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The Clinton News Record, 1915-10-21, Page 6'The Virtue of the Natural Leaf is perfectly preserved in the scaled 13104 packet. Young tender leaves only, grown, with utmost care and with flavour as the prime object, are used to produce the famous Salado. blends. About the Household Selected Recipes, Savory Roly-Poly Pudding.—Make a plain epet crust with three-quarters of a pound of flour and a quartet of a •pound of suet, 'finely minced; roll it out rather thin and cover it, first with • a layer of finely sliced or minced raw potato, on this put a layer of finely choppecl meat of any•kind, with a very small quantity of ininced onion and • a seasoning of salt and pepper. Wet the edge all round, roll up, tie in a scalded and floured cloth, and boil for two hours.• e Yorkshire Tart.—Line bottom of deep baking dish with pastry., and spread on it one layer of preserved peaches or peach jam, mixed with a little preserved ginger cut into small pieces. Weigh two eggs, take their weight in sugar, in butter and in flour, cream batter and sugar, add the eggs, whipped light, and put in flour, mixed with one-half teaspoon baking pow- der. Pour this mixture over pre- serves in dish, and bake good brown. A. few minutes before taking tart from oven rub top of paste with but- ter or with raw egg. Butter Balls.—Select young fresh green peas, and, after podding them, put to boil in the usual way. Sift into a bowl a cup of flour, a pinch of salt and a pinch of baking powder; rub into this one tablespoonful of butter, mix with cold water as for dumplings, break the dough into bits and rub into tiny balls between well - floured hands. Flour the balls again lightly, and when the peas are tender • and still boiling drop the butter balls among them. Boil a few minutes, cover and serve. Fish Balls. --Take half a pound of cooked fish, free it from skin and bones, and then chop fine. Have six • potatoes nicely boiled and mashed, • mix the fish with these, ad a little melted butter, some beaten egg, a teaspoon:eel of anchovy sauce and a teaspoonful of finely chopped pars- ley, with pepper and salt to season. The mixture should be of a workable e consistency, and it is then made into balls with floured hands, brushed with egg, and tossed in fine breadcrumbs. The balls are then fried in deep smok- ing fat until of a pretty golden color, and when drained served hot and. piled on a hot ashet on which a doily • has been placed. To Prepare Cauliflowere—Prepare cauliflower as for boiled cauliflower and steam until soft. • Separate in pieces and pour over the following sauce. lelix one and one-half tea- spoonful of mustard, one and one- quarter teaspoonful salt, one tea- spoonful of powdered sugar, one and • one-quarter teaspoonful of paprika. • Add yolks of three eggs lightly beat- en, one-fourth cupful olive oil and one- half cupful vinegar, Cook over hot water until mixture thicke,ns. Re- move from fire and add two table- spoonfals butter cooked with one tea- • spoonful finely -chopped parsley. Old-fashioned Ginger Bread. --Sift one teaspoonful of baking powder and half a teaspoonful of salt twice, with two cupfuls of flour. Stir to a cream, half a cupful of butter, the same of sugar and the same of mo- lasses. Warm the mixture slightly • and beat light before adding a well - whipped egg, a half teaspoonful of ginger. Dissolve'half a teaspoonful oe baking soda in a tablespoonful of hot water; stir this into half a cup- ful of sweet milk; lastly, stir in the flour, beat hard for one militate, and bake in two shallow pans, well but- tered or in pate ,pans. Banaea Cream Pie. --Two oups millc, three eggs, three-foui•ths cup granu- lated sugar, one-fourth cup corn- starch, one-fourth teaspoon salt van- illu, two bananas, three talelespoons powdered sugar- and pastry. Scald milk and stir into sugar, cornstarch and salt well mixed. When smooth and thick cool a little and stir in one whole egg and two egg yolks beaten together slightly. Flavor with one- half teaspoon vanilla and pour into • plate lined with pastry. Oven should be hot at first, then moderated to pre- vent boiling. When pie is done slice peeled bananas (after carefully re- moving bitter threads) over top, cover with meeingue of egg whites, powdered sugar and one-fourth tea- i spoon of vanilla and bake ten min- utes in slow oven. What Salt Will Do. THE GOLDEN KEY , Or "The A dverifures of Ledgard." By the Author Of "What He Cost Her." CHAPTER XIX. Ernestine founcl a letter on her plate a few mornings afterwards which rather puzzled her, It was from a firm of solicitors in Lincoln's Inn—the Eastchester family solicit- ors—requesting her to call that morn- ing. to see them on import tent business. There was not a hint as to the nature of it, merely a eceinal line or two and a signature. Ernestine, who had written insulting letters to all her re- latives during the last few days; smil- , ed as she laid it down. Perhaps the I family had called upon Mr. Cuthbert to undertake their defehee and bring her eound to a reasonable view of things. The idea was amueing • enough, but her first itnpulse was not to go. Nothing but the combination of an idle morning. and a certain meas- ure of curiosity, induced her to keep the appointment. - She was evidently expected, for she was phown at once ieto the private of- fice of the senior partner. The clerk who ushered her in pronounced her name indistinctly, and the elderly man who rose from his chair at her en- trance looked at her inquiringly. "I am Miss Wendermott," she sale, coming forward. .Yr had a letter from you this morning.; you wished to see me, I believe." Mr. Cuthbert dropped at once his eyeglass aud his inquiring gaze, and held out his hand. "My dear Miss Wendermott," he said,. "you must pardon the failing eyesight of an old man. To be sure you are, to be sure. Sit down, Miss Weriderznott, if you please. Dear me, what a' likeness!" ' "You mean to my father?" she asked quietly. "To your father, certainly, poor, dear old boy! You must excuse me, Miss Wendermott. Your father and I were at Eton, together, and I think I may say that we were always something more than lawyer and elient—a good deal more a good deal more! Ile was a fine fellow. Mess e me, to think that you are his daugh- ter!" "It's very nice to hear you speak of him so, Mr. Cuthbert," she said. "My Salt and warm water is an emetic in cases of poisoning. Salt mixed in cold Water will re- move bloodstains'from Salt sprinkled on range will ab- sorb all grease splutterings. Salt, warmed, and rubbed on a soil- ed light coat, will clean it. Salt added to the rinsing water pree-ents clothes from freezing. Salt placed under baking -tins in an oven prevenes their burning. Salt stops neuralgia if sniffed into tbe nostril on the affected side. • Salt will quickly clean a discolored bath or enamelled utensils. Salt—a lump' of—placed in the sink will keep the drain wholesome. Salt placed first in the frying -pan prevents gi•ease from spluttering. Salt and water rubleed into the scalp is good for falling hair after illness. Salt and water removes the lime in new curtains, and makes washing easier. Salt and water cleans all crockery more easily and better than- plain wa- ter. Salt—a tiny pinch—added to the Whites of eggs makes them froth more quickly. Salt, thrown on the flee once a day, prevents the accumulation of soot in the flues. Salt—a teaspoonful to a pint of warm water—rubbed into weak ankles strengthens them, Salt added to potatoes when near- ly done ensuret flouriness ,and pre- vents them going to pieces. Salt sprinkled over carpets befere sweeping preserves the colors and keeps away\ moths. Salt rubbed on to an inkstain on a deal et -able, after the spot is damped, removes the mark. Salt thrown on fallen soot prevents the carpet marking, and enables the soot to be swept up cleanly. • Salt sniffed into the nose in the early morning, and the mouth then wathed out with warm water, cures catarrh. Salt and water will prevent the rod borders in towels, ete, from running if the towels are steeped in it ' for twenty-four hours. STONEHENGE AT AUCTION. Author Refers to It as the Second Wonder of England. • Stonehenge, the most remarkable prehistoric monument of England, is included in the Amesbury Abbey estate in Wiltshire, vehich is to be sold at auction this fall. The first British author to make unmistakable mention of Stonehenge is Henry of Huntingdon, who wrote in the twelfth century. He refers to it as the sec- ond wonder of England, and calls it Stanenfges, or "hanging stones." Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote of it about the same time, and so did the Welsh historian, Giraldus Cambeensis. The outer circle of thirty upright stones, which formerly stood fourteen feet above the ground, has a diameter of about one hundred feet, and within it, in a horseshoe curve, there origin- ally were five, or, as some think, seven huge trilithoes—a trilithon is two stone uprights carrying a lintel -- that from northeast to southwest rose progressively in height until they reached twenty-five feet above the ground. About one-half of the up- rights have fallen. While raising one of them in 1901, the workmen found numerous flint axe heads and large stone hammers at a depth of from two to three and one-half feet under- ground—a discovery that goes to prove the great antiquity of the monument. Sir Norman Lockyer, who studied the orientation of Stone- henge, on the assumption that it has been set up as a solar temple, con- cluded that the date of its foundation was 1680 B.C. HOW SANDSTONES DIFFER. Unlike in Composition Are Our Sands of Which They Are Composed. Decomposed rock can be solidified again either by applying great pees - sure or by injecting cement, or by doing both. Thu e sands are formed nto sandstones, clays become shales, and calcareous deposits yield lime- stone. Aside from their cementing matei•ials, sandstones differ in compo- sition exactly as did the sands of which they are composed. • Sandstone may be nearly pure quartz, or mime?, and feldspai, or quartz, feldspar, and mica, and it may vary in texture feign he fine to the coarse. Some sancl- tone ie se coarse that it will hold ix quarts of water to the cubic foot, nd underground deposits of such andetone form excellent reservoirs, vhich ntay yield a never -failing sup- ly of water. An arkose sandstone rork the quicksilver region of Cali - omnia, made up of granite detritus, 'vas found to contain quartz, ortho- lase, obligoelase, biotite, muscovite, ornblende, titanite, rutile, tourma- ine and apatite. In short, all the oek-forming ininerals that can in any way survive the destruetion or grincl- ng up of a _rock may be found in ands, and therelore, in sandstones. Weighing 7% lb. a cod lays nearly ,000,000 eggs. • Salt will revive a dying fire. Salt will remove stains on marble. Salt--coarse--is a good cleanser of irons. Salt in water or other fluid retards t the boiling. • s Salt mixed with soda is a remedy s for bee stings. a Salt and water makes an excellent throat gargle. , Salt and hot water will thaw a P frozen drain -pipe ' f Salt will remove tea stains from de- f ficate china cups. Salt spread in blackheetle haunts c will kill the pests. h •Salt added to snow makes the mix- I tura much colder. Salt and water, warm, will stop chilblains from Itching. • i Salt thrown on a fire will extinguish s e burning chimney. Salt and lulcewarm water is an ex- cellent lotion for styes. 7 "whether if I set myself to it as to a task I could make a man for a mos nient forget himself—did I say for get ?---I mean betrae!" "If I were that man," he remarked emiling, "I willanswer for it that you could." "You! But then you are only a boy, you have nothing to conceal, and you are partial to me, aren't you? No, the man whom I want to influence is ra veto, different sort of pereon. It is Searlett Trent." y. 0 und said. "What have you to do with him? ion The less the eetter I shonld say." her "And from my point of view, the blel more the better," she answered. "I uld have come to believe that but for him the my father would be alive to -day." up, eI do not understand! If you be - be lieve that, sueely you do not wish to oes see the man—to have him come near ake you!" as- "I want him punished'!" ter He shook his head. There is no den proof. There never could be any He frowned heave! "A boa" ise stony, I suppose! What did it so like to you? A valuable concess granted to two men, one old, the ot young! one strong, the other fee yet the concession read, if one eho die tee survivor should take whole. Who put that in, do you s pose? Not my father! you inay sere of that. And one of them d die, and Scarlett Trent is left to t everything. Do you think that re enable? I daft Now, Yeti say, af all this time he is fired with a sud desire to behave handsomely to . daughter of his dead peetner. Fid sticks! I know Scarlett Trent, though he little knows who I and he isn't that sort of man at He'd better have kept away from altogether, for I fancy he's put neck in the noose now! I do want his money, bet there is so thing I do want from Mr. Scan Trent, and that is the whole kno edge of my father's death." Mr. Cuthbert sat down heavily tl 1 ' "But, my dear young lady," he sa "you do not suspect Mr. Teent of- -making away with your father!" "And why not? According to own showing they were alone gether when he died. What was prevent rt? I want to lino* m about it, and I am going to, if I ha to travel to the Gold Coast myself. will tell you frankly, Mr. Cuthbert suspect Mr. Scarlett Trent. No, do interrupt me. It may seem absurd you DOW that he is Mr. Scarlett Tre millionaire, with the odor of eiviel tion clinging to him, and the respe ability of wealth. But 1, too, ha seen him, and I have heard him ta He has helped me to see the oth man—half-savage, splendidly mast ful, forging his way through to so cess by sheer pluck and unswervi obstinacy. Listen, I admire yo Mr. Trent! He is a man, and when the roof die- "There are many ways, she said softly, "in which a man can be made to suffer." ° "And you would eet yourself to do this?" "Why not? Is not anything betier not than letting him go scott-free? Would me- you have me sit still and watch him ett blossom into a ,millionaire peer, a wl- man of society, chinking deep draughts of all the joys of life, with in never a thought for the man he left to rot in an African jungle? Oh, anY way of punishing him is better than that. I have declared war against Scarlett Trent," "How long," he asked, "will it last?" "Until he is in my power," she an al - am, you his id, er Ids to - to ore swered slowly. "Until he has fallen ve / back agate to the ruck. Until he has I tasted a little of -the misery from , I which at least he might have saved n't my father!" to (To be continued) nt, za- et- PLAN 'BOOK OF GRATITUDE." ve Ile Refugees in London to Print Their er er- Thanks to Britain. 0- Among the thousands of refugees ng who have received help and hospital- = he ity from the British Empire are meny of Belgium's most distinguished au- thors and artists, and their gratitude is finding spontaneous expression in a volume of international interest which is now in preparation. This is en- titled "A Book of Belgium's Grati- tude" and is under the patronage of King Albert. Among the important subjects to be dealt with are the neutrality of Belgium and the British guarantee, the Belgian relief fund and the orga- nization of hospitality of this coun- try, the help given to the Belgian army and the work of repatriation, the support given by English art to Belgian art, the English bar as com- pared with the Belgian bar, the tri- butes paid by 'English poets and wri- ters to seffeeing Belgium, Belgian re- fugees in Leedon and other cities, at the universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge, in the country districts and in the factories. The book will be printed in French and English. speaks to you you know that he w born with a destiny. But there is t other side. Do you think that vould let a man's life stand in h way? Not he! He'd commit a mu as he he is er, 05' or would have done in those day as readily as you or I would swe way a fly. And it is because he hat sort of man that I want to kno more about my father's death." "You are talking of serious thing Miss Wendeemott," Mr. Cuthbert sa ravely. "Why not? Why shirk them? M ether's death was a serious thin asn't it? I want an account of rom the only man who can rend a father may have been very foolish --I t suppose he was really worse than fool- ish—but I think that he was' most abominably and shemefully treated, and so long as I live I shall never for- give those who were responsible fore it. I don't mean you, Mr. Cuthbert, f of course. mean my grandfather .w and my uncle!' Mr. Cuthbert shook f s, ep is 55, s, Id g, it er r. Id er ot 11 17 PI his head slowly. - I "The Earl," he said, "was a very proud man—a very proud man." T "You -may call it pride," she ex- claimed. "I call it rank and brutal selfishness! They had no right to force such a sacrifice upon him. He `a' would have been content, I am sure, t to have lived quietly in England—to have kept out .of their way, to have conformed to their wishes in any reasonable manner. But to rob him e of home and friends and family- and di name—well, may God call them to ace 6 count for it and judge them as they judged him!" "I was against it," he said sedly, "When you disclose yourself to M rent I should say that he NV011 willingly give you—" She interrupted him, coming ov nd standing before him, leanie gainst his table, and looking him he face. "You don't understand. I am n oing to disclose myeelf! You svi eply to Me'. Trent that the daughte f his old partner is not in need o iarity, however magnificently ten ered. You understand?" "I understand, Mis,s Wenclermott. "As to her name or whereabout ou are not at liberty to disclos hem. You can let him think, if yo illeehat she is tinged with the sem easel as those infamous and hypo •itical relatives of hers svho sent he ther out to die." "It may be a wild-goose chase, he said. "It mey not. At any rat "always." "So Mr. Davenant told inee" she said. "I can't quite forgive yon, Mr. h Cuthbert, for letting me grow tee and et be so shamefully imposed upon, but f„ of course I don't blame you as I do the others. I am only thankful that e I have made myself independent of my relations. I think, after the let- ters which I wrote to them last night they will be quite content to let me remain where they put my father -- outside their lives." "I had heard," M7'. Cuthbert said hesitatingly, "that you were following some occupation. Something literary, is it not?" "I am aejournaliste" Ernestine an- swered promptly, "and I'm proud to say that I am earning my own living." He loolted her with a fine and wonderful curiosity. In his way he was quite as much one of the old school as the Earl of Eastchester, and the idea of a lady—a Wendermott, too —calling herself a journalist and proud of making a few hundreds a year was amazing enough to him. He scarcely knew how to answer her. "Yes, yes," he said, "you have some an st of your father's spirit, some of his pluck too. And that reminds me— we wrote to you to call." "Mr. Davenant has told you that your father was engaged in some en- terprise with this wonderful Mr. Sear - lett Trent, when he died." "Yes! He told me that!" "Well, I have had visit just,. re- cently from that gentleman, It seems that your father when he was dying spolce of his daughter in England, and Mrs. Trent is very anxious now to (ind you out, and speaks of a large sum of money which he wishes to in- vest in your name." "He has been a long time thinking about it," Ernestine remarked. He explained that,' Mr. Cuthbert continued; "in this way. Your father gave him our address when he was dying, but the envelope on whieh it was written got mislaid, and he only came across it a day or two ago. He came to see me at once, and he seems prepared to act very handsomely. He pressed very hard indeed for your name and address, but I did not feel at liberty to disclose them before see- ' ing you. "You were quite right, Mr. Cath- , beet," she answered. "I suppose this ' is the reason why Mr. Davenant has just told me the •whole miserable story." "It is one reason," he admitted, "but in any case I think that Mr. Day- ' enant had made up his mind that you should know," • "Mr. Trent suppose, talks of this money as:a present to me?" "He did not speak. of it in that why," Mr. Cuthbert answered, "but in a sense that is; of course, what it amounts to. At the same time I should like to say that under the pet cellar circumstances of the case I should consider you altogether justi- fied in accepting it." Ernestine drew herself up. Once more in her finely flashing eyes and resolute air the lawyer was renainded o o friend. "I will tell you what I should call it, Mr. Cuthbert," she said, "I will tell you what I believe it is! It is blood. moMnre.y.C"uthbert (Implied his eyeglass, Mid rose from his chair, startled. "Blood -money! My clear young lady! Blood -money!" "Yes! You have heard the Whole nothing will Ethel. my purpose. Jus tice sleeps sometimes for very man years, but I have an idea that ItIs Scarlett Trent may yet have to fac a day of settlement," She walked through the crowde streets homewards, her nerves ting ling and her pulses throbbing wit excitement. She was conscious o having somehow ridded herself of load of uncertainty and anxiety. Sh was committed now at any rate to definite course. There had been mo ents of indecision—moments in Wind she had been inclined to revert t her first -impressions of the man which, before she had heard Daven ant's story, had been favorabl enough. That was all over now, Tha pitifully tragic figure—the man wh died with a tardy foetune in his hands outcast in a 'far off country—ha ae 'reed in her heart a passionate sYm pathy—reason even gave way before it. She declared war against Mr. Scarlett Trent. , -- — CHAPTER XX. Ernestine walked from Lincoln's Inn to the office of the Hour, where she stayed until nearly four. Then, having finished her day's) work, she made her way homeward. Davenant was tvaiting for her in her rooms. She greeted him with some surprise. You told me that I might come to tea," he reminded her. "If you're ex- pecting any one else, or I'm in the way, don't mind saying so, please!" She shook her head. "I'm certainly not expecting any one," she said. "To tell you the truth my vieiting-list is a very small one; scarcely any one knows where I live. Sit down, and I will ring for tea." He looked at ber curiously. "What a color you have, Ernestine!" he re- marked. "Have you been walking fast?" She laughed softly, and took off her hat,. straightening the wavy brown hair, which had escaped bounds a little, in front, of the mirror. She looked at herself long and thought- fully at the delicately cut but strohg features, the clear, grey eyes and finely arched eyebrows, the curving, humorous mouth and dainty chin, Davenant regarded her in amaze- . "Why, Ernestine," he exclaimed, "are you taking stock of your good looks?" "Precisely what I am doing," she anewered laughing. "At that moment was wondering whether I possessed 'If you will allow me," he said, "to take the place of the rnirror, I think that 1 could give you any assurances you required." She shook her head. You might be more flattering," she said, but you would be less faith- ful." Ho remained standing upon the hearthrug. tlimetine returned to the mirror. "May I ask," he asked, "for whose sake is this sudden anxiety about your appearstnee?", She turned away and sat in a low chair, her hands clasped, behind her head, her eyes fixed on vacancy, "I have been wondering," she said, AN INGENIOUS WATER COOLER. Butter and Other Things Kept Cool In ,Summer. Pierre Lord has discovered that an ordinary flowerpot can be utilized to keep butter, water, and other things cool during the hottest of summer days. • An ordivary flowerpot will serve the purpose well, in fact any clay jar, or common unglazed earthenware pot, will answer. All that is necessary is to moisten a cloth with strong salt water ancl keep it over the top of the flowerpot. The ends should drop down into a soup dish or basin in which the flowerpot should stand. This draining dish must be kept full of water all the time, A dark, cool pantry is a good place in which to keep the clay pot or jar. Another way is to wrap a layer of burlap round a porous jar. The wa- ter is placed in the jar and exposed to a current of air on a dark window sill, with the windows open and the shutters closed. The water inside the porous receptacle percolates in a mi- croscopic moisture to the outer sur- face. The burlap wrapping maintains such a slow rate of evaporation that the pot is kept cold, ancl that cools the contents. Funeral Under Fire. Brigadier McKenzie, of the Salva- tion Amy, who is `one of the chap- lains with the Australian forces at the Dardanelles, has frequently been under fire. He conducted the burial service at the interment of Colonel Onslow Thefnson's remains. "It was very gratifying to find our colonel's body," he writes. "We buried it at nine o'clock, after dark, as it lay in an exposed position. I had to kneel temen and keep my head and body in a crouching position while reading the burial service. Hundreds of bullets swept over us while this was going on." Oen. Kuropatkin Restored to Favor Muslim Army lemeee diegreced fod alleged incompetence in the illus -1 so,laininese War, now $fild to be al 131 ocannesepeleee preset:11ex. Cory*. co . _ . iA"K' 4 ko.•.-.4i-,, EWGILLEIT COMPANO , TORONTO Olet Fe eeo -ette .....rr tete% .'eoNTR- T, vol. [MILLED- COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO, ONT -^.................... WINNIPEG MONTFMAL, Ok 0 Att. eriailli „Qum, ROYAL - YEAST CANES MAIM PERFECT BREAD° Bread made in the home with [loyal yeast will keep flesh and moist longer than that made with any, other. Food Scientists claim that there is more nourishment in a pound of good home made bread than in a pound of Meat. Consider the difference in cost. MEANING7OF THE • WAR TO CHILDREN HOW DO WE KNOW THAT WE ARE ON GOD'S SIDE. Can they? the allies. And the only question is: Are We On God' e Side? "I say that they can. It may help felon if we tell them 'what Abraham Lincoln said of the American war— . that he could not know ' for certain that God was on his side, but that he hoped' he was on God's side. That•is the eort of text which is ablate: stick . izi their heads. I would start from it, Wonderful Opportunity for Parents and I would begin right • away with the violation of Belgium. I would to Teach Virtues of Honor, compel them to see that Gee, being on Duty arid Sacrifice, the side of decency and' of honor is on "I woeld set lessons on the the side of Belgium.e war— downright lessons with good mark"Belgium, r would say to the chil- s dren, is crucifixa etiam pro nobis. She and bad marks—in every nursery in saved others, herself she could not ' the kingdom; and if a child of aver- age ability, at seven Yeaes save. I would hang the story of 1301- ee eget gium straight on to the story of the could not answer any of my queetions, passim, he should stand in the corner till he could," writes Mr. Stephen Pliget in, "If we begin here, with this great concept of the love in a man who the Cornhill Magazine. "It is pitiful lays down his life for his friends, we that a child should know more about seen help th William the Conqueror than about love wherevere childrentheyndtiot,aacinrdlit.°tb 0 5 e e. the Xing of the 13eIgians. To older cognize it, whatever nationality be children' , from twelve to -fifteen years pet °eel. the man'e grave. I do . not of age, I would give, each term, . an say that we can help them to under - examination paper. Here are smite stand the ineanine, or the purpose, of questions for that purpose: pain and of death, or of the homes of "What has been the effect of the the war --we should be the blind lead - war on you 'and on 7050 home? ' ing the blind—but I do say that -a "Imagine that you •have $50 to nem who starts with -the Divine spend on the relief of suffering caus- Name, and with the Passion, will find ed by the war. How would you pro- himself on the right lines, if the coed? war brings death, or palm or poverty, any, do you find in this form of need of something words? good dinner.' What significance, dren should say, as a grace, Thank God and the British navy for "It has been suggested that chit- neY German Emperor a wicked inan, or if to hate Germany. he will feel the that. i more final than will not help him, then, to call the into the circle of his own home. It "Describe .and comment" on nny re- __ We are a better lot of men •and cent cartoon in Punch. women than we were a year ago, "Write out any one true story This corner of the wcaid for many hwehriocihe yspoiuritkonr oVur bsyolid'ieearist a n0df s at hi le- Yine:lia'S'gloVoildl be haltugarlailuaurpslearcye ftoor lti ivl ee ors. children to play in, a wholesome Any Prayer Better Than None. tscheogolrefvole.rthveimrt,ueevehenreettleiseye nixtaryasi,ebnunt • "It cannot hurt a child h to say God as regular lessons." save the King. Neither can it hurt a child, I think,' to say God punish 1. England. We read of German school MORE WHEAT IN BRITAIN, children learning to say that; and I am glad to think that it will harm Increased ProductioUrged by Lord neither them nor England. How can it hurt a small child to repeat this ' A Milner's Conunittee. over -advertised curse? After all, it Following the report prepared by Lord Milner's Committee on the Home is a form of prayer; and almost any is P form of prayer, among children, roduction of Food a strong campaign better than !is being waged for the further devel- none. ' 'opment of wheat cultivation in the "If I had to choose between teach - 'British Isles, Lord Milner's commit- ing a child to pray God to punish his country's enemies in this was, end tee was appointed on the assumption teaching a child to think of this war ;that the war may last beyond the har- without any reference to God, I would ; vest of 1916' Expeets have established the fact choose the former. Patribtism, at - its worst, is better for children than that Great Britain produces in an en - atheism at its best. Besides, if these tire year sufficient wheat to feed its flaxen -haired boys and girls do pray people for about ten weeks of the God to punish England they doubtless -fifty-two. It is pointed out that price with equal feevor, pray Him to help is the ruling feature in determining Germany; and the Name coming twice the -wheat area, or in other words the on their lips, scores twice in their ' extent of land devoted to eultiva- heads. It is nonsense to say that the tion. The main recommendation ac! - children are too young to mention the vanced by the committee is that far - war to their Maker. If they are old niers should be assured that they enough to call His attention to nm- i would receive a minimum price for them and daddy and Nan and pussy,: the crop during the next four years. lines. ;a quarter for wheat, but the Govern- , The price suggested was 45 shillings they are old enough to .pray on wider i "I am inclined to advise parents not ' ment has already- aneounced that it to encourage small children to play will refuse to incur such a liability. at the was. They may with advent. i The committee coneludes that the age play at soldiers; but I dislike to only method of effecting a substantial see an English child pretending that increase in the gross production of he is a German, and you can play at ' food in England and Wales for the soldiers quite well without that. !harvest of 1916 and later consists in "To play at soldiers is to play at 1 restoring to arable cultivation some life; to play at war is to play at pain' of the poorer gran land laid down and death. I do not know that it can I since the '70s. This increase of the do them harm to play at pain and arable area with propel' farming death, but I do not see that it can do I would add to the wheat crop without them any good; and, for this year it • 4 diminishing the capacity, to maintain seems ill-suited for them. Let, them ' ex.'s - tine live stock and the output of a dress up and march to their hearts' , meat nd milk. content, but let them draw the line there. . Best Way of Approach. -"The name of the war, in the hearts of us who are grown up, is attended and enciveled by other great names. Among these are honor, duty, cour- age, obedience, sacdfice God, Through this great circle Of names, one and all of them names of author - .14 FOR GRAVES OF PIERCES. No Crosses or Mem- o- rials May be Sent to Battlefront. The British War Office arinounces that no crosses or memorials to meek the graves of those who have died over sea can be accepted for teansit. Durable wooden crosses, treated sty and of immemorial age, we must with creosote and legibly inscribed, approach the central face of the war are already in position on, or in pre - itself. If we wore • by ourselves we paration for, all known graves, and could Mid a hundred ways of approach in,addition all known graVes are care - but we are not by ourselves. fully registered. Numbers of graves "We have got children with us— are well within range of hostile shell these big, impatient, inquisitive chil- fire, which would as effectively de- dren hanging on to vs, wanting to stroy iron as wooden crosses. The know what we think of the war. They former could not rapidly be replaced, drag us towards that central fact, and whereas the latter could be re -erect - we must approach it hand-in-hand ed immediately approach were pos- with, them. And I believe that the sible. est way of approach, when we have Further, many graves are in close hem with us, is through the Divine proximity to the enemy and can only arne; because it is already familiar be approached at night; therefore o tbem, and it cannot be annulled by the weight of the cross to be erected heir most fantastical notions touph- is an important factor. ng their Maker. As it is past their These reasons make it necessary 55 nderstanding, so it is past ours, that during the war only the regula- herefore it brings them and us level. ton wooden crosses should be erect - "These older children, these clever ed over graves. ' oys and girls who think for them - elves, need to be told not what thee, an understand, but what they cannot 0tinderstand, nor we either. I want sem to get above the belief that the 15 sues' cif war can be decided by enir- culous interference, the belief in a ibal or national deity; I want them at to see anything absurd in the Inc prayers ancl the same 'Te Deem' ming alike from our etemies and 'mu us; and I want them, through • 5. 0. Problem in Composition. "You seem to be having a struggle over that lettet." "Yes; I want my wife to think I miss her, but I don't want her to get to feeling so sorry for me that she'll hustle home." Unkind. • "Sometimes I think—e he began. 1 this clearance, to attain perfect "But not often, I. suppose?" inter- nfidence that God is on the side of rupted the rude girl,