| THE. SPORT REVIEW | Or Bes br roto ern Se Stig | Montrea ie 1: The are now u war is getty Toror Leagu« hie the Federal Ledgue ed the Mexico of the Larry Lajoie' was given dous reception By the | fans on his first appearance bat Wednesday, Larry ed a hit during the afternoon Sixty-nine events, fhe number in the nistory of are on the programme for versity of Pennsylvania re val to be held on Friday day of next week Muggsy McGraw has himself when he pick Giants to win the rag this season t --- Mississippi Woman's Suffrage ' sociation at Jackson, Miss., make Cobb, champion ball player, a che er member, the field the New Y National Leag It was a disastrous opening or | five of the eight home teams in th majors Wednesday, as only three won | before the home crowd in tional, the Cubs alone were succe | ful, while in the American, Philadel phfa and W ashipgton won the Na Outfielder "Jimmy" the Chicego Cu Pacific Coast where he as a base stealer. He does FAMED - AMERICAN BEAU FRENCH ARMY. farry Leyhr: former leader of fash- fon and soctety in New York, Newport and Paris, who has just gignified his intention to Join the hospital corps of the French army, --------------------------------- + TO JOIN to San Francisco, however, but to Oakland, Bresnahan may recall him in the fall after the 21-men line passes. ---- It is officially announced in London that, thopgh Lord's ground will be open all the season for practice, no matches have been arranged, but some military matches may be play- ed. The Marylebone Cricket Club, however," will play their usual out matches against various public schools, : President Heydon, Canadian Ama- teur Lacrosse Association, has notifi- ed the Brampton Excelsiors, chal- lenging for the Mann Cup, and the Calgary Chinooks, that the Mann Trophy has been repudiated by the Natlonal Association as emblematic of Canadian amateur lacrosse cham- plonship, and that another trophy will be purchased to replace it. Manager John MeGraw of the New York Nationals announced - the sale of eight of his young players to the Rochesier club of the International League. They are Pitchers Erickson Huenke, Palmero and Williams, First baseman Holke, Thirdbaseman Kores Outfielder Piez and Shortstop Beaty. Charles A. Comiskey believes that the South American Baseball tour for the White Box and the Giants next winter will eclipse the late jun- ket around the world of these well known clubs. The Old Roman has invited "Tommy" Condolly, dean of the American League umpires, to make the trip. - -- At a meeting of the registration committee of the Quebec Branch of the AAU. of Canada, a warning was issued to emateur baseball players to be careful about playing with clubs savoring of professiopalism. were suspended for taking part in an unsanctioned meet, have been reins gtated. Champion illard's first appear- ance in New York as star tould hardly be Coss. He was greeted by * | sent in thi i ¥ | months ago. , sional men. ! bribery. The Ottawa boxers and wrestlers who a vandeville] fermed / Sue- a big 8 connection, 'turning down} he request th the re if hej wanted to box he { ub | | i r be WHOLE WORLD SUFFERS, Syri. Affetted | 1 tell of world-| unparalleled in the urch. Ther. is no th gun, according to eports, where the war has fail-| to strike a staggering blow at merce, 'fio inhabitants of the elvil- | zed world, even to the half-savage Indians of Chile and the wandering tribes of Sy , have failed to feel ita 01 | effects 1 "I thought I had seen the country | | restless before, but never have I im-| y thing like the present dis. ind hopelessness," writes a ynary from Tripoli. ! "Riding aeross three agined tress mi districts, herse and' only a few weak donkeys and very few men. All were hiding| from the army draft, and there was no talk anywhere except of means to { evade the encroachments of the of- ficials. "The draft calls for practically all the able-bc "ied men. The list of pack mules calls for all that are on the official lists jmade only a few Camels are impressed wherever found. Cattle and sheep are demanded as well as the grain still on the thrashing floors. The cruelty of the officials trying to en- |'force the orders means beating and | abuse for the men and destruction of household effects in the villages." Describing conditions at Beirut, a missionary writes: "Orders were announced from the Ottoman Government for mobiliza- tio. and the calling of all eligible for military conscription from the ages of 19 to 45; also the abolition of all exceptional privileges ordinarily granted to .certain classes of profes- This resulted in a stam. pede of young and old from Beirfit to Lebanon, when thousands of both Moslems and Christians fled with and without their families. "At the same moment came orders to commandeer all horses and mules fit for transport service. Hundreds of horses and muleteers "vere caught in the khans and caravansaries of Beirut, while thousands of others escaped by devious paths in every di- rection and still more by methods of At such a time the hungry officials, with salaries in arrears and the certainty of delayed payments in the future, are ready enough to turn an honest or a dishonest penny. So within a period of five days our city ! and country were transferred from | comparative regularity and quietness to confusion, fear, panic; and uttet stagnation." In West Africa, the board an« nounces, the situation is critical. The announcement continues: "The West Africa Mission, with an exception of a single station at Beni to, is located in Kamerun, German territory. Reports indicate that al ready fighting is going on between the Germans and the British. The board has received word from Eng- land that a large shipment of milk] and quinine cannot be celivered at Kamerun. Letters mailed to West Africa have been returned marked 'Cannot be delivered." Three letters from missionaries in Chile recite conditions there, accord ing to the board, as follows: "Chile depends almost exclusively on her nitrate exports. Germany and France are the principal buyers in times of peace, but no freight can be delivered at present, and trade with | Europe is suppressed. "The big houses are closing down, the saltpeter felds have stopped work, thousands of men are finding themselves out of employment, prices are soaring, bankruptcies are frequent, and. business is practically at a standstill." Pipes, Coffee and the Orient. In the "Arabian Nights' Entertain. ments," which are said to be such faithful pictures of oriental manners, there is no mention of the pipe. Neither is coffee to be met with in those tales, s~ delightful to all ages. We with difficulty imagine an orlen- tal without his chibouk, and yet it is certain they knew nothing of this luxury before the sixteenth century. At present, such is the almost im- perious necessity felt by the Turk for smoking and coffee that as soon ag the gun announces the setting of the sun during the fast of the Rama- dan, before he thinks of satisfying his craving stomach with any solid food, he takes his cup of coffee and lights his pipe. Roman Ruins I'n Switzerland. Near Basel Augsf, in Switzerland, is the site of the old Roman colony Rheinfalden are walls and towers partly preserved, for this was one of the outposts of the Holy Roman Em- pire--ithas & +o d only since 1862 ad is v like the majority of the towns Rhine, The Only Perfect Ome. Willie was doing penance in the corner: Presently he thought aloud pensively. "I can't help it if'T'm not perfect," he Sighied. "I never heard of but one perfect boy anyway." "Who os inatt asked his mothe er, thinking to point a moral "Papa," came the silencing reply, "when he was little." ; Precocious. "That little girl of Denneriy's is very 'precocious, isn't she?" "Yes, indeed. on the four years old her mother heard her teli another little girl she was afraid she couldn't come fo Her party.be- cause she had notiring to wear!" Handed It Baek. Fair Lady (maliciously) -- You is, one of his eccentricities his long life hetaks¢ for three mo he would see who brought him he fore the Germans began the siege of Paris the count we servant, true to his injunctions, said sothing of the events going on around him. tion, whereby, of course, he learned that spemy, rount such stopped, exclaiming he went siege ing. when the snake darts out and stings the unfortunate ble promptly in hand the sting will nine cases out of ten turn out to be fatal. of Augusta Raurica, with rematns of ! a theatre, and at the nearby town © .. Why, when she was | ¥ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, H.M.S. QUEEN 1 Britain's most powerful super-Dreadn ought which ! did not see a single camel or mule or through to Constantinople. Eccentric Count Bertrand. Count Bertrand lived in Par- Was a very ec and to ribed Once a year he would f to bed and stay there On these occasions no one but his servant him his meals, and even forbade to speak. Just be- 10 eniri hims nt to bed, and the One day the bread proved go vad the count demanded an explana- Paris was encomp Springing out of bed, paced the floor, repeating, 'What should a Bertrand do under cireumstances?" Suddenly he ssed by the the '"'He should go to bed!" and to bed and stayed there until the Was over. A Snake That Grows, There exists in Venezuela a species of snake of an exceedingly venomous and crafty character. ters a cry that is the almost imitation of a cock crow wary traveler when walking through the near at hand this extraordinary crow= This snake ut- exact The un- bush will be astonished to hear He proceeds toward the spot, man- with its terri- tongue. If not taken in forked A Jewish Force, There is now to be a special Yew ish unit for the new army, quite apart from the 5.000 Jews who have ready joined. -A Jewish Recruiting Committee was formed in London a short time ago, with the warm appro- val of the War Office, who are willing to enrol Jews to be trgined together at Winchester as a unit of the Rifle Brigade. The Iron Cross, The Iron Cross, which has been so much in evidence during the present European conflict, is a Prussian mili- lary decoration. It owes its inception o Frederick William HI, who, in 1813, bestowed it as a reward for tminent service in the war against Napoleon. The Cross, which is of the Maltese shape, is made of from edged with silver. The man as well as disagreeable. Gary & Practical | Home Dress Making Lesrons al- | who is chronically sus- picious is also chronically unhappy! ELIZABETH is pounding a passage Nature's Armor. Lobsters anti crabs are familiar ex- 'amples of armor bearing creatures. { The lobsters have wonderful coats of mail suggestive of those devised by human warriors in th: age of chival- ry. They combine perfect security with ease of movement, owing to their jointed siructure. The manner in which crabs when at rest tuck their legs beneath them so ag to bring them under 'the shelter of the hard carapace interesting. The crab is doubly protected, for it re- sembles a water worn pebble, and thus looks to large fishes, which like to eat the crustacean--so long as it keeps still--very similar to the ob- jects with which it is surrounded. 18 A Rat's Tail. A rat's tail is a wonderful thing. The great naturalist Cuvier says that there are more muscles in this curi- ous appendage than are to be found in that part of the human anatomy which is most admired for its in- genious structure--namely, the hand. To the rat, in fact, its tail serves as | a sort of hand, by means of which the animal is enabled to crawl along narrow ledges or other difficult pas- sages, using it to balance with or to gain a hold. . It is prehensile, like the tails of some monkeys. By means of it the little beast can jump 5 up heights otherwise inaccessible, employing it as a projectile spring. Came As He Went. Jackson and "Johuson are not now on speaking terms. It all arose as the result of an argument which re- quired some mental calculation. "I tell you," said Jackson, "that you are altogether wrong in your con- clusions." | "Pardon me, but T am not," replied Johnson, "Didn't I go to school, stupid?" almost roared his opponent. "Yes," was the calm reply, "and you came back stupid."--London Tit- Bits. Tyrian Dyes. The people of Tyre were such éx- iperts in dyeing that tyrian purple re- mains. unexcelled to this day. The {Egyptians were also wonderful dyers and could produce colors so durable (that they may be called fmperish- lable. They were also wonderful glass |workers and could .nake glass malle- able in a way which is unknown to ns. They could make glass garments dyed in every shade and etched with 'rare skill, \ stitch in time is needles in a haystack. worth two Prepared Especially For This Newspaper by Pictorial Review SKIRT WITH GATHERED TUNIC. because of its softness. The skirt ple- tured here requires about 4 yards of 44-inch material for its development, The tunic is interrupted at the front, revealing the front panel of the foun- dation skirt. It may be trimmed with buttons or braid. Before making the skirt it is first necessary to decide on the preferred way of closing it. 'If desired closing in front or back, slash down fold tn gores from upper edges to single large "O" perforations and finish edges for open. ing. We are now working on the foun- dation. Pleat upper edge of back gore. placing "T" on small "o* perforation, then join gores as notched. In making the outer skirt with open front it is HEC to Tacs foundation gores al FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1915, 4 WHEN PARIS STARVED. Menagerie Animals Were Eaten With Relish In 1870-71. 1870-71, the 'craving for fleth food amohgst the famishing people was so great that practically every known bedst and bird was greedily devoured. Cat and dog butchers established themselves. Rat-pies made their ap- pear ce. The latter, made from sew- er-rats, very fat and very large, were highly esteemed, although some few fastidious people objected to the mus- ky odor they exhaled. Stewed cat was voted "not bad," and ere long every pussy in Paris had passed from the tiles to the saucepan. Prices ruled high. Rats retailed at from two to three shillings apiece. A full-grown cat, not too old, fetched fifteen shillings. A young, plump dog was worth from ten to fifteen shill- ings, according to sizé and breed. A litter of wolf cubs born in the Jardin 'des Plantes--the Paris equi- valent to the London *""Zoo'--averag- ed $2.50 a pound. Afterwards all the grown animals in the gardens were slaughtered for fond ,and there ap- peared on the tables of Paris restaur- ateurs such unaccustomed '"delica- cies" as camel steaks, yak chops, ze- bra fillets, and ragout of elephant fash, The carcasses of the two biggest elephants, named Castor and Pollux, were bought by a certain M. Deboos, proprietor of a shop called the "Eng- lish Butchery," in the Avenue Fried- land. He paid 27,000 francs for them--about $5,400---at public auc- | i tion, and the flesh was retailed at | from $5 to $7.50 a pound, the trunk | and feet fetching the highest prices. This establishment became a sort of institution during the siege, being always hung rourd with strange, if not very appetizing, meats. Here | were to be found the plumpest pus- | gies, the tenderest dogs, the most suc- | culent rats. M. Deboos also had on gale at different times two mnilgaus, for which he paid $200, a couple of wrpitis that cost him $500, besides zcbras, buffaloes, yaks, bears, wolves, ete., for all of which he paid high figyres, and on all of which he made big profits. ; His best bargain, however, was a little live lamb, weighing 25 pounds, which a franc-tireur had looted from {a German advance post. He paid the lucky captor $100 for his prize, and sold it for $225 directly after- wards, i Trees and Lightning. It 1s not generally known that the electric fluid which {8 prevalent dur- ing thunderstorms has a varying af- finity for different trees. M. Camille Flammarion, the famous French scientist, once investigated the pro- portion of trees struck in France dur- ing recent years, and his figures show that the lime is the safest and the oak the most dangerous tree under which to staid Tn a thunderstorm. During the period covered by. M. Flammarion's inquiry only two limes were struck, six pines and the same number of ash and beech trees, Af- ter that came seven willows, ten firs, eleven walnuts, fourteen elms, twen- ty-four poplars and fifty-four oaks. Throwing the Shoe. The peasants of southern France have the crédit of originating the familiar custom of throwing an old shoe after the newly wedded pair. | It was, moreover, the rejected suitor who first made it 'popular. The peas- ant bride is conducted by her friends ! to her new home, while the young | husband is made to halt a couple of hundred yards from the house, If there is a rejected suitor he then arms himself with an old wooden ghoe and flings it, with his best alm, at the bridegroom as he makes a dash for the house. When the shoe fs thrown it is understood that the last feeling of ill will has been flung away with it. ' Gorgeous Gorgets. Ff There's nothing warlfke about 'the brilliantly colored gorget, even if he does wear on his breast a copper. col- ored armor thet Tooks exactly like the gorget or breastplate worn by sol- dlers who wernt to the crusades cen- turies and cenfugies ago. But aside from giving Mm his curious name the armor has no use 'hatever ex- cept as an ornament. If you were to see a plain black crow, just the ordinary variety of cornfield crow, and a gorget together you'd never guess unless you were a naturalist that the shabby old crow, with not a glint of color in his sober coat, and the splendid gorget were cousins, But they are, although very distant, Todine, fodine is obtained from the half. i fused ash of dried Beaweeds. 'The weed is burned, the saline residue is dissolved with water, and 'the solu- tion thus obtained is concentrated in | order to precipitate sodium chloride ! rine gas, which is turned off as soon ag the bromine begins to be precipi. | tated. The substance thus obtained 'condensed in cold earthen vessels. hostess to play for y performing a op TC] Strick a false siote," faltereq rein. what { of iL?" cried ahother ; ahéad. Nobody but During the last siege of Paris, in A ! gsfum sulphate and chloride. Hand ted wr a current of eho. | difficult seléetion from | y the midst of it she sud- |} i in confusion. . 'the matter?" asked ome of | | hpi rE a Pm Lit Yells of _"SMiellotone. erfected by Canadians, in Canada, in the most modern salt works on the Continent--and daily in use in thousands of Canadian homes. i not affected by climate or weather changes. t never gets damp--never clogs the shaker-- but is.always dry and free running. ASK YOUR DEALER! 150 x Ny ABLE Go elsewhere--if you find a corset department which through prejudice against "Made-in-Canada" goods does not sell the "D. & A" or the "La Diva" Corsets. The superior value of the "D & A' and the "La Diva' Corsets has made hundreds of thousands of women wear them. The "D & A' and the "La Diva' are made by the Dominion Corset Co., in one of the finest corset factories in the world, 7-15 SOLID CHOCOLATE Mothers love to give their children Maple Buds, for their pure and wholesome nourishment, as much as the kiddies love to eat them, for their rich, deli- cious, chocolate-goodness. Maple'Buds, being nothing but pure chocolate, cannot produce the ills that other sweets sometimes do. © EN VAL Lp hl a Beautiful, Sanitary, Durable, Washable ---these four words tell why Saft ar the Ratubow Tinu™ is the ideal finish for the walls of your home. | ""Mellotone" gives a pure white or choice of many delicate hues as 'soft as the rainbow tints."' "*Mellotone™ 'is not easily in- jured, does not fade and lasts Rog Jean 'You ¢in wash it ay often as you like. ""Meliotone'" will lighten and brighten your . Before You Decorate Get This Book the many wonderful qualities of " We are exclusive . > tT crowd, but his "act," did not amount toa great deal. Jess made Abn twelve ¥ ago! . when in the course of a little ta | dear, ears ~ remarked that be was "pretty tail} Fairer Lady--Was 12-1 only re | but as a speech, maker he didn't] member that you made such a lovel, "measure more than an inch", Hiz|CBEDeroh for me when I ame out! perfermante was marred by the faét : : that he was not allowed to box with 'were such a charming debutante, my