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f es jtipation is the most common ailment of the age one responsible for many erloua and often fatal diseases purgative water surest and most economical remedy for its cure it flushes i and removes the accumulated waste matter which under- and endangers life on sale everywhere 25 cents the bottle irqative water co montreal designs for summer wear re the men at home won by cannon fire alone lier bears the grim and jary role serve the flag that he has own jty is to gain the distant goal jio toiler in his homeland fair in faith and shrink from fcry test not on duty ever there to the cause is every soldiers fest in at home the toiler in the jhop keeneyed watcher on the spin ning drill no command to vault the trenchs top know not what it is to die or kill pt they must be brave and con- jstant too tn them lies their precious coun- jtrys fate jalso serve the flag as soldiers do theirs to make a nations army great hold your countrys honor in your care glory you shall help to make or mar jthey who now her uniform must wear in be no braver soldiers than you are day to day in big and little deeds t bench or lathe or desk or stretch of soil are the man your country sorely needsl fill you not give to her your finest toil war is won by cannon fire alone the men at home must also share the fight what they are a nations strength is shown e army but reflects their love of younot help to hold our battle line ill you not give the fullest of your powers acrifice and service that is fine at victory shall speedily be ours military experts is perhaps the most charming feature of their discussions but camouflage remains as french i in sound in this country as in its own j and every one uses it here how- ever it has become so elastic as to ba i the recognized term for any kind of pretence whatsoever another french word which also gets its full value in the anglosaxon mouth is barrage but barrage has no general usage the word raid is as old as the scottish border but will never again be employed i imagine except in association with attacks by air at first we always said air raid but now raid alone is sufficient should the enemy find any other way of hitting at the heart of us there will be another word than raid to describe his efforts and to these 1 would add that early flower of armageddon speech moratorium which for a while most of us took to be the name of s new liner perhaps the most notable slang phase that the war has produced is to get the wind up meaning to up set or rattle or put the fear of god into but i speak only from the point of the homekeeping observer aware merely of such expressions as get into london parlance soldiers on active service no doubt could supply columns of new terms the royal silver wedding lift your corns off with finger6 how to loosen a tender corn or callus so it lifts out without pain let folks step on your feet here after wear shoes a size smaller if you like for corns will never again send electric sparks of pain through you according to this cincinnati au thority he says that a few drops of a drug called freezone applied directly upon my boy with fife and drum the call has come at last youve got the chance to strike a blow against the foe for freedom and for france for all that england holy holds our own birthright of joy and i would i might be with you o my boy my boy the world were but a sorry place of v sadly setting suns were we to face ah dark disgrace the triumph of the huns rather to smite by day and night where their grim hosts deploy and i would i might be with you o my boy my boy a tender aching corn instantly lieves soreness and soon the entire i r know you wil not f aitcr am j know corn root and all lifts right out i vou w no faj this drug dries at once and simply shrivels up the corn or callus without even irritating the surrounding tissue a small bottle of freezone obtained at any drug storewill cost very little but will positively remove every hard or soft corn or callus from ones foot if your druggist hasnt stocked this new drug yet tell him to get a small bottle of freezone for you from his wholesale drug house there are very good lines to this princess slip mccau pattern no 8197 ladies threepiece princess slip in 5 sizes 34 to 42 bust price 20 cents coinage of war words w of the many new terms add ed to our language as obviously impossible in limited to mention more than a few of lore striking words which the as given us says an english let mo begin with one in jcommon use camouflage i remember any instance of a word so peculiarly unenglish not only being so rapidly and sally adopted but also being so i mispronounced i still often itr knots of men who in their lout the war refer to the kay- id the utter anglicizatiiti of i battle names by public house king george and queen mary will celebrate 25 years of married life the ninth year of king georges reign which has just opened will be marked by an event that has not oc curred for well over a century the celebration by a british monarch and his consort of their silver wedding while still on the throne- says a lon don despatch the anniversary falls in the middle of july and although the war will necessarily interfere with the commemoration of the day ar rangements already are in progress to mark the completion of the quar ter century of married life the city of london for instance is raising funds which will be placed at their majesties disposal for distri bution among various war charities and many other communities will fol low this example while presents from public bodies will mostly be of this nature it is probable that the queens bridesmaids will be permitted to give a personal gift when king edward and queen alexandra celebrated their silver wedding the latters attendants pre sented their autographs bound in a silver book enshrined in a silver cas ket of danish work as was the case then queen marys bridesmaids are all alive today though not all in england they number ten the queen of norway the queen of spain the crown prin cess of sweden princess victoria three daughters of the duke of edin burgh princess patricia princess helena and lady louisa mountbatten hun brutality to prisoners of ort p iter 10 t lulti f6c inn as i yruj ii im ilo5 fvisio neat iheai lolls 44a ds richness i jwheat and ilds to its lor when sbinedinthe dy cereal prepared alfoodex- irapefluts urishment siomy or 5tibility sarcasoii 5xt i w utwllawwuimiwailild german gloats over shooting wounded british captives another account of german barbar ity to prisoners comes from switzer land a neutral formerly living in berlin met a sergeant in the german army who had seemed humane in the old days when he was a music teach er but now gloated over the manner in which ho and his companions had marched a large detachment of brit ish wounded through germany the captors were mounted the prisoners afoot trudging 25 to 30 miles a day when they lagged the sergeant said we drew our revolvers and shot them down out of 900 only 170 ar rived at our destination that is war our german principle is to get peace quickly and we must wage war ruth lessly those are our orders daintily simple is this corset cover and petticoat mccall pattern no 8345 ladies onepiece corset cover in 5 sizes 34 to 42 bust price 15 cents no 8117 ladies three- piece petticoat in 7 sizes 22 to 34 waist price 20 cents these patterns may be obtained from your local mccau dealer or from the mccall co 70 bond street toronto dept w slacker lands in wartime the great menace of fire unques tionably is to the future of our timber supply in the piney woods particu larly repeated fires are fatal to the establishment of reproduction while in the hardwoods the trees though not always killed arc stunted and de formed and laid open to fungus and insect attack as young growth sel dom has an immediate commercial value its loss is usually ignored the fact that a crop has been destroyed being overlooked the loss in such a case is as real as if merchantable tim ber were destroyed the destruction of a tenyearold stand postponing under present conditions the date of a possible harvest from fifteen to twenty years if not indefinitely at the same time the land burned over has to all intents and purposes been rendered unproductive for a corre sponding period herein lies the im portance of fire protection from an economic standpoint for no potential ly productive land should be allowed to lie idle the community has a right to and will sooner or later de mand that it be producing something though the great will save not from ill and you should kiss the grail across the tide in prayer and pride i send you this last ahoy and i would i might be with you o my boy my boy the itemized account tommy half of em we got with machine gun fire half of em with rifle then we fixed bayonets and kill ed another half of em funny man and what happened to the rest tommy oh we took em prisoners bunarda xilnlmsnt laamberxnftna friend klnarda zjlniraent used by fhyslclran perennial plants which usually give good satisfaction on the north side of buildings are saxifrage umbrosa do- ronicum plantagineum iris oenothera biennis hypercium calycinum violets japanese anemones ferns lily of the valley boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds you cant do that way when youre flying words thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead but god himself cant help them when theyre said will carleton after the chicks are six weeks ol hopper feeding is best and the exert cise they get in seeking feed is benei ficial the chicks know when they- need feed and when they have had enough aoents waitted portrait agents wanting rood prints finishing a specialty frames and ovorythlnff at lowest prices quick service united art co 4 bruns wick ave toronto fob sai11 minards liniment is the only liniment asked for at my store and the only one we keep for sale all the people use it harlin fulton pleasant bay cb lowpriced tea is a delusion for it yields so poorly in the teapot that it is actually an extravagance compared with the genuine salada tea which yields so generously and has such a delicious flavor not nis turn the scottish character is a com pound of vice3 and virtues in which thrawnness anglice obstinacy and modesty are strongly represented the other day an officer was bidding goodbye to ono of his men who had been awarded the dcm and whp had in consequence been granted ten days leave well corporal said the officer its a proud mother thatll bo waiting to greet you when you get home this time whafll she bo proud for queri ed the corporal with a puzzled ex pression of your medal of course was the answer but i dont thank she knows ivo got it sir said the corporal whatl havent you told her well no sir you see it wasnt my turn to write 4 cuttings of chrysanthemuros made now will make goodplants for autumn flowering a womans insight is sometimes orth a lifes cxpcriencer oliver wendell holmes girls whiten skin with lemon juice make a beauty lotion for a few cents ho remove tan freckles sallowness your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will sup ply you with three ounces of orchard white for a few cents squeeze the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle then put in the orchard white and shake well this makes a quar ter pint of the very best lemon skin whitener and complexion beautifier known massage this fragrant creamy lotion daily into the face neck arms and hands and just see how freckles tan sallowness redness and roughness disappear and how smooth soft and clear the skin becomes yes it is harmless and the beautiful re sults will surprise you ij unlicensed eating houses illegal i on and after saturday june 1st it becomes illegal for restaurant keep ers to remain in business unless they have a license from the canada food board this applies also to boarding houses serving twentyfour meals per day to outsiders other than the household or members of the family nard on the lions tho rev charles n spurgeons keen wit was always based on sterling common sense one day he saidto ono of his sons cah you tell me the reason why the lions didnt cat daniel no sir why was it because tho most of him backbone and the rest was grit was increased garden acreage mr f abraham honorary chair man of tho vacant lot and home garden section of the canada food board estimates an increased garden acreage of at least 200 per cent over that of last year great efforts will have to be made to can dry and store the surplus stock and teacher fainted good morning children said an arithmetic teacher how many of you have prepared an original prob lem in multiplication as i request ed only one hand went up well william you may give your problem and the rest of the class may solve it if my baby sister is a year old now and weighs twenty pounds and keeps on gaining two ounces a day until she is sixteen years old and if the price of living doubles again in the next ten years how much will my sisters graduation outfit cost mo ther says she would like to know money orders when ordering goods by mail send a dominion express money order sufficient sugar for canning housekeepers who are aixious about their preserves for next winter may take comfort the food board announces that there will bo sufficient sugar in the country for the preserv ing and canning season and that the maximum fruit and vegetable crops that can be produced in this country will be taken caro of so far as the sugar supply is concerned to make sure of this however strict conserva tion will be necessary in tho mean time arsenate of lead is generally used in place of paris green for eating and chewing insects it adheres better and is less likely to burn two pounds of powder or four pounds of paste are used to 50 gallons of water or bor deaux mixture weekly newspaper for salh in new ontario owner kolng to france will sell 2000 worth floubla that amount apply j ii co wilson publishing co limited t one eighty horsepower boiler with 300 ft of 21 in pipe stlfflelr derrick secondhand sawyer- massey tractor engine grey iron castings made to order tho dominion fou tweed ont fjfreh equipped newspaper it and job printing plant in eastern ontario insuranco carried 11600 will go for 1200 on quick sale box 69 wilson publishing co ltd toronto kxscrxjxxiauteotjs cancer tumors lumps etc internal nd external cured wltst smt pain by our home treatment writs es before too late dr bellman medical co limited collinswood ont aafc for trttnarfls and take no otbes milk is the best single food for the proper development of growing chil dren expert dieticians urge its lib eral use a quart of milk a day for each child is a good rule to remem ber potatoes will bake more quickly have a better flavor and instead of shrinking up fill the skins to the full if rubbed with dripping before baking stops lameness from a bone spavin ring bone splint curb side bone or similar troubles and gets horse going sound it acts mildly but quickly and good nti suits are lasting does not blister or remove the hair and horse can be worked page 17 in pamphlet with each bottle tells how 250 a bottle delivered horse book 9 r free absorbine jr the antiseptic liniment for mankind reduces painful swellings en- larged glands wens bruises varicose veinsj heals sores allays pain will tell you more if you write 125 a bottle at dealers or delleercd liberal trial trottfe for 0c blimps wfyoung p df5tgtiiims8umontteatesm atooitlao tod abjorbloc jr- tra nude la carnu sufferedtwoyears with pimples child could not sleep till cuti hea my little brother suffered for about two years from tiny red pimples they appeared constantly on his body but he had the greatest trouble under hla ears the skin was red and very sore and at tho least touch he would glvo a howl of pain after a few seconds he would have to scratch and he was not able to sleep a friend advised me to send for cuticura soap and ointment i no ticed a change and i used three cakes of cuticura soap and four boxes of oint ment when he was healed signed louis frank 746 city hall ave montreal que february 2 1918 keep your skin clear by using cuti cura soap and ointment for every day toilet purposes for free sample each by mail ad dress postcard cuticura dept a boston usa sold everywhere themaki afai how lydia e pinkhama vegetable compound is prepared for womans use the magic healing ointmenf soothes and heals all inflammations such as barns iim blisters cats bolts piles and abscesses- sold lor over cs rest all dealers or write us hirst remedy company hamilton canldj cause cf i early old age v the celebrated dr michenhoff t an authoity on early old ago q says that it la caused by poisons a generated in tho intestine j when yourstomach digests food i properly it absorbed without y forming polsonoue matter pou t sons bring on early old age and r premature death 15to30drops v of selgcls syrup after meals fj makes your digestion sound xo a visit to the laboratory where thl successful remedy is made impress even the casual lookeron with the rel ability accuracy skill and cleanline which attends the making of this i medicine for womans ills over 350000 pounds of various herj are used anually and all have to i gathered at the season of the year wll their natural juices and medicinal sf stances are at their best the moat successful solvents are t to extract the medicinal properties f these herbs every utensil and tank that comd contact with the medicine is steril and as a final precaution in cleanlf the medicine is pasteurized and i insterilo bottles it is tho wonderful combinatid roots and herbs together witbj skill and care used in its prepaij which has made this famous mel so successful in the treatmef femalb ills the letters from women who been restored to health by tho i lydia e pinkhams vegetable pound which wo are continually lishing attest to ita virtue keep mlnartvs xlnlmont in the boost save bacon until berlin is taken before putting delicate colored gar ments in the wash dip them in a pail of water containing a tablespoonful of turpentine and dry this insures fast tints issue no 24 18 r