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Perhaps the greatest privilege is the wonderful resource of having all| outdoors, but this is a privilege which the mother of young children is apt to neglect. She herse.? must be in the| kitchen or near it during much of the day, and she must have her babies| where they are within sight. It oftenl follows that country little folks |pe'nd| most of the time hanging drean!y' around the kitchen where they are in the way and where the air is not: always good. j But what else can the busy mother do* She can apply to her children the lore she has learned about little chicks. Fencing will keep little chilâ€" dren safe from automobile haunted roads, from wandering cows, from running out of sight of their mother‘s eyes. And there is no farm in the country where there is not enough discarded material of one kind or anâ€" other lying about to inclose a spot, say twenty feet square, though it might be larger to advantage. It is better if there is a tree to furnish some shade for hot days, but if there is none near enough to the house, a plece of old paper roofing or a section of old corrugated metal roofing, or some old boards with odds and ends of shingles put over them, will furnish shade for hot days. Little children wish and need to be‘ doing something with their bodies and hands every minute they are awake.) The problem is to provide them with something to do which cannot hurt, them, which will help them to grow, and which will not be too upsetting to the regularity of the family life. To begin with, if a load of sand is dumpâ€" ed in one corner of the baby yard, and some old spoons and wornout utensils contributed from the kitchen, therel will be many hours of every day durâ€" ing which the fortune of a millionaire could give the little folks, no more happiness. A piece of planed board can be nailâ€" ed upon four stout sticks driven intoi the ground and another on highy, sticks put before it, and the little folks will have a bench and tuble‘ which cost but a few cents, and are as serviceable as the pretty painted ones which cost ten times as much. Potters‘ clay can be bought for a few cents n‘ pound and for a variation from the sand pile plays, young children will gladly turn to clay modeling. If the clay is kept where it can be obtained easily, it is possible that one or more of the children may show some stirâ€" rings of native ability and begin to try to reproduce the animal life of the country. If the mother has time and ability to supervise the play, so much the better, but if she is so busy that she can only call out from the kitchen a suggestion to make some little cups and saucers, or a bird‘s nest and eggs, this will serve very well for a beginning. $ If four strips of wood arc nailed in the form of a square at one end of the little table and a pan half full of water is set securely down into the square so that it will rot tip over, another great resource is added to the play yard. Vith an a?ron of oileloth, a spoon and an old tin cup, it is an abnormal child who is not happy and harmlessly busy for a long time each day,. Any ordinary child a few years of age loves to play with water in this way and learns steadiness of hand and sureness of eye which go a long way toward insurlnfi agreeable table manâ€" ners at an early age. As he grows older a fleet of boats made of bits of wood or walnut shells vary the fun. An apron can be made in a few minâ€" utes out of a few cents‘ worth of table oflcloth. If the mother is very busy she can simply fasten it together at the shoulder and back with safety pins. Children under four delight in climbing, and if possible provision should be made for that. A wooden box can be set a little down in the ground, so that it will not tip over, and the edges padded with & bit of an old comforter, so that the inevitable bumps are not too severe. The smallâ€" est children, even the baby who canâ€" not walk, will rejoice endlessly in pulling himself up over the edge and clambering down into the box, thereâ€" by exercising every muscle of his bodvy. Little children cannot coâ€"ordinate their muscles quickly enough to playi ball with much pleasure, but if a largo‘ soft ball is suspended by a long cord, they can swing it back and forth to each other with everâ€"increasing skm,‘ and they should have a rubber balil to roll to and fro on the ground. If n‘ twoâ€"byâ€"four board is laid on the ground the little folks will find much fun in trying to walk along it, and thus acquire a considerable addition to their capacity for walking straight and managing their bodies. A pile of hay or straw to jump into will save the little gymnasts from bumps and bruises. Nothing in this baby yard need cost a farmer‘s family more than & few cents, nor take but bttle time and whnost no carpentering sakill. And yet, the suggestions made cover a very complete outft for the outdoor exetrâ€" complete Qm‘m for the outdoor : cises of children upder thf. 6t Any mother who makes p for play may be gure not J; Any mother who for play may be her own little ¢ \ numberless happy hours, but that they will never lack for playmates, | because their play yard will be sought out by all the little folks in the neighâ€" | borhood. Beets in Jellyâ€"Boil, peel and chop several medium sized new beets. Let cool and mix with them one cup of cold chicken, pork or mutton, chopped fine. Pour over the mixture one pint of lemon jelly made from jelly powder that has been dissolved and is beâ€" ginning to set. Mix well, pour in a mold and let it get firm. Slice and serve on a platter or on individual plates garnished with crisp lettuce. Place a spoonful of salad dressing on each portion. Beet Green Saladâ€"Cook in salted water until tender, oneâ€"half peck of tender beet leaves with the tiny beets attached. Drainâ€"and cool. Peel the beets and chop the leaves. Mix the leaves with three chopped, hardâ€"boiled eggs and enough mayonnaise dressing to moisten nicely. Pile in the centre of a shallow salad bowl. Garnish with the tiny beets, small balis of cottage cheese and shredded lettuce leaves. on a pl;'t't:é-r in a mound. Dress with melted butter, white pepper and juice of one lemon and serve hot. _ Beet and Vegetable Saladâ€"Cut two cold boiled beets in small cubes. Slice four small, coldâ€"boiled carrots and one dozen small white onions. Mix and add one cup of cold boiled peas. Dress with mayonnaise and serve in a bed of shredded lettuce leaves. Baked Beetsâ€"Clean the required number of beets, placs them in & pan containing oneâ€"half inch of boiling water, and bake until tender. Just before removing from the oven lay a slice of broiled bacon and a spoonful of shredded green pepper over the top of each beet. Salt and pepper to taste, dress with a little butter and serve hot Beet Cupsâ€"Peel six boiled beets‘ and scoop out the centre to form cups. Chop the part removed with one cup of white fishâ€"cold boiled or bakedâ€" and six or eight stuffed olives. Add two tablespoonfuls of thick cream, one tablespoonful of prepared French mustard, salt and pepper to taste and juice of one lemon. Mix and fill cups. Grate the yolks of two hardâ€"boiled eggs over the top and lay rings of the white of eggs and a sprig of parsley on the plate with each salad cup Beet Jellyâ€"Pour one pint of boiling beet juice over the contents of one package of lemon flavored jelly powdâ€" er; add two tablespoonfuls of gugar. Pour into mold and let harden. Serve in squares as garnish for meats, fish, salads, etc. A teaspoon of vinegar added to each gallon of water in the boiler in which white clothes are scalded will whiten them.â€"Mrs. L. M. T. If tablecloths, napkins and handkerâ€" chiefs are folded a little beyond the middle when ironing, they will last much longer, as it is on the edges of folds where they first wear, and by folding not on the middle line, with each ironing they get a new crease. â€"Mrs. R. G. To bleach ({our handkerchiefs a pure white, after washing, let them soak over night‘ in water in which a bit of cream of tartar has been disâ€" solved.â€"M. A. P. For ginghams and other colored cotâ€" tons dissolve and add to every pint of starch, a piece of alum the size of a hickm-xli nut to keep the colors bright.â€"Mrs. J. K. P I have discovered that when flannels have become hard and shrunken, they may be restored to their former softâ€" ness by soaking them a short time in gasoline.â€"M. A. P. Save old kid gloves for ironing day. Sew a piece from the left glove on to the palm of the right one, and you will find your hand is saved from beâ€" coming blistered, while the fingers and back o‘the hand will be protected from the scorching heat which is so damaging to the skin.â€"Mrs. J. J. O°C. Cedar oil rubbed on the side walls and under side of shelves in closets is good for prevention of moths. Turâ€" pentine rubbed on carpets under heavy furniture and in corners will keep the moths away.â€"Mrs. J. J. O°C. The little country inn was picâ€" turesque, but leaky. Late one night a guest rang his bell urgently, and the landlord answered. "I éay, look here!" snorted the inâ€" dignant traveler, who was still in bed. "That roof‘s letting in the rain, and I‘m drenched." "Very good, esir!" remarked the landlord amiably, as he retired. A tew minutes later he came with a Bects Serve_ In New Ways. How We Do It. A Simple Cure. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO The following poem, "Vive 1@ France," is one of the tenderest picâ€" tures of patriotism that has come out of the Great War: h Franceline rose in the dawning grey, And her heart would dance thoug! she knelt to pray, â€" For her man Michel had holiday, * Fighting for France. She offered her prayer by the cradle side, And with baby palms folded in hers she cried: "If I have but one prayer, dear cructâ€"« fied Christâ€"save France!" "But if I have two, then, by Mary‘s grace, Carry me safe to the meeting place. Let me look once again on my dear love‘s face. ‘ Save him for France!" She crooned to her boy, "Oh, how glad ‘ he‘ll be, Little threeâ€"monthâ€"old, to set eyes on } thee! For, ‘Rather than gold would I give,‘ wrote he, ‘A son to France.‘ " l "Come, now, be good, little stray sauterelle, For we‘re going byâ€"by to thy papa | Michel, :But I‘ll not say where, for fear thou | wilt tell, ' Little pigeon of France! I“Slx days‘ leave and a year between! lBut what would you have? In six days clean, Heaven was made," said Franceline, "Heaven and France." She came to the town of the nameless name, To the marching troops in the street she came, And she held high her boy like a taper flame Burning for France. Fresh from the trenches ~ and grey with grime, Silent they march like a pantomime; ‘But what need of music? My heart beats timeâ€" Vive la France!" His regiment comes, Ob, then where is he? "There is dust in my eyes, for I canâ€" not seeâ€" Is that my Michel to the right of thee, Soldier of France?" Then out of the ranks a soldier fellâ€" "Yesterdayâ€"‘twas a splinter of shellâ€" And he whispered thy name, did thy poor Michel, + Dying for France." The tread of the troops on the paveâ€" ment throbbed Like a woman‘s heart of its last joy robbed, As she lifted her boy to the flag, and sobbed : "Vive la France!" Even when the holiday season is at its busiest, the little seafide town of Brimport is never more than comfortâ€" ably full, so you may at once discern that it is not a really fashionable reâ€" sort. None the less, Brimport finds markâ€" ed favor with a particular section of the populace, which, if small, has the trick of being conspicuous. Strolling performers, wandering elocutionists, nomadic Addlers, and street acrobats â€"all such members of the ragged fringe of professional art will always readily champion the merits of Brimâ€" port. For the charm of Brimport for these people is not financial, but geographiâ€" cal. Brimport is the first link in that chain of seaside towns, big and small, which stretches along the coast for forty miles. And yet never do they linger there, for the place is far too small to supâ€" port a stationary horde of entertainâ€" ers. The shabby ventriloquist, the downâ€"atâ€"theâ€"heel musician, the minâ€" strel in his dingy finery, alike realize that, what with the limited number of visitors and the constant stream of newlyâ€"arriving artistes, there is not enough patronage to go round if any of them tarry in the town. So that rarely does any performer sojourn in Brimport for more than a day, and at nightfall he passes on, and yet he is well content to do so. At Brimport, therefore, the experâ€" ienced wandering performer begins his annual summer tour, secure in the knowledge that ahead of him Are sufâ€" ficient towns to last out the whole of his alfresco season. And thus it was that, one bright morning, Professor Busco stepped hopelully out of the train at Brimport, and, bearing his scant luggage beneath his arms, made his way direct to the beach. He was an old, little man, with long, waty, grey hair and eyes which twinkled humorously. His clothes had evidently b;en good once, but now they were faded and shab{:y, though well brushed. For the rest, he had a courtly, ingratiating manner, and, aged as he was, there was still a touch of distinction in his bearing. Arrived on the beach, the professor surveyed the carefree holiday throng A FRENCH PATRIOT. Vive la France; HIS BIG TRICK AN ENGLISH SEASIDE STORY. IF ANIMALS COULD TALK. What Stories They Could Tell of Cenâ€" If animals could talk, says Le Peleâ€" Mele, Paris, they would be able to tell us firstâ€"hand of events that happened a hundzed years or more ago. The Russian eagle, for instance, that hovered over the freezing, famâ€" ishing soldiers of Napoleon while they were retreating from Moscow in 1812, still may be living, for eagles frequently pass the century mark. Crocodiles which . were in the swamps of the West Indies when the first explorer set foot on the islands, are basking there yet, and in the ocean still are whales that frequented the coast of France when Joan of Arc was a child, and when, in 1415, Henry V. of England, landed in Normandy with a great army and seized Honâ€" fleur. These whales, if they could talk and cared to, could tell us that in those days . there were large whale fisheries along the Basque coast, in fact pretty generally in the Gult of Gascony. For whales live several cenâ€" turies, while elephants rarely pass one ‘hundred years; but carp and crows Isometimes live two centuries. Sp&:akm_gfiof birds we may recall that parrots and swans often beâ€" come centenarians, aqd it is not unâ€" usual for a longâ€"beaked heron to reach 60. Geese and pelicans live half a century; the humble sparrow frequentâ€" ly sees 40, while pigeons, canaries, storks and peacocks often reach 30. Partridge, pheasants, nightingales and larks live nominally from 15 to 18 years. Miniature Line in Northâ€"Western Caâ€" nada is Profitable Enterprise. The Grand Island Railway, which stretches from end to end of an island in the Athabasca river, is probably the smallest in the world. The enâ€" tire length of the track is a quarter of a mile, and the roiling stock comâ€" prises two wellâ€"worn lorries. Merchandise is taken to the island in boats or scows, transferred to the railroad and shipped again by water at the other end. Customers load the cars themselves and propel them by hand power across the island. The owner says his enterprise returns thousands of dollars a year, and he claims that his is not only the smallâ€" est, butmtâ€"h_emmost profitable railroad in the world. A wooden spoon is best for cake because the round handle does not tire the hands. Alfalfa is the cheapest home grown feed to produce milk. There are 212 pounds of digestible protein in one ton and the average yield per seasgn is three tons per acre. Alfalfa, by adding nitrogen to the soil, gives as much as it takes. Into the sand he stuck a shabbyi banner of redâ€"andâ€"white glazed calico, which proclaimed him to be "Professor Busco, the World‘s Greatest Magiâ€" cian." Smaller lettering hinted at, without affirming, Royal patronage. On either side of the banner the proâ€" fessor placed two tall, spidery tables, telescopically constructed of brass and crowned with small, red plush platâ€" forms. The premier necromancer of the universe then doffed his hat, pasâ€" sed his hand through his silvery locks, and was ready for his performance to start. Minard‘ with approval._ A score of yards away, a talented gentleman was freeâ€" ing himself from a complication of knots, closely watched by a marvelling audience. A little further away, the twanging of a banjo was earning proâ€" fitable attention for a musician with a blackened face and a frivolous manâ€" ner. The professor, rejoicing in these symptoms of holiday benevolence, beâ€" gan to prepare for his own performâ€" ance. Presently the knotâ€"defier succeeded in shaking himself free of the final loop of rope, and, flushed and triumphâ€" ant, took levy of his spectators. Then he retired to assuage the thirst his feat had created, and the little crowd round him transferred their patronage to the professor. wORLD‘Ss SMALLEST RAILWAY. From the beginning of his program, Professor Busco found favor with his audience. The clearness of his speech, the ease of his manner, pleased them. They laughed happily.at the quaint, oldâ€"fashioned sallies of humor with which he leavened his performance. And there was also something paâ€" thetic about the old fellow who held their attention. There was something brave, even noble, in the way in which he was prepared to keep his end up in the world, when others of his years might have been tempted to t‘nro}w \Ep thg sttuggie His tricks were few and simple, and yet sometimes he fumbled and spoiled them. His fingers trembled 1 little; there was not always certainty in his grasp. _ Once or twice he lost the thread of his "patter," and blinked helplessly towards the sea, and hesiâ€" tated and stammered ere he cou‘d reâ€" cover himself. And $6 his audience laughed and apâ€" s Liniment for sale everywhere plauded, and made up their minds to contribute liberally to his collection, and yet, vaguely, an undercurrent of sympathy for him stirred continuousâ€" ly beneath their holiday mood. The professor, having exhausted the possibilities of a pack of cards as far as he was able, began the manipulaâ€" tion of three billiard balls, essaying their appearance and disappearance at his will. But here his hands had lost their dexterity, and not once or twice, but many times, did the balls slip from his fingers and fall on that tiny square of oilcloth which he humâ€" orously called his "magic carpet." His audience, standing around him in a wide ring, began to feel more and more sorry for him. They felt that the end of his performance would now come as a relief to them; the spectacle of his departing skill strainâ€" ed their sympathy a little too tightly for it to be comfortable. The professor himself seemed aware of the kindly tolerance with which he was being watched, and it appeared to unnerve him still more. His efforts with the billiard balls failed more and more signally, till at last he sorrowâ€" fully apologized to the throng for his clumsiness, and passed on to the next item on his program. And, now some of the vanished exâ€" pertness returned to him. He did amazing things with coins, making them disappear into the breeze, reâ€" covering them from the trimming of ladies‘ hats, and finding them on the tips of little boys‘ noses, in gentleâ€" Tational Educational Conlerence Twelve outstanding addrosses by the best known public men and women of Canada, the United States and flhfld. REPRESENTATION is being asked from every public organization in Canada. K any organization is being overlooked let us know. In addition ample provision is being made for individuals who will atâ€" tend the conference in their own capacity. Address Any Inquiries to The Convening Committee 505 ELECTRIC RAILWAY CHAMBERS. Winnipeg, October 17 RAM sAYS PAINT * The right PAINT to PAINT right" MEANS: Less frequent aintingâ€"RAMSAY‘S Paint can be appr‘:od by anybody Let PRARKER Surprise You For Sale by All Dealers We can 2enn or dye anything from a filmy georgette blouse to heavy draperies or rugs. Every article is given careful and expert attention and satisfaction is guaranteed. Send your faded or spotted clothing or household goods to PARKER‘S know all the fine points about cleaning and dyeing. PARKER‘S DYE WORKS, Limited Cleaners and Dyers 791 Yonge St. = Toronto We will make them like new again Our charges are reasonable and we pay exâ€" press or postal charges one way. A post card will bring our booklet of household suggestions that save money. Write for it. PARKER‘S men‘s pipes, and in All OUNCT MMMM!OC of unlikely places. He was working more confidently now. For his succeeding feat he borâ€" rowed a gentleman‘s hat, and from it he produced an astonishing variety of articlesâ€"paper fans, imitation flowers, national flags, and such like things, incongruous to the interior of a hat. (To be concluded.) According to the investigation of a botanist, out of 4,300 species of flowâ€" ers cultivated in Europe only 420 posâ€" sess an agreeable perfume. Flowers with white or creamâ€"colored petals, we are told, are more frequently od!â€" ferous than others. _ Next in order come the yellow flowers, then the red, lu ic dfs _ B Aasdct isnn i then the blue, and finally the violet, whereon only thirteen varieties out of the 308 give off a pleasant perfume. In the whole list, according to this authority, 3,380 varieties are offensive in odor, and 2,800 have no perceptible s;n;fi. élther good or bad Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.â€"Emâ€" erson. S A L T All grades. Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS @ 4. GLIFF _ + > TORONTO Perfume of White Flowers. THE AIM To direct public tention to the TunCns mental problems of educational . systems in Canada. To consider educa~ tion in its relation to Canadian | oftizenship. To undertake the e#â€" tublishment of a perâ€" manent bureau to guide and assist the educational thought of the country, and in all other manner 20â€"21â€"22 â€"IN THMES OF PEACE and of the system of direction finding by wireless instruments (recently deâ€" monstrated at the Marconi works at Chelmsford, England, has been proved to ba very great in war. It is hoped ; and coufldently anticipated that their ||.Ifiel in peace will be equally great Therefore the widest publicity for :tholr systems is desired by the Mar | coni Company, who have been unable | to speak publicly during the period of hostilities concerning the progress of their investigations. Jt is now comâ€" mon knowledge that by means of stations, placed in convenient parts of the French and British coasts, the movements of Zeppelins were followâ€" ed without difficulty, A Zeppelin crossâ€" ing to England during the night would speak to a German station by wireâ€" less, perhaps asking for its position As soon as the wireless came into operation all the British shore stations could get the bearing of the hostile craft with respect to their own inâ€" strument; â€" these bearings were imâ€" mediately passed on to the Admiralty, where the bearings were plotted on a map, and in an incredibly short space of time the position of the Zeppelin ‘ was accurately located. By that means also his course and probable intenâ€" tions could be estimated. Located Enemy Submarines. Nor was this the sole use of wire \less direction finding in this area. A | submarine coming from its lair on the ‘Bel;lnn and German coasts could h« located by the same means, and given a sufficient number of "positions," and the open passages through the Ge: \man mine fields could be foundâ€"for !where the Hun submarine was there ithe mines were not. |\ _ For artillery work in the field the ‘;poruble variety of wireless telephone was extremely useful, even on the western front, while in open warfare where vast distances have to be cover ed, as in the Near East and on the northwest frontier of India, its poten: tialities satisfy the most exacting of military requirements. The smallest guaranteed â€" range of the telephone station over normal flat country is sixty miles, but it is capable of carry ing much greater distances in favor able circumstances. Jt can be transâ€" ported either on four packâ€"horses or on a vehicle, and requires at most six men to work it Steel masts thirty feet long are carried, supporting @A, single horizontal aerial, while th’ transmitting and receiving apparatus , | can be permanently set up inside the vehicle. The generating set consists ‘ of a twoâ€"cylinder petrol engine drivâ€" l ing a high frequency halfâ€"kilowatt THE MOVEMENTS OF ZEPPELINS wERE EAsILY FOLLOWED, Buccess of System Proved Under War Conditions Holds Great Promise For Future. The utility of the wireless to and of the system of direction ES us remnmver r® JTVY At their works at Chelmsford beâ€" tween 600 and 700 workpeople are emâ€" ‘ployed on the making 6f instrument®, Many of the larger parts are procured . from other firms, as in the case of er gines, but in the series of workshops “lt is possible to see transmitting and | receiving sets in the process of manu | facture from start to finish, In on« !shopâ€"»the carpenters‘â€"the heavy solid cases in which the delicate instmn ‘menu are afterward to be fixed ar put together, In another, screw t various types are made. . In still a1 other, the parts are classified and stored, go be issued out later and a*â€" sembled as a complete instrumont, €ither by one ski#lled man, or by sov<" al girls who have been trained under : the supervision of foremen to do each m special part of the work. Finalliy the instruments are fixed into their eabinets, either for use in @aircra{t, or on ships, or in the fleld. All the time the shops are being kept free from dust by a series of vacuum cleaners which are in constant operation. ing a hi alternator In the same way shipping will reâ€" ceive external assistance in finding Now that the inventions of war time are being utilized to further peaceful ends, a long vista of useful purposes to which wireless telephonic and direction finding instruments can be put is opened up. Already oxâ€" perts have said that directional wireâ€" l'e_svsmis'the key to successful commer cial fiying through its capacity for overcoming obstacles to navigation provided by unfavorable weather. Useful in Sparsely Settied Countries. the whereabouts when necessary, and in the wireless telephone will find a cheaper method of communication with the shore and with passing vesâ€" sels than the permanent maintenance on board of a skilled wireless operaâ€" tor. Again, for work in countries of long distances and vast areas thinly populated, as for instance China, South America, and Africa, the Marâ€" coni Company anticipates a great deâ€" mand will be made on their resources, as the possibilities of wireless telb phony are more fully realized. Ma, what is dad‘s business? Why, son. he is a tea sampler; be samples the different kinds of tes. Ma! Yes, my son. Do you know what I want to W when 1 grow up? NXo. 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