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“’ashing Without Won-ying. Next to high prices as a topic for Conversation, the scarcity of labOT takes rank. Competent farm labor. always hard to secure, has about reached the vanishing point so far a“: the fields are concerned and the housekeeper no longer even dreams of getting her washing done, to say nothing securing other help. The work is all up to the houseâ€"mother. and she must “live or die, sink or swim, survive or periSh," unaided by human hands. The situation in the cities is the same: Employment bureaus long ago hung; out the “No Domestic Help" sign. There are no girls seekâ€" ing domestic employment, with facâ€" tories offering three times the wages. Housekeepers in the towns have for some time been facing the situation and adjusting their lives to the change. Their solution of the quesâ€" tion is one which many farm women can adoptâ€"power appliances to do much of the work formerly done by hand. Motor power washing ma~ chines have forever supplanted the’ washwoman in hundreds of homes. They are always on the job, never late, quiet, efficient, courteous if treated well, never demand a ten o’clock lunch, and don't tear the clothes. The electric machine is perhaps most convenient if you have electric power, but it. is by no means the only thing. There are water power machines. dog power machines, a working out of the old familiar treadmill, where your household pet furnishes the power which d’oes your washing, and machines which are run by the gas engine. As to types of machines, they are legion. The best known are the cylinder 'machines where clothes are put .in a cylinder which revolves through a tub of hot suds. ‘ Whatever the type or whatever the' power employed, the power machine is something which every woman who can afford it should buy. The wringer is also operated by the same power which washes the clothes, so that the hardest part of washing is carrying the wet «clothes out to dry. Not only do you save muscle, but you save time. Could' you for instance, wash nineteen blankets in the old way in one forenoon and go to a pic- nic in the afternoon? This is what one farm woman did. Another on the same day did a two weeks’ washâ€" ing for a family of six, and threw in two blankets and the curtains fer twenty windows, then baked and put up her picnic lunch, and was as fresh as a daisy in the after-110011. The machine cannot perform mira- cles, however. Do not think for a minute that they are going to do the washing while you sit upstairs and read a book, as the advertisements picture the pretty lady. They are like any machineâ€"they must be op- erated. Starch must be made, clothes fed to the wringer, tubs filled It has not yet been told. so far as I know, how Queen Mary won tre- mendous respect from the fleet, one of whose mottos is “thorough.” for the thoroughness with which she in- sists on seeing things. Every one who has been on a battleship linens that getting into a gun turret is a matter of no mean gymnastics. The Queen, while she was on the com- mander-in-chief’s flagship, climbed into the mint of one of the Wonder- ful 15â€"inch guns and was enormously interested by the miracle of mechan- ism. She went to the wireless room and happened to hear a message from the comnmnder-in~chief to the Ger- mans, telling them in a somewhat peremptory manner that. if they could not send all the submarine torpedoes minus their battle-heads, as had been arranged, they must send them in h'ansporis to be provided {or the purpose. IRQN CRQSSES 0F TEE'E GERMAN FLEET Even. after all the tales are told, especially such a great historic event: as the surrender of the German fleet, there is something; more to tell. There are the sldelights. STORED AS LEFT LUGGAGE BY THE BRITISH TARS Some Sidefighls on the Surrender of the Hun Navyâ€"(Queen Mary Is 'Popular With Beatty’s Crews. W11 PImEOgraphing the Chiefs. _‘ .911 King George and the Prince with rinsing water and lines got ready. You will not sit down while the washing is on. Also, if the clothes wind around the wringer 01' :you try to put too thick a garment through-awe“, your machine is like- ly to stop in the middle of the Wash- ing, and you must wait for someone who understands its internal work- ings to set it going. _ Care in feedâ€" ing the wringer makes this unneces- sary, however. And, to boil or not to boil, is another question. Most 'agents say it is not necessary-that good soap powder, scalding water and sun are all you need. Personally, I prefer boiling. Wristbands and soiled‘ spots do not need to bé rubbed on the board if you use sufficient care. Soap all these spots carefully and let the clothes soak over night. If the spots show when they come out of the tub, soap them again and wash a second time. Only on rare oceasions will you need to rub them. Leftover Beans.â€"â€"1 cup beans, 1/.- cup stewed tomato. Salt and pep- per and a teaspoon of grated onion. yHeat thoroughly. The onion and tomato should be cooked for ten mi- nutes before therbeans are added. Vegetable Hash.-â€"Mix together and heat in a frying pan, with a little wa- ter or milk and a small quantity of fat and seasoningsâ€"2 cups diced cooked potafioes, 1 cup diced cooked carrots, 1 cup diced cooked turnips, 1/2 cup grated cheese. Escalloped Carrotsâ€"‘2 cups grat- ed carrots, 1 cup bread crumbs, 1/2 cup milk, 1â€"3 cup grated cheese, 1 table- spoon fat, 16: teaspoon salt, pepper to taste. Cook the grated carrots in a double boiler until teiiclei'. Add salt, pepper, and milk and cook for five minutes. Place in a baking; dish, sprinkle With grated cheese, cover with the crumhs to which has been Added the meltedyfat. Brown in the oven. - Com and Cheese.â€"2 cups corn, 1 cup celery, 1 cup buttered crumbs, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 tabiespoons fat, 1/2 cup hot milk. Arrange com and celery in layers with salt. Ad'd hot rgilk and melted fat. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake 20 minutes. Warmed Over Beans With Cheese. ~Make a cup 9f white sauce and add two tablespoons of grated cheese. Add the sauce to the beans and’ heat thoroughly. This is a good subâ€" stitute for meat. stitute for meat. Cod en Casseroleâ€"To prepare this diSh take a one and a half pound slice of cod and removexthe skin. Place it in a cesserole of ample size and pour in half a pint of boiling stock. It was one of the many unpre- cedented signals of the day. The Ger~ man submarines that are now moored in Harwich harbor had in the past made many unprecedented signals to merchant ships. German submarines had given many signals, but had paid small attention to surface signals ad- dressed to them. Consequently there was considerable difficulty in com- mullicat'ion on the occasion of their surrender. They could not under- stand the Morse code that was used, so instructions Were given to them in the slow way of international code by turning the pad to the Signalman. Some one remarked, "I wonder if such a signal «was ever received before in the British Navy?" Thrift Recipes. The High Seas Fleet on a piece of string! Was the thing ever better ex- pressed? In all this wide war no more dramatic day than November 21 has passed us by. The spectacular side, great grey ships steaming in bat- tle array, meant noughtâ€"ordinary manoeuvres. ’ hoists of flags. Even that seemed to give difficulty to the submarine men, and on one occasion a large black- board with the words written on it was displayed. Velvet Collars Puzzle to British. There was much puzzlemcnt on the British destroyers about the velvet collar bands and hatbands which some of the German officers wore. To English eyes nothing could seem less sailor-like than velvet at sea. It was like wearing spurs. One officer Wore you.“0nt. years agoâ€"in the waters of the Firth of Forth. now cringed to heel like a dog with its tail between its leg-s. i “To think we've waited all these lyears to fight them," ruminated a Briâ€" tish admiral. “and now to have to go out and meet them by appointment, like meeting a girl ~~only they'll be .......... “A” i Admiral Beatty knew all about that. ;He is a disgusted, disappointed man. and his every gesture has emphasized } the fact. He was out to humiliate the Hun, to make him eat worms. in all his messages you will detect a viriie. undercurrent of contempt. honor the sea by murder was bad lenough; to follow up with cowardice ‘lvonly Germans could do that; rank .’ materialism reasoning: “Is it going to lserve any useful purpose it we come ‘out'.’" and deciding in the negative l‘Beateu bullies with a moral kink. i Bentty knew all that and acted acâ€" 1(~.or(lingi_\’. Icy courtesy. rfirmn'ch. Contempt 43...»... ; punctual! " . To (1133- . But~ even kings who abdicate by their own choice are not always al- lowed to enjoy freedom from the burdens of government. Philip \'., the founder of the Bourbon dynasty“ in Spain, was a nervous and gloomy mun, mueh tormented by religious Est-ruples, and he found life as King: lof Spain intolerable. At the age of HO, and in the 24th year of his reign, [in order to look after "the utfalt's of 'his soul." he’resig'netl the crown of ISpain and the indies in favor of his‘ 1 eldefit sen, Don Luis. who was at that itime only It; years of age. . But the peace that King Philip :had hoped for lasted liarer lmonths. The young king was at- itmked by smallpox, and died at the iend of that- period. Before his death, .however, he had made an not of re- ltrocession of the crown to his father. t who for another ‘22 years here unwil- ‘, ; lingly the heavy bad of kingship ‘ Gm““‘â€"’§\Vlrieli he hurt so unsuccessfully zit-v ELClfiptwl to throw oft‘. SEVEN ' rIqun-vu uun. Satisfaction guaranteed to shipper: 410 St.Pa-ul St.West, Montreal The Highest Prlee. 31' RAW FURS 70"? ' to us, no matter what quanttty. We pay the highest price. also express charges. Try once and you are assured of satisfaction. ABBEY FUR COMPANY 310 St. Paul W. Montreal, P.Q. Bank of Hocholaga. St. Reference: Henry. in businau {or 30 you”: U: o :3 m u: o s: '1 j > E a. large bearskin hat like an Arctic explorer. They all wore gloves and \(rere very well shod. Many of the men had leather suits in good repair. They were extremely Idirty and greasy as one expected after submarine work. but the officers had taken care to smarten themselves up and change their clothes. One officer seemed to have a mess uniform with a starched shirt and black cross tie under his coat, as if prepared for any evening entertainment that the English might Ofi'er to them After they had been speaking about the iron crosses that they saw before them one English sailor said: “They got them for murdering women and children, like as not. Why should we let them get back to Germany?” The. petty officer said: “We can get them when we want them now. We’re only putting them in the left luggage office.” British Admiral Has Profound Con- tempt For Cowardly Foe. "Request you will report on sinking of 13-93, as same appeared avoidab‘ie.” “Torpedoes you failed to send with latést convoy of submarines you will It _wasn‘t the ships that mattered, but the men in them. For people who like to play with human emotions it was an um'eturning orgy. The Huns who so arrogantly gooseâ€"stepped across the bodies of outraged womenâ€"four years agoâ€"in the waters of the Firth of Forth, now cringed to heel like a dog with its tail between its legs. forward by next trafxsport.” "You will stop using yot till further orders.“ The above are three wireless mes; sages typical of those that Admiral Beatty sent across the seas to Kjel during the days the German fleet was surrendering. Few who were up with the Grand Fleet for the recent surrender have returned without a. reverence for the whole attitude and bearing of the Bri- tish Commander-in-Chief. Deprived of his Trafalgar, Beatty has been sending wireless broadside after broadside into the Huns. Said a commander at Rosyth: “They are eating the dirt thrown them by Beat- ty.” ?iingiguheMSaiglig atI'Zfiugxzfi?’ There Are Many Instances of Royalty e, )' , 1 1- . . . W ho Qult Then- Thrones. sive way of his, biting his words, "they‘re coming out. I always said History affords King Ferdinand they would." A week later he repeat- of Bulgaria many precedents in the 6d the same fiddl’eSS- 0n the day Of art of abdication, but few have ever the great surrender he again address- I resigned "their thrones except under ed his tars. “Men,” ha began, “I 31- compulsion. ways tom you they“ come mm - ' ' The most remarkable voluntary ab- NOt 0“ a piece 0f String: though!" dioa‘tioll on record is that of Chris- So they have been. ‘ Beatty has lived and dreamt and pondered the Day for four long years. Shortly before armistice day he as- sembied his men in “Big Lizzie." an, Alberta and British Columbia have scarcely been tapped, but have produced a total in one year of 6,000,â€" 000 tons, to the value of over 25 mil- lion dollars. The coal is of very good grade, and is equally serviceable for steam purposes and household heat- ing. The Canadian Dominion geologiâ€" cal survey has estimated that the coal beds contain a total of 143,490,000,000 tons. covering an area of 87.000 tons, cov square m Accordillg to estimates prepared by experts there is enough soft coal in the four Westefn Provinces of Canada to supply the world for a couple of centuries. The mines of Saskatchew- BEAT‘rTY AND THE HUNS. (‘oal on the Prairies your wireless negative kink. acted ac The most remarkable voluntary ab- dication on record is that of Chris- tina of Sweden, daughter and suc- cessor of the great Gustavus Adol- ‘phus. Grdwing tired, at the age of 28, of the restraints imposed on her 13y her high office, she resigned in favor of her cousin and went to Rome, which city she entered in the costume of an Amazon. Latter she settled in Paris. Showing the Immortal Spirit of the British Navy. The Navy begins to render up its secrets to the curious eyes of the civilian, says the London Times. The “Q” boat Sull‘olk Coast has reached St. Katherine's Dock, and the public will be allowed to go over her, at the price of a small fee for the benefit of naval charities. Here contrivances for deception allied with deadliness will surely interest and instruct crowds so long as she ’is in the Thames. But she has a deeper fascination than that, for within her lurks the newest in- carnation of the immortal spirit of the Navy. In the spring of 1917 when the U-boats began to sink tonâ€" nage at a deadly rate, the Navy turn- ed to devise defences against the new danger. The “Q” boats were an important part of them, embodiments of the adaptability and ingenuity of the Sea Service. But the heart of their success was not in their impene- trable disgnises. Men clamored to be allowed to go to Sea in them. To go to sea in them meant the luring of the U-boat by an elaborate pretence of defencelessness; endurance of shell fire. and even of being torpedoed; long- waiting motionless, in a sinking ship, till the U-boat commander should at: last be certain that his victim had no sting and should expose his craft to certain destruction. For this the officers and men of the Navy sci-ambl- ed in hot rivalry. Through this they went, and, having gone, went eagerly again. Their ships were sunk under them, but they cared not at all, so the the U-boats were destroyed. The Suffolk Coast herself is a ship' newly converted to thisrservice, but' most of her crew have served with their commander in three of these “special service” ships. The immedi- ate predecessor of the Suffolk Coast â€"the Stock Force-sank under her crew when they had waited fifty min~ utes after beihg torpedoed for the chance of sinking the U-boat that rewarded them at last. The story has been told. The men of other “Q” boats were not so fortunate. They disappeared and left no trace. The sea that robbed them of their reward ,holds immortal their unavailing valor. These are the chances of Sea Service. The spirit of the men who took them with delight~that spirit has wrought safety for the world of modern men. The desire to resign seems to have returned in later years. for she tried to recover her own kingdom and made a bid for the throne of Poland. tio The Berlin Ghost. Is the “White Lady" walking these momentous night in the Palace of Berlin? Always, says tradition, when a Hohenzollern is to die or some catastrophe is overshadowing the family, the “Weine Dame" is to be encountered in the corridors of the Royal Palace, and more than once she has been known to speak and am a Hoheuzollern is catastrophe is 0v family, the “Weine encountered in the Royal Palace, and It has been known tc A SEA SECRET REVEALED THE ART OF ABDICATION he comin Orlamu em had oes‘ ite at} y S on Ill Dealing with the exhibition of Cana- dian war pictures which opened at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. on January 4, a contributor to the Pall ‘Mall Gazette says it was a unique ‘spectacle of a. nation's supreme en- deavor portrayed, not in retrospect. but during its accomplishment, by her “artists. The 70 leading painters of ‘Canada, including some famous British fones. have risen gloriously to the task ; set by their Government when it took ‘them out to the trenches in France and Flanders. From the landing of the first 33,000 men at Plymouth to the capture of Mons on the last day of the war, no phase of Canada's war activity has been neglected. There are nearly 100 paintings illus- trating the career of the Canadian :Corps in France, including the magni- iflcent paintings of the landing of the {31-d Canadian Brigade at St. Nazaire, by Edgar Bundy, A.R.A.. and the giant canvas by Major Richard Jock, A.R.A., “The Second Battle of Ypres." Major Jock has also a fine painting of “The Battle of Vimy Ridge." In the same way the historic Canadian battles are dealt with each in their tum. Regina Trench, the taking of! Courcelette and .so on, and then the Arras-Cambrai road is shown, alongwhich the Cana‘ dians are seen streaming after three months of incessant battle to the bit- ter fight for Cambrai, whence they passed to their last engagement which culminated in the triumphal entry into . Mons. - CANADIAN WAR PHCTURES EXHEBIT ARTISTS HAVE RECORDED OUR PART IN CONFLICT. Every Phase of Canada's War Activity Many Beautiful Portraits. Apart from the actual fighting, how- ever, the paintings give a comprehen‘ sive View of every other phase of Canadian war activity overseas. the Forestry Corps, which has provided timber for the armies of four nations; the famous Railway troops. which of- ten worked desperately under a de- vastating flre, have contributed so much to victory: the Veterinary Corps, which has charge of three million ster- ling worth of animals; the hospitals and even the patrol boats in the Eng‘ lish Channel. someof which were manned exclusively" by Canadian crews. There is a. splendid collection of portraits. interesting personalities such as Sir Robert Borden, Sir George Perley, Princess Patricia 0! Connanghi and Lady Drummond, who labored sc unceasingly for the Canadian Red Cross. 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