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AFTER VICTORY.

FRANCE ALREADY PLANNING.

· STORMING OF FRICOURT.

A French officer with the British Army supplies a detailed account of our our ending [BY W. KAY WALLACE, THE DISTINGUISHED offensive to the French Press. With re- gard to the capture of Fricourt he

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Rising on the terrace of the Jardin des Tuileries, overlooking the Place de In Coaturos, lung rows of small hut-like structures have been erected, Painted in gay colours, bright greens, yellows and blues, decorated with fags and towers, | they form a curious picture, silhouetted against the sumptuous background of the

Louvre.

Through the turnstile in the Rus de Rivoli crowds are passing. "What is "La Cité Reconstituée (the rebuilt city). The France of to-morrow," comes the simple reply, as I enter the enclosure. France is getting ready for the day alter victory."

WILL WOMAN LOSE HER BALANCE?

(DY, URATRICĖ MERON-WAX WELL, THE WELL- KNOWN NOVELIST"AND THINKER. }

There was a touch of delightful humour in the recent idea of taxing women's hats Evidently the deduction, by logic, which is man's prerogative, was that: woman, owing to her rise in life, would suffer from swelled head! Ergo, hata would have to be larger.

WILL CHRISTIANITY SURVIVE?

VIEW OF THE REV. R. J.. CAMPBELL..

In The Rayal-Magazine for May the Rey. B. J. Campbell "uska. the abovo question, and repudiates the suggestion that Christianity has failed, prophesying that religion will emerge 'victorious after the war. He says:-

but never universally. She has disap

The Church has often failed locally,

world where she had established a footing peared entirely from certain parts of the for a time, and she has had the conquest to make all over again, as, most rentark ably, in the case of China. The flame of spiritual fervour has again and again cfied down in. Christendom as a whole, but has never gone out and never will, unless Christ Himself was wrong in His forecast of the future; and it is a great

The Germans had elaborately organized the village. The position was the more advantageous for them since the houses stood on a gentle slope crowned by a wood. The outlying buildings afforded positions from which the streets could be But woman, like the ant, has a way of enfiladed, and the wood had received the circumventing hills that are too high; bust care of the German engineers. Some and she is learning to evade this expense of the first line dog-outs were 40ft, deep, in many cunning ways, She is manag- Before the attack the British artillery ing in quite a wonderful fashion to keep had banniered the first lines without de-a level head, although she has come into

troying all the dug-outs.. On July 1st, when the assault ws attempted, the Ger- mans had time to run out their guns and ants. hold in check part of the British assail- In spite of the bravery of our Allies, they could not that day seize the Here in the heart of Paris a mushroom village. But the taking of Mametz and village has sprung up; houser which have Montauban and the progress made on the ance while at work, is but a natural and strength to any Christian worker to been devised, to rebuild those regions of left and in La Boisselle placed the Ger France devastated by the war.

In this

maus in a position nore and more diffi corner of the great gurdens adjoining the cult. On the 3rd, about noon, the artil· most magnificent square in the world rises lere having again carried out the neces lages and homesteads which will to-inertlions encircled the village, and after a row be erected along the battle-line. To brilliant assault seized it, taking 1,500 provide for the immediate needs of the

prisoners. thousands of war-stricken when peace re- turns is the great problem which the French genius has taken in hand.

Tere are scattered in all parts of France over 700,000 persons waiting to return to their native towns and villages

her queenship a sphero where she is no longer superfluous in her hundreds, but most welcome in her thousands.

For one conceited woman to-day you may find, by just glancing round, scores of the other sort the capable, keen worker whose pride in her own eficiency; and incidentally in her personal appear-

know that. After all, it does not prin- proper one: the self-respect that wins cipally rest with us and our merits to respectful admiration from onlookers.

Women have started their various new keep the flag of the faith flying; it rests with Him who gave us the commission to tasks since the war began with many

To those who fear for the future of the concentrated and particular criticism.

Christian religion the writer- SRYST Whereas men, undertaking any work, Trouble not yourselves; it is not meet with only the necessary amount of Christianity that has failed, but Christ- piles of ruins that attest the power of foregone conclusion that they are sure to being on its trial and the like is sheer Fricourt, like Montauban, consists of question and scrutiny, hampered by noian fidelity. All talk about, Christianity our heavy shells. Now the Germans are bo in fault somewhere, women find them-nonsense; it has never been quite trial'; doing their best to pulverize those ruins selves against a barrier of distrust, dis it is about time it was," He goes on:---- and destroy what remains of the village. paragoraent, or probably amused con

Individuals have tried Christianity We cross the ruins of Fricourt. Not tempt. in, Picardy and Artois, Champagne and far off the battle continues, the British he can fill the place more or less efficient never. Where then is the use of charging.

With a man the presumption is that with a certain amount of success; society Lorraine, not to mention the millions progressing and improving their post-ho can then that she cannot possibly a rule of life with having proved inde of homeless Belgians. With the camptions. fires of the Germans still smouldering, Meanwhile the Germans are bombarding

Grenade fights are going on all is well and is practically certain to quate to human needs when it has never with even a few last shells which may be the western portion of the village.

fail in it. She is at very best a make-do, bad the chance of showing itself equal to fired by the retreating enemy flying over-

them? And who can doubt that it is We return behind the line of Fire and

and many employers would prefer nowt heal, these people, chiefly women, will find in one place a group of prisoners of

to 'owt, if the owt means feminine equal to them, and more than equal? The set to work to clear up the debris of

one certain: care for all ills would be to . the 86th Infantry Regiment," of which a battle, to plant their crops, and begin whole battalion surrendered at Fricourt, terday the largest and most heavily laden so that Jesus Christ would approve their At a crowded cross-roads in London yes get men to live, as John Stuart Mill said, life anew. While husbands, sons, and in answer to my questions, they said they wagon-a piled up load under which the life

If that could be done little else brothers are still pursuing the defeated came two days before from Tabure, in pair of good horses staggered-swayed would remain to be done, for we should invaders or marching un final parade Champagne. They surrendered so quickly slightly against a cart that was cheers have the disposition to get together and because they had no shelter and the artil by jowl with it when the signal was given help to bear one another's burdens instead mobilisation has freed the men to return lery decimated them. They felt too weak to proceed, "A woman driver growled of adding to them, and that would soon to their homes, these towns and villages to do anything else. When entraining an onlooker, his comment losing the solve all our problems," will arise in the battle zone and the men they supposed that they were on the way hitterness of its point, however, as the who have fought so valiantly will find to Verdun and were only told in the train huge vehicle, recovering itself instantly, homes to which to return; will find their that they were to fight against the went smartly on its 7. But that atti native villages rebuilt as if by magic. British.

tude has taken tir -nearly two yearɛ Nowhore is the sturdy optimism of

now to mitigate, ad more skill and France more admirably portrayed than

preseverance and grit hau ever was in the undertaking of this great task,

needed by men in their home under- takings.

to-day trie pattern of the bundred visary work of destruction, the British bathandicaps, the first and foremost being a 30 and make disciples of all nations."

down the Champs-Elysées, before the de-

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I enter a church Gothic in design. will seat 100 persons. Though the strue ture is of wood, no carpenters' tools are needed; not a nail used. cent ready made from the factory, it can be set up by old men, women, and children in very brief space of time. Next door stands a three-room house made of stout pine boards, fuisbed in a rich brown tint. It was erected ready for occupu- tion in three hours by four men. Farther on there is a more elaborate structure of tive rooms which took two days to com Plets. All tastes and needs are catered for, from the roughest but-like structure sadi us the Quakers have already built and furnished in great numbers for the needy in the Valley of the Morne who have chosen to return to their devastated villages to the very modern house of the well-to-do, with tile bathroom and latest mproved devices for lighting and heat- ing.

Some of the houses are supplied fully furnished complete down to the least

sil; kitchen utensils, crückery, table 2. TEXTBATCEN, in the ande, in degreaservice, linen, and even window curtains ready attached to the windows, a real come for a family of five or seven persons which can be unpacked from the packing cases and set up and furnished ready for occupation in a few hours.

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4. DIKMOTION ́or WIND, to two points.

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THE MIRROR SHOWS PLAINER

THAN WORDS WHAT A WONDER- FUL IMPROVEMENT MAY. BE REALISED BY A GAIN OF

EVEN 10 OR 12 POUNDS.

We visit next the troops that have fought between La Boisselle and Fricourt and are now sent back for a rest. They include many recruits form Yorkshire and Durham, nearly all miners. These men behaved admirably, and helped greatly the encircling of Fricourt by their avance to th little wood that dominates the platent before Hill 100. The General Commanding them gave me details of the spirit animating them. He said: In spite of the German machine-gun fire our men sprang over the parapet and advanced like one man, They acquitted themselves like, tried soldiers, although three or four of my battalions are of re- cent formation and belong to the New Arty. Only one battalion is of the old Army and has seen many combats. Well, in the fight the new battalions were not to be distinguished from the old. They vere as sure and expert as vetoruns. What pleased me was this homogeneity, and I know that other officers command ing nw battalions are also satisfied.” The Geramins took the men of the New Army for amateurs. They were mistaken, and must be thinking it over today, They will have other opportunities of seeing what kind of men compose it."

We inspect the billets: Everywhere there were cleanliness and good humour, Hardly 24 hours ago these York and Dur ham men quitted the trenches and already they are rested. Their remarks are also full of optimism. They have seen the Prussians close at hand, and will do bet ter still at the next encounter, and in their own tongue they repeat: On les

assistance.

The absence of self-consciousness in women who are facing a critical public of both sexes all day long is a very sure Proof of their lack of conceit. They are neither bold nor shy, extreme shyness being most certainly a form, and a very tiresome one, of conceit.

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In his concluding remarks the writer says: The very amme men who will do mean and selfish things in the ordinary way of Business will spring to arms and ding their lives away in the hour of their country's need as we are now seeing.".

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**When the war is over we are going to have a simple religion without frills," There is just one class of girl, t said the Bishop of Stepney, addressing "detail" of sonio years' existence, who those who took part in the second pro- is split by an exaggerated idea of her cession of prayer and intercession service own cleverness, and this is not her fault arranged by the Church League for

since youth is her excuse but the fat women's Suffrage in Hyde rara. of men-employers. They find it please at frills," said the Bonop, pointing, amid in their offices or shop to have the help laughter, to the frills on is owu sleeves.

a young, bright, attractive little

We shall want a religion that will hold person whose occasional flashes of intel-.

We have had a great deal us together.. ligence (often anly flukes) seem to their too mu of individuals religion:- raiker wearied business brains useful

We have had too much of the thelogy of searchlights. The employer praises, con- the miller on the banks of the Dee, who sults, and finally hands over work that said, care for nobody, no, not 1, and is quite above the average girl's compass.

nobody cares for me. With all my neart Sho becomes *swollen headed," and

I believe we want more religion, but a Bakes many mistakes which she is able to

rea, living, simple religion." No more conceal because the firm's correspondence splendid task, he continued, was ever passes through her hands. Complaints placed upon a people than the fight for from clients, customers, or contributors are therefore rendered invalid; and ifustice and right which we had under- laken. He did not in any way condeion places of amusement, yet there were many eventually chance reveals that the omni potent young lady has made a muddle of things the employer blames women workers en muske. that he has brought the trouble on himself He fails to realise by thinking that smattering of experiencs shorthand, or telephoning, or what not, at accounts, or sorting, or typing, or ORIGIN OF THE PERISCOPE coupled with a pretty face, argued real ability to advise him or act on her own judgment:

Many of the houses are of wood, though some are of tile, slabs of cement, brick and composition of various kinds. Nearu.

y all are "denotatable "; con be set up anywhere without foundations prepared

WHINES FROM GERMANY. in advance, with a minimum amount of unskilled labour, in the shortest possible

Most of the leading writers in Ger space of time. All parts of these houses are interchangeable; a window facing Russia is unbeatable owing to her vast many are now warning their public that south can be removed at will and placed numbers. Theodor Wolff asks in the character, has managed to force her way

One hopes that this type will pass. Again men are not very wise in their selection of women supervisors as heads. They are apt to choose the masculino woman who, possessing hard angles of

to the trunt. This is a pity, The

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people yet wholly untouched by the awful.

crisis that was upon us,

The origin of the periscope is now under discussion, and the following ex- tract from the writings of the well-known inventor of Popper's Ghosts" gives the credit to the clerical profession. Pepper wrote soon after the Crimean War "During the siege of Sebastopol numbers of our best artillerymen were continually picked by the enemy's rifles as well

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east or north. The entrance doar can be Berliner Tayeblut for "a plain statement | feminine unaggressive personality is tre as by cannon shot, and, in order to put moved to the opposite side of the house of the peace terms, so as to disabuse the if desired at any time. Most of the emy's mistaken belief that Germany houses-and there are over sixty different wants all she how occupies. The pro models shown can be enlarged at will by ceedings in the recent session of the all women the purchase of additional materials, as Reichstag have clearly demonstrated that all the parts are standardised. The the so-called political truce is at an end, houses are sold according to size just as that henceforth the German public life embodiment of the maternal instinct. boots or motor-tyres. Churches are num-will gradually resume the complexion it bered according to their seating capacity, bore before the war. The Vorwuerts re- dwelling-house by floor space.

juices in the fact, as putting an end to deceptions from which the working class has been suffering.” Moat other sections of the Press naturally deplore it, and still profess the hope that it may prove a temporary aberration. The niche Zeitung makes bitter reference to the fact that in the 23rd month of the war the rival political parties are striking at each other, while the enemy is at the

TOWN HALL IN A NIGHT.

Whole villages, including post office, town hall, church, ashool, inn, covered market place with shops and booths, and dwelling-houses for 100 inhabitants, which can be set up overnight at a total cost of 1,000, can be contracted for by a group of inhabitants with Government a'd. Here this village is shown, just as gates. it will be when set up later on at

aroumy, one-story structure with writing

We strongly recommend every man and Lumières or Bouchez. The post office is great smoking hearths; rooms cold and

right one to dominate other women. Otto Weininger, the anti-feminist, to whom the fair sex spelt no character, divided

into two kinds-one, of no importance," and the blind, colourless, passionless but among the many fictions that he tried to establish as facts he said one true thing, that there are many divergences of sex nowadays, and there is too much of the masculine element in many women; these last being always unpopular with their own sex. A man superintendent may be the best as chief of a female staff, but next to him undoubtedly is the sym pathetic womanly matron with no touch of mascalinity who does not attempt to ride rough-shod over those under her but is tolerant, comprehending, aad motherly.

stop to the foolhardiness and incauti ousness of the men, a very ingenious con- trivance was invented by the. Reverend Williain Taylor, the coadjutor of Mr. Denison in constructing the first 'Big

spy-glass, and by its simple construction Ben bell. It was called the reflecting rendered the exposure of the sailors and soldiers, who would look over the parapet or other parts of the works to observe the effect of their shot, perfectly unnecessary; while another form was constructed for the purpose of allowing the gunner to layor aim his gun in safety. The in- struments were shown to Lord Panmune, who was so convinced of the importance of the invention that he immediately com- missioned the Reverend William Taylor. structed; and, if the siege had not termi to have a number of these telecopes con-

nated just at the time the invention was Perhaps on this point also improve-ing of the valuable lives of the skilled

to have been used, no doubt a great sav inent will corne.

artillerymen would have been effected."..

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But the girl or woman of the moment is as anxious as any man could be not to in, and she enters into it as a rule with prove a fool at the work she is attempt all idea of her own importance or power to excel merged in the one great desire to learn and know.

There have been misgivings that women having found out their own capacity will become arrogant, and while wresting man's work from him will depreciate it, the spoil his market, and establish their own

that

woman reader of this paper, who is thin, pale weak or run down, or who has lost desk and telephone booth, with an opera

camp and coeerless; picturesque, “per- his or her buoyant, youthful energy, ortor in attendance. The town hall, whichap, but out of date. With these modern who suffers from loss of appetite, or from. KARTENDCORE.

debility, either nervous or Physical, to try councillors, the J.P., as well as the

includes the offices of the mayor and towa villages rising along the whole length of the battle-line of the west, this district a new, scientifically compounded prepare schoolroom, is of similar design and con

is destined to be ome the vanguard of the tion called Sargol.

The trouble with most people who appear

struction, and all the buildings of this new France of so-morrow. A France re fire a bug of bones" is not that they village group harmonise and present auvenated adopting modera methods of don't get enough to eat, but that they devery pleasing effect.

living and doing, Traction ploughs and motor garages find a place in the small not assimilate what they do eat.

Them are--not make believe konies, kut They

farms of this new France: After long simply go through the natural motions of real dwellings where men can live in com eating, but the flesh-giving port of what fort until such a day when out of the and terrible suffering those strong in they eat just passed away without being rutas shall arise once again the smiling courage will take up their tasks again, and only a brief time will elapso before then any good.

But there are any number of reasons Sargol helps digest your food and aide

country which through these years of 2pm.

against this theory, and one of the first in its assimilation. There is no need for

hardship has renfained unmolested. you to be a.

and go around with

War is a great destructive force, but is that love, even if it should cease to be skinny that pinched, hangry, half-fed look any

the whole existence of some, will always viewed in the light of these new villages dominate her heart, of which she will longer Sargol will make you plump, sleek

is not without its material blessings still want man to be lord and master, and fit as a fiddle.”

Wisely fostered by an enlightened Gayan hereditary sovereign elected without ernment, seconded by the inventive ballot. She will contiane taking the genius of a great race, the devastation average of a great majority to desire a of war can be turned into a harvest of home, a perfect home, and it is to keep plenty Imbued with this spirit, all the possibility of this in the future that France awaits patiently, hopefully, "the she gives her work now.... day after victory.”

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towns do arise wodern methods of to planning, sanitation, and hygiene may be enforced, one whole section of the ex- hibition 's given over to this feature.

Passing through these gay, well-light ed, and ventilated houses, where sunshine and fresh air are the first considerations, I call to mind the French peasant dwell- ing of the past, low-ceilinged and dark, with nadequate windows often never opened: the rough flagstore floors, the

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and all its growing responsibilities be Without an income, how can a home kept up? If men must lapse from the ordinary pursuits of bread-winning and take to the strenuous art of defence and offence, women inust earn the profits of the country's trade.

Marriages—which had decreased" "before because money had become so

devoted to social things) to keep love from. Blying out of the window will be come more numerous because the wife will be able to contribute to the house-keeping. Again, there will be fewer men for years to come, and of those who "win through o many will be disabled from taking up such work as they did hitherto

Surely a country where all the work can be done by its own people, women and men alike, must become more, pro- sperous than one dependent on aliens, friendly or unfriendly, to make its wheels go round?