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NOTES AND COMMENTS Among the misleading statements ‘matiot those relating to Kc way t That this is not the case is apparent to everybody who considers the rates at which the different azar can bor- row—the only way tion’s standard of rede uton apologists point to the readiness with which Ger loans have been subscribed, 2 have to compare the rate at which they were made. What are the facts? All he Gerfnan war loans put out by Ger- the war began were only successful becauye the interest rates ere at 6 per cent. and more. - land’s war loans have all been well over-subscribed at rates ranging from 2 to 4 per cent. Again, reference has been made by German’ writers to the “low gold stock” in the Bank of England as “the weak point in England’s financial ment.” The Bank of England’s of her er creditor nation and because by v Note circulation in Germany has in- creased 300 cent. since the war started, and the gold “cover” for thi is only about 45 per cent. er words, for every $5 in notes Germany can only: show gold to the value of $2.20. England's. ne circulation has inereased only moderately, but le to show $6 in ‘Bold ‘for every $5 in notes. Moreover, evi- dencs accumulate to show that a huge is why German notes are iscount. in every foreign country, notwithstanding the _government’s siefpments of-gold to neutral eountries try to rectify the change.. In the United States the deprecia- tion in Gérman currency is about 13 per cent, It is true that: British cur- rency is also at a discount in the neighboring republic, but that is due almost entirely to the purchase eriormous war Yotpriaes in that country which do not necessarily muni- Mesnas in ores peace Th alin T ebuntry, a pre- however, British currency is at a mitim,.If the financial situations of England and Ger are carefully studied, the only ‘Génclibione that po: be reached 4s tat nian s ‘ihe is vastly superior to that of any. PE nile ek Up in a Zeppelin. The Buildtae’ of a Zeppelin is noted the work of a day! The construction takes rionihey and when that is done ecving its. a and flying straight tt, says a contributor to. an | in the mou' The Soldier’ My bonnie boy he went away To fight across the sez; I knew th etears that fe mS that day Were heaven's gift to For after many He stood, just as his My winsome laddi While I must umbly For tears that fil Oh! I have known the But when ¢ God’s greatest gift My only son, my grea\ ‘That is the gift And if I weep, I’m p: Mothers, if when you But I was proud, though I was sad, nd kissed away my tear: In some far spot beneath the sod Beheld its hopes and fears eart is torn with strife I gave. Lies in a soldier's grave. He has no graven ponerse But t what is to me; ie diet a tnt 90 Pen 00 These tears? God set them free. An Empire must have died. s Mother S, fc’ boas a itn my God my joys of life, is tears. test joy, roud my boy mourn your, dead, HEALTH sin, 0 One who ae eS ee teat) human conduct cannot help @ universal feminine custom. have learned to meet and_part, gienic grounds, hey are osually of st - valneteble froin the sanapeut cial convention; and kissing is Hs = 5~ & = s ‘e cannot think of forbidding the Kiss between parents and children, or between brothers and sister: yét everyone ought to exercise the! the winter months, when colds and. grippes are alent, aapecialy mong families that are predisposed calm-| to such ifsc ns. “| ly exchange the germs cf a somviink, that we sternly isolate after it declared ay ection can be the Daehn of lip to lip. No care: is more eharnaag than the touch of cheek to cheek that well. bred Frenchwomen use; parents ought to teach children to do all their! Kissin ing in that way. Even peop! who are in perfect health a mi- crobes that in cause violent illness in those who are susceptible ie them. Certain. germs, those of pneumonia, for instance, are ver th = se throat; for the time being, harmles rr host, but might be fatal if communi- ated in a kiss to some one more sus- ceptible to their poison. shown. without 88 Select ‘one 6: accustom those you love to that. You will find that they will soon regard the new caress as* welcome as the kiss. T. P.’s Journel, is foll; Each new vessel means’a certain amount of ex- P mentation, and, until it has been carcfully tried and tested, it would be] ‘lly to undertake serious work with it. “A Zeppelin is as large asa rattle ship, and us complicated. “Stretched in a framework of gi Eon vavttses oe Teenty tee ballsen-| ettes. Over these,and over the gird- ez is an eas skin of waterproofed | Slung under the great length RP atie telvon irame a Tine of eab- ins for the engines and thé in chartte are slung beneath him, In. the first cabin, which is. entirely: covered in, arg two petrol engines. Behind this is the gangwi the obbereedon station. ed if the air- marvellous steering and sighting ap- paratus and the wireless plant. An experienced aviator went w ‘a Zeppelin for a nine-hour trial ane it was an interesting experience, ab though the noisy creaking of the gr Guitwncdever die engines tact fads i or a jolly the passenger looked fear- fully aloft, fearing every minute that the back of the monster Prant break and send them all hurtling to the etl 29 shes he disembarked he of the crew open the skin iris over the framework of the bolts had aorkel loose length sie of nuts have to be replaced. every voyage of any He clasped ‘her tiny hand in his.|, ‘Tough Problem. She or te erect, one]| enrich ‘her eommensurably inthe fos Isn’t the servant problem ter-| of nature’s fairest forms. He v ture, Commercially Cana rible?” shi from the wind and from| reason to look forward to the future “Very. The good ones get married| the coldest storms. She set her beau-| with ane ae ganfidence on = and the poor ones don’t stay long seank ee Son. op aan snore sil-| ance. enough in one place to develop al very. tones she said:—‘Won’t an um- e nag) a P Pa cared et. be Spor an re kayo ee |: there are| v {p-the' station’ of the| c f whe | very often ae starting and the landing; the anchors| Standing v. Sitting. girl’s ill-health can frequently be aciributed to the fact she stands too much. This applies par. | ticularly to cabopisitla and waltréaes; about a third of their hard-working lives in a standing po- sition. Clerks, on the other hand, are de- clared by physicians to sit too much. Long hours spént sitting at a desk, reniedy? In many standing desks for clerks ign help ae eal¥e a difficulty panel got to ved sooner or late “The Hasta ay wt for is poring hen a girl feels ee ci standing i ¢, opportunity to sit down, and ee walkin obtaining healthy exercise at the same time. But even walking can be easily. NG aati al tat by those who lead sedentary lives. SONG : OF TH THE cours. James L. ‘Hughes, Toronto. Bet se eee our es house, our ow: And ed mater “shall eeu) her sons She shall never stand al We are partners with her for aye are bound by love sincere, And her faith in the right and true We shall evermore revere. We Ga es that we’re brave and ‘ong, As ie sons should ever be, en she calls us in nae cause To fight for liberty. Vowed to Shield Her. eanalodicae the kissing is no longer | Rockies an ad oetiasteatt least in public places, without open SPortsma ple in nates and hopes to liquidate) en mtle j ground ol Many persons continue the: practice it. should inspire | wit ir | mountain scenery of | their. try for themselves, aa a ut on,” as! an Di , CANADIAN BOOKLETS FREE. The Dominion Parks Branch has recently issued three publications which are noteworthy on account 0 ‘the attractive form in which they are printed e innacestifiy matter they contain. Th re: “Classified Guide to Fish Their fone | Rocky Monspaie Park”; “The Nal and “Glaciers of the The Fish Guide is written for the ° s fished in all the principal aati of ‘the Park. It takes up each reaching the different varieties of alee MGA ct BAe pact d, and the| best bait to use. The game fish of| _specien af the Hockies bende f ive i of wi ha Sengtot. ‘as high as 40 Ibs. The Gale ly Varden and the trout are found in many. of the lakes and streams of the hatchery has recently. been estab- at Banff for the purpose of re- td king those which have become | depleted. ie othe second Haiosiilet gives an inter- ig account of formation, character and canes of the fampns |\Nakimu Cay These “intedeating natural curipstties jare supposed to be about 40,000 years old, and consist of a series o! ye chambers, some of them ;feet high and more than two fare feet long, ballast out partly by ero- sion and pi er and opening ih eich other at differ- ent of the caves d with strange florescent Art Gallery”; “The Judgment Hall”; ‘Th ‘ite Grotto”; “The Bridal Chamber”; etc, and when they a1 and handrails have been placed * te sia and platforms, they should ong the most interesting sights ie the Rockies for t “Glaciers of the: Rockies and Sel. te: is’ by Dr. A. P. Coleman, Pro- fessor of Geology in the University of Toronto, and bears o1 ie cover an attractive reproduction in color of a sketch of Mt. Ball, one of she es esque peaks nar the joleman is a ae wich the ima- gination of a poet and he has written the story of the eee and work of the Canadian paste salt all his well-known _ litera e aithlee should mre: et only sa great help to the student of glacial phenomena who visits the Parks, but many Canadians lesire the wonderful Yr. clothes and hobnai) The pamphlets may be’ obtained tawa, without charge. CANADA’S HOPEFUL FUTURE. Prosperity Will Lake Us More Self- Tt is ce in aoe war orders will total at least $40,000,000 ‘ore peace arrives. i tually: offset shrinkages in fanadian ee ee as ees live-stock. it Ainsdanreties 250, 000, b00 eae be able to export 175,000,000 bushels. The total agricultural exports may amount to $250,000,000 in the present | fiseal year——jast about double wat they were in the previous year. In ue year up tb March 31st last aoities: manufactures were exported the value of about $175,000,000. War lers may bring up the total to #30 000, ee Conservative figure; ‘a nts between $650,000, 000 aa nits 1000, 000 tay Pie recorded, instead of ie ¢ $350,000,000 as in the last fiscal y is volume tage business will bring such prosperity to Cans make her ever before; she will embark in new ci mi losality, desexibes. the best means of| Cut . Thr oat | fie iency Park, and a fish| that yoléanic action, | § ire io Tit with electricity ana Droper guards hed from the Dominion Parks Branch, Ot-| try naked for last autumn the country will, or | opened what is now merel; to! and, setond) aoe of the ulti timate the sky-blue cavalry standard with ouis much more self-reliant than| i¢ Young Folks lian Reservists who sailed d’Abruzzi for Naples to be assigned to thelr various regiments in Italy’s second line ‘This pieture shows some of the 500 Ital from New York on the steanier Date my. will be negligible and ie, way to the Dardanelles will lie _o) nly one thing. “to say in NUMBERS WILL SETTLE WAR SO A NAVAL AND MILITARY) {° EXPERT DECLARES. heads. It is because of Fashion Hints Black and White Popular. woring to “work cont. The- Womansaehos banitipely.cahhok wear black “because it m: The Relative Positions of the Allies and the Eene: Compared. Mr. Hillaire Belloc, the eminent} These attacks have been futile so English naval and military writer in s the issue of the war is con- 8 recent speech declared that the fact) cerned, whether the shelling of Dun- weak nerves of judgment among those he is tacking. niture is coyered with bl: @ be. china from a the factor of numbers is, fore SE end—or the usage of gases.| Wagon! impossible to| All such things are done to pro-|, | There black and white tea an ‘important. It is seribe! which will inerease in violence and,” does not discuss numbers. |horror, is to keep calm. Whether! emy’s organization and ef-| these acts are foolish or merely atro-| Our kitchen range is black and the the kitchén sink is white. of un-| 5 ghepherdésd Bridesinildé: | Lilies cf the Valley and petite lilacs ‘combined are taking the p! usval, orarige Blossoma tor bridal. bo: German’s latest suceets in Galicia| the L Lusitania or the shelling has been gained by weight of num-|srmed towns) but will be won and BALL ney thet baconier thie Russians | lost in the re RATE provide themselves with! The siflituey ‘problem alone the necessary munition: is su-| erns the issu periority in numbers whic given France her vietory north of Ar-| don whole problem is one) © Beceare “that fac is going to be very heavy in the pre-| The Siege Chip: What is the decision the enemy is seeking? He is now just about equal with the allies, sper Guat a tile ecured his last ta Saemnttee gov- enj ri period it is patos futile fe aes cize existing authority. I particular lov @ for the Astana politician, bike en fightin these bridesmaids’ gowns vary in material, but the effect of all of them | is mach the same—plain narrow skirt, ‘paniers, pointed bodice, square neck during the past three weeks. ‘The al-| must be-obeyed. Military sel ieeset heptacige tee sie my lies are progressing more slowly, but; must rule, though it very often hi wedding. of national importanee th il inphote'on the predariccrate Seay Leankstixicaensaagartt oitioaca. aioe rapidly.” The campaign has..become| lamentable . ignorance. ; a great siege, but there is‘ génerally| is declared ‘Follow the King’ res pate and other t constitutes | only cry. You can do your clearing °!4-fashioned flowers. The effect was up afterwart very charming, as the hats were sus- pended from the arms by wide\rib- ior ee waleiea ash within a limited area. not mean defeat, it doe: starvation, but it can ‘ale end in ways—first, relief of the sieged; ee sorties which breal ik nek ring; or thitd, capitulation and defeat tl In this Mijcies siege we have a! white plumes singular position, for at the outside) heen Jargely sited a Sy) ea with many Sie BIG Ree MRE inferior in royalty and. the e French) of the Tater Leta are reproduced numbers, yet: pinned and confined the Sabon Phe the. st: ic, however | for shittwaist model enemy armies within limited areas. seh saoits the three’ popular | Probably in November, n the| colors of France, ‘is coniparatigely siege began, the proportion of men Reon The flag was first adopted | mee d six to eight in favor of the en-' about i794. /A decree was my. It is ge that by the end] which gave t6 all flags a knot of ti Twelve Y of May equality in this respect will) color ribbons at the top of the Ay hie tl S nee been Becca through the en-|and later the red, white, and mee my wastage in attempting to Sectire design was chosen’ for the national ees THE ‘FRENCH TRICOLOR. Blouses of Canopy Pattern: The blouses which the summer aegi will select for golf, tennis, boating The French ie always favored | nd the like may be of plain linen or the colors of red, whité and blue, and| madras or may run i signs, of wl the eas candy st Has Been ue Petrie Banner of Our Since 1830. sh ene patterns or the AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINES. sre Has Been Gradoally Declining The Australian gold wl for a time among the most productive in Expensive Sorties. {was not until 1830 that the rs \ frsording to reports to the comptrol- Sorties such as we have heard of ca into its own again. © Sine ae of the currency, was the lowest lately are enormously expensive/ the flag has been the jurital La since 1896, amounting to only 42,300,- things, and, in proportion as they| ner of The divisions on the | 000, as against $79,300, 000. in 1908, fail, they leave the besiegers more | tricolor are not e size.|'The yield in the state of he aie in m apides, | 1614 was the. amallest since st the blue is slightly smaller than the | jred, an The Australian gold yi etd fh fis fill one’s lungs with mountain air in| nature of sorties. Ev e he se-| stripe of the three, The space occu-| three years: 2,048,9 19 ; FeseeenPle Op 2 See suewselas to See| cures fresh groupings oe troops he pied by the soln ma been scent 061 in 1913, 2,321,343 in 1913, ” The ie ow the glacial machinery works.’ ikes his There is no cor-| ally worked out i ‘0 make the ighwater. mark was in 1903—-3,827,- 0 eosotitiie: alied foP Ale Netiogers to age vietbte at: Tong! ypreirns a ne- break through, where: 064 ou! | eessary asset for naval purposes. | The Aas ses oe has Lita the neha Beales since h 8 Were OPK 1851, e had numerous national ned i Al-| more than yy A365, 618,000 fs gold. 5 ES = 8 g 8 5 so—just wl trying to do all the past winter eniee' against Warsaw, again at the Car- pathian front, and now most tremen-! Sot of all in Western Galicia. eee The effect it adopted the tricolor. ough its present banner is not par-| Her largest production in a year was ean artistic, its predecessors | in 1856—8,058,744 ounces. The state. of Western Australia has tis st afo was s in the world, The first French RAL ee col te wa lag was extremel quaint: - It cc i S lca an sbsiiary a one et ry. ia no effect the final er of the unless the aie “Keep Calm.” visits a friend and finds black and| Robi numbers in this war was all im-! kirk, the oecupaty f u, the} Ctetonne. She rushes away toward a “Billy ‘Rabin! Billy aBobink # Douk portant. M. Bell ‘aid:— | sinking of the I# itania, the burning) Particularly jolly soul, and is given a| here! ant to talk to you!” he ps At the present tints. xn of Southend, or the coming raid on| CUP © served in black and white | peate: ang e are new mantles in wicker of. ar intelligently _-without| duce ipa in the minds of belliger-' black and. white, candlesticks in the| angwered. politely: “What is it I can realizing that fact. Rhetorical en-|ent countries and among neutrals. ™ournful color combination, and most} do for. you Seuy is) Wasted “when it nistely: de-| The only way to meet these acts, astonishing of all, there are black| “You can tell me what you are do- 8 organization or efficiency and} Ugs. ” said Tomi sparré eZ ing Never mind, we are in style, too. are no better than those of, cious, during them all we mus keep as you would know’ without being told. the allies, but he has more men, and Be ilitary problem before us; i Nietude ro con ahi oe “a has @/im eating mn” is an essential to success. The! will not be solved by the sinking of) ck -and white’ ‘Eating a exclaimed Tommy ‘atl ie than e | Where,” explained Billy Roe suAtter ich the-most popular are | wa proater liberty of action and:by the! flag. Some years after it was abol-|the world, appear to be giving out, allies recruitments. | ished for the whi jag France | The yield has been gradually ‘declin-| greatest. famous by Henry IV., and it| ing for twelve years, and that of 1914, a eS Tommy Shares His Feast. Be One bright morning in the soremee ~ toad Tommy Sparrow returned from his eating fly over the country and dee settled down on the apple sabes at ae pas Right over there in the middle of the Seni was “Hello, there, Bi Tomi Sparrow, but Billy didn’t look up or wer; he just went right along tending to his own Danaea Sap Hien seemed to be digging up the dirt that. had recently been worl “Now what can be doing?” Tomm: Sparrow asked himself. “I think I'll watch and see. He seems to be eating” something—but what the something can be is more than I see. limb of the old aple tree and watched. Up and down the garden Billy: Robin. walked; pecking, pecking, pecking at. most regular fash- longer to be sure.” So Tommy Sparrow watched what. emed to him a long, long time, then curiosity rather anc ene in! no exception to the ile. eran out what Billy” why. “Billy eRobtnt a malaee No mya ans ree ment along tendin Thus addressed, Billy Robin heard — Billy laughed. “That doesn't sound like a hard task, but: T should think “Where do you get it-” gel ” replied Billy g e he resumed hig walking up and down and his meal “Yes, I see 6 yo u eating,” said T my Sparrow in a puzzled voice, “bat there wasn’t any corn around. this garden when I left my nest this mornin; I know, because I hunted worms in that very place and not find- ing any went to the woods for my breakfast.” “Which. just goes to prove that you would do beti ate ogee! garden r else- you left this morning a came out of the house and planted this patch of corn. ste} s he is ing to have a fine patel n for cor popcorn this fall. He ae it all in neat rows, too. It’s very good eating, better help yourself!” eeded no urging. He flew down and soon learned the trick of following the row: getting the most corn for the least trouble! So that t is the real reason why there +h a poor crop of popcorn from that caretully planted patch! Rifles of the Armies. Each La now fighting in Europe a rifle the longest rifle, the French the Tangent bayonet, while the Aus- trians use the heaviest bullet. The rifles with ‘the largest calibres 3 those of the French and the Aj the bayonet added the weapon is longer than the rifle and bayonet of the Belgians and Austrians, pat ok Not Difficult. ts To teach a skid is to give him ideas; to train him is to enable him _ a reduce those vee to.practice, And “wg it is not difficult in children. enw. to form a basket was ven more easily than children mi ba: tatiumnoed a right ways by wise can be fashioned as readily as “he is fashioned in the potter's wheel, Ss e A Horse Story. ine of the British horses is a eandidate for his schoolmaster at Leicester. “It is 7 side fell i trom Pa” eS between each of which a ‘tiny as a greel stream of munitions would become!” Gome Sieteieaaed Saimiercrira rut a\river: Iles to. pe teinembeted that” AGS rare always in shy operancn of wa) are two , local Eran, ot One tine carcieg We Te | rors. befor Woe ene arilenelds, There was A student of the trend’ of the mo-| tor car art has seen a wonderful evo: tation in tneaiaan twenty Fears. The | automobile has been as epoch making) wo! nas any | dn Galicia if the Russian [the golden sun of cen ‘broken, the effort white and gold banner of Joan of tee ied ‘of ite object memy| Are, magnificently embroidered with ined a pt rte suceese, but ie Rossin line has not yet bee days over the rapidly improving| the roadways without attracting particu- lar_attention. The progressive evolution of me- “To fetch somé water, sir.”| chanical, chemical, electrical science ‘Not in th , ii me won ao daly ee in each’ Stier greater a in eet oH one Ss yi Pas] Bahr, yhose escarpment closely resemble ‘the chile downs’ of coast and are re; le full-dress uniform, ae e act Bs fetching rated “Where are you going?” = ever, 80 s00n a8 — our [people of the | . ¢ than “Private: “No, sir; in the bucket.” Developments in [lotor Building By Henry B. Joy, line. “ae broken: Martin, mre revered by ictoria. ” 4 aan y 9,000,000 by Victori @} a true story of Anal Besar? Be ating one-ons in a-line. ip ummg the French, andy o his helmet. hi largest gold-producing ‘state is. “The troops were charging at GA a pee eee pee carried by our allies In thelr| Quetralie ie {is Queenslan the time, and as one Eitan sea egishd teataot, earls eee he a | hs horse, wounded the anima, nicked Ei blo ny Hc aaa econd French flag was 2| King George sees his physician] him up outh by his cl neue cigs snlvaeee tearing ake oe atta imrane of nad, ised loose Seni far oes hinmanae ce vate with juipment in anything like id cut into three tongues, resem| eal = sufficiency. If the Dardanelles were ¢" tas years prior re the last cen: The motor car reached the stage of eae use first in Europe. Proc Paris with its white ship on a blood-| of! “The Dardanelles: Problem. red field. The tricolor forms the base ean writes Henry 3. Joy, pres hicl So far as the operations in the/of nearly every flag connected witl t of a motor as My fat ii I Dardanelies = cones the Asia-| the army, outs, and merchant ser-| who died in 1896, never saw a motor | sa: coast is 0 importance « once| Vice of Franc a ees ae are practically re- dominating shor a es i i“ sid mnie tore an e dif- Where He Going ‘To-day we tall to Francisco. ie facing the Tee "foree. One| A FS ON standing at a window in| To-day man akeait his way by motor “| is in the storming ,and| the barracks saw a svete ae in| car from coast to, coast in fifteen the Paris. exposition of 1887, says the — same authori : meee: Mr. “Devkseor er his col- laborators Laon set the worl the | with: zeal to