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Zurich Herald, 1920-06-03, Page 2tl Housewife Speaks. Since the amazing changes brought lebout by the war, and since women bre holding so many responsible jobs an the industrial field, I believe we housewives are more than ever in- elined to feel discouraged with our 'ot. We pick up a paper or magazine and find pictures of women who are 'holding unusual jobs. That is, under past conditions, the jobs would have been unusual, but now it has grown quite common to find women in almost any line of work. We read of the large salaries they get—and it makes • us sigh. Thinking of these things, knowing that I can never resign; rya; moved, she is very apt to prove only found reasons why my work is best( the sensitive child after all. sof all. ( Never refer to the peculiarities of It is •complex indeed, this job of i a child inclined to be nervous. If she nine—made up of countless humdrum, draws down the corner of her mouth tasks, for I'm a farmer's wife. I ignore it; if she puts her finger in alternately cook,wash dishes, kiss al her month, ignore it, unless the habit small bumped forehead to make its seems fof a orr ming, willn andthen troublee well, hoe in the garden, mend socks,' without need of reproof. If she has overalls, and grain seeks, button al refractorybutton on dolly's gown, and! an unpleasant way of walking a step Y ' behind you, to your anxiety, ignore it. try 'to makeis prospectsels look getgblueI Better any of these little things than to John, who is inclined to get blua child who, from frequent chiding �� at reverses. becomes super -sensitive or whose It surely is a responsible positions--------- husband ___..-------- that I hold. The physical welfare of I over -taxed nerves bring on an attack loose and straight, are tucked' hi, and of St. Vitus dance. husband and children is largely in my; n verysensitive little child be- are also made looped under to give volun- One And tt>ere •are charge. my influence, perhaps to tartly* little ones' trental and. came suddenly much worse, losing the bougant effect moral growth. . i flesh and starting at the slightest fetching Basques—fitted ones with a sound. She slept in the same room decided nip at the waistline. Sleeves' limit! best are short and As to possibilities, yes is to ? with her parents, in her own little at their fashionable to them- Possibly, years rsome,' bed, and her mother, being of the same kimono in style, though many' smartly aur two-year-old, bird, mid, -who opw carols that temperament, discovered that all dressed women wear the three-quarter little bird, may develop a voice that temp , will thrill the hearts of thousands. i alarm clock standing on a dresser not length bell sleeve. Perhaps our schoolgirl daughter, nick -i far from the little bed had a peculiar- It red that in the fall we named in babyhood "Sunbeam," willk ly loud and insistent tick. The dock prove indeed a sunbeam in the niche, was removed to another room and the child began to gain within a few days. where Johne finds herself. It may bei The light from a corner street lamp that will be happier, even better � g because of me. falling on another child's face was And the, rewards of sympathetic, proving alike mischievous when the intelligent, successful wifehood and trouble was discovered and the pa- w of the bed changed. motherhood! Eloquent tongues have sitar enumerated thein since time began.1 If a child becomes suddenly nervous h 1 1 texpress all that look for the cause. It may be a teas- e mother feels when the child ing • , lyingheavy low workers, home -makers, nation - builders, let us take up our tasks with a will. The Nervous Child. .Some children are as stolid as Com- anche Indians, and some are little bundles of nerves that shrink from an unkind word. Nothing _is more piti- ful than to see the sensitive child with a stolid mother, or a high-strung vit- ally alive mother with a Comanche child. The nervous child is very seldom created nervous; she is made so by environment, and the cause being re- PUMP HRRP6R WILLIE 1 TELL m ea Gone 7 Willie helps Uncle b7z. on the farm, hut gets hold of the wrong handle. • ted Swisses are much seen. *Voilewas never more fashionable. It conies in about every design you can think of. The voiles with wide satin stripes make up into very smart plaited skirts. Ey the way, the separate skirt is having a decided vogue of its own. It is box -plaited, side -plaited, ac- cordion -plaited, and there are also is ruing the very practical two-piece models are to wear the uncomfortable high, with big novelty po i,ete. Such ma - choker collar, but at present the neck -1 terials es cotton gabardine, ratine, line . is low. It is cut square, round, voile, surf satin, georgette, and Bar- in a deep U, or straight across. They onet sat'n are all used for these skirts. short skirt varies in shortness frons; For everyday wear the smock is seven to eleven inches from the; looked upon with special favor. It is ground. The younger and smaller the not only a utility garment, but also woman, the shorter the skirt.. If she' an artistic one to -day. With dark is old or stout or tall, thea -do«m. it! skirts of voile, taffeta, or tricotine, should come a little, Think this over; gay plaid taffeta blouses and Basques But who has worts o you'llare worn. These are worn over•the h f 1 h i 'id she has' companion, some little misdeed un- and see it's right. becomes the man confessed and unfoign en Colors are gay, the loveliest shades skirt, and are finished with aide borne and reared e mightBe? When her on the wee .conscience, a pair of un- being seen. Quite in harinany with the waistline.s ich emphasize Oddlittle trimming toue ch - disliked she hoped be comfortable shoes, even a heartily freshness of spring is the vogue for baby girl blossoms into womanhoodles axe introduced in these girdles, such disliked hat that maternal authority green. All shades of gi?�e mod- be worn. Before resorting ish, though the:sieve !' ' , s upstanding says must to medicines, search out if possible, brilliant green wet ale . f tui lidr::with this primal cause and nature will work hi the Italian flag, and the fade -green wonders in restori:eg lost nerve which hasn't too much white` in it. thoaiation .�.:._,..._..—_fie.._.40„ ANAEMIA ROBS ITS VICTIMS i � I. Conditions of Thin :Blood That Could be Corrected Easily Are Stealing the Health and Ener- gy of Many =`n and Women, and Boys and Girls. Anaemia, which literally means blocdles;,nces, is one et the most pre- valent troubles of the present Say. IS neglected it is, apt to develop into per- nicious anaemia,, one of the most hope- less diseases, • While anaemia attacks men and boys,.it is more prevalent among young girls and Women and for Oita reason every woman, particularly every mother; shot. ld knew how to re - Cognize -the signs; of_ this trouble which makes it aIProach so gradually and parent impunity, but with these res - so• stealthily chat it` is often far ad- trictions he is as good as the next vanced before s the netuve Of the man so far as the 'essentials of a pro - trouble is aeot�ired.. Otto general rymp- . ductive life are concerned. tom of anaemia is pallo'... dile eheelte The first thing of course is to know gradually lose their color, and the lips 'that he has Bright's disease, for the become psle or white. • With this loss onset of the disease is often most of color there comes a tendency to insidious, and it is not infrequently ea th Treatment of Bright's I?ieease. • In chronic Bright's disease there are certain definite- degenerative changes in the structure of the kidneys, which, so far as Is known, are irremediable either by the curative processes of nat e e or by the healing art of the physician. One who has. the disease is therefore -not what the insurance con prelies call a "good risk"; he is, as far as his kidneys are concerned, a cripple. But that does not mean that: be is down and out. Far from its He frust take, care of himself and follow a certain regimen and mode -of life, and must forego eertain indul- gences. that the absolutely healthy titan can yield to for a time with ap- fatigue, a palpitation of the heart, and breathlessness after slight exertion, with occasional headaches. In the with a bonny face, a clean, healthy body, and a pure heart? When the reticent John, at the end of a difficult day, offers a caress, a few loving words of praise? I am sure our occupation is the hardest, pleasantest, safest, most haz- ardous, most perplexing, and most worth -while in the world. If we fail, our inefficiency will shadow the lives wearing a short skirt—and about any is a novelty - the ones we love the best, so we've thing else that she pleases. The hoer cl wiss and yellow amona. rua do - of got to make goad. All together, fel- blouses are most varied. They hang s -- eza T .. . of Forgiving the Hun - turn -back frills of picot -edged organdie or fan plaitings of taffeta snatching the skirt in color. Taffeta is specially liked for the silk dress, and it is triinntecl with ruehings, quite far advanced before either the patient or the physician is aware of its existence. For that and other rea- more severe cases fainting spells fie - woman it is the duty of every man and quently occur. woman over thirty-five—and to begin In ordinary anaemic conditions, in- . younger will do no harm—to submit eluding the anaemia that affects young once a year at least to a thorough girls iu their'teens, Dr. iVilliams' Pinlc physical examination so that any dis- PilIs aro all the medicine required. ease, whether of heart, lungs, liver, Fresh air, sunlight and nourishing kidneys or other organs, may be de - food will do the test Any woman or tected in its incipiency before it has girl taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills advanced so far as to defy not only can tell by the growing- redness of her • cure but even arrest. lips that the pins ate mak'::g her blood As regards chronically diseased kid - rich and red. net's, the main object is to relieve Miss Mabel Feener, Liverpool, N.S., them of part of their burden as agents equilibrium. Dress Suggestions. The fashionably dressed woman is Grass -•green is used as a col ' i color, and green with a tinge of blue Plaitings, or shirrings. Figured foul - known as grotto. In'the new cottons, and is also used to trim the taffeta much red is seen. Stylish ginghatnis frock. Many of these taffeta dresses are in red and black combinations. iced have tunics, and frequently the way sum - the tunic is fastened to the skirt gives the long waistline effect. The major- ity of these little silk dresses have a very short sleeve, and it's of the fabric rather than a transparent material. But there ars taffeta dresses with elbow -length bell sleeves finished with a net or chiffon under -sleeve. In millinery and dress trimmings everything glistens. In Paris, ribbons, silks, and hat trimmings, such as flowers, fruits, and wings, have a waxed and shiny effect. Raffia is an- other smart hat trimming. There are -silk hats and georgette hats embroid- ered in raffia flowers. Cep s A :er Visit . Noyon A writer in the Lindon Morning Post, in describing French reconstruc- tion, says: "Those who speak of forgiving the Hun should visit Noyon, and they should remember that the story of Noyou is only the story of countless towns and villages. No description eau create the impression of what one sees one's self. Ina sense the town age her that there should be no: re- gets used to that sight." I had got used covery. I passed through utile after to seeing acre after acre of laud with - mile of whet had once been orchard out a cow or a horse at pasture. land. For no military object the Ger- "It is over twenty miles from Cam - mans cut down the orchard trees, and- brat. to Arras, and 'the impression leas to -day one drives through country on me is of one unending plain of dead which is strewn with tree stumps that land, Trenches score it in all direo- have been sawn off close to the roots. tions, filled in so far only by natural Farmers Respect Graves. subsidence. it is land that has lain untilled now for years, that has grown "The story of the orchard trees is a hideous, dull -colored, rank, grayish vegetation. "Live shells Iie buried all over the fields, and the plough has scarcely touched any part of it, It is hard to say whether one is affected more by the idea of the dreadful monotony that the When who defended that country must have suffered from as month suc- ceeded to month or by the present. state of the land, gives h the impression that you get in a the story of the wrecked French civarrY. Light railways run through mines; of the determination of Ger- what remains of the streets. Wooden shanties that have sprung up here and there suggest navvies' huts. Great open. spacer, which have been cleared of rubbish ---that rubbish was the wreckage of what were once beautiful houses—•make it hard to realize that Mayon is a town. Men, women and children are living in these ruins. "The Bishop of Noyon has impro- vised a place of worship for his people, It is a simple conventicle that former- ly was an adjunct to the cathedral. In- t Lead of the great organs that were e pride of the cathedral, there is a harmonium that would pass muster ;dor a village school. Of the altar l ,that can be said is that it is decent in fts simplicity, The old glass windows Of the cathedral have given place to :common glass. Beauty Destroyed, many to wage war with France long after peace had been declared official- ly, It would be well for those who have a feeling of kindliness toward the sufferings of Germany to remem- ber that the German people knowingly and deliberately planned that France should be subjected to such a fate. "Much -of the havoc caused to the soil is already repaired, and on the road it is often not easy to trace out what has been the line of the trenches, With amazing industry these have In many cases been filled in, and all that can be seen of them is the irregular patches of lighter soil that follow the line which represented a portion of four and one-half years of hardship, heroism and gallantry. The graves re- main, Sometimes the dead Ile side by side in vast cemeteries, each grave marked by a cross, in other cases they have been left where they fell, sometimes lying in the middle of a field, with only a erosa. to mark the place. In all cases the farmers have respected these lonely graves, and the plow has been turned from its course to respect the rest, whether of com- patriot or ally or enemy. 'These may seem small matters be- side the horrors of the great war, but they are not, for they are one- phase of *hat is borne in on one at every stage f such a journey. At each step one haunted by the feeling that beauty liras been irrevocably destroyed, and it ; iurts the more to know that as aftesi es not it has, be -en wantonly destroyed. "Prom Noyon to St. Quentin, the hong panorama of wreckage continues. (uiscard is a beep of ruins. Ham is a kap of ruins, village after village is t °aha same condition. On this road etgd,1Ax triers is another hideous evi« sfence of Hun frightfulness and Hun lqi ttommos. "Germany Mari as Ste objective not gaily to conquer France; bat so tai dam - says:—"Before I began the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I felt like a com- plete wreck of my former self. My blood was thin and watery; I suffered to reduce the amount of waste pro Ecom faint and dizzy spells, and had ducts. That. is done by giving up al - headaches almost every day. I was most all Wheat—bouillon and meat taking cloetar's medicine, hut it was :broths especially—and highly season - not helping me and at this time I was ed dashes, and by-•• slowing down the learning my trade as a •taiioress, and waste of the body tissues through do was forced through my iiluess to give e- ing a little less physical and menta up work. After reading an advertise- work. Next, the patient should take went decidedf 'Williams!ov ''ink Pills one plenty of fluids; in the .shape of water day r Lgto give the pills a tat and milk, so as to dilute the waste After taking benefited,two boxes I felt that I products and cause their early and was being and continued their use until I was fully restored to complete removal. Finally it is nee. health. The pills certainly did wen- essary to increase the activity of the ders for rte, and I cannot recommend skin and bowels, so- that they may re• them too highly." lieve the kidneys of part of their tasl The purpose of Dr. Williams Pink as organs of elimination. . Pills is to build -up the blood. They • The medication needed to 50 -00111 - do this one thing and they do it well. plish the third result is a matter fol They are for this reason an invaluable the physician to determine, and the remedy in diseases arising front bad sane is true of managing the increas- or deficient blood, as rheumatism, ed blood pressure, which is at once a neuralgia, aster -effects of the grip and cause and an effect of kidney trouble, fevers. The pills are gn sauteed to be The diet muse be, mild—milk, ve,;•e- free front opiates or any '.iarinfr,l tables, fruits and breaditufis, and drug, and cannot injure the most deli- very little ar, better, no 'neat. Sweet este system. 'ion can get Dr. Wil - Hams' Pink Pills through any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a for the removal of waste products from the body. That is accomplished in three ways: First, it is necessary Plain of Dead Land. "After passing through Noyon, 'Guis- card, Ham, St. Quentin and Cambral,. I thought I had little left to learn of the meaning of desolation, but the last stage of the journey, the road from Cerebral to Areas, brought a third please, which In its way was even more terrible than the preceding one, The villages all along thee road were wiped out of existence,but by repetition one Tract of Desolation. "Perhaps it was partly imagination, but it seemed as if in this tract of nightmare there was not a bird or an insect. Certainly there were no sheep, horses, cattle -or even fowls, and we passed' scarcely a living soul. 'Phe general air of neglect extended to the road, the worst long stretch of road that I have ever travelled on. "That is a picture to be borne in mind when one thinks of the economic condition of France, A glance at the map is apt to make one consider teat, - after .all, it is, not so very large a por- tion of France that has been ravaged. A visit to the district itself crakes one realize how appalling is the extent of the devastation. France is so near to England that ° in the press of other world events one is apt to forget that there is this tract of desolation within half a day's journey from our shores. "Nearly a year and a half after the armistice villages retrain unbuilt, land romaiiis untilled, cities are destroyed or empty of all save the barest neces- saries, and this, 1101 because of any laziness or lack of good will on the part o£ the, population—their industry and their 'enterprise, on the contrary, are the astounding thing—but because of the magnitude of the damage," 1 A MOTHER'S ADV Cita Once :a mother has used Baby's Own Tablets for her little ones she is al- ways happy to recommend them to others. Her advice, given after a careful trial, can be readily followed with assured good results. The 'Tab- lets are a mild but thorough laxative which never fail to regulate the bowels and' sweeten the stomach. They always do good—they cannot possibly do harm even to the youngest babe, Concerning them Mrs. P. La - forest, St. Nazairo, Que., writes:— "For three months my baby was con- stipated and cried continually. On the advice of a friend I gave him Baby's Own Tablets and now at the age of five months he is perfectly well and weighs twenty pounds. I am de- lighted to be able to advise otlior mothers to use them." Tho Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or 'by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. At Night. The little eters, like armies, Are softly passing by -- Marching with a noiseless step 'lip and dowel the sky— Who spoke of sheep and shepherding Little sheep like these, Who leap and laugh, and' laugh and leap Round the old. Moon's knees? There's Mars do allhis glory, Orion in his might, Sirius• with his flashing sword And itis shield of light -- Who spoke of gentle shepherding And looked on sun a sight? cider, grape ejuicte and other non- aerated beverages may be taken, but best of all is plain water, to which box or six boxes fax $2.00 •from 'the once a day a half teaspoonful of bi- Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brbckville, carbonate of soda may be -added. II Ont, possible, a change of residence to a - -- hind climate is a good thing, and the COS'n OSeTs at Work. patient should remain indoors in very Quaint is the manner in which cold and stormy weather. genies has sometimes been inspired. -- Grieg, the musician, when about to t�4,nPa$eDs�t�'t Goats. compose, would first memorize the words whose meaning he wished to its Europe, whence the best mik.lt express by sounds, "I require several goats still come, the value of goat's clays to heat my head," he once said; milk long has beon recognized: In "then I lose my appetite, my eyes be- Italy the goats are driven about city, come inflamed, and the imagination is town and village streets in flocks, stimulated. Then I. compose an opera milked at the doors of the goatkoeper's in three weeks." patrons. In Paris, at least until the Edgar Allan Poe. wan in the habit outbreak of war, the nurses or "noun of drinking brandy for the same Pur- nous" regularly took their charges to pose, Voltaire' went in for coffee, and the Pre Catalan to drink warm goat's de Musset favored a mixture 'of beer milk. In England • many a "county and absinthe. De Quincey is said to family" maintains one or more goats have used opium, though he found it as much a hindrance as a help; and Burns preferred whiskey. Byron found, curiously enough, that Epsom salts woke up his reuse. Schiller put his feet in ice while he sat in a room filled with the odo' of rotten apples, Milton buried his head in cushions and blankets, Rousseau preferred to have the suit beating on his head, while Shelley wrote with Itis head close to the fire.. • In contrast to these, Victor Hugo al- clean bill of health of late years. ways stood upright at his desk. Her- Goat's milk is richer than that of the bert Spencer used to utilize physical exercise, perhaps. the bast method of all, in behalf of the children, a practice steadily increasing in the United States, particularly in the East and in California, Time was, and not very long ago, when the keeping of a pet goat in the family backyard was scarcely a thing to be proud of. Nowadays the little children of Wealthy families play happily with goats and are fed goat's milk whenever V possible, The goat has been given a India s Gigantic Rice Crop. Much work is being done by the Ag- ricultural Department of India to im- prove the rice crop in. that country, Seed le being raised on government farms, and as. the result of deraonstra- tions carried out by the agricultural departments ish the villages trans- plantation of rice is gaining its popular favor. The Government is carrying out a very large program in developing comntunicatloa s and irrigations, even in remote corners of India, to combat the effect of drought on. the crops. The first forecast of the. area under rice' in British India for 1910-20 places it at 78,250,000 acres more than last year. �_- Buy Thrift Stamps. cow and equally pleasant to taste, and the goat is not susceptible to tuber- culosis, Also the goat has been re' cognized as a, most desirable.and use- ful member of the animal 'family. Cleanliness and good treatment ren- der her former unpleasantness neglig- ible, and Nanny, being naturally en- dewed with a dead disposition, makes a little pet. A goat mother Bears two or more kids at a time and rears two families yearly, By breeding the doe kids to a registered buck, good goats, three- quarters pure, soon would be ready for milking. Goats- of :the next swim - den, similarly treated, would be seven• eighth pure, and so on. Goats of the fourth generation would be Piero re- gistered animate -and worth money. • Antipadee island, i nd, not far from Net Zealand, was thus named because it it directly opposite to London.