LAND AND W A F K R 
J.uuKiry 13, 1915 
THROUGH THE FA ES 
OF A WOMAN 
and wc must not sliirk its responsibility. It is a wise woman, 
tlierefore who makes uncompromising warfare agamst waste 
and finds it her luisiness to see there is no such thing in her 
household. It will not be a very ea.sy fight to wm, but each 
day that passes shows how necessary it is to wage 
Some people, in order to prevent a leakage m household 
expenditure, are putting both themselves and their servants 
on a fixed weekly allowance. A definite sum is allowed per 
head each week, and the vexed question of why the baker s 
book is double that of the preceding week is never raised 
Why the housekeeping books should fluctuate for no special 
reason i- always an unsolved problem, but this plan certainly 
prevents it arising. Most things, indeed, at the present day 
seem to resolve themselves into the principles 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, ancl 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. ^^^^^ 
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. 1 • ji 
Would any of your readers who can do so very kindly 
send to — 
Eric Gilbey, 
5th Batt. Rifle Brigade, 
Minster, Isle of Sheppey. 
Tf possible, each county should supply its own camps 
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Calcium carbide, hitherto almost entirely a foreign production, 
can now be obtained of English manufacture in considerably better 
quality than heretofore. Our illustration shows the Thornhill factory 
of Messrs. Chas. Bingham & Co., manufacturers of all-British carbide, 
with no less than twenty-three points in the United Kingdom at which 
a stock is maintained for the convenience of consumers. The quality 
of the product may ba estimated from the fact that one of the lai gest 
stjel firms 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 Bond 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 igij 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 suitable for 
raisi.":; garden crops will no doubt be alive to the advantage of 
cultivating every available yard, not only to meet individual wants, 
but to pro. ide against any national emergency. 
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