other weed' to the old-fashioned wash-board in the had and are they still cooking over : . a gchool where the home-making arts - 'them with your children. This makes es a _ time and harvesting but there must be ; hard work. _ eradle your grandfather used. , s you can make farm | e to your daughter s home but she cannot and if the sun set later, the work would keep on longer. | eo _ True, in one sense the work | is never done; one can always find an- pick, another plant to indow to clean. But a man ought to be master of his farm and sometimes call a halt on work rather than let the farm drive him and his children. \ Every one on thi farm is willing to work to the utmo during a period of stress like haying riods of fun to make up for the _ Probably "her work could be made much easier by the use of labor-sav- ing machinery, especially in the house. You do not use the sickle or the isa . Xou have bought two or three improved reapers since his day; but are your wife and daughter still washing with heavy wooden tubs that grandmother the same style of stove she used? If your daughter has been fortun- ate enough to attend or even to visit are taught, she will not be satisfied to use the awkward, heavy, worn-out tools of her grandmother's day. A running stream on the farm will \pupriy power for an electric plant at 'no great expense and save the mother and daughter hours and hours of hard work. An electric washer, ele- etric iron, motor for the butter churn and the new sewing machine and mod- -ern oil stove, will not cost as much as one large piece of farm machinery | and they will make life a different thing for your homemakers. ; A well-equipped bathroom is some- thing which every farm house needs hand." 3 Said, "Well, look, there it is." _He looked me squarely in the face} and said, "I want te see it ip my own) -- Your daughter wants some "money "in her own hand." As Goer to her if you] Of what benefit is it have an immense farm and ten; thousand dollars in bank, if she has} not five cents to use as she pleases? "She will some day~ inherit a nice sum." Yes--but'she reeds some of it now. bes 'Try to keep the way open between her heart and yours. Try to see her side of it. When you sell a tract of timber for two thousand dollars what does she get out of it? Or if you do things on a smaller scale, when you sell the cow she helped to raise or the turkeys she fed all summer, does her) work get recognition? Does she feel that she has beén recompensed? . Perhaps you have a mortgage on your farm and feel that you cannot afford some of the things I have men-| tioned. Then give her the things you can afford. _ There are a thou- sand little pleasures you can give without money and without price. Lawn swings, porch rockers, croquet sets, quoits (old horse shoes) cost lit- tle and they have great possibilities in pleasure-giving and home-making. If you can afford nothing else you f aie Canadian Food Control License No. 6-276 T. H. Estabrooks Co. / LIMITED -- St. John, co bd ate can bring your daughter a handful of, wild flowers or a specially choice ap- ple because it is her birthday; you can select a fine chicken for the table be- cause it is a holiday. It will cost nothing for you to give each of your girls a small plot of ground that shall be her very own to plant and market. Her zeal and industry will bring results that may even give you some pointers. THE USEFUL SANDBAG. Various Are the Uses Which it Serves in the Trenches. That important adjunct of warfare, the sandbag, adapts itself under the ingenious fingers of the trench dwell- ers to other than. merely protective pated" Nigh purposes. If you were to ask a sea- soned veteran what one of his weapons and which the family has a right to| demand. It need not be any. more' expensive in-the country than in the, city--less expensive if you can run} the water unde; its own pressure. | Health, time and labor are conserved! by the installation of a bathroom. Sometimes our farmers' daughters are deprived of pleasures they might easily have. If your daughter de- sires to take piano lessons, let her) have them and 'help her to plan for an hour each day when she may be free to work on that lesson. When the heaviest summer work is over and she - longs to invite a group of friends for a week-end or to go away for a few days of rest and. pleasure, let her do so if you possibly can. It would not cost much to keep a Yards of Beauty. he would choose were he limited to a I was once called upon to plan the single choice, says a writer in the Il- landscape gardening around a mil jystrated World, he would be very like- lionaire's home, and the only stipula-|jy to respond emphatically, "Six sand- tion he made was that I must, make pags!" use of the native wild shrubs. Nor! 4 summary of all the uses that the was this a difficult restriction. The fighter finds for the sandbag would be stately elder, the sweet brier, the /a catalogue of his activities. 'He rips modest wild rose, the unassuming them up the seams and makes rude pokeberry, the clinging bittersweet, buckskins of them to keep his feet the ever-gracious wild grape, the ivy,!warm and to give better "traction" sumac, dogwood, mountain ash-~alli when the trench mud is very bad. He these and various other varieties of; wraps them round his legs for warmth. plants converted the bare grounds | He makes "helmets" of them--rough into an attractive estate. |imitations of the neck-and-head pieces Beautiful grounds need not be ex-' that thousands of women are sending | pensive. The most lovely flowers | across to our boys. The trench-made | and plants that God ever made grow article scratches, and is not nearly as | are found in the woods, along the' warm as the helmet made of woolen | banks of streams, in fence corners, in' yarn, but it is much better than noth- | nice. little saddle horse for your daughter's use (it could be used for light work too) and I can think of no other one thing that would go so far toward keeping her happy and con- tented with her life on the farm. There are so many beautiful and interesting things for a girl to enjoy in the country--skating, driving, the sunsets, the wild flowers and animals, the birds, the farmyard pets--but if she is in treadmill, all heart is work- ed out of her and she is too tired to enjoy the wonderful beauties sur- rounding her, It is a small matter - to bring home a pair.of skates for Annie's birthday or to pick up a new book for her but how often do you do it? _ I know one farmer's daughter who, in spite of many obstacles, became a stenographer. Her birthday falls dur- ing her summer vacation but she nev- er spends .it at home.*~ For before her twenty-first birthday she planned for a bit of leisure and a lit- - tle pleasure or' that one day; but her father chose that date for beginning work on the new shed and she spent _ her birthday over the kitchen stove, cooking-for the carpenters. Do you wonder she vowed then and there that before another birthday she would leave the farm? There may be a County Young Wo- men's Christian Association in your district. | Encourage your daughters to join and_help the cause all you can. They wiliseek associates somewhere. Help them to find worthy and elevat- ing companions: If you can get in tonch with the public library of your nearest city or secure a travelling li-) brary from your state library com- mission you can have a supply of ex- cellent books at very little cost. Read some of them yourself and discuss conversation worth while, at table, on the road or at such tedious work as 'weeding or corn husking. Tf you have not already done so, read, in the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, how her father, Lyman Beech- er, turned drudgery into fun by his stories, 'wit and conversation. At one time when the family spent a long) evening preparing apples for their winter's supply of "cider- apple- | fields and shady nooks. They are ing at all, particularily when the cold | {ours for the asking and the digging.) rain, snow or sleet is driving into you. | What is prettier and yet so rare as @ from the back. 'large bed of wild violets in a shady | If he is extraordinarily lucky in get- place near the house? Plant gen-| ting a number of the bags, he makes | erously of perennials so that they will | for one night or so a damp-proof sleep- bloom and grow year after year with ing bag. That may not sound like | little attention and give stability to much relief, but to a soldier who has | your landscape effects. |to stay in the first-line trenches for Select them so that you will have' seven or eight days and nights, even blossoms from early spring until late|one night of sound sleep is a great |frost. While the best arrangement | blessing. | of trees and shrubs on large grounds| These bags do a great deal more for | |requires the services of a landscape; the man in the ranks, however, than 'expert, a few simple hints will serve merely to furnish him with protec- {to prevent the inexperienced person tion and with odds and ends of cloth- 'from making serious mistakes. Planting to combat cold, dampness and mud. in masses, with the larger shrubs in They are his towels and wash cloths. | back and the smaller ones in front.| He stains the grounds out of his cof- | Leave plenty_of oven space, which is|fee with them, and removes the leaves | generally made into a lawn. Avoid) from his tea likewise. They are even | straight lines and exact symmetrical the tablecloths that he spreads on the arrangement, unless. you desire a/mud floor of the trench of his dug- 'formal effect, which is generally out. | ; i autifying the home | ; { , eS A WASP THAT USES TOOLS. -- é Intelligent Use of Implement to Ac- complish a Purpose. grounds. Use vines profusely wherever pos- | sible, selecting those which are hardy /and not seriously affected by pests. | This applies also to other shrubberry. | | In selecting trees consider the matter 'of litter and the shedding of leaves. | Some trees, such as horse chestnuts, are beautiful, and have many desir- able qualities, but the flowers which they shed litter the ground and will cause stains on clothing that are difficult to remove. While a great many interesting and valuable points about nursery stock may be learned from books and the pamphlets of nursery companies, observation is equally important. Consider the ulti- mate size of the trees which you plant. Oaks, elms, and other large trees should not be planted near the house, as in time they will shut out too much light, unless pruned heavily, which will destroy their beauty. The improvement of one's home grounds js usually as contagious as idle gossip, once it is well under way. It is much more . interesting and worthy of respect. I feel that the exterior. of my own home does not with the rest of the ground about it belong to me alone. I have a moral brought a quantity of fine grains of | responsibility tovadd to the attractive. dirt to the spot, and picking up a small ee of the neighborhood in which I pebble in her mandibles, used it as a/ ve, and therefore my grounds in So far as known, only one small in- sect--a wasp of the sphex family-- among the millions of creatures be- longing to a lower order than man, has ever employed the aid of a tool to ac- complish a desired result. The mother | wasp of this family digs a tunnel in | the ground, deposits her egg in it and provides a caterpHlar stung to death | or to a condition of paralysis for her , | baby to feed on when hatched. The | grub subsists on this caterpillar until | it passes through the pupa stage into - the perfect-winged insect. Then it digs its way out of the tunnel and be: gins its life above ground as a wasp. t t finishes its task by ramming down pel- . race habit of these wasps. It is re- | corded on undoubted authority that | one inventive mother, when the mouth of the tunnel was covered to a level - gauce" Mr, Beecher arid his boys (of whom Henry Ward Beecher was one) | _ vied with each other to see who could! tell the most about a given book, Ivan-| hoe or some other standard book. Mr. | _ Beecher turned into a game even the. fia Ae scot eit ae oe z hard task of chopping and storing! the great pile of wood each autumn. | one ip the big wagod for, a fishing' . { "The question' of 'money is often - cause for discontent to the farm daughter. ; ; ery The fact that you provide your family with ample food, clothing and shelter does riot meet the problem. An old darkey who was much poorer x the Civil Wediker when he was under the protection of his master, ex- plained his happiness by saying, "Free air tastes good, sir." _ Your daughter would rather. have en dollars to spend just as she vases than to havéyou pay a bill af hat amount for her. Suppose _ Then when the last piece of wood was! P _ stored and the last chip Cleared away | he declared a holiday and took every neat and efficient tenant, Plants and hammer in pounding them down with part at ney elong to the owner of rapid strokes, thus making the spot as every eye that gazes upon it. The) im and as hard as the surrounding | architecture of the house, the decora- surface, Then she departed, brought | tion of the grounds, the walks, fences,) more dirt, picked up the pebble again and general surroundings are each! ang used it as a hammer as before. | man's contribution to his community.| 'The Wnglish thrush brings its snails | It is one way in which we can give | { 5 = to a certain' convenient stone, on! Pleasure and enjoymient to other peo-| which it will érack their shells by! e. F | ' ; ae beating them upon it, i Whether the house is a log cabin or . : Ul Some sea birds * neh a carry shellfish to"a: height a a mansion, it is, after all, a home, a 4 be eS place of love and adoration, It them on the rock to break their shells, ; but this brings only the anvil into use, should be the most restful place on) not the hammer. The case of the wasp earth. 'To male it so costs mostly is the only one which records the thought afd play. The tenant's pro-| seemingly intelligent use-of a tool to | blem is somewhat different, but 4l accomplish a given purpose. few seeds will make a profusion of| sk a pretty plants some of which may pos-| ,' Man? sibly be 'moved, But the atteactive- A Frenchman has invented an effec- ness even of a tenant's home is not a quality that easily dies; I have ob- served that landowners desire the F ' y | that ig said t6 reduce the power but 2) percent. "o." : So nae de : : If-your car isa new one there is poms means provided for warming the inlet manifold, such a& casting it flowers about the house show ideals that go with character. A pretty yard 'may be the means of attracting con:| jiside ¢ Ae? De fengehinete IE genal people -and making friends.-- nside the cylinder block so that it will be warmed by the waterjackets. | An ; 'old engine will have to be fitted with , a manifold in which inlet and exhaust', pass throtigh the same casting, so that the exhaust heats the inlet and so! _j Warms the ia Sea ea arated, gars g ta J. L. Nesbitt, opt \- -- a ~ 3 3 4 a Se wae _. The average annual fire loss in tha | States is about two dollar ee S$ To 'tive silencer for aeroplane motors! | Lights Out. "Lights out!" along the land "Lights out!" upon the sea. The night must put her hiding han O'er peaceful towns where children sleep, And peaceful ships that darkly creep Across the waves, as if they were not free. The dragons of the air, < The hellhounds of the deep, Lurking and prowling everywhere, Go forth to seek their helpless prey, Not knowing whom they maim or slay-- Mad harvesters, who care not what they reap. Out with the tranquil lights, Out with the lights that burn For love and law and human rights! Set back the clock a thousand years; All they have gained now disappears, And the dark ages suddenly return. Kaiser who loosed wild death, And terror in the night-- God grant you draw no quiet breath, Until the madness you began Is ended, and long suffering man, Set free from war lords, cries, "Let there be lights." --Henry Van Dyke. pret OY SN ae Suppressing Rats. A suecessful poultry-keeper has found traps the best means of combat- ae aw The Lesson VII. | SAG _| Sama _ {Spirit was to enable the disciples to | spread the great news. "Matt. 10 27-33 . "row" may mean any small bird. The a * Acts 1. 8; M James 1.26, 27. ca ee Acts 1, 8. Se ey peor. x ten aes shall be my witnesses both in, usalem, and "in all Judaea and: ria and unto the uttermost ae of the éarth--The gift of the Holy Ye er They were to testify of the things they had seen and heard and the results in their own' consciousness or experience, | They were sometimes snore persecuted because of their witnessing and often sare their testimony with their Speak ye in the light:. : . proclaim upon the house-tops ---In the previous verse Jesus exhorts his disciples not to fear those who will persecute them but to remember. that there can be no ultimate conceal- ment of truth--it must come forth. - Verse 27. private communication is to be made known in the light of the whole orld, and what is whispered is to be shout- ed from the tops of the houses. 28. Be not afraid of them that kill the body--Danger of physical injur and even death itself must not halt the message.. The most extreme sacri- fice must be ventured rather than give up loyalty to the truth. Not able to kill the soul--No bodily injury can touch the real self, the inner life of the spirit. Chrigtian history is full of noble examples in illustration where men have died gloriously rath- er than surrender their convictions, Fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell--Which may mean either (1) God, whose power ex- tends beyond this life, or (2) Satan, into whose power the wicked surrend- er themselves. 29-31. Two sparrows sold for a penny? . . ye are of more value than many sparrows--The word "spar- teaching is that human life is more precious in God's sight than the life of the lower animals, and that kind- ness to animals is part of God's law. 32, 83. Who shall confess me . whosoever shall deny me--tbLiterally, "confess in me'"'----"'make me the cen- tral point and object' of his confes- sion.' One of the earliest names for a Christian was "confessor," be- cause of his bearing witness to Christ. This confession was not a mere ver- bal assertion but much rather the testimony of the life as well, as Jesus clearly states in-Matt. 7. 21, 22: "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king- dom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name and by thy name cast out » demons, and by thy name do many mighty works? And then I will profess unto them, I never knew you." James 1. 26, 27 26. If any man thinketh himself to be religious--These verses are the con- clusion of the intensely practical and ethical discussion of the relation be- . ing rats. He has 500 hens, housed; in several buildings; and a dozen steel | and spring traps, always set, keep) ; rats out. j He adopted traps after first trying poison and then the rifle. Poison was effective, but there was such a stench from the dead rats that its use a sec- ond time could not be considered. He, tried a small.22-caliber rifle. The, rifle required a lot of time, and at that was ineffectual. Then he tried traps, and he has had them in constant use since. He put a trap in the chamber of each dry-| mash hopper. Next he located the) points at which rats entered the pens. | This was not difficult, as his houses | have dirt floors At each rat entrance he placed a cylindrical box, six inches, square and about three feet long, the' ends being open and the top side, as) the box was sunk in the ground, re-} movable. In these passageways | steel traps were set. The battery of traps quickly clean-) ed out the rats. Se ae Live Fish in a Mine. Live fish have . been found in the bottom of Transvaal -gold mine, in a vertical shaft 3,800 feet deep. They were barbel, from 6 in. to 12 in. long, and up to three-quarters of a pound in weight, and must have been merely spawn when they fell. In exceptional: | y dry weather small bull-frogs have | But after the mother wasp has made ee ia to distend themselves and' its tunnel and deposited the egg, it deliberately jump down the shaft, ap: | parently in search of water. How lets. of earth, little stones, etc. into ;they ever reached the bottom alive is the mouth of the tunnel. This is the te mystery. : FUNNY FOLD-UPS CUT OUT: AND FOLD ON DOTTED LINES ~. ad eS ' | ALONG THE FENCE. WELL HAVE TO WATCH THE SINNER t i AKS TABBY SNE ' --- - FOLD FORWARDS 2 WHILE FIDO'S SPEAKING FOR HIS LUNCH SHE'LL STEAL THE POOR DOG) DINNER = {a terse and remarkable clear defina- 'strength | must be kept employed in useful work | cheerfully done." '| ever our a i woe = oe SIAN || controlled by a button on the handle, Fat eS I which shuts it off automatic the implement is idle, _ tween faith and works. We have here Christian Testimony-- |_ ea | gurgical What is taught in the darkness of) teh Sieh daa __Anzemia means deficiency of blood. If a pérson loses a quart blood by a hemorrhage, or a severe yperation, or in connection 'with childbirth, it is very evident that r she has a deficiency of blood, » has been a loss of a con- siderable portion of the normal sup- ply of the body, consequently he or she-is anaemic, <2. 27 = It aman cuts his throat or rup- tures a blood-vessel in his. brain, or a, dilated artery, called an aneurism 'breaks there is so great and sudden 'a loss of blood that he dies, for blood is essential to, life. ee It used to be thought that because' the blood carried humors and diseases, over the body, it was a good plan to, occasionally draw some of it off, and bleeding for hundreds of years was | fashionable practice for almoét every kind of ailment. Sometimes it worked well ple were relieved by it, but very often, it was mischievous and a person who, had been bled several times in the| course of a disease became so anaemic that he was practically or actually killed by the treatment he had recelv- | ed, i fot i A vigorous sugar maple may Jose a_ portion of its sap every spring, it is, one evidence of the prodigality of) nature in supplying the means which | 'and peo- lose a similar quantity of sap and it: will promptly die. : i A person who has plenty of blood! may be anaemic from the poverty of its quality, especially when it lacks the proper quantity of coloring ma- terial called haemoglobin which con- tains iron and oxygen; iron and oxy-; gen therefore are essential to the! body and to the blood. A person who is anaemic is pale, not for a few moments only as in fright or sudden emotion but all the time, the face, the lips, the entire skin are colorless like those of the dead. The same is true when the skin is of greenish color as is often the case in poorly developed and poorly nour- ished young girls or in those who are uart or more of| MW 'tion. *e : here is always loss of app strength, and-weight, and poo The anaemic often buzzing in the ears, dizz ness, pe shortness of-breath. - All of these symptoms mean -- only that the blood is fficie poor and deficient in the subs which build up the body, but th 'heart by the action of which the is kept in motion is unable to do per work, that the kidneys "anno form their task, that the | contract vigorously enough ) the blood with the proper am oxygen, and consequently th brain is unable to respond t isual demands by which thought created. ~-- see gat eee An anaemic person under a cumstances is therefore more or disqualified from doing work and in many cases he is entirely helples - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. X.--Please tell me how I can rid of a very troublesome corn, used. various' meahs- of removing but it has always returned. Do think it would be dangerous to the doctor cut it out?' rig Answer--In matters like this least two courses are possible. -- i { | are concerned with life, but let a tree can use a felt corn plaster which that is sickly or poor or withered,| tects the toe from the shoe and quently is all that is necessary, can have the corn removed by a petent chiropodist. Of course, it. will come back again, as long as_ continue to wear shoes. oan Reader---Please tell me the: ourse und cure for varicose veins, aha, Answer--They are due to the pres- sure of the blood current in the veins working against gravity. This res in dilatation and weakening of vein walls and frequently causes dra ging sensations and even pain. Som times relief is procured by support: ing the veins by a bandage or so! not effectual, it is necessary to tie the veins:and cut off the circulation from the vessels which are thus diseased, | fe THAT "FEELING" | IN THE FAMILY |} -- "Yes there is some feeling between the Farrar sisters-----" "And a very sweet sisterly feeling I hope it is," said a gentle old lady who was passing through the room. The door closed; the two women in the window seat continued their discus- sion of the sisters whose feeling for each other was in no wise friendly. Why is this "feeling" so often ob-} served between members of the same family? A certain -man who for tion of true religion. According to) James true religion consists in mas- | tery--"bridleth not his tongue.' It} is by the tongue that men particular- | ly express themselves, and if a man! has an unruly tongue it is quite clear) that the rest of his nature is un-| bridled. The first evidence, therefore, | that a man is truly religious is that! he has control of himself. A religion" , that does not produce this result is a! "This man's religion | The second | { sham religion is vain." It is a fraud. evidence of true religion is philan- thropy--'"Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction." A religion that does | not reach out to help the needy and) bring forth deeds of mercy eS; f help | is woefully lacking in the spirit of | Christ. The third evidence of genuine! religion is sanctity-----"keep oneself un-| spoted from the world." What sort. of a "world" is it that "spots" a man? | Not the world of nature, not the world | of art, science, or literature: not the) world of folks; but it is the world| which John himself calls "the lust of | | the flesh; the dust of the eyes, and! the vainglory of life." | oe Notching Floor Joisits. It is the custom in some localities | to notch the floor at the centres for gas pipes or conduits for electric wir-| ing. That should not be done, as_ it, weakens the joists. Frequently the) floor sags in the middle and causes | the plaster beneath to crack. | The saving in cost of that method} over the correct way to run the pipes, or conduits is poor economy, consider- | ing the damage which might follow. | The proper way to lay pipes on the floor beams is to notch the joists par- allel to the walls and not over twelve inches from where they rest on their | bearings. Then extend the pipes from those points to the required| locations in the spaces between the | joists. The beams used for floors are very) rarely stronger thafi is just necessary. If they are cut in the centre they be- come too weak by exactly the depth' of the notches. Cutting them close to the bearings does not destroy the} It is in' the centre where, they are affected most. oe Good, Advice. Robert Louis Stevenson 'was once called upon to. address a Sunday school class of young girls. He told them the parable of the talents, and| then went on to say that there were} three talents everyone possessed and! ought to make use of: "Tongues that | they must use to cheer and make happy all around them; faces that they must keep bright as new shill- ings, so that they might shine like lamps in their homes; and hands that | | } Very good advice in these war days for all of us, what- ge-or sek yo Ys Bert RRL Nien es : China imports great quantities of old horsesroes and converts the metal into knife blades. *. Current in a new electric iron is ally when 4 gee z after page he noticed that his brother | was nodding and grimacing to the in- | her Christmas bank. three years has worked night and day inventing an electrical labor-saving machine meets a friend and pours forth, perhaps in more or less tech- nical terms, his faith in the work to which he is devoting his life. He passes on, comparing his attentive, sympathetic friend with his brother, who sometimes leaves the room with a frown when he tries to talk about the subject nearest his heart. The pol-| itely attentive friend probably enough | tells the first man he meets that he| has wasted ten minutes that morning listening to Brown "rave over that erazy notion of his'; and that very | day Brown's brother whirls yound in! his office chair and confides to his! partner: "I don't know one thing: about electricity,--the subject gets on, my nerves,--but I have faith in John. ' When he needs more cash he can call | on me. Some day there will be one! member of our family to be proud of!" . Now, this brother does not weary, John with a recital of the names and} business reliability of all his custom- | ers; why should John be offended be-| cause the merchant cannot patiently . listen to his "ravings"? Members of a family, as individuals, have rights that are too often overlooked. A theological student produced sey- eral of his sermons one morning and began to read them to an admiring) father and mother,:and to a married brother who was supposed to be filled with admiration, As he turned page 1 fant that lay gurgling in his arms. At last he could stand it no longer. "T care no more about your baby than you do about my sermons!" he cried hotly as he left the room. That young man had neve. held a baby in his arms and did not know the overpowering sensation it gives-- especially when the baby is your own, The young father, an accountant, had never risen to the heights to which a man ascends when he reads the words he has written for the help: and _ bet- terment of mankind. It was easy enough for "feeling" to arise; until! st both learn tolerance, it side, An ideal situation exists in a\family in which the daughter is a writer of pleasant short stories. Her unimagina- tive father revels in facts but cares nothing for fiction. . He considers it as his duty, however, -to read his daughter's stories. One night his daughter found him in the library so ehgaged. -- "O father, don't waste your time over that!" she cried. "You are too tired." But her dutiful father con- tinued to read of poor Aunt Matilda's grief when she discovered the theft of A minute or two later he looked over his glasses at his daughter, who, was intent upon her embroidery, dosed the. magazine quietly and picked up a paper at his elbow, Aunt Matilda was forgotten. "Eleanor," he 'presenti "did you know' that if that about seven hundr i Bs oe i ie will not sub- \ was estimated edsmillion dol aie y demanded, lars' worth of material is wasted in this country in a single year?" : "No, father, I didn't," replied the young woman, about whose lips there | lurked only the suspicion of a smile. She was not aware of this startling -- state of affairs and, after five mi- nutes, could not have told whether the country wasted millions or billions of dollars. But she loved her father and admired him for his knowledge of many subjects that inferested her not> at all. She knew that her father loved her and that he was proud of her { work, which others admired. -- There was not the slightest "feeling" -- between them. : A broad-minded person can peaceably with anyone--eyven members of his own family. live the Weather-Tight Sills. The sill for a frame house should be set' in mortar on the foundation wall to prevent the cold air from chill- ing the floors. If that is not done the furnace will have to be forced just so muth more in order to heat the rooms on the first story. The average contractor mill. tell you that it is not necessary to use mortar. His argument is that the weight of the house bearing down on -- the sill will force a tight joint be- tween the masonry and the wood. _ That is true only when the top of the | wall is as smooth as glass, and would happen about once in a thousand cases. If you wish to save on your fuel bill _ and obtain the best results from your furnace, see that the joint is made -- perfectly tight with mortar. The cost Is so slight that it will not be noticed. -- Frequently one is in a quandary to know*why the first floor cannot be properly heated, and is likely to place the blame on the furnace when the opening under the sill is the whole trouble. : A little foresight at that place when you build will avoid serious annoyance -- in the future. roe i Removing a Stubborn N ut. : _Searcely anything 'is more tantaliz- a ing than trying to remove a nut from. a bolt that turns in its socket. The following method will almost always = overcome. this difficulty and enable the nut to be screwed off with com. parative ease: With a cold chisel make an incision in the head of the bolt similar to that found in the heads of screws. "Often the chisel incision _ is sufficient to enable the screwdriver to get a good grip; sometimes, how -- ever, it may be necessary to deepen the incision witha file, Frequently the chisel itself answers very well -- for a screwdriver, Thus gripped it -- 18 @ comparatively easy matter ~to~ art the stubborn nut. ee - Saturating the threads of the nut- with kerosene a few minutes before -- attempting. to unscrew it, often makes the attempt easier, for the kerosene penetrates quickly to the susted re- _ cesses of the nut and softens the rust aie Petcentibly, Me or any reasén it is not advisable 'to indént the nut head with Kee chisel, opposite sides of the head n be filea away slightly so as to enable _ the wrench or vise to get a flat grip. With a sharp file it is only a Bs 8 task to file away the small bit requir. ee ed to do this. The writer has removed very stubborn bolts by both of methods, and can yecommend great savers of temper ahd tim