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794 HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT. Address all communications to Household Department, Agriculturist, Fla. A HELPFUL CORNER. Oiled and Painted Floors. If you have never had your kitchen floor painted, you cannot realize how much work it saves. Paint of any color can be bought al ready mixed, and is so inex pensive that we often wonder why there should be a kitchen floor in the lard that is not painted. Any wo man can do the painting and will need no tools but a good paint brush. Scrub the floor clean and let it dry, then give it two coats of paint, allow ing each coat plenty of time to dry. A little Japan dryer added to the paint will hasten the drying, which is important when one needs to use the room all the time. It is usually better to do the painting in the evening after the supper dishes are washed, and leave the doors and windows open. If not quite dry in the morning, and you cannot cook the breakfast in some oth er room lay boards across where you walk the most to keep it from being tracked. If you prefer an oiled floor to a painted one, get a gallon of linseed oil and heat a quart of it until almost boiling hot, and apply it with an old paint brush which should be clean, of course. Two coats are usually need ed. The care of a painted floor is import ant if you would keep them in the best condition. Mop the floor once a week, using suds made by adding a table spoonful of Pearline to two gallons of warm, soft water, rinse it with clear water and wipe it dry. It is never ne cessary to use a scrub brush, and the water should not be hot. E. J. C. Lena’s School Dress. Lena’s hopes of having anew dress for school wear were rudely dispelled one morning by hearing her mother say to her sister Bessie, “We can not buy a thing for the children’s school clothes this fall. We shall do very well if we manage to get a dress for each one to wear to church.” Lena stole quietly away to her own little room and going to the closet took down a faded green dress that she lmd worn to school the previous winter. Slipping off her work dress she put ii on and tried to fasten it, but alas, ii would not reach around the plump form. She tilted the mirror on the bureau so as to get a full length view of herself then stepped back and at the first glance laughed aloud at the comical picture of a girl of fourteen, with blue eyes, sunny hair curling in little rings around her damp fore head. a pink and white complexion, which was scarcely marred by the sprinkling of tiny freckles across her nose, a small mouth just now drawn down at the corners, -while the lips protruded in a dissatisfied pout, wear ing a fouled and badly worn green dress, too small in the waist, too short at the Avrists and the skirt' reaching half way between the knees and shoe tops. Only for a moment did she see anything funny about the picture, then she hastily pulled off the dress, saying as she did so, “I never, never can w T ear that old dress to school. I w'onder if the one I had for church will do any better? Again she went to the closet, and this time brought out a Scotch plaid dress and tried it on with nearly the same result. “Well, I won’t say a word about it, but I guess when mamma and Bessie come to look at those old dresses they will find that I have groAvn some since last winter, and if I can’t have anew dress I shall have to stay home from school.” She hung the dresses back in the closet, and throwing her self on the bed indulged in a good cry. A few days later when Lena had donned her neat gingham dress to go to the village for the mail her mother handed her fifteen cents, saying, “Lena I want you to get me a pack age of Pearline and one of brown Dia mond dye for wool.” The two dresses were ripped and the threads carefully picked out, then well washed in a Pearline suds, rinsed and the plaid pieces dried in the shade and pressed on the wrong side. The green pieces were dyed in the brown dye which made them a pretty bronze color like one portion of the plaid. Lena busied herself about her work, but, as the dyeing and pressing went on. became rather curious as to the results of “Mamma’s experiment,” as she secretly styled the renovating which Mrs. Oleson and Bessie had un dertaken. She Avould not, however, en i* t--•- 30 tasst V, ----1 mm $ frH ”! l ♦ If so, there must be some | ! trouble with its food. Well j I babies are plump; only the ] sick are thin. Are you sure ? :: the food is all right ? Chi!- I dren can’t help but grow; s they must grow if their food * nourishes them. Perhaps a | !; mistake was made in the * past and as a result the di- 1 gestion is weakened. If that | :: is so, don’t give the baby ] a lot of medicine; just use } ; your every-day commons sense and help nature a ; little, and the way to do 5 it is to add half a teaspoon- \ ful of | SCOTT’S i EMULSION | * to the baby’s food three or j i four times a dav. The 2ain i | will begin the very first day | = you give it. It seems to \ | correct the digestion and j | gets the baby started right | [ again. If the baby is nurs- I f ing but does not thrive, then | i the mother should take the ! c* j emulsion. It will have a I s good effect both upon the 1 j mother and child. Twenty- | t five years proves this fact, l I, r >oc. and si.,x3, all druggists. * SC.OTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. I—■ mi wJ THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. ter the sewing-room as she bad de clared when they suggested making a new dress out of the old ones that she knew it would not he fit to be seen. As they were using one of her ging ham dresses to measure by she was not called to try on the waist until the dress was nearly completed. As she entered the room she glanced quickly around, but saw nothing of the dress, and Bessie came forward, saying: “Lena, you know you have always prided yourself on not having as much curiosity as the other girls. Now, are you M illing to try a test by not seeing your dress until it is done?” “O, I am not at all anxious to see it. I saw enough of it before you began to fix it,” M r as the reply, although Lena admitted to herself that she M T ould have liked to see how the old things looked. Bessie took a dark silk handkerchief from the table and tied it over Lena’s eyes, then the waist was put on and fitted, the sleeves slipped on and pinned to the arms-eyes, and the skirt put on and fitted over the hips. When the handkerchief was removed Bessie handed Lena her Avork dress again and said “Noaa\ we shall not need you again until this afternoon when you may wear your dress to the village, if you wish.” “I don’t Avisli, thank you!” replied Lena with a little toss of her head as she left the room. When Lena Avas preparing for her afternoon M r alk to the village, she was again called into the sewing-room, and the handkerchief laughingly adjusted over her eyes by Bessie. When the dress had been put ou and fastened, something Mas placed on her head and Bessie led her across the room to the mirror, then, taking the handker chief from her eyes said, “Now, little sister, you may see your old dress.” Lena looked, then rubbed her eyes and looked again, while Bessie laugh ed merrily and even Mrs. Oleson turn ed away to hide a smile which threat ened to become audible. “Mamma, tell me if this pretty suit is really made of my old dresses.” cried Lena, gazing in admiration at the dress. The plaid had been used for an over skirt, pointed back and front: a waist gathered to a round yoke of the bronze and slightly bloused in front; sleevs with shoulder caps and cuffs of the bronze, while the skirt Avas also of the bronze. Several rows of narrow ribbon decorated the yoke, high collar, cuffs and sleeve caps, Mobile a rosette of the same Avas placed on the left shoulder and another at the edge of the yoke M’here it opened on the left side, the ribbon extending down the edge of the opening to the belt which was a green leather one colored over in the broM'ii dye, making it bronze. The ribbons had done service before, but as they had taken on a bronze hue from the Diamond dye hath they were as good as neM\ “Where did you get such a pretty neAV hat?” asked Lena when she had sur veyed the dress to her full satisfac tion and asked innumerable questions about it. “That is your old sailor, cleaned with Pearline suds and an old tooth brush, then bleached over burning sul phur in a barrel and trimmed Avitli the plaid silk that Avas in the vest of your dress last av!liter. Those soiled white feathers that 1 wore last winter were cleaned, then giA eu n dip in the DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAME BACK ? 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It has been tested in so many ways, in hospital work, in private practice, among the helpless too poor to pur chase relief and has proved so successful in every case that a special arrangement has been made by which all readers of this paper who have not already tried it, may have a sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling more about Swamp-Root and how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper and t send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,Bing- IliiiMipßH a'mSpO hamton, N. Y. regular fifty cent and Home of Swamp-Root, dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists. . , u.i i . i ... n j —. brown dye and tucked under tlie buckle that holds the loops of silk on your hat.” replied Bessie. “Now, you would best take off the dress as it is most mail time and you will hardly have time to change unless you hur ry.” “Who says I am not going to wear my pretty new dress to the village?” cried Lena. “It is a lot prettier than Mollie Johnson's new one, and every one will think that it is really and truly anew dress, see if they don’t!” And she ran out of the house and down the steps singing a gay bit of song as she went. Priscilla Pry. FODDER CUTTER with Corn Stalk Crusher ehlu.s, 3 t 025 h. p. .ngines, mounted or stationary. Get our price anil catalog, s. S. MESSINGER & SON. TATAMY PA Scholarship free by doing le „■ r work for us at your heme. Write us to-day. ... Accept notes for tuition or oaitions, *. cau deposit money in bank Q j i until position is secured. 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