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added to malesilie i NEW REE A SE * ASuccessful Pen ie fr ME Ask to see this new type. There are also Safety and Regular Types. Illustrated booklet sent on request. Avoid substitutes. + "Sold By Your Local Dealer 'L.E.Waterman Company, Limited, Montreal ; CRI hs ri A TE TT TE SIXTY WOMEN IN AUSTRIAN RANKS IN. HARDSHIPS OF STRENUOUS CAMPAIGN: Two Have Received Decorations for Deeds of Heroism Under Fire. Besides the legions of Polish volun- teers forming a part of the Austro- Hungarian army fighting the Rus- sians, there is a' Ukraine legion. The "Ukrainians" are that part of the Ruthenian population living in the eastern districts of Galicia who are pronouncedly pro-Austrian, writes Dr. Wolf Von Schierbrand, from Vienna, Among the members of the legion are sixty adventurous women and girls, Two were killed in action, others are recovering from 'wounds and a few were taken prisoner by the Russians. The status of these pri- soners as regular belligerents is re- cognized, just as the Austrians have | recognized that of the Russian wo- | X | officer #n charge said aloud, "If we men soldiers, of whim, according to Russian official accounts, several hundreds. I met one of the severely wounded | to heroines, now mending in a rege hospital in Vienna, recently. © Sophia Haletsehko, 24, or' of regular and delicate and Bl Wh .she had just 2p, Aon at the Un RAE 1) th dving a J 's Diploma wemberg was ..aen by the Rus wns and she joined the Ukraine gion. For nearly a Vear she © wc sent ali the hardships of a strenuous . campaign, a part of the time in thir" dead of winter, in the wild passes of | the Carpathians and in the mountains | of the Bukowina range without loss of health or good loois. a Miss Haletschko after a brief sea- son of drilling showed remarkable gifts as a scout and ranger. In the "Ssitsh" (the Ukraine name for the legion) she earned the reputation of being excellent in reconnoitring. She was enrolled in the cavalry, became sergeant-major and was decorated twice for extraordinary bravery. She wears a silver medal for daring be- fore the enemy. She showed' rae a Russian illus- trated journal in which appeared the portraits of a score of Russian women fighting for the Czar. "Once we made a lot of prisoners," she remarked. "It was across the Russian border, about twenty miles south-east of Czernowitz, and there was a woman among them, though our men did not know it at first. I took care of her and saw to it that no harm should befall her on the transport to our lines near Horoden- ka." Promoted and Decorated. But Fraulein Haletschko is not the only remarkable case of this kind. Olena Stepaniv, a fellow student of hers from Lemberg, though five years her junior, likewise distinguished her- self as a scout, won promotion and was decorated, but had the ill fortune to be taken prigoner at Boleshov. Nothing as to her fate has become known. Then there is Irene Kus, who wears her hair short and strides like a man. During the struggles for the posses- sion of the Makovka 'Mountain (Car- pathian range), she ran in the holiest fire up to a corner where a Maxim gun was dealing death and destruc- tion, carrying hand grenades, and threw one of them so skilfully as to destroy men and gun. The captain in command kissed her. Then there is Anna Dmyterks, an- other Lemberg University student; Olga Pidwysocka, only 17, who join- ed the ranks from the teachers' semi- nary, and Paulina Mychajlyschin, a young widow, who wants to revenge the death of her hushand by the Rus- sians. They hanged him as an Aus- trian spy in a small town of eastern Galicia. Of the Russian prisoners of wai 40,000 in Austria and Hungary are there are Lams stripped off his slung his rifle across his shoulder, : now at work getting in the crops. These are nearly all peasants, village bred and used to field labor--sturdy, big fellows. Their labor is wholly voluntary, and they like it, because of the relative freedom, the more varied and more plentiful food, and because of the nature of the work, to which they have been habituated all their lives. ----t ¥ 's WILLIAMS TOOK THE RISK. Clown Who Silenced a Rapid-Fire Gun. Williams was in a trench some- where in the long French line, help- ing to keep the Germans back from some mounds of broken brick that had once been a village. 'Before he became a soldier he had been a fam- ous clown and gymnast in a French circus. A German quick-firer, says T. Ps Journal of Great Deeds of the Great War, had worked round to the French flank, and was filling the trench with wounded men by its en- filading fire. The little whirring ma- chine of death was hidden very cun- ningly. wo 4 It wa A French a grave situation. The fire of the gun was accurate and cease- less. The French were unable to lo- cate the mitrailleuse. In despair, the only had somebody up there we might be able to deal with them." He pointed "*o top of a shattered chimney that hung groggily over the de- * the village. Its summit was 'set from the ground, but to 1e top meant the probability Tent and painful death. The ould shoot at the climber, 10kestack looked as if it down at the si' "htest ex- wwweight and vibration. © ; Although there was a double chance death in +" smokestack, Wiliams sk th His officer shrugged 5 shouluers without refusing, when the clown asked if he might try. Wil- heavy coat, and went up the chimney like a cat. He clutched at the meanest projec- tions, jumping upward even as those frail footholds and handholds crum- bled under his weight. Tiny, omi- nous cascades of rubble and mortar fell down as his nimble feet passed serambling up the shaft. the trenches gasped; every moment they expected to hear the heavy fall of the brave man's body on the earth. But he did not fall. ! He came to the summit, and all the country lay under his eyes, flat, and marked out in lines like a map. He hung there, looking about steadily, carefully; and the Germans, seeing him, loosed a whistling wind of bul- lets at him. But he paid not the slightest attention. He found the ma- chine gun, and shouted down the pre- cise position and the approximate dis- tance of the piece. Cooly he unslung his Lebel, press- ed the clip of cartridges into the mag- azine, began sighting steadily, firing nonchalantly. Each time his rifle jerked and spat, the frail ruin that made his pedestal quivered. Williams, as steady as a rock, went on firing. The voice of the mitrailleuse became jerky and unsteady. Williams was as calm as possible, and continued to fire until the officer ordered him to descend. By his de- scent he startled his comrades more even than by his ascent. It was an old circus trick, but there were no nets ready for a slip and no attendants standing by to catch him. A slip meant death, and an ugly death; but Williams risked it with a laughing imperturbability. He drop- ped his rifle to the ground, then, while his fellows gasped, dived straight at a low, tiled roof twenty feet below. The fall did not kill him. He came off the roof like a creature of India rubber, turned in the air, and dropped swiftly and neatly to his feet. "My new turn--the leap of death!" he cried, striking the grotesque atti- tude of the sawdust ring. Then he slipped into his coat, and went back to his place in the trench. it me Se i A Unkind. "Sometimes I think--" he began. "But not often, I suppose?" inter- rupted the rude girl. = Fashion Hints 1 | ua Gossip From Fashion's Shops. If you wear a very small veil that covers 'your eyes but not your nose you are in style. If you wear a veil as large as a bedspread, so much the Letter;. you are still more in style. There never was such a veil season; veils of every kind are offered, and some so expensive that it seems a atin. A trifle. The hand-embroidered = silk filets are works of art. Many a gay touci _ given the new- est fall suit by hand embroidery done with the 6rdinary wool used for mak- ing sweaters and such garments. This work is easily accomplished and a plain suit is made quite individual by an additional touch of a well-chosen color. Braids of all widths made into ornaments and combined with silk cords will be used as trimming as well as the metal braids in gold and sil- ver combined with soutache braid. Beads, too, have not lost any of their popularity and will be used together with braids. Jet will be utilized where occasions allow. Evening gowns show much use of sequins and metal threads. With polonaise, bustle and drapery the evening dress of future winter af- fairs bids fair to add a varied effect to costume where last year the be- dressed throng, whether young or old, was, to say ** least, tiresome. Besides, it was uo | difficult to dis- tinguish at a distance whether it was mother, daughter or grandmother. The eighteenth century sleeve, which is made of white batiste or or- gandie and ends with a frill over the hand, held in place by a tight brace- let of black velvet ribhon, is return- ed to fashion; it is used on that new kind of winter, h...e frocks which Mme. Joire of the house of Paquin accentuates, made of taffeta and or- gandie, of velvet and organdie. These. sleeves are placed in a jumper blouse of blue or black taffeta, and there is a wide band of the same summer-like material on the skirt or edging the ends of the sash. Kolinsky, the Rugsian cat, is the peltry most in demand by the fashion- able dressmakers for trimming pur- poses; some of it 1 "ointed with sil- The men in | | shirred lining of tinted silk, but the ver like ap ox alsk™ has come intolit livion, ar Opossum J 2 fohon INESeparave IF vem BIW gay; China rose is a new color making its appearance in millinery lines. The shade is not unlike the coral tones with which the summer vogues have familiarized us. It is deeper in tone and of a bluer quality; looking in felt and plush, especially when trimmed with beaver or seal. Silk handbags are much more in favor, even with severe tailored cos- tumes, than bags of leather. Some- times the leather bag is made very dainty, with plaited sides and a bag of faille classique moire or gros- grain silk has first favor with well- dressed women. The deep, tobacco pouch shape is the favorite, and the silk is gathered to the covered frame, one smart model recently brought. over from Paris having deep over- lapping tucks all around the pouch shape. Beaded purses in open lattice effect are for use with formal after- noon costumes. Some of these pretty affairs have frames of tortoise shell and gay tassel trimmings. Gone is the bulky, cumbersome fur coat that added thirty pounds to its wearer--in appearance, if not in act- ual weight--and in its place is a new fur coat, inexpressibly smart and youthful, with sleeves set into rather small armholes, close lines over shoul- der and bust and most of the fur in the ripple skirt, which swings out be- low the waist line in jaunty, youthful style. Hudson seal is by all odds the favorite pelt for such coats, and un- less the seal coat is trimmed with col- lar and cuffs of contrasting pelt it may not claim last-minute modishness for its own. ke The Self-made Man. "«J'11 have you understand, sir," said the bustling little chap, "that I am a self-made man." "All right, old man," said Jiggers. "Now, run along home and finish the | job, and then T'll talk to you." A Wise Kid. "Johnny, dc you know - that your sin to pay so much money for sucha | The Virtue of the Natural Leaf is perfectly preserved in the sealed packet. Young tender leaves only, grown with utmost care and with flavour as the prime object, are used to produce the famous Salada blends. Replanting the Woodlet. : | determined by the cups in the teeth. Special effort should be made 1 > ; | At four years, the horse has his per- 'manent front teeth. At five, there are deep black cavities in the centres of all lower nippers. At six, these ig > : cavities disappear in the two centre or this reproduction and for certain lower nippers. Two more lose their purposes such as fuel, posts, and cavities for each year to the eighth, shelter, they can be relied upon * to and then the two centre upper nip- furnish the desired material. When | pers lose their cavities, and each year this second crop is cut in its turn, | two more, until at the age of ten the however, the old stumps have lost teeth are all smooth or retain only a most, if not all of their vitality and !small black speck. After the age of unless some vigorous seedlings have | ten the length of the teeth and tushes grown up in the meantime, the value must be judged--even then the age of the woodlot is greatly impaired. can be determined only approxi- Since it requires many years to build mately. up a woodlot which has been allowed | to run out, it is a wise plan to insure | the production of some good healthy | seeding trees each year by planting species in the openings created by the winters cutting. During early life the sprouts, Be- cause of the advantage of a previous- ly established root system, will out- to secure the reproduction of the trees removed from the farm woodlot dur- ing the cutting season just passed. In | many cases sprouts are counted on! Souring and Cover Crops. Never turn the clover or other crop under without first thoroughly cut- ting up with a disc harrow, as the material ploughed under in a layer se- riously interferes with the capillary action of the moisture in the soil. The ! : effects of turning under in a layer are strip the little seedlings and may de- | what is sometimes called SEE the prive them of the requisite amount of | soil with green manuring crops. Dou- light for good growth. Therefore, in ble disc the cover crop two or three the first thinning or cutting of thé 'times with a sharp disc harrow before sprouts some special consideration ploughing; plough well by taking a should be shown the young seedlings. | arrow furrow and edging rather than The methed of planting the seeds | inverting the furrow; then double disc will depend upon the species used. the land again rather deeply, and no Walnut, hickory and all of the oaks | jurious effect will result, however can be planted about two inches rge the growth may be. deep in a hole made with a dibble ¢ 2 spud. The smaller seeds such as r Profits on the Farm. | ightly with fine soil . very good- |. mother has been looking for you?" asked the neighbor next door. { | "«Qure 1 do," replied Johnny; "that's the reason she can't find mei" A State 146 dishes. HEC EP PR AT lunch in China comprises and white elm maple and r Vou will not be likely 'to have a bal- oe, © yell TaTm 4 scene as this may be iarm. After a farmer %) as peda h good money for farm > A . | .quipment it' is wasteful to leave it In many cases it is better to raise out to take the weather wherever it or buy seedlings of the species having was last used. The winter months is small seeds and transplant them in' jot a bad time to construct sheds and the desired location. shelves for the eraipment. There 'should be a place for everything on the farm and everything should be kept in its place when not in use. | Pe 119 Age of Horses. J The age of a horse is most easily Ineffective Economy. Boswell, in his classic "Life of Johnson," tells the following concern- ing the opinion of his friend on the subject of thrift: "I told him that at a certain gentleman's house where there was thought to be such extrava- gance, or bad management, he was living beyond his income, his lady had objected to the cutting of a pickled mango, and that I had taken an oppor- tunity to ask the price of it, and found it was only two shillings, «> here was a very poor saving." Johnson: "Sir, that is the blundiring economy of a narrow understanding. It is stopping one hole in a sieve." ; Light-Fingered. At a dinner given by the Prime Minister of a little kingdom in Ruri- tania, a diplomat complained to his host that the Minister of Justice, who had been sitting on his left, had stolen his watch. | "Ah, he shouldn't have done that," said the Prime Minister, in tones of annoyance. "I will get it back for you." : Sure enough, toward the end of the evening, the watch was returned | to its owner. i "And what did he say?" asked the | diplomat. "Sh-h!" cautioned the host, glanc- ing anxiously about him. "He doesn't! know that I have got it back." ! | It takes over one-third of a second | for the eyelid to open and close. OW---You Can Have A PERFECT Complexion Trade Biarh 50¢, 31.60, $1590 SKIN FOOD WRINKLE CHASER USIT has solved the problem of beauty. Its use is bring- ing back the 'freshness and bloom of youth, and driving away, wherever. used consistently, the wrinkles of worry and age. Used for centuries by the famous beauties of the East. Guaranteed free from hair growth. Your druggist has it. SEE YOUR DRUGGIST TO-DAY. USIT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Limited 75¢ 476 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto. SE NR En ARN a I SA TR NENT