WELL PLEASES WITH WESTERN
CANADA.
GOOD CROPS, SPLENDID CLIMATE
AND WELL ENFORCED LAWS.
Mr. George E. Hunter is a Maid
stone, Saskatchewan (Central Can
ada), farmer, who writes to a Cana
dian Government Agent r.s follows:
"It was the first week in November,
1007, when we arrived here. There wus
very little snow or cold weather until
after the holidays, then the anew and
cold increase), but to r:o great extent.
1 think the coldcs- I heard of was 30
degrees below zero, but that degree of
cold would not L'O felt here any mote
than 10 degrees below zero would be
back homo iu Michigan, owing to the
beautiful d y atmosphere of this coun
try. liters came a good thavy every
month that settled the mow, the field.,
soon became bare, and on the 12th of
April 1 commenced ploughing. The
snow was (hen ail gone and summer at
hand. This last season was some
thing mere tin.a an average year
around here, with fine crops gathered
from a largo acreage. In parts the
crops were less than average, but gen
erally speaking they were above it.
The price of wheat was quite good.
Some fine yields sold at $1.10 per bush
el, while some were marketed at much
less, but hardly any went below about
00 cents a bushel.
“Oats started on the market at 35
cents a bushel, barley about 50 cents,
and flax from 00 cents to $T>00 a
bushel.
"As this was my first year in this
country, it was a hard year for my
horses, owing to their being eastern
horses, and not used to the western
climate, but they will soon get cli
matized.
‘•The scil on ray farm is a black
loam, about one foot in thickness, be
low that wo find about six feet of
clay, and b low that attain gravel and
sand, with an abundance cf excellent
water. This was the condition of the
ground as I found it when I dug a
well. 1 can say that the water is as
sweet trad as free from alkali and im
purities as I ever saw.
“My opinion is that the man who
conics here with a little means can do
no better than invest $500 or $1,000 in
cattle, after locating a homestead ad
joining or near some hilly part of the
country where it will not be taken up
as soon. There is plenty of grass and
nay to be found in the hilly country
and small lakes and sloughs will afford
sufficient water for any amount of cat
tle. The bluffs with a few hay or
straw sheds will make sufficient shel
ter for them. There Is no need to
worry about the market for cattle, as
(here is already a great call for stock
of all kinds to satisfy the continued
demands of the. large packing house at
Kdmonton, established by Swift and
Company.
“The dairy business should by no
means be forgotten. It is one of the
paying enterprises of this great west.
The price of butter seldom goes below
25 cents and reaches as high as
10 cents a pound. Also the new cream
eries that are fast being erected along
•he lines of railroad are calling on the
farmers for their cream.
“These creameries are greatly wbl
comed in all communities, because sell
ing cream is better than making but
ter, even at an average price of 25
cents a pound. For a new country the
railroad transportation facilities are
good; not yet, of course, what they
are In older countries, but the new
lines are swiftly gaining as the coun
try gets more settled and supplies
them with produce to ship. It is hard
to say too much in favor of this coun
try. All one needs Is a little money
with grit and ambition. I have seen
homesteads that were filed on a little
over three years ago that the owners
have refused $3,000 for.
“There is much more that can be
said in favor of Western Canada, but i
think my letter has been long enough.'
Architectural Note.
Judge Baleom was talking to a
crowd on the street a few days ago.
telling them the proper way to put
shingles on a house. He said: “The
old rule was to allow six inches ol
the shingle to ‘show to the weather,'
but that is too much. You should al
low not' more than four inches to
show." Some wag remarked in a mat
ter-of-fact tone to the judge: “How
would it do not to let any show?" The
judge replied, “I've seen roofs made
that way; but it takes a great many
shingles.” Then the judge wanted to
get mad when the crowd laughed.—
Twiggs County (Ga.) Citizen.
GOVERNMENT LAND OPENING
UNDER CAREY ACT:
May 6, the State Land Commissioner
of Wyoming will distribute 7,000 acres
Irrigated land at Cooper Lake, near
Laramie and Denver, on main line of
Union Pacific; 50 cents per acre. Old
est Reservoir and Direct Water Rights;
$5 an acre cash and $3 an acre an
nually for ten years. Free trip and
two town lots to all who apply before
May 1. Write for application and cir
culars. Tallmadge-Buntin Land Co.,
Agents, 2nd floor. Railway Exchange,
Chicago. Agents wanted.
Margaret Was Logical.
One afternoon I overheard my two
children talking about the Sunday
school lesson.
Dick, who was much smaller than
Margaret, believed all she said about
it. So he asked her what God looked
like, and she quickly answered: “God
looks like a stalk of corn, because
mamma said he had ears cn all sides,
and a sialk of corn is the only thing
I know that has ears on all sides.”—
Delineator.
The extraordinary popularity of fine
white goods this summer makes the
choice of Starch a matter of great im
portance., Defiance Starch, being free
from all injurious chemicals, is the
only one which is safe to use on line
fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffen
er makes half the usual quantity of
Starch necessary, with the result of
perfect finish, equai to that when the
goods were new.
Hands Up!
Winks—Were you ever in a railroad
holdup?
Blinks (seasoned traveler)—Yes; I
always go standard Pullman.
DIET AND
HEALTH
By DR. J. T. ALLEN
Food Specialiftt
A-tsthcr of ‘'Eating for a
'Purpose.'' “The J'feiv
Gospel of Health."
Etc.
(.Copyright, by Joseph £3. Uovvlesj
“THE DIET CURE”
While I believe diet to be the most
I important factor in life, after thought,
and therefore the most important fac
tor (after thought) in maintaining
and restoring health, yet diet is not a
cure-ail.
As there is no single means by
which life is maintained, so there is
no single means of maintaining health
or of restoring it when it has been
lost. I often hear people say, "I have
tried drugs, aud osteopathy, Christian
Science (or suggestion) and electric
ity, the movement cure and the water
cure, and none of them has done me
any good, and now I am going to see
what there is in dieting.”
Such a speech indicates a narrow
view of the work of the physician anl
a grave misunderstanding of the na
ture of health and healing. I have a
large acquaintance among physicians
and l don't know one who prescribes
drugs and ignores dieting, though I
know some who do not agree with the
old saw in Marcus Ward's copybook,
'Diet cures more than doctors.” I
know physicians who practice sugges
tion very skilfully, by intuition, but
give the credit for their mental cures
to their medicine, even when they pre
scribe bread pills; and I am sorry to
say 1 know some good physicians who
have not yet recognized the good in
osteopathy and mechanotherapy in
general; but the average medieaJ doc
tor believes in using a'.l means of cure,
and especially diet, as supplemental to
medicine.
No sane, liberally educated physi
cian who is successful in the practice
cf a specialty, finds it necessary to
overestimate the relative importance
of his specialty. It is the Imperfectly
informed person who claims for some
one method of treatment, valuable in
certain cases, the impossible virtue of
a cure-all. The only way in which
almost any therapeutic agent can cure
almost any sickness is by becoming a
means of suggestion. Hut let the men
tal condition be perfect yet withhold
the right food and the patient must
ultimately die. And suggestion need
not be made the basis of a cult to bo,
a means of faith cure.
Dr. Ycrke Davies of London, one of
the few eminent physicians who have
made a specialty of dietetics, said,
after 30 years’ practice: “The devia
tions from health are more correctly
remedied by dietetic means than by
medicines. Diet may be a permanent:
cure, drugs are but palliatives. . . .
Diet in the hands of an expert is more
powerful than drugs. Medicine is
seldom a remedy for constitutional ail
ments, whereas a system of diet, air
and other means that lead to sound
health is of permanent benefit. I
speak from a very large experience in
both systems.“T'Diet and Condition,"
1892.)
The general practitioner knows that:
he cannot give his patients the benefit:
of an expert knowledge of a dozen
specialties. He realizes this better
than the specialist realizes the danger
of being too ready to treat every case
that comes to him by his special cure.
The surgeon who is so devoted to hist
science and his art that he “would
rather operate than eat,” as one good
man puts ft, is likely to be skillful:
but there are patients who need to eat.
more than they need to be operated
on; and it might be well to take the
advice of a faithful general practition
er in conjunction with that of the spe
cialist before acceding to the wish of
the surgeon who glorifies his profes
sion by crediting it with impossible
powers.
In no case is diet the only remedy to
be considered; but unlike surgery,
drugs, electricity, and other means of
cure which are often of vital impor
tance, diet (which includes fasting),
like suggestion, is always “indicated.’’
And whatever danger there may be in
misapplied surgery or drugs, food can
do no harm when taken moderately,
except in a few cases, as diabetes,
where expert knowledge is required.
Osteopathy, suggestion, massage, wa
ter cure, applied with ordinary judg
ment, can do no harm, except as they
may exclude other necessary treat
ment, as drug or surgical treatment
may also fail to include other benefi
cial treatment.
Since the days of the prophet who
prescribed washing in Jordan, there
have been many cures, each more mys
terious, if possible, than the other, but
nature has continued to use the same
means of restoring health, in spite of
the cures or by their aid.
A young man who has been reading
these articles writes me about his in
teresting case, which will serve to il
lustrate the difficulty and the impor
tance of distinguishing health from
disease. At the age of 20 he quit the
farm, late in the spring, and went to
wcjk as a street car conductor in a
large city. He was in excellent health,
with a good appetite. A few months
later he began to have dull headache
and an almost constant sour stomach,
with belching. Everybody knows that
an alkali will neutralize an acid and a
friend advised him to take a little com
mon baking soda in hot water occasion
ally. Perhaps some physicians would
Have "cured" this case in the same
way. The average person who goes to
a physician does not go for his valua
ble advice on the prevention of sick
| ness, or even for a radical cure of his
• aliment. What he wants is a quick
! cure, in the easiest way possible;
hence the temptation to treat symp
toms is strong.
The acid condition of the stomach
was, of course, neutralized by the al
kali, but the cause remained rather
worse. There was no cure. Should
the acid condition in the stomach be
corrected by an alkali, as carbonate of
soda, or does nature know what she is
about in producing the acid condi
tion?
Another gentleman who h'as been
reading these articles writes me about
his very interesting and peculiar case,
also resulting in an extreme acid con
dition. His work for years has been
with chemicals. His system has be
come poisoned, as in common cases of
poisoning by mercury, arsenic, etc.
The acid condition and an extreme lia
bility to cold are incidents of nature's
efforts to bring about conditions in
which the system can expel these poi
sons. The diet of meat, which this
man has been living on exclusively for
some time, an alkaline food, contains
much waste to be excreted, thus ad
ding to the burden of the system, and
it works against, instead of with, na
ture. He asks for specific advice,
along the lines of a recent article.
I am not prejudiced in favor of
homeopathy nor against any other
school of medicine, for they all have
something good, and my own plan is
to go back to nature, to first princi
ples, no matter what the schools say,
but aiming to take advantage of all
known facts. My experiments in de
termining the curative values of foods
lead to a conclusion similar to that of
the illustrious founder of homeopathy.
"Similia similibus curantur” (Like
cures like). I do not think that one
disease can cure another, like or un
like. But we should work to bring
about the same result that nature is
trying to produce, even when that
seems to be irritating or destructive.
Nature is producing the acid condi
tion in the case of the worker in
chemicals for the purpose of bringing
about a change that will improve the
conditions of nutrition. Instead of an
tagonizing that effort by taking car
bonate of soda or by taking only alka
line food, let this man eat only acid
fruits in the morning, an apple, an or
ange, and a little pineapple, and drink
plenty of lemonade without sugar, a
little dry graham and corn bread at
noon, never fresh, and at six all the
buttermilk he can drink, slowly. He
should take a spoonful of olive or pea
nut oil, morning and evening. If he
doesn't feel inclined to drink butter
milk. let him take only a sip and in
crease the amount gradually. With
plenty of that alone on hand, he will
not suffer. Every third day he should
take nothing but hot lemonade, and be
careful not to overeat the next day.
He is unable to work, so he can in
dulge the inclination to recline, which
he mentions as a symptom in the case
—a symptom which should not be sup
pressed by a tonic: it is significant.
Every morning, or evening, he should
have a vigorous rubbing for five or ten
minutes with a dry and then a wet
Turkish towel, and at night bathe the
feet in hot water. He should apply an
electric vibrator, generally, and to
the extremities after the morning
bath, for a few minutes. For the gen
eral treatment the vibrating chair is
best, made by attaching an electric vi
brator to a light rocking chair.
But to return to the street car con
ductor’s case, which has some points
in common with this; he has been poi
soned with superfluous food. This
cannot be corrected by taking an al
kali to neutralize the acid and a tonic
to increase his appetite. A tonic is a
whip. Exercise and air and water
is a whip. Exercise and air and water
and hope and sunshine are nature's
tonics. The appetite they produce is
normal, not in excess of the actual
needs of the system. Excess of food
is always a source of disease.
Rheumatism would result from the
suppression of these symptoms, in
time, if the cause persisted. Uric acid
would be deposited in the joints, prob
ably. Examination of the urine in this
case would show an excess of waste
matter. That means an undue strain
upon the kidneys, which, in time,
would lead to rheumatism, diabetes
or Bright's disease, if the cause is not
removed. Examination of the excreta
would also show an excess of waste
and of bacteria, especially if much
meat is eaten. (There should be little
apparent odor from the excreta if the
feeding is right.)
This young man should eat very
slowly, masticating thoroughly. Let
him reduce his food, especially flesh
meat, one-half, and eat twice as long
and he will soon see an improvement.
Let him be sure he is getting in his
diet everything the system needs,, and
without undue work in digestion. He
should walk five miles daily. The
young man read an advertisement of a
well-known tonic, which he began
using, hoping it would do as much for
him as the soda had done. While he
was taking the tonic he felt better and
gained in weight, but when he stopped
using it he soon was worse than be
fore—of course. What shall he do?
First, let him understand the cause
of his trouble (as far as that is possi
ble), then apply the remedies and look
for a return of health with the same
confidence that lie expects his car to
move when the brake is raised and the
current turned on. An electric car runs
with no greater regularity than the
human machine when properly cared
for, but the body is a very delicate
organism and it must not be abused.
The relation between the mind and
the body is just as intimate, just as
important, as the relation between the
current and the ca~. You have seen a
car oil the track. No use to turn on
Cannibalism is Still Alive
_ .&»__ __
Evidently Work Remains for Mission
aries in Africa.
“You may be interested to know,"
says J. J. Heynard of the Cape-to-Cairo
telegraph construction staff, “that can
nibalism still survives and is, to my
knowledge, practiced by the Chikanda
dwelling along the Zambezi and Shire
rivers. A case came to my notice last
year. The body of a celebrated hunter,
who had succumbed to fever, was ex
humed and devoured1. At one impor
tant center of the Shire the cemetery
has to be guarded to prevent the na
tives devouring the newly buried
bodies.
“As far as I know, cannibalism is
not practiced openly by tribes in the
country with which I am acquainted.
The natives who devour our dead be
the current then. To expect the mind
to set right all abnormal conditions
in the body without complying with
the laws of its physical organization,
is manifestly absurd.
A farmer needs at least twice aa
much muscular-energy-giving food as a
street car cpnductor, varying with the
physical work or exercise of each, but
this young man continued to eat about
the same amount and kinds of food
that he had eaten in the country. Now
the system manufactures gastric juice
to digest as much food as the system
requires, not always enough for the
food eaten. Perhaps we can all re
member a time when we were quite
familiar with sour stomach. When we
were younger and more vigorous, na
ture responded more promptly, defend
ing herself and warning us of abnor
mal conditions, so that we should re
move the cause. How much more
qimckly a child or a dog will vomit if
it eats the wrong food or too much of
the right food than an adult. Is the
sour stomach in the child or the readi
ness to vomit an indication of health
or of disease? Does not a farmer
change a horse’s food as his work
changes?
I have quoted these two cases sub
mitted by interested readers of these
articles to exemplify an important fun
damental principle—that it is often
difficult to distinguish between health
and disease. So important is this
principle, and so fatal are the effects
of ignorance of it, that I wish to make
it still clearer, by examples.
A few weeks ago I met on the street
a minister with whose work in a
small town, near Chicago, I was inti
mately acquainted last year. He had
a new charge now, a larger, more pros
perous and more harmonious congre
gation.
“You are looking much better than
when I saw you last,” 1 said (which
happened to be true—it never helps a
man to tell him he looks sick, even if
it is true).
“Well,” he said, “I am feeling bet
ter in every way, except that I have
one trouble that is really becoming
serious; .for days I have had constant
diarihyffb, and nothing seems to stop
it.” Jr, <
"Tafttfsj well,” I said, for I was fa
milifhc.Ttt' his case preceding his
chan ■.'npurroundings. and 1 took a
hastjy* ntory of his condition. He
hadniuch depressed the preced
cnemial depression often in
dices yr^ltlpaUo!! i and his nutritive
powers* mental and physical, were ac
cordingly reduced, and he had lost in
hnt! accumulated waste in the tis
si^i). hiow there was a revival; all
the*tissues w$re expanding and waste
wa<£be^fe Eliminated through the
howVs^Sut /more than that, the sys
tem wts^adjusting itself, rapidly, to
more wholesome mental conditions,
and there was, as the engineer says,
some exhaust steam. Should he take
a standard remedy to stop the diar
hoea?
• A woman who had suffered for years
from dyspepsia, accompanied by con
stipation, went to a large sanitarium
where she had every opportunity for
cure. For a while she improved, then
she began to grow steadily worse. Sbs
quit the place, dissatisfied, and went
to a private sanitarium in Chicago.
T*he physician there understood that
painful healing efforts of nature are
often mistaken for signs of disease.
She grew “worse,” became very sick,
and got well.
What would have been the effect of
"curing" that sickness?
A gentleman past middle life was
advised to make some material
changes in his diet, which he did with
decided benefit for several months.
Then he "began to go steadily down
hill,” as he thought. He consulted an
other physician, who saw in his simple
diet the cause of his entire trouble,
gave him a tonic and advised him to
return to his old “liberal" diet, includ
ing meat, and now he feels better;—a
result due, chiefly, to improved mental
conditions induced by his friends,
who rejoice with him In the return of
his sanity! The best diet in the world,
with continual worry, will kill any
body, and the prison records of Poland
show that a man can live for 50 years
on bread and water.
“How, then, shall I know whether I
am sick or well?” asks the bewildered
reader.
You are always well, if you really
think so. There is more truth in this
statement than I have space to ex
plain here, for I am dealing now with
diet, not with suggestion. But let me
briefly state the best course to follow
under all circumstances;
Follow nature. If nature is work
ing in a certain direction to bring
about normal conditions of health, co
operate with her, especially in thought.
Be careful that you do not misinterpret
her efforts and antagonize her. Don't
be in too great haste to stop pain by
the quickest means, for you may stop
the healing process. Better do nothing
than do wrong.
It is the business of the educated
physician, one not merely skilled in
dosage or in the use of the knife, to
study your case and advise wisely,
cautiously and honorably, and you
should give him time to do it and pay
him cheerfully and liberally, but ob
serve that the thing of real value is
his wise counsel, which comes only of
long study and experience.
To follow our inclinations would be
the wisest course in all cases if we
had always lived naturally, but even
if we have, our ancestors did not. The
most valuable knowledge the scientific
physician possesses is his elaborate
knowledge of the normal conditions of
all the physical functions and the
means by which these conditions are
maintained or restored.
Whatever the condition, hope is a
prime factor in the cure; the will and
fait.h are to be exercised. If these
right mental conditions are supplied,
with the right food and the proper
care of the body, all is well.
lieve that if they eat the body of a
European they will acquire his intelli
gence, just as they eat the heart of a
lion because they believe they will
gain the courage of the lion.
“The Mambwe, of the Tanganyika,
regard the lion as sacred, and believ
ing implicitly in the transmigration
of the soul, hold that the spirit of a
dead chief enters into the body of a
lion or python. Those animals are
therefore taboo, unless they kill man.
when the taboo is witlidt..
WaillMinigj Dresses
THE first sketch shows a very stylish costume in Aubergine Amazon cloth,
the long high-waisted skirt is perfectly plainand hangsvery gracefully. The
directoire coat is handsomely braided In black, and has rovers of black
velvet; the sleeves are long and perfectly tight, and are braided at the
wrist. The coat fastens invisibly over the left side. Ilat of Aubergine
stretched silk trimmed with feathers.
Materials required: Eight and one-half yards cloth 48 inches wide, one
third yard velvet. 5 yards coat lining.
In the second a more simple costume is illustrated, it is in royal b'ue
fine serge. The skirt is cut walking length, and has a box-plait arranged up
the center of front, buttons are sewn as trimming to just below the waist
line. The coat is semi-fitting and has the sleeves cut in one with the bodice
part; the fronts are cut in steps and edged with braid of the same color,
braid also edges the other parts of the coat. Hat of blue felt trimraed with
flowers and ribbon.
Materials required: Seven yards serge 46 inches wide, 6 yards braid, 4%
yards coat lining.
ROLLERS PROLONG LINEN LIFE.
Hint for Care of Dainty Trifles Dear
to Feminine Heart.
All the pretty centerpieces, buffet,
bureau and table covers can be kept
so much mere perfectly in linen clos
ets and sideboard drawers if rolled
round a sufficiently long pasteboard
roll. The regular mailing case or
tube will fill the bill if it is of the
length required. A dainty and wash
able cover for it can be made, tube
shaped, of white linen, into which the
roll should be slipped. One end of it
may be permanently drawn together
and the open end arranged with a cas
ing and tape, to close after the roll
is replaced. On this should be rolled
all of the embroidered and lace
irimmed covers as soon as they come
from the laundry, and before they
have been folded.
One matron tells of a roll on the
wall of the butler’s pantry. This is
i device for linen in daily use: but be
cause of what Howells so aptly calls
the “invasive, pervasive dust," the
permanently arranged roll could not
oe recommended for freshly laundered
linens.
I
BLACK SHOE THREAD IS BEST.
Excellent for Fastening Millinery Or
naments in Place.
When trimming a hat the great
problem is how to fasten the orna
ments in place. Pine thread and
needles do not seem to be adequate
for the purpose, and, in fact, they are
not. The best thread to use is black
shoe thread and the best needle is a
so-called “glove needle"—one with a
three-sided point that may be run
easily through almost any substance.
With these two allies at hand it is
not so very difficult to sew whatever
is required, but it is worth while to
mention the different sorts of trim
mings and how to sew each to the
hat, says a writer who would encour
age home millinery.
Velvet bows should always be made
with shoe thread, and it should be
wrapped around the loop of the bow
so it will be quite firm. It should then
be sewn to the hat with the same
thread and the needle just de
scribed.
Quitls and feathers may be attached
to the hat in the same way, but when
the tips of ostrich plumes must be
caught and held at a required angle,
it is better to use a very fine black
thread and a No. 10 needle. The
stitches are then practically invisible,
and the result will be very satisfac
tory.
Bandanna Kimoncs.
As thi3 is a season of vivid colors,
even room robes and dressing sacques
have taken on brilliancy. One sees
less of the pale blues and f inks al
wr-a used for these garments.
One of the new ideas is to use the
immense cotton handkerchief called a
bandanna, or rather several of them,
to make up a short kimono for room
wear.
Five of these are apt to make a
good-looking garment. One should get
them in yellow and red. with a wide
selvedge, which does not need a hem
or trimming. The edges are put to
gether by ribbon run through button
holes and tied in little flat bows on
top.
Toilets of Silken Tissues.
All toilets of dress and of cere
mony are of silken tissues. Silk,
rather left in the background for sev
eral years, is pursued now with a love
ly ardor. In plain silks and satins,
in ottoman with coarse and fine cords,
crepes and meteors, to say nothing of
the silk-faced satin cloth and silk
cachemire, they present a wonderful
variety from which to select a cos
tume. The draping wrinkling folds of
these soft, thick stuffs in their colors
show changing lights like those of
precious stones, or reflect the metallic
glow of silver, gold and bronze.—
From a Paris Letter to Vogue.
Hats of Pearls.
Paris has given its approval to the
tiny little headgear made of imitation
baroque pearls and finished with a
bunch of flowers at the side. The
managers of the theaters allow them
to keep on these hats, though they
will not permit any other kind.
The pearls are strung on wire and
made into a lattice work, something
like a Juliet cap, and worn over the
top of the head. Jet beads of varied
sizes are also used for them, with a
large bunch of gold ivy leaves at the
side.
Pretty waist of wine-colored cloth or
cashmere, made with plaits and a scal
loped yoke which furnishes the little
plastrons.
The edge and the buttons and but
tonholes are of satin of the same
shade, as are also the cravat and gir
lie.
The long, tight sleeves are trimmed
to correspond.
Floral Muff.
Large muffs made entirely of flow
ers are novel and artistic substitutes
for the bridal bouquet. At one of the
most fashionable weddings of the sea
son the bride carried a huge muff of
white orchids and tiny sprays of lily
of the valley. The lily sprays were in
clusters and hung on narrow satin rib
bons from the lily and orchid muff.
Violet muffs, each flower tied on
with a lavender ribbon, are gorgeous
rovelti^s shown this season.
To Color Slippers.
White slippers can be dyed if they
are canvas or suede, and even the
white kid can be painted. Many wom
en bronze their old slippers and use
them in the bedroom. It is very diffi
cult to make a white slipper a good
black. By the time it is evenly coat
ed, it is stiff with paint or polish and
is anything but attractive. White can
vas shoes can be colored practically
any color by painting them with dye
Self-Sacrifice Necessary.
The winner is .he who gives himself
•o his work, body and soul.—Buxton.
Fashion for Yellow.
Little by little golden yellow is be
coming one of the favorite colors of
the year. It shows well under electric
light, and is usually becoming. It is
now dyed with a golden sheen that
carries out the prevailing fashion for
gold in everything.
Silk Irish Lace.
Paris is now’ using the shamrock
and Limerick laces crocheted in
coarse silk. They are quite good look
ing and are dyed to m^tch the blouse,
as most all laces have been tills win
ter.
HOME TONiC FOR OLD PEOPLE
Wonderful results, eventually restor
ing full physical vigor, are obtained
from the following: To one-half pint
good whiskey, add one ounce syrup
sarsparllla and one ounce Toris com
pound, which can be procured from
any druggist. Take in teaspoonful doses
before each meal and before retiring
Musical Note.—Signor Harmonetti is
at Present Engaged in Composing a
New Heir.
Starch, like everything else, is be
ing constantly improved, the patent
starches put on the market 25 years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est discovery—Defiance Starch—all in
jurious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient, in
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap
proached by other brands.
Tenderness.
It was in the hotel of a western min
ing town that the New England guest,
registering in the office, heard a suc
cession of youd yells.
"What in the world is that—a mur
der going on upstairs?” he demanded.
"No,” said the clerk, as he slammed
‘.he book and lounged toward the
stairs. “It is the spring bed up in No.
5. That tenderfoot up there don’t get
the hang of it, and every few days he
gets one o’ the spiral springs screwed
into him like a shirt stud. I guess I'll
have to go up, if there ain't anything
more I can do for you for a few min
utes.”—Youth's Companion.
Professor Munyon has just issued a
most beautiful, useful and complete Al
manac; it contains not only all thescien
tiflc Information concerning the moon s
phases, in all the latitudes, but has il
lustrated articles on how to read char
acter by phrenology, palmistry and
birth month. It also tells all about
card reading, birth stones and th
meaning, and gives the interpretation
of dreams. It teaches beauty culture,
manicuring, gives weights and meas
ures, and antidotes for poison. In fact,
it is a Magazine Almanac, that not
only gives valuable information, but
will afford much amusement for every
member of the family, especially for
parties and evening entertainments
Farmers and people in the rural dis
tricts will find this Almanac almost
invaluable.
It will be sent to anyone absolutely
free on application to the MUNYON
REMEDY COMPANY, PHILADEL
PHIA.
Early Morning Poems.
“Why, Hiram,'' began Mrs. Dusen
bery, glancing up from her favorite
newspaper at her husband on the op
posite side of the table, “did you ever
hear of such a thing? Here is a piece
about a man who writes four magazine
poems every morning before breakfast
Must be quite a strain on him to do
all that writing on an empty stomach
Don't you think so, Hiram?”
“Well, I dunno about that,” re
sponded Hiram dryly. "I reckon a man
wouldn't have such a terrible strain
on him writin' the sort of magazine
pomes we run across now’days with
his stomach an’ head both empty!”
Poor Pat.
The surgeon of a large hospital wa?
paying a visit to the patients when he
come to a cot whereon lay an Irish
man who was not bearing his pain
very bravely, for he was groaning
loudly.
“Oh, come, my poor fellow.” remon
strated the surgeon, “try and beai
your pain like a man. It’s no use
kicking against Fate.”
"Shure, you’re roight, sorr,” groaned
the Irishman, who had been severel>
kicked by a mule, “ ’specially whir
they’re the fate of a mule!’’—Ex
change.
A Republican Reliance.
Three-year-old Norris is fond of the
Twenty-third Psalm, sometimes repeat
ing it instead of his regular evening
prayer. Last autumn the name of the
successful presidential candidate was
often heard at the dinner table, and^
Norris unconsciously fell into the hab
it of rendering one passage of the
Psalm in this reassuring fashion: “Thy
rod and thy Taft they comfort me.”—
Lippincott's.
PRIZE FOOD
Palatable, Economical, Nourishing.
A Nebr. woman has outlined the
prize food in a few words, and that
from personal experience. She writes:
"After our long experience with
Grape-Nuts, I cannot say enough in its
favor. We have used this food almost
continually for seven years.
“We sometimes tried other adver
tised breakfast foods but wre invariably
returned to Grape-Nuts as the most pal
atable, economical and nourishing
of all.
“When I quit tea and coffee and be
gan to use Postum and Grape-Nuts I
was a nervous wreck. I was so ir
ritable I could not sleep nights, had
no interest in life.
“After using Grape-Nuts a short time
I began to improve and all these ail
ments have disappeared and now I am
a well woman. My two children have
been almost raised on Grape-Nuts,
which they eat three times a day.
"They are pictures of health and
have never had the least symptom ot
stomach trouble, even through the
most severe siege of whooping cough,
they could retain Grape-Nuts when all
else failed.
“Grape-Nuts food has saved doctor
bills, and has been, therefore, a most
eci lomical food for us.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well
ville,” In pkgs. “There’s a Reason.”
Ever read the above letter? \ nevi
one nppearM from time to time Thn
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