r '~ ( tFEMEiME FANCIES » TmreS orlWTERESTfWOMEH ‘W H O A G IV E T H H I M S E L F ." l le u r t - R e n d i n g S a crific e fo r U ook-L .o v l u g W u in u u. the Celia Fram ley had dropped in to have a chat— a "next to the last word," she alw ays called It— with her friend, Marcia Leslie. At last, having G l v p f i l e ( i l r l it Miiuiiri* I l e a l . salt, a dash of ammonia or a piece with emery paper and a polishing with talked with all her usual eager vivaci­ ty, she sat leisurely back, strring her The very best pout-grad :ate course of charcoal. One in\et< rate lover of chamois. cup of tea. that any girl could he given, says a flowers, however, says that If you are When running brass rods through “ I ’ll have another lump, Marcia,” ■writer In the Philadelphia Bulletin, going to put anything into the water window curtains put an old glove fin­ would he a year In her father's office, In which they are kept the most effec­ ger over the end that is being pushed she said, with mock reproach. “ You’re I I o r N e * I i i « * r t * u » l i i t f In \ n i n e . always forgetting that I haven't just and If every girl could have that edu­ tive thing is a lump of sugar. A table has been compiled from the through the hem. Unles- this Is done one sweet tooth, but a whole set of cation we should not have to shed so statistics of the Census Bureau and the material Is apt to tear. them. Now tell me, what have you m any tears over the misfortune of I T w o F u ll lin t«. the Department of Agriculture, which Gas burners, like other things, are been doing?” middle-aged women who have been I shows that the rise in the market likely to get dirty. Often there Is quite " A very useful thing, my dear,” an­ robbed of their all by men who be- , value of horses has been out of all a little collection of rubbish on them swered her friend, slowly. “ I've been Kulle them Into Investing In schemes j proportion In the last fifteen years to and if this Is cleared away the Im­ Interesting myself in M yrtle’s read­ that should not have taken In a baby. the Increase in their number In the provement In the light Is noticeable. ing.” United States. From 1893 to 1908 the The son of a family Is safeguarded If your furniture has grown dull and Miss Fram ley gave a little shriek of horse population so to speak, in­ against want by being taunght some streaked try rubbing up with a flannel amusement. "W h at, 'The Duchess’ suit of a trade by which he can sup- creased 3,785,000, or 23 per cent. In dipped In equal parts of turpentine and ‘Laura Jean Libbey?’ ‘Oh, what B lig h t o f P o ta toes. the same period the gain in the num­ port himself. The majority of girls and coal oil. It polishes quickly and a falling off is t h e re !'” she quoted Early blight is a potato disease ber of human Inhabitants was 21.979,- ate not. We take a long shot at their much more cheaply than expensive pol­ with genial sarcasm, for Immediately which causes more or less damage to m arrying. Sometimes they do and 000, or 33 per cent. But the Increase ishes. her mind made a vivid picture of M yr­ the crop every year. The trouble Is in the value of the horses in this coun­ sometimes they don't, but even if they If furniture looks smeary after pol­ tle, a half-pretty, wholly pathetic little most marked In unusually dry sea­ try was no less than $875,300,000, or do marry it is no guaranty against ishing you may be pretty certain that figure, who plodded patiently through sons and Is caused by a fungus which 88 per cent. want. Not every man who marries is too much polish was used. Very lit­ her cleaning cares, apparently unfitted grows and spreads rapidly. The spores capable of supporting a wife, and even These facts will astonish many per of this fungus when seen through a tle, indeed, is really needed; only Just for any others. If he Is, men fall sick, or die, and often sons who have supposed that the enough to smear quite thinly over the But Marcia had already broken out microscope have the appearance of growth of the automobile interest has lilft.M L o v e riMiNorshlp. a woman Is suddenly confronted with clubs. They enter the vines and the in ardent defense of her protege. Stepmothers— Indeed, any mother at surface. the necessity of not only earning bread been very adverse to the horse breed­ “No, not trash at all, and you’ll nev­ first thing one notices Is that the ers and to the market demand for and butter for herself, but for the In­ all must not Interfere with the love- er believe me, but it's poetry,” she leaves are turning yellow. The disease horses. T e a c l i I t >1 n w C h i l d r e n . v alid husband and a houseful of chil­ making of their sons and daughters, On the contrary, the prices On the basis of recent investigations said. “ I threw away an old B row n­ Is likely to come during the first or obtained for good horses, especially dren, when she has been taught no according to Mayor Cooper, of Head­ second week In July. It may be easily ing, a suburb of Cincinnati, who fined the National Association for the Study ing text Bob had in college, and M yr­ w a y on earth of making a penny. for heavy draft animals of blood and Even If a girl does marry, her moth­ a mother because she had visited the and Prevention ot Tuberculosis de tle found it and asked me if she might prevented by spraying with Bordeaux stamina, have risen far beyond the I gave it to her— and I mixture before the disease gets a hold hopes of horse dealers a few years e r seldom takes the trouble to prepare home of her son’s sweetheart at 10 clare, in a statement Just Issued, that have It. h e r for it. Yet every woman knows o’clock one night and had brought the the 1’nlted States is paying annually laughed; and I hate myself whenever on the crop. After it has a start It Is ago. Horses are worth about 50 per that, happiness and success In matri­ hoy home by the ear. Incidentally, $7,000,000 for the education of more I think of it. Do you know, she’s read of no use to spray, because the spores cent more In proportion to their num­ mony depend mainly upon the wife the Mayor read a lecture to all moth­ than 1,000,000 children who will die It all, with such intelligent apprecia­ are already Inside the vines. ber than they were in 1S93. In order to kill the potato beetle at before they reach tion! know ing her business, being a good ers, in which he held that they had from tuberculosis at the same time, one-fourth of a m anager, a good housekeeper, a good no right to pry into the love affairs the age of 18. To offset this waste “Why, the other night she looked at T o C ure K ic k in g C o w ». pound of Paris green may be added to the west, and said, ’Miss Marcia, l To cure a kicking cow Is often a dif­ suppose that’s what Browning means TWO NEW AND ATTRACTIVE STYLES. ficult and tedious task, and unless when he says, ’’W here the quiet col­ some method of restraining them ored end of evening smiles.” ’ And from kicking Is adopted more loss for her birthday, last week, I gave her than profit may result through spilt Palgrave’s ’Golden Treasury’ — before milk. The person m ilking also runs this I've alw ays given her silly bows considerable risk of injury in some and collars— and she’s read It all aloud form or other. to her mother, and they loved it. Poor When the cause of kicking can be little thing! She has so few books!” assigned to vice or an acquired bad All through Marcia's speech Celia habit, the following little arrangement had put In little fluttering " A h s !” and will be found useful, and, at the same "O h s!” of excitement and Interest, and time, simple, harmless, effective, Inex­ when her friend stopped speaking, she pensive and easily applied. A strap was sitting quite on the edge of her about one Inch wide should be buckled chair. around each hind leg a little above the “ I'm a beast, and a stupid one, too. hock sufficiently tight to compress the to misjudge Myrtle s o !” she declared, hamstring. warmly, for she loved and admired The animal cannot kick, and if flies with eager intelligence all good litera­ the barrel of Bordeaux mixture. The are troublesome and cause her to ture. “And as a penance I'm going to spraying can be done quite cheaply. switch her tail, the best plan is to The cost of four sprayings is estimated give her some of my treasures.” either strap it to her leg or secure it at $1.85 per acre. This includes the But In the common light of the next to one of the straps with a piece of cost of labor also. In Vermont a trial day her generous impulse was harder cord. Use the straps every time the was conducted by one hundred farm ­ to carry out. She stood before her animal Is milked, and after three ers to test the value of this spray. The bookcase, fingering the volumes, and weeks or so omit, to ascertain wheth­ period covered five years, and the re­ wondering how she could ever bear sult was the increase of 70 per cent er a cure has been effected or not.— parting with them. A country doctor's Irish Farm ing World. in yield. The high value of Bordeaux daughter, books were her luxury. The mixture as a preventive of early blight Thackeray she had earned by endless M o l e » D e s t r o y C r o p E n e m ie s . has been proved many times, and copying of manuscripts for her father; A distinguished naturalist carefully should not be overlooked by anyone the beautiful edition of Tennyson examined the stomachs of fifteen who expects to raise a good crop of meant that she had worn shabby moles caught in different localities, potatoes. gloves for a winter; the set of Jane but failed to discover therein the Austen a w illingly renounced party slightest vestige of plants or roots. O a t s ns a P o u l t r y F o o d , frock. On the contrary, they were filled with Oats make an excellent food for the the remains of earth worms. Not sat­ Her beloved books! Now. half-heart­ poultry, providing they are of the right isfied by this fact, he shut off several edly, she built her sacrificial pile. kind. The long, slim oat, with plenty moles in a box containing sods of Then a sudden thought made her of husk or hull Is poor feed for any­ earth, on which fresh grass was grow ­ throat tighten and ache a little. Books thing, but the plump, meaty oat Is a ing, and a small cage of grubs and had always seemed very real to her, good feed for all stock, Including poul earth worms. In nine days two moles their authors living friends. Would try. devou'red 349 white worms, 193 earth her Idols feel that she loved them less Hulled oats for young chickens after well, cherished them less tenderly, If they are three or four weeks old will worms. 25 caterpillars and a mouse she gave them away? She picked up help them to make bone and muscle (skin and bones) which had been alive In the box He next gave them noth­ her copy of Lowell, and it fell open faster than any other one feed, and In twenty-four easily to "T h e Vision of Sir Launfal,” this is the most desirable element at ing but vegetables. hours two moles died from starvation. almost her dearest poem. And out of this period of growth. Another naturalist calculates that two the whole page these two lines seemed For grown or feeding fowls we have moles destroyed 20,000 white worms or to spring; at most seasons of the year fed one “W ho glveth himself with his alm3 feed of oats daily with most satisfac­ grubs in a single year. If this is cor­ rect, it is a strong argument in favor feeds three. tory results. W e have fed some oats Himself, his hungering neighbor, and after boiling them for fall and winter of multiplying rather than destroying the moles. M e!” feeding, but they were of poor quality, A \ ii r I n 1 1 o n o f t h e A p r i i l l T u n i c . T l i e \e>T S u r p l l o e F r o n t Coat. “That settles It!” she said, aloud and the boiling was to soften the hulls Many of the new overskirts arc exactly like little A winter garment with but one fastening, and that A p p l e S t o r a g e flo tia e. “Celia, you're a selfish pig! The best rather than because the boiling added aprons with bib at the top and the sides drawn around, well below the waist, seems a rather preposterous no­ This apple storage house is built In way to love the masters is to share any other value to the oats feed itself. pinafore fashion, to the hack. An apron frock Is illus tion, but many of the smartest tailored models for fall a hillside. The roof is covered with their glory with some one else.” She Boiling Is not necessary with good trated here, the material being a pernio fabric In cham­ brush and earth. A ventilator is ar­ are made in tbis way. The right front of the coat caught up a generous arm ful and ran, oats except by way of variety in feed­ pagne color. The mohair and worsted weave with u crosses the left In a surplice effect, the fastening being hatless, impetuous, to Marcia’s door. ing. The best way is to feed them tn rllky pernio finish Is light, soft a.nl entirely suitable for arranged at the hip. These loose coats, held together “Give these books to Myrtle— and I the litter, scattered well and deeply so «r a -e fu l, draped effect: of this kind, and the apron tunic only at the hip, require a master hand in the cutting in want her to keep them — with my the fowls w ill have to do considerable with its bib and shoulder straps. Is delightfully girlish order to hold their position correctly on the figure seat­ love!” she panted, and she thrust out scratching.— Agricultural Epitomist. and graceful In type The hat Is a nut brown velvet ed or standing. This princess model with the surplice the pile. Then she turned and walked In the country. model with creamy yellow ostrich tips. front and single fastening shows the new style in a very quickly away. She had given herself pleasing mnnnet. with her alms.— Youth's Companion. W retlliii« cook. No father sets his son out to of their sons and daughters. He de­ practice law or medicine without hav­ clared he would punish severely any in g studied the science of It, yet a one brought before him on such a mother will let her daughter m arry charge. without having taught her the first thing about how to run a home. It Isn't fair. It Isn't Just. It Isn’t kind to send a poor, little, helpless girl out Into the world to ruin her chances of happiness and success through Ignor «nee. She needs all the help she can Itet. and It's up to her parents to give A crust of bread helps to clean out It to her. Give the daughter a square a sticky bread pan. deni. Salt added to starch Is responsible I l t t u ' W o m e n Art* lu ilU il. for the gloss on linen when it is iron A Chicago paper gives the list of ed. Women In different cities of tffie coun­ Apply the white of an egg with a try who are known to be fond of edi­ camel’s hair brush to fly speoks on gilt tions de luxe and are often cajoled frames and they w ill disappear. out of large sums of money. One To clean pewter, wash It well with wom an Is said to have made $150.000 out of her 40 per cent commissions hot wafer, rub it with flue sand and, on such books A Chicago woman paid when dry. polish It with leather. rGlye WO R K jH A T f i he chlldn n are being ediu a ted about the dangers o f tuberculosis. During the school year just closed more than 3..700.000 o f the ............... school chil­ dren hud received such training. M U S IC IA N A M A S T E R OF W IT . Illou rraph y of E duard M a u D o irell Ilr v o n ln M a »t e r * » ( n u b ile H u m o r. In a biography of Edw ard MacDow- ell by I-awrenoe Gilman, the writer quotes some of the famous musician's witticisms. On one occasion he had been told of a performance of hls ompoaltlon, “To a W ild Rose.” played by a high-school girl on a hlgh-school piano at a hlgh-school graduation fes­ tivity. "W e ll,” MacDowell remarked, 'I suppose she pulled It up by the O n e 1 n|>roA tu hle C o w . Dairy farms are continually advanc­ ing in value, which should be regard­ ed as the part of the profits. Grain farm ing is hard on the land. Many hard run grain farms have '» e n brought back to a good state of fertili­ ty by changing to cows. W ith the case in test It will be pos­ sible to weed out the poor cheese cows on the same principle that we have used the Babcock butter test to weed out the poor butter cows. Instead of keeping cows for cheese which aver- I age 70 pounds of casein per 100 pounds of fat. we may breed cows that will produce milk containing close to ! 10 pounds of casein for 100 pounds of fat. W e need to specialize In cheese Just as intelligently and carefully is In butter production. I « mi «*lit*«, M «»men Fn rut I ii if. Mrs. \ Ictorln \\ ulhull Martin, the American widow of an English banker, h is a large English estate, which she has divided Into plots and Is trying to Induce the village women to enter into agriculture. A clubhouse for the women and Oredon Norton College, roots! where they may study the subject, are Some one sent him. about this time, also established by her to Improve the relates Mr. Humlston, a program of condition of the village women. an organ recital at which this same 'W ild Rose" was to be played. T h e C o r r e c t P r .ip n r t lim i. “H e was not pleased with the idea, The follo wing are the correct meas­ thinking doubtless of a style of per­ urements o f a woman weighing 130 formance which T o Tan a H ide. plays Schumann's pounds, uncorseted, a. ordlng to the 'Träum erei' on the great or^an dia­ Take the hide green and salt well. standard of the Greeks Waist, 27 pasons. He remarked simply that it Let It stand for thirty-six hours; then $22,000 for a set of books that cost It's a good Idea to save all soap Inches; bust. 34 Inches, upper arm. 13 reminded him of a hippopotamus wear­ take hair off with lime In the usual $f>00, certain additions having been wrappers. Smooth hot flatirons by Inches: thigh, 27> Inches; calf, 14u, way. After taking off hair let hide ing a clover leaf In his mouth." made to the books In the way of Illus- rubbing them over the soapy paper. Inches; ankle, 8 inches; hips. 38 A member of one of hls classes at soak for seven or eight days in clear ‘ rations and different fly leaves. Unbleached calico shrinks In the Inches. Columbia, finding more unoccupied running water; then scrape and clean wash. Allow an extra Inch to each space on the page of hls book, after off. For a hide of ordinary size dis­ To K «••*!» I T t m r r a Frrah. Mfiidl nig. yard in making it up, to allow for this. finishing the exercise, filled up the va- solve three pounds of alum and five of T h e pleasure of receiving a gift of Vend clothes, especially starched t oancy with rests. W hen hls book was salt In enough warm (not hot) water After washing the lamp chimney flowers Is often eclipsed by the pain ones, before sending them to the laun­ ■'returned the page was covered with to cover It. Put in hide and leave five polish It with dry salt. It makes the o f seeing them wither, and those who dry, so that when they are returned days, stirring every day. At the end remain In town during the warm glass bright and will prevent Its break- d ean and nicely folded there will be corrections— all except these bars of of that time take out and put In vessel in*. rests, which were Inclosed In a red weather are sometimes greatly exer no need to disarrange and crumple with enough clear water to cover; line and marked; If you accidentally spill Ice cream clsed as to the best way of preserving them for mending purpeaeo. "T his Is the only correct passage In then add flve pounds of clean bruised the flowers sent them by their more on a silk waist try using alcohol to red oak bark. Let this stand till de­ the exercise."— Youth's Companion. fortunate friends In the country There remove the grease blemish. It also re­ K n a m .l W a r*. sired color Is g o t; then take out, wash » r e some who content themselves with move* a candy or gutn blemish. Egg shells, roughly crushed In the In clear water and hang up. When W a l t t a t t i •Oat o t t h a W o e , . ' faithfully clipping the stalks every Ivory knife handlee that have be­ hands, are the best things for clean­ When thou hast not crossed the half dry begin working and work till «lay, while other* add to the suste come yellowed by constant washing ing enameled pans in conjunction with river, take care not to Insult the croco-. dry. Small hidee In proportion.— nance of their treasures a pinch of may usually be whitened by a rubbing soap and water. Southern Cultivator. dlle.— Hawaiian Proverb. j HOl'SE BUILT IN HILLSIDE. ranged in the top and a tile drain at the lower side to carry off water and admit cool air. Font Brood In Bees. The worst enemies of the bee are the foul brood and black brood. One or the other of these diseases are In some parts of the State, and black brood have been very bad In New York State. These diseases of bees have been carefully studied by the de­ partment in Washington, and we have some pretty definite Information on the matter. The treatment for both Is that of removing all the combs and starting the bees fresh without any contaminated honey in a new hive, and the use of the old combs for wax. F eed in g W h o l e G ra in. Bulletin No. 242 of the Michigan E x­ periment Station, offers some exact data upon the subject of feeding whole grain to cows, heifers and calves. When whole grain was fed to cows, 23 per cent was unmasticated; when fed to heifers, 10 per cent; when fed to calves. 8 per cent. Chemical analysis showed no change in competition of the unmasttcated parts, so it Is a safe assumption that the animal derlrea no benefit from grain that passe« through the dlgettlvo tract unaltered.