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* Bills down "*:>=>>~®®â€"zsmras Now that women have been given rtovotcaud have pushed their way practically every occupation once supposed to be exclusively masculine, I‘ve been wondering if it wouldn‘t be a good thing to make the early trainâ€" ing of our daughters the same as that we give our sons. For if men and woâ€" men are to be on a plane of equality what more reasonable than that they should be started off alike in babyâ€" hood? As it is toâ€"day the training given our boys is very dissimilar from that we accord our daughters. should be started off alike in DADY~) )â€" uice, and they will last a lon hood? As it is toâ€"day the mining!:’i‘::h__“fir:”g_ 4 90. * given our boys is very dissimilar from{ Sewing on Lace.â€"When sewing lace that we accord our daughters. ’ on a garment, don‘t forget that the Courage being tme most admirable| ;pread at the edge was put there trait in a man, we start to developing| purposely for a drawstring, and you it in our menâ€"children from theit) ;, gather the lace to just the right earliest days. But physical cOUTAR®| fyllness without the use of a necdle not being so necessary in women, W®! ang thread. When one is sewing inâ€" fail to impress its desirability On OUT| sertion on a garment where there is a daughters, with the result that though| corner to be turned, this gathering some of them arrive at maturity witlll thread comes handy also.â€"â€"Mrs. E.. S. plenty of physical courage, there is a| p large per cent. who fail to cultlvatcl Renewing Velvet.â€"â€"When stcaming either the physical or moral s0rt. _ | yelvet over a teakettle, insert a funnel A group of small children ranging in ages from two to five were playing in the yard the other day. Suddenly the air was rent with the loud wails oi a twoâ€"yearâ€"old girl. Doors Ifl{ open and mothers rushed out from a half dozen houses, while older sisters and brothers from across the street left their ball game to hurry to thei rescue. _ Inquiry developed the fact that Mary Ellen had stubbed her toe and fallen down in the grass. _ She wasn‘t hurt, not the littlest mite, but her mother picked her vp and kissed and hu@ged her, someone else gave her an apple, a third promised her an auto ride, while everybody blamed "the naughty old ground" for bumping the baby. She was made quite a heroine and encouraged to magnify her little ills. A half hour later there was a real shrill ery of pain _ It was a threeâ€"year. old hoyâ€"everybody knew in both inâ€" stances who was crying, cries are 2s distinctive as voices. He had fallen down the steps and cut his knee on the concrete waik. Blood ran down his leg and he really was huzt. Was there the same commotion? _ Nobody ran * Housekeepers‘ Exchange. encouraging her to cry when she is hurt, mope when she has a little ache or pain, or to take petty revenge when she is thwarted. If she is to be the sort of woman the world is sufferâ€" ing for toâ€"day she mustn‘t b; brought up to be a "little lady." She must be taught, as her brother, to take a "sporting chance." Teach the girls that life is a game of give and take. There has been too much giving the best room to sister and letting brother take what he can get. We have insisted all too long that brother must be a gentleman and give up to sister because she is a girl. Let‘s make simple justice the rule inâ€" stead of sex. Let the girl know she must expect nothing simply because she is a girl. Teach her to be what the boys call a "good sport," to play the game fair whether it is a child‘s game or a youth‘s work. Let‘s bring her up as we do our boys, to be brave, honest and independent, claiming noâ€" thing which is not hers by right, and insisting on getting what is her due. We can‘t do this by coddling, by Ar Y'i d fewe n hood and ther repared, into »8 and bruise a good thing itode and p :c attributes : omeâ€"making : ing. There w fewer compl; i‘ go right, ly a sign of ( M cach the girls Let‘s Teach Girls Courage. w t hy it through in‘ancy anc young nd then thrust her entirely i, into a world full of hard bruises? Why wouldn‘t it | thing to teach our girls and physical endurance? ibutes are just as necessary aking as they are in wageâ€" There would be less whining complaints when things v into a a joint of beef to make a bottle of Bovril. The bodyâ€" building power of Bovril is from ten to twenty times the building of amount m ] ecom for complaining is cowardice and weakâ€" t it, and encourage cryâ€"baby ? When a woman she is eat many bhumps. r g) prepare her es Mong. than to m nd Whs Bovril means uiore strengthâ€"â€"less cost. ic any t thar a good is much easier to sew on panel fronts, yokes, belts, trimming braid, etc., if alexdreu can be laid fiat. â€"â€"Mrs. T. cK. To Prevent Needlies from Rusting.â€" A good way to keep needles from rustâ€" ing is to place them in booklets made from the waxed paper that comes around â€" crackers. Damp weather causes needles to rust, but this preâ€" caution will prevent it.. A little child will enjoy making some of these littla Renewing Velvet.â€"â€"When stcaming velvet over a teakettle, insert a funnel in the mouth of the kettle. This will spread the steam over a larger surface and the work will be quickly accomâ€" plished.â€"Mrs. J. J. O°‘C. Pressing Woolen Googs and Silks.â€" When pressing a wool fabric or a piece of fine silk, lay unbleached muslin over it, in order to prevent glossing. After passing the iron over woolens, lift up the cloth and brush the nap with a stiff brush.â€"â€"Miss Z. I. D. Réinforcing Stockings.â€"A good way to strengthen the ghi!dren’s__stockil_l_gs is to sew strong black muslin on the bias, inside the heels and knees. It will not show and will treble the life of the stocking.â€"Mrs. J. J. O°C. Convenient Rubberâ€"Lined Bag.â€"A rubberâ€"lined sponge bag is a handy thing to have when traveling, but if you cannot buy one the size you wish, you can make an oilcioth bag. Take pigre of white cilcloth of the reâ€" quired size for the lining, and make the outside of dark cloth or pretty cretonne. Make the bag in the shape of an envelope and fasten with a dress snap, or it may be made square and gathered with a drawstring.â€"M. C. R. Picces of felt pasted on the bottom of lamps or bricâ€"aâ€"brze¢ that stands on polished surfaces, will prevent ugly scratches from marring the furniture. Fow wives but wish at one time or another that they could help to make the day of their husbands lighter and more successful. _ Many study this proposition and perhaps think that when they have been out in the field and helped to put on a load of hay or grain, or done something toward the chores, they have done their best and all they can, and this really is a great deal, often far too much for a woman to do in addition to her houseâ€" hold cares. But there is a very good way in which the wife may help her husband aside from sharing the active work out of doors. I mean by the work she does in the kitchen. Good cooking has. more to do with the farmer‘s success or failure than we are apt to think. A man is just what his digestion makes of him. If he has good food to eat, eats it with a relish, digests it proâ€" perly, the world has a good look to‘ him and he gets through the hardest kind of work in good shape, going to: his rest at night with a clear brain‘ and ready for the slieep which willl eome to him. This makes it well worth while for the farmer‘s wife to study the food she prepares and give its cooking the} best possible care. Often it is not possible for the farmer‘s wife to get just the things she would like, especi-l ally at some seasons of the year. Thil‘ places heavier strain upon her to see to it that what she does have is cooked well and served in an attractive manâ€" ner. Farmer folks do not need such a great variety as may be supposed at any time of the year. Good, plain, simple food, well cooked, is enough to give health and strength for the day‘s work. One thing above all is necesâ€" sary, and thati is that everything shall be cooked perfectly done. Halfâ€"cooked food of any kind is a ll;men to the stroi t digestion and to make worl“::rd and disagreeable. A Restless Life. Little Helen‘s oldest sister was conâ€" torrln{ on bo& lom;.zw of useful knowledge as she helped the child unâ€" dress, "You know, dear," she said, "all the stars are worlds like ours." "Well, if that‘s so, I shouldn‘t like to live on one of them," declared Helen M Winend‘aâ€"Cinknont Oures Diphtheria, T3 Lightening the Husband‘s Day. . "It would be so horrid when "Well?" asked Mme. Serquet anxiâ€" memory the whole epoch of his love ously, after her husband had closed â€"because Mme. Arbot owned one alâ€" the door. lre-dy,thogl!tcfhufinthuhnd. She read on M. Serquet‘s drawn and and wanted to have a mate to it. This harried face that the answer would| pearl he regognized well. It was his. be unfavorable. iAnd .suddenly he asked himself why "Well? Could you get nothing?" | Mme. Serquet had refrained from _ _A brief silence followedâ€"the time selling the other one. < it takes a hope to fall and shatter. . |~ His glance, no longer clouded, fell "Nothing. Daubert refused. Oh, upon his .wife. She calmly continued very politely. He has no funds availâ€" her work. And now he noticed with able." | inquietude the indifference toward Mme. Serquet‘s eyes flashed ironiâ€"| him of which she had just given proof. cally. Friends! Can one never count He observed her as he had observed on them? Then, coldly, realizing the the pearl just now, no longer in a uselessness of recriminations, she inâ€"| selfâ€"deceived manner, through the fog quired : of his own regrets, but clearly, in hard "What next?" » reality, without losing a detail of her "There is only one other solutionu, movements and their significance. my poor Helen. We must sell yourg A transformation had suddenly ocâ€" jewels." | curred; he had before him an image, She had expected that. On several sharply detached, almost too exact Mme. Serquet‘s eyes flashed ironiâ€" cally. Friends! Can one never count on them? Then, coldly, realizing the uselessness of recriminations, she inâ€" She had expected that. On several occasions already she had envisaged such a possibility; and now, in fact, there was no other way out. Within three days it would be necessary for them to pay some urgent debts. For months, since the failure of the bank whe had expected that. Un several, SMORPMY UUMRAUCEY M C C B ud s seail s occasions already she had envisaged| and even brutalâ€"an image of the spirâ€" such a possibility; and now, in f.ct,,! it which animated the automatic there was no other way out. Within mechanism, whose very gestures he three days it would be necessary for, could tell in advance. As Mme. Serâ€" them to pay some urgent debts. For quet drew her jewels from the box months, since the failure of the bank he knew already which ghe eventually of Gevre, they had fought for time and| would put back again. He knew that to save appearantes, at least. But in | she would choose to keep the gifts of the immediate future there could bef Jacques Arbot. Instinctively she disâ€" no more delays. It was obligatory for posed of the others, as if a stranger them to liquidate the past. And thereâ€"| had given them to her, after they would have to live someâ€"| So he knew a secret which she had how. lnever revealed to him; and, choking WEmEnnE NC APMPMPCGEB ATVw PPGPRHe PROCME NNN § P P N t after they would have to live someâ€"| So he knew a secret which she had how. ’never revealed to him; and, choking Resigned to the inevitable, Mme.| under its ruins every other source of Serquet opened a drawer from which‘ misery, an illysion crumbled which he she took a box. Her husband followed had cherished all through his married her with his eyes, distressed to impose life. j on her this deprivationâ€"humiliated to | (The End.) be reduceHoisuch an expedient. "I would "have preferred some other way," he began in a pitiful tone She stopped him, very brusquely, very resolutely. "My dear, don‘t let us talk that way. Let us look things in the face." In the household she always had shown the greater decision. She had never allowed herself to be intimidatâ€" ed by life, whose painful demands she had already experienced when, as the widow of Jacques Arbot, her first husâ€" band, she had found herself alone, struggling with the difficulties of a contested inheritance and opposing her patience, her sangfroid and her will to the tricks of lawyers. "Let us choose some things out of this box." The jewels lay mixed together against the blue velvet of two large cases. Rings, collars, chains, braceâ€" letsâ€"evidences of a fortune formerly considerableâ€"had been tossed there, in disorder, on returning from some entertainment or on the eve of some journey. _ They preserved, scattered thus, the negligent grace of the gesâ€" ture with which their owner had deâ€" tached them. "Hoere are my pearls," said Mme. Serquet. She owned two, of equal beauty, mounted on pins. She looked at them tranaquilly, showing in her face no regret at parting with them. Putting one on the mantelpiece, she said: "Let us begin with this." Calculating with the precision of a dealer, she added: "It is worth toâ€"day ten thousand francs." k Then she proceeded to ‘divide her| jewels into two lotsâ€"the first destined | to be sold immediately, the second to| be held till later, when necessity‘ should oblige her to raise fresh sums.| She worked with complete assurance, asking no Advice, putting aside, one by one, all the pieces which she wished | to keep, guided in her choice by a sure instinct. And cach time she made, out loud, an appraisement of the object,: brief and lucid, like that of an expert ; at histesting table: | _"Two thousand, eight hundred Three thousand, three hundred." | The figures, as she announced them,! conveyed no note of melancholy. Theyi sounded no knell like that which acâ€" companies the departure forever of longâ€"treasured things or marks the} passage by way of the auction block of some cherished ‘collection. Mme.} Serquet acted as if she were merely another‘s agent. I But he, crumpled up in a chair, suffered a distress which left him speechless. _ Those jewels thereâ€" were they not the landmarks of their happiness? Didn‘t a shred of their past cling to each one? He looked at them vaguely, occupied in recalling under what circumstances he had presented them to her, thinking of the anniversaries and the fetes which these gifts recalled. He was especially moved when they recalled a special, obscure occasionâ€"a day when he had loved her more than evéer, one of those moments of tenderness in which the heart has no need of a pretext in order to give another joy. Then he heaved a huge sigh. The beginning of a sob, Mechanically he went to the mantelâ€" piece and picked up the pearl pin. He turned it over in his fingers and conâ€" templated it without knowing exactly what he was doing, with a wandering glance and a nervous gesture, merely to distract himself from his own torâ€" ment. By {int of looking at it, then by distinguishing its aspect, form and quality, and then by identifying it. It was one of his betrothal gifts. He had bought this pesrl, because Mme. Arbctâ€"that first name of his wife, by the power of resurrection which certain words, certain airs, and certain odors have, revived in his sort of groan, escaped from his TORONTO THE CHOICE By DOMINIQUE SYLVAIRE. Translated From the French. ‘ Too Deep For Him. | An ambitious young author sent a | humorous paragraph to the editor &€ | a daily _ paper. .Time passed and he | heard ndthing, nor was it prinited. So ‘he wrote to inquire gbout it. I saw the buds on the dogwood tree: They made a message of May for meâ€"â€" Though Winter is coming And cold skies lower, At the end of it all Is a dayâ€"is an bhourâ€" When oakâ€"leaves open Like butterflies‘ wings, And suddenly, somewhere, An oriole sings, And lilacs promise, And peonies prink, And dogwood petals Unfold in pinkâ€" So Winter may whistle for all of me, O tight little buds on the dogwood tree! Coal in Canada. Canada has the only two coal reâ€" gions on the sea coasts of North America, The bituminus coal of Nova Scotia is estimated to last 700 years; that of Vancouver Island has been successfully operated since 1860. The estimated «coal reserves of the Proâ€" vince of «Alberta runs to over 1,100 billion tons, a small proportion being anthracite, while the total resources of Canada approximate 1,360 billion tons, the second country in point of supply in the world. A little girl who had been exceedingâ€" ly naughty had been punished. The incident was then dropped. "Squeaky boots in church," said Dorisâ€"and she had the sympathy of everybody present. An hour later her mother, feeling that it was her duty to improve the moral le§son of the cccasion, said:â€" "Now, Doris, what are you most ashamed: of ?" The answer was unexpected, and bore no relation to the late offerce. "I sent you a joke about 10 days ago. I have heard nothing respecting its sefe receipt and should be glad to hear whether you have seen it." The editor replied: "Your joke arâ€" rived"safely, but up to the present we have not seen it." «» Discouraging. A food faddist harangued a mob on the marvelous benefits to be obtained from his own particular diet. "Friends," he cried, "two years ago I was a walking skeletonâ€"a haggard, miserable wreck! What do you supâ€" pose wrought this great change in He paused to obsefve the effect of his words Then one of the listeners asked interestedly, "What change?" Canada‘s Water Power. Canada has water energy equal to nearly twenty million hb.p. _ Of this Quebec has 6,000,000; Ontario 5,800,â€" 000: _ British Columbia, 3,000,000: Prairie Provinces, 4,265,000; New Brunswick, 3,006,000; _ Nova Scotia, 100,000; Yukon, 100,000; and Prince Edward Island 3,000. Ninety per cent. of the 20,000,000 is still running to waste. When a lady boarded a street car in Liege wearing a little tricolor ribbon, a German officer ordered her to reâ€" move the emblem. Three times he reâ€" peated his order; then he rose from his seat and tore it from her coat. _ "It‘s easier to take than Paris, isn‘t it?" she calmly asked. Minard‘s Liniment Oures Colés, &e What Troubled Her. The Message. An Easy Capture. Shareholders and investors generalâ€" ly have been known to use their cerâ€" tificates, etc., for various purposesâ€" but the.most amusing case the writer has yet personally heard of is that of an unfortunate holder of a large numâ€" an unfortunate holder of a large numâ€" ber of "dud" certificates, which he stuck all over the walls of his library! His idea was that, being printed in different colors and containing various seals and signatures, they looked quite as pretty as wallpaper; and, as they were worthless, they might as well be stuck on the wall as a lesson to his children not to follow in his footsteps. The writer has not yet heard if any of the share certificates have had to be torn off the walls! Quite Suitable. The lady was buying a gun for her little boy as a present. 4 C --â€"‘:-l_ want a re'ally nice one, please," she said to the shopkeeper. § _ "Yes, madam," he answered; "how will this one do?" * _ "What doâ€" you put in it?" asked the customer. "Just ordinary caps, or I have anâ€" other one here that shoots slugs." The lady looked delighted. "Oh, I‘ll take that ond!". she exâ€" claimed. "That will be quite suitable. We have a large garden and there are lots of slugs in it." A Scotsman was being shown over a manâ€"o‘â€"war for the first time in his life, and, being keenly interested in all he saw, plied his guide with all sorts of questions. The marines seemed particuarly to interest him, and, going up to one, he pointed to the "grenade" in the marine‘s cap, and asked what it was. The marine looked at him in sur prise. ¢ h y ons â€" "Don‘t you know what that is?" he asked. "Why, that‘s a turnip, of course!" "Ach, mon," replied the Scot, imâ€" patiently, "I was no axin‘ aboot yer head!" The Province of British Columbia contains oneâ€"half of the merchantable timber of Canada. "Backing" With Bonds. > Not His Head. having â€"â€"-â€"-â€"_â€"‘_’/Tâ€":::â€"‘: â€"amemn mmz n Sonte : _ Pigeon, V.C" Hm mA]' m is onE wiisl maet es â€"JEOPARDIZE Bfi‘:xtl:“f" wum’-.u and Hever seo &A ?g‘z 5 f t mnadmacusraom| 0 _ ting* | which contains some 0 ue Ts in | Protne rae o eaet ies ie | wyoreERs â€" WHO _ DAILY insisted . on | a London writer 759 299900 oo | © ue reupgr® 1IVES groal CAE T O 0 Lo ns m with the size of the mighty German fleet. The ship was sunk, and our divers eventually salved the model, which was found to be covered with barnacles. Another model is that of one of our OWn latest battleships, ACâ€" curate in every detail. The V.C. pigeon is also in the exhiâ€" bition. This bird was hit by a bullet, which drove the receptacle containing the message in its body. After lying wounded all night it struggled home to the pigeon loft the following mornâ€" ing and delivered the mossage. Buy Thrift Stamps. 8 A 1, C TORONTO SALT WORKS @. J. CLIFF .+ . TORONTO Vegotable fate and naturel flower extracts give BAB Â¥*s own SOAP its wonderfully softening and All grades. Write for prices Albert Soays Limited, Mirs.. Montreal A.M e aetdee t P t kess a r _ The number of workers who gain a {‘fivelnwod at the expense of health, i.qc!, not infrequently, life itself, is very eonsiderable. The demands of civiliâ€" Extremes of Heat and Cold zation render it imperetive that men should engage in these forms of emâ€" ployment and, ‘by so doing, imperil their lives. Many occupations require that those who follow them should work conâ€" stantly in an atmosphere of dust. Coalâ€" mining, . quarrying, furâ€"beatiing, and file cutting each takes a heay toll of its votaries every year. The man who is regularly working in en atmosâ€" is regulariy WOTRINE _ 77 phere laden w®h particles ¢ dust and foreign bodies of nature perforce breathes grinders, polishers, and CMEMLI® MCBMT from diseases of the lungs. Metallic dust is the most harmful while mineral dust, with which masons and potteryâ€"workers largely have to contend, is a good second. Cotton and K ~ Pm@mtietrs ko 2c 02s phere laden w®h particles of grit and dust and foreign bodies of a similar nature perforce breathes these imâ€" purities, and the effect on the lungs is often disastrous. Nearly seventyâ€" three per cent. of the deaths among C iwdave malishers. and cutters resull o4 nds cesc Aactic t Bd woolâ€"workers, too, are constantly inâ€" haling fibreâ€"dust, with, in the long run, equally grave results, while the more familiar chimneyâ€"sweep is extremely liable to become the prey of cancserous growths. Bad air and exiremes ol NCal ani@ cold conspire to sherten the lives of workers in other spheres of labor. Sewermen and miners of almost all classes suffer from the effects of imâ€" pure atmospheric conditions, while glassâ€"blowers are prone to lose vitcliâ€" ty by reason of their constant exâ€" posure to high temperatures. Leadâ€"Poisoning Dangers. Cottonâ€"spinners work in a warm at mosphere; the damp air prevents the fibre from becoming britte, and thus snapping, and, in consequence, these workers often suffer from complaints of the chest ' Run cider slowly over birch : | ings and have vinegar in~twont, | hours. Let the cider Gdrip s | through a vat placed beneath the !barrel; have plenty of the birch : | ings in the vat, and, as the cider {] through into tub or barrel below, will find it sharp vinegar. Lct i: exposed to the air, and the ci¢c; rel elevated so that air comes in < tact with the drip. Cider must be . posed to the air before it will ma vinegar and, usually, the trouble that a scum or skin forms over : cider when turced a little; that « cludes the air. ~This must be sha‘}s loose or the cider stirred; or rol! | barrel from side to side. Our p} was once, on failing to get birch sha~ !im. to add & bucketful of molass and water and two yeast cakes, pro\ ously soaked in warm water, We !s) the barrel on its side on two piec of nazfliu and rolled it occasional Result, good vinegar. and Bad Air Shorten Livesâ€"â€" But undoubtedly the most dangerâ€" ous employment of this kind is that from which the worker can, and often does, â€" contract â€" metailic poisoning. Lead poisaning, for example, affecis no fewer than thirteen different trades, being particularly fatal to those who are engaged in the pm‘uction of lead. The results of this form of polsoning are terrible. The lead particles ind their way into the system, Ccausing. among Oother. distrossing maladies, colic, wristâ€"drop, Jdoosening of the teeth, and discoloration of the gums and other soft parts of the mouth, * Poitors, particularly "dippers" and "glostâ€"placers," who use lead gla~ are also liableto contract this polso ing. In cutting and engrevirg slass the operative employs a subsi~ compounded of lead and t‘n, c<llo putty powder, and any esrsiess: on his part such as touth‘ng his food with mol ger of i more ; reddead the glas: like the with mercury ars exposoes to | ger of infection by this met more especiaily from the u: redJead which is used in * the glasses. Copperâ€"workers pale faces; their hair beso: colored, and their gums ): lined with green. Persons «o ed are urged to refrain from of alcohol, which aids po‘s this kind. Other occupations c/f nature to the worker ave tion uf phosphorus, cert processes, and ragâ€"andâ€"v The Roman Toga The toga was a long, loose garmo! worn by the citizens of ancient Now It was made of white woolen Clolh. «=, Bometimes the magistrate‘s toga was bordered with purple and that o( s victorious general with embroidery The toga, which fell in graceful (olds to the ankles, covered the wholo bo«: except the right arm. A boy was ©‘ lowed to wear the toga when he was fourteen. ‘Toga and toggery are s!auk terms, perhaps derived from the Lotin word for this garment, so greatly ©=â€" teemed by the citizens of the provdâ€" est of old world 1«tions. RKERS WHO DAILY RISK THER LIVES. is part such amwasked | y to bring 4t shape nt. acat r0se engaged Vinegar in 24 Hours and extremes of heat and its own prni ute poisorin Ni m W tra COH So n spreadi many } fitable : is a pr affords wheat i the rai to sett] of the ; plant ¢ stail plant idle, straw hay tbo i t] )0 tak the t int« the AY in sing Straw to »"yâ€"»