THE WOUND How France Cares For Her Crippled Soldiers. A FEDERATION FORMED TO LOOK AFTER THOSE REN- DERED INCAPABLE, 9 - The Industrial Schools--A Movement On Boot To Enable Wounded Peas- | ants to Return to the Land, \ Winnifred Chronicle, France and her heroic defence of "la patrie" against the invader is a never-failing source of admiration her Allies But 1ét us not Jose sight of another of her achievements hardly less worthy ofjour admiration and emulation of her efficient or- ganization of "la behind. the defensive lines, | There are those over here who tell 'us that French industries are all at a standstill. To prove the fallacy of such a statement one might marsha a .whole army of facts; but none i more convincing than that which ha transpired in the Department of Ag riculture. It is perfectly marvelloun that, in a year when the mass of her manhood was serving in the trence France should have sewn, tended, reaped and garnered her crops jus as if there were no war at all. Thi amazing feat has, we know, been lar gely performed by French-women Stephens in trie!' We know, tgo, that this employment | feature | { of her woman is merely a of that thrift which has ever di played itself alike in French family life and in the bigger -affairs of the nation. Of a piece with this same frugality is the use to which France is her crippled soldiers. Far from leav ing them to collapse into mere inva- lidism and to live idly on their pen- sions, both the State and voluntary associations are waking sirenuou efforts to equip ag efficient members of the -comiiunity those whom war has maimed and matilated, Thus from the wards of her military pitals our Ally is recruiting the rank of that industris®® army sadly de ---- BB nO { Can't Find Dandruff Be SUPRISES Every bit of dandruff disapears af ter one or two applications of Dan derine rubbed well into the sealp with the finger tips." Get a 2 bottle of Dgnderine at any drug ¢ and save your hair. After a applications you can't md a particle of dandruff or any falling hair, and the scalp. will never itch : 2 $ . 4 J 8 Ladies' Electric Seal long, No. 1 quality, sold evervwhere f Sale Price I Ladies' Russian Pony Coats, worth up to 875, for || Ladies' Mink - Marmot Coats inches long, redue London | turning | the | pleted since the mobilization of Aug- ust, 1914. | | | New Avenues of Activity. are called, are being ° established themsel i erly flocking to these institutions are i erippled warriors of all ages -- from { the boy of fifteen, who somehow ¢on- trived to get sent to the front, tg men advanced in middle-age who are fathers of families, And the hero- { ism of these i taking up life tact civillan to thefdust. He feels himself the veriest worm as he sees | these crippled "poilus," mothing | daunted by loss of Jimb, cheerfully rising above thelr mfirmi- ties, learning to write with the left | hand or moving with wonderful agil- ity on a idguesy trunk, adapting themselves with: well-nigh superhu- man co ge to new and painful con- i arning, with the eagerness THE D ! Up and down the country schools | neat single-bed rooms, a few double-| ¥ i fpr professional re-education, as they | bedded rooms for brothers or friends, | floor a number of apprentices below | industrial schools. la Rapee, premises formerly used as) printing wotks Have been ingenious- 3 comfortable! run in conjunction with a mechanics' | of | Apprenticeship institute, which exist-! ly converted into a dwelling-house, with a amherst vie- {a spacious dining-toom 8 charming i i noble sufferers in thus | . fresh humbles the in. | in the morning the elasses were all, {land Revenue Department or of oc-| who is being taught*a new | game, some handicraff or other occu pation suited to their crippled state. In this department of war activity | in 80 many others, it has beer necessary to supplement the Government's efforts by volunfary | endeavor For this purpose was founded last April a society know des Armees Its headquar- aux Mutiles » et de Mer." ance Te te El e ees. { encouraging | haps, as "La I'ederation Nationale d'Assist- | gom de | taught rs are at 63, Avenue des Champs | ther of Its president is M. Maur- | mirable M. and Mie. Duhamel, who 3 Amc siti) | chanics. And in this noble work the wounded | récreation™ hall, well provided with | | " heartily collaborate. Eag- | books, papers, and a piano, as well °F three crippled soldiers; for, as the as extensive workshops aud class rooms. The Industria) Schools Opened at the end of July, the in- stitution is in thorough working or- der. When I visited it at 11 o'clock in full swing. In ere room thirty pupils, every one of whom had sacri- ficed his right arm in his country's service, were learning bookkeeping, with the object of competing for the Government examinations for the In- cupying posts in private business houses. In the workshops, tailoring and shoemaking were being taught. One had enly to glance at the faces of these eager lparners to agree with their instructors, who, pronounce them to be thie most interesting and of scholars, learning with astonishing rapidity. Those who | are concerned with maintaining dis- | cipline in tire house- give the same gre all provided and paid, by the va- report. In this matter there is no diflicylty w ver though----or, per- bec e---considerable free- is allowed; Teachers and live together a family life, presided over by the father and mo- the establishment, the ad- fice Barres, that eminent academician | have forsaken their own comfortable and distinguished novelist whose de- | ightful articles on the British t at tl front have appeared in ti columns, Throughout the = war both in public and, in private, M Barres has laboyred unceasingly to | promote the wellare of the soldier and of his family. his eloquent appeals in the daily press on behalf of the Federation's fund have brought in subscriptions j amounting to close on £8,000. { Federation's object is three-i it provides with surgical in-| struments those. of the wounded who! failed to obtain them from the! i some form -of| activity, | The id t useful {adapte dered incap- ir former tra'ning 'is find them whon and, their At undertakes employment when to of choice offered wounded soldier is © ' ited as pne 1 may 1 blower harnes occupation become a Ver, a He may, attend SHOCK tailor expense, other Centr wietie such ag al Union of Decg truction in entet a day pupil the ywn workshops in La Rue des Ep'n- ettes, .or, if he pave no family ties, {he may be received as boarder into { the Federdtion's Industrial Home on toy-ma'ing, he the Place de la Bastille Introduced by M, Maurice Barres, I was permitted 'to visit both these Ay Starts To-morrow, January 15th, 2 Weeks Earlier Than Usual Everything in our éntire stock of Hats, Caps, Gloves, Furs, Ladies' Coats and Millinery is included in this sale, which, owing to recent unseasonable weather, starts January 15th, instead of February 1st. 2 son we have had an enormous fur business--established a selling record in the history of the fur trade in this part of Canada--and now, starting to-morrow, before we complete our annual stock-taking, genuine: sacrifice clearing prices will prevail all over the store. Canadian prosperity may mean higher prices in Furs next season, so now is the time do buy. Buying here means selecting from the largest stock of Furs between Toronto and Montreal -- it means buying in the oldest and. most reliable fur-establishmrent inthis part of Cangda;- Only a few of the big bargains offered appear. in this advertisement. LLS & CO. | devole | their French | and Genera) Already | special * ladies' to In ist- in the St. Germa$nh quarter themselves to this work. patrictic task they are 4 committee, tne vice which are two veterans of of 1870, General V F. Goetschy, committee, presided over by Mme, Geoffray, the wife of the Freach Ambassador at Madrid. The Federation's workshops in the home ed by a dents of the war Rue des Epihettes, resounding with fhe noise of ham and aglow with furnace fires, pres nt a striking cor viement, those | ers | | cod | the Federation's | the d i f i BRONCHITIS SUFFERER. i Cured By a Simnle Remedy. Columbus i I am telling gv- body wha husband cough, hi I am so thankfu cured his My doctor highly rec said he could not take ter." Mrs. Thomas Monk Vinol, you know, liver curative wigh peptongte peptone, enrich the blood vital strengthen contain extract, of iron and co t lempents nec body and tis Lhe reas SO su n Mr. Monk' Anyone in Kingston who has bron chitis, a chrenic cough, building up, may try 4 bottle of Vin- ssful or few! the Quai de la.Rapee, not far from/| ol, wigh the understanding that h he is nol Prigg returned if W. Mahood, money will be satisfied. Geo Kingston, Ont ~~ BRITISH FRIDAY, J On the Quail de! tras: to the .ca Im serenity of Qua' ce la Rapes Institution. Fe the day-school, as we may call it, is | cd before the war. = On the ground | military age are being trained ag me Here there were only tw (kind and genial president of the in-| | stitae, M. Kula, told me, there are | few of the wounded who can s tang' 48 such' hard "work. ° Much bets i tedapted to their maimed condition is} the shoe-making, tailoring, and' tin- smith work which is being taaght vpstairs. Here some eighty soldiers | were at work. In the fashioning of | | all manner of tin goods, from kitchen | uteneile to elegant caskets, ex-min- ers, masons and farm laborers are developing hat deftness of touch and that artistic taste for which | { their race is famous. The. tinsmiths| allowed to keep or fo soil the! things ¥hey. make. Many of them | are young men engaged to he mar- ried, and the results of their handi- work at Les Epinettes are destined to furnish forth their own kitchens, | Tailorg and shoemakers work for or-| aers received "by the institution. | Their wage is the liberal one of | 70c. per day, 2f. of which is paid by the Goveriment. The instructors | i | | { { | | rious trade syndicates. -- Back to the Land. i Those who have read M. Barres's! famous novel, "The Uprooted'" (Les Deracines) and who know thd viaws | held by the Federation's president on the salutary influence of natal en-| vironment, will not be surprised that | the peasants in these Pdris work-| shops are encouraged, when their training is complete, to return to} their native villages But that isi not enough for M. Barres, time when France is in such need of tillers of the soil the conver-| sion of so many agriculturists into | artisans has filled him with uneasi- ness. Consequently a movement has been startéd with the object of enabling wounded French peasants] to return to their work on the land, | and surgical Mstruments are being | devised to aid them in their difficult | task. Will the experiment succeed? yl. Kula, who has studied closely the | psychology, the abilities and disabili-{ ties of the crippled soldiers, i | ful. M. Barres himself is not sanguine, It is & hopeful si : however, that one of the great agri- cultural syndicates of France has thrown itself heaTt back-to-the-land movement, and has placed its agricultural college.at Li monest, near. Lyons, at the Federa-| tion's disposal Here some thirty | wounded receiving instruction. | Throughout these schools and workshops there 'reigns that 'same | spirit of energy of hHopefulness which away at-the front inspires ev- | ery onslaught against: the enemy. | Here, as® well as in the trenches, a new France is being created. Are! there any who still believe in the Ger- ! man-made myth of French deca- | dence? and eftes, tet them watch the crippled soldiers carving out for themselves new careers; and even such pessi- ! migtg" will' He convinced that France | is thel and of enternal reawakenings Ladies' Persian Lamb Coats, 30 to 40 inches = Coats, 40 inches newest designs; or 265 and $75. $35 a0 ed to $8 . «$70 , for aw Mauffs, worth Mink Marmot Stoles, as low as e China Setts, for | Select $40 Mink Muffs, for... All Sales for Cash - ~* 'No Ape £6 long: regular prices $125 to $200. These Coats are made from fine glossy medium and long curl skins. Sale Prices range to $140 | Black Wolf Setts, reduced to" -.$30 and $36 || - |i Natural Wolf Setts, reduced to il Red Fox Setts, worth $35 | Persian Lamb P up to | doubt- | Hi very § ES | and soul into this | Hf Let them go to the Quai] needs | de la Rapee or to la Rue des Epin-| In A sweeping clearance carrying all Winter Stocks before it. Only one method avails. © A Gigantic ( lear- | ing Movement in which prices are forced downto the {I give-a-way point in-defiance of cost and regular values. Sale Starts Tomorrow + Morning at 9 O'clock Continuing All Next Week See Page Nine of Supplement } for Detail ! EACY' _ "The Woman' ST s Store of Kingston." January Sale { Men's $5.00 and $6.00 Goodyear Welts, to clear at $3.98 A month of Bargains--watch our window. es v Quick, Painless Way To L Remove Hairy Growths ------------------------------------------------------------ (Helps to Beauty.) Here a simple, unfailing way to rid the skin of objectionable hairs With some powdered delatone and water make enough paste to covet | the hairy surface, apply and in about 2 minutes rub off pwash the skin, and every trace of hair has vanished. { This is quite harmless, but to uvoid | disappointment be sure to get the delatone in-an original package. Sado of Faye } --------__ i. i This sea- . = Wl Ladies' Muskrat Coats, 50 and 52 inches | long, shawl collar and deep euffs, full sweep to skirt, Price - $35 Ladies' Muskrat Lined Coats, 50 inches long, Western Sable Collar and Revers. reduced to with elegant fur collars, for rn. 818.50 || Men's Muskrat Lined Coats, with Otter Collars, reduced to $40.00 Men's Alaska Beaver Coats, for . , $18.50 Men's Black China Dog Coats .. $18.50 Men's Fine Persian Lamb Caps .... $9.50 Men's Persian Lamb Gauntlets . .. $14.00 | 'All Men's Winter Cloth Caps, Gloves and - Hats at Big Reductions. Children's Muskrat Coats, reduced to $12.75, $14, $16 Children's Coats Children's White Thibét || Setts, for .$3.95 and $4.95 Children's . Grey Caracul Setts, large muff and He ta-mateh $2.95 iii \ Mail Orders Caro. fully F illed -- fi