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Bemorraic atc,
Bellefonte, Pa., November 24, 1916
A
THANKSGIVING.
Let us be thankful—not only because
Since last our universal thanks were told
We have grown greater in the world’s ap-
plause,
And Fortune's newer smiles surpass the
old—
But thankful for all things that come as
2lms
From out the open hand of Providence:
The winter clouds and storms—the sum-
mer calms—
The sleepless dread—the drowse of in-
dolence.
Let us be thankful—thankful for the pray-
ors
‘Whose gracious answers were long, long
delayed,
That they might fall upon us unawares,
And bless us, as in greater need, we
prayed.
Let us be thankful for the loyal hand
That love held out in welcome to our
own,
* When love and love alone could under-
stand
The need of touches we had never
known.
Let us be thankful for the longing eyes
That gave their secret to us as they wept,
Yet in return found, with sweet surprise,
Love's touch upon their lids, and, smil-
ing slept.
And, let us too, be thankful that the tears
Of sorrow have not all been drained
away,
That through them still, for all the com-
ing years,
We may look on the dead face of today.
—James Whiltcomb Riley.
A DELAYED THANKSGIVING.
The little red house was full to
overflowing with bustle and prepara-
tion. Falf a dozen times a day John
Robert or the twins flew out of the
door and down to Mr. Bang’s gro-
cery-store after something that had
been forgotten or overlooked, and
Dulcinea’s rosy mouth was so sticky
from the raisins and lumps of sugar
surreptitiously thrust into itby her
various lovers that it was never thor-
oughly kissable except early in the
morning and after her bath at bed-
time.
The best bed had been aired, the
best bureau-covers ironed, and the
best dishes fished down from tae re-
cesses of the top-shelf. All together,
it looked as if a very remarkable
Thanksgiving was to be expected in
the P:ikins family.
There was good reason for it all,
too, for every young Perkins from
John Robert down to small Dulcinea
was tingling with the fact that Uncle
Peter was coming. Uncle Peter, who
lived in far away California and
hadn’t seen Mother Perkins since
John was a baby. Uncle Peter, whose
adventures had been the story-ma-
terial for twilight hours ever since |
they could any of them remember.
“He’s a tummin’! He’s a tummin’!”
sang Dulcinea to her dolls as she
dressed them the morning before
Thanksgiving, and “He’s coming!” re-
peated the twins, carefully propping
open the battered photograph-album,
the better to study a picture of a
dashing young man—Uncle Peter
when he started out to make his for-
tune.
“Yes,” Mother Perkins said, smiling
happily over her cook-book, “he’s
coming, sure encugh. If he’s made
connections alright, he’ll be here this
"very night, just about dark. John
Robert must go to meet him—”
“Us too! We're a-going too!” howl-
ed the twins, dropping the album with
a bang.
. “No,” Mother Perkins said decided-
ly; “one is enough to go,” and lower-
ing her voice, “it would make Penny
foul bad if you were all to run but
er.”
The twins unscrewed their mouths
“and squeezed back the tears. Penny
wasn’t to feel badly, whatever the
sacrifice. Mother Perkins beamed ap-
proval at them.
“That’s right,” she said cheerfully.
“Your Uncle Peter would like that.
He was always a brave one. Now
then, Bud Perkins, you get me some
kindlings right away quick; and Ban-
nie, you go put out the towels in the
spare room, and see there isn’t a
speck of dust. If everybody doesn’t
help, we'll never be ready in the
world ”
“I’m coming mother,” called Penny,
and the soft little squeak of her chair
wheels showed that she was hurrying
out from the sitting-room. “Every-
thing’s lovely in there now, and I'm
ready for the next doing.”
“Well, dearie, there’s the cranber-
ries waiting to be picked over, and
you're the only one I could trust to do
it. I don’t know what ever I'd do
without you, Penny Perkins.”
Her niother’s voice had the tender
note it always had when Penny’s
crooked shoulders were in sight, and
Penny glowed with pride as she rolled
around after the bag of cranberries
and a pan. It was hard sometimes to
be the oldest next to Jchn Robert, and
have =o few things to be proud of do-
ing.
The west window in the kitchen
was the sunny one, and Penny liked
to sit clcse up to it while she worked,
so that she could see across Miss
Lucinda Todd’s wide lawn and well-
kept garden. The big house beyond
the lawn she did not like so well to
look at. It had a forbidding, shut up
look, something like Miss Lucinda
herself.
“Miss Lucinda’s turkey’s come,”
‘Penny announced when the cranber-
ries were rattlirg merrily into her
pan, shining like tiny red apples in
the sunlight. “I should think it
would feel funny to thanks-give all by
yourself.”
“Shouldn’t you?” agreed Mother
Perkins. “But she’s never had any-
‘body to help since I can remember.
They say she invited some one once,
and they didn’t come, and she has
never asked any one since. I don’t
know whether it’s true; that was he-
fore I was married and came to live
here; but something sad must have
happened to her or she wouldn’t hold
off from folks so.”
“I'm sorry,” sighed Penny. “Of
course she couldn’t be as happy as we
are—it’s nice to Le us! but I do wish
she was just a little more smily.”
The longest, busiest day or week of
getting ready does come to an end;
and when the shadows began to shut
down that night, even Mother Perkins
had to admit that there wasn’t an-
other single thing to do till the train-
whistle said it was time for John
i Robert to go to meet Uncle Peter.
So they were actually sitting with
folded hands in the festive little sit-
ting-room trying not to feel nervous
at hand, when a rousing knock on the
front door made them jump nearly
out of their boots.
“Why, he car’t have got here!”
cried Mother Perkins, springing up,
while Dulcie ran squezling to cuddle
her head in Penny’s lap.
John Robert, as befitted the mar of
the twins in this crucial moment
hanging behind, hand in hand for
mutual protection.
But it was not Uncle Peter’s face
eagerly claiming a welcome, that
peeped in at them from the dusk. It
was Teddy Beckett’s, underneath his
blue messenger cap, and it was
Teddy’s voice that suggested sympa-
thizingly as he thrust out a yellow
envelope:
“Guess your comp’ny aint a-
comin’. Here's a tel’gram for Mis’
Perkins.”
John Robert signed the book while
Mother Perkins tore off the envelope
and read:
“‘Big blizzard. Trains blocked.
Can’t arrive before Saturday. Don’t
wait dinner.’ ”
“Whee!” exclaimed Teddy Beckett.
“A blizzard—and it’s beginnin’ to
snow now! Guess I'd better leg it,”
and, pocketing his book hastily, he
scrambled down the steps and disap-
peared into the darkness like a me-
teor.
Mother Perkins stood still in the
middle of the floor with the telegram
in her hand and dismay on her face.
“And there’s the turkey all steamed
ready for the oven!” she moaned.
“And the pies!” echoed the twins.
“An’ Uncle Peter’s tummed!” mur-
mured Dulcie from the depth of Pen-
ny’s lap, not having taken in the situ-
ation in the least. :
“He ain’t neither!” shrieked the
twins. “He’s all snowed up, Duicie
Perkins; he can’t!”
Dulcie burrowed deeper and lifted
| up her voice in a smothered wail:
“He isn’t tummed; he isn’t tummed!
Buddie said so!”
“Hush dear,” soothed Penny. He's
coming sometime, only not to-night,”
but Dulcinea wriggled with woe, and
i wailed the louder, until the whole
family had to run to the rescue. And
by the time they had succeeded in com-
| fortihg her they began to take a
nore cheerful view of things them-
selves.
| same,” Mother Perkins promised;
| “and we'll pretend we're all company,
| since we haven’t any real one.”
Penny clasped her hands suddenly.
| “O mother, couldn’t we ask a real
fone! Couldnt we ask Miss Lucin-
'da?”
Perkins gasped. “Why,
| Mother
| Penny, child! Why—I don’t believe
|
‘ she’d come.”
| “0, I do!” cried Penny eagerly; “I
| most know she would. Couldn’t we
| mother! It’s so dreadful to thanks-
| give alone!”
For all of the many gas-jets in Miss
Lucinda Todd’s living-room it seemed
very big and dim and cheerless this
night before Thanksgiving. It was
not their fault, O, no! It was the
fault of the gray-haired woman who
left all but one of them unlighted, and
| sat bolt upright, under that one, sew-
"ing a long, fine seam, and the room
itself was not more dim and zheer-
less than Lucinda Todd’s heart.
Twenty years ago this very night
she had shut love and forgivress out
of it and welcomed resentful pride in
their place. No wonder that life had
grown more and more barren with
every day and that the last thing she
cared to do was to give thanks. She
would go through the form, to be
sure. Black Huldah would stuff and
cook the turkey, and Lucinda would
sit bolt upright at the table tomorrow
and eat it; but it might be dust and
ashes on her tongue for all the joy it
would bring her.
Tonight, as-she sewed her seam
memory, long dormant, roused up and
lashed her. Unbidden, it lifted the
veil and showed her again a gray,
handsome young face. It opened to
her unwilling eyes carefully folded
papers—a telegram, a long letter of
explanation, two or three pleading
notes, a final word of farewell, all un-
answered. Twenty years age, and in
between there stretched a desert of
dreary days.
Were all the front doors on the
street bewitched that night that Miss
Lucinda too should be startled from
her painful reverie by the echoing of
a most unusual knock? She did not
rush to admit the knocker; Huldah
would have been scandalized; but she
stood with beating heart, the work
fallen from her fingers till a woolly
head was thrust into the living-room.
“It’s dem twin chilrun fum nex’
door,” Huldah reported, “an nuthin’
won’t do but dey’ gotter see you dey-
selves.”
Lucinda stared at them dumbly as
they stood in the hall just within the
small circle of light cast by Huldah’s
candle twisting with embarrassment
but determined to give their message
forcefully. :
“You see,” began Bunnie, the more
courageous of the two, despite skirts,
“our Uncle Peter isn’t coming—and
the turkey’s all ready for the oven—-"
“And the pies,” Bud reminded her.
“Yes, and the pies are baked—and
mother and Penny—"
“And all of us,” prompted Bud.
Bunnie accepted the prompting pa-
tiently.
“Yes, and all of us, want you to
come and thanks-give at our hjuse to-
morrow.”
. “You see,” she hurried on, forstall-
ing the refusal she deteced in Miss
Lucinda’s eyes, “It’s dreadfully disap-
pointing when your company don’t
come—its a blizzard, why he couldn’
i now that the great time was so near |
the house went bravely to the door,
“We’ll have our dinner just the
—and Dulcie cried, she felt s6 bad;
ER ————————————— SE —————————————=———————
“Take as Much Care of Your: Body as You Do of Your Fur- |
| nace and You’ll Ward Off Disease and Eliminate
{ - “If a man exercised the same good
‘ judgment regarding his physical wel-
-' fare as he is obliged to exercise re-
garding the upkeep of his automobile,
his home and his business, that man
i would be a more zfficient human agen-
cy, the world of which he is a nart
it would be a more efficient world and
| the nation of which he is a part would
| become a greater and more powerful
| nation.”
| It was Dr. Maxwell Lauterman, of
! Montreal, the famous Canadian sur-
| geon, who said it. He had just dash-
ed into the Ritz-Carlton after a din-
i ner engagement with Dr. John B.
| Deaver, the famous Philadelphia sur-
igeon. We were having a little chat
{ while Doctor Lauterman prepared for
the evening session of the Clinical
Congress of Surgeons.
Before a man starts out on a motor
trip he goes carefully over his ma-
chine, adjusting every part of the me-
chanism, looking well to its every ap-
pointment, taking every precaution
against a possible accident.
“Look Yourself Over.”
Before the Black Diamond Express
leaves the Reading Terminal for its
mile-a-minute dash into the north-
lands the engincer goes over every
wheel, every oil cup, every axle, every
driving rod. Regardless of a railway
ruling, which compels such a process
of preparation, the engineer does it
through a feeling for his own security
anc for the lives of the passengers en-
trusted to his care.
That’s it in a nutshell. That’s Doc-
tor Lauterman’s plan. If a nan took
an inventory of his anatomy at fre-
quent intervals, disease and early
deaths would be thwarted. Ninety-
nine per cent of the surgical opera-
tions would be eliminated and the life
of the human race would be prolong-
ed.
“The man who owns a home” says
Doctor Lauterman, “knows full well
that he must put on a new roof every
so often, or else the elements will de-
stroy his property.
“If he owns an automobile he puts
on new tires at the right time, be-
cause he knows if he doesn’t he will
stand a chance of losing his life
through an accident.
“And if he is a mine owner he looks
well to his props, or, if the owner of a
large building, he keeps his elevators
in good trim. And, mind you, he is
ever on the alert and dcesn’t wait un-
til it is too late.
“All right, now. Why doesn’t he
apply the same kind of business effi-
ciency to the upkeep of his own body ?
“But we don’t do it, do we? We
wait until sickness lays us low and
then we send for the doctor or the
surgeon and trust to a merciful Prov-
idence for our fate. :
“Wouldn't it be the logical thing to
go over ourselves—to have a physi-
cian examine us in times of good
health and discover any flaws in_ our
physical make-up. That’s my point.’
It was just as plain as A BC. To
hear Doctor Lauterman say it you
felt like getting up right quick and
kicking yourself cn the shins for ne-
glecting that last cold that brought
on a wheezy old dose of bronchitis, or
that little apple-knife jab in the fin-
ger that developed symptoms of bluod
poisoning.
“You hear a lot about prepared-
ness.” The doctor’s eyes flashed and
he brought an emphatic fist down on
a convenient dressing table.
“The world is full of preparedness.
We are spending millions on new
armies and navies. But let me tell
you,”’—the Canadian fist went bang!
bang! on the dresser—“the way to
prepare, the first and vital step to be
taken, is to conserve and upbuild the
people who are the nation.”
“The countries in which sanitation
and public health are made para-
mount are the nations that stand out
today in the places of prominence.
We have been talking about compul-
sory military education. It’s time to
talk—and get busy—on compulsory
physical education. I'm for prepared-
ness, but let’s begin at the beginning.
“Look at Germany todayi” he
snapped. “She is maintaining her
position because of this very form of
preparedness. This very devotion to
keep, has enabled Germany to do what
she has done.”
Looking out over the future Doctor
Lauterman forsees the time when it
will become necessary to supervise, to
make mandatory, the conservation of
the life and health of our millions.
No, we are not a decadent race phy-
man, the individual, his physical up-
| Operations.”
That's the Message Which the Great Surgeon, Dr. Maxwell
| : Lauterman, Gives You,
sically, nor near it. But we are living
at a “fast pace.” Efficiency and high-
class production are at a premium.
It’s just time to stop, look and listen
—and get busy. We would not need
so much surgery and medicine if we
live more rational lives.
And that brings the learned Cana-
dian visitor to the conclusion that the
time is not far distant when public
opinicn will demand and the Govern-
ment decree a nation-wide compulsory
physical education.
“We are going to have eer long—
this is not a new thought, but some-
thing nearer realization than when
first broached—a Minister of Health,
if vou please, who will be as impor-
tant an officer in the fanction of Gov-
ernment as the Secretary of State or
ine Secretary of the Treasury.
“And why not? Your modern busi-
ness man employs a staff of employes
to look after his pecuniary interests.
Your Government employes men to
collect customs and increase the crop
yields. Your nation builds battle-
ships as an insurance against war. So
why not build good, sound, strong
men and women as an insurance for a
future greater nation ?”’
A Minister of He-" a.
Here, then, is what we w.'l come to
after a while. The Government will
mold all the doctcrs of the country in
one vast army for medical prepared-
ness. So thinks Doctor Lauterman.
The business of the doctor will be to
prevent disease and not cure it.
“I Jrop a lighted match on the
floor,” he put in by way of illustrat-
ing his point. “I put my foot upon it
and no harm has come. I turn away,
the flame touches a cartain—a con-
flagration and diraster. The thing to
do is to nip it in the bud.
“Scientific medicine has reached the
stage where the medical fraternity is
a unit on the idea that it is far easier
to prevent than to cure. Disease to-
day is more easily recognized than
ever before. Medical research has
made wonderful nrogress.”
Doctor Lauterman says we are go-
ing to take a page right out of China’s
book of life. Poor China! We have
been sending China missionaries and
talking of enlightenment, and extend-
ing an open door. And yet China has
Neglect, not igncrance, is the issue. | Schemes and are glad to take advon-
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT
Thanksgiving is not only the memory
but the homage of the heart rendered to
God for His goodness.—Willis.
It is always a good idea to have a
few new plans on hand for table deco-
rations to use on unusual occasions.
Hostesses who entertain a good deal
are always on the lookout for new
tage of plans that others have per-
fected. They may not adopt the plan
as a whole, but alter it to suit their
individual needs, increasing or dimin-
ishing the cost to fit their own wishes.
The red and yellow dinner can be
made most attractive by using for the
center of the table a gilt basket horn
of plenty, filled with red and yellow
apples, bananas and grapes. Red and
vellow chrysanthemums tied with yel-
low and red ribbons may be placed be-
side each red-bordered service plate,
and a little market basket filled with
Marzepan vegetables at the other side
of the plate can have the place card
tied to its handles. Of course the
foods, jellies, creams and so on
should be colored to carry out the
color schemes so far as possible. With
individual service for nearly all of the
courses, this can be done very eusily.
The Indian table is very pretty if it
is carefully carried out. First cover
the polished table with two wide
strips of bead work, crossways and
lengthways, then place a dark ved
pottery jar in the center, filled with
quills. Use red pottery service plates
and lay the silver with each course.
Tiny birch bark canoes may be laden
with olives and a little bag of salted
nuts, and a little chamois wallet
marked with the guest’s name can be
filled with shell bonbons and also
serve as a place card.
A pilgrim dinner may be made an
attractive affair and is rather inex-
pensive. If the guests can be induced
to come in costume, it adds much to
the effect of the decorations. Cover |
the table with a gray linen cloth. Put |
in the center a short hollowed birch !
log filled with blue bayberries and rect |
berry branches. Dull gray china is!
used, with wooden handled knives and |
forks. In little upturned Puritan hats :
' put the olives, and in little bonnets
put the bonbons. On the rim of the
water glasses put a hand painted owl |
t with a place card hanging from his |
beak. Serve the foods in the old fash-
something that America is about to!
adopt.
The Chinese Plan.
keeping people well—not for curing
them of their pains and aches. The
Chinese go to see their doctors at reg- | green papier-mache shell for the ol-
ives and a half yellow apple for the | storing up reserve food for the follow-
ular intervals, no matter how well
they are, get a thorough examniation
and strengthen immediately any weak
spot.
many calls he gets to Chinatown.
They don’t get sick because they
make it a point to keep well.
“And now we must Chinafy Amer-
ica, with apologies to T. Roosevelt,”
says Doctor Lauterman.
age Chinaman dies of old age, and all
because he makes it a point to go and
see his physician every three months
or so and get a rigid physical exami-
nation.
“Put tnat plan into effect here and
we will put all the surgical instru-
ments away in their cases.
doctors be employed to keep the peo-
ple well, and let their remuneration
cease when the people are ill.
“The aver- |
Let all the |
. cover the table with a
. bunch of vellow
i grapes for fruit, and have the jellies,
will suit the doctors for the ideal of |
the surgical! profession aims at early
diagnosis and efficient rteatment to
prevent disease.
“Cancer and tuberculosis, in fact,
many diseases, can be prevented en-
tirely when the people subject them-
selves to periodical examinations, and
when the Jisease is discovered and
eliminated in its incipiency.
“Now, mark you, just exactly in
proportion as we educate the people
will we be able to get their intelligent
co-operation and be able to give them
the benefit of our knowledge, training
and experience.”
And now, in parting, Doctor Lau-
terman had a nice little prescription
for the whole of the human race—a
prescription that will make for the
welfare and efficiency of the nation.
It runs something like this:
1. Moderation in all thirgs.
2. Rest.
3. Diversion.
4. Exercise.
Mix wel in equal parts and take
continuously.
And this final admonition: Keep a
sharp weather eye out always for dis-
tress signals and go to your doctor be-
fore you are ill, for it is far more easy
to prevent than to cure.
and mother’s got out all the best
spoons. You'll come, won’t you?
Ple-a-se! Penny says it’s so dreadful
to thanks-give alone!”
The color faded swiftly from Lu-
cinda’s lips; it was a snow-storm that
had kept him twenty years ago; at
least he had said so, and she had re-
fused to believe. It was dreadful to
be disappointed. It was dreadful to
“thanks-give alone.”
The childish faces turned to her
stirred something within her, she
scarcely knew what.
“Tell your mother,” she said at last
in a strained unnatural voice, “that I
will be pleased to come.”
The candlestick fell to the floor
with a sharp clatter.
“For lawsy sakes, Miss Cindy!”
ejaculated Huldah through the dark-
ness, “you ain’t agwine out to eat
Thanksgivin’!”
“Yes, Huldah,” said Lucinda Todd
firmly, “I am. Light your candle
again and see that the children get
safely home.”
Brushing past them in the dark, she
went quickly up the stairs, never
stopping till the key turned behind
her in the lock of her own door.
+ It was astonishing how pleasant the
excitement was the next morning in
the little red house; considering that
Uncle Peter was many miles away in
a blizzard.
Penny fairly purred with content as
she wheeled around the table, laying
the knives and forks.
“I think it’s almost nice he was
late,” she confessed to her mother,
“because if he hadn’t been we
wouldn’t have had Miss Lucinda. And
now we'll have two Thanksgivings.
One for her and one for him when he
comes.”
“Kind of left-over Thanksgiving,”
laughed Mother Perkins’ slamming
the oven door, but quite failing to
shut in the delicious odors of richness
that made Bud exclaim with a water-
ing mouth:
“Whew! I bet if he’d smelt that
he’d put on his rubber boots and
come. I'dlike to see any blizzard
keep me!”
Dulcinrea, who with a doll under
each arm was running back and forth
between the kitchen and the sitting-
room window, singing her old song
slightly varied to suit the occasion,
“Miss ’Cindy’s a tummin’; “Miss ’Cin-
dy’s a-tummin’!” finally ended in a
grand crescendo. ‘“Anrl here she is!”
Nobody could know better than
Penny and Mother Perkins how to
cover up embarrassment and make
their unaccustomed guest feel at
ease; and, if they had failed, Dulcie’s
friendly chatter must have succeeded.
The thawing was gradual, but it was
complete.—The Dawn.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman”,
I green shades.
In China the doctors are paid for suede doily and on it put 2 green jar.
ii Fou : z
That | 118 and it is not hard to arrange. Use
ioned way, doing the carving and cut- :
ting the pies right at table. If artifi- |
cial light is needed, use gray painted |
tin candlesticks and sperm candles ;
without shades.
For a green and gold color scheme,
cloth of yellow
linen. In the center place a green |
filled with yellow flowers. Use green
china, and yellow candles with china
sticks in green leaf shades. Use a half
borbons. Attach a big yellow imita-
glass with the guest’s name written
on its wing for a place card. Tie a
chrysanthemums
with green ribbons and lay them at:
each lady’s plate, while the men have
a small green and a yellow silk apple,
fastened like cuff-links with a bit of
ribbon, for their buttonholes. Serve
: the ice cream of vanilla and pistachio
molded in the shape of small ears of
corn... Use yellow apples and green
as well as the sauces, colored in eith-
er yellow or green.
A paper turkey decoration is appro-
priate for this season of Thanksgiv-
the turkey patterned crene paper
cloth and lay in vhe center a papier-
mache turkey which is really a Jack
Horner pie. Use red candles with
Gold and white china
and red flowers will go well with the
paper and favors suitable for the day
may be chosen.
\
This is a novel money-making en-
tertainment, which can be held about
Thanksgiving time. If invitations are
sent have them written on yellow pa-
per which has been cut in the shape of
a pumpkin, and enclose them in vel-
low envelopes. A barn is the best
place in which to have the festival, as
the rough interior is well suited to the
scheme of decoration. Use vellow
bunting and crepe-paper streamers
and scatter pumpkins and pumpkin
vines freely about; sheaves of wheat
or oats may be used effectively. In
one corner have a fortune-teller’s
booth covered wiih corn-stalks. Light
the building and the grounds with
jack-o’-lanterns cut from pumpkins.
All persons taking part in the per-
formance should be dressed in yellow
or orange.
In hankerchiefs colored efiects are
expected to score in the holiday sell-
ing, says the Dry Goods Economist.
Noveity printed designs in three and
four color combinations will be a fea-
ture, as also will border effects in ~ol-
ors combined with embroidery.
Considerable scarcity is apparent,
especially in the popular-priced goods.
In the better class goods, such as em-
broidered novelties to retail at 25, 35
and 50 cents, the increased cost of
production has been offset to some ex-
tent by the use of slightly less desira-
ble materials and by a reduction in
the amount of embroidery.
A little French dress made for a
growing girl has the three-yard skirt
and the wide girdle, which comes up
well over the bust, of leaf brown vel-
vet. The top of the gown is of mous-
seline de soie, of the same tone, and
consists of a slightly low round neck
and a sleeve which is tight at the top
and lower part and full in the middle.
—New York Herald.
A novelty in hosiery is a sure guar-
antee against “cold feet” while mo-
toring. Long woolen stockings in
gray, blue and brown have slipper
soles of flexible leather and an open-
ing through which the heel can slip.
A rosette on the top gives the appear-
ance of a slipper. These can be slip-
ped on over the shoes and easily re-
moved when so desired.
——For high class Job Work come
| important order
| Actual growth
, crystals;
food. Thus the tree
to the “Watchman” Office.
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FARM NOTES.
—It does not necessarily follow that
an important sheep is a superior ani-
mal. Look for something beside the
record of importation.
—Constart care is cne of the se-
crets of suecess in the breeding or
feeding of stock of all kinds. [It is
only the man who likes work of this
Bn who will make any real success
in it.
—One acre of corn harvested by
hogs will return a greater profit than
an equal area harvested in the usual
way. At the Missouri Experiment
Station an acre of corn hogged off
produced more perk than an acre of
corn harvested and fed to hogs in the
customary way. It is not practicable
to utilize the entire eonrn crop in this
way, but it is good practice to utilize
a certain portion of it.
. —The loss each year in voung vigs
is much greater than it should be, and
much greater than it would be if the
proper care were taken of the sows
before farrowing and while the pigs
are young. Too often little or no at-
tention is given to the sow before she
is to farrow. Sometin.es even shelter
is neglected. Then if a heavy rain and
cool night finds the voung pigs with-
ont protection several of them may
ie.
—There is no doubt that the most
effective way to use manure and fer-
tilizer 1s to use them together, one
helping out the other, not only with
its plan food contents, but also by re-
ciprocal action in the soil. The organ-
Ic matter in the manure is a great
help to some of the chemical fertiliz-
ers, assisting by the action of acids
created in the decomposing of the ma-
nure, to make more quickly available
some forms of plant food.
—The United States Department of
Agriculture in 1855 found that it re-
quired four hours and 34 minutes of
human labor to preduce a bushel of
corn. In Minnesota it has been found
that 45 minates is the time required
to produce a bushel of corn now, or
only one-sixth as long as in 1855. In
other words, a day of human labor
now is worth more than six times as
much as in 1855, due to the use of
more and better machinery, better va-
rieties of ccrn and better soil man-
agement.
—During November the trees shed
the most of their leaves, and when
this process is completed we may con-
sider them to have entered upon their
winter sleep or dormant stage of life
During the fall months prior to this
period there was activity of a very
proceeding within the
invisible to the eye.
had long ago ceased.
Much the greater part of this takes
place in the spring, within a compara-
tively short space of time, but in the
fall the tree retires within itself to
perform some vital functions. The
principal part of this work consists in
trees, although
{i ing. ai s ‘
| tion butterfly to the rim of each water | peooob rg Certain cells are selected
Ask any doctor you meet how !
as granaries and packed full of starch
which are concentrated tree
manifests the
the animals, such as
which lay up a winter
same instinct as
the squirrel,
store.
—If every tree planter would re-
member that there is a substitute for
cultivation, and that if he finds him-
self too busy to devote any time to his
trees through the growing season he
can employ with very good results a
much shorter method, the general av-
erage of loss might be much dimin-
ished. This substitute for cultivation
is mulching, which merely consists in
throwing around the tree for a diame-
ter of four feet, or two feet out from
the stem, a layer of stable manure or
litter of some kind, and deep enough
to prevent grass and weed growth.
Straw, corn stalks, leaves or sorghum
refuse will answer very well, but sta-
ble manure is much the best because
of its fertilizing properties. By keep-
Ing a mulch of this kind constantly
renewed, as fast as it decays, a tree
may be brought to bearing size in fine
condition.
—The results of ten-year experi-
ments on twenty-five fields in Missou-
ri show an , average return of $5.80
from applying a ton of ground lime-
stone once in a corn, oats, wheat, clo-
ver rotation. The largest return was
secured on :lover, second on corn, and
lowest of all on wheat. These tests
seem to show that $3 a ton is the
highest price that a man can usually
afford to pay for ground limestone for
this purpose. On a sour soil, where
lime is absolutely necessary and
makes the difference between a clover
failure and a good stand, the lime has
a still higher money value. About
1200 pounds of lump lime, or 1500
pounds of water-slake:d lime, furnish
the equivalent of 2000 pounds of
ground lin:estone for this purpose
but the ground limestone is much
more economical to use. It should be
applied at the rate of two tons per
acre under the average conditions of
these tests, but, of course, this de-
pends largely on the sourness of the
and.
—Following is the dry cure for
hams as recommended by President
H. J. Waters, of the Kansas Agricul-
tural College: For each 1000 pounds
of meat use the following: Forty
pounds common salt, 10 pounds New
Orleans sugar, four pounds of black
pepper, and one and a half pounds of
saltpeter, half a pound of cayenne
pepper. Weigh the meat and take
such part of the ingredients as that is
a part of the 1000. Let the meat cool
thoroughly. After mixing the ingredi-
ents, half the amount chould be rub-
bed well into the meat. Put the meat
in a dry, cool place—never in a cellar.
Let it remain two weeks, then rub on
the remainder of the cure and let it
lie about six weeks, when it is ready
to hang. It is important that the
meat be well rubbed each time the
cure is applied, and that plenty of the
cure be forced into the hock end and
around the joints, Less cure should be
used on thin sides than on the joints.
The heavier and fatter the meat the
longer the time required for curing
The warmer the weather the quicker
the meat will take the cure. These
arrangements are estimated on the
basis of about 200 or 225-pound hogs,
and ordinary January, February and
March weather.
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