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pte: 4 tg ¥ +i & 2 ad § ~ Fashioh Hints ca vl A - : : | - Li "Ti Notés of the Styles. : Interest in elaborate skating suits is bringing out every kind of woolen fabric that has been hidden. away for seasons past. These suits. must be saucy and nifty, and the rather loud novelty weaves, which, ordinar- ily, are not selected, are exactly the proper caper. Very "grandish" skating toggery is made of white velvet, or old blue, or: even rose, and trimmed with light- colored furs, such as chinchilla, white fox or even ermine. Such elegant and fragile affairs are not for outdoor skating, but for the indoor ice, carni- vals and festivities which promise to be popular during mid-winter. Both skirts and jackets are finished with bands of fur, and the fur-trim- med cap must match. White buckskin shoes with fur tops are considered wrrect with these suits of delicate 1es and rich decorations. A dress of cream malines over pink ;in has a wide four-ruffle skirt, and :h rouffle is finished at the top With | .ver braid; the bodice is cut low and square, and dha broad. bretelles which Trop over the arms and over the shoul- | Outlining the edge of the bre- les is a double plaiting, and the 1s of the plaiting cross at the na- ural waist line over a girdle of cadet taffeta, decorated with clusters of pink roses. Another frock of pink taffeta is veiled with black net; the skirt is made of four ruffles; the basque bodice is solid spangled net' with the neck square in the front and V in the back; modesty of silver rib- bon; short sleeves with two deep ruf- fles of net, the ruffles bound with black taffeta. A black velvet model the skirt wide and draped on the » above the hip line; the pointed que is crushed in a girdle; V-neck, rt sleeves of silk cream net. here is so much that is interesting jhe realm of fashion. Especially | his the 'case in the coat depart- AThey are making a feature of If vet coats which are really be- wag co the little woman. They provided with corsages which are _iniscent of the Empire period, and in many instances are trimmed with fur. . Neither have the requirements Af Ue vel! develvibu Cavan Deca neglected. As a matter of fact, fash- ion's commands have never been | more charmingly interpreted than | now. For those whose exchequers will not permit their indulging in a fur coat there are the fur cloth coats, which are unique. They wear: well and are ultra smart. of sesamin HOW ONE V.C. WAS WON. -Sergeant Led Party of Bombers | and Took Trench. 1ce-Sergeant Oliver of the Cold- .m Guards has been awarded the victoria Cross for conspicuous brav- | ery near Loos on October 8. A strong party of the enemy, hav- ing captured 200 yards of trenches, Lance-Sergeant Oliver on his own initiative led a party of bombers in the most determined manner and suec- ~ceeded in regaining possession of the lost ground. The signal bravery displayed by | this non-commissioned officer, in the | midst of a hail of bombs from the! Germans, was of the very first order, | and the complete success attained in a very dangerous undertaking was en- | tirely due to his absolute fearlessness, presence of mind, and promptitude. The new V.C. was born at Bath, and was a miner before he joined the | army. 'SCOTTISH EARL ~ NOWAC HAS WON PROMOTION IN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. ' Family Is an Artistic and Literary One--Pedigree Runs Back Many Centuries. Lord Crawford, Premier Earl of Scotland, and head of the Clan Lind- say, has won promotion. : He may now be known as Corporal Crawford. In- deed, he much prefers' that simple style to any jumbling of hereditary honors with his rank in the R.A.M.C., and his preference is respected in his company. He has won his stripe by 'strict attention to the regular work of stretcher-bearing and first aid. Having had no previous training in war, and very little in medicine, and being not at all ambitious to enter a "shooting" regiment, he decided to enlist straightaway as a private in a | corps that combines military disci- 'pline and duty with the performance of the works of mercy. A tall man of useful build, he was accepted as a recruit on his own mer- its, and sent to the front some time ago. His territorial and Parliamen- | tary influence--he is equally liked in both Houses, and owns 10,000 Scot- tish acres--might have made a pass- able major of him by now if he had not elected to set to'at once with his own hands in a way that is denied to officer-. Lord Crawford's father, who died two years ago, is remembered as one of the most industrious of astrono- mers. His telescope was his constant companion. His own father had been excessively short-sighted, so that be- fore his wife began to entertain, for the sake of her children, on a brave scale in Grosvenor Square, he had chosen the life of a recluse; his son, as if to avenge that disability, was forever searching out the stars, and {looking farther and farther afield. iHe founded the Dunecht Observatory land presented it to the nation, was a "great traveller, and the owner of a yacht capable of carrying him over gny sea. But to his son (now of the R.A.M.C.) the studious atmosphere of Magdalen and of the Oxford libraries and museums, and afterwards the more debatable advantages of a seat ; iv. Parliament, (seemed preferable to jovean voyaging. Scottish Mists, He, like his father, his grand- 'father, and his great- -grandfather be- 'fore him, is deeply interested in the pedigree of the Lindsays. The fam- ily is growing old in family research. | There is something whimsical in the | notion that for the last 200 years it {has been writing its own history. The family is old enough to look back on its black sheep with equa- {nimity. In the sixteenth century there was "the wicked Master of | Lindsay," and the twelfth earl, who alienated the greater part of the {Lindsay estates, is known as "the | Prodigal. »" But mines in Lancashire and valuable property in Scotland are i sufficient for the needs of the present day, and the prodigal is forgiven. In modern times, at any rate, the | spirit of poetry, art, and research, rather than the spirit of adventure that makes up the history of Scotland and the clan, has animated the Lind- | says. Lady Anne Lindsay set a fash- 'ion among the ladies of the family ' when she wrote "Auld Robin Gray," | song that never fails to move the ily {Seot. The Hon. Ruth Lindsay, Lord Crawford's sister-in-law, has written verse much valued by the younger | group, and Mrs. Ruby Peto is only one of a whole regiment of Lindsay | draughtswomen. TEESE TY \ 7 3 candy making, - rs I {lr #e HE Fgardsbure 9 'Crown Brand' Corn Syrup is, sa conta] andio goad] that i499 line wonder that millions of pounds are.caten every yéar in the homes of. Conadg: - 'Crown Brand =the childreits 'faYarite -- {S00 140 0 equally: good 1 fer; all; (FPookifig! phirposes and" LILY WHITE lds ar white Corn Syrup, not' so pronounced in flavor as 'Crown Brand', You may prefer it, ASK YOUR GROCER--IN 2,5,10 AND 20 L'B. TINS The Canada Starch Co. Limited, Montreal Manufacturers of the famous Edwardsburg Brands with 'Crown Brand' Corn Syrup and the children's craving for sweets will be completely satisfied. Bread and 'Crown Brand' form a perfectly balanced food--rich in the elements that go to build up sturdy, healthy children. 2 N ZZ N BS CORPOR Alsen and. Sir @outts- Lindsay was the founder of the Grosvenor Gallery of | _ -Whisttertan and Gilbeirtian memories. | ro thousand; and'six thousand by thirty, giving one hundred and eighty thou- || dred' and forty-six million and eighty maker of many-. delicate pencil por- traits belongs to thé wmame artistic Another young Lindsay runs a bric-a- brac shgp in Wigmore: : Street Lon- don, with the half disguise of "Sind- lay" over his door, and' Lord Craw- ford himself is the very active honor- ary secretary of the Society for thé Protection of Ancient Buildings. The Countess of Crawford is her husband's boon companion in a num- ber of artistic enthusiasms. She has acted as hostess at "international" "soirees, and has helped Lord Craw- ford to pass the proofs of his essays in art-criticism. His "Donatello" ex- presses the keenest of their admira- tions; they love nothing so much as the great Italian sculpture of the early. Renascence. Lady Crawford is the daughter of the late Sir Henry Pelly, and a sister of 'Mrs. Rivers- Bulkeley, whose husband was killed at the 1rout svactly a year ago. DS ---- THE RUSH OF RECRUITS. How Lord Derby's Plan of Reinforc- ing the Army is Working. Lord Derby's canvassers have not got to work yet in many places, but most of the men concerned have re- ceived his letter, says a writer in the Manchester Guardian. I learn to- night that the effect of the letter alone on recruiting ha$ been extra- ordinary. As it was put to me by one who is in immediate touch with the recruiting organization, there has been a great rush of recruiting, and the difficulty is to hold people back who are not wanted--that is, who can serve the nation better by sticking to their jobs. To take one or two indi- vidual cases, the director of a certain bank finds himself threatened with the loss of the whole of one staff of 13, and, after all, banks have a certain usefulness. In another case a firm which happens to be engaged in mak- ing khaki cloth somewhere in Scot- 'land finds that so many of its workers want to enlist that it is in a panic lest it should be unable to carry out its army contracts. The friends of the voluntary system have for some time been expressing the suspicion that the decline of re- |cruiting was due to luke-warmness on the part of the heads of the organ- ization, and that the object was to provide a good case for conscription. The Duchess' of Rutland herself the | Be This suspicion was voiced and answer: no doubt it was unjust, bu is a great boom in recruiting just now, and the only anxiety the recruiting! committees have is lest the canvas- sers who still have their work to do should be inclined to think that when men are coming in like this their task is superfluous and may do it half- heartedly. That impression would be mistaken, and it will be impressed on the canvassers that though so many recruits are already pouring in, all and more are needed. 3 GENIUS IN THE ASYLUM. Many Painters, Poets and Musicians Have Become Insane. The great painter Haydon died mad, and Turner was deranged in his later years; Cowper had intermittent fits of madness; Handel and Mozart both died insane; and much of the best mu- sic of Schumann and Donizetti was composed whilst mad. Quite lately there has been brought to the notice of the world the case of Dr. Minor, an American savant, who, whilst an inmate of a criminal lunatic asylum, assisted Dr. Murray in the most brilliant manner in the compila- tion of his great and monumental die- tionary. Lately, at Nantes, a doctor in the lunatic asylum discovered a lightning calculator. Asked how many seconds there are in thirty-nine years, three months, and twelve hours, he gave the correct answer in thirty-two seconds. On another occasion, after he had given the number of seconds in thirty years, he was asked to explain his mental process. He said: "I kaow by heart that there are thirty-one millions, five hundred and thirty-six thousand seconds in a year. I multiply thirty millions by thirty, which gives me nine hundred millions. Then I multiply one million, five hun- dred thousand by thirty, and get 'hundred thirty, which | gives nine sand. 1 add these, and get nine hun- thousand seconds in thirty years." To most people the explanation is 'worse than the problem. Yet this man could scarcely read, and could not write at all! EE RAY 29- Jothing is so fatal to the romance n kiss as to have the girl the wrong time. ! sneeze at = all {Law events what is certain is that there | sample. forty-five millions; thirty thousand by |. the Safety, Self-Filling and Regular Types EE ya bye fy to $150.00. Be explicit:--ask for the genuine Watermain s idsal. Sold at the Best Stores L. E. Waterman Company, Limited Montreal 107 Notre Dame St., W., to Receive is What ~ You Ought to Give The Gift thot Ic Constantly Used Bp The Farm J How to Use the Babcock Test. The Babcock test has served as the necessary stimulant to raise dairying from a disliked sideline to a profession worthy of the efforts of well-trained men. scientific basis, has promoted factory | efficiency and has stimulated the breeding up of productive herds. Ten necessary steps in making the Babcock test are as follows: milk thoroughly and take out a small | sample. Do not let the sample evap- ! orate or curdle before testing. Fill the pipette to the mark with milk. Empty the pipette without loss into a | Add sulphuric | acid from the measuring cylinder to Babcock test bottle. the test bottle. Mix the acid and milk thoroughly by shaking the bot- tle. Place bottles in the centrifuge cover and whirl for five minutes. Add hot water and whirl again twice one , minute each. Read and record the per cent of fat in the neck of the bot- tle. thoroughly. Provide a quart or with which to practice sampling and morn A an IW [CET Gacdnsdang i at ing xe Mix it thoroughly by pow: - TREE ing several tines Tie Sees wie VESSEL to Kitchener 5nd Mr. Asauith, i have another or by stirring vigorously. ger quantities of milk require more stirring. While the milk is still in motion, dip out half a teacupful and pour this at once into a small, clean, dry bottle. Fill the bottle near- ly full, and stopper tightly to prevent evaporation. After stirring the milk again for a short time, take out an- other sample, place it in another bot- tle and stopper tightly as before. If the milk was thoroughly mixed each time these two samples will show ex- actly the same per cent. of fat by the | Babcock test, provided the test botuies | are accurately marked on the neck. Label the bottles with the name of the cow or owner. The Small Sample taken for the test must contain ex- actly the same proportion of fat as the entire contents of the pail or can. If milk stands for even a few minutes the cream will begin to rise and the top layer of the can will contain more fat than the rest of the milk. | If the top part is used for the test, it will indicate a higher per cent. of fat than is present in the entire lot of milk. It is incorrect to take a sample for testing out of a pail, can or bot- tle without first thoroughly mixing the milk by stirring or pouring it from. one vessel to another. When two people get different results in testing any lot of milk it is usually because one or both of them did not first stir the milk before taking the In any case where the accu- racy of the results must be proven, it is important that two or more separate samples be taken at differ- ent times while stirring. Each sam- | ple should then be tested by itself. If | the results differ, it shows some er- ror in the work and if the difference IRE It has placed dairying. on a Mix the Empty the test bottles and wash se over one tenth of one per cent., the RR | Sampling and testing should beé re- peated in a more careful manner. If it is necessary to keep the milk samples several hours or days before testing, a preservative should be add- ed to prevent curdling and the bot- tles should be kept tightly corked. Thoroughly mix the sample to be ! tested, then draw the pipette nearly i full of milk by sucking with the lips. i Quickly place the forefinger over the | pipette before the milk runs down | the mark. If the finger is dry, it is easy, by changing the pressure on ' the end of the tube, to let the milk run down slowly and to stop it exact- {ly at the mark. The tip of the pipette is placed in the top of the test bottle held in an inclined position and the milk is allowed to run down one "side of the neck of the bottle, without filling the neck completely. In this way, exactly eighteen grams (17.6 cc.) of milk are transferred to the test bottle without loss. The Beginner should practice sampling and testing milk until he is well acquainted with every necessary step. He should be able to make several tests on the same sampie ui = which do not dif- fer in reading by more than vic ox two tenths of a per cent. The milk in the test bottle should not be warmer than 60-70 degrees F., just before the acid is added. Milk fore acid is added. Fill the acid meas- ure up to the mark and pour into the test bottle. Hold the bottle in a slanting position so the acid will run down the neck and under the milk. Rotate the bottle slightly. Mix until the liquid in the bottle is of a brown color. Place all the bottles in the centrifuge and whirl for five minutes. Stop the machine gradually. Add hot water to the bottles with the pipette until cach is full to the base of the neck. Whirl again for two minutes. Add hot water until each bottle is fuli within an inch of the top. Whirl again for one minute. The bottles are then taken out of the machine and the per cent. of fat is read from the neck of each bottle while still hot. By the aid of the dividers the per cent. of fat is read directly from the neck "of the bottle. { The neck of the standard milk-test | bottle is divided into ten large divi- sions, and each of the latter into five small divisions, Each large division is one per cent. and each small divi- sion two tenths of one per cent. If the butter-fat fills three large spaces there is three per cent. of fat, or three pounds of fat to the hundred 'of milk and would be written three per cent. If the fat column covers five large and two small spaces, the read- ing would be five and four tenths, written 5.4 per cent. A SR Boiling the Baby. A newspaper calls attention to a nursing bottle advertisement, which concludes with the words: "When a baby is done drinking it must be unscrewed and laid in a cool place under a tap. If the baby does not thrive on fresh milk, it should be boiled." f FREE TO H combined. recipes. Write your postcards to-day Guelph Soap Co. Guelph John Taylor & do., Toronto, Chisholm Milling Co., Toronto. Home Bank of Canada, § Home Furniture Co., Rose Coal Co. QITUAJENF = OQIISSVIIVES Account Book, Calendar and Recipe Book hundreds of sthe best and lgtest size: riz PT containing HOW TO GET YOUR COPY. : Below are tne names and addresses of -twelye firms. your best friends and either have thém write, de write a postedrd yourself * to each of: these firms asking. them to: send 'Shepard's Nousekesptr: Ed Perfeget Account' Book" to the dddress supplied. For instance, supply your name and address to the first drm onthe list, a friend's name ny address to the second firm on the list and 30 on. : Next week's issue of this paper C whom you can send a further list of names and addresses: be Canada Permanent Mortgage Corporation, Toronto. Standard Reliance Mortga King St, West, Toronto. gage ( Sorporation, Toronto. Queen St. Kast, Toronto. Benjamin Moore & Co., ., 59 Yonge St., bY Select eleveniof - .H will show another list of firms to fore you forget. E. D. Smith & Son. Winona. Nineteen Hundred Washer, Channel Chemical Co., T rome on to, Lloyd 8 Toronto. Torento = ESA Leb am tho cow mnet be cooled hoo SS nnn wo d MEE mnie thd >