= ag S Rak your Grocer. (,.- hook. ~~ | her. Ri s not only the most. at strength b See 'delicious qualities as it not ecohomical on account of ut you have LX. the refreshing B438 - ackets.. well. me si f Sealed Metal P n = =: S----- pe, a to. ir = gy ere cL CHAPTER XXVIL--(Continued) -- Still, she cared. Staring out of her window upon the quay, she caught her breath at sight of every new passer-, by, in fearful hope that it might prove to be Monte. She did this when she. knew that Monte as hundreds of mites" away. She did this in face of the fact that; if his coming depended upon her consent, she would have withheld that consent. If in truth he had suddenly appeared, she would have fled in terror. He must not come; he should not come--bnt, O God, if he would come! f | Sometimes this thought held her for' a moment before she realized it. Then for a gpace the sun appeared in the blue sky and the birds set up such a singing as Marie had never heard in all her life Perhaps for a step or two she saw him striding toward her with his face aglow, his clear, blue eyes smiling, his tender man mouth open to greet her. So her heart leap- ed to her throat and her arms tremb- led. Then--the fall into the abyss as she caught herself. Then her head drooping upon her arm and the rack- ing, dry sobs. Something comes with love. the greatest thing in the world.- Sit- ting by her window, watching the shadows pass, Marjory' was sensing this. 'The knowledge was coming slowly, imperceptibly; but it was bringing her strength. It was steadying her nerves. It was prepar- ing her ox the supreme test. ecause that very day, toward sun- set-time, as she still sat by her win- dow, she saw a shadow that looked like Monte. She smiled a little, be- cause she knew it would soon dissolve. Rapidly the shadow strode along the quay until opposite the hotel. instead of vanishing, it came on-- straight toward her. She sprang to her feet, leaning back against the wall,' not daring to look again. So she stood, counting her heart-beats; for she was still certain that when a hun- dred or so of them had passed, the il- lusion also would fade. Marjory did not have time to count a full hundred heart-beats before she heard a light rap at the door. For the fraction of a second she swayed in the fear that, taking the stairs three at a time, Monte might have ventured to her very room. But it would be with no such gentle tap that, he would announce himself. "Yes?" she called. "A card for madame," voice of the garcon, . Her knees still weak, she crossed the room and took the card. There was no longer any hope left to her. Apparitions do not materialize to the point where they present their cards. "Madame is in?" queried the boy. "What else can I say?" she asked, ag if, in her desperate need, seeking counsel of him. The boy shrugged his shoulders. "If madame desires, I can report madame is away," he offered. It was all one to him. It was all came the one to every one else in the world but. herself. No one was _ interested. She was done: Then why had not Monte himself let her alone? That was the point. but to determine that it was necessary to see him. It was possible he had come to see Peter, not knowing that Peter had gone. It was/ possible he had re- turned this way in order to take the Mediterranean route home. On the face of it, anything .was more prob- able than that he had come deliber- ately to see her. "You will ask monsieur to wait, and I will be down in a few monfents," she replied to the boy. ; She called to Marie. "T have a caller," she announced nervously. "You must make me look as young as possible." Even if she has grown old inside, there was no reason why she should reveal her secret, "Tam glad," nodded Marie. "Madame should put on a white gown and wear a ribbon in her hair." "A ribbon!" exclaimed madame. "That would look absurd." "You shall see." ~ She was too weak to protest. was glad enough to sit down and giv herself up utterly to Marie. . "Only we must not keep him wait- ing too long," she said. "Monsieur Covington does not like to be kept waiting." "Tt is he?" exclaimed Marie. ¢ "It--it ig quite a surprise.' She blushed. do not understand why he is here." "Tt should not be difficult to under- stand," ventured Marie. To that madame made no reply, It was clear enough what Marie meant. It was a natural enough mistake. * To her, Monsieur Covington was still the Wusband of madame. She had stood in the little chapel in Paris when madame was married. When one was married, one was married; and that was all there was to it for all time. So. doubtless, Marie reason- " --the old, honest, woman way. i ' Madame folded her hands in _her| Es did her hair and adjusted the ribbon. | Then Marie slipped a white gown, over her head. : Ree "There," concluded the maid, with; satisfaction, as she fastened the last. "Madame looks a3 young as} when she was married." But the color that made her look} young vanished the moment Marjory | started down the stairg alone to meet | him. Several times she paused to - eatch her breath; several times she 'was upon the point of turning back. | Then she saw him coming up to meet: "She felt her hand in 'his. \ + RIFLERS It is. that more than love itself which is' Then, | It was the simple peasant way! and closed her eyes while Marie | "Then I had a long letter from a. if riletl-~ get "Jove!" he was saying, "but it's good to see you again." | "But I don't understand why you! are here," she managed to gasp. To him it was evidently as simple as to Marie. "To see you," he answered prompt- y- : "If that is all, then you should not have come," she declared. -- | They were still on the stairs. She/ led the way down and into the lower, reeeption-room. go again into the sun parlor. thought it would be easier to talk to' him in surroundings not associated with anything in the past. They had, the room to themselves. She sat) down and motioned him to another chair at some little distance. He! paid no attention to her implied re-| quest. With his feet planted firm-| ly, his arms folded, he stood before | her while she tried to find some way of avoiding his gaze. | "Peter Noyes has gone "Yes," she nodded. about his eyes?" |. "He wrote-me." = She looked up swiftly. "Peter wrote you?" she trembled. "He told me he had recovered his sight. He told me he was going." What else had he told? she awited. For the first time in her life, she felt as if she might faint. That would be such a silly thing to dol "He said he was going home--out of your life." Peter had told Monte that! What else had he told? | He paused a moment, as i ing her to make some reply. was nothing she could say. | "It wasn't what I expected," 'went on. | What else had Peter told him? "Wasn't there any other way?" he asked. "I didy't send him home. He--he chose to go," she said. : "Because it wasn't any use for him to remain?" | "J told him the truth," she nodded. | "And he took it like a man!" ex- ' claimed Monte enthusiastically. "I'd like to show you his letter, only I, don't know that it would be quite fair to him." . ? "JT don't want to see it," she cut in. "J__I know I shouldn't." What else besides his going had Peter told Monte? | "Tt was his letter that brought me | back," he said. | She held her breath. She had | warned Peter that if he as much as hinted at anything that she had con- fessed to him, she would lie to Monte. So she should--but God forbid that this added humiliation be brought) upon her. . | "You see when I went I expected 'that he would. be left to care for you. With him and his sister here, I knew |you wouldn't be alone. I thought | the 'd stay, or if they went--you'd BO) with them." "But why shouldn't I be alone?" she gathered strength to ask. : "Because," he answered quickly, "it isn't good for you. It isn't good for | any one. Besides, it isn't right. | When we were married I made cer- tain promises, and those hold good un- til we're unmarried." "Monte!" she cried. "As long as Peter was around, that was one thing; now that he's gone--" "Tt throws me back on your hands," she interrupted, in an attempt to as- ," he began. | "You heard Dizzily | f expect- There | Europe who think of business he | grow. er ed Nationas Budgets ; . Shipping debtroyed «5055-5. 52653 Men lost Bs a a ee acd _ wrecked. -- : ' immigration. € re t= 7 eS are Orr eee te Sr he ie rs Ota) aepeweets esteem ee ec a ee rue the chance hy veges «eee ss + 5: 0$88,000,000,000 ' Inflation of currency and increased prices. z pee Business development checked aad business machinery Property damaged by under maintenance of idietas. ; Industry crippled by diversion of men and (in U. S.) lack of yey ' , _ $105, 88,000,000 ES oe als. 33,000,000 ree "4,342,000 3,169,000 aoe Pie Cost in Dollars. t x 4 ee re 2 : The - 1,030,000,000 - 21,000,000,000 Indirect Losses : Production diverted Death rate increased _. Birth rate decreased. Physical suffering. Moral 'degradation. ~ * 31,000,000 -- 1,936,000 -- : < - $48,000,000,000 14,600,000,000 Lack of education for children and rt 20,000,000 2,667,000 Se Ey eel * - $134,000,000,000 ~4,080,000,000 _ 38,000,000,000- from creative to destructive purposes. i 2 and race vitality lowered. d for youthful soldiers. 7) . ». = x EUROPE EXPECTS TOURIST AID Busily Preparing for a Tbarist Rush When Conflict is Over. While the guns are still roaring on the battle fronts there are people in after the war. It is quite natural that the Swiss should think of rebuilding their fortunes after peace is declared, for their best income producing "indus- try," the tourist business, has been killed by the war. The question the Swis press. The Neue Zuercher Zeitung thinks the Federal Govern- her loss. There is an_ undisguised | : ' : 'tendency in all European countries to, Summer and winter. discourage travelling and spending domains. In France the "Office National-du Tourisme' has been created to foster the tourist business. Former Miniis- ter Sembat is the director of this Gové ernment Department. The French expect a mass incursion by Americans after the war. They believe America losses caused, for instance, Germans staying at home. by the industry again on a sound footing. Italy is spending millions to improve the Italian Rivi- era in addition to a share spent by the localities. for* the same purpose. Immense sums are ready to be spent for advertising "as soon as peace is declared. Germany and Austria have formed will more than recompense them for | Italy too is making strenuous efforts | {to put her tourist ¥ a union, political as well as economic. ist business. The leading hotel and itransit organizations are cooperating with one another to boost German and | Austrian watering places, baths and | mountain rts. Before the war the overwhelming. majority of foreigners touring Ger- many were Russians, and Germans be- lieve the invasion from the East will materially increase on account of re- cent events, military and revolution- '\the Swiss press. The Neue Zuercher ary. | The northern countries, Norway es- | pecially, are bidding for foreign tour- She did not care to ment will have to spend a great deal | ists more and more. They are the ©, of money if Switzerfand is to recoup | pioneers in developing winter sports |and are reaping their harvests, both They cannot /expect any foreign tourists, however, ,money. outside of their own respective /until after the war, as they have hard- 'ly enough provisions to feed the home population. " ee Canada's Allowance and Britain's. How does your voluntary allowance compare with the British ration? Figure it out and see. The adult is allowed a pound of meat per week and the child half a pound. The bacon ration is the same, with.a supplemen- tary allowance for heavy workers and adolescents. Five ounces of butter and margarine and two ounces of lard per head are allowed. The sugar ra- tion is half a pound per head. The milling extraction for bread is now 90 per cent. in Britain as compared with 94 per cent. in Germany. ---__f S Breakfast on browned crusts with PREPARING T Midsummer illnesses are tables in the diet. ness, troukle is sure to follow, espec- physical condition. the condition under very carefull how and what we eat. Most houses are now are carried in dust. therefore be protected from dust as from flies. While food is cooling, uncovered or standing exposed to the air, spores or and the warmth present causes their rapid multiplication. Food should, therefore, be cooled as quickly as pos- sible and never left standing in a hot kitchen or unprotected anywhere. It is wise to put soup or stewed fruit into two dishes instead of one that they may Bote Fepelly cool and be put sert herself. 'Please to sit down. | You're making your old mistake | of, trying to be serious. There's not) the slightest reason in the world why, She ventured to look at him again. | His brows were drawn together in a, puzzled frown. Dear Monte--it was, cruel of her to confuse him like this, | looked so very woe-begone when he, looked troubled at all. "It--it isn't any bother," he stam-) 'mered. ' : | "J should think it was a good deal," she answered, feeling for a moment, | that she had the upper hand. "Where | | did you come from to here?" "Paris," "You didn't go on to England at, | ; "Then you didn't get back to your 'schedule. If you had done that, you wouldn't have had any time left to--, 'to think about other things." i "T didn't get beyond the Norman-} die," he answered. "My schedule' stopped short right there." | | He was still standing before her. Apparently he intended to remain. So, she rose and crossed to another chair, He followed. "You should have gone on, sisted. "Thad my old rdom--next to yours," he said. She must trouble him still There was no other way. "The, was rather. sentimental of you; Monte, wasn't it?" she asked lightly. "J went there as a man goes home,"| he answergd softly. Her lips became suddenly dumb. " she in- more. Peter; the first one." 4 "He has written you before?"- "We wrote me that he loved you, and was going to marry you. That, wag before he learned the truth." "About you?" : "And about you. | When he wrote again, he said you had told him every- thing."* : (To be continued.) ses A cut lemon rubbed on fishy knives and forks takes away the smell at once. d away. : Do not trust too much to the re- frigerator to keep foods in good condi- tion. ter before they reach the cooler, their multiplication may 'be delayed but the temperature of the ice box, being be~' foundation for the jelly, strained to-| during the first year of the war. The them harmless and if through lack of ice, it warms up, a dangerous change in the foods is easily brought about. Few foods should stand over | twenty-four hours without scalding to! kill germs that may be present. Meat with gravy, reheated in a pie crust, ' or a salad or meat loaf can become so germ-infected as to cause severe ill- ness. The housemother may suc- cumb first to the poison created by the germs, because she has worked hard and eaten carelessly. It is well for her to try to keep cool in mind and body during the busy, trying days of August. Why spend hours in a hot kitchen making cakes, pies and fancy desserts when fresh fruit is more abundant than at any other time of the year? Try to plan to have as few hot dishes ag possible and yet have something warm at each meal. Plan all three meals at once and "dovetail" them to save handling the same materials and utensils twice a day. A Where ice is not available, gelatine may be used to give form not only to desserts but to meat loaves or salads. The knuckle or end of the leg of: veal may be made into an attractive dish for hot weather by the aid of; gelatine, instead of serving it as a stew, which is. more appetizing for a cool day. ' Lamb can be used in the same way. To prepare a delicious jellied loaf, trim and wash the meat and barely cover with cold water, add a few whole cloves, an onion, parsley or dried celery leaves, and one teaspoon~ ful of salt for each quart of water. Cook gently for two hours or until the bones may be slipped out. Drain the broth from the meat and let, it cook again, uncovered, until reduced ially if we ourselves are nov in good The high temperature and moisture usually present in August afford just which bacteria We need, therefore, to be screened aghinst flies but harmful germs also All food should germs of molds and ferments enter | This form of diet; broth and more seasoning as needed, a ; i is the best for this season of the year little lemon juice ee but unless these foods are not in per-| fect condition of ripeness and «ican- cucumber pickle chopped fine. skin and bones removed. It may be Leave over night to cool. Or it may be shaped in small cups, one mold to be served to each person on a lettuce leaf or nest of water cress. Aimost any meat or fish or fowl may be pre- pared in the same way. Liver boiled, with a little chopped ham, makes good change. with a cooked salad dressing in which a little gelatine has been dissolved, is excellent. tive shape the last bits of a roast of meat or of a boiled ham, instead of using them for hash or a hot meat loaf. Sometimes when we make a meat loaf and steam it there is considerable liquid in the pan when it is done and the solid portion has drawn away from the pan. This liquid may be used to dissolve a small amount of ( vhy | If trouble-making germs have} soaked gelatine and then be poured, them. They are a great improvement you should bother about me like tltis."| settled on meat, dessert, milk or but-| over the meat again, thus surround-| over the inverted "washbasins" orlgi- jing it with jelly when it is cold. | When meat broth is jacking as a when he was trying to see straight. He | low freezing, is not such as to render' mato may be used, or celery or even | cucumber may be cooked and strained and seasoned. ii: Sterilize Your Fruit Juices. | Fruit juices for use later in jelly making can be sterilized and bottled without sugar and made into jellies at the housewife's convenience. This 'enable her to do with fewer jelly glasses and to distribute her pur- chases of sugar for jelly making through the year. More over, with the bottled juice she can make a greater variety of jellies, as juices _which will not "jell" can be put up when the fruit is ripe and combined later -with fruits that will jell, or fruits' ripening at different seasons can be combined. For example, the juice of strawberries, cherries: or pine- apple can be kept without sugar, and later, when apples ate plentiful, can be made into combination jelly. To put up Aunsugared fruit juices for. jelly making, proceed exactly as, if jelly were to be made at the time. Cook the fruits until they aré soft and strain out the 'juice through a flannel bag. Heat and pour while 'hot into bottles previously scalded. Fill the bottles full, leaving no air ' space between juice and cork or seal. ! Place the filled sealed bottles on their | sides in water near the boiling point, 'and keep them in the bath for about 'thirty minutes. Make sure that the {corked or sealed end is under the hot water, cover the cork with a paraffin seal. Thorough sterilization and seal- | ing are absolutely essential to success, | To make _juice, test its jelling quality, add the 'proper amount of sugar, and proceed This economic union includes the tour-| 'left in large pieces or be chopped. | peck St good si or loaf pan or sand, may, for the reason mentioned,| Great Britain has been the "sure a bowl and strain the broth over it. pe productive of mirages. Thus it is| shield" of civilization. This is a fine way to put in attrac-| eid from the sterilized} | ILLUSIONS OF THE DESERT. | Mirages, Once Considered Supernatur- al, are Now Explained. Military operations in Mesopotamia are often impeded by mirages, which alter the normal aspect of desert land- 'seapes. Even in battle the determin- ation of aim and range of gins may be rendered difficult by this cause. In earlier days mirages were con- nected in people's minds with the su- pernatural, but now we know the rea- ; | 4 Re. - aa : Her National Debt Has Grown From | "| Three to Thirty-Nine Billion-- ae jcording to adyic« jare son why of them. Two or more layers of air of differené temperatures, and | therefore of different densities,' are | superposed one upon another, and, in| consequence, rays of light passing. |through them are bent at different , angles. ; . The hot sand of a desert warms | and rarefies the stratum of air next the ground, while immediately above it are cooler layers. A result is the refraction of sunlight in such a way as to produce curious optical effects. | Deceptive images appear, suggesting (through imagination) to the eye. lakes of water, groves of trees, etc. | Owing to the bending of the light-| rays, mountains actually below the! horizon may be brought into view. | j 'shillings, subscriptions to the German war Joan | Gredit is 'Unimpaired. Fete - 'The war is costing the people of {Great Britain the gigantic sum of $34,- 930,000 per day, or $1,455,000 every hour, of nearly $25,000 a minute, ac- adyices received at Ottawa trom the British Ministry of Inferma- Hon sc. = bel A statement prepared" by the Im- perial authorities reads: ~ After four years of exhausting war Britain's credit, fs still unimpaired. Her "silver -bullets" are being turned out by the hundred million, and every- one is finding its billet. Her people cheerfully bearing the ever-in- creasing strain whfeh has been placed upon their shoulders, and will spare no effort in blood or treasure till vic tory is assured. Debt Increases Twelve-fold. Britain's national debt has in- creased during the war from $3,225. | 000,000 to $39,900,000,000, or in excess of twelve times over, and yet she is paying all--and much more than all-- her debt charges out of current taxa- tion, while the new taxation, raised by 'Germany is not enough to pay the*in- terest accumulated upon her war debt. The population of Germany is half as large again as that of Great Britain, and for her largest war loan subscrip- tions of one shilling and upwards were accepted, while in Britain the mini- mum subscription received was 15 yet the record number of was 5,279,000, against 5,289,00 to the British loan. The cost of living in Great Britain had risen enormously be- cause of the war, uatil now the house fe | wife can obtain only half the food re- | ceived,for the same meney in peace- times. tish war loan was issued cash appli- cations for 4 , months when they And yet, when the third Brie ma Sy . ( war savings certificates | corn flour, apoleon's army, crossing the sands | made by individuals too poor to sub- | substitutes. of Lower Egypt, really did get sight | scrine the minimum sum of 16 shil; stitutes shou of remote towns which by the mirage |jings to the loan itself amounted to, were lifted within the range of vision. , It is a phenomenon not peculiar to. deserts. Once ina while Boulogne may | _be seen from Hastings, across the. $190,000,000, © Before the war the people of Br tain paid taxes amounting to approxi mately $1,000,000,000 a year; 'Food Co Nothing, other than actual savi of essential foodstuffs from normal consumption, can add to the food re- -- sources of our soldiers and Allies un- til the new crop becomes available. T e: world's' reserves, of wheat are RG hausted. Remaining supplies © wheat and flour on this continent are lower than is normally required for consumption until September Ist. -- These supplies must. be reserved, as far as possible, for shipment over- seas or for the use of those to whom substitute foods are nob available. Any relaxation of our conservation efforts now would result in serious want in Europe. Not only is the flour barrel of our © Allies practically exhausted, but they. also require from us laegely increas- -- ed shipments of meat, cheese, butter and other fats. Furopean dairy -- herds have already been depleted to- such' an extent as to constitute a real menace, for our Allies' dairy produc- . tion has been reduced to half of nor- moral. It is. important that we -- should stay the slaughter of these ani- mals, especially during the summer can graze, and milk for ve gan be produced * at small cost ed. In order to 5 products, the Canada Food Board has de arrangements for the manu- facture in Canada of ample supplies of barley flour and other The use of these sub- ld not be limited by the minimum regulations _ or requests of the Food Board, but they should be j-' used to the greatest possible extent in - | private households, as a s tc-day ribution to the national effort to re- mall con- | British Channel, a distance of. forty they are paying taxes to the tune of | lease wheat for our soldiers and Al- miles, | In such a case the phenomenon is | of air being chilled by the water of | the sea. Thus, as often happens on an | in the sky, sailing or steaming upside | down. The most famous of all mirages is, that of the Fata Morgana, which is, observed now and then in the Straits | of Messina, separting Sicily from the , mainland of Italy. It offers slight | and casual glimpses of the myster-| ious isle of the fairy Morgan--a bless- | often' to less than the bulk of the meat.' , charged to excess of fruit and vege- Dissolve some soaked gelatine in the ee Se oe summer lasts forever. The fortunate, island paradise lines against the sky. Areas of cold ice, as_ well as hot, fi not very surprising to learn that the great Muir Glacier of Alaska has a mirage all its own, and, in a way, the most remarkable of all. This mirage (said to have been ob- | served and even sketched by the Duke. fined streets, public buildings, spites-- of churches, parks and even people moving about. | THE NEW TRENCH HELMET, | American Invention is Great Improve- | ment on the Old Variety. American shock-absorbing helmets ; are now being worn by United States 'soldiers in France, and although they ' were only recently perfected, the arm- les of the allies have already adopted nally brought into use by the Prus- sans, and adopted by all combatants description of them would lead the 'reader to imagine that the familiar football headpiece may have given the inventor his first idea. According to a writer in the Illus- trated World, the innovations consist |of rubber cushion shock-absorbers, an inner helmet to which the metal cove ering is affixed and a protection for 'the eyes and the nose. When putting on this headpiece, the soldier first 'dons a skullcap of soft felt, covered | with smooth oilcloth on the -outside, The cap snaps by a hook-and-eye ar- | _rangement to the visor of the metal helmet itself. That is the only attache /ment, so that when the headpiece is | struck by a- bit of shrapnel or other ; missile it can give way glancingly to 'the blow. Anything except a smash- ing, direct hit is completely deflected. The soft skullcap lessens the shock, ,and to give added protection soft rub- ber pads are inserted beneath the me- %al to keep the heavy jar from causing | concussion of the brain. A wide, slop- ing brim protects the neck, and a metal nose guard protects the eyes, nose and temples. ' 5. eee es Bridges. Greater than any bridge of stone, Across whatever waters thrown} Greater than any heaving bridge Of ships across the ridge on ridge Of roaring seas; yea, greater still Is that strong bridge which from the will : ' Of patriot soul to patriot, soul Doth bear us to our shining goal-- The unseen bridge of Liberty, Linking all hearts that would be free, . --------9 Keep a small toothbrush at hand for cleaning round the handles of tea- cups and tureens, and for dishes with | fertilizer, oil and glycerine. !erable research has 'as in making jelly from freshly ex- pressed juice. eS ay ts rough surfaces or raised designs. y $3,270,000,000 annually. this, In spite Great Britain raised her third come in 1914. A s Great Britain is now spending $9,-, be a material fa ocean voyage, ships are seen inverted | 805,000,000 a year on her army, her ; tion campaign. of . lies. (due to the same cause, though with war loan of $5,000,000,000, a sum equal | plentifu conditions reversed, the lower stratum to nearly half her entire national in- | meet rapi navy, her air services and her muni--- tions factories, and supplies, but des- pite this colossal financial burden, she has advanced loans to her poorer al- lies amounting in the aggregate to $8,160,000,000. Although she is spending more every day at the present time than she did in two weeks prior to the war, Britain's credit -remains un- despite the sea-pirates of her ships shaken; Germany, to spend her last of the world from the Hun. unspeakable *? Women on the Farm The women on the land at present number hundreds of thousands, with- out counting farmerettes. The farm- chopped and mixed of the Abruzzi when he was in the! ers' wiveh and the farmers' daughters 3 a country a few years ago) exhibits the | have been hard at work all year; their Canned salmon mixed aspect of a large city, with well-de- | day is never ended, milking, feeding poultry and pigs, butter making, hand- ling eggs for market, etc. Their chor- es are innumerable and in addition to that they have their own family tasks, cares and responsibilities. At harv- est time they have the additional bur- den of feeding the harvest hands. There is plenty of room for war ; er- vice on the part of town girls who want to help in the war in voluntecr- ing to help farmers' wives on the neighboring farms during the harvest rush. This would release the farm- er's wife from her household duties and add her effective labor for outside work in aid of her husband who will be hard put to it to get in his crops this season. Helping the farmer's wife this year is just as important as any other war wotk that women can take up. nen To Conserve Fish Waste. The Canada Food Board has been advised by Messrs. Ernest Scott & Company, engineers, Fall River, Mass., that they are prepared to _ install equipment in Canada for the reduc- tion of fish and fish waste to fish meal, Consid- been conducted along this line by private parties and various branches of the Government in Canada, but great auantities of the material are still being wasted. ae : ; and commerce | r vinegar Or & dwell in lofty houses, whose portals still go and come across the oceans; Have » ee : open on cerulean spaces and whose and she is ready the meat carefully picked over, all' spires and towers float in graceful shilling in safeguarding the security 'can be produced this year. 'the necessity for conservation No excuse should be accepted from dealers, because they can obtain -- 1] supplies from the millers to diy increasing demands. Our large crop of vegetables should ctor in the Conserva- By using them freely we can save wheat, meat, etc., which are so greatly needed overseas. Those fruits and vegetables which are not required for immediate consumption | should be preserved by canning, dry- ing or storing, and made available for winter use. ; The plain facts of the food situa- tion place upon the people of Canada responsibility for seeing ordinary efforts are made to harvest and to save every pound of food that Nor will and increased production be ended with the harvest. It is now abundantly clear that this year's crop will be no more than is required to restore our normal reserves. Large reserves must be built up as a military mea- sure, the necessity for which has been so terribly demonstrated. Already it is estimated that move than 4,750,- 000 people in Europe have died of starvation since the outbreak of the war----more than have been killed by» fighting--and we must do our utmost to protect our Allies against further suffering. > In the Conservation campaign the people of Canada should reflize the vital nature of the present war and the issueS at "Stake. "Well-Ped Soldiers Will Win the War". Let us live up to the responsibilities which this slogan involves upon us. And «@ . at the same time let us not forget that our civilian Allies, who have borne the brunt of the war's suffering and sacrifices, are dependent upon us for essential food supplies. Wearing Black. Black as a color of mourning has been discarded in Europe during the war because it had depressing effect on the whole civilian population and also proved a serious financial purden to the poor and a positive men- ace to the national interests in that it diverted workmen and material from strictly nécessaty channels into streams that fed only the luxury of war. aa te : sicily fap coals Getting Even "Yes," remarked a conceited young bachelor, "I have the greatest admir- ation for the fair sex, but I never ex- pest to marry--oh, dear no!" "Indeed!" remarked a lady, 'Then I am to understand that you not only -- admire women, but you have a sin- cere regard for them as well," ST OO TT 7 U j Ti Li Bungalow Model, $480.00 & Canada nd = 's Oldest_a GLUTEN i THE WILLIAMS PIANO CO,, RTT ee amas HFT SHE outward beauty that distinguishes a Williams New Scale Plano Is an Index of Its Intrinsic worth. 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