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An Excellent Treatment of the Fror.t
FLORAL HINTS
By E. VAN BENTHUYSEN.
Considering the small amount of
care It requires, there is no flower
iniore satisfactory and beautiful than
the dahlia.
Such hardy bulbs as hyacinths, tu
lips, lilies, crown imperials, phlox,
iris and the like, do better, as a rule,
If allowed to remain in the ground un
disturbed for years.
If you have any cold-frame plants,
such as violets, roses and carnations,
don't fail to expose them more and
more to the air for gradual hardening
off before planting.
Try growing geraniums this year.
Next to caunas, they will give more
satisfaction for the trouble expended
than almost any other flower mention
ablo. Be suro you get those, however,
adapted for growing in beds.
When your Easter lilies get through
blooming, water them until the leaves
begin to fade, then withhold water un
til the tops die. When that occurs you
can put the pots in the cellar and
leave them there until autumn.
(lailiolus bulbs will blossom a year
earlier if peeled before planting. Be
iug dry, the husk requires a long time
to soak up so the new growth can
penetrate it, but if it is removed
growth starts at once.
For a perpetual delight all summer
few vinos are better to grow than the
Madeira and the Columbian climber.
Their foliage is of a very rich, glossy
green, and the delicate white flowers,
or ilower clusters of the Madeira vine
are not only abundant, but deliciously
fragrant. Both vines are easy to grow
end in a fairly good soil will attain a
height of 20 to 25 feet.
Although the asparagus sprengeri
produces only tiny (lowers, its foliage
is so glorious, so green and restful to
tho eye, that it is a plant much to be
desired. Not requiring a great amount
of sun, it can be placed back of other
plants and, if somewhat above them,
its rich beauty will act as a charming
foil.
For speedy results there is no an
nual vine more desirable than the
morning glory, in all its varieties.
While it is true that the blossoms are
not lasting, they present a lively spec
tacle in the morning, adequate to re
ward anyone rising in time to review
them.
It is doubtful if there is any other
one thing in the culture of house
plants so little understood as the
proper application of moisture. Gen
erally the best way to determine when
a plan needs water is to take a pinch
of the soil and rub it between the
thumb and finger. If dry enough to
become powdery, water should be ap
plied; but if it is still so damp as to
mold between the fingers no more wa
ter will bo needed for a time. Lilies
are, of course, an exception to this
rule, and, in fact, almost all kinds of
bulbs.
Pansies are a desirable flower to
have and a 5-cent package will be
sufficient for one ordinarily to grow.
They want to be started indoors in a
box full of rich soil and kept In a
slightly shaded place. The dirt should
be damp all the time, to insure which
requires frequent watering; and when
the pansies are planted out it is better
on this account to have the bed on the
north side of the house. There, if
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given a little care, they can be made
to bloom till frost conies in the fall.
MAKE SPARE-MINUTE GARDEN
By L. M. BENNINGTON.
No. 1. Annuals for a sunny garden
with planty of water. Flowers from
June until November.
One packet cosmos, early flowering
three to four feet; blooms In July un
til frost. Start seed indoors and trans
plant 6ix feet apart iu the garden Id
May.
One packet 1 to 114 feet; blooms
June and July. Sow in the garden in
May thin or transplant ten inchep
apart.
One packet rhlox drummondl six
Inches to one foot; bloomB June and
July.
One packet dahlia 18 inches to 2
feet; bloom September and October.
Start seed in tho house. Bet in garden
one foot apart.
One packet sweet alyssum six
inches; June to November. Sow seed
In the garden early. This alyssum will
thrive in a damp place as well.
No. 2. Garden In a dry, sandy soil.
These plants will require no watering
during tho driest summer, if weeds
are kept out and the soil is mulched
with old manure or clippings from
the lawn, or if the plants are set close
enough together to shade the ground
after July 1.
One packet climbing nasturtium,
four to six feet; blooms July until j
frost. Set seed one inch deep.
One packet nicotiana affinis two to
three feet; July until frost. Set seed ;
one inch deep.
One packet candytuft one foot, June
and July. Sow seed early in the gar
den. One packet poppy 1 to 1 feet.
July and August. Mix seed with Bifted
soil; sow the earlier the better. Firm
the soil with a board or the hand, but
do not cover. Not easily transplanted
One packet petunia dwarf six inches ;
July to September. Start in the house
for early bloom. Grown anywhere
Portulacca (rose moss) is another an
nual for a dry soil. Grows in a sand
pile, six inches. Sow the seed middle
of May.
GLOXINIAS FINE BLOOMERS
By E. VAN BENTHUYSEN.
Spread the tubers out on pieces of
old carpet made and kept quite warm
and damp, to sprout. When the
sprouts appear, pot the tubers in a
light, spongy soil. A six-inch pot for
each tuber. 1
Gloxinias come in white, crimson
and purple, and in a combination of
all those colors. Some varieties are
bordered with a contrasting color,
others have a throat of light or dark
color, while still others have spots
of dark color on a light or white
ground.
These plants are easy to grow and
are one of the most beautiful of our
garden plants. They are a good type
for the busy woman who wants to
have a garden that will give a showing
for little effort.
If the seed is started early in the
season the plants bloom the same
summer. They do best in a light, rich
soil, and are fine pot plants for the
window garden.
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His Father's
House
By
HAROLD CARTER
lCilyrlfilit, WW. by W. O. Cliaiiiuuii.)
"It has always been my practice,"
Bald the dean, "to baptize a child on
Kaster eve. I ask the members of my
congregation to help me to continue
this practice,"
Everybody knew the dean's love of
children. He bad had three of his
own, one, a girl, had died, another girl
was married and living In the West;
and of the dean's son only a few peo
ple knew anything. Aftor a wild col
lege career he had disappeared abrupt
ly from his father's house. The cause
of the quarrel nobody knew, but all
know that the fault lay with the son.
Since that day father and son had
never communicated with each other.
It lacked five days of Easter, and,
prolific lu births though Madsbury
was, no child had been born lately that
had not been baptized, except the oc
casional child that was not destined to
be baptized. In vain the good-hearted
women of the congregation hunted
tnrough tho lists of tho parishioners.
"There's Mrs. Martin's baby," said
one to another, as tho news came of
tho tenth child of 'the baker's wlfo.
"But you can't take a baby six days old
to be christened In wimther like this."
"We've got to get somebody," said
Mrs. Latour. "Have you tried the hos
pitals, dear?"
They hunted through the hospitals,
aud at last their quest was rewarded.
There was a colored baby, tw and
a half weeks old, In perfect health.
But the parents belonged to an ob
scure sect which insisted on baptism
by its own ministers.
"It you'll help us not disappoint the
dean, Mrs. Washington, I'll give you
ten dollars," said Mrs. Latour, "And
"But I've Never Seen Dean Farrell."
a silk dress. And a new suit of clothes
for your husband. And a Job in our
garden."
"Do you think Ah'm going to sell
mah baby's soul for silk and gold?"
demanded the indignant Mrs. Washing
ton, sitting up fiercely among her pil
lows.
The women beat a hasty retreat. The
last hope seemed gone. And then it
was that the great discovery was
made.
There was a baby and Mrs. Latour
found it. It had been born three weeks
before, in a rooming house at the other
end of the town. The mother, a
delicate, frail young thing, listened in
awe as Mrs. Latour told her of the
dean's wish.
"But I've never seen Dean Farrell,"
she whispered.
"That makes no difference," an
swered Mrs. Latour. "Now don't be
a foolish girl, but do Just as I tell
you. I'm going to let the dean know
an hour or so before the christening."
She did not tell any of the other
women of the congregation, and Mads
bury was agog to know whether or not
Dean Farrell would be able to carry
out his long-cherished custom. And,
as the days went by, and the scramble
to find a baby became more and more
acute, without visible result, it was
confidently anticipated that the dean
would not.
Dean Farrell was greatly distressed.
He had kept to his custom for more
than thirty years. In fact, the first
baby that he had ever baptized had
been his own wayward son, of whom
he thought constantly. Like every
father, he saw him, not as the grown
man who had defied him, but as the lit
tle child whom he had held in his arms
and yearned over. Where was he
now?
His heart was very heavy. The boy
might be dead. Worse things than
death might have befallen him. Some
where on the broad face of the earth
was the man whom he had held in his
arms at the 'baptismal font and who
had filled all his life.
It was at the eleventh hour that Mra.
Latour came to the deanery, when the
dean had long given up hope. Her
face was alight with triumph.
"I've found him!" she cried happily.
"Him!" said the dean vaguely. He
bad been seated in his office, thinking
ot his son at the time when she was
announced. The words seemed like an
answer to his prayer, and he con
nected them with him.
"Tho dearest little boy baby. And
he'll be here with his mother in half
an hour. She's a girl from the
other end of the town, and I found her
by accident. I'm going to be god
mother, my husband will be one god
father, and the verger has Just said
he'll be the other."
"But the father?" queried the dean.
"Dean Farrell," said Mrs. Latour
eriously, "you know you said that you
would give anything to have a baby to
baptize, and It was pretty difficult to
get one for you. This is a case of pri
vate troubles, and jrou mustn't com
plicate matters by asking questions,
plftwo "
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"I won't, then," answered the dan
Half an hour later he stood befor
the christening font, looking thought
fully Into the face of the girl-mother,
who was opposite him. Uoslde hei
stood Mrs. Latour, holding a baby thai
behaved with all o baby's traditional
goodness at baptism. It neither stlrrod
nor cried, but lay in Mrs. Latour's
arms with its blue eyes wide open, and
fixed on the Dean's face.
The sorvlco proceeded, and all the
time he was speaking the Iean wan
thinking of his own lost child. Hl
bun had lain In his arms in the same
tranquil way, and he had never guessed
what trouble was to come after.
But there was trouble now. There
was trouble on the young mother'!
luce. Timid and shy, he seemed un
ablo to conceal her grief. The Dean
saw the tears well into her eyes and
roll down her cheeks as he took the
infant into his arms and asked 1U
name.
Aftor a slight pause Mrs. Latour
stepped forward and whispered it. And
the Dean stared into the face of the
child he hold. It was his own nunio
that she had spoken.
One little hand clutched at his sur
plice. The face, upturned to his, the
eyes that looked gravely, almost que
tioningly, Into his own, told him the
secret. It was his own grandson that
ho was holding. He traced his ami's
features, as a child's, in this child's
face; It might have been his own boy
that he held lu his arms aguin. His
prayer had been answered, although
not as he had asked it.
He felt that as lie poured tho water
over the head of the babe. Then the
ceremony was over. The mother held
the babe in her arms again and the
register had been signed. Mrs. Latour
and her husband hud slipped away.
Tho mother had gone, and Dean Far-
rell stood alone in the vestry.
Only a minute, but iu that minute lie
summed up an eternity. Then he went
through the church. At the door ho
came upon the young mother. She
was Just leaving, and at her side, be
hind tho pillar, where he had stood
throughout the ceremony, he saw his
son.
For just one instant the two men
hesitated. Then the Dean's arms were
about the grown man, as if ho were
tUe little boy whom he had lost.
"You must come home," he said.
"This day I have taken two children
into my Father's house."
SOME NATURAL SOAP PLANTS
Weeds of the Southwest That Will
Produce a Copious
Lather.
In western Nebraska and Kansas, in
Colorado, New Mexico and parts of
Utah, Arizona, Texas and Mexico,
grow the plants commonly known as
Spanish bayonet, bear grass or soap
weed, the Philadelphia Inquirer ob
serves. The first name is suggested by the
stiff, sharp-pointed leaves that stand
like a cluster of bayonets round the
crown of the plant, as If to protect tho
tall spike of large, greenlsh-whito flow
ers that shoots up during tho early
summer. The last named comes from
tho use that the native peoples of
these regions have long made of the
plant, for it contains a substance
known as saponin, whloh forms a lath
er in water much like that of Boap. The
material can be used to wash articles
that would be injured by the alkalis
oi" ordinary soaps. The roots of the
plant, which contain most of the soap
like substances, are generally used.
The Indians bruise these roots be
tween two stones and put them into
cold water to steep for a few minutes.
Then they stir tho mixture vigorously
and rub it between their hands, an
operation that soon produces a copi
ous lather. Then they throw away the
root fibers and use the suds they have
produced.
Soap manufacturers have begun to
use soap weed in making a mild soap
for the toilet and for washing deli
cate fabrics. Ranchmen, on whose
land the soap weed is a nuisance, can
often sell it for enough to pay for
clearing the land. The weed can be
dug at any time, dried, baled and sent
by rail to the soap factories. The spe
cies of soap weed most commonly em
ployed is the large fruited Spanish
bayonet, Yucca baccata, the fruits of
which were formerly eaten, when
dried, by the Indians. Another com
mon species, Yucca glauca, is also em
ployed as a source of the vegetable
soap.
A Crab's Ingenious Disguise.
There is a species of small crab
found upon the English coast that is
so afraid of its enemies that it has
found out, or perhaps been taught, a
clever way to hide itself. An English
man had one of these crabs as a pet,
and he was lucky enough to visit the
creature when it was in the very act
of making his "wig." The crab first
tore off a piece of green, ribbonlike
seaweed with his pincers and placed
one end tn(his mouth. This, he sucked
and nibbled and mplstened with some
secretion of the nature of glue, that
hardens under water, and then he
pressed the sticky end upon his back.
By and by his back was covered with
a regular green and waving wig, so
that, as he crawled about, he looked
like a bunch of seaweed in gentle
motion. It is to be presumed that
such a- crab makes a sweet mouthful
for a hungry fish, and that he makes
the wig to prevent his being gobbled
up. From time to time, of course, the
wig requires repairing.
Ancient History.
Jonah had Just been swallowed by
the whale. Gazing about his narrow
quarters, he said: "Oh, well, this isn't
any worse than the flat I've been liv
ing in." Whereupon he doubled him
self and proceeded to take a nap.
Result of Association.
"This aviator's assistant takes too
readily to the business."
"In what way?"
"He has been at it only a week and
here he wants a raise."
"Something Just a Good."
During the prevalence of high prices
for drugs many citizens have taken to
fresh air, sunshine and good foods,
with excellent results. Chicago News.
GINGHAM
Gingham is coming back Into fash
ion. Its more luxurious Bister,
5hecked linen, has been raised to tho
Uip notch of atyle, and tho American
Afternoon Frock With Yellow Taf
feta Bodice end Organdie Skirt
Trimmed With Bands of Blue Vel
vet. The Collar in the Bodice and
the Sash Are of the Velvet.
makers of the commonplace Scotch
fabric have Immediately put it out on
the counters.
The wide and the small checks
form the leading design. The square
of color may be bright or dark blue,
black, apple green or golden brown,
and if you want t be in the fore
front of fashion, remember to use
the check rather than the stripe.
The prophets say that the popu
larity of the latter is on the wane
and that polka dots and squares will
grow in power with the sun. The
polka dot is already dancing about
the town. One already has the chance
to wonder, with Peter Sewell, that if,
when passing a girl wearing a polka
dot frock, one played a little tune,
would the dots come out to dance?
The trouble is that one does not have
a flute or a mouth organ in the pocket
at the right moment.
Well, the polka dots and the chocks
will surely shelve the stripes, and
linen, tussor and gingham are the
fabrics that bear these designs once
again, as In the sane and wiser days
when women dressed according to
the climate. For decades, It has
been an American Joke that if a man
turned up his trousers. It was rain
ing in London, which was merely an
admission to man's slavlshness to Eng
lish fashions; but recently, women
have worn the fashions of icy St.
Moritz on tho hottest days of an
American August.
The American climate calls for cot
ton, linen and Chinese silks when it
is at its worst, from the fifteenth of
June to the fifteenth of September.
Gingham is cheap and most admir
able frocks of it can be made at
home; and with its advent into fash
ion, women should make the best of
it. The blue and white checked linen
is also admirable, even if a bit more
expensive than gingham, and the
dressmakers have already turned to
it for frocks for garden parties and
even for afternoon weddings in the
open.
The emphasis that fashion allows
us to put upon belts and girdles ukr
lows us to swing a gown into signifi
cance through this means.
USE FOR CRASH REMNANTS
Great Number of Useful Articles May
Be Made If One Has the
Time to Spare.
Often in her rambles In the shops
tho watchful needlewoman will be
able to pick up small remnants of
crash. Just a little too long for towels
or of too fine a quality. These she
can make up into numerous artistic
and useful articles if she but takes
the time.
There is a new kind of fudge apron
which calls for a fine crash toweling.
A straight piece of toweling about
three-quarters of a yard long makes
the front of the apron, reaching to the
shoulders. To this are attached straps
which pass over the shoulders, cross
in black and fasten to the front piece
Just at tho waistline at the sides. This
is a little cooler apron than the kind
which slips over the head, and has
an entire back of the crash and re-
SMALL THINGS THAT COUNT
Good Supply of Adjustable and Wash
able Collar and Cuffs Makes
for Appearance.
Like Phoebe Suow, of travel fame,
the girl, who Is well supplied with
adjustable collars and cuffs of wash
able and cleanslble materials will al
ways be smart and good to look upon.
These are requisites of the wardroge
one can hardly do without, if we are
to be presentable with a limited ward
robe at home or traveling abrond.
Widely different in design nnd fabric
they are, yet excellent in style and
easily obtained, for shops generally
are supplied with very good assort
ments of these essentlul accessories of
dress.
The severely tailored set is to be
had In crash, linen and woolen fab
rics that are easily cleaned. Machine
stitching and covered button molds
give the snappy trimming touch. Dain
tier and more feminine Is the crisp
white organdie set with ruffles of accordion-plaited
net. Orgundle-covered
buttons set out In trim rows, nnd well-
IS BACK
quires less material, a yard being al
most enouvh. A suitable cross-stitch
design is worked at the bottom of the
apron, and the entire edgo Is blmikct
Btltched with bltio, even to the Join
ings of the Btraps at the shoulder lino
Snups under covered bnttonB hold tho
straps at the Bides.
A mending bag of generous propor
tions can be mado from a, length of
narrow crash. The top Is slightly
curved out to fit the waist nnd a bi'lt
of crash starts from one side and
snaps at the other. The bottom is
turned up Into a deep pocket, which
is embellished on the outside with a
design of scattered buttons, spools of
thread, scissors, etc. The entire edge
of the bag Is blanket-stitched.
COLORING RUGS AND CARPETS
If Not Too Much Worn It Will Pay to
Freshen Them How It Should
Be Done.
If the faded Ingrain or other carpet
shows no holes, It will pay to color
It. After denting It nnd cleaning ull
NpiiU with noni and water or pi"1""'
lay It Hut on the Moor and follow the
directions on the package. Apply
while hot with a Kcrubbrush. This will
color one iile. Fiber rug and plain
carpets tuny lie fivsheiied wonderfully
la this Iiiiiiiikt. L'se light blue mi a
blue rug, tan or orange for brown,
liuht givi'ii for a green rug. Do not
get the dye too J:irk or the rug will
look niuihly.
To remove Ink from a run 'or cnipef,
Immediately sop sweet mil It over the
spot and dry lis much ns possible with
a dry cloth. Then apply gasoline to
take out the grease that the milk
would otherwise leave. To remove soot
from a carpet sprinkle the spot with
salt. Let the salt remain on the spot
for about twenty inlnuies, then sweep
it hard with a broom. The spot will
disappear.
TAKES WASTE FROM ICEBOX
Refrigerator Drain That Will Be
Found a Great Convenience in
the Kitchen.
A great deal of time can be saved
and trouble avoided by disposing of
the waste water from your refrigera
tor as Indicated by the accompanying
sketch.
Every housewife knows the advan
tages of this simple device.
Any size of hose or funnel will do.
as the holes are bored to tit. The
funnel is set Just low enough to allow
the refrigerator to be rolled out from
the wall without disturbing the appa-
jnoar piece.
Of GM9CM Hose-
notes eaco
ro fir Hose
ratus. The hose may also be led to
the cellar drain if such connection is
convenient. Dakota Farmer.
SUMMER FASHIONS
. The peplum Is still with us. Many
summer blouses are made with a short
skirt like Russian blouses or a
shorter peplum that Is worn outside
tho skirt.
Striped parasols are effective with
plain colored or white suits.
Some of the new boudoir caps
which are often called negligee caps
now, by the way are made like chil
dren's bonnets, with strings to tie un
der the chin.
Pockets are more and more capa
clous. Many of the new linen frocks
for summer wear have huge pockets,
almost like bags, applied on the
skirts.
A charming new hat is trimmed
with real butterflies, properly dried,
and placed under white tulle for pro
tection. New Coiffures.
Brush the hair smoothly back from
the forehead, then place three little
curls at the nape of the neck.
Wave the hair, part in the middle
and place a few curls over the ears
and a topknot at the crown of the
head, or the hair may be combed
straight back with two curls falling
over each ear.
Draw the hair softly back over fore
head and ears and place two puffs
at the crown of the head.
Brush the hair very smoothly back
In French-knot style and place a
large fancy pin in the moBt becoming
place.
spaced tucks give distinction to this
set.
Quilt Protector.
Quilt or blanket protectors, stamped
for embroidery, cost 35 cents. They
are strips of sheer lawn to tack over
the end of the quilt or blanket that
comes at the head of the bed, in con
tact with the face. They can be sim
ply hemmed or edged with a nar
row val lace, fulled on. The pat
terns for embroidery are slmpfe and
can be done in white cotton or in
colored cotton to match the stripe in
the blanket or the figure in the com
forter. Shade of 1830.
A quaint dress of brown satin at
tracted much notice on Fifth t- enue
the other day. The skirt was ruffled
to the hips with scant bias frills two
inches wide. The front was slit to
the waist and rippled back over a
white organdie petticoat, trimmed with
Innumerable rows of ruffled black
moire ribbon. The coat waist was
short and tight fitting and fastened ia
the front by two fcojs of gold braid.
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ni AVOIDS '
OPERATION
Medicine Which Made Sur
geon's Work Unnecessary.
Astoria, N. Y. "For two yeara 1
Was feeling ill and took all kinds of
tonics. 1 was ecu
i n b worn e every Jay.
1 had chilis.my bead
would ache. I was
always tired. I could
not walk straight
because of the pain
In my back and 1 had
pains in my stom
ach. I went to a
doctor and he said I
must go under an
operation, but J did
not go. I read in
the DaDer about
Lydla E. Tinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and told my husband about it I
aaid 'I know nothing will help me but I
will try this.' I found myself improv
ing from the very first bottle, and in two
weeks time I was able to sit down and
eat a hearty breakfast with my hus
band, which I had not done for two years.
I am now in the best of health and
did not have the operation." Mrs.
John A. Koenig, 502 Flushing Avenue,
Astoria, N. Y.
Every one dreads the surgeon's knlfa
and the operating table. Sometimes
nothing else will do; but many times
doctors say they are necessary when
they are not Letter after letter comes
to the Pinkham Laboratory, telling how
operations were advised and were not
performed' or, if performed.did no good,
but Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound was used and good health followed,
If you wnnt adrfoe rrit" to
Lydla i;. I'inkhaiii Medicine Co.
(conli'lcutial), Lynn. Alnss,
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
A tollrt preparation of merit.
Ilolpt to rswilt at dandruff.
For RaMtorinc Color and
BtMut? to Gray or Faded ft-Ulr
fcin. and at nn.
FOR ACUTE ACHES OF THE FEET
Hprlnkle one or two AUeo' Foot-Eime powder
lu the t oot liulii aud 8ouk unci rul the fret. II
tJikr. the Httug out of 1'orn. uud HunlouM and
Binurtluir, acuilij( frrt. Tueu for lumiutr comfort,
.liuke A.li-u's Foot-Kue luto your huosh. All
dealer, wll It, 'i'x'. hanijjie (mi'kuKB JTRKU,
AdJrraH, Alleu 8. Olumti'd, La Buy, N. Y.
f Every Woman W anta
FDD prDCONll HYf.lFNF.
Ditaolred in water for douches stops
pelvic catarrh, ulceration and Inflam
mation. Recommended by Lydia E.
Pinkham Med. Co, for tea years.
A healing wonder for naal catarrh,
am throat and tore are. Economical.
Hu extraordinary clean iini and germicidal power.
ISampI Fra. 50c all draggBU, or mtpaid Of
ninnTltPajrtnrOroroTTUMyBoit
Investigate the Onion.
Tho homely onion bus been the sub
ject of an Inquiry by a ltrittah com
mittee whose duty it was to eo Into
the matter of Its high cost. The re
port of the committee reveals the fact
that the present lil'h rate- of the onion
Is due to the stoppage of Import from
Holland and P.elgium and to the dimin
ished import from Kgypt and Spain.
It Is pointed out that onions can be
grown In England, and to woman gar
deners of even quite amateur experi
ence the contemplative cult of the
onion is to be recommended as real
and useful war work.
HEAL YOUR SKIN TROUBLES
With Cuticura, the Quick, Sura and
Easy Way. Trial Free
Bathe with Cuticura Soap, dry and
apply the Ointment. They stop itch
ing instantly, clear away pimples,
blackheads, redness and roughness, re
move dandruff and scalp irritation,
heal red, rough and sore hands as
well as most baby skin troubles.
Free sample each by mall with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv.
Activities of Women.
Thirty women are practicing dentis
try in Missouri.
Miss Mary ltobertson Is a United
Stntes deputy marshal In Topeka, Kan.
Fifteen women will attend the Demo
cratic national convention as dele
gates. For the first time In the history of
the Republican conventions, women
were employed to ussist in guard
duty.
Mrs. Robert Lansing, wife of the sec
retary of state, is one of the "rookies"
in the woman's camp near Washing
ton. Druggists Know Best Mm
for Kidney Troubles
During the twenty-five years that I
have been selling Dr. Kilmer's Swamp
Root I have never heard a complaint, as
my customers always tpeak favorably re
garding it. Three parties have informed
me that they have been restored to health
by the use of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-ltoot
after suffering from Rheumatism, Liver
trouble and Gravel. It is a pleasure to me
to sell Swamp-Root as I believe it is the
best medicine on the market for kidney,
liver and bladder complaints.
Verv truly yours,
ED. ROETHLKIN, Druggist, ,
1101 12th St., Cor. Monroe,
Lynchburg, Va.
Personally appeared before me this 1st
day of November, 1915, Ed. Roethlein.
who subscribed the above statement and
made oath that the same is true ia sub
stance and in fact.
W. E. HAWKS,
Notary Public.
Prove Whit Swamp-Root Will Do For Ym
Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton. N. V., for a sample size bot
tle. It will convince anyone. You will
also receive a booklet of valuable infor
mation, Celling about the kidneys and blad
der. When writing, be sure and mention
this paper. Regular fifty-cent and one
dollar size bottles for sale at. all druf
stores. Adv.
The fatter a woman gets the easlet
it is for her to believe other women
are unable to notice it.
Red Cross Ball Blue, made in America,
therefore the best, delights the housewife.
All good grocers. Adv.
Kvery dreamer expects to accom
plish wonders when he wakes up.
Honesty Is a good thing in connec
tion with Insurance policies.
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