always obtainable has given it a prestige her tea on sale. - by no ot out-draws and out-classes all other teas, aaron cctattageetivney: sipthienide The incomparable = Tea-Pot results _ from an infusion, possessed > sale' "This is no idle claim" =---- $500 __ --_-- 'The Ri By GERTRUDE PART I. Milly sat on the back porch shell- Ing peas. The August sun shone on her pretty brown head, turning | strands of hair to gold. As she! snapped open the crisp green pods she frowned disdainfully. After all, what was the use of working all the afternoon to get supper? The men could eat it in half an hour, and then she would have to wash the greasy dishes and get the table laid for breakfast. he chased a pea that escaped down the starched folds of her blue gingham, caught it and put) ny ceflectively into her mouth. As| she was munching the juicy morsel a voice sounded back of her. "Supper 'most ready, Milly?" "Pretty near, Arthur," she respond- ed without turning her head. P Arthur was Milly's betrothed. He owned the farm next to the Vinol place and in common with other men of the meighborhood was helping her} father with the threshing. The habit | of old-fashioned neighborliness had} not died out in remote Danby. Milly lazily watched him as he strode to the well and ducked his head beneath the spout while the! hired man, Hank, pumped vigorously. She thought he looked very much | ng and the Girl Showed a striking resemblance to her ROBINSON. mother, a slim, tired-looking woman with brown-gray hair and faded blue eyes, sat up on the'side of the bed. "You've had an awful lot to do, haven't you, child," she 'commiserat- ed. "It is a shame I had to play out to-day. I feel better now." Her daughter placed the tray by the open window. "Come sit here in the breeze and eat your toast while it is crisp," she coaxed. Her mother slipped from the side-of the bed and walked, swaying a bit, to the window. As she sipped the tea the tired lines faded fgom her face. The wind ruf- fled her' hair and in the twilight she daughter. Presently she leaned over the sill. "Why," she exclaimed, "isn't Arthur going to help finish? He is driving away." Milly glanced guiltily out of the = ond Zeebrugge, was moored until re- Gin {cently the red, rusty North Hinder Light vessel belonging to the Dutch. German submarines from Wilhelms- haven, Heligoland, Emden and Kiel on their way up and down channel, and submarines from the bases on the Beigian coast on their way to work north in the shipping lanes off the east coast, or to lay vtnines-for the benefit of the Harwich destroyer flotilla, used this light vessel to cor- rect their navigation and fix their position. The vicinity of this light- ship, which lay in the center of the 6,000 square mile area alloted to Felixstowe for patrol, was therefore an ideal place to hunt submarines, for here they. travelled on the surface, saving or charging their batteries be- 'fore or after groping their way blindly through our minefields and nets, as, contrary to general belief, a submarine cannot be seen from air- 'craft when once below the muddy waters of the North Sea. It was at Felixstowe that Colonel Porte, then commander, R.N., devel- oped the flying boat. In 1914 the boats weighed well under two tons and had engines giving a tota®of 180 horsepower. These were comic machines, with comic engines, and the stout lads who tried impossible feats in them had usually to be towed back by destroyers. As the navy people could not understand anything being made which was not sufficiently strong to be safely dropped from 100 feet, or seaworthy enough to ride out a gale, or as reliable as the com- ing of the day of judgment for the Hun, much criticism and chaff during this period was worked off on both beats and pilots. But improvements went steadily on. In 1915 there were very large experimental flying boats in existence, much larger than any- window. Sure enough, Arthur was driving rapidly down road, "He's been good help. I don't know what your father would have done without him," continued her mother. Still Milly was mute. "What's the matter? You and he haven't quarreled?" persisted the older woman. PART IL. "He wants me to marry him so he ean have waffles every morning for e lane to the! thing which at that time had been | designed in the way of land machines, |and in fact bigger than any land ma- UNSUNG HEROES NERVE es 2 Caitekd ; FIGHTING ARM Six = 'x & 7 ~ Quick Work of Signallers Made Courcelette Victory Possible --Never Failed in Duty. | The Divisional Signallers of the First Canadian Division--the nerve centre of the fighting arm--are near- ing home; ; : Although non-combatants, the Di- visional. Signallers. have performed heroic service and are an important cog in the fighting machine of the Canadian Corps. Day and night they worked, keeping the lines of commun- ications open, laying out new lines | and repairing shattered lines. They | went about their work unsung and} unheralded, rarely getting any glory, but still discharging their duty that was vital to the directing operations of the army in the field. Without the Divisional Signallers the fighting units could not carry on, It was these lads who worked side by side with the infantry and artil- lery. Hundreds have met their death out.in the open working away on the lines, while hundreds have been wounded in carrying on the important task of keeping all the communica-! tions epen between the units of the division. In the fighting at Ypres, down to the Somme, back to Vimy, on to Pas- | ---the | divisional sig allers galloping across open country with their wire limbers, rapidly moving front. It is in the open. warfare that the signallers come in for their real adventure be- cause their whole job is one of time, and everything depends on their keeping up communications. It was not an infrequent sight to see them racing at a furious pace over hill and dale, through hedges, ditches, sunken roads, to get a direct line with the front of battle. Every battery of howitzers or "heavies" had a wireless station for keeping in touch with the aeroplanes overhead and artillery headquarters, which was manned by artillery or di- vistonal signallers. The individual signallers attached to infantry or artillery posts "who keep the lines open and send mes- sages are "the*lost children" of such units. *They do not belong to the unit, but are away from their home divisional signallers--and in many cases have done meritorious and heroic work which they never got credit for, and would have ~ re- ceived recognition of if they had been a part of the unit they were with. Much depends on the signallers in their work of keeping @e lines from the various fronts ope' § For example, just before the battle of Courcelette on the Somme in September, 1916, one signalling corps had 20 lines in order, buried and running up to the different fronts. Everything was O. K. 30 minutes before the zero hour. The next minute some Hun shells lit right on top of the massed wires amd tore every line. The "show" was to start in. 80 minutes! Communications had been cut. But chendaele, famous battles, the Signallers never | failed in their duty and and through the fierce! fighting of Cambrai, Arras and other |v nidst of a devastating shell fire ran Canada | i chine that was flown in this country | should welcome these silent heroes | until 1918. One of these boats called; With open arms. To them too much| | | the Porte Baby, was so large that it, credit cannot be given for the suc- | carried on its top plane a scout land| cess of the Canadian Corps in the | machine, with pilot complete, which,/ great war, while the boat was in the air, was| "Communications," successfully launched and flown back} "Communications Aowimuinibas | to an aerodrome. In 1917 the boats! tions!" or "Give us a line!" was the the signallers hustled out and in the ; out new lines, repaired all communi- | cations, and completed the task just eight minutes 'before the Canadians went into action. Two of the men were gassed. At Vimy in one spot the lines were cut 27 times during the fighting, and the signallers worked heroically to keep their comrades in touch with all units. through roads and fields, laying their} -- wire as they go to keep up with the; \ tolerate them. ' folded & | being divested of its mantle for nigh The Cemfertable Bed. : f service. Since the night's rest or unrest, fortable kaa | he thoroughly comfortable has everything in the world to do} ony. aie -sired bed. However ca with the quality of the day's TEER, | ee enileted the sleeping room. comfortable beds for all the sacked ee, betsachould: nok. be-mmnde weeiae should be the care of every good the morning without first being con- housewife. Sagzed springs | 924 | seientiously aired; frequently sun lumpy' mattresses care the worst fees| Ton "vie all tue SelGlonsy ee to bed comfort; it doesn't" pay ere, bedelothes on chairs in' such frre megnaie at eee nie that each piece will be ex- Seal, SORE: Weal Mt ones osed to the fresh air; turn back the Fate: peeasubem: BP Shas. alate? te soaanins from the mattress. The which plays heyoc with the comfort | sleeping-perch:and the sun-parlor a qualities of yeur bedsprings. / ~The best thing for a lumpy mat- tress is to send it direetly to the renoyater or the junk man. HY, how- ever, it be but slightly uneven, a blanket ~ placed upon the springs under the depression will correct the unevenness: Good, well- made mattresses are cheapest in the long run. The comfort features of the shoddy. article are short-lived. Iiaving invested in the good article, the' next thing is to use it well. Turn it frequently, end for end, and if wool padded on both sides, turn over es well. Don't shake it. Shaking tears the' ticking and 'disarranges the padding. Puff up the mattress by gentle blows or bringing the ends together. ; Tt is a goed plan to cover the the 'first necessities to the comfort- springs with an old quilt or blanket,' ayle-bed. Soiled pillow slips, dirty that in damp weather they may not pedelothes, dingy spreads, spoil the rust the matress. Always use a sub-' attractiveness of any bed, and cons; stantial protector on top of the mat-' quently detract from comfort. Tho tress, something that can be tubbed dainty bed invites to a night's. re- without too much trouble ; 'are lacking, frequently hang the-bed i clothes on a line out of doors where ithey will get the bright sunlight. - Sunshine -is a wonderful gernicide {need to be often sunned. This rrac- if the two-piece kind jis used. The i mattress in one piece is awkward to '}ift and for that very reason gener- should have. day for putting the mattress out, and never make up the bed with a damp mattress or coverings. Not only does careful attention to this detail make for bed comfort, but neglect of it invites various physical ills. : ideal for such purposes. Where they "and deodizer, . Mattresses especially me J tice will be more easily carried out ally: does not receive the airing it Always select a"dry -- Cleanliness throughout is one of -- enough to afford satisfactory pro- tection. The quilted ones are highly serviceable in that respect. Remembering 'that your motio is "bed comfort," do not have your | pillows extremely large, nor stuffed too full. Even goosedown pillows yet thick pose. | The single bed is preferable to the | double bed. re {two occupants of the same room, it is better to have two cots than one large bed. Rarely will a person be found who can rest just as well with Even where there are = _& bedfellow as he can alone; and if ae like a drowned ptippy'ag he emerged | breakfast," cried the daughter. i i i ean be made uncomfortably hard by, he can, itis not likely that his bed- from the ducking, his black hair| "There, there," soothed Mrs. Vinol in service weighed some five tons, | often-re eated he infantry ) 4 s peaten Sry Of the infantry: oF crowding too many feathers into the; fellow can. 'Seldom will two people | Signallers are composed of line- " hanging in wisps and his collarless , shirt open at the throat. After a, preliminary shake he came and sat. down on the bottom § step of the! porch. His blue eyes, red about the | rims from the irritating dust of the threshing, gazed fondly at the girl. She drew her dress away from his ooziness, tucked back a stray wisp of her tidy hair and went on shelling , peas, | He stretched out his hand. "Give' 'me one, Milly?" he asked. She at- tempted to drop. one in his out-! stretched palm, but with a quick! turn of the wrist he caught her hand | and held it a minute. Flame-red, she snatched away her! hand. "Don't be silly," she admon- | ished. "Besides, you get me all wet! and dirty." He laughed tolerantly; neverthe- less he turned his eyes away from the girl's fresh daintiness and stared intently down the road. Presently he took a small comb from his pocket and began to disentangle hig damp mat of hair, using the tank of rain- water beside the step as a mirror. Meanwhile Milly finished the peas and went into the kitchen with them. Half an hour later the men came, trooping in from the barn. After as! summary a cleaning up as Arthur had indulged in they gathered nois- fly about the long table spread on) the side porch. Milly's father sat at the head of the board with his pros- pective son-in-law next to him. Six other men were ranged along the sides of the long table. Milly served the meal alone. Her mother was ini bed with a sick headache. Ags she made deft trips between the table! and the kitchen Arthur's eyes fol- lowed her admiringly. He was bolder than usual, for the men were too | hurried to stop eating for the custom-| ary teasing they meted out to him.! They wanted to work another hour: before dark so as to finish Vinol's threshing and move on to the next farm that was waiting for them. They swallowed the juicy roast lamb, green peas, fresh bread, iced tea, and | steamed pudding that was served them, in appreciative silence. As the men drew back noisily from the kitchen, John Vinol stepped to the kitchen door. "Mother sick?" he inquired laconi- cally. Milly nodded, "Lacky the threshing's over," commented the master of the farm. Tie lighted his pipe from a taper in- sectec in the glow'ng range ard strode off. Milly scrubbed the cock- all men like good food. But I gues he cares about you for some othe | reason than that. Was that what | you quarrelled about?" | "I don't want to marry Arthur, | mother. I don't want to marry any- body. What good did it do you to marry father, and he is better than | most of the men in Danby? All. they think a woman is good for is to! cook for them and clean the house, | and bring up what poor babies chance | to live." "Milly!" exclaimed her mother, in surprise. (To be continued.) oy ~ HUGE FLYING BOATS BOMBED U-BOATS THE GENIUS OF A BRITISHER, COLONEL PORTE Canadians! Made the Best Pilots and Held Records for the Number of Enemy Subs Wrecked. giving a total of 550 horsepower, and began to be asked, as a matter of course, to co-operate with destroyer flotillas. Now in 1918 the latest boat to be completed and tested, called the Porte Super-Baby, had lifted a weight of fifteen tons, has five en- gine, giving a total of 5,000 horse- power, and is the most powerful aircraft ever flown. Had to Train Pilots. Besides the perfecting of the boats, pilots had to be trained, and the making of a seaplane pilet is a longer job than the making of a land machine pilot. The actual flying of the boat is the easiest part of the work. The pilot has to be able to navigate accurately in mist, fog and rain, so that he knows where he is at all times--no easy job over a ships are few. own and German submarines seen at strange angles and oddly foreshort- ened; know the silhouettes* of sur- With the yesterday of the German | submarine piracy being rapidly for-| gotten in the to-day of surrender the | writing of a few tales of the flying | boats, the creation and operation of} which hold as much romance as any | particular effort 'in the war, seem} imperative, for little is known gener-| ally in this country about flying boats | or their work, partly because they | were attached to the silent navy and | partly because they were produced | in the service, says a Lon- don despatch. Imperative, because, | three-fifths of the globe being cover-} ed by water, and the genius of the} English-speaking peoples being for | all things connected with the sea, the | ;}mastery of the air for commercial | purposes will to a great extent de-| pend on the development of this type} of aircraft. in the Bight of Heligeland by flying ; boats, or that they bombed forty-four | German submarines in 1917, or even that there were boats that flew. But Plane-bottomed boats, which carried | a specialized crew of four--first pilot, | navigator, wireless operator and en-| ing dishes with unnecessary vigor. Her father's attitude angered her.| He considered only the work, which might have been interfered with by | his wife's ilness. A rattling noise be- hind her made her turn around. Arthur, his hands fall of dishes, was coming in from the porch, "Thought | T'd turn hired girl for a spell," he) announced cheerfully. "Wish I had: time to help clear up the whole mess, | but I've got to go back to that! thresher." i "Mother's sick," communicated | Milly. vo | ing * Ce He edged toward the' door, She had already turned anfun- | responsive hack. and upon the! Jatch of the screen he hesitated, turn- ed, coughed, and plunged recklessly, into conversation. | "Say, Milly, you'd better believe | I'm sorry I've got to go home for, meals to-morrow, Wish I wag pone to be here for breakfast. ou're | making raised waffles, aren't you? That cook at my place doesn't know how to make 'em or much of any- thing else. Next year this time you'll be making them for me, eh?', Milly was still silent, but he, watching from the doorway, saw_a pink flush creep up the nape of he neck to the very tips of her half-! hidden ears, e tiptoed clumsily: across the uneven floor and, bending 'over, kissed one of the irate lobes. | She wheeled around, and for a sec- | ond her blue eyes blazed at him. Then her small, dripping hand shot out tnd dealt him an unerring, dishwat- ery slap across one smiling cheek. His mouth worked. The smart- ness of the blow brought tears to his' eyos. He looked at his betrothed in| bewilderment. Then he quietly left the kitchen. Milly reverted to her dishwashing with such te pe that by seven o'clock she had finished the dishes, tidied the kitchen, and completed the prepara- tions for breakfast. Then she made a slice of toast, a cup of tea, and climbed up th» stairs to her mother's room. As sife opened the door her . Y gineer---were specially built for {downing submarines, and so well did | they answer their purpose that the) |Germans got out a seapldne fighter, expressly designed to attack them. | Few landsmen and, strangely | enough, few seamen, real'ze the diffi-. culties which had to be overcome in flying-boat design and operation, the' former because they know nothing of the sea and the latter because they | know nothing of the air, And a fly- | ing boat had to be both airworthy| and seaworthy. To the energy of one! man alone, Colonel J. C. Porte, GM. | |G. Britain owes the service flying, boat, as all the types of flying boats | used successfully by this country in the war were evolved by him. But the history of their creation and de- velopment, with its record of ten- acity of purpose, fights against dis- belief, and triumphs over failure, will have to be written later, and the tales, | taken from the records of the great-| est seaplane station in the world, deal only with the varied work of the! flying boats against the enemy. Hunted in North Sea, This seaplane station, Felixstowe, is on the east coast in Harwich har- bor, a harbor opening out into the southern portion of the mottled, misty, treacherous North Sea. Across from it, in a southeasterly direction and some ninety miles away, lies the Belgian coast, where the Germans, until they were moved on' by the army, had submarine and. seaplane bases at Zeebrugge and Ostend. Some! 180 miles away, in a northeasterly direction, in Terschelling Island, and once around the corner of this island you are in the Bight of Heligoland. On a shoal, half way on a line be- tween Felixstowe and 'the Hook of Holland, and an equal distance, some fifty sea miles, from Harwich harbor face ships according to their kind; fight; possess the physical stamina to stand long patrols and flying in rough weather, and the mental make- up to resist the monotony of long spells of unproductive work. From the repairing of the boat and the handling of them on shore to the dropping of a bomb on a submarine, it was a business that had to be learned. Canadians seemed to be best fitted for the work, and probably as high as three-fourths of the good boat waste of water, one square mile of | which looks like every other square! mile, while buoys, light vessels and' He must recognize) instantly the difference between our} Good pilots are few, and. when found were usually worked un-! til they cracked under the strain. | »| had a wing span of some ninety-three | artillery when the Canadians raced S| feet, were fitted with reliable engines | 'led off a trench raid, or when the | Boche hit back and laid down a bar- |rage that ripped the signal communi- cation wires to tatters. To the divisional signallers fell the! | difficult task of always keeping the| lines of communication open from di- | visional headquarters and thence on to battalion or artil- lery lines. The different branches of the fighting machine had to keep in | touch with each other, the infantry | calling up the artillery, the artillery i talking to the front tines, divisional | | staffs directing battles and brigade | staffs carrying out orders. It was all |; part of the machine, and it was the |signallers that kept each unit in 'touch, whether in the front line in | trench warfare or out in the open. | The First Divisional Signal Com- | pany is made up of four sections, each one attached to one of the three brigades, and the other with head- quarters . They carry wireless equip- ment, signal lamps, flags and wire. |. They also had "listening in" ap- paratus. This is an instrument that is put out in No Man's Land and stuck in the ground to hear what the Huns are talking about, that is, if they talk too loud. 4 in" phones are put out at night by signallers and run wire and placed as near the Huns' line as possible. It is an excellent device for detecting conversations, for the Canadians in catching their own men who talk too freely or too loud in the front lines. tery to send up ammunition and he spoke so Joud that he was heard on. the "listening in" phone and could no into action, made an advance, or pul-} to brigades, | These "listening | through barbed} and often works as a safety valve} For instance, | once a man was asking a certain bat-| Then gladly one forsook his task un- men, telegraphers, operators, cable- men, drivers and despatch riders. Pie coca aoe eas Oxford Revisited. Back to these weather-beaten walls, And the scent of my Oxford rose, Where many a ghostly footstep falls | Anda kindly soft wind blows! |} Blasts of an icy gale were mine In the blood-stained years outside, Far from the gates of my Mother Shrine. With the shadows of Death and Pride. ; And God be praised that the vessel j built By the banks of our hallowed stream Has weathered the jagged rocks and silt, And the gusts of an ugly dream. |On your lawns to-day are the loving arms ; Of the old unchanging trees | That take no count of the hurts and harms | And the worlldly fickle breeze. | When the sun goes down, I am Home i --thank God! | With each dear unchazging thing-- | The tower, and the trees, and the old | gray quad, | 'Where my heart and the ivy cling. Away from the long grim trench I trod, | And the song that the bullets sing. | <> Recompense. I saw two sowers in Life's field at morn, } To whom came one in angel guise and said, | "Is it for labor that a man is born? | Lo: Tam Base. Come ye and eat my bread!" } t ' i i | done And with the Tempter | slothful way, went his pilots have come from Canada. Both! doubt be heard on the Hun's line if) The other toiled until the setting sun Zeppelins were brought down by fly- ing boats flown by Canadians, and | the records for the number of hostile | For instance, few people know that | submarines sighted and bombed are| Zeppelins have been brought down} also held by pilots from the country) north of the Great Lakes. It was not unti] 1917 that the boats and engines were satisfactory, and ; the flying boats came into their own, | these winged, wooden-hulled, hydro-| In that year 168 enemy submarines! were sighted by aircraft operating from England, of which 105 were bombed. Of these, sixteen were bombed by airships, forty-one by float-type seaplanes, four by land machines, and forty-four by flying boats. But the flying boats used only averaged some thirteen a month--- that is, something less than 6 per cent. of the total number of aircraft, and this 6 per cent. did 42 per cent. of the bombing. In all, there were only forty flying boats put into com- mission during 1917. Felixstowe alone, which had in service an aver- age of eight boats a month, sighted forty-four enemy submarines and bombed twenty-five. From these figures may be gathered the efficiency developed in submarine "strafing" by this type of aircraft, Seeeaniennementnin oi They Would Try It. After a grand review of German troops at Potsdam the Kaiser called out to the officer commanding the | Prussian Guard in a voice loud enough to be heard by all the distinguished | guests who were grouped in front of | the place: ' "Pick me out 100 men from the Prus- | sian Guard!" Then, taking the arm of King Wd- ward VII, who was there, he said, "Come with me." He escorted King Edward around the 100 men and then said banteringly: 'Well, do you think you could find 100 men in England to beat them?" ; "I don't know so much about that," promptly replied the late King, "but 1 could easi Damme "Do you break these sets?" asked the shopper in the chihaware de- partment. "No; I'm sorry to say we don't, madam," replied the polite salesman. "But if you keep a ser- vant-girl she will probably do it for Vou! 7 Ve ly find fifty who would try." | | he had-one out, thus the location | would be given away to the enemy. the flags, ealled in the army. "Wig-Wags" as they are| front and only frequently when em- the open in the closing months of the! war. Signallers with good target for the Hun and would, ing posts for observation work. At! the Vimy Ridge show visual stations, were erected and manned up to the! front line, but were not used as the! ing. ' The story is told where a signaller| 'ina tower near Vimy was "getting lin touch" with his flags just before | | the zero hours when the»Huns spot-| ited the flags and wiped the party out.! | The chief signalling done was over telephones, telegraph and wireless. | The signallers had to run their lines out up to the front line many times under heavy shel! fire. The biggest | trouble was that the communications) were constantly shattered by enemy | fire, and the signallers and linemen} had to go out and fix up the lines or| string out new wires, and many met | their death from shell and snipers') bullets. Each battalion has. fifty-six sig-| | naMera under a signal officer and are! responsible for keeping up ease A | vations. between al! parts ofthe bat-| | talion and with flank battalions and} | brigade heodsyuarters. In trench | warfare the. divisional -- signallers| maintain an elabotate system of | fecommunications both by telephone; and Lucas lamp with all the units of the division, that is to say, 12 bat- talions of infantry, or more, batteries 'of artillery, engineers, pioneers and | all other arms of the service. In this they had a very difficult task. The units must never be a minute out of touch with each other--for it might mean disaster, They must keep every- thing/in working order. In the open warfare the Divisional Signallers' duties were much more 'thrilling. In August and September, when the Boche took'to his heels and | "Wig-Wagging" Seldom Used. | The signallers did little work with! ful breast This visual sig-| nalling was rarely used on the western: ergencies arose through heavy fight-} ing or when the troops got out into} flags are a) if sighted, give away important hid-| | wire communications were kept g0-| With stealing shadows blurred the dusty day. Ere harvest time, upon earth's peace- Hach laid him down among the un- reaping dead. "Labor rest, Else were the toiler like the fool," I said: "God meteth him not less, but rather more Because he sowed and others reaped | casion requires. Woo] blankets should his store." Lieut.-Col. John McCrae. | warm suds--never --_-- 2 An Invocation. Breathe on me, Spirit of the Spring, And let me live again In brooklets, lilting, rippling laughter, In roaring rivers turgid after Showers of April rain; | In wild hepatiecas a-blowing, In trees and shrubs and grass a-grow- ing In flower be-sprinkled lanes! Oh, Spirit of the Verdant' Spring, Breathe life in me again. ¢ In bustling of the birds returning, Their mating, nesting and their yearn- ing Antiphonal refrain; . In bleating lambs and cattle lowing, In the Creator's wise bestowing Of life with joy and pain, Oh, Spirit ef the Vital Spring, Let me live again. In play of children in tne wood, in their unselfish brotherhood, And lives without a stain; In faith which cultivates the soil, In Lepes for harvest after toil, Through summer's heat and rain, Oh, Spirit! Spirit of the Spring, Let me live again, oe France Buys Eight B.C. Ships. Hight of the 27 wooden steamers, built on the Columbian coast to the or- der of the Imperial Munitions Board, since arriving in the United Kingdom have been sold to the French Govern- mont, ( j - ------------- » : A wet umbrella or raincoat should never be left resting against the telephone cord because it causes a short circuit and can quickly p b | started for home, one would see the applies. to wet mops, floor cloths, e { v | i i ; { | hath other recompense than | but quilting is labor put the! crertions in the onvelope style, into tetephone out of order, The seme which the pillow, in a plain slip, ean & be tucked during the day, the pillow ee feathers. is nd of the tick aud sew the open end! | admit of easy tubbing, Even though | ticks. The immense pillow may give be equally comfortable under the the bed a luxurious appearance, but: same amount of bed covering and the small pi¥ow which does not un-| with the same method of ventilation; * naturally bolster the neck and shoul-; and unless committed to the same It is well, hours of rising and retizing, one must ders is more comfortable. to enelose the pillow tick proper in! disturb the other. a second tick made easily removable | ( for laundering--this in addition to, to have healthy bodies, Wwe must the outside muslin slip--because of: sleep eight hours out of the twenty-_ the difficulty of washing feathers. four. Some few favored individuals The doctors tell us that, if we are c The muslin slip does not afford suf- may be able to spend mcre time than S ficient protection to the tick, which that in bed, but most of us find it will in time become soiled, | difficult enough to allow ourselves It is possible to wash feathers in the stipulated eight hours. Taerefore, the tick, but it is a tedious task to we cannot afford to waste any part dry them thus. When so washed,' of the precious moments in sleepless they should be hung on a line out- unrest because of uncomfortable beds. doors where thg air will circulate! Let the assertion be repeated: It freely through them, and allowed to is the duty of every good housewife _ remain for several weeks, care being to see that all the beds in the house taken to bring them indoors in rainy, be made just as comfortable and as weather. Feathers will dry more sanitary as circumstances will per- quickly if washed in a large bag, mit. though this means the added labor | Se of emptying and refilling the tick. In} Ten Uses for Salt. such case the best way to transfer; 1. Salt dissolved in a little am- to. rip carefully one' monia will remove grease spots. 2. A' smoky or dull fire can be of the bag closely to that of the tick.'! made clear by throwing a handful of No feathers will escape in the trans-' salt over it. fer. Next rip tick and bag apart and} sew or tie up the bag securely. When! copper and brass. feath are washed and thoroughly; 4. To brighten carpets, wring @& dried, replace by the same method cloth out of salt water and rub the and, with care, you will not have lost' carpets well, a feather. 5. Ink stains that are freshly made The old-fashioned tacked comfort can be removed from carpets by suc- is not a sanitary affair. It does not cessive applications of dry salt, : 6. Handfuls of->salt will clean it be ripped up and the outside cov-' saucepans and take away the un- ering washed, the batting cannot be! pleasant smell of onions if they have cleaned, and there is all the labor of, been cooked in them. retacking. If the tacked comfort be} 7. Nearly every kind of basket used, care should be-taken to keep} work, matting or china can be clean- the top end--which is soonest soiled,' ed by washing with salt and water. coming in contact with hands and} 8. Salt in water will take insects face--eovered with a strip of white, from vegetables. cheesecloth extending about eight! 9. Before adding vinegar to mint or ten inches on either side of the for sauce always add a pinch of salt. comfort. The cheesecloth can be re- moved when soiled, washed and re- brown placed. The old quilted coverlet was flavor. an advantage as a washable affair;! 10. Tiles will look bright and clean ious and even at if serubbed with salt. best the quilt is a thin cover. Blankets, wool or cotton, and as| An Economical Apron. many as the season requires, are! Every woman knows that when a good substitutes for the comfort,' man's shirt has wornout cuffs and They can be washed as often as oc- holes below the collar band, making the shirt unwearable, there is still a of clean' luke-/ quantity ef good material left. in hot water,| An apron can be made of the ma- which brings out the oil in the wool, terial, and in these days of high- and gives the blanket a greasy feel-| priced cotton goods it will pay well ing when dry--well rinsed in slight- | to use the goods in this way. Cut ly soapy warm soft water and dried! off the neck band and yoke, cut out on a windy day. This treatment. sleeves, lay body of shirt out flat and leaves them soft and fluffy. ' | eut out apron, making it as lange The cotton blanket is very satisfac-'as the goods will permit. 'The open- tory in all ways, It is well suited to! ings on the side are sewed up, the beds of people with sensitive' A faeing for the top-of the apron skins who .cannot sleep in wool is cut from what is left of one of the blankets and who, yet, occupying un-: fronts. One sleeve will make the heated rooms, find sheets uninviting-! strings, and the other sleeve will ly cool in winter time. If is just' make a bib, if one jis wanted: And right in weight and warmth for an outside covering in summer time, It is not hard to wash and is inexpen-' at the back. sive. This makes an apron that can ba In making a bed the under sheet; put on with one motion. No pina should be tucked well down under, and no buttons and bib always in the head of the mattress, as all the! place, kore ~ eumeeerars : The Ono Fayor Asked. strain on this sheet is from the top. Tuck the upper sheet well under the} foot of the mattress, the strain on On the occupation of Co ; < this sheet heing from the foot. Al-' eral Sir H. ©, O. Plone Si cote ways lay the sheets with the wide, a splendid villa belonging to a weal- hems at the top, the smooth sides of) thy German, After the General's hems coming toxether. The practice! arrival the ownay of the villa got of some housekeepers of making, hold of the A.D.C. and to him, with sheets with hems of equal width top many bows and flowery words, ox- and bottom is not a good one; it ad-| pressed his deep sense of the honor mits of turning the sheeta end for | of having so great a soklter under his end in making the bed, Tt is not/ roof. Had the General any com- desirable that the same end of the! mands for him? He had but to ex sheet should be used alternately naxt press a wish for it to be fulfilled, feet and face, "T will see," said the A,D.C. who As with the upper sheot, the strain deparied and presently returned on quilts and blankets is from the "Has the General any orders for foot, consequentiy in making the bed! me?" cried the eager Teuton they should be tucked well under the "Yos," said the A.D.C ab leant foot of the mattress. the General desires something " Wlaborately embroidered pillow "Ach, vot is it, vot is it?" : slips are not the most comfortable to "The General', sleep on, It is best to make such sire," coolly ail hate ie that during his occupation, of your | villa you will be neither | heard!" ers and greatly improves es be washed in plenty made with straps sewed into strings 8. Lemon juice and salt will clean 'This prevents the mint from going , the | with a little piecing a bib can be geen nor ~~ &.