MISSION CRADLE ROCKER. fal<!Vie Piece of Fnrnilnrf for Moth em Who Still Itclleve lo 10111- eut*>- of llockinji* Forany mamma who is given to such unhygienic actions as rocking herself or her child there could be 110 more quaint piece of furniture than the mis sion cradle rocker. It's old-timey enough to appeal to the lover of old furniture, and quaint enough to inter est aaybody. Until baby grows into a famous pedestrian it is big enough for two. The little one may kick its pink toes in the shut-in end of the rocker MISSION CRADLE ROCKER, while mamma sits at her ease in the chair end. It is rush-bottomed. The ensemble is very complete, but just whether mamma will take to knitting Just to be in the picture is not easily determined. The old homemade rug is right in line, and so is the austere china cat on the mantel. Mission fur niture is delightfully simple for the sitting room or for the nursery, and this clever piece is a valuable addition. —Cincinnati Tribune. A Natural Conclunion. First Mucker —Say, Chimmy, wot's poundcake? Second Mucker—Ah, g'wan—dog-bis cuit, of course.—Harvard Lampoon. p|r • jP" Ij^Tirtoj' '^|| J N THE old days, wiien our grand mothers, or even our mothers, were young, darning meant either rents in gowns to be neatly drawn together or stockings to be mended. But now darn ing is a pastime, an art, an accomplish ment, if you will; but one need not'be possessed of a patient mind or even an artistic soul to make for herself one of the new darned waists now shown in the shops. Shirt waists are the most elaborate ot the many pretty things made of this curious old-fashioned huck toweling. The material is bought by the yard at any linen store, and costs from 25 to 50 cents a yard, according to the quality y v v BANDS FOR BOX-PLEATED SHIRT WAISTS. and width. The best for the work is quite coarse, and as the loops or threads through which the pattern is worked are large and loose the work will be found not at all trying to the eyes. A rather large-eyed needle is used, and must be threaded with two threads of working cotton of different colors. Dark blue and red are the best colors if the article Is togo to the laundry often, but there are many beautiful combinations which will stand an ordinary amount of id I (^v , i LZZZZ , *»«'— v A CORNER FOR A SCARP. washing very well. The effect of an "old bleach" waist, with cuff bands, stripe down box plait in front, and stocks, darned in turquoise blue and black, is very good. As the two threads are darned in at the same time, it is some-j times the blue and sometimes the j black which shows the most. Pale blue and dark blue, light green and \ blac.t, dark blue and green, pink and j black are all good color schemes, and if 1 something very extra is wished three threads —black, light blue and shrimp ! pink—a.re very rich, ail three being worked in at once. PAINTING LACE A FAD. ArtUtlc (iirla Hnve Madt fhe r ry Thai Color Adds to Beauty of l übrle. The fad for painting on lace gives a chancd to the girl who has more artistic ideas than she has skill with her brush. A certain part of the design of the lace is selected, and the color is lightly applied. Care and lightness of touch are all necessary fo- the amateur to succeed as well as the artist. It is the easiest thing in the world to "bring out" the roses, and violets, and the different wreaths, and garlands which appear in the laces which adorn everything. A white silk parasol with lace medal lions can bo made much more beautiful by adding color to it in this way. A simple little gauze fan with lace motifs set in becomes artistic if the tiny flowers are painted. A pair of pink silk hose with lace insets is worth double the price if the Small sprays of arbutus in the de sign are just touched with pink. Even the wash laces are painted in stead of working out the design in col ored cotton, as is also done on both lace and embroidery. The painting is a far less tedious process, and for thin gowns !s a great deal more beautiful. To make it practical for trimming wash gowns, the girls at the art insti tute use the little package dyes, which are indellible, instead of paints, for their colors, and for a mixer, gasoline is used, adding a little at a time, as fast as it evaporates. This makes a color which is heavy enough for anything so trans parent as lace, and which will stand the tubbing process. Care should be taken in selecting a lace with a motif whose cclr.r can be car ried out to combine artistically with that of the gown.—Chicago Tribune. Itotli llnri CnuNf. Crusteigh—How did you dare, sir, to kiss my daughter last night on the bal cony ? Gayboy—Well, now that I've seen her by daylight, I wonder myself.—Phila delphia Inquirer. Uliore It'* Kany. Riff —I've got to work hard next year. Raff—What, aren't you coming back to college?— Harvard Lampoon. The work is actually darned through the loose threads, the color all being on the surface, and not a single stitch should show on the wrong side unlesa there is an open space to be left between two lines, in which case the thread must be taken through to the other side. If possible, the thread should be long enough to follow out one line of the pat tern, but in case a new thread must be taken a small but vcjry secure knot may be used to begin with. The bands here illustrated, being fin ished in points, can be adapted in many ways, but will be found especially good worked on the box plait of shirt waists from the shoulder down as far as de- sired. In No. 1 the work will be found quite simple if the hexagons are worked first, as the dotted lines show, then the other lines, making an elaborate and in tricate pattern when finished. In No. 2 the thread must be carried under the material, making a stitch on the wrong side, and after the outside lines are worked it will not be at all difficult to finish the pattern. These bands are suitable also for the ends of bureau scarfs, work bags, sash curtains, or anything one can think of that can be made of the toweling. A beautiful center-piece and plate doilies can be made by hemstitching and work ing a simple band all around inside, the centerpiece having corners like those il lustrated worked in two shades of green, one very pale, the other one quite dark. And what more serviceable than a tray cover with such a corner darned in two shades of blue? Any design is excellent for a work bag when followed out in pale lavender and a medium shade of yellow. For the fringe, ravel out about five inch«s of the huck, and. making a fine knot on the wrong side, dra\t through alternate threads of lavender, yellow and black, about: a quarter of an Inch apart, cut ting it off the length of the other fringe. Now knot those together in some simple manner, and a desirable and useful bag will be the result. It may have a cas ing and ribbons to draw it together and be stitched all around on the machine, and it will bo as good as new each time ' it Is washed. The New York Herald says that after becoming accustomed to the work the j most elaborate patterns may be fol j lowed, and will usually be found hand ; somer if the design has a double line. Anything can be adapted to this work J that has sharp corners and diagonal ; lines, as, for instance, the old pattern'- j for cross stitch. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1903. AN ORNAMENTAL GROUP. Improved Appearance of l.aun Tree* Canned li; Cutting Hack in a l'ropcr Way. One o fthe most striking objects it ornamental planting ou our lawns for s dozen years or more has been a group ol nine specimens of Pruuus Pissardi (pur ple leaved plum) surrounded by a rins of variegated leaved Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas var). The Pissardi plums were planted within a circle about three I feet apart from one another; the Cornel ian cherries a little closer together, the 16 specimens completely surrounding the r/hers. Every visitor for years has ad mired this group, with its striking con trast of color in leafage, that ftf the Cor nelian cherry appearing almost white V' V.' ric.l. BEFORE TRIMMING. against the deep purple of the centraj group. Finally, however, the plum treef got large, running up high and threaten ing to choke out the Cornelian cherries (which, in their variegated form, aro rather delicate, anyway), the whole group appearing out of proportion to the size of the surrounding lawn. Figure 1 gives a cross section of the group at this time. Something had to be done, and as the San Jose scale had secured afoot hold in the plums I at one time even be gan to think of cutting the entire group down. I had not yet seen Volume 111. of the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture (L. H. Bailey), which, on page 1,447, savs of the Prunus Pissardi: "The best color is secured on the strong growths; therefore, it Is well to head back the tree frequently;" but it occurred to me that the only thing to do, both to get the group reduced to proper limits as to size and to get rid of the scale, was to cut the AFTER TRIAIMING. phims down to stubs, and this was done one spring, the stubs themselves being afterward treated to a thorough wash with hot whale oil soapsuds to make sure work of the scale. A neighbor happened to pass the grounds shortly afterward 1 and remarked that if it were his property SSO would not have tempted him to in dulge in such a piece of vandalism. I simply told him to wait a year or two and see. At present he has nothing to ' say when he goes through the grounds. He admires the group more than ever, for now the trees appear as shown in cross section in Figure 2. The purple of 1 the plum leaves is even deeper and frash- I er than before. The Cornelian cherries j have taken a new lease of life, and their foliage looks bright and healthy. Th» San Jose scale, the existence of which ! my neighbor, of course, had no know ledge, isentirely cleaned out,and we have saved one of the most ornamental fea tures of the premises. Possibly in a very j few years we may have to repeat the j operation of heading back—how severe, ! the future alone can tell. We will be guided by the conditions then existing.— T. Greiner, in N. Y. Tribune-Farmer. 1 A WATERCRESS FARM. An Interesting Industry Which Han Assumed Considerable Propor tion* In the Rant. The cress is planted in the mud of a series of shallow canals over which i clear water is continually flowing. ! Great care is taken to keep the entire j patch clean and free from weeds. Three or four narrow paths run the entire length of the patch, which is perhaps 200 yards long. Between the paths is a 6till narrower footpath of planks rest- Ing on piles sunk in the mud, these again being crossed at right angles by similar wooden bridges; the whole hav ing the appearance of a huge chess board with dark green squares where the cress is ready to cut, a lighter shade where it is growing and a pale green where the crop has just been gathered, j The cress takes from ten to 14 days to j come to perfection, cold weather delay- \ ing its growth. When the crop is ready, J a plank is placed across the bed, one | end resting on the path and the other on the wooden bridge. On this the gar- j dener kneels, his knees and shins pro- I tected by thick pads, while, with an ' ordinary table knife, which he uses like | a sickle, he lops off the cress in hand- j fuls, which he places heads down in the <vat r to keep fresh. This plank is suoved forward a foot or so at a time till the square is entirely gathered.—». ff Hess, in Epitomist THE FARM WOODLOT. It Has Hern »Rlrr*te(l AKnafllirr Toa I-oiiK and n !S>w I.<>af Miould He Turu«<l Over. 1 think It may safely be said 'hat the ! farmer's wood lot or hush receives leas : care and attention than any other part of the farm at all. The attention it gen erally receives is the destructive Mows of the axe In winter, and the no less harmful browsing of stock in summer. Under this treatment the wood is con stantly decreasing in quantity and value, and the land lies as an unprofit able, stumpy waste, which is neither wood nor pasture, or is turned into cultivation, for which, being generally poor land, It is little fitted. Doubtless this unproductiveness of the woodlot is due to the fact that farmers generally do not consider the bush capable of any systematic management or regular crop ping, or at all capable of repaying any labor expended upon it. As farmers we 1 are apt to consider bush land as some thing to be cleaned up, and not to be perpetuated, or as a gift of nature for I our own special benefit and one that cannot be renewed. The time it takes for a seedling tree to become of market able value is not so long as is usually supposed. Of course, if we had to begin on .a bare field to raise timber it would ; be a somewhat different matter. But in the ordinary woodlot we find trees of 10, 20, 30, 50 or even 70 or 100 years of ! growth. Nature, if left, to herself, will gradually change a scanty coppice into a forest of value, but at best her methods in forestry are slow and somewhat ir regular. However, by careful thought and practical management nature may i be so assisted that the woodlot may be tosunply not only ali ;r- m r.t rfr(> for fuel, but to give regular crops of merchantable timber, and to be year after year Increasing in permanent value. —Wm. W. Hutt, before Ontario Farmers' Institute. LESSON IN PHYSICS. Why llenf t»*c Krnmn nnil Hnthnnnca Vtemiiin Hot on (lie In*i<le for n I<onir Time. "It is very curious," said the old pro fessor otphysics, "to see how many mar ket gardeners there are to raise things under glass, make money out of the pro cess, and yet do not know why their heating frames and their hothouses re main hot inside. Now, as a' matter of fact, the heat mechanism of a hothouse depends cn a well-known proposition of physics. I suppose you are acquainted with the fact that the energy from tht sun travels in the form of little waves. The energy doesn't come down to us In straight lines; it comes, as it were, ir. a zigzag manner, dancing from side to side as it comes along. If these waves are very short, light Is the result; if they are a trifle longer, they take the form of heat. If the light waves strike anything on the way down they are very apt to be turned into heat. Now, the waves which form light ave so short that they will readily pass through glass, but the waves which form heat are so long that they will not pass through. From this, therefore, you may see why a hothouse remains hot. The energy from the sun passes into the house through the glass roof in the form of light. Then it strikes the ob jects in the house and is turned to heat. But this heat cannot pass out through the glass. The heat waves are too long. So the light keeps coming in, and the heat keeps accumulating, and soon the hothouse becomes very warm indeed, even on the coldest days in win ter."—Rural World TABLE WITH CHUTE. For SnrtliiK Apples, I'ntntoex or Seeds Thin Device In Kitpeciall jr Kccom mended. The cut represents a sorting table, or chute, for sorting apples, potatoes or ! seeds. Apples should not be piled on the USEFUL SORTING TABLES, ground after picking, but must at once ' be placed on a sorting table like this and I run off into barrels and headed up quick- 1 ly. The upper end of this chute should J be higher than the lower end. —John j Jackson, in Epitomist. l''nm<K»tion Kills I'tirnNltea. Where nurserymen and fruit grow- { ers have practiced fumigation they are j more convinced than ever that it is the > only practical way of controlling va- j rious kinds of insect pests. There can I be. no doubt about the deadly nature of the gas, and no animal life can possibly live through it where it is properly gen- | erated and handled. Plant lice or \ aphis cannot withstand the fumes of this gas, and are quickly destroyed. The gas does not affect insect eggs, but i there is no opportunity for the living to j escape whe>re it is generated.—Orange | Judd Farmer. Plant ft Few ClieNtnnti. We realize that it is difficult to grow thestnuts in all situations. The tree j seems to be one that will do well only \ where given proper conditions of soil I and moisture supply. Yet there are | certainly many waste places where chestnut trees might be successfully grown. The nuts would prove quile a valuable annual receipt while the main , harvest of timber was being waited for. He who plants these trees plants for i his children unless he himself is a very | young man, but most men desire to do something of the kind. —Farmers' Ke. j yiew. GRATEFUL, HAPPY WOMEN " ~Miss Female Weakness is Pelvic Catarrh. Always Half Sick are the Women Who have Pelvic Catarrh. ! Catarrh of any organ, if allowed to j progress, will affect the whole body. | Catarrh without nervousness is very | rare, but pelvic catarrh and nervousness » go hand in hand. Whatissodistressinga n poor half-sick, nervous woman, suffering I from t lie many almost unbearable symp toms of pelvic eatarrli ? She does not ! consider herself ill enough togo to bed, < but she is far from being able to do her FAMILY BOOKKEEPING. One llunlm 11 it \\ lio I >(>.<-<>■■ nice* Ilia lletter Half in Trying tit Keep At'l'ii 11 ii(x. Most persons know m many competent business women Hint :t will not do to tnk<= too seriously I tie popular slander that t i« better hail 01 the race cannot master the t principles of hanking. S'tiil there is occa ■ s: on ally a joke ot tnis k;r:d good enough to stand with anoli gi< •*, and a ri ■ t i.t one from I the Chicago Post will not*he taken ami-.-- •My account hook, she said, proudly, J "showed that 1 had eight dollars ami fifteen 1 cents more than I really did lave, to i i'elt at liberty to spend the excess." "Hut there wasn l any excess!'' he pro i tested. "Oh, yes, there was!" she replied. "The book showed it." "If you didn't have the money," he urged, "it was a shortage." j "Certainly not," she returned. "It was right there on the book eight dollars and fitteen cents more than I had. and when tiie balance was so mueh lugger than it should j be, I felt free to spend the money."' j "If you had more money in your purse | than tlie book showed," he suggested, "wliftt then?'' "I should have spent it." she answered, i "Either way, it's all the same." Now lie is trying to get her to give up keeping accounts. Chinaman'* Itcpitrfce. The editor of the Chinese Daily World, published in this city, a graduate of Yale, and while retaining all the chaiacteristic reticence of his race he is-, nevertheless,! rather clever at repartee, H- was recently instanced when a rather dapper young fel low called at the World office to sell a eer- ! tain grade of paper. Tt:e editor affeefs the American style of diess.and the paper house 1 drummer thought he would be smart and opened t be conversation by impudently ask ing: '\N hat kind of a nese are you- .Jap anese or a Ciiinese?" The editor smiled blandly, and with a courteous bow retorted: I "Before I answer your inquiry w ill yon kind- j ly inform me what kind of a kev'vou are, I and tell me if vou are a monkey, a' donkey ] or a Yankee?' Tin drummer fled in dis* | may.—San Francisco Wasp. She (romantic)—" When you (iist saw the wonderful Niagara tails, d'idn't you feel as though you would like to jump in?" lie—* I '•A o; , I hadn't gotten my hotel bill then."— I ioiedo liif.de. A great liar often mistrusts the evidence of his own senses. Chicago Chronicle. Pools alone fear to brave the consequences of their own acts.—Chicago Chronicle. One lie must be thatched with another or it will soon rain through.— Owen. Forgiveness is the rainbow after the rav ages of the storm.—Chicago Chronicle. + Miss Oldgirl I hat is the house where 1 was born. Miss Perte—\\ hy i don't see any historical tablet there.—Sonierville Journal. A stroke of good luck is sometimes mis take for the kick of the uiule of b luck.— Chicago Tribune. The good things of life never counterbal ance the evils-, tiiough they may equal them, in number.—Pliny. No man really feels his importance until after his wife called his attention to the that he is somebody.- Milwauke Sen tin el. Mrs. Long (who reeommcndetl n servant) —"Yes, she was an excellent giri in every way, except she would imitate ine in dress, and tiling-, like that." Miss snort - "Ab, yes. 1 noticed siie began doing it when she came to me; hut she's given it up now." Mrs. Long—"l'm jflad to hear it.l expect she saw she wa» making herself ridiculous."— Punch. Anulinur for Snrkera. Pleeker—Hello. Meeker! Homo from the seashore, eh? Wife and daughter home, too? Meeker—No; left them down by the sail sea waves. "Well, 1 hope they are having a good time." "Oh, I guess they arc. My wife goes in bathing every day, and iny daughter goes fishing." "Why, 1 didn't know the fishing was good at the seashore!" "Yes; there are half a dozes bachelor millionaires there."—Chicago Daily News. Thank Pe-ru-na for Their ; Recovery After Years of | Suffering. ( Miss Muricl Armitage, ,'i6 Green- SI wood Ave., Detroit, Mich., District / i Organizer of tlie lioyal Templars of ? i Tempera nee, in a recent letter, says : (j "1 think that a woman naturally J shrinks from making her troubles public, hii restored health has meant ( j so much tome, t hat 1 feel for tin 1 sake S j of other suffering women it is my /iduty to tell what Pcruua has done ? j for me. (| "I suffered for five years with uterine irregularities, which brought l on hysteria and made me a physical wreck. 1 tried doctors from the dif ferent schools of medicine, hut with out any perceptible change in my 'j condition. In my despair I calledon ' | an old nurse, who advised me to try sj I'eruna, and promised good resultsif j' I would persist and take itregularly. ) j I thought this was the least I could ;j do ami procured u bottle. 1 knew as r J soon as I began taking it that it was ■, affecting me differently from any i j thing I had used before, andso 1 kept >j on taking it. I kept this up for six JI months, and steadily gainedstrength ) and health, and when I had used ) i fifteen bottles I considered myself > | entirely cured. I am a grateful, | j happy woman to-day."—Miss Muriel ) Armitage. ) Peruiia cures catarrh of the pelvic > organs with the same surety as it j cures catarrh of the head. I'eruna j has become renowned as a positive ) cure for female &.ilments simply be ) cause the ailments are mostly' due j to catarrh, Catarrh is the cause of J j the trouble. Peruna cures the ca j tarrli. The symptoms disappear. | work n-illiout tlio greatest exhaustion. ' This is a. very common sight and is almost always clue to pelvic catarrh. It is worse than foolish for so many women to suffer year after year with a ( disease that can be permanently cured. Pernnacurescatarrh permanently. It curesold chronic eases as well as attack, the only difference being in the i length of time that it should be taken to I effect a cure. I If you do not derive prompt and satis- I factory results.from the vise of l'eruna, i write at once to Dr. llartman, pivinj* a | full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad vice gratis. ! Address Dr. llartman, President of The llartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of sce FaoSlmile Wrapper Below* Very small and as easy to take as f*u£or. irADTrtfcl FOR KEADACHE « u/mI trid FOR DIZZINESS. Kittle for biliousness. WfIVEIP for torpid liver. K PILLS FOR CONSTIPATION. H ■ FOR SALLOW SICIN. IWHM I FOR THE COMPLEXION P . i OETiUXIfIC MUgTHAVK 26 cents I Purely Vegetal) I ' utvy 1 CURE SICK HEADACHE. I BROMO-'l SELTZER CURES ALL 1 HeadacKes | 10 CENTS —EVERYWHERE ITni«i i [■■ hi ■in ii wnimii ih'imimii iinT TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, INDIAN TERRITORY AND BACK S|RQO SEPTEMBER Ssfh IU = Final Limit October €th VIA MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS R'Y Ask Nearest Ticket Asent Or Write G. W. SMITH, N. P. A., 316 Marquette Bldg., Chicago, 111. It you sufferfrom Epilepsy, Fits. Falllnc Sick ness, St. Vitus's Dance, iir Vertipo, have chil dren, relatives, friends or neighbors that do so, or know people that are afflicted, mv NOV Treatment will immediately relieve and Pi U MANKNTLY CUKE them, and all yon Ufa nslted to no is to send for my FRISK TREAT MENT and try it. It has CURED thousands where everything else failed. VViil be sent in plain package absolutely free, express pr';>nid. My Illustrated liook, "lipilepsy Explained," FHKE by mail. Please «ive name, A I IK and full All correspondence professionally confidential. W. H. MAY, M. D., 94 Pine Street, New York City. PATE T S tefTK FITZGEIIALD & CO., Box K.Wushiiißton, U. O. A. N. ic.-c 1986 7
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