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TEN0BS WHILE YOU WAIT. Industry That Has Thriven Since Jean De Reszke Gave It a Start. TO» Suppress That Nervous Laugh. A musical laugh is a rare gift; hearty one is infectious; but if you are incapable of either, suppress a lapgh that means nothing. The woman who really laughs is a joy to those around her. It may not possess a pitch that delights a musicianly ear; it may have infectious little notes that do not stand for harmony; but if it is real and joy ous it will make all those who hear it smile. The laugh that is annoying is the one Without meaning. It is a nervous ripple that is of tqn used as a period, or an exclamation point. It is placed at the ending of every sentence, and takes from the spoken word any mean ing or emphasis it might have. Many women who do it are not conscious of it. They are far from silly women They have poise and sense, and are not as easily confused as one would judge by the futile laughter they give after jtheir sentences. If. this idea impresses you at all, watch' your own style of talking when outside the family circle and intimate friends’. You may not be given to laughter, but again you’ may find that you unconsciously punctuate your most commonplace sentences with a laugh that is as artificial as your back puffs. If you do this, stop it. This noise, which is a giggle in girls, an inane laugh in women, is the result of thoughtlessness. The remarkable sound, given to man alone, called laughter, should be used only to express mirth. When it is not spontaneous it. is not laughter, arid the men who write dictionaries should give It another name. Giggle is the only substitute so far, but it does not desig nate. that insipid, mirthless sound that hundreds of women permit themselves. Corset Does Not Pinch. A corset that can be hooked with out pinching the body and tearing the underwear to bits is that invented by an Illinois woman. The advantage of this is derived from the fact that the hooks are located just to one. side of the lacing and are prevented from in juring either flesh or clothing by a flap ex tending under them. In most corsets the steels and hooks ’extend down the center, and in press ing the hooks and’ eyes together.; it is HO uncommon thing to pinch a ridge of flesh between them or tear a gar ment. With the stays shown in the illustration this annoyance is eliminat ed. They lace down the center and the hooking arrangement is to»one side. Underneath the hooking device Is a shield which presents a perfectly fiat surface at all times to the body sind no matter how hard it is to get the corset together, there is never any ■danger of squeezing or injuring the flesh or clothing in the operation. Grain Smuts, The corner stone of opera is the ten or, and tenors are scarcer than four- leaf clovers Comic operas are now written with baritone heroes for that reason, the Brooklyn Eagle says, but the great operas were written when the disappearance of the tenor had not been dreamed of, and tenors must be had to sing in them; else no opera. THREE LATE STYLES. Hence a tenor voice is a surer and often a larger source of income than a gold mine. Opera managers go up and down the world listening to cab men, truck drivers, old clo’ venders and the singers of popular songs in the cheap resorts, in the hope of hear ing a voice that can be developed into an operatic tenor. For heretofore ten ors, like the poets, have been born and not made. The manager’s best chance was to find such a voice before his. ri vals and pay for its education. But Jean De Reszke changed all that. He sang for years as a not es pecially conspicuous baritone in Eu rope. He was a good enoiigh artist, but nobody thought of calling him great. Then a Paris teacher, adding two or three notes to the top of his voice, in a few months transformed fcfcl De Reszke from a singer at $2,500 a month to one drawing $2,500 a night. Since his transformation the musi cal world has dreamed of raising bar itones into tenors as the alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead to gold. And now a New York teacher has done the trick. Rudolf Berger, who has long been one of the baritones of the Berlin opera, was the subject of the experiment. On Tuesday night he re appeared in Berlin, after a year’s study here, as a tenor and sang Lo hengrin, with what thej cable reports to be great success. The audience is said to have gone wild over the suc cess of. the singer and his teacher, and no wonder. If that could be . done with other baritones the problem of an opera for every city would be solved. Probably it cannot, more than once or twice in a generation, but that will not prevent a lot of ambitious teachers from trying it. Presently we shall see advertisements, “Tenors made in the off season,” as we now see :he signs of the emergency tailors. Rose Beaver Hat with a Scarf of Satin and Marabout, a Scarf and Is a great idea—-if it will Work. Muff of Gray Chiffon and Ermine', and a Hat and Muff of Pleated Bose Silk and Pur. ' » »11111 gw ■ r it deserves consideration. It is per fectly possible that women may hav'e the largest rights where they have the smallest reverence. And if this reverence of men for women be really lacking, it is certain that the respect of women for men will fail also. And when the relation between men and women shall be thus degraded, noth ing can save the whole fabric of life from a process of swift deterioration. —Chicago Examiner. lifts high enough so that you can see. Where to stitch. Put the part of the article to be mended in an embroidery hoop, place under needle and stitch back and forth, toward and from you, till it is filled with thread one way. Then turn and sew across the threads till entirely filled. Do not turn the work at end of each row of stitching, but draw it back and forth, running machine as fast as you wish. Iq case of a jagged tear, draw edges together with basting thread before inserting in hoop. Fattening Hog«. The hog is an omniverous animal, and needs “roughage” and green feed for his best health and growth. A cer tain amount of grain feed is needed to grow hogs with the greatest profit, and still more is necessary to fatten and fit them for market. When young animals have an abundance of range with a good supply of nitrogenous foods, like alfalfa, clover, vetches and cow peas, corn makes a valuable addi tion to the ration, but should not be given in excess, and will usually be found more profitable if mixed with shorts, bran or other feed combining a large proportion of protein. For young pigs bran is hot so good as shorts and ground cow peas may be used in the place of the latter when the price exceeds ‘$20 per ton. Feeding for the finish should not begin more than ten or twelve weeks before the hogs are to be sold. For the last six or eight weeks corn is un doubtedly the best grain, as the feed consumed during this time greatly in fluences the quality of the meat. Hogs take on flesh rapidly during the first weeks of heavy feeding, but longer feeding means slower gains. Quick work pays in fattening as well as in growing hogs, and when- the animals are on good feed and fail to make a gain of at least one pound daily they should be sold or butchered. Market your hogs at 6 or 8 months of age, at which time they should weigh 200 to 250 pounds. A greater per cent of profit is secured than if you keep them until 10 or 12 months old, because you avoid 60 to 120 days of daily animal waste, However, a hog which is made to weigh 300 pounds at 1 year is quite profitable. A dangerous parasite of many of the cereal plants is the fungus that pro duces in the grain or head what is known as smut. There are several well known kinds of smut, each of which is caused by a distinct species' of the fungus. The greatest loss from smuts in this country is from the stinking smut of wheat and the loose smut of* oats. A considerable loss is also due to the loose smuts of barley and wheat, which are more difficult to control and prevent. They are widely distributed, and though they occur usually in small quantities the damage in the aggregate is large. They often are entirely un noticed on account of their earliness and the absence of any conspicuous sign of them at harvest time. The stinking smut of wheat trans forms only the kernels into smut balls which do not break until the wheat is threshed arid often remain intact in the threshed grain. The loose smuts of barley, on the other hand, early dis charge their spores, which are blown off oy the wind as soon as the smutted head comes out of the leal sheath; they infect the plant in the flowering stage and enter the embryo inside the ovary before the latter ripens into seed. An infected seed developes a smutted plant the following year. The most successful method thus far found for preventing these smuts is a. hot-water treatment of the seed. This treatment is described in Bureau of Plant industry bulletin 152, entitled • “The Loose Smuts of Barley and Wheat,” recently issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. The bulletin is a report of recent re searches into the life histories of these smuts and the'determination of meth ods for their prevention. Ingenious Hay Rack Lifter. It. very often happens that One wishes to remove the rack from the wagon when , there is no one to assist. This may be very easily done with the device illustrated herewith. '’‘The four supporting poles are set in the ground at a sufficient distance apart to admit of driving between them with the rack. There are a number of hooks on the side of each, sufficient to make TeD&peraments. The physician of a former genera tion used to talk much of the “tem A Quick Lunch, perament” of his patients, that is to Lunch at a railroad station mearib, say, the predominant type of physical for some people, two pieces of half constitution possessed .by each. He raw dough, called bread; a sample of studied this permanent temperament butter hidden beside a small scrap of fully as carefully as he did the dis partially cooked ham that won’t stay ease temporarily present before, de The cuirass has suddenly become a inside of the sandwich and won’t come ciding upon the line of treatment to fitted garment of silk elastic, smooth out. And the description is not com- be adopted. as a glove from neck to wrist and hip plete without the admission that it is MJ Even to-day, although the physician “grabbed” and “bolted” while the speaks less of temperaments and line. MAN HANDLE BIG BACK. The newest sleeveless coat is cut clock hand jumps frorii minute to min- diatheses, and perhaps would be at a Health and Beauty Hints. out generously under the arms and ute. It doesn’t sound nice, and the loss to tell the names by which they it possible to lift the rack a little at The woman Who exercises can more the sides are held together by cords description ought to be enough to in were formerly designated, he by no a time by means of the poles, as il safely indulge in rich foods, fat meats, instead of bands and straps. sure a well developed case of indiges- I means ignores the physical tendencies lustrated by the dotted lines. There is1 sweets and pastry than she' who leads of his patients. From the viewpoint no need of a complicated block and The fichu of Marie Antoinette folds tion. a sedentary life. of' temperament, one may regard the, tackle when such a simple device is so round the shoulder, forms a sleeve, Hat for Traveling;. effective.—Frank Monroe in Farm and Forcing food is one of the surest crosses in front and'ties at the back, If a woman is going away only for human family as divided: into five Home. roads to dyspepsia. Except when not concealing much of the figure. a few days,' so that her baggage is great classes, although few belong in normal health the average person Best Type of Milch Cows. The outline of the Watteau plait limited, it is decreed that she may solely to one type. Mpst persons ‘have should skip a meal occasionally when grows almost a familiar sight, Iti is A cow with her second or third: calf wear a large hat. a, mixture of two or more, being classi not hungry. the train. But fied rather by the one which predom- is the most desirable of all, and this belted in or allowed to fall loosely, ac us undoubtedly the most profitable age Eyes which have become inflamed cording to the gown and the occasion. medium sized Inates. The first of these temperaments is to buy them. As milkers' and breed from exposure to the sun can have the small hats are Some charming old-world frocks are bloodshot condition quickly reduced by carried out in soft taffetas, shot with best for the oc the, lymphatic or phlegmatic. In this ers', they have all their best days in bathing them for five minutes in water three' or four pale colorings, such, for casion. The large the individuals are of a quiet, rather front of them, and with sufficient time as hot as is comfortable. hats are hard to Inert, disposition. They' move slowly, to pay handsomely. Young and old instance, as mauve, pink and peri Biliousness should be fought in the winkle blue. pack, and this is but they move surely. They are •'cows are very distinct in appearance. the reason so many usually dependable people, true to The former have an unmistakable ap first stages. Try regulating diet. Take Leather hats promise to be particu of them are worn their word, and faithful to perform the pearance of fullness«of flesh and coat, glass of hot water half-hour before larly popular with the traveler. They while the old ones are more or less on the train, the duties assigned to them. each meal and at bedtime. In either are to be had in patent leather as well smaller ones being' A second type, in many ways the shrunk. The teeth give an indication morning or evening glass squeeze juice as suede, and in a wide range of ing packed away. direct opposite of the first, is •the of age, and the horns are often looked of half a lemon. TBAVELING HAT. shapes and colors. A chick little nervous temperament. .These persons to as a guide, the young having smooth Do not neglect, the value of fruit in The modified kimono, which is the are quick in their movements, ener hofn's, while those of the aged are improving the complexion. Nothing old wrapper with a Japanese touch in French hat, admirably suited for trav getic in work and in play, strenuous, wrinkled. If cross-breeds are bought, eling. It is, burnt straw, trimmed with equals the juice of oranges and lemons the sleeve and banded edge around the but often without staying power. What get them with the greatest tendency to clear up the skin and brighten eyes. neck and downward, remains a fa band and bow of black velvet, put on they acomplish they accomplish quick toward the best breed the cross has Three deep-, as indicated in sketch. The latter must b^. diluted and taken | vorite for bed-room wear. been secured from. Cows with a male purple roses nestlev close to edge of ly.- ■without sugar, a half lemon in a glass { The third type id the .gouty, san or bull type of head are rarely good The center parting of the hair with narrow brim on left side. of water. guine, or rheumatic. The ^individuals milkers. The head should be refined, the wide Racamier chignon and wide Perfect cleanliness of the teeth is puffs at the sides comports well with of * this group are of florid complexion, : neck thin, forequarters wide, square Moonlight Sore Eyes. most essential and can be secured by the big millinery of the day. Women frank and jovial disposition, good' and robust, with deep, broad thighs. Moonlight is so intense at times in a thorough brushing in the morning with small, delicate features find it Cuba thaï it causes sore eyes, and the eaters and sleepers, and “never sick;” and after each meal and using an especially becoming. Value of Skim Milk for Hens. natives go about with umbrellas and but in later life they pay for theii antiseptic lotion. Dental floss should Systematic tests made by the West paralunas. This affection is cured, ac previous health by gouty . attacks, and the cuirass gown Sashes worn with be drawn between the teeth after each Virginia Experiment Station prove of the moyen age are fastened so that cording to Frank Steinhart, former When attacked by serious illness, they that skim milk is a valuable food for meal and before retiring. are likely to succumb quickly. their flat folds lie close upon the low consul general to Cuba, by washing the s You must not stop laughing, or you er edge of the cuirass, while the bow, eyes with moonlight-fallen dew. These Persons of the bilious temperament laying hens. The first test cover.ed 122 days. .The will be like the woman who at an tied to the right of the center back, dews have been foünd to have radio- are poor assimilators of food. They advanced age had not a line or wrinkle suffer from Intestinal indigestion, twenty-two hens fed the skim milk, among the lower plaits of the active and electric properties. falls in her face, but whose countenance which leads to repeated attacks of laid 1,244 eggs, as compared with 996 Cutting Soap. was entirely expressionless. Dreading skint. “biliousness;” all the processes of se laid by twenty-two hens fed a m^sh - Soap Improves with keeping, so it cretion and excretion are sluggishly wet with water. these same lines and wrinkles, she Keeping* Table Linen, In another test sixty hens fed skim had all her life schooled her features In keeping the table linen that is always should be brought in large performed. to express neither joy nor sorrow. The fifth temperament is the strum .milk laid 862 eggs in thirty-seven days, not in daily use many a housekeeper quantities. Before storing it, however, is annoyed to find that it has yellowed it is well to cut the bars into conveni ous. These people have poor digestion as compared with 632 eggs laid by a Good Work of Women. badly and must be washed again before ent pieces, for this is most easily done 1 and defective reparative power, little smiilar lot fed no milk. Other tests gave about the came The mayor and councilmen of Des it can go on the table again. when it is soft. The cutting may be outs and scratches healing slowly; Moines have asked the Civic Commit This can be overcome if, after being done with a piece of string or wir' they are always “catching” whatever comparative results. The conductors of these experiments tee of the women’s clubs of that city laundered, the cloths and napkins are more easily than with a knife. Contagious disease is about; they lack estimate under prevailing conditions, to present to them their plan for a carefully wrapped in deep blue paper firmness of texture; the glands in the Waiting; Yet. •city beautiful, and it is possible that or in a sheet that has been heavily neck, in the armpits and in the groins with eggs selling at 20 to 25 cents *a Man was before the woman made, dozen, that the skim milk had a feed the first step will be the .engaging of blued. frequently become enlarged. And sat anticipating; a civic expert, who will consult with The treatment of the same disease Ln ing value of V/z to 2 cents a quart. And she has kept him ever since Mending; with Machine. the city authorities and the ladies, persons of different temperaments Just waiting, waiting, waiting. Table linen and tears in clothing can —Judge. They’ll Want the Wood. <md a plan be formed. often varies greatly, .and hence the be darned better and in one-tenth the The forest famine is not to be imme Importance of the study and power to Gloves with. Circles. -Lack of Reverence for Women, time it takes to do it by hand, It diate, said Mr. Pinchot at Denver. “We The smart glove that many fashion , recognize the five distinct tempera- have forests in plenty for the present .Mr. Edwin Markham’s observation needs a double-thread machine, as it . tnents. — Youth ’ s Companion. that the chief social shortcoiplng of cannot be done on a chain-stitch ma able women are wearing has the back generation, and perhaps for the next, the United States may be our increas chine. Use fine thread, about 100 or heavily embroidered with circles in Occasionally a man is so absent but in the years to come there will be ing lack of reverence for women will 120 for table linen. Remove the foot colored silk. This is In the color, il minded that he pays his gas bill the famine a-plenty if we don’t at this time H- Lnot tone» as the kid of the glovcu fu>t meet with general acceptance. But of the machine, or leave it toy before it is due. take the stitch in time.” ffids and fëmçter Dang-er of Barbed Wire. Barbed/ wire is all right, for stock cattle and makes a cheap fence, but it is hard to construct such a fence to turn hogs, and, owing to its danger ous characteristics, it is out of the question for horses, and even for milch cows. With the woven Wire fence the post expense is not so great as that of the other kinds, as they need not be so heavy, and may be set a good distance apart. Heavy end posts are an abso lute necessity, and they should be set in the ground not less than 3% to 4 feet deep. If, the line posts are 20 to 25 feet apart; it is a very good idea to have every fourth post of good size, longer than the others, to allow extra setting. In setting end posts dig a big hole, put the post in, and begin to tamp and ram from the very bottom, not filling it too fast, so as to get the earth about the post packed from the bottom to the top. The “dead man” plan of bracing a post is perhaps bet ter than any other. The “dead man” is a short post^or heavy stone buried about 3 feet deep, 4 feet from the end posts, and with a cable made of plain galvanized wire to the post top and around the dead man the post can be held for years as firmly as when set. Be sure to use galvanized <, wire, as black Wire will not last more than six or seven years. A 30-inch high woven . wire fence, two smooth' No. 10 arid one barbed wire at the very top, makes a good fence for any kind of stock, and can be put up for less than 40 cents per rod, exclusive of posts.—Lexington Herald. Destroying Quack Grass. I often see directions given for kill- ing out quack grass, but I think they are all inferior to the method that I employ, I would never try to drag out the roots with harrow or rake, be- cause not all of the roots will be gath ered and those left will soon fill the soil again. The pest can most easily be killed right where it- is, the roots furnishing an abundance of plant food, by using a double action cut-away har row. Now, please don’t think that any kind of a harrow will do, because it will not. If you rely on any except the one I have »mentioned you will be disappointed. I have used cne to destroy quack grass many times, and am sure of what 1 am writing. If you plow before using the harrow, run the’ plow shallow—just deep enough to turn over the quack roots, bottom side up; let lay thus for a week and then go over the field with the double ac tion cutaway harrow; then after a few days repeat the harrowing and keep at it, going over the field at in tervals of a few days until the pest is all destroyed. It is no use to think that if the field be gone over, perhaps a dozen times in one day, the quack will be killed, for the sun, as well as the harrow, must' get in its work, /The way to do is to go over the field once, then wait a few days for the roots to dry and repeat the operation. By being thorough in this the grass can be destroyed and a crop grown the same year if commenced early in the spring.—F. H. Dow in Agricultural Epitamist. Protecting; Birds. With very few exceptions, birds art> most valuable live stock on the farm. Even the so-called grain-eating birds earn their right to a home and pro tection by reason of the vast quanta ties of weed seeds they devour and the number of insects they destroy. Quails and meadow larks eat more in sects than vegetable food and a very large percentage of the latter is com posed of weed seeds. A single farmer cannot protect: the birds on his place against all kinds of destructive ver min, including the town hunter, but he can combine with his neighbors, post every farm and secure his rights by helping to secure the rights of his brother farmers. Now is a good time to begin.—Kansas Farmer.