New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1918, Page 6

ninistratorts ion on June' ®, 19 ni the men between | glected to warn the ag of t stering for the wenty-one and thirty-one | draft. The served ood ainst re Bsciective Service law a opportunity rebellion st nc for open Again, | month, we failed to note any | wspaper, orator, or publicist com- | ine out and openly advising men | nst filling out the questionnaires. hus were great opportunities d two pmi Hartford Courant please copy AT HOME AND ABROAD. All the molded Bri nation is into a var machine As one itish officer s expressed it, “the men at the front up the The men women fmak cutting edge and and children far behind fighting lines are the motor-power. they cutting edge 184 he fail to make every sacrifice will become dull. There are in Burope almost one American soldiers. The sup- from million € for these men must come England, Un- the rell have country, since France, ind Ttaly cannot provide them. pess boys ‘“Over There’ get our zoods they need we might as sunk the ships that carried them over. They be They not be assets to any nation unless they will liabilities. will hre well provided for. In he Hudson Tiver there are ships laden New York harbor and well up some two with in and more munition undred ood and France for our men been These ships have not ible to turn a propeller because here was no coal to run the dstensibly, the sensible thing to do is, after the There’. folks at of engines, boys “Over take 00l rhe home can care hemselves. WHOL ALE If for no other re should MEDITATION. on the American of en- with eople have five days idlenes that they meditate. ittle might come to ap understanding 24 life all hings connected therewith. It hat orced every vear, no | might sit back and In this way, big men and| the uncertainty of and was not so months ago branch of one of the biggest in this town burned to the | many actories kround. 1 fire took place at mid- hight. In the morning there was not tanding. Obviously, there was o work then be rork of Jrere without employment They Thase done, save the The until order | reconstruction men pame out of chaos. received no who had | such an lnoney while idle ut something by for just 1 right a bmergency were a Those who had neglected th 1y were forced o suffer. every clime, men Men various age improvident. work at In in ave been out every have times een of ince work became the common lot e Those who did not learn ell the lessons tamght by the first uspension of activities devetoped imto rhat some call bums. Others profited the and Iways the side of he ship. man. by r first experience were ready to go over Going ory of now twenty vears in the his- are men ail New Britain there who factories worked ere remember when he only three days week on an eight-hour-a-day sched- hle Sometimes thev worked these hree days only every other week. Yet he men who worked here then man- ged to get along, to raise families, o build homes and to leave, in some nstances, large estates. The work | ing { will | of NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1o, T048. ent. And the order from anhin:-! h “was not put thraugh without good d sufficient i se th e, shou reason. Future events the nature of Benedict Amolds, to be d hold their horscs. disclose exact ing Cent d value rn for cent, we purchase greater in corn than in wheat. is one of more nourishment dollar’s rth than bas wheat, which is gen- 1ly used lues in a as a basis for comparing AFTER DEATH IN ABABIA. S at Azan all ic who died [Chis to sends comfort his friends. ith ful friends: It Les, T e and white and cold as d ve say, “Abdullab’s dead!’ cping at the feet and head. an see your falling tears, an hear your sighs and prayers; 1 smile, and whisper th am not the thing you kiss; se your tears, and let it lie: was . mine, it is not 1.” et friends! what the women lave - its last bed of the grave hut which T am quitfi b garment mo more fitti L o cage. from which at last, e a hawk, my soul hath pass'd. o the inmate, not the room— , wearer, not the garb—the plume the falcon, not the bars, ich kept him from the stars. splendid ing friends! Be wise, and dry ightway every weeping eye; at ye lift upon the bier ot worth a wistful tear: an empty sea-shell—one of which the pearl has gone; L $hetl is broken—it lies there; e pearl, the all, the soul, is here. is an earthern jar, whose lid llah seal'd the while it hid [ That treasure of his treasury. A mind that loved himg let it le! Let the shard be earth’s once more, Since the gold shines:in his store! fou se : i ence. Because the .Government steps in and says, ‘Here, yow!ll bhave to close down those factories for a few days so we can get the nation’s house order’” few manufacturing gnates want to takesthe bitin their run away with the team. It cannot be done. The American people-&ne fast com- Allah glorious! Allah good! Now thy world is understood; Now the long, long wonder ends! Yet ye weep, my erring friends, While the man whom ye call dead, In unspoken bliss, instead, in a n teeth and the commodities that | ' council —| | Town Topics| | The business of the city of New Brit- ain 1s conducted, or is supposed to be, by a mayor, elected by the people at large, six aldermen, eclected the voters of their respective wards, and 24 councilmen, ir of which are elected hy the voters in each of the X rds Of course other roint- ive officers have a sSreat deal to do with the government, but for the purpose little narrative the court of common council the con- necting link between the pcople and | the government. It should reficct the desires of the people on matters of | local interest and when a man seeks clection as an alderman or as a coun- cilman he should take the position se- and should be prepared to freely of his time to this duty, else he should not accept it. Much has been sald of late about the meagre attendance at some of the | council meetings, but from a perusal of the records kept by City Clerk Al- fred L. Thompson it appears that the Jaurels for being the most consistent ahsentee should go on Councilman William J. Lenchan of the sixth ward, with Couneilman Louis J. Arata of the fifth ward running him a close race for second place. During the period from April 19, 1916, to April 11, 1917, there were 22 council meetings only four of which Coun- cilman Lenehan failed to attend. However, from April 18, 1917, to the tast meeting on January 16, 1918, there have been 19 meetings of the common council and the records show that Councilman Lenehan has not been present at a single one. Con- sistency is evidently his motto, Councilman Arata has been in the longer than his rival for ab- sentee honors. From April 20, 1915, to March 22, 1916, he attended 15 out of 20 meetings. From April 19, 1916, to April 11, 1917, he dropped off so that his attendance record shows him to have been absent at 13 out of the 22 meetings. From April 18, 1917 to Janumary 16, 1917, there have been 19 council meetings and Councilman Arata has attended only three. Do thesa councilmen their constituents? But they are not the omly absentees. Out of the last 15 council meetings, Councilman Lincoln Odenkirchen of | the fourth ward has been absent 15 | by w : 1 ty of this riously give represent | Lives and loves you: lost, 'tis true, By such light as shines for you; But in the light ye cannot see Of unfulfill'd felicity— In enlarging paradise— Lives a life that never dies. realization of what this war They are beginning to see that we are in the war and im it to stay. In the rush of war-time manufactur- ing we produced too much. That is the story in a word,—over-production. The factories of this town amd many other towns worked three shifts a day until so many things were made there to a means. Farewell, friends! Yet not farewell; Where I am, ye too shall dwell I am gone before your face A moment's time, a little space: When ye come where T have stepped, Ye will wonder why ve wept: Ye-will know, by wise love taught, That here is all, and there is naught. Weep a while, if ve are fain— Sunshine still must follow rain; Only not at death—for death Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life which is of all life center. are no places for them, nor railroad facilities to move them. At the same time the factories burnea up so much they practically famine. The cars could not he gotten trom coal caused a coal away the mines quick enough, so there cbngestion. This is only part of what happened. the five davs frem yesterday until next Tuesday the nation have time to think it Also, the men who work at the mines, the men the men who move men who load trains, the men supervise the loading of ships, will all have a chance to clear the tracks. The only thing the governent forgot | —_— to do was to put a ban on passenger | COMMUNICATED. trains for at least three days, and cut - — out all We coming to that too; at least one pas- was freight In Be ye certain all seems love, Viewed from Allah’s throne above: Be ve stout of heart and come Bravely onward to vour home! La Allah flla Allah! vea! Thou Love divine! Thou Love alway will over. coal cars, the and who load trains, un- yho He that died at Azan gave This to those who made h —EDWIN ARNOLD. unnecessary travel are Someone, Shakespeare or Billy Sunday, Once Said, “Be Sure Yowre Right. Then Go Ahead.” "To the Editor of the Herald: God ss your strong right ed torial hand,—if that is the one you vight 'em with. At any rate they do not sound like left-handed ones. Tn every great issue hefore the | country within the past vear or so the Herald has been right. Tt was right when it picked Woodrow Wil- | son for President, and stuck to him. | t was right in commenting on all the big issues that came alonz. And now it is right in supporting the Gar- field fnel order, On Wednesday night when the | Herald published its “extra”, I was : : | on Main street and heard the com- ber 25 until somretime after January 1, | ronts of men who work in the fac- a vast number of workingmen in New | tories. They did not seem to be Britain remained away from the fac- | troubled over the state of affairs, but tories. From one high in the industrial | realized that there must have been something in the works which de- manded attention. With all the hub-hub created by the morning papers on Thursday, and the growling of the so-called ‘“big men” of the industrial world, it was A a pleasure to read your editorial of but to little avail. There Wi B e then. Now that slightly | facts and figures to set the people more than fifty per cent. of the men | right. The Herald was about tho are forced to remain idle there only paper that had the nerve to | great to-do. The protests are from | COMe out in the open and tell the truth | the employers, not from the emploves. The blg New York papers took the opposite stand from that manifested by vou: but watch 'em the next two | On the contrary, when the mews was | oF fhree days and see them turn . | about face. as n 2 maovi ic- | < : flasted’fon Sa fecreen Hn 18 f asin e DIC il &5 tolit: | Gouve mot the Tisht iden) ture house last Wednesday night, the ' 414 (he people are with you, | men shouted thetr approval of a five- | Sincerely, | day rest. They seem to be the ones| MATTHEW P. STANSEURY. least concerned over the order. Also, o yEe STTPPER® WALKS AGATN. we recall that when the men in one o : N ¢ and biq the | TO.fhe Editor of the Herald: factory wanted to go out an id the Just why in thunder does not the soldiers farewell ane day last summer superintendent of streets put sand on they were told they could do so only| our side walks? T attended the per- under penalty of losing whatever | formance at “Fox’s” last evening and 5 saw wi - own eves two ladies fall Fa aw with my own eve Postuses then coRfE 0 thot 1€ | yotween McEnroe's candy store and of the men sacrificed this money in| crowells corner. order to give the two There is no excnse for this. Ts it companies a real, patriotic, American | that the present administration send-off. Until the men themselves | senger-less day a week. | As Thinking it all over, come conclusion but that five What improvidence we can no other rest will be a good thing. of to days’ suffer because will serve to while. In the resting period few lessons worth event the five days becomes a custom there worth who away teach his salt the is not a man not put necessary wherewithal him through. Having the time to hear himself he would be amply rewarded. to see think, DON'T GET EXCITED. During the Christmasholiday season, extending from a time before Decem- hercabouts we have an esti- volunteer | world mate that this number of idlers approximated fifty per cent. of the laboring classes. Efforts were ex. to get men to go to work; pended no howl protest is a As yet we have no report of fabor con- | demning the action at Washington. Some local militi doesn’t give a continental for the peo- 2 | ple? show absolute dislovalty, we shall re-| s max pAyER WHO PAYS HIS { fuse to believe that the American peo-| TAN n the olden days was not one half so | tration demanding but one edftion a | times. Councilmen Olaf R. Ralk and Georze A. Forsberg from the second | ward have been absent 14 and 11 times respectively in the same length | of time. Alderman John Stadler and Councilman Edward Peterson from the fourth ward have both been ab- sent 10 times but their excuse is ac- ceptable as they are in the National Army. Since the meetig of the cowncil on April 18, 1917, Mayor Georze A. Quig- | lev has not missed being presenc when the roll was called at a single | meeting. City Clerk A. L. Thompson | also has a perfect attendance record as have Alderman Angelo M. Pao- nessa and Councitmen Cornelins J. Dehm and Charles Mueller of the fifth, third amd first wards respective- 1y. Alderman M. Irving Jester of the second ward has been absent omly once * and Councilman Rubert = P. Richards of the fourth ward has Hke- wise missed omy one meeting. Y In the lost and fownd column of a local paper appeared the following | ad on Thursday evening: “Found: A ring with initials on Broad street. Finder can have same, ete., ete. The extra Herald published Wednesday night was the first that has been published here stnce the | of the draft last Angwst. And from the ruling of the fuel adminis- day it is the last that will be pub- lished for some time to come. % os Farly in the week a woman on- tered a Jubtlee street store and asked for a pound of sugar, which the clerk was very obligingly wrapping up for her when she remarked: *“Oh, I'm so glad you coutd let me have that.” ¥v?" queried the clerk ** 'Cause, this will make fi I've got now.” “No, this will make just pounds” corrected the wily clerk. “How's that?"’ “Because if vou've got four pounds vou dom’t get this. Exit. ahsently. Pounds four v e Mondays will certaimly be duM days for those who work In the factories ad noflices affected by the new closing order, espectally since the movie ‘houses will be closed as well. Fortu- nate in many ways will be the man | who has several cords of wood in his | celar that needs sawing and splitting. .o But just where is there such a man? e This one, entitled “The Lay of the Furnace” and sent to the Town Topic man by one who signed the effusion “from one whose sole ambition is to see her ‘zrain child’ appear in the public print,” printed herewith without comment. The T. T. man is nothing if not generously inclined, particularly toward the strugsling young “arti and inasmuch as the Herald has recently received a new consignment of print paper here goes: There is no coal. The thermometer registers | 20 below zero, | 201 With hands numb and cold 1 have chased the last lump Around the empty bin, Corraling it finally Tn a far corner. Down into the empty hod It fell with a lonesome rattle. The last Tump. No 1 1t is inconceivable. There has always Stove, Chestnut Furnace, Pea O is been coal somethi ple have lost faith in their govern- ) But now they tell us there is 0o coal. | who has been keeping company with <cial “Walsh has been named to petition for TODAY'S TABLOID TALE By Joe Blast. Still Unpapered Dolphin Comma was nuts about musie although never vet had he been able to scrape to- gether money cnough to satis- fy the ambition of his life—to attend a performance of grand ope He would eos- tacy over a canar wait- ing raptly for the note from the little insect. would follow a hurdy gurdy for miles and miles, down hill and up dale, returning footsore and weary, his stomach full of emp- tiness but his head full of mel- ody. He was a paper hanger. Tuesday the manager of the Hotel Pergle sent for him to paper a hall closet on the twen- ty-ninth floor. «“1 want the ceiling in closet drab,” he was explaining, ‘“‘and I want one wall in Persian drip blue, another wall in hic cough pink, another wall in——" At that moment a gorgeous burst of sound filled the air and the intervening spaces. W-what's that?" whispered Dolphin Comma ecstati “Ponsonby Timbre. the Danish male soprano, bath-room on the left this closet and natu sings while he bathin plained the managor. Just then an even gorgeouser burst of sound flooded through the partition on the right side of the closet. “W-w-what's that?* breathed Dolphin Comma swooningly. “That’s from the bathroom of Madame Tooterbeeni, the marvelous Finnish female bar- itone—hear her splashing?’ rieplied the manager. And he left, shutting the door of the closet after him so that Dolphin Comma wouldn't be distarbed at his work. Amd for six days and six nights not a minute passed during which either Ponsonby Timbre or Madame Tooterbeeni was not taking a bath and singing, and on the morning of the seventh day Dolphin Comma was found dead on the floor of the closet, starved, but with the most unimagineably beatific expres- sion on his face, and the closet was still unpapered. (Copyright 1918 by George Matthew Adams) He One Nime dealers in this city have I ap- proached This day And begged And cajoled And supplicated And demanded And the nine dealers said only this: NO COAL! e e The Herald of 25 yvears ago this week contained the following items of interest: Janmary 13: There were five realty transfers last week. P. J. Tormay sang “The Bridge” in a pleasing man- ner at the meeting of the Master Plumbers last night. A. J. Hart was elected past master workman at the meeting of A. W. Harvey lodge, A. O. W., Ilast night. Berlin, near the railroad station is building up rapidly. January 14: The reservoir on the summit of Walnut Hill overflowed last ntght and flooded the cellars on Camp street, necessitating the calling of Fire Chief Carleton who went to the pumping station at the foot of Arch street and turned off the ma- chinery. Secial Officer M. J. Cofrove stopped a pair of runaway horses on Main street this afternoon. George M. Landers, Jr., has been elected a member of the Hartford Bachelors’ club. January January 1 . Sunday. 162 Howard Hathaway, Miss Fanny Hopkins visited her house Saturday night and because he found her new friend, Joseph Bowen, there he drew a revolver and threatened to shoot, frightening Bowen away. KEd- ward Barrett has been clected leader of the American band and John Bar- ry is his assistant. January 17: James Shepard has been elected president of the New Britain Scientific association. A spe- committee headed by Mayor a charter for the local hospital. There is a lot of gsame in the woods nearby this winter but few care to hunt in zero weather. J. M. Belden states that the mercury at his house dropped to 10 degrees below zero this morning and that not in the memory of the oldest resident has it been as cold be- fore. L. S Wells says it was 17 low this morning and Sexton H. S. Batty of tht Center church says it was 13 below at his house. Terance Reilly has entered a Trades scheol in New York for a three months course. Jamuary 18: There were 218 mar- riages in this city last vear. Engineer Cadwell is making plans and estimates for a sewer system in Plainville. January 19: Complaint has been made to the policemen about the ex pressmen who congregate at the Bap- | tist church corner, when they should | koep their teams on the west side of the park. Selectman Samuel Bassett has been elected grand master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Connecti cut. Col. Erichson has been chosen as one of the principal speakers at the Co. I banquet PP On Thursday a woman walked into | Hall's Main street store and said she wanted a pound of sugar and just had to have it Tight away because she | | of “caboche™, | Germany want to bhreak into her barrel February 1 didn’t until At last reports the tors said they thougzht the cler Jive, but doubted if he'd ever samg again. consulting doc- | would | be the There’s many a w. k. and justly pop. citizen who is familiar now with all the workings of a coal yard who | | | | | i | FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. Auxiliaries When a herd of musk-oxen are at- tacked by the white-fanged Arctic wolf pack a hollow square is formed by the bulls with the cows and calves inside. The cows and calves of a fleet are the Naval Auxilaries, beef boats, col- liers, oil tankers, and tugs. By day they may scout, feed as it were, on the fringes of the herd of mighty battleships. But let so much a whiff of chlorined sub or a de- stroyer’s oil fumes reach the collier's tender nostrils—which are her Skip- per's—and this ultra-female of, as a o species that is all females canters to | cover of-war. Again like wild animals the war- ships may venture alone across the wastes of ocean which is their hunt- ing ground. But always they must return to their families, their mates and their voung, the temnder tenders, the hospitable hospital ships, and the tiny tugs. be no Kleet. Before the war 20 large served our Navy. This Train carried coal, oil, supplies, trans- ported sick and wounded, and did repair work that exceeded the ca- pacity of battleship shops. Fach branch of the Fleet has own repair ships. behind the bull-necked men- ships its The Vestal is larg- er than most of the men-of-war she | helps keep fit. She has foundries, ma- chime shops, boflersmithies, and cop- per works. She can forge a 2-ton shaft or put a new hair-spring in the Navigator’s watch. Draughtsmen, tel- escope experts, and clockmakers are only a few of the skilled artisans she ~carries. The Dixie has been the salvation of our destroyers. No one who has not endured the awfnl pounding slam of a destroyer’'s deep-sea roll can com- prehend her engineer’s despair when he tries to grind his valwes aboard. A case is on record where a destroyer lost a propeller at sea. Flotilla stop- ped while the repair ship hoisted the disabled boat’s stern and fitted mew blades. Four hours was the time re- quired for this exhibition of efficiency Mother Ship is none too strong a term for the Bushnell and other sub- marine tende Subs are a wayward offspring—like ducklings with a hen. They dive and wallow in a way the Mother views with incomprehension and alarm. But when, smashed and Without them there would | so-called | FITZHUGH GREEN, U. S | coal, N. buckled and discouraged, they returm to her for repairs and supplies all cxotic qualities are forgotten. Sha carries full diving sets to be used wien they sink. At the bow is a huge tackle to lift them clear of the wa- ter. Bvery one of the U-boats’ mil- lion parts is carried in her capacious hold, storerooms and compartments. Oniy the refrigerating plants of a Swift & Co. could be compared with that of ome of our beef-boats such as the Glavier. Only a big city hospital could class with the Solace. The col- lier Jupiter and the tanker Kanawaiw are floating coal mrine and oil wall respectively. Best of all, any of thésa vessels is so enormous that she can transfer supplies at sea as well asin port. All make excellent troopships in emergency. In one year our auxiltaries steamed 379,379 miles, more than 15 times around the world. They delivered tor the Fleet 384,497 tons of coal and 257,004 barrels of oil. General freight totaled 37,213,949 pounds. Yet the whole maintenance from all these vai~ uable craft was only $793,922 in year, or about the yearly upkeep fow one battleship. ¥ Strange duties fall to the auxil aries. The Hector carried a fulle grown submarine on her deck out 4 Cavite P. I. In 1915 the Jason took a cargo of Christmas presents to tho belligerents, and returned loaded down with exhibits for the Panamia Exposition. The Vulean was used by the Jewish Relief society for sending food to the Levant. All this has not really been Yhe naval service. The 225 officers and 1,102 men on our coMters have been what is known as the N. A. S, the Naval Auxiliary Service. Lately jiisa tice has been done and the wholé Train absorbed by the Navy. Con- sidering that from Guam to Manhild alone our colliers saved $700,000 on coal transportation in 12 months—th# government used to charter ships— any reasonable reward is due Buckets and spit-kits they aré called; and they carry anything frénk tin, nitrate, hemp, and shellag to esgs, becf, spuds, Christmas tree§ and dead men. Yet to the Fleet the¥ {are not only butcher, baker, and cais | dile-stick maker, nurss and but mother, and undertaker. God bless their rusty beams barnacles! never even knew in what section of the city they were before. v This is surely the age in which woman is coming into her own if she ever does. And they are beginning young too, for today the well known factory office boy, famed in comic section and Horatio Alger yarn, is rapidly being supplanted by the gentler type of office girl. No longer does the irate boss, following a hard night, bawl out in stentorian tome: “Hey boy!” Instead he kindly re- quests: “Young lady, won't vou please—". A visit to the several fac- tory offices about the city shows that as a matter of fact the office girl is taking the place of the office boy in many instances and while the zirl is taking the place of the office boy in many instances. While the office girls are not expected to travel throughout the facto. delivering messages and doing other such jobs, they are mevertheless detailed to the more genteel tasks of the former of- fice boys. They care for the mail, they sort the incoming letters, they answer phone calls, they run errands about the offices and make themselves gen- erally useful. A high official of the Stanley Works, where a number of office girls are employed, explains that the labor shortage is responsible for this change. He says that with the scarcity of labor there are so many more factory jobs open to the younger boys that they prefer working there to taking the old time office boy jobs, especially since they are able to earn more mone: As yet however, the cigarette smok- ing, dime novel reading, freckled faced, red headed. snail-like walki ‘W. U. messenger boy has not been placed by one of the fair sex. P Some 25 New Britainites, interested in republican politics, are planning to attend the McKinley associaton ban- quet in Waterbury at the Hotel Elton on the evening of January The principal speakers will be Governor Holcomb and United States Senator Warren G. Harding and it is the last named speaker who attracks the at- tention of local men. Mentioned as a presidential possibility, it was Sen tor Harding who delivered the im- passioned patriotic speech at the local republican outing at Lake Compounce last summer. .. e Almost every letter received from New Britain bovs across the s contain words and phrases of war vernacular. By this time the meaning of these words is generally stood and they are becoming accepted as proper—in war time. The deriv: tion of the war terms however, is in- teresting. “Boche” is an abbreviation meaning a hobnail, with a hard, rough and square head. It was applied long ago on account of sez corresponding mental qualities of the | The biz German cannon are after the name of of Krupp, the manufacturer of I s re- means Teutons called ‘‘Bertha the eldest daughter great munitions When ferred to in a German shells. “Crump: applied to high explosive shells and the big shells that give forth dense hlack smoke are called “Jack John- sons”. When a man dies in the trenches the vernacular calls it as having “clicked it” or “gone west.” A rather coarse reference to a len comrade is made by the Allied s sushing up the daises explanations big letter it la ast Such are the sent to under- | is the term | | said: | reinforci ldiers | is not the Town Topic man by a friend i U. S. uniform who is there. e Carmelli Casconi was fined in couré a few days ago for the theft of fivpy forks from the Landers, Frary & Clark factory where he was employé#h as a laborer. He protested his inno= cence, but paid his fine. Then, as an after-thought, he pointed in the di- rection of Prosecutor George W. K& who conducted the state’s case. and “Well, who's going to pay him?” P barbéw, latelg, A certain Hartford avenue let him be called Herr Brush, suspended a service flag from i ore which contained eleven star That night a patron, noticing the flagh exclaimed’ concerning it. “You don't mean to say you have sent eleved members of vour family info the sers vice, do you?" *“Ach nein,” explained the tonsorial artist, “they is for dé customers I haf lost!” r FOOD VAEUE OF MILK AND EGGS& The Cow's Food, the it Product i Cost What Perfeot May. (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle). When, in a news article in this pa-. per on Monday, John J. Dillon, statel commissioner of foods and markets, was quoted as saying that one quarg of milk was equivalent to eight egg§ | in food value, many readers probably their error thought, attention, if the point attracted that a typographical . Dillon was not had been made or te quite sound in his dietetic lore. It was apparent that, if the statement was correct, it was a good economic: rule to substitute milk for eggs in sa far as taste and the cook book wouldy * permit. Happily, Rochester folk have an in- stitution to which all such problems # as that presented may be safely sub- mitted. The Mechanics institute veri- fied the assertion made by Mr. Dillon.* } An expert in food values there gave the confirmatory imformation that a quart of milk was worth to the con- sumer from seven to nine eggs cording to the size of the was a fact, it was said, not known, but one that might be ad- vantageously applied. To be sure, tastes must be taken into considera- tion, and eggs are required in the making of many dishes; but there is great economy in using milk instead of eggs when the question only’ which is the most nourishing A quart of good milk can be bought in this city at from to 10 cents, whereas eight really fresh eggs, such s one prefers to have for break- ast, now cost 40 cents. Fresh ecggs are four times as costly as milk as a breakfast food. Many of the patent cereals are of little more value than to make milk palatable to those not fond of it, but such cereals as oat- meal are more substantial. Tt is clear that the mother whose allowance for ac- This generally [.household expenses is scant does not 2o astray when she provides plenty of nourishing cerea] and milk, or hread and milk, for her growing brood Next Summer in Canada., (Toronto Mail and Empire.) Sir Robert Borden’s denial that the zovernment has considered the ques. tion of conscripting labor for the land does not mean that this method of = our food-producing army held in view. It may be the only method of bringing up our pro- duction.