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Aunt Amanda Br JANE OSBORN (10. !!:. I) MrCluiv Ntwapatxr SUH.I I When lhi other girls of her age wore sitting nut on verandas In the Company of thotr rustic sweethearts on slimmer evenings, Laura Perkins was sitting Indoors beside the living- room lamp, intent on genius her mend ing done for nil those little Perkinses to whom she played the rule of big tlstor and mo; her combined. It was not that Farmer Perkins was any less prosperous than the other farmers, I'tit it would have pone against the grain to pay out money to have this work done when I dura could do It Just as well. In the meantime I.atim dldu't got "any young company." In fact, she never did get tiny, and It was not until at the ace of twenty five, when Farmer Perkins decided to nk Widow Koliins, down the road, to share his fireside and Widow P.olllr.s accept ed, that Laura ever had any chance for the pleasure and flirtation that she had missed In her girlhood. But she had for too long hecn tied to the duties of the kitchen and the mending hasket to take very grace fully to the art of finding a suitor then for obviously the only thing left for I.aurn to do now was to marry and get a home of her own. "Of course, I want to have a place where I ran do my own cooking and all." Laura would explain, "hut I don't know as I want to get amnn Just to make crullers for him." But the truth was that there was a man that Laura would have neon quite willing to cook and mend for for the rest of her life had he heen disposed to ask her to accept his hand. This was Widow Kollins' son, who, when that lady came to marry Farmer Perkins, naturally was squeezed Into the Perkins farm house to live, 'She's a real nice girl." the moth er had remarked to her son In confi dence. "But she's got such a lot of notions. Did you hear her carrying on about that Aunt Amanda cruller set? Tou know some of the women around here got the outfit. Laura was one of them. It has the cutter and a special roiling pin and the kettle and the basket for the crullers while they are In the hot fat. Well, there are one or two things about It that Laura didn't like. The basket doesn't slip Into the kettle Just the way she wants It to. So she gets to looking at the picture of Aunt Amanda on the pack age, and she makes up her mind she has got to see her. It never occurs to her that maybe there Isn't any Aunt Amanda, that maybe It Is Just a pic ture on the box cover." Edward Rollins had listened wlttf out any great Interest His mother always changed the subject In that way. He had wanted to talk of Laura, but his mother apparently preferred to talk about cruller sets. lie had want ed to sound his mother on a subject that lay near his heart, fie was twenty-six, Just starting out for himelf In the hardware business, with all that he owned In the world Invested in stocks of hammers and nails and carv ing knives and wash boilers an end less variety of equipment for the farm er and his wife. It was quite out of the question now to ask Laura to mar ry him, if that Involved making a home for her. What Edward bad hoped was that for the present his mother and Laura's father might let them board In the old Perkins farm house. Cut Edward, always somewhat In awe of his mother, never got to the point of asking, and not having asked and received her consent he ;iever got to that further point of asking Laura to be his wife. Laura was twenty-five that autumn after her father's marriage, when she went off to the city to make her own living. And Laura herself seemed to he the only one In the community who didn't realize that, with no special ed ucation or training save that of a housewife and no special talent or aptitude save considerable good sense, the future was not very promising for her. "Seems as If the only thing she can do is to be somebody's hired girl," quoth the now Mrs. Perkins for the benefit of tier son and her husband, both of whom winced under this re mark. Then old father Perkins died and Laura came home to the funeral; was gone hack to the city and no one was the wiser concerning her mode of mak ing a living. If truth must be told a rift came In the Perkins-Rollins house hold, In part due no doubt to the set tlement of Mr. Perkins' estate. At oil events those of the Perkins brood who kept In touch with Laura did not en Joy Mrs. Rollins' good will. They moved away and Laura was no -more heard of. In Cve years the hardware business as carried on by Edward Itollins had prospered to the point where he was In a position to settle down in life on his own, and as his mother, the pres ent Widow Perkins, had now under consideration an alliance with old Dea con Bradshaw, a union of which her son did not approve, she was anxious enough for her eon to marry. Edward was not lacking in friends among the younger girls of the village who might conceivably look, with much favor upon his suit. "And remember, Edward," the moth er laughed one day when she had called at his store, "you once had me worried for fear you'd marry that carrot-haired Laura. I don't suppose you a I nav ever green nor acoonrt tnoucnt: "I wonder what ever became of her.' Mid Edward, and It was not (he Brat time that this queatlon had occurred to him. "It wa funny," mused the mother. "Said the was going to m Aunt Amanda; she thought It wa real Aunt Amanda that put out those crul ler sets. So I suppose she went and looked up those Aunt Amanda people In the city and made I fool of her self." "As far as that goes, there really Is an Aunt Amanda." Edward Rollins told his mother, "and she Is pushing those doughnut cookers for all they are worth. She Is on (he road sell lug them, too. Just got I circular let ter from the Arm today, saying (hat 'Aunt Amanda' had started this way, and would be here with the Improved doughnut cooker besides five or all other special rooking utensils." "Well. I'll bet that Isn't her real name; I'll hot , . ." But Mrs. Rollins never told her son Just what she would bet. for she was Interrupted by his clerk Just then to say that "Aunt Amanda" had arrived. Aud Aunt Amanda was none other than Laura Perkins. "1 didn't want to (on hero when I knew how you nnd your mother had felt since father died." she said. "But your store was on the list, and I didn't wnut to refuse to stop." So that Is how Laura Perkins at thirty a well-dressed, debonnalre Laura that hardly anyone recognized save Edward Rollins came back to the home of her childhood. "I went right to the Aunt Amanda people," she told Edward. "I must have been a scream. I Insisted that there was an Aunt Amanda and that I had something to tell her about how she could Improve her cruller cooker. I saw the president of the concern, and he told me I could be Aunt Aman da If I wanted to, and started me In right away. All the assets I had was some good common sense and a lot of enthusiasm." "Tou must hare made a big success," suggested Edward, fearful lest Just this success would stand In his way In the plan he had In his heart to propose. "Tea, I suppose you'd ay o," said Laura. 'Tin secretary of the concern now, with a good bit of stock. Thea 1 get royalties these new specialties are my Inventions. They are things I worked out back In father's kitchen be fore he wa married. The royalties and the Interest will go on." She stopped short, looked at Ed ward, and both blushed. "Maybe so." Edward found courage to say. "But the road Job won't, Laura ; Pro going to marry you." And that la how It happened that "Aunt Amanda" never went on anoth er sales trip, but that within a few months the letterhead paper of the thriving Aunt Amanda company showed the name of Edward Rollins Instead of Laura Perkins priuted af ter "Secretary." HEALTHY PEOPLE LOVE COLOR Repression of That Feeling, Too Com mon Among Americans, Declared to Be a Mistake. If one Is to believe Constantln Guy, Flls, a love of color Is a sign of excel lent health morally and physically. He writes In Arts and Decorations. The movement Initiated by the Rus sians to rescue our color sense from the shadow stage of the Vk-torlan era had an Invigorating Influence on the color elements In dress. Boris Anisfeld made his colors shont like a choir of trumpets In a super- orcbestra the colossal orchestra dreamed of by Beethoven for his un finished Tenth symphony. Bnkst fol lowed with a welding of scenery and costume In a magic ensemble. Too often this revival of color has been accompanied by a sacrifice of ar chitectural beauty, but In the best work of Bakst, his "Papillons Ballet," for example, there Is a happy blending of the decorative and the pictorial, The mid-Victorian costumes for this Schumann fantasy are a model for the dress designer. A healthy people loves color. Ameri cans, with a sense of humor and love of life, have too often In the past re pressed their natural desire for robust color, lest they be charged with levity or bad taste. Only In her outdoor moods does the American girl reveal her buoyancy In areas of radiant color. In the cities we are too aubdned. Ma trons seek an asylum In deadly blacks forgetting that there Is no color like gray for maturing years. This re- stiaint nas had one compensation, however, since It has discouraged the cruue ana the vulgar. Limitations of Novelty. The narrowest tiling In the world Is novelty. Innovation wears thinner than Imitation. So far from liberating the mind more and more, It limits the mind more and more. For mere Inno vation Is mere elimination. . . A modern artist Is really discouraged from doing what has heen done be fore, even if he can do It better; Just as a fashionable woman might be dis couraged from wearing an unfashion able hat, even If she looked divinely beautiful In It. G. K. Chesterton In the Living Age. Her Idea of It. Mr. Bacon I see that the Bedouin marriage does not take much time. It Is said the bridegroom cuts the throat of a sheep and spills the blood on his father-in-law's threshold, and It Is all over. Mrs. Bacon No, It's not. either Don't you forget that somebody's got m ciean up tne mess, nnd I suppose, oi course, it is tne poor bride. The Woods SETTIN' IN THE SUN. i ...... . i n-iMMi ins? party who sets on t tlironn Has a perfectly nilsor'blo time; There always Is some one a plekln' a bone With a king or a monarch sublime. Some calculate maybe that belli' a king Is a Job that Is geii'ully fun Well, well. It may be, Hut the best thing, to miy Is Jest settlu' right here In the sun. I reckon the party who sets In the chair, In the president's chair, an' all that, Must tote eu his persou conslder'ble euro An' a passel of woe In his hat. Some calculate maybe It's fun to be boss Or even for office to run Well, that may be no, But the best thing I know Is Jest settlu' right hero In the sun. I reckon the party who seta up on high He may wish for a moment that's calm. It's awful to set there an' find by an ny That you've dono gone an' set on bomb. I calculate, If they should blow up king, In spite of the good be has done, Nary king he will he; . But me, as for me, I'll be settln' right here lu the sun. (Copyright.) 0 . tfolhlMBook i What we do tetania to what v and what we an la what bocomes 0f u. -van SAVORY DISHES. The following dlshea are but sug gestions to the housewife, for many tasty and wholesome dishes may be prepared from the food at hand; Westphalia Balls. rasa a cupful of boiled potatoes through a sieve and mix with four ta blespooufuls of finely minced ham, two tablespooufuls of butter, two eggs. well-beaten, one-quarter of a cupful of cream, cayenne, mustard and salt to taste. Form Into halls, egg and crumb them and fry In deep fat until a light brown. These may be served with or without a cream sauce. Savory Eggi. look four eggs Id the shell until hard. Shell, cut In halves, pass the yolks through a sieve and mix with two tuniespoonfuls of ham, a little onion, two tablespooufuls of cream, two minced sprigs of parsley, salt, cay enne, chopped tnrngon to taste, nnd mix well. Fill the egg whites with the mixture and lay on a platter. Pour round the eggs one cupful of mayon naise to which has been added one small chopped pickled cucumber chopped flue. Potted Creams. Fry rounds of bread for six or eight persons nnd set them In the oven. Take one-quarter of a pound of cheese, four tablespooufuls of butter, salt, cay enne and mustard to taste, adding one tablcspnonful of any fruit Juice, mix well and spread a spoonful of each on the bread. This nilxturu may be used for sandwiches nnd will keep a week or more If covered, In a small Jar with melted butter. Parmesan Puffs. Take one-half cupful of grated Par mesan cheese, two-thirds of a cupful of bread crumbs, one-half teaspoonful of salt nnd a few dashes of cayenne; put all this mixture Into a mortar and pound until well blended. Beat two eggs and add to this mixture, Make balls the size of a large walnut and fry a light brown. Cheese Sandwiches. Cut rounds of bread to be used us sandwiches. Spread lightly with but ter and add a spoonful of the follow ing: Take a cupful of grated cheese (rich American), add cream, cayenne and a dash of mustard, and salt and spread lightly on orio piece of bread, cover with another and when all arc filled fry a delicate brown In a hot omelet pan with a small amount of butter.. Served hot with a plain lettuce salad, they are delicious. Sardines Fried In Batter, Drain the fish and pour boiling wa ter over them to remove the oil. Re move the skins nnd dip Into fritter batter, fry In deep fat, and drain on brown paper. For the fritter batter use one and one-lhlrd cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, two-thirds of a cupful of milk, and one beaten egg. Servo with hot to-, nmlo sauce. Hot Sauce Tartare. To one-half cupful of white sauce add one-third of a cupful of mayon naise, one-half a chopped shallot, one half teaspoonful of vinegar, and one half tablespoonful each of chopped ca pers, pickles, olives and parsley. Serve when the mixture Is heated, but not boiling. This sauce Is nice with boiled fish. mHMIW),wwwtwwMl,. FARM POULTRY LARGE INFLUENCE OF MALES Selection of Rootteri to Incresi Egg Production la Urged by Poultry Specialist!. Although poultry experts have long advocated culling nonptudueliig bona, poultry workera at the College of Agriculture at Ithaca now advise the selection of roosters to Increase egg production, according to nn article In the Cornell Countrymen. From ei perlmenta extending back for more White Plymouth Rock Cock. thno a year, It has been demonstrated that It ll possible to determine from appearances the males which are most likely to produce the best-paying nena. The difference In the appearance of males Is comparable to the difference In the rate of growth and the Inteuslty with which hens lay, according to the college. Soma nena can lay an egg one in every Zi hours; others are not able to produce an egg oflener than once In iS hours, although both have the same care and feed. If one hen can lay faster than another, It Indi cates that she can digest large amounts of foed quickly. The experiment.- at this point determine also tho valde of males as foundatlona of high produc ing flocks. The Cornell workera measured severnl lots of malea a year ago, and by observing the records of tho off spring, they say that they con tell from the appearance of the rooster whether his daughters will be good layers. Members of the college itnff think the results of these experiment! will have as much value In developing eniclent poultry flocks as the original discovery that It was possible to de termine by appearance which hens were laying. A rooster to father egg-laying off spring should grow rapidly anil ma ture quickly. He should appear deep bodied and short legged, full In breast and abdomen with a flat, wide back. IJIa head should he moderately short, set on a largo full neck, and with prominent eyes. A good male for breeding Is friendly, courageous and proud of himself, calling attention to bla pride by freqnent crowing. MAKE HEN FLOCK PROFITABLE With Possible Exception of Leghorns Fowls Over Two Years Old Do Not Pay to Keep. It seldom pays to keep hens for lay ing after they are two and one-half years old. This may not bo true of Leghorns hut Is generally so of most other breeds. Ileus older than this may return some profit hut younger hens will return greater profits. In this day of high-priced feed, culling will make poultry more profitable, VARIETY OF FEED ESSENTIAL Every Flock of Hens Must Be Supplied With Necessary Material to Manufacture Eggs. Every flock of hens Is an egg fac tory. Like any other fnctory the flock can be given the best materials In the world to work on and still fall to pro duce enough to pay for running the plant. Good feed In sufficient variety Is necessary for egg production, but the ability to manufacture eggs from feed must be there first. COLONY HOUSE IS PREFERRED Give Poultryman Chance to Raise His Fowls Under Ideal Conditions Must Keep Clean. Colony houseg on free range give the poultryman a chance to raise tils birds under Ideal conditions. Rut the same eanltary precautions must be taken as with laying houseg. The small houses must be frequently cleaned and sprayed and the roosts painted with kerosene or some lice paint to keep down the rod mites, NO PROFIT IN POOR LAYERS Unprofitable Producers Should Be Culled Out to Save Hlgh-Prlced t Feed and Labor. It pays to cull out the poor layers any time, to save the foed anl luhor they cost, but to make a profit on them It Is best to cull In Into summer or early fall, before the rush of spring chickens lowers the market price of old hens. ; ( A - ... MmJMI WHEAT HARVESTED IN ALL PARTS OF WORLD Work in United States Begins Late in Month of May. According to Department of Agilcul- ture 39 Per Cant of Crop la Oath, ered In July, J5 Ui Auguit and IS In June. I'lider III condition prevailing be fore the World war, M per cent of the world'! wheal crop win hnrveMcd In July, 1 per cent In August. 1.1 per cent In June, 7 per tint In April, B nr cent In January, 4 per rent In May, 3 per Cent each In Mnivh and Decern her, 2 per cent In Sept her, 1 per cent In Fi'hriiary, and minli hi than 1 per cent each In October and No vember. The wheat ban eat of the world may be regarded a beginning In loeeiiiher In South America An Stacking Wheat tn Oregon, tralla, New Zealand and South Africa, continuing through January and sub stantially ending In February. India then begins and Increases In activity through March aud April. In April harvesting operations begin lu such countries as Persia, Asia Minor, and Mexico. In May activity la leaaenwl, for then the Indian harvest has been about completed, and the harvest sea son Is crossing the Mediterranean from north Africa to southern Kurnpc, where harvests do not become general until June, I.nto In May the harvest of tho I'nlled Stales IhtIiis. In June. July and August about 75 per cent of the world's crop la harvested, the sea son progressing steadily northward during these months. By September harvest operations are nearly com pleted, Scotland, northern Itnssln and Siberia, the United States anil Canada having a lllllo left over from August. Very little harvesting of wheat Is done In October and November. SLIDING DOOR ON CONCRETE Iowa armer Solves Problem by Us ing channel In Groove, Anchored With Rods. When a sliding door Is used at Ihe entrance of a ham or machine shed a groove between the floor and Ihe npprnnch Is often used as a guide for the door. lint when concrete Is used this construction Is not satisfactory, as the edges are chipped off by the wheels of wagons and other ihnchlnery with steel tires, An Iowa farmer has solved this problem In a very simple nnd satlsfac tory manner. He placed a three-Inch, four-pound channel Iron In tile groove. Holes were drilled through the sides at Intervals of two feet and rods placed through them to serve as anchors, Hie Iron protects the concrete nnd forms a smooth guide for tho door, PROPER ROOST FOR PULLETS When About Half Matured Provide Platform for Fowls About Eight een Inches From Floor, Never provide roosts until tho pul lets are about half matured. A good plan Is to have a platform erected, about eighteen Inches from the floor, upon which Ihey may go at night. After the birds are about half ma tured, roosls can bo-placed on Mils plnlform, to which Ihey will readily take. Where pullets are compelled to roost on tho door until well grown, they are very slow about taklug to ronsls when Ihey require It, Ilcsldes, unless the droppings nre cleaned up dally, roosting on the floor will soon breed a lot of red miles which will torment the stock more than anything, else. MARKET FOR PUREBRED SIRES One Method Ii to Inaugurate a Cam paign for High-Class Bulla In Place of 8crubs. There are two ways of helping the market for purebred bulls. One meth od Us to put on purebred sire cam paigns, which will help to put pure bred bulls In placo of scrub -bulls throughout the country, and the other method Is to castrate the poorer Indi viduals and place only the belter class of bulls on the market. Iloth methods can be used to good advantage by the purebred men, and both methods will help the live Stock production of the country. TOBACCO CROWN IN M SECTION Commercial Value of Product In financed Greatly by Soli and Climatic Conditions. OVERPRODUCTION IS MENACE Certain Methods for Production of Various Types Are Recommended by the United Statu Depart, mtnt of Agriculture, The tobacco plant may be grown lUi'ceasfiilly In nil latitude from on I horn ('lunula In the tropics and on ii great variety of aolla, hut Ihe ruin nioreliil value of the product Is liillu eiued to a greater degree by the par ticular noI and climatic condition nn- dor which the plant Is grown than la almost any other Important crop. These facta are o well recognised that the tobacco IndiiMry ha hecoiue high, ly specialized, and the trade regularly look In certain well defined area of production for It supply of tho varU mil rhino and t pea of leaf required. In these tobacco .producing dtatrlrta Ihe neceaHiiry fiieiiliie for marketing are available, and prevailing price of the cured leaf are governed largely by the relative auppty ami demand and by the quality of the leaf produced, Increased Production. F.in'li Important district produces a tobacco of certain well known cburae. terlallr which mnko It dealrnhln for special purpose of niiiuiifnctiire or ex port. Moreover, In practically all of these district the production ran b. readily Increaard tn meet any u. rrensed demand at prolltabla price. For these reason effort to Introduce the commercial gruwlng of tobacco n 'cctloii oulalde of the established producing center are likely to result In failure, either because the leaf pro duced I not quite right In type or satisfactory marketing farllltlei art not available. Furthermore1, any de velopment of the Industry In a new section on a large eule, which would he essential for economical marketing, would moat likely lead to overproduc tion and, a a coiiaciiuciico, unprova ble price. As a matter of fact, over production I a constant menace In all of the established center of tobacco growing. Qrowlng and Handling. The methods of growing and han dling the crop must be varied accord ing to (ho type of 1,-nf which It I de sired to produce, for the kind of to bacco I luiiuciioiil very greatly by Ilia method of growing and handling wiilrlt are employed. Certain methods Harvesting Tobacco by Cutting tn Stalk, 8howlng the Method of 8pmr, Ing tha Plant on the Stick. for the production of the various types are recommended by the Culled Nt'ntes department of agriculture. Though possibly susceptible of Improvement la some of tho details, they are the best available In view of the present knowl edge nnd experience of Investigators and the mora successful growers. These recommendations nru contained In Farmers' Iltillelln 571. 'Tobneen Culture," copies of which can he had by addressing a request to tho United States department of ' ogi-lctilluro, Washington, I). C. , QUALITIES OF LAYING HENS 8mall Feminine Neck and Head, Bright, Alert Eye and Drooping Tall All Count An experienced, closo-obsorvlng'pnu!-try raiser knows at a glance tho lay ing hen ; the small feminine neck and bond count again ; the bright, alert eyo tells a tnlo, the drooping tall tells an other tule, and when she picks her feet up nnd plumps them down we ' have another pointer, RAPE EXCELLENT FOR SWINE Can Be Expected to Add Many Pounds In 8eason to Qrowlng 8hoati Lessens Feed Bill. Never forget that good rape makes excellent bog feed and can be sown lightly In the outs or broadcast In ft cornfield nt the Inst cultivation 'and be expected to add many pounds In a season to a growing bunch of shoals with a corresponding lessening of the pressure ou the feedblns In making pork, ' wm