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r mtcheners m chapter missed the iw j as norman hall viix contd easy now itssmashed the bone blighter he said then he told me that it wasnt a good place for a snipers nest at all for one thing it was too far back nearly a halfmile from the german trenches furthermore it was a mistake to plant a nest in a solitary clump of willows such as this a clump of stick it matejr well soon ave you as right as rain fer gawds sake boys go easy its givin me ell let up let up just a minute many a conversation of this sort did we hear at night when the field-dress- peerless starter a quarahtssd starting syaum ut ford car 8ell tor 2260 agents wanted the morgan sales co 415 yonge street toftonto mirrors 2500 years old making of glass mirrors first de veloped in venice they say that a mans first thought on entering a room is where is there a place to sit down but a womans first thought is where is there a mir ror it has been womans thought from time immemorial for from time immemorial there have been mirrors it is only since the beginning of the ings were being put on but even trees offers too good an aiming mark in his suffering tommy never forgot for artillery much better to make a to be unrighteously indignant if he position right out in the open howhad been wounded when on a work- sixteenth century that mirrors have ever so far he had not been annoyed ing party what could he say to the been used as articles of household fur- by shell fire a machine gun had women of england who would bring niture and decoration and there are searched for him but he had adequate him fruit and flowers in hospital call f women of the present day who do cover from machinegun fire but blimyl you ought to a eard the row wen the bullets was a-smack- in against the sandbags somebody was aknockin at the door i give you my word however it wasnt such a dusty i him a poor brave fellow and askj realize and make use of tnelr art how he was wounded he had enlist- utic vaue in adorning their homes t hadj the mirrors of annuity were prin- given him a shovel an ere i bm of bronze highly polished and workin like a bloomin navvy fillin about the size of an ordinary hand sandbags full o france wen1 up an j mirror they were usually provided little coop and he hwaijood fieutof sets plugged the men who most with a handle and sometimes were fire he had registered four hits dur- bitterly resent the pickandshovel mounted on a stand the principal ing the day and he proudly displayed phase of army life were given a great feature of these ancient mirrors was four new notches on a badly notched j deal of it to do for that very reason the des incised on the back they butt in proof of the fact l of my comrades was shot in the b t the d b t 400 t 500 i iiir while digging a refuse pit the b r untf irtllt wound was a bad one and he suffered trapet lart night much bufc tle humniation was during the middle ages from the even harder to bear what could twelfth to the end of the fifteenth cen theres a big ole were the artilli pushed in their parapet larst night b fc thats were i caught me larst one tffers home tury pocket mirrors or small hand were bout a arfhour ago dlrnappev yef field- do you think im a gon to sy l mirrors cairied at the girdle glasses an watch me clip the next was acarryin a sandbag full of old considered a necessary part of a lady s one quarter left it is this side the j v back to wfuse pit wen toilet old ouse with the ole in the wall i 1nteie gave me this ere one in thej the fnethod of backing glasswith i focused mv classes and waited lc s bloom l j metal for mirrors was well known in presently he saidtnf a ver coot fi bifo tuck- l the midde a tho steel and sii matteroffact voice i ver mirrors were almost exclusively es n i j k was 5n venice that the mak ing of- glass mirrors on a commercial not in the heat of v atiffie fe was first developed i but there was more heroic work to eak hotwater bag be done going out on listening patrol wltl sand instead of water heat t the exam one patrol consisting of the sand in the oven and pour it into te sergeant or a corporal and four or the bag through a funnel it will re tain the heat and do the work just as company food control corner rationing is a subject that ia re ceiving much newspaper attention in canada at present it is a thins that is as new to us in theory and practice as war was three years and a half ago that must be the only excuse for some things which are written the general assumption is that ration ing can be carried out just as some people thought pricefixing could by a mere wave of a magic pen when it is remembered however that canada3 seven and a half million peo ple are scattered overman area great er than europe the question at once arises who is to see to the carry ing out of the rationing scheme for rations mean that each family would be under an obligation not to eat more on any day or in any week than a certain set amount of particular foods it would not be hard to make a rule that so much bread should be used by each person at a meal but how many million police would be wanted europe for moral uprightness and pure ideals of life than in practicing in each home at all times of the day that honest carefulness to avoid waste which would have to be done under a compulsory rationing scheme in a way this is a new factor which hitherto it has not been possible to utilise the canadian women is here especially indicated to aid so far womans work in the dominion has had to do with red cross and similar works of mercy this opens out the field enormously every wo man who saves bread beef and pork products is in fact and deed wielding an unseen weapon in the war as truly as her sisters behind the trenches are in caring for the broken and the main- ed hospital expansion in b c v new construction adds 350 beds with augmented treatment facilities increased military hospital accom modation in british columbia is being provided by the military hospitals commission at esquimalt and vancou- to attend to the execution of the ver approximately 200 beds are to order even the making of orders that would be fair in a large city as compared with a country home of fers difficulties little thought of in the maritime provinces fish is plenti ful and comparatively cheap as in the west are wheat and beef but more fish is not needed at the front to anything like the same extent that beef and wheat most urgently are wanted be added to the esquimalt centre with augmented treatment facilities in vancouver about 150 beds are being added to the shauglmcssy military convalescent hospital and a building for the accommodation of hydro- therapeutic equipment is under con struction at the military annex of the vancouver general hospital the decision to develop the esqui mau hospital as a large centre for theres one comin see im wan to be an interesting one he 15 wanted to fall in the heat of battle es dont carryin a plank you can stickin up above the parapet agov to get a nasty one if duck wen he comes to that ole i found the moving plank and fol lowed it along the trench as proached nearer and nearer opening and i was guilty of the most privates was sent out from each unprofessional conduct for i kept com it was the dut of lhese thinking as hard as i could duck mcn to covcl th area iramcdiatel in tnteio whatever you do dwhen front of the company line of trench to see and hear without being discov- you come to that hole and surely enough he did the plank was lower ed into the trench just before the opening was reached and the top of it reappeared again a moment later on the other side of the opening the sniper was greatly disappointed now wouldnt that give you the camels ump he said i believe youre a sonet to me matey presently another man carrying a plank went along the trench and tie ducked too grease off jerry said the butt notehcr owever well as water ered and to report immediately any activity of the enemy above or be low ground of which they misjht learn they were on duty for from three to five hours and might use a wide discretion in their prowlinjjs provided they kept within the limits oc frontage alotted to their own om- pnny and returned to the meetiij- pace wheic hie change of reliefs ws mde these requirements were not easily complied with unless there were good morning mrs mccarty how- are all of your folks all pretty well excepting my old man hes been enjoyin poor health for some time but this mouiin he complained of feelin some better what rationing plan could ignore j the care of vancouver island patients the customs of the country yet immediately here a discrepancy arises one might prescribe the use of beef and wheat in canada by decree but its in cidence would be unequal from the first there is however one way in which the food saving could be made which is the whole end and object of rationing it is by a voluntary pledge of each home in three words this is nothing else than by unremit ting patriotic saving of the foodstuffs that are known to be wanted by the allies no amount of talking can make up for this it is not a legal question at all but a moral one which must be left to the conscience of each household head there is no better way for the present in which requiring special treatment has been arrived at after much deliberation and visits to the premises by the com missions architect and engineer a standard wing of 150 beds is to be placed immediately north of the present administration building while by erecting a new kitchen and dining pavilion and remodelling the admin istration building additional ward space to the extent of 50 beds will be obtained a recreation hall is also to be erected on the adjacent grounds providing accommodation for concerts and entertainments dances and gym nastic games at shaughnessy military convales cent hospital 150 beds are being add- j ed by remodelling the entire upper articles wanted for cash ol jsweliwy viatel urai csruai ulutumi sletotml eedle york i x old cmsai oat oismi onuuh wartckasi jttacai tme van wilt or send by innu to j t nnni xtait4 antique galleries is cat so cellase street torcmto out the unknown quantity a young and pretty school teacher had some visitors one afternoon and thought she would show them what a good class she had calling up a bright little boy at the rear of the room she said to him johnny if i gave you two cent and your father gave you three cents how many would you have v seven promptly replied johnnyj the teacher blushed with embar rassment but tried again you cant have understood johnny she said listen and i will repeat the ques tion if i gave you two cents and your father gave you three how many would you have seven said johnny again i am surprised at you johnny said the teacher how on earth could you have seven i got two in me pocket said johnny avhcre he was at a certain british soldiers letter according to pnueb runs thus i am sorry i cannot tell you where i am because i am not allow ed to say but i venture to state that i am not where i was but where i was before i left here to go where i have just come from seed oats are likely to sell higher this spring and be harder to find than in any season within memory those who cannot go to the trenches j upper floor which in the early days can actually help in the fight in ii i trees or other prominent landmarks nerbringmmebadhick tandi out the sky by they probly got that place wmch t k taped they lost one man there an its d they wont lose another not if they the vjbrkiscqulreu above every- knows it thing else cool heads and stout hearts i talked with many snipers at dif- ti i j xerent parts of the line it was in- teresting to get theirpoints of view to learn what their reaction wasto their work the buttnotchers were very few altkough snipersinvariably took pride in their work it was the sportsmans pride in good marksman ship rather than the love of killing for its own sake the general at titude was that of a corporal whom i knew he never fired hastily but when he did pull the trigger his bul let went true to the mark you cant elp feelin sorry for the poor blighters he would say but its us or them an every one you knocks over means one of our blokes saved i have no doubt that the germans felt the sameway about us at any ff avar and food series no 10 vegetables there was the everpresent danger of meeting an enemy patrol or bombing party in which case if they could not be avoided there would be a hand-to- generally speaking people are more hand encounter with bayonets or a inclined to cat vegetables in summer noisy exchange of handgrenades than in winter for one thing they there was danger too of a false are not so easy to get for another alarm started by a nervous sentry it thing the system does not seem to needs but a moment for such an alarm demand them to the same extent to become general so great is thef r nervous tension atvhich men live onj to stop using vegetables in winter the firingline terrific fusillades is to deprive the body of the best of from both sides followed while the t and in war time it means us- listening patrols flattened themselves imj morc than one should of other eularly thtz whic to be soingats or sew whistling over their heads but a night and under the stress of great it is patriotic to eat vegetables it excitement men lire high strange means that you save meat and wheat as jt may seem one is comparatively when you eat potatoes and carrots mashed doctors of the building when it was used as a school was abandoned as a useless attic vocational training buildings are being erected at both shaughnessy and fairmont hospitals while the special treatment facilities for this district will of course be found at the van couver general hospital military an nex rate they thoroughly believed in the policy of attrition and in carrying iti on safe even in the open when lying flat out they often wasted thousands ofl rounds in smpmg every yard of our vvi parapet the sound was deafening at times particularly when there were 7l tl s trsba hurled dozen handgrenades which he hurled into the german trenches were of almost tommy enjoy- extremely hazardous ad- carryin a half- 1 f rom the far side of their entangle- earsplitting reports were against them and seemed to be shat tered into thousands of fragments the sound rattling anil tumbling on until it died away far in the distance iii night routine meanwhile like furtive inhabitants pw fe for sou of an infamous underworld we re- voc 7 th had located lined hidden in our lairs in the day- i il e position of the sentries they toss- time waiting for night when we could f their bombs over with deadly ef- feet lne sound of the explosions j called forth an immediate and heavy and onions you are not depriving the soldiers of anything but you are sav ing meat and flour for them in canada great quantities of vege tables are grown oif the farms es pecially the cellar is usually well stocked in winter with potatoes car rots onions turnips and cabbage more especially if they are and put through a sieve claim that the tiredout feeling that comes over people as spring ap proaches is due to lack of vegetables which contain much mineral matter are invigorating and serve as a tonic to the system the winter vegetables are parti- good when combined with going p ma savory stews who j could conceive of a tasty stew without its quota of carrots and onions the winter vegetables lend them- selves to many forms of cooking they can be used in stew with soup or covered with a simple sauce the water in which vegetables v cooked should never be thrown away i j it can be saved for soup or gravy j it is best of all to bake or steam the vegetables then the valuable i salts are not wasted j it is real patriotism to use vege aper hanger and others make good incomes with our invincible sample books wo frouay express charges consumers wallpaper co established 1890 windsor ont illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllj great variety can be given to the tables it is a rule that both the ments the more hardy spirits often j daily menu by the use of vegetables farmer and the city dweller may safe worked their way through the barbed they are excellent for the children ly follow wire and from a position close under i creep out of our holes- nnd go about our business under cover of darkness sleep is a luxury indulged in but rare ly in the firstline trenches when not on sentry duty at night the men were organized into working parties nnd sent out in front of the trenches out ln sfj j vo mend the barbedwire entangle- p instituted the chief element ments which are being constantly de- r st ol waiting for stroved by artillery lire or in sum- developments was a severe one i merf to cut the tall grass and the- f on men come in from a bomb- weeds which would otherwise offer stunt worn out and trembling concealment to enemy listening pa- fatifiie and yet many trols or bombing parties ration sf hem enjoyed it and were sent out fatgucs of twenty or thirty men per kht the excitement of company went back to meet the bat- m mto heir blood ta ion transport wagons at some point i throughout the summer there was several miles in rear of the firing- z deal more digging to do than me there were trench supplies fighting for it was not until the arnval and stores to be brought up as well on elve service of kitcheners and the neverfinished business of l h construction of the mending and improving the trenches fume line of reserve or support kept fejfeiss sms d n font of the pjisked rapidlfonvard there were jw in entdanrer trenches to be made in advance was a sudden burst of machinegun are then would come urgent calls xa depth sufficient to for stretcher bearers and soon the protect us both from view and from wreckage was brought in over the l- p and shoveled with parapet the stretchers were set a raa down in the bottom of the trench and ence throwing ourselves flat on the hastvjjxainmations made by the light hasty examn of a flash lamp were wvight it ere it is through the leg is puttee off one of youl tvke in preparation lies variety too often the farmers wife com plains that hr meal lack variety and attributes this to the fact that she is not within reach of the city grocery fire from sentries near and far but w infinite variety of foods va iving close under the very muzzles of rict not so mueh in m kinds the german rifles the bombers were in j 1 ui v no danger unless a party were sent of food as n tle n are prepared with two vegetables potatoes and cabbage one fruit ap ples two meats ham and fresh pork an almost infinite i number of dinners can be prepared each appetizing and without repeating a single dish the following are samples dinner no 1 roast pork sauerkraut boiled potatoes in their jackets apple brown betty dinner no 2 pork loaf delicate cabbage potato salad with dressing apple snow dinner no 3 boiled ham potatoes cooked in ham broth cabbago with sour sauce apple pie dinner no 4 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