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\ - mkvS Z Seen in the Shops. Stripes on silk and. net, chiffon and other fabric are stimulated with stripes of velvet ribbon of various widths. One chiffon tunic is striped with black velvet an inch and a half wideband at the lower edge of the tunic at the end of each stripe is a pink rose. Durable Brussels Net. Some new neck ruffs are made of Brussels net, instead of tulle. These cuffs are made just like those oi tulle. The net is left with a raw cut edge, and it is gathered or box- plaited and held through the centre centre with a band of velvet or taffeta or satin, that sometimes ends in a bow, sometimes under an artificial rose. The Brussels net is decidedly more durable than tulle, which always always loses its freshness and collapses collapses "almost to nothing in moist and rainy weather. Pearl Fringe. An evening frock of white satin shows a long tulle tunic banded at the bottom with white satin ribbon. The tunic is not more than two inches shorter than the foundation skirt, which is bordered with a two- inch band of fringe made of pearl glass beads. Thus nothing shows below-the bottom of the tunic but the bead fringe. Long Tulle Sleeves. Long tulle sleeves are' used on all sorts of afternoon frocks. Sometimes Sometimes they appear on the frock of velvet, and then they are decorated at the wrist with one or two rows of tiny glass or velvet buttons. Sometimes these sleeves are part • of a silk or silk and chiffon frock, and then perhaps they flare over the hand and are bound with a narrow narrow band of silk. Sometimes, too, they are used in blouses to wear with the coat suit. Peacock Poplin. A striking gown is made of silk poplin with"a blue ground on which there are peacock feathers--the ends or eyes of the feathers, to be exact--woven ip natural ' colors. This gown has a long, wrinkled basque made of deep (blue velvet. Black and Yellow. Yellow has been enjoying an unwonted unwonted popularity for a season or two. Last spring yellow and brown were a great deal used together. Yellow and black are now a favorite favorite combination, and one method of combining .them is to mount black lace or net over yellow satin or silk. Quite Spanish is this com- • bination, and as charming as it is Spanish. Standing Chiffon Collar. There are many styles of collar on the new frocks and not the least interesting is a standing, straight chiffon collar that fits snugly about the neck. It is attached to a frock that has no yoke in front, however, but a deep Y-Shaped opening. So there is a collar above a yokeless blouse. Jet Sequins. A green satin evening gown is simply made, and depends for its trimming solely on a little jacket of black net. covered with tiny jet sequins. The jacket is finished with four tassels, which are attached to the pointed sections unoer the arms that hang down over the hips. Beads From the Shoulders. Many of the new evening frocks show three or four long strands of beads hanging from the shoulders around the arms. Two Pointed Tulle Tunics. The pointed tunic is one of the season's best novelties. In a tulle model this tunic is especially well developed. It is a debuntànte s evening frock; made of white tulle mounted on flesh-colored satin, and there are two tunics, one superimposed superimposed on the other, of tulle. They are full and pointed, so arranged that the points of one do not fall over those of the other. Each is edged at the ibottom with, a narrow band of embroidery worked in irre- discent pearl beads. The same bead embroidery is used to outline the bodice and on the sleeves. With Shepherd's Checks. A smart frock is made with a loose bodice of velvet in shepherd s checks of black and brown. There is a skirt with a blue facing of the velvet, over which hangs a long, gathered tunic of chiffon banded at the bottom with three strips of the velvet. 1* 11,250 TONS OF FOOD A DAY WHAT THE GREAT EUROPEAN ARMIES EAT. The Problem of Feeding Soldiers Grows Harder With Every Day. SOME FAMOUS SIEGES. Gallant Defence of Liege Against Three German Corps. The defence, of Liege by 30;000 Belgians against three German army corps numbering 125,000 will go down to history as one of the most brilliant feats of arms in the .annals of war. Thé Ft an co -P r u s si an war of 1870- 71 was remarkable for its sieges. Bazaine held out at Metz against the Germans for nearly two months and finally surrendered with 6,000 officers and 173,000 men. For this he had to submit to court-martial and was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. Afterwards came the siege of Paris, which lasted six months. Thousands of shells were rained on the city every day by the Germans, and no fewer than 40.000 of the inhabitants succumbed succumbed to disease and hunger. That lengthy sieges are quite possible possible even in these days of huge guns is > illustrated by C'hukn Pasha's gallant defence of Adrian- ople last year 'for 155 days. Then there was the comparatively recent great siege of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-5, which finally capitulated after being being blockaded by Admiral Togo for 210 days. The name of General Stoessel will rank with those of the greatest soldiers of modern times. In Ottoman and Russian military history there has never been a siege like that of Plevna in 1877, when Osman Pasha defied the Russians Russians for 144 days and finally sur- rundered on December lOfch^ with 30.000 men and 100 guns, owing to provisions and ammunition running short. In the same years Kars, long the bulwark of the Ottoman Empire in Asia, was stormed by the Russians after a siege of five months. . Twenty-two years earlier the fortress *" had been brilliantly defended defended for eight months against the Russians by the Turks under General Williams, who had put 15.000 men against 50,000. Even these sieges, however, are somewhat insignificant when compared compared with some others. The longest longest siege occurred in the American Civil war, when the Confederates defended the town of Richmond for 1,485 days, or just over four years. Sebastopol, in the Crimean war, held out for eleven months, while General Gordon defended Khartoum Khartoum against the Soudanese for 300 davs. The sieges of Ladysmith, Kimberley, and Mafeking, in the South African war, lasted 120, 123, arid 261 days respectively. There is probably, however, no siege which Britishers like to read about so much as that carried out by France and Spain in their endeavors endeavors to carry the Rock of Gibraltar, Gibraltar, 1779-83. Altogether the siege lasted nearly four years, and as the world knows, resulted in a complete complete triumph of British arms, m spite of the fact that the enemy numbered 30,000 to 40,000 men, while the defenders could only mu inter inter 7,000. The soldiers who are fighting >n the manv armies of Europe eat Hr 250 tons of jood each day. These figures are based on the allowances made by each country for each man in war time and averaged by an authority on commissariat, says 6 New York Sun. It is figured that the average for each man is 2% pounds of food a day. It has been stated that there are from 8;000,000 to 16,000,000 men now on the battle lines. Just w the real figures are it is impossible to determine, but 10,000,000- is probably nearly correct. _ A box car on an American rai road will carry about twenty tons. This means that to transport the food of one day for 10,000,000 men 560 of these cars would be heeded. If these 560 cars- were divided into trains of fortv cars each it would mean fourteen trains drawn '.by trie largest engines in the country. Own System. E,ach nation has its own system of feeding its men, and now it is realized everywhere that to enable the men to fight at their best they must be fed properly. England like the United States, feeds its army from behind. That is, it sends food trains to follow each division, and these trains, equipped with the different foods, deal out regiment provisions, most important part of the ration. The British allow their men 24 ounces the F rench? f 32 ounces, and the German 26% dunces to each man. This bread baked in the army ovens-. The German ovens are drawn by motors, and they arrive arrive with the troops' as soon as the battle is over/ For each division there are twelve ovens and these can turn out 30,000 loaves of bread a day. The dough is- mixed in the usual way. Sometimes this bread is tùrned put in biscuit form. . Each man: receives two rations, which he carries -in his halversack. Each one of these ovens can turn out 2,500 bread rations a day. ^ The British also have these field ovens, but they also have portable kitchens which are drawn by horses or by motors and follow the army. About four men are necessary to manage One of these kitchens and these men cook the meals for the soldiers, which is served out to them night and morning as long as it is possible for them to do so. Atkins Well Fed. These kitchens make stews for the men, cook bacon, make tea or coffee, coffee, and with the British army jams and sweets form a large part of their food. It has been said that the British soldier in the field lives well and often has what might be termed luxuries. He gets his meat, 12 ounces being allowed each man. Then he has 16 ounces of potatoes, 8 ounces of fresh vegetables when they can be procured, *3% ounces of milk, an ounce and a half of sugar, and a quarter, of an ounce each of tea, coffee and sallt.- Frcncli Get Wine. The French ration is somewhat different. It consists of 32 ounces of that it is more easily transported than mostmother forms of food and that it is very easily prepared, for use. It is generally conceded by all food experts that the rations of a soldier should be as varied as possible possible and that the men while " actively actively in the field should-be furnished- furnished- with meals that will be as pleasing pleasing as possible, and in this way the British and armies pe nations. the United States s lead those of other to SIR WM. OSLER'S WARNING. Tells Soldiers to Boil Water and Beware of Enteric Fever. By desire of the, British war authorities authorities Sir Wm. Osier has issued an elaborate warning to troops, which is as applicable to Canadians as to British. He states: - "It was formerly said that an army marched On its belly ; now it is marched on brains. Bullets are less fatal in war than bacilli. Where one slew, a thousand the other slew tens of • thousand. Twenty-two thousand lives were lost in the Boer war. Of these 1,800 were by bullets and 14,000 by bacilli. bacilli. I appeal to each individual soldier soldier to use intelligent co-operation to combat this more deadly enemy Dysentery, pneumonia and enteric were the three great scourges "Only by boiling all water can dysentery be prevented. To stave off pneumonia don't neglect coughs and colds. The most fatal enemy, however, is enteric or typhoid fever. fever. There were 57,684 cases in the Boer war, 8,.022 proving fatal, especially especially from consequent action of flies and dust. Enteric killed more The range with pure white enamelled steel reservoir stamped from one piece. The 'Rs.nge reservoir is seamless and clean enough to use in cooking, and preserving. See the McClary dealer, m Sold by R. G. STURGEON & CO. NOTES OF SCIENCE each which are The .men or,are cooked and served from the kitchens. The French also furnish their men with food, especially when they are fighting on the defensive, but when. they are in an enemy's country they follow largely the /system of the Germans, that the country should support the army as far as possible. The Germans in the present present war have been able to follow this plan, so that it is probable that they have not had to draw very largely on their reserve stores. Catering a Science. Catering for the army has become a science. Each country has its experts experts who have figured out just what is needed for the men at home and when in the field carrying arms. Each -has figured just what is necessary for all climates, and men who are sent to fight m cor 1 climates have different food from those sent to war in the tropics. They have learned, too, what foods will be best to nourish and sustain men in their tremendous work and have selected foods easy of transportation transportation and which have as little waste as possible in preparation. It absolutely necessary that the should have good wholesome food, and it is also an important item' that this food should be put into as little space as possible in order to facilitate transportation. Each army has its own rations. One ration is -for the army when on a peace footing at home and the other for the men when they are in the field fighting. Germany and France, too, have another ration for the men when they are taking part in the manoeuvres, and with these two countries these rations are very similar to the war ration. Bread Chief Feature. In all countries bread forms the bread, ounces .t 32 ounces m soldiers than_Boer bullets. , - z ^ -of meat, oA j i s urged that vaccination against ounces of fresh vegetables and j -typhoid be carried out. Among the ounce of sugar. The French soldier un vaccin ated in France the rate was also gets, whenever possible, about half a pint of red wine and coffee. _ The daily field ration of the Ger- vaccinated. fresh i 7 7 HOMESEEKERS EXCURSION TO WESTERN CANADA. IS men Be Good To Yourself by keeping in. good physical trim and you will be the best friend to yourself and a pleasure pleasure to others. Most s^knesses begin in the ordinary and minor ailments of the digestive organs, and for these ailments have become the most popular remedy, because they are so safe, so certain, and prompt in their beneficial action. They tone the stomach, stimulate stimulate the liver, regulate the bowels. By cleansing the system and purifying - the blood they prove that they Are Worth sixty-eight per thousand, and only one-fifth of one pere cent, among Inconvenience to man army is 26 ounces of fresh, so ldier from vaccination only 'bread or 17 ounces of biscuit, 13 j ^ as ^ ei j twenty-four hours, ounces of raw meat, fresh or salt- j <<with a million in the field their ed, or 7 ounces of smoked beet, , e ^ c | en< çÿ be increased one-third pork, mutton, -bacon or meat saus- . f wg preven t enteric, as we can " age, 4 ounces of rice or 8 ounces ot pulse or flour or 52 ounces of potatoes, potatoes, coffee or tea, sugar and salt. These various ingredients are not doled out to the men to cook for themselves, but the food train uses them to make stews and to he cooked cooked in different ways and then when. they are cooked the men are served. served. Each soldier has what is known as a haversack ration and an emergency emergency ration. Stews For Russian. With .the. Russian there is again a different system. The Russian soldier lives on bread and stews. Thé field kitchen follows the army, and the system works so well that it is, always on hand when wanted, and the soldiers always have stews, coffee or tea-and bread. The stews are made of everything thait is furnished furnished by the Government -- meat beans, rice, and fresh vegetabl and fresh meat, when it can be o> tained from the district in which the troops are operating. German Sausage. In the German army erbwurst is highly esteemed as an emergency nation. This, is a mixture of pea meal,: fat bacon, herbs, onions, etc. put up in the form of small sausages. It is manufactured in Government factories, and the se* cret of its manufacture was purchased purchased by the Government from the inventor for $25,000. It is not generally generally liked, however, by the men, and its chief value lies in the fact The Grand Trunk Railway System issue issue round trip Homeseekers's tickets at very low fares from stations in Canada to points in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, each TUESDAY until October 2/th inclusive via Chicago, St. Paul or Duluth, and are good returning two months months from date of issue. Through Pullman Tourist Sleeping cars are operated each Tuesday, leaving Toronto 11.45 P-m. and running through to Winnipeg without change. Reservations in Tourists Sleepers may be obtained at a nominal charge on application to any Grand Trunk ticket office. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway is the shortest and quickest route between Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Edmonton, with smooth roadbed, electric lighted Sleeping cars, through the newest, most picturesque and most rapidly developing section of Western Canada. Before deciding on your trip ask Grand Trunk Agents for full particulars or write C. E. Horning, District Passenger Agent, Union Station, Toronto, Ont. 38-4 * Envied Him. "My wife is a, mind reader." "Lucky dog! My wife is a mind speaker." As a vermicide there is no preparation that equals Mother Grave's Worm Exterminator. Exterminator. It has saved the lives of countless countless children. Dry salt will polish freshly washed washed lamp chimneys. About one-third of Great Britain s telegraphers are women. Thorough soaking in sea water lengthens the life of telegraph poles. Both salt and fresh waiter fish are caught in lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. Venezuela. India-will establish a $500,000 engineering engineering college at a suburb of Madras. Mucilage can be made by pressing the juice from a freshly boiled Spanish Spanish onion. Cuba's sugar crop this year promises promises to exceed 2,600,000 tons, the greatest on record. A new bracket to hold a broom clear of a floor is provided with a lock to prevent theft. Good flour adheres to the hands and retains the imprint of their lines when , pressed tightly. About two-thirds of the mileage of government railways in Switzerland Switzerland rests upon steel ties. An Argentine refiner has succeeded succeeded in making an oil useful in the manufacture of soap from grape seeds. . To drive household sewing machines machines there has been invented an electric motor driven by a storage battery. According to _ a Roumanian scientist old age is simply due to a decrease in the amount of water in the human system. Field experiments in Ireland have shown that liquid manure produces better crops of hay than any other fertilizers. Shears with their handles extended extended to one side have been invented to enable a person to follow a pattern pattern more closely. Freshly ground coffee and camphor, camphor, burned together, make an effective effective and rrefreshing disinfectant for the air of sick rooms. A private train has been built for the Khedive of Egypt that is composed composed of cars that get their current from motors driven by gasoline en- ^wilding and from it throws a number number of streams of water at different angles. Electrical devices for transmuting transmuting photographs by wire bave reached such a stage of perfection in w 11 rope that pictures have been sent 60 miles. Aluminum cooking utensils can be cleansed of stains by boiling in a solution of four tablespoonfuls of oxalic acid crystals to one gallon of w T ater. . By the introduction of ventilating devices a lead smelter works in Hungary reduces the illness -among its employees from 73 per cent, to three per cent. French scientists have found that a cactus growing prolifically in Algeria Algeria can be made to yield about fourteen per cent, sugar and from 45 to 60 per cent, alcohol.. Electric'automobiles have been adopted for garbage collection in Paris after a series of tests showing them more economical and flex in le than other vehicles. By'! subsidizing companies that will bore for them the Italian Government Government is fostering a search for the petroleum deposits that are believed believed to exist in Ah at country. Photographs of the Planet Mars taken through color screens by an eminent Russian astronomer showed showed that its canals were filled .with some substance sea green in color. Horses imported into Argentina are taught to avoid a poisonous weed that the native animals shun naturally by forcing them to inhale smoke from burning piles of weed. -- /> ill gmes. A new type of water tower for- fighting fires projects an arm into a A Wise Answer. Examining ■ Admiral (to naval candidate) -- Now mention three great admirals. C andidate--D rake. Ne 1 son. a n d I beg your pardon, sir. I didn t quite catch your name. At Present .Prices, Too. Young House wife (to girl friend) Did you ask the butcher to send me a leg of lanyb l Girl Friend--Yes, dear: luu said he had no legs of lamb, so l told him to send you a leg o instead. he -beef Even if a man does lift his lid when he meets à woman he may not be her inferior. mi tp»fl»l value with every box. In bate, 25 cents." / CANADIAN JAM FACTORIES. On Account of the War They Are Very Busy. The embargo on the exportation of jam from the United Kingdom will increase the demand for Canadian Canadian made jams. During the fiscal, year ending March 31, 1914, over $500,000 worth of jams, jellies, and preserves were imported from the United Kingdom into Canada. The deficiency created by the shutting off of these imports under the embargo embargo instituted by the British Gov ernment must be made up by the Canadian jam factories. As a result of these conditions there is greatly increased activity in the jam factories throughout Canada. Canada. Dominion Canner s Limited is operating its m factory at Hamilton Hamilton at maximum capacity, night as well as day shifts being employed, p. D. Smith and Sons, Limited, has increased -the staff in its jam factory at Winona, Ont. , and will have a record output this season. In the plant, of Lindners, Limited, a.t Toronto,' for example, where, under under ordinary conditions about forty- five hands are employed, it is expected expected that night as well as day shifts will be employed for the next six or seven months. These conditions conditions are typical of those that obtain throughout the entire industry. COLLAPSE OF CIVIL Unspeakable Is the Woe To-day Visited Upon th World a 1 Germans Halting for their Mid-Day Moal. Members of the 2nd Infantry, German Army, receiving their ration of _h&™ tutes the mid-day lunch of the fighting men of «the Kaiser hand to attack hia share of the ration*. which, with bread, consfci- Note the soldier at left ready with knife in "Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help ; . '. • and trust in chariots, because they are many , and in horsemen,- «because they 7 are very 7 strong ; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord !"--Isaiah xxxi., 1.. These words of Isaiah were wonderfully wonderfully impressive in his own day, when the Israelites, suddenly _ obsessed obsessed with the spirit of militai ism, were building up great armaments against Babylonia and seeking alliance alliance with Egypt, but they are a thousand times more impressive today, today, twenty-six hundred years after ;he 'passing of the great prophet, when ' the modern equivalents of "chariots" and "horsemen" are being being hurled against one . another on a scale and with a fury never known before in the history 7 of mankind. Many have found good reason for seeing in this stupendous cataclysm of armed conflict the futility of the peace propaganda, the impotence of the international labor niove.- ment, the value of culture, The Failure of Christianity, z the collapse of civilization. But 'others there are who see none of these things, but on- the contrary only the doom of a social order which has been built up exclusively on the basis of material power and dominion. For years the warring nations have cherished 'hatred and suspi- gjQU against one another, indulged in destructive ancl selfish commercial commercial rivalries, forged artificial alliances alliances for the firmer maintenance of an abnormal balance of power, piled.up ever higher and higher vast armaments of war * as their I firm reliance in time of trouble ! And now what have they got out ot it all ? Which one of the nations grappling for supremacy is winning anything but poverty and deni n What do we see in this triumph 1 >! blood and iron but that final and universal disaster for which . me.-."* carnal deeds have been but the perfect perfect preparation ? Ln-peakauh s the v 7 oe to.-day visited upon tin* world; but it is only the woe long' promised unto those who "mist 01 chariots because they are many, and in horseman because they arc strong," and "get out to go down to Egypt for help" ! An Argument lor Peace. 4 Never was there such a plea t<>'- disarmament as is now being spok en throughout Europe by the groan.- of dying men and the sobs of lonely women ! Never was there such an argument for peace as is now being written in the blood of battlefields, •the ashes of wasted fields, and tin* tears of stricken homes ! Never was there such a demonstration »>f the everlasting and exclusive validity validity of the Master's spirit of good will as is now being witnessed in the prostration and agony widen lust and hate have brought upon the world ! True is it. to-day. as in 1865, that { 'the Almighty hath His own purposes." The dead now rotting rotting on the plains of Europe shall not have died in vain if at last the world hi made to see with Isaiah, after centuries of weary waiting, that "Egyptians are men. and not God," that "horses are flesh, and not spirit," that "in returning and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength."--Rev. John Haynes Holmes. I I s Bs & «r ^. eggjïS ..•O •rtf-h-sw mwVh' !,.n. llliifeÿti; JlÉÈlllIi