A New. Experiment: in War Work For Women--Plucky Nova Scotians Take to This is not the kind of wartime oc Fish Corparation cupation that can reasonably be advo-; cated for Canadian girls in general. But it is a stimulating example that should prove an incentive to men and women alike. These hardy Eastern' women have eschewed the easier paths open to them and have deliver- ately chosen the rocky trail which has known no other feminine feet in the history of Canada's industries. Early in the season though it is, glowing accounts are coming from: British Columbia of what girls have done in berry-picking in the far West. In the middle West they are operat-' ing tractors and driving cultivators and standing shoulder to shoulder: with their men in running the farms. | But in the far East they have-gone a' step further. They have 'donned men's oil-skins, rubber boots, and sou', westers. They are not farmerettes; nor are they berry-pickers nor dairy- maids. They are--vwell, let us intro-| duce them to you--Canada's first fish-: erettes! Anyone who knows the native life! of Scotland can summon up in this' connection a vivid picture of the Highland "fishwives." So they call them /in the land of cakes and her-, ring!' They were really the precur-, sors of our fisherettes--with a differ-| ence. These Canadian girls are| young and strong, and the necessity | TRODUCING THE FISHER girls to handle the big fish in sheds-- to clean them and skin them and pre- » 4 mb " ---- Fish Cleaning. of Canso, Nova Scotia, to employ this dozen or so of pare them for the market. It was of, the fisher folk that the plaintive song was written, "For men must work and women must weep." It does not look much like it when you see this picture! You feel more in- clined to say "Cheero! for Canada's daughters. Men must fight and women must work." These women are not weeping--al- though their sweethearts and bro thers are in Fance and some of them are beneath the sod: They are-- cleaning fish. It sounds prosaic enough, but patri- otic work is often prosaic and hard and tedious. There is little romance about it on this side of the Atlantic. There is not even the inspiration of direct contact with war's actuality. It is simply a hard level grind--some- times objectionable, often monot- onous. What these girls are doing is not even easy. They are not playing WHAT THE WAR 1S DOING. i THE REACTION UPON US OF COURAGEOUS YOUTH, The Convictions and Consecrations of 'Our Sons in France Are Keep- ing Us From Despair of Life. Never has there been an cra in which youth has reacted upon age so powerfully and so profoundly as~in this one through which the race is 30 painfully passing in this day of grace. The ancient saying, "Old men for council and young men for war," has lost at least one-half of its relevancy, because we are sitting meekly at the feet of the boys who are fighting in France like pupils at the feet of teach- ers. Not only are they outfighting us, but they are outthinking us. Their philosophy of life ig finer. deeper, nobler than our own. When sitting at the "council" board our lips are sealed, while they discuss the deepest mysteries of this mortal life with an unexampled wisdom. Like the Jew- with suckers. These fish are big fellows--heavy to handle, cumber- some "and slimy. In learning the girls get their hands cut with the fish knives often enough. But they are mighty deft about it and are fast earning a reputation for rapid, skil- ful work. = ages has led them to take up this; work. | But the Highland fishwives--who | can ever give them full credit for the, faithful labor of years, the toil their lives, the rigor of their work? Many of them grew old and bent be fore their time because of the ever-| lasting burden of fish they bore mn the creels on their backs. They, were picturesque to look at--but they, were beasts of burden, more like the women of France who dragged along the plow yoked to their bodies, than like normal human beings. In the | days before the war when their busi- | ness flourished, they wore about as, many striped petticoats as Miss Hook of Holland. On their heads were, shawls or "mutches." Very different is the Canadian fish- erette! Her outfit is all-enveloping, smart and utilitarian. She is re-| erulfed from the ranks of the younger, women on the fishing coast. She is taking the place of her sweetheart or her brother. She has, entered into the "big fish" game. ~In other words, she has cut ice in an entirely new spot. For years the large fish companies on the East coast have been bringing girls out from Scotland to workyin their factories, to can and pickle and pack--to handle the her ring and other small fish. But it remained for the Maritime These girly are replacing men who have gone to the front. 'of war rather than the custom of the| The Canada Food Board has been telling Canadians for months past that they must eat more fish. At last people are beginning to realize it, with the result that the demand for of! fish is increasing, and the Atlantic) | dealers are having a busy time keep- ing the markets supplied with the now-famous ten-cent-a-pound fish. So many of the fishermen have heard their country's call to arms that it is doubly hard to cope with Dominion and European demands. And here is where the fisherette comes in. ' If women can help on the farms, in the factories, in industries of every kind, they are surely fitted to take their places by the fishermen, and if they cannot go out in dories to catch the precious sea food, they can at least have a share in handling it on shore. There are hundreds of girls by the coast who might take this to heart. They are on the spot. Their strong young hands and stout hearts are needed in the fishing business. The trail has been blazed. Will they fol- low in the wake of those pioneer fish- erettes ? And will the example set by this handful of girls inspire wo- men in other parts of the country to cast about for the most useful and necessary forms of work to engage in --even if they have to break new trails? "HOUSE OF GOOD COMFORT." St. Dunstan's Hostel For Our Blinded War Heroes. Much satisfaction is being express- ed that through a special effort Can- ada's blinded soldiers who come home without having gone through S8&t. Dunstan's will now be returned there by the Government if they so desire it. Few more sympathetic pictures have been given us of that wonderful place than that written by Lady Jel- licoe. Tho wife of the man who, for two years commanded the great grey fleet. that guards us all, writes: -- "Théte is a certain house in Lon- don--St. Dunstan's--whose name to- day is known all the world over as a gracious monument to those brave men who have'been blinded in the war, Much has been written about St. Dunstan's since March, 1915, when the hostel was first opened. One writer called it the 'House of Good Comfort'--a simple enough title, yet one that would be hard to improve upon, For it fs safe to say the only gloomy people at St. Dunstan's are those who visit for the first time, and the most hardened pessimist would be forced to shed his pessimism when he has once come under the spell of this modern customs house of the kingdom of the blind. As one writer put it, 'st. Dunstan's js not 'A place for curing blindness, but rather for during the malady of seeing.' " "You enter the doors of the fine old house expecting to find yourself in an atmosphere of gloom and depression," sho continues. "Your first sensation inside the entrance hall fs almost in 'the nature of a shock, for you hear Hounds of morry laughter, eager ex- /Glted voloes, dnd of every hand fs jbustle and animation, And speedily 'you fall into the spirit of the place; on realiz6 that thid_{s no ordinary hospital, put iat it is Mote ih the "nails "Of & happy school, "Wwhote scholar aré thobo juét bor Lite & new world--a world in Which sight has nd niédning, whose servatts are touch ahd heating, whogd leadtaster is a Wory huinan pytpethy," The. article 1a too long ti bo quoted in tulh fot Ge dorisiudive 'paragraph 'ta Lotorertin mating "Go ithto the workshops, seo th¢ whistle blows how they lay down their tools, put on their coats. and find their way out through the dark- ness, laughing and jesting Hke a crowd of happy schoolboys. They are men who will tell you that they went to St. Dunstan's miserable, heart- broken creatures, feeling that as far as they were concerned their lives were ended--that they could see noth- ing before them but a vista of mon- otonous misery. Yet a few months at the 'House of Good Comfort' and a seeming miracle has happened. AS one man said, "That's all gone now, thanks to St. Dunstan's and all I learnt there, I find myself better off than ever I was in my life before. I have a nice home, well furnished, plenty of work, and much to look for- ward to; and as true ag I live, I shall never forget all that St..Dunstan's has done for me." Contributions to this noble work may be sent to Sir Arthur Pearson, Regent's Park, London, England, eS SEL "Ee NOS ed - To Canada. Dominion fair! Dear land so free! Thy sons speed on to/victory, For honor and for thee! Keep thou in readiness thy hands To welcome them back from other lands, When they come back to thee. O Canada! thou art'so fair! Thy freedom breathes in God's pure air, Ys Justice and liberty! God love and keep thee pure strong! Guard homes, and all our hearts with song, \ And ever keep thee frase! and Dear land! In honor etand thy hills! Our tears are mingled-with thy rilla! Our pulses beat with thine! We lay our valor at thy feet, That Jt may rige Hke incense sweet, And for thy glory shine! O Fair Dominion! Land so free! at Pitan ae gonsi return to thee, ped om With victory! . i still we Np 'thy bab: bright, Cleat aid persile, & hedoon light, Catiada the tres! 'Oh! gen at thofr trades, Note when th "A business succeeds only as it ser, Vad a | ish doctors in the temple when con- 'founded by the testimony of the youthful Jesus, we are "amazed at | their understanding and their ans- | wers." | See how these glorious young men have reacted upon our half-hearted | loyalty to the Government by their unselfish devotion. Such has been the enthusiasm of the volunteers and the humble obedience of the conscripts at the chance to serve the nation that we stand abashed and have been com- pelled to revalue our responsibilities and our duties as citizens of Canada. See how they have reacted upon our love of Juxury and ease by their cheer- ful abandonment of all those privil- eges and instruments of modern civili- zation which have become to most of us the very essentials of life. Faith in a Better World See how they have reacted upon us by their "hilarity of heroism" in the presence of danger and the endurance of pain. Is there any man living who is not a bigger and a better man for hearing how those boys of ours have endured the horrors of the trenches, the battlefields and the hospitals of France? See how they have reacted upon our philosophy of life and particularly of death. In simplicity and sincerity and with an astounding conviction and faith they have accepted the funda- ;mental ideas that life is service and | death is immortality. Hear one of |them say on the eve of battle: "If | wounded, Blighty, if killed, the resur- rection!" "Tam no longer afraid of death; I have learned to consider it as an in- vestment!" said another. The prevailing conception of life on the battlefields of Europe to-day, among the Allied soldiers, anyway, is that it extends beyond the grave. So profound is this conviction that it has all but eliminated the skepticism pro- duced by modern science, "falsely so called." Like radiating circles the hopes conceived by these young men in the presence of death in all its most horrible forms have swept around the world and changed the con- victions of millions of human beings about the nature of existence. It is the hopes, the convictions, the purposes and the'consecrations of our song in France that are keeping us from despair of life. We whose sun is setting could not endure the strain of seeing our old world splitting asun- der but for their indomitable faith in a new and better one. This is thelr world now. They are saving it and will reconstruct it, and us old folks with it, we believe. cincinnati atcccitaiestiiay Conceited of Him. Professor Phirstboy prided him- self upon his advanced and_ enligh- tened views concerning women and their place in the scheme of things. He sat next a very clever woman at a little dinner he attended the other night, and, in reply to a remark of hers, cried: "My dear lady, I go farther than believing in women's suffrage; I main- tain that man and woman are equal in every way." "Oh, professor!" said the lady very very sweetly,"Now you're bragging." Grape-Nuts { One S of the finest teachers of food values It's brimful of Nourishment Combines nice- with ot i t en ane Give It A Test Ps Canada "Food. ibe -d 'License No, 2-03 | Hs cd ) industrious TOWARD THE VOID OF SPACE Appearance of the Sky, Sun and Stars at an Elevation of One Haindred Miles. If, as reckoned, and as there seems no reason to doubt, the projectiles thrown into Paris by the new German guns from a distance of seventy-four miles mount fourteen miles into the air, they reach further into the vault of blue than any point hitherto at- tained by human effort. a "free" balloon that was sent up from Berlin carrying eight automatic instruments to record temperature and alr density, a number of years ago. It attained an elevation of eleven and a half miles, : Mainly by the use of such instru- ment-carrying balloons much has been learned within recent years about the "sea of air" at the bottom of which we dwell. So rapidly does it "thin out" as one passes upward through it that no human being can survive for long beyond an elevation of four miles for lack of sufficient oxygen. Half of the total volume of the at- mosphere is below the three-mile level, 'and its density, roughly speaking, is halved for each three miles of ascent. Next comes | The air contained in a box three feet cube, at sea level weighs twenty ounces; at an elevation of fourteen! miles it would weigh less than one. ounce. Reached Height of 6 Miles The highest level ever reached by a human being was attained by Doctor Berson, who, in 1898, voyaged in a balloon to a height of nearly six miles ---the elevation of the loftiest clouds, such as we call "mares' tails," which are believed to be composed of snow- crystals or ice-crystals.. He was en- abled to accomplish this feat by taking a tank of oxygen with him, and his thermometer recorded a temperature of 54 degrees below zero. The above-mentioned free balloon sent up from Berlin, which was called the Cirrus, noted with its automatic thermometer 75 degrees. Meteorolo- gists are of opinion that at twenty- five miles above the earth's surface the temperature is never less than 200 degrees below zero, and that at fifty miles it is not far from the absolute zero of the outer void of space-- 525 2-5 degrees below zero. 100 Miles Above Earth Thee highest elevation attained by land was reached in 1892 by W. M. Conway, who scaled the summit of Pioneer Peak, in the Himalayas. It is the loftiest point ever trodden by human foot--nearly 23,000 feet above the level of the sea. But Mount Everest, in the same great backbone of Asia, is more than a mile higher and presumably can never be climbed. There is not enough air on or near its top. In the upper regions of the sea of air there is not only no air (adequate for human purposes) to breathe, but the cold is such that no warm-blooded creature could survive for a minute. The climate is an eternal winter, its temperature uninfluenced by the warmest rays of the summer sun. But (supposing that we could sur- vive there for a brief time) let us place ourselves in imagination ata level of 100 miles above the happy spot where at present it is our priv- jlege to dwell. We look about us, and what do we see? The blue sky? There is no such thing. The sky is jet-black--the stars scintillating in it with a bril- Nancy wholly unfamiliesy And how about the sun? It is' inconceivably dazzling, but, in color it is not yellow or red. It is a brilliant blue. The aspect in which ordinarily it appears to us is due to interference with its blue rays by the atmosphere. > SEA-BEANS GROWN ON LAND, Gulf Stream Bears Them Northward From Carribbean Shores. Along the Atlantic beaches in Flori- da are picked up great numbers of "sea-beans"--very pretty things, about the size of a hickory nut mostly, and utilizable for the making of trinkets, Often they are worn as watchcharms. They are almost incredibly hard and suseeptible of a high polish, being first sandpapered and then finished by rubbing with chamois- skin. Sallors and fishermen prepare them in this manner, and, by cutting in odd ways, for sale to tourists. They are of many varieties, and for merly there was a good deal of mys- tery about their origin--the supposi- tion being that they were seeds of plants that grew somewhere in the depths of the sea. This theory easily accounted for the quantities of them thrown up on the shore by the break. ers, If is now known, however, that they are in reality the seeds of pod-bearing vines that grow profusely along the Caribbean littoral. Each pod contains several of them, arranged like peas in a pea-pod. The vines grow most com- monly on or near the 'banks of streams, by which the beans (dropped from the ripened pods) are carried to the sea. The gulf Stream, sweeping north- ward up the Florida coast, brings with it millions of the floating beans, which are cast up on the beaches, Some of them are as much as three inches in diameter, but deemed of no value. we A Scrambled Metabhor "Yes," said the lecturer, attempt- ing an éloquent climax to his address, Kail along the untrodden paths of nature you can seé6 the footprints of an unseen hand," = * A good way to use up coal dust is to take a shovelful and before placing {t on the fire sprinkle a little fine soda on #. This enables it to burn well and brightly, Bereta mana /any kind of a corn, can harmlessly be [Cream We are in the market for cream all through the year. We pay the HIGHRST market price. Our. plant ig right. up-to- date. In business since 1905. Drop us @ postcard for partioulars. Mintual Dairy and Cream 5 743-5 King St. Went nee ee ito l pee fr Attractive | Medels Soeantoes cadena -- : / : An original little romper or sleep+ ing garment in peg-top effect. 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