The Springfield herald., May 02, 1913, Image 3

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The Kitchen
Cabinet
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sider,
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When everythin* seems to grow wrong.
That the fault that we think Is another s
Has been our own all the day long?
WAYS OF ÜBINQ CORN.
Green corn 1b usually preferable In
moßt of these dishes, although the
canned will give good results.
As a vegetable, corn is so often
served with butter and milk, and thlß
monotony grows tiresome. A salad, a
souffle, fritters and any number of
combinations are good.
Corn Souffle-— Melt a tablespoonful
of butter and add to it a tablespoonful
of sifted flour; stir until smooth, then
add one by one three beaten egg
yolks and a cup of hot milk. Cook
until smooth, add a cup of corn, fresh
or canned, season with salt and pep
per, then fold in the well beaten
whites. Put into a buttered mold or
Into individual molds and bake in a
hot oven twenty minutes. Serve in
the dish in which it is baked.
Baked Tomatoes and Corn. —Select
small-sized tomatoes of uniform size,
scoop out the pulp from the stem end
without peeling; turn upside down and
drain. Mix a cup of corn with two
eggs, a tablespoonful of butter and one
of flour, creamed together; season
well with salt and pepper, fill with the
mixture and bake in a moderate oven
twenty minutes. Serve with a garnish
of parsley.
Corn Salad. —This is best with fresh
ly boiled corn cut from the cob. Use
equal quantities of corn and freshly
boiled rice; season and add sufficient
mayonnaise. Serve in lettuce cups,
very cold.
If one can get fresh clams, corn
and clams make a most delightful
combination. Chop half a green pep
per and a slice of onion together; cook
in a quarter of a cupful of butter un
til soft, add a quarter of a cupful of
flour and stir until foapay. Heat a pint
of clams in their own juice, drain and
chop. Measure the clams and take
equal parts of fresh grated corn. Add
three-quarters of a cup of the clam
juice, after straining, to the butter and
flour; add two beaten eggs and three
tablespoonfuls of cream, and stir into
the clam juice, but do not boil. But
ter some clam shells, put in the mix
ture and cover with buttered crumbs.
Serve on a napkin on a hot platter.
Garnish with parsley.
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LEARNED essayist writes of
"the Isolation of fine manners,”
Ka nnaaHnnflll whpthpr
but It may well be questioned whetner
manners which do Isolate really are fine.
The perfection of breeding creates an at
mosphere which brings out the best that
Is In others and which helps all well
meaning people to feel comfortable and
at ease. We admire the grandeur and
glitter of a glacier, but It holds no home
like suggestion.
A FEW CHANGES IN BREAD.
The staff of life is bread, so a few
variations of that Btaple may not come
amiss.
Whole Wheat Bread.—Take a pint
of whole wheat flour, a teaspoonful of
soda and two of cream of tartar, a
teaspoonful of salt and three-fourths
of a pint of cold water. Sift the dry
ingredients together, then add the wa
ter; stir well, then place in a well
greased tin, cover with buttered pa
per and steam for one hour. Remove
and bake In the oven, which gives it
a crisp, nutty flavor.
Southern Bpoon bread.—Pour a cup
of boiling water on half a cup of corn
meal, stirring briskly to keep it from
lumping; cook five minutes over the
heat, add a tablespoonful of butter,
half a teaspoonful of salt, then remove
from the Are and add a half cup of
milk, a well beaten egg; pour into a
well buttered baking dish and bake
in a moderate oven twenty minutes,
letting it brown well before remov
ing. Serve from the dish with a ta
blespoon.
Fig Bread. —When the bread dough
!b risen, take two cupfuls of it and
put into a bowl, add a half cup of but
ter ,a pound of sugar, a cup of milk,
a pound each of raisins and figs, a tea
spoonful of salt, spices to taste; mix
all together and place in bread pana.
The fruit is cut fine and mixed with
flour, so that it is evenly distributed.
About two cupfuls of flour will be
needed. Make into loaves and bake
when well risen.
Bran Bread.—Take four cupfuls of
wheat bran, two cups of whole wheat
flour, three-fourths of a cup of New
Orleans molasses, a teaspoonful of
Good Advice.
Don't use a noun and then an adjec
tive that crosses out the noun. An ad
jective qualities, it cannot contradict.
Don't say: “Give me a patriotism that
Is free from all boundaries.” It is like
saying: "Give me a pork pie with no
pork in it.” Don't say: “I look forward
to that larger religion that shall have
no special dogmas.” It is like saying:
-I look forward to that larger quadru
ped who shall have no feet.” A quad
ruped means something with four
feet; and a religion means something
Famous Statue In Mexico City.
One of the chief works of art in
Mexico City is tho bronze equestrian
statue of Charles IV. It is called "The
Iron Horse,” and "The Little Horse.”
It stands in the Plaza Do la Reforma.
Visible from many directions, it serves
for a landmark to visitors unacquaint
ed with tho southwestern part of the
city. It was, according to Perry’s
‘ Mexico,” tho first important bronze
statue made in America. Humboldt de
clared it the Becond finest equestrian
stetue in the world,_the first being, in
salt, a teaspoonful of soda, two cup
fuls of sweet milk, two tablespoonfuls
of shortening, a few raisins, if so de
sired, and bake one hour.
Graham Bread. —A cupful of flour,
half a cupful of sugar, half a teaspoon
ful of salt, two cupfuls of butter milk
and two level teaspoonfuls of soda.
Beat well and pour into a well but
tered pan and bake one hour.
F
UIENDSHIP fragrant
As the breath of flowers
Adds grace and sweetness
To the darkest hours.
Two Stiches in Time Save Eighteen.
HELPFUL HINT8.
Keep a piece of gum camphor in the
silver chest; it will keep the silver
bright.
When the hard wood floors get too
impossible, buy a bunch of steel wool,
a package of soap powder, and get to
work with a pair of old gloves. Use
the wool with a paper between it and
the gloved hand, hot water with lots
of the soap. Scour off the wood until
it looks like new, dry it and then pro
ceed with either wax or varnish. This
is not an easy piece of work, but it
will well repay one for the energy ex
pended.
When cleaning hard wood floors, use
a cloth dipped in oil, rather than wa
ter. A freshly painted floor can be
kept looking like new if a kerosene
dampened cloth is used to wipe it.
A little paraffin used on the kitchen
range and well rubbed in will keep a
steel range looking like new. This is
a good treatment to give the stoves
before closing the house for the sum
mer, as it keeps the stoves from rust
ing.
One day after the painied walls of
the kitchen had been well steamed
from a boiler of water on the stove,
we tried wiping the walls, and found
that they cleaned very easy; hence
forth we steam them, first and save
much hard work in cleaning.
A fine way to clean paint brushes is
to soak them in hot vinegar, then
wash in hot soap suds. The brushes
will then be soft and clean.
Mirrors are quickly and nicely
cleaned by rubbing them with a cloth
dampened with alcohol.
Save old pieces of outing flannel
for floor cloths. Then wipe the dust
well and are soft to wring when want
ed for scrubbing cloths.
Muriatic acid will dissolve lime in a
teakettle, but it will be wise to be
sure that it is well boiled out with
fresh water before using. This acid
is also good to remove water stains
in sink and porcelain bowls.
Before working in the garden, fill
the nails with soap, then there will
be no stained finger nails when the
work is done.
Whose de
HE sweetest lives are those to
duty wed,
ll Front small.
Whoso deeds, both great small.
Are close-knit Btrands of an unbroken
thread,
Where love ennobles all.
THE KITCHEN GARDEN.
Of course, people who live in the
country, or in small towns, where they
have a generous space for a garden,
will do many more things for their
families thereby than they who have
but a few square feet for the garden.
Even people who live in cloßely set
tled cities, where there is nothing but
an ash barrel or garbage can for a
background, have made the barrel to
blossom like the rose. Fill a barrel
with well-rotted horse manure and
plant some seeds of radish and cucum
bers in it. If it has a warm, sunny
place, you can grow your cucumbers
on a rack, using care to wet the
ground, not the platat, when watering,
and soon you will be rewarded by a
good crop of crisp and refreshing cu
cumbers.
If you have urns or tiles for plants
in the grounds, too early for their
rightful possessors, sow radish and let
tuce seed in them. They will grow
like weeds in the warm sun and be
ready to vacate the place by the time
you wish to put the plants out.
Three square feet for a lettuce bed
will supply the family all summer
with nice crisp salad. If one likes
head lettuce, it needs more room, is
worth more in time and trouble, but
pays for all the time put into it.
that commits a man to Borne doctrine
about the universe. Don't let the meek
substantlative be absolutely murdered
by the joyful exuberant adjective.—
G. K. Chesterton in “A Miscellany of
Men.”
Agreed With Her.
Lady—Why, you naughty boy. 1
never heard such language since the
day I was born.
Small Boy —Yes, mum; I s'pose dere
wuz a good deal of cussin’ de day you
wuz born.—Tit-Bitß.
his opinion, that of Marcus Aurelius
at Rome. It has over been unpopular
with the Mexicans. It has occupied
several sites in the city, and its sev
eral removals have caused it to be
dubbed "El Cabilllto do Troya" (the
Little Trojan Horse).
Safer Way.
"Why do you let tho policeman
gobble your peanuts?”
"I don’t want to be murdered,” an
swered the New York vender, with a
grin.—Bostou Post.
HERE IS SMALL MODEL
REMARKABLY PRETTY HAT FOR
THE LITTLE MAID.
c ashioned In the Braids and Pressed
Hats, and In Panamas—Trim
mings May Be Entirely a Mat
ter of Preference.
Just an all-around, good little hat
which may be worn any where, is the
pretty little model shown here. This
shape is found (or others very like it)
In all the braids and pressed hats and
In Panamas. It is to be found trim
med with flowers, or with feathers in
the straight stick-up effects; it is a
favorite decorated with stiff ribbon
bows wired to stand up in front or
protrude at the back. Trimmed In
these ways, made in all colors it is a
favorite and a smart street style.
When it must do duty for all round
wear, including automoblling. It is
trimmed to accommodate the veil to
be worn with 1L The broad, folded
sash of ribbon and the large 'milliner
made rose of velvet, which appear in
the illustration show a development
which fits the hat for all sorts of wear.
The shape fits well and provides
some protection for the eyes. The
small face veil for the street and
traveling, or the big chiffon veil for
driving add to its protection of the
•yes and face.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
DICTATES OF FASHION.
Colored embroidered trimming will
be used on the new cottons.
Many beautiful evening gowns are
oomposod of rich gold brocaded tis
sues.
Green in many tones is also a favor
ite color, especially dark Venetian
green.
Many afternoon dresses appear in
crepon sole, crepe de chine and crepon
gauffee.
Charming silk and lace trimmed
dresses or mousseline draped satin
toilets are used.
Lights on Table.
Candles in colors to match the color
scheme are used for decoration and
light on the dinner table. If one can
delabrum is used, it is placed in the
center of the table; if two or more
they are placed at the ends. Single
candlesticks are set at Intervals along
the sides and on the corners of the
table.
MAY BE MADE IN TWO WAYS
Useful and Pretty Pincushion the De
sign for Which May Be Made
Either Circular or Oval.
'New ideas for pincushions are al
ways and our sketch shows
a cushion of a particularly useful and
practical type, which can be made on
the same lines either circular or oval
in shape. In both cases a cushion
must be made of the required else
and shape first, and trimmed after
wards, and for a round cushion two
circular pieces of material must be
cut out and sewn on to a band, and
diagram B illustrates this.
Then the upper surface of the
cushion is covered with pale pink
silk, on which the floral design con
sisting of four white daisies and
green leaves, shown in diagram A,
has been embroidered. The sides of
the cushion are loosely draped with
soft pale pink silk, and the edges are
MAKING THE HAT ORIGINAL
Many Good Features About Millinery
That Is Put Together by One’s
Own Hands.
Never has it been easier to trim
your own hat. In the days when it
was necessary to adjust a bandeau to
make and fasten in rolls and rosettes
of mallne and then to arrange on the
top of tbe hat quantities of compli
cated trimming the task of making a
home-made hat was arduous, and the
results usually Impossible. But for
the last few years—this season espe
cially—it is an easy enough matter
for a person with a distinct idea of
the effect she wants to produce to
trim a hat in a satisfactory and pro
fessional way.
Everything today depends on the
line of the hat Itself, in the absence
of built-up trimming, so first select
a becoming shape. Then, with the ex
quisite feathers, plumes and orna
ments of plumetis, the task is easy.
The only disappointment now in the
homemade hat is that it is no bargain
counter product It often costs as
CHOOSING THE VISITING CARD
Many Kinds to Select From, and If
Really Becomes Blmply a Matter
of One’e Own Choice.
You drop into a.stationer’s and ask
in a casual tone for new visiting cards.
The salesman inquires: "What kind,
madam?” Hundreds of cards are
whirled at you. You are informed
that Mrs. Murray-Lothrop never übcb
old English lettering; you are assured
that Mrs. Rutledge-Harmon prefers
her cards to read with three names;
those of her husband and herself and
of her daughter. Your husband does
not wish to use his middle name In
full, but the man across tho counter
lifts his eyebrows and tells you that
initials may have been in style when
George Washington was the first gen
tleman of America, but they are not
used now by anyone who pretends to
know social conventions.
When you have decided on the en
tirely correct thing, which is a thin
square bit of white pasteboard with
your name in full, engraved in block
letters, shaded with the address be
neath in the corner, then you will In
stantly wonder If it would not have
been wiser to have ordered shaded old
English lettering, which has now ta
ken .the place of plain old English. The
public will answer that question by
saying that block letters are neater,
cleaner and easier to read.
What about your husband's cards?
asks the man across the counter. Your
first impulse is to wonder why your
husband cannot attend to his own
cards, but when you are reminded that
it is in better taste for the cards of
the family to correspond in size and
lettering you turn to the task with
more confidence. You choose an ob
long bit of pasteboard with his name
in full preceded by Mr. and followed
in the lower corner with hlB address.
You sigh. This task is done for the
year, you think. At the moment of re
lief the man across the counter asks
whether all of your husband’s carda
shall bear the name of his club. Now
this is the one question for him to de
cide. There is also the question of the
bill—it is a wise plan to let him de
cide on paying that, too—as his share
of the bargain.
NEW MODE IN MOUCHOIRS
Smartest Marking for the Handker
chief le Undoubtedly the Undec
orated Initials.
Undecorated initials, either script
or blocked, are the smart marking for
handkerchiefs. Among the daintiest
of these are the fine white linens fin
ished with a tiny edge of Armenian
lace. The Longfellow type of Initial
surrounded by an elaborate decora
tion also Is used, but chiefly on the
a-jour hemmed handkerchiefs among
which are found many carrying Ori
ental initial designs.
One corner designs, showing a pat
tern starting close to the decorated
edge and running toward the hand
kerchiefs center, are liked and wom
en who go In for variety in small ac
cessories are taking to the one-side
embroidered moueboir. With the
morning shirt eraist frock for the
house but one type of handkerchief
is carried—the square of lawn and solid
color with narrow border in contrast
ing tone.
Cluny laces are used In touches of
trimming at the neck and sleeves on
many of the more expensive gowns.
finished off with a fine pink and
white silk cord.
For an oval cushion, four inches In
length, two and a half Inches in
width, and an inch and a half in
height is a useful little size in which
to make it, and for the circular cush
ion three and a half inches in diame
ter and an inch and a half in height.
Charming Crepe de Chine Blouse.
Yoke effects are much the vogue
now, and some of the new shirtwaists
and costume blouses for spring Bhow
shallow yokes in effective combina
tion with very open collars. A blouse
of this sort was made of crepe de
chino In a new rich shade of blue.
The shallow yoke over the shoulders
was attached to the gathered blouse
under corded piping, the yoke extend
lng down to form a long shoulder
line. A broad, very low collar of the
crepe de chine opened In front of the
point of Intersection of yoke and
waist, and over this broad collar
turned back an equally low but nar
row white moire silk collar. The long
sleeves had deep, fitted cuffs of the
crepe, and narrower turn back cuffs
of white moire. This smart and artis
tic little blouse accompanied a spring
traveling costume of blue silk and
wool lansdowne In the same shade.
Baby’s Bath Gowns.
Bath gowns for babies are made by
crippled children and sold for three
dollars. They are well made, of
durable material, and are both sensi
ble and attractive. They are made
of Turkish toweling with embroidered
collars and cuffs of fine pique. The
toweling and pique are all white, and
the embroidery is done in blue.
much as that found trimmed in the
millinery shop, for good feathers and
shapes with the right line cost a
pretty penny. However, the woman
who wants to be original can bo so
at a smaller expense if she trims her
own hat than if she purchased a real
ly distinctive hat ready trimmed.
Bits of Color.
The irrepressible little colored flow
er bouquet consisting of a tiny flow
er of conventional form, but strange
color, set inside two green leaves,
crops up in the new summer materials
more than ever insistent. A decora
tive effect is so easily gained by this
odd little combination that one cannot
wonder at tho continued success.—
Harper’s Bazar.
When Peggy Was Engaged.
Tho girls gave her a lavender lunch
eon because she loved that color.
There were the usual sandwiches and
sweetmeats, but the feature of the
feast came last—a shower bouquet of
lavender and pink sweet 'peas, with a
dainty gift attached to the end of
each ribbon.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Farmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matter, Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
Consultation Is better than dicta
tion.
Success results from believing In
possibilities.
Speaking of the profits crop, the
milk and feed scales help to grow It.
The man who relies on luck dines
on tomorrow and sups on yesterday.
Experience is the only hired man
that never does anything without
pay.
The small co-operative thresher In
the dairy community Is gaining popu
larity.
He who never takes a day off
doesn’t have the proper estimate of
the true value of a day.
The ordinary farmer always feels
proud of hlB team when he passes an
automobile with a “busted” tire.
When you take the boy to the cir
cus, let mother and the girls go along
too to help keep him out of danger.
Turning the grindstone ,In the hot
sun generally turns a boy's thoughts
to the cool, dim aisles of the stores
In the city.
Sometimes little leaks lead to large
ones, which eventually turn profit
Into lobs. It is the successful man
who looks after the leaks.
You may be able to bank on your
friends, but you will always find that
a balance in the bank Is more de
pendable whenever you need cash.
LOWER PRICE OF PRODUCTS
By Wise and State-Wide Co-operation
Farmer Might Get Much More
Than at Present.
The cost of living and the prices
paid the farmer are both higher than
over before, so we are told almost
dally by our observant newspapers.
Perhaps both propositions are true,
says the Utah Farmer. We live In a
prosperous age, and we should expect
to pay more for our living. If the
prices paid the farmer for > his prod
ucts had not gone up, the farmer
would have had to go out of business
or else submit again to the slavery
of feudal conditions.
However, it Is not the farmer who
has made the prices of foodstuffs
Boar. For most crops the farmer still
Is content to accept what he Is of
fered. Someone else fixes his prices
for him and for the consumer ahd
someone reaps a rich harvest from
the difference between the cost price
and the retail price.
The middleman has his place. The
farmer has no quarrel with him. If
there should be too many middlemen,
the surplus are Invited to become
farmers. We have room and to spare.
The farmers, however, are beginning
to tire of methods of distribution,
whereby the selling prices of his prod
ucts are fixed for him by men who
have little or no interest in his prob
lems. In no other business is it done.
Shortly he will refuse to submit to It.
By a wise co-operation of a state-wide
nature, not anarchistic but construc
tive, the farmer could regulate the
prices of his own products. He might
not got much more than he does now,
! but it probably would be more steady
from year to year, and undoubtedly It
would reduce largely the cost to the
ultimate consumer. This is one way
by which the high cost of living can
be reduced, and also by which the
man of the city and the man of the
country can become acquainted and
help each other.
WHAT CO-OPERATOIN MEANS
If Widely' Extended and Wisely Man
aged It Would Give the Producer
Great Profit*.
Cold storage is an evil only when
controlled by dishonest men; properly
conducted It equalizes values, regu
lates the supply of food products that
conform to supply and provide the
steady market and consequently
greater profits and more satisfaction
to the producer.
Co-operation among farmers. If
widely extended and wisely managed
would do the same thing. It would
prevent the rushing of crops to mar
ket when prices are low, provide
capital to hold them, prevent -ruinous
competition, reduce the cost of selling
and prevent losses through the mid
dleman.
During a period last year when the
receipts of eggs at Chicago and other
large cities were exceptionally heavy,
retail prices not only remained high
but actually advanced. Farmers rußhed
their eggs to market, accepting the
prices which were offered, which of
course constantly declined at the
Initial market, and were thus losers
to the extent of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars.
How? Because speculators, know
ing the weakness of farmers to sell on
n falling market, bought all the eggs
that were offered and placed them in
cold storage. In Chicago alone at ono
time there were 72,000,000 dozen eggs
in storago which had been taken off
the market in order to force retail
prices higher.
Tho same methods were observed
In all tho other big markets, though
no figures wore given out to show the
total number stored.
Oyster Shells for Fowls.
The proper way to feed oyster shell
is to have a small box of it within
reach, so tho fowls may help them
selves at will. Mixing it in the morn
ing mash is risky, as thero is a like
lihood that tho hens will consume
more than is required, and in conse
quence tho shells of tho eggs would
become too hard. Tho hens know
best when their system demands
more lime. It is a very rare case
when a hen gets too much if con
stantly within reach.
TWO TYPES OF COUNTRY LIFE
Easy Matter to Distinguish Between
Real Man and tho Drone—Both
Had Equal Chances.
To the officers and members of the
union:
A farmer driving to tho city with
a load of cotton, produce or on some
errand Is struck by the general neat
ness of some cottage, probably the
home of a workingman. Flowers
bloom in the yard, well-kept grass
grows on the lawn, the fences are neat
and painted, and there Is an air of
distinction about the place. You say,
“A sober, honest, Industrious man
mußt live there." Next door Is a
dirty, unkempt place, cans and trash
In the yard, fence falling down, and
a general atmosphere of unkemptness.
You say, "A shiftless, drinking, no ac
count chap lives there.”
But how much more noticeable
these things are out In the broad, open
country, where the air Is sweet, the
sunshine free of smoke and the stench
and filth of a great city.
You drive along a country road,
and come to a farm. Distinction
marks It in a hundred little ways.
The fences are all up, and no rotting
or tumbling railß are seen; the fence
corners are free of bushes, briers and
weeds; the ditches are clean-cut, with
no wide hedge of rank weeds grow
ing along either side, and the land
cultivated close up; the stumps and
rocks are out of the fields. Even the
rows and appearance of tho fields
themselves show the thrifty care of
inteligcnt application.
Presently you come to the house.
Flowers grow In the yards, which are
clean and well-kept, with a neatly
graveled walk leading up to the front
porch. Barns and out-houses are in
good repair, and no rusting farm tools
or machinery cluter yards or barn
lot.
And you know without a question
that here a real man lives, a man
that will do to trust, a business man;
he pays his obligations, and, moreover,
Is a real neighbor and a helpful one.
You will generally find, too, that he Is
thoughtful of his wife, daughters and
sons, that the boys want to stick to
the farm because dad Is all right and
he made a good living out of It.
So you drive on, and directly get
a shock. You come to a place with
the fences down, corners growing up
In weds; land washed for lack of prop
er drainage; stunted, weedy stuff
struggling to survive In the fleldß. No
paling surround the house, no flowers
grow in It, but a litter of every sort
of thing encumbers It. The roof of
the stable and barn are leaky, the
doors propped up, rusting farm tools
and machinery stand about corroding
In the weather. Four or five laxy
hounds sleep about the door or yard,
and everything about 1b desolate and
depressing. You will find without
query that a shiftless, Indolent, pur
poseless, don’t-care man lives there.
He couldn't get a cent.of credit from
anybody without security. His wife
Is a hopeless drudge, with Just energy
enough to crawl about; his daughters
run away and marry at the first oppor
tunity, and his boys go to town or
away from home as soon as they are
big enough to know enough to leave.
Up and down this nation I have
traveled, and I have seen both types
everywhere, and I have never made
Inquiries yet that I did not confirm
my views between the two—tho hust
ler and the drone. And often, too,
both men have equal chance In so far
ao productivity of the land goeß.
I see In my travels something In
this connection that makes me hope
ful. Tho first-named class is getting
moro numerous, and the last-named
fewer and fewer. Of course, we will
probably always have the don't-care
farmer, but his class is vanishing at
a gratifying rate, to be replaced by
alert, hard-working farmers who
realize that farming is a profession,
calling for high Intelligence and com
mon sense.
And as the profession of farming be
comes higher and better, you will see
a powerful and a contented nation.
C. 8. BARRETT.
Union City, Qa.
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Planting Peach Trees.
There Is not much difference In re
sults between fall and spring planting
of peach trees If planted early enough
in the spring. We plant any time dur
ing the winter when the ground Is In
condition, says a writer In an ex
change. In planting I don’t want a
tree too deep, only one or two Inches
deeper than It stood In the nursery.
I want the roots in natural soli and
not In the subsoil. I like a strong
tree and cut It back to a switch. If
we have a large tree we necessarily
destroy many roots In taking the tree
up and must then remove a large
part of the top to restore the natural
balance of root and leaf surface.
Cotton Seed Cake.
Cold pressed cottonseed cake pos
sesses a high feeding value, and with
corn and corn stover gave larger dally
gains than any combination of feeds
at the Nebraska station. This was
shown in a test for economical beef
production.
Keep Progressing.
If you are a dairyman keep up with
tho times. Keep growing, keep on
reading, keep Improving.
Plan Ahead.
If you have your plans all nicely
worked out beforehand. It will make
your day's work easier.
Fruit Trees.
Usually know tholr business better
than orchardlsts do. Therefore. If
they show a disposition to begin bear
ing, humor them and they will thank
you for it by plenty of fruit.
Helping Potatoes.
Tho harrowing of tho potato patch
need not wait until the plants are
through tho ground. Keeping the sur
face loose helps them to get through.
WOMAN SUFFERED
TEN YEARS
From Nervousness Caused by
Female 11ls —Restored to
Health by Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegeta
ble Compound.
Auburn, N. Y. —“ I suffered from
nervousness for ten years, and had such
organic pains that
B sometimes I would
lie in bed four days
at a time, could not
eat or sleep and did
not want anyone to
talk to me or bother
me at all. Some
times I would suffer
for seven hours at A
time. Different doc
tors did the best
they could for me
until four months ago I began giving
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound a trial and now I am in good
health.” Mrs. William H. Gill, 15
Pleasant Street, Auburn, New York.
44 Doctor's Daughter Took It/*
St. Cloud, Minn.—‘‘l was so run down
by overwork and worry that I could not
stand it to have my children talk aloud
or walk heavy on the floor. One of my
friends said, ‘Try Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound, for I know a doc
tor’s daughter here in town who takes
ft and she would not take it if it were
not good.’
41 1 sent for the Compound at once and
kept on taking it until I was all right. ”
—Mrs Bertha M. Quickstadt, 727 6th
Avenue, S., St. Cloud, Minn.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound may be 'relied upon as the most
efficient remedy for female ills. Why
don’t you try it? s.
YES, HE WANTED A SHAMPOO
Under the Circumstances Most Men
Would Have Felt That They Did
Really Need the Attention.
Barber—Poor Jim has been sent to
a lunatic asylum.
Victim (in chair) —Who’s Jim?
"Jim Is my twin brother, sir. Jim
has long been broodin’ over the hard
times, an’ I suppose he finally got
crazy.”
"Is that so?”
“Yes, he and mo has worked side by
side for years, and wo were so alike
wo couldn’t tell each other apart. We
both brooded a great deal, too. No
money in this business now.”
“What’s the reason?"
“Prices too low. Unless a customer
takes a shampoo it doesn't pay to
shave or haircut. Poor Jim, I caught
him trying to cut a customer’s throat
because he refused a shampoo, so I
had to have tho poor fellow locked up.
Makes me sad. Sometimes I feel sor
ry 1 didn't let him slash all he wanted
to. It might have saved his reason.
Shampoo, sir?”
“Yes!”
Much of World Unexplored.
Despite the discovery of both poles,
a large portion of the earth still re
mains unexplored. Roughly, it is esti
mated that about 7.000.000 square
miles, or approximately one-eighth of
the total land surface of the world. Is
still a mystery to civilization. Includ
ed In this area are vast tracts of
polar region, portions of Arabia, Jun
gle and -mountain in South America,
spreading wastes in Australia, re
gions in the Himalayas, dark haunts
In Borneo, and the Congo basin, and
stretches of the Sahara.
Shrewd Business Trick.
He had sold his farm to a neighbor
for a young heifer (this was east of
the Rockies) and he waH chuckling
visibly us he tied the heifer to the
back of the cart containing Ills house
hold goods. "What you l&ughinft at?”
his wife asked him. “Why,” he chor
tled, “that feller thinks that farm Is
forty acres and It’s sixty acres. I’ve
unloaded twenty more on him than ho
thinks!”
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that It
Bears the
Signature of (
In TTba Vr»r C
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Carried Paeeengers High in Air.
Pierre Gougenhelm, a young French
aviator, recently carried four passen
gers half a mile Into tho air, with
the wind blowing thirty-five miles an
hour, lie used a mammoth biplane
with a spread of wings of fifLy-six
feet.
Illogical.
“Can’t teach and be a mother, too,”
says the headlines on the antis' argu
ments. But It seems one can be a
washerwoman or a few hundred other
things ns well as a mother when ne
cessity calls. —New York Tribune.
Don’t be misled. A*k for Red Cross
Bag Blue. Makes beautiful white clothes.
At all good grocers. Adv.
Fortunately, one’s ambitions are not
limited to the attainable.
Helping a Woman
Generally means helping an entire family.
Her back aches so she can hardly drag
around. Her nerves are on edge and she
i 9 nearly wild. Headache and Sleepless
ness unfit her for the care of her family.
Rheumatic Pains and Lumbago rack her
Sbody. But, let her toko
Foley
Kidney Pills
and all these ailments
will disappear. She will
soon recover ber strength
and healthy activity for
Foley Kidney Pills are
healing, curative, strengthening and tonic*
a medicine far all Kidney, Bladder and
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