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LITTER NEEDED BY POULTRY HINTS ON VEGETABLES For the um i QMS One of Most Essential Requirements of Chicks, at It Promotes Grrowth W IL L B R E A K OR SN A P C R IS P L Y and Development. W H E N FRESH. ( B y C. C . S H E R L O C K .) i * - QUEER ILLUSION IN LETTERS Optical Principle Th a t Eya Exagger atea Upper Part of Object— Good Example Given. Most people when they go to make letters or figures cannot make them so they look right. Try the best they can. there Is still something wrong with the proportions. This la often due to the fact that our eyes do not see things exactly the way they are, but are all the time fooling us. For example It Is an optical prin ciple that the eye exaggerates the upper part of an object and under estimates the lower part. If you make a letter B for Instance and make the upper bow the same size as the lower, the letter will never look right, for the upper part will look too big and the letter will be topheavy. For this reason It Is necessary In designating letters to allow for the error the eye S8 S8 Optical Illusion. makes and make the upper parts smaller than we want them to look when finished. That this is the case you can easily prove by looking at the letter S and figure 8 here given. The ones on the left, being right-side up, look well- formed, while those on the right, be lng wrong-side up, look topheavy. And yet the funny part about It Is that If you will turn the paper upside down you will find that It Is the first pair that look wrong and the second one that looks right. In fact If you keep your eyes on either one of the S's or 8's while turning the paper upside down, the very shape of the letter or figure will appear actually to change. When you have to design anything remember this principle. Designs, remember, must satisfy the eye even though their proportions are not mathemat ically regular. Outside of feed, grit and water, lit ter la the most Important thing about the polutry house. It Induces exercise, which Is essential to the growth and development of the chicks. The poultryman should always be careful as to the material he supplies for the litter. Be sure It Is clean and dry— never use musty or moldy litter. It will be disastrous. Many bens have been killed In muBty litter. The litter should be of a material easily digested, for It is a well-known fact that the fowls consume a large per cent, of their litter. Dry leaves make a good litter, but cannot be di gested. Straw Is excellent for the older fowls, but It Is not advisable for the baby chicks. Cut clover or cut alfalfa make the best litter one could provide for the chicks. It Is easily digestible, Inexpen sive, and Is easily procured. Sand makes a good scratch material, but the little chicks are apt to eat too much of It, aB they do not have a very good Idea as to what they should eat. A mixture of cut clover and sand sprinkled on the floors of the brood ers is hard to beat. Never allow the litter to become damp. Dampness 1 b the greatest enemy of chicks. Remove It every day and ottener If the weather la very damp. OUR MOST DESTRUCTIVE BIRD Cooper’s Hawk Is Strong Enough to C arry Away Good-Sized Chicken or Cotton-Tail Rabbit. (B y W. L. M 'A T E E .) Cooper’s hawk may be -taken as a type of the group of hawks whose habits are responsible for the con demnation of birds of prey as a whole. This group Includes three species: Cooper’s hawk, the sharp-skinned hawk and the goshawk. They are oft en spoken of a blue darters, a name which expresses a characteristic dif ference In their manner of hunting from that of other hawks. The” CHILDREN FOND OF BANANAS Little Cubans Seem to Never T ire ol Th is Fruit— Cooked In Many Different Ways. Every day of their lives the bright eyed little Cuban children eat ba nanas They are so fond of this fruit that they never grow tired of It. Their mothers make a flour by grind lng strips of dried bananas and from this flour make banana biscuits. The children also are fond of baked green bananas and they eat with relish a dish made of cooked banana sprouts Practically every part of the ba nana tree and fruit Is valuable. The long leaves from the top of the trees aro used for making a dark dye, the tough fibers of the leaves are made Into grass cloth and the tree trunks are used for building houses. Banana trees do not live long, however. They die down every year after bearing fruit, but before departing they send Op new shoots, which grow Into trees In a few months. Some great clus ters of bananas appear on them and before the trees are a year old heavy bunches of the fruit are cut from them and shipped to the United States and other countries. Cooper’s Hawk. New Recipes for the Preparation of Various Vegetables Th a t Are Well Worth T ry in g — Suggestions In Cooking. A good digestion waits on appetlta Fresh vegetables will break or snap crisply. To cook vegetables, put Into boiling water, slightly salted, and boll steadily until done. After they are done, drain at once. Dressing for Green or Wax Beans, Cauliflower or Kohlrabi— Half cup of sour cream, yolk of one egg, one small teaspoon flour, small lump butter, a little, nutmeg, half cup of water from the vegetables, which should be boil ed In salt water. Stir together In sauce pan and cook gently to prevent curdling. Add sa't If necessary. Potatoes— Peel and out Into small squares, or pieces of equal size, raw potatoes; slice In one-fourth as much onion, two green peppers, and add boiling water to cook. When nearly done add a little sweet milk, Balt and pepper and a liberal piece of butter. Thicken with little flour rubbed in milk or butter. They will be ready in 15 minutes. Scalloped Tomatoes—Pour off near ly all the juice from a can of toma toes; put a layer of bread crumbs In the bottom of buttered dish, then a layer of tomatoes seasoned with pep per and salt and a little butter and sugar; continue till dish is full, fin ishing with bread crumbs; cover and bake until hot, then remove cover and brown. Cauliflower and Cheese—Cook cauli flower In salted water, cover with drawn butter sauce, then with ground eastern cheese or parmesan and place In a hot oven until cheese Is brown ed a little. Baked Onions—Boll until tender, drain and cut in halves or leave whole If preferred; put in a dish, pour over them a cup of cream or milk; sprinkle with salt, cover top with cracker crumbs, cut tablespoon of butter In email pieces, put over top and put Into qetfck oven and brown. Fried Celery.—Boil until nearly ten der, then dip Into a mixture of egg md bread crumbs and fry In butter or oil. Serve hot. Creamed Cabbage—Take a . firm bead of cabbage, chop rather tine and cook in salted water from a half to three-quarters of an hour; drain off water, put In a piece of butter, sea son and pour over enough cream or milk to almost cover cabbage; heat to boiling point and serve. This will be found a very nice way of cooking cabbage, and many who do not like cabbage relish It when prepared In this manner. Stuffed Egg Plant—Cut the egg plant In half; remove Inside, leaving shell one-fourth inch thick; t>oll the Inside when tender, add one large tablespoon bread crumbs, a little chop ped onion, a tiny bit of garlic and a small piece of butter; season with salt and pepper; fill shells with the mixture, sprinkle bread crumbs and grated cheese over tops and bake about 20 minutes. One egg added to every two egg plants Is a great Im provement. Stuffed Chill Peppers—Take a halt dozen large, green peppers and brown on top of stove; when done peel care fully and make a stufling of cold meat chopped fine; add a small piece of onion and tomato, chopped, a little thyme, parsley and salt; then fry. When done, stuff the chills; make a thin batter of flour and two eggs, dip the chilis in butter and fry in hot lard like doughnuts. When brown, ar range in a dish and make a sauce of browned flour and pour over them. course over the country at great speed and capture their prey by sudden darts, seizing their victims while In full flight. Cooper’s hawk, which occurs throughout the United States, Is pre eminently a "chicken hawk," and Is by far the most destructive species we have to contend with, not because It Is Individually worse than the gos hawk, but because it Is so much more numerous than the aggregate damage done far exceeds that of all other birds of prey. It Is strong enough to carry away a good-sized chicken, grouse, or cot tontail rabbit. It Is especially fond of domesticated doves and when It finds a cote easy of approach, It usually takes a toll of one or two a day. Prac tically every stomach of Cooper’s hawk GLOVE IS MADE REVERSIBLE examined In experiments have con Canned Corn Fritters. tained remains of wild birds or poul Empty the contents of a can of corn Excellent Idea for Making Baseball try. Into a colander, run cold water over Mlt Is Shown in Illustration— Fits It to rinse off the liquid In which It Either Hand. was cooked, and thus rid It of the tinny taste, then crop the corn fine. An Idea that would seem to be par Mix with two cupfuls of this a cup ticularly adaptable for baseball gloves ful of milk, to which you have added Is shown In the Illustration. It Is a a pinch of soda, a tablespoonful of •everslble glove; that Is, a glove whlcb Feed your fowls a variety of foods. melted butter, two beaten eggs, two can be worn on either the right or the Get In plenty of litter for the winter tablespoonfuls of flour and salt and left hand. This Is made possible by scratching. pepper to taste. Drop by the spoon Alaying flock o fhens will drink ful Into boiling fat, drain on brown about seven quarts of water a day. paper laid In a colander and serve Hens will not lay when permitted hot to run about the farm in the wet and cold. Spaghetti au Gratln. A large part of the food for poul Boll a half-pound of spaghetti In try should be grains because they are salted water until It Is tender—about natural grain eaters. Green food of some kind is neces twenty minutes should suffice—take sary to make hens do their best in the It from the fire, drain, and mix with It a half cupful of your, chicken line of egg production. All laying and growing chickens stock, a tablespoonful of butter, pep must have gome kind of meat food in per and salt to taste and turn Into a large bake dish or Into Individual the provision of two thumbs, each ol order to do their best. which has an outside pocket Intc Sudden fright and excitement at capples. Strew grated cheese thickly which It can be tucked when not It once tells on the egg crop. Never al over the top, set In the oven long use. The glove Is shown In the draw low strange dogs about where the enough to brown, and serve. lng as used for the left hand. hens are. Apple Snow. Light framed birds that mature Damp Salt Before Rain, Prepare apples as you would for quickly, such as Leghorns and Minor- Very few persons know that wher cas, should not be kept with those of sauce, cook, and when cool put the salt gets damp It Is either be the heavier fowls. through squeezer, sweeten and flavor cause It Is too near the sea or be The male bird Is the most Impor to taste, then take the whites of two cause It Is going to rain. It la very tant Individual In a breeding pen eggs and beat to a stiff froth, then hard to keep the salt cellar dry at through which to raise the egg laying beat the apples in gradually with the the seashore as there Is so muck qualities of young fowls. beaten whites. When together beat moisture In the air all the time; but Visit the chicken house at night. for five minutes until It appears like In other places It Is usually a slgr Note the quality of the air, and the a white foam. This Is mixed with breathing of the birds. If the bouse is boiled custard. of rain when the salt gets damp. Things that help themselves to thi stifling, it needs more air. White of the egg Is recommended water In the air are called "dellques Tu tti-F ru tti Candy. cent,” and salt is one of them. Wher in cases of fracture In chickens, for Three cups of sugar, one cup of water Is In the air In the form 01 soaking the bandages, thus binding butter and one cup of milk should be gas It sometimes becomes too plenti them together and stiffening. boiled together for 20 minutes, then Exercise produces warmth, provides beaten as for fudge ful for the air to hold, and then w< Add to this get what Is called "precipitation” 01 pleasure and promotes health, there one cup of chopped walnuts, one-quar rain. But long before water vapoi fore it Is well to let hens hunt In ter pound of chopped figs and one- In the air Is heavy enough to fall li a deep litter of straw for all their etghth pound of chopped candled rain there Is enough of It to spars grains coerrles. Cool In buttered pana ito make salt damp. R A IS E S the D O U G H ’ Better than other powders— f producing light, dainty, whole- f some cakes and pastries— CUTTING DOWN THE FLESH! Heroic Struggles of a Fat Man Who Thought the Scales Wera Deceiving Him. I have about come to the conclusion I that the good Lord intended some of bis creatures to be fat and some thin, [ regardless of medicines and so-called ! infallible cures, writes a western man. For a long while I tried all the alleged obesity cures and none of them did me any good. Then I deter mined to starve myself and take lota of exercise. All my life I had been a lover of good eating, and counted that day Domestic Economist. lost on which I did not consume for An excellent Manchester lady fre my dinner the better part of a sirloin quently Invites her friends to tea, but steak as thick as a darky’s foot, with she does not furnish her table lavish all the trimmings. For breakfast I ly. When her guests have eaten all usually destroyed a platter of cakes, the bread and butter and cookies, and three eggs and no end of thin-sliced realize that the meal Is over, she looks bacon, besides fruits and two cups of brightly at the empty dishes. “Well, coffee. now,” she says, In triumphant tones, This lifelong system I abandoned "haven’t I judged your appetites ex for an entire month, cutting out all actly ?”—Manchester Guardian. the meat and about all the vegetables, a piece of toast and glass of milk tak ing the place of my morning meals and a little rice being the chief Item on the meager dinner bill of fare. Lunch I omitted wholly. In addition I walked at least six miles every day and did all sorts of stunts In my room with a gymnasium outfit. Prior to going to bed I perpetrated all sorts of muscular contortions and rolled on the floor till my body was bruised. At the end of thirty days I felt fit to run a three-mile foot-race or go In the ring with the champion. About this time It occurred to me that I FOR C O N S T IP A T IO N ought to get weighed and I made a a n d a ll f o r m s o f D I G E S T I V E D IS O R D E R S bee line for the scales. My grocer as sured me that they were correct to an ounce, but they showed I had gained 14 pounds In the period of my Stevenson’s Criticism. Robert Louis Stevenson once went M others will fin d Mrs. W in s low 's S ooth in g to bear Charles Halle play the piano Syrup IT e b e s t rem edy to uso for th e ir ch ild ren at the Queen’s hall. After the per d u rin g .h e te e th in g p eriod . formance Stevenson, In his black Buzzing Sounds Made by Insects. shirt, walked In alienee out Regent The different humming or buzzing street to Oxford circus. He Btopped at Oxford circus and, In a slow, sound In insects is caused by the vi meditative voice, pronounced this bration of the wings, and the more excellent criticism on the English rapid the vibrations the sharper the musician he had heard; "The man sound. Scientists have estimated that ner of the elderly statesman at the the common house fly vibrates its piano was somewhat austere and wings about 335 timeB a second and the honeybee 400 times, though a chilling." tired bee moves ltB wings more alow- To Clean a Gas Range. | ly and makes a different sound from The loose parts of a gas range fro a fresh one. The butterfly is content quently become so greasy and dirty to move more slowly and makes no that they can scarcely be cleaned noise. Place these parts on the coals In thi Push Care rortune. furnace when the fire Is low and il The proprietor of the finest cafe in will quickly burn them quite clean Los Angeles formerly sold "hot ta without Injury. males" from a push cart, and al ONLY ONE “ BBOMO QUININE" though he la now wealthy, he still T h st is L A X A T IV E BKOMO Q UININE. Look preserves this old vehicle. In erect fo r the signature o f E. W . GRO VE. Cures s Cold ing a business block to house his mod in One Day. Curea Grip in T w o Days. 26«. ern restaurant he built a cupola just Peppercorn Rent. large enough to contain the old tamale Mr. Staveley Hill, M. P., was at cart, and It may be plainly seen from Bushbury paid a peppercorn as rent. the street. The berry was placed In an envelope and handed to Mr. Staveley Hill dur ing a visit ne paid to the old village school. In handing over the receipt, More Caution Needed. he remarked that he was probably An exchange tells the story of a lit the only man in England who received tle boy whose mother decided that he such a payment In kind.—London Tel was old enough to do without her egram. _________________ sitting by him when he was put to e r r o r or in t e lle c t . bed until he fell asleep. So when one Through the ordinary course ol night she kissed the flve-year-old and mortal failure and misfortune, in the told him he was a big boy and brave career of nations no less than of men, enough to go to Bleep without his the error of their Intellect and the mamma and In the dark, too, he pon hardening of their hearts may be ac dered the situation a moment and then curately measured by their denial ol Bald: “ Well, wait a minute. I’ve got spiritual power—Rnekln. to say my prayers agali^carefuller.”— Suburban Lito. WOMEN Were not made to do Machine Work, bat there is n machine made to do W omcn’a W ork, and it doea it quicker and better than it’s ever been done before. THE MEADOWS POWER WASHER TAKES THE WOI K OUT OF WASH DAY. Free illnetrated catalog sent upon receipt o f the coupon below or postal mentioning this paper. PORTLAND, OR. Send me your free Meadows Washing Ma chine catalog. 75 YEARS OF PUBLIC APPROVAL HOW MRS. BROWN SUFFERED During Change o f Life— How Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound Made Her a Well Woman. "House bisters.” The House-Sisters Association of Berlin was established not long ago to ennoble domestic service and to establish better relations between the employers and the employed. The as- loclatton has a "Mother House" near the city, where girls are trained for lervlces, situations being found for them when competent. Those In charge of the home keep In touch with the girls after they have gone cut Into the world to make their own way. _________________ Iola, Kansas. — “ During the Change Red Cross Bail Blue, all blue, beat bluing value o f L ife I was sick fo r two years. Be In the whole world, makes the laundress smile. fore I took your med His Unavailing Search. icine I could n o t "Well, James Henry Williams, did bear the w eight o f my clothes and was you enjoy yourself at the Beaside?” bloated very badly. “ Yes, teacher, very much. I liked the Idoctored with three sea, but I couldn't find the lnthemls.” doctors but they did “The what, James Henry William?" me no good. They "The lnthemls, teacher; where It says said nature m u s t In the Bible, ‘The sea and all that In have its way. My them Is.’ ”_________________ sister advised me to Bachelor’s Savage Comment. take Lydia E. Pink- A wealthy gentleman, who owns a ham’ s V e g e t a b l e country seat, on one occasion nearly Compound and I purchased a bottle. lost his mother-in-law, who fell into a Before it was gone the bloating le ft me river which flows through his estate. and I was not so sore. I continued tak- I He announced the narrow escape to ing it until I had taken twelve bottles. his friends, expecting their congratu Now I am stronger than I have been for I lations. One of them—an old bachelor years and can do all my work, even the I —wrote as follows: “ I always told washing. Your medicine is worth it you that river was too shallow.” weight in gold. I cannot praise it ! PILES CURED IN « TO 14 D ATS enough. I f more women would take Your druggist w in refund money If P A 7.0 O IN T your medicine there would be morr M EN T fail, to rure a n , case o f Itching. Blind. healthy women. You may use this let Bleeding or Protrudtns Pilea In S to 14 dars. Cue, ter for the good o f others.” — Mrs. D. Trouble for the Future. H. B r o w n , 809 N. Walnut SL, Iola, Kan. j J About Umbrellas. Eyeglass wearers have long since complained that people are careless with umbrellas. Many pairs of glasses have been knocked off and broken by persona who selfishly refuse to move an umbrella so as to allow other peo ple to easily pass. A few even per sist In dangerously spinning an um brella along a crowded street, endan gering the glasses and sometimes eyes of passing walkers. Some Good May Be Done. I told something to a friend ones and he replied, “ Gee do you want a fellow to be perfect?” I said, "Yes, but I never expect to see one, but there’s lots of rottenness which can be cut out of the efforts of all of us.“ —Exchange. “Can y o u beat it?” SURELY NOT, especially when it comes to a case of Poor Appetite, Sick headache. Indigestion, Costive ness, Billiousness, Colds or Malarial Disorders. It is then that HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS proves its merit. You really should try a bottle without delay. It will aid you wonderfully. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. G ET H O STETTER ’S “DIDN’T HURT A BIT” is what they ail say Painless Methods o f Extracting Teeth. O ut-of-tow n peo ple can have their plate and tiriiige- work finished in one day if necessary. A n absoluta g u a r antee. becked by 2S years in Portland. W is e D e n ta l C o . OFFICE HOURS: to 8 P. M. Sundays 9 t o f Phoner,: A 2 0 2 9 ; Main 202 9. Failing B ldg., Third and W ashington. Portland# a A. M. OUT OF TOWN PEOPLE W *. If yon want special advice write tc Lydia E. Plnkliam Medicine Co. (confi dential) I.ynn, Mass, fo u r letter will be opened, read and answered by a Woman and held In strict confidence. PUTNAM Hen Holds W orld’s Record. A Barred Plymouth Rock hen at the Kansas station bolds the first place in the world's reoords In egg produc tion. with M3 eggs to her credlL ean receive prompt t rent- rm-nt* o f Kon-PolaoBoa«, rtasdlM from C. GEE WO tha Chinee® doctor. T ry on es m ore If you h ero boon doctorin g w ith thia o n « and that one and hare not «'!•(*!n**d per m anent relief. Let thia groat nature heeler dlag- noae yonr caee and preact ¡I * aome remedy « h o w a ction ia quick, anre and aafe. Hia preerrlpt!ona are com pounded from Root«. Herb*. Hu.ia and Barks that have been gathered from every q u ar te r o f the glob«. T he aecreta o f thnee m edicine# not known to the outaide world, hut have been id4»d down from father to eon in the physicians' fa m ilies ia China. K First M. D. (from bedside of wealthy Change o f Life is one o f the most | bachelor)—He is sleeping naturally— be will recover. Second M. D.—Yes, critical periods o f a woman’ s existence Women everywhere should remember the worst Is over. First M. D.—No, that there is no other remedy known to the worst is yet to come. Second M. so successfully carry women through D —How Is that? First M. D —We this trying peried as Lydia E. Pinkhara’s have yet to break the news to his Vegetable Compound. relatives.—Life. : V f CONSULTATION FREE. I f yon Hr* ont o f town and cannot call, w rit* fog aymptotn blank and cirwnlar. aaclosing 4 rente ia THE C. SEE WO CHINESE MEDICINE CO. 1621 first St„ Cor. Morrison Portland, O regon . No. 8 -» 13. P. N . U . W H E N writing to advertisers, plea#« TT lio n thia pn| FADELESS DYES Color moro goods brighter and an other dye. One 10c package colors silk, w ool and cotton equally ind faster colors than any w e ll and la guaranteed to give g - - results. - -- perfect A sk dealer, or w e w ill send postpaid at 10c a package. W rite for fre* booklet h o w to dye, bleach h and mix colors. MONROE DRUG COM PANY, Quincy, Illinois.