A Crumb Of Comfort

-Thero 8. cordina; to tho cunsus, an excusa ot 733,258 of mn'es over fenmles in the United States. Tho World snys ihe fact is nolevvortbv, arui ought to quiot the opprehensioiis of thoso who feared tho war vvnuld canse an unduo prepond era boe of women after peacs aus do clared. No matter how bloody tho war mny be or how long it vnay last, t cannot :nnke away witb three quartra of a millioD of lives. The w;iste of life muy ma!e the soxes nenrly equal, bul evon then we .hall he bettcr oñ' than in Èngland, where the témalo nre in excess bv ooarly a millióo, iind the social prcblern of tho day is how to inivide thetu with husbandsor occupation. V-jf;" Thero is nn grcater obstado in tho way of succoss in life, than in trust ing for something to turn up. instead of going ateadily te work aud turning up íomstbinf