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M ' ! JUST A BUMBLE-BEE KED DRINKS FOR SUMMER DESSERTS about four days the eggs hatch and the larvae begin to eat the bee bread that forms the foundation of their' home. Their mother enlarges the cell as they grow, thus always keeping BY JENNIE A. REEHER. The front yard of the big farm- honey; it is made of wax, and it is ^use wa8 briifht with early spring' round like a little bowL It is placed flowers, tulips, narcissus, and iria. j near the entrance to the nest and Dandelions bespangled the grass like; close enough to the mother bee that golden stars. Charlie, the ten-year-old j she can eat from it without leaving son of the home, and I, a visitor, were her eggs. Thus, too, she is facing her enjoying the morning looking for new door to guard against intruders. In blossoms that might have opened dur- ing the sight. "There's a bumble-bc<>; let me kill hlml" shouted the little boy. "Stop!" I spoke quickly, as he au wnj> kiuw, mua aiways Ktseping grabbed a shingle and made for the them covered with wax. At first, she bee. "Don't hurt it. Come here to the' opens- the cell and puts food among porch and I will tell you a story about' them, then closes it again, but in a this handsome bee." j few days they are large enough to "Huh! there's nothing pretty about stand up, wedged close'.y side by side,' an old bumb".e-bee. They sting. We ' and then she feeds each baby bee sep- boys like to rob their nestfl and get arately. She fills each little mouth the honey," he said scornfully. | with honey and pollen mixed, from her "And robbers you are, when you dp crop, something similar to the way a such a thing, robbing Mother Nature' canary bird feeds its young. Soon of something she needs in the world's ' they are full grown and spin them- work. Listen te me," I, continued, [selves thin, tough blankets for cocoons "This big bee we saw is not a 'he.' It in which they go to sleep. Queen' Is a Queen Mother bee. If you should! Mother pulls the wax from off them kill her, you would destroy the little ' and then, she has rows of pale yellow . home she has founded. I think her j sleeping babies. They must be kept black and yellow suit is handsome. I j warm, and so she broods them again! noticed you liked the black and yellow night and day." sweater your mother gave you. Any-! "Does she still keep the honey pot?" how, why do you want to kill the bee?" inquired Charlie. BY JANE HEMMINGWAY. Registered Pedigree Poultry. I •""'«" t'**'"* '* certain to be surplus stock of lesser lineage nut ({ualifled Notable progiess has been made injfor registration. Many of these aj'* poultry raising in Canada In recent ^^f good breeding, but not tested to I years, tb which the Laying Contests .j^ ^^j^e extent as registered stock. j held In every province of the Donun- j These birds are available in large' It may seem at first glanc-e a daring tins to serve with the Iced drinks that ion have materially contributed. A numbers from breeders of registered Idea, but upon reflection you will find aro needed on the very hot days, greatly increased average throughout gto(.|{, all the Contests has been reached in a few years, which Is direct evidence of a remarkable improvement in the breeding work behind hundreds of en- tries, reprsenting thousands of mat- in gs. A Demonstratipn Rose Garden. It an attractive and sound one â€" that loganberry Punch. Rub a banana of serving an iced drink for the .sum- through the colander. Add it and the mer dessert. In the sununertinie a Juice of one lemon to each quart of thirst quencher is far more acceptable loganbarry Juice. Serve with cheese at the end of the nusal than any ad- ! crackers. The demonstration rose garden '<*»'•'<*"*' "«"''^'*'"**"'^- ' Whlto Grape Juice Float. Seed and „,. , ^ , . . , "established last year upon a plan laid' The old stajid-bys are always wel-, halve white grapes. Cut two or three With .the advent of registration for j^^,j ^^ ^^^ Canadian Ilorlicu'.aural come-Jemonado, oranKeade. ginger i^ananas into tiny diw and add fruit pouitry, the standard was raised from Council at the town of Markham, flf- "'«- «^«P« J"'<^> '"^^ **»' '=°^^ ""^ to prepared white grape juice. Serve 150 to 2O0 two-ounce eggs as a mini- teen miles from Toront-j, has advanced chocolate, and currant or raspberry i ^Ith lemon wakers. ZZ n'^L^'^'t f â„¢""f;««l'i t trtii"^ sufficiently to enable rose grower to '^^^^ -"d ,» ^"^^-ij*,' * 1"^^^ "'• ", loed Cocoa. For an iced cocoa drink :!l!!f.^A'r .';?^^'°r."*j'r/r 'L'r^t^l ^tudy many of the leading varieties ? r.„-L''^A"I"i"!lr^° T."^* ^^^^ is different, mix togeth^^ standard characters laid down the breed, for of roses. A half acn- in which one '^^f^}''^ «"°"K^' ^'^^^^ for anyone ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ a cupful of warm water But there are variations of .""'"""' "' and half a cupful of cocoa. When dls- bo served „,,„ â-  ,_„ ^„'^., , , .„ ~. .„ I smi^led at him as I questioned. "Don't know," answered Charley, "Oh, yes, there are yet many cold days. But here is something queer "guess it's because it might sting me.", She could not cover all the cocoons if "She never would, unless you hurt they were flat, on the same l^vel, her or invaded her homo," I replied. ! therefore the two outer rows 'are "Now for the story. First, do you' higher than the centre ones. The lar- know what cocoons and larvae are?"| vae composing these rows have been "Yes, indeed, we learned all about f«d a little better than the others, thus them in Nature Study at school," said making them grow taller. Queen Bee the little boy. | knows her business, you see. In the "Fine, then you will understand groove thus made she ait.sâ€" the groove everything I tell you. You know how j is always made so her head faces the a hen broods her eggs and little chick- ' entrance â€" flattening and stretching' ens to keep them warm? Yes, wellj her abdomen until the central cocoons' Mother Queen Bumble-bee does that ' ^^^ covered, and then putting her legs very thing. She hovers her eggs and â-  over the raised outside ones, she clasps ' babies." j them close to 'tier sides. Thus all are' "How do you know that she does, j kcpt warm." I Aunt Annie?" said Charlie, his face-- ' Why, she must love those babies â- â‚¬rlow with interest | of hers," exploded Charlie. "I never] "Because wise men have watched '^'''•^*'' before that a bumble-bee' her do it and have written in books ''"^^ anything. I like to hear about! ill they observed," I returned. "This *^^''- ^ ""' A""*^ Annie." hundred and fifty varieties were plant- ""'â-  ''"^'^ , "'"<' "lany The standard for the male is still ed last year, is now blooming in pro- 'â- ^ '"'"'"''^ , *""«' '"''y "" '^•''^ solved boU to a syrup and chill. Then more severe. He must be bi-ed from fusion, and an additional half aero has "^^ «"f ^'"'^^ f"*" » <^^^r^ « l>it ^^^ ^^^ tableapoonfuls of strong cof- a dam and grand-dam that have each been opened up this spring. Tho soil ""J? o-«borate. , , ^ i fee. For every glass to be served use laid in a contest at least 200 two-ounce of tho garden is particularly suitable , Sherbet ale is de.icious and refi^h- ^j^^^ tablespoonfuls of the syrup and eggs and be free from standard die- for the purpose and the planting has '"«; *^*«"^ " '."'"S* 8Poo"ful of orange ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^,^ ,^.^ p,j, ^^^^ ^^^ qualifications. To breed such a male been done with a view to showing off <*'* ^*"'°" '.'=« '" ^f'^'* f'"«» '"'.**. '^'^ '*, milk and shake well. is an achievement worthy of an offl- the plants to tho best possible advan- "P "^^^ &'"K«J, *1°- ^erve with roll- cial record and a number of such males uge. The garden occ^upies an open «<» ^^^^^'•''- Tlie very nice.st Ice to ^S^i^^^tZt^'^^l^Tnl^h^ will be procurable this year, with sunny spot with a slight southern ^/""^ '« «"» "»f« ^*?\*^"'^..uP^'L^ ^ Sb icTS coff^^^ authentic pedigree and tatooed with slope and a broad boulevard of shrub- "f °'^"K?.""'i;«'n«" J"''^*, /''''* ^^''^ whpSramrnS "ato Is a^^ the breeders registered mark and , bery as a protection from north winds. ^ ^'^t*" T'^'^. ^ T/*^*^ '''*'^** ^^''" SZTlcc^raniment^^^^^^^ carrying all the identification marks Practically all classes of roses ar« to' the mixture is half frozen. | ^'ff^,"^ XcT^ guaranteeing their breeding. be found in this garden, contributed! ..^T^ Do-'Rht Take a quart of|<«^«« or chocolate. The number will be limited this by nurserymen in Holland, England,' fi'""* J^P? peaches and rub them| Tea Punck One cupful of sugai year, but the supply will increaee as Ireland, the United States, and Can- ^*''^"«^ t^« colander. 3^v«eten to and one cupful of hot tea infusion, the number of daughters of registered ada. The garden is open to the pub-! ^«t«; flavor with a few drops of al- When this is c,uite cod add one cup- dams that qualify In the contest in- 1 He, and being close to tho public high- ™°"'i ^Jf,^''"^^ ""** "l** " ''''"'â- * **' "-^'^ of orange juice, three-quarters of way, it, is expected that a great many ""'''• ^'" glasses three-quarters full a cupful of lemon juico, one pint of creases. In breeding up .to standard demanded in registered year. the excellent 'rose lovers will visit the ground this "^ "^^^ mixture top with whipped ginger ale one pint of wate.- one cream and sprlnklo with sliced blanch- tabiespoonf ul of chopped preserved ed almonds. Serve very cold. ginger and a largo piece of ioe. This Liquid Gold. Make a very thin ous- '» » most refreshing drink, tard, using only the yolka of the eras Mint Sangarop. Make a fruit lem- and no cornstarch or other thickening, onade of lemon, orange and pineapple Flavor it with rose or any other flav-| Juioe, Color a light green with a oring you wisiu Dilute with cream J harmless vegetable coloring paste and if it is too thick. Add finely chopped ; and mint flavoring to taste. Serve Effective Methods of Controlling Weeds BY E. S. HOPKINS. bee you wanted to kill, came from the uot: ^uu wani,ea to Kui, came rrom the' "There isn't much more to tell. In neet last August, a fine large young , ^ ^*^ ^^^^ ^^^ young bees come out queen only a few days old. Her coat ! °^ ^^^ '^^^^ ""^ ^^^^ ^^^ queen haa was fresh and glossy, her life free; P'*"*^ °^.^'^'P*''^- This brood is much from any care as she flitted around aU i s'na'ler-sized insects than those hatch- day sucking nectar from tha flowers,!®'* ''**''• "^^^ queen keeps on laying tnd flying in the warm air where one '"-'^.^ which the workers care for, 4ay she met her mate. She was stor- ^''"'^ they al.=o gather much nectar j bg up energy for tlie future." *^"'' pollen. The big honey pot is^ "Where did she go at night," asked ^^'^^^^ "P a"d the wax used for nthurl the child, "did she go back to the '-"''*• ^" ^ ^^^ week.", the colony has' nest?" grown until there are hundr.jcis of The most effective method of con- 1 cultivation, especially immediately dates and walnuts, just a sprinkling j with a sprig of fresh mint in each trolling weeds is thorough and fre- after plowing in order to prevent all of them, and top with whipped ci«am glass. quent cultivation of the land. Usually green growth. The whole work will dusted with macaroon crumbs. Servo I Orange Rickey. Fill each glass one- this can be given most economicaUy be wasted if green growth is ailowed with brandy snaps. These little snaps | third full of cracked ioe. Add orange by adopting the proper cultural meth- at any time because the roots will then are so called because they aro used Juloe until the glass Is half full, then ods in connection with the regular ro-l be revived again and their life pro- often as an accompaniment to that: All to the top with ginger ale. Serve tation used on one's farm. Occasion- longed. \ spirit when It Is served overseas. with little nut cakes. aUy, where some noxious weeds be- In the fall this land should be plow- , The recipe was given me by an Eng- 1 Mint Chocolate. Add mint flavor- come unusually troublesome it may be ed again and left rough over winter ^^^ ^^^^^ ^o make them, heat haif ! ing to tho iced chocolate. Top with nceessary to summer-faUow the land 1 If manure is available at this time of ^ ^ ^^^ „f molasses to the boilingi whipped cream. Sprinkle with a few but as this method involves tho loss the year, it could be plowed under at ^^^ ^^^ ^^j ^ ^j^j^^ „f ^ ^^^^^^ ^«| ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ of the revenue from one crov, it is this tune, "'t is not available, it ^^^ter. Remove from the flixj, and' Fruit Limeade. Make your limaade desirable to use other methods If at may be applied in the wirter or in „u„„ t\,^ u,,^^^ ,-„ ^^u^a m Z a., ^ '"'"-^"""^^u^- i"aâ„¢ your iniii.,dUB I'l nos.,ihJ*. the ..nrin/ and then disced in Th« ^'^° **^ °"***'^ '^ melted add gradu-|of freeh limes. Add sliced straw- a.l possibte. the spring and then <iis<^ >"• The ^ji beating all the time, a cupful of, berries and grated pineapple Where a rotation of three or four . land should be cultivated m the spring a„.,' „w^ „„j o;#+Ji ^jfiT *â„¢ â- ^"•^--a uuu kiui«u pineaijpie. , J i.- i- J --J. I _i i- L * ..u ^ M T nour mixed and sifted with two- Serve with fruit cookies year's duration is practiced, consist- several times before the tune of seed- i.uj_j„ „/ „ „„„*„i „* „„„„„ „„j tv . '^""' «"" umil i-uviues. ng of one year in com or other inter- \ ing the intertdJled crop. 1 ^Zt^tl JlK^ClrZ^l^ ?f Jnl!t '"^''^ M*"^ *^T-'"""' ''•'"'/"f'^y tilLd crop, one j^ar in grain, and one It will be understood, of course, that ^2.t\J^^^^T7^i^ IL^hTJ "'""* ^ °'*^ T"' ' T^ """^ '^^^ „< „' ;_ u„„ i* n. „ '„,„„, ^„ Uhf„ â„¢^*^i,^ .„ <.„„^of^ *„> !„„j ^^°^ «"»» portions from the tip of are very popular with my patrons. "No, she never went back after busy bumble-bees in it. In the late! summer a dozen or more larva^; an or two years in hay, it is necessary to \ this method Is suggested for land prepare the sod land thoroughly in | troubled with couch grass or similar preparation for the intertilled crop, ' weeds having underground root-stalks, and also to cultivate the intertilled If the land is free from these weeds crop itself in a most thorough manner. â-  this work wild not be necessary. This is the most convenient time to! If mustard -or similar weeds are control the wced.s and the opportunity prevalent it is advisable to merely leaving it. At night she crept in a ^""^[iK^r a erevlce on the south side of a building, ! '*" *" ^"'^^ ^ '^''^ *-^^^ ^^^y ^''o^v int<3 , or wall, or some such warm place! i ^*'"*^''' ''"* queens and aro sent from' But later on the weather began to ' *^^® "*** ^'^ ^'"^ """â-  1"^" ""other last; grow cold. Can you guess what she ' y^^^- The weather will soon be cold, ! did? Bees cannot endure cold you "** Queen Mother lays no more eggs.j know. i On« day she leaves the nest and wan- 1 "She might have holed up for the'?*" among .some late flowers, enjoy-' winter, like the chipmunks do,"-he '"^^ *^^'" n«<^tar. The sky is blue, the answered. I »ir warm, but the bee is old and rusty I "Good guess, Charlie, that is exact- ' 'oozing. She goes to sleep among the ' ly what she did. She went searching fl«''«'8. the cool night comes on, but' *round, as soon as the September ' ^**^ never wakens; her work is done,' chill came in the air. until she found a i ^^^„ ^^^^ ,'*"'* ''^« ended." | •mall hole extending far beneath the ' "^ won't ever kill another bumble- j roots of a tree. Down at the furthest I ^**'" ^^'"^ Charlie, "but tell me, auntie, ! a spoon onto an inverted baking pan, two inches apart, and bake in a slow oven. Remove from the pan with a long-bladed knifo and roll over the handle of a wooden spoon. Little wafers and cookies may be made on a cool day or early in the very popular with my patrons. The recipe calls for a heaping cupful of butter, one and a half cupfuls of sugar, two eggs beaten separately, three tablespoon luls of sour milk, on* small teaspoonful of soda, one pound of raisins and as little flour as possible to make the batter stiff enough to roE cup^iip «nd of it she snugly slept all through the long winter, while the snow was piiled a foot or more deep over the ground outside. One warm April day the Queen mother awoke, "No more what good are they anyhow?" , "They are most important to the farmers. AH bees fertilize the flower.s, that is, help them so they can bear' seed; but the bumble-bee is tho onlyi iu« v^ueen motner awoKe, JNo more "-"•> ""'' ""^ uuujuic-uT:^: i» i,n« oniy easy times for me,' she might have **"* which has a tongue long enough to eaid, if she could have talked like a I ^^ *^* honey from red clover, and hoy. She crawled out of the ground *^"^ fertilize it. Not a head would , and filled herself with honey from the ! '*®*'' **^ unless a bumble-bee had •arly spring flowers, then started tol*''"^* visited it, and therefore there nek for a nest." i would be no clover. Most farmers ' "I've seen 'em, I've seen 'em!"i^"*^ ****® but 'few know the story of Ibouted Charlie, Jumping up and i~***f, '*'* ''^ *^''* ''"'"'''^^>««-" I town, "big bumblebees, alone, hunting'- "There comes papa, and I'm going, wooad, going into, and coming out of *** **'^ *'''" *^' about 'em. Wait, ' hole*. Sometimes they get into the '^"^dyl" and full of enthusiasm he left boHse onto the window and we kill ""*' "^^^'^ i sauntered toward the them." ' house. "Oh Charlie," I said, "don't ever do ' - ~ T"*"!,' that again. Now listen ! The queen ! tgg-Laying Coutects. finally finds a place that suits her; ; During the season of 1923-24 twelve often it is an abandoned nest of the egg-laying contests were conducted by wood mouse, in a log, or bunch of the Poultry Division of the Central grass, or under the roots of a tree. Experimental Farm. A Canadian She clears off the floor, then arranges contest was held at Ottawa, and the the bits of moss and grass In a circle other eleven were provincial. These around it. Then she goes away to contests, which have be-.n carried on gather pollen, which is, as you know, since 1919, are intended to encourage the dust of flowers. All kinds of b«e8 and improve the breeding of poultry, gather it to feed their young. We along lines of egg production, to pro- ; Ball it bee bread. Did you ever see vide reliable information for breeders' bee bread?"- and a medium of qualification for the "Yes. Sometimes it is in honey- registration of poultry. According to comb from a hive of bees father has ^^^ ^^§^ report of the Dominion Poul- imoked out and put in another hive. *-'"y Hasbandman the contests have It doesn't taste good." brought about a remarkable improve- "It tastes good to the babv bees. I"®"'' 1" ^^~ •""^^'iK of poultry and Queen Mother gathers a lump of pol- 'l^^^ ^°."* '""'^^*' ^ stabaliza the in- lon, mixMit with honey, then fastens ''"^^''^ .'" f""a<la. The increase in; It to the floor of her nest. Uoon t»n Proauction b-tw?tn the first and fifth should not be overlooked. In the four- , disc or cultivate the corn ground or , , . . . , i „ , â-  year rotation, th> timothy sod may , where other intertilled crops have , "^"'"^S and put away in air-tight out. Bake m a moderate oven. be plowed, in many districts, by Aug- been grown, rather than plow. The ..i . i i ^ ust 1, while in the case of the three- reason for this is that the surface ' •, y- 17 ♦ Q 7 year rotation, where 1;wo cuttings of layer of soil has already been thor-l "*Ve lOU a rOOt dcraper. clover are harvested, the plowing will oughly cultivated and the majority of If the men folks had to sweep the not be possible until about September! tho weed seeds contained in it germln- house just one week there would be 1. Where couch grass is present or ated aiid killed. It is a mistake, ' moro foot scrapers at the doors of the where there are any other weeds hav- therefore, to plow up a new layer of farm homes. A foot scraper costs ing underground root-stalls, it is soil on such land which will contain practically nothing, and yet it will very important to got the land plowed an abundance of viable weed seeds. ! save a great deal of dirt from being early and to cultivate it throughout ; Another effective means of checking taken into the house, the remainder of the fall. After the weeds is to hand pick isolated patches. I Several things may be used to make land has been plowed it should be This work can often bo done when tho a good foot-scraper. One may uso an harrowed in oi:der to hasten the rot- ' weeds are first seen, but if it cannot old plowshare or any piece of metal, ting of the sod and if couch grass or be done then, it may he done later ' or they may be purchased cheaply, other similar weeds are" present, it when other work is not pressing. It However, tho blade of an old shovel, should be disced in about a week's may seem like small business to pick upturned and set in the edge of the time and the discing continued at by hand a few weeds, but such a work concrete step will make a dandy foot- ! about one week's interval until the is a very profitable investment, and scraper. It should lean slightly out- 1 sod haa rotted sufficiently to enable the returns if not apparent in that ward so that falling dirt will clear the use of tho cultivator. When this particular year, will be realized in the stop. A box may be set under the is possible, the cultivator should ba later years when such patches would scraper to catch the dirt and when it substituted for the disc harrow in otherwise have Infested larger area* Is full It may be conveniently emptied, order to bring to the surface of the and seriously reduced the yields of A foot-ecraper not only prevents a ground the underground root-«talks. crops. In any event, the longer the d»- great deal of work for the women- Some objection may be taken to the lay in eradicating the weeds, the folks, but it also saves shoe leather by use of the disc harrow owing to its greater amount of -work there will be more cleanly removing manure and cutting the roots of the â- weeds but it eventually. It Is simply the opera- other lesther-eating substances from appears to be necessary to use this tlon of the same principle as that the soles. â€" H. I. H. implement as early as possible after^ which is familiarly known by the ex- * plowing and before the sod has rotted pression, "a stitch in time." \ /^ Summer Drink. enough to pernrit the use of the cultl- 1 It is important to use at all times ' vator, in order to check the top clean seed grain, clove* and grrasa *" trying to combine n numb^-r of growth of the weeds. In fact, the seed. It is simply a waste of effort necessary food values in one summer basic principle in killing weeds which to work the land to eradicate weeds | '•'"ink for my three-year-old daughter have underground root-stallcs is to while at the same time polluting it; I «volved the following nourishing, re- prevent their .sending up top or above- with dirty seed. The supply of tna-j I't'^'shing drmk for adults c.h well as ground growth. If this is continued nure should be rotted on farms where, children: long enough the roots will die. The weeds are prevalent in order to pre-| J"'ce 1 oran!r«, juice 1 lemon, % process is facilitated by any method vent this means of spreading weed/-'"P sugar, 2 egg.s, yo'ks and whites of cultivation which will tear out the ' seeds ovp- the farm, but where weeds â- >8aten separate.y, ] quart milk roots and leave them on the surface ^ are not present it is a mistake to rot of the ground where they will be kill- ' the manure owing to the losses of ed by the sun. It is imperative to give mainirial constituents in- ident to the the land verj- frequent discing and rotting process. ^ Beat ail ingredienls together. The white of the egg will r-?e to the top of tlie pitcher. Crackod ice is adck'd for adirts.â€" Mr.s. P. W. of this lump she builds a circular wall J;?"!*® Si '=«-il«''s is 57 eggs per' ^ wax, then in this cell lays her first 5"''!\ The report, which is distributed. batch of eggs, alwut a dozen, and fin- 7 the Pub.;.-aUons Branch, Dept. of Ishes by sealing a cover of wax over Agncu ture, Ottawa, gives a dstailed it The whole thing is small, about ''TT. °,n l''* ^^^Y* "'"^*' * '" • • - v.hich 3,t)l,0 hcn:< took part andsjaid the size rvf a paa. As soon as it is completed the mother, like a tiny hen, f" «^?"?K.e of 169.(5 eggs per hen. sits on those eggs night and day, only l^V* l\^^ '" '''f ^"^^ S<;0'-'a sect'on ieaving wlien the sun i» high tl> gH l*il"^^P .'" ^1 ^^'"- ^''^ "^ koney for her own food. But vou know If^^ ""i"."? f "V"* ^*^° ""^^^ """^ <»'«'â- â€¢; that at this time of year cold storms, - ^^^ quahf'ed f or registrati on. j lasting foi several days, are liable to -i--!, *â-  T? ^i â- _ conv?. Ifthebumble-Wleftlietegg. r^J^'^^^Z^ '^â„¢h'^T' t^ "' at such a time thc-y ^vo^!d chill an^ S^n^H c^l^l'T 7. .''*' '""' ^ she would parish. Therefor* .she '?,^. TT^'f 7^ '*';'' ' builds a honey Dot and keeps it filled P""^^'K ''P ='", honest graded pa.k.^ and thus fcas f^od for stormy days/'0,i'r / """J'T'^ that they c:»n ..... â- ^ r : dispose of our fruits to an advanta^®. "How lig (8 the honey p«t, Auntj â€" *^ - \ Arnje, a,id what is it made of?" said i One part of borax iu two of h.-iiiey j Charlie, his fycs sparkling. cr sriycwine is an cxce-lJent rerrodyi ''it hold! nearly a thintblefnl «fifc>r a aore thioat * I The unveiling of the Arras iiionjment. erected to the memory tf Canadian soldiers who leil la Francs dur;::g the world war. Canadian Commissionor General Roy is shown speaking. , Cii.AltMl.NCl. i aLK.NUERlZlNt;. ! Plaited frocks are the suco'sa o( : the season, and this clever frock of ! printed crepe giccs a lovely long line 10 the figure. The arrangament of thy plait.« contributes a panel effect to both iho front and back of tho fn ck, which is partlrjlarly flattering to woni^n of gEnerou.s proportions. The oeiitro front is cut rather low and oj.'an.'* back to form revors, to which a c oj-^i-fitting cfll'nr with pointed ends is attached. Tha nloovc.s pre mado short and Ir'mnud with & cuff, and .:har-.Td patch rockets are attractively piaccvi over tlie pl.iits. The diagram shews how easy this frock U to make and thfi timsM front view pictures it buttoneJ high at tha neck and having long Kle.^xcs. Sixes 40. 42. 44. 4f. and «!8 inch?« !>ust. Size 42 bu.«t requires 4*i y.'.rds of 40-inch, or O-Ti yards of .')4-inch material. Pr'ce 20 cents. Our Fashion B.wk, illusti-ating th« â-  newest and most practical styles, will 1)3 of interest to every home dress- maker. Price of tha book 10 cents tho copy. Eafh copy incudw tno coiiDoh good for five cents in iho pur- chase of any pattern. ••^mmmmumtm