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‘"“T"BBITISH TROOPS HEALTH As regards other diseases, 625 cases of typhoid fever and 49 deaths are reported in the expeditionary force, and 262 cases and 47 deaths in the camps in the United King- dom. Scarlet fever had only 196 cases and 4 deaths in the expedi- tionary force, Q against 1,379 cases A deispatch from London saw: The first six months of the war passed without a. single case of ty- phiis or, of cholera in the British army," including both. the expedi- tionary forces and the troops in the British training camps. Smallpox claimed only one victim in the United Kingdom, but returns in this respect have not been given out by the Airlines in France and Egypt. Of 184 cases of diphtheria, only six ended fatally. So far the greatest cause of mortality among the troops has been pneumonia, which resulted in 357 deathe, out oi 1,508 cases. Neither Typhus Nor Nothing is more graceful, espe- cially for the dance, than the long, swinging, veil effect that 's atreaelr. .ttd, to the “black of each jewelled shoulder strap. And another graceful invention is the square, high back formed of colored chiffon finished with a picot edge extend- inggto the tips of the fingers when (hePiumls are extended. This is sometimes caught to the wrists with Bo far there is no glimmer of the leg-o'-muiton sleeve; the long, tight one prevails, although there is little doubt that the small ellbow sleeve is coming back for evening wear. Several skirts for dancing have pld-tashioned lace flounces, two or three of them, festooned under roses, and individuals are elongat- ing their lace sleeves until they form 'mitiiwith thumbs to cover the top of the hands. Accessories like black velvet belts caught with smoked pearl butyklee, and prim velvet bows with ends, fastening below turnover white collars of stiff organdi-e, and lace herthas around the deoollebage caught; with full ‘blownwrosers or oarmelias, are Victorian ti%es that are being glimpsed. ' Large. hats 'with wide brims touched up with groups of pink roses tire also Shown to go with'the goins that should smell of laven- der. Slim, yellow gloves are brought out by the smart glove makers of Paris. However, at, the present moment we must. consider the outlook for new fishiov, not the acceptance or rejection of them by women. The designers have set their feet upon the patch of fl.ounces and flowers, of round decolletage and puffed sleeveS, of evening frocks made of si-lvered fabrics that are not assist- ed into softnesiksy tulle and chif- fon from the waist up. Fads and Frneies. Worth is not the only great tyou- turier who has started making many fhounces. It has become the fashion and the spring will give us our fill of it, Callot made frocks that we ruffled from hem to waist at far back as last, February, but the dressmakers here, and the wo- men, would have nothing to do with them. They liked bunios which were a greater novelty and insisted upon the straight line, an insistence which they keep up and which may: oontinue. There is a great gulf let ed between the first fashions shown [ for a season and the gowns the wo " men wear a month or two later. While the presence of the aero- planes, which were so high as to be almost, invisible, created excite- ment, they were" not allowed to in- terfere with the; review. Unmind- Sul of the fact that the proceedings were punctuated occasionally by the explosion of a. bomb, the band A despatch from Paris says: The Germans, warned by spies who still succeed in operating in Flanders, sent five aeroplanes laden with in- cendiary bombs over La Planne while Queen Elizabeth of the Bel- gians was reviewing the Grenadier Regiment and the Tenth Infantry on Wednesday, As soon as the, Taubes came abreast of the clty they began to drop their bombs, ap- parent-ly aiming for the parade grounds. Some of the bombs fell Dear the Red Cross Hospital, while! others dropped close to the Royal Al1it,.yut pone did any damage. Incendiary Bombs Aimed at Parade Ground While She Was Reviewing Troops ATTEMPT fl) KILL QUEEN ll Fashion Hints bus Nor Cholera Mas Appeared Since the Beginning ot the War The report of the Canadians be- ing mowed down by camp sicknesses proved to be unfounded, and the Admiralty now says in regard to a similar rumor affecting the naval division in training at the Crystal Palace that only two pee cent. of the 8,000 men are new on the sick is said d, have IprSEaHlSI Jsiiijiiiiiii a record. Considering that the British army, regular and territorial be- gan the war with a, half million men, and has since expanded to o.aou12,50p,000, the low death rate report and 22 deaths in Great Britain. Measles, a We associated with children, sent 1,045 recruits to the English training camp hospitals, isit2r65 deaths, while the seasoned men on the Continent _rurd only 175 sick from this muse, with two deaths. Never set rice to cook in cold wa- ter, or you will have a thiek, mushy dish that is unpleasant to the sight and taste. Always use boiling water. Do not stir from the moment it begins to boil, for ie will be" noticed that when first the vice is put into the water it will (NYase boiling till the water is heat- ed. It makes sponge cake very light and spongy if a tablespoonful of water, with the chill off, is put into the cake mixture directly after put- tng in the eggs. . All linen should be hung straight to dry, and all pieces will wear better if a third or half of the nap- kin or table cloth is hung over the line. ago. There is not always a dispo- sition shown to keep the fulness flat at the rather high waist line, but there is danger when one does not observe this law of grace. There are also pleated skirts with the pleats stitdhed down to the knees. There are evening skirts that not only have ruffles like Cher, uit made fashionable two springs The answer to that all-important question is yes. Whether fashion changes abruptly after all the first Paris models are shown is not easy to tell. But the first, spring show, ings have trunlics in various forms. They serve to give fulness to the skirt. Some are pleated at the sides and back, others are gather- ed and just escape the hem of the underskirt, a trick that Jenny em- ployed very tsmartly last October. The tunic topping a moderately narrow skirt has nothing to do with any of 1'evivedfashiorrs. It is a modern creation in which women are far more interested than in an Alexandrian sleeve or a Victorian basque, for they have tuniCS, they like tunics and they are ardently desirous of knowing whether or not there are still to be t-unics. What is history to them but a chance to glean dress inspiration? They are bees in that they care not for the name or pedigree of the flower so long as it gives honey. I There is no explanation for the 5apparent truth that the fashions of ‘the First Empire are to be gener- ously sprinkled in with those of the mid-vietorian era. Queer mixture, isn’t it Josephine and Victoria! But, as designers leap from epoch to epboh without' fear, they are, also, no 1'espeoters of persons, and they have neither shame nor resist- aney in coupling pagan with,Puri- tan Thais with a Jane Austen heroine, monk and Cossack, Cru- sader and The Hun. bracelets of crystals or left, to swing back to the fig,1ume when the arms are in repose. It is the first aid to the woman who has not a well-filled or a well-formed baok. The young Duke of Brabant, the heir-apparent to the Belgian throne, had another review tendered to him last Monday, and received it with- out the accompaniment of Taubes. [struck up a lively march, and the _sevy1tottwo companies in the two regiments marched past between the Queen and the sea. The Queen, unmindful of this also, sat her horse like a veteran. And her atti- tude strengthened the nerve of the crowd of citizens who were massed on the dunes/ They divided their gaze between the review and the aeroplanes, which only could be de- tected when tjh;t,,v,srel"i)rhir glinted from their armored sides; or from their rapid-fire guns. The mitrail- lenses of the Belgians were brought into action, and sprayed the clouds, but without any result, and the Germans, after dropping all their bombs, disappeared over towards the lines of the enemy. i Sent them throughout all the bor'- ders of Isra,el.--This was a usual way _ of apprising the children of Israel of any calamity or stirring event. , _ I 7. He fool: a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces-oxen were val)- able to the agricultural people, even as asses were. "laul's quick undet- standing of the situation showed him' _how best he could bring the people to rally about him. The warning could not fail to have its effect, as they could not afford to lose their oxen. 6. The Spirit of God came might- ily upon Saul when he heard those words, and his anger was kindlisd greatly-The Spirit of God erri- denced itself in great energy and power. He who was possessed pf this Spirit was ready for great things. See Judg. 3. 10; 6, 34; rl. 29; 13. 25. i Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep l-He had heard nothing about the occurrence at Jabesh-gilead. As the people weie weeping, he naturally wauld ask the reason why. 5. Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field-He had been plowing and was just return- ing. He happened to come upon the messengers. [ All the people lifted up their voice and wept-Great grief amqng the Orientals is expressed in loud wailing. See Gen. 27. 38; Judg. 2. 4; 21. 2. The crying of grown men in Palestine to-day strikes the viii- tor as singular. It is not at all un- usual to come upon men and boys weeping as a, consequence of failure to get_wlrat they want. 4. Them came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul.--This does not mean that they came to Gibeah be- cause Saul was there. They simply happened to come to the place of Saui’s /residence. They did not know that he was to be the future king. Saul, it will be remembered, had said nothing about his anoint, ing. In fact, he refrained from an- swering a direct question of his un- cle. See 1 Sam. 10, 14-16. 2. That all your right eyes be put out-To put out the right eye would not only be a, disastrous physical handicap, but would bring exceed- ing great reproach upon the chil- dren of Israel who were thus in- flicted. See Num. 16. 14; Judg.r 16. 21; Prov. 30. 17. 3. The elders of Jabesh said unto him-The civil government of Israel was in the hands of the elders. See Judg. 8. 14-16; H. 5ff; also Deut. 19. 12. Jabesh-gilead-See, Judg. 21. 8. The Ammonites were envious of Is- rael because the latter possessed Gilead, See Judg. 10. 6-18. 11. Lesson XI. Saul Gains His King- doni.-1 Sam. 11. Golden Text, Prov. 16. 32. Verse 1. Nahash the Ammonite- 1Nahash" means "snake." He was king of the Ammonites, as we read in 1 Sana. 12. 12; 2 Sam. IO. 1, 2; 17. 27. In 2 Sam. 17 25 we read that Abigail was the daughter of Na- hash, the sister of Zeruiah. In 1 Chron, 2. 15, 16 Zeruiah is mention- ed as one of the sisters of David. In 2 Sam. 10. 2 we learn that Na,- hash had been kind to David, and in 2 Sam. 17.' 27 that Shobi, the-syn of Nahash, was friendly to David in his exile. , Whosoever cometh not forth aftdr THE SUNDAY Stililili1fSSll) This interesting picture shows a detail of parts of the Argonne forest in ambuscade. observes the movements of Germans and COI tion to his comrades below. One of the sold ing a machine gun at the German trenches INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 14. French Machine Gun Operating From the Tree-Top shows a detail of French in: the outlying st in ambuscade. A look-out at the top Germans and communicates his srnforma, F One of the soldiers in the tree is train- 13. There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day Jehoy vah hath wrought deliverance in 12. The people said unto Samuel Who is be that said, Shall semi reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death-This has reference to 1 Satin. IO, 27. Saul's aelivery of the men of Ja.- besh-gilead was held in grateful memory. When later he met der. feat in battle, the Philistines fas- tened his headless body io the wall at Beth-Shan. When the inhabi- tants of Jabesh-gilead heard this, "the valiant men arose and went all night. and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-Shan," and buried their bones "under the tamarisslr- tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days." See 1 Sam. 31. 7-13, It came to pass that they that re- maimed were scattered, so that not two of them were left toge_ther--Not onshy W to most of the Amanotrites killed, iut those who escaped es- caped Is Jy. Smot'e the Ammonites until the heat of the day-The battle evident- Iy_1asted many hours. They came into the midst of the camp in the morning. watch-The camp means, of course, the camp of the enemy. The morning watch was the last of the three Watches of four hours each, into which the night was divided. The time, therefore, was between two o'clock and six o'clock in the morning. Notice, again, that the Israelites struck the blow at an exceeding early hour in the morn- ing, and compare Gideon's attack in Judg. 7. 19. 11. It was so on the marrow, that Saul put the people in three com- panies--They started to march the night before, so evidently the army was not divided until they had come near to the proposed scene of bat- tle. 10. Therefore the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, To-morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you-They did not intimate at what time of the day they would come. As they had the whole of the day, it was not necessary to designate the hour. They let the messengers of Nahash believe that they were go- ing to accede to the terms of Na,- hash. _ 9. To-morrow, by the time the sun is hot, ye shall have deliverance --This would be toward noon. From Bezek to J abesh-gilead was about a night's march. See 1. Sam. 31. 12. "To-morrow," doubtless, was the Last of the seven days. 8. He numbered them-lt would seem as though they were numbered in order to be sure that no man was lacking. See Judg. 21.9, where the people were numbered seemingly to discover whether any of the inhabi- tants of Jabesh-spifead were pre- sent. Bezek was perhaps a district ran ther than a town or city. See Judg. The dread of Jehovah fell on the people, and they came out as one man-The fear of Jehovah did not cause weakness; it rather inspired strength. When Jehovah called, the children must obey. They fear- ed him because if they were disp- bedient, and he exercised his an- ger, the result would be worse than any evil which could come to them in battle. a chosen prophet. Siam/tFS/ard,' therefore, gave weight to the sum- mo_ns which Saul sent forth. Saul and after Samuel--- Samuel still was mighty in the land. His influence would go far in showing the children of Israel not only what the emergency was, but what the chances of sucqess were, Saul was unknown as a leader. Samuel was The submarine U-8 was built in 1908, and was a vessel of 300 tons displacement. She had a, speed of 13 knots above water and 8 knots submerged. Her maximum radius of operations was 1,200 miles. The A despatch from Paris says: The German submarine U-8 T has been sunk by destroyers belonging to the Dover futilla, according to an- nouncement by the Ministry of Mar- ine. The crew were taken prisoner. The U-8 Sent to the Bottom brpestroyers of the French Dover Flotilla . Do not have ‘the oven too hot when cooking custard, or the cus- bard will become watery. Set the custard in a pan of/hot water, and see that it does not boil during the baking. t GERMAN SUBMABINE SUNK To handle dates with ease and comfort pour a little warm water over them before stoning and out- ting them, and the dates will sepa- rate without sbiekiness. Tc take out machine oil spots tack a piece of cotton wool over the spot. Leave it on for some time. You will find the cotton wool absorbs the oil, and the mark will be entirely removed from the ma- terial. 15. There they offered sacrifices of peace-offerings before Jehovah-- In 1 Sam. 10. 8, Samuel tells Saul that he will come down to him later to offer burnt-offerings and to sac- rifice sacrifices of peace-offerings. As this was a part of the ceremony of making Saul king, Samuel is now keeping his promise. 14. Renew the kingdom -- The kingdom had been established when Samuel anointed Saul, but there had been no public proclamation. Samuel did not want to discredit the first act in the establishment of the kingdom, although that act was a, private one. Now when the fact of the kingship is to be publicly pro- claimed, he simply says, we will "renew," or make public, what has already been done. Israel-Saul, first of all, gives the credit of the victory to Jehovah and, secondly, shows keen judg- ment in not allowing any man to be sought out and annoyed. Had he permitted this, even those who would have been leaders in the search and killing would afterward have turned against Saul for hav- ing permitted it. See 2 Sam. 19. 22 for a, similar instance of good sense on the part of David. The reason for this will beeome apparent when we remember that, fundamentally speaking, all the hatred, discord, warfare of the world, have had their origin in sectional emotion and parochial viewpoint. The man who takes up arms and thus makes war against his fellows is the man who can see little good outside the borders of his own tribe or nation and feels nothing but hostility toward peo- When Jesus declared that "tche peacemakers," in distinction from others, should be entitled to bear the high title of “the children oi God” did He have some particular idea in mind or was He simply mak- ing agracefvul but more or less empty generalization In most of the Beatitudes the appositeness of the rewards which are promised 'ss obvious. How appropriate, for ex- ample, the promise that those that )mourn "shall be comforted,” that the merciful “shall obtain mercy" and that the pure in heart. "shall see God I” In certain others, how- ever, the connection Seems more remote as where we are told that the poor in spirit shall receive the ,leingdom of heaven as their pos- lsevssion and that the" meek shall inherit the earth; and it is to this latter class, rather than to the for- mer, that the great Beatitude which we have taken for our Itf would seem at first sight to belong. The Children of God. _ A more careful examination of this statement, however, will indi- cate with olearness, I believe, that Jesus had.in mind a perfectly dis- tinct and inevitable relation be- tween the virtue blessed and the reward assigned. He was guilty of no looseness of phrase when He conferred this title. Not "the poor in spirit," or "the meek," or “the merciful,” or even "the persecut- ed for righteousness' sake," but "the peacemakers"-4hese alone could be rightly called "the chil- dren of God.” “Blessed are the peacema-kers: for they shall be called the children of Gvod."-itthew v., 9. Instead of Nations, Races of Religions, ""r_j' Beholds Only Humanity GOD IS THE COMM FATHER Old broomhandles, sawn into six inch lengths, then padded and Cov- ered with odd bits of silk, etc., are C excellent to wind ribbons on. mm ttSkt-- u” . str.-- M‘s The U-8 was a, sister of the farm. ous U-9, which early in the war sank the British cruisers Rogue. Aboukir and Grassy in the North Sea, and in October sent the Bri- tish cruiser Hawke to the bottom. Wreckage picked up late in Febru- ary off Ghristensand belamred to the U-9, and it was stated in Nor- way that the submarine had been last. _ T vessel carried three torpedo tubes. Hep; cogplement was 12 men. In serving fuih for dinner, the light-meated kinds are preferred because they are more easily di- gested than those with dark meat. Paste for pies should be rolled very fbhin. Always brush the un- deverust with water and be sure to perforate the upper crust. A nice way to 000k white turnips is to dice them before cooking, then boil in salt water, and ser-ve with a! cream sauce. Don't pick up broken glass but lay a wet cloth over it and "pat" it up. "All the machines and pilots re- turned. It is probable that con- siderable damage was done. No submarines were seen in the basin. The ottack was carried out in a fresh north-north-west wind." "Wing Commander Longmore Ire- ports that an air attack on. Os-bend was carried out Sunday afternoon - by six aeroplanes of the new}! wing. Of these two had to retu J owing to their petrol freezing. The '3 remainder reached Oste-nd, and dropped eleven bombs on the sub- marine repair base and four bombs on the Kursaal, the headquarters of the militia. MII (PL/AIG ATTA CK Submarine Repair Base and Militia Headquarters Were Both Damaged. A despatcxh from London says: The Admiralty on Monday issued the following statement: Just, here, now, is the explanar tion of the blessing pronounced by the Master in our text, "Blessed are the peacermakers, for they shall be talled"-not the children of Rome, Egypt, Israel-not the chil- dren of Germany, England, Ameri- ca-hut "the children of God)"-- Rev. John Haynes Holmes. ple who speak a different Magnum salute a different flag or worship at' different god from his»own. H34 sympathies are limited to the mem- bers of his own family, clan, coun- try, race or religion; his loyalty to what is native is confused with an- tagonism to what is alien, He misses altogether that instdnot of [all-embracing human relationshg£* which can iitt him out of and elbow the narrow citizenship of a, locals, group and give him the universal" viewpoint so wonderfully eNpress- ed by Terence, "Humani nihil a, me alienum puto." Hence he hates and fears, and sooner or later bends the bow and draws the swor% of conflict! Be is a war-maker !. He is a Peacemaker. . The Peacemaker, on the other hand, is the man to whom has come, the wider vision. The soales,’ provincialism have fallen from" _ eyes. He sees the world as the single abode of a, single family, of which all men are members and ( God is the common father. Instead of English, German, Japanese or lK’affirs, he recognizes only men. In- ., lstead of countrymen or foreigners, Occidentahs or Orientals, blacks or _ whites, be knows only the "one, blood" of which God hath made". mankind. To feel hatred toward‘ any being in human form is as im- C possible to him as to feel hatred to ward one of his own kind and to Wage war against any portion of ii humanity as impossible to fighe against his "brother and sister and , mother.” He prays, with Baha- 'o'llah, "Let not ama-n glory ins, this that he loves his country; l! : him rather glory in this, that h " loves his kind." Hence he seeks to' aholish stirife and bloodshed and make all men to be one. He is a Peacemaker! . pl? who speak Pdhllis AT {ESTEN Useful Hints, M)