The linen industry also has taken on new life, and additional workers are being employed every week. The export trade in linen is growing just as rapidly as the factories can turn out the finished product.
It is in the country districts, however, where one sees the Belgian at his in the vast garden country, which stretches from Brussels to the sea scarcely a square foot of ground is left, uncultivated, so anxious are the people to produce their own food, and they are working from early morn until late at night to attain that end.
WOMEN BARRED FROM TESTS
Not Permitted to Compete for 60 Percent of the Government
Positions.
Washington.—The official report of the woman's bureau of the United States department of labor, just made public, reveals barred from 60 percent of the government positions for which examinations were held in the first six months of 1919. This statement covers examinations for 260 different types of positions that women were allowed to compete for 16 percent of the clerical positions.
According to the report, women were not allowed to compete for 16 percent of the clerical positions.
The complete report, according to Miss Mary Anderson of Chicago, director of the woman's bureau, covers investigations which have been in progress for a month.
The second and larger section of the report will consist of an analysis of the salary scale of women in the government service, the requirements of the positions they fill, and the specific inequalities in the pay they receive.
Operation Stops Crowing.
Lakewood, O.—People of this town some time ago started raising chickens, to help beat the high cost of living. The roosters crowed so loudly that they were unable to eat.  How that neighbors complained of their sleep was disturbed. Dr. 