s only. This system does
away with the need for repair men carrying many kinds of parts, and
makes it possible for one trouble-expert knowing all about one kind of
car, to serve a whole district. In that way harmony of operation and
speed in mending broken-down cars is secured.

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THE SUPREME SACRIFICE.
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(Corset makers all over the United States are
forsaking that line of business in order to devote
their factories to the turning out of gas
masks for the Army.--News item from the States.)
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Heaven bless the women! They are giving up their corsets
So that we, in snowy France, may 'scape the Teuton's ire;
Sacrificing form divine so factories may more sets
Make of gas protectors and of shields 'gainst liquid fire!

Heaven bless the women! They are losing lines each minute
So that we may hold the line from Belfort to the sea;
Giving up their whalebones so that, after we get in it,
We may whale the daylightes outer men from Germanee!

Heaven bless the women! They are wearing middy blouses
As a sort of camouflage, the while we spite the Hun;
Donning Mother Hubbards, too, and keeping to the houses
While we Yanks gas-helmeted, put Fritzie on the run!

Heaven bless the women and their perfect thirty-sixes!
Waists we clasped a-waltzing they some other way now drape.
Disregarding fashion so that every Yank may fix his
Breathing tube at "Gas--alert!" and thus preserve _his_ shape!

Heaven bless the women! They are doing without dancing,
Knitting, packing, helping in a hundred thousand ways;
But they help the most by this while the foe's advancing--
Giving us the staying power by going without their stays!

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THE ANZAC DICTIONARY.
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ARCHIE.--A person who aims high and is not discouraged by daily
failures.

A.W.L.--An expensive form of amusement entailing loss to the
Commonwealth and extra work for one's pals.

BARRAGE.--That which shelters or protects, often in an offensive sense,
i.e., loud music forms a barrage against the activity of a bore; a
barrage of young brothers and sisters interfere with the object of a
visit; and an orchard is said to be barraged by a large dog or an active