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DREAMS OF THE SOLDIER.

THE CHANGE WROUGHT

FOUR YEARS OF

WAR.

To the peasant-soldier of France the soil is a mistress,, as seductive, as capricions: as cruel; vet still as inalienable from his magination and his mind as from her ascendancy over his desires

It is not so with our fighting man, who is an artisan turned soldier, city-born, and incom- The parable of his type.

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first breath of the soil to kim foreign, as the svil itself is foreign on which he stands. Its many chattering sarities are incomprehensible, its myriad voices bewildering. But daring the past four years of war relieved occasionally by periods of respite in comparative franquillity behind the line, he has lived in the villages, in Cottages and barus, ünder Canvas and under the stars, he has grow accustomed to the earth and her varying moods.

And reaching out and taking hold of him, surely. if imper- ceptibly, stirring his blood with the perfume of her intoxicating freshness in spring, her seductive softness in summer. her coll pride in winter, and her autumn melancholy, she has become to him, if not than ok, tender mistress of the devoted, enduring pesant, something perhaps more deep and subtle.

SOLACE OF EARTH, Beneficent, she has shelted him, oftentimes his only shelter, under imminent peril of death; warm. she has given him of her warmth; fertile, she has nourished, anl. mercifully healing." bealed both her wounds and his. In winter he has

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THE REVENUE, GIRL.

SUCCESSFUL WAR EXPERIMENT. Writing in the Daily Chronicle, Á Colleague Says

To the conservative civil servant the Revenue girl is one of the greatest surprises of the

war.

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POTASH IN ENGLAND. As the result of 18 months' ex- periments by a branch of the Ministry of Munitions, a means has been found by which England can-produce sufficient potassium chloride, commonly known as potash, to meet all the require- ments of the country. Potash is one of the necessities of agricul- ture, and before the war the Germans had a monopoly of it which they were hoping to use"ta strengthen their case at the peace table. The new potash is of. greater purity than that produced by Germany and its cost-on a pre-war basis-of £8 per toris less than the lowest market price of the German article.

monrued her scars;

When she first made her ap- and smiles in Summer at

pearance a few years ago. the her smiling ease.

as under

wiseacres in the service shook bright skies. darkened on the their heads dubiously and said horizon with the smoke of that no girl could possibly per destruction, he watched her fields form the worrying and exacting flower before his marvelling eyes. duties of a Customs and Excise For several years he has marked officer. Girls might, it was ad- the progress of the seasons on tree mitted, be employed at type sad field; oh the changing chess-writing or copying, but that they could ever master the mysteries board of the rich plaies, and the of Revenue laws and regulations

OIL BORING IN BRITAIN, patchwork valleys, where the was altogether out of the ques

Messrs. Pearson and Sons have j multi-coloured design iscontinued |tion. right up to the very feet of the

About a year after the outbreak been appointed to act on behalf sheep grazing on the green hill of war the Board of Customs and of the Government to prospecti pastures. The straight furrow is Excise appointed, one lady clark and bore for oil in certain areas eloquent of capacity; the clean to my department on trial. She of Great Britiain soil of labour; the heavy grain was a bachelor of arts and had a of reward..

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distinguished university course. Nobody apparently wants to in own the London United Tram- With the dreaming eyes of the She certainly "made good ind he sees with poignancy and every respect. Her work was ways-that pioneer of electric neat and accurate: it had the hall trams in the western suburbs of pride those bills and plains mark excellence. But the Head London. A pitiful tale of distress guely remembered from child-was rather misogynistic in his was told about it to a Select Com- food, and thereafter, it may be, views, and he strongly disappror mittee of the House of Lords but all too rarely seen. It is oned of girls in offices. However, be recently when a reconstruction' that beloved soil he has set his reported that he was getting on scheme was propounded. It has. heart, for whose honour, peace, very nicely, "but he did not want said counsel: No money to pay dividends on ordinary or pre- and freedom he fights now; that any more women blerks.

Things went on sarenely until ference shares, no money to pay soil which hitherto he has never

public opinion demanded the debenture interest, a receiver in adequately possessed or, possess combing out process to be applied possession, no money to effect ing, never adequately known

Government departments. renewals, everybody crying out, With the din vision yet on them The Customs and Excise did not You live in a disgraceful and of that antasted but long-expect escape, I shall never forget the unsafe state. No one seemed ed delight manydying eyes have expressions on the faces of the anxious to take over the concern. closed; and with that hope in officers in the branch in which I nor would any public body con- their hearts any durab lips was employed when six girls were sent to do so, although it passed dumbly prayed.

sent to replace six young officers. through the jurisdiction of 21

astounded. The local bodies. So drastic measures. A great horse and a field and The were

of girls WBS are to be taken. It is proposed ,,a furrow for these he looks and employment

is eager.

These appear to him unheard of folly. It was madness, to jettison £1,500,000 of capital, It was a gross waste of the tax- to reduce loan and share capital how as the fittest things. They draw out from the recesses of payer's money to put girls on by £2,449,000, to secure a definite work which they could never. tenure of occupancy, postponing his spirit something sturdy and understand. They also said a lot the dates of the earliest acquisit- dogged, matching the sturdiness of other things which have since ion by local authorities to 1950. In order to secure running powers and doggedness of the soil itself. been disproved. They strike his deeps, as great As a matter of fact, principal the old company lowered the fares.

do: anger,

and officers have admitted that the 3 miles a la-and powers are forgiveness and love. He sounds lady officers and clerks have sought to scrap those agreaments. his own heart, and finds their exceeded their most sanguine voices echo there, clamerous and expectations, and they have

worked well and willingly. not to be stilled.

emotions

Her knowledge of chemistry The surveyor handed over one and physics enabled her to grasp He certainly will not willingly young girl to me with a request with wonderful aptitude all the underlying return to the old drudgery, to show her how to do something.. scientific principles

In a few though for the old drudgery he She proved to be a very clever Revenue gauging. but substitute a new. For many girl, with a good secondary school weeks she knew everything there old masks and forms and faiths education. I admit that I myself was to know about my work. In have dropped from him in the adopted the attitude of a man who fact, she does it a jolly sight press of battle. He has lost much, thought girls knew nothing, and better than I ever did it. but as with a knight of earlier were fit for nothing but making Neatness and orderliness are mischief, drinking tea, eating, the chief characteristics of all our days what he gave he has. And chocolate, and surreptitiously Revenue girls. They are a credit not the streets and courts he

skimming leaves of papier to the service, and we are proud- knew, not the gaiety of cities or poudre skilfully over their of them. Furthermore, some of“. the lights of towns though they faces when a man wasn't my colleagues, remembering that Be London's and he a Londoner looking. But I soon had my eyes good workers made good wives, may draw him again with bonds opened. That girl wanted to have paid the girls the highest not to be broken. Factory bell know things. She asked question compliment of all by asking their or siren may sound, but his steps after question, and wanted to will not quicken nor his ears know the why and wherefore of Wear. More fond, more familiar

haunts of his former life will be

Jagai

everything.

visited but once again, and earth and heaves neither bed nor thereafter no more. The closed roof,

couts stifle the sunless streets Beach and des

ektor has limbs have been deadening mem

ened in the sun and wind of labour again

the out-of-doors, knowing beyond know.

hands an marriage,

Thus it has come to pass that

the Revenue Bervice, which look-

ed with ill-concealed hostility at the initial attempts to introduce girl clerks to the department now: Tegard them is?.

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