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has fhe reputation of nearly & quarter of century behind every packet sold ; JOULSE INTERNATIONAL BABY SAVING. - ; For once the civilized world is be- be made to open and shut or you can lieving what Germany says when she have a hanging door which simply speaks incessantly 'of the next war.|drops over the opening. : For once the world being fore-warned! Now set a vessel of by Germany's attempts to increase her | of the refrigerator. birth rate by whatever means, is fore-| cloth make strips armed and is starting out for the first) wide and dip them in the water. time on organized baby saving. In-| Place one end in the vessel -and lay stead of this work being conducted the strips out over the sides of the in isolated communities there is 8|refrigerator. These make wicks and conviction that if the future citizens gently draw the water on to the sack- of the world are to be saved all the ing. = Evaporation immediately "sets the babies must' be saved no matter |in, and you will be surprised to find in where they live. = There is a convic-|a short time that your butter is hard- tion that no one knows quite as much |ening and your milk growing cold. A as he should know about baby welfare | few gallons of water will keep this and that no one is doing all he should | refrigerator in operation throughout to secure fair treatment for this "lit-|the day and night, but the vessel tle infant soldier" who has had to!sghould be filled morning, noon and fight far too many of his battles un- night. aided, in the past. This refrigerator will give good ser- England is' thoroughly roused on | vice if placed in the sun, but better this subject. First of all she means service if placed in a shaded place. to effect a redical reform at hame.| The water used may be either cald or The Children's Jewel Fund has yield- | warm, the object being to have free ed £27,052 for baby welfare work in| circulation of the air force evapora: England, Added to this fund is a tion and keep the sides of the refrig- contribution of 4,000 guineas from the erator wet at all times. American Red Cross to go to the -- game work in England. The Baby! Reading Matter For Our Soldiers. Week Council in celebrating its| Sir Douglas Haig, writing to Dame organization this year intend to con-! Eva Anstruther recertly said: "Urge centrate on getting its propaganda !all at home to buy books and maga- into otherwise neglected places and|wines and pass them on freely to the to levy on all available help--especial- | Camps Library for circulation among ly teachers and children. the troops. The demand that has Travelling movies will be used as; now to be met is very great." The last helps and the climax will be reached sentence was underlined. in a great conference in Londen| The Earl of Derby wrote: "We feel where all questions pertaining to baby | we have only to ask for every man, wélfare are to be considered with a | woman and child to respond to an ap- view to instant adopticn. * It is in-! peal which will add so great a pastime tended to include the provinces in this to the life of his or her own belong- conference, by proxy, as it were. Sec-| ings and friends at the Front." The tional confareices in the provinces matter is urgent." Here also the last will link' the whole English-speaking | yentence was underlined. British world in one great body of | Do Canadians keep their boys sup- Baby Welfare workers, An attempiTplied with papers and magazines? Do will be made to induce local author! we share the good stories, the little ities in all overseas dominions to or- | poems that say what we would like ganize far-reaching schemes looking to say and cannot, the Jokes, tne fun? to the preservation of -baby life. | wx not, why not?" as dreadful ex- In view of this earnest effort in the amination questions used to say. motherland it is most gratifying to| Another thing: Because we have know of the splendid work that has' gloomy solemn thoughts should we slready been accomplished in Canada| gend them over there? Every one this year. Three well organized | says: "Make your letters smile." Why Baby Welfare Week programmes have not send smiling, rollickifg printed been carried out in our large cities. matter--even the kind we do not like The work for summer should not end but know that our boy likes it? Why there and, in view of Germany's not? ceaseless activity along that line cir- cumstances seem to warrant a repeti- tion later in the summer of those same Welfare Weeks. What is real- ly needed is a "Get Together Confer- enceesfor the Dominion" with nation- wide, standardized warfare for the sake of Canadian babies. An Iceless Refrigerator. The woman who cannot convenient- ly "get ice, or who cannot of-|My boy, with a thousand [women's ford it, resorts to all sorts of sons contrivances to keep her milk mo go over the top with their eager sweet and her butter hard. guns, Here is a plan for a home-made . 5 milk house that will answer the pur-| But after that, in the dust alone In the little room that we long had pose. known, Make, your framework the size you y want the refrigerator, making the bot- | My. eyes were thoist as the past re- tom a trifle larger than the top. Cover the framework with ordinary "bag" sacking--clean potato sacks will do. Stretch this covering tight and secure "it with small nails. The door is made of the same material. The door can ~ RR Sl EY The Gift. You marched away and my soul was was proud i For yours was the praise of the cheer- ing crowd, And yours was the chance to do and dare a And have in the conflict for right a share; turned And the heart of the mother grieved and yearned, Yet I still was glad with a holy joy In the gift I gave when I gave my boy. » of old woollen. two or three inches down the stairs and racing 1 the quiet streets, From th of a biilding a policeman step checked him, and putting his his face. He was fo 'a grim his shoulder peered suspiciously into' {man of middle age with a brown mus- tache; he 'held Jerry. and while he looked at him in silence he slipped a hand down over his pockets. "I'm running for a doctor," Jerry gasped, "Woman in our house hav- ng 4 baby---7 ro atin ad along," sa e grim police- man, and irs renewed his police: neck pace. * Lip He turned into Dillon Street and front of three ' ¥ ing for a while, and then he. d it again. , 7 'A man poked His head out of a third story window. "Dr. Ray?" asked Jerry: "Yes." . "Mre. Bennett," 84 White Street, needs you right away." "She doesn't need me as quick as {you |, think," ° replied the doctor { Erumpily. "Husbands are Swags in |a rush. All right, go back and tell her I'm coming." Jerty did not think it worth while to enlighten him as to his error, but hastened on'to the office of the Stand- ard. . By the time he reached it he was pretty well winded, in spite of his gymasium training. Bennet, on hear-' p, !ing the news, demonstrated the truth lof Dr. Ray's assertion about hus- bands; after a few moments Jerry fell behind. _ "Don't wait for me," he called; and Bennet, who had no in- téntion of waiting, quickly disappear- ed. When he got home, he found that his mother had not returned. He i went to bed, but lay awake thinking of the extraordinary and enviable thing that was happening to Bennet | just overhead. ~The episode of child- irth had never before been brought so closely to his attention, and it was masculine inexperience that caused him to centre his thoughts upon Ben- nett instead of on Mrs, Bennett. What an exciting time it must be! He heard footsteps ascending the stairs and knew from the leisurely sound of them that they must be Dr. Ray's hen after a while, just as he was falling asleep, he was aroused by a commotion and trampling overhead. i It lasted for some minutes, and then suddenly and quite distinctly he heard a shrill erying. "Gosh!" he said. real live baby." ' ; Then he went to sleep, and the next morning his mother' told him Mrs, Bennett had an eight-pound boy. "Bennet's got a CHAPTER XIV. It. was three weeks later that 'the notification came from the Police Com- ! missioner. Mrs. Donohue handed it to Jerry one evening when he return ed from his work, and watched his face eagerly while he read it. "What does he say? You're them provoking fellow--you've not got the expression of a fish," she clamored after a moment. = "Have you got it or haven't you?" NN "The expression of a fish? Sure I have." 2 "Oh, don't be teasing me. Have ou got the place? Let me see that otter." . "I have," said Jerry. "So quit up now on your .impatience. Te, read it." _"Impatienee, when it's but a decent bit of interest I'm showing!--'Gives 3 ; Te knew you like be; ther d AL le wid a's ola : | Abd ere's no away from it, Jerry; you t be pod to have me Ty ugni be was made." They h ] ag ; from the (a word!" Jerry ered, a i ngly. 'Donohue nodded understand: i Ka ¥ to te summoned them se. "On, I hope you'll like 1 hope things will 'vals through' the meal; and praised the coffee and asked for more of the beans and commented favorably jon tie Iried potatoes, ithe little | seem g! easure. | wards she washed e dishes Peter and Je raced to. see { could dry the most; Kate had to take a towel and £2 over a good many {those that Peter dried. Then she | hel BAY to aes and gob to (bed; she came out into the sitting= room to study her lessons with Peter just as Jerry was about to leave for the night 1. > "Good-night, Kate; good-night, eter. - ; "Goodnight, Jerry." Nights" Jerry." "B you're both in bed and nsleep before I ge back." X That was the formula on which they parted every evening; then ° Jerry | swung away with a mind striving to | recall what had been said in the last { lecture about real property, and Kate sat dreaming over her grammar of what little girls of fifteen who have eir eyes on their books are very apt to dream of. = But Kate was a sen: gible girl and never . dreamed v long; and she was a shy girl and was quite sure that nobody not Mrs. Donohue, 0 dozing in a chair or else was upstairs visiting with the young convalescent mother, ever guessed of what she dreamed. At the warehouse the next moming Jerry had "un ly sto deal wit what he re od as a crisis in his life. Mr. Murray sent for him, and after speaking in . complimentary words of the manner in which he was doing his work said that one of the shipping-clerks was leaving and he might have the place. t would mean a little more pay, and he would be in line for further promotion. thought rapidly and declined the offer. "In faci, I was coming in to tell you, Mr. Murray, that I'l be leaving myself; I've got a place promised me on the police force, and 's that I've had an ambition for this long while." \ "Are Jou-ture you're not making a mistake Do you think it's wise to ifice what may be a good Spehing in business and take a job as patrol- an? i - "I have alfeeling," said Jerry, "that jt's always wise for a man to do wha# he most hankers after." "If he feels that the work and the remuneration for it are such as will always satisfy him." "A patrolman has a chance to some day more than a patrolman." "That's true And yet I'd advise you to think twice before choosing the police as a career." "Well," Je said firmly, "maghe "from the worldly point view I'm foolish. = But from my own Pm not. and " 2 of by which 15,000 tons and certainly' Cities to provide it was usually source of th | rooms. couple sp % ; d ys In simple garb of cloth or else of w ; $0 i ~| She whom they acclaimed" in glad Arrangements have been completed proud days their Queen 2a the Canada Food Board with the! Comes wandering and prays .amid nited States Food. Administration these cross-marked graves. 1 linseed oil her gesture, modest, discreet cake and meal will } supplied to her form, - Hi relieve the conditions which prevail| As she lingering ,in Canada owing to the scarcity #ve comes.on % _ A feed and fodder. a . "| ¥onder towards the dunes grows dim The Food Board will be responsible| { © and disappears. ? | for the allocation of the oil and we meal. All dealers who wish to im-| While he the King, that man port these commodities must.attach to our Saint George, ~~... the regular import application blanks | Returning from the place where his- |a sworn statement of the quantities tory. is being made : "sold during the three years prior te To the muddy brink of Yser's sombre July 1st and distribution will be made | stream, ma} on this basis. = Applications should |He also dreams and then rejoins his be sent direct. to the Canada mate, And their mingled steps go up across Board. the fields i Every city, town and village in " Canada should have a farm employ-| Toward that quiet house which looks out o'er the sea. : 4 M. Conacher. ment agency in charge of some good, live local man, Farmers want help, Translated by W.' and it is the duty of the towns and| Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. . if there is no other|« . ~ A 3 supply. Able bodied | wir 5 teaspoonful of corn-starch young men of all classes have, been | with your damp salt, and stand it ina "enlisted for the army, and the fac- cup on' the back of the. stove 7 | tories had already drained the coun-|oyi. Tp will dry nicely an of regular farm laborers. There dry hd .is no immigration to help the situa- : ik tion. The Unitéd States wants about & million or more men for its own harvest. Some of those men will doubtless be available in Alberta, |, Saskatchewan and Manitoba for the} Canadian wheat 'after the American "crop is in, but the great bulk of the extra labor required on Canadian farms this year, will have to come] from Canadian towns and cities. To enable these men to be distribut- ed when they do come forward, as by | their Registration cards they have|. promised to do, there should be ma- chinery ready and well organized. In| ! some Provinces the local" Government | has established employment agencies. | Every province might well have simi-{ far offices supplemented by voluntary organizations in every centre. Busi- ness men every other! Canadian town, should become active | in this matter because it vitally' con- ! cerns them. Employers of labor should do everything 'in their power to ar- range their work so as to release men who are willing to 'go to 'the aid of {the farmers Every encouragement { should be given 'these meny for this work is of first importance. ~Farm- ers, of course, prefer experienced men, | and men who have been brought up on "dreams, and when who was me pleasure to announce-=' I will say If I didn't take the job of cop when I farms or spent some years on the land for him he has a polite way of doing | things. 'Report for duty on the 21st." That's .a week from to-day, Jeng" a A "Yes, it begins to look like the real thing now," Jerry answered. "But let's not say a word to Kate and Peter, mother. Just leave me to walk in on them some day in my cop's uniform-- that will tickle them more than hear- ing al] about it in advance." "Yob're right it will--and, indeed, # had a chance I'd disappointing some folks that I don't want to dis appoint. And what's more, I'd be | disappointing myself I'd never be happy, figuring costs and s and doing office routine should be specially encouraged to devote a few weeks of their time and the capital of their experience to the harvest of 1918, Extra men for the| {want to be in something more.active, be , with 'adventure in it and a chance to os Sony tones n to s voice LE Mould bs Kon Sf eee "to feel you were doin; you to--to Sect the Publi." eS "F won't make any further 12 Nova 20,000, in Manitoba 10, 12,000,