Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1908)
RHEUMATISM L et » «e n d y o u T O T R Y F R E E , o a r new • 1 . 0 0 E x t e r n a l T r e a t m e n t , w h ic h is C a r in g T h o u s a n d s . Send Your Name To-day Send us y o u r address and you’ ll get by return mail a pair of M agic F oot D rafts, the great New Michigan External remedy for all kinds of Rheumatism, ch ron ic, acu te, muscular, scia tic, lu m bago or gou t, no matter where located or how severe. P r s d u s ic k D y e . , Cor. Sec. M agic F oot D rafts are curing many of the very toughest cases on record—chronics of SO and 40 years suffering—after doctors, baths and medicines had utterly failed. Let M agic F oot «— D rafts cure you . Just send your ad dress. R e tu rn mail will bring the Drafts. Try them. Then if you are fully satisfied with the l>enelU received, you can send us One D ol lar. If not, keep your money. W e take you r w ord W e couldn't make such an offer if the Drafts were not a real cu re, for no one pays until satisfied. I.et us send y o u a pair. M agic F oot Draft t o . , I I 3 4 F Oliver B ldg., Jackson, M ich. Send no m o n e y . W rite tod a y. THIS lUUTfFULRIIB FREE] \V i O , I, Set with f o u r ttapptilr«*«, surrounded f s gs.'ufr-rwr'i B y S U i i w ith sparkling im . b lM rau iim i« . .... s ix ja bright poattlvslr the most tital n m ring rrr f ir m and enn Is« had vs If b o u t iwsting y o u o n e r o n t by selling n ly f o u r of our largr boantil ws at 2V W -* m d pi. tt.rra lit Î E M ’Â Î T O S W hat to Plant in November Written for this Magazine by Adelaide Bachman S we jog along the highway we sec here and there in favored gardens clumps o f gay chrysanthemums and within the gardens that is about all there is of interest during these early No vember days. Everything else in the way o f bloom is gone—vanished with the sum mer that now is o f the past. What a pity it is that we cannot plant when the fit of enthusiasm is on, when the flower we de sire is before us in all its beauty and we feel that we could make endless sacrifices o f time and strength to have such plants for onr very own. With a good many people planting a garden is like the ex perience the Arkansas Traveler encounter ed— when they have the inspiration they haven't the plants and when planting time comes they haven't the inspiration; and so it goes. Jit is such a long time to wait until spring and then, after spring has come and the garden planted it is such an other long, long wait before anything comes of it. But no. though they may make the beholder quite green with envy and the desire to plant becomes strong within him. the Chrysanthemum is not one o f the things to be planted this month. Unless, indeed, one makes cuttings, as some people do roses, putting them tinder glass jars for protection from the cold and banking the earth about the base. I have successfully planted them thus in eastern New York, but doubt if it could be done much further north or in the Middle West, where the severe cold comes so much earlier than here. During the early part o f this month a great many bulbs are planted. It would really be much better to plant them ear lier, for once they begin to deteriorate they go rapidly. However, if for any reason the bulbs were not planted in October it may still be done in November and with excellent results in almost every case. It is too late for Crocuses and for Lilium candidum (which latter should be planted in August) but for Narcissi, Tttlips. Snow drops. Scitlas, etc., and for most o f the lil ies, if the ground is not frozen, it is not too late. If the bulbs have been ordered but have not yet arrived and one is afraid orf a hard freeze a place may be prepared by heaping fresh manure on it to keep the ground from freezing This must, of course, lie removed when the time to plant has come; for bulbs will not endure any Contact with snch beating materirfl. In planting them, to more nearly insure against decay, set each bulb m a little jacket o f fine sand, and then, if possible, cover the earth over them with a thick blanket of leaves whtch may have been gathered for the purpose. But there is one sort o f planting to be done nop which will r.ist nothing at all. except in time and tmnhli— and what gardener counts such cost?—to many, who have waste places to brighten up and the means to do It. though perhaps it has not been brought to their attention. It is the planting of berried shrubs and vines, to make green and inviting bowers during the summer and flashes o f color in the fail and winter. A BOYS and GIRLS MEN and WOMEN EMI aEUITMTM« n o u n EARN $3.00 DAILY IH ONE M r s WORK R O fiE R S M U R o f r r H I(» rrU C o . m . mi n iir to say nothing o f attracting the birds. To bo sure, if the birds do come and cat your berries, the berries will not be there to help out the picture; but as a rule, they are not little pigs and do not eat everything in sight. But even if they do and the garden picture is lacking in its brilliant tones, yet the birds will stay about and be the greatest attraction in them selves. In going about in the country by the roadsides frequently and in woodlands nearby are to be seen these beautiful plants growing wild, and if the seeds are gathered and planted now there will be that much more of beauty for another year. The Bittersweet vine is first in the ranks and there is nothing anywhere that can equal it. Nature has planted it with a lavish hand and it grows wild and abundant in many places. It makes a beautiful picture with its brilliant fruits against the gray stone walls that line the roadsides hereabouts or clambering to the very tip top of some tall and slender red- cedar tree where the splendid color of the berries shows most vividly against the sombre green. The berries hang on pretty well through the winter, too. which cer tainly adds to the satisfaction o f having them in the vicinity. Indeed, its very name, Celastms fbotanically it is Celas- trus scandens) comes from a Greek word, fcelas, meaning the latter season, referring, o f course, to the fruit in the “ latter sea son.” The Waheo, Burning Bush or Staff Tree, as it is variously known, has fruits of a similar nature, but even more beau tiful. It does not climb, however, but re mains in bush form. Its foliage is beau tiful in summer and the brilliant fruits adorn any grounds in fall and winter. Its botanical name is Euonymus atropurpu- reus and if there is any member of the Euonymus tribe which is not ornamental I do not know it. The Black Alder or Winter Berry, which some botanists class as Ilex verticillatns and some as Prinos verticillatus, is another acquisition in the way o f berry-bearing plants for the winter garden, hut truth to tell, the berries do not remain long where there are birds who kno\y about them. The same may be said of the various Barberries, hut Berber»« Thunbergia, the Japanese Barberry, at least has handsome enough foliage through the summer and fall to insure its being planted. This last one. of course, docs not grow wild in this country, but the others mentioned, and many besides, do grow wild and the seeds arc very easy to get. The Woodbine, or Virginia Creeper, so universally found wild, has fine berries, though o f not so brilliant a color as those before mentioned, but they are a great attraction to birds. Another blue-berried vine is the cat, or green-brier. Its foliage is very handsome in the sum mer but its thorns prevent its being such a desirable plant as the le>s protected ones. But it makes, when well established, a tangled and matted thicket where ground and low-bush nesting birds love to hide; so if one wishes to attract birds one cannot do better than to gather and plant a fen* seeds o f it. A very attractive baby bonnet, made of Persian lawn. Around the front were two rows of em broidery, through which was run half-inch ribbon. O n the back edge of the embroidery was a frill of lace, one inch wide. On front around the face was a double frill of lace half inch wide; the crown was a wide inset edged with the wide lace. A bow of one-inch wide pink ribbon was on top under the back frill and embroidery. It was tied with white lawn strings and was easily made. Tell me how to make a durable and economical floor stain. H ow can I make a Smooth hearth in front of an open fireplace? ROSEM ARY. One pound burnt sienna in oil, mixed with <me gallon boiled linseed oil. makes a g ood stain. Try Portland cement for this purpose. M ix with cold water and use quickly. To Renew Mirror T o renew a mirror keep for this pur pose a piece of sponge, a cloth and silk handkerchief, all entirely free from dirt, as the least grit will scratch the fine surface of the glass. First sponge it witli a little spirits o f wine, or gin and water, to clean off all spots; then dust over it powdered blue tied in muslin, rub it lightly and quickly off with the cloth and finish by rubbing with the silk handkerchief. Be careful not to rub the edges o f the frame. Please give me a recipe for indelible ink. H ow to mend rubber shoes, and oblige D ER. A good indelible ink is made by dis solving lunar caustic in water, but in delible ink o f g ood quality is bought so cheap that it hardly justifies the hom e making. Rub the patch and shoe thoroughly with sharp sandpaper. Smear both with liquid rubber five times, letting them dry each time. D o this once more, and before they are dry apply the patc4i (with pressure, if possible), and the boot is mended. If liquid rubber is not o b tainable. dissolve small pieces of pure rubber (not vulcanized) in warm spirits of turpentine to the consistency of syrup. In the rubber stores you can buy rub ber cement, which is said to do good patch work, but my experience leads me H i e G re a s y P a n to believe that the only way to mend Pour a few drops of ammonia into rubber shoes is with a new pair. every grea«v masting pan or greasy cookin g dish after half filling with warm water. A bottle o» ammonia should al Please tell me how to make an Eofian ways be kept near the sink for such uses. harp J. C. T . Never allow the pans to stand and dry, An Eolian harp may be com posed of for it doubles the labor of washing, but a rectangular box made e f thin boards pour in water and use ammonia, and the five o r six inches deep and about the w ork is half done same width and o f a length sufficient to extend across the window where it is to be set, so that the «breeze, coming, can A gardener makes the follow ing sug- sweep over it. Its string* are made as Mtion for the benefit of those whoae follows: At the top of each end of the its are infested with bisects: “ Cut a box a strip o f Wf*od is glued about a potato in half, scwop out Hie inside and half inch in height: the strings are then place it on the soil under the plant stretched lengthwise across the top of The insects win gradually assemble in the b o x and may be either catgut or it" wire For the purtxrse of making a fine- toned harp the strings should be tuned in *iiiH«>ii ly means o f pegs constructed to control their tension, as m the case o f a violin The mstrumetit is then ready to be placed at the window, which when part> raised will admit a current of air. and th*s pa>smg over the strmgs produces very pfea^ant sounds, which vary with the breeze. This ham receives its name from Eolus. the g»»d or ruler o f the wind«. à
