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 JULY 1917

about. When we parted, I felt as though I were leaving a life long friend. We never met again.

When I rejoined my grown-ups they had not missed me at all, and knew nothing of my rapturous voyage into Wonderland.

The Park Corner jaunts were always delightful. To begin with, it was such a pretty drive, those winding thirteen miles through hill and wood, and by river and shore. There were many bridges to cross, two of them, with drawbridges. I was always horribly frightened of drawbridges, and am to this day. Do what I will, I cringe secretly from the time the horse steps on the bridge until I am safely over the draw.

Uncle John Campbell's house was a big white one, smothered in orchards. Here in other days, there was a trio of merry cousins to rush out and drag me in with greeting and laughter. The very walls of that house must have been permeated by the essence of good times. And there was a famous old pantry, always stored with goodies, into which it was our habit to crowd at bedtime and devour unholy snacks with sounds of riot and mirth.

There is a certain old screw sticking out from the wall on the stair landing which always makes me realize clearly that I am really grown-up. When I used to visit at Park Corner in the dawn of memory that screw was just on a level with my nose! Now, it comes to my knees. I used to measure myself by it every time I went over.

I was very fond of trouting and berry picking. We fished the brooks up in the woods, using the immemorial hook and line, with "w'ums" for bait. Generally I managed to put my worm on myself, but I expended a fearful amount of nervous energy in doing it. However, I managed to catch fish. I remember the thrill of pride I felt one day when I caught quite a large trout, as large as some of the grown ups had caught in the pond. Well and Dave were with me, and I felt that I went up five per cent. in their estimation. A girl who could catch a trout like that was not to be altogether despised.

We picked berries in the wild lands and fields back of the woods, going to them through wooded lanes fragrant with June bells, threaded With sunshine and shadow, carpeted with mosses, where we saw foxes and rabbits in their native haunts. I have never heard anything sweeter than the whistling of the robins at sunset in the maple woods around those fields.

To go through woods with company was very pleasant; to go through them alone was a very different thing. A mile in along the road lived a family who kept a small shop where they sold tea and sugar, etc. I was frequently sent in to buy some household supplies, and I shall never forget the agony of terror I used to endure going through those woods. The distance through the woods was not more than a quarter of a mile, but it seemed endless to me.

I cannot tell just what I was afraid of. I knew there was nothing in the wood worse than rabbits or as the all-wise grown-ups told me "worse than yourself." It was just the old, primitive fear handed down to me from ancestors who, in the dawn of time, were afraid of the woods with good reason. With me, it was a blind, unreasoning terror. And this was in daylight; to go through those woods after dark was something simply unthinkable. There were persons who did it. A young schoolmaster who boarded with us thought nothing apparently of walking through them at night. In my eyes he was the greatest hero the world had ever seen!

When the history of the War comes to be told, Canada's place in it will stand forth to our wonder and amazement. Canada's contribution in men and money, in bravery and endurance, in unselfish resourcefulness, in quick and adequate response, has been tremendous and magnificent.

Proportionately to her population, Canada will be found to have made the largest monetary contribution to the War.

The valour of the Canadians on the field has called forth the unqualified praise of the French and British generals.

Counting the cost is not the Canadian way. Out of a contingent of 25,000 troops at the outset of the War, not 2,500 lived to tell the tale. Their casualties were appalling, but the only effect they had on the Canadian heart was to accelerate recruiting and volunteers poured in to avenge their fellows. It has been officially stated in Canada that for every man who falls five more enlist.

It was the Canadians who bore the first terrible brunt of the asphyxiating gas attacks, that came as such a surprise.

Canada, a young country, needing all her men at home, never hesitated, once they had put their shoulder to the wheel.

It is a record, and one that will place among the historic nations of the War.—Los Angeles Times

A while before he died he took my hand—

"I want to tell you something, Bill," he said, "Before you lay me out in No Man's Land.

And put a wooden cross above my head.

Just this: Last night, when lying here, I knew

I'd found my soul, Bill, since the War began—

And I was happy. … some day, when it's through.

And you're back home—just tell Her that, old man."

, in the Canadian University Magazine.

Schoolgirl’s Nerves

“Oh, to be free from school life and school worries during the sunshiny spring days,”’ is the wish of thousands of schoolgirls, to whom nothing could be of more benefit than outdoor exercise and an opportunity to drink in the fresh air and sunshine.

Just at the springtime, when the human sys- tem is sure to be more or less debilitated, and often at the most critical time in a girl’s life, there comes also the anxiety, eye-strain and mental over-exertion consequent on the ap- proach of examinations,

To many this extra demand on the system proves the last straw, and the results are made known by headaches, sleeplessness, irritability, loss of appetite, tired, worn-ont feelings and inability to concentrate. the mind on the work at hand, whether it be mental or physical.

To some there will come St. Vitus’ dance, nervous prostration, or some derangement of the vital organs, which may linger to make a life of suffering and unhappiness,

The only means of averting trouble is by the use of external assistance in order to in- erease the supply of pure, rich blood, and for

Dr. Chase’s

this purpose there is no treatment comparable to Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food.

Because of its mild and gentle action and powerful restorative influences in building up the system, Dr, Chase’s Nerve Food is partieu- larly suited as a treatment for girls and women. Especially during the critical periods of wo- man’s life, such as between the ages of twelve and sixteen, this great food eure, by supplying an abundance of rich, red blood, keeps up health and strength and fills the body with vigor and vitality.

Miss Cynthia Hutchinson, Hanceville, B. C., writes:—"I feel it my duty to tell what a great friend Dr. Chase's Nerve Food has been to me, I would have written sooner, but wanted to be sure I Was thoroughly cured, Before using this medicine my nervous system was so completely run down that my friends, as well as myself, thought I could never get better. All medicines failed to help me.

“A trial of Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food benefited me, and I used altogether seven boxes, At the end of a month people scarcely knew me, I had improved so much. The blood was enriched, color improved, new flesh added, and I got strong and well. Several of my friends have profited by my experience and received great benefit from this treatment.”

Nerve Food

50c a box, 6 for $2.50, all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co,, Limited, Toronto,

Comfort in the Home

The Sunshine Furnace chases chills from coldest corners and insures ut- most comfort in the home throughout the winter. Don’t buy any furnace or heating plant until you have in-

Acid Stomachs

are Dangerous

Ferments Food, Cai Gas, Sour Stemrets et Sore Sr Sot and Indi jon

HOW TO TREAT WITH MAGNESIA “ad CID" stomachs are dangerous be-

cause acid leritates and inflames the delicate lining of the stomach, thus

vestigated the merits of the “Sun- of tae steak nat tite Sa ae

shine.”

MClarys SUNSHINE FURNACE

tren ESS ROR OT

nine-tenths of the cases of stomach trouble from which peoplg suffer. Ordinary medi-

medicinal treatments are useless in such cases, beber leave the source of the trouble, the in the stomach, as dangerous as ever.

followed with a little Disurated magnesia, which can be obtained from druggist, and should always be kept handy,

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