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LONDON FOB A QUIET LIFE.
Cow«,
Nlithil nicalea and Fowl
Counlrg Too Naiag.
Make
There is only one spot on earth when
the Jaded spirit, weary of the rush and
noise and bustle of modern life, can
find true peace and perfect quiet, It Is
known as London Town. What with
cows, dogs, poultry, motor cars and
nightingales the country nowadays is
such an uproarious pandemonium that
only a deaf man or an artillerist can
live there in comfort, says the London
Daily News.
boiled and strained, thirty drops of al­
Such were the arguments which Dr.
cohol," oue ounce of oxide of zinc, eight Robinson, town clerk of Shoreditch, ad­
grains of bichloride of mercury, twenty vanced when G. S. D. Murray conclud­
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drops of glycerin.
ed his Inquiry on behalf of the charity
The most simple way to reduce your commi.ssloners into the application of
flesh la to avoid all starchy and sweet­ the Ironmongers' company to remove
ened f<Mid. all cereals, vegetables con­ their almshouses from Kingsland road,
taining su»far or stareh, such as peas, Shoreditch.
beans, corn, potatoes. Have your bread
It has been suggested. Dr. Robinson
toasted, sprinkle it with salt Instead said, that the old ladle« in the almc­
of using butter, Milk, I regret to say. housefl were disturbed by the noise in
if ft be pure enough. Is fattening. the district, but probably the kite waa
Skimmed milk may be drunk, Hot always noisy. The coaches • going to
water is an excellent substitute for York in the old days made quite as
other liquids. Add a little Juice of much noise as any London county coun­
limes or lemons to it. If you choose, cil train car did to-day. If the old la­
Limit your sleeping hours to seven at dles thought they were going to escape
the outside, No naps. You must take noise by removing to tiie country they
exercise.
would be bitterly disappointed.
He lived in tiie country himself and
' The Economical Woman.
The woman who must study economy he was often awakened at 1 o'clock in
in planning her new spring clothes will the morning by the passing of an old
find a separate skirt a useful addi­ wheezing, croaking motor car belong­
tion to her wardrobe. If she carefully ing to his majesty’s postoflice. If peo­
studies the latest fashion reports from ple wanted to know what dust and
abroad she knows that the costume— noise and stink meant, let them go into
that is, the skirt and waist made of the country, where there was no -po­
the same material and sometimes cut lice commissioner to stop motor omni-
in one—Is much more the vogue than buses from carrying on their infernal
the wrparate skirt and the shirt waist. traffic.
To take only one night of his life,
Yet sometimes it is not always conve­
nient to have an entire new gown. In there was a corncrake rasping outside
which case the separate skirt will his door till 10 o’clock. Then hs was
awakened by a nightingale—a bird
prova Invaluable.
which made music for a quarter of an
Hlseauaih Itaslly Stopped.
hour, but became troublesome when It
This is a most distressing and ob­ sung for two hours. When that ceased
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stinate complaint to those in whom a cow begaa bellowing and then a do«
it occurs, says the Family Doctor. heard the local policeman walking
We do not refer, of course, to the down the street and barked for an
hiccough attendant upon great pros­ hour. At dawn the birds began again.
tration of the system, but to those London was the one place where peo­
Instances (very frequent, indeed) of a ple could get rest from such noises.
simple spasmodic condition of stomach
and esophagus which assails the in­
dividual without any other symptom
of (flsense, and in the treatment of
1 Humus is dssayiug legetable mat
ter tn th» «oil.
it H la the storehouse of nitrogen,
ths most rtpensiv» and the most neo
•»»■ry at all plant f<«xla
•k It contains the food upon which
tits *ui organisms live, whose f»nc-
tioa Is to convert organic nitrogen into
nitrates In order to' Its available for
ths use of plants It materially ag-
•iflta In d»«s»n»p<alng ths mineral eon-
•tft-uexita of the anil, such aa potash
and phosphoric acid, making them
available for the us* of plants.
A It Increases the power of ths
soil to hold water wltlsmt beconilnf
water-logged.
5. It makes clay *>f! mors rqs-n
and friable. It wrvefl to compact
sandy soil and Increases its drouth-re­
sisting power.
0. It prevents washing to a great
extent; thereby diminishing t-he loss of
fertility by that cause.
7. Soil flllwl with humus more read­
ily admits the air so necessary to all
useful plant growth.
8. There api>ears to be a distinct
relationship between the amount of hu­
mus Ip tiie «oil and the amount of
available nitrogen therein, It has been
observed that when it la absent from
the soil there is a distinct reduction
of the ability of that soil to grow
crop« Hence in practice In order So
obtain tiis beat crops wt have te re­
sort to barnyard manure rat her thaa
the use of concentrated fértil
Rural World.
Woiorn
Ho<wlie»»ra«
g'i<«t Mang *<>m»n could c4uf<-«* ra
If tli-re lie any one tiling more than their «rest »anoyanca at receiving u
another <al«nilnt<«t to try tie* pallen» 1 card stating that • guest would ar­
of H faithful i»ousckee¡>*r, it 8 Vo di» rive that day and “please nn«t me at
cover, after dutifully accompliahing u tl>*> train.” Possibly there is not a va­
morning’s routine work, 3 rip iu the cant room in th* house flor a guest and
earr«et, or • w<.rn pl.< * iu the tug, grin­ liundreds of train« may coma in dur­
ning innlMUatiiigii At Olla- ttitil the SUg ing th* day, yrt the writer never ata tes
g»»'a<n in its <q»-tl canuifen.aù e of the what train to iu**t and th* annoyance
After working several yenrs among
preparing nirsle and tiis liks makes
truth »>f tiie «aying that
work
stones, stuiniw, grutw and young or­
a gue*t of this klial anything but wel­
I« never dune
chards; I learned I needed -a apwlal
I tiuve lung w «lidere! and an» still come Hom* women swoop down upon
harrow foe the
(it .t hsu> to <4«sai!«» (Uaviug tri«sl both s boatesa, never «ending word, but an
work.
I multi
meth<Ml«I, «vüicta ¡a trie t<aj»i'ier woman, excuse Is made that she wished to sur­
find none to wilt
•lie wb<« ut vue goes arid mends the prise them. Hh* does. A woman is a
ms; *o st ud I «si
tifi, or deins tt»<- I»<»le,.««r she who poti l»o«plt»ble creature and entertaining is
end planned and
ber «batti over bar liead «n<l runs Into one of li.-f delights, but »lit does not
made one la a t
n Heights>•’« to ¡? .»-ip flit time to get want It a compulsory affair aud she
• p r 1 ng. which
apunt-r. One thing is renali», the woiu- wgnts time to prepare for it. When
does even letter
tui atri doa-sn't let th«- rip affe<f her you desire tó visit a friend write her
GOOD 1IAUKOW.
than I expected.
relative
to
your
desires,
wait
for
her
«vofScteiK-e will keep a stintoti» cotuplex-
The cut will to some extent explain
reply, prepare for-th* appointed day
ion l<»ngrr. and the questio;
how it is made, I made mine of oak
and go on th* train you tell her to
her busband Is- »».ore dis
timber 2% inches by 3*4 indies, 4 feet
meet, or telegraph any change.
A
catihing t»is b»>t tn the rip
long and 6 feet 3 Inches wide, It is
woman
who
has
ni»
consideration
for
th»- wrinkles she brings u,«>ii
composed of a middle section and two
by ]s-rsDteilt ap|«iicatioi» to the petty her hostess is not ilesersing of a very
wings, the latter- fastened to the mid­
cordial
welcome.
dut!<w that waste the heart t«u<f »»•ar
dle section by % inch bolts 8U. inches
•be tasty*
long, on which the wings fold very
It is « fact ttisf men nre not given
easily. The teeth are scattered over
to a warm appreciation «»f domestic
the harrow so that they are 9 inches or
virtues; they take tlnai to« much .«•
more apart, and yet cut every 3 inches,
• matter of course; they do not stop
and are placed in the harrow sloping
to ««insider that washing dlsbca and
back, about 20 to 25 degrees from a
sweeping floors slid <««<klng meals is
perpendicular. They cut just a* well
work, and work of the very hardest
and do not- catch as If placed In per­
•nd moat trying kind.
pendlcular. and ar* easier on man and
The average man conies home from
team. I hav* heddles to th* middle
hl» taurine*« in the evening expecting
section of mlns, and a rope from each
«;**«(■■ A»»loa.
to find a nicely cooked, nicely served
Elaborate braiding Is seen on many
Soma apple growers hava bees
heddle to the outsld* corner of *sch
dinner awaiting him. He is Ignorant of the newest models, both tn cloth
wing, so as to lift It conveniently and tile grading board shown la fka flg-
of the many stejis, the infinite care, and velvet, the narrow soutache being
A common board or pise» ef
quickly. I can pass readily between ure.
11 m - inconvenience of l«elng roasted over the most popular. Braiding, combined
tr«-es or stumps less than 3 feet apart. pasteboard is hung up before the
tfie store, and tiie countleoa trials nisi with heavy embroidery, is particularly
It is Just the thing for orchards and wiper. In this board hol»a are eia
annoyance« that ar* Incident to tiir effective on broadcloth or velvet.
rough ground, while on clean smooth the alae of various tier«, such aa thrva,
preparation of a meal, lie think* it is
ground it works Just as well as any three and one-half and fonr tier. eta.
A Jacket showing • decided point
natural to a woman
:»ep bouse, and st the front Is one of the style» seen
other smoothing barrow.—A. J. Um- As the apple« nre wiped they are prop­
is only doing among th* newly arrived linen cos-
If she does it well
erly tiered. The advantage af this
holts.
what «tie ought to.
method la that the packers hava the
CkMsa r«J«« Falaa Colaes.
I have frequently not iced that wom-
apples practically graded and can
DAXNTY HOME-MADE NEGLIGEE.
According to • recent consular
en who are not too careful in house­
port about 2,000 Imported empty
keeping have the nn*t devoted hu:v-
There ore forty-fl ve medical socie­ membert cheese boxes, bearing
banda. Women who wear tbeins*lv<w
ties in New York City.
names of well-known French cheeses,
«>u< accomplishing narrow perfections
“American butter’’ is the name given were imported at New York on one
must find in those perfections their
steamer recently. Duty had to be paid
in Syria to oleomargarine.
«• wii reward, for men will never ap­
y
preciate them.
An lowa man has Invented a ma- on the printed matter on their 2,000
The good dinner, tiie general aspect
chine tur paraffining butter tubs and labels and another duty on the import­
ed boxes. According to a New York
of tomf-irt, tiies«- impress man deeply,
boxes.
trade
Journal, these boxes are distrib­
but for tiie rest, lie would rattier have
The estimated value of dairy prod­
uted
In
New York State, filled and sold much more work In a day, and after
« pretty and smiling wife titan one too
ucts for l!»07 was >800,000,000, and that
h) this country, nnd represented as the first half day the wipers can usu­
earnest '.u tier liouseliold duties.
of poultry >tjOO,000,000.
being made abroad. It is said that ally accomplish fully as much at with
Hence I twllevs It Is Just as well to
Bears are liable to taxation in some many dealers claim that their domestic the old method.—Denver Farm.
put a rug over tiie rlp|«ed place, or set
Japanese villages. The origin of this cheeses when put up in the Imported
e footstool over It, and go gossiping,
curious custom is unknown.
N Urate.
boxes, can not be told from the import-
as to get down on all fours and make
The paper caps used on milk bottles ed brands except by experta
In purchasing nitrate of soda, ths
your back ache and ruin your fingers
most quickly available source of nitro­
are made at the rate of (>00,000 a day,
sewing It up. Blessed tie the woman
When Tree« Are Hlown Over.
gen for plants, buyers should steer
uml one man operates five machines.
whose Mood and Judgment are so well
Should excessive winds blow the top clear of low grade nitrate. Th* mor*
Imports into Canada In 1907 (esti­
co-niingled that she finds time for both
of
a tree out of shape, which often oc­ usual adulterants are common salt, and
mated) from the United States will
mending and gossiping, and does not
curs,
cut it out, leaving a nearly erect salt cake from the manufacture of
only
$1(15,000,000,
against,
allow 1,etself to become hopelessly ad­
amount to
southwest branch to become the new acids, both worthless as fertilizers and
dicted elthei to tiie minutia of lionse-
>78,000,000 from Great Britain,
centra! stem. Shallow, loosely planted
kei'ping or to the habit of indiscrimi
Canada’s government revenue from trees sometimes blow over. They may containing no plant food. Nitrate of
soda now comes in original bags, which
tiate gadding. Juliet V. Strain« iu Chi­
this
year
will
be
more
than
nil sources
be
put
back
by
excavatiug
on
the
op-
now contain about 200 pounds. T
cago Journal.
tumes. It is • pattern carried over which anti-««>asmodics
inert. I $100,000,000. In the first seven months posite side and pushing the tree back, old 310-pound bag was very clumsy.
from early winter which had its share Relief can tie obtained by directing the customs receipts increased $6.500,- tamping the earth as firmly as possible
<•*««<«< «<•
000.
Watrrlaf th* Horse.
on the side toward which it leaned.
If you are troubled with insomnia of popularity among the more dressy the patient to hold the arms straight |
Jacket
suits.
A few days ago David Pingree, of Care should be taken not to wrench
above
the
head
and
to
keep
inspiring
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A successful horse raiser says:
Some of the following ideas tire worth
Tiny folds of satin or of taffeta are as long tis is feasible, so as to retain Salem, Mass., bought several hundred the roots loose in this operation.
count the swallows my horses take
trying out. as they are certain to ac
»
while drinking a pailful. Some take
eomplish what seems im|s>»sible of used to trim semidress costumes and the air in the lungs for as long a thousand acres of the "wild lands” of
Maine, thereby becoming possessor of a
• 'attiasr Hacli Teeaa.
larger swallows than others, but I know
achievement, w<s»lng sleep successfully : lend themselves admirably to original period as possible.
tract of land larger than the entire
In highly interesting experiments nt them all. If I am out on the road and
A warm bath liefore retiring—not a effects. They may be applied in broad­
State
of
Rhode
Island.
It
is
the
best
the
Woburn (England) experimental come to s trough. I g^t out and count
ening
designs
and
also
in
serpentine
cold one, for the latter will wake you.
hunting ground In tiie eastern part of i fruit farm In cutting back apple trees wlille my horse drinks, so that he will
Drink a cup of cool, not iced, water, lines and short zigzags on hems and
the United States.
when planted the ultimate result was not take too much at once. I give watex
ami tills will tiring good repose. Sleip waistcoats and are also used to frame
A cosmopolitan citizen says that tiie found to be that trees not cut back un­ often, and so keep my horses free from
with your windows o | h > ii at the top and motifs.
foreigners, artists, philanthropists, edi­ til the end of the first year continued bow ci trouble caused by-overdrinking.
With the summer dress will t>e worn
bottom, tie It ever so small • space,
tors, scientists and sociologists who go to form wood in subsequent years, and
so you can Just fee! » breeze on your some pretty ribbon sashes. But these
Ashes,
to New York City to study America the crop borne by them during the first
face. Put In your bath a little bag ribbons will be wide, ethereal in ap­
It Is seldom that a fanner can sc>
are likely to be led into all sorts of ten years was only one-third of that
containing dried clover tops and laven- pearance, and tied in four loops at the
errors If they confine their studies anrl borne by those which were cut back cumulate a sufficient amount of wood
d'-r flowers, arid as the water cools back. Xome of the streamers are also
ashes for s large field, but on farms
knotted
a
few
inches
trom
the
end.
observations
to the metropolis, for New when planted.
there will Is- a delightful odor arising
where wood Is used there is a limited
from it. It is thus medicated and The ides Is to get a ribbon to match
The average weekly wages paid to York City is less typical of America
A Ralancti Matioa.
supply which can be put to good us«
the
deHcate
weave
of
the
dress.
than
any
other
part
of
the
country.
•lightly |>erfum«d ami a sure cure for
female laborers of all classes In Ger­
In the ration-fed farm animals either on the garden or on the young clover.
tosomida.
The linen industry is the greatest alfalfa or clover should be given to Ashes
The smartest dresses worn at pres­ many is a little over >2.25 each.
are excellent also on all grass
ent are those composed of doth Skirt,
Out of every 1,0**0.000 girl babies manufacturing industry Ireland pos­ balance the corn. Either one of these lands and in orchards. They are ap-
velvet Jacket, braided ami fancy or old- born 871,266 are alive at the age of sesses. There Is invested in it some­ legumes will likewise l>e needed to plied l roadcast, in any quantity de­
time waistcoat fastening down the 12 months;- 30,000 less boys live thing like fifteen and a liajf million ••balance” the effects of corn on the sired, ns many as l(i> bushels per aers
front with small antique buttons, The through the first year.
pounds, and it gives employment to soil. Considerable plant food, espe hating been used on certain soils.
pof^lsrlty of gossamer tissues much
70,0**0
people. It Is a matter for Much dally nitrogen. Is removed from the
The possession of >15/100
tSliiiroidcred is very evident, th«- Idea by a relative so unhinged the mind of uneasiness that year after year W>r a roil by corn, while alfalfa or clover
Making Swamp l.aa« TfllaftlS.
having been borrowed from the East. a young woman mimed Bell of Sterk- considerable time has marked a decline gathers it great deal of nitrogen front
A drainage ditch fwenty-four
A simple house wrapper is made stroom. Cape < olony, that she commit- In the -area under flax in Ireland.— the air and places it back in the soli one-quarter miles lotig that will drain
Northern Whig.
»itli a square yoke, rolling collar, ted suicide.
85,*M*0 acres of Iowa land 4s fairly
U ht-n Ho***» A»• la t'oaSIttna.
bishop sleeves and five-goriwl skirt that
Few people will have had the cour­
under way in Monona and Harrison
The medal presented to Grace Dari-
A bright, clear eye. a tirilllant coat, Counties. It will cost alrnut >750,000,
is attached to the waist. While a ing for her heroism in saving nine age to sit down t’rirteen at table for the
wrapper, yet ft has a shirtwaist finish lives from t tie wr«H’k of n Forfarshire greetings of a new year. But flve-and- high spirit and mettle, are good signs and will empty into the Missouri River
that Is neat’ I’olkn-dot materials— steamer in 1838 will shortly lie sold at fifty years ago Lord Roberts was one of perfect condition In the horse. To Just a little above the town of Little
that is, of the small design with bind­ auction In London.
of thirteen who sat down to dinner on this might tie added sufficient flesh tlior Siolix. Th* swamp land reclaimed will
ings or bands of plain trimming, look
New Year's day at Peshawar. Eleven oughly to “round him out,” but not make some of the most valuable fart»
Miss Mira L. Dock, who Is one of years later—though most of them hnd enough to Interfere Iu the slightest de­
neat for such garments.
land In the Htate.
the vice presidents of the State Fede; ra- been through the Indian mutiny and gree with his natural action, which on
The handsomest and m<wt expensive tion of Pennsylvania Women, has the
co account must be .fmjwdtsl.
< are to* Roa*,
of tiie stiff collars have Irish la<-e it* unique honor of being the only woman half of them had been wounded—they
A rctovitu’eiided roup cure for chick-
Frasisg.
Sertion used lu a sort of conventional on the forestry commission of Penn­ were all alive. And Ix>rd Roberts Is
still very mueb alive.—London Cbron-
denign. Wliile tlics» collars may, be sylvania.
In trimming trees th» wound mad* ene is to fake two parts sweet oil,
icle.
very Is-autiful, th*» nr* less satisfac-
oy cutting off a limb close to i‘h» one part gum eamplmr, one part fur-
Ohio stands second in the numbex
trunk will soon heal over, while the [«■utili*. To each i»umv of this miitura
Tory than are tlie hand embroidered
Thockreay» Pott«.
X i *7
Z-
of
clubs in the general federation and
wotmd made by cutting off the limb add ten grains nofithol and one tea-
(Villars. f<>r tiie lace will not hold the
a .A-»
Thackeray's favorite poets wore
•tafch and ««nstant heavy washing seventh in the dul> membership among
two <>r thro» inch*» from the trunk »firnnftil Räterin». lake n small drop
the States represented in the general Goldsmith and the "sweet l.trlc sing­ leads to d<way and sometimes <»n*n ayrtnge or oll «an and put this remedy
The frame <»f tills hat la! » high »■si i«ars tiie fntgile materfsl.
ers," Prior, whom he thought the eas!-
ihtofhe t'M'f of th* mouth an J iu ths
rr<>wn and narrow r«iru«l<>an uriai if
In making up a black spangled robe federation. with .KIR club and 12.500 eflt, the richest, the most charmingly the -lltlmate Joes of the tree Itself.
<
lubwomcn
enrolled.
nostrils twle a day.
w is ever««! wirh dark blue lilwrtv user s rutile of plaltisl chiffon It It a
humorous of English lyrical poets. Rtid
sawAast as t ael.
suirin wlii'h w <« plain under fl«* brim clever idea to conuect the two by sew-
Miss Martha E. Johnson. of Lacinia. Gay,"tiie force of whose simple melody
Sntidnflt Is'tunnsi Into transportable
faros Kates.
ami tn■%•■! <»n top A wide |>»e<* of Ing to Uie ruffle at regular intervals N. I!., bus the somewhat unusual honor and artless ringing laughter t»o appre­ fuel in Germany by ñ very almpl* pn*
Many orchaiMista mak* * gr«nt ml»
*n brp d*r»d veivet « «s draited arotiui! big disks of Hack velvet. These may f< r her sox'of being a fax collector. ciated. He admired Pope, too; but Arss. It is heated ul*1*r high
take plant!rig tr««ett 1< m » dwp.
the < r<>wu A pearl buckle was piarvd l«e cut out. leaving the i-dges raw. for She docs )f well. too. and her first an­ while admitting Milton’s greatness, pressure until the resinous ln»rr<«dl*tif»
llogglti'g down cobn has a great 4*a»
*>u tit* right side near tin- front. A they will not fraj", and they relieve nual re[M>rt is so satisfai-tofy that she thought him "such a bore that no one become sticky, m h*n It is preswl into
In !•• fav«»r. Mil th* hogging pr,«v-a|
large I ihis I i of fan«-y f<-athef« orna­ tiie dead whiteness of tin- ruffle In con­ is to be reappointed.
could read him.” It Is not surprising, brick«
•hould !><• finlalusi IwiTor» b*asy ■ mows
ments the left •Ide.
trast with tiie black atiove and make a
therefore, tlwt Thackeray never ’ PS-
One
of
the
most
fearlpsa
adventurer»
cons».
.
. , •
<knic*r«»n«»*aff •*•«.
snnnectltig link between the two ma­
snyed the “big bow-wow kind” of
In
the
world
is
Miss
Lavinia
Rudberg,
A
turnip
seed
inersass*
It«,
nwn
Wkta Y-os Hal«.
•
Tb»
•<l»»»btMt»
><f fe«tj*g »acfj *ar 01
terials.
»
who. under the auspices of Yale Uni­ poetry.
weight fifteen tlm«W tn a minuta. On K-ed c<.n» separately la that nearly < ij
When you confemplate a Yislf- try to
To Whiten the Skin.
versity, was sent up into the wilds of
make it a |>wint tn arrive at your des-
When your ship comes in. if you nr* peat grounds turnip« bavs iwen found tit» poof •»•«! «■•o h» thrown out if
After you have washed and dried the Qulnault Indian reservation to taka
tinnitoti durlng til«- daytime. It Is oft-
like most people, Instead of being to increase by growth .15,909 timi» the only «ne-aae Jn owb bu«l»ol Is found M
en dWicuit to locate a place at night your face carefully, aug»ly the following * tiie physical measurements of the Ii> thankful, you will find fault with the weight of the*r »end «ack
Uity atoed 1» ln<»-**< It will pay to do ths
•nd Is embarrasshq; to the hostess and lotion: One quart of water previously I dlanw
upon
ths
soil
captain for the delay
t
.lì?