SELLING SALUTES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14155, 18 April 1916, Page 2

SELLING SALUTES.

AUSTRIAN WAR FUND SCHEME,

The Austrian Ministry of the In-tez-ior has hit en an ingenious method of raising the wind for- a war charity. The Ministry has had manufactured a sort of cockade or badge to be worn on the hat. The 'thing itself is in tho. shape.of a hat.with a gold hand touching, the hat in salute. Ti;o cockade costs two kronen (Is Sd), and worn on a man's hat is to show that the wearer •is entitled to return salutations in tbo rnilitaiy manner and not in the way, so prevalent in- Austria, of uncovering his head. Tho two kronen go to tho charity. The. Minister of the Interior, in recommending it to the public, says that at this inclement season of the year it will be welcomed by "many as a hygienic measure. Moreover, tho adoption of tkc cockade will assist in preserving 'the. brims of hats, an economy not to b<> despised when war lias made everything, so dear.