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PW : many cages . develop. If you have not fully covered from the "Su," or you are run down in health from some other cause, seek a doctor at once. Con- sumption may have developed, but 'evou that may be cured if taken in ime. A case in point has recently 'Besn brought to our attention --.a 'farm laborer with a wife and five 'small children. He had not been ht for some mgantha, not gh go to bed, or stay ut always tired. His daily work the farm had become a « task to him. So of his own accord he went to the Muskoka Free Hus- pital, to try and find out what was tter. He was found to be suf- from tuberculosis, and was : taken in and put to bed. say this man is making recovery, and that he will = _ shortly be able to return home. The Muskoka Free Hospital for Qensumptives is now appealing for | ald tm ting the Great White Plague. The money you give will | Help restore to health just such de- ing cases as this, bringing happt- | RB untold to re-united families. tributions may be sent to | Sow J. Gage, 84 Spadina avenue, Toronto, or to Geo. A. Reid, -T , Gage Ilustituts, < street, Toronto. YANKEE SOLDIERS WELL FED | ft Cannot Be Sald That In Any Way | Uncle Sam Stints His Fight. ing Men, { More than 2 billion peunds of meat | 8 year and an equal amount of pure whest flour are required fur the Amer- jcan army blll of fare. That lmpos- ing total will increase rapidly aa the | United States enlarges its fighting forces in France and the divisions fn training on this side of the Atlantic, | Uncle Sam does not stint the quality or quantity of food for his husky fight- ing men. There 1s a bountiful supply of every essential foodstuff on a care fully balanced menu that provides more calories than the rations of any other army In the world, Twenty- | seven standard articles figure in the | Hat from which mess sergeants select | i material for the dally meals. They | are beef, bacon, flour, baking powder, | beans, rice, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, jprunes, Jams, apples, peaches, coffee, | fea, sugar, milk, vinegar, pickles, salt, | { per, cinnamon, Inrd and lard sub- | { Eitutes, butter and oleomargarine, sirup and flavoring extracts. Even {with this elaborate selection, and not- | | withstanding the mounting cost of food, the government finds it possible to give the boys in khaki all they can (eat for the modest sum of 41 and a ! fraction cents a day. The soldiers get | {many articles of food, however, that } are not included in the "standard" list. | Supply sergeants are Instructed to ivary the diet by purchasing eggs, | éhickens, green vegetables sod fresh fruits, This plan 1s followed: In France as well ag in the United States, Under favorable circumstances ure served In the front-line trenches. Uncle Sam believes that Napoleon was 'right when he sald that "an army (fights on its belly."---Thomas ¥', Logan {in Leslie's. WEL Bay Rum Jag Fatal. Wn. Crowley and Jos. O'Keefe bought a bottle of bay rum in To- ronto a few days ago and drank it although bay rum is an external tonic. As a result both men are dead Philosophy of Having a Good Time. Take the "t" out of toil and you have oll. Yoo can't take the hard work out of farming as easily as that, but a little run robs it of much of its drudgery. Good times are the oil in the toil of agriculture, That is what a great many sincere persons overlook who study economics more than human nature When we attempt to organize a 'farmers' association, what is done? Why right away a vast amount of talking is committed anent educa- tion and improvement. Both are good, of course, and the farmer, in common with all humanity, wants to improve -- there's a difference be- tween improving and being improved -- but he's not always too sure that the association will effect the im- provement, To begin with, he is often not too well acquainted with his real neigh- bors--the men in the inside of the men he knows now show themselves only to kindred spirits. Then after a hard day's work he is prone to stay quietly at homie in preference to driv- ing several miles to diseuss, under a smoky lamp, the old problems in much the same old way. But there's one thing everyone wanis--a good time. Everyone takes his recreation in some form --- only there's nothing collective about it; each goes his own way at his own time. Really persuade the neighbors once that they can have a better time at the club meeting than they can at home, and they'll go without €0axing. . So that seems the logical starting point, A leader never finds it hard to get people to organize for pleas- iire--1to have a good time, © And it leads to great things, too. As people become better acquainted' mutual - respect and confidence de- velop. That is the fundamental and step to business £0, BDETALIOn tics reveal the start- ,462 died of consump- Hing street Ww ov wilh be pr cowled poultry and fresh vegetables and fruit | on their way back to Parry Sound; | 0 Mr, A. H. Ames, mn of Pihance Committees, 53 | est, Toront: by whom | CICS hx ~ fpodin D B Qu 0 XII ASSICISICRS 04 wr A dr CICRIRISICRISRISISIIRAT SOB OK Arouse and Face the Crisis! HE PEOPLE OF ONTARIO are accustomed to ac- cept their food much tlie came as they breathe the fir I They read isolated items about food shortage, but such a Y & \ thing as this affecting their own dinner table never enters fo) their mind, and it is the respotisibility of The Observer > _ ta bring home to its readers a realization of the facts, as un- 0 . < . ¥ 2 less something is doe, in another year, they will not be =~ &24 30 reading about the hunger in Belgium but the bunger in 3 fy Si ; Ly Ontario, a; ~) 3 The following should be memorized by every reader of Tue OpservEen. Under the Presidency of Mr. J. W. Woods, a Confer- ence of all interested in food production was held iu To- ronto on Monday, May 7. SSR SE EASY TO TELL "FAKE" VIOLIN Close Obaervation 8hould Enable Any #usiclan to Detect Evidenses of Fraud Which Is Common. The observant student of the violin ts often surprised and disgusted by the mumber of violins he sees on the market which are purposely "fuoked" and constructed to represent some- thifig which they are not, Robert Alton says in London Musical Times. It is safe to state that 70 per cent st {especially the latter) are "faked" In- struments pure and simple, and at the fost are not worth more than $5. Yet many tostruments of this class are priced at from $25 to $78. A fair idea of the age of a violin may be formed by taking out tha tafl- pia and noting the color of the blocks 48d the kind of wood of which they are made, Good violins are fitted with | geod blocks of pine, well matured be- | fore they are put in. Poot blocks be- tray a cheap, wotthless instrument, or a fraud Imitation cracks in the belly or back may be detected by looking for them | on the inside, through the tatlpin hole. ' Jt they are not showing on the inside be sure they are not real cracks at all, but there for thé bemefit (or, rifher, Canadas Butte Re LL ETD IND BLT Ea 452,795,264 lbs G! BRITAING SHORTACT due to WAR a HR