er Mary Contrary. t*¥ou"re « reguier gg Centrary On the rtep of the back porch | sbout your old garden," . sat Mary Belle with her old dell; it was a week or two leter that Nancy in the pleasant e air, Curtis brought a from the gro- whils the sun dropped oun into rosy | 'cer's 2 pe a handsome pic- blankets. | ture on it of Seam melons. ; Mother was cultivating her tiny let-| "Muskmelon seeds," he said. "hm tuce plants, and father was setting @0ing to raise a bushel of meiens." out tomato plants. he had! "But your space is given to sweet finished, there was a little space be- | Corp and carroos," eaid Helen. tween the last sturdy. tomato etalk | "Well, TR stick them in, anyway, and the lettuce bed. and. later if it's too erewded VH de "There's almort room for another 'ede which I want to pull up and bed here," he said, \throw away," said Curtis. But he "Hardly a whole bed," said mother, | "me to Mary Belle with some ef the smiling; "just a little crib." io ing seeds, too. That caught Mary Belle's ears. She! "You'H let me plant some of my jumped down the stairs calling, "Oh, uskmelons in your crib garden, give it to me, please, for my own Hit-, Wont you? I'l share up even with de garden crib! Pleaseé say it is ' you on the melons, and you know how mine before Curtis wants it for car-, Well you like muskmelons." tied or Helen begs it for more Pep: | "But I can't, now. My beets xre | #0 big and strong!" Mary Belle fe't "ws ill you truly try te make it grow 'almost like crying. "I wish T had e something that people can eat?" ask- | whole farm full of land; put J ean't ed mother have muskmelons this year "T truly will, " answered Mary isis Curtis was a good deal disappoint. lar performance. We were in ef 2 section of the re trench & the Fifth Mounted Riffes i 4 ever te take it. At the a i ¢|PRocREss TOWARDS GREATER sige na rari ACHIEVEMENTS. Afied Flyers Prepare for brresistible Ineursions to Throitle Fee on the Rhine. Already the Allies have ge! the Germans well whipped in the air. You the Prussian Guard, who hag? time holding their section of re ina trench, started over to take 4 front line. The Fifth Mounted Rif and the Prussians met in the middle of No Man's Land, which was # very unusual thing. And there, just as if] it fag been a staged performance, | was pulled off a fight to a finish. "The artillery was stopped becaus€ neither side could tell whether it was} firing on its own men. The Prussign Guard stood, they refused to retreat. But they might as well have retreat ed, for the Casadian Moonted Riffes| knew that this was their moment, They were determined to pay their debt in full, and it was a big debt, for the Germans jad wiped them of the face of the earth at Ypres. "Well, the Mounted Rifies closed im on them all right, and when they got} through with the Prussians what had "and I shall have more time, becaiiga 160; or he woukl never have said, "Cou- ] go to kindergarteh only in the morn-| sin Beth is right. You ougm to be. ing." penned Mary Contrary. And indeed it seemed that whenever! fter that, some of the other rene Mary Belle was wanted it was <hes bingen picked up the nickname a to look first for her in the back yard. to sing at her, "Mary, Mary, quite And every day do' Nancy wore her' cont raty. how does your garden: oldest gingham dress, so that she grow?" Marvy Belle wished she could could go out, too, and sit in a grape talk it ever with father, but she did basket while her Little mother wate not want to tell tales. She did not ed and weeded the five short rows.! Know that he knew ali the time. The two outside rows and the 1 in}! Then one day the whole family | the very middle were going to be, were out looking at the garden after, beets, az round as a ball and as apie supper. Mother's rows had all asaripe apple. The two rows in be-' grown very weil, and had been giving tween were to be radishes ; them many good things to eat. Fath- "That's a fine plan," said father.' er's tomatoes were ripening fast, and who had thought there could not pos-' his string beans had climbed al over Fibly t © More than two rows of any-, 'the iron fence. Then they came to thing in the crib garden. "The rad-; Curtis's space It looked like an iches will grow quickly and give you. African jungle. crowded with a doz- something to eat this spring, and they. en new things that he had planted: will be gone in time to give the beets since he put in his carrots and corn more recom when they get big enough in the spring. None of the. plants to nec it. And they will give you could grow well; so there was not: ® crop for late summer.' "anything good to eat either above the But there were troubles, too, with ground or beneath it. Curtis just that garden crib. Even before the made funny face at it am said, tiny plants were up Dorothy came, "Next year I guess I'll stick to what over from next door with her hand | chocse in the spring." full of big, flat white seeds. | Then they came to the crib garden, "I brought them for your garden with the. forest of tomato plants on, crib," she said. "They will grow! one side of it and, hugging it close, into great big squashes. Let's plant on the other side the salsify that, them before school." { that mother had planted after her let-| "Oh, I wish I could have squashes, tuce was gone. The had growing in my garden," said 'been served for breakfasts weeks be- Belle, "but there isn't any space feft | fore, scarlet and crisp, but the beets The next week Cousin Beth came' had grown so big that. they " all | ever with 2 pill box full of surprise,i the space between the rows. more big seeds, which were gray in' Belle pulled up one. It was evan! a color. "Even the reeds are good to as a bai] and as red as a ripe apple. eat," she tuld Mary Belle, "but if you Mother and Helen and Curtis all said, plant them they will crow ns high as "How fine' How big and red!" the warsge in one summer.' Daddy said nothing for a moment. "Oh, whet are they?" Then he reached down and took Mary "They ure sunflowers.' said Beth. Be!le's ham! and squeezed it hard as "and 1 bere ght them to plant in your he said, "I wish we had more Mary marden erib.' 'Car trarys in this family. It would "Oh, Fin sor said Mary Bele,! be site -d for gardens and for our coun- "but LT have to stick to the beets and!' try.' radishes They tuke all the room I! And Mary Belle told doll Nancy all have." | abou it it because she was so happy ™ Beth was not very polite about it. over it.--Youth's Companion. HAVE REVENGE : . The call was likely to come any time. When there was a let-up we seeped wherever we were and fell -months we never got any svundieal sleep at all. There was neither night nor day from our way of looking at would make a visit to a certain hos-| asleep. And there was only one thing W alk she stopped to speak toa soldier | BAVELE OF YPRES AND BATTLE: on earth that could rouse us. That OF THE SOMME. was the call that was always coming j when the infantry signalled for sup- | port Then the man in the signal pit would give the call to the sentry and Mhen the Canadian Mounted Rifles - se , it would be earried from gun to gun: bas . - Si al re ' tUed Their Old Seore With | "Eves front! the Germans. "And that call would bring us out . of the dcenést ten minutes of -- sleep bine anadian Mounted Rifles had a that we could snatch. We would stag- Feore to settie xt the Somme, #nd! ser to our puns again no matter how atisfaction of ~ettled it to pelle dead we had rcemed to he. We were American vet- supposed to have five men to a gun re the Weste.' front a few hut ucrally there were on! y four; we gO, fais velerin, an artillery- fort foo many men to keep up a_ full . over with the first Cana- crew, happened at Ypres was forgotten, iThe Canadian Mounted Rifles had ; Mere than redeemed themselves. tte sud men, and T don't know that ever rememter an occasion when that expression was more justly applied. |The battery to which I was attached was a wreck, physically, mentally and m@rally. The game had been too 'much for any living creature to come 'through without going to pieces. Some of them, men who had never flinched at anything and ee had seemed to be made of iron, had to ad- mit that they couldn't go any farther. They had to drop out right there for a while. The rest of us staggered on to Neuville, St. Vaast, Saint Cathe- rines and some other villages. Here, fortunately, there was light fighting or a couple of months. Although we were never altogether at rest -it was comparatively peaceful. They fixed us up with a lot. of fresh men also, men who had never known the Somme or gone through any hard fighting, and their cheerfulness and good condition brought us up to the 'mark again. So after two months ! | spent in this fashion we were ae tol sj ! go into some real st} fighting again | We got it next time at Vimy Ridge. PORE Sal Nata re $ i HOW IT HAPPENED. ary Story Which SMestrated the Britich | Soldier's Sense of Humor. The chairman of the English lec: ure | 'bureau, Foster Fraser, insists that) whatever may be said of Englishmen 'in general the British Fommy cer- tainly has a fine sense of humor, and he ue this story to illustrate the' pol in England, he says, as in America, there are some women who like to see! their pictures in the papers and to! whom a Red Cross uniform is particu larly becoming. One of these join the Red Cross, ordered an expensive uniform, went to the photographer's to have her picture taken for pipiens tion and then announced that pital on the following day. Two hours after the appointed time she arrived, and on her way up the. who was sitting on a bench nursing his remaining leg, one arm in a sling and a bandage over his left e "I suppose, my good man," gan patroni izingly, * in the war "No ma'am, returned the Tommy. looking up at her with almost a tear in his good eye. "I was cleaning out the canary cage and the bird bit me." che be Vegetable Gardening For Everybody. If you are cultivating a vegetable garden, either at home or on a vacat! lot, dom to the Publications send to i gert dose h » wi F . . : atingert and home with a, The Honor of a Regiment. Branch, Department of Agriculture. 1e " " . . tawg Ure ~ i 2 wes marbile It was in the midst of this bad = a ---- No. Ls entitle:! oan bel a ales tream" that seemed as if it: were -- seca sardening at Home and "of it -_ ey 'ry going to end, that the Mounted De acant Lae and prepared by the ey igh : : ae Were Rifles got their chance to polish up ominion Horticulturist. This circu- : ihe them left--that ts, Of inuis reputation so that it shone as iar, waich ean be hed free af ait 'sost. the heuer bunch that the Cana- pire ae any in the csriee pon : supplies information of a practical ian Moun R > Were concerne ie very ¥ 6 ounted Rifles were concerned | ore. It had been a little dimmed at hie le ihe getable that pe va "hres . desirane o cultivate for comestic \ Three Months' Batile. arn - _-- for the first time, consumption. It gives advice on the the Germans had gone through the ' f the <oil a j > * . 'onodiange . 3] < as ar lan- "People sometimes appear incredu- Canadians. The Mounted Rifles, who is see of t " ee Jous when we say thet the battle of had heen in the trenches on June 2, "7 ny ep inly nt garden, quotes - * . , exam 3 2+ e i ie Bovune insted theres taonths. i¢| 191% © shen this happened, were not a 2 es e success achieved in 1917, doesn't seem possible that a single in the ¢ least to blame for it. Nobo dy supplian «Uist of the best varieties of vegetables for different districts, the could have stopped the enemy jus then. There wasn't any body troops that could have stood thaton- slaught battle could last so long. But Somme proved that it was possible. We ourselves couldn't believe it was: real. It came to be just like a dream in the circumstances. Nev to us, a prolonged tiresome dream theless, it was remembered sceniat « ' LP * ' from which we would start some-.the C.M R. s and,they knew it. They arid | didn't talk about it But they remem-: times into a half wakeful state 'bered just as well as anybody into which we would lapse again af- only Fritz when the moment came. ; of "The entity of a regiment is an ex-| troops moving « little forward: or a traordinary thing. What, after all,; little backward through a vast assem-:is a regiment? blage of battle machinery and dead' that the Mounted Rifles men. ;cleaned up at Ypres. They were} "I can't refhember that we ever did Practically gone. The regiments were anything much during this time ex-| filled up again before the Somme, of cept support the infantry with our | course, and so it was with largely guna. | know that during these three | new men that they went into the dreary, chaotic waste peopled by sodden, begrimmed masses had been' and describes how the growing plants can be protected from disease and insect ravages. --_----- ee oe ee Mending Enamelware. For mending enamelware pots and | ~ else, - pons where a hole has been made OF | halls, shots from ter a startled stare aroused that, 8nd they were saving up to hand it to. enamel chipped off, take equal parts which spray the air full 'of putty, finely 'sifted coal ashes and. sifted table salt. fix 'all 'and pack it into the hole. Put the You must remember , mended article aside (having poured caeried thirteen hundred bombs a little water in it) until it gets hard.| It becomes as hard as the enamel it-| self. Poor cooking creates waste because ing stunt artists. sed the food will not be eaten, 'you were wtenied } fo it would be an evidence of wis-' together have only to glance at the daily com- muniques to realize to what extent. But they are preparing for still great- x things, assisted by the immense re- sources in men and material from America. ing for victory in the sir, they are busy on the construction the biggest airdrome in the world, told in a graphic story narrated ni d specia) correspondent "somewhere in France" W hile the Rhine towns shiver with fapprehension and the German govern- Lment tries to blackmail Paris to pre- vent further aerial incursion into her territory, seyeral thousand yeung men have got together in the most gigantic airdreme in the. world and are learn- ing how systematicatly to bombard 'Germany. It ix the beginning of the realization of a Wellsian dream--the surging toward the German cities of Se agg of airplanes loaded up with pombs. 'The war in the air is only ae t beginning, and path to Ger- Many and victory lies through the air. From the Ends of the Earth. "T was privi Heged ro visit this air- drome recentiy, and I had net been! very long ii the place before | vas | fable to plunge into the very atmos- | phere of it. 1 was passing a hut, and | threugh the open door came a hearty. cheer---a ful! throated British cheer. London newspapers had just arrived, | and the cheering youths, airmen in the chrysalis stage, had just read of bombs on a German city; a cheer! more terrible than any hymn of hate. Youth has come to this airdrome to learn how to end the war quickly, and victoriously; he has come from 'the four corners of the carth- from American colonies and prairies, from London city ceffices and Bond Street, from the boulevards of Paris, from Japan, China, South America, Portu- gal, from Russia even, and not one of «them is.over thirty years of age, One thinks of a superbechive, the hees beginning to swarm --hornets ra- ther. The sky is full of Farnams, 'Sopwiths, Nieuports, Cauldrons, Voi-| and hew = higher flying capacity than the chines of the enemy.. We are building ie machines in England. France is} ning them out, too, and, America! oe them in numbers well ahead OF the schedule. | In this great solitude of -- rolling plains an international city has | spr' ung up, not au mushroom in the 'night, but as the result of steady and systematic endeavor. It is a temple of youth--the house of the boy and the machine. Wooden huts and can- | Vas sheds shelter them beth. Fach nation has its own sector and its own distinctive touch of nationality. Comfortable Quarters. Four strapping Americans _ sit round a fire outside their hut and fry | s| he | bacon; it might be a scene out of 4 Keeping its sweetness there, talk is net one hears "joy- Bret Harte novel, but the of the "placer" camp; | sticks" mentioned and other weird fragments of airmanese. The French grow salads and spring vegetables in {their sector, and in the British lines ind little pigs are rapidly becorn pork. Huns sometimes 'crash,' \Fere are repair shops for the boy and ithe machine. The hospital for the rmer is as wel! equipped as 'France, and the repair shops fer machines cover several acres, 3 'thing from a wing to the propelle can be replaced. "I saw a ripping fight," other flier. "Six machines man squadren hove om Aeon t ours spotted them and shot down two; the ethers bolted. "Our chaps chased them, v when from 'somewhere in Fr: cig} othe Germans came on seen Thes dropped on our chaps' tails. Two of them were shot down and IT saw a German pilot literally blown eut of his seat, while his machine wert scud- ding at 100 miles an hour, heaven knows where, in somersaults. ' "They shave been eying the luring and threes, to trick--sending out twos tempt us oa nests of cir We are too ol r that | "We've been back and behind them on to their hangars. Their nerves have had a test these seven days. We have heen at them night and day. They've had an awful life of it." More "Air" Talk. Just one more extract: oat ve had a hot time with my n dodging 'onions,' 'tracers,' USCS. | | | squad. | 'flam- ling spuds,' shrapnel, phosphor ous | their pompoms, ¥ bullets four thousand feet high. . "Imagine it! Our squadron, which 'is fifteen strong, dropped, fetched and on unday morning before breakfast. arYen recollect--when he was at --? I've seen him twice. The Ger- mans have had one or two outstand- 1 saw our friend He wriggled on his by one. J went fiop. 1 show! think be was present ata fi "They ez 280 German 'planes this week. Cer- tain there's a lot gone. They've got weaker and weaker." spotiess are canteens and co-operative stores, lecture halis, post offices and wireless stations: How they are thus prepar-}. little fighter from = spinning nose LLOYD GEORGE'S HOUSE. dive into a leop. He took her of a -- ¢ thousand feet and dived straight at | Busts of Britain's Statesmen Adure _ JUST COMMENCING | Prmce 2 sane BE we" Pwo cross' redder and splintered it. The front door of No. 10 Downing Street closes behind you and you find |yourself in a small, square hall, adorn- ed on all its walls with the borns and skalls of deer and antelope, the gift of some sporting Premier. Then you pass down a long passage and notic: in an alcove on the left a singularly exquisite bust of the younger Piit. }: is Pitt at the finest moment of bi youthful idealism; Pitt, the "Boy Min. ister." At the end of the pasrage i+ another hall, larger and well warmed On the left is a partition curtained of gs a waiting reom for Visitors; on + mantelpiece within thet partition i: a bust of Wellington 2s a young mean also splendidly heroic. inatinet with + kind of spotiess integrity. wheral later in the day. say we've accounted for fully The dormitories are ; there = -- NATURE OF THE ESKIMO. Geod-Natured and Hemerous and Very Inquisitive. In Hersehel Island, where the sun shines continuously for eight weeks in Summer, the Eskime had » sun-}| The Cabinet room is Mr. Lioye dance, not always clothed in the ger-|George's favorite working room, and ments of propriety. They had an , here he spends most of his days. It is *lidee that when the sun came back its | | singularly convenient for a Prime nevements were directed by an invis-| Minister's labors. The doors on each ibty power, but they had no tangible | side open into the rooms of his secre- conception of a God. They had no be-'taries, who can thus be easily sum- lief in # feture life, either of reward | moned. The big tzble enables maps or punishment. To-day they are reli-' and documents to be laid out with giov:, truthfal, kind to their children | ease. Here deputations can be receiv- and te the aged. They are ambitious | ed without inconvenient crowding. to leari; they are practical, extreme- |The War Cabinet can join the Prime ly indistrious, sanitary in their hab- | Minister at any moment; and as they its, well clothed and welt housed. In- always meet once a day, and often sanity is aaleens: but tuberculosis is "twice, the Prime Minister can receive arite comm 'them without constantly shifting his They siue in Summer and trap. room. in Winter. They are clever in trad-! From the council chamber, on the ing, food workers on Iand, water and; first floor, you mount by a corliscrew jez, and take excellent care of their staircase to the upper rooms. The household effects... Tools if broken are! Walls of the staircase are lined with neaily repaired. When at Herschel engravings, in historical! order, of the Island or Fort MePhersan they oat Prime Ministers of England. present- the white man's food with great re- @! to Downing Street by private be- lish. In Summer they est their fish wefivence. As you mount you stm and blubber raw and in Wint er frozen, 19 be meving in the gaze of They like food cooked, but 't is a mat- great presences who have people: the ter of indifference to them. They will, house--Chatham, Pitt, Canning, G barter for the white man's food, eat , Peel, Disraeli, Gladstone. | hearty meal of it, and then go out! | and eat blubber and raw fish as des-' THREE KINDS OF GENTLEMEN. {rose rey, 'sert. The contents of a deer"s stom-' uch they consider a great delicacy. | Phare Species ro Recognized in __ The Eskimos have no fear of death; Ireland. if told that death is approaching they | ; ; . will respond with a complacent smile. | Ireland is the only country in which They are even more stoical than the,'t has ever been customary to classify Mongolian. Trouble does not affect gentlemen as of three distinct kinds them at all. They are a very happy ,0F Speries. a - people. Their natures are chiidlike,! Probably the distinctions are st and they do not continue in the same. "ecexnized to some + oe in the Em- frame of mind for two minutes at a, ¢rald I- le, but two centuries ago, and time. They are good-natured and hu- €Ven muc' h later, they were defined morous and very inquisitive. Their respectively as (one) the "half-mount- emotions are sudden and short-Hved---- ed," (two) the "gentleman every inch uproariously happy one moment and of him," ard (three) the "gentleman almost erying the next. Their faces (6 the backbone." ; 'gre now wreathed in smiles, now ay The first class consisted of descend- picture of woe. nts of Cromwell's soldiers, who if t Pea Sane ose skin = Ron were i "Buckskin reeches, or' > *Squir- The Whole of Life. or This is the whole of life e, The second class was composed of To love each golden minute ere idescendants of old families whose slips | estates had been forfeited to the Into the gray of past }Crown (for rebellion or other rea- To drink joy in ar breathless sips; Till the last drop goes and then To have-at least a smile upon the sons), and who had been compelled to 'lower themselves by working for a living in trade or the professions. ie ; : lips! The third class--the "gentlemen to This ix the whole of fife the backbone'--contpricsed the old To go into the battle with a song. ; stock. er folk: s who lived on the an- vient family estates and the labor of Joying in the fight; a ¢ the peasantry pertaining to their o- To ery not though the night of . waiting's long. TAINS. " And crimson day brings but the wait ga: Pr again, 4 acts About Priday. Or brings but petty triumphs, petty The eall Friday "Vesdreti* thrills or wrongs. of life, heart each pur-| z- Friday is Friga's day --Friga being the northern Venus, Giadstene, Disraeli and i Were born ona relay. This is the whole i To crush inte your ple day, Bismarck Scandinavians. regard Friday as the ! § , seta My ine in tts bright hues. all luckiest day of the week. erle # Our ancestors helieved that eg: To we . "3 int ' To weave the years into 2 britliant laid on a Friday would: cure: colic. "Friday face' still lingers term of reproach SOUr-VISaT fabric, To hold the brightest memories al-, ' fora lad person. . ee oe The printing of the first sewsy First ""Pank." by steam wis carried out on a The qeneels of the scientific mar- f vels, "the tanks," which both allie "g a) * of. Fridey nd Ganrnins use in great numbers, o ith on z Hindu war elephant, used in Pr ty hundreds é Geol. Friday euliy God's} was utilized agg inst day" is in some puris of Europe x: try in exactly the same mannered "Biack F: fy > modern "tank," crushing down Pridsy n si f i and affording soldiers housed and ss wperstit! ¢ uP n its hack an epportunity to slay getting Marries ) avo} He dai thout being slain. Shippir & returns of 'ail countries fhe Tartars in the wars against the show a hj ng rai b iribes of Tr first met this astonish- | Friday day ot a ing sight dng®their terror was mur oa week, like that displayed by the _ Ger 1 The Otali guardsmen w the "t y the civil Mest SEW, ed at Cn? bra The e! says ft 24 ona Emperor Rublat than, wrote 'the his Friday,. y bad $ infantry and cavalry took fright when thr ( es these elephants, mounted by archers - - in bn »3 set | The Real Danger. ------- stited- wosdepinie bi Others of the Lk. tory San what seems sometimes to be! Tavish, was task ed if he wou! ry Vik ' necompany the works u e disregard for the fitness; °¢S% i c of hings, comica] incidents have a of his trial flights in a. way _of happening with inappropri- After some hesitation Sandy agreed y at those most pathetic, to go : i : asylums for the in- During t the flight the aviator exked t-Bits tha: vouches for | Sandy How he was enjoying. himsely. lthe following Ory: | "To tell the truth," answered the Lord Halsbury,. the former Lord Scot, "Tr wad rather be on the 'Chancellor of England, during his, STound: - = term of office, had occasion to visit,! "Tutt tut replied the flying. man. "I'm just thinking of !coping -the in his. official capacity, a certain lun-, atic asylum. "I'm the Lord Chancellor," he an- nounced: to the attendant at the door. The man looked at him curiously for a moment. "This way, sir,"' he said-very firm- "we 'ave three more of 'em in " we "For heaven's sake, don't dae that! yeHed the now very nervous ish. "I've some sifler in my pocket, an' Ah micht lose it." a a5 MeTav- vest When Sakti potatoes grease them first with a little butter, and when cooked they will be beautifully brown and crisp, with a glazed appearance, which makes them look s@ desirable. ----- -- fe ---- --- Japanese toweling is cheap and ef- fective for bedroom drapstin.