en Ge eet ee a4 ; MILVERTON, ON | Subscript in advanee, | : urbe linble 'to pay $2.00 per ¥ rtising rates on application. E 'ale 1 2 of mepeee 22-5). ai | ls of Sap ; et t the advice | This Department ts for the use of our farm readers who want the advice -- 'on any question regarding soll, seed, crops, ete. If your qaet'et ni general interest, it will be answered through this column ped and addressed « my a complete ee ret s envelope Is enclosed with your Vette answer will be mailed to you. Add son Publishing ae ie fs mA shy : zr a ie 3 Unless cattlemen awake to the seri-| | reduced. Co. Ltd, 73 Adelaide St. W. Toro UErtisementa without specific direction™, Vedoserted wath forbid and eee irs a Pio ' at eS Changes for contract advertisements must | ress Agronomist, care of Wil nto. -------- en . 'the office by noon Monday, ------ Publisher and usinessCards : COLM MacBETH, race pet = praprictorg Dr. M. C, Tindale, L.D.S. Honor graduate Toronto University. CROWN and Seco "Phone No. 88, _ a Office: Over Bank of Nova Scotia, Medical. BRIDGE WORK a specialty, De Pb Eves ' Office: Puntic DRvO STORK, MILVERTON - Hours: 10 to 12 a.m., 2 to 4 p.m, and 7 to 8 p,m. \ . Lexal _ H.B. Morphy, K.C. _ Solicitor for Bank of Hamilton. LISTOWEL, MILVERTON, Offices: Listowel, Milverton. Money to Loan, * ne prea = . Harding, Owens .& Goodwin Barristers, Solicitors, &c. _ Gordon Block, - STRATFORD, ONT. "Es i Money to Loan, (BR. T. HARDING W. O, OWENS W. i GOODWIN Vetorinary. J. W Barr, V.S. N Graduate of On a ms 4 tarlo Veterinary College, ; Toronto, Treais all diseases of domesticated animals All calls promptly attended to. Societies. | Milverton Lodge No. 478 : ALF. & A.M., G.R.C. a | Meets every Monday evening on or before full moon every month in their hall in J, B. Weir's block, t - Visiting brethren always welcome Geo. J. Coxon. W.AL W. 3, Zoexer, Sea. r Lodge No-- 202 i: O..0.F, _ Meets every Friday night at 7.30 In their hall over Bank of Hamilton, Visiting brethren always welcome W. Henry, W.K.Loth, G, A. Barth, oe 'N.G, ' Fin,-Secy. i Silver Sta Notary Public. . W. D. Weir, - Notary Publi Auctioneer for the Counties of Perth Ree,-Secyy : Preparing Garden Soil. -- ~ When we come to consider the pre- paration of garden soil we must take into account a number of factors of importance. The first of these is the character of the soil itself. Is it loose and easily worked? Is it a stiff limestone clay? Is it a sandy loam? Is it stony, gravelly, shaley or slaty? Another factor is the location of the lot to be worked. If it lies low and is damp and cold it must not be work- cea. with until it has been properly. drained, although if only a portion of it is soggy that portion can stand un- til later on, to be then drained, as will be told later, and the warm, dryer por- tion worked as soon as the season ad- 'mits. , ee All fertile soils contain soil bacteria, which are minute plants of a low order which attack the vegetable matter in -| the soil and decompose it by fermenta- tion, releasing the plarit food, especial- |This is known as organic release. "There is also a chemical release of ATWOOD hlant food imthe soil, such as we get when we put on lime, which unlocks ithe plant food and makes it available for the use of the roots of the plants. ing it is necessary to turn it by the spade or shovel, as this aerate. it and brings the more or less sour portion of the soil to the top, where it gets light and Sunshine; and the top por- tion which has been sweetened more or less by these factors, is turned un- i der with a dressing of manure or oth- er vegetable matter on which the bacteria can feed to release more plant food. There are several ways of digging to get good results. One is to take a "width? of the shovel, as deep as it will go, across the bed and then go back and' scoop out two or four inches lof the subsoil and scatter it over the top of the unraked earth. Another is to trench the bed by the following process: Beginning at the left-hand end of a i bed, throw out a width of two shovels, | back to the end of the bed, deep en- | ough to catch an inch or two of the subsoil. Going to the front again, dig 'up the width of two shovels and | throw it to the left into the trench from which the first two shovel widths ; came. | This should be repeated until the whole bed is dug, when you will have ly nitrogen, for the use of the plants. | In preparing a garden soil for plant- |. it as fine with the edge of the shovel as is feasible as each shovelful is dug. An old Swedish gardener claimed that the best method of digging a garden' soil was to shovel one trench across the front of a bed and dig the rest toward you with a garden mattock which, in effect, was merely trench- ing. % 'Tf the soil is in the best of physical condition, crumbling freely from the shovel, it may be raked as fast as six feet is dug, But be sure of this. If not, better wait until there has been a rain and then do it after it gets dry enough. Bie Success with a garden depends very largely upon the manner in which the soil has been put into condition with 'the rake. Too many persons merely use the rake to chop the top fine, leav- ing large clods in the interior of the 'mass, which have been missed with the shovel. This is not good practice. To get good results with the rake use it as though it were a mattock, chopping along the edge of the dug soil, pulling it toward you enough to get the teeth of the rake down be- hind that portion, and pull another lot forward after being made fine. This involves walking on the dug soil, but if it is in proper condition this will not matter, as, after it is all chopped up, you must go.over it again anyhow, to smooth and level it, and work it into beds of the required size and shape. Large Beds are Best The practice of working the garden with the rake into many small beds is }a wasteful one. Many gardens lose one-fourth of their growing space by this practice, and it is unnecessary. It does not hurt the soil to tread upon it to plant and work it, and you will gain by working it into one large bed and laying out the plantings with the garden line. The effect is much bet- ter when the crops come up and there is no loss of space. In the working of the soil there will be considerable thrown into the walks. | This should be worked back with the | rake and the edges made straight and) even. It is best to raise the beds six | to eight inches above the walks to in- | sure better drainage. As stated, a dry soil is a warm one, and for this reason we raise certain | crops on rows or hills, quick drainage and rewarming by the | Such plants grow more quickly | | oe oe | as this insures; sun. 7 feo ai oe well oe mente! me Mis level; and We | peti RAP, : , {use this method for early ones, w @ aerated the soil and broken it apart quickest growth is necessary. sf here | ' 'the germs in her body until her first | decide things. together v : 1 e 8 iseased animals are best ous loss occasioned by contagious: from the herd. abortion, the loss due to this disease fected with sheep dip or other good - | will Hie 'surpass that due to'tuber- disinfectant. The rear parts of the | culosis.-- The disease is spreading rapidly. The loss already amounts to millions of dollars annually, and, while not entirely preventable, can be cows should be washed every day while discharges occur and, after dry- ing, a solution of compound cresol, j'ter, sponged on the hair and skin. internal disinfectant is made by dis solving several ounces of _perman- ganate of potash in a auart of water. After vigorously shaking and allow- ing the crystals to settle, take four teaspoonfuls of the solution and place from several weeks to a year or more. in a gallon of warm water. This solu- The germs may be found in the milk tion is also used for disinfecting the of a cow several years after abortion™ bull's sheath. ceases. \ Ac SeGS ay ae Ren Infection of an animal or herd may | This contagious disease, which causes cows to drop their calves be- fore the normal expiration of pre- gnancy, is caused by a germ which may be harbored in the infected an- imal for periods varying in length f A Conservation Family. occur in various ways. _An infected Jack Spratley Sweet always ate meat cow or heifer, or bull bred to abort- 'hree times a day, or four; ing animals, may be placed if a His wife liked it as well as Jack, healthy herd. Since the germs may' 'That was before the war. be contained in milk, infection may But now their son's "somewhere in come from using unpasteurized' milk France," from a creamery to which milk is sent' They're glad to "do their bit," from an infected herd, A heifer They live on wheatless : calf fed on infected milk may carry meals, : And they are proud of it. Se tae Oa EE ; Coffee can be made clear by adding a pinch of salt to it just before pour- meatless pregnancy, when they become virulent and cause abortion. Infection may come from the hands of a milker who has milked an infected cow. It is!; So : ' thought that healthy cows may be- ing. -This*not only settles it, but ip- eae , "Singer - proves the flavor. infected by lying in bedding con- Ga Can See Ree : tara Fite wus natu teenn tie abana. An old story which is being revived + ert E ee nowadays concerns two rival sausages ital discharges from other cows, F . . : : makers. They lived on opposite sides Brushes and combs may spread the : : Bisbaae Teoik oko GiGwAY Os enoUROE of a certain street, and one day one : paises Co '| of them placéd over his shop the le- Symptoms of this disease are pre-| gend, "We sell sausages to the gentry mature dropping of the calf, retention| and nobility of the country." © The of the afterbirth, difficulty in breed-| next day, over the way, appeared the ing, and sterility. A serious form of} sign, "We sell sausages to the gentry garget or caked udder sometimes fol-; and nobility of the whole country." lows abortion. White scours and calf} Not to be outdone, the rival put up pneumonia may be caused by the abor-| what he evidently regarded as a final tion germs. statement, namely, "We sell sausages Control measures are largely pre-|to the King." ventive.. The spread of the disease} peared over the door of the first-sau- canbe checked by guarding against| sage maker the simple expression of the use of infected milk for calves, in-| loyalty, "God save.the King." WHEN MOTHER THREATENED TO WALK -- By Catherine Dodge "John, how far is it to Toronto?" | of an inside-outside self-starter over in Mrs. Simmons asked as she dropped the corner there for your ma?" an armful of wood into the box. "Sure, pa, one of those Institute "About 143 miles--why do you want | ladies from the College came up to ie enw oe | school the other day, and she told us "Welk I've alwaya wanked $6 go about that and a lot of other things there, and I've about decided to do it."| = said we: boys might do. Waa. akeend 'how many miles ma has walked for It was not customary |} 44 aie i eS : : Pottin eo bee it egg-beater? She had just gone in the Simmons family for his wife to | thelength of the long kitchen. a : : ee she had a shelf over the table, ler next ok tenes was quite aS aS-| and a strip under it to hang up the tonishing. "Do you know pa <3y it things she uses all the time, it would is to that wood-pile and back?' This | save some of those trips she has been time her husband waited for her to {aiking about,' Jack went on. "She give the answer. 'hasn't a place t6 put things on near "Tf you don't know, Ill tell you. | the sink and the stove, either. I It's a little over seventy-five feet, and guess there's a good deal to this hav- from the box to the stove and back! ing things handy to where you want ng, must be burned or deeply paced oe isolated) Stalls must be disin-| seven tablespoonfuls per gallon of a A Next day there ap-, I wonder ' qaestion is ? MM pot, it will & _ slosed. Dr, Hub Address Dr. Job ti. Yoronto. F eae edt tot uber, 5°" hose avho sow e« Baby's Development Ie | "Seventh month: Astonishmen sence. Signs. Imitates movements of head and of pursing lips. Averts head as sign of refusal, as one should say, "Nothing doing." Places him- self upright on the lap... = Bighth Month: Is astonished at new sounds and sights; at imitations of cries of animals. ' : out support. Shows increasing inter- est in things in general or (in evolu- tionist parlance) gets in touch with his environment. Strikes hands with joy. Shuts eyes and turns head away at things disagreeable. Fears a dog. Turns over, like one of those bounc- ing toys, when laid face downward. Turns head to light when asked where the light is. stood before it can speak. Its voice ever none of its potency. Tenth Month: Sits up without sup- port in bath and carriage. First attempts at walking in forty-first week. Beckoning-imitated. (Misses parents in their absence. Will miss a single ninepin in a set. ~ Cannot yet repeat a syllable. siderable talent as a momologist and imitator, as: maa, pappa,_ tatta, appapa, baba, tataa, pa, rrrrrraa. Eleventh Month: quieted by "sh." life habit. Stamps. Correctly repeats syllables. Begins to whisper. Enlarges its vo- cabulary. Can utter b, p, t,.d, m, n, Ele ge; k; vowels a most used, u and o rare, i very rare. Twelfth Month: Pushes chair. Can- not as yet raise itself or walk with- Screaming is Sitting becomes its shown by open mouth and eyes. Ree-) | ognizes nurse after four weeks' ab-| -- Ninth Month: Stands on feet with- Questions are under- becomes more modulated, losing how-| But exhibits con-' rrrrrrr, ' Stands without support. | f | I am troubled with catarrhal deaf-_ } tesy reap friendship out help. Obeys th ehand." UESTIONS AND ANSW os Temper Mark. -- ~My baby girl of 434 m mo) months has mark between the eyes, shaped some what like a V. Sometimes you can 'see it real plain; and then again it is | quite dim, Is this a birth mark or a temper mark outgrow it?' i she cries or frets. had whooping cough for 3 give it? yi it - Answer--Such marks, if they are birth marks, are very apt to disap- pear in time. If temper marks and 'It shows more when -- Only for that she is a dandy baby. Can a baby that has -- months 7 Do you think she will = 7 . Soe in girl babies, they are not 80 very - sure to outgrow them. how Mamma brings 'em up. It is possible for such a baby to giv whooping cough to others. ves Chilblains. : ; As long. as I can remember 'had chilbrains. As early as Septem--- ber my feet begin to itch and this con- tinues throughout the winter. 'Answer--Mailing you the right in--- "formation. Underweight. : Please advise me what to do to make my husband gain in weight. | Answer--Very willingly. send me only your initials and without 'address. Send stamped and self- directed envelope and J will forward information by return mail. Eczema of Ear. ness. Also itching of both ears which 'are very sore from stratching and rubbing. Is there any relief for same? | Answer--Send stamped and directed envelope and information will | at once be mailed to you. LOROHOMOCHOROHOL CH OLOMOHORS OPPORTUNITIES = BOROMOMOMONCHOMOMCHOHOMOM Jessica, pinning on her hat, frown- ed as she saw in the mirror Peggy picking up things about the room. "T should think, Peggy, that you would want to be doing something worth while," she said, "instead of spending all your time on odds and ends." Peggy stopped with a troubled look in her eyes. "I wish I could. I'd love to so. But, somehow, there seem to | be so many odds and ends to do." | "There always will be if you put , them first," Jessica. said in her clear, i "sure" voice. 'Don't you see, Peggy, and bred, and I can taste my pleas- ures without bolting them whole. Just look at that address, please--right in the first place; then crossed out and put wrong, and crossed out twice more, reaiidressed, and then back to the right one again. Fidelia knew where I'd be,--I'd told her, special,-- but Joe Lake at the post office thought 'Boston' was a slip for 'Bolton,' and changed it, to be obliging. I'm gen- erally in Bolton with Cousin Anna at this time, as Joe knows very well." "But surely a post-office official wouldn't--" : "Joe Lake would! He's Joe Lake first, which means everybody's friend in general and Sister Sally's old beau wards. He wouldn't meddle with a stranger's address, but I'm 'Clarry' to Depends on -- 1 have But you self- | in particular, and he's an official after- Late A d sawe) jas fully as it can be done with an im-| " Tm view of this, it is well, when pre- | plement used for digging. This is/ paring the soil, to make the rows or, neither as complicated noras laborious | yij1g while raking the soil. For this. is twenty feet. If "I've made three'to use them. I'll tell you, pa, to-!that anybody in the world could let her trips a day to the wood-pile, and ten! morrow's a holiday, and if ma'll sort time get filled up by odds and ends? him still, just as I was when he used to bribe me with peppermints to go and ae and Waterloo. Conveyancer, deeds, wills, mortgages drawn - and affidavits made. trips a day to feed Village clerk, % Office: Weir block, over Bank of Nova Scotia; A. Chalmers, - Notary Public _ Conveyancer, Issuer of Marriage Licenses ; J.P. for the County of Perth. eal estate bought and sold. A few choice farms for immediate sale. ' MONKTON, ONTARIO' as it would seem, and is considere | purpose go over the properly fined soil | by English gardeners the perfect | with the hoe, scraping the earth into a! method. |ridge six to eight inches high. To get How To Test The Soil 'it straight run the garden line along, As the intention is to make the soil | the top edge on each side and hoe to it.| as fine as possible, not only through-| As it is a fact that a plant set on) cut the entire mass, but on top for | the south side of a ridge will mature | seedbed, it should not be dug until it is | sooner than one set on top, when feas- | in the proper condition. This can be ible, run the rows in a general east- ' and-west direction. the stove, I've; of plan out the things she needs walked about 600 miles in the last| around the sink, and what she uses at twenty years for just that one thing. | the table, and those she has to have It won't take me so long to go to, about the stove, we'll just see if we Toronto, for I have done a lot of side-| can't go Bert Evan's wood box one stepping all along." | better--and I don't know any reason John Simmons considered himself ; why I can't keep it filled. Say, ma, quite a hand at figures, so before at-| any cookies in that jar?" tacking the main issue he pulled out a | pencil and did a little multiplying. John Simmons was proud of his boy. |"He's got a pretty good head on him, tested in this manner: When the ridge) "Youre right, by gum, but I don't; and he isn't afraid to do more than One simply has to make up her mind , to put the big things first, that's all; ;make up her mind and then stick to Pitas. "T know," Peggy responded. But her voice sounded as if she did not know at all. "There's that class of Italian girls. You could do beautifully with them, Peggy, if you just would. Don't you gee what a chance it is to do some- Nelson Merrick, - Auctioneer aterloo, Wellington and Perth Counties, Estimates given on sales of farms ¥ and farm stocks, Office, next to Bank of Nova Scotla, Linwood Hote!s ae ~The Queens Hotel . - Best accommodation for eommercial traw ellers and others. ae : Two large Sample Rooms. | @HO. F, PAULI, Prop,, - Milverton, Omi, = n ae is _ ; ' é + Are You Insured, TRE CANADIAN ORDER OF © y 8 offers protec- ection for wife andfamily at_ minimum cost. Investigate it C.Spencer,C.R. x N, Zimmermana,R.S Hindu Losses in France. The losses of the gallant Hindu sol- ers in the great war have been for 'the first time announced. Starting immediately war was declared, 24,000 of these Mohammedan fighters for Christianity arrived in France and took their place on the firing line. Eight months after 30,000 more were nt over in a body to take the place of their brothers who had been put out f commission. The original 24,000 d been reinforced by 12,000 fellow indus earlier in the war, and of these $0,000 had been killed, captured or wounded. This enormous loss was oc- easioned by the lack of proper artil- Jery support, a deficiency which took the Canadians and "Tommies" | rrible tolls also. The Hindus charg- ed with wonderful dash and scorned 'shelter with heroic but costly audacity, 4 aay See RT SOARS ; New "Mustard" Gas, e newest poison gas used by the funs on the western front is that which comes from the nick-named 'd" shells. "When these shells 'the men in the vicinity feel a th > \ eves, which soon vever, the deposit clings e and hands of when in moinents of sh their hands and ting into their skin vate that they roll and ar anguish and ter- herever the wa-| f they are perspir- produces the ar is ¢ 1- | night She is credited on a record sheet. fs lumps throughout the bed, and it wil "Tf the soil be sandy, pebbly, gravel- | and ean be thrown off with a sidewis Take up as much of the soil as can) is finished, go over the top with the | be held in one hand. Close the hand,| hoe and cut a slice of soif with one| gqueezing the soil into a ball, firmly. | motion (to keep it smooth) out of the, Release the grip, and if the soil falls 'edge of the south side. On this slant-. apart or crumbles, it is fit to dig. If ing space the plant will be placed.: '+4 remains in a compact ball it is too! This is done only for early vegetables moist for good work. If dug in the | grown from transplanted plants. latter condition, it will be in hard} 1 | space to be dug, If potatoes are to be planted in the it will be as well not | he difficult to get a fine seedbed on/to go over it with the rake as closely, the top. By seedbed in this connec- | as for the smaller garden crops. Work tion is meant a top portion of two to! it into furrows with the rake, using, 'three inches as fine as coarse sand, | the garden line to get them straight. 'into which the seeds are planted. | For potatoes the soil should be loose-- | 'a sandy or gravelly one is best. After ily or shaley, and is in good physical) several workings with the hoe the | condition it will crumble off the shovel | potatoes will be on ridges, as the soil el/is worked around them, giving them) arm soil--two However, with' good drainage and a w scattering: motion. best to chop. things they need. the limestone loams it is i \ i | = . ; ; | the month., It also gives the market ; | price of eggs per dozen, and the total | (Pour F | value of eggs for the month. This , ;sheet records the individual "hen, the) Every progressive poultryman keeps | color of her eggs, the dates on which an account with his hens. It is the | she laid and the total for the month, only way to tell whether his plant is | besides the total to date. I can also profitable, says a suecessful farmer. | tell the day a hen went broody, the He knows the individual worth of day she was set, and the time she was each hen on the place. 'engaged in brooding het chicks. The' I keep a cash-book, and in it I Speord | sheet shows what hens have been sold, the receipts daily, whether for poultry, | What hens have been sick, or died, or. eggs or manure; the expenses, wheth- | ¥ere removed from the pen, and the, er for feed, labor, new stock, etc, | "")S* : : eS eset Each month I sum up to find whether | 'This system of bookkeeping plainly | I have made a profit or operated the , tells the number of days in the year. plant at a loss. 'each hen has been at work, the value. When I use any! oF yop nak : ' | poultry or eggs on my own table y of her product, an , what it cost to' her. I can read- | credit it just the same as if I sold. feed and take care of her $0 homie ORE IRS. 'ily tell which hens are nioney-makers, ! : ; and which are drones In this way. do F. ie . . r e y i ae St hee --, Rote ee it is possible to pick out the non-pro- es oe ee ease "4 re sicabs ductive, thus giving more room to the Dheaes i | workers and saving feed. families who pay monthly. In this} go jt will be seen that good book-. same ledger I keep an account of | keeping on the poultry farm carries! - ee A ah ae aa te history, and saves both labor and ex-. ss o io = =. ; res és ha = 'pense. Poultry farms that are run in| een veer} 0otomy KNOW: W.A8 7 such a business-like manner are, as a/ | plant is worth, but the amount of busi-' p16 the successful ones i 'ness I did and the profit I derived : ' | from it, : is . -I keep a diary of the daily hap- penings on the place--the weather, | the visitors, the loss in' stock, experi-| : ments--in fact, everything that is) See, my arms will hold you tight worth noting. ~ This makes a valu-| When wee fears alarm you. able reference book that is worth all) aetss : the trouble it takes to make it. | Wise ones say I do you wrong, Trapnests are used. Hyery hen on Facing dangers for' you; the farm is known by a number You will not grow braye and strong 'stamped on a leg-band that is fastened | eee ae Ceuicing: wer: yoe: 'about her lege. When the hen is', |. Set : caught in the trap after laying, Mee When eal oe mber is marked on the 2 SAL) Soe oh ES ee scion hat hy = -- | And each baby fear and grief. _ Drive you to your mother! ; : ee _--Burges Johnson. nO se nn ame : Afraid. Little noises do not bite! Darkness will not harm you! | hich tells the breed of hens in the pen, when they were hatched, the, -- number of the pen, the number of hens} -- , the number laying that r not la: ar see what Toronto's got to do with it." | j he's asked," John was thinking, while | thing really patriotic--to teach them goods received that were not paid for; With jt a system that tells each day's | "It's not so hard to see. Between, the more-than-pleased mother was you and me and the wood box I've | silently making her plans for the lit- done some right smart travelling, but; tle conveniences she should have had the scenery wasn't so much, and there | twenty years before. was a good deal of sameness about} Presently, John picked up his pen- the places I arrived at. That's why: ci] again and did some more figuring. I've decided to try a new route." | After a few busy moments he looked John was puzzled. . "I don't know) up at the boy who was mentally meas- yet just what you're driving at, but) uring off spaces. "Jack, did you know if it's the wood box what do you want! that your mother and I'd been married me to do about it?" | just twenty years come next month? "Well, Jess told me how Bert had! The only wedding trip we took was fixed theirs. He built a good tight | across the'county, though according box alongside the stove, and cut aj to her figures she might have walked hole through the wall so it can be, around the world several times,--so I filled from the outside. If we hadi guess it's about time she got a little one right here it would save walking | lift on the steam-cars. I've been 'half way around the house in the first} thinking we might manage to go to and I wouldn't have to go clear; Toronto for a sort of celebration next | place, across the kitchen every time I wanted' month and take you along,--if your a stick of wood." ;ma'd just ag soon fide on the cars; I John heard, but he hadn't quite re-| don't exactly hanker to walk, myself." covered from the astounding discovery | Speech was always slow with Mrs. of a few moments since. "Six hun-| Simmons, but her eyes glistened. They dred miles! Well, I never thought, had wasted a lot of precious time and about that before. can fix up that wood box somehow. band's heart had stayed in the same Say, Jack," he turned to a sixteen-| spot all these years, and her boy would year-old boy who had been an inter-| know better how to avoid such mis- | ested listener, "what's all your car-| takes. Oh, how hard she would try penter work up at school good for if; to help them to get the best that life you can't help me rig up some: sort might hold! é FUNNY FOLD UPS | CUT OUT AND FOLD ON DOTTED LINES ne ee em al Tor But I reckon we strength, to be sure, but her hus-| _ | demanded her namesake--who prefer- red to be called Clarice, ,to be real citizens? } Why don't you; | just say you will? You'll find other things will fall into place if once you resolve that they shall." "J__['l] think about it," said Peggy uncertainly. e With that Jessica had to content herself as .best she could. She was very fond of Peggy, and that was why ishe controlled her tongue by a splen- | did effort. Down in the hall she hur- |ried by Olga, the new Swedish maid. | Olga's eyes were red, but Jessica was too busy to notice. | It was Peggy who, coming down- | stairs a quarter of an hour later, did | notice, "Why, Olga," she cried, "what's the! matter? Didn't you understand that, you could go out for the afternoon?" | Olga shook her head. "I tank not: go. In stores dey laugh. T don't,, like laugh." Peggy stood still, thinking it out.| iYou mean you want to buy some- | thing?" she asked. "And you don't, like to go to the stores to ask for it?" | "T tank," Olga repeated as her fair | face reddened, "I not go." | An hour later, Jessica, trying on} gray shoes in Gregory's while at the | same time she discussed club finances | with her friend, Flo Hastings, looked up at Flo's sudden exclamation. : "Why, Jessica, isn't that your sister helping that Swedish girl buy shoes? | You didn't tell me that she was in the work, too. 1 should think she would be fine! Isn't she making that girl have a good time--just buying shoes!" | 'She--why, that's our new Swedish /maid," Jessica answered hurriedly." |"Peggy isn't doing anything at the | jclub. I couldn't get her to. She says | 'she hasn't the time. What do you. , think of these shoes, Flo?" "Lovely," Flo replied, but she spoke in a perfunctory manner. She was' watching Peggy and Olga, and think-| ing one or two new thoughts. \A Present From. Norley. As a package, rather dingy and bat-, tered at the corners and several times} readdressed, was put into her hands, | / Aunt Clarissa laughed delightedly. | "It's my birthday present from) Fidelia Bonney. She always sends} ,one,--she hasn't missed since we were | schoolgirls,--and I was just as uneasy | as could be when it didn't come. I) was afraid that she must be sick, or \that Uncle Si had one of his aving | spells' again." { "Why don't you open it, auntie?") "Here ret my scissors." 2 Aunt Clarissa good-natured Misapproval at her niece. "You're a hustling daughter of the great- metropolis, Clarice," she said : good-naturedly, "but I'm Norley | and never can be. fer, that was all, shook her head in| tangible, play in the far end of the garden-while _ he called on Sally. That's the Norley way. So the box went to Bolton; and Cousin Anna wasn't sure where I was, so she tried Cousin Ruth, and Cousin Ruth tried Cousin Mary, and Cousin Mary sent to back to Fidelia, and Fidelia sent it on to me. Now, I'l] open it--" "QO Aunt Clarissa! Candied mint and rose leaves! Why, that doesn't seem a bit like a--well, a village offer- ing. I never saw them anywhere ex- cept in the Christmas parlor of the Women's Exchange and at the very finest grocers' and confectioners' They couldn't possibly keep company with striped peppermint sticks, and chewing gum, and gluey candy lumps on sticks--the kind of things you find in a country store." / "No," said Aunt Clarissa, delicately nibbling a rose leaf, "they couldn't and they didn't. But they're a 'village offer- ing' all the same. There's been mint along Fidelia's brook since before the~ Indians deeded over th e farm, and cinnamon roses up against the house wall since it was built, and the big pink hundred-leaf growing by the gate. Confectioners are well enough, but when I get a pre- sent from Norley, child, it's the kind that's never sold and never bought, Not at any price." But that was verging very near sentiment for Miss Clarissa. She changed her tone briskly: 4 "Try a mint leaf, Clarice. Mint's always such a good, clean taste to and exchanges | finish with." aes Family Friction. A few sareastic words from father, a sharp retort from the moth- But was it all? What about the effect upon Johnnie and Susie, sitting there quietly at their evening lessons? And did neith- the er parent notice that Thomas slipped out of the house at the first intima- , tion that there was to be a quarrel be- -- tween his father and mother? For quarrel it really was, although brief © and clothed in the language of educat- ed, respectable persons; and long after these harsh and unkind words had, ; been spoken the atmosphere of the family living-room remained charged -- with an emotional disturbance in which no one could concentrate his - |mind upon his reading or study. -- ; Family friction is always fatal to happiness, and when/there are children in the home it is almost sure to work irreparable harm upon their minds and souls. Bot, " One of the most powerful causes of : the exodus of young people from their homes at an age when they are not fitted to enter upon the work of life is friction in the family. Young peop are by nature loyal to thelr parent: and it is almogt never that a_ person will give as a reason for leaving home the fact that his father and mother quarrel or nag at eac other or do not agree upon certain points! yj =e ae Friction in the home creates an in- impalpable atmospher \ which the sensitive child chokes pants for the free air of happiness is warped and stunted mentally | spores. (Se PS a, pepe