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m nm big eaters m fact and fictions interesting tales of vali ant achievement a subject which at this season is entirely proper and ji permissible boys are especially noted for eating well but not always wisely take penrod for instance it is recorded that on a certain afternoon when a circus was in town ha consumed the very wen i say uui msm j following articles in the order here set i aman t d no mean a carter but son calls it the scanning or the down a pickle raspberry lemonade an e a pupil of montron or of printed lists of food stirjrour memo weigh 24 of those in london one newlaid egg and a handsome porrin- j ger of white bread and milk with this diet notwithstanding the menaces o my wise doctor i am now con vinced that i am no longer in danger of starving even in france where epicureanism flourishes there are big eaters du mas teus of the- viscount de vieil- costel and the wager he made to a company of friends the viscount said a single person can eat a dinner costing 500 francs impossible was the simultane ous exclamation it is well understood resumed the viscount that by the term eating is included drinking as well parbleul replied his friends very well i say that a man and the taste of good food why your mouth waters for certain dishes yoi get precisely as much stimu lation from a bill of fare as you do from seeing the food itself so says dr anton j carlson the times you have stood with your nose flattened against the plate glass that separated you from the tempting spread of viands in the restaurant window might well have been spent in reading a menu for all the good it did you your digestion received exactly the same benefits the fact is that you get hungry from remembering how those things tasted a pleasurable recollection of the tastes of good food dr carl- cardines cider watermelon peanuts popcorn waffles ice cream taffy sausage he survived as almost all joys do under similar circumstances nhssit the doctor was called to the aid of providence a comic song cure as ve increase in stature we are supposed to increase in dietary dis cretion this is indeed more or less a supposition according to particular cases if the case perchance should equiro a doctor let a word to the wise besuffitisnt esculapius is said to have written comic songs to pro mote the digestion of his patients perhaps if you make the request tact fully your doctor will sing you a lies of just how certain things tasted if you sec unfamiliar foods in the window your mouth doesnt water strange smells wafting upward from unrecognized dishes do not whet your appetite like the familiar scents from roast turkey or frying potatoes as a matter of fact neither sight ah but the rates were high ah j nor smell of food does what you think again but you should read the story j it does you imagine that it actually as dumas tells it the viscount won makes you hungry and that they a place for all time among the big- make your mouth water dr carl son says no the fact that a man smells anil sees food has no effect whatever on his hunger contractions and only a conrcharops can eat a dinner of 500 francs you for example i or any one else can you and he did at the cafe de paris he had breakfasted as usual and his bill for dinner was close to 550 francs new premier of british columbia hon william bowser is cold and clever origin of blind mans buff how the game so dear to children originated liege and louvain in this year of war and desolation are names that breathe the very echo of tragedy it is hard to associate them with any thing as gay and innocent as the chil drens game of blindmans tuff al though that game indeed owes its origin to a tragic feud between two warriors of the rival cities as long ago as the year 999 jean colin of liege vas a mighty fighter of gigantic stature and strength whose chosen weapon was neither sword nor spear but a heavy mallet which he wielded with such he is a native of new brunswick and fortyeight years old british columbias new premier hoit william bowser is like most prominent westerners an easterner mr bowser is from a long yy fc e east having been born in rexton mrn i ti i news from england news by mail about 40bn bull and his peoplr j ottorreneca in the land that relgna supreme in the commer cial world at newcastle an alderman has got twelve months hard labor for mis appropriating funds since constantinople became moslem j glove making which was once an holy sancta sophia a mosque since constantinople be came moslem constantinople just now is au ob ject of absorbing interest to the world because of the attempt of the allied nations to force the dardanelles to take the ancient capital of the eastern empire and to restore it and its fam ous church sancta sophia to the keeping of a christian people prof edwin a grosvenor in his constan tinople speaking of the mosque for sancta sophia has been a mosque says the first question every stranger asks as his steamer rounds seraglio new brunswick fortyeight years ago the year of confederation he was graduated from dalhousie university nova scotia with honors and the de gree of lld and was called to the malletman throughout his own and all the neighboring provinces he be- came known and dreaded as colin maillard everywhere he was vie- bar in new brunswick in 1890 in u the ut lagsinst him e final battle at the first onset be- tinople means only sancta sophia to where is sancta sophia to catch the earliest possible glimpse of its outline every traveller strains his eyes in after years it is the colossal form of sancta sophia that stands out most distinct among the memories of gest of big eaters two valiant trenchermen among the statesmen to whom the term valiant trencherman has been correctly applied was bismarck he was also a hard drinker and if we comic song maybe it will cure you j mav f the precedent set by the of dyspepsia but maybe not you j viscount de vieilcastcl and include never can tell till you try drinking under the head of eating we confess to a liking for the very let have the s an american of- p i tren z ficer tells ofan negligible effect on the flow of gastric juice what it does is to stir your imagin ation of just how things you have cat- en would taste again the effect they produce is mental not physical the hunger contractions do not occur at shall not hold to a strict interpreta i the creator of an empir evening he spent withiumimfaranf other n empire i thought hungei itsef freluenlly not re cognized it is indicated by head aches when the blood pressure f tion but employ the words as will best j s offi l seen hard suit our present purposes j drinkers but t found during the even- our thought turns at once to the i n juf ajinkiiw i r pages of dean swift wherein he de- j nlhad mt wer upjtas ta com- hi the head robs and pains when scribes mmrm s mo fairly well known in literature in ing off a pint of brandy had n0 visible effect on bismarck and he must have deserved his title as the iron chancellor us fn i count of louvain still held the fight w j t th agsinst him at length they met in constantinople to many constan west which was then very raw and undeveloped and located in vancouver fc t mmct coujd rcach it is the bol of whal fa d where he became one of the leading cmmt of louvainj with his j mosl historici and most sacrej in yersot tnc coast rrovmce h t straight for the christian architecture mr bowser took naturally to poll- ia and destroyed the sight tics and since his election to the bn- b h h wjth th der of m with m utmost revemice tht tish columbia legislature in 1903 he foes ium he had no first official act of mohammed ii the has steadily advanced in prominence d h fl h h of cons was to haying been since 1907 the provneia as won mo a mo a of ari t richard but the d gia rallied pre- all the churches seized by islam it re- mcbrde srighthand man or in fact gfromthe g ordercd hi5tains its christian name the mos aic man behind the government it ire ft hira in the thickest lems have tried hard to transform the ottomans regard sancta so- esquire of the fight and dashed raging j sancta sophia but its christian char- against his enemies brandishing his acteristics can be effaced only by de- mallet on cither hand as he rode he stroying it it resembles a mighty slew many a man he could not sec captive ever mutely protesting and the terror inspired by his dread- against its chains the long rows of an1 thln aspect the execution done by the prayer carpets stretch in diagonal swinging mallet- and the renewed lines inharmonious across the floor courage of his followers charging and the devotees facing mecca are i close at his heels first dismayed and forced to bend in an unnatural direc- i hospital to the memory then destroyed the men of louvain j tion toward the corner of the church edith cavell is the general impression while mc- bride was the picturesque figure round which diversified elements among the electors were rallied the smooth skilful mr bowser was look- in general the middle of the table was set a substantial dish of meat fit for the ptsncondition of a husbandman in j a dish of about four and twenty feet diameter queen glumdalclitch to i accept the statement of the same au- j thor was another big eater she would craunch the wing of a lark bones and all between her teeth a- j though it avere nine times as large as hunger is keenest the blood pressure rises in height correspondingly and consequently the presence of head aches is quite apt to indicate the nc cessity of a large meal life in uganda where the efficiency needed engineer is building when you have any to do that of a full grown turkey and put a writes mr al kitching in on the bit of bread in her mouth as big as back waters of the nile is a very two twelvepenny loaves she drank worrying piece of business in uganda f a golden cup about a hogshead for the incapacity of the workmen is ht this description would exceeded only by their laziness one to any rv tur- gan of men engaged in building a it1fcjo- fom the voyage to rroouignag j en t hole for one of the poles and while we are absent from the world then to put the pole in place of ordinary proportions we may visit i two hours afterward the entire the canals of mars said to be life and intelligence on that planet latest observations of the socalled canals on mars indicate more clear ly than ever before according to pro fessor william h pickering of har vard university that there is life and intelligence on that planet and that these mysterious lines are one of the resultsof the presence there of think ing creatures the canals professor pickering believes indicate a shortage of sup- the northland where thrym brought i gang wag discovered seated round the plies for vegetation and he surmises home the fraudulent freya as his bride mr bulfinch is authority for the statement that thrym was greatly surprised at seeing her eat for her supper eight salmon and a fullrgrown ox washing the whole down with three tons of mead no wonder he said j never saw a bride eat so much and never a maid drink more mead the escape from grub street washing it down is a delectable expression and reminds one of old samuel johnson whose remarkable way of washing his food down hag ss by his presence 1 he men are been described in one of the impec- j w j parts of th cable essays of mr macaulay john- j bv the subchiefs having argued sons century is famous for its solid i matt a subchefs eating and hard drinking not that i eave ebch a katikiro in charge of their the dictionary maker was a hard mon an1 retuc to 1scuss the news oi drinker as to the other matter his grub street experiences had made i thc3e overseers then in turn choose him anything but delicate in his eat- katikiros from the men of each vil- ing when he had something to eat ia j probability these kati- being often very hungry when he kil again will each appoint one or sat down to his meals says macau- two deputies and as no one labeled lay he contracted a habit of eating katikiro expects to do any work with ravenous greediness even to himself the number of ordinary un- the end of his life and even at the j varnished laborers left to do the real tables of the great the sight of food work is very small as the day goes affected him as it affects wild beasts on even these men often put boys to pole each with a hand upon it lest it should fal over and crush them they were waiting patiently for some one to come and tell them whether the hole was now deep enough they would have sat there contentedly for the rest of the day if no one in au thority had appeared the general desire to boss some one else interferes with speedy ac complishment a considerable crowd of men will turn up to work on a job the making of a road the building of a house or the clearing of an area of jungle at the head comes the chief who does no more than walk about and give tone to the proceed- the men and birds of prey at the tables of the great in that period sat the six- battle men and dinners were often eight hours long a little earlier uian johnsons time work in their places and join the ranks of the sittersout some who have been at work for an hour or two will recollect that once they were appointed vice subdeputy to some- swift describes a dinner at the house bodys miderassistant katikiro they of lord smart where the fare con- will thereupon join one of uie groups sisted of in the shade and at length there will first course sirloin of beef fish j be left only a half dozen boys and shoulder of veal and tongue claret second course almond pudding fritters chickens black puddings and soup wino and small beer third course hot venison pasty a hare a rabbit some pigeons part ridges a goose and a ham beer and i wine i a tankard of brown october passed from hand to hand and when the j ladies withdrew to sip their tea the i men remained to drink burgundy mrs montagu lady marys cousin by marriage wrote tho following j amazing confession i wake general- i ly about 7 and drink half a pint of 1 warm asses milk after which i sloop two hours as soon as i am risen i constantly take three cups of milk v coffee and two hours after that a argc cup of milk chocolate two hours more brfngsmy dinner where i never fail swallowing a good dish i mean plato o gravy soup with all th bread room etc belonging then eat w and hc whole h large fat capon and a veal sweetbread i concluding with a competent quantity 6f custard and some roasted chest- vfiufi at five in the afternoon i tako ahothejiaose of asses milk andfor t which they scarcely make more than a pre tense of working taking places of men 150000 women to be employed as clerks in england women arc to take the place of 150000 clerks employed by the bri tish government who will be released for active service preference will be given to the wives and sisters of tho recruits in filling the vacancies there are more than 300000 government clerks em ployed in england and wales alone who are of military age but part of them are physically unfit for the army and others have a specialized know ledge of their work that makes them invaluable in their departments tho women clerks after a short training course will receive the waecs of tue rnen whose places they take lock jack congratulate me old man toni whats up arc you ggw7 jack no miss roxlcigh refused mc the day before her father made would an assignment that the martians may be struggling along on a scanty allowance of nitro gen or oxygen or carbondioxide each of which is essential to vegetation water too probably is scarce on mars he adds saying according to this theory invisible water vapor is evaporated by the heatof the sun from the snowy pole in the springtime and transported by the planetary circulation to the other pole whero the sun is setting for the long winter night here the vapor which forms a much larger proportion of the planets atmosphere than with us is condensed as snow a con stant distillation going on by the suns heat from pole to the other during the night time a portion of this travelling vapor is deposited as fog and this fog is possibly artificial ly directed to form elongated areas by means xf liberated electrons or other wise in the early morning on mars when the sun is rising we can sometimes see the fog clear away and it is in these moistened regions that the vege tation springs up and forms the so- called canals important tyneside industry is now being revived in newcastle women window cleaners have made their appearance at newcastle they wear a smock and khaki trousers children in a whitechapel elemen tary school have bought over a thou sand fiveshilling war loan coupons mr henry collis of cambrige a retired warrant officer of 33 years service has 27 relatives serving with the colors owing to the lack of labor the ken sington borough council announce that they rely upon householders to clean away snow with the support of the chief con stable a detachment of women police assistants has been formed in black burn with mr ramsay as captain for having a bonfire in his garden without permission of the naval or military authorities william bunting of brixton was at lambeth fined 10 one of the workers at the mayor of kingstons ladies guild who are sending comforts to the east sur reys at the front is an old lady aged 8ti years sir wm james thomas has contri buted 5500 for the endowment of a bed for the king edward seventh of nurse hon william bowser all tha to it i lo body of as to the kilt more popular with the scottish high landers than ever the exact origin of that interesting garment the kilt is lost in the mist of antiquity although its history goes back to the time when it was a part of national dress of ireland and wales as well as of scotland says a writer in pearsons magazine in the middle ages the kilt was a kind of a shirt called a lonn it was worn with a jacket and a single piece of cloth thrown over the shoulders in those days although the lenn was colored it had nothing like the variety of col ors of the presentday plaids the scot found that this garment reaching below the knees interfered with his freedom of movement in a fight or an athletic game and so he tucked or kilted it just above his knees back in the middle ages the scot- new premier of british columbia he is said to resemble napokan bonaparte in features and stature and his methods ulso suggest the little corporal no other attorney- general in the history of british columbia has enforced the law so ma jestically as he but there is one man in victoria a chauffeur who occasion ally unfolds a tale of collision between mr bowser and the law not one survived to tell the tale robert the devout then king france was an ardent admirer deeds of valor such an exploit colin maillards was entirely to j in the prostituted church the alderman william james hughes of j christian weary of arabic inscrip- j jp has beeii selected mayoi of sand- of lions and ottoman traditions grows wich for the thirteenth time during as heartsick and hungry for something j his mayoralty he has been presented his that is his let him ascend the south- with a silver cradle taste he not only showered gifts and em gallery and gaze from among the despite the fact that fuel is to cost honors upon the hero but caused six colonnaded columns toward the j the london education committee 50- the players of the court to produce a vaulted ceiling above the five win- i 000 more next year it is proposed to pantomime representing his achieve- j lows of the central apse gradually i save 1804850 on next years esti- ments on the stage they made as j in the dim halfveiled surface he disj mates of 27375425 may easily be imagined an exciting cerns the mosaic form of a colossal 1 at a conference in canterbury it melodrama which soon became so i christ the hair the forehead the j was decided that each kentish man mild eyes of the saviour may be 110 a prisoner of war in germany traced and the indistinct outline of his form the right hand gentle popular that it was played every where and imitated even by the chil dren on the streets the great scene was of course the blind man seek ing for his enemies and the lad who as when played colin was blindfolded and giv- in love and in meekness he moved en a stick while his playmates dodg- 1 among men ed and ran as he pursued and struck siafautchailai today the drama the and the king are forgotten they are relegated to dry and dusty chronicles but the game still lives to english and american children it is blindmans buff in europe it is still called colin- maillard is extended still in unutterable bless- iefta1nitoiulinjtscqmirchensive reach seems to embrace the slukigerrwith- in the shadow you feel that christ is keeping watch above his own benefits of sour milk a vigorous phosphate food medical profession says by the skin of his teeth i j thrilling exploit of a british airman j when in midair the flying corps of all the armies should be sent a weekly parcel of food as well as clothing it is stated in huddersficld that the new dye works there will require a staff of 10000 men which means an addition to the population of the town of about 40000 persons bedfordshire education committee have decided to closethe schools half nil hour earlier inaier to save fuel and have ordered r not to be made up over 1000 new old were granted in london last qua it has been decided that pensions are not to be reduced where incomes have been increased because of separation allowances coventry city council have accepted have distinguished themselves for a tender amounting to 955000 for tho daring and gallantry during the pre- j immediate erection of goo houses for why is sour milk good for you sent war an eyewitness at the brit- munition workers the ministry of concluding his part of a public j why should it be so when everything j ish headquarters says the field tells j munitions will pay 20 per cent of the function at- esquimau the historic else in the realm of edibles is thrown about one thrilling episode that was cost naval base on the pretty little harbor away when it sours sour grapes more sensational than most of the one of the guns captured by the about three miles from the border of are a byword for uselessness cook- adventurous exploits that occur along royal sussex regiment and alloted to victoria mr bowser who was toatjed food set away too long turns and the front almost daily i brighton by the military authorities is delivered to the pigs j a british airman alone in a single- i has now been accepted on behalf of but sour milk the medical profes- seated aeroplane saw and pursued a the town by the mayor at the town sion insists not only is better than german machine while trying to re- hall square sweet milk but in it lies the secret of load his machine gun he lost control of j an expert on the kent county longevity 1 his steering gear and the aeroplane council estimates that for every year science marshals these facts and turned upside down the belt round j 0 the war kent alone will be called advances them in formidable array i the mans waist was rather loose and upon to contribute a million a year the rich lactic ferment incurdlcd milk i the jerk almost threw him out of j in extra taxation to pay the interest tend an important meeting in van couver the same evening hastened in to a taxicab and instructed the chauf feur to drive him to the cpr wharf in victoria harbor there is just time to catch the steamer if you hurry said the at torneygeneral yes sir 3 stuck to the law half way to the wharf mr bowser looked at his watch spy traps abound clears the intestines of microbes and j the machine but he saved himself byjon the new national debt does much to prevent intestinal pois- clutching hold of the rear centre strut oning which is generally believed to while the belt slipped down round his be the most pernicious force in bring- legs fsaid i wanted to catch the steam- 1 ing on old age the digestive tubes as ho hung thus head downward britain taking extensive precautions er to vancouver said mr bowser in- contain these germs that bring on making desperate efforts to disengage k cisively senility and lack of vigor when the his legs the aeroplane fell from a against espionage yes sir the chauffeur replied but sour milk fluids come in contact with height of eight thousand feet to about there is very little chance of a he neglected to do anything to accel- these microbes thelittle forms of ani- i twentyfive hundred feet spinning german spy remaining at liberty in erate the speed of the taxi mal life give up the ghost the anti- round and round like a falling leaf england these days it is accepted a little later mr bowser again con- j septic forces in the lactic substances i at last he managed to free his legs as an axiom here that every german suited his watch i are too strong for the bugs there are just three minutes left sour milk is a strong vigorous he shouted able to contain himself phosphate food acquiring this qual- no longer why dont you hurry ity in the process of clotting which i must not drive any faster said lakes place when it is left in a warm the chauffeur i am making ten place for some little time before be- miles an hour and that is the speed ing taken as food it excites the in- limit in victoris te3tines and acts as a brisk tonic upon oh bother the speed limit never the whole digestive system mind the regulations i am the at- 1 the long lives of the balkan moun and reach the control lever with his j or progerman person is a potential foot- then he succeeded in righting i spy the machine which turned slowly over completely looping the loop there upon the pilot slid back into his seat and came composedly to the ground calming wild waters pouring oil on the troubled va- torneygcneral thundered mr bow ser i cant help that sir i know the law replied the chauffeur glancing at a blue uniform as he passed a cor ner and recalling a fine for speeding a few days before when the chauffeur deposited his fare at the wharf the steamer was two cablelengths out thus it came i curdled milk as food and refreshment to pass that the speed regulations of taineers is attributed by scientific ters has long been known as an ef- men to their copious use of sour milk ficient method of preventing as a drink in times of peace serbia enkingaie waves a novel was known to have more septua genarians and more inhabitants over 100 years of age in proportion to its population than any other country in the world the bulgars too boast of their longevity each nation uses victoria were stifl intact but mr tish clans were always fighting t bowser missed an important political amongst themselves and each clan j meeting in vancouver found it advisable to wear a dis- sunimcr resorts in galilee it is generally agreed that thoiyc wear a tinctivc color why tartans were chos en no one knows as a matter of fact tartans were not very common even i ofyhv allies will result in free as late as the early eighteenth con- the hoy lwd comp from tur i turks in opening it up to ail in 1747 a special act the highland j e as wcll as to the he- garb actwas passed in the effort to b and m raak it a safe de- abolish the costume of the scottish h am supremely interesting highlanders but fortunately its only iour and traveller an effect was to make the kilt more cnterpr british syndicate backed popular than ever rcl organizations is already planning the network of resorts and railroad lines connecting them with which they will cover the holy land after the war for every man who seeks glory at tho cannons mouth ninetynine ck jt at their owm mouths massage cure for war ills vention which will pour oil from a sea anchor to windward and spread it for two or three hundred feet around the vessel has recently been offered the apparatus consists of a small oiltank on the vessel a suitable q pipe for the oil supported by a haw ser from which a drag anchor is hung a drag anchor is made of heavy canvas stretched over n frame work so as to form a large cone it is unsafe these days for anyone frankly to express his opinion for everywhere there are ears to hear and the slightest comment on the pro gress of events which is unfavorable to the british is more than likely to reach scotland yard where the al- ready efficient staff of detectives has been augmented so that all tips no j matter how trivial they may appear in on the- surface are thoroughly inves tigated it is particularly undesirable for a foreigner to permit himself to say anything derogatory of england or the allies or anything favorable about ei mans americans who arc mrs almeric paget is organizing shaped object that floats in the water and equipping massage camps in eng- t0 w as far as necessary land miss french a daughter of gen sir john french is in charge of one of these it is reported that great benefits have resulted in many cases of wounded men from the front and those suffering from the result of shattered nerves just n lapse hokus i actually caught longbow telling the truth yesterday pokus wasnt he embarrassed hokus only momentarily he im mediately tried to lie out of it upon the drag anchor is a nozzle through which the oil is discharged on each side of the drag london crime decreases there has been no increase in crime in london as a result of the darkening of the streets says a re port from the superintendent of po lice all classes of offenses but one show a steady decrease since the be ginning of the war the one excep tion is in pocketpicking during the daylight hours easily spotted by their accent are marks of suspicion for thenqople here are now thoroughly fami the hyphenated american l an englishman may say things about his govornmer cabinet ministers the situatn dardanelles and so on and not may happen but for an america other neutral foreigner to expres similar opinions is to say th least injudicious one more was enough precocious offspring pa may i ask just one more question patient pater yes my son just one more precocious offspring well then pa how is it that while the night falls its the day that breaks e fuel