inside the ship, driving out old rivets; Now is the Time **, pimples and other trosbles 0 PURGATIVE ee ee om co. n Sale RIGA PURGATIVE WATE removes normal bowel action, pure blood and drills chopped through armored bolts like knives through cheese; saws cut went on day and night as if under & magician's And when at the end of their three weeks' leave--they had well * earned returned to their ship, they found nih not only had her wounds been not only was she fully juntohed at all points and ready for immediate action if needs be, but the dockyardmen had hauled her out of WATER the ideal saline tected which: flushes out the intestines; 25 cents the bottle. MONTREAL, dock and placed her head towards the Seasonable Designs Good-looking blouses are always to be desired and this is particularly smart. McCall Pattern No. 7754, Ladies' Blouse. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 bust. Price, 20 cents. Here is a dress that really conserves material, for only 2% yards of 54-inch material is necessary to make it!! Pattern No. 8091, Ladies' | In 6 sizes; 34 to 44 bust. No. 8211, Ladies' Skirt. In 7 sizes; 22 to! 84 waist. Price, 20 cents each. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. a Ashes, if allowed to accumulate in the fireplace, will eventually burn the jt, feet off the andirons. Before the war Great Britain was dependent for two-thirds of its food upon imports, or four loaves of bread out of five. j War Demands Saving of suger Saving of Fuel, Use of other Grains with Wheat --No Waste. GrapeNats every ts an ecanenice, aL oe answers demand. | when she, in her last extremity, lift-| War conditions have affotded an ed her ram and jammed and shell-torn forecastle? '|were made fast to bollards, and the' the best of seasons |ceivable. Hammers racketted away Channel, had filled her bunkers with coal and her magazines with ammu- nition--in sooth, they had healed her and convalesced her, and passed her "Fit for General Service." BUTTER FROM POTATOES. THE WORK OF THE SHIP DOCTORS THREE WEEKS IN THE DRY DOCK HOSPITAL. Palatable Article Can Be Manufactur- ed for Ten Cents a Pound. Potato butter is recommended by the British ministry of food as a cheap substitute for butter, being made in England at a cost of less than ten cents per pound, as follows: "Peel the potatoes: and boil until they fall to pieces and become floury. Then run through a fine sieve into a warmed basin fourteen ounces of potatoes and add two ounces of but- ter or margarine and one teaspoon- ful of salt. Stir until smooth and then mold into rolls and keep in a cool place. To make the appearance approvable use butter coloring, and if intended to keep, beyond a few |days a butter preservative should be ded inline GIRLS! LEMON JUICE IS SKIN WHITENER. A Navy Officer Tells How a Battered Cruiser Was Made Hale and Well Again. The great cruiser was indeed ina pitiable state; she looked the epitome of desolation and misery as the fussy little tugs hauled her gently past the chequered forts at Spithead, and headed her tenderly towards that home of healing for such battered she--Portsmouth Royal Her foremast was snapped off short, and her fire control top had completely disappeared; the fore fun- nel looked like a battered tin-can or a squashed concertina, and her bridge was a mass of twisted steel and splin- tered woodwork. The great fore tur- ret looked as though attacked with a gigantic tin-opener; the colossal right twelve-inch gun was snapped o: short, the daw edges of the steel showing like the teeth of a beast of; prey. The midship funnel had com pletely disappeared with its casing, but the after one, strangely enough, had not received so much as a scratch on its paintwork. jad How to make a creamy beauty lotion for a few cents. The juice of two fresh lemons strained into a bottle containing three | ounces of orchard white makes a whole ~| quarter pint of the most remarkable | lemon skin beautifier at about the cost aoaty cold creams. Care should be és taken to strain the lemon juice Bearing Her Blushing Honors." | thro ugh a fine cloth so no lemon pulp The armored hull bore evidence to! gets in, then this lotion will keep the straight shooting indulged in by: fresh for months. Every woman er -- a cota oe oe that lemon juice is used to where the monster she clean tt 'gh; dee dents Sven | vecklen, aalterna on io nary rn where the resisting plates had turned the ideal skin softener, whitener and them off. One projectile had carried | beautifier. oy ayes turbine completely | ch pi Aa Get a i denigg off its bed in the port engine room. j orchard w ite at any drug store Others had ruined boilers, so that | two lemons from the grocer and make eight out of a score could only be| up a quarter pint of this sweetly frat trusted to raise steam. But, , damaged | grant lemon lotion and massage it as she was, the great cruiser was) daily into the face, neck, arms and triumphant also--a sixteen-foot hands. square collision mat spread over her/ Rape aaa cee te covered a gaping hole made| ~"The Wings of the Aeroplane. it clean through the side of her insolent foe. After that, what did it matter if the foremost compartments filled with | water, if the deck did slant down-| wards till every ripple sent a film of water streaming over the wreck excellent opportunity for farmers in certain sections of Canada to engage ; extensively in the production of fibre | flax. They will thereby not only add |to their sources of income, but will ;also be of direct and vital aid in the ied efforts of the Allies. The mas- of the air is proving a great, ' or! Hi the determining factor, in the ©\ struggle now going on. Aeroplanes :are being built in vast numbers as Page as possible. As a covering for the wings of these, linen is the only material found satisfactory. Large quantities are also needed for) /machine gun webbing, ambulance and truck covers, thread for sewing uni- rms, and a number of other uses. ere the supply of fibre flax for these '- t "a purposes to fall short, as is threaten- TFs: BNE seeming " receive @ we |ed, it would directly and profoundly coming "Well done!" from that battle! affect the success of the Allied worn craft. Trim cruisers, patrol forces: boats, destroyers, and submarines ex- | |tended their sympathy and. silent! praise as she sheered by them, until at last she came to the great dry- dock designed for her reception. The foremost tug cast off and dropped be- | hind, placing her nose gently against | the cruiser's stern, and slewing her | into position for entering the dock. Her captain, unhurt by the fight, ! | had gone almost grey-haired over the | getting of the ship to the place where the three magnificent tugs met and took her in charge. And now, with a! pilot on the bridge, with a tug ahead to haul her along, and one on each side to steer her, he was sleeping the sleep of utter exhaustion in a wreck- ed fore cabin. | for Right up harbor went the battered Ww snip, saluting as she passed the Vic- | Before the war, flax was imported into the United Kingdom mainly from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Russia. The Ger- ; Man supply is, of course, now cut off, | while in 1916 France produced no flax for export, Belgium a mere frac- tion of its former supply, and the Netherlands about half its former the rest--the cruiser's complement! In the Dry Dock. Then came dirty n little steamboats, ont which, when hauled upon, wire hawsers to the cruiser. quantity. Owing to conditions in in fussy' Russia no exports of fibre flax can be cast lines, depended on this year; Ireland, the. brought great flax-producing country in the These. United Kingdom itself, cannot with and with the other ends taken to hydraulic cap-| largest possible acreage under flax, stans ashore. Then slowly, care-| commence to meet the demand for fully, these were hove round, and the' fibre. battered vessel slipped inch by inch The foregoing information is into her siek bed. The caisson at the tained in a circular on flax con- growing jend of the dock slid into place astern issued by the Federal Department of ;of her, the great pumps clanked, and Agriculture 'the water became and that can be had free gradually, by addres the Publications Branch of tha ut e Departaient Ottawa, lower sing but quite perceptibly. Hordes of grimy dockyardmen swarmed into her as the gangways were flung to the jetty; fussy little cranes slammed into the dock huge, square baulks of timber, sized and marked to fit each in a certain posi-_ tion and no other. They took these | baulks, the "mateys," and they 'ad- justed them so that, when at last the cruiser's keel rested on the chocks in the bottom of the dock; the baulks supported her on both sides, and pre- vented her canting over to one side or the o And as the water reced- ed and exposed more of her under- water hull, the mateys put in other rows of shores, till at last she was dry and high, ready for the healing hands of the ship tors. - New Ships for Old. » This done, came a small army of other grimy men--fitters, turners, | artificers of all kinds--with their small tool-boxes, Followed them a host of small and even dirtier boys. Then arose the most awful din con- Asx for Biinard's a and take no other. Never move a ake i in the oven until the centre is set. ie LIFT A CORN OFF WITHOUT PAIN d , » Cincinnati man tells how to dry ' SP a corn or callus ao It lifts 4 - Of with fingers. b You Esorn-pestered men and women se er ct ona Wear the shoes nearly you before, says this por oe --o ty, Risgoce a few ne applied directly on tender, aching o--0--8-----0----0- ah off, root and all, without pain. A small bottle of freezone costs very little at any drug store, but will positively take off every hard or soft corn OF cullus. This should be tried, " it is: inexpensive and is said not ite the surrounding 'skin. ae your druggist hnasn't any freezone tell him to get a small bottle for you from his wholesale drug house. It is fine stuff and acts Jike a charm every time, ----__F--__ __... Remembrance. This is the sharpest pang to bear: How I do not forget, But wake to see her waiting there, As if she loved me yet. Oh, for an end of idle dreams That stir a sleeping heart! So far she is, so near she seems-- So near, so far apart! The spring comes in; the lilacs bloom; I hear the robin call. But in this memory-haunted room I miss her most of all. After these many months of pain Her face I shall not see; I shall not hear her voice again-- She comes not back to me! ----_g-------- MONEY ORDERS. The safe way to send money by mail is by Dominion Express Money Order. Sugar Saving 25 Per Cent. The recent sugar restrictions p ed by the Canada Food Board tin have the effect of saving about 100,- 000 tons, approximately 25 per cent. our normal consumption. These restrictions are rendered absolutely necessary by the shipping and rail transportation situation. There is} sugar in Cuba but we cannot get it! into Canada. What we can get we must conserve for preserving time. Keep Minard's Liniment in the house. Eat More Fish. Efforts have been made throughout Canada to produce and market more fish. This country has fish resources, which have been exploited commer- cially f or the export trade, but only cities mt fresh fish been fegularly to private con- sumers, On the Pacific Coast and the Atlantic Coast, on the lakes of the West, on the lakes of Northern On- tario and the Great Lakes, fishermen will procure fish if the demand for it becomes regular and constant. Eat more fish and save meat for the men at the front. Had ship's anchor fall on my knee and leg, and knee swelled up and for six days I could not move it or get help. I then started to use MIN- ARD'S LINIMENT and two bottles cured me. PROSPER FERGUSON. Wheat Importation Insufficient. The British Ministry of Food has cabled to the Canada Food Board: "Wheat importations are not arriving in quantities sufficient to meet our weekly requirements. Every effort | that can be exerted in Canada to crease shipments of wheat and meat will be invaluable." ministry has prepared to provide 'ships to move all the wheat that Can- | ada will spare. Only 34,000,000 bush- 'els remain on the continent that can be possibly available for export un- less consumption in the United States is very substantially reduced. q; BASSAS ASEAN Heals like Magic= chafing,' blisters," piles; "s ab? scesses, Fechnrn boils, bruises, and othe¢ inflammation.§ At ie me or write ug, HIRST _ REMEDY' COMPANY, | Hamilton. Ca Canada' 4 As long as faith and freedom last, And earth &/ That string of in- | | The British Ad-| The Living Line. the sun, This stands--the British line held ' And so the fight was won. t that ever yet To battle for the earth. That bleeding line, that falling fence, That stubborn ebbing wave, ng human sense, Shuddered, but never gave. A living line of human flesh, It quivered like a brain; Swarm after swarm came on afresh And crashed, but crashed in vain. The world shall tell how they stood ast, And how the fight was won, As long as faith and freedom last And earth goes round the sun. a Minard"s Giniment used by Physicians. Obligation to Save Food. Every pound of food saved by each Canadian citizen is a pound given to the support of our army and the Al- lies. Every pound wasted or eaten unnecessarily is a pound withheld from them. It is a direct personal obligation on the part of each of us to someone in Europe whom we are bound to help. eel SHOE POLISHES. LIQUIDS end PASTES, Poden WHITE , TAN, DARK BROWN OX-BLOOD SHOES PRESERVE the LEATHER THE FF DALEY CORPORATIONS ire, HAPIILTON, CANADA A Kidney Remedy Kidney troubles are frequently caused by badly digested food which overtakes these organs to eliminate the irritant acids Curative Syrup, and your kidney disorder will promptly dis- appear. Get the genuine. 7 >/ PERFECT BREAD Sugaring the Tea Pot. The silver tea pot can be prevented from getting musty while not in use by dropping a lump of sugar in it after it has been y Mal and dried. Minard's Liniment Lamberman's Frien4. Working the farm more and the man less is the ideal farming. FOR SALE \ EEKLY Le rid hae IN WEST- ern Ontario. Doi « si- Len A th of owner p tae = a. the ket. A great chance for a with onan, Apply go od "winen Publishing Co, Limited. Toront ---- rope NEWSP. 4 Je > B iI pl ER ant in Eesters terion ce carri ea fi. 600. wa Fe, os a 200, on quick e. Wilson Publishing Co.. Ltd.. Toronto. MISCELLANEOUS re i. CUTTER AND LET- ter --o tite Geo. M. Paul, 156 Victoria Bt., ANCER, wie LUMPs, set pain by our home treatment. Write = too late. - Medi to. ited, Collingwood. 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IMPERIAL OIL LIMITED qT eS which keep baby wakeful and rest- less, permits sleep ir infant and rest for mother, and points to healment in most cases when it seems nothing would help. aantis je Each Free by Mad. Address post- utic Dept. N, ee U.S.A." Sold iS by dnnlare throuahowt the THAT CHANGE IN WOMAN'S LIFE Mrs. Godden Tells How It May be Passed in Safety and Comfort. my work. | ae E. Pinkham' a surely proved tobe. I feel better "s stronger in every way since takin and the goneging aynintons have disep- pear ODDEN, 925 Nae poleon St, I Frenvot. Ohio, Such annoying symptons as heat flashes, nervousnsss, backache, head- ache, irritability and " the blues," may | be speedily overcome and the system ous root an | Pinkham' 8s Vegetable Com | If any- complications sn ii t them- selves write the Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., for tuggestions how to i pea em. The result of forty ars experience is at your service and your letter held i in strict confidence. TUCKETTS ED. Z ISSUE 21--'18. 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