War is over, killing goes on. This man is symptomatic of many grown-ups who were hurt by carelessness with explosives.

War is over, killing goes on. This man is symptomatic of many grown-ups who were hurt by carelessness with explosives. His son had brought home some sticks of black stuff, telling his mother that they were great for firing the stove. When one day the stove was not burning fast enough to get the potatoes boiling the mother thought of the little black sticks, lifted the pan and threw a handfull in the flames. The explosion killed the mother and a small daughter, blew the house to smithereens. In trying to help the father burned both his hands. The custom of lighting fires in stoves with the aid of all kinds of gun powder is very common in Limburg and Brabant. Practically all farmers fo it, many hammering open cannon shells to get at the powder. There are shells that do not explode at this treatment, but then some do.