o them:
they are bobing about the Mlle° 1-
5(500(1 of sticking right at their job.'
They spend too much time peeping
into vanity cases and powdering their
noses and polishing them engagement
rings. Now my old men are paet
vanity and. lovemaking.. They stick
right to business end if they men% so
swift they get morn done. 'by pegging
along ail day."
In the kitchen, too, a c.hange has
come about. Women who always
ill:listed 071 having young, drag girl
helpers, found out, when they eouldn't
get the gals, that a zniddle-aged, or
elderly women cian help a great deal.'
And sons who wouldn't let rather
week in anyone's kitchen before the
sva.r, called it wee work, old' gave
their consent. to motheris earning a
little fig "pin inoney." And if thrifty
mother menages to make her money
buy her shoes and stockings as well
as a few thrift stamps, why there!
85 no harm done.
One Old lady strated out mending
at fifteen emits an house John
thought that was all right, ewing
was a genteel occupation. Mother
get started, but fifteen cents. was too
littie f • 1 •
twenty-five cents. Her anploger
would be glad to pay that to anyone
who would wash her diehes and
straighten up her rceens each morn-
ing and mother maiden eca that
dithes WA'S itny more lower -
foe 11/4 Mimi Then add the potatoes
out in garters, seasoning, hells, and
seasoning, and eoolt one-half hear
lenges.,
Rice Flour stud Oact Muffing—Rice
flour, 25 per ceag ground rolled daU,
, 75 pee cent. 1 ,cup niuik, 1 table-
spoon fat, 2 tablespoons .syrup, 1 egg,
1% «ups ground rolled oats (6 euncon
4 teaspoons 'baking powder, 1 teaspoon
sat, enp eine flay (2 °traces),
Other conbitnalma that liaise been
tried are buckwheat yrith tests, barleY
and rice; barley with rico and corn
flour; oats with corn flour.
Boston Brown Bread. -1 eup cern
meat, 1 cup oatmeal, 1 cup butiewherit
or barley flour, 1 teaspoon eoda, 2
1 teaspoons baking pewder, 1 teeepoon
I salt, 2 cups eon' milk, % cup molasses,
raisins if desired. Mix thy hived"-
ents, add milk and snolasses, and steam
8 hours or bake 45 minutee to 1 Ilene
In moderate oven. One teanoon
soda may be added if a dark breed le
desired.
Scotch Broth -1 cup Scoteh berly,
1 tablespoon fat, 2 aneditesissized pota-
toes, 2 mediumssived onions; 1 Me-
diunasized turnip, - 1. medium-sized
caret, 1 cup cooked beans or 1 cup
cooked corn, 14e teaspoons salt, Sis
teaspoon pepper'. Soak barley owe-,
night in 3 quarts water; sisnaner one
hour. Heat fat, add chopped vege-
Mines, cook 2 minutes, add to bailey,
and slowly took until vegetables and
holey, are tender. Add more sat
and. pepper if ricessairy. If -too thick,
more water may be etticiod.
Stuffed Oabbage.-1 6311011 hoed can
age, 2 tablespoons vegetable off or
other fait, 1 cup rice, 1-3 pound mut-
ton, 1 cup stock, 2 cups water, salt,
pepper, 244 cups tomato sauce. Scoop
out the centre of a smog head of cab -
huge (selling the materiel removed
for salad). Parboil the cabbage
til tender. Heat ths fat, add rice,
and when this has been partially
browned add the mutton cut into smell
pieces. When well browned add
stook, water, seasonings; cover and
steam until the rice is soft and the
meat tender. Drain tjie cabbage; fill
the centre with the cooked 'neat and
rice; remove to the sauepan. POUT
tomato saute around the 'cabbage and
cook et in the sauce for about 10 nti.
notes. Serve with sauce.
THE LANGUAGE OF DIPLOMACY
The Value of English at the Peacs
Conference.
It is not without especial signifi-.
came that the English language inter-
prets the French at the Peace Confer-
ence and is one of the alternative
languages used officially among the
delegates. In Europe the French -
language is unquestionably the Inn- •
gunge of dipoznaey, of polite sleiety
and of cosmopolitan circles. Its
praises have been sung for years by
French writers, and the authority of
their opinion, as backed up by the
facts of international relatione and
the anvincing quality of French. lits
eratere, is seldom questioned. But
the value of the French language as
the language of precision, to say tie- o.
thing of literary grace and beauty,
'has been very much exaggerated.
Since this exaggeration has been com-
monly accepted, it is easy, therefore,
to understand the surprise and even
the indignation of the French writers
and journalists who find that the
documents of the., Peace Conference
handed out to them "are in English,"
though, as oue of theist naively puts
iits,ef‘•i!1,,1e gathering .meets in Paris
t
It is hardly necessary at this late
day for any Engish-speaking indi-
vidual, however, to glory in the beau-
ties of the svorld materpiecenem-
bahned in the English tongue na it
stand-off to French truditions. The
tribute of literary crities of all 5111'
tions for centuries ie settieient ans-
wer to any suggestion that the Eng•
ish language ma], notstonimand 105-
0 05 a world language through
any possible poverty in its literature.
The common assumption that French
possesses greater value 111 0 medium
of communication is due to the clear-
ness of French diction anil the sim-
plieity of the language., whien 11, e-
vents innbiguity and maics (.1 03'
sentence say exactly what, it moans
and mean exactly what it eoy;.13u11
ish language, by reasin a its 00711..
posite chavacter by nhicleme
Saxon base is enrich id with Colne,
Fvench :sod Latin works him rt wealth
of synonymic distinctiene which ;d-
ose fine denies of mea tine to ns
ole -
11011013' presented, he Ilmithilite in
his respeet is it great vIrtue. Not
oelii this, but -the actoel numbee osi
vords that denote spesiils things. scri•
drete and abstract, .en . -0 Engish a
valuo far above other I:mynas,
while the simplicity of lig renn
matoilezil, construction is also hi its
ay
It will not be a bail thing, liege -
ore, if, through the Nam Csufer..
nee, just what a laity:use spoken by
he most powerful people:: on earth
leans to the world no a vehicle of
hought shall be brouishi, home to 0.11.
Ve can continuo to our rom(1li•
steins to the everyday French the
0411)115010a.rel the finer
French of the academic titelee, though
hey are often ilicaienl, BM this et-
itude of admiratioe 01,055111 not pse.
cut ue .trom Mlle 'realizing the Slt.
TOMO 110i41011. that Etiglieh occupies
51 0 World itingage with a world
(0101101041 (011(511 05111(1511v1'3'the finest
distinetiooe of thought that she nweil
may give utterance to (Ili Lhe vemies
al' 50(01100.a politics am( of the Mae.
eronfliglits of 050(10 1i11011101111 iminsives
w it s °mem etec e,-
jog to her dignity than darning yawn- I 1
ing holes in dockings. So sho just;
commenced to' wash dishes without
conalting John. Earnings grew
into a dollar a day instead of fifty or
sisely cents, imil WilT71 the second Vic- 1
tory Loan campaign 1008 011 she us- '
tenithod .Tohn. by pinning on a button, t
and flouelshing a 1114101-5511 bond motet
JOhn's nose. She had .rsolveil her s
p508110511 of .being old very satisfac-
torily, especially as three or four wo-
men are bidding for ber services.
The mobile of the aged 'Wald
cease to perplex if we would oily re- f
cognize that useful, remunerative a-
cup!ation is 41 bleseing, net a curse nor f
disgrace, and that speed is net the e
only thing to be desired 4n employes. t
Age may lack speed and endurance, n
bet it has judgment and experience t
D. il.
.1.1c1*uglyas ore valuable cais assest
as engthing the young tine offer.-- 1
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Oatmeal litylty,-2 miss cooked Oat- t
meal, 4 apples, cut small, 44 cup
raisins .or dates or other einied .froit, 11
85 cupsesen syrup, 14 teaspoon ein11
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neaten. Mix oul .beite for one-linif 11
hone, Servo hot or cold.
Hot Pot of Mutton and Barley. -
1 Pound Mutton, 1* min peal iserisiy,
tableenoon potatoes, 8 onions,
coleey Mies or ethee gumming heebe. 11
Got the mutton in 'nettle pieces, sind
brown with She e111011 in fat eut tram
neat. 'Phi's w,111 help make the meal V.
Clei: and improves the hem'. Poor It
tibia inte a .covered seumpen. Add 2 o
quaria water and the barley, Simmer it
1.'sit. (*Int:111.g the eges shisely tn.ses
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• CH PTER 1.
If fiurke DintbYhed not been, given
aila the frosted aka end toy shaken'
he wanted at,the sign of ten, it ;nigh
net have been so difficult to conele
• him at the age of twenty that he
not want to marry Helen llama.
Between the boy and hie father al
t dinrieg the years of Childhood an(
s Youth, the relationship was very
beautiful that the ontlee town saw, i
and expressed ibs apProeadi pu:bll
by nods .and admiring adjective; in
private by frequent admonitions to
wayward eons and thoughtless father
e to fallow the pattern so glostiousler se
fpr them.
One word alwinis, howetehi vow
held before the boy from the very
. firsts—mother; yet it wile not tais•
word, either, but as a lining presence.
!Always be was taught that she was
• with them, a .bright, beauteous, graci-
ous befog, loving,- tender, perfect
Whatever they sew was seen through
her dyes. Whatever they did was
e done with her &betties of hetv beauty
tharm, and .go.osiness filled many an
hon of intimate Milk. She was the
Ione flawless woman horn into the
world—so said Bunke's father to his
son.
- Burke was nearly twenty-one, and
- !half through allege, when he saw
Helen Barnet, She was sitting In the
- '14* west Window in the libraew, with
t s ing ies. won-
derfullinikr to gad. In her arms
!the held a sleeping two-year-old boy.
With the marvelous light on her face,
• rid the•be
, hind her, she looked not 11111k:a Pie-
' tiered Madonna. It was net, indeed.,
• Until' a very lifelike red *wept to the
rots of tho irl's It • ti, t young
man, staring at her from the door-
way, realized that she was not, in
truth, a masterpiece on an onistime
well, but a very much alive, very
much embarrassed young woman in
his father's library.
With a :blush that rivaled hers, end
an incoherent apology, he hacked
hastily from the room. He event
then in search of his father. He
had returned frozn college an hour
before to find his father's youngest
sister, Euttice,,and her family, guests
ie the house. But this stranger—
this bewilderingly beautiful girl—
, In the upper hag he carne face -bo
face With his father.
"Dad, who in Heaven's nam.e Is
she?" he •dentanded witlipet preamble.
I"Sh
"That exquisitely beautiful girl in
the library. Who is she?"
"In the library? Gin? Nonsense!
Yetnre dreaming, Blake. Mends/
. no one here but your aunt."
"Bat I jest cone from there. I
saw her. She held a child in her
81.11"Htso.7" John Denby gave a gesture
as ff -tossing n somegthig aside.
"You're dreaming' again, Bueke. The
nursemaid, probably. Your aunt
brought one with her. But, see here,
son. I was looking for you. Come
into my room. I wanted to know--"
And he plunged into a subject far re-
moved from nurse/halide and their
charges.
.Burke, however, was not to be .so
lightty diverted. True, he eitanain-
ed for ten minutes at his father's side,
and he listened dutifully to what his.
father said; but the day was not an
hour older before he had sought end
flloburn!dry.the gin. he had seen in the
She was not tin the libeauisr now. She
was on .the wide verandah, swinging
the cherubic boy in the ham/neck. To
Burke she looked even more bewitch-
ing than she had before. silis a pictured
saint, hung about veith the aloofness
of the intangible and the unreal, she
had been beautiful end !aillorMg en-
ough; but now, as a breathing, mov-
ing etcetera treading his. own familiar
verandah and touching with her -white
hands his own common hammock, sbe
sy,as bewildeeingly entraIning.
Combating ,ageun an almost over-
whelming desire to stand in awed
worthip, !advanced hastily,. speak-
ing with a diffidence and an another-
ence utterly foreign to his usual blithe
boyishness.
"Oh, I hope—I didn't, did I? Did
I wake—the baby up?"
With a start the girl turned, her
blue eyes wide.
• "You? Oh, in the librasiy—"
"Yes; an home ago. I de hope I
didn't—Wake him up!".
Before the ardent admiration M the
young mania eyes, the girl's fell.
"041, no, sir. Ile just—woke him-
self,"
"Oh, Pm so glad! .A.nd—and want
you to forgive me for—for staring at
you so rudely. You see, / was a
• enrprised to—lie see you there like—
like a picture, and— You will for-
give me—or—I don't know gm:
"Ilaiinet—Helen Bentet.".,She bIush
ed peebtilee then ehe 'laughed, throw-
ing iffin a misthievous glance. • "Oh,
yes, I'g forgive you; buissI don't
know your mune, either."
"Thank yen. I knew you'd—un-
derstand, Pm Denby—Burke Deni
"Mr. Denbsde son'?"
oymo
';i0thilille1"atianiratlon in her eyes and
voice he unconseiouely alesisplitenen
himself, I
"And do you live—here?" keenest
e gal .
To hide the inostnidaable emotion I
that seemed auddenly to be swelling
him, the young man laughed .
1 ,
5li!htly. 00111%!0 -when Pirt not away!" '
oes,s thailengsed !fen nun she zoet
the Rai with a gurgle of laughter.
"011, 1 mousit—when you've not
away ," she ..hei.died. • •
He watehed the wild -rose color
:neap to her .templies—and stepped 4
1102grti; you hanorat told ma a
of' yoursoll•—yet,", he ariepilanied,
She isighedt-eind at the sigh an Uri -
reasoning wrath nob.* tnt unknown
soniething .reet. within (him •t
"Thetp'e nothing' to Sell," Ate num.
Dewed. "Vim just liere—a nonce to .1
Mester Peal and lels iniother." Size '
eigbed again esid, a !hie semtal Sigh, 4
Barite Pair weeth become iteaeon,
ng simi vie MM. it wee direetedI
nand the world in .iiimetais and
sena particalar, that they should,
Meat for titte instant this gloriotizi; t
ere4fre to merino hoe <halm lied!
A:Vanes on the eltat 'Tlf menial enen
Vira ter a 'couple of unappiseiatim t
Mite, r
,,chia, Pia a sem!" beesethedd 1
•
mospheric temperatures. Withou
them the tat would have been worth
Jess,
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MUNITION MAKING sIN CANADA
65,000,000 Shell§ Ranging in Calibe
From 13-Pdrs. to the 9,2 Inches.
Over 65,00,0,000 shells, ranging' in
size from 13 -pounders to 9.2 inchee
calibre, were purchased Cangda bylo
the Imperial Munitions Board sine
its inception in Di cember, 1915. The
entire outlay, in Canada by the Board
M behalf of the Imperial Government
foe shells Alone reached almost th
billion doillar mark, the actual value
of the orders placed beteg 2037,456,
826.
I To this vast sum -must bo added
the outlay on shells before the Im
phial Munition§ Board was organ
.ized, and that for orders placed in
behalf ofslite 'United States .Govern
snout, the fl-etnes for which am not
' available at present. '
; The following gives the quantities
of the different size shells produced
in Canada for the Imperial author-
ities:
18 -pd. shrapnel (empty), 8,664,920
18 -pd. shrapnel( filled), 24,939,798
18 -pd. high explosive, 5,692,411.
4.6 -pd. low explosive, 12,571,344.
60 -pd. low explosive, 10,519,219.
8 -inch low explosive, 753,517.
9.2 -inch low aplosive, 782,355.
15 -pd. shrapnel, 299,258.
14 -pd. shrapnel, 79,50.
Total, 65,343,648.
Before August, 1914, no Canadian
manufacturer had ever made a shell
or a cartridge -ease or a fuse, yet in
the second half of 1917, Canada -was
producing 55 per cent. of the shrap-
nel shells, 42 per bent. of the 4.5
shells, 27 per cent. of the 6 -inch, 15
per cent. of the 8 -inch, and 16 per
cent. of the 9.2 -inch shells used by
the British armies.' The record of the
Dominion from that time . on was
equally creditable.
In addition to the expenditure on
shells, the Imperial Munitions Board
have spent nearly $300,000,000 in
Canada on other meterials and equip -
rant for the Beitish Government, in-
cluding aeroplanes, ships, chemicals,
etc.
THE ROYAL ENGAGEMENT
"Princess Pat" May Drop Title, But
Her Admirers Will Not.
The heroine of the most popular
royal engagement of this century will
be known when married as the Prin-
cess Patricia, Lady Patricia Ramsay
she may elect to be called, but to
everybody she will aver be other
than "Princess Pat." The romance
of her engagement M Coinmander
Ramsag is sufficient:for the plot of a
good sized novel. It; is a story of
truelove thwarted, lag waiting, 'and
all obstacles finally overcome.
They first met M 1908, when the
Duke of Connaught was. at Malta,
and it has been a .love affair ever
since. Command Rams'ay joined the
Duke's staff when he went to Canada
and spent eight months there. Dur-
ing that time •the young folk often
were seen together on the Ottawa golf
links and also at . the Rideau and
Minto skating clubs.
When the Duke first heard of the
engagement he opposed it and it was
broken off. The Duchess of Con-
naught just before hey death express-
ed a wish that her daughter's choice
'should be approved and that the en-
gagement formally should be eeneveed.
And now the King and Duke have
given their approval.
The return te the good old _British
custom whereby royalty chose their
partners from Among the people has
given great pleasure. People are apt
to forget that for many centuries
marriages: between royal and an -
royal persons were quite feequent.
To name only an instance, of the' six
wives of Henry VIII. only one—
Princess Catherine—was a king's
daughter; two others were daughters
of dukes, hut• the remainieg three
were Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and
Catherine Parr.
Quite a Different Thiag,
When Joachim, the celebrated viol-
inist, wee concert roaster in Hanover
he could look out of his window and
see skaters enjoying their favorite
sport Catching their enthusiasm
the trelist decided to pavticipato. As
he stepPed on the ice an 'aenunintance
catne up' to him ad asked if he
wanton his «hates strapeed. on. Jo-
achim simmered affirmatively, but
added that he did not item how to
Anita
"Oh, that,doesint matter," aid the
thiiter, "I will teach you."
An mon
os the arlitit noel his rikates
tin he mini:sett the Word, "Now, Mr
joachies, dried erect, so—now throw
out your right leg, so --now You left,
so --and 'now go ahead."
Joachim, following direetions, made
some myeterfoos moveteeete, fled
vitt& his ritzlit Toole then with bis left,
but SoOn found himself spraMing
upon the fee,
"Yes, ye.s, nip deer eir," Said the
ostrueter, pinking ethe violinist lip
and eating blot en his lege agaio,
'oat ean eliatiee 7106 SO eriey ari
flinging!"
at;:frait A: m;Silt singib denies
tonic on IWO Woad '4 piefkiroi. d
litre le beet
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HUNGER BLOCKADE
STIRS HUN ANGER
TUTU 010 VOOD StrUATM
GIIRMANY
Most of the Sbortege Cenfined to the
plainly aglow at the intimate near- Organiation.
ness of thee heart-to-heart talk
"Bet I'm g•11011—you're here!" . The action on the pert of England
"Cone, r want you to g,o to which the Germans have felt roost
want with Me. 1 went 10 show Yee keenly and resent moat bitterly is
the view from Pike's Ildli," he timed. „,
ccigee go vete? Why, me! nen. aehat they call the "Huger Block -
1 . YS Ant cle•H
I Again the wild -Tose flush mane and The most restrained German knows
1 giirt.—.Reaareet• again Burke. Denby step- no moderation in sPeahillg of tffisould
1 odd as it sounds to English ears fron
e "Why not?" - • such a source, professes to beta his
"WIhy, I couldn't leave the children; indignation chiefly on the fact that
besides—it's 1Vinstee Pool's nab hour," ite proclamation w45'0against the law
s "What u pity-awhen it's so beauti- ee e, u
t ful mitt To -morrow, then, in the ht 214"0718' •
morning?" 1 The teat about the German food
s She shook her head. shortage seems to be that it fas con-
fined to the towns ,apd that meth of
it oven there "was due to had organize -
tion, says a correspondent. Germans
admit that the country people have
. • At the laic of longing the leaped no gone short of food at all, and that,
to net. ince, nee thonetoe 3,11th fo3 beeitle keeping full supplies for them -
again the fierce wrath he had known selves, they smuggled food into the
, the first day a their meeting.
,I t heAis:dal they i
1 She dimpled into shy laughter. saAdn:el'veoeft nsehgolPeestele.elaannon°1ybviii°;ufsooind-.
day—after three."
time -Us yourself?"
ed. "Don% they .ever give you any Even in, the towns the tea shops
,"Then, by Jove, you Isbell" ho vow- at high Prim.
g ha a few h
'If remember. WAS
went, -ours Thmts "But -.what difference do thirty tea
ee shops tnake in a town of 600,000 *in-
habitants like Cologne?" said one of
the municipal doctors. "Without a
towns to .sell, contrary to regulation*,
I 110 Burke Denby it 154.15 11 wonderful few places where people could go red
'and a beandsneel experience. Never ea a few Cakes and enjoy themeelves
had the eley been so Nue, the air so
soft, the woods a enchantingly the spirits of the population would
have suffered even more than they
e
"I couldn't, Mr, Denby,"
"The afternoon, then?"
"Is it because you don't want to?"
"Want to!"
beautiful. And he was SO glad that
they were thus -.for her.
! At the top of the htl they sat down
to rest, before them the wonderful
panoreann of grandeur—the green
vageymthe :silvery river, the far -
tains.
reaching =nye and purple senoun-
"My, ism% this real pretty!" ex-
claisned the girl.
The young man scarcely heard the
swede, else he would have frowned un-
consciously at the "reel pretty." He
was looking at her lovely, glorified
fate.
"I thougiht you'd like it," he
breathed.
"Oh, I• do."
"I know another just as fine. Weill
go there next."
A shadow like a cloud crosseuj her
face.
"But I have se little time!"
The eloud leaped ,to his face now
and bectame thunderous.
"Shake! I forgot, What a nuis-
ance! Oh, I say, you know, I don't
think you ought to be doing—such
work. Do you—forgive me, but do
you reelly—have to?' taken into the hospitals to see signs
"Yes, I have to." of -it, and in the case of sick peade
She had turned her face half away, one cannot be sure how much of their
did." One could only reely that Lon-
don had to do without them and nev-
ertheless made no fuss about it.
Fat Men Thinner.
• Of Course, in restricting the Ger-
mans' food supply we were touching
them on a tender spot: One hears of
impressive quentities of weight being
lost owing to food shortage, but many
of the losers could well spare it.
I was shown one roan who hrsd shed
three stone "through sheer lack of
nouvishment." He looked for all that
perfectly natal. "How were you be-
fore the war?" I asked. He held his
hand about twelve...it-mhos in front of
his waistcoat. "I was very stout," he
said promptly.
That the shortage of food has been
seriously felt it would be absurd to
deoy, but one can only say that the
effecte of it are not by any means ob-
vious ,upon the people as one moves
about among them Ono has to be
hut be thought he ooplt1 ems teats'in
her etres.
"Are you—all alone, then? Haven't
you any—people?" His visite had
grown very tender.
"No—no one. Father died, then
mother. There was TIO este else—to
care; and no—money."
"Olt, Pm so—so 'stingy!"
thin and weak appearance is due to
illness and how much to insufficient
nourishment.
I have been shown a tumber of ex-
tremely undeveloped children in
these hoepitols aged from three to
twelve meeths. Their average weight
at five months old, the doctors tell
11 to eirht
He spoke owkwardly, with obvious me. 15 SSVOfl anSi lo 1
one
restraint. He wanted euddenly. to Pounds, or only what it should be at
take her in his enne—to eoothe and birth.
comfort her es elle would a child. But They attribute this to inherited
she was not a child, .and it would not weakness ()wine to underfeeding of
.do, of course. But she looked so the parents atul to poverty of the
iorleen, BO appealing, so sweet, so
absolutely. deer—
Burke Denby began the very next
morning to be a. friend to Miss Bar-
net. Accepting as irrevocable the
fact that ehe could not he separated
freest her work, he made no plans that
did not Maude Masters Paul land
Percy Aileen,
"I'm going to take petit sons for a
drive this morning, if you don't
mind," he mid briskly to his ant at
the breakfaat table."
"Mind? Of !course I don't, you dear
boy," answered the pleased mother,
fondly. "You're the one that •1v -ill
mind—as chscoven 1 fear, when
you find yeomen with a couple of
niischievous entail boys on youe
iterate!"
"I'in not wcrrying," laughed the
youth. "I shall take Miss Barnet
oolong, too."
"Oh—IIelen? That's 1l right, then.
You'll do nicely ;with her," smiled
Mrs. Allen, its ehe rose from the table.
"Ie you1,1 mouse me, PM go and see
that the by are :made ready for
then., treat."
(To he continued.)
TIIIIF,E TREATIES IN WAY
Adriatic Coast, .Gertnan Islands, and
Damascus Involved.
'In 'connectiorthwith the territorial
questions before it, the Peace Con-
ference is confronted by no less than brought at tendencies to tuberculosis
throe. secret troaies, says the Paris that would otherwise have remained
edition of the London•Daily Mail to- latent. One in fous of the deaths in
day. the town are now due to consumption.
"The Rest is the ' treaty between The general dhath rate has risen,
Greet Britain, Femme and Italy, (Us- I was informdd bytthe head of the
posing of the Adriatic coast, width Public Health Department at the City
conflicts violently with Tugo-Slav and Hall, from fourteen per 1000 before
CiechosSlovak interests,!' the Mail the war to thirty-seven 'per 1000. For
says. "The second. is the treaty be- tbis increase, no doubt, influenza is
tween Great Britain and Japan, under largely Vesponsible; 1,500 persons are
syhich Japan gets the German islands eaid to have died of it here since the
in the North ?ileitis. The third is summer.
the treaty between Great Britain and • Rations old Prices,
milk in the mother or foster -mother
owing to the insufficiency of fats in
her nourishment. -
Babies Who Died,
was shown, too, incidentally, suck-
ers of feeding bottles made of glass
or a hard rubber substitute owing to
the shertage of rubber, which prevent
the children drinking easily. The I
soap with which the babies are wash- 1
ed is also a very inadequate imitation
of the real article.
How much tile the weakness of these
puny children ft directly attributable
to food shortage I cannot say. I am
told that their death rate in the first
year of life has risen from fourteen
to nineteen per 100.
The doctor's exclamation as he
showed these poor wizened little mites I
was: "These are the effects of your
hunger blocludel Fier this is Emtland
responsible! If Germany in 1938 has
to fight nattier war, of such stuff will I
be her soldierel" However, as ono I
reminded him, these children, though
weaklyeare at any rate alive, while mei
children drowned by the German sub-
marine blockade lie dead at the bot-
tom of the sea.
An especial inerense in the number
Of, eases of consumption is attributed
by tIte numicipal doctors of Cologne
to . the food shortage, which has
-
the
of,
of the Hedjaz, under which
Damaseue forms a part or the terri-
tory given to the Hecljaz kingdom.
"Damascus lies emir the border
±00 of the spheres of Octant in Syria
ond Palestine agreed upon betewee»
the British met French, Under this
am
greeent! Palestiee, from the Sea of
Galilee to the Egyptian border, is a
British proteetorate administered for
he special benefit of the Jews, while
North or the Sea of Galilee, to Min
Minor, it 0011305 under the Frenth,
rha letter, however, are most anxious
in have Daum% included WiLltill
heir spbore, while the 'Iodine dele-
gates, are. equally anxious to retain
:imams, as it is already -undo, theie
n ideation. ,
Soles Last Longo'.
A thin coat of varnish applied to
he soles al' lilting once a forteight
dile to their sneering quality. Give
wo coats the first time and Ole oftee
hat. This is an ald-latititioned idea
avived,
But the blockade is still in exis-
tence, and if its effects on the health
of the German people were as disas-
trous as Germans make out one evoeld
etirely notice Emma signs 011 111 arntng
the individuals of all classes whom
one sees in thr
e etreets. At pesent
the weekly 5151110315 is as :follows:
Sugar, 5 oz.; coffee, 21/4 oz.; 'nor-
malade, 7 on; potatoes, 7 lb.; bread,
4 1-4 lb.; meat, '7 oz.; butter, 2 oz.;
fat, 1 oz.
Other food to be bought at high
prime by a system of smuggling,
Which seems to be connived at Or at
last generally practiced.
Butler is difficult to obtain, and
cods $6.25 a pound, white I am told
that the supply of milk Cologne
is only emegdeth of, witat it was in
pouts time, and Oa coneemience
none is alleged except to Andean
mister six and invaids, Who get half a
pint e den,
-.Sugar 11074 beim known to the Chi.
tea •ror at 1st ,A4000 yam
The 014 "Piece in the 8,811."
We fere itil seeing afil aorta of
things that wig pow out of the wan
A new civilization ie to he born, we
noelfin 711,1Sest1110'olod%tionvila:ii.yf v.w%exmaeg.ti inwriebove
righted and entice soul justice !will
rule on meth. All the problems
width distressed ma snipe to 1914, and
even up to tele writing, are to be
solved, and no class is to have any
cause fel` C001p11170b.
Be 14111011 005 it may, undoebtedly there
will he a change in semis] divections,
and 4 few ox prOblems will no
doubt be tiolired. We ali see the oohs
'ion o11 a few of them, and perhaps
the ritost marked one to be seen sets
Ming itself just now is the problem
of what 'we shall do with oue aged, Ib
is not so very long ago that a doctor
made himself :famous or notorious,
by advocating the chloroforming of
men when they reached the age of
sixty years. Employers at lihn the
ex.ainple by retiring their help witlea
pension at ages running from sixtsr
yews to seventy -Om years, anti the
wild damn. ter "adourig blood" was
head in all lines of business.
There didn't eeem to be any plate
foe old folks, male or female. No-
body wanted them in habeas, end at
home young folks wore inclined to
think dependent patients or griundper-
ents, 'uncles and aunts very snitch of
a mamma. They were shelved,
left without anything to do to fill
mind or hands, and -Of auese they be-
come a burden to themselves and
everyone else. Sons and daughters,
filled with a fase pride, refused to let
mother and fathee do any sort of
work to earn a penny from others,
and then grumbled bemase they had
the old folks "on their bands."
'Inie problem of the egad had be-
eoine rather acute. And then came
the wan As in everything elIse, the
cry was for "young blood." It wee
OUT boys with thir splendid Strength
arid great posses of endurance who
had to go across. Millions of pl'aces
which they had filled were left vacant
and ntsist be filled. Girls sprang for-
ward to take the plame of the boys,
, butstiR there 'was room, There didn't
I seem to be girls enough to fill the
:places left by the young men end then
there Were grat gaps where the girl's
leadbeen which must bo stopped up
, by somone.
! The problem of the aged saved
itself. The old ran could not go to
war; the old women !could net exactly
take the places left vacant by the
young, etrong glris, but they could do
their list, .and a ing het, towards mak-
ing up the defieleney. Employers,
glad to get amy sort of help, began
I hieing old men to do certain forms of
light work which they had hired geis
to do before. POT the meet rsart.
they were openly delighted with the,
change. One men, a job printer,. de-
clares he will never hire girls again;
he'll stick to his ad race
"Girls are flightier," was leis
Sail. "You "You were changing every ,
month or so and evhile you byee-o them:
they are bobing about the Mlle° 1-
5(500(1 of sticking right at their job.'
They spend too much time peeping
into vanity cases and powdering their
noses and polishing them engagement
rings. Now my old men are paet
vanity and. lovemaking.. They stick
right to business end if they men% so
swift they get morn done. 'by pegging
along ail day."
In the kitchen, too, a c.hange has
come about. Women who always
ill:listed 071 having young, drag girl
helpers, found out, when they eouldn't
get the gals, that a zniddle-aged, or
elderly women cian help a great deal.'
And sons who wouldn't let rather
week in anyone's kitchen before the
sva.r, called it wee work, old' gave
their consent. to motheris earning a
little fig "pin inoney." And if thrifty
mother menages to make her money
buy her shoes and stockings as well
as a few thrift stamps, why there!
85 no harm done.
One Old lady strated out mending
at fifteen emits an house John
thought that was all right, ewing
was a genteel occupation. Mother
get started, but fifteen cents. was too
littie f • 1 •
twenty-five cents. Her anploger
would be glad to pay that to anyone
who would wash her diehes and
straighten up her rceens each morn-
ing and mother maiden eca that
dithes WA'S itny more lower -
foe 11/4 Mimi Then add the potatoes
out in garters, seasoning, hells, and
seasoning, and eoolt one-half hear
lenges.,
Rice Flour stud Oact Muffing—Rice
flour, 25 per ceag ground rolled daU,
, 75 pee cent. 1 ,cup niuik, 1 table-
spoon fat, 2 tablespoons .syrup, 1 egg,
1% «ups ground rolled oats (6 euncon
4 teaspoons 'baking powder, 1 teaspoon
sat, enp eine flay (2 °traces),
Other conbitnalma that liaise been
tried are buckwheat yrith tests, barleY
and rice; barley with rico and corn
flour; oats with corn flour.
Boston Brown Bread. -1 eup cern
meat, 1 cup oatmeal, 1 cup butiewherit
or barley flour, 1 teaspoon eoda, 2
1 teaspoons baking pewder, 1 teeepoon
I salt, 2 cups eon' milk, % cup molasses,
raisins if desired. Mix thy hived"-
ents, add milk and snolasses, and steam
8 hours or bake 45 minutee to 1 Ilene
In moderate oven. One teanoon
soda may be added if a dark breed le
desired.
Scotch Broth -1 cup Scoteh berly,
1 tablespoon fat, 2 aneditesissized pota-
toes, 2 mediumssived onions; 1 Me-
diunasized turnip, - 1. medium-sized
caret, 1 cup cooked beans or 1 cup
cooked corn, 14e teaspoons salt, Sis
teaspoon pepper'. Soak barley owe-,
night in 3 quarts water; sisnaner one
hour. Heat fat, add chopped vege-
Mines, cook 2 minutes, add to bailey,
and slowly took until vegetables and
holey, are tender. Add more sat
and. pepper if ricessairy. If -too thick,
more water may be etticiod.
Stuffed Oabbage.-1 6311011 hoed can
age, 2 tablespoons vegetable off or
other fait, 1 cup rice, 1-3 pound mut-
ton, 1 cup stock, 2 cups water, salt,
pepper, 244 cups tomato sauce. Scoop
out the centre of a smog head of cab -
huge (selling the materiel removed
for salad). Parboil the cabbage
til tender. Heat ths fat, add rice,
and when this has been partially
browned add the mutton cut into smell
pieces. When well browned add
stook, water, seasonings; cover and
steam until the rice is soft and the
meat tender. Drain tjie cabbage; fill
the centre with the cooked 'neat and
rice; remove to the sauepan. POUT
tomato saute around the 'cabbage and
cook et in the sauce for about 10 nti.
notes. Serve with sauce.
THE LANGUAGE OF DIPLOMACY
The Value of English at the Peacs
Conference.
It is not without especial signifi-.
came that the English language inter-
prets the French at the Peace Confer-
ence and is one of the alternative
languages used officially among the
delegates. In Europe the French -
language is unquestionably the Inn- •
gunge of dipoznaey, of polite sleiety
and of cosmopolitan circles. Its
praises have been sung for years by
French writers, and the authority of
their opinion, as backed up by the
facts of international relatione and
the anvincing quality of French. lits
eratere, is seldom questioned. But
the value of the French language as
the language of precision, to say tie- o.
thing of literary grace and beauty,
'has been very much exaggerated.
Since this exaggeration has been com-
monly accepted, it is easy, therefore,
to understand the surprise and even
the indignation of the French writers
and journalists who find that the
documents of the., Peace Conference
handed out to them "are in English,"
though, as oue of theist naively puts
iits,ef‘•i!1,,1e gathering .meets in Paris
t
It is hardly necessary at this late
day for any Engish-speaking indi-
vidual, however, to glory in the beau-
ties of the svorld materpiecenem-
bahned in the English tongue na it
stand-off to French truditions. The
tribute of literary crities of all 5111'
tions for centuries ie settieient ans-
wer to any suggestion that the Eng•
ish language ma], notstonimand 105-
0 05 a world language through
any possible poverty in its literature.
The common assumption that French
possesses greater value 111 0 medium
of communication is due to the clear-
ness of French diction anil the sim-
plieity of the language., whien 11, e-
vents innbiguity and maics (.1 03'
sentence say exactly what, it moans
and mean exactly what it eoy;.13u11
ish language, by reasin a its 00711..
posite chavacter by nhicleme
Saxon base is enrich id with Colne,
Fvench :sod Latin works him rt wealth
of synonymic distinctiene which ;d-
ose fine denies of mea tine to ns
ole -
11011013' presented, he Ilmithilite in
his respeet is it great vIrtue. Not
oelii this, but -the actoel numbee osi
vords that denote spesiils things. scri•
drete and abstract, .en . -0 Engish a
valuo far above other I:mynas,
while the simplicity of lig renn
matoilezil, construction is also hi its
ay
It will not be a bail thing, liege -
ore, if, through the Nam Csufer..
nee, just what a laity:use spoken by
he most powerful people:: on earth
leans to the world no a vehicle of
hought shall be brouishi, home to 0.11.
Ve can continuo to our rom(1li•
steins to the everyday French the
0411)115010a.rel the finer
French of the academic titelee, though
hey are often ilicaienl, BM this et-
itude of admiratioe 01,055111 not pse.
cut ue .trom Mlle 'realizing the Slt.
TOMO 110i41011. that Etiglieh occupies
51 0 World itingage with a world
(0101101041 (011(511 05111(1511v1'3'the finest
distinetiooe of thought that she nweil
may give utterance to (Ili Lhe vemies
al' 50(01100.a politics am( of the Mae.
eronfliglits of 050(10 1i11011101111 iminsives
w it s °mem etec e,-
jog to her dignity than darning yawn- I 1
ing holes in dockings. So sho just;
commenced to' wash dishes without
conalting John. Earnings grew
into a dollar a day instead of fifty or
sisely cents, imil WilT71 the second Vic- 1
tory Loan campaign 1008 011 she us- '
tenithod .Tohn. by pinning on a button, t
and flouelshing a 1114101-5511 bond motet
JOhn's nose. She had .rsolveil her s
p508110511 of .being old very satisfac-
torily, especially as three or four wo-
men are bidding for ber services.
The mobile of the aged 'Wald
cease to perplex if we would oily re- f
cognize that useful, remunerative a-
cup!ation is 41 bleseing, net a curse nor f
disgrace, and that speed is net the e
only thing to be desired 4n employes. t
Age may lack speed and endurance, n
bet it has judgment and experience t
D. il.
.1.1c1*uglyas ore valuable cais assest
as engthing the young tine offer.-- 1
1
1
Thrift Reeipcs.
Oatmeal litylty,-2 miss cooked Oat- t
meal, 4 apples, cut small, 44 cup
raisins .or dates or other einied .froit, 11
85 cupsesen syrup, 14 teaspoon ein11
-
neaten. Mix oul .beite for one-linif 11
hone, Servo hot or cold.
Hot Pot of Mutton and Barley. -
1 Pound Mutton, 1* min peal iserisiy,
tableenoon potatoes, 8 onions,
coleey Mies or ethee gumming heebe. 11
Got the mutton in 'nettle pieces, sind
brown with She e111011 in fat eut tram
neat. 'Phi's w,111 help make the meal V.
Clei: and improves the hem'. Poor It
tibia inte a .covered seumpen. Add 2 o
quaria water and the barley, Simmer it
1.'sit. (*Int:111.g the eges shisely tn.ses
ups !have bncu lits.etesei iatit
eicsite flow s)trough
avservoir, nOite,
1.g 1110 001P5'