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RURAL HOUSEWIVES ARE TAUGHT
TO APPLY BUSINESS PRINCIPLES
WATCH FOR FIRES AT MIGHT
Forest Branch of Canadian Govern
ment Expects Good Results From
This Use of Airplanes.
Aircraft putroling tile clouds in
the dead of uight will defeat forest
tires in the great reserve* of western
Canada.
A squad of planes has
been obtained by the Lhfiminion for
estry branch. Two main flights will
be made daily over the southern Al-
lierta district«. Enough night pil
grimages will be made to spot the
smallest outbreak of fire. These
flights are made in the timbered
foothills of the Rooky mountains
west of the rich agricultural coun
try of southern Alberta, now being
rapidly settled. Besides adding pro
tection to the forest products, the
new aerial patrols will minimize
danger of fire in the vast grazing
sections of the reserves, where thou
sands of head of cattle and sheep
feed.
Aircraft patrols have been started
by the government in other forest
districts. Forestry reports, showing
Canada has 225,000,000 acres of
merchantable timber, - declare tha»
the annual loss is being greatly re
duced through aircraft service.
FINDS SAFETY IN DISTANCE
Greek Reservist in United States Jok
ingly Refuses Offer of Employ
The domestic heating and cook Only Way, Writer Aeeert», by Which
One Can Laugh at the Ad
ing department of the Consolidated
vancing Year».
Gas company, New York, states that
Bring In Tour wounded tires
“ hot water” is water at 140 degrees
I heard a wise old Irish philoso
and let me prescribe for them.
Fahrenheit. The average bath re pher say the other day, “ If you want
quires fifteeu gallons of hot water, to keep young, don’t. 1st your trou ALSO NEW TIRES FOR SALE
the ordinary laundry tub ten gal bles settle m your knees.” He ex
lons, the ordinary handbasin one gal plained like this: “ Sure ’n you
lon. The average family paying a can tell the unhappy women by the
Shop in building formerly occupied
rental of $50 or less per month uses way they lift their feet. There is
,
by Williams barber shop
fifty gallons of hot water per d a y; no spring in their .knees; they drag
when the rental is from $50 to $75 themselves about, no -force within
per month the water consumption is a-rnovin’ them.”
sixty gallons a day; a rental of $100
The form* within must lie one’ s
to $150 a month carries with it hot very own heart. Don’t put weights
water habits averaging 75 gallons a on your knees. Keep your heart
day; and those who pay more than young and free and happy. Ixok for
$150 are accustomed to use more i the good in people, in conditions, in
than one hundred gallons in a day. j surroundings, Dunn to explore a
little deeper into the soul of man.
F I N L A N D ’S N E W COINS.
Interest yourself in the heart next
to
von, and vour own troubles will
Finland is to have new coins. The
state council of Finland has author melt like icicles in the sunshine.
ized the Bank of England and the Learn to laugh with people, espe
director of the mint to make a con cially the little folk. Cultivate their
tract with the mint. Birmingham. source o f enthusiasm, for if you put
England, for 20,000,000 coins of yourself into the hands of children,
nickel-bronze, of which 10,000,00(1 their very interest will keep you
voung with them.
1 have often
are to be one-mark pieces. About
thought
that
surely
one
of God’ s
10,000,000 coins of smaller denomi
nations are made in Finland an best reasons for giving children to
nually, but as their manufacture grown-ups snd grandchildren to big
there is difficult and expensive the grown-ups is, through association
director of the mint recently visited and interest, to make them young /VVA
England to see about having the again.— Mary Brooks Picken in In
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GLASSES FITTED
spiration.
new coins made in that country.
M. J. O
’DONNELL
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ment by Constantine.
n em e
U ernviistratioii in ttu
^P repared b y th e U n ited S ta te s
m e n t o f A g r ic u lt u r e .)
D ep a rt
Home demoustratiou work, though
comparatively new, Is looked upou as
permanent, so beneficial have been
the results obtained by horns demon
It ration scents working In rural
aomes. The fundamental purpose of
this work, according to a report Just
Issued by the United States Depart
ment ef Agriculture, Is to assist the
rural housewife to apply business
principles to her dally tasks for the
purpose e f tasking the farm home as
•Aclent as the farm, thereby produc
t s a more satisfactory and |>erma-
•ent type o f rural life. The report
referred to Is Dei>artment Circular
141, which deals with the results of
home demonstration work In the 83
•erthern and western states.
■•earns Co-operative Movement.
The work actually began In August,
1914, when an agent was appointed
la Brie county, N. Y„ on state funds,
fa 1919, It became a co-operative
movement supported by federsl, state
and local funds, during that year
four agents were appointed. In 1919
the number had grown to mere than
»0 . Then war emergency funds were
cut off. and In the following year the
■umber dropped to 288. Although In
this one year the force of workers
ts well as state and federal funds
«rare reduced nearly one-half, the ap
propriations made by tha local people
fisr home demonstration work nearly
doubled, and agenta were retained In
direct response to requests from the
people whom they served, according
to the circular
■ome demonstration agents Hlford
an avenue by which the state agricul
tural colleges and the United Stst«*
Department of Agriculture offer the
practical results of tlielr research and
experiments In home economics to
housewives of the country These
agents encourage the rural house
wives to bring from their store of
practical knowledge and experience
the lessons they have lesmed In home
mansgement that will he valuable to
ether women In the community, and
•o help to make this Information avail
able to all. The home demonstration
agent la a teacher who makes liberal
LONG-TAILED FOWLS PRIZED
Bird* W ith M xrvatou» F eather» Care
After serving five years in the
Creek army, with rank of first ser
geant, receiving his discharge last
January and coming to Marysville
three weeks ago, where he obtained
work in a local cafe, Edward Kallas
received a letter from the Greek war
department informing him that his
das« had been called into service
against the Turks and requesting
that he report in Athens as soon as
possible, says the Ban Francisco
Chronicle.
Kallas immediately wrote a per
sonal letter to King Constantine as
follows:
“ Dear King: Your letter received
and contents noted. After serving
live years in the army I have done
my hit. As the walking is not good
between Marysville and New York
and the sw-iniming between New
York and Athens is worse, and ow
ing to the fact that you did not send
transportation, 1 will he compelled
to refuse your kind offef to come
back and mop up the Turks. How
ever, you have my best wishes and
I hojte you do well.”
m tcher.
use of practical demonstration rather j
than tjie lecture or text book.
The most successful home demon
stration agents, according to the clr
cular, aim to train local leaders, who,
by putting the best practices Into their
own homes, extend the Instruction to j
larger numbers of women. At least
two-thirds o f the agent’s time Is si>ent
with farm women in their homes, dis
cussing the varied problems of house
keeping and other matters In which
farm wom-n are Interested. Aside
from Interesting women In better
home management, modern conveni
ences, food production snd preserva
tion, better food for the family, home
nursing, and the selection and making
of clothing, the agents are devoting
their efforts to promoting community
enterprises.
Three types of such enterprises are
developed: The economic type which
Includes food preservation, the hot
school lunch, co-operative laundries,
co-operative buying and selling asso
ciations, labor-saving devices, and sal
vage shops. The social type Is con
cerned with such things as recreation
centers, civil Improvements, and rest
rooms.
The educational type em
braces farm home tours, libraries and
magazine circles and the like.
Local Aid Needed.
SAVING CAR FARE.
A county organization In extension
work which desires the appointment
A downtown dairy lunch had been
o f a home demonstration agent should
first communicate with the extension having very good sales on a special
service at the stale agricultural col sandwich, relates the Indianapolis
lege, or with the agricultural agent In
News.
It was just a sliced hard
the county, the circular suggests. It
ts necessary for the local organiza boiled egg and ham between two
tion or county to give some financial pieces of bread, but it looked good.
support to the home demonstration
No one had ever questioned the val
agent, though.the greater part is sap-
ue of it, so many paid 20 cents
piled by the state snd federal funds.
apiece for the -andwiches very will
’*’0 supply that share which Is re
quired of the local organization there ingly.
have been organized within the past | But oue day a waiter noticed that
two years In the majority of the 33 a girl who hud been in the habit of
northern and western states what Is buying one every day at lunch, was
popularly known as the “ family” or
buying just a plain ham sandwich
“ new” farm bureau. This Is an asso
clntton o f people Interested In rural ' which was just 10 cents and a hard
And
affairs, the membership of which com boiled egg which was 5 ceiitti
prises men, women, and young people as she sat down at the table whore
who generally pay a uniform member there were a number of other girls,
ship fee o f $1 a year.
she said: “ Here’s where 1 save mv
carfare home tonight by slicing an
A drop of printer’s ink will ’•tig-”
make a million think.
fully Looked After In Museum
at Tokyo, Japan.
In the Py*no park museum, To
kyo, Japan, there are three fowls
with tail feathers from 13 to 15 feet
long. Only the oocks have feathers
of such startling length. The hens
are rather ooirmonplace in appear
ance
The long-tailed fowls settled in
Japan before the Christian era.
H ey are probably an offshoot of a
Korean variety which sprang from
the jungle fowl of southern Asm
Why do the tail foatlicrs grow to
ouch length ? Every chicken moult*
once a year. Chicken growers say
that sometime* a part of the chicken
akipe thia moulting season. By a
process of painstaking »election and
breeding, say* the Popular Science
Monthly, those fowls in which tail
moulting feamm i* suppressed will
ultimately give rise to a strain with
long tail feather»
These Japanese rooks are fed. al-
inoet stuffed, in a way that would
astonish Amerwan barnyard chick-
rna. They are not allow ed to move
about freely; if they did so, the pre
cious tail feathers would break.
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M U S T W E A R ’C H U T E S .
The government of Switzerland
has passed a law requiring aerial
passenger carrying companies to pro
vide parachute life packs for all pas
sengers. This legislation follows a
similar action by Holland officials,
who several months ago established
a national precedent by requiring
all aviation companies to carry life
packs for both jiilots and passengers.
LAB O R W A S T E D .
They have produced a pink daf
fodil in England and it was ex
hibited at th'e annual show of the
Royal Horticultural society.
But
who wants a pink daffodil?
Twenty years ago American in
dustries consumed about five hun
dred thousand horsepower; today
they require more than twenty mil
lion horsepower. Half a century
ago the horse himself was tremen
dously relied upon, but the term
“ horsepower” was not especially fa
miliar. Now the horse is not de
pended upon the way he once was,
but in dropping into less prominence
he has left his strength as a unit of
measuring the boundless energy of
the new giant, not made of flesh
and blood.— North American.
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