A HAPPY CHILD IN A FEW HOURS!

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16842, 28 April 1915, Page 6

A HAPPY CHILD IN A FEW HOURS!

When CroM, Constipated, or if Feverish, "California Syrup of Fig*," Then Don't Worry.

Mothers can rest easy after giving •'California Syrup of Figs," because in a few hours all the clogged-up waste-matter, soar bile and fermenting food gently move out of the bowels, and you have a healthy, playful child again. : Children simply will not take. tVo time from play to empty their bowels, which become tightly packed, and then the liver gets sluggish and tha stomach disordered.

V When cross, feverish, restless, seoif the tongue is coated ; then give this delicious " fruit laxative." Children love it, and it cannot cause injury. No matter what ails your little one—if " stuffy" with a.cold or a sore throat, or diarrhosa, .stomach-ache, and tainted breath, remember, 1 a gentle " insid■.; cleansing "-should always be the first treatment given. 'Full directions for babies, children bf all ages and growh-iips are printed on each bottle. .V . Beware of counterfeit fig, syrups. - A?k your chemist for a'-bottle of." California Syrup of Figs,'; Vhen look:carefiilly.and ■ee that It is made by the "California Fig Syrup Company." : Hand-back, with con-/ »empt any other fig syrup. "Californi. Syrup of Figs" is sold by all leading shemists 1/1J and l/9:per bottle.

English Channel has been netted across by •'means of torpedo. nets and. small vessels anchored at short Intervals and equipped -with searchlightsand guns; -Dragging operations have been carried out by somo of our, fast destrovers, •in ' some .: instances with complete success.' But our naval men have discovered another way of bringing up any-lurking German submarines whose whereabouts have been located. It would,be inadvisable to describe the process, ibub-if is 'simple-and efficacious, and .'compels the. submarine- to" rise to the surface in', order, to clear its periscope. .The blinded thing ; then falls an easv prey. The practice of submarine.baiting is entirely novel, but 1 our men are developing it to something like an exact, science. " A great-diffi-culty has .been, to,! deal supply, ships from -which the. Germans- draw their oil • arid "spare itdrpedoes.- These vessels use•.*•'.neutral flag and..pretendto bo everything .'that.they are not; Bufe these also "have now been turned to ar>; count, and •at least, one German su b--marine, hastening to the rendezvous to. ask for oil, got a bullet instead.'. Allowing for those submarines have been destroyed,'o*thers believed to have been' put hors do combat '■■ and others that must have succumbed in the rough.and tumble to what'may be desoribed as ''natural causes?' : it ns_' a pretty safe,'ihf€Tence;that at.least one-third of: the eriomy's uncler-water j craft has been disposed of. This may | seem an:optimistic estimate, but when, the ' facts arc; known later oh it will probably be justified. r v

: ■•::.. -,, '. SYMPTOMS : OF \ WAR. ..,.•■' ■;• { Those who. know .London 1 only, as it appears in ; the .piping: times;..of ; peace may be/interested- r to ? know what the oldtown looks like in war time: There; have been big changes. Londoners find it difficult to'beneve, with their streets swarming by day. and by night with fighting men in active service uniform, that there was a" time wlien it was the rarest thing imaginable to see a sold/ier or a sailor. But npwadays. khaki is the predominant colour tone iri a Loridon. The streets, thecafes and restaurante, ,'. the trains, and j.'buses are full of soldfers. At a xamous London music-hall in the. Piccadilly neighbourhood :where a bright revue is running I took tho trouble one night to. count the number of khaki f tunics in parts of tho. theatre In the popular seats nearly half, and in the reserve seats nearly two-thirds, of the men present were m uniform'. As regiments come and go their distinctive badges suddenly swarm about the streets and as mysteriously vanish. London has seen the coming, and the going of representatives of every regiment and every corps in the British Army, of oversea contingents, of most of the ships in the Navy list, and of a fair selection of regiments in the Belgian, French snd even the Russian array. It is very far from being mere idle -bragging or preferred "patriotism to say that a more splendid lot of men were never seen thah these tall, slim soldiers and sailors with their clear bright eyes and strong steady faces. They are indeed the cream of the Empire's manhood. It would be almost invidious to attempt comparisons, but most sound critics will agree that perhaps the finest specimens of all whose khaki tunics have been se<jn in London are some of 'the Australians. .

How well London itself has responded io the call to arms, anyone may note who cares to take a critical survey of the civilian, crowds. Mr G. B. Shaw in one of his best plays makes Julius C»sar lament that whereas he grows older and older, the crowd in the Appian Way is'- always young. Tb» crowd in. our London Appinn way is no longer young. So far as the men are concerned, are now, those who are left in full civilian mufti, most noticeably middle-aged or elderly. Any young man who. looks strong and healthy and is not in uniform attracts attention, and seems to know that ho doea so. Never again Will Waterloo Station. Victoria or Charing Cross look quite "She same to Londoners of this generation. Long after these termini return, to their normal aspect the public will remember the present scenes, the drama of tho arrival and departure of tho crowded troop trains, with their windows full of eager, -bronzed faces, the tragedy of the slowmoving ambulances, with their freight of shattered humanity—what poor Sterrens. called " the crimson ruin* of strong men,"—and 'the pathos of the little groups of old-folks, and Women with babies, who cling to their men in khaki and blue until the platform gates close upon them, and then stand silently gazing after the departing trains that bear them away to that tlu-illing region of dreadful fate known as "the front." The drilling and marching of squads'still gone on. . Even in tho cathedral close, under the very shadows*, of the airy towers of the Abbey, men are to be saen drilling with machine guns. l There is a sense of buglee -in tbo air. The life of i"London is modulated to. a drum tap. . Those whom age has. robbed of the privilege of service go about their daily vocations as' tisual, but their hearts are with their eyes, and those are on the flaring newspaper placards with the latest tidings from Flanders, the North Sea, and the Channel. The war has shrivelled up . the map. Distant Poland and the vague Carpathians beeomo in these days imminent objects of intense personal interest. . At night London is a. shadow oity. dim, gloomy and dark, its familiar facade a mystery of shadows, its streete faintly iit by a few red hand Wnps. its night sties raked by the,circling gleam of searchlights. Going about his business by day, the Londoner grows used to the sight of sinister-looking aiuw pointing skyward from commanding roofs. When he sees the searchlight* sweeping the. clouds at night he vaguely -wonders when poi-ehance be ma hear tho voice of cannons • reverberating over the metropolis.

i. LIFE AFLOAT. , Incidentally the German submarines have destroyed thogrmonotony of li/e at sea. , People who have been passengers: on vessels that have entered home waters since tho war broke out assert that it is quite an exciting experience. All lights are out, except the- very faintest glow,, by night, and by day everybody on the.■ ship who possesses a. pair of glasses' is on the lookout for. a periscope. Boat drill is a .regular exercise, for'passengers

ns well as crew. Everybody has to learn precisely what to do and where to go in case- of emergency. A standard joke is that some of the American passengers on our Atlantic liners spend their spare time cutting their initials with their penknives ,on the seats allocated to them in tho lifeboats. As the shores of England are approached all the lifeboats are lowered down outboard to the level of the saloon deck, and food and other supplies for each boat is stacked close by. All . these things help ,to give reality to the news that arrives periodically by Mar- ' conigram and which everybody on board await 3 with so ■ much impatience. Whatever may b? the case on board | passenger steamships,.there is no,doubt I that the crews of tramp steamers of all sorts aro very intent on discovering a* Gorman submarine. Officers and seamen cut their seagoing kit down ito the lowest possible scalp, in case j of sudden emergency, but they are all cheerfully anxious to meet a" German submarine .under favourable ciroum,stances ,and.." have a smack,.it,.her.", . k p I o T Tj R , E s FROM THE FRONT. , | I - "An experienced artillery officer has j.givpn -me , some, interesting comments ; on the practice and theory of war as exemplified by • the present campaign . in:Fiance. He. says:. " Eor more-tlian •three.>months wo have hardly been out of action j. have only been in about six different positions, .and have not marched more than thirty miles: in all. How remote our antediluvian training I of last, July seems now, with its quick : changes of position, ite multitude of now discarded iu-struments, its'futile and infrequent efforts at entrenching,, and' its inevitable immaculately dressed staff officer hear our' observing station: and on the skyline. Hero we change position about.oncb a month, have'no .danger angles or staff officers to brier us, and; are .quite happy with' a/ good telephdne, a prismatic compass and a map. Tho entrenchments are. solid .and sound: The men require no urging to oomplete them.- Comparatively our July efforts would bo like the scratching of a few healthy fowks" Tho 'arae officer says hnw this war has welded' the army together. "There is no.longer any room for jealousies. . A sifcoess obtained by anybody is hailed with the utmo.ft.dciight.by oveiyone. , Another officer writes _of the long conversations our Tommies carry on. with the French ; without either.knowing a- word of the other's tongue. {lf evei-ything else fails,- our men exclaim ."Souvenir," their one/word of French,' and then everybody laughs and is perfectly, satisfied. "I think the depar-. ture of Tommy from theso regions." .says'this officer, "will leave the children very sad. For they ; all lovo huri. Ho is always' playing with them and making.; them - roar- with laughter. Tlioy all; wear putties now and smoke pipe's," and ,some . kind -/regimental', tailors-has cut down tunics' to-fit their, young favourites. The children all wear the badge of some regiment or other. .Somo of them hava tho badges of * every branch', and. (battalions of tho service. The bagpipes are an unfailing source of amusement. Any Scotchman skilled, in the art is granted no mercy,; by. irrevocable decree of. the countryside until he can convince thorn that he has no more wind for; pipes.. The French soldiers are displaying in their spare time all that deftness, ingenuity and industry for which'their race is justly famed: Those French soldiers'who follow trades in civil life are really in the interludes of fighting carrying on "business as usual.' 7 The wood-cutter is in great demand. The cabinetmaker is furnishing the trenches. A fisherman catches eels' and solk them at twopence each.. A great industry is "the making of tinder-boxes-out of cartridge cases. These useful and interesting souvenirs are bointi sold at live francs each. In the same way can be obtained penknives, uail-fiks, • scissors, pencil-cases, penholders,'cigarettecases, etc. One man made a complete assortment of manicure implements out of tnauser cases. Agricultural bands aro helping the farmers, and nearly everybody is going in for photography. Barbers', tailors and bootmakers are- doing a roaring trade. Some of our English Tommies of a more literary turn aro making quite a fair income by teaching English. When the pupils consist of ,tko charming daughters of the house in which you arc billeted, it is, in the -wards of one military professor of language, "a. most interesting way of "employing spare time." j