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sting baby part from by many mamber of parentage ing their imeunt of lever parâ€" dren, and ‘, much is ng family h parents n. finer 1d ir Ag 0. of birth us law cotton s later (.JIIC.‘» ed and ; "Ashâ€" rest mt pro= ous hey neso ebT the Fre the A K O 100 of rics of instructive articles constituting, when completed, an entire course on baby bygiene and care of the child up to six cr seven years old. Mothers are urged to read the articles == published, and cut them out for future reference. The information has been prepared by physicians who have made the welfare of the child a life study. TENTH ARTICLE. the twelfth to the fourteenth. Earlie Habiis and Training. \ efforts at standing and walking shoul« 1 «o ul sn on n t A .L nave “'(. Re A â€".OA-â€",’/‘ ”, /{évv UU(‘ \ : 9 E> 4 AL ... YOUR BABY PARTRIDGE TIRES i great N th ve W Game as Their Name repeat Ir 1e3 ho learns i ad hab.ts is that of her object. imself this ad h ing the mes. If the ct ever s mouth nactier carry mouth. It y suC tinua rauty 1ding also W ted nould l 10 m »t _ _|and feet do mischi¢i, .| that he is doing anythi he | cause others or himsel ;,;| grief. For this reason ,.| must be ready to guide 1;.| teach him the right n ng | havior. i â€"But that does not : n «e the twelfth to the fourteenth. Earlier: efforts at standing and walking lhonldl not be encouraged. _A child never should be urged to stand‘ and walk, especially if he is heavy. He will want to stand and walk of his own accord so sceon as the little legs are strong enough to bear his weight. Learning to Talkâ€"A child learns to talk by hear‘ng older people and other children speaking. At first, speech to it him is but a jumble of sounds as a foreign language is to us. Later he begins to learn that certain &ounds mean certain people or things or movements. ho It is very necessary that he should hear these words and sounds correctly snoken and that when he beging to talk he should hear correct English. Do not use the soâ€"called "baby talk" in speaking to a child. Otherwise he will learn t and other improper methods of ~speech, only to have to . unlearn them later with much effort. Toysâ€"Since a baby wants to put everything in his mouth, his toys must be those that can be used safely in this way. They should be washable and should have no sharp points or corners to hurt the eyes. â€" Painted articles or hairy and woolly toys, also toys having loose parts such as balls or objects small enough to be swallowâ€" Extravagant «isims and exaggerated statements may sell tiresâ€"but they can never make tires give mileage or service. About Partridge Tires little need be said. Their reputation for durability and dependability under all road conditions, justiâ€" fies the statement "*You can‘t buy better tires." fi ed are unsafe and should never be given a small child., A baby should never have too many toys at one time. A handful of clothesâ€" pins or a silver teaspoon or tin cup will please just as much as an expenâ€" sive doll or otherâ€"toy. It is a good plan to have a box or basket in which to keep empty spools and other houseâ€" hold objects with which the baby may Harsh treatment or punishment has no place in the proper upbring-\ ing of a baby. If a baby‘s inâ€" clinations lead him in the wrong diâ€" rection, some one must be at hand to guide him into another and better one and to turn his eager interest and his energy toward something that will amuse but not harm him. This is the gwolden rule for the training of babies and one which applies to the training of children of all ages. W Fire Prevention Day, October 9, has been set aside by the Governorâ€" General as a day to emphasize the great loss sustained every year in Canada through fires, which are for the most part due to carelessness. Moral Trainingâ€"A little child does t know right from wrong until he :er.} 4 OF 1‘“15t rt';x.\.uyu \tji‘uw:-b |.;cn.‘,vu(;" .â€"Y_‘;u know best what you need for“ ist be ready to guide e baby and| % ach him the right method of beâ€"| watering your stock and taking care, vior. | of your dairy requirements. But plan ; But that does not mean that hel the location of your troughs or hyâ€"| ould hbe forbidden continually to do dran;s so that ;he pipes Wig be f;o; is or that or the other. â€"A child| tected against freezing, and so ths ould have, from his very early i"'i they may drain freely without making ncy, the opportunity of choosing to| 2 Puddloe around flgem. If they must things himself. If he is not allowed| be outside, use antiâ€"freezing hydrants do this he won‘t know how to rea-}wh?ch drain the water back after n and choose for himself when he using, to a point lower than that t°i cows oider and is obliged to do it. | which the frost will penetrate. \| On the other hand, it is necessary| Locating the Kitchen Sink. l r a child to learn obedience, and & (When you look for a place to locate ise mother will train her child t°|your kitchen sink, consider these | »ey ; not, however, to obey a COMâ€") points: It should be far enough away | and "because I told you to do it, \ from the stove so that you can workl it to obey because it is a pPle@ASULC| at it in comfort. It should be located,‘ ) _do so. s *not in front of a window, but, if posâ€" Harsh treatment or punishment 'hasi sible, along a wall at right angles to| o place in the proper upbringâ€"} it, so that the light will be unobstructâ€"| ig of a baby. If a baby‘s inâ€" ed. If placed in front of a window it‘ inations lead him in the wrong dl-'; is hard to prevent pipes from freez-’ rction, some one must be at hand tol ing, and if the sill is low you cannot uide him into another and bettex('] (;1r1eI use the pattern of sink with the: nd to turn his eager interest and his; ; back. This style is the most| nergy toward something that will! ::;t:sz?ilve :nd easily Zept clean, for| muse but not harm him. This is theithere are no joints in it to collect' olden rule for the training of babies grease and other matter. Then, also,‘ nd :ne whic:\ a:{)plies to the trainingl try to arrange it so that the w“tel f children of all ages. pipe from it will be within as short Cessq ap M ‘as possible a distance of the main, Vould you when men in hostile ranksl soil or waste pipe. ]‘ iught by older persons. He follows own fancy and lets his little hands feet do mischief, not knowing : he is doing anything which will o others or himself to come to f. For this reason older persons t be readv to suide the baby and it that does not mean that he 1d be forbidden continually to do or that or the other. â€"A child Id have, from his very early inâ€" v, the opportunity of choosing to hings himself. If he is not allowed o this he won‘t know how to reaâ€" and choose for himself when he vs oidetr and is obliged to do it. n the other hand. it is necessary aiWays vronged re thronged ys right? Be always with the Cordor Fabric What I want to tell you in this article is how you can get the most for your money when you buy plumbâ€" ing for the farm home, more especially for the small farm home. Also I want to teil you why I believe it is a payâ€" ing investment. F The idea came to me on reading| some articles on the building of ‘ small farmhouses.. The plans, as &A rule, are admirable. They offer wellâ€" arranged homes and suggestions for building them at the minimum cost. but almost always there are details in the plumbing arrangements that show insufficient study of the probâ€" lem. Perhaps it‘s only the man who really instal‘ls the plumbing who sees the faults in the design and who knows how to rearrange the work £6 as to get better results with less labor and a smaller amount of piping. Suppose your house is an old one,| and that you now have only a well in | the yard or in the cellar under the | house: Find out how much water it; will flow; that is, measure the amount} of water you can draw without lowerâ€" ing the water level. Keep on doing} it until you see the water going down | below a mark, and you will have a| easonably accurate knowledge of the amount of water you have for all purâ€" poses. Then if you want to provide a water supply to your barns as well as to your house you can buy equipment able to handle the amount of water available. ‘ If there is any possibility of the well being polluted by seepage of drainage from barns or other sources of pollution, either look for, a new source of supply or remove the danger by proper drainage arrangements. Don‘t take chances. A competent plumber can apply a color test which will remove all doubt if pollution is suspected. If there is a spring which will supâ€" ply water to your place by gravity, pipe the water from it. It will provide a more certain supply, and you won‘t have to use mechanical means of raisâ€" ing it. If you cannot get it to run to your place by gravity, it still may be worth while bringing it in. Gasoline engines and pumps are moderate in price. l. If you can spare a room on the bedâ€" | room floor for the bathroom, locate| it there. Don‘t forget that the bath-' l room should be planned with the needs‘ | of old people and children in mind. If| | they have to come downâ€"stairs in thei | dark to use it, much of its comfort |\ and convenience is lost, especially in | times of sickness. A bathroom can be arranged so as to occupy a very small space, but thisl detracts from the appearance and also from the convenience in using it,. If only a small room is available, study the location of the fixtures carefully. From the point of economy and ease of installation the most important "The maintaining of the farm in a condition free from weeds and keepâ€" ing the moistureâ€"holding power of the land as high as possible are factors that are of prime importance. A crop rotation, therefore, that is satisfacâ€" tory makes preparation both by getâ€" ting the soil in right shape and by cultural methods to hold that moisâ€" ture as well as it possibly can be held, "Nearly all farmers are following rotations. They get into the habit of following some kind of a system, and by storing all the moisture that comes along. j "Another advantage in crop rotaâ€" tion is the conservation of the fertility and the maintenance, if not the inâ€" creasing, of the fibre content of the soil. if you are handling some land year after year you are bound to have some kind of a scheme worked out. Unâ€" fortunately we have too many farmers with a bad schemeâ€"a bad rotation, What we want to get introduced on every farm is a good rotation, and what is a good rotation on one farm is not necessarily the best rotation on another. That we appreciate this is shown by theâ€"fact .that we have on Crop Rotation. By a Com'petent Plumber. thing is to locate the three fixtures, closet, lavatory and bath tub, so that the outlets will be as close together as possible. cept f If you can spare the room, by all means install laundry trays. They save much backâ€"breaking work, and do away with the necessity of lifting water out and in. Ruy good trays. Concrete trays are ciieap, but â€" are liable to crack. Soapstone trays are next in price; they last well, but are not so sanitary or .attractive in apâ€" pearance as those made of porcelainâ€" enameled cast iron. Perhaps you can find room in your kitchen at the end of the sink for the trays. Perhaps a combination of sink and tray would suit you better. When they are set close like this the cost of installation is much reduced. The place for a bathroom is near to the sleeping rooms, and its enâ€" trance should be from a hallway. If you need a washâ€"up room on the first floor, it will cost you less than a hunâ€" dred dollars to place a closet and lavaâ€" tory somewhere near to the back door. Try to arrange it so that this room will be under the bathroom, and your extra cost will be little, And when you come to plan for the heating of a bathroom, if your sysâ€" tem is to be a warmâ€"air one, even if‘ you plan to heat the whole house by one register, go to the small extra expense incurred by placing a sepâ€" arate register in the bathroom and also one bedroom. Then, if you have need to isolate any member of your family in a bedroom because of infecâ€" tious disease, you can do so with the assurance that the air of that room is not being circulated throughout the house. This is the chief objection to a one register and return air heating sysâ€" tem. It‘s so easy to overcome it that it‘s no objection. But select the furâ€" nace and the style of register to go with it so that the top of the furnace will accommodate the two additional pipes and fill them with warm air when required. It can be done all right. You will comé to use a central heatâ€" ing outfit because it is really more economical, and because the temperâ€" ature of your home is more equable when you have it,. Stoves warm the rooms in which they are placed very well, but they do not give the comfort that a positive cireulation of warm air does. And it is a comfort that all of us want trial on our experimental farms some twentyâ€"odd rotations in the West. "I think the most important step in‘ progression to be made on these prairâ€". ies is the introduction of a better ro-‘ tation. We have a rotation now, but‘ it is a bad one. What we want to do is to change it and put a better one in, and tha;‘ is what we are trying to reach at this Conservation meeting. If we could get &u’t %anze’â€"ef; VSQ could get the Samen of this country thinkinfi along that line, the changing from the threeâ€"year rotation in the West or four-fear in the eastern part of these prairies, including a summer fallow in each case, and considering J H. Grisdale, at Conference on Soil Fertility, at Winnipeg. all the possibility of our oef or cultiâ€" vated cgzp, we Eha%l ha»?}e one moré for agriculture in these provinces than any other convention or meeting of men has ever done in the history of the Prairies."â€"From address of Dr. Be not among those who find a use for the rake after they have used the Canada‘s 750,000 farms have an ayâ€" erajge value of $10,000 and a producâ€" tion of $3,000 per farm. C Laundry Tubs Save TORONTO _ Porcupineâ€"The recent discoveries on Hollinger and Mcintyre indicate that there is much development work Torontoâ€"There has been a eonsider-’ able revival of interest in the oil stocks here. Accumulation seems to be going on in Elk Basin and North Star, both of which were favorites with Toronto traders some months ago. A bigger market is now looked for in Internaâ€" tional Petroleum, following the anâ€" nouncement of an agreement by which this company will take over the Tropâ€" ical Oil Company. in store for Ontario‘s big producing mines; and this is expected to cor’ siderably (ncrease ore Feserves. _ The Canadian Woollens Company c# has not been affected to any extent. n by the slackness in the woollen trade Y© in the United States. â€"The United) ©! States woollen companies have been'; 2 obliged to close up a number of their ) ;; millsâ€"owing to the falling off of ; orders. A very different condition is q the experience of the Canadian woolâ€") e ten mills. This is particularly th.lm case with the woollen yarn end of the ® business of . the ,Canadian Woollensl P Company and the contracts on the . books ase said to"be sufficient to keep} ;, all machines runging well into next ) f; year. It is also stated that the entire} d production of the plants have been'g provided for for some months ahead.!:! Londonâ€"It is stated here that the offering of British Empire ‘Steel Corâ€" poration securities will ‘be readily abâ€" sorbed by the public. The English share of $25,000,000 issue of 8 per cent. cumulative. and participating stock of the British Empire Steel Corâ€" poration has been successfully underâ€" written. N The details of the new financing, it is uhderstood, are being withheld until the several Canadian enterprises which are to form the nucleus of the ambitious undertaking formally pass upon them. ; Definite announcement in this resâ€" pect is expected some time this week, but in the meantime, it is understood that negotiations are in progress in Canada with prominent financial inâ€" terests to underwrite the share of the issue allotted to Canada. It is regarded as probable that the latter will be on a more generous scale than at first contemplated, owing to the adverse exchange conditions preâ€" vailing The Sieepy Ship‘s ready to sail away,‘. Manned by her willing crew; ]j Her capta‘n is waiting upon the bridge, Ready, my dear, for you. t3 Soon, down the river called rockâ€"aâ€"| byeâ€"oh, | Gently our craft will glide, | Then out on the shimmering slumber | sea, | Borne by the evening tide. | The Sleepy Ship‘s ready to sail away, Her hold with stories stored; i Her crew is waiting to break them } out, { _ When once you are aboard. | Furry folk? Fairy folk? Which shnll} it be? | Goblin, Brownie, or Elf? | The Sleepy Ship‘s cargo is large, my| dear, h And you may choose yourself, | The Sleepy Ship‘s ready to sail away;. Her decks are never trod | By any but you, as a passenger, | Bound for the Land of Nod, | Where silvery sands of the Slumber| Sea i Shine in the moon‘s bright beamgâ€"â€" The Sleepy Ship‘s sailing toâ€"night, Wee Maid, = | Bound for the Port o‘ Dreams. ] The Sleepy Ship‘s daddy‘s old rock!ng-l | chair, ‘ Daddy, the willing crew. |The captain that‘s waiting upon the bridge Is daddy‘s love for you. | And daddy‘s fond heart is your cabin |\ _ ‘About 41,000,000 acres are annually | planted to these crops in Canada. An ;increafie of but one bushel per acre of this area would add approximately $80,000,000 to the wealth of the counâ€" | try. One of the chief methods of inâ€" [creuing production is by the more general use of seed of better breed. ing and of varieti¢s bettet‘ suited to : the districts where sown. P E$\ snug; Your kiss, on his bristly lip, The ticket that‘s good for your pasâ€" sage fare On board the Sleepy Ship. Good Seed to Increase Crops. What good seed mealf to Canada was vory clearly shown ii few Agâ€" ures submitted by Mr. L. H. eljjgmau, Secretary of the Can?dian S rowâ€" ers‘ Association, at the Conference on Soil Fertility and Soil Fibre, held at Winnipeg by the Commission of Conâ€" servalo Each E’pring Canada requires apâ€" proximately 65,000,000 bushels of seed grain and 9,000,000 bushels of seed potatoes, or about average production. The Sleepy Ship or abo\';ts per cent. of her is red,. The description is of wine | at its best, when it is most attnctive.i way, | It is red. it sparkles, it glides amoothâ€" |ly over lip and tongue. The Revised theml Version renders the last clause of verse 31, "When it goeth down ismoothly." Its attractiveness and its | pleasant flavor but eonceal its poison, shall) which is like that of the serpent. The | intoxicated ‘}m*son sees strange things |\ ({see Rev. Vers.), and out of his disâ€" ; myfi torted fancies he speaks perverse # | things,. He becomes fiddy and nausâ€" | eated as one affiicted with seaâ€"sickâ€" \ress. _ When he awakes from his way; drunken sleep he congratulates himâ€" | self that he has not felt the blows | which some companion or adversary * | may have infltcted upon him. He deâ€" |\ clares that he will seek the wine yet mberi again. |\ times of very stron% and courageous \ men. But, inevitably, even in such | cases, it brings in its train degeneraâ€" ‘tion, decline of powers, and degradaâ€" tion of all the finer impulses and qualities of manhood. Even the modâ€" |erate use of wine or other strong liquâ€" THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON SEPTEMEBER 19TH. Evils® of Intemperance, Proverbs 23:, 19â€"21, 29â€"35. Golden Text, Prov. 23: 21. ~ 19â€"21. ~Hear Thou, My Son, and Be Wise. The teacher thus addresses his pupil that he may inculcate wisdom and guide him in the right way of life. By winebibbers he means, no doubt, those who drink excessively, like the gluttonous persons who eat too much. The drunkard and the glutton are regarded as alike, and are compared to the drowsy, or lazy man, all of whom shall come to poverty. Such habits of life breed insfficiency, carelessness, and weakness. Drunkenâ€" ness has sometimes been the vice of very elever and skillful men, and someâ€" _ Other Jewish writers before the | time of Christ recognized the same . fact. They say, "Drink not wine unto | drunkenness, and let not drunkenness ; go with thee on ‘thy way." "A workâ€"| man that is a drunkard shall not beâ€" / | come rich." _ "Wine hath destroyed | many." "Wine drunk largely is bitâ€" : terness of soul with provocation and : conflict." "If ye would live soberly, | do not touch wine at all, lest ye sin in !words of outrage, in fightings, and . islanders, and in transgressions of the . commandments of God, and ye perish | before your time." The total abstainâ€"‘ er qf toâ€"day may, therefore, plee& very | ancient and very high authority for| his action, and may at least believe that, even if there be no danger of | excess to himself, by his abstinence he | will refrain from gutting temptation |in the way of others who may be| weaker. See Rom. 14: 18â€"21. . | _ 29â€"35. Who Hath Woe? The more |\literal rendering of the Hebrow is [' "Who hath (or who saith) ch? Who | hath (or saith) alas!" Oh, and alas, ‘|and strife, and complaining, â€" and | wounds without cause, and reduess of ‘ eyes, are the lot of those who drink to excess. : _ The mixed wine was prepared by adâ€"| .\ ding various aromatic herbs and | ,| tflices for the purpose of heightening _| the flavor and increasing the strength of the wine. Maspero, describing the Assyrian practice, says, "The wines, even the most delicate, are not drunk in their natural state; they are mixed with aromatic and various drugs, which give them a delicious flavor an add tenfold to their strength. This operation is performed in the hall, under the eyes of the revellers. An eunuch standing before a table pounds in a stone mortar the intoxicating subâ€" | stances, which he moistens from time , | to time with some essence. His comâ€" j rades have poured the contents of the | amphorae &.e., wine jars) into imâ€" + mense bowls of chased silver which t reach to their chests. As soon as the â€"| perfumed paste is ready they put | some of it into each bow! and careâ€" | fully dissolve it,. â€" The cupbearers r| bring the cups, draw out the wine, and *\ serve the guests." The wine when it ors, though apparently harmless, in actual ex?erience "tends to excess and produces in very many cases the most calamitous results. n x f The object of cow testing is to give the dairyman accurate knowledge as to the production of milk and fat or, each cow in the herd. It is readily admitted that the average cow does, not produce as much millk as she is capable of giving, and many dairymen! keep one or more cows that do not even pay for their keep. Cow testing shows which cows are worth keeping in the herd and gives evidence against those that should be eliminated from the herd. "The progress of cow testâ€" ing," bulletin 58, Dairy and Cold §torâ€" age Series by A. H. White, ?.S.A., shows thakt mn?g‘r‘ farmers b::y on ess work to pic ot}eir t cows ifuom whichtgo gdve‘to‘ er calves for fiflo fulurg herds. Frequently, these gllésses apre mot correct, cows vzhic‘h B WWwCCC » Snd l nc conformation are not alâ€"| "*"""P""" 7+ O ud be well :‘v“:;& ?fi:‘be’; producers in the herd. En,:ony farm it would be well 1 Da‘.ry Records will 4d aw.¢ with guess | Ow! mepvi tm ce N gecenton mss work, and the farmer can'fafefi’ mecul * M cmasiy his hest cows for breeding pur‘poseo. gfiliufl&l 13 :}'&o bulletin, "The yrogr{.’:o, Cow | e tree that comes !o mi sting" may be secu ee upon the forest, decays, and 1 application to the Publications Branch,| ground, oul}' furnishes 1 &epgrtn}gnt of Agriculture, Ottawa,. pests and r?nr' which desy addi?o_q to ai:"ng the e'qptid %»-, %:ec; M % that ripens Jects Of gcow testing, it outJines the the gr and rots ber details of orkanl;at{pg __and_g.i\;u some, one; the gmlm fish S;qf i 1 in additjon to giving the esgentia! obâ€" trees; tye iruy Tnat 1!pene, "6us iJ jects ol}oqu &t‘u&, It ou!aines flu‘gxg grm and rots benefits no details of organization and gives some| one; the gurplus fish (:iu\t is unutilt of the results obtained, whigh gggfis.ag' WBX .69 no usefy} parpose; m that many {armers have increased the the .fl[s og tfxé zr&r&g fr.:; p production of their herds from 80 to| and the ig pure consery Yoy OB 7b per cent. and some have doubled;the other Ln!, we transport to ta%o the herd average, in. a, few years. | Superiorâ€"as we did 12«}2 â€"~8, 250 Wherever cow t ‘has been followâ€" 00(? bushels oinwnd seedy whic{ 94â€" ed for a few y d d increase| cupied space in cars er‘ugr:-:&nt to ® in the avm' fon of each cow| train over 20 miles in le , is n# will be fo l im nc nnenniiie sruurne conservation in any shape or form., Eliminating the Poor Cow. phor chest. I wonder if it will seem half as wonderful to our daughters as it did to.us, Dana. I used to think Aunt Mary was the richest and the most eflviafio person in all the world. I realize now that there were not so many treasures, and that ‘most of them were of no intrinsic value; but I know that until Alee proposed I ‘never had such a thr.ll as I did when | Aunt Mary gave me that bit of Hindu | embroidery from the chest. It was my choicest possession for years." ‘ The. key was not in the lock, but ; they knew where Aunt Mary always |kept it. Alice got it, and then the | two, like littl» girls, sat dow1 on the |noor beside the chest and lifted out ‘the "treasures" with tender fingers. _ As Dana had said, many were gone, but there were the old comb and the |bead bag, and the veil from Turkey, | and the tiny, gay, terrible shoes from ‘China, and the exquisite silk from | Japan. As they lifted them out, a | small book fell to the Aoor, and Alice ‘ picked it up. "There can‘t be much left in it now," Dana replied. "She gave and gave to all of us, when we wore marriedâ€"or when we wersa‘t! We‘l‘ have to fill it again for the children." "Let‘s see what there is in it, anyâ€" way. . Oh, I‘m so glad we can keep the old place just as it is, to come back to summers! It would have been dreadful! to have the chest anywhere except here. I think it would have died of homesickness anywhere else!" "Why, it‘s Aunt Mary‘s writing! I never supposed she kept a diary. Shall we look, Dana?" Dana nodded. *"I don‘t want to lose a word of Aunt Mary‘s," she said "It isn‘t a diary. It seems to be a record. Look here, Dana!" Dana looked over her cousin‘s shoulâ€" der "Who are they all?" she asked. "I don‘t knowâ€"people before our day, I suppose. But do you realize what it is? It‘s a book of faithâ€" Aunt Mary‘s faith. I remember when J.m Fellows stole twenty dollars from Lombard‘s storeâ€"don‘t you? _ And herg, ten years after, is Aunt Mary‘s record: ‘Jim Fellows back with the dearest wife and baby, and his eyos as clear as the sky. I knew he‘d make good.‘ And here is Nancy Carter. Do you remember that slow, awkward Naney? . ‘Nancy Carter up for mediâ€" cine for her baby sister. She‘s going to make a fine woman.‘ " "And here," Alice said, "is the camâ€" The cousins looked at each other. Nancy Carter, nurse, had laid down her life in France three years before. "O Danal" Alice cried. Dana nodded, her eyes shining through tears. "She was the richest woman," she said softly. â€" "She gave immortal giftsâ€"faith and hope and love. If we can teach our little daughters, Alice!" "Oh, let‘s try!" Alice cried. Making the Most of Peonies. The peony is again very popular, and it is a flower that gives full value for all we put into it. The great double blooms of all shades, from pure white to the darkest red, add to the loveâ€" liness of any garden. There is a very good market for the blooms in most places. But whether you sell them or not, you will never regret planting them. Spring is the best time to plant them, but the bed should be prepared in the autuman. One thing to remember is that the peony does not like to be disturbed. It is {very beavy feeder, and needs plenty~of plant food to support the top and blooms of a good clump, So it is worth while to give the soil good preparation, as we will not want to move the plants for several years. I mix with the soil to a good depth plenty of wellâ€"rotted manure and a liberal amount of bone meal, _ Only wellâ€"rotted manure can be used, as fresh manure will burn the plants. This bed will serve the plants for sevâ€" eral years. A topâ€"dressing of manure and bone meal every spring will keep them at their best. The flowers from these will be much superior to halfâ€" staprved clumps. & You can bufiy the divided clumps with three to five eyes, or the estabâ€" lished clumps undivided, You get more varieties for your money by takâ€" ing the divided, and in a year or two these will be nice clumps, They start growth early in the lptm and any disturbance then checks severely. There are a great many varietios, but I have found few more beautiful than some of the old favorites. A high price does not nacuufll{hmuu the best flowers, for most of the old favorites are cheaper than the new introductions, If you could visit & peony ferm it would be well worth the trip. The tree that comes to masuri(y Hf the forest, decays, and to the ground, oulIv furnishes t inspet pests and fungl which destpoy other The Camphor Chest. â€"=â€"a=rvation. k \ 3 KWt %2 3t $ th+ x 4