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CURED ECZEMA OF
THE SCALP
Mr. H. C. Berry, Baltimore, M<l„
writes: “For a great number of years
I suffered greatly with Eczema of the
scalp, -which during the warm weather
tormented me almost to death. I saw
several of the best Southern physicians
but none of them were able to do
anything for me. A traveling com
panion induced me to try a bottle
Of Hancock Liquid Sulphur. I first
used it diluted and it greatly relieved
me. Since then I have used it natural
strength and it has cured me com
pletely. I cannot speak too highly of
It and will gladly say more to anyone
who desires to know just what it has
done for me.”
Hancock Sulphur Compound and
Ointment are sold by all dealers.
Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Balti
more, Md. Write for Booklet. —Adv.
It’s Valuable Now.
When William Jessup, who formerly
operated a woolen mill in Princeton,
died 20 years ago, he left among his
effects a large keg of Russian red dye
stuff. Each housecleaniug time his son
in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles F. -Woods, had to shift it
around. Woods had tried to sell it
to wholesalers in vain; they didn’t
eed it.
"What’ll we do with this?” asked
Mr. Woods, when they cleaned house
last summer.
“Pile it on the trash heap and burn
It; I’m tired of looking at it,*' said
Mrs. Woods.
Heiag a dutiful husband, Mr. Woods
obeyed.
Nuw the Russian dye is said to be
unobtainable at any price, and the
amount that Mr. Woods burned would
have netted at this time from SSOO to
SI,OOO.
The losers philosophically agreed
that it’s no use to cry over "spilt
milk’’ and have dispensed with any
worry over “what might have been.”
—lndianapolis News.
A Will of Nineteen Words.
In one of the shortest wills on rec
urd, James H. Darling, who died on
December 3, 1915, cuts off liis sons
with but $1 each and leaves all the
rest of bis estate to his daughter. The
testament, which is dated February
10. 1910, was filed in the Orphans’
court. It contains nineteen words, as
follows;
“After death, I will my daughter.
Annie C. Darling, all my money and
belongings, except $1 to my sons.”—
Baltimore News.
Recommending Himself.
“Is it good form for a politician to
recommend himself so highly?”
“It’s a delicate question. A man
naturally feels some hesitation about
praising himself. Still, when he wants
to see the people get a good public
servant, what can he do better than
recommend someone in whom he has
perfect confidence?”
Simple Job and the Fancy Bill.
“Your bill doesn’t square with what
you told me before I went to the hos
pital, doctor.”
"What’s the matter?”
“You insisted that it was to be just
u simple little operation and there was
nothing at all to be alarmed at.” —
Detroit Free Press.
Strategy.
Mrs. Exe —You always have such
wonderful success in getting people to
come to your parties.
Mrs. Wye- Oh, I always tell the men
that it’s not to be a dress up affair,
and ttie women that it is.
Naturally So.
“\Vhat iB the principal use of re
peating rifles?”
"To make every shot tell.”
The spinster always says it is a
mistake to iilarry too young.
eg-—-■■■ ■ ■■ -
Concentrated
Satisfaction
A great many former users
of tea and coffee have learned
that there is a pure food
beverage made from wheat,
which has a delightful flavor.
It never exacts of its users
the tribute of sleeplessness,
heart-flutter, headache and
other ills often caused by the
drug, caffeine, in coffee and
tea. <
t
Instant
Postum
suggests the snappy flavor of
mild java coffee, but is abso
lutely free from caffeine or
any harmful ingredient. In
stant Poatum is in con
densed, soluble form, and
wonderfully convenient for
the home —for the picnic—
for travel —everywhere.
If tea or coffee interferes
with comfort or success, as
*t does for many users, try a
shift to Postum.
"There’* a Reason”
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RECKLESS MARRIAGES.
I blame thee Dot! This heart I know
To be long hived was never framed;
For something in its depths doth glow
Too strange, too restless, too untamed.
I often wonder how it can help
stretching the Lord’s patience to see
_____ those people who
|■g®•.;>si were never in-'
tended to be mat-
IfcWisl ed rushing into
Uve miserably un
t happy ever after.
pretty miss in her
mires her and, im
agining the
strange fluttering
at his heart to he
love, which he has
heard so much
about, proposes
marriage after
scarce half a doz
en meetings. He
does not ears enough to more than
keep himself decently, but for all that,
if she consent, they rush for a mar
riage license and are speedily made
one.
The youthful bride, fully as foolish
as the youth she has wedded, has not j
even asked where the bread and butter I
are to come from, and they face the j
world, a most pitiable example of a ;
reckless marriage. How they manage j
to exist for ever so short a while upon
his earnings can better be Imagined !
than described. It’s a case of living !
from hand to mouth; Meanwhile they 1
grow poorer and poorer. The girl has
been brought up shirking work, find
ing her chief amusement in flirting and
attending movies. That she is expect
ed -to work after marriage—cook, wash,
iron, sew and scrub —appalls her. If
a little one comes into their home
she is more upset than ever. She
knows nothing whatever of how it
should be cared for. She could not
cut out a garment for it or herself and
put it together If her life depended
on it.
Both wake up to the conclusion that
wedded life is not the rosy dream they
thought it was going to be. With hard
ships, romance and admiration take
flight. If in the close bond which
holds them love develops, they can and
will face the future bravely. Baby
gives an added stimulus to their ambi
tion. If fascination has worn itself out
they cling together only for the sake
of the child who has tied the heart
strings of both together in an un
breakable knot.
Years alone can bring wisdom. If
the wife is brought to the realization
that she, after all, is the homemaker,
total wreck can be avoided by her
turning over a new leaf, studying
economy and practicing it.
Every girl who aspires to the re
sponsibility of becoming a wife should,
be trained from girlhood up to be fit
ted for it. She should know the great
value of doing her own marketing,
buying nutritious foods wisely, and the
all-important science of cooking and
utilizing the left-overs. She should
know how to make her own clothes.
She who has J>ent over them, patient
ly putting in every stitch, will be apt
to take care of them.
Many a young married couple that
have entered the wedded state with
scarcely a thimbleful of sense, in ei
ther brain have developed Into a ;
thrifty pair, exemplifying the old saw
that “A poor beginning often turns out
the best In the long run.”
Youths and maidens in their early
days will tread the path they are en
couraged to enter. Young men should
be wained of the gravity of taking a
wife before they are able to support
one comfortably. Young girls should
not be allowed to wed until they are
competent to take full charge of a
home of their own. Hut what’s the
use of advising? Young men and wom
en lose their heads completely when
they fall in lovo. So there you are.
DOES DADDY DANCE.
False pride has crusted o’er with ice
The heart where youth still hums
And tho' the world deems all forgot
Still to the past returns.
The young man who stoutly main
tains that it Is quite ridiculous for
his father to insist upon going to the
Bame dance that he does and trip the
light fantastic toe as merrily as he
does has something to learn about old
heads and young hearts.
How is a youth to realize that the
average daddy feels quite as voting at
heart as his son does? It may not
look very dignified for the white-;
haired man to hop about a glazed
floor like a bewildered fly upon a win
dow pane, but ho knows why he is
doing it. Not so much that he hopes
to cut a good figure with young wom
en as that it is mightily important to
his health not only to keep his avoir
dupois down, hut to keep the rheu
matic twinges out of bis joints and
lumbago from his back.
A man is never so old that his
heart will not beat the faster when
the band starts up a good old fa
miliar waltz. The present seems to !
slip from him and In imagination he
\S one of the boys again, valiantly
THE MIDLAND JOURNAL, RISING BUN, BID.
: suing for the favor of the prettiest
girt at the ball. Daddy is as nimble
of foot now as he was then, he as
snres himself. He was the idol oi
: all the lassies when he used to tread
, the measures of the stately minuet
or If he was in a gayer mood, cavort
through the merry Highland fling, or
the money musk.
The new fangled dances bother him
a little but he does not intend that
they shall down him. The pleasantest
recollections of his life are connected
with the joys of the dance. It was at
a hall he first beheld the girl he was
to love and wed. He cut out a rival
at that selfsame ball, but was miser
able all the long hours of the night
that followed because he must submit
| to that rival seeing her home.
It was to Invite her to another ball
that he first called upon her. At that
dance, with his arm folded more close
ly about her waist than the require
ments of the steps demanded, he
; whispered his love for her in her ear.
A dance followed their wedding feast
rfnd they went to balls until their
growing family provided another
way for them to spend their evenings.
If daddy is a bit clumsy at tangoing
and can get any of the girls who are
good natured enough to forego the
pleasure of waltzing with a spruce
r?oung fellow whose handclasp brings
the warm blood to both heart and
cheek and dance with him, who should
have the heart to say him nay?
The man who enjoys dancing never
grows old. He could give old Ponce
de Leon tips on finding the fountain
of youth and clinging tenaciously to
youth and its Joys.
IF EVERYONE KNOWB YOU.
To thine own self be true.
And it must follow as the night the day,
Thou const not be false to anyone.
To be well and favorably known in
| a community is the greatest passport
| to favor a young man can possess,
i The average person thinks it is the
j easiest thing in the world for a young
: man of good looks and good manners
! to select a sweetheart and woo and
i win her. Nothing is further from the
I truth. The falling in love part is
easy enough—it is a custom that goes
on exactly the same in all ages and all
time—but to become the lover of the
girl who has caught his fancy is
often a most difficult feat to accom
plish.
The day of the foolish virgin is well
nigh past. Girls of today.have hearts
just as tender, but they do not wear
them on their sleeves. They have
brain 3 and weigh a man carefully in
the scale of judgment before they ad
mit him to their friendship, such as
exchanging bows or a pleasant word
or two if they are brought Into con
tact. If a young man asks permission
to call, that is quite a different matter.
If he bears a good name, is well
spoken of by his employer and asso
ciates, he may be accorded the privi
lege of spending an evening now and
then with the young lady he admires.
If, on the other hand, he bears a
reputation discreditable —such as as
sociating with undesirable young men
and girls far advanced on the down
war path—is seen drinking, betting,
hobnobbing with corner loafers, is
heard to make insulting remarks
about women, the average father
would sooner see a scorpion enter his
door than have such a social leper
call on his innocent daughter.
It is not true that this is a “man’s
world,” that he can go ever so far
along the road of folly and turn over
a new leaf when the occasion suits
him, wed a pure, fair maiden and live
happily ever after. A man thoroughly
bad canuot treat the best women lu
the world with deep and sincere re
spect from the first to last during
courtship. No matter how carefully he
may be on his guard neither to do nor
say aught that might cause her dis
may, there is more than apt to be
some word carelessly spoken which
i will give a thoughtful girl an insight
into his true character. If everyone
speaks ill of a man, it should be de
manded of him that he clear up such
imputations ere aspiring to the friend
ship, let alone the love, of a girl
worthy of a noble mate in marriage.
Let a man give himself a bad name
and it will cling to him tenaciously,
refusing to l>e shaken off or purged
away. It is the most difficult thing
in the world to make youths believe
this or cause them to value an excel
lent reputation. When a girl weds
an acknowledged Bcupegrace. whom
everyone knows to have all the faults
in the calendar, with the avowed pur
pose of reforming him, she has given
herself a gigantic, I may say impos
sible, task to accomplish. Where one
woman succeeds, a million fail. There
is no process by which a bad egg can
be made good again.
The Discharge.
Under the blazing sun of an Oriental
July day the workmen were building
the now famous tower of Gabble.
T.eapold Boroo, the eminent master
builder, hurrying thither and yon mop
ping his forehead with a large planta
tion leaf came on two workmen seated
on a pile of masonry matching
shekels.
“What’s this?” yelled Boroo. “Don't
you know we're three days behind in
the work as it is? You’re nrea, both
of you! Here, take your pay and go!”
And he gave them each a week’s
wages and kicked them off the ma
sonry and the premises. Then he
bunted up Maxim Gork, the foreman,
j to give him a piece of his mind.
“But,” said Gork, “these men were
only looking for a job.”
Mr. Boroo’s further remarks have
: been judiciously deleted by the con
sor, who lias thus demonstrated that
a censor occasionally has some sense.
and Culfivafiorv. SiS
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Showing the Beauty of a Lawn Rightly Planted and Cared For.
THE BEAUTY OF A FINE LAWN
By E. VAN BENTHUYSEN.
The question of whether to sod or
seed Is of primary importance. A
solid greensward Is Immediately se
cured if we sod. The objections to
sodding are many. Good sod is not
always procurable. It requires an ex
tra amount of labor tc sod. If the
grounds are very large it is not prac
tical.
■ If. however, sodding is decided upon,
the ground should first be leveled and
smoothed to the proper grade. The
surface should then be stirred and pul
verized to a depth of an inch or more
and suitable fertilizers worked in.
It is well to spread rich dirt from
the creek bottom or woods over the
surface. It will give the sod a quick
start and give new life to the original
soil.
It is not essential to cut the sod
more than an inch thick, or just deep
enough to include ail the underground
stems, but the thicker the sod is the
better.
It is not necessary in laying the
sods to lay them flush against each
other as grass will sprout from the
sides and the spaces allow for expan
sion in settling and leveling. As soon
as the Bods are laid give the entire
lawn a complete wetting, then go over
the surface with a roller to level it.
A good home-made pounder for the
lawn can be made by nailing a hoard
. ••• . • i - , • .••• •.** *•*' )
TABLE DECORATIONS
By L. M. JBENNINGTON.
We cannot all have flowers for the
table if we are dependent on the green
houses in our neighborhood for
the supply. The cost is out of all
proportion. But flowers we ought to
have and can have at a very nominal
cost in time and money if we are will
ing to take care of a few plants in the
home.
The best all-round plant for a decora
tion for the table is asparagus plumo
sus. Its foliage is far daintier than
any other fern. It can easily be made
to grow in the bushy, compact form
which a plant designed for use on the
table should have.
Pinch off the ends of the young
fronds when they have made a growth
of 12 or 18 inches. This causes the
lower side branches to spread out
broadly and thus breadth is secured
where there would be little if the plant
were allowed to train itself.
Long stem flowers can be thrust
through its filmy green fcliage if add
ed beauty is needed, but there are few
ferns comparable to this filmy, lacy
fern.
This plant requires a soil of gar
icn loam made light with sand. Water
moderately. For its successful culture
sunshine is not necessary.
Keep the red spider from injuring
it, and shower several times a week.*
t, You Desire a Particularly Attractive Centerpiece for Occasions, Arrange
dowers in a Low ‘Hat Bowl, as Illustrated.
a foot or two square to the bottom of
a piece of 4 by 4-ineh scantling. Place
a handle at the top and go over the
lawn pounding it down flat and even.
You will not hurt the sods by pounding
if tlie surface is thoroughly soft from a
heavy rain or a thorough watering.
A good lawn may be made from
seeding. It takes much longer to pro
duce a permanent grassy lawn. The
seed must be sown thickly and worked
thoroughly and evenly .Into the soil.
| it is a good idea, if trees and shrubs
. do not interfere, to plow the. ground
! or spade it fine, smooth and compact
i before sowing the seed. He sure the
; soil has been made rich with decoiu
j posed manure or very rich soil hauled
i In from some other place.
Seed at intervals of about six weeks
from early spring until late summer
j in the yard with open and tree shel-
I tered spaces. Keep the surface mowed
clean and short so that the young
grass will have a chance to grow.
After grass gets to be two or three
inches high there la little danger of
killing it by frequent mowings. If for
no other reason than to keep down
the weeds mowing is essential. Mow
ing also helps to level the lawn the
mower acting as a light roller. The
clippings from the lawn make a good
mulch for young plants. Nc matter
what the weather, wet or dry, do not
neglect to mew your lawn if you wish
it to be the thing of beauty it can be
if cared for.
Nip off the end of each shoot and
make the plant spread out well.
Pots of Roman hyacinths and lilies
of the valley and narcissus make
charming adjuncts to the breakfast
table. Few plants can be kept on the
table day after day without becoming
unhealthy. Have a shelf in your win
dow and give the flowers a change,
using one only for a day or two and
changing to something different. This
gives them ajl a fair chance at the
sunshine and light.
Several types of begonia make suc
cessful plants for the table. The Gloire
de Ivorraine, whose flowers literally
cover the plant, are of an exquisite
pink which artificial light seems to
make more vivid.
FOR ROSE MILDEW.
For rose mildew spraying with sul
phide of potassium, using one ounce
tc three gallons of water, is much
more effective than the old-fashioned
method of dusting the foliage with
flowers of sulphur.
t For Blight in Pansies.
Stir lime and sulphur into the soil
when blight attacks pansies. Remove
the affected plants and burn them. If
the blight continues best make a new
bed elsewhere. Spread lime and sul
phur freely on the old bed and stir it
well into the soil.
FARMER’S GREAT
DPPORTUNIIY '<
Demand for Canadian Cattle
After the War.
The opportunities that Western Can-,
ada offers to the farmer have time and
again been placed before the public
through these columns. The cheap
price at which the very best lands can
be purchased, and the advantage that
is to be had in securing one of thefree
homesteads of 160 acres has appealed
to a great many, and they have em
braced them. Many, in fact most of
those who have done so are today giv
ing testimony to the good fortune and
the timely forethought that ied them
to go to Western Canada, and embark
in an era of farming that has placed
them away beyond the pinch of want
and given them reason to look into the
future with a hopefulness that they
had not had the courage in the past to
forecast. *
Not only have they been able to se
cure good lands at low prices and on
' easy terms but if they desire they
have been able to add to this 160 acres
of land free, on conditions that are
easy. A resident in the Lloydminster
district In Saskatchewan who had
been farming in the States for some
[ time, took up a homestead in 1910, and
5 commenced breaking with 4 oxen.
[ Two years ago he bought an adjoin
ing quarter section and now has over
100 acres under cultivation. Ho says.
[ "As my circumstances improved. I sold _
tlie oxen and now have six head of
horses, twelve head of cr.ttle, and have
always a bunch of hogs on hand.
, "On an average I have had yields of
l 26 bushels of wheat. 65 bushels of oats.
and 40 bushels of barley to the acre,
, and last season from a fleid of 28%
L acres, I threshed 1,040 bushels of
wheat. I have made a success of
j mixed farming and would have no hesi
tation in advising all who contemplate
I making a new home to come to this
district. I sell cream to the Govern
( ment Creamery here, and find at all
. times a good market for live stock and
other produce.”
[ This Is but a modest statement of
• what a modest man can do in Western
Canada, and could be repeated of hun
. dreds df others.
t Scores of cases could he recited
• where much more has been accotn
i plished. and it is believed that with
moderate investment at the present
> t{me. the cattle industry of Western
■ Canada will pay large interest. ,
1 The Minister of Agriculture of Sas
katchewan. in a recent address, ven
tured the prediction that the Sas
katchewan farmer who developed his
‘ land along the lines of general stock
breeding would make much more mon
ey and find a far bigger return for his
i efforts in ten years’ time than the
man who devoted ills energies purely
, and primarily to grain raising. This
, was the corning golden age of oppor
tunity for the stockman and it was up
, to the Saskatchewan man to get in
on the ground floor and prepare him
' self for the coming demand.
The close of the war would undoubt
edly see a great demand for live stock
i in Europe and it was only reasonable
. to suppose that this demand would
have to be filled almost wholly by
American stockmen, both in Canada
, and the United States. Europe was
slowly draining its rural districts not
only of its heef and dairy animals but
i was also using the finer breeding ani
mals and the end of the war would
see a condition of affairs which would
render necessary almost the repopula- - -
tlon of the domestic animal kingdom
in that continent. /
The opportunity of Western Cana
dian stockmen, therefore, lay in being
prepared for this demand wnen it
t arose. In view of these facts which
must he patent to every student 6f
economic conditions as related to the
stock industry, he hoped to see within
the next three years the stock raising
industry in Saskatchewan given an im
mense impetus forward, which would
put it in the forefront of the producing
provinces of the Dominion. —Advertise-
ment.
Child Logic.
Freddie wanted his pie first, and be
ing the youngest of a family of five
he got It. “You eat backwards," was
his mother's comment as she placed
• it before him.
The young philosopher fell into a
brown study, from which he was only
aroused by the sight of more pie, now
brought in for the elders.
“Mother," he said, “what’s back
wards? if i put my shoe on wrong, is
that backwards?”
“Yes.”
“If 1 sit this way" - and he deliber
ately turned his back to the table —
"is that backwards?”
“Yes.”
‘‘Well, I wasn’t sitting like that
when T ate my pie.”
A Respite.
“Are you looking forward to
summer with pleasant
asked the optimistic citizen. ” 4H
“Yes, indeed,” replied the peasiniis- B
tic person. "A groat many people I’m f
tired of looking at will go out of town
Tor the summer."
With money you can buy all the
friends you want, bat they are never
worth the price.
How a pretty woman does love to
walk down ihe street with a homely
one.