Ny the hall outside the door : ~ eape for him." on 8 - \sent. he hitched -u > i 5 _ CHAPTER \ VI.---(Cont'd.) She must have been a fool not to - « something was wrong J ore so because only a few minutes before that, he had stood before her with his cheeks a deep xed, body firm, his eyes clear and, right. : eR Where was the surgeon? She rose 'and went to the clerk. > : "Are you. sure the surgeon has not gone?" she asked, -- "Very sure," answered' the clerk, | "He hab just sent out for a nurse to: emain with monsicur." \ "A nurse?" repeated Marjory. 'The doctor a Monsieur Coving- ton must not be left alone." ~"Tt's!as bad---as that?" question- ed 'Marjory. . "T do not know." "T must see the doctor at once," she said. "But, first.--can you give me apartments on the same floor,--for "myself and maid? I am his fiancee," he informed him, a "T can give' mademoiselle apart- ments adjoining," said the clerk . eagerly. "Then do so." Bese ek ee She signed her name in the register, | and beckoned for Marie, - "Marie," she said, "you may return | cand finish packing my trunks. Please _ bring them here." | : "flere?" queried Marie, "Tere," answered Marjory. -, She turned to the clerk, -- "Take me upstairs at once," 'There was a strong smell of ether in. of Monte: _ Covington's room. Tt made her gasp for a moment. It seemed to make ~ concrete what, after all, had until this moment been more or less vague. \It was like fiction suddenly made true. 'That pungent odor was a grim real fd So was that black-bearded Dr. arcellin, who, leaving his-patient in the hands of his assistant, came to the door wiping his hands-upon a towel. "Tam Mr, Covington's fiancee--Miss Stockton," she said at once. "You will tell me the truth?" _ After one glancé at her eyes Dr.' Marcellin was willing to tell the truth. "Tt is an ugly bullet wound in his shoulder," he, said, "It is not serious?" "Such thihes are always serious. Luekily, I-was able to find the bullet -and reMove it. It was a narrow es- "Of course," she "T shall serve as his nurse." - i "Good," he nodded. | But he added, haying had some ex- perience with fiancees as nurses:--- "Of course I shall have for a week i ' +t ' ¥ . ' t added, 2s may owi nurse also but T shall be glad of your assistance. an accident?" i She nodded. } "He was trying to save a foolish friend from: killing Himself." "T understand." "Nothing more need be said about ary" : _. "Nothing more," Dr, Marcellin as- "sured her. "If you will come in T will give you your instructions. Mademoiselle Duval will soon be here." "Ts she necessary?" inquired Mar- Jory. "I have engaged ment for myself and maid," : "That is very good, but----Mademoi- This ----er--was Will you come in?" » She followed the doctor -- into Monsieur Covington's room. There the odor of ether hung still heavier. -. She heard him muttering a name. ~ She listened to catch it. _®Rdhart," he ~ealled. spo martin: we te Be SGHARTER Vil. --' The Advantages of Being Shot. Monte was conscious of a-burning pain in his shoulder, and he was not quite certain as to where he was. So on one elbow, This caused a shadow to detach itself from the dark at the other end of the room -----a shadow that rustled and came to- ward him. Jt is smal! wonder that he was startled. \ . "Who the deuce are' you?" he in- quired in plain English. "Monsieur is not to sit up," the shadow answered.in plain French. | Monte repeated "time in French. "Tam the nurse'sent~here by Dr.! Marcellin,' she informed -- him. 'Monsieur is not to talk." ' _ She placed her hand below his neck _and helped him to settle down again oe his pillow. Then she rustled ) | } ff again beyond the range of the shaded electric light. | "What happened?" Monte. called the dark. = Eye. thought he heard a door, urther rustling, and a conversetion. ae | ?" he demanded, af sounded like a-conspiracy -- of, rt, so he tried again to) m « Mademoiselle appeared. omptly, and, again placing her hand/ eath his neck, lowered him once. ore-to his pillow. "Turn up the ligh!, will you?' se} MOMGe er certainly not," answered the "Monsieur is to lie very quiet ecp." S¥can't, sleep." = "Perhaps it will help monsieur to be uiet if/he' knows his fiancee is in the | ppeiain es etc at tarily this announcement ap- » have directly the opposite gasped Monte, -- ae jeur's fiancee. With her maid, 'is occupying the next apartment) n order to be near mongjeur. If you y quiet to-night, it is possible, the doctor will permit he who. came in and iet after iat eping. He was were nob "Oh, Ed- pare her in a like situation. \/ Sh i. | 'lessly about their dens, y | them a fit of the blues. j house on Sa nN she had accepted. At/the time he had hot seey much farther ahead than 'ho next few minutes; and even then had not foreseen what was to happen th those few minutes. The proposal had given him his right to>talk to Hamilton, and her acceptance --well, it had given Marjory her right to be here. ' Now it was all vight. It was all right and proper for her, all right and proper for him, all right and proper. for society. Not only that, but it was so utterly normal that society would have frowned 'if she had not hurried | to his sid@ in such an emergency. It forced her here, willy-nilly. Perhaps that was the only reason she 8 here. Still, he did not like to think that. She was too true blue to quit a friend. It would be more like her to come anyway. He remembered how she had stood by that old aunt to the end. She would 3a standing by her to-day were she alive. "Ts Mademoiselle Stockton up---there in the next room? "T do not know," answered -- the nurse, -- i : "Do you mind finding out for me?" _ "Tf monsicur will promise to sleep after that." "How can a man promise to sleep?" Even under normal conditions, that was a foolish thing to promise. But when a man was experiencing brand- new sensations--the sensations of be- ing engaged--it was quite impossible to make such a Bromise "Monsieur can at least promise not tale.' "T will do that," agreed Monte. She came back and reported that mademoiselle was sitting up, and beg- ged to present her regards and ex- press the hope that he was resting comfortably. "Please to tell her I am, and that I hope she will now go to bed." he ans- wered, Nurse Duval did that, and returned, "What did she say?" inquired Monte. "But, Monsieur----" She had no intention of spending the rest of the night as a messenger between those two rooms. "Very well," submitted Monte. "But you might tell me what she said.". "She said\she was not sleepy," ans- wered the nurse. . "I'm glad she's awake," said Monte, After the doctors weresthrough with Monte the next morning, they decided, after a consultation, that there was no apparent reason why, durir day, Miss Stockton, if she desired, should not serve as his nurse while Miss Duval went home to sleep. "My assistant will come in at least sitting " to you have the constitution of a prize-| It might well be possible to fighter. bullet through the heart of place a i such & man without greatly discom- ' moding him.' He spoke as if with some resent- ment, After they had gone out, Marjory came in. She hesitated at the door a moment, perhaps to make sure tbat he was awake; perhaps to make sure the next apart- that she herself was awake. Monte,! from the bed, could see her better than she could see him. | He thought elle Duval is necessary for the pre- she looked whiter than usual, but she) was very beautiful. There was something about her that distinguished her from other wonren --from this nurse woman, for ex- ample, who was the only other woman with whem it was possible to com- With one hand resting on the door, her chin well up, she looked~more than ever | like Her Royal Highness Something 'or Other, She was dressed in some- thing white and light and fluffy, like the gowns he used to see on Class Day. Around her white throat there was a narrow band of black velvet. "Good-morning, Marjory," he call- ed. She came at once to his side, walk- ing graciously, as a princess might walk. oS "T didn't know if you were awake," she said. : It was one thing to have her here in the dark, and andther to have her here in broad daylight. The sun was his question, this streaming in at the windows now, and, had brought down. outside the birds were chattering. ., "Did you rest well last night?" she inquired. "T heard whispered to the nurse woman. was mighty white of you to come.' "What else could I do?" She seat- ed herself in a chair by his bed. you when you came in and Tt " HOW 1 ESCAPED | DARING L ng the; + { { i iF . --_--ea, 3 me. | ~ } TRAIN. ; \ hme ' Journey Over 80 Miles of German Soil, and Through Belgium to an ier © i, Dutch Border. "T had ample opportunity to study the countenance of my guard. He was an elderly fellow, with the rather va- cant face and bullet head of )the typi- cal German private. He would stare stolidly at me for minutes at a time 'and then glance down at the floor and | smile, The poor chap was delighted to be go- 'ing back into Germany. Hisselation was not shared by the eight prisoners. "There were four guards-and two of them were stationed at the door. After finally determining upon a plan of ac- tion I coughed incessantly, complain- ing that the air was bad, The train clicked along smoothly over a charac- teristically flawless German roadbed. The window of the compartment was opened by lowering, after the fashion of an American inclosed car. "Quite deliberately I stepped over and opened it. My guards glanced up sharply, but the action seemed casual enough to allay their suspicions. © I glanced again at the old chap opposite me. He was smiling that naive smile that bespoke his delight at the pro- spects of getting back home. It was an interesting moment for me. I knew the penalties visited upon German sol- diers who permit captive enemies to escape. But I had determined upon a desperate expedient. _ A Leap For Liberty. "Byen while they stared at me TI leaped through the open window. The action had but one merit to insure suc- 'eess, and that element has been utiliz- ed time and again by allied fighting men to the perennial dismay of the Huns--the factor of the unexpected. The Teutonic mind reacts to "impres- sion just a fraction of a second slow- er, it seems, than that-of the Celt or Anglo-Saxon. "A bayonet would have settled the matter then, but before they could collect their faculties I was hurtling through the gloom of the night. "T lit upon my feet, but the speed of the train made it inevitable that I /should fall forward. I plowed through '|the flinty crushed rock of the track ballast, knocking the tape bandages off my injured mouth and lacerating jmy hands and knees. "At the moment my impressions | were such that ary feeling of pain was | | twice," said Dr, Marcellin, "Besides, | .wanowed up in the elation of being | free. I knew that I was eighty or ninety miles into the interior of Ger- many. It was about an hour before | dawn. I devoted that hour to running ,away from the railroad line. I made i but little effort then to determine my | direction. I knew that the frenzied jeagerness of my captors to redeem j themselves would lead to a speedy |search. When dawn came I was 'hid- ing out." It was the beginning of that long furtive and solitary 'trek' lacross the German countryside." Thrilling Experiences. Lieutenant Patrick O'Brien of the | British Royal Flying Corps narrates 'his adventures casually enough. In /appearance he is tall, lithe and clean }eut, with a crisp voice and an alert manner. Of all the men who have emerged from the maelstrom of the world war |he, perhaps, has had the most dra- 'matically thrilling experiences. "The beginning?" he said, echoing the interviewer's question. 'Well, that was simple enough. I had been flying only about two months on regu- ilar assignments. On this particular occasion-a squadron of eight flying corps men was attacked by a large number of German ~ machines-- twenty-two in all, I'believe. I got a machine driven by a young Bavarian 'in the last fight, the third machine I | The bullet that 'hit me struck me in the mouth. The j | blow stunned just enough so that I} 'have no clear impressions of that last involuntary spinning nose dive of | 8,000 feet. When I came to I was a | prisoner. "For two days following my break "Because we are engaged?" he ask- for liberty I had my prisoner's ration ed. "(She smiled a little as he said that. "Then you have not forgotten?" "orgotten-" he exclaimed, "T' just beginning to realize it." "Y was afraid it might come back to you as a shock, Monte," she said. ake "But it is very convenient---at just, this time." © :, «] don't know what I should have done without it," he nodded. "It certainly gives a man a comfortable feeling to know--well, just to know there is some one around." "Pm glad . ed anvthing > oe - - "It's a whole lot just having you here," he assured her. " (To be continued.) beet iin ~. A Rainy Day at the Zoo. "Have you ever visited a Zoo on a rainy day, and noticed the effect such weather has on certain:animals? - "Like the domestic cat, the bigger when it is raining; lions; pards, jaguars, and pumas prowl rest-. gtowling and grumbling and actually trembling, as if their nerves, were on the rack, To iitine them their keepers give. them -an extra dose of milk,'a form of medi- cine they avé never loath to swallow. ~~ Monkeys also' hate rain--it gives The monkey- a drizzling day is a doleful ilently they sit on their perches, staring through the windows is| at the rain, with their hands clasped ir heads--v th x gloom, = 'tt the dog tribe, especially the; ble. Seaver ins gents, Re if I've been able to do: | "My food all this time ha for subsistence. After that there was fan end to prepared food for one 'month's time. | "The crushed rock had not tended to improve tho condition of the wound fon my face. And my knees and hands eve terribly swollen and lacerated. | ."Seeking the cover of little groves and copses by day and travelling by night, I worked constantly westward toward the Belgian border. Journey Through Belgium. { jlast had sliced it into ribbons. Crawl-' jn Belgium in these days for a regular , practically condemned to the lives of jing through culverts and muddy fields, | meal, 'There remained at last only | recluses. 'Their sole outing consists in {climbing over fences and walking ;aleng rough grounds completed the} charged barrier of 'barbed wire that | the Annunciation or at a neighboring Vicissitudes which-rade it necessary | marks off neutral Holland from war- monastery or going to the public jthat I seek for other wearing apparel.) ravaged Belgium. I attempted once to' baths, where as a special favor the re- | "My beard had grown, of course,! ise a ladder, but the feat was impos-' volutionary authorities permit them to 'and when taore clothing was necessary sible, and I almost lost out entirely. bathe once,a week. Wheneyer they j1 was glad that my general unkempt indeed, hardly had I huddled down in) go out, they'are escorted by a platoon | appearance was entirely congruous 'geen by daylight. = | "Clad in a coarse, ill-fitting jacket 'and trousers, affecting a loutish stolid- ity that was made more effective by my unshorn locks, I shuffled wigh the dejected mien by. many a group of German officers billeted ~behind the lines in Belgium. er ee 0 : d been what the fields afforded. The mainstay of diet had been carrots and cabbages-- toward the end carrots and cabbages that had not been thought worth har- vesting even in war time, by reason of their semi- EAP FROM SPEEDING | I knew why he was. smiling. eayed condition. Dur- | - WHAT I CAN' g "if sary to spend so much: time drying 'dishes. So I have made a draining board from a piece of grooved plank, two. feet long, one inch thick and the length of the sink, I attached it to the wall at the side of the sink with brackets, with one end reaching over "After washing, the dishes are scalded jand stacked on this to dry, The next thing I notice, 1s the num- ber ef steps taken from the work- table to a drawer on the opposite side of the room for -cooking-spoons, par- ing knives, egg beater and the many little articles used in cooking. T have set \my wits to work and nat ed a strip of wood three-fourths of an inch thick over the work-table (which stands next to the drain-board) about three inches apart, the entire length of it. Here the kitchen im- plements are hung close at hand, The meat grinder is used-in the pre- paration of almost every meal but seemed to be in the way if left attach- ed to the table. I solved the problem by making a strong shelf about a foot square, fastened securely to the wall at a convenient height. Flour Economy. During these strenuous times we shall do well not only to adopt the wheat substitutes recommended by the Food Controller, but also to con- serve every bit of flour that comes in our kitchens. "A woman can throw out with a tea- spoon faster than a man can bring in with a shovel," is a maxim my moth- er taught me with my first lessons in housekeeping. It has proven a valu- able aid in my own housekeeping ex- perience and I find it easy now to prac- tice economies which would seem pos- itively stingy in ordinary times, but which under present circumstances savor of patriotism. "We should save every bit of flour for human food. In fact, it seems al- most criminal to do otherwise when our nation needs it to help win the war. This is how I actually do this and have for the\ past three years, during which time Lam positive my economy has amounted to several sacks of flour, In my cabinet I keep two covered cans. Into one I put all left-over pieces of cake and cookies (not including those left at table), and all crumbs of either scraped from baking tins. These make delicious "bread puddings" with little, if any, additional sugar. Into the other ean go ali the bread crumbs from the cutting board and particles of dough seraped from the mixing pan. These, with all stale a . By A Mere Man | First, I can not see why itis neces- | and slooping a little toward the sink.) and inserted small sash-curtain hooks) Pio dt' om ™ UNDERSTAND. The ice-water pan was always run- ining over and it was a back-breaking |job to empty it. So I fastened a piece of rubber hose to the drainpipe, bored a hole in the floor and let the hose run through the floor to the cel- lar. ae | Here is another "discovery." If you use gas or oil for cooking get a piece of sheet iron large enough to cover the top of the range. One burner lighted, will send enough heat through it 'to keep several things cooking at one time. (Less heat is distributed through the house and fuel is thus saved. Why is it that kitchen sinks are always. too low? Because a "mere man", plans and puts them in, of course! He does not have to break his back washing dishes over them. If he did, he would be more mindful of the height. I could not change the the sink but I could and did change the work-table. I nailed blocks to the legs, making it high enough so my wife need not stoop as she works over it. Also I provided for her a kitchen chair having a back and of the right height for the table. In this chair she sits to prepare vege- tables, mix cakes and so forth. She also sits-to do most of her ironing. breads, brown bread, corn bread, gems, biscuits, ete., which I do not wish to use in other ways, go into griddle cakes. If these breads ac- cumulate in any quantity they need to be dried thoroughly to insure their keeping until wanted. When I plan a griddle-cake break- fast I put some of these crumbs and stale breads soaking the night before in sour milk or buttermilk, allowing about one cup of liquid for each per- son, In the morning I mash all lumps, add salt, soda, a bit of sugar, and flour or corn meal to make of the right consistency. These griddle cakes possess the advantage of Hav- ing. a large portion of their flour previously baked which I believe renders them more digestible. Very few baking failures need be thrown away if their ingredients be} considered. Heavy or sour bread, | even, is not beyond being reclaimed. | Fither can be dried and stored safely | for use as needed, J have used sour | bread in griddle cakes- with perfectly | good results by using a little addi-| tional soda in the batter. One time | a loaf of brown bread was a failure | because cornstarch had been mistaken for soda, some of this as a foundation even complimented by a. guest. These are rigid economies, I will ad- mit, but they are a long way ahead of starvation for curselves, or of deny- ing wheat to our allies because we have not the gumption to save. Griddle cakes made with | were | ing the seventy-two days of my hegira I had --few tastes of prepared food. Rendered desperate by hunger I some- times tried to pilfer grain from the barns of the peasants. "My weight diminished steadily, and frequently I was so ill from the coarse provender that travelling was made trebly difficult. Even in Belgium I was under extreme disadvaritage in procuring food. One would think that the ready Belgian sympathy would have been extended to me as an offi- cer of one of the allied forces, but the dejected peasants were terrorstricken on those rare occasions when I trust- ed to luck and revealed my identity. Dread of the Spy. "The horror of the 'Belgian sheep' had gone out beforehand. A 'sheep' in their expressive phraseology is a |peculiarly despicable type of spy or linformer. These assume various | guises--chiefly that of a Belgian in | distress. Pretending to inveigh against the German oppressors they 'insinuate themselves into the confi- dence of the Belgians and worm from them any pitiful secret they may pos- sess. If the information thus secur- ed by improved 'kultur' methods is grave enough the luckless man finds himself soon facing a firing squad. "This circumstance made it almost as hard to travel through Belgium as it had been to get across Germany un- detected. Everywhere I encountered suspicion that my starvation was sim- ulated and my condition a 'pose to dis- arm their suspicion. They professed lignorance of what I was saying; de- | clared that they had no food; fied in 'terror or brusquely refused my re- | quest. j "Yet I managed a few times to get | "My uniform disintegrated by de- / some bread, and on one or two-red-let-} |grees, The initial fall in the rock bal-| ter occasions even secured what passes | lthe final barrier--that -- electrically ; the | ditch before a German sentry "#nimals of that tribe are @lisgusted | with the Belgian costime I acquired.| plodded by me. tigers, leo- After thal my altered appearance was; ""Afterward came the most nerve- 'sueh that I no longer hesitated to be! racking and torturesome phase of the jis of the most frugal nature. Once ac- affair. I had to dig into the soil with my bare hands. My nails cracked down to the quick, broke off, and left the raw ends of the nerves exposed, After a fellow has starved and hoped and worried for almost two months 'and a half, however, he acquires a de- termination that counteracts even this. | See ae : pies "Before dawn I had gouged out an opening that permitted me to wriggle +t +h with infinite stealth. Sunrise ing on neutral ground, I tt! Looking back over I feel that I have ¥ : % } x ROMANOFF FAMILY HOUSED PLAINLY Or LIFE IN TOBLOSK, "CITY DEATH." Russian Imperial Exiles Drag Out a Colorless Existence Amid Dreary Surroundings. Toblosk has been called the "City of Death," its temperature rarely rising above the freezing point. Most of its houses are built of wood, the one where the Russian imperial family lives. being one of the few brick buildings in that part of the country. Its ground floor is occupied by a company of soldiers installed there as a guard, The two upper floors, con- sisting of fourteen rooms most simply furnished, constitute the apartments of "Col. Romanoff." There is neither running water nor gas, neither electricity nor bathroom. The servants are obliged to draw from a nearby well the water needed for household purposes. The rooms are heated by brick ovens which. burn wood. The largest room is not more than 16 feet by 10 feet. The windows of the house look out on an unattractive landscape. There is not even a garden where the ex- Czar might dig and forget his bore- dom. A narrow balcony and.a' court- yard enclosed by high brick walls fur- | nish the only breathing spots for the | imperial prisoners. Life is Monotonous. Nicholas Romanoff and his wife are ;attending mass at the Cathedral of of soldiers commanded by four offi- cers of the guard:~ The fare imposedon the prisoners | customed to the delicate refinements of French cooking, they are forced to be content with ordinary Russian dishes: To . fresignation: © - jofa _}lost | to retire to Crimea, 'glance this seems a ey es, Sivoo Seeger en. Voyekov in an accent of profound * "Has my life not always b prisoner ? Ido not, regret: my power. All 1 surrounded by flowers. I feel more than ever, that I would be peaceful and happy as a simple citizen republic." -- : Czarina Not Reconciled. of the His resignation in no wise is shared Alexandra. | by the former Czarina andr Everything in her new mode of life wounds, shocks and irritates her. She was allowed to bring little luggage, fifteen trunks in all. Though at first large amount, it is not excessive, when one takes into consideration that it comprises the complete.wardrobe of five women and of the former Czar, who knew that their departure was forever. ; It is almost impossible to buy suit- able clothes at Tobolsk. The prin- cesses took with them only four dresses. They left all their jewels at the Winter Palace. Rumor says that the ex-Empress found means to send secretly to Darmstadt before/the re- volutionary outbreak a great part of the crown jewels. tea Nowadays Alexandra devotes her- self to her children, whom she teaches not to resign themselves but to re- member. What makes her most indig- nant is that she is allowed neither to write nor receive letters that are not opened by the revolutionary officers. She constantly repeats to her daugh- ters: "Never forget what wé are forced to bear at the present moment." Her only confidante is Countess Na- rischkine, who was her lady in wait- ing and who was allowed to follow her to Tobolsk. If the Grand Duchesses ave allowed to come and go freely in' the town without the vexation of any surveil- Jance the same thing is not true of the ex-Czarevitch. Prince Alexis, who is familiarly known as Alioscha, can go out and play in the~ public parks whenever he likes, but he is watched by guards specially attached to his person. He is besides always accom- panied by the giant sailor Derevenko, who is known by his many photo- graphs and who carried the little Prince in his arms after the mysteri- ous accident on the imperial yacht. Alexis is well now, but his right leg is still a bit stiff. The Four Grand Duchesses. The daughters of the former Czar lead a simple life. Grand Duchess Olga, the most serious of them all, has enrolled herself among the volun- tary nurses of a military hospital 'to which are sent convalescents from Siberia and where she eonscientiously passes several hours a day. Grand Duchess Marie has taken up stenography and typewriting, to help | her father write his memoirs. But he dictates nothing and writes nothing. Sometimes he leans out of the only window, which overlooks the town, and watches his children when they go for a walk. He wears the undress uniform of a Colone! of the Prevba- jenskys and puts on a dignified air as soon as he thinks he is being ob-!} served. But when he thinks himself alone his back loses its stiffness, he hides his care-lined face in his hands and this man, whose hair has turned } quite white, falls into melancholy brooding. . ae HUMAN FAMILY. COLOR OF THE Depends Upon What the Different Races Fat. What you eat determines your color. Not necessarily that you yourself could effect any change in color, but your ancestors for thousands of years have unconsciously been influenced by the food they have eaten and the drinks they have drunk, For instance, the original men were black, says the Book of Wonders. Their chief diet was of vegetables and fruits, and these same foods contain manganates that are not unlike irot, Dark browns and blacks result from this combination. It is a scientific fact that negroes who drink milk and eat meat are never as dark-as those who eat vegetables. Again, Mongols are yellow because they have descended from races that were fruit-eating, and who, making their way into the deepest nooks and widest plains of Asia, developed into shepherds and lived largely on milk. Of course it is now known that milk contains a certain percentage of Chlo- rine, and has a decidedly bleaching ef- fect. In the case of Caucasians, they are said to have become white by adding salt to their foods, which common salt is a strong chloride, and powerful in bleaching the skin. sel teenage Red Cross Must Saye. The executive of the Red Cross Society of Regina has asked that the sivice of the Food Controller be care- fully observed at any gatherings in the interests of the Red Cross and that if the hostess really. wishes to serve food she should at least be care- ful not to us@the commodities most needed overseas. ~ ¢ f ' There are 100,000 miles of rail- 'ways in the British Empire. i pt NT, te mprencomst ee ways been that ask is to be allowed} § where I could live EWGiLiETT company UM ; a Hyp ORONTO » On iar 4 | EWILLETT COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO, ONT. a WINNIPEG MONTREAL . Food Control Corner By the new regulations under whic |the Government will supervise stock yards in Canada, a considerable sayv- ing of grain will be effected. Delegates of the conference held in Ottawa -- recently by representatives of the -- Live Stock Branch and Agricultural Departments of the provinces with re--- | presentatives Companies,, testified that feed used to _ "fll" hogs, cattle and sheep before -- weighing and a few hours previous to. being slaughtered, was pure waste. The use of 'grain for this purpose so -- far as cattle were concerned is be-- ing prohibited by the new regulations, while only the lower grades of barley and oats are allowed for hogs. | Mrv_ S, E. Todd, Chief of Staff in the Of- -- fice of the Food Controller, was pre- sent by invitation and spoke of the necessity for conservation, particul- arly of wheat. or "We are bombarded with letters re- garding waste of feed in the stock yards," said Mr Todd. "These let- ters are especially emphatic in re- | gard to wheat. While it may be true that No. 8 milling wheat costs a little less than barley, or crushed corn -- at the present time brought in from Chicago, still the price justification -- Yor feeding wheat at the present*time is insufficient; Wheat is the scarcest article in the world to-day. The ;amount available for shipment in the 'next three months measures the ex- tent of hardship which the Allied peo- _ple will have to endure. This matter ; should not be a quesyiPa of price I i should think it possible to substitute other grains for wheat." __ | It was pointed out that wheat has ; been fed to hogs before they are seal- 'ed so as to increase the weight. But, as the hogs are slaughtered immedi- lately, this increased weight does not igo into pork and is, in fact, pure -- iwaste, the grain, after the hog is | slaughtered, being washed down the | sewers. Different representatives declared |that packers pdid no more for hogs | |fed on water than for hogs weighed | off cars and the practice was really | without justification. A committee | was thereupon appointed to bring in a i recommendation, which was as fol- \lows: "At the suggestion of the Food Controller, and as a war measure only, we recommend that the use of wheat be prohibited as feed for stock to be immediately slaughtered, and that meal and grain of any kind be forbid- den: as feed for cattle at the stock yards; that hogs in the stock yards about to be slaughtered, may be' fed on meal, barley of no higher grade than No. 4 and oats of no higher grade than No. 1 Feed." This report was adopted. 2. ---------- -% Maple Sugar Wanted. Every pound of maple sugar pro- duced this spring addz to the food stock of 'the country at a time when every pound of foodstuffs is needed. Maple sugar makers are sure of a market for every pound of pure maple sugar and syrup they produce. 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