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= â€" ^^ \ "One Meatless Meal a Day" is a good food slogan for war time, or any timeâ€" better make it two meatless meals a day â€" it would mean health and strength for the nation. But be sure and get the right substitute for meat in a digestible form. Shredded Wheat Biscuit is the ideal substitute for meat. It is 100 per cent, whole wheat prepared in a digestible form. Two or three of these little loaves of baked whole wheat make a nourishing, satisfying meal at a cost of only a few cents. Delicious with milk or cream or fruits of any kind. Made in Canada. QUEEN SERVED 500 PIES. Alodels for Winter Dresses NIB Princess Sella Puddinc at Commiuial Kitchen. i The Queen and her daughter saw the inside working of trie communal , feeding scheme which will enable the Borough of Hammersmith to provide 40,000 dinners a day, should that ever be necessary. At present 7,000 dinners ' are being served every day, and the royal visitors watched the preparation ' of the batch in the central kitchen in ; Lime-grove, and later helped to serve out savory ^ies, puddings, soup and baked potatoes at one of the nine dis- trict depots at which the food is sold. ] Becklow road depot was the one ' chosen for demonstration to the Queen of the merits of the central kitchen method. Her Majesty took a great interest in everything, and had under her especial care the meat pies, for which pink 3d. tickets were e.xchanged. Princess Mary dealt with the popular penny blue tickets, which I were worth a large portion of apple pudding or a helping of boked pota- j toes. The chief difficulty with the Queen's I customers was that most of them had ] forgotten to bring a receptacle for I their purchases, or, in their embarass- j ment. forgot to produce it. One old lady held out a gn"ubby ] apron. The Queen looked at it, and j then gave the sound advice that the pie should be carried away in the hands, for preference. "You cannot carry a pie in a jug. I expect you were sent for soup," said the Queen to one small child, and to a jolly little sailor boy, who bowed prettily as he thanked her Majesty for his portion, she bowed and smiled in re- turn. Before the visit was finished Queen Mary had distributed 500 pies, chiefly to the regular customers of the depot, of whom the majority are children. the west; but so vast was- the quantity of snow that the slide had filled and blocked the gorge with less than half of its mass. Over the snowy bridge thus formed the momentum carried the remainder straight across the gulch. Landing, it swept up a steep slope for three hundred feet and ram- med the rocky ridge behind the cabin. The greater part of the debris lay scattered about the ridge. Whpn I last looked back the prospector stood on this ridge surveying the scene and thinking. THANKFufMOTHERS Mrs. Willie Theriault, PacquetvlUe, N'.B., says: â€" "I am extremely thankful that I tried Baby's Own Tabletr-for my baby. Through their us« baby thrived wonderfully and I feel as If I cannot recommend ±em too highly." ' Baby's Own Tablets break up colds | and simple fevers ; cur9 constipation, colic and Indigestion and make teeth- ; Ing easy. In fact they cure all the i minor ills of little ones. They are sold ' by medicine dealers or by mall at 25 j cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville. Ont. Box Sawyers Box Makers OOOO WAQES A;TD B0NT7S FIRSTBROOK BROS., LTD. 283 King Street East, Toronto m â- il Super-Energy. Little Jane and Josephine were busily engaged in helping mother dry | the dinner dishes. i "But, Jancj you didn't get that plate ] dry," objected her sister. | "Yes,, I did!" exclaimed Jane eagier- ly. "I dried it so hard that is per- spired!" Miiuud'a Iiislment Cnrea Garret la Cows THE COST OF WAR IN BLOOD. Braid bound and trimmed is this ultra-simple frock, suitable for misses or small women. MeCall Pattern No. 7886, Misses' Simplicity Dress. In 4 sizes, 14 to 20 years. Price, 15 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto. Dept. W. * Mascots on Warships. No warship is without it.s mascots, the sailors' pets. Sometimes they are goats or monkeys, but more often they are dogs and cats. It is a well-known fact that cats and dogs, when they come to know each other, make the best of friends. Enmities between human beings and between nations usually arise from lack of acquaint- ance and therefore of mutual under- tanding. It is much the same way with dogs and cats. THE CAUSE OF BACKACHE Every muscle in the body needs constantly a supply of rich, red blood In proportion to the work it does. The muscles of the back are under a heavy strain and have but little rest. When the blood is thin they lack nourish- ment, and the result is a sensation of pain in those muscles. Some people think pain In the back means kidney trouble, but, the best medical authori- ties agree that backache .seldom or never has anything to do with the kid- neys. Organic kidney di.sea.'se may have progressed to a critical point without developing a pain in tlie back. This being the case pain In the back should always lead the sufferer to look to the condition of his blood. It will be found in most cases that the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to build up the blood will stop the sen.sation cf pain in the ill-nourished muscles of the back. How much better It Is to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for the blood than to give way to unreason- , able alarm about your kidneys. If you suspect your Kidneys any doctor can , make tests in ten minutes that will set your fears at rest, or tell you the worst. But in any event to be perfect- ly healthy you must keep the blood in good condition, and for this purpose no other medicine can equal Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills. â€" You can get these pills through any dealer in medicine, or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville Ont. , j 4. Gather eggs twice a day, keep in cool place free of foul odor, and mar- ket not less frequently than once a w^k. Plowing an acre of land in four mi- nutes seems like a dream, but it has been done with three tractors hitch- ed to 54 plows. Instant Postum fits the spirit of the times per- fectly. It is Healthful Economical (without loM I of ploaaure/ Convenient (remdy for \ Instent UM / and is a pleasing, wholesome, drug- free drink good for both young and old. "There's a Reason'' CanuHan Pixtum Ccreai Co., Lxi. WtD(l*or, Ontario iri mm i - â€" ...^.......n.-ii CAUGHT BY AN AVALANCHE. ' Fortunate Escape When Rocky Moun- tain Cabin Was Buried. During my stay with the miners in ;the San Juan Mountains, says Mr. ' Enos A. Mills in his book. The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, there was one , very heavy storm that covered the mountains deep in snow. I "This caljin will never be caught by a^gnowslide!" said the prospector with whom I was spending the night. "I sized up the territory before building this cabin, and I've put it out of the range of slides." That was encouraging, for during the afternoon, as I had corae down from Alpine Pass on snowshoes, the peaks and slopes had loomed white and threateningly, overladen with snow. Avalanches would run riot dur- ing the next few hours, and the sliding might begin at any minute. Somewhat acquainted with the ways of slides. I lay awake in the cabin waiting to hear the muffled thunderstorm of sound that would proclaim that slides were "running." The prospector was snoring before the first far-off thunder came to my ears. Things were moving. The rumbling swelled louder aild louder. Then came an earthquake jar, close- ly followed by a violently explosive crash. A slide was upon us! .\ few seconds later tons of snow fell about the cabin. Although we escaped with- out a scratch, a heavy spruce pole, a harpoon flung by the slide, struck the cabin at an angle, piercing the roof and one of the walls. The prospector was not frightened, but he was mad! Outwitted by a snowslidel That we were alive was no consolation to him. "Where on earth did the thing come from?" he kept repeating until daylight. The next morning we saw that to the depth of several feet about the cabin and on top of it were snow masses mixed with rock fragments, broken tree trunks and huge wood splinters. The slide had started from a high peak a mile to the north of the cabin. For three quarters of a mile it had coasted down a slope at the bottom of which a gorge curved away toward Twelve Hundred Million Victims Dur- ing Thirty Centuries. In the wars of the last thirty cen- turies about twelve hundred million persons have lost their lives. The blood of these victims of human folly would fill a tank 780 feet high and covering four city blocks. Beneath the Pont Neuf, at Paris, the River Seine flows at a rate of 100 cubic yards per second. If the stream were blood instead of water, fifty hours would be required for the pass- ing of the quantity lost in the war- fare of the last 3000 years. Much of this hlood â€" indeed, a very large part of it â€" has been shed in quarrels over religion. But mainly it has been pouted out to dye the royal purple of the occupants of thrones. Silly Billy, the Crown Prince, told United States Ambassador Ger- ard that if war did not arrive before his father's death he meant to start one when he came to the throne, "just for the fun of it." Battles in ancient times, when men fought with primitive weapons, seem to have been no less destructive of life than those of modern days. When the Germans of "2(100 years ago (Teutones and Cimbri) were defeated by the Roman general Marius, 200,000 dead were left on the field. Since then an average of 18.000,000 to '20,000,000 fighting m^ (not count- ing noncombatants) have been killed in European wars during every cen- tury. "This kind of fooli.sbness has been going on long enough. The most im- portant object that, the Allies have in view to-day is to put a stop to it. AN EXCELLENT SERVICE For the last two years the Canadhut Pacific Railway, in connection t^r|th the Pacific steamers of the Canadian Pa- cific Ocean SerHces, has carried a very large prcporfion of the passen- gers from the United States to Russia, and as thi^-e passen.gers have Included a great many Amerlcati railroad men, who have been surprised at the excel- lence of the service, a remarkable volume oi- trade is develo'plng, "greatly to the benefit of Canada Itself, .\mong these passengers was the American Railway .-Vdvisory Commission, con- sisting of the leading railway experts of the United Stales, who travelled from (.'liicago to Vancouver, and thence to Yokohama via tlie Empress of .\sia. Mr. lleury .Miller, vice-chair- man of this highly important commis- sion, has written Vice-President G. M. Hosworth a letter of deep appreciation, in which, after referring to many in- dividual courtesies along the route, he remarks: "You have good reason to be proud of your organization and service, and we take this method of thanking you heartily for your kind- ness and courtesy." Quite So. Miss ."ones flung herself into an easy chair with a dejected air. "I don't wonder that Professor Kidd is unpopular!" she remarked. "He has no tact!", . "How so, dear?" inquired her friend sympathetically . "He asked me," replied the other acidly, "to buy a ticket for his lecture on 'Fools,' and when I bought it, the ticket was marked 'Admit One' !" f/^AV£ Granulated Eyelids, "^ ' ScreEv«s, Evet Inflamed by San, Da»t anil Wind quickly relle\cj by .^lurine. Try it In your Eyes and in Baby'i Eye*. N* Saartijii , Jitt Eje Csaiort Murine Eye Remetly ^"^::°i:^\':\Z'^iZ Aik aiBrine Ere Rcmedr Co., Cblcaso 4 aunartl'* Unlmtnt Carta Otobtbtrl*. Minard's Ualmsnt Cora* Oiatemvar. Aliens Clearing Farms. ^ | Between 2,000 and 3,000 enemy j aliens, Germans and Austrians, who ' make their headquarters at the Gov- . ernment Detention Camp, are engag- ed in clearing the land around Kapus- j kasing, 70 miles north of Cochrane. Here the new Dominion Experimental Farm and the settlement of the On- i tario Government for her returned ' soldiers, many of whom are now be- ing educated in the vocational train- : ing centres of the Military Hospitals i Commission in the arts of tilling the soil, will be located. War ought never to be accepted un- til it is forced upon us by the hand of necessity.- 'Sir Philip Sidney. I KIDNEY^ ^,. PILLS- \\NN\^ Mistaken Again. During one of his campaigns a candi'da.te for. Parliament who prided himself on his memory for faces, met an influential voter whom he felt sure he remembered. He shook hands with him very cordially, and af):ed about his father. "Father is dead," said the voter. "Why, yes. Yes, of course. I meant to ask how is your mother?" "Mother died before f:»ther did." "Well,^-e!l! How are you?" A short time later the candidate met the young man again. After rack- j ing his brains he blurted out: "And how is your father?" "He's still dead," said the voter. MONEY ORDERS Dominion Express Foreign Cheques are accepted by Field Cashiers and Paymasters in France tor their full face value. There is no better way to send money to the boys in the trenches. Tarring rind feutherina' was once a leg:al punishment for theft. It is to be found in the statutes of both Eng- land and France atwdt the iime of the Crusades. Question of Quality. O'Brienâ€" Oi can say wan thing â€" Oi'm a self-made man. Casey â€" Is it boastin' ye are or apologizin'? lUnard's Iiinimeat Corea Colda, ftc. Shoes For Crossing Desert. Closely resembling wire baskets are the new sand shoes devised for the British troops who crossed the Sinai desert to fight the Turk in Palestine. By weaving a stiff network of heavy wire and attaching it to their shoe*, says the Popular Science Monthly, they are able to travel over the finest desert sand without sinking ankle- deep in it. They adopted the prin- ciple of the snowshoe. It is said to be physically impossible for a man to walk over desert sand for more than two days with ordinary shoes. At the end of that time the toes and heels be- come painfully inflamed and the skin comes off. I was cured of terrible lumbago by Ml.NARDS LINIMENT. REV. \VM. BROWN. I was cured of a tad case of earache by MINARD'S LINIMENT. MRS. S. KAULB.VCK. I was cured cf sensitive lungs bv Ml.VVRDB LINI.MENT. MRS. S. MASTERS. It is very iniporiaut to protec: sheep from wet weather, although they can stand considerable cold. Are you going to do a kindly deed? It is never too soon to begin; Make haste, make haste, for the mo- ments speed. And the world, my dear one, has press- ing need Of your tender thought and your kindly deed. It is never too soon to begin! â€" Jean Blewett. A Cure for Pimples "You don't need mercury, potAsh or any other atrong mineral to care pimplea cauied by poor blood. Take Extract of Roota â€" drusgiit calla it ".llolher SciRel's Carative Syrupâ€" and your aldn will clear up as fresh a* a baby'a. It will sweeten your stomach and regulate your bowels." Get the genuine.-. SOcand $I.OOBctlJea. At drug stores. LEIV10NS WHITEN AND BEAUTIFY THE SKIN Make this beauty lotion cheaply for your face, neck, aims and hands. At the cost of a smaU jar of ordinary cold creiim one can prp-pare a full quarter pint of the mcK-t wonderful lemon skin softener and complexion beautifler. by sqiieezing the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle con- taining three oiuices of orchard white. Care should be taken to strain the juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in. then This Ictioa will keep fresh for mcntlia. Every woman knows that lemon juice is used to bleach and remove such blemishes as freckles, sallowness and tan and is the Ideal skin softener, whiteuer and beautifier. Just trj- itl Get three ounces of orchard white at any drug store and two lemons from the grocer and make up a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and massage it daily into tlie face, neck, arms and hands. It is marvelous to smoothen rough, red hands. THE Ro^pih! for Sisk Ciiiidrsn Co.ieee St, Tcrcnto ITS GflRISTf. f.S MESSAGE AQ£irTS 'Vr ANTED PC P. T R .\ 1 T .v>;ents w.vxtino Riiotl prints; rir.;»htnK a nperiuUv; frumeB :in<! i^vervtliiiiK ut lowcat prliea: quick Mervlci.-. L nlteJ Art Co.. 4 lir\in»- wti'k .\ve.. Torontu. I*"iRTR.MT AGKNTS â€" SEMi Fi.iii i.'ai;ili>Kur. prims solar anil t>romide Hiit.«ht?tl luirlroits. iMin\«.\ or !I;ct. ri ames. gla^s ami ail mi i pile*. .M'-rcbaiiU' I'lirtnilt Ci.mpan.v. Turunto. FBOOUCB "^EW I.AlD^i;i.;.S. rofLTHV. PKA8. X~ l..-ar.s. hone.v. iiilona w.-inte.l. Hlgh- fst prii'e^ Ktven. J I>. Arsenault. H96 St. Catharine liast M.'ntrtal. msCEZitASZOUS 'I I E.WES I 1 boru: HKl.i. â-  '.Swvaen- There are :;00,000 beekeepers in the United States, and an annual produc- tion uf honev to the valuo at $15,000,- 000. AM ^reat wurk on a rual world be> uiiU nml the life after deatti ; 4)0 |)U)Cu8 : (iiilv J.i .•(â- iitb pDKtiial'l. \V. I! I..iw. 4'>i;ii liiici:.! .\v,fnu.-. IVironto. (Cancer, tumors, llmps etc Internal and external, cured with- out I'alii bv our home treatment. Writs CO bvfore t'< Int* Dr EJellman Medical Co. Limited, Colllnswood. OoL yes: magically: corns lift out with fingers You say to the drug store man, "Give me a small bottle of freezone." This will cost very little but will po^tively remove every hard or soft corn or cal- lus from one's feet. A few drops of this new ether com- pound applied directly upon a tender, aching corn relieves the soreness in- stantly, and soon the entire corn or callus, root and all. dries up and can be lifted off with the fingers. This new way to rid one's feet of corns was introduced by a Cincinnati man. who says that freezone dries in a moment, and simply shrivels up the corn or caJlus without irritatlug Uie surrounding; skin. â- >• Don't let father die of infection or lockjaw from whittling at his corns, but clip tills out and make him try it. If your druggist hasn't any freezcne tell him to order a small bottle from his wholesale drug house for you. Vic The Soal of a Piano is the Artion. Insist on the "OTTO HIGHU' PIANO ACTION Kelieves Stiff Neck When you wake up with a atilf neck or sore muscles, strains or sprains, use Sloan's Liniment. No need to rub; it quickly penetrates to the seat cf pain and removes it. Cleaner than mussy plasters or oint- ments. It docs not stain the sicin or clog the pores. Always have a bottle handy for rheumatic aches, neuralgia soreness, bruises and lame back. In fact, all external pain. Generous sized bottles at jx>iix druggist. 25c.. 50c.. $1.00. Liniin.ent TCILLSPAJN : t^ ' Dear Mr. Editor: â€" Than'is (or your kindness in allowing me the rr viUge of aipealiug to vour readers tli's Christmiis time on ueUalf jf the Hcapital for Sick Children, the •Sweetest of all Charities." which has IS its I'liHc'on till! (ire of the heliilosa, h«? sirli. V.i'! crippled aud ihe deformed. Thtre never was a year la the hls- ory of the Hospitul whra funds to arry on tiie work were more needed ;;iaa now. Vol.- purse is the Hospital's Hope. Vour tnoC'.'y lights t!;e candles of mercy on the ChristraHS trees of ti.-alth that the Hospital plants alo:ig he troubled roadway of many a little life. -So I am asking yen for aid. for the ':>en purse of the Hoapital's friend is the hopp of the Hospiul at rhristm^'.a. lust a.a the open door of the Hogpl'ul'g n'lrcy is the hope of the little children ih.-oughom the year. Calls on generous hearts are many in these times. Calls on the Hospital are many at all times, and est^ecially when food and fuel and drugs and ser- vice costs are 8oarli;g high. YOU know the high cost of living. Do you know the high cost of hoiilingâ€" of helping the helpless to happiness? Wliat you do to assiHt is the best In- .eirtment you will ever make. Do you realize what this charity Is Joing for sick children, not only of Toronto, but for all Ontario, for out of ;i tot itl of 3. 740 in-patients last year iM6 came from 254 pliicas outside of Toronto. The field of the Hospltal't service covers the entire Province â€" from the Ottawa to the far-off Keuora â€"from the borders of the Great Lakes to the farthest northerly district. The Hospital Is doing a marvellous work. If you could see the cliildr^n with crippled limb.', club feet, and other deformities, who have left the Hospital with straightened limbs and perfect correction, your response to our appeal would be instant. In the Orthopedic Deportments lust year a total of .130 In-patienti wwp treated; and In the Out-Palient Departmeat there were 1.946 atteudances. Let your money and the Hospital's mercy lift the burdsn of misery that curses the Uvea, cripples the limbs and saddens the mothers of the suf- fering little children. Money mobillies the powers of help and healing for the Hospital's drive day and night against the trenches where disease and pain and death assail the lives of the little ones. Remember that evvry dollar given to the Hospital is a dollar subscribed ti3 the Liberty Loan that opens the prisons of pain and the Bastilles of disease, and sets little children free to breathe the pure atr. and to rejoice In the mercy of God's sunlight. Will you send a dollar, or more 'f you con. to Douglas Davidson, Secre- tary-Treasurer, or J. ROSS ROBHRTSON. Chairman of the Board of "Tt^isteea EU. 7, ISSUE 19â€" "17. achinery For Sale 1 WHEELOCK ENGINE, 18x42. N«w Automatic Vatvs Typ». Complets with supply cncj exhaust plplnfl, flywhssi, etc. Will accept »1.200 caah for Immediate sale. 1 ELECTRIC GENERATOR, 80 K.W, 110-120 Volts D.C. will accept $42S cash for Immediate mIc. 1 LARGE LEATHER BELT. Doable, Endless. 24 inch x 70 ft. will accept 9300 for imntadiata lata, aMthough belt Is In excellent con- dition and new one would coat about C600. It'sEasyToGetRidofDandniff | pi ueys, L*rgt. sk.. 26x66â€" wo ; 12x60â€"120 | 12Vi)i4»-#ia ; t2xS6â€" «S. t BLOWERS OR FANS, Buffalo oiak*. One 10 Inch, other 14 Inch diaoharga $ 80 aach. REAL ESTATES CORPORATION, LTD. 60 Front St. West, Toronts Gently rub spots of dandruff, scales, itching aiSd Irrltalkm with ^Cutlcura Ointment. Kext mornin|[ shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot water. This treat- ment every two weeks is usually suM- cifiit tokfcpthesc.ilpi.leanandheahhy. Saiopla Bach Prco h; MaU. A<klrMi po«»- "AT.l: "XutlcurB, I)«i'l. P«. B«ai .B««eoa. U.S.A."