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WHAT THE OLD GRAY HEN 8 AW.
"No," eald the Old Gray Hen, "I
do not think the Duck knows a bit
more about the world than I do, Just
because she swims. If It wasn't for
our Rooster, she wouldn't know wheth
er it was sunset or sunrise."
"Rut she has traveled farther than
you have," said the Pig, raising her
bead from the muddy bed. "I saw her
swim across to the other side of the
pond the other day."
"What If she did? I have walked
away through the woods to the other
Bide."
"She never could do that," said the
Rooster, who happened along just
then. "Her feet are too large."
"And she never leaves the ground,"
said the Gray Hen. "She cannot fly
to the fence around your pen, Madam
Pig. Whatever made you think the
White Duck so wIbb about this world?"
' "Well," said the Pig, "she told me
tbat one day while she wag sailing
along on the pond she saw a turtle
on the bank, and that it had a shell
which it carried on its back all the
time, and that when anyone went near
It or it was afraid, it drew In its head
and legs, and nothing could hurt it.
Just think of seeing anything so won
derful," said the Pig.
"Oh, that's nothing," said the Gray
;Hen. "I saw one myself, and I saw
the dog bark at it, and the turtle
snapped and caught him by the nose."
"You didn't tell me!" said the Pig.
"Did the dog shake It off?"
"Not until the master pulled the
turtle by the tall," said the Hen.
"Well," said the Pig, "the Duck told
me she saw an elephant one day on
the other side of the pond."
"Oh, oh," laughed the Hen, "that
Duck Is a quack."
"Weil, I don't know," said the Pig,
"but she Beomed to know a great deal
about the world."
"The White Duck Is an awful brag,"
said the Gray Hen as she walked
"She Has
Traveled
You."
Farther Than
away, and Eho walked to the pond
and looked across.
"I really would like to see the coun
try over there," she said, "but I never
can swim that Is certain." JubI then
she saw a boat and she hopped on to
the side. Then Bhe saw a worm in the
bottom of the boat and she hopped
down to eat it, and the dog who had
v.ome along just at that moment
stopped to get a drink and pushed the
boat, and off it drifted into the mid
dle of the pond.
"What in thb world has happened?"
aid the Hen, looking up from the
worm; "why I am in the middle of
the pond. What will I ever do? I
cannot fly out ot the boat, for I can
not swim, and how will I ever get to
the shore?"
The boat drifted around with the
Gray Hen perched on the seat.
"Well," she said, "I can see the oth
er Btdo of the pond and If there are
any elephants 1 hope I Bhall see one."
Just then tho boat bumped Into a
rock on tho opposite side of the pond
and the Gray Hen hopped out.
"This Is just like a trip bctoss the
world," she said, stretching her neck
and looking around. She walked into
the woods and picked the berries she
could roach and was quite delighted
with herself as a traveler, when all at
ence she saw an animal sitting on a
rock. It held something in its paws
which It would bite and then turn its
bead quickly from side to side, and
evor Us back was a bushy tail.
"Mercy me," said Gray Hen, "what
is that? I wonder it that can be an
elephant?"
"Whore did you come from?"a8ked
tho fcqulrrel.
"I sailed across from the other side,"
Ory Hen answered.
"I did not know that hens could
swim," said the squirrel.
"I did not swim," said Gray Hen; "I
sailed across in a boat."
"Who is with you?" asked the squir
rel, start'ng to run.
"No one," answered Gray Hen; "I
came alone.
The squirrel ran back to the rock.
"Alone?" be said. "Can you 'sail' a
boat?"
"You see I am here," said Gray Hen,
"and no one came with mo. Who are
you?" she a?ked suddenly. "Are you
an elephant?"
The squirrel wag delighted to to
mistaken for an animal so large, and
he told her he wag.
"Where is your trunk?" she asked.
"This Is my trunk," said the squir
rel, waving his long bushy tall. '
Gray Hon stared with wide-opened
eyes. "Well, I am glad to know you
are no larger," she said. "I thought
you would be as large as a horse, any
how." A dog ran through the bushes and
the squirrel scampered away. A man
followed, and seeing the hen, be
picked her up by her legs and walked
toward the boat.
"Here Is luck," be said, seeing the
boat. "Jump in, Rover; we will row
across."
When they reached the barnyard he
threw the Hen out of the boat and
away she ran to the Pig pen.
"Madam Pig," she called, "I want to
tell you I have seen a great deal
Blnce I last saw you. I have Balled
around the world and seen many queer
things."
"You don't say so," said Madam Pig.
what did you see?"
"Oh, I Baw trees with big berries
growing on them, which I ate, and a
great ocean, and I saw an elephant.
Why, the elephant Is not as large as
you are, only he has a much larger
trunk, as he calls It, but I thought it
was his tall."
"Well, well," said the Pig. "Madam
Duck does not know as much as you
do. , She never could tell what he
looked like. You certainly are a very
wise hen."
So the Gray Hen was satisfied. The
Pig thought her wiser than the Duck,
and she ran away to tell the others
what she had seen.
BULL PEN IS AMUSING GAME
It Is Pastime Father and Grandfather
Indulged in When They Were
Boys How It Is Played.
How many of you boys know how
to play bull pen? It is a game father
and grandfather used to play when
they were boys and just because it in
so old, it's probably new. You mark
out a big square on the playground
and have one boy stand at every cor
ner.
If there are many players and the
square Ib large, you may put a player
on the middle of every side also. As
many players stand in the center of
the square as are on the corners and
Bides. The boys on the corners throw
the ball around the square once, then
whoever has the ball throws it towards
the center of the square.
If he hits anyone, that player is out,
and whoever gets the ball must throw
It at someone in the square and try
to put him out. When all but two of
the.playerB on either side are caught,
these two go and hide for a moment.
When they come back they have
their hands behind them so the other
players cannot see who has the ball
When a player gets close to the boy
with the ball the boy hits him with
the ball and be is caught. When all
but one on a side is caught, that side
is beaten.
ARTIFICIAL CALL FOR BIRDS
Sound Comes From Tube, Consisting
of Hollowed Piece of Corncob
Handy for Hunters.
What boy has not annoyed his
schoolteacher and the girls In the
room by the shivery sound made by
scratching a slate pencil over a slate?
A Virginia man has taken this simple
principle as the basis of an artificial
bird call that he has Invented, and
which sounds, it is claimed, like the
cry of a wild turkey. A sound tube,
consisting of a hollowed piece of corn-
Artificial Bird Call.
cob, has a stylus needle attached to
one end. This tapers Into a thin blade
which has a rounded head at the lower
end. The hunter takes a piece of slate
or some similar substance and holds
it In the hollow of his hand and
against his thigh. He then draws the
round head of the blade across it and
the vibrations thus caused Issue from
the sound tube. With his thumb over
the open end of the tube be regulates
the sound. '
Unknown Language.
"Can your baby brother talk yet?"
asked a visitor of four-year-old Mabel.
"Yes'm; he can say some words real
plain," replied the little miss.
"Indeed!" exclaimed the astonished
visitor. "And what are they?"
"I don't know," answered Mabel.
"They are words I never Beard be
fore." Correct. -
Teacher (the subject being trees)
Now, who can name the pine that
has the longest and sharpest needles?
Aright boy I can, miss; the porcupine.
PURE MILK FOR BABY
RIGHT KIND OF FOOD 13 E8SEN-
TIAL TO HEALTH.
fhorough Heating Will Kill Germs, If
Their Presence Is Suspected Di
rections for Home Pasteurization
Care of the Bottle.
(Prepared for this paper by the Children's
Bureau, U. B. Department oi ijaDor).
Nothing is so important to the
health ot the baby in summer as the
right kind of food. When for any
reason breast milk cannot be had a
substitute must be found.
Experience in many thousands of
cases has shown that cows' milk is
the only food that can take the place
of mothers' milk With even a fair pros
pect of having It agree with the baby.
Neither condensed milk nor the infant
foods sold In the stores are so good
as clean cows' milk for the baby who
annot have breast milk.
Germs multiply very rapidly in milk,
so rapidly, in fact, that even if it is
reasonable clean when drawn it may
become dangerous food if left stand
ing in a warm place for some time.
These germs may be killed by heating
the milk. Boiling it for half an hour
Is a safe method, and is sometimes
advisable in very hot weather; but
the method of heating the milk with
out boiling it called pasteurizing is
usually employed. An easy method
of home pasteurization is as follows:
Put a gallon of water over the fire
In a clean pan or kettle. When the
water Is boiling hard take the kettle
from the fire and allow It to stand on a
table for ten minutes uncovered. Then
put In the filled and corked nursing
bottles and leave them for half an
hour, covering the kettle meanwhile
with a blanket. At the end of the half
hour remove the bottles and cool them
as quickly as possible to 50 degrees
and put them where they will keep
cold until needed.
When it is time to feed the baby
take out a bottle and set it in a pail
of warm water over the fire to heat,
The mother may test the warmth of
the milk by sprinkling a few drops
on her arm. If it feels just slightly
warm it will be right for the baby.
After the baby has finished, the bot
tle should be emptied, rinsed, and
filled with cold water. At some con
venient hour in the day the mother
will wash all the used bottles with
soap and warm water, using a bottle
brush to clean the inside of them,
She should then rinse them and boil
them in the same pan or kettle in
which they were pasteurized.
The nipples should be washed care
fully. A little salt rubbed on the in
side will remove the milk. They
should then be rinsed and dropped
Into boiling water for a few moments
They will dry with their own heat
when removed. They should then be
put away in a dry glass jar that has
also been boiled, covered and kept
out ot the light.
When handling the sterilized nlp--
ples take hold ot them by the lower
rim. Do not touch the part which is
to go into the baby's mouth. Never
put the nipple Into the mouth to test
the milk, as the baby might easily
be made sick if the mother happened
to have a cold or throat trouble.
It will be found convenient to have
enough bottles, nipples and clean bot
tle corks for the entire twenty-four
hours, and It will be a great saving
of time if all the feedings are made
up at once. This will also insure their
being of uniform quality.
Whenever possible the baby's bot
tles should be kept on ice. A home
made refrigerator which will keep
milk sweet for 24 hours is easily and
cheaply made at home. For thla pur
pose procure a lard or candy pall, or a
galvanized bucket, or even a wooden
box with a cover. In the bottom place
a layer of sawdust an inch thick,
Inside the box or pall place another
smaller receptacle, such as a ten-quart
pail (tin), with a cover, and fill all
the space around it with sawdust,
This inner pall holds the ice and the
milk.
The ice will keep longer if it is
broken up and enclosed in a small
covered pail. Put the little pail in
the bottom of the refrigerator and
pack the bottles around It, and put the
cover on. Then close the outer cover,
which for additional protection may
be lined with newspapers, or with a
cushion stuffed with hay or straw
Where ice cannot be had, the bottles
may stand in a pail, under a stream
of running water.
A bottle baby should be fed with
the same regularity as a nursing baby.
The bottles may be given at 6 and
9 a. m., at 12 noon, and at 3, 6 and
9 p. m. Up to the age of four months
the baby will need one more night
feeding. After that he should sleep
all night.
Beginning at the fifth month the
time between feedings should be
lengthened a quarter of an hour each
week until the Interval is four hours,
when the baby 1b six months old. Give
no other food than the bottle feedings
and drinking water in the first few
months of the baby's life.
The baby should nurse slowly, but
ought to finish his feeding in about
twenty minutes. If he is inclined to
take his food too greedily, withdraw
the nipple from his mouth several
times during the feeding and let him
rest a moment
It is especially Important in sum
mer not to orfeet the baby. It Is
far better to keep him on rather a
low diet than to bring on an attack
ot diarrhea by giving him too much
food, or that which is unsuitable, ot
by feeding bim at Irregular lutenala
SAVING TIME IN KITCHEN
8mall Things About Which House
wives May Not Have Thought, but
Which Count for Much.
Time saving Is one of the chief prob
lems of the busy woman, and It con
cerns especially the housewife who
does her own cooking or has only one
maid.
Here, for example, Is how one
woman saves time: When she makes
pie crust she makes double the quan
tity needed at the moment, as pie
crust rolled In a damp napkin and put
in the refrigerator will keep perfectly
for several days. Then she plans In
the menus for the next few days to
use that crust A dessert or a fruit
tart for the first night, turnovers for
luncheon the following day, and if any
crust remains it can be used In des
serts, meat patties or cheese straws.
By using the pastry in Buch a va
riety of ways she avoids the Impres
sion of sameness, yet manages to
lighten materially her work of prepar
ation. Filling the Ice box with scraps of
leftover food is a waste of room and
usually of food; but this woman solves
very neatly the problem of "left
overs." .. She never allows an accumu
lation; nevertheless, every scrap Is
UBed. For example, If there are a few
string boans or boiled potatoes left
from dinner they are immediately
sliced Into small dice-Bhaped pieces
and put away In a bowl to be used
for a vegetable salad at tomorrow's
luncheon. "Scraps of meat too small
to be used In other ways are put
through the meat chopper, and go to
make sandwiches for tea,
Every dish that comes off the table
is promptly attended to. If It be
available for future use it 1b put away
In a convenient form; if not available
it is thrown away immediately. By
this means the ice box is kept neat
and clean, there is no waste by spoil
ing, and much time is saved.
SAVE BOTH TIME AND LABOR
Casserole Dishes Should Be Constant
ly In the Mind of the Housewife
In the Summer.
The long list of casserole dishes are
among the time and labor savers of
the summer housewife. With every
thing cooked in and served from the
same dish, table service, as well as
dishwashing, is reduced to the mini
mum, while even a commonplace prep
aration is given a bit of elaboration
by this process.
In the same practical category be
longs the attractive serving of an oc
casional planked dish, surrounded by
an alternating variety of vegetables,
While in reality the meat or fish so
served may have been broiled in the
regulation way, it gains much In ap
pearance if served in imitation of a
planked dish, occupying the center of
a large platter with the vegetables as
a border. . Mounds of mashed potato
or boiled rice, alternating with
moundB of some fresh vegetable, are
quite sufficient, although more va
riety is easily possible. Vegetables
served in this way make an attractive
garnish, at the same time lessening
the number of dishes required on the
table.
Strawberry Bread Pudding.
Soak one Bllce of bread in enough
cold water to cover it for half an hour.
Then press all the water from it and
beat with a fork. Add a pint of boil
ing milk, two eggs well whipped, half
a teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoonful
of butter and a large cupful of sugar,
Flavor with a teaspoonful of vanilla
and pour Into a buttered baking dish,
Just before placing in the oven drop
in a cup of strawberries cut in halves.
Bake till a nice brown. Then spread
with butter and sprinkle thickly with
powdered sugar. Return to the oven
till a crust Is formed. Serve warm
with strawberry sauce.
To Fillet a Fish.
Remove the dark skin; cut down the
backbone and slip the knife under the
flesh, keeping close to the bene, till
the fins are reached. Cut a fillet off of
each side, turn the fish over and cut
two more fillets off the other side.
eood-slzed flat fish will give four fil
lets. Smaller fish that are not flat
should be divided Into two fillets only,
Weakflsh, flounder, salmon, whiting
herring, mackerel, haddock and any
of the larger fishes that have not too
many small bones are excellent sub
jects for fillet
Rice Mold.
Mix one-half cupful rice with two
cupfuls cold milk, put it in a double
boiler, add one-half teaspoonful salt
and boil about one hour, then put it
lii a mold, and when perfectly cold
turn out and spread with scraped ma
ple sugar, about one cupful; pour over
one cupful whipped cream and serve.
Curtain Washing Hint
When washing new curtains you
will generally find that they are full
of lime. A great deal of trouble may
be saved by soaking the curtains over
night in water in which a little salt
has been dissolved. The salt draws
the lime and makes the curtains easy
to wash.
Machine Oil Stains.
Yellow machine oil stains on white
material may be removed by nibbing
the spot with a cloth wet with ammo
nia before using soap.
Brightening Rugs,
Throw coarse salt over rugs and
carpets before sweeping them to pre
vent the dust from rising. This will
brighten the color also.
HE MADE BEQUEST OF BRAIN
Man of Eminence Has the Idea of Ad
vancing Scientific 8tudy by
the Action.
Announcement was made a short
time ago that Dr. Leland O. Howard,
chief of the United States bureau of
entomology, had declared to the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement
of Science that he would bequeath his
brain for scientific study to a school
that specializes in neurology. A num
ber ot other scientists who attended
the meeting expressed admiration for
the doctor's action and are reported to
be considering similar bequests ot
their own brains.
There was a British physician
named Robert Peebles who created a
sensation In London and Edinburgh
several years ago by his insistent
coaxing of athletes for the privilege
of studying their bodies after death.
He had been experimenting with the
muscles and had arrived at what his
associates termed a fantastic notion
that some sort of operation could be
performed on the leg of the human
runner so that his speed could be
increased. Leapers and high jumpers
were his hobby, and In the course of
five years It was estimated that he
had examined the leg muscles of near
ly a thousand men, making compari
sons with the running and leaping
muBcles of the frog, the deer, the
greyhound and other animals.
Peebles was a man of means, and
after be had succeeded In Inducing
half a dozen athletes of reputation to
will him their legs" the attention of
surgeons was attracted. They took
the matter under consideration at one
of their quarterly meetings and
warned Peebles they would have him
committed to a sanitarium if he con
tinued his strange pursuit. Peebles
defied them and they had a commis
sion appointed. While his sanity was
being tested Peebles died. In his will
he bequeathed his brain to the com
mission. War Hits Rheumatism.
Sodium salicylate, the friend ot suf
ferers from rheumatism, is selling to
day at $2.40 a pound, while before the
war it only cost 30 cents a pound, re
marks the New York World. Also, it
is sold In this coifctry only under the
condition that none of it will be ex
ported. The reason for this, according to the
head of one of the largest chemical
concerns in the city, is not because
there are more cases of rheumatism in
the country today than ever before,
but because sodium salicylate is made
from carbolic acid heretofore imported
from Europe. Now Europe needs all
her carbolic acid to use in manufac
turing explosives.
Horace Graves of the Oil, Drug and
Paint Reporter said: "Nearly all the
highly developed coal tar derivatives
in the United States have been used
up. Picric acid, which is used in ex
plosives, costs nil over in Europe to
what it would cost to manufacture
here. In England they are too busy
to manufacture it, so they have been
buying from us in great quantities. We
have been selling at huge prices. Last
year at this time carbolic acid cost
seven cents a pound, now It has gone
up to $1.50."
Gunmakers to the Kaiser.
Ordinarily the Krupps manufacture
railway equipment, motor cars and
other steel products for purposes of
peace, as well as guns. Now, how
ever, the entire establishment is be
ing devoted exclusively to the making
of guns and war munitions. The Im
mense furnaces are boiling tons of
white-hot metal, and the stacks belch
ing forth volumes of black smoke as
the great army of gunmakers work in
day and night shifts under tremendous
war pressure. Busy Berthas are be
ing proliflcally produced. Guns for
naval and coast defense, for siege
and fortress purposes, field and moun
tain guns, antiaircraft guns, guns of
all kinds and calibers, with acces
sories and appointments, such as ar
mored turrets, shields, observation sta
tions, conning towers, armored case
ments, disappearing carriages, hoist
ing and lifting apparatus for ammuni
tion; great shells, torpedoes, shrapnel,
case Bhot, all kinds of ammunition,
armor plate and ordnance wagons, in
fact, all the dread implements in the
arsenal of war stream forth in steady
shipments. Review of Reviews.
Doubtful About It.
Nath Taylor could neither read nor
write, but he put one over on the city
preacher that he engaged to marry
him. Nath had for a long time con
templated marrying, but never had
the nerve to Inquire Into the neces
sary legal formalities. A preacher
from the city happened to be visiting
on the farm where Nath was em
ployed. When Nath learned of the
presence of the preacher in the house
he decided to go up and inquire just
what had to be done. When Nath
reached the front steps his courage
left htm, and there Mr. Smith, bis em
ployer, found him. Nath explained his
mission and the preacher was called
to enlighten him.
"And so you wish to get married.
my man?" the preacher nodded en
couragingly to Nath. whose courage
was fast slipping away,
"W-e-1-1, i think will try it a while,'
Nath replied. "How much does it
costr
Reversing Conditions.
Mrs. Flatbush How that boy of
yours Is growing! I believe he is tall
er than bis father.
Mrs. Bensonhurst Yes. he is. You
see we are now cutting down the boy's
I clothes tor his father.
CAP
SUCCESSFUL RUSE OF WOMAN
Mrs. Gadspur Got Benefit of Wai
News by Telling Husband of Love
Letters on Back Page.
"Any war news in the paper today?"
asked Mrs. Gadspur of Mr. Gadspur,
who was deeply absorbed In the morn
ing "Banner."
"Urn," wag Mr. Gadspur's only re
ply.
'I saw yesterday where the Turk!
had lost a large number of men in
the bombardment ot the Dardanelles."
No response.
"And the allies won a victory over
the Germans."
Mr. Gadspur took a swallow of cof
fee and again disappeared behind the
paper.
"I see on the back page," contin
ued Mrs. Gadspur, leaning over the
table as if to scan the headlines bet
ter, "that the love letters of a beau
tiful divorcee were read in court."
Umph! There's nothing new about
the war," said Mr. Gadspur, quickly
reversing the paper. While he was
earching for the love letters of a
mythical divorcee Mrs. Gadspui
glanced at the front page, which was
now turned toward her, and learned
from letters a foot high that one of the
greatest battles of the war had Just
been fought.
Juvenile Logic.
Mamma," said small Edgar after
glancing over his 'Sunday school les
son, "I don't believe Solomon was half
as rich as they Bay he was."
Why not, dear?" queried his
mother.
'Cause," replied the youthful stu
dent, "it says here, 'And he slept with
his fathers.' If he had been so very
rich I guess he would have had a bed
of his own."
How It Ended.
Uncle John Are you still quarrel
ing with your neighbor because his
cat dined on your canary?
His Niece No, indeed; that's all
over long ago.
Uncle John Well, I'm glad to hear
you have burled the hatchet.
His Niece But I didn't bury the
hatchet, Uncle John; I buried his cat.
A SAD BLOW.
'Yaas, my trip to Europe was com
pletely spoiled at the very last, don't
you know?"
"How was that?"
"One of the labels came off my suit
case and got lost."
Proof Positive.
"Do you drink coffee?" asked the
doctor of an aged patient.
"I do," replied the other.
"Don't you know," continued th
wise M. D., "that coffee la a slow poi
son?"
"Yes, very slow," answered the old
man. "I have taken Jt daily for nearly
eighty-seven years.''
One Can Sometimes Tell.
Fond Mother My dear, I don't be
lieve that young man who called on
you last evening is much of a society
man.
Pretty Daughter But he seems to
be very Intelligent.
Fond Mother Yes; that's the trou.
ble.
Literally So.
She Are the Howlers very high
toned people?
He High toned? I should say they
are. When they quarrel you can hear
them two blocks away.
Aids to Oratory.
"Demosthenes put pebbles In his
mouth to improve bis oratory."
"Weil, he had to use the facilities
that were available. Cough lozengel
hadn't been Invented then."