+---------------------------------------------------+ | Courteous and Efficient Service-- | | which makes Shopping a pleasure-- | | is characteristic of every department | | of our Store. | | | | ALLAN & Drapery | | STARK L^{TD}. Mercery | | Queen Street and Tailoring | | Adelaide Street, Furniture | | Brisbane. Crockery | | | |Mail Orders a Speciality. Catalogues upon request.| +---------------------------------------------------+ THE RETURN. There has been no wheat grown in the Northern war areas of France for the last two years, but the poppies have come up just the same. The peasants believe that the scarlet flowers have sprung up where soldiers bled. A laughing crowd akin to tears, And men are passing by, Who come from trench and battlefield Where Soldiers’ die. Deep notes of music rise and fall As men have fallen, too, When Life laugh’d low at danger-mark And Death withdrew. Across the hill the crimson glow Of day’s return is blown, And poppies nod in barren fields Where blood was sown. Coo-ee Cafe. TO PROVIDE COMFORTS FOR SOLDIERS. SOCIETY GIRLS BECOME WAITRESSES. It would cheer the soldiers in France and Egypt if they could catch a glimpse of the scene enacted every day and all day in Isles-lane to provide comforts for soldiers fighting abroad. There in the Brisbane Club building, may be seen girls in dainty white frocks and frilly caps and aprons, cooking every day to supply the restaurant in the adjacent compartment. In the heat of summer they stood beside the stoves, and baked cakes and cut up sandwiches and luncheons to attend to the ever-increasing customers in the long tea room leading from the lane, and to-day they are as enthusiastic in their work as when the room first opened at the beginning of the year.