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i : isment appreciate delicious flavor. We have four children, three of __ whom 'dre in school now. The oldest was nearly ready for the third grade when: she entered school and the sec- ond, 8. boy, 'was ready for the second grade, when he began attending regu- larly. Besides teaching them their reading and numbers, 1 have planned their "busy work" for which I also have gathered materials. I believe that if a mothér 'can di- rect her childs play so as to develop the small brain' dnd 'muscles' in the right direction, she 'rieed not worry if he does not get'an early start in the average country schoolroom. It takes some time and oversight on the part of the mother to do this; but if there are a number of children in the fam: ily, the older ones &re anxious to help. the little tots learn to "do. things." Here are some of my ideas, the ma- terials I' use, and the way in which I use them. First, I.let each child" have a place for his own treasures. One has a drawer in the kitchen, the others have each a dresser, drawer and a box. They also have'a large box that contains material, toys, etc., for common usé of all"'T try to make thelr work teach them something and encourage them to save their best efforts and put them to some kind of use. I have gained much help from the pages of a primary teacher's magazine and from catalogs from kindergartens and 'school supply houses. There are many things one can buy to amuse and instruct children, but I have used mostly what we have in the home and on the'farm. A pair of scissors and & box of ¢aryola pencils are about the only things I have bought for the little Bhes, T have all old magazines and catalogs and save squash and pumpkin seeds and peas for their busy work. One of the first things a child likes to do is to sew. Our children have sewed carpet rags at three and 'Your years of age, and sewed buttons all over their dolls. They like t6 string buttons, but those have to be given back to mother and they like their own material to use. In the fall be- fore threshing I cut a quantity of oat straws in half-inch lengths and let them string "these alterantely with squab or pumpkin seeds or bright colored' paper 'cut in' circles, squares or diamonds. In this work they learn to use the needle and learn color and shape. The children like to make clay ob- Jeets such as birds and nests with eggs in, apples, all kinds of animals, |* etc. . I make a variety of clay which is as follows: one tablespoon salt and one tablespoon flour, mix thoroughly and moisten with just enough water or harmless dye of the desired color to make it knead easily. Another of their first occupations is cutting out pictures. These pic- tures they paste into scrap books. I make the books with several sheets of hedvy paper or sometimes they use an advertising catalog and paste the pic t in jt. Strips the correct gth .and width from wall paper amples and magazine pages are cut for the ghildren to make into paper chaind® " I' also make "home-made" Sewing cards for the children.. They mse the chains, straw and paper sené and applying it with a hand spray for the pigs is sprayed with this, many as usual, bu tered baking dish, *{ fine bread crumbs brown. ¥en stir squash, adding half a cu; thickened with a al onful each ttefan ft din the rich, Try it today. re cad : LL STIRS, LLY N08 Be { | SP strings and other pretties to trim the Xmas tree or drape their own win- dows or have them for their play house in summer. = re HOW DO YOU CLEAN YOUR SILVER? Is silver cleaning in your family a laborious process 'or one 'finished within a very short time? There are plenty of 'commercial pastes on the market that give very good results. But since whiting is used in a number of these you can buy whiting in your local drug store and 'mix-this into a paste yourself. If you have ammonia or denatured alcohol handy, these are excellent liquids to use with it as either one tends to cuf any greasy film on the silver 8o that the whiting may actual- ly get at the discoloration quickly. If you have 'meither' the 'ammonia nor alcohol you may use water." Mix to a medium thick paste and use as you would a commercial paste--that is, rub it briskly on the silver with a soft brush or cloth] let it dry and rub off. Ringe the silver thoroughly in hot water and dry. The: use of any of the above is known as the abrasive method of cleaning silver. -Nowadays there are many of us looking for an easier way in which to do our work, and there is some such way for us when the fam- ily silver' becomes" dull and dark. This is known as the electrolytic method, sometimes simply as the soda- salt method and does not wear out your silver, either plated or solid. The proportions are these: To each quart of boiling hot water--prefer- ably soft water as there is less scum --use one teaspoonful of either bak- ing or washing soda and one teaspoon- ful of salt. Have the water in a bright aluminum kettle; when it is boiling add the soda and salt, stir until dissolved, then drop in all the silver that the water will cover. Be sure, too, that each piece of silver is entirely covered by the water or you will have a high-water mark on ft. Leave all over the heat until the sil- ver is cleaned. This usually takes only a minute or so. As soon as it is cleaned, remove from the fire and pour off the water at once, rinse in clear, hot water and rub brickly as you dry it. The re- sulting finish is not quite the same as when using the cleaning pastes, although if the silver is briskly rubbed as it is dried we have had great diffi- culty in telling which was which when strying both methods experi- mentally, "| Our reason for telling you to empty the cleaning solution out of the alum- inum kettle as soon as your silver is cleaned is that this alkaline water will soon darken your kettle. y A GOOD FLY DOPE. When the flies stick close to the screen doors in the late fall, I find that this mixture sprayed well around the door keeps them away to a great extent. The mixture is made by mix- ing three ounces of creolin with kero- to any place where the flies bother. If the bench which holds the swill pails of the flies will be driven away.-- Mrs, J. B. B, 4 SCALLOPED SQUASH. For scalloped squash, boil and mash When "nearly eool beat the yolks of two eggs Season; cover \ | HINTS WORTH TAKIN "Why, : slightly built, perhaps "| sistence. Mme. - Charleroi leaned back and pound, Pclosed her eyes. She was motionless ig 100 for ten or fifteen 'minutes, during may with s as he waited lips moved, and ne could entehial see--darkness a 8% Je Tt was three days before five. He had brown jefe issbed, but he was somewhat a kind of worried look. to describe exactly--rat) ing." i "How was he odd?" * | Wombold put the qu: in a tone that grated The 'puzzled f Armitage's forehead dee "Why, he was dressed ly, for one thing, as if h been laid away for thi more. I noticed he wore old-fashioned stiff white h€ had a queer flat collar His coat was long, and is hard odd look. | Proken did he. 6 r. 'have become* &' hadrited man. _ | ed,-and bis ther queer- sorbi though he p clothes hed Mu permitted years or her to be mentioned, He still em. e of those ployed the detective agency, however, hirts, and [directiiig' ft 6'make discreet inquiry d bow tie.|as to Henry Hart's relatives and their trousers history. . He learned in this way that weren't creased, hut ed smooth! Hart's widow still lived in Bracksford, all round, and he had a crowned and that the family had finally, after derby hat and buttoned shes. He was years of hardship, settled the last of pervaded by a general ait bf antiquity, | the claims against the old partnership one might say." * | though not until anxiety and stress "Did he bave a beard?" the old man i had cost the life of Hart himself while interrupted chokingly, His face sud- still in his' early manhood. denly gone gray. | Since the sitting "with Mme. Char- "Yes, a short brown leroi, Wombold's sleep had been 'fitful Mr. Wombold?" and dream:laden--owing in part, per- Mr. Wombold had fallen back into haps, to the freer and more nutritious the depths of the chaff; with one diet solicitously urged on him by Miss whispered syllable that the girl did "Armitage, coupled 'with 'a lack of his not understand. His ashen cheeks usual exercise. In his somnolent stood out in high relief 'against the brain visions of 'a far-off boyhood dark upholstery. Miss Armitage 'mingled with broken images of pres- sprang to his side. ent :surroun i... "Your heart? Mr. Wombold, did, He woke thus one night, about th¥ you Say it was your heart? Oh, Mr.' spectral hour of two in the morning, Wombold, are you ill?" {with the distressing intuition of an After two days of troubled cogita- alien presence in the room. He listen- tion, during which he had steadied 'ed, but could hear nothing more than his nerves by the exercise- of that his own panting breath. steadfast will which served him in| By the dim glow of the night lamp lien of physical strength, Mr. Wom- he could make, out the recumbent bold fixed upon two methods of in- figure of Otu on a cot at the other vestigation, the ome material, the side of the room. The sight of the other™psychic.. One or the other of Japanese; and of the vague shapes of them, he felt, should disclose the na- familiar * in the room, re ture of the forces that menaced him. assured him.# He could neither see To carry out the first, he employed nor, hear anything to justify his alarm a well-known detective agency, in-} and presently, with practiced self- structing the superintendent to ascer- contfol, he recomposed himself to tain the origin of the last card re-- sleep. & ceived, and the identity of the person| Some time later his dreams, which who had presented it. He waited for had flowed through his mind in the a report before resorting to the sec- usual incongruous jumble of sense ond line of inquiry. images, resolved themselves into the The report, when it came, proved definite impression "of burial. He baffling. As far as the mysterious seemed to lie 'sntombed, a mass of caller who had appeared before Miss earth or stone pressing down upon Armitage was 'concerned, absolutely him with an intolerable yet hopeless no trace of him could be discovered. | weight. In short, the search of the detectives| As his consciousness rose to the had ended against a blank wall. With, waking plane, this impression took on a sickening -apprehension, Wombold, the poignant reality that constitutes turned to his alternative line of re-!a nightmare. He strove to cry out, search; to move, to escape. He groped wildly "Make an appointment with Mme. with hig Hands, which encountered a Charleroi for to-morrow afternoon," heavy object lying on his breast: he told Miss Armitage. | In an access of terror, he sprang to The seance was held in Mr. Wom-| a sitting posture with a shriek. The bold's library, none being present but thing slipped to his lap and lay there, himself and the medium. The shades massive, hard, ponderous. His hands were drawn to half length, filling the explored its angular outline as he room with a mellow, golden gloom. screamed again." In an instant Otu Mme. Charleroi, a small, stout wo- was by his side #hd had switched on man, garbed in black and with the, the electric lights: : flat features, high cheekbones and (To be concluded.) .. ... neutral complexion of the Baltic lit- ------ aly toral, was a noted psychic, enjoying Fihishidg 7 Lam an exclusive clientele among the wells y to-do' and far removed from common| Those farmers who will cater to the class of irresponsible charlatans. The| market demand for a well-finished aged magnate had consulted her often lamb ranging from 85 to 100 pounds in recent years, not infrequently with live 'weight, depending on the. breed remarkable results, {and season of the year, should find a The two confronted each other now source of profit in so doing, Usually in an accustomed comradeship, the the well bred lamb weighing from 60 medium impassive, Wombold under a'to 80 pounds is the best stocker lamb severely repressed strain that showed to put into Winter quarters. The most in his intent eyes and the slight, nerv- profitable time to pufchase such lambs ous movenients of his lips and hands. ! is between August "Tell me what comes to you," he Hea: said. "Allow a free Inflow of sugges-" pounds pou 'small gain though, d. Why, tion from acrosé the border." | profit which - a' 'slightly increased paleness in Teed on and and 'regular. preathing 'denoted the! formation on the hei, psychic susceptil Lin J Wome: = never left ace for the Block," tensély the 'result of the fon Dept. of experiment. At last the medium's! . as he leaned forward faint 'form of words: "g 5 gid, awhen he reappe he ad had it wad' as i five or six 'years had elapsed, #0 much 'older and more = He seemed to|. "| There: hdd heen a fog ke a rain that {The Italian sat down and. nights: 0 usd jc With the wheels of the spiders' mist-gray lace; oo any a ghd And the road led under boughs drench: | ed hit, aed "4 While they icily sor turned face, With a 'tinkle-tink on a shadowed ridge There were cattle a-grazing 'down the dawn; : i rang out bridge, 7 And a whispering' creek was past and gone. " Oh, the sun came up on an unknown land, From a tapering hill-you' did" not} know; : " There were small neat farms on either: hand; And a shimmering haze hung far and low. : There were drowsy croonings like broken rimes; And the wheels as they ' turned seemed drowsy too-- 3 Then you woke from dreams of 'fairy chimes; Lo! a merrysgo-round: 'was calling you. ~@ertrude West, in Youth's Compan- om : -------- ret What Can'Yoti Remember? An Indian student who wisitéd Lon- don recently is a h calculati machine, He performs. the most intr cate sums without resorting to pencil and paper and can name immediately the day of the" week for any date in the past.or future, "© 0 oc ok As 4 test, two numbers, each of | forty figures, were chalked on a black- board: The Indian was told to multiply one by the other, After Joos than half 'an hour's mental arithmetic he gave the correct answer, * A great Greek scholér knew by heart every line of hig favorite classic. He sald, however, that his memory was a curse, since it compelled him to re- member things he would rather forget. Another man could' répetit, word for word, any sermon he had heard. One of his feats was to walk down a busy street and then, at the end, repeat every eign displayed in the thorough- fare. An Halfan 'who had a wonderful memory was 'able to save a friend twelve months work. The friend came to him lamenting the loss of a manu- script which had taken a year to write. ewrote the | entire manuscript . fr though his friends had only to him on two occasions. hotel i : ri faces. During large partiés he would take charge of the belongings of three hundred' gugsts and return them to their proper owners without the aid 'of clrecks "or tickets. He relied solely upon his memory and he never made a mistake. ¢ Lt G J a ee /. Where She Wo "Woman--"Don't be foolish; g young man! My factory is at home--I 'have eleven children." = SNL A A French scientist says there 1,000 poisonous gases that are avail-| able for war, which makes a thousatid more rea why there should be on a ghostly a "1 The. Genuine -. "Wilkinson™ iH The Bates Made by a pararsy Lcon Co. Ltd. 'Beans andPeas ' Bend Sarples---State Quantities" Morrow & Co. 39 Front St. E. Phorle: Main 1738, Toronto, Ont. "| this assumptid {8 found in' th BE 1 and clay products, | ¥ome 60 principal items, 17 of world, ground th contains "clu which had, fn 1923, a production value of { $1,000,000. ar over: "Average Annus Efve-¥éar? Value. Figures fof i total /production, fail to convey the 'proper: impression of the magnitude of the industry on account of 'the diversity of product and" units invdlved, whilst the varying pricesiat- tendant upon uctuating 'market condi: tions make computations of value diffi- cult. Probably the 'fairest cenception of the value of the outpnt may be ar- ives ut by stating that the lowest e since 1910 was that for 1911, | viz., $103,221,000, the highest that for HY) when a value of $227,860,000 was reached, while the average annual Jalue during the last five-year period ifited 'to $194,967,000/ As com- modity prices reachéd a peak.in 1920, rand have since receded, production - computed in terms of value is not. a "| fair 'basis for comparison. A d | Index showing the volume of produc: tion would undoubtedly mark 1923 as the banner year in Canada's miteral ; - industry, new output records being es- [tablished in "that year: for ou); lead, gine, asbestos, and for the vallue of cobalt. i The principal uses of power in min- Ing sre for compressing air for drills ing; driving motors or engines for hoisting; haulage of ore above and be- low.-ground; driving ore crushers and . J 'conveyors pumping .for water supply and for the removal of ground water; ~ Highting; heating; ventilating; signal +{ ling; machine; blacksmith 'and fram. ing shops; and for various electrical' metallurgical processes. Even in the comparatively simple mining process: -e8 involved in the recovery of coal, as much as 10 per cent. of the product ©| may be consumed in generating the power required. qe Total! Installation' for Mining Purposes. that at January anh 11s Sa A AL a A St, , the ¥en oan: fo 'poses. in ached | 'of 217,600 h.p., of which 288,000 h.p. purchased. central {Mach of these areas possesses large resources of water power developed or for: development for mining. f some of the coal Plain there 13 no being situated fn the ; of Canada, would be a dependent upon, coa United §