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WITH THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY
ARMY, FRANCE RUN Just an ordinary country cross-roads somewhere in France, with one weather beaten sign pointing costward and another to the north. It is a great spot in American history, whether history ever admits it or not
On a bean, rainy night not long ago Amerien's first troops to enter the trenches in the great war turned off a that orase roads. They left their old world when they passed that spot and dropped down the hill in darkness and rain to their new world of shells and bullets, mud, sleet, gay, and the flickor ing night lights that hang overhead, throwing a glare.ou No Man's Land
Some of the Sammies didn't come back And when they marched into the gloom beyond the cross roads they all know por fectly well that some weren't coming back.
JANUARY 6TH, 1918,
WHAT IS AY GOOD” HUSBAND?
MM BY ▲ DACHELOR..
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. KORNILOFES MOTIVES,
OUTLER PALMER & CONS
The only good word that has ever boas In the Russian papers there is much aid by a wife of a husband and svou evidence that, however mistaken General that was strictly qualified was by the Korniloff nisy have boon in his judgment, dharwomen who, asked by a poroner there are no grounds whatever for im
Was your husband a good husband? pugning his motivet. It was dearly his replied, Good! I should think he was belief that only the establishmont of a good. He was more like a friend, homditary dictatorship he emphatically was, nor a husband:
denies that it was ever his intention to As a bachelor, whom some of his friends take the whole burden of this on to his think still not too old to bocomon has own shoulders eduld saye Russia from hand, I am anxious to learn what con- the dangers which threatened her. What Entitubes a good husband before these dangers were he indicated in an
commit myself
army order posted in Mobiloff just before My friends are of auch varying tem- his surrendere peraments that some of them ought to In this order he said it had come to his be good husbanda, My friend Joncs knowledge through documentary ovid might to be a good husband have, indeed, always looked upon him dance, the reports of the Russian counter- pattern, proper even if painful, to be spionage, intercepted telegrams, and imitated by any bachelor entering matri personal observations, that the explosion at Kazan, which caused the destruction. many. Jone
catches the evory
9.3 png, works all day in his office, catches of more than a million, shells and 12,000 **
has never been late for of German agents, who had also spent machine guns, was undoubtedly the work the 3.9 for home, h dianer, site in his chair each evening billions of roubles on the disorganisa until 10.30 (except on raid nights,
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line of machine-guns trailed out of op husbandj
village. The mules splashed through cind and water and the wheels grated on the hard road bottom beneath the muddy Bachelor,"
is too to make a
Would "aid his
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Russia The Russian counter-espionage in Holland had reported that the Ger mans were preparing the following meä- sa biowe simultaneous attack along sures with the object of dealing Russia a the whole front, the precipitation of a rebellion in Finland the blowing up of the bridges over the Dnieper, and Volgu and the organisation of a rising of the Bolshevik in Fetrogrnd. At a meeting Palate in Petrograd, Kerensky and garn koff had both warned him to be care ful in what he said, as some members of the Cabinet were not to be trusted. He als, had serious grounds to suspect trea chery and the action of German money in some of the irresponsible organisations which were exercising an influence on the policy of the Government. It was in view of all these things that he decided to save the country or die at his post,
The explosion to which General Komi off referred was only one of many similar
good and mysterious incidente. Great damage was
to
mes while
doza and 20,000 shells dretroyed by a fire
surface. Hunched up on the limbers the Brown scraped Iris pipe into the waste at the Westingcouse works at Petrograd drivers sat with stickers pulled over their heade. The gun teams walked beside the limbers. Their feet were soaked before the first mile was covered, and they might not get a chance to change socks for days.
Some French goldiers came out of n afé near the cross roads. The open door threw a slice of yellow light across the road, revealing the stemming mules, the camouflaged limbers, and their comple- ments of Sammica, likewise glistening as the rain rolled off their waterproofs.
PROMISE FULFILLED.
paper basket, what a difficult man he is to live with. One morning he confes down to breakfast at 8.30, the next mori ing at 9.30. One evening he comes in early and wants tea, the next evening he keeps dinner waiting an
an hour. One even ing he wants to talk when I want to read The evening he wants to rend when
day he I want to talk. One he writes me an unexpected cheque, since the most Go out and buy yourself something nice,
No, Jack she turned to Brown, he says. We must retrench."
who had finished siraping the pipe and
pipe-spill-
and even the official organ of the Metro: politan Soviet remarks on the curious coincidence that at the moment of the outbreak the fire alarm, the telephone, and the hydrants were all found to be out of order. If the brigade had not seen the fire from its watch tower the destruction would probably have been inuch greater. A few days earlier 45,000 another factory in the Petrograd district, shells had been destroyed by fire at
One Frenchman yelled" Viye l'Ameri-was tearing off a leaf of a fashion journal BETTER HOUSES AND HIGHER
for A
Lque! The others stood silent as it are a good husband think that you
watching the fulfilment of America'a-pro--
RENTS
NATIONAL SCHEME OUTLINED
but good hushner you are not a haka Robinson, Then there is my The no came to the crossroads in whose wife says that she is a
s martyr to time to see the last of the riflemen swal whose wife says that she is a martyr to Conheil on November 16th submitted to technical conferencs set up by the his golf and my friend Smith, National Housing and Town Planning lowed up into the darkness. They his not having a hobby, such as golf and the Local Government Board its interim followen after, and the rolling kitchens my friend Green, whose wife says that report on the problems likely to present children come first in his thoughts themselves for solution in housing Bed from the grates as the wheels dipped into muddy ruts. The sparks sizzled and went that bo is the sort of man who never The conference took as the basis of their ought to have had children; and my inquiries the statement by Mr. Hayes friend Jenkins, whose wife says that whose wife says
he
brought up the rear, dropping sparks the my friend Oliver, whose wife says town planning at the close of the
there came the sound of a marching 18 always at clubs, and my friend 40 Fisher, President of the Local Govern
To those who stood at the cross-roads
columu, gradually diminishing
A feld ambulance whirled past like an excited cockroach. The angle lamp at the cross-roads threw a light on the east. Ward signpost. It said Blankville, six kilomètres A little over three miles. Blankville is in the German lines,
ment Board, that the number of houses.
that if only we would likely to be built by the State for the
about with other men he broaden his mind; and my friend a per, whose wife says that he is always interested in other women, which is a poor compliment to her; and my friend Blaker, whose wife says that he `never
working classes in the first year, after the This estimate does not cover the pressing war was 300,000 for England and Wales. needs of Scotland.
The report says it will be necessary at
Wes the existent of other women; the close of the war to ask the tenants of
the new houses to pay higher rents than those current before the war. For this reason the new houses must be made attractive, to be well worth the extra
Tonight an impersonator ran through that his bride is his toy charged. The following points to
pipe
is a poor compliment to her; and my friend Berry, whose wife says that The French people, applaud anything he is so irritable; and my friend Carter American, whether it'a American or not, whose wife says that he is go
and my friend Bolton, his list of celebrities, living and doad,
Pite at the local theatre. There was n Kit and
be observed in al plans adopted by local my friend Lake.
whose wife says that authorities for stage building are pre chénor, a Lloyd George, a Poincards and he would be a better husband if he sented a Douglas Haig H
smoked, like other men; and:
ny
fricad My next will be General Pershing" Vernon, whose wife says that he grudges he announced, and disappeared behind whose wife says that he is always insist- her dress money; and my friend Walters the screen to the tune of wild applause.ng that she shall be better dressed. And He re-appeared as Pershing-in a then there are the wives of many other Belgian officer's coat, a Serbian cap, of my
good husbands be the now houses British spiral puttees, and wearing a grey husbandenda, who say vaguely that their Three bedrooms should be provided in all moustache that drooped like Sorry Tom's cause they are not like other bus.
He might have been Hindenburg or Cadorna for all the resemblanco to Per- shing But the house went wild-which proves the point.c
Our bands play some tunes better than: they toot the Marseillaise, but, they play the French anthem better than the poliu bande play ours..
what I want to know before ruining some woman's life is. What is a good Vide husband
SOLDIERS AND INCOME-TAX.
An important Army Council instruc. Fiva Sammy bands crashed into the pay and income tax has recently been tion dealing with the question of soldiers Marseillaise one at a time as Mirabal issued. It is pointed out that in the Joffre passed down the line of troops case of members of the military forces of during his review. The first two were the Crown deductions for abatement life très el punke" to quote one male assurance, and children are now to be driver's French. The other three played made, firet, from earned income other better almost as well as the average the Army pay; secondly, from unearned French soldier band
che income; and, lastly, from pay. Those who are in receipt of income other than Army pay, and who desire to benefit by the concession, are therefore recommend. ed to furnish a return of their, total income. A further concession to officers has been approved by which an allow ance from the pay taxable on account of cost of uniform will be granted.
But when a band of poilus the same afternoon attempted "The Star-Spangled Banner” the unthem was camouflaged under à lot of unconventional trills and musical flourishes,
Neither side did as well with the other fellows hymn as it could have done with its own, but we mangled the Marseil. laise loss than they tortured "The Star-Spangled Banner
Hammy is trying to learn French but he hasn't much use for the latest diction ery to appear in camp. He hasn't th time, inclination, money or capacity to try out this vocabulary,
It contains about 300 words with the French equivalents. Among the 300 are
A
spade and pickaxe will do his bit to keep the wounded moving once they start from the temporary dressing stations just back of the front lines.
Light railways run right up to the dressing stations troin the field hospitals, situated back where the shells don't fall
The houses should be broad rather than
deep, to secure ample light Back Extensions are better avoided, all the rooms should be brought under the main roof. §***
The houses should, as a rule, be provided
with parlours
Each house should have a bath, with hot
water,
Ample window space should be given and windows carried as near to the ceiling. as possible, A layer
of concrete, or other approved impervious material, should be laid under all floors to prevent damp rising. and a proper damp-proof course should
provided to all walls.
proud
The level of the ground floor should be above the level of the ground imme- diately surrounding.
The
ledge of household economy should be women with close know assistanos of sought in regard to details of interior construction, such as the design of the stairs, the provision of cupboards, larders, and storage The
orage accommodation.
report recommends that the Gov- ernment should be advised to end or graal money only when the lay out of the estate or arca, on which the hous is to be carried out, meets with Boord,
the Local Government proval of
on town plan ning Imes, and is in conformity with a general town plan for that por sion of the district of which the scheme forms a part
Turad Planning the report urges the Government to make conditions
of hous ing loans and grante-in-aid for rural housing there shall be a proper lay-out scheme schemes as follows → (1) That
upen spaces shall be pro to save the lives of gravely wounded men. vided (3). If a section of track is buried or knocked than one-eighth of an acre por cottage; sky-high by the burst of a Bochie 300mm and (4) careful grouping for future shell, the engineers will be there to extensions. uncover the rails or insert a new length An investigation is recommended to of track and ties
Fascertain, what stops if any) can Le It is a dangerous job the engineers will alive to that sufficient stocks of bricks taken to keep the brickmaking industry tackle. When the fight is on and the may be available at the close of the war Boche warms up our back stets with shellfire some engineers will be giving should be
the most "vigorous kind their lives to keep the light railways clear crease in the cutting and seasoning of and save the lives of others. Daily timber in various areas of probable up-
thirty kinds of drinks, including red so thickly. The lines must be kept clear subenit cottage gardens of not less
wine, white wine thing wine, Burgundy, champagne claret, port, rum, brandy, and Benedictine
As a sop to prohibition the list enda up like a lunch-counter menu with “tea, coffee, milk," and you almost expect to and Tables for ladies at the hottom
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Railway engineer, regiments will help the army doctors to save the lives of wounded Bammies. The man with the (Continued as foot of xest Column.)..
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