. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 20 THE BRITISH BEE JOUENAL. [Jan. 20, 1916. had only been milked an hour or two before, and the milk was still in the dairy. Needless to say, we helped our- selves liberally to this, although a few preferred to test the big barrel of beer in the cellar. This, I am glad to say, was taken in moderation. The fighting eventually became so heavy that we found it necessary to move right to the other side of the village, where we took posses- sion of a large convent called the Convent of St. Barbara. The convent was not a very ancient building, a
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 20 THE BRITISH BEE JOUENAL. [Jan. 20, 1916. had only been milked an hour or two before, and the milk was still in the dairy. Needless to say, we helped our- selves liberally to this, although a few preferred to test the big barrel of beer in the cellar. This, I am glad to say, was taken in moderation. The fighting eventually became so heavy that we found it necessary to move right to the other side of the village, where we took posses- sion of a large convent called the Convent of St. Barbara. The convent was not a very ancient building, and possessed a beautiful little chapel with fine stained- wounded, both French and English, were continually being brought in, and all the bedding and blankets from the bedrooms were brought into requisition for them. Some most beautiful hand-worked cushions and pillows and embroidered articles of all descriptions we used to try and make these poor fellows a bit comfortable, and although all these beautiful works of art (which must have taken many years of patient labour to make) were ruined, I am sure they served the greatest purpose that their creators could have wished for. {To he continued.). M\DAME MAETEBLINCK A& MELISANDE. glass windows, hand-painted walls ajid ceiling, statjies of different saints on pedestals and in niches in the walls. A very lavish display of the beautiful hand- made lace, famous in these parts of the country, made the altar, with its huge candles and gilt ornaments, one of the finest examples of decorative art of this description that it has ever been my lot to witness. The place was in perfect order when we entered, just as it had been left by the nuns. But within a few hours what a change! Large numbers of MR. T. B. BLOW IN FRANCE. No doubt the name of Mr. Blow will be familiar to the majority of our readers, as it is not many years since he was the pro- prietor of the hee appliance factory which he established at Welwyn, the busi- ness of whic
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