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Neti CCN ‘Rough Towel Exercises | For Cool Fall Mornings By Pauline Furlong 1918, by The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). mnt Bh AOR. toes and at the same timo bring the arms overhead, as should not be performed until after you have had an re | @e aie snes el _ HOME Can You Beat It! = upper arms and shoulders. Heel and toe raising is one of the best exercises for insomnia, nervous headaches, tired fecling and aching feet. After your bath and shower grasp the towel at the in front of your body and at arms’ Then raise up on the Sway your arms from side Of course, the exercises the inclination to do so will find the s Heel and Toe Raising N the towel exercise shown to-day we combine the beneficial hee! and toe raising with a good shoulder exercise, arm swaying, which is strengthening for the muscies in ends, holding it length, as shown in figure one. in the second Illustration. to side without moving body. SASEGEES alcohol rub and vigorous rubd with the towel. Readers who have the time and evening sponge bath, taken with warm water and spong change of clothing, very restful. workers than a trip to a stuffy movie Above all, have a hobby and let it such as joining 9 skating, swimming class or devoted to other active pastime, especially if you engage in hard mental work. f | After this bath, which need not be a cleansing one with soap, five minutes with the towel exercises will relax the muscles and bring the blood from the tired brain, Pleasant conversation with those who do not talk shop, some good music, or a brisk walk in the fresh atr, will prove more beneficial to mental } nd a complete or too mica reading. be one that will benefit yon physically The Silent Kitchen Helper By Lesli OW do you manage to do so much housework without tiring yourself?” asked a friend not long ago, “If I had done 4s much cooking as you have this morning 1 should want to He down instead of going for a walk as you are doing.” “Perhaps the reason I can do eo much without getting tired ts because of what I call my silent kitchen helper," I said, and pointed to a high desk stool I always keep in one cor- ner of my kitchen, “TI really couldn't keep house without it, for it has saved me many times from an aching back or tired fect, “ce “The average woman always stands ’ when she is doing work in the kitenen, and quite unnecessarily uses up her strength. Occasionally ehe sits down in a chair, but has to keep get- ting up all the time, for the seat is toe low to let her do much work in comfort. When seated on a high lool much work can be done easier tuan in a slanding position, “Yesterday I had croquettes to pre- pare, a cake and some conservation bread to make, but I did it all with- out getting tired, sitting on my handy stool, If I hadn't had it I would have be obliged to do the work standing be over the table. e Gordon | J makea it necessary to stoop, All small utensils should be suspended from hooks placed under or at the | edge of shelves. Don't be afraid to use your brains In your kitchen as well as in the rest of the house. The trouble with most kitchens is that ; they were built for the needs and customs of twenty or thirty years| SPANISH INFLUENZA | ago instead of those of to-day.” Vie Canadinn With Big The story of Private Peat h (Copyrigtit, Harold Peat, Canadian, Joins the Dominion ie eet ‘to bagiaud From ther he & “ \@ high stool goes with me to the sink when there are dishes to wash, and / do not find this bugbear of housework nearly as distasteful as when obliged to stand. The stool can bo used at the stove too, In the preserving and pickling which every patriotic housewife is doing this fall, it will be found most useful, If you had ever experienced the comfort and convenience of such @ stool you would not be without it for three times its cost “Another way I save myself fatigue fs to think out my work before I sit down. For instance, if I am going to do any cooking I get all the ingredi- ents together before [begin the work, and in this way I save the trouble and annoyance of jumping up and down for something forgotten, Then every utensi!] used constantly in my work about the stove I have hanging on a hook below a narrow shelf that I had put at one side of it, Narrow shelves are more convenient for the kitehen, with one row of things on each, than wide and open shelves, shelves are to be preferred to cub- boards or closed closets, except in the country, where a coal range is used and the kitchen is necessarily dusty. “All es should be at a conveul- , none lower than a foot from the floor and nono hig: than can be conveniently reached, Nothing should ever be put on the floor, as this makes cleaning difficult and also GERMANY'S LAST WORD, RIHUR TRAIN, the novelist, paper at the Century Club, in ‘New York, with an knpatient grunt, “It says here," he explained, “that ft ds Germany who wil speak te last word in tus war.” Then the novelist laughed angrily and adde “Yes, Germany will speak the last word in the war, and that last word will be ‘Kamerad!’ "Washington bles, ning frout Lines, CHAPTER IV, USH, boys, . . , we'rein enemy country!” our second in command whis- 6“ pered ominously, We shivered, sound of the guns med to er. Captain pnson re ning: Not a word, men,” he muttered, and we stumbled out of the station iu silence that could be cut with a knife, Sure enough the enemy was near, He couldn't have been less an twenty-two miles away! We could hear him, There was no dis- position on our part to talk aloud ptain Johnson sald; “Whisper,” and whisper we did, We trekked over mud-holes and ditches, across fields and down through valleys, We many tm- pressions—-and the main impression was mud. The main impression of active service 1s—mud. All the Way along we could gee the flashes of star shells, When one went up we could fancy the battalion mak- a “duck” in perfect unison, The star shells seemed very close. It was still for us to learn that they always seer close. After about seven mtles of this trekking, we reached billets, This was our first experience of French billets. The rest-house was a barn and we were pretty lucky, We had straw to lie on Notwithstanding our distance trom the enemy, as Captain Johnson had said, We Were in his country, and in consequence there had to be a guard, Four of the boys were picked for the job, ‘There was no change in my luck. 1 was one of the chosen four, The guardroom, whether for gvod or ill, was set tn a chicken house, And thereby hanes @ tale—feathor, Corporal of the kuard was @ sport, He was a young chap from Red Deer, Alberta. Now, fixure the situation for yourself, For days past we had been feeding on bully beef—bully beef out of a tin, Four men on guard, a dozen chickens perched not a dozen feet away. Would ab jousness be human? Ask yourselves, mes amies, We drew lots. My luck had turned, But] ate of it It was tender; it was good; it was roasted to @ turn, And Make Acquaintance been screened into a special Paramount- Aiteraft picture, now being shown at leading theatres. Gromott & Duniap.) BYNOUSB OF PKDUADLNG CHAUTERS Gun Fire ‘8 first overseas contingent, and after a short es to France and te unt’ forvard tuwani tue They say dead men tell no tales, Of dead chicken there is no such proverb, Wish there had been. We buried those feathers deep, Alas, that Monsieur, in comn.on with ali the folk in Northern France, was thorough in his cataloguing of his properties, I don't blame him. He had dealt with Germans when they overran the territory. He had met with Belgians when they hastened forward. He bad had experience of his own countrymen when they en deavored to drive back the enemy Hie had billeted the Imperial Britis}: Suldier, Now he was confronted w i, a soldier of whom he had no rey Save only the name—Canadian. Mon sieur had counted his chickens before they were perched, We had not yet had read or ex Dlained to us the laws and penalties attaching to such & crime while on active service, Of course, no one killed that chicken. No one ate it No one knew anything about it We were tly willing, if need be, to pay for the chicken rather than have such @ term as “eb ken Udef" leveled at us. We of the guard, however, protested, but paid tive franca each to smooth the matter over, This totaled about four dollars, ‘The next morning the whole bat- talion was lined up before the colonel while the adjutant read aloud the law Which we boys term the “riot act.” This document informed us very Clearty that if any soldier was found to have taken anything from the ped gantry for his own use; if any man was found drunk on active service, or if he committed any other crime or offense which might be counted as minor to these two, the punishment for @ first offense would be six monthe first field punishment, For any offense of a similar nature there- after the man would be Mable to court martial and death, While this paper was being read, I shook in my boots, to think that [ had been—innocently or at least jorantly--associated with what was probably the first crime of our battalion, We passed another night in the same billets, Next morning at five- thirty we were roused to make a forced march, across country, of sorne arenes miles, This was the CHICKEN! hardest march of the entire time [ Was at the front. Those ammunition boots! Those gol-darned, double dis- tilled, dash, dash, d. dashed boots! It was winter, There was heavy traMc over the roads, There were ho road builders, and precious little organization for the traffie, Part of the way the surface had cob- blestones; now it was broken filnta We ats gallantly enough | packs, Then, m.leg out, uld a out of corner of a shirt eal quietly across the hedge-row; an ex- tra pair of boots in the other direc- tion; another shirt, a bundle of writ. ng paper; more shirts, more bocts. Packs were lightening, Down to fifty pounds now; forty, thirty, twenty, ten. + » « the road was getting 80, No one would give up. Half a dozen men stooped and slashed at their boots to get room for a pet corn @ burning bunion, But every st Wednesday, October 16, 1918 | = pe PAGE Copyright The Drew New York 1918. Itt Ger Nou ONE IN A By Maurice Ketten | <3 > i ee oe AFTER BULLY BEEF OUT OF A TIN! This was the first We were on our way dare rua we ahead, do march the trenches, No man © risk of being dubbed a piker, agonized, but persevered pe for to Armeniieres was our objective, A fine city, this, and one which we might have enjoyed Under happler cireumytanecs. It was under fire, but not badly damaged, and consequently many thousands of the imperial sol- dicra were “resting” there while back from the trenches. We were the First Canadians, We were expected, and the English Tom- mies determined to give Us right royal welcome and a hearty hand- shake, We had a reputation to koop up, for im England the Cockney Tom- my and his brother “ctyvies" had named us the “Singing Can-ydians.” But on the road to Armentieres. oh, ma foi! There was no singing. Call us rather the “Swear- ing Can-ydians,” as we stumbled, cart i Py Axon, treading on eggs through the strecta of the city Tommy Atkins to right of us; Tom- my Atking to left of us, cobblestones beneath us, we wtagzered and swayed ‘The English boys cheered and yelled @ grecting. It was rousing, It was Ubrilling, tt was @ welcome that did our hearts good; but we could not rise to the occasion. Suddenly from out of the crowd of khaki figures there came happy home re comes the Singin’ Can-y- dians.’. . . ‘Ere they come... . ‘Bar thelr singin’ Not @ sound from our ranks, §!- lence. But tt was too much, No one can offer a gihe to a man of the West without his getting it back. Far from down our column some one yelled: “Are we downheurted?” “No!” We peeled back tho answer raucously enough, and then on with the song Are we downhearted? No, no, no, Are we downhearted? No, no, no, ‘Troubles may come and troubles may gO, Rut we keep smiling wher'er we £0, » downhearted? Are we down- od? No, no, NO! Gorblimey, vier not down. ut yer look bally well broken- chanted our small Cockney in every elipped tone of Py voice. CHAPTER V. ROKEN-HEARTED! Gee! We sure were—nearly; but not quite, No This was bad; there was we ome, and still we kept our bh But there was another trial now, and we were directed to rest billets in what presumably had been a two story schoolhouse or seminary, As soon as Wo reached this shelter we flopped down on the hard bare floor and lay just as We were, not even homening our harness. We were less (han three miles from the front Lnes, Even at this short distance Armentier had not suffered greatly from shell-fir th the upper Hoors of this aid ary had been shattered almost to ruing long before our arrival. ‘The city itself was @ good strategic point for the artillery. Behind houses, siores, churches, anywhere that of- fered concealment, our guns were hidden. Our artillery officers used every avaliable inch of cover, for they had to screen our Kuns from the ob- servation of enemy aircraft which flew with irritating irregularity over the town, and they had to avoid tho none too praiseworthy attention of spies, in which Armentieres was rich. entieres in those days stically a network of our gun em- placements, The majority were how- ‘evera ‘These firs high; thoy Lave @ lA . Ori For The Evening World’s . Home Dressmakers By Mildred Lodewick Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Drening Work), A “Suit-Frock” for All Occasions F this costume could talk and should be asked whether It was a sult or a frock it might show you that it was both, Its ver- satility ta indeed un- usual, and the woman who likes unusue things but must hawe them at small cost will appreciate the suggestion. Any plain woollen material o velveteen is suitable for the main portion, with either real or tm- Mation kerami fur in- xentously oom bined. ‘The fur or fur material is finished tnto a little short jacket which bs buttoned onto the frock in the front, and for both convenience and decoration the same material is cut into pateh pockets that are also buttoned on the skirt, thus making it possible to remove them when tn the house, The effect of the simple frook with- out the fur Is depicted in the small sketch. As will be noted, the buttons which hold the fur pieces form an im- portant trimming, which is emphasized by the embroidered lines that extend out and up from them. A loose panel dresses the back of the frock, end if desired it may be trimmed across the lower edge with straight embroidered lines, Io all, this ls @ very worthy frock for consideration, especi- ally for the woman who makes her own clothes, for tt ts very simple to develop, With tan velour cimployed for the frock, black caracu) would be an ef- fective fur combination, With dark or dull blue or brown as the color for the frock, elther squirrel or beaver fur would be pretty, Possible angle of 45 degrees, There | Was no danger of their damaging our own immediate postition: The ordinary infantryman knows less than nothing about artillery, If ever a bunch of greenhorns landed in France, frankly, we of the Firet Contingent were that samo bunch, As we had marched through the) city there had been no sound of gun- fire. All was quiet except for the welcoming cheers of our British brothers, Silence reigned for the two hours we had spent tn resting on the floor of the achoolhouse, and conse- quently we thought we had a snap ay far as position went, Our self-congratulations were some- what rudely disturbed, Of a sudden one of our young officers rushed through the door of our shelter, Poor laddie, he was very young and his anxiety eded even hig nervous- ness, Nervousness ta very natural, IT can assure you. It ts natural ina private; it is more so in the officer who feels responsibility for the lives of Nis men. “Lads,” said he, hand, and obviously ately to be eatin, told that the « of this buildin, terday, and we with upraised trying deaper- lads, I've just been jemy h the range ‘Twas shelled yes- re likely to be blown up any minute + any minute, men! I'd advise vou to stay where you are, Don't any of you go out- side, and if you don’t want to lose your lives, don't go fooling around Upstaira"” With that he potnted to the rickety ateps that led to the sec. floor on , and disappeared through the as fast as he had come, w moments there was dead “Blow up any minute!” We atone another We sat tengn. very thoughts seemed petrified. far corner of the room came @ sound, co whiz! . Gee whia!" the gathered con ence. “Gee eulys”—it was a boy from the St who spoke—“I've come six domi ind to be blown up | even seeing a German is nT oan swallow.” | Gosh!" said T, “fC wouldn't mind being shot to-morrow morning at sunrise \f I could have the satisfac. tion of seeing o of them first." Bob Marchington looked up. was a droll youth, and curiosity was his besetting fellows, I wonder why he told us not to go up- stairs. I bet you there's something to be seen from up there, or he would not have told us not to go. Any of you boys willing to come up with nm No one took up the challenge. lay around a little tonge braver spirits commenced erate on the suggestion upstairs? At Inst half a us decided to embark on enterprise, We were three miles from the enemy, to be sure, but German gt three miles seemed to us then so: ng formidable, £2 Continued.) >: We Then the to delib= dozen of r &e Why not go | CRIPTION FOR ADVICE IN MAKING THIS DRESS. Answers to Queries Pashion Pititor, The Drentng Wark: I would like to make a street dress of dark blue tricotine which I could wear until late fall. As ready-made dreses always nave to be etered, I am going to bave this made in the house and ask your kind advic about the style. [ am smal of stature and too stout through the bust. I have sev- eral pleces of seal skin which could be used on the dress, MRS. L. F. J Black braid trim- ming om straps, fur collar and fur bands trimming each hip of Plein skirt. Slignt fulness at back of waist and skirt. Pestion Biitor, The Brening Workd: wu advise make up 81-2 yards of gray blue crepe de Chine? I have three darker shade satin thought a pretty af- ternoon dress could be made, feet tall light MRS. W. L. Drape the crepe de Chine satin as I have sug- Bested, colored Georgette in yoke would three and Have biue eyes and you kindly me how to yards of a together I lam five inches slender, brown hair over the Flesh pink A panel of I am tnelosing simple of materta), dark red velour, cloth, and woult consider tt a fewer if you wil advise me how to make tt in a becoming way, I look well in loose, hanging things, What [ mean ts not fitted to the figure, as Iam thin, Am twenty-eight years of age, have dark complexion, brown eyes and hat, I have @ squirrel eet to wear with dress, MRS. T. R. A vest of gray velour in the style I the risky |have pictured would be pretty amd match up with your squirrel, although the fur 18 probably darker than the shade which you could gm, iwi your \ : ginal Fashion Designs