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PITIFUL OF ALL WAR'S CONSEQUENCES. Their Lives Are Stunted, Dwarfed, Blasted, Says U. 8. Red Cross Worker in France. v = 3 you imagine anything more be pits than the lives of children who 'have never known anything but war? Is there anywhere on God's green earth a 'more dreadful tragedy than . the tragedy of a blighted childhood? The most wonderful thing to me in America is to see little children run- ning about, happy and unafraid. "I have spent six months in the nearest approach to hell that exists, I "believe, in or out of the teachings of the theologians--the hell where ba- bies are born to hear the sound of bursting shells as their introduction to this world of ours, where little ones learn their mother tongue only fur- tively and in whispers, where children must learn to wear their little gas * masks as soon as they learn to walk, where suspicion and fear rule and love and confidence are not. "What do we in "America know about war? We cannot begin to sense what it means so long as our children! play. I know what war is, for I have just come back from the land where the children have never learned to play." : When Dr. Esther Lovejoy went - 'over to France she found the Ameri- "can Red Cross had -just established / dren's bureau, joined 'the staff "that organization, and as the ical member of the Red Cross de- | ent 'went . to Evian-les-Bains, the gateway through which Germany pours back into France the old and the infirm, the maimed, the halt and the blind, all who, found in the invad- ed zone have no military or labor yalue--and the little children. Germans Keep Many of Them. "Not all the little children," said Dr. Lovejoy, "for there are many whom the Germans keep inside their own lines. : "In the French territory occupied , by the German armies there were, be-. fore the war began, more than 6,000, 000 people. Not more than 350,000 _of these have been sent back through Switzerland into France or returned through other routes. Many. of them were young girls, just rounding the corner into womanhood. Germans send back boys under 14, for the older boys can work. They keep all girls over 16 or who look as if they were over 16. "The older boys become slaves, those who do not die of starvation and '@verwork, but they do not become ; ee ge. "We piece together the picture of the life of these little ones inside | the German lines from the stories they tell, they and their elders, but more from the look in their faces when they find themselves in a world where the sound of guns'is a long way off and where, wonder of won- ders, people actually speak French aloud without first looking around to see if the Boches are listening. "For the strongest impression one gathers from the repatriated of the life of the native civilian in the stxange No Man's Land behind the German front is of a country where the people's own mother tongue is | 'verboten,' but where nevertheless they all Bpeak it and teach it to their little ones; a land where little children are taught from infancy to be sly and deceitful, to do furtively and by stealth the things that are their pro- per birthright but which are 'ver- boten' by the oppressor; above all, a land where hatred is sucked in with the mother's milk, where every stran- ger is an enemy to be feared, where the awful threat, 'if you don't be- have the Boche will get you,' is not the invoking of a story book bogey 'man but a.resl, life and death terror, tangible, present, always lurking in the shadow just beyond. : No Chance to Play. "These children do not play;-they do not know how to play. That is the sickening first evidence we get at Evian of their stunted, dwarfed, blasted little lives. "There has been no chance to play over where they came from; play was dangerous; it might annoy the Boche. Besides, children play in- stinctively only when they are happy, + and these children, born in sorrow and unhappiness, have never been happy in their lives. Think of it, that there are thousands and tens of thousands of little children in France, sunny, smiling France, who have never been happy, who do not know what happi- ness means! " "It is not only mentally that these children show the effects of their environment from birth. All have suffered a war blight; they are under- sized, ill nourished and subject to all sorts of diseases. Shy in Their Gayety Even. J "One of the most pathetic sights is to see tHe older children, those who remember France as it was before the war, when they get to Evian, back into France once more, where they can run about and play and sing and shout as they used to do. They are shy and awkward about it at first, but they soon recover their spirits and | gayety. "But the little ones, those born be- hind the German lines or who were not old enough to walk and talk when the war began--to see them watch the others is heart breaking. Their first emotion is fear--fear that the Bache will seize them for speaking in French: aloud. z ! "They have all been taught French, these tiniest ones. They even "have little French songs that they have learned to sing under their breath. "But of French as a language to 'be spoken aloud, sung at the top/of one's voice, shouted as one romps in | Whose splendid deeds reflect There is always a place in every wardrobe for the the simple dressing sacque. McCall Pattern: No. 8011, Ladies' and Misses' Tie-On or Button- On Dressing Sacque. In 3 sizes, small, 82-84, medium, 86-38; large, 40-4 bust. Price, 15 cents. - Particlarly attractive is this ki- mono with its contrasting top part. McCall Pattern No. 8109, Ladies' Em- pire Kimono. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 bust. Price, 20 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond Street, Toronto, Dept. W. GIRLS! WHITEN SKIN WITH LEMON JUICE Make a beauty lotion for a few cents to remove tan, freckles, sallowness. ~ Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will sup- ply you with three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Squeeze the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle, then put in the orchard white and shake well. This makes a quar- ter pint of the very best lemon skin whitener and complexion beautifier known. Massage this fragrant, creamy lotion daily into the face, neck, arms and hands and just see how freckles, tan, sallowness, redness and roughness disappear gnd how smooth, soft and clear the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless, and the beautiful re- sults will surprise you. ete fp een The Farmerette, Oh Khaki Jack looks through the . smoke, Lf deadly barking guns, With thoughts that stray from trench and shell, And all the hate of Huns, His broken thoughts slide . 'again, As water downward runs. Across the fields he sees her go, Behind the well-known team, And through the flashes of the smoke He sees the harness gleam, As back and forth she guides the plow-- 5 The woman of his dream! Too heavy far the cumbrous plow-- Too hard the daily toil-- Too wearisome the endless tramp, Across the yielding soil! home n- | Too slight by far the hands that seek To straighten out the coil! Yet noble women-hearts at home, Make noble men abroad, : the souls ' That strive with soulless clod. | For women such as these men die-- * And dying, they thank God! Leen "The herd bull requires exercise. If 5 Paddock is not available, give him more prepotent than if kept inj eyes Jeep minases Tiniment ia the nousa Punctuation' marks were first wed in 1490. Le "ISSUE 216. ta 7 |'shrivels up the corn or {leven irritating the surrounding tissue. '| A small bottle of freezone obtained | at any drug store will cost very little large box stall. He will | ' eves soreness, and soon the ¢ corn, root and-all, lifts right out. "This drug dries at once and simply callus without 'but will positively remove every hard | or soft corn or callus from one's foot. If your druggist hasn't stocked this new drug yet, tell him to get a small bottle of freezone for you from his wholesale drug house. te pn * Conserving the Apples. "How much cider did you make this year?" inquired Puttey of his neigh- 'bor, Savall. "Fifteen bar'l," was the answer. _ Farmer Puttey took another sip. "It's a pity," he said, "that you hadn't another apple. You might have made another bar'l." Low-priced tea is a delusion for it yields so poorly in the teapot that it .|1s actually an extravagance compared with the genuine Salada Tea, which yields so generously and has such a delicious flavor. Might Lose His Job. A well-to-do Scottish lady one day said to her gardener: "Man, Tammas, I wonder you don't get married. You've a njce house, and all you want to complete it is a wife. You know the first gardener that ever lived had a wife." "Quite right, missus, quite right," said Tammas, "but he didna keep his job lang after he got the wife." Minard's Liniment used by Physicians Trawler Crew's Ordeal. A trawler employed as a submar- ine chaser recently arrived at the Azores with 19 men on board after having been at sea for several weeks without bread, fresh water, or coal, and navigating, owing to a break- down, by means of sails. She was on the high seas for five weeks before being able to reach port. MONEY ORDERS. When ordering goods by mail send a Dominion Express Money Order, Not What He Meant. "My brother wrote me about a din- ner some of the soldiers gave for two visitors at camp, members of a fam- ous Canadian regiment, who were home on sick leave. _ The sergeant had been carefully coached about giving the toast, but became flustered, and this is what he made of it: "Here's to the gallant Eighth, last on the field and first to leave it." Silence reigned; then the corporal canfe gallantly to the rescue: "Gentlemen," he began, "you must excuse the sergeant; he never could give a toast decently; he isn't used to public speaking. Now I'll give a toast: 'Here's to the gallant Eighth, equal to none." At Sunday School. With an air of great importance the small boy of a Sunday School in Belfast imparted this happy fact to '| That shines on each reverent soul, his teacher: "The devil is dead," he said, solemn- ly. | "What makes you think that?" ask- | ed the startled teacher. i "Dad said so," exclaimed the boy. | "I was standing in the street with him yesterday when a funeral passed, : and when dad saw it he said, 'Poor devil! He's dead!' " Post offices were first established in 1464. SEE SAN _y 509 The Magic Healing Olntment-.. Soothes and heals all inflammations, such acalds, blisters, cats, boils, piles $v) - sold tor over 25 years. All dealgrs, or weite 'us, HIRST REMEDY COMPANY, Hamilton, } « CEE BE BE BE BE BE BE Be yim ' delivered. Horse For the gleam of the Ultimate Let us give thanks! For the creeds That love is the thing the world needs; For the cry of the travailing earth That is giving a new faith birth;- For the God we are learning to find In the heart and the soul and the mind, Let us give thanks! For the growth of the spirit through - pain, ® Like a plant in the soil and the rain; For the dropping of needless things Which the sword of a sorrow brings; For the meaning and purpose of life Which dawns on us out of the strife, ; Let us give thanks! \ ge Minard's Incorrigible. At a college in England it is against the rules for male students to visit the "resident lady boarders." One day a student was caught in the act and brought before the headmaster, who said: "Well, Mr. Blank, the pen- WwW alty for the first offence is four shil- lings, for the second ten shillings, for the third £1 and so on up to £10." "And what would a season ticket cost?" enquired the culprit. MINARD'S LINIMENT is the only Liniment asked for at my store and the only one we keep for sale. 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