Grand Wind-Up of the Armament Conference
ULTEST
CIRCLES HELP FARM INCOME
CHEAT
Excellent Example of Way in Which
Home Demonetration Worker«
Are Aiding Farmer«.
(P rer-tred
'l ln climax of the conference on llmltutlon of iirnmnie as came when, at the final plenary session, the delegates
attached their signatures to the treaties. In the illustration Ellhu limit 4a elimini;, while Senators Liaise anil Un­
derwood alami beside him.
At the left is the flagstaff penhohler used by Secretary of State Hughes In signing the
pactg. It la made of wood from '¿H stales and decorated with II.mu of US nations. It was presented to the I>augh
ters of the American Revolution.
Italian Beauty Spot Is Doomed
PAPER VENDING MACHINE
BAKE
FACTS
Great Trees In the forest stood
T HE
naked und bare!! for Old Winter hud
come and taken away their beautiful
colored dresses thut Mistress Fall bad
j given them iu place of their pretty
I summer clothes.
| Rut the evergreen trees were still
dressed and they cried "Sham e!” to
| the tall bare trees as they shivered
In the winter winds.
At first the Great Trees did not
j notice the evergreens and held their
poor nuked heads high with pride above
their green gowned neighbors, but it
was no use pretending, for, us the
days went by, the evergreens became
more scornful and at last the great
trees hud to acknowledge to each
other that they were a sorry sight.
“It is no use looking -for Summer.
She went to sleep long ago,” suld one
tall tree, “and Mistress Fall Is too
by t h e I ’ n l t r d S t a t e . D e p a r t i n “ n t j
of A xrlcu itu ral
Ilmne demonstration worker« realize
that before substant al Improvements
can be made In rural home life there
must be more cash income with which
to install convenience«, correct defect»,
beautify the surroundings, or improve
clothing. On most farms the produc­
tion and selling of eggs and poultry
offer the best immediate possibilities
for Increasing the income. The home
demonstration agents of the United
States I »epartment of Agriculture and
the state agricultural colleges, there­
fore have turned their attention to
giving help in this held whenever there
seemed to he need ef it.
The poultry project at Orchard (Jar-
dens community, Dakota County,
Minn., Is an excellent example of the
way In which home demonstration
work thus meets a real wunt. The
home demonstration agent helped to
Interest people In poultry raising as a
source of Income, which would mean
Income during the winter as well as
during the summer.
The poultry project was started by
the poultry specialist.
During the
project the members formed a poultry
association. The first work of the as
soclation was to pool their orders foi
feed, thus saving a considerable sum
The second step of the association was
to organize an egg circle to make plans
for the marketing of the eggs. The egg
circle was formed and by-laws adopted
making provision for a guaranty that
their product would be of exceUe *
m e t i s ((«
Jf*v-
fur away now to hear our call, and
Old Winter has no pity in his cold,
hard heart for us.”
“We might ask the help of the
Forest Goblins,” said another tree.
“They come out on moonlight nights
before the snow conies and they may
know of some one who will help us if
they esnnot.”
“1 cannot understand why the ever­
greens should be so disagreeable.
They have never been so before,”
spoke up another tree.
“Why, I enn tell you, brother,” re­
plied a very tall tree. “Those ever­
An inventor in Loa Angeles has Just
completed this machine, whereby it
Is possible to drop your coin in a box,
turn a handle and secure your favorite
paper.
This I it'll tit I f ul l.rotto of the Sybil, at the falls of Tivoli In Italy, Is doomed,
for an electric plant Is to be erected there to provide power for Itomo, which
Is IS miles away. The enterprise 1ms aroused a storm of protest.
RARE PIECE OF JADE
Flock of Laying Hens in Good Healtn.
quality. Each member was furnished
with a stamp with the nnme of the egg
circle and a number identifying the
eggs. In case a bad egg was shipped.
It could he traced to the owner.
Through the home demonstration
agent a market for the eggs was found
with the Women’s Community Council
of Minneapolis, the office of the Minne­
apolis home demonstration agent be­
ing used as the distributing center.
The production from the egg circle
soon outgrew this form of marketing
and the president of the Orchard Gar­
dens Poultry association then secured I
a market for the eggs through one of j
j the high-class markets In eggs and but-
! ter In Minneapolis.
Fireless Cooker of the Hawaiians
BAKED BONES FOR POULTRY
Furnish Mineral Matter Which Is of
Great Importance— Pound Into
Small Crumbs.
lirelcs» (svnker» are n i i < nmieO hi XnieiicM unii ibe native of Hawaii
S cotti s to use ibe Importeli artlcle. Ile lias lits own llreless cookor. Ile fili*
u plg wllli bo| Si Olir. N alni Toast« It In thr nmnner show n.
This old and wonderfully canted
Chinese Jade piece. In the collection
of Roland N. Moore of New York, Is
one of the largest «olid bits of Jade
In existence and Is n receptacle for
the brushes used In Chinese w riting,
The only other piece of the same size
—the mate to this—la In the Metro-
polltan Museum of Art.
Heavy bones of all kinds may be put
In shape for chicken feed by baking
|
until brittle, and then rolling or pound­
ing Into small crumbs. These baked
lames furnish mineral matter which Is
of great Importance in nutrition.
j
Green bone is probably the best source
[
of mineral matter, but green bone Is
|
not always at hand, and bones for bak­
ing are more or less abundant on
every farm.
Beg Pardon.
When vvp began housekeeping a few |
yenrs ago we were often troubled by I LICE ARE QUITE INJURIOUS
a tramp dog in the neighborhood who |
was In the habit of raising the cover Parasites Have Been Known to De­
of the garbage pall outside the kitchen I
stroy Dozens of Turkeys In Short
“f
door, rummaging Inside and then tip­
Period of Time.
ping over the pall, scattering the con­
tents on the neat cement walk.
Experienced turkey breeders agree j
1 became tired of constantly sweep» that lice are the most dangerous t o 1
Ing up after the marauder, who was | adult turkeys during the fnll and win-j
always seen running off In the dis­ ter. They have been known to de­
tance, and finally I resolved to give stroy dozens of birds In a few weeks. ;
him a big scare next time I beard the The usual reason given Is that the j
familiar disturbance.
turkeys «re unable to find dust baths
One morning 1 could hear the slow, ' at this season with whleh to fight the
rasping lifting of the pall cover out­ pest In their own way. and consequent-!
side. Catching up a carpet beater ns ly. the lice get an unusual foothold.
a missile, I rushed out at the back
door with a blood curdling yell, siuuq».
PROFITABLE TO RAISE DUCKS
ing and hissing. "Sbe-sh-s-s!”
There I stopped. The astonished
.arluige collector was standing by the Fowls Mature Rapidly and Ars Ready
for Market at Ten or Eleven
pail. Exchange.
Weeks of Age
Has Sympathy for Husbands.
One of the be«t sonn-es of profit In
Mrs. Margaret Neviuson a well
known Fngllsli social worker, who re- poultry ris in g . particularly where
i-ontly visited the courts in New Y'ork market poultry Is concerned. Is In the i
and Massachusetts, told the Women's raising of ducks. They mature very
Freedom league that “In America the rapidly and are generally ready f o r 1
ling's loyally to mail was never I letter exemplified than In the I use of law Is all on the stile of the woman." i market at ten or eleven weeks ot age.
Tony Malattn. a cripple of Is»« Angeles, Cal. Tony la minus both legs and says the New York Evening Post, she If intended for market purpose*. For j
breeders they bring nix'd prices If mi
makes his living by peddling delicacies. Having only one arm, he Is unable spoke sympathetically of American
tvired and held over until the breed
to use his wheel chair, so he has two faithful dogs who alternate In guiding husbands w ho w eut to prison rather j
Ing season.
than
pay
alimony
to
deserting
wives.
kltu around the city.
Cripple Guided by Faithful Dogs
camnirnnrc
greens have just grown up and they
are so proud that they can see more
than they did last year that they are
talking about everything they see."
The first moonlight night that the
Forest Goblins uppeured the Great
Trees told them their troubles, and,
though the Goblins said they could not
help them, they promised to see the
Elves, whose queen was a friend of
the Queen of the Fairies.
This seemed a round-about way to
the Great Trees, to get help, but there
was nothing else to be done und so
they had to wait.
The Great Trees had about given up
hope and the evergreens grew more
scornful every day, hut one night,
when all was still and the wind was
cold and blustering, a little fairy
alighted on the topmost branch a
great bare tree. She had ridden to
the forest on the tail of Rlustering
Wind without his knowing a thing
about It and as he passed along off
she Jumped.
“I have a message for you from
my queen,” she whispered to Great
Tree. “The Fairy Queen will help you
und she gives you her promise that
soon you shall all outshine In splendor
the evergreens that scorn you.”
As Old Rlustering Wind passed again
the fairy caught at Ills trailing tail
and off she went, but the Great Trees
felt happier and they waited and
watched.
Then one moonlight night, when the
evergreens looked up at the great bare
trees, their cries of “Shame V’ froze
before they left their branches. For
instead of being naked and hare, the
Great Trees were clothed in gorgeous
splendor such as the evergreen had
never beheld.
Tlie Fairy Queen had sent the snow-
fairies and Jaek Frost to dress the
Great Trees. They wore diamonds and
their long branches were powdered
with sparkling frost, and there they
stood like great kings dressed In white
and silver.
The evergreens were certain that
the next day, when the sun came out,
the Great Trees would be naked
again, but they were more wonderful
in their splendor ns the sunlight fell
upon them.
And no more did the evergreens cry
“Shame!” to the Great Trees, for all
through the winter did the Fairy
Queen keep them dressed In their
sparkling clothes.
( C o p y r ig h t .)
There are some persons who pro­
test aguinst these letters It. S. V. P,
TH E RIG H T THING
They say that It Is much better to
at the
use plain English and so they use
this expression: “The favor of an
RIGHT TIME
answer is requested." This has the
ohlvous advantage of being In Eng­
By M ARY MARSHALL DUFFEE
lish hut the other form has the ad­
vantage of being extremely brief, nnd
R. S. V. 1».
as every one knows the significance
W U t th o u n ot A nsw er, m a n ? —S h a k e s p e a re .
of the letters or enn quite easily learn
EW persons need to be told that it, and ns it Is the time-honored form
the initials U. S. V. P. stand for the to use under the circumstances, there
French, “Repondez s’il vous plult,” is no very good objection to its use.
( C o p y r ig h t .)
—that is, “reply If you please." But
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apparently there are a good many
persons who do need to be told that
when those Initials are on an invita­
tion it Is imperative that eltlier regrets
By MILDRED MARSHALL
or acceptances be sent wthin a day
or two of the receipt of the invitation.
F«ct* t b o u t you r n«m«; Its h istory; mean«
The fact that there are such people
ing; w h en ce it * 1 1 d erived ; significance;
yo u r lu c k y d a y a n d lu c k y Jewel.
Is quite obvious to nny one who has
sent out formal invitations with this
formal request for an answer, for
VIOLET
there are always plenty of Invited
guests who come without signifying
their Intention to do so nnd even more c p i i E origin of the fragrant und
who remain away without sending A poetic name of Violet is shrouded
their regrets. Some persons really in mystery. The name Vlolante ap­
seem to think that “it is all a matter peared in the south of France and
of form.” They receive an Invitation north of ¡Spuin and Italy early in his­
to a large welding reception, for In­ tory, but there was no clue to its
stance, nnd notice the letters It. S. V. origin and apparently, like Topsy, "it
|*. but as they are uncertain as to Just grew.” Etymologists with a fanci­
whether they really wish to go or will ful turn of mind have identified It
he able they delay sending a reply. with the lovely golden violet which
“It Is Just a matter of form," they was the prize of troubadours of old
say. "In a big affair like that it in the courts of love; other authori­
doesn't make any difference.
One ties believe that it may have been a
guest more or less will not matter." form of some old Latin name such as
Hut It does most emphatically mat­ Valentine. The Latin name for the
ter. The hostess who does much en­ little purple flower that lifts its modest
tertaining makes a practice of keep­ head in the spring is “Viola.”
ing lists of all Invited guests and as
Vlolante was popular as a feminine
replies come she checks them off so name in Spain, hut France changed
thst she can tell how many persons her to Yolande or Y’olette. An old
to make plans for. As her orders English form was Joletta. Scotland
ought to he In at the caterer’s several however, reached out and appropriated
days In advance of the entertainment, the name, changing it to Violet. It is
it Is really essential that the replies thought that this latest version catne
should he sent in within a short time through a connectioi of the Archers
after the receipt of the Invitation. of the Royal Guard, or perhaps
Whether or not the letters are added through Queen Mary's friend. Violet
to certain Invitations^ a reply should Forbes. Certainly, the name spread
he sent; for Instance, to an entertain­ in popularity In England und Scot­
ment where substantial refrexhments land, where Violets were almost as
are to he served. Thus, a wedding numerous as the M a o * of the Catholic
reception or breakfast calls for a re­ communities of today.
ply. as does, of course, a dinner or
Perhaps the most famous Violet of
supper invitation. However, an Invi­ history was I.aVloletta, the young
tation to a tea. where the refreshments dancer, so called by Maria Theresa,
do not have to he specially prepared who become the wife of David Gar­
for each guest, does not call for a rick. the brilliant English tragedian.
reply. Good form In that case de­ Viola was the form preserved by Italy
mands either your presence or a card and It still reigns in undisputed popu­
sent so that It will reach the hostess larity there. It gradually penetrated
on the day of the reception or tea.
England and was elevated to favor­
There are times where it may not itism through Shakspere’s lovely
seem to yen that a reply I* necessary heroine of “A Winter's Tale."
where for some reason or other yonr
Violet’s flower is of course her
h .tess really \v;«hes one. It mar be fragrant and nuxlest namesake, the
that she Is sending out Invttat'ons violet.
It signifies modesty.
Her
to s drawing room reading or m usical talismanic gem is the MooAHone.
and that her seats are limited. She whleh promises her bodily health,
adds R. S. V. P. to the invitations be­ guards her from deception and dis­
cause she wishes to know quite dell tressing news, snd preserves her
nltely how many to expect tf you re­ fhcnltle*. If the stone is glv -n to her
fuse It may he that some one else by ■ lover. It will insure lasting and
w.ay he Invited. Not to answer snd sincere devotion. (Thursday Is her
not to answer vet* prompt'y the® lucky day and ft her lucky number.
would be a real rudeness.
(C o p y rig h t.)
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“What’s in a Name?’