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Perrin & Company, The contest between Lord Wim. borne and Earl Granard for the Irish viceroyalty, which post the Earl of Aberdeen {3 about to resign, is the mast exciting feature of domestie pol itics at the moment, Ribbon Bags for Christmas / v bl 6 3 In Opera bags, wd small ribbon bags that are s« veleome with each returning Christ | lag are more beautiful than ever thi: ear. For the art of weaving ribbons. | hich amounts to as much as paint | ng when it comes to picturing flowers eems to have reached perfection Woven and printed Dresden ribbons'| ind the richest brocades are used for he various Kinds of bags. The heavy | rocades are Used for bags to be car | ied on the street, the flowered anc zayly striped printed ribbons are ehos mn for work bags and the small toilet or vanity bags for carrying powde and powder puff, a small hand mirror L little square of chamois and all the sther Mitts requirements which wom: an find it y to have withir asy reach all the time The colors chosen for hand bags are soft and rieh- and the flowers shown In raised velvet ngainst a satin back ground i and deep roya' purple shad into black in the back ground, blossom into rich American Beauty rosee in their natural colorings with dark green shadowy foliage melt ing into the ground. Little rosettes inished with pendant ribbon flower: or little bows are used as a finish Such a bag is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 neces:=ar int Y handsome work bags | : gold thread { of the bag firishes the For Fig. ¥ a lighier brocade is used, \ with wovenin instead of raiged flow- erg. But the design is gorgeous with woven into the design. The bag is a trifie smaller and the corners of it are rounded. Narrow satin ribbon in the prevailing color sides loops and furnishes the means of car rying the baz Fig. 3 is a work bag made. of gay Dresden ribbon with dark stripes sewed to plain satin ribbon in the same color as the background of the Dresden. 'This bag is provided with a cardboard bottom covered with the ribbon and finished with hangers of narrow satin ribbon and two rosettes of it. These Dresden and plain satin ribbons are inexpensive but beautiful Fig. 4 is a very handsome bag in flowered ribbon in which bladk and gold are the predominating colors with touches of scarlet. It is made on a circular bottom like Fig. 3. but the lengthwise of the ribbon run around the bag. It is 'hemmed at the top without a standing' ruffle and rosettes of narrow black satin ribbon are set about it, four of them altogether. At the sides flower pendants made of the narrow ribbon hang from full rosettes JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Little Novelties for Christmas Flat rosettes and velvet roses, and life-like roses of ribbon, more wonder | fully well made than ever, are the fad of the hor. With small, compact | nosegays made of ribbon or millinery flowers, they divide honors in milady's | favor. For furnishing separate girdies | flat ribbon rosettes are used. 'The corsage rose is fastened just above the waist line and it is a superb touch to the dinner or evening toilet. Tha exquisite little nosegays bloom on ail] Ftailor-made coat with its dainty finish of whit platings at the collay znd} sleeves. Two American Beauty ro vl are shown Love made of sutin rbd 1! a -- Even thé woman who paints is always true to ber colors. . Among the various silk producing ='t countries in thé world Japan ocou- pied first place in 1912, with thirty- ©ach petal 18 carefully curled and tucked at the edges to look like a gleaming natural rose. The ribbon is In two and sometimes three shades and millinery foliage of the most nat. ural-looking variety is used with the roses. Minally, not to disappoint any- one, the flowers are scented with attar of roses. ~ There is nothing that could be bet. ter for a Christmas gift than the cor rose or the little nosegay. In the datter the stems are wound with gorts of dross and are liked for tie) ynenil matohing the flowers in color and tied with a bow of baby velvet ribbon of the same coir, JULIA BOTTOMLEY. six per cent. of the total; China followed eclasely with thirty-one per cent.; Europe produced only nineteen per cent., the Levant and Central Asia, eleven per cent., and South America three per cent. with: If you have "one on Pat," a good and new one--and, wind you, it hias to be good and mew, for there isn't a blessed one. otherwise, born or manufactured, that isn't in the list "i of the genial priest--tell it to Very Rev. J. J. Craven, the new Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Hamilton, formerly of Galt, and you have a listener with an appreciation so keen a manifestation thereof so hearty and wholesome, that your ef- fort is rewarded to soul's contént. Troth, it's a question whether Father ven wouldn't sooner have the laugh on than with his country man---more especially when the story points a moral. "Come, come!" he reason with a despondent par- ishfoner who has sought counsel of him. "Cheeffup! You know the old song: : "Be a man, be a man, Stare fate in the face! Shure, the heart will be aisy If it's in the right place." "Did I ever tell you about MeKen- na, the troublesome old grouch, who was always declaring it would have been money in his pocket if he'd never been born?" 2 And so the jolly priest laughs,the gloomy fellow out of his doldrums. Or it it happens to be a particular ly obstinate case, the good father, af- ter soberly admonishing, will have re- course again to anecdotal antidote. "We all know, as Rafferty puts it, that this is a quare world--nobody comes into it that ever goes out of it alive. And you want to live? To be sure, you do! That's why Mike and Dan couldn't suicide. You see, the pair were a trifie down in their luck, and they agreed to go into a bark, cover up with blankets, and pass peacefully away. Fifteen min- utes later Mike, in his corner, uncov- ered his head and asked: 'Are ye there, Dan!" The answer came from the other corner: 'I am!' 'An' ye're not dead, yet?' 'Sorra a bit o' me!' 'Nayther am I, Dan. I can't die for the life o' me!" * Nor is Father Craven's stock of laugh-makers confined to products of the Emerald Isle. He relishes, and ean repeat effectively, an English, Scotch, or German jokelet. When on the subject he will tell you that the funniest story he ever heard---apart, of course, from the Poor Pat variety ~--{s that of the inebriated reporter in the British Upper House, whe, dur- ing'an unlooked-for lull in & momen- tous debate, involving one of the gravest issues in national affair, lean- | ed over the gallery rail and blandly preferred the request: "While we're (hic) waitin', will shome (hic) noble lord pleash (hic) shing a comic shong?* All this discloses but one side of Rev. Father Craven's nature and characteristics. Primarily and essen- tially he is a true type of the well- born, scholarly, cultured, Catholic gentleman, He has a fine presence and a face that beams with benignity and sheds sunny smiles. Well-inform- ed, polished, graceful, and fluent in conversation, an earnest, eloquent preacher, and zealous, devoted minis- ter, he is revered and beloved by all creeds and classes in the town of Galt, 'where he has labored for fifteen years before going to Hamilton a short time ago, a model ecclesiastic and exemplar of all-round good citi- senship. And if, in this connection one were to tell a bit av a shtory--the same being on the good dean's own cher- ished "lisht," if I am not mistaken-- maybe it might not detract from the dignity nor impair the sincerity of this passing tribute to the virtues, character, and capabilities of the I new Dean of St. Patrick's, Hamilton, Heffernan and Murphy, at the noon hour, were discussing the work in hand. " "Tis har-rd labor, this dhrain- diggin'," declared the former. "Tis that, indade," assented the latter. "Now, for a nice, elane, da- cint, as well as aisy job, Heffernan, gimme a bishop!™ "-» Fire Insurance a Tax. Fire insurance is no doubt an in- stitution of great bemefit, especially after a fire loss. Nevertheless, it is a striking commentary upon the business judgment of the Canadian citizen that fire insurance is now also characterized. as a tax, distributed, through the buying and selling pro- cess, upon the entire community; that every additional fire and every extra" fire hazard tends to increase this tax, while every precaution for fire prevention and for the reduction in the number of fire losses tends to lessen the insurance rate. The busi which the Germans have made, none is more amazing than their belief that Great Britain would be unable to hold its vast overseas E after a great Buropean war bad' The war is now in ts fourth month, yet the widely scattered British Empire is still intact; not one of its most iso- lated outposts has gone. Seo far, in facet, from deserting the Motherlan in. this great crisis, the Colonies have rallied to her ald and sent men, money and supplies, In this connee- tion it is interesting to set out what has been done. MEN AND SHIPS. Canada; Two war vessels. Full division, 22,000 men, One infantry battalion. Manitoba unit, 1,000 men. New Brunswick unit, 1,000 men. Calgary unit, 1,000 men. A second expeditionary force is be. ing organized. Australia: The Australian navy. Expeditionary Force, 20,000 men, One infantry brigade. One light horse brigade. New Zealand: 10,000 men. 200 Maoris, Uhjon of South Africa: Taking over defence to allow Im. 'perial troops to proceed to the front, Newfoundland: 1,000 men, naval reserve. SUPPLIES. Canada: 1,000,000 bags flour. 500,000 bushels of Alberta oats, 4,000,000 pounds Quebec cheese, 100,000 bushels oats (P. E, 1.) 250,000 bags flour (Ontario). Quantities cheese and hay (P.E.L). 1,600 horses (Saskatchewan). 100,000 bushels potatoes (New Brunswick). 50,000 bags flour (Manitoba). 25,000 cases salmon (B.C.) $100,000 from Nova Scotia. Australia: 1,000 gallons port wine. i Butter, bacon, beef, sto. 8 Barbados: Fi £20,000. British Guiana: 1,000 tons sugar, ? Falkland Islands: ' £8,000. Jamaica: Sugar. Leeward Islands: £5,000. Mauritius: % 1,000,000 pounds sugar. South Rhodesia: Maize. English Suffragists. The woman suffragists in England are doing fine work in relieving dis- tress eaused by the war. The votes- for-women propaganda has been abandoned completely: for the pres- ent and many of the organizations are placing all of their resources at the service of needy women. In Lon- don alone there were some 50,000 women who were earning their own living before the war, but who have since become destitute, many facing 8 on. The assistance of German women and girls stranded in London is in- cluded in the relief program. One | woman who was at a small inn re- celved two Belgian children, who were taken to her by a suffragist in a motor car. Suddenly the children began to shout for joy, for they recog- nized in the hostess of the inn their mother, from whom they had been separated during the war. An English woman doctor, married to a German doctor, has suddenly had the whole of her income cut off as her husband, having to live under the re- | strictions for aliens, has lost all his practice. At Manchester work is being found in a warehouse for 500 women and penny dinners ars provided. At South ampton the Art Gallery has been turned into a women's workroom. In Dublin the suffragists, by getting an | army contract for a jam factory, where a lot of girls are employed, saved it from closing down. Tommy's Naval Honors. | The bluejacket, of course, oftem takes part in land fighting, as wit- ness the doughty deeds of the Naval Brigade in the Crimea, and, in more | recent. times, in Egypt and South Africa. The amphibious Marine excepted, however, it is exceptional to find Tommy Atkins fighting at goa. | Nevertheless, at least three British regiments bear naval battle henors, | ~" CHURCH ON A WARSHIP. Sunday Service In North Sea These Days Is an Impressive Affair, __On the North Sea a cruiser is Strip- ped for action--the guns loaded, tor- pedoes fitted and trained, range find- ors at work measuring off the varying ces of sighted vessels; a word, a touch, and that mighty fabric of potentiality will flame ag if the mouth of hell bad opened and vomited its contents. Meanwhile, the foremast flies the peaceful flag of Divine service, with ita ghite cross, the symbol of su. self-sacrifice and courage. Not many hours ego, from that same mast, was d messages fraught with battle and destruction, which opeped the Book of Life and Death with an orchestra of lyddite shell and shrieking shrapnel. The cruiser's decks are swept of everything which is not a weapon or some instrument auxiliary to death. No bulwark or rail; the ship is strip- ped, and in her naked strength--- three hundred -and odd feet of shod death. We are on the ground where over a hundred years ago Nelson kept his ceaseless watch on the North Sea, The men hurry up out of all kinds of unsuspected places, mustering be- neath the once-burnished, now dull, muzzles of iron-throated monsters, An officer sniffs the wind, consults with another, and decides to hold the service 'tween decks. The chaplain already robed, is in the captain's cabin settling the final details of the order of service. The master-at-arms appears and reports everyone aft. The choir, au- gumented by a small string band, is grouped round the wind-jam, a bar- monium, with a slight cold due to exposure, Between decks the whole ship's company is mustered, men are wedged into all kinds of uncomfort- able places, chairs are placed for the officers. The chaplain appears, accompan- fed by the captain. The latter seats himself facing the, ship's company, the chaplain steps to the improvised P esk and gives out a hymn. It might have been an order to open fire so quick is the response, as from lusty lungs there rolls out the sol- diers' and flors' favorite, "Fight the Good Fight." The service is a shortened form of evensong with the special prayers used daily in His Majesty's navy, to be found in any prayer book. The men's voices are uplifted in the response, augumented this time by a chorus of seagulls. With the first hymn they started a shrill series of cries, but now they have got into: their stride. There is the ground bass of the distant waters, the whis- pering swish of the caressing waves blending with the voices of some hun- dreds of men, but softly dominant is the song of the sea. Truly there were visualized and actualized the opening words of the Benedictus, "O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord, praise Him and magnify Him forever," And around us and upholding us the moving mystery of the sea, fit symbol of God and His protecting arms. The captain -- a fine figure, alert, with a penetrating eye snd clear-cut features--reads the lesson reverent- ly, and the faces of the ship's com- pany turn to him. The men listen with keen interest in a story which tells of a nation's struggles and des- perate defence. In those faces one reads the tale of what is known in the navy as "a happy ship." The chaplain gives a short address on St. Michael, warrior, archangel, champion of the chivalry of heaven. One more hymn then the blessing. A' destroyer lpoms up out of the creeping mists of evening, slows down, listens for a few minutes, ex- changes signals, and then is off again to continue that watch which is first cousin to prayer. Indian Children Follow War. European and Indian: schools in Bombay have opened subscriptions for the war funds. The Indian chil- dren, in particular, have become quite enthusiastic, following the war news and studying the map with the closest attention. Many of the older boys and girls are giving their pocket money to the funds, and are showing thelr loyalty in a variety of ways. The children are daily instructed in war news, and the causes that led Britain to declare war on Germany are explained to them in several schools. Hie May Use Parks. German prisoners are now Aarriv- ing in London in such numbers that Londoners are beginning to feel un« 'easy lest they are to be deprived of ness man must shift the cost of in-{ ope is the 2nd Battalion the Welsh [the use of some of the suburban suring his goods to the consumer, | pegiment, who served under. Sir| parks and open spaces to provide and, not only is the amount of this' yon, Jervis at the naval battle off | concentration camps for them. Na tax added, but, as this is part of the 4,4 St. Vingent, 1797. Lord Nelson | complaint has been made where pors cost of doing business, he is entitled to a profit on it as well. Moreover, the amount of reat which the busi ness man has to is: influenced by the ses This fire insurance tax must also be added to the selling .cost at every handling between the original raw material and the finished article.-- "Conservation." ' Received News of Atrocities. Miss Linda Boyd, Belleville, has received a letter from a friend in England, saying that in Vottingham, a village of about 500 people, within 20 miles of london; about 20 Bel- five little children who had both hands and feet cut off, und one wo- man who had a thumb pulled out of her hand. 3 a Elgin County for Refugees? Dr, Bryce, of the Immigration De- partment, was in St. Thomas recently looking into the matter of havi some 500 acres of farm land in El- gin County purchased and divided up into ten-acre farms for Belgian refu- gees, Other Western Ontario cities wre to be visited by the official also. ---- We should all have lofty ideals, but some of us aim so high we never hit anything on earth. As long as some men are able to contract new debis they their old ones worry thew, don't = | christened them the "Old Agamem- nons" after his own ship the Agam= | emnon, and the nickname has stuck. i The other maval honer bearing corps are the Royal Berkshire Regi- ment and the Rifie Brigade. ! Wellington's Rule. Two of the sayings of the Duke of Wellington are appropriate just now, To the Germans we may apply his answer when asked how he managed to beat Napoleon's marshals: | "They planned their just as you might make a splendid get of 'harness. It looks very well, and answers very well, until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now, I made my campaigns of ropes. It went wrong, I tied a knot and went on." Again, when asked what was the of a general, he replied: |! "To know when to retreat and te do it." ! 4 A Pure guilty or not?" was tlie question put to » prisoner hy the Hon. John de Grey at Jambeth, England. Solemn officials looked up. in surprise, and were relieved to find that the magis- trate was only addressing the prison. er by name, and not displaying any, affectionate partighty. =~ Cultivate a sweet voice. Some voices sooth and comfort us while others stir wp al the $Id Adar: in pa. it must Le o very unhappy state ol mind tor a woman to have noth-' ing to wish for, The tions of public parks have been uti- lized as training grounds for re- cruits. He Bh fa Toronto In 1850. Mr. John Ross Robertson has pre- sented to the City of Toronto the ninth of a series of pictures showing the different stages in the develop- ment of Toronto and York from 192 » Nes, This Bisture gives a Ww © e city as it appeared in 1850-1, and is taken from a drawe ing made at the time by Mr. Fred H. Granger, a resideat of the city. \Judge Upheld Them. The firemen and greasers of the steamer Pakehea refused to work un- til six and one Austrian were dismissed. They were charged at Wellington, New Zealand, with re. fusing to do duty. The magistrate said that their action was justified, and the charge was withdrawn, Uganda's Weds, a, who paid a of Uj prolo; to about two years ago to of a crowned in t at Uganda by. : in Statistics show that in the early rs of American colleges about one- half the graduates adopted the wiin- istry as a profession. 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