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fe. HL Shoal te i 1e's abhor "| never write to | gain. I ent her dip. ; a e a : . | "Yes, you 8 cried, suddenly.{ J ["T have it--the very thing! We'll; . | Lieutenant John Hobart Sears the su prise of hi ife" Dai Fa : . Ce ie Es Jotin Hobart Sears was going home| ¢ before long. He had-had offici {notice to Ro a ; " » 3A v 3 3 2 ¢ "sai 'infused, is one of Naturc's greatest s as a harmless stimulating beverage. By MORRIE B. MORRIS. 108. that effect, and i whistlng = he sought 3 . off morning. Everyt ookec before one he would be 5% the lights were bright, g f was food, and girls were girls! Bie eir little hearts--Virginia a 'Natalie, and the others whose names be a Lor ioe, bia oye fol} yoo nterin e office, his eye A ies add Ee ea | personal ones 7! ] 2 1 pe eted him pleasantly. i the letters piled on hands, greeted him He ned Virginia's. blue envelope Ee with. the dark blue crest first:-- i Dear Johnny,--You can't imi gine how Pleased and surprised 1 was by your letter. It was so sweet of you to write me so beautifully about the : Be-| behind : moral growth, ae : e full ¢ it.} As to possibilities, there is no limit Ww little gs than to them , in years to come, inspiration i have been ta on jevé me, dear, I apprecia x s know i to. them, Possibly #7. | child who, from frequent 'chiding our two-year-old, who now carols like every word you say; you don' becomes - super-sensitive or whose ga little bird, may develop a voice, that === Lieutenant John Hobart Sears, fam- {liarly known as "Johnny" Sears, was Festitig lonesome, With his feet on his desk, his chair, tipped precariously on its two hind legs, and with a pipe in his mouth, he wearin; the trouble' charge. 1 influence, perhaps livery «If she has tarily, my little ones' mental and{though n 2 : : AER t docks, SAT i : ; era The Thames river is divided into two postal distric under the control of a river postman, who makes his rounds in a: craft resembling a de- until they could have a chat together, and it was over their second cup of tea that she remarked. casually: -- "By the way, didn't you tell me that you know Johnny Sears?" Natalie smiled 1 how thoughtfully I understand. I am waiting with an impatience I . known. Johnny was thinking 'of home, the white, bright lights, and the almost equally bright eyes of the girls he had Their name was legion, but, as he meditated, ope or vo fates separated I haves! said Natalie, wisttullys that Thank you. for telling me that the 2 She slept in th t ah emselves from the crowd and em-|we've been awfully goo 'riends. : : op | Sound. She slep e same room that Joh 1 : is always e chance. erged so vividly that he almost saw | had a letter from fim this morning." thought of me has given you the cour-i oo her parents, in her own little] because 8 will be happier, even better, 'down by a steamer. - The Tiv them smiling back at him. There were everal girls with whom . he had kept up a desultory correspon- dence; two who had written to him fairly regularly. These two-- Virginia Wells, whom he had known in his: cadet days, and later in the fashion- ably frivolous existence she had led | among the smarter younger set, and, Natalie March, a more recent acquain-| tance, more Bohemian, more artistic, in some 'ways more interesting--these; two lived in the same town, but in worlds far apart. Virginia's delicately pretty face, with its daintily disdainful expression, flached before him, and as he stared the eyes seemed to soften. She had been very sweet to him before he left; usually so haughty and imperious, she had been exceedingly gracious, and she had written often. His booted heels came to earth with' a crash, and Johnny reached for pen! bright T "Indeed, I do! "Isn't he a darling boy?" "Yes." Virginia's veice softened to a lower note. "I've known him -for years--since he was a cadet." "You've known him lots longér than Virg.nia straightened herself. "Did you? That's a funny coinci- dence. 1, too, had a letter from him this morning!" : . i Natalie's smile became one degree more fixed. "Did you? T wonder if he'was feel- ing as blue and lonely when he wrote you as he was the night he wrote me?" "He was rather pitifully anxious to see me," laughed Virginia; "even more than usual, he said! Natalie puckered her brows. "He said one couldn't realize what the thought of a girl could mean to a man under some circumstances," she said, defensively. "That's what he said to me," re- plied. Virginia faintly. : Natalie's eyes flashed angrily, Then, a sudden humorous twinkle grew and| deepened ip her scrutiny of Virginia's pale, haughty face. Miss Wells," she entreat-! can hardly restrain for your return. 1 feel that I know you so much than I ever did befor ill have so much to say to each other, won't we, willl age to go ; th, Johnny, and I'll never forget itl his letter had made her happy: we will dear? Yes, dear, we on. I value this at its true Good night and God--bless you! Sag Bg. 8 Virginia. rg! Apparently Dear little Virginia! He opened Natalie's cream-colored envelope with a warm glow pleasure. 3 Dear Johnny,--You can't imagine how pleased and surprised 1 was by your letter. It was so sweet of you to write me so beautifully about the inspiration I have been to you. Be- lieve me, dear, I appreciate to the full every word you say; you don't know how thoroughly I understand. Johnny straightened up and stared | at the letter before him. Those words had a strangely familiar sound! He read oni-- Fires I am waiting with an impatience 1 can hardly restrain for your return. 1 feel that I know you so much better than I ever did before--and we will better | of St. Vitus came - suds enly 'much worse, I flesh and starting 'at the slightest where she finds herself. It may be bed, and her mother, being of the same temperament, : alarm clock standing oh a dresser not far from the little bed had a peculiar- was removed to another room and the The light from a corner street lamp falling on another child's: face was 'over-taxed nerves bring on an attack will thrill the hearts of thousands. | Perhaps our schoolgirl daughter, nick- sensitive little child be- loging One ver discovered - that an ly Toud and insistent tick." The clock child began to gain within a few days. proving alike mischievous when the trouble was discovered and the po- sition of the bed changed. ; If a child becomes suddenly nervous look for the cause. It may be a feas- ing companion, some little misdeed un- confessed and unforgiven lying heavy on the wee conscience, a pair of un- comfortable shoes, even a heartily disliked hat that maternal authority says must be worn. Before resorting to medicines, search out if possible, this primal cause and nature will work named in babyhood "Sunbeam," will prove indeed a sunbeam in the niche And the rewards of sympathetic, intelligent, successful wifehood and} motherhood! Eloguent tongues have enumerated them since time began. But who has words to express all that | 2' mother feels when the child she has borne and reared becomes the man ghe hoped he might be? When her baby girl blossoms into womanhood with a bonny face, a clean, healthy body, and a pure heart? When the reticent John, at the end of a difficult] day, offers a caress, a few loving words of praise? , I am sure our occupation is the hardest, pleasantest, safest, most Haz- worth-while in the world. If we fail, our inefficiency will shadow the lives of the ones we love the best, so we've got to make goad. All together, fel- low wofkers, home-makers, nation- fishing boat. In clear weather livery round is I or five hours, 'men have thelr own uniform ardous, most perplexing, 'and most| An fo tingulslied from that of the me postmen. . bik : be The task of delivering the river let ters has been more or less of a family monopoly for several hundred years, gon succeeding father as a matter of course, In recognition of faithful ser- vice George IIL presented tho family of Evans with the freedom of all ports of the kingdom and a silver medal weighing sixteen ounces. Needless to gay, though highly prized as an heir loom, the medal is not worn by the Evans men upon their watery rounds. Buy Thrift Stamps. QUEEN'S and paper. She was a dear little] "Tell me, ! | thing--and he was lonely and blue; | ed, "did he by any chance tell you that; have so mach » 5 ww each athet; wonders 'in restoring lost nerve builders, let us take up our tasks with & UNIVERSITY: ak he would write her a nice long letter | the thought of you had given him the won't we, dear Tred oa he «| equilibrium. ; a will: x : # Tn : 5! -- nice enough to keep her from for- courage to go on?" Johnny Sears gu pet 21 reac Sis * 'Kingston, - 'Ont. A eet bn "Vas Soin, poling letr, rambing apd Lo, EIEN oserite Spent op Poor Ta i He wrote ravidly: rom the depths of her handbag. oben! BOT, i of each other--vek. this| Siice the amazing changes brought: ess Suggestions. Part SLANE Atta Sonred Virginia Dear, -- Somehow the! thought of you has haunted me all she demanded, a note of hysterital } ¢ 9) 1 hom day--even more than usual!--and to. mirth in her voice, "if you don't mind people topsthes on iy ghd another, gre holding so many responsible jobs ane a short skirt--and about any-| . § SCHOOL OF COMMERCE § I'm fairly | my seeing it?" = ° He read frantically i in the industrial field, I believe we Long else that "she pleases. The ~ "BANKING night Pm co horribly lonely i grizzling in my own misery. I wonder) if you've any idea what the memory, of you has meant and does mean to | "Where is the letter he wrote you," "It wouldn't make much difference whether I would cor not," replied Natalie, pulling a similar envelope war had brought so many unlikely Natalie's letteri-- Thank you for telling me that the thought of me had given you the cour- I value this at its true about by the war, and since women housewives are more than ever in- clined. to feel discouraged with our lot. We pick up a paper or magazine blouses are most varied. They hang loose and straight, are tuckéd in, and are also made looped under to give "The fashionably dressed woman is| may be covered by | e fie corTEsp MEDICINE EDUCATION § Mining, Chemieal, Civil, i Mechanical and Electrical me--first through those months when| from the pocket of her frock, "since; age to go on. } 1 ; TT onning and all the world| you've already seen it! That prince| Worth. Johnny, snd Lil never Torgel it! asd find pletutes of women who are ae i LE .. ENGINEERING was upside down, and now during of duplicity has written us exactly g Natalie. gruntisusl, jobs at is, under ded nip at the waistline; Sleeves SCHOOL NAVIGA 2 these weary weeks of sweeping up the pisces. You don't know---you can't--| ow a man clings to an ideal of some-| thing high and fine and sweet, as you, are, .when everything else goes to pieces. It is the thought of you that has given me the courage to go on! How 1 wish' for you! If you were here with me, then, indeed, the "wild- erness were Paradise enow"--to abuse poor old Omar once again. "Don't forget me, dear. I'm coming home--some day! In the meantime, when T get too donely, I'll fill the old pipe and build castles in the air-- with you in every room! Good-night, and God bless you! Johnny. With the old pipe clenched between his teeth. John- Hobart Sears tilted back his chair and reread this effusion, a complacent smile illuminating his countenance. But as the evening wore on, 'he fotnd his ennui. increasing. Writing to Virginia had only served to actentu- ate the distance ween them, and everylhing and everybody else that he wanted to-see and Co. ecting how charming Virginia was--and Na "was scanty conso'ation. . He wished he could talk to Natalie. She was always so entertaining, al- ways the life of the party, always on her 'toes with the sheer joy of living. Her turbulent red-brown head seemed to appear through the haze of tobacco : -- and her brown eyes fo glow tenderly upon him. | s The more he thought about Natalie, the more he felt that he wanted to keep in touch with. her, to keep 'her from forgetting him, away here in a mudhole in France. , Suddenly he smiled broadly, and, reaching for a pen and paper, began to write rapidly. ; 3 *. . Natalie March was having a studio , at .the place she was pleased to "d;gs.". She was looking very i afl oon." H lithe bedy. a TS + The er was crowded with people, ddenly the young hostess went to welcome a newcomer. "My dear Miss Wells! I'm so glad see you! 1 was afraid we would Cross is disbanded." ° ia fr degied rg you : g ~ A again!" you to some. 0% "but { comma for comma, to the final tender atalie] ness. ir-| '| that can be said is that it is decent in again, now that our Reg! the same letter, my dear!" An eager scrutiny revealed the awful secret. Except for the name at the beginning, word for word, "God bless you," the letters were identical. When they had finished, Virginia was too angry to speak and Natalie was shaking with gusts of laughter. "Tent it too ridiculous!" she gasped. A writer in the London Morning Post, in describing French reconstrué- tion, says: -- "Those who speak of forgiving the Hun should visit Noyon, and they should remember that the story of Noyon is only the story of countless towns and villages. No description can create the impression of what one goes one's self. In a sense the town gives the impression that you get In a quarry. Light railways run through what remains of the streets. 'Wooden shanties that have sprung up here and there suggest navvies' huts. = Great open: spaces, which have been cleared of rubbish--that rubbish was the wreckage of what were once beautiful houses--make it hard to realize that Noyon is a town. Men, women and children are living in these ruins. «The Bishop of Noyon has impro- vised a place of worship for his people. 1t is a simple conventicle that former. ly was an adjunct to the cathedral. In- | st: of the great organs that were the ide o the cathedral, there is a harmo! te | tor a village school. Of the altar all its simplicity. The old glass windows of the cathedral have given place to common glass. ni 5 "These seem small side fhe Horrors of the gréat war, but they are not, for they are one phase of hat ig borne in on one at every stage that would pass muster | matters be | He compared the sheet of cream- colored notepaper and the sheet o blue. Except for the name at the bot- tom of the. page, word for word, comma for comma, those letters were identical! | 4 : Dejectedly, Lieutenant J ohn Hobart Sears tilted back in his chair and moodily contemplated the future. past conditions, the jobs would have been unusual, but now it has grown quite common to find women in almokt said, gloomily, "than to pick two girls in the same town, I call it the height of inefficiency!" ' (The End.) "I might have had better sense," he RE " Talk of Forgiving the Hun 'Ceases After Visit to Noyon age her that there, should be no re- covery. 1 passed through mile after mile of what had once: been orchard land. For no military object the Ger- mans. cut down the orchard trees, and | to-day . one. drives :ithrough country. which ig strewn with tree stumps that have been sawn off close to the roots. Farmers Respect Graves. "The story of the orchard trees is the mines, of the determination of Ger many to wage war with France long after peace had been declared officigl- ly, It would be well for those who hive a feeling of kindliness toward the sufferings of Germany to remefn- ber that the German people knowingly and deliberately planned that France should 'be subjected to such' a fate. "Much of the havoc caused to the goil is already repaired, and: on the road it is oftén not easy to trace out what has heen the line of the trenches. With amazing industry these have in many cases been filled in, and all that can be seen of them is the irregular patches of lighter soft that follow the story of the wrecked French v Minard's Liniment used by Physiclans gets used to that sight. 1 had got used to seeing acre after acre of land with. out & cow or a horse at pasture. ; "It is over twenty miles from Cam- prai to Arras, and the impression left ending platn of dead land. - Trenches score it in all direc. tions, filled in so far only by natural subsidence. It is land that has lain untilled now for years, that hag grown a 'hideous, dull-colored, renk, grayish egetation. 4 "Live shells lie buried all over the fields, and the plough has scarcely 'touched any part of it. It is hard to say whether one-is affected more by the ides of the dreadful monotony that the 'men who defended that country | must have suffered from as month guc- ceeded to month or by the present state of the land. a Tract of Desolation, { "Perhaps it was partly imagination, but it seemed as if in this tract of nightmare there wag not a bird or an insect. Certainly there were ro sheep, orses, cattle or even fowls, and we scarcely a air line which represented a portion ¢ tour and. one-half years of heroism and gallantry. The graves ri the dead lie side at their fashionable best are short and kimono in style, though many, smartly dressed women wear the three-quarter; length bell sleeve. It is rumored that in the fall we are to wear the uncomfortable high! choker-collar, but at present the neck-! line is low. It is cut square, round! in a deep U, or straight across, The: short skirt varies in shortness from! seven to eleven inches from the ground. The younger and smaller the woman, the shorter the skirt: If she is old or stout or tall, then down it and you'll see it's right. ' Colors are gay, the loveliest shades being seen. Quite in harmony with the freshness of spring is the vogue for green, All shades of green are mod- brilliant green we are familiar" with Lin the Italian flag, and the jade-green] should come a little.. Think this-over|. ish, though the smartest tones are the COARSE SALT "LAND SALT Bulk Carlots TORONTO SALT WORKS C. J. CLIFF TORONTO (which hasn't too much white in it. Grass-green is used as a combination are in red and black combinations. Red | dotted Swiss is a novelty among sum- mer fabrics, and yellow and ecru dot- ted Swisses are much seen. Voile was never more fashionable,' It comes in about every design you can think of. The voiles with wide satin stripes skirts. Ey the way, tha separate skivt is having a decided vogue of its own. It is box-plaited; side-plaited, ac- cordion-plaited, and there are also with big novelty po:kets. = Such ma- terials 8 cotton gabavdine, "ratine, voile, surf satin. z color, and green with a tinge of blue| known as grotto. In the new cottons! much red is seen. Stylish ginghams} make up into very 'smart plaited| the very practical two-piece models|