Bema
Be 'etonte, Pa., February 2, 1917.
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THE FAIRY BOOK.
is thick, if
In summer, when the grass
mother has the time,
She shows me with her pencil how a poet
makes a rhyme,
And often she is sweet enough to choose a
leafy nook,
Where I cuddle up so closely when she
reads the Fairy book.
In winter, when the corn’s asleep, and
birds are not in song,
And crocuses and violets have been away
too long,
Dear mother puts her thimble by in an-
swer to my look,
And I cuddle up so close when she reads
the Fairy book.
And mother tells the servants . that of
course they must contrive
To manage all the household things from
four to half past five,
For we really cannot suffer interruption
from the cook,
When we cuddle close together with the
happy IFairy book!
—Norman Gale.
Baby Week in Our Town
DR. WILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH, Editor.
The Chautauqua Reading Hour.
The object of Baby Week is to make
a town conscious of its babies. Why
not? The babies are the most impor-
tant product that any town can show.
Wise is the city of Sheboygan, Wis.,
when it takes as its slogan: “Cheese,
Chairs and Children.” It is creditable
for any town to do honor to its future
leaders.
More specifically the purpose of
Baby Week is to bring to everybody’s
attention the community’s responsi-
bility for its babies. Being a baby is
a hazardous business. It is not going
to be long before the rank of a city
will be measured by the proportion of
babies in it that survive their infancy.
Soon the town that lets more than 80
babies die during their first year out
of every 1000 born will be a disgraced
city. “Better Babies, Better Mothers,
Better City,” was the motto of New
York’s first Baby Week. When Chi-
cago began her Baby Week she had to
acknowledge that 80 per cent of the
infants’ deaths there were prevent-
able.
WHAT BABY WEEK IS FOR
The Pittsburgh Baby Week Com-
mittee stated four aims which every
other Baby Week might imitate.
First, to bring to every citizen the
fact that it is sound civic economy to
reduce the sickness and death-rates
among babies and to improve the
coming generation.
Second, to tell the people the facts
concerning infant mortality, and what
is being done to improve conditions.
Third, to give directly to the par-
ents, brothers and sisters of babies
facts such as shall result in better
care.
Fourth, to effect a better under-
standing so that all people and forces
may work together better for the
good of children.
The first Baby Week was held in
Chicago in April, 1914. Since then
the plan has spread to every part of
the country. Baby Weeks are just as
important, and more needed, in the
country than in the city, for, as has
been said in a previous article, the
infant mortality in the cities is less-
ening, but in the smaller places it is
increasing.
To make a Baby Week effective, two
factors are required. It must be a
community affair, and it must mean
more than a temporary flurry and ex-
citement.
The best time for Baby Week is in
the spring, because infant mortality
is greatest in the Summer. A com-
prehensive campaign should start
from two to six months before the
Week is held.
A Baby Week need not be expen-
sive. The direct outlay of the great
campaign in New Yory city was but
$650, although the advertising, if it
had been charged for, was estimated
to have been worth $200,000. No town
can excuse itself for not having a
Baby Week because it cannot afford
it. If the life of a single child were
worth but $5000, which is what a
court might award as damages if it
were killed by accident, then there
is no town, in which Baby Week will
lead to the saving of many babies’
lives, that: can afford to get along
without such a Week.
WHAT TO DO FIRST.
The first thing to do is to call a
meeting of representatives of every
force in the city that has any relation
to children. This should include the
town officers, the community and wo-
men’s clubs, the physicians, teachers
and pastors, the newspapers, the Boy
Scouts and the Camp Fire Girls. At
this meeting a clear idea should be
given of what Baby Week is for and
what it will do. In the communities
of moderate size the selection of the
strongest possible executive commit-
tee will be the chief function of this
assemblage.
One of the first things the executive
committee should do should be to
make a careful estimate of the cost
and the probable resources. This will
determine whether the Week shall be
a simple or an elaborate affair. Then
this committee will either appoint or
divide itself into: Administrative com-
mittee, committee on baby welfare in-
formation, program committee, and
publicity committee.
INTERESTING FEATURES.
Supposing that our committees have
been appointed and are well at work,
let us consider what have been some
of the interesting features of Baby
Weeks in other cities.
The best use of the Week seems
to be to have one central place, where
exhibits, pictures, plays and meetings
are held, and at the same time the
spreading of information by leaflets,
flags, news articles and school-house
work throughout the city.
During some Weeks each day has
been significant. A sample program
is this:
Baby Sunday, with special ser-
mons, exercises in Sunday schools,
and special lessons in adult classes.
Flag Day, during which a special
banner with the Baby-Week emblem
is displayed in every home-window
where there is a baby.
Mass Meeting Day, with inspiring
addresses (not technical.)
School Day, with talks to the chil-
dren on what they‘:can do for their
little brothers and sisters, compo-
sitions by the children on infant
care, and the performance of a Baby
Week play.
Outing Day, when rides are given
to all the mothers with their little
ones.
SOME POPULAR METHODS.
Some devices to make Baby Week
popular:
Large pennants
streets.
Slides in the
houses.
Two exhibits: “Don’t Care House”
and “Do Care House,” showing two
home interiors.
A motion-picture lecture on infant
care.
A better Babies Contest.
An exhibit of model articles for
the care of babies, assembled from
the local stores.
The Baby Week should culminate
in the success of some one carefully
planned local movement; such as, a
while-time health officer, a public
health nurse, the supervision of the
milk supply, ete.
A pamphlet on “Baby-Week Cam-
paigns,” issued by the Children’s Bu-
reau, and containing explicit direc-
tions, lists of leaflets, plays, lantern
slides, etc., may be secured from the
government printing office, Washing-
ton, for ten cents in coin. An attract-
ive baby stamp which may be sold to
help pay the expenses of the Week
may be secured from Dr. Lydia A.
DeVilbiss, of the Kansas Board of
Health, Topeka.
He Milks His Way Through College.
hung across the
motion-picture
In a recent issue of the “American
Magazine” there is an article about a
young man who when he decided he
wanted to go to college took two cows
with him to pay the expenses. Here
is an account of his experience as told
by a friend:
“There are ‘ways and ways’ of mak-
ing one’s own expenses through col-
lege. It remained, however, for a
resourceful Texas boy to hit upon a
method of expense-making entirely
new in records of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas,
where he is enrolled as a student.
“P.S. Goen, of Harvey, a rural
community near College Station, the
home of the college, ‘showed up’ at
that school last fall with the typical
baggage and equipment of a young
collegian and, in addition, two good
grade Jersey cows.
“‘We had an extra supply of cows
and a shortage of currency at home,’
Goen explained to President Bizzell.
‘I want a college education, and I am
not going to let the lack of money de-
feat me. I have decided that I can sell
enough milk to the residents of the
campus to enable me to meet at least
my incidental expenses. All I ask is
the use of a barn and a small pasture.
“Through the influence of the pres-
ident Goen was given the use of a
barn and small pasture, and thus en-
tered upon the dairy business. From
the beginning ke experienced no
trouble in disposing of the product of
the two cows at the satisfactory fig-
ure of nine cents a quart for whole
milk. The two cows broought him an
everage return of fifty-four dollars
per month. Feed cost approximately
seven dollars per head per month,
leaving the enterprising young Texan
a profit of forty dollars per month.
Expenses at the college are very low,
and with this income Goen finished
the year with a little change in his
pockets.”
What Interested Employees Can Do.
As a result of thorough drilling
and instruction in fire fighting meth-
ods, together with the use of modern
extinguishing apparatus, employees
of the Pennsylvania Railroad system,
in 1916, were enabled, by prompt ac-
tion, to save more than $14,000,000
worth of the company’s property
from destruction by the flames. This
is shown by the annual report of fires
extinguished, which has just been
compiled by the insurance depart-
ment, covering the lines both east and
west of Pittsburgh.
Seventy-eight fires occurring on the
property of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road system, last year, were due to
outside causes beyond the control of
the management or its employees.
Four were caused by burning adja-
cent rubbish; 31 resulted from rail-
road property becoming ignited by
adjoining burning buildings; boys
started two fires; burning brush caus-
ed one; 14 fires were of incendiary
origin; 8 were due to lightning; one
was caused by slaking lime; and
tramps started 17.
The total number of fires, from all
causes, which occurred on property of
the Pennsylvania Railroad system, in
1916, was 840 or 189 less than in the
preceding year.
Newspaper Efficiency.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Harsh words are said about news-
papers, and, truly, they leave consid-
erable to be desired; but in a world
chiefly distinguished for inefficiency,
newspapers shine by comparison with
other institutions. Consider the rail-
roads. Give them sunshine and warm
weather and they function well
enough; but a drop in temperature, a
few inches of snow, and they go out
of business for hours, for days. And
the way they ball up belated baggage
appears to amuse them. Baggage de-
partments in this town passed a
merry Christmas because hundreds of
young college people had nothing to
wear, while the circumstance of a
wedding party without proper rai-
ment evoked bursts of laughter. A
newspaper’s pressroom may take fire
at midnight, and the whole shack
blaze, but the paper manages to get
published.
Slow Game.
“I went to see the football
yesterday afternoon.”
“What was the score?”
“No casualties.”—New York World.
game
WHEN A GREAT WRITER WAS A
LITTLE BOY.
“Miss Keller said we would have a
Dickens celebration at school on Feb-
ruary 7. What is a Dickens celebra-
tion, Aunt Minnie?” questioned Clar-
ence Hart.
“A Dickens celebration would com-
memorate the birth of Charles Dick-
ens, the noted English author, I sup-
pose,” Mrs. Starr answered. She went
to the book-case and took out an
encyclopedia, which she consulted.
“Yes, it was the seventh of February,
1812, that Charles Dickens was born;
near Portsmouth, England. He was
the eldest son and the second of eight |
children. His father was a clerk in
the navy pay office. When Charles
was four years old his father was
transferred to Chatham, and here the
family lived until the boy was about
nine years old. Then they were sent
to London.
“Charles Dickens was a pale, small,
sickly child. He could not stand the
exertion of games like cricket, peg-
top, and prisoner’s base, but he took
great pleasure in watching the other
boys play. This frail health in early
life caused him to cultivate a taste for
reading. His mother was his first
teacher, instructing him in English
and later in Latin. The last two years
in Chatham he went to a day school
taught by a Baptist minister.
“The Dickens family were not very
prosperous, and their affairs were in
such a bad state when they removed
from Chatham to London that they
were forced to live in a poor little cot-
tage in Bayhem Street, the poorest
part of the London suburbs. Charles
did not go to school now, but he spent
his time doing errands for his parents
and helping to care for the younger
children in the family. The purse
grew more empty daily, and Mrs.
Dickens decided to teach a private
school; a house was found on Gower
Street that would accommodate the
family and the school, but no pupils
ever came. The father was at last
arrested for debt and put into the
Marshalsea Prison, as was the law in
those days.”
“I think little Charles Dickens had
a hard time,” Charles interrupted,
soberly.
“He did,” Mrs. Starr agreed. “He
went with his father to the prison the
first day, and Mr. Dickens said to his
son, ‘Charles, if you earn twenty
pounds a year and spend nineteen
pounds, nineteen shillings and six-
pence you will be happy. If you
spend one shilling over the twenty
pounds you will be wretched.’ The
father knew from experience that this
was true, and it was good advice for
his son.
“Mrs. Dickens and the children lived
on in Gower Street until most of the
furniture and everything else they
possessed was pawned. Charles was
the one who made the visits to the
pawnshops to ebtain money on these
articles. At last the family gave up
the struggle and went to live with the
father at the Marshalsea Prison.
Charles worked in a tumble-down
blacking warehouse near the river,
over-run with rats.
“His work was to cover pots of
pasteblacking with oil paper, then
with blue paper, and tie them firmly
around the pot, then trim the paper
until it was even and neat. Then he
pasted on a printed label. For this
work he was paid six shillings a week.
He wore shabby clothing, and this
sum would scarcely keep him in food;
indeed, he was often hungry. He saw
his parents only on Sunday. During
the week he had nobody to care for
him, nobody to give him loving advice
and encouragement. Charles Dickens
said when he grew older, ‘But for the
mercy of God I might easily have
been, for any care taken of me, a little
robber or vagabond.” He finally com-
plained of his loneliness to his par-
ents, and they secured a little back
attic room for him, which was nearer
the prison, and he was able to take
his breakfast and supper at the
prison.
“When Charles was about twelve
years old his father inherited some
property, and was released from pris-
on. Charles now went to school
again, where he invented games and
wrote short stories, which he loaned
to friends on payment of “marbles,
slate pencils, and white mice, which
the boys liked to keep in their desks.
“In 1826 Charles Dickens went to
work as a clerk for a man named
Edward Blackstone. He learned to
know many queer types of people in
this office. He was unconsciously lay-
ing the foundation for the work of
writing. In 1828 he gave up his work
as clerk and began to learn shorthand,
for it was his ambition to be a news-
paper reporter for Parliament. Short-
hand was hard for him, but he had
strength of will and determination,
and he conquered the subject. He had
to have two years’ experience before
he could become a parliamentary re-
porter, but at last he realized his am-
bition and became a reporter for the
paper called the True Sun. In 1833
the Old Monthly Magazine published
the first of his writings.”
“I thought he wrote a lot of books,”
remarked Clarence.
“He did,” Mrs. Starr explained. “In
1834 he became reporter in Parliament
for the morning Chronicle. His first
book appeared in 1835, when he was
twenty-four. While a boy in the
streets of London he observed places,
things and people, forming the habit
of studying queer types, and later all
this knowledge was used in his writ-
ings. In 1849 he wrote ‘David Coper-
field,” which was his favorite work
and the best known of his books. This
book pictures many important actions
and struggles of his own life. He was
the most popular novelist of his
century, and one of the greatest
humorists England ever had. He
visited America, and was shown a
great deal of honor, which he certain-
ly deserved. He died in 1870,” Mrs.
Starr finished.
“Charles Dickens became famous
even if he was a poor, neglected boy,”
Clarence said, earnestly. “I think his
history shows that anybody can do a
lot for themselves if they will only
try.”
“It surely does,” his aunt assented.
—Boys and Girls.
The earth under a blanket of
snow is usually 10 degrees warmer
than the air above it.
|
| Christmas so will
! merry one.
In Far Off China.
Tientsin, Nov. 8, 1916.
Dear Folks at Home:
This letter will reach you about
wish you a very
This time next vear I may be with
you, but that is a thinking far ahead
when we do not know what a day may
bring forth.
Things are, if possible, growing in
interest with me in the work which
God has given me. Last week was
one of the most blessed of my stay
in China. I was given much liberty
in speaking, about twelve hours dur-
ing the week to probably a thousand,
who came and went in my little chap-
el. Many stayed for after meetings
confessing their faults, and learning
to pray. One unsigned letter of ap-
preciation came in, also five dollars
without any name. Pastors have call-
ed, gratciul for blessings received,
iand a mainfest interest among the
| native Moslems, so that news were
| taken to other native workers in the
| City, who spoke to me about the mat-
ter.
One Moslem, with whom I have
been dealing for about two years, at-
tended on Monday, Tuesday and Wed-
time.
I have been praying and working
for many years for interest of this
kind and want to thank you all for
your interest.
This week has also been one of most
trying on account of the French tak-
ing some land from the Chinese to in-
crease the size of their concessions.
You may wonder what this has to do
with me, so I will tell you. That on
occasions of this kind the majority of
the Chinese do not distinguish one
nationalty from another, and they
charge the individual with the real or
fancied wrong. Tientsin is the most
think mostly on account of the foreign
concessions. But you say what makes
it trying. Well, they expectorate when
they pass you, stare and make re-
marks speaking of you as a barbarian
etc. God has given me victory during
it all and I think the matter is being
settled. It is something like a Ger-
man in England or an Englishman in
Germany. This is probably the general
attitude that is taken to one on such
occasions and more or less all the
time in Tientsin—just the reverse
from that in Chefoo.
Mr. Lague, who is in charge of the
Missionary home and agency here, has
worked in China as I am for eighteen
years and says the only way to carry
free to work as one is guided by the
Spirit.
A few days ago I saw a crowd talk-
ing to a boy and soon found out the
little fellow had run away from home
and was without resources, and a
couple hundred miles away from
friends. When they had satisfied
their curiosity they told him to walk
towards the east, a polite way of tell-
ing him to get out. I followed him
and took him to an inn; the next day
I got him a place to learn a trade
making trousers. I have spent a coup-
le dollars getting him clothes and am
glad of the opportunity, he seems very
willing to work. He is fourteen years
of age. I must go and see him today
or tomorrow as he must need shoes,
stockings, and a cap. I spoke to him
on the street the other day and do not
think he was polite to me but this
does not matter to me. I have gotten
to that place in my Christian exper-
ience where I do not work for the
praise of men but that of God. I
would not minimize the hard fight the
Devil is putting up to prevent people
from repenting and believing but one
is anything but discouraged, in fact
one is more encouraged than ever.
This is all I will write now.
Your son,
SAM.
White Pine Trees in Peril.
Federal and State legislation, and
public assistance, will be necessary to
save the white pine trees of the Unit-
ed States and Canada, so Charles
Lathrop Pack, president of the Amer-
can Forestry Association, notifies its
members. He says:
“Expert investigation establishes
five-leaved pines of the United States
and Canada are threatened with ex-
tinction by the white pine blister rust,
a fungus disease, imported from
Europe. Already the disease has been
found in all the New England States,
most of the Eastern and Northern
States in the white pine belt and in
Ontario and Quebec Provinces. It is
spreading steadily and unless checked
will wipe out our white pines, valued
at $260,000,000, as our chestnuts are
being wiped out by the chestnut
blight. Whether the disease can be
controlled in that area or not depends
upon whether the currant and goose-
berry bushes, on which the disease
propagates and spreads to the pines,
can be eradicated.
“In view of the imminent danger of
destruction of the white pines, the
American Forestry Association called
upon the Governors of all States in
the white pine belt and the Govern-
ment of Canada to send delegations
to Washington to attend a conference
at the annual meeting of the associa-
tion to discuss measures and formu-
late plans for fighting the disease,
suppressing it, if possible, and saving
the white pines of the present and of
the future.”
nesday staying for about an hour each !
trying place I have ever lived in, I
on missionary work out here is to be |
the fact that the white pine and other
| PRESIDENT WILSON’S WORLD
MESSAGE.
Open Seas for All Nations.
Without Victory.
Our Great Chief has spoken.
A new “Prince of Peace” has come
among men.
He is the greatest in 1900 years.
Heed ye the message he brings!
The momentous hour has arrived.
The whole world is on the eve of the
dawning of lasting peace. The hero-
ic soul that launched the great, in-
spired message is our noble President,
Woodrow Wilson. May his divine
message become the scepter to sub-
due all strife between the nations of
the earth and permanently establish
a peace to endure for all times.
To enforce the great message giv-
en to mankind, by our great herald of
peace, should become the aim of all
civilization.
We desire to direct the attention of
your readers to the “Plans for Last-
ing Peace” article prepared by the
writer and printed in several Centre
county, Pa., papers in June, 1916,
which embody substantially the ideas
promulgated by President Wilson, in
his great message on January 22nd,
Peace
1917. We quote our exact words:
“When that momentous time arrives
due consideration should be given to the
several nations that would lead to the
| permanent establishment of open seaports
for all, to the end that the handling of
their commerce may not be hampered or
impeded in the future.” And further:
“That all commercial seaports hence-
forth be open to every nation unfettered
and unhampered.” And
“The mandates necessary towards the
establishment of said condition shall be
created by a world international court.”
We have persistently advanced the
idea for several years that victory
might not be achieved by either set of
European nations now engaged in hu-
man butchery, since that would lead
to greater future conflict, and, that
therefore the more desired condition
to be won would be to have the con-
flict end in a draw.
The Weapon to Prevent Wars.
To prevent the waging of future
wars, national or international, there
is only one all-potent, infallible force
that can ever be wholly successful,
and the nation that will refuse to
abide by that force—an international
court mandate against waging war—
must be brought to a full realization
of its folly, not by the stupidity of
waging war but by a much more ef-
fective, forceful, drastic punishment,
namely:
NATIONAL SEVERANCE,
UTTER ELIMINATION,
COMPLETE BANISHMENT,
UNQUALIFIED OSTRACISM,
COMMERCIAL EXPULSION.
Such action would result in speedy
decay and annihilation to all nations
who dared attempt disobedience to the
! edicts of a world tribunal.
No nation, large or small, puny or
powerful, would ever court such de-
structive punishment, hence all would
be ready and willing to play an hon-
orable part in the establishment of
permanent world peace.
ALFRED BIERLY.
Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 24, 1917.
Making Paper from Cotton Stalks.
Announcement made by the royal
material testing office at Grosslichter-
felde, Germany, that paper can be
manufactured from cotton stalks is
very interesting and timely.
Like all the species of the mallow
family, the most important fibre-
producing group of plants in the
world, the stalks of the cotton plant
contain a long fibre suitable for mak-
ing paper. It has long been known
that the bark of these stalks contains
a fine jute-like fibre and various at-
tempts have been made in this coun-
try to bring it into use. It has been
demonstrated beyond a doubt that a
good fibre can be prepared from the
best not only for paper but also for
thread, twine and coarse cloth.
According to the Dictionary of Eco-
nomic Products of India, Vol. IV., cot-
ton stalks yield good fibres which may
be separated by rotting. A number of
investigators in India called attention
to this subject and recommended the
use of the cotton fibres in a commer-
cial way.
The fact that both the bark and
the ligenous portion of the cotton
stalks can now be utilized successfully
for making paper is of special import-
ance at this time not only because
the price of paper and its demand are
constantly increasing, but because the
materials now used for paper making
are becoming scarce, expensive and
in some cases inaccessible. The sup-
ply of cotton stalks is said to be al-
most unlimited.
——They are all good enough, but the
WATCHMAN is always the best.
Floating Vaults Designed for Ocean
Steamships.
As a means of preventing register-
ed mail and valuable articles owned
by passengers from being lost when a
steamship founders, two Italian in-
ventors at Chicago have developed a
system of floating safes for installa-
tion in ocean liners. The arrange-
ment consists in part of a large, cyl-
indrical steel casing placed vertically
in the middle of .a ship, the top flush
with the upper deck and covered with
a loose-fitting, easily lifted cap. In
the lower part of the inner casing
there is a hermetically sealed float.
Arranged above this is a series of
nonsinkable vaults. Should a ship,
thus equipped, sink, water would en-
ter the well and cause the floating
vaults to shoot out of the tube and
rise to the surface, according to the
inventors. To demonstrate that the
system would work if put to test, one
of the builders recently allowed him-
self to be locked inside one of the
floating safes. This was held in a
double casing, of the kind just de-
scribed, and dropped off a raft into
Lake Michigan. Scrap iron and a
large anchor were secured about the
outer steel cylinder to cause it to sink
to the bottom. In eighty seconds the
safe reached the surface, shooting
about five feet into the air. A moment
later the man was liberated.—Popu-
lar Mechanics Magazine.
——Subsecribe for the “Watchman”.
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT
There is as yet no culture, no method of
progress known to men, that is so rich
and complete as that which is ministered
by a truly great, friendship.
. Veils are often worn upside down;
in other words, with the plain side
over the face.
Touches of embroidery or soutache
are used to relieve the severity of
walking suits.
A pretty finish for the neck of a
frock is to cut it round and trim with
a band of fur.
Tulle, especially the delicate, well-
chosen hues, is peculiarly becoming to
the complexion.
Pointed scallops finished with but-
tonhole stitch make a very pretty
finish for lingerie.
Plump women should be careful
about wearing ruching; they will
make them look plumper.
Silks are now woven in the designs
of the old Paisley shawls, and they
make beautiful blouses.
. A novel way to trim the large hat
is to set medium-sized velvet buttons
all around the upper edge of the brim.
The chemise dress, which slips on
over the head and is straight from
neck to hem, is still one of the most
fashionable.
Scarfs are important. One should
have one of wool for sports and one of
filmy chiffon for evening wear.
The jumper tailor made is a very
attractive kind of garment, being
made like a loose Russian corselet
slip, embroidered and edged with fur.
Curtains to Match the Walls.—Col-
ored wash curtains. It doesn’t sound
at all attractive, and it is not likely to
be easier to get the typical American
women to adopt the idea than it is to
induce her to wear dark bordered silk
shirts. But the reality is quite an-
other matter. A woman who does her
own washing for long resented the
fortnightly curtain cleaning made
necessary by the smoke and grime of
a downtown apartment, where light
was at a premium. Finally she hit
upon a plan and last week carried it
out with results which merit imita-
tion.
Her flat is papered in three soft
shades of old gold, blue and green,
and instead of selecting white curtains
to replace those which have worn out
before their time in constant visits to
the wash tub, she bought organdie of
a shade or two darker than the walls
of each room.
When hung before the windows the
curtains appear just the same shade
as the walls, and the material is so
thin that it does not keep out the
light. This feature of extreme sheer-
ness was insisted upon not only to ad-
mit the light, but because thin, wiry
goods do not hold dust and can be
almost shaken clean.
The first washing will require extra
care; sugar of lead will be used in the
water, but even the time spent in set-
ting the colors will not overbalance
the time and expense of boiling, which
white curtains require. In ironing,
a polish will be given, but very little
starch need be used, as unstiffened
curtains hang so much better and last
longer.
Newspaper for Warmth.—Cold feet
can be made snug by the insertion of
paper soles in winter shoes. News-
aper has a hundred and one uses,
ut none better than that of an insole.
Cut the sole a little smaller than the
outside of the shoe. This is also a
precaution in rainy weather when the
rubbers cannot be found.
A newspaper shield for the chest
and back is surprisingly warm. On a
motor ride such a protection is very
desirable, but for those who are dis-
posed to rheumatism flannel is, of
course, the best.
An excellent exercise to straighten
round shoulders for women who have
to sit a. good deal is performed by
placing a thin stick or wand across
the back and letting it run out
through the bent elbows. The arms
are bent so that the hands rest on the
chest. Keep the arms and shoulders
pressed back and down and walk
about the room in this way for five or
ten minutes.
Tempting the Invalid.—In trying to
tempt the appetite of an invalid, the
appearance of the tray is quite as im-
portant as the food itself. Always use
fresh linen; the tray will never seem
inviting if the cloth is wrinkled or
spotted. Never crowd things, as it is
better to serve the dessert on a sep-
arate tray.
For lunches between meals you
might try egg nogs, and add a little
fruit juice or syrup from canned fruit.
Serve with wafers or tiny bread and
butter sandwhiches, and baked cus-
tard will also be appetizing. Try to
garnish the dishes as daintily and
with as much originality as possible.
Kitchen Kinks.—To make potato
chips that are crisp cut the chips into
very cold water, then lift out and dry
between cloths and drop into boiling
fat.
Unless the chicken is young, it
should not be fried. Young chicken
is known by the tender berastbone
and the clean, yellow feet.
To have dumplings light they should
not be uncovered from the time they
are put into the pot until they are
dished up to serve.
Boiled rice served with chocolate or |
hard sauce makes a simple and whole-
some dessert. Raisins can be cooked
in the rice if desired.
Toast is much more delicate if the
crusts are cut off. There is no waste
in this, because the crusts can be dried
and rolled or made into croutons.
To make a good pot roast, first
brown the meat on all sides in a fry-
ing pan on top of the stove. This pre-
vents the juice from boiling out.
According to the latest census fig-
ures, Japan has 7,909,398 females.
New York City is to have a sixteen
story jail just for the use of women.
Mrs. Lewis M. Hatch, of Geneva,
Wis., has been awarded the honor of
being the best farmer in that State.
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