The Clinton News Record, 1918-2-21, Page 6WHEN THE HUNS
RAID LONDON TOWN
LI Vv-das..NoRmAN HAL414, • zt.'
CHAPTIIIR VeLe-(Cont'd,)ri Rinteler a night Paseed •'MOW" Ite
Bet Fritzie could be depended deem' burial Parties. "Diggieg In the, gm'
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to troop ep hte one, tee the gam. He cler" Tommy calls the grate -reeking.
gave ea just AS good as we SSIA, anti The bodies, wrapped- in blankets cm
often be added • soniething .j!or filn waterproof ground-sbeeese are Rog
ineroure. His eauprises-were eauseeee over the particles, end carried:back a
ithapee missiles which came wobbling convenient 'twenty yards or more. The
- toward us, elowly, almost aeelcward- elesolation of -that gaeden, choked with
ly; .but they, ciroppee eyith lightning *weeds "'I. a will growth of self-eowri
sPeedgand alee, for any poor Tommy erolestee indeeeribable, It VMS wreeke
Who misjedged the place of its fall! age-strewne gaPing with shell holes,
However, every one end a einem,. billowing with innumerable greves, a
Teenetegnortae projectiles are eo large wade land epeoehleeslY Pathetic. The
that one can see them corning, and Meier treee and with:ivy hedgeshave
been blasted and sielintered by shell
they describe so leiseroly an arc be- fire. Tommy calls these "Kaiser
fore they fall that men have time to
I
run. Bill's flowere," --Coming from Eng -
1 have always ,admired ToirineY land he' feels more deeply than be
Aticins Torlis sense ,of fair play. He would care to (Admit the crimes done to
enjoeeted. giving Ftrees in the name of war1rite "a little bit of
all -right,' .beet he never a•eserteee it Our Chaplain wait a devout Irian, but
1
when Fritz had his own fun tit our ex- Prudent to a fault. Never,to my
penes, " In the far-off days of peace, knowledi
ge, did he vieit us n• the
I used to lament the fact that we ttenches. Therefore oem buriel par -
had fallen ppm evil times, I read ties proceeded without the rites �f the
of old wars with e feeling of regret Church. This arrangeinent was high.
that mei.) had lost their old primal . ly satisfactory .to Tommy-. He liked
loveefee damgeeous spelt, thee. naive! to .-"get the planting clone" With the
ignorance of fear. All the brave, leadeposible delay Or fuss. ' His
heroic things of life were fetid and whispered conveiesations while ' the
done. Hut on those trench -mitering graves were being scooped were,. to
days, when I watched boys playing say the tenet, quite out of the iiinit
with death :with right good zesteheard of the occasion. Once we were bury -
them shouting and laughing es they ing two boys with whom we had been
tumbled over one another in their having - supper a few hours before.
eagerness to eseape it. ... I was con-, There was an artillery duel in pito-
vinced of my error. Daily I sate men' gress, the ;Melts whittling high over
\going through the test of fire trium-1 our' heads, and bursting in great
phantled and, at the last, what e severe splotches of white fire, far in rear of
test it was! And how splendidlythe oPposing lines of trenches., The
they net MI During. six months cone! grave -Making went speedily on, while
- einuously in the firmg-line, e1 met the beieial party argued in whispers
less than a .dozen natural-born cow- I is to the caliber of the • guns. - Some
ards; and my experience was largely said they were six-inch, while others
wtth plumbers, drapers' assistants, thought nine-ingh. Discussion was
clerks, men -who had no fighting tradi- momentarily suspended when a trench
teens to back them up, make them rocket shot in an arc from the enemy's
heroic he spite of themselves. line. We oroteched, motionless, until
The better I knew Tommy, the bet- the welcome darkness spread agaie.....
ter I liked him., He has n't a shred And then, in loud whisperei-e-
VISIT QV TWENTieeleleeie POE
P M ACHI NES.
• I
Screeching of the Shells As They Rip
the Air Are Most Terrifying
Sounde,
A visitor in Londen has written the
following letter, to hire mother telling
o vecent air raids on London: t
After about' five week' freplom
from airplane ciattoke they came egaio
this morning diming the 'darkness.
The moon was shining, although it
had evened to about one -thirds fell,
There wave about twerity-five care
planes.
They attempted to get, over London
eroin fem.,' different directions, but
only six succeeded in getting over the
city. Two of thee machines were
brought down by gunfire and the
crews eaptured alive. There -mere
three. Germans each machine.. Al-
though they had„killed three persons
hi London by dropping bombs, the cap-
tured crews were accorded all the
rights of prisoners cif war and give»
a good breakfast of bacon and eggs.
• Attacks Driven Off. e
of sentimentality "in his make -»p "'Ere! If they was nine -inch, they
There is plenty of sentiment, sincere would 'ave more screech.",- ,
feeling, but it is admirably concealed. And one from the other school of
. I had been a soldier of the King for opinion Would reply: -
many months before I realized that "Don't talk so bloonthe sillA:
y in' 1. 't
e the men with whom I was living, share I a-tellin' you that you can't always
ing rations and hardships, were any- size 'ern by the screech?"--- -
thing other than the healthy animals -
Not a prayer; net a word, either
• they looked. They grumbled at the
of censure or of praise, for the boy
ese
rtraints military discipli
ine mpos-
ed. upon them, and at the palter shill-
ing a day whieh they received for the
first ,really hard work they had ever
who had gone; not an expression of
opMion • as. to the meaning of the
great change which had come to them
and which might come, as suddenly, to
done, They appeared to regal ng- any or all of is. And yet I knew that
land :as a miserly employer, exacting they Were each think -Mg of these
their last ounce •of energy for a
retchedly inadequate wage. To the „things.
-w
There were days when the :remit was
caved observer, theirs was not the
ardor of 'loyal sons, fighting for a
beloved motherland. • Rather, it seem-
ed that of ireespensible. schoolboys en
a long holiday. 'They said within
about patriotism or the day of _Eng-
lishmen in war -time. And if 1 at-
temped starta conversation. along
. that line, they walked right over me
with their boots on.
This was -a greatdisappointment at
fleet. I should never have .known,
from anything that was spite that a
man of them was stirred .at the
thought of fighting for old England.
Enelend was all right, but ."I ain't
goin' balmy Aboutetheold flag and all
that stuff. ' Many- 01 them --insisted
that they were in the army. for per-
sonal and selfish reesons alone. They
went out of their way to ridicule any
and every indication • of sentiment.
There was the Matter of talk about
mothers, for example. I can't imagine
this being the case in a volunteer army
of Ai -lineman boys, but not once, dur-
ing fifteen months of British army life,
- did I heae a discussion of mothers.
When the weekly parcels from. Eng-
land arrived and the boys wore sharing
their cake and chocolate and tobacco,
one of them' would say, "Good old
mum.She ain't 9 -bad sort"; to be
enswered with relemtent, moOthefilled
grunts or grueging nods of approval. Along the part of the British front
As for'fathers, I often thought to my_ which we held during the summer, the
self; -"What a tremendous army, of opposing lines of trenches were from
post-humous sons!" Months before less than a hundred, th four hundred
I would have been astonished at this and fifty or five hundred yarde apeite
reticenee, But I lued,eletiened to meat: -Wheel we Were eeighberely as regards•
- Stand Tommy.His silences were as. distance, we wereelse neighborly as
eloquent as any spleedid outbursts or regards soda intercourse. In the
glowing tributes coiled have been. In- early mornings when the heavymight
deed, ,they were, far More eloquentmists still .Conceiled the Imes, the
Englishmen seem to have an instine- boysestood head and shoelders above
tive understanding :of the fertility, the :the parapet and shouted
: -
emptiness, of weeds in the face de en- "Hi, Friteiel". •
speakebleexperiences, 'Itnvas a mat- And the greeting was eleturried
ter of :coastline wonder :tn. Me that "Hi, Tommy!" -
men, lie-ing in the - dallyeinde homey Then we comeeried. Very iew of
presenee' of deelh, could so surely con- us knew German, but it is surprising
t,rol end-con:coed their feelings. Their how many .Germans could speak Eng.-
talkwas of arything but home; and lish. Frequently, they shouted, "Get
yet, I keew they ethouelet of but- lit- any Weedbinese Tommy e" --his •fave
-He else... • orite.brand of cigarettes; and Tommy
there was' the letter to be wititten to over or will yeti eons an' fetch sem?"
51 ing 'em in the am. •
One .of. our boye MIS killed, and would rep]y, "Sure
really genet. The thin -trickle of rifle
fire only accentuated the stillness of
an eaely summer morning. Fat down
•the.litfe- Tommy coulee be heard, sing-
ing to he/itself .as -he the' doer
of his dugout, cleaning his .rifle, ot
making a careful scrutinyeof hie shirt
for those unwelcome little parasites
which made life SQ miserable for him
at all eimes. There were pleasant
cracklings of burning pine stieks and
the sizzle of frying bacon. Great
swarms of bluebottle flies buzzed eaze
ily in the mearm.sunshine. Somethnes,
across a pool of noonday silence, we
heard birds singing; •for the birds
didn't deeert us. When we gave
them a hearing, they did their cheery
little best to assure us that everything
would some eight in theeend. Oneowe
heard a skylark, an English skylark,
singing over No -Man's -Land! • , I
scarcely know which gave me more
pleasure, the song, or the sight of the
faces of,those English lees as they
listened. I was deeply toucbed when
one of them said:-
-"Ain't 'e a plucky little chap, sing -
in' right in front of Fritzie's trenches
fe2 un English blokes?"
It was a sincere and fittMg tribute,
as perfect for a soldier as Shelley's
"Ode" for a poet.
-According to the ofAcial eecortls, the
airplanes attacked the east -chest at
1.30 a.m.,,but were driven off. We
received no warning Of this in Lon-
don, but slept through it. Another at-
tack was made at 3 a.m. on the
River Theme*, aboue half way between
London and the coast. ,
They were driven off by the guns,
While no ilvarning was . given in my
neighborhood, 1Ve CC/Ulf:Ole/1T it in dis-
tant parts of the City and the people
rennieg in the stveets soon convinced
us that something was pending. I
dressed, put on my overcoat and went
out. .
I passed the Red Cross ambulance
station nearby and just then two large
ambulances droire up, as they always
do during a raid. However, scone po-
licemen dame up and said the Ger-
mans had been driven off and told all
to go home., •
As soon as I retailed to the hotel,
at 3.30 a.m., I again went to bed.
When I had 'just about decided to go
to sleep again I heard some one use a
clocie knocker across theestreet, and it
Made almost as much noise as a small
bomb. I tben heard a man tell his
friend, whom he was awakening by hie
knockieg, filet there was erfother
warzeing. .•
"Take Cover!" .e
RURAL QUIET
AIDS RECOVERY
P.OPULATIONeene mit.4PARY
MAP NOW. 12,000
?lick to Nature" Treatment le Bettee
Than. "leoee of White Teglite"
• For Cooveletteents,
Silica January, 1917, the military
110/mita] population of Canada has in-
creased approximately eix-fold. At
the beginnirig of 1917 theve were
slightly over 2,100 nien on the
streneth' of the , Hospitale
Commission' Command, the unit to
Ni1111Ch all wounded and invalided eel-
diers :clef:tined for treatment in Canada
are autonmeically traneferred upon
their disembarkation frOM hospital
ship eat Halifax or Quebec, Toedey
there are .nettrly e 2,000 netients at-
tached to militery conveleseent hos-
Provision of accommodation for
these men hats entailed a :vast amount
of work and the exercise of much
judgment in the selection of hospital
e' tebette Mee Iiiiinetes the teal warn,
ing caMe, Whith consisted automo-
bile hooters, police on bicycles,elelow-
ing shrill whistles and sheeting, "Take
cover!" I dressed again and alter
wakingesome people in the hotel who
had net heard the warning I went into
the street. I could hear the guns roar-
ing in the distance and knew then the
attack was on in earnest, ell: was then
5 am. I went into the underground
railway, and while going down the
great .spiral stairwaye,which leads
more than 100 feet below the ground
I saw old men, women and children,
many women caegying babies in their
arms. Special constebles lined people ment methods can -be installed in any
in the corridors deep in the ground, hospital whether it -is in the city or
and it was interesting to see what peo- country. In England, for instance,
pie in their haste had brought with many of the big active treatment hose
them..., pitals whore eery conceivable kind
Many were"eaerying small dogs. of medical service is performed are
girls carrying large situated in remote places far from
saw two I,ittle
dolls, Many brought food and drink
I went out abouN5.30 a.m. and found
the guns were going with a greater
violence and could see some fires
which ineendiary bombs had started.
Previous Raids.
By 7 o'clock automobiles came almeg
announcing that the danger was over.
On several previous occasions the
German {deplanes bad come directly
over the place where I was. The guns
follow the Machines about, throwing
bursting shells all around them, One
can. then hear the noise of the air-
plane peonellers, the busting of
bombs and shrapnel, but what Slams
one most is the screeching of, the
As they rip the air with a
whiz, one always thinks they mey bit
him. During one raid as Many as
e0,000 shells were flied at the Ger-
moms, \Nilo fly from ene to four miles
.on
WAR AND FOOD SUMP , ARTIC.L.1{1 No. 8.- IOTATORS
At the preeerlt thee there Wei total They wen be puerto good uee by the
eurplue lei (Jangle a 6,000,000 bushels housekeeper tor there are doeene of
of potatooti over normal eonsumption. leapt In Metall she earl Prelffire them'
In the United Stetes• there ie n aur- A meagre supply of meet re" be I
pine of from 40,000,000 to 100,000,000 "teeretched" by the addition ef the , •
Wallets, ' potatoes while in theraselvee they
Tele IneY be regarded tie a fortunate furnieh adequate Detriment no matter Foo C_ontrol Cornet
eircumetanee, fent potathee are among how they gee .prepared,
the finest of substitutes and in using
them freely meat is being releesed foe Drastic frieatturee ageinet pea:semi
Meale For The Children.
()teepee. In the United States Mr. hoiu.ding. food are being coneiderod
Hoover has been edvoenting, the nee Here are two sets of the eitelit kind by the Food Controller, Warning wee
05°1" issued recently that homeeholders and
of potatees for Some thaa Past and for your youngster. Grown
sorneelneee others may find themselvetwire an un -
this injunction may be upplieti equally will like *WM/ top. 21
theee seem too much work, bread and eiiviable predicament if spoiled flour
to Canada, ,
repRtveQryuapr000vihnaces holuffelliceienctompitoelat
oeexe- 011)31tenallottestwi-illNmo.a.kr APPoPdlemestieei horeett have 'proper storage eacilitiee
Is found oh their eremitic% Few
t� ensure supplies during the winter oatmeal with melee milk to drink. No. and persons who have bought large
but if they are deliberately kept back 2. Stewed prunes, cocoa (wealc), toost quantities of flour ere liable to have
in the meantime it will follow that and butter. it spoil on.their hands next winner,
there will be a glut on the market in De -mem -No, 1. Stew, with carrots, The etticeee,
eelleee' ference this week with the Food Con -
who have been in con -
spring and consequent waste of a eon- potetoes, and a little moat,
sauce spinach or any greens,
m2.yFizsliee,e-sithu'devahilit
corn commended that the Food Controller
troller in regard to new regulatione
wmhiir tt drink.
Ncroe
governing their operations, have re -
bread', milk to drink.
Suppen-No, 1, Cream of bean ic'virathaluaillearteetaWil itdbeaelevresry iigireolcoeurr and
soup, crackers and jam, milk. No. 2. Canada requiring from them the
Bale-ettmotato, apple Betty, milk. names and addrestme of motions with
Them dishes are -good for children have purchased more than a 08 -pound
and geowneups too. The recipes pro- bag of flour during the past month.
vide enough for a family of five. Furthermore it is suggested that deal -
Milk -Vegetable Soups. -1 quart ers and grocers failing to make cm: -
milk (skim milk may be used), 21/4 reet returns would have very little
tablespoons floor, 2 tablespoons but- chance of obtaining a license under
ter or margarine or other fat, 1 tea- the, licensing. system which will soon
spoon salt, 2 cups thoroughly cooked be extended to this trade. The re -
vegetable finely chopped, mashed or commendation adds that effective
put through a sieve, Spinach, peas, steps should be taken to prevent the
beans, potatoes, celery, or asparagus possibility of serious waste.
make good soups. Stir flour into Such action has been taken in Great
enelted fat and mix with the cold milk. Britain Where the books of depart -
Add the cooked vegetable and stir over mental stores have already been ex -
the fire until thickened, If soup is amined and summons have -been issued
too thick, add a little water or milk. in hundreds of crises against persons
Rice Pudding. -1 quart milk, 1-3 cup who have been hoarding food. There
rice, 1-3 sup sugar, ee cup raisins or is absolute1e. no necessity or excuse
chopped dates, elt teaspoon salt, el, for Canadians buyin'g more flour than
teaspoon ground witmeg or cinnamon. is required for current need. The be-
Wieh the rice, IniX all together, and lief that the new standard flour is a
bake three hours In a very slow oven, poor quality is entirely unfounded.
stirring now and then at first. This Few people will be able to tell, the dif-
may be made on top of the stove in ference between bread ,maele from
a double boiler, oe in a fireless cooker. standare flour and that made from
flourleretofore in use. Hoarding is,
therefore, unnecessary, unprofitable
end unpatriotic aied food hoarders may e
be exposed as a result of measures
now under consideration.
toderable part of the surplus. Farmers
sites. Tweote-one institutions • huve who have a goad supply of potatoes on
been-, erected hnd equipped from the hand would do well to market them
ground up in that tirneewhile 45 teuilde neW.
inge, :principally echo& and eel- Tbe Feed Controller has seen to it
loges, hava been remodeeled foe the thee the prices will not be allowed to
advance beyond those now, obtaining.
same purpose.
By a steady and abundant supply of
Rural Site's Are Beet.
ee. potatees being placed on the' market
- Schools and college ,buildings have from the present time until the 1918
proved most suitable of the existing crop is available, the best interests of
buildings which coind be taken °ter both consumers and producers will be
because so many of them are sithated
served -and the waste of any large part
on spaeides,grounds Well out in the of the crop will he prevented. •
country. The eelection of sites for If is necessary as a war measure for
now hospitals has in the main follow- everybody to eat potatoes and to mir-
ed the same. principle.' ,So long as chase them in regular quantities so
transpogtation facilities, eight, heat that distribution will be equal every -
and power Were available the hivigor- where for the next five oe six menthe,
ating conditions of rural life were relieving raileocie congestion and ..eie-
felt to be more conducive to speedy abling growers and distributors to
recovery than were tbe more congest- handle potatoes at the mose reasonable
el. surroundings of a big city, with its prices and to furnish micouragemeet
noisy traffic, smoke nuisance, and the for production of a larger crop next
many temptettions in exciting and season.
often unhealthy amusements. Germany plants more than twice as
Rest, Not "White Lights." many peintoeeeas the United States
"But the soldiers prefer the city, and they are helping her Lo hold out
don't they?" an official was asked, against the Allies.
eA ehilt1 prefers candy'eto medicine, Potatoes are plentiful. They are the
best substitutes for the food staples
doesn't.it?" was the kiply,
Another medical man put it this we are being asked to save for the
way:
"If you a civilian, have been ill for
some months and still have a while to
spend convalescing before you 'return
to yew. work what does the doctor
recommend? A nice -quiet rest in the
country or at the seashore, 'doesn't
he?...- ;ease 'soldiers have been hi hos-
pital for months in England. When
they come to Canada in the vast ma-
jority of eases 'they have reached the
convalescent sage, Back to nature
is the prescription for them; not a
liberal dose of "white lights.'"
Sometimes the most efficient meth-
ods of reptoring the soldiers to health
would fail to prove popular. But in
the long run it is predicted that the
discharged soldiers would look back , Done of Flight.
with gratitude to the fact that Inc life e •
in hospital was made as short OH pose What did it feel like?" . "Weren't
you fri htened?" "Wah it aevf 11
sible, even at the temporary sacrifice cold?" g"Did you feel seasick?" U
of a certain amount of pleasure. People kept asking me these gees -
Well Equipped Hospitals. tions that evening: the evenin.g when
Equitement foe all kinds of treat.- -with a false assumption of indiffer-
ence -I announced that I had return-
ed from a flight in an aeroplane, says
a British aviator. It was the, first
time I had . flown. And I am one of
those quiet individuals, living amongst
quiet individuals, to whom the affair
seemed something of an adventure.
any centre of civil population. No Flight of Fancy.
It has been mentioned above that Was Lfrightened? Frankly, there
Allies, They 'Finnish nourishment, Any coarse cereal may be used in
bulk and mineral salts. place or rice.
dAT FLYING
FEELS LIKE
ALTHOUGH AERIAL DEVELOP-
. MENTS PROMISE.
To Play Big Part in Our Future Lives,
Few People Understand Sepsa-
leis parents. Three ,be
who This was often the ice -breaker, the severmeraids in succession, I went to
Some moeths ago, when there were
beginning of a conveesation which
within 500 feet, of a battery of guns
in a large open space. Each shot fie
lumineted the landseape as light ae
day. I took refuge under the 'over-
hanging limb of a big tree, 'What an -
meted me wae there Was so much,
noise I could not tell whethee bombs
lcnew him best were to attempt this.
They made innumerable beginnings.
Each a the wag afraid al! blundering,
wiped considerably in ()thee details.
. "Who are you?" Fritizie would
of causing unnecessary pain by an inde- shout.
Reale eevelatioa of the:facts. There was And Tommy, "We're the Rings' Own
a feminine fineness about' concern "Yerkoof 'Aters"; seine Such subtle re -
which watt beautiful to sec. 'Phe partece as that. e"Woleie your mob?"
draft of the letter was a little Mester- ."Itereee a battalion of Irish vertu."
piece, not of English, but of insight; The Germans liked to provoke us by , ,
emelt egletter as, anY "0 Of US would Pretending that the Trish were dis.• "lee geaLoi• waftm faw fam
have wished his own parents to receive loyal to England. .. were deopping near nee or not. Oho
undee like cireunistancee. Nothing shell came within BOO feet, but • did
was forgotten whiah cold have made
the newe io the slightest degree more
. endurable, Every trilling personal
•elichingieg was catefully saved and
packed hi a little box to follow the let-
ter. All of this was done araid much
boisterous jesting. And there was
the usual hilarious singing to the
wheeting accompaniment of an old
mouth -Organ. .But ot reference to
home, or motheme or coenreriesbip,-
nothing.
Sometimes they sheeted:-
, "Any of you tom London es.'1
"Not arfl Web was, you a-doin' of
111 London? , Witin' tible -at Sam
"
not explode. We do not expect mariy
more :raids WW1 spring.
'epee's fislieghoje?
The eising at the mists put an end eAVANeleele Leta FAT Id".
to these conversations. SOMetiMeg
they were concluded earlier With 'Weight; and Girth Help to Make
buests of rifle and machine-gun fire. Orientae.Wrestlers Champions.
"All right to be •felendly," Tommy• ,
would any, "but we got tolet 'ern leiow in this e°nnqY when 0 nue
this ain't We love -feast,", average height; takes on girtb until
(To be conthmed,) his weight runs 1,p Id spu porrods- or
so hie triends have -grave doubts'
about his eenclition and a1.11,i1.16hisn
to diet in-ordei to bring back a slim
elegetice oe figure, In Japan the con-
trary is truce. if 'a Man min cavity
200 pounds of flesh with any agility
• he is or the mateeial from which
, heroes are leantifeetered, and if he
can week up to 400 or 47,5 Pond
notch, awl beeemes 25 wrestle', he is
'in the Yenning ler the cheitipienthip,
:Weetitling le:to the Japanese what
boring is to 05, ane move; The poprie
lece goes cow over it, and the page
tutees or elle.hig game batidle great
gems in the way of mite receipte.
The Thio Wetling Atemcia.eion cone
trote the Hower el! Japan's heavy -
Weights, and at Re hoed le a 350 -
pound. veterite, T. DeeeerMuted, the
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Prefer to be in the city. `It should.noie
be imagined, however, that theyare
unhappy at the outlying institutions.
Recognition of the need for recreation
has been given from the outset at all-
ele military 'hospitals, particularly
those rerieoved from the eities. Re-
creation buildings containing concert
halls, bowling alleys, etc., have been
built. Billihrd rooms 'have been in-
stalled Equipment for all kinds of its front seat and my pilot horribly
out -door sportin which even some of unreacheble at the rear, mislead for-
th() bedly crippled men contrive to ward in a roaring torrent of air from
take part has been acquired ancl in its propeller, leapt a little, and then,
some cases directors of 'tem:cation imperceptibly, left •the ground. I saw
ha.ee- bben appointed as members of the ground sinking, I looked down on
the institutional staff. roofs. And then our motion seemed
Rveeybody Happy. to slow and cease.. We had stopped
Nobody who has visited Whitby, elYieg• The propeller still roared
Guelph, Balfour, Qualicum, Resthavem deafeningly in front of my 110SB. Its
or any of, the outlying hospitals all wend still tore at my cap and goggles.
across Canada can have failed to ob, But we made no progress. We were
serve the splendid feeling which ex. only struggling, u petulant mechan-
ists between staff and patients and iem, in an adverse gale.
Vieeie.
the evident happiness a all colleen-
A Bird's -Eye
ed. e That, I say, 10155 my impression.
The little publications .issued ene the For, beneath me, the gtound WAS 11010
patients at Whitby and other hespitals so dietant that any object on which I
eeflect. this spieit admirably. • "Soft
Diet," tho "Blue 3," "Feankness from
lerank,"' arid others tell the story as
no eutsider could. They are fell of
allusions to the "plemtent times that
were had" and never hes a word tep-
peered in any. of ehem steggestingethat
coliditions were disagreeable or mor-
bid beaten° of the isolation from the
cities. eee
were moments when I was. •
' But I was too much interested to be
really frightened. The whole business
was utterly and fantastically differ-
ent frpm anything I had experienced
before. It Wasn't an atom like motor-
ing or tobogganing., or yachting or
diving. And-tetis was an astonieh-
ment-it was still less like flying!
-That sounds absurd. Hero is what
mean:- The 'plane, with Myself in
"TOR PRICE WE PAY."
Coefrileation of Canada's SUDS 1,0, Ole
, • Casualty Like.
Acceording to the latest; official fig-
ures issued by the Department of Mil-
itia, the total number of oftleers,
met mot with the Canadian
forces who have been wounded sinee
the war begau ie .102,720, No fewer
than 25,188 Canadians havet beewkilled
in aetien and 8,410 succupaleed to
wounds received in action. There is
comparatively little disease among
the Canadian troops, as evideuced bit
the tact that only 1,703 Canadian Pole
tilers liave died from disease during
the present caniemign. Ottawa advises
that 3,5'75 inembere of the Canadian
force+ :bee beet offirtially -presumed
dead. e •
Ceileree levought wag flowerts
may eeem to take little oettee of. Omni
but a deep leepeousion is made and the
fieWer gardens of the ord. home devell
in 1110 infocis thotie childree tbrotigh
life,
our flight with a thrill -at least, it
was a thrill for me, though doubeless
a meee nothing to my pilot. Lastly, a
long, slanting.slide, to earth, and the
discovery, when I tried to step out of
my seat, that I WAS almost frozen.
CELLA.R. SCHOOLS. -
Education is Not Neglected in War -
Torn France.
One of the most 'interesting char-
acterieties of the domestic history of
France during the last three years, ie
the consistent evay M -which the reso-
lution, early taken, that the war
should be allowed to interfere as lit-
tle as possible with the normal de-
velopment of the nation, has been ad-
hered to. In no direction ie this seen
more clearly than in the Matter of
education. Recognizing the import-
ance of the subject, and the necessity,
ie a just development was to be main-
tained, of making changes_ as they he -
came necessary, Frenchmen have
never evinced any desire to shelve the
matter. They hive at all times in the
senate, in the chamber, and through
the country generally, been reatly to
discuss the question, and, where ne-
Dealere who attempt to sell mid-
dlings at a 'higher price than that fixed
by the Food Controller for shorts are
violating the law and rendering them-
ielves liable to heavy penalties. They
may also lose their licenses if the
practice is continued. The Food Con-
troller says that under authority of
an Order -in -Council issued under tbe
Adulteration Act, the Department of
Inland Revenue has construed "shorts"
awl "middlings" as being the same
prbduct. The sale of middlings at a
higher price,than that prescribed for
shorts is therefore illegal.
FISH WASTED IN WAR 'UM -E. •
—
Several Excellent Varieties. Thrown
Away.
Paradoxically enough, war i,; Com,
peeling economy. If the conflict con-
tinues, it will be difficult to avoid ,
world hunger.. Food conseevation-is
especially essential. This implies
greater production, the prevention of
waste in every form and the substitu-
cessarY,...encourage and promote loges- tion of hitherto unused products for
lation in regard to it. those that were formerly.steples.
Rheims are but another instance, and feisoliiiisnidgelhaadbui:tesytibstIteletruetioliis
The famous cellar schools ot obeIlele tell:,
a very strileing one, of the feeling r Many vaeieties of excellent food tieh
the Freech people concerning thQie.- acaruegrtt woiti.helyotnioletr fifistetlaifeer, Lliiiurta,wili
subject. lel. Octave Fermin has bad away and wasted. Prof. Prince sta-
tic made clear to each teacher what ed 'recently before the commission in -
charge af, these schools and when be
decided' to open schools in the cellars
exactly his exhume was, and how de-
sirable it was for children -in the town
to have something of this kind done
for them, bet he did not neglect Lo tell
all of thrall frankly of the risks they
ran. And yet, in every case the scheme
was enthusiastically received. The
schools are really long underground
passages and rooms lighted with pet•
covered with a light paper, whilst' aur Pacific waters, they could be thew
utilized at all, and, as they abound. in
rot lamps, the walls hung with mats
each teacher endeavors to bring some ed to excellent -ecement in relieving Ilit
cheerfulness to these "catacombs" by food shortage.. In like mamma the
placing plants oe flowers on the desk, herring fishery is capable or gt•eat ex-
pinnieg pictures on the wall and pension,
As for the children, it is for them lanTielleceoililtigletii.lo0tliPshA111-107 1°IaratIcTrat
erecting sheaves of allied flags,
Axed my eye moved with exereme liven in the neidet of accumulated attention to the waste oe such fish (1,a glorious adventure, and in seite of
the tuna or horetemeckeeel, a
slownees acroes the Acid of vision; in- 103218 and ender the constant threat tisb
deed, 50011 11111 not appear to move at of the Gelman guns, they are not m greatly peized (01 the -French markete
objecte . but which is merely thrown away by
all. It is' Only by watching
passing that We gain ens,. ithea of cyan ceased to think anything about eanadffin fishermen • the leek of a
the least affected .by tees and have.
lemk
speed. Well, there are., no .oblects . It. And yet so near are some of the 1,1,0aiteeafa013;eeigtn, ,eiidlnfa
0110.
evtpluercetou
ieso.cctliiti
i;
passing you i
.n , nu -an , , Ansi• schools to the German lines, that, in fish has been marketed to some metent
the case of Pommery, Champion 2111(1no friction and burephig of Wheels to
Mumin cellar sehoolee the post office
make yet realize that you art travel -"I
I officials fere about • a 'year after the
ling, as you realize ie even when you
'fleet schoel was opeued„ refused to
oboe your eyes in a train or- ear.
Above the Clouds.
Thc consequence is that, -when you
are beetling through the air at a. hull-
vestigating the selmen fisberiee oi
British Columbia thee 411117.1e 11111141. 1)0
Torte., or fertyevarietiee or eeiblie ileb
in British Columbia waters that e•oeld
he put on the market . . but, • er
those forty or fifty excellent: fish. at
the outeide limits, only eight or ohm
are utilized . . . and eve or sie: of
those belong; to tee ealmon famile."
Many "flat" fishes, as Well as vari-
eties or the cod Amity, have wit leeen
send a posteoffice employe to these
quartees to deliver letters. Day after
day, in spite of all this, the children
came to school, and werit home again,
in the Vented States. elle wo.felish es..
tea -cat is another fish of the Attar:el,.
that iS caught in .large numbers, geed
thrown away as useless. Tee Braise
market, always it fastidfoue one, liar
-
had a demand :foietitese fish for a nem.
her of years.
In Mid, the Canadian Market has
entitling still, but being ferociously is known as the "Promotion cle Bora, .-
conflued itself to Et few et the well•
and -the greater number have beee
dred miles' an bour-ae X was. -you aed nothing was rieglected, not even
are convineed that the 'plate is re- the examinations, the result of which known vavieties--eot always the best.,
beaten upon by a wind Which is ever- berdmente It is fortunate that, el- neOleeted or wasted, The reeult bee
Ing to push It back and jest failitige thoegh the scheole have been hit by been a eteedy depletiou anti the con-
'
The awful, devaeteting noise of the
engine is one's chief preoccupation et
fleet, and the tremendous loneliness.
Ali around ine-nothingness! Audif
11'18 wore the case when the pigmy
r
world was vieible below, how tetible
was it When we rose above the clouds,
and the 0151111 5055 blotted out! That
white realm was e lonelinese indeed -
literally uriearthly-beautitil, but ap-
palling,
The Thrill of Thrills. -
And it was just then that my head
n
toround, end, as 11 new seneatiOn, 1
felt a quelm of setieicknese, I did
not reeliee it; but it watt not my hegil
teat was epinning, it was the 'Wane,
Nese downwerds, roused and 1001151,thee-aget the choices, with Whirling
Iniete PIcircling us! Theis W6 elided
shells, no child -01..teacher has come sequent need for aredimal piepaga•
to any here, and it is welcome to learn Lion of the oyeter and lobster anti sueei
that the teachers of Rheims were re- fish as the whitefish, eliad and sole
cent:1y specitilly mentioned in a gov- mon, By tieing mon variethts of esh
erneriene "order oe the day" and that the etatin on the older lieheries would
the bead Leacher hies received the Ingle
distinction of, the Legion of Hower.
be relieved aed, at the same time,
great eufinLititte oe excellent rood, at
present eaglected awl wasted, woulti
One
thorn of expetience is evorth a be turned to good account at a time of
whole wilderness of warning.-Lowele tuitional arid internatiioute need.
-Band trunke of ithade trees with a
dicky solution to petveet the ascent Frui1 he gime Poem shield be pie,
of winglees insecte. The .work ehould vided tem day ' ror th+ chilereiee
be done during :February if possible, lunch efaXee.
• • Chicken tat itt often wailed. 'flee
Iereeele houtiewift thinks it is the
.finest eheetening for Nikes
VoWers that have heen revere mei,
be reelored by placin5 them in mild
'Water anal they have (hawed out