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during the past 12 months is the highest he has ever obtained jewelers are doing an extensive business in rings gold bracelets brooches lockets and other trinkets manufacturers of electroplate who released hundreds of men for the army in the early days of the war when trade came almost to a sand- still find it difficult to execute the orders now pouring in another van ity is the purchase of elaborately- comparatively few are saving or in- moun umbrellas a workingclass prosperity for british labor workmen are making more money than ever vesting their overplus of wealth munitions has come to be a magic word among the workers of seffield two years ago it was outside the vo cabulary of all but a few today it is continually in the mouths of the men and women living in this typical great arsenal city it stands with woman in a tramcar explained the possession of an umbrella which she said had cost 45s by the simple re mark jacks on munitions canadas inland waters lakes of the middle west only now being appreciated them for hard work but high wages j comparatively few persons have for unexampled prosperity and for a any adequate appreciation of the ex- comfortable sense that a halo of pat- tcnt and vaule of the gt injatld wa notism rests upon the labor of the ter rcs0u of portions of canada day says a sheffield england letter in this connec a few brief state- evcry second man in the cty is on ments respectin the of the munitions and it is said locally that woods watershed will of interest anyone with one leg and one eye can the area of the lake of the woods obtain employment the change from is 1485 square miles- the area of peace to war industry has been on an rainy jg 345 square m lake almost incredible scale and the rami- winm has an area of some 9i400 fications of munition work are e- square miles which is about 2000 j mdering a laborer in a brickyard square mucs than ontario g fits them but whatever the year finds hur self unable to leave for the area of the lake of the woods holds in the way of prizes it is safe other employment because the bricks watcrsned 26 750 square miles is sav that the ideal of useful service made in the yard are used to line the on abou five ess than the will be foremost in the minds of the furnaces of the great armament j arca of ince of new bmns majority of women wick what is known as the lake of the sacrifices made by british women thousands do strange work to help the empire large increase in number of women medical and dental students the year that has just closed has been full of significence for women though it has perhaps seen them but a little way and that on industrial lines towards the feminist idea of the open door to all kinds of work olive schreiners i take all labor for my province was a brave watchword for a critical time it has proved however in a great degree a measure only of the sacrifices women were pre pared to make and not of the re wards they were prepared to ask for in the year that has passed says a recent london letter it may be that the coming year may see them called to replace men in the higher branches of the civil service and in administrative posts are ue- square miiesi wnic abo 2000 1 which their education and tram- works the sheffield cutler at one time the typical craftsman of the city is busy with knives andjforksjfor jatntion the army a firm which repaired brokendown locomotives is manu- factoring submarine machinery the men at type foundry who be- to summarize the years ifnanges in womens work is difficult though con- j n in itself the first actual call the ups fighting at close quarters french engaged in house to house fighting in one of the souchez clean- is being ducted by the international joint appeal to women to volunteer for war commission under the boundary wa- service issued by the board of trade done by women in every part of thej ters treaty of 1909 between great on march 17 was a great incentive to country has been beyond praise for paid queen marys needlework guild for britain and the united states thej women to offer themselves for fore the war made printers furniture chief purpose of the investigation is work formerly done by men the t the british red cross society and are now producing cartridge boxes sec the most advantageous use of government employed women largely j the order of st john for the surgi- rolling mills which once rolled nickel tne waters of the lake of the woods they were drafted into the censors cal supply depots and the other great silver for metal teapots are rolling and 0 the waters flowing into and department and into the census of organizations work parties were brass and copper for the materials of f rom that 0 each side of the j production in the war office be- busy all the year war scores of firms are tackling boundary for domestic sanitary navi- sides clerical work of every kind they j of the nurses themselves it is al- work which a year ago was never g transportation fishing power did certain remount work and the most as difficult to speak as of the within their calculations and many l j purposes and also to buying of hay etc and lately women army and navy manufacturers have been astonished i sccure the most advantageous use of have taken the place of men as cooks at the possibilities of their plants j t shores and harbors of the lakes in camps and military convalescent people who thought in thousands have and tn waters flowing into and from hospitals during the past week scot- learned to thing in millions every- i the j j land yard has engaged a large num- s barely enough to keep life in diet of british prisoners in germany daily rations reduced to a minimum bread of rye and potatoes daring deeds win victoria cross british soldiers perform brave deeds three corporals and one private awarded the highest honor a list cf war honors issued by the the official notepaper of the war bj w office is headed by the prisoners camp at giessen germany nams of throe eorpora and one where large numbers of british sol- pr w are award v- diers are interned now contains in to croi 3 of consoicuout displayed columns the dietary of the bravery two of the recip are men giessen is generally regarded torri the lit is as folows as one of the best of the german corpl alfred a bin t 1st herts prison camps germany solemnly tf for most consnicuous brnv- pledged herself under the hague con- cry at cuinchv september 27th 1915 vention to allow prisoners of war the nis compalv had hned thl front same food as was issued her own sol- trcnc prcparatory to an attack diers when a large minenwerfer bomb fell now we have the german official int0 the trcnch conral but who account of what is actually given weu kmw thj destructve pov of there arc three meals a day break- tms cass of bombi migh eas haye fast dinner and supper and a daily rot undcr cover bchind a travcrs0 allowance of 10 oz of bread appar- but he immcdia went forward put t3 ently the germans have tried to dis cover the minimum on which life can be maintained in calculating the value of the ger man food it must be remembered that the bread is composed mainly of pota toes and rye the coffee is burned barley and the beef is in some cases horseflesh his foot on the fuse wrenched it out of the bomb and threw it over the parapet thus rendering the bomb in nocuous daring rescue pte john caffrey 2nd york and lanes for most conspicuous brav- where there is activity and new en terpriseall directed upon the one end munitions workers not saving trades unable to contribute to the to indicate the volume of water cor- ber as substitutes for men from the responding even to one foot of depth civil service staff who have enlisted on some of these lakes on the lake p the london postoffices women of the woods a depth of one foot is j sorters and temporary postmen were equivalent to 411 billion cubic feet a feature of the christmas season while the corresponding volume for qn the tcairtwayg business of the war have been largely j one foot of depth on rainy lake is 96 1 denuded of men the young and fit billion cubic feet tdepttr mar cases the country has set wentto the army months ago ojjxerc trfttake of the woods example to london women have found that evedalcitiorers job would supplyi313 cubic feet perj a omnibus conductors in the gives them j second for one year while one foot wer tried in glasgow and other more money than their regular oc- depth on rainy lake would supply 305 places before london considered them cupation on the corporation tram- f per second for the same period i women have been cleaning railway cars one sees none but women con- storing the runoff in lake of the carriages acting as booking clerks tductors and in many other services woods r and other lakes can and porters working the signal boxes women are doing the work which thus exert a marked beneficial in- j and learning the language of rolling was once performed by men apart fl upon water powers receiving j stock in secretarial posts throughout from the local supply of labor thous- j supp from this watershed the in- 1 the kingdom they have been clean- ands of workers have come to the city fternational joint commission in mak- 1 in ships in dock working lifts in from other parts of the country and t recommendation respecting a houses and on the tube rail- housing accommodation is so strain- j pr0 regulation of the lake of the ways to hear in a womans voice j ed that the lord mayor recently is- uyoods will consider the advantage tne warning to stand clear of the sued an appeal to citizens to take in w would result to power interests bates has almost lost its novelty personal pointers gossip of interest that is going the rounds notes of interest from her banks and braes what is going on in the highlands and lowlands of auld scotia the factory erected by the mother well toy industry is now completed stonehouse has distributed seven ty tons of coal amongst the depend- the best royal pianist is probably j en of th with colors princess victoria who so often plays th ehlidrc f el tto ber mother queen alexandra the f7ears respectively of john hal- tzz j j v u i t xi i liburton of dundee were burned to piano used at marlborough by her royal highness is a magnificent in- ln strument bearing the inscription 1 phe s sa anglln seas0 victoria from papa and mamma j y op m f part gor scotland and prospects of sport are cardinal bourne who recently visit- sta be cd the front could make himself un- scottish vvaollen and hosiery man derstood in practically all the theatres ufacturers annotmce substantial of war forjie is a wonderful linquist crease m p the scarclt speaking six or seven languages with ease they say it only takes him six months to pick up a working knowledge of any language edison is credited with having in vented several clever war contraptions mu i has accommodation for 750 puils has since the great conflict began the mu t t now been opened occasion never finds him wanting it was to take revenge on the gas com- thc following is the diet cry november 16th 1915 near la breakfast i brique a man of the west york- shire regiment had been badly thursday loz cocoa 1 25oz sugar wounded and was lying in the open 710th of an ounce of starch meal j unable to move in full view of and wednesday and saturday loz po- a 300 to 400 yards from the tato meal 2oz starch meal and l3oz enemys trenches corporal stirk margarine royal army medical corps and on the remaining four days break- caffrey at once started out to rescue fast consists of coffee and sugar loz h but at the first attempt they of coffee and 44oz of sugar for six were driven back by shrapnel fire men j soon afterwards they started again dinner i under close sniping and machinegun monday loz bacon with potatoes f and succeeded in reaching and and beans bandaging the wounded man but just tuesday 3oz pork with potatoes as corporal stirk had lifted him on and beans private caffreys back he himself was wednesday loz meat unspeci- s in the head caffrey put down tied potato flom- potatoes and loz t wounded man bandaged corporal over dried vegetables stirk and helped him back into safa- thurday 3oz meat sauerkraut t he then returned and brought in and potatoes the man of the west yorkshire regi- friday 5voz salt fish potatoes raent of raw wool and dyes fife coal trade is dull and the de marid exceeds the supply thete has been no improvement in the output of coal from the fife ports the new johnstone school which the school was w ir built at an estimated cost of 35000 this immigrant population as lodgers i b account any dis- but the sight of a woman in uniform i yvhhatcut off his g atf ortn i havin reached the age limit mr the weekly outpouring of money in advan that may result to ripar- with a broom on the underground has overlooked bill that he invented the i alexand fleming postmaster dun- wages has swollen to a remarkable ian owners living in minnesota or sense of fitness that makes one won- 1 hiv ivmiv 4 t i fermline has retired after seeing total and the tradespeople who cater i e whose lands bordering on der it was not thought of before the for the wants and one must add in y i may under certain regula- great banks have largely availed some measures the extravagances of jtions of levels be subjected to daml of womens services from the war workers have had the best a by fl avw in conserva- j tne bank of england to coxs year within their memory enquiry i t does not suggest that any large part of the excess earnings is being sys tematically saved although in the lack of thrift the shefflelder is no worse than his mate in other towns where trade is good the more thoughtful among the artisans are putting an adequate share of their present high wages in to the war loan or the savings banks best understood by their class there is reason to believe that others are hoarding money in their homes and a reasoned appeal might sccure this money for the use of the state in a great number of cases the only in vestment favored is the purchase of furniture wives who have long wished for sideboard or a sewing machine or some other article which in ordinary times has been beyond their means are at last able to re alize their ambitions buying luxuries there is also a good demand sometimes a foolish demand for pianos a man and woman walked into a shop on a recent saturday night and asked the price of a piano in the window 26 was the answer given is it a good un enquired the man it is a good instrument for the money the dealer said cansta send it up to ahr ouse came the next question yes when it is paid for was the comment of the shop keeper who was not in the least ex- pocting to do business oh thats awreet said the man heres a pun note and well bring trest rahnd termorrow the next morning the balance was paid and the piano was delivered in the house to which it was taken the estimated value of tie furniture in the house was con siderably less than the price paid for the instrument young mechanics are buying mo torcycles often with a sidecar at tached and hundreds of them may be soon on sundays riding the machines on the derbyshire roaas the wjvs of the munition workers take ttieir ahoro in spending women who in thq past havo been able to buy only the cheapest clothes are now ordering costumes costing 4 and even 5 guinea hats and expensive shoes the manager of a bootshop states that hkj commission on sales i trials of farmer in town found it hard to separate luxuries from necessities a farmer sold his property to live in the city because his city friends wore good clothes had money in their pockets went to the movies be longed to clubs and enjoyed a yearly in agricultural work the substitu tion has gone on more slowly every where women gardeners women farm bailiffs and women to milk cows and do dairy work have been asked for and many schemes for supplying these needs have been put on foot but the great number of women of all classes who chose munition work some from patriotic motives and others because it was well paid les sened the number available for more incandescent burner which is said to save money mrs pankhurst has attained the distinction of being mentioned in the german papers as one of the most powerful war forces in england the welsh miners among whom she is conducting a patriotic campaign have taken most cordially to her and where cabinet ministers have found them obsinate she has found them most obliging prophets of the war have had a bad time but lord charles bcresford can claim that a forecast of his came true long before the zeppelins attacked the metropolis the breezy admiral of the j sa dont underrate the zeppelins and their carrying power with a fair prosaic work the success vacation he found however that women who undertook the compara- the city man pays dearly for these tively new trade of welding for air- luxuries plane work deserves a word to itself we came to know he said that but in all the process of airplane it was just as hard for the city man work from the difficult mathematical to get up at 7 oclock in the morning problems arising out of the specifica- as it was for the country man to get to the proofing and stitching of fothat hthas enteredhcrnine up at 5 why so because he must the sails women have been efficient ticth year is very ene she ha fortysix years service in the post office official returns for 1915 by the scottish ironmasters association show that home requirements and export demand now considerably out strip production clyde seamen have been awarded an advance of 120 per week on the wages at a conference held in glas gow between the steamship owners and the seamens union at a meeting of the glasgow cor poration it was decided to stop the allowances at present being paid to members of the staff now holding commissions in the army sergeant william d gibbs son of and l3oz soup flavoring saturday same as monday sunday 4oz of beef 4oz of white cabbage about 1941b of potatoes supper mondays herring and potatoes tuesday same as sunday wednesday 3vioz rice 1 25oz sugar lioz dried fruit thurday same as monday friday cheese and potatoes gave life for officer corpl alfred drake 8th rifle brigade for most conspicuous brav ery on the night of november 23rd 1915 near la brique france he was one of a patrol of four which was reconnoitring towards the german lines the patrol was discovered when close to the enemy who opened heavy- fire with rifles and a machine gun wounding the officer and one man latter was carried back by shuday same as wednesds undnv- 3o2jserahjsans 710th last remaining of an ounce of starch meal 710th of remained with his officer and an ounce of margarine and 7oz pota- seen kneeling beside him and ban- toes i daging his wounds regardless of the if all the meat and fish allowed for j enemys fire later a rescue party each soldier for dinner for a week is crawling near the german lines found added together it comes to just over the officer and corporal the former fourteen ounces of meat mostly salt unconscious but alive and bandaged and 5 ounces of salt flower kidnaps insects cup holds prisoner until he agrees to transport pollen now we have a plant that kidnaps and holds for ransom his victims are the bees corporal drake beside him dead and riddled with bullets dug out wounded corpl samuel meekosha 16th w york tf for most conspicuous bravery near the yser on november 19th 1915 he was with a platoon of about 20 noncomiiissioned offi- t i i1j uviimf- gibbs stationmaster fordoun wind and o advantages the zep- h m medg pelins will come to london confcrred on him for distinguished no one follows the progress of the m war with greater keenness than the empress eugenie who despite the service at the dardanelles a canteen for the female night workers in the munition works of messrs beardmore at paisley has not relax he is ever on duty he mr lloyd george stated on decern- 1 vivid mem of the creat war of i been opened by lady beardmore the f rmilo of tv nonr ttn 1 1 l nn ci l- vlvlu muihm ibs oi hie ckai dl uj j l ormmmiv nt mil must smile at this person he dares not notice any ones peculiarities or oddities or unreasonableness the re sult is he must find his relaxation in the evening therefore the family rarely gets to bed before 10 or 11 ber 20 that the number of munition 1870 that lost her husband his throne workers was not yet large enough and ftance alsacelorraine and they and that 80000 skilled and 300000 un- 1 must eome b to the empress as skilled would yet be needed in the s coming year it is very probable that the bulk of these will be women the sees the wounded soldiers who oclock and 7 in the morning finds promise that a woman assessor would them just as sleepy and far less re freshed than 5 found him on the farm we found going to work for some body else every day in the year ex cept sunday and perhaps a two weeks vacation undcr somebody else as man ager didnt exactly suit our country spirit of freedom we came to know that our friends saved scarcely a cent and furthermore one couldnt exactly see how they were extravagant in the city it seems unbelievably hard to separate luxuries from necessities a good bargain tne old gentleman showed a good deal of displeasure it seems to me he exclaimed testily rather presumptuous for a youth in your position to ask for my daughters hand can you advance any good reason why i should give my consent certainly sir promptly replied the suitor what pressed tho old man i am comparatively modest and economical ip piy personal ox pcndilure replied the suitor and think sir that altogether yw will find me less costly to maintain than almost any other soninlaw you ccild select t be appointed to every munitions court at which women or girls would be heard was one of the most notable happenings of the year and was due to the exertions of miss mary mac- arthur in medicine and dentistry the war has led to a very large in crease in the number of women medi cal and dental students but one side of the scientific work of women that has passed almost unnoticed has been the enormous amount of work done under government direction by women in laboratories in the making of synthetic drugs and antitoxins the invitation given to dr garrett anderson and to dr flora murray to take charge of a military hospital by sir alfred keogh was also one of the events of the year there has been a small replacement of men in bakeries women dealing with the baking of small bread it is however prophesied as not unlikely that much of the confectionery bread trade will pass into the hands of wo- monin tne coming ymr women too nave taken up herbgrowing oh a business basis to supply druggists who formerly had such things from enemy gardens tho voluntary work are being cared for at her home at farborough few royalties have passed through so many vicissitudes as the crown prince of serbia owing to his eld er brothers pranks the rignt of sue- 1 cession to the throne passed to him and for a considerable time he has i on the outbreak of canteen has seating accommodation for 500 mr peter w smith son of mr david smith of kirkcaldy has tra velled 14000 miles to enlist he held a farming appointment in queensland and at the outbreak of war came back to kirkcaldy sir alexander mcrobert of cawn- pore has made a generous benefaction to aberdeen royal infirmary he has been in the past a liberal donor and has now handed over securities which it takes a brave person to j cers and me who were holding an kidnap a bee but this plant does it isolate trench during a very heavy regularly he needs the bee to help bombardment by the enemy six of him carry pollen from one flower to i another so he kidnaps the insect i the patoon were killed and seven- holds it until he gets a promise tnat it j wounded while all the remainder will take away a load o pollen with were more or less buried when tha it and then he releases it youre senior noncommissioned officers had familiar with the plant its climbing been either killed or wounded corpl vine and its oddvshaped flowers it meekosha at once took command sent is the dutchmans pipe i a runner for assistance and in spit the shape of the flower gives it the of n0 i than 10 more big shells fall- name they grow on long stalks and w 20 yards of him continued tvvrr die out the wounded and buried men in full view of the enemy and at close range of the german trenehes and acted as regent v ue uiu ie an ncome o j 85 an war he became commanderinchief of the army by whom he is greatly j beloved since he became heir to the throne he has participated in three balkan wars the tatest attachment chiggs is always seeking new at tachments for his motor car he has one now that will hold him for a while what kind is it one furnished by tho sheriff tom hood the punster once de scribed the meeting of a man and a lion and in doing so ho said tho man ran off with pu his might and the lioh with all his mane extract from a schoolboys bible examination paper 6 fwhat does gcrlptoe say of a iio a a he is an abomination to the lord but a very present help in lime of trouble num the rev p lindsay gordon par ish minister of glenbervie in addi tion to joining the french red cross for active service as a motor driver has purchased and presented a hand some motor ambulance for use at the front and inflated at the base it realij looks like a pipe the leaves are large and heartshaped the bee flics into the narrow open ing of the flower in search of honey and find it he drinks and drinks until he is ready to go but whei he turns around he finds the way barred with scores of tiny daggers pointing inward as lie came in the by his promptness and magnificent courage and determination he savef at least four lives i the dogs of bagdad bee brushed his way by the daggers thousands of thcm divid the city ooq1i ht thn lnrr tr mm flnwnr nousanas or i ncm imae me vliy up territorially only a matter of time she told tom she simply could not make up her mind to be the wife of a poor man but tom isnt poor no but he soon would be if she married him what is the child howling for now asked its father from tho depths of his easy chair he wants his own way snapped tho mother and with his rnind on the latest war news the father replied well if its his why dont you let him have it should have been placarded en trance only for the daggers wont bend to let him out there ho is a prisoner he buzzes around frantically shaking the golden pollen from the dagger points and gathering it on his wings for two or three days he is held captive until lie collects all the pollen he can carry then the daggers whither and the bee find his way out l hardly what he expected a noted miser who felt obliged to make a present to a lady entered a crockery shop for the purpose of mak ing a purchase seeing a statuette broken into a dozen pieces he asked the price the salesman said it was worthless but he could havo it for the cost of packing it in a box the miser directed it to be sent with his card to the lady congratulating him self that she would imagine it was broken while on its way to her he was at her house when the box arriv ed but the effect was hardly what ho expected the tradesman had care fully wrapped each piece in a sepa rate scrap of paper why does a young man try to keep on the right side of his best girl when he knows her heart is on th left side bagdad has been called the para dise of the pariah not even con stantinople in the palmy days of the sultan abdul aziz possessed so many of these nondescript dogs swann- today in its streets and alleys they yelp and snarl and quarrel all day over the heaps of rotting gar- 13 bage and the night is made hideous by their howling yet the natives seem rather to enjoy the noise anyway the resent any attempt to ifc t abate it some forty years ago a cer- tain reforming turkish governor esj snyed to rid bagdad of its dogs onco g and for all he rounded up some i 12000 of them and started to drown them in the tigris at thej five hundred a day bn half the bowwows had posed of the populace rose in wra and insisted on the release of the mainder today the bagdad dogs divide city up territorially each set fiej maintaining its monoply of one trict against allcomers lean gy and miserablelooking jtho yet of some une as scavengqj thclcss the reek that goesh the garbagclifcrcd streets only too plainly how badly thd is done ml