LAND AND WATER 
January 23, 1915 
THROUGH THE EYES 
OF A WOMAN 
and wc must not shirk its n spdiisibility. It is a wise woman, 
therefore, wlio makes uncompromising warfare against waste 
and hnds it lier business to see there is no sueh thing in her 
houseiiokl. It will not be a very easy figlit to win, but each 
day that jiasses shows how necessary it is to wage. 
Some people, in order to prevent a leakage in household 
expenditure, are putting both themselves and their servants 
on a fixed weekly allowance. A delinitc sum is allowed per 
head each week, and the ve.xed question of why the baker's 
book is double that of the preceding week is never raised. 
Why the housekeejiing books should fluctuate for no special 
reason is always an unsolved problem, but this plan certainly 
prevents it arising. Most things, indeed, at the present day 
seem to resolve themselves into the princijiles of mathematics, 
and for the idealist and dreamer they are hard times indeed. 
It is only the practical mind that delights in the ruthless 
reduction of everything to pounds, shillings, and pence ; 
but it is the practical mind that tides over a financial difficulty, 
and housekeeping is nothing nowadays if it be not common 
sense writ large. 
Erica. 
CORRESPONDENCE 
5th batt. rifle brigade depot, minster, 
isle of sheppey 
To the Editor of Land and Water. 
Sir, — I should be extremely obliged if you would kindly 
insert the following letter in your paper. There must be 
hundreds of old garden and deck chairs stored away which 
would be of the very greatest value to our soldiers for their 
wooden buildings, which are being built for winter quarters. 
Many of our soldiers have neither mattresses nor chairs, and 
have to sit on the wooden floors, which is very trying after 
long marches. 
Would anv of your readers who can do so very kindly 
send to — 
Eric Gilbey, 
5th Batt, Rifle Brigade, 
Minster, Isle of Sheppey. 
If possible, each county should supply its own camps 
Calcium carbide, hitherto ahiiost entirely a foreign production, 
can now be obtained of English manufacture in considerably better 
c|uality than heretofore. Our illustration sliows the Thornhill factory 
of Mes.srs, Chas, Bingham & Co,, manufacturers of all-British carbide, 
with no less than twenty-throe points in the United Kingdom at whicli 
a stock is maintained for the convenience of consumers. The quality 
of the product m ly be estimated from the fact that one of the larg'st 
steel firn\s in the world insists on " Thornhill " carbide, and will not 
use the foreign product. 
Messrs. Bryant & May, the well-known match manufacturers, 
have designed and put on the market an exceedingly useful metal 
case, which takes the ordinary matchbox and protects the contents 
and the striking surface from damp or any other injuries. The case 
IS neat and workmanlike in appearance, and should win favour among 
those who have occasion to use matches in exposed positions It 
would be a useful addition to a smokers' outfit in the trenches at the 
present time. 
The inventors and makers of the medicated gelatine leaves 
referred to in this issue are Savory & Moore, of 143 New Itond Street, 
In these exceptional times much importance and interest attaches 
to the publication of that well-known annual, " Sutton's Amateur's 
Guide in Horticulture," a copy of which for 1915 has just been received 
In an address to their customers Messrs, Sutton direct attention to 
the vital necessity of producing at home foodstuffs of all kinds on as 
extensive a scale as possible, and those who have land suitatle for 
raising garden crops will no doubt be alive to the advantage of 
cultivating every available yard, not onlv to meet individual wants 
but to provide against any national emergency. 
For the Comfort of 
Mounted Officers 
JHE KHAKI RIDING SHIRT has Wn 
specially designed for long days in the saddle. By means 
of a tail piece attached to the back of the shirt which is passed 
between the legs and fastened in front, it is impossible for the 
skirts of the shirt to get out of place, or for the shirt itself to 
ruck up. Absolute comfort and additional warmth is thus assured. 
THE KHAKI RIDING SHIRT \. 
Pure Cashmere Underclothing and Body Belt* in different 
weights. Beautifully soft, warm and comfortable. 
TURNBULL & ASSER 
Sporting Hosiers 
71-72, JERMYN STREET, LONDON, S.W. 
(5 doors from St. James's Street.) 
Telegrams: "Paddywhack, London" Telephone: 4628 Gerrard 
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MILITARY 
WATERPROOFS 
MADE in best 
double texture 
mackintosh twill, / j 
with strap at back, /(^"^ 
cut for riding. 
Medium weight 
£3 3 
Detachable fleece 
lining, three-quarter 
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£110 
Z: Write for illustrated booltlet 
Z " Comforts for the Trenches." 
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E 2, Conduit Street, W. 
S MANCHESTER: GLASGOW: 
~ 90/92. CroM St 72, St. Vincent St 
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