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Eresh ae a Flower,
and just as fragrant!
is lust the tiny buds and young leaves from'
hill -grown shrubs— So economical because
it yields so generously in the teapot.
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Are Fruits and Vegetables Luxuries?
In the Reuse of Diet fruits and
vegetables may be likened to windows
and doors, fireplaces and chimneys;
we could dispense with them, we could
board up our windows and enakea
fire on a big stove in the middle of
the room, letting the smoke escape
through a hole in the roof but such
a course would not mean comfort
year in and year out. So we may
exist without fruits and vegetables
but it is worth while to stop to con -
eider what we gain by their use.
especially from peas ana :Apiluy.711 or a
mixture of both.
There is a further sigeilleonce /or
fruits and vegetables in their contri-
bution to the diet of 'the growth -pro-
moting, health -protecting vitamines.
That the presence of fruits and vege-
tables in the diet is a safeguard
against scurvy is well _known, though
the full scientific explanation is not
yet ours. That the leaf -vegetables
(spinach, lettuce, cabbage and the
like) contain both of the. vitamines
which are essential to growth in the
There is an old adage, "An apple a young and to the maintenance of
day keeps the doctor away," which if health in the adult, seems assured and
true, means that the apple is a real gives us further justaficatIen far
economy, a kind of health insuranee,
for an apple costs seldom over five
cents, often only one, and a doctor's
visit may easily cost a hundred times
as much. There is a certain amount
of truth in the saying though the ap-
ple does not have a monopoly on the
supposed virtue.
It is more accurate if less poetic, to
say that an assortment of fruits and
vegetables helps to keep us in good
health. Before the days of modern
coldepack canning, in the spring moth-
ers used to assemble their little home
groups and, in spite of sundry hid-
ings ander tables on the part of reluc-
tant Johnnies and Susies, dutifully
portion out herb tea or sulphur in
molasses. Spring cleaning could
never stop short of "cleansing the
blood!" And after a monotonous
winter of meat and potatoes no doubt
heroic measures were necessary to
make :up for a badly balanced diet.
Nowadays we recognize no such sea-
sonal need. We carry our surplus of
emphasis on green vegetables in the
diet of little children, when properly
administered; that. is, always cooked,
put through- a fine sieve and fel in
small quantities.
Those who have plenty of highly
flavored meat are apt to be satisfied
by it or to demand stronger flavors
(coffee, catsup, pickles and tobacco)
than those found in fruits and vege-
tables. They are also apt to spend
so much money on meat that they
have none left to buy what seem to
them unimportant items in the diet
and apt to have a much less whole-
some diet than' they might have for,
the same money. Studies of ex-
penditures in many families show that
a good rule to insure a well balanced
diet Is to spend no more money for
meat than one does for fruits and,
vegetables. Also it is well to vemem-
beg that vegetables are usually cheap-
er than fruits and that dried ones
may largely take the place of canned
or fresh ones.
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PART IL
She stirred. time oysters, forgetting
her own letter, letter fron. home,
as the postmark. told her. "If Me
were free, Bud; unhampered, may-
be you might—"
He missed the acute misery in her
voice. Roughly he drew out a chair'
and dropped into it,
"Of courser he retorted grimly,
almost resentfully, "There what
young folks alveaye get by tying op
in the puppy age! What's your news?
Better read it,"
Her face went.but little paler vinen!
she read her news. It was from the'
old -maid sister at. home.
Mother is very sick. The doctor
has but little hope of her recovery,
I'm sure. And, Dean, she is pinning
to see you once more. Can you ar-
range to come home, if only for a few
days? Remember, you haven't been
back since you married. It seems
to me, fronl what I've seen of life,
that husbands are cheaper than moth-
ers, We are losing ours. Will you
try to come?
It was then Bud Barnes rose 'to his
height of manhood.
"Of course you are golag, to, your
mother,"he announced when he had
read the word. • "A fellow, yester-
day, was wanting to buy my old fid-
dle. I can spare it now. I can use
the Beech. First thing in the morn-
ing I'll 'tont him up. He'll pay cash,
and glad to do it. Get your things
ready. I'm sorry about Mother,
Deen. We've neglected her, but it
looks like we neer could make the way
to ,go."
There was no ,pleaeure for Nadine
in that belated visit—only grief and
a sense of unreality, The dear moth-
er -face, grown strangely remote, the
pinch of death in its sagging lines,
strangers coming and going, noise-
lessly, sympathetically ,everywhere
the atmosphere of waiting—it was all
like a bad dream. But through it all,
hidden and unacknowledged, ran a
deeper, sharper ache—Bud and his
chance.
A stranger face grew very familiar
during that hard time—the face of
the attending physician. She grew
to watch for its little personal flash
of understanding and sympathy.' There
had been so few In her bare young
life who cared, however remotely, for t
The Story of a Struggle to
Attain Greet
Ambition,
By B. W. Johnson.
teeeteelVellaignatnieraMaiMal
On its face the proposition was
honorable and munificent, A chance of
travel, a new atmosphere, a big' salary
—an to carp for and train a little
weakling child, Somehow the man,
without the vulgarity of, speech, let
her know just what the ehild's moth-
er was not, just why he and the child
Deeded Nadine..., There was neaten
Bud would have resented, nothing the
world would condemn. But-- '
"I Neill consider your 'proposal," she
faltered, and in the night's silence
faced her problem.
Toward' morning she arose, and
bent face, convulsed and tear -wet,
over the letter pad on her knee. Site
wrote:
Dear Bud: I,have riot slept any.
All night I have bean trying to decide
what I shall do. This is it, and I
want you to forgive me if the decision
hurts:
You- married me without sufficient
thought, laud. We were both too young
We thought only of our love and
longing for each other, ,But life has
sb many other problems.
I am setting you free of me—for a
time, for all time, just as you choose
I am bound, always. I shall love
you always, just as in the beginning.
I have found honest work, and I
mean to see you through that col-
lege you so wished to enter. I'd sell
the chickens, the horses, and the cow
—the money will start you. Leave
the rest to me. Get ready. I want
you to begin as soon as you can.
Nadine.
•
Midine's trunk was strapped and
waiting in the hall. She sat by the
fire, wearily listening for Doctor
Norris' car, watching the snowflakes
hit and slush down the window pane.
They seemed to hit and slush into her
heart.
Just then the door opened stormily,
and she started to her feet to close
and bolt it Against the wind. But it
wasn't the wind—it was Bud, dishevel-
ed, fierce, passion -bleached. He
reached her at a stride and roughly
gathered her into the folds of his
wet coat,
"You little fool!" the gasped. "I
got your crazy letter, and do you think
for a moment--"
At their door he stopped to insert
he key,
her needs, physical or spiritual. It
was a new sensation to be followed by
respectful but admiring glances. It
was a new sensation to rest her weak-
ness on a man's strength. In her
awful trance, watching the fight for
a life, the subtle fascination crept
through. And when the end came, h
and out of chaos she heard this new t
friend offering what seemed a larger
fruits and vegetables over from sum- For wholesome and econinnical live life, she canoe suddenly to a place
mer to winter and profit not only ineleur have fruit of some kind at least
where her. life's road blurred before 0
the greater daily pleasure of our oiTce a day and make the main dish her.
a
"This is a fresh beginning." His
oice was like the glance. "Don't say
nything to me about the school." He
pushed the door wide. ."Go M! This
is what I want—home, and children,
and you. I know what I want."
She went in, holding tightly to his
and. Her glance went straight to
he far corner and clung there in
booked dismay. When its creator
had burled it lay the splintered wreck
f the Little Red Beech,
(The end.)
tables but in clearer skin, brighter of one meal, a vegetable dish when. —
eyes and
less "spring fever."
How do fruits and vegetables help ever possible. Thick cream soups, FRANCE GARNERS
souffles, creamed or scalloped vege-
to keep us well? In the first place, tables are all substantial and appetiz-
by their 'wholesome effect upon the The way to learn to like such
bowels. As a rule we associate re- foods is to keep trying. Ono may
gular daily movements with health, learn contentment with the proverbial
but do not always recognize the part dinner of herbs more easily by realize
which diet plays in securing them. If OLD FOLK AND CHILDREN AND
ing that one is building valuable
A GOOD CROP
we eat little besides meat and pots,
bricks into the house of diet. . And PRIMITIVE TOOLS
toes, bread, butter and cake or pie, in the present emergency one may, by!
we are very likely to have constipa-
selection of fruits and vegetables of
then This ls particularly true for
high energy value, save more portable
those who work indoors or sit much foods for our soldiers and allies. The
of the time, Now fruits and vege- knowledge that a banana is equivalent
tables have several properties which in "calories" to a large slice of bread
help to make them laxative, or a small pat of butter becomes
In the juices of fruits and vege- tremendously significant; that an ap-
tables we find a variety of laxative pie,
an orange, Pout Pininesi, four
substances. This explains why ap- dates or a cupful of fig, may not
pie juice (sweet cider), orange juice only take the place of bread but ate -
or diluted lemon juice may be a very tually add something which the bread
desirable moreng drink. The effect
is partly but not wholly due to the
acid, Juices which are not acid to
the taste, as those of prunes, figs,
onions, are laxative.
So from a great variety of fruits
and vegetables, especially those which
are fibrous or acid or both, we may ob-
tain the substitute for "pills" in
wholesome foods which are generally
cheaper than drugs.
No diet can be properly built with-
out a suitable supply of mineral salts.
The free use of milk is our greatest
safeguard against lack of ally save
iron but when milk is scarce and has generally credited at Yelenteritiburg
to be saved as now for the babies of was that the bob hail been taken to
the world, it is fortunate that we can the deepest pit in a coal mine and
make fruit and vegetables take its there destroyed. That is enough.
place in /mite Some of our very corn- Nicholas will take; his place- with
mon vegetables are good sources of Louis XVII,, Nero, Marshal Ney, and
the calcium Oa phesphons so freely all the other historic characters who
supplied in milk. Among these may never died. For the next forty years
be taken as an example the carrot, at least he will be seen one day in
which has not had due recognition in Siam, the next in Mississippi, a day or
many quarters, and in -some Is even two later in South Africa, and for half
spoken of contemptuously, as "cattle a century or more after that old men
foods." Its cheapness, which comes will confide on their deathbeds the
from the fact that it is easy to grow fact that the schoolmaster of the tele -
and easy to keep through the winter graph operator, the farmhand, who
died in their towns some years before
was the ex -Czar "The late Dauphin,"
as Huckleberry Finn's King described
him, viSloomete Nicholas to a journey
as lengthy as that of the Wandering
Jew,
The version of Nieholaa'. death
thes show that other vegetables, es- which the Czecho.Elloyaks eent to
pecially parsnips, turnips, celery; Ambassador Francis is very different
cauliflower and lettuce, are richer in from tile Bolshevist version, which re -
calcium than the carrot, its cheapness 'Preeented him as collapsing in the face
and fuel value make it worthy of of a Snug squad, This new version
ennehasie; a medium,sixed carrot will represents that the Red Guards re-
furnish as much calcium as a scant ?nod to kill the ex -Czar, that a Let -
quarter of a cup of milk, lieh tiring party WAS summoned and
liven Whoa meat and eggs are not that in tun refused to fire, and that
prehieneve in prate, fruit and green thereupon the Soviet conimandant, a
eezetableeeare an important source sailor, "drew his own revolver and
of iron in the diet. And When war allot Nicholas dead" If this is true
condo imis make ft' free consump- the Bolshevist account was invented
Hon of meal unpatriotic, It is reas- to give sonic appearance of regularity
slicing to think that we really can lea a poem aseessination. The officer
get along without meat very well if who made the report to tho AmIntssae
we know how, Two ounces of lean dor, however, merely gaite the new Vivi
hciof will fgt./1;A no, more iron than a Won as the best account he could get.
quarter of e cup of cooked spilled% or Evidently Yokatetinburg knows little,
hew t, „up of cooked string beans or about it evidently, too, the actors in I.
dried beans, or one -mirth of a cup of the online will from time to time Issue I
amaaien „,, ha, a dozen good -'sized various and conflieting memoirs teller
prsnee, rehhaoe, peas, leetuee, deride.big irreconcilable stories and the
lien greene, beet tops, turnip tops, and world may prover leant how, in truth,'
other "groom:" are well worth includ- tho Cella died,
Mg in env bill of fare for their icon
alone. By the time Andrea are a
year oho. we begin to introduce special
fron-benrieg foods into their diet to
supplement milk, Aside from egg
yolk, we give 'proforma for this pur-
pose to green vegetable juice or pulp,
does not contain, means that we shall
be the gainers from our own sacrifices,
THE ROMANOFF MYSTERY.
Various Versions of How Late Czar
of Russia Was Killed.
All 'the materials for time 'myth or
legend of Nicholas II. are at hand.
When the Czecho-Slovaks captured
Yeltaterinburg they searched for the
ex-C.zar's body, but found no trees of
it; so one of their officers reports to
Ambassador Francis. The rumor most
should not blind us to its merits. A
good -aired carrot (weight one-fourth
pound) will have only about half the
fuel value of a medium-sized potato
but nearly ten times as nnieh calcium
as the potato and about one-third
more phosphene. While actual fig -
Tho Government expos:is to receive
an minim] rental of $13 an acre for tho
reclaimed soil, no average rent paid
'for agrleullural and hoeticultural land
In lIeln.nd prior to the war ran about
en sore,
Utter Destruction of Montdidier
Skeleton of Moreuil — But
French Spirit Unquenched.
The French people have a welder-
ful crop, and they garner at in the
same spell of fine weather that has
enabled us to reap the full fruits of
our victory, says a .Canadian Press
correspondent. But they garner it
with old men and women and chil-
dren. The young women are in the
war factories, doing their stunt for
France. They garner with bent backs
and stumbling feet, and with the
crudest appliances. Here and there
is a binder, and more often a mower,
but everywhere is the swish of the
scythe,. and even of the sickle, and
women following binding sheaves
with straw plaits, just as did the far-
mers of Ontario and Quebec a gen-
eration ago.
There are no blue -coated soldiers
working in the fields of France. They
reap silently in othew.fields.
The Show at Roye.
- Our good neighbors, the French,
were putting on a little show of their
own in front of Roye. One had
the privilege to see something of it
under the guidance of a charming
French officer of intelligence. Roye
lies low down in the valley, and from
the flat plateau on which weNstand
nothing can be seen but the smoke
of bursting shells in its high northern
quarter, whore already the French
have won the railway station. The
battle itself is in progress below us
in the marshy, tree-etudded valley
of the Avre, the main attack being
directed against the strongly held
village of St. Mard-les- Tenet. We can
see nothing of it, save for an OCCa-
atonal rocket marking the progress
of the infantry, signal for the bar-
rage to lift, and for the angry explo-
sions of the enemy shells along the
trench line, running across the mope -
site plateau, where presumably are
massed French reserves. •
Ardent Voice of France.
It does not matter. In these
bright weeks villages such as these
—so recently impregnable strong-
holds—ave stormed every day. Of
greater interest, is the spirit of the
French soldier, the "poihi," from
whosd soulspeaks the ardent voice
of Friends. Our guide is explaining
the difficulties of the attack up the
valley, past hidden mains gun pe-
sitions of steel and concrete, 'Wu
hardly hoped 'to succeed here." he
says, "but it is a demonstration in
aid of our advance further south."
He is wrong, for later in tho after-
noon the good news COMP; that the
village is atoned. "Yes, they have
given us a tough cornet-, but, then,
someone has 'to have it,"
We have called him eapthin; no,
lie is only a lieutenant, "A. :ample '
tioldier, Monsieur, Wao at 'the out -
amok of the win' Was a wine Mer-
chant in Burgundy, I have served my
three years, of course, arid Joined
as a sergeant. Now I have charge
of the intelligence of the regiment."
His regiment is quartered in ela-
borate German dug -outs. It was over
this very field that the waves of
battle surged last March. Only a
few miles to the northwest lies the
village of Villers-Bretonneux, where
the Canadian cavalry and machine
gun brigade made their wonderful
stand in those bitter weeks. That is
a name to be honored in Canadian
history.
Are the Germans Coming?
"You have very gallant men," he
said. "You are fresh, and full of go.
We have been at it so long we are
tired; our hearts are sad, but now
we see before us at the last the end
and we will see it through. Alas,
for the poor people of this country,
was at Monttlidier then, and the
women of the town crowded round
us. "Are the Germans coming?"
they ask. "We do not know, but it
is better that you should move Out,"
Then conies the question: "What
shall we take?" What can they
take? Their men and their horses
are all in the army. They take
next to nothing. And M.n few days
the Beebe have destroyed everything,
wantonly, where their shelling.has
not completed the ruin. On your
way back go and see the ribs of
We are standing on top of an ob-
servation post, built by the Germans
I among the trees on the side of the
hillBelow in the valley lies a shat-
tered village and its ruined church.
"IV is horrible to see all this," ono
Says, "and to think that we in Can-
ada have escaped scot free—only the,
lives of our men." "Ah," he says,
"but Is not sorrow a strength to the
character, a completion of experi-
ence, Shall we not emerge a strong-
er nation for it all ?"
"On To Berlin!"
Weare in a trench examining a
bayonet, a beautiful tapatialike piece
of polished steel. "How much more
artistic you are," elle cannot help
saying, "This weapon is equally ef-
fective as our own, but what a thing
of beauty it is. And your camouflage
is art, suiting itself perfectly to the
changing aspects of soil and country,
while ours is monotony of wile of
thumb, which hits or misses ,the
mark indifferently as the case may
be."
"That may be so," he replies, "but
you have your admirable persever-
ance, To each main its own quali-
ties, To the Hun that of the boast."
Of a saddened countenance is the
French soldier. The tragedyf
war bas transmuted the Once merry
fellow. They lark, too, the outward
smartness of our infantry. But the
spirit is there, "On to Berlin!" we
cry to a soldier in passing. He lights
up at once, "That is the perfect
word, Monsieur," he says; with a
grin,
Sonic Slide. •
A eoldier whose. head and race were
heavily swathed in bIlta, Mich who
obviously had had n h b time of it,
ons being feelingly :noripaiiiihnd by
tit' solleitotte Indy,
"Aml were yon woinaled in the
tic:a, say poor fellow?"
' ma em, Tommy replied, "I
was wounded in the ankle, but the
a node a es slipped,"
...a".Stitattta•
I. This halence of power ere -
FIRST RANO STORY OF (MENA
ATROCITIES
Med In the colopittlafield will, by re -
N snoring future poseibilities of con-
cooetitete one of the best gear-
antees of lasting world peace!"
Geriarny was never more brutally
and /moldy Prussian thee when this
11. pedagogue, this mouthpiece of the
All Rig/lest and 'Sae rest of the Pots,
conn gang so put himself on record,
She has given'forther notice that
her idea of a lasting peace Is one
where she ,triumphant, will control
ding.
the rest of theitvorld:nd make it
dance to her bid
TALISMANS FOR THE MINS
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lion of relics poasesed by the King of
Supperstition always has played a Spain. They are relics associated
great part in all wars, but, according with attempts on his life.
to German newspapers, the belief in Among them is a walking stick
Shows Why Allies Never Can Retur
Colonies to the Kaiser Most
Cruel of Slavedrivers.
4
The return of Germany's African
colonies would not only be the crown -
lug crime to the long list of crimes
committed by the white man upon
the African, but it would cause a na-
tive rebellion from Callo to the Cape
and endanger the life of every white
man between, says Ida Vera Simon-
ton, African traveller and student,.
For Germany's actions in Africa so
outbarbarizecl the most barbarous
atrocities of the savages that ineea-
dwable hatred of the German is int
planted in the'African, and now tha
he free of German barbarity ant
versed in European warfare he wil
never again- voluntarily submit t
Prusidan rule.
This I know from my own personal
observations in the African colonies.
I have seen youth and old age
chained neck to neck, ankle to ankle,
and waist to waist, with shackles
reminiscent of the Middle Ages, goad-
ed with rifle butt and bayonet point,
flogged with the sjambols—that
dreaded lash of rhinoceros hide—and
forced to labor from sunup to sun-
down on time land that had been theirs
from time out of niindi
I've seen youth and old age drop
dead in their tracks, their bodies
dragged on by their helpless com-
panions in agony because the German
overlords would. not let them, rest
long enough to remove the dead body
front its shackles and give it burial!
I've seep youth and old age, wo-
men and little children, after a day
of the hardest kind of' labor—road-
making, jungle clearing and workinee
timber—croevded for the night into
huge bsrracoons without windows or
beds, filthy and vermin ridden beyond
description, veritable hotbeds of con-
tagion and disease and charnel hous-
es for more wretches than could be
counted!
The Lash of the Slave -Driver.
I've seen mothers, ten minutes
after the experience of maternity,
hurry piteously to catch up' with the
caravan of which they war; a part
to avoid the sjamboking they knew
would be theirs if they and their
loads did not arrive at a given fac-
tory on a given dee/
I've known girl children of 5 years
up the victims of German soldiers;
I've se -en girls still in childhood set
adrift in the hope that they and their
young might perish!
For the cowardly Hun hasn't the
courage of his crimes. He feared a
race of.Euro-Africans, a race that
would in time become powerful
germs. to exact retribution. Any
mutilated and poisoned for life with
babies who survived were blinded,
But the German's bestiality was
not confined to his treatment of his
half-caste children. To overcome the
EuroeAfrican danger the Govern-
ment, under the pretence of offering
lucrative positions as barmaids, typ-
ists and telephonists, lured young
healthy German peasant girls to the
colonies, and, denied matrimony, they
were forced telive with German sol-
diers and farmers. Many of these
women and children, 3,000 of them,
if memory serves, were deserted by
their men when Britain and Boer in-
vaded Southwest Africa in the pres-
ent war.
Accustomed to the inhuntanity of
those formerly in power over them,
they put no faith in Gen. BothaN
stern order, given when his troops
occupied Windhoelc, the capital, for
the scrupulous protection of every
German woman and cbilde
Togoland Town Looted by Troops.
A Colonial official was escorting
me through a native town in Togo -
land. It was the most poverty-
stricken place I ever beheld, the sol-
diers having robbed it of everything
they could carry away and destroyed
what they coildn't.
An old woman, however, had sec-
reted a bichi, a small mueical instru-
ment made of bamboo and cotton-
wood and was playing upon it in her
cheerless hut.
"You hear?" raged the Hun.
"These miserable black hogs, they
claim they have nothing to pay their
taxes with, yet there's a bleb!, a
bichi we can sell for a mark! But
wait—I'll show these cattle how a
German deals with deceit, treachery,
robbery!"
i -To burst into the hut; he knocked
the old woman senseless With the
ivory handle of his ejambolc; he took
the Melia antLawith what hp thought
was Chestertieldian grace, he actually
offered it to me for my collection of
Africate trophleel
thter the length and breadth of
.Africa has travelled the news of Ger-
many's blackest wholesale crime,
striking teller into the heart of every
black man, woman and child, and inn -
planting ineradicable hatred of the
Hun.
And that crime wits the slaughter,
aceording to Germany's own Agates,
of 200,000 Hereros, the most cruel,
unnecessary and moat systematic ex-
termination known to history! And
while Africa and the rest of the
world stood appalled when they learn-
ed of It, it remained an occasion of
rejoicing in Germany for a decade,
since on January 18, :1014, speaking
before the Royal Colonial Institute,
Prof. Moritz Bonn of Munich boasted:
"We have Solved the native prob-
ion by smashing tribal lifol"
Thus did Prussia repay the Her -
eros for voluntarily piecing their
country, Diunaraland, in Southwest
Africa, under German protoetim,
illibeirnatfTroicirlit':clonlve(iniens Mesas also laid
rorld.
The 'foundations of Germany's
The Hum now have the supreme
arid colossal impinleoen to dechwe
thorough Dr, Solt their Colonial Mein
letete "that the African volunies must
be returned to Germany, oven if Bel-
gium and occupied Pruned mid Al-
- 1,1cl/owns and talismans in the present , with which a discontented servant
" I conflict has become, so universal in tried to brain him. They include also
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11 the Teutonic empires that a big in- some pieces of the bomb thrown at
_ dustry has developed as result of him in Barcelona, the skeleton of one
" it.
In Vienna there are numerous toefmtphte inhotrhseesiikneineded Rb iyv at:17 pbaorni aantd-
shops which make a specialty of some fragments collected in the
charms for soldiers alleged to have street after the explosion of the in-
the,property of sparing them In bat- , fernal machine hurled at the Royal
the, Rabbits' feet, horseshoes, butts ' carriage on his wedding clay.
of guns found on battlefields, bullets I A relic of the very first attempt on
and parts of shells form some of his life is the teat of a feeding -bottle,
the charms too numerous to mention. ,aavith which an attempt was made to
Potency is said to be given to these poison him When he was eight months
charms by some mysterious incanta- old.
ion performed over them at certain I
phases of the moon by a teacher or
student of the occult. The charms '
i "A handful of good life Is worth a
sell at high prices, for the belief
in
them is such that the credulous arebert.
bushel of learning."—George Her -
willing to pay well for them. Con-
coction:made from the blood of vani
ous animals are sold also in order to
cure disease or to be applied to
wounds. This industry, developed to
a great extent by charlatans, has be-
come
a menace, and the government
is taking steps to suppress it, par-
ticularly where it concerns concoc-
tions which are likely to be danger-
ous. The mere wearing of a charm, I
however, is not discouraged, as the
officials feel that belief in them can- I
not hurt the efficiency of a soldier,
but on the contrary, gives him a feel-
ing of security in battle that may
cause him to fight the harder.
Fortune tellers are thriving in
Vienna, for nearly every mother with
a son in the army or a wife with a
husband at the front is consulting pa.41.
the soothsayers in order to get some
!CAtifla.etAre4"
a good fee the comforting assurance...,ae •`
word of comfort from them, and for
is usually forthcoming. The fortune a'S tetatatrratewaree eenetteg
tellers are reaping the harvest of
their, existence during this war. _renown, /rows 'Comet to 'Cava aw
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More than 3000 women work at the
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