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WOOD AND
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By Adelaide Bjrd
NO, IT won't be o very long until
warm days make the appearance of
a tray of iced drinks a very welcome
sight indeed. And if you wish to be
- artistic and practical at the same time
' tn your entertaining: you will want one
of these lovely wood and wicker trays,
which, nothing: can hurt and which fit
In so well wth the character 6f sum
mer furnishings. They are lovely for
porch and cottage use, but for that mat
ter they will fit In with an informal
-' scheme of furnishings all the year
around.
They are not to be made in an after
noon, , however, though a great amount
of time Is not required in their manu
facture ; sufficient coats of paint and a
. drying and rubbing down process be
tween each is what will make them
works of art instead of mere botches.
' , Ton must begin with a round board
about half an inch in thickness and 14
Inches in diameter. It could be oblong
, or square or oval, but as both the pat
terns given are round, the round tray
Is suggested for this article. The next
process is the weaving of the willow
border. It would take too much space
to the full directions for this but
any student of basketry could easily
fashion it, while even the amateur could
follow the directions from a book on
basketry to be found in any library. If
you can't find the directions write to
us. Inclosing a stamped self-addressed
envelope,, and we will send them to you.
With the tray made, it is time to give
It the first coat of paint. For most pur
poses the tray with a neutral back
ground, a gray or a gray-green is more
serviceable. One of the trays photo
graphed has a bright yellow background
and you can imagine how effective it
is if the' motif is artistically managed,
design has been carefully traced to
the exact center of the tray you will
fill in the outline wltb oil colors from
tubes like artists work with. Try not
to have your colors so thin that they
run over the outline nor so thick that
they cake and do not line smooth. It may
be necessary to thin out theube paint
with a bit of turpentine. For the ama
teur it is better to buy a tube of each
color needed, rather than to try to mix
the shades from a few rudimentary
colors.
Supposing you have selected the bou
quet design, you will want a color
scheme. Is your furniture covered with
cretonne?
tion from that. One beautiful
was painted a flat erav.
Little Known
Vegetables
Some of Best
By Edwin Fagn
The Well Known British Novelirt, In th London
Mail
SINCE the beginning of the war women
have proved pretty conclusively that
there are comparatively few men's Jobs
they cannot master.
On the land, on- the railways, in the
workshops, amid the vehicular traffic
of the crowded streets, in a hundred
new. unaccustomed occupations, alike
exacting and dangerous, they are doing
work now that only a little while ago
seemed to require air a man's strength
and skill and nerve.
But - perhaps what most amases busi
ness and professional mqn is that they
should have "made good" a clerks.
It may be urged at first sight that
there is nothing . particularly difficult
or arduous about a clerk's work that
it ought to be as easy to wield a pen
as a needle, to manipulate a typewriter
as a sewing machine. And that is true
enough, I dare say. Only that is not the
point.
Before the war there was consider
able prejudice among business and pro
fessional men against the idea of women
acting as 'clerks. They were never
employed in banks, in solicitors' offices,
or, I think, in the offices of insurance
companies. And doubtless there were
many other offices from which they
were as rigorously excluded. They
were cheaper than men clerks, and it
had never been demonstrably proved
that they were Jess efficient. No; the
obiectlon to . them was that they were
not so trustworthy as men, that most
of them could not be relied on to keep
a secret, and that therefore it was un
wise to allow them the least Insight
into the details of private and confi
dential transactions.
Speaking at first hand, from my own
eight years' experience of a solicitor's
office. I can say without any paltering
that It was thought most of them would
be sure to gossip about our clients'
affairs. We irnagined them as discuss
ing with their friends and neighbors
of their own family, all manner of
family scandals and other delicate Issues
that we men were in honor bound to
say nothing about.
For it is a mistake to suppose, when
you have breathed your Innermost soul
Into a solicitor's ear. that what you
have told him goes no further. It goes
no further than the outer walls of his
office. But no solicitor could ever carry
on his business properly who tried to
withhold his clients' secrets from the
knowledge of his clerks, even if It were
possible for him to do so. And what
Is true of a solicitor's office is more or
less true of every other office.
If solicitors' and other clerks told only
a tithe of all they, know about what
Is hidden not only from the public but
also from Intimate connections of the
MILLION WORKERS
. ARE ILL ALL
parties concerned the whole fabric of
society would totter to its fall. And
I have never heard or known of any
clerk betraying this trust in his integ
rity. It is a tradition among clerks as
sacred as the "kiss and, never tell" tra
dltlon of every true man.
But when women are kissed or see
others kissing they often do telL
Would they be any more reticent
about business affairs than they are
about love affairs? It was generally
assumed that they would not. And so
they were never permitted to enter the
office of any business or professional
man to whom the most Intimate self
revelations and inviolable confidences
were the mere commonplaces of his
everyday routine until the war
broke out and it was found Impossible
to do without them even as clerks.
And now they are everywhere. There
are very few offices, large or small. In
which you will not find at least one
woman clerk taking the place of a
former man clerk. They are the re
pository of all kinds of momentous
secrets Just as their male predecessors
were. They know Just as much and
that Is, as a rule, all there Is to know
about what happens behind the scenes
as I and my fellow clerks knew in the
old days. And they have proved them
selves Just as trustworthy.
During this war there have been be
trayals of faith, breaches of confidence.
There have been some ugly scandals
and exposures. There have been cases
of blackmail and bribery. But In none
of these cases has the name of any
woman clerk appeared. Instances of
venality among women clerks have
-been, and are still, as hard to seek as
ever they were among men clerks,
i Thus it exploded the old base gibe:
"If you want to tell a secret, don't
telephone or telegraph, tell a woman."
May Day Next
Fete Day to
Be Celebrated
By Pame Csrttejr
AWKEK from Wednesday is another
special day to be celebrated, and a
very pretty pustom Is the keeping of
May day. As usual, we are indebted to
our English cousms for the Ideas hero
suggested. If the day be fair and an
afternoon party for children is to be
given, have a May pole erected on the .
lawn and equip it with streamers of
delicately colored cambric with which
to wind the pole.
For a table centerpiece have a small
pole with an embroidery ring fastened
on the top. and from this hang the rib
bons, which may extend to each place,
the ends being tied to small basket
filled with spring flowers and the place
card tied to the handle. This makes a
most effective decoration, and one only
suited to this day.
Lines from Tennyson's "For I Am to
Be Queen of the May, Mother." may
be written on the card, or the poem
may be read aloud. Send the Invitations
by special messenger In tiny baskets,
which may be left on the door knob.
The gtvisg of gifts on May day Is an
old custom. The gifts are usually In
a box of fragrant blossoms. What a
pretty way for a lover to send a token
to his sweetheart hidden in a mass of
violets! Mayday brings another op
portunity for sending gifts of fruit or
flowers to our friends who are 111 or
shut In. .
TIME
flowers Of the bounuet wrre a rather
Select then your paint and give it the ; bright blue with yellow centers, both the
first coat, wood and willow both. Let (large open flower and the buds. All
it dry and then rub it down with a! the leaves and stem nH r.anrr.r
THERE are a few early vegetables,
not well known to. the average per
son, which are of decided food value
and can be cultivated profitably by the
amateur gardener in thrs season's at
tempt. These are mostly vegetables of
a green and succulent variety.
One of these is okra, grown for its
Then you may get lnspira- j green pods, which are used in soups and
iray I mews. it. is cuiuvaiea mucn UKe corn.
The 1 The seed is sown in late spring after the
rtaste of srround numlca stone, and water.
Give it the second coat and repeat the
rubbing down process. The tray is ready
then to be decorated.'
Tou have a choice of two patterns,
the conventional bouquet and the bas
ket of flowers. The latter is a stencil
and may be treated that way if pre
ferred. The first is not quite a stencil
and will have to be transferred to the
wood with a dull carbon paper. Tou
may find this as easy a way to work,
with the basket design, too. When the
CASCARETT
were a rich dark green. The bowknot
at the bottom gave some life to the de
sign by being painted a bluish purple.
The basket of flowers can be treated
even gayer. Make the basket a rich
brown, with lines of yellow, the flowers
in Boft pinks, purples and reds. Experi
ment first on paper until you get the
combinations you like. Put- the design
on a green background.
ground has become thoroughly warm, in
drills three inches apart and one inch
deep. Later the plants are thinned to 10
Inches apart. The okra requires a rich
soil.
The leek is another vegetable used
for stews and soups that is not so well
known among Americans. It is sown
in drills early in the season, and trans
planted when the plants are six inches
high, into rows one foot apart, allow
ing six inches to each plant. Plant as
deep as possible and, as the vegetable
crows, draw thA earth nn armmi ft an
When the design is painted, a coat of j that it will not blanch. The advantage
a..crvruoi vurmsn is tne last step of ; of the leek is that it may be left out all
the process. There are some people who i winter.
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treated" with flat paint Then thl . Artichokes are used for food on the aUse it Included' rural weU
IN HIS report on the conservation of rate of sickness with age. as well as
national vitality Fisher states that an increased amount of illness among
there are always 3,000,000 sick persons females. The average number of days
In the United States, of whom 1,000.000 of disability per annum per capita' of
are in the working period of life, and population was found to be 7.8 days for
that about three quarters are actually white males and 10.2 fpr white females,
workers earning an average of $700 a i .. .. .
year, the loss tnrougn stcKness oeing
over $500,000,000. To this is added an- t
other $500,000,000 as the expense of med- :.
icines. medical attendance, special foods.
etc., bringing the total cost of illness,
as estimated by Fisher, up to about i
$1,000,000,000 a year.
One half of this loss is preventable.
The preventable loss from death is esti-
mated at $1,000,000,000, which, added to '
the estimated preventable loss from ill
ness, $500,000,000, gives Vt billions as
the preventable loss from disease and ; '
deatn in tnis country, l nese ngures are i
estimates conjectures and yet they j
probably are not far from the actual
facta.
7.4 for colored males and ll.J for col
ored females. These results agree with
the best data available as to the num
ber of days of disability per person of
working age. The German figures for
1913 give 8 8 days for males and 9.8 days
for females insured In the sickness so
cieties of that country.
If from 2.5 to 3 per cent of the work
ing population are constantly sick, this
Is equivalent- to a loas of about nine
working days per person per year of 100
working days for the entire population.
This rate applied to the whole coun
try gives figures that are staggering.
No monetary estimates of disability are
needed to emphasise this enormous loss
of working time in the productive years
of life.
American sailors last year deposited
close to a million dollars In the branch
bank maintained at the Brooklyn navy
T. H.C A. building.
A recent survey of the sickness in
North Carolina Indicates that they are
not exaggerated. North Carolina was
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eans. TXil t tLJname V f" custom does not widely prevail.. They
seatf of nllnL whh i r,a "ta,n ,n" ucceed best when the plants are bought
of taste PalnU'nlch ,s matter from the seed man and then set out. in-
stead of starting from the seed itself.
But don t despair if you have not the For all the kohlrabi is an old1 plant. It
v,. lu mane me wnoie tray. The de- i is generally a curiosity to most persons,
signs are still valuable. You can buy It makes a delicious dish when fried,
a tin tray at a cheap novelty store, Its culture is comparatively simple. Sow
enamel it black or white or any color ; In drills. : and when the plants are six
and use either design upon it in oil ! inches high, transplant to rows. The
colors or enamels. You can also make( salsify or oyster plant is well known
use of the designs for the new painted! to vegetarians. It resembles carrots
furniture, but f you are in no hun;J and parsnips in culture, doing best In
wait a few weeks and some designs , a light, highly fertilized soil. It is hardy
mf especially for painting furniture J and may be left out all winter for use in
will be given to you. The new artistic the early spring. If wanted for winter
iwu are so lovei-v ami an a, oil-..
without any shading, but Just filling in
a transferred outline, that the merest
amateur can have all the pretty things
she wants from a few designs like those
given here. .
Birds Cross Ocean
H. F. Witherby, who is the editor of
British Birds, has since 1910 had 75,000
birds marked in the hope, of learning,
something about their travels. A swal
low ringed in Lancashire was found
seven months later : at Grahamstown,
South Africa, 600 miles away. A
"lesser black backed gull." ringed at
the Fame islands, off Northumberland,
was found eight months later ar St.
Louis, Senegal, and a blackbird, ringed
in London, was found in -Moscow a few
weeks afterward.
use, it ought to.be taken up and stored.
Salsify, when boiled and fried m cakes,
very closely "resembles oysters.
' Kale and collards are both a kind of
cabbage: both are best when touched
by frost. :-
Cardoon Is scarcely known in the Uni
ted States, but . in Europe it Is used wide
ly. It resembles celery somewhat, as it
is an edible stalk. Its culture Is some
thing; like that of celery, and the stalks
of the plant must be bleached like cel
ery. The leaves also are wrapped . up
in straw when mature and allowed to
blanch.
Swiss chard, a sort of spinach beet,
is rapidly-gaining in popularity. It is
prepared for the table like spinach,: only
sometimes the mid rib of the leaves is
torn out and cooked like asparagus.
Either way it makes a delicious- dish.
as urban communities, and gave an op
portunity to compare sickness In the
white race with that in the negro. Four
teen thousand one hundred and twelve
families were canvassed, containing
66.007 persons. 43,468 white and 22.539
colored, comprising about 2.5 per cent
of the total population of the state.'
There were 1881 cases of illness found.
or 28.5. per thousand, indicating that
about 2 per cent of the population are
constantly sick, and that . in 80.4 per
cent of those sick the Illness is serious
enough to render them unable to work.
This Is slightly higher than the mor
bidity rate found in Rochester, N. Y.
It is also -higher than that reported by
killings in the 11 census reports for a
group of 12 Northwestern and Southern
states ; but in considering the different
geographic areas covered and the
changes that have occurred since 1890,
the two estimates correspond closely.
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, Of nearly 2000 sick . persons. 80. per
cent were unable to work; 28.5 per cent
of these were confined to bed and 61.8
per cent were up and about. These fig
ures confirm . the Rochester report,
which showed 27.8 per cent confined to
bed and 55.2 per cent up and about. J
Only 2.4 per cent were In hospitals. This
contrasts strikingly with 10.7 per ctnt
in Rochester and 14.4 per cent in Tren
ton, and indicates limited hospital facili
ties in a state for the most part rural
in character.- , "' v - . . -
There ia a' regular
increase - in
too
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The mother has the choice of many medi
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There is a combination of simple laxative
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