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Bellefonte, Pa., February 17, 1928
ROOM ENOUGH FOR ALL.
Don’t crowd and push on the march of
life,
Or tread on each other's toes,
For the world at best, in its great un-
rest,
Is hard enough as it goes.
Oh, why should the strong oppose the
weak
‘Till the latter go to the wall?
On this earth of ours, with its thorns and
flowers,
There is room enough for all.
If a lagging brother falls behind
And drops from the toiling band,
If fear and doubt put his soul to route,
Then lend him a helping hand.
Cheer up his heart with words of hope,
Nor season the speech with gall;
In the great highway, on the busiest day,
There’s room enough for all.
If a man with the tread of a pioneer
Steps out on your track ahead,
Don’t grudge his start with an envious
heart,
For the mightiest once were led.
But gird your loins for the coming day—
Let nothing your heart appall;
Catch up if you ean with the forward man,
There is room enough for all.
And if, by doing your duty well,
You should get to lead the van,
Brand not your name with a deed of
shame,
But come out an honest man.
Keep a bright lookout on every side,
Till, heeding the Master's call,
Your soul should go, from the world
below,
Where there's room enough for all.
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A LADY OF TEMPER.
The average bachelor of thirty-five,
though he may have no really glaring
basis for self-reproach, is apt to con-
serve, more through carelessness than
sentiment, certain souvenirs which he
would not wish to see fall into the
hands of the woman he marries. Mel-
rose had a whole desk full.
It was a very beautiful desk, a roll-
top desk of some dark, polished wood,
with slender fluted legs and carved
bronze ornaments. He had been told
that it was a beautiful example of
Louis XVth cabinetwork, and he was
very proud of it. It occupied a place
of honor in his living-room.
If the entire contents of the Louis
XVth desk had been spilled out and
examined in court, a jury of tried
men and true could only have con-
cluded that Melrose was an average
bachelor. And each member of that
jury, no matter what his public pro-
nouncement might have been, would
have felt that Melrose, considering
his ample fortune and everything,
would have made a satisfactory son-
or brother-in-law.
He had neither made rash promises
nor contributed to minor delinquen-
cies. And there was nothing in the
desk to indicate that any woman in
the world could come forward and
make trouble for him. Not ..ny wom-
an? Well, just one. If the woman
he married had access to the desk
and its contents, she could make
trouble for him if she wanted to, and
she probably would. But no other
woman could.
One first night out from Liverpool ;
on a steamer which resembled a gi-
gantic hotel, Melrose perceived
company with some old friends of his
a girl who seemed to him extraordi-
marily beautiful and desirable.
since he had seen Raquel Meller and
heard her sing Melrose had re-
wvamped his taste in feminine beauty.
‘The flatness and underweight of flap-
pers no longer intrigued him. And
the girl whom he now saw in company
with his friends fulfilled his new
ideal. She was tall and strong. And
she carried her head as if she had |
something or other to be proud of.
It is true that her hair was bobbed
but in all other visible ways—and
most of her back and all of her arms
were visible—she resembled Juno
rather than Psyche.
After dinner he had himself intro-
duced to Miss Cavendish, and half an
hour later, stampeded by her beauty
and the level sweetness of her voice,
he had determined to marry her if
she would have him.
Five days later, the Statue of Lib-
erty being in full view at the time,
he proposed and was accepted. She
made very little difficulty.
“I liked you at once,” she said.
“And as I know that I'm going to ac-
cept you sooner or later, it may as
well be now. But I am glad there
has been no other woman in your
life”—he had told her that—“because
I have old-fashioned ideals about mar-
riage, and expect from my husband
the same freedom from any past
idiocy that I bring him.”
“Life is full of temptations,” said
Melrose, “but this moment is ten
times the reward that any man de-
serves for having resisted them . . . .
Is there any reason why we shouldn't
be married right away?”
“There are lots of reasons,” she
said, “of course. There always are.
But if you don’t want me to, I won't
listen to them.”
He didn’t want her to.
His marriage so imminent, Melrose
at once began to put his house in
order. But it needed little ordering.
Parker, his general factotum, always
saw to that. It was a house that you
could move into or out of at a mo-
ment’s notice. It was singularly free
from rubbish or confusion. And in-
deed it was only the confused and
rubbishy contents of the Louis VXth
desk which needed attention.
Parker brought him the'key to the
desk, and Melrose, his coat off and
his sleeves up, began the work of
rummage and destruction.
A little fire was soon going in the
living-room grate. It had been start-
ed with letters and photographs, and
Melrose kept it going with more of
the same. He looked at some of the
photographs, without regret, and
without repining read over some of
the letters. Several times the fire
in |
gave out a smell of burning elastic
twice of hair. Dust from these old
relics got into his nose and
his head.
When he had finished and the desk
And locked the desk, from force of
habit, and put the key in his pocket.
The next day at noon, with a few
friends for witnesses, he was happily
Avenue.
“I've left all the details of the hon-
eymoon to you,” she said, “but I'm
dying of curiosity. A man came for
my trunks and bags, but he wouldn't
i i me where he had been told to
take them. Where are we going?”
“Home.”
“To your home?”
“Would you rather go somewhere
else in a train or a ship?” :
“No indeed. I was half dreading
that we’d do the conventional thing.
It’s much more fun, and much less
trouble, just to gc home.”
“It isn’t my home any more,” said
Melrose.
have decided on all the changes and
rearrangments you want made, why,
we'll give an order and then we'll go
away somewhere. I'd thought of Fiji
and New Zealand and home by way
of Java and Japan.”
said.
The car stopped.
“This is the house,” said Melrose.
She contemplated with much satis-
faction a delicate Georgian facade
four stories high and twenty-five feet
wide. Blue sky and the green trees
of Central Park were reflected in the
windows.
Melrose opened the door with a
latch-key, and then, very brazenly for
im, for people were passing and he
disliked being conspicuous, he stooped,
picked her up and carried her across
the threshold.
“It’s a tradition in the family,” he
explained as he put her down and
shut the door behind them.
Then he took her in his arms and
kissed her. He seemed to be very
hungry for kisses. And so did she,
for that matter, but she made some
sort of conventional protest. He
laughed and said:
“Don’t worry. The servants have
all been given the afternoon and the
night off.”
Mrs. Melrose had not married for
money. Nevertheless, without mar-
riage she would never have been rich
enough to live on Upper Fifth Ave-
nue, and she found the privilege at
once soothing and stimulating, It
was really a very perfect house to
which she had been brought from the
church, and she believed that the
soften its masculine austerity and
stamp it with her own personality.
Melrose had not succeeded in
stamping it with his own. It might
have been the house of anybody who
had had the good sense to employ
the best architect and the best decor-
ator. Melrose had occupied it off and
had the feeling that it had never been
{occupied at all. Her husband’s com-
| ings and-goings had left no touch of
personality.
“It’s really very queer,” she
thought, “because the dear boy has
so very much. He fills the house with
his personality the minute he steps
into it, and the minute he steps out,
‘it’s as if one had been left behind in
a brand-new and very beautifully ap-
pointed hotel.”
i The house was entirely lacking in
- personal accumulations.
“My dear,” she said to him one
night, “Pve now been through this
| house from attic to cellar, and except,
Ever !
of course, for the antiques there is
nothing in it that might not have
{been sent in yesterday on approval,
land so of course might they have
been. Didn’t you ever get fond of
; something worthless and worn and
ugly and keep it just because you
were fond of it? You haven't even
ta closet full of guns and fishing-tackle
and old homespun coats, There isn’t
even anything to show that you ever
went to school or college. And I
happen to know that you rowed on
the crew, and that you've won all
kinds of trophies at polo.”
“I have some trunks in storage
with things like that in them.”
“It’s a beautiful house,” she said,
“but it’s the emptiest house I was
ever in. I expected to dig up all
sorts of old truck that we could get
a laugh out of . . . But, by the way,
there’s ore place that eludes me.
Perhaps when I get into that Ill find
that you've heen human after all.”
“What place is that?”
“It’s that lovely Louis Fifteenth
desk in the living-room. And Parker
doesn’t know where the key is. Have
you got it?”
“I had it. But I don’t know what
the deuce has become of it.”
“I wish you’d find it. Even if there
isn’t anything amusing in the old
thing, it would be nice to have it
open so that I could use if for my
correspondence and housekeeping.”
“I'll have a good look,” he said,
His good look consisted of asking
Parker some questions.
“Parker, do you remember what
suit I had on the day before I was
married ?”
“Yes, Sir.”
“I put the key of the living-room
desk into the change pocket of that
suit. Did you come across it?”
“No, Sir. It must have gone to the
cleaners with the suit.”
“Has the suit come back?”
“Yes, Sir.”
“See if the key is in it.”
It was not.
Two days passed, and Mrs. Mel-
rose once more asked her husband if
he had found the key to the desk.
“My correspondence is piling up,”
she said, “ and I simply must get af-
ter it.”
She returned to the subject several
times, and her persistence ended by
irritating him.
“You seem to think,” he said, “that
I have the key and won't give it up.”
“I really think that you could find
it if you really tried.”
“The last time I saw it,” he ex-
plained patiently, “was the day be-
fore we were married.
desk, put the key in my pocket, and
married to Miss Cavendish. And pres- | y :
ently they were driving slowly up the be always unlocking an empty desk, !
“It’s yours, and when you
“That would be wonderful,” she
mere fact of her living in it would '
on for ten years, but Mrs. Melrose
I locked the | t
‘the suit with the key in it went to
the cleaners, only the suit came
| found the key.”
'had been smoldering in her breast
now boiled and bubbled. And what
him to snuffle as if he had a cold in cleaners, but they don’t seem to have went completely out of her head.
Her husband sauntered into the
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
|
caused back. Parker has telephoned the dry [with rage, jealousy and malice she A WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY PARTY.
| The 22nd of February is the birth
| “But if the desk is empty, as you 'room at the moment, she held up the day of the beloved Father of Our
“Force of habit.”
“Then it wasn’t always empty?”
| “Look here, Lilian, what are you
driving at?”
“Nothing. Only it seems funny to
and locking it up again. . + Would
‘you mind if I had the locksmith in to
open it?” -
i He didn’t mind in the least (in a
‘very cool voice), and the locksmith
explained that the key required was
!of a very peculiar type, and he had
no blank from which it would be pos-
sible to fashion a new ore and noth-
“ing in his outfit with which to pick
{ the lock.
! “Is there something valuable that
you want to get at?” he asked.
“Only old letters and souvenirs of
my husband’s” said Mrs. Melrose,
which he wishes to destroy.”
some moments without speaking.
Then he said:
“You had no right to say that. I've
told you that there is nothing in that
desk—but a few sheets of note-paper,
some pens and rubber bands.”
She shrugged her shoulders,
| “Do you know,” he said, “I actually
belive that you are determined to
imake a row about this desk.
"heard that women do that sort of
: thing; but I didn’t believe it.”
| She said nothing.
| “Please do have the good sense to
tell me what’s on your mind.”
“Well, I think that we were married
{in such a hurry that you didn’t have
| time to clean house. "I don’t believe
that you are half as much of a saint
as you told me you were. And I be-
lieve that the desk is full of things
which would give you away and which
you don’t want me to see.”
i “Well, I'll. be hanged!” said Mel-
‘rose. “And so that’s the way a wom- .
Well, my darling, °
an’s mind works!
sooner than have your flattering
thought continue to poison you, I |
shall perform an act of iconoclasm.
- There is good reason to think that
that desk is a piece of history, that
it actually belonged to Louis the Fif-
He strode swiftly to the’
| teenth.”
fireplace and returned with the heavy
' poker. Just to prove that I have told
you the truth,” he said, “I am going
to smash this desk into a thousand
pieces.”
| At that moment Parker entered
with an envelop. From the cleaners,
; Sir,” he explained. “I think they have
| found the key.”
The envelop in fact contained the
missing key.
Melrose gave the key to his wife.
“There you are,” he said. “Now open
the desk and then apologize.”
She opened the desk and found thai
it contained, as her husband had said,
a few sheets of note-paper, some pens
and some rubber bands.
She laughed. It was a light, dry
laugh. Not agreeable to hear. “You
did make a clean sweep, didn’t you x
“First,” he exclaimed, “you suspect-
ed me because you thought the desk
was full. © Now you suspect me be-
cause you know it to be empty. And
I don’t even know what you suspect
me of.”
“Oh, yes, you do!”
And of course he did.
“It is terribly disappointing,” she
went on. “I wouldn’t have married
you if I had known.”
“But you did marry me, and if you
were a good sport vou’d make the
best of it.”
“Knowing what I know ?”
Again she laughed the light, dry,
irritating laugh.
“If you hadn’t destroyed everything
so carefully,” she said, “it might be
possible to reconstruct a past not
wholly ignoble. But the mere fact of
the destruction proves that there were
records which you could not hope to
face down.”
Melrose felt that the time had come
to lie handsomely.
“I give you my word of honor,” he
said, “that I have destroyed nothing.
There was nothing to destroy. If
you don’t choose to believe me, I
hardly need point out to you that our
experiment in domesticity cannot go
on. It’s entirely up to you. If you
want to break up, here and now, say
so. If you don’t, why then say that
you believe me, and hereafter act as
if you believed me. One way or an-
other, here and now, this episode
must close.”
{ Many thoughts flocked into Mrs.
Melrose’s head.
Actually she did not know whether
she believed him or not. To have
worked up to a scene had been at once
‘pleasant and disagreeable. Suppose
that Melrose actually had had a bur-
ied past? Did it matter?
matter? Was it worth while to sac-
rifice the Melrose money and position
merely for the fun of showing off.
‘All her female instincts and intu-
itions urged her to make a fool of
i herself. But mixed in with these
were shreds of logic and horse sense.
And suddenly she remembered that
there had been talk of a pearl neck-
lace. And she said:
“Why, of course I believe you.”
And in a few moments noboby
could have known that there had been
a scene, a different kind of scene, a
scene more agreeable to the actors
and equally embarrassing to specta-
tors.
Mrs. Melrose took possession of the
Louis Fifteenth desk. She became
greatly attached to it. And she pre-
ferred to think that it had belonged
to some great beauty of Louis’s court
rather than to the dissolute monarch
himself.
One day she discovered in the roof
of one of the pigeonholes a leather-
covered button, which when pressed
opened a secret drawer. The drawer
was empty, but her instinct for treas-
ure had been aroused, and she be-
gan a systematic hunt for other se-
cret containers. She found only one.
And this one was not empty.
It was filled to the brim with a
great coil of human hair, gold with
copper lights, sumptuous and volup-
uous,
All the doubts and suspicions which
When the locksmith had gone, Mei- i
rose looked at his wife darkly for!
I've |
i
Could it
was empty, he said, “That's that.” say, why did you bother to lock it?” hair to him to see, and cried “Liar!” Country, George
and other words which must have sur-
prised him to discover in her vocabu-
lary.
He was so disgusted that he re-
"mained perfectly calm, :
While she was packing her things
he made no effort to interfere, and
| when she had gone, such regrets as
he sometimes experienced were en-
tirely physical. But he bore no mal-
ice.
“I did lie to her,” he said, “and I
got by with it. When I told her the
‘truth about the hair, I didn’t get by.
And that’s that.”
He often wondered from what head
that rich and lustrous coil had been
shorn. He wondered if by any chance
it could have been a present to Louis
Fifteenth from the late Madame Du
Barry. He never knew.
—Gouverneur Morris in Cosmopolitan.
College Degree for Printers.
Recognition of the importance of
, students for the degree of bachelor
{ of arts in the ancient art of printing
came when the Carnegie Institute of
Technology announced that it would
train students for the degree of bach-
_elor of science in printing, thus giving
printers a college degree.
{| The art of printing not only calls
for a high order of mechanical and
| technical skill, in which exactitude is
a very important element, but de-
{ mands also originality and at least a
touch of the artist’s concept of color
if the best work is to
Also, since the printer deals
| and proportion,
i be done.
Washington, there-
fore red, white and blue are the col-
ors used for this day.
| Of course we must have hatchets
and cherries. It wouldn’t be a real
| Washington party without them, Al-
though if you like you might use a
huge drum made of cardboard and pa-
per, topped with a huge eagle and a
bow of maline ribbon. The colors, red,
' white and blue, are carried out in
| this; the eagle is cut from a piece of
crepe paper, which comes already
_ stamped.
| Little candy or nut containers may
{be fashioned like a small book, of
| brown matstock. On this is pasted a
| patriotic seal. A little box is slipped
between the covers to hold the candy.
In the drawing at the top of the
page on the right is a Martha Wash-
ington pencil, and on the left a
. George Washington pencil. The heads
!a.e made of paper stuffed with cot-
ton. And, fastened around the ends
| of the pencils, cotton is used for the
"hair, and crepe paper makes the hat
and collars.
| If you care you might ask the
guests to come dressed in Colonial
costumes or as famous men and wom-
ren of Colonial times. Also plan ap-
| propriate games, such as:
FINDING THE CONTINTENTAL ARMY
{ The hostess announces that the sol-
'diers of the Continental Army are in
! hiding in a certain room and must be
i captured. Give them 10 minutes to
‘hunt and produce the whole army.
| You will need a box of lead Conti-
_nental soldiers for this game, and
each soldier should have a card at-
FARM NOTES.
Now is a good time for the flock-
master to begin feeding a little grain
to the breeding ewes. It is not only
necessary for the ewe to maintain her
own body at this time but she must
take care of the lamb or lambs yet
unborn. Just a little more feed and
care now mean more lambs in the
spring and more dollars in the fall.
| Big yields of farm crops can not be
grown without plant food. Ninety-
four per cent of the 187 members of
the 400 Bushel Potato Club last year
used complete fertilizers.
A number of perennials and other
| plaris require staking, say landscape
specialists of the Pennsylvania State
tas’ Chief among these are dah-
lias, campanulas, certain phloxes, as-
ters, chrysanthemums, and gypso-
i phoylla. The stakes are most incon-
spicuous when painted green. Pre-
pare them now for use next summer.
Look over your plans for the year.
Estimate all fertilizer and spray ma-
terial needed and place your order.
Also be sure to order seeds and plant-
Ing materials you may need this
spring.
Rust is the enemy of garden tools.
It not only wears out the tools but
interferes with efficient work. Rust
spots may be cleaned off with sand-
paper or a wire brush and kerosene.
After the rust has been removed a
good application of heavy oil or paint
i will keep it away:
| Ask your county health agent con-
cerning the confinement method of
growing chicks.
Here is a simple method of testing
sand to find out whether it has too
much clay with it to make a desirable
concrete. Put four inches of the sand
into a pint preserving jar. Fill the
{with words, he must have a better tached to him indicating his rank— | Jar with clear water to within an inch
knowledge than most folks of good
usage in English and punctutation.
"It is fitting and proper, therefore that
, this craft, which has meant so much
ito civilization, should be accorded
suitable recognition.
rural newspapers are produced, for-
merly supplied the nation with most
i of its best printers. Nowadays, how-
ever, printing apprentices seem to be
hard to find in country shops. Trade
schools in cities afford many excellent
printing courses, but the learning of
the trade is a long and tedious busi-
ness, and only those with the neces-
sary perseverance and a genuine love
for the craft, develop into master
printers. It is a long, rocky road, and
other and easier fields of endeavor.
Benjamin Franklin always was
proud of the fact that he had been a
printer. Though he had high honors
showered upon him at home and
| abroad, he never lost his love for the
lcraft that gave him his start. This
| was demonstrated by the manner in
which he wrote his last will and testa-
| ment—“I, Benjamin Franklin, Print-
ler, lat: Minister Plenipotentiary from
the United States to the Court of
| France,” and by the epitaph which he
wrote for himself, reading as follows: ;
; The Body
J of
Benjamin Franklin
Printer
| (Like the Cover of an Old Book)
Its Contents Torn Out
| And Stript of Its Lettering and Gild-
i ing
Lies Here, Food for Worms.
But the Work Shall Not be Lost
For it will (as he believed), Appear
once more,
In a New and More Elegant Edition,
Revised and Corrected
y
The Author
|
|
‘ Lancaster County Receives Bounty
From State.
Wildcats still ream in remote and
unfrequented mountain sections of
this State, according to the State
Game Commission, which reports that
bounties were paid on two wildeats
Bounties were paid in Berks county
during the same month on 23 gray
and red foxes, and 325 weasels, for a
total of $455.
No wildcats were found in any of
the counties adjacent to Berks, Boun-
ties paid by the State on pelts of nox-
ious animals in Berks exceeded those
paid in any of the counties adjoining
Berks. Total bounties paid in the
adjoining counties were: Chester,
$208; Lancaster, $379; Lebanon, $137;
Lehigh, $109, Montgomery, $111; and
Schuylkill, $528. :
In the entire State a total of $23,-
319 was paid in bounties during the
month of December. The pelt must
be shipped to the State Game Com-
mission, but if requested after the
bounty payment is recorded, the pelt
is shipped back to the trapper, who
can realize on selling it as a fur pelt.
Berks was one of 26 counties in
which wildcats are still found. It was
the only county in southeastern Penn-
sylvania in which any wild-cats were
trapped last month.
Folding Airship to Try Ocean Hop by
Next Summer.
A baby airship, that can be folded
up when not wanted, or can, at the
end of a journey, be attached to moor-
ing mast brought along in a lorry is
due to fly from England to America
this summer before R-100 is ready.
The airship is not built yet ‘but
Lincoln Sutton, managing director of
British Airships, Ltd., says:
“This ship will be flying in June,
and at that time I hope to be in it
over the Atlantic. We want to be
the first absolutely all-British airship
to land in Canada. The airship will
be of a semi-rigid type. It will take
only four months to construct.”
A feature of the airship is that the
linen used for the envelope will be
dipped in a bath of metal which, it is
claimed, will make it tremendously
strong, impervious to lightning, fire-
proof and weatherproof. The vessel
will cost $150,000.
It is designed to carry thirty peo-
ple, apart from a crew of six or ten
men. Its range would be 1500 miles,
and would enable it to cross the At-
lantic by making a call at the Azores.
ABT
The country print shops, where the |
many fall by the wayside and turn to
in Berks county during December.-
general, captain and so on. Gener-
'als count 10; captains, 5; lieutenants,
3; privates, 2. The points scored by
the guests should be kept on the
cards.
| CHOPPING DOWN THE CHERRY TREE
i This is similar to the old donkey
party. A cherry tree is drawn or
“painted on a piece of unbleached mus-
lin, which is tacked up on the wall.
. Then each guest is blindfolded in turn
and tries to pin the hatchet in the
‘proper place on the trunk. Each
hatchet is numbered and each person
i must remember his number. The
| hatchet coming nearest to the tree
trunk wins whatever points are de-
{ cided upon, which are marked on his
| score pad.
CROSSING THE DELAWARE
The company is divided into two
, groups. Place on oPposiis sides of a
rug, which should be about 12 feet
across.
cross the Delaware, in other words
the rug. A questioner stands in the
“center of the rug and asks 12 ques-
j tions. The side that answers the
i question first may order their man to
take one step forward, and the side
! whose man reaches the other side of
{ the rug first wins. Each member on
that side receives 12 points.
PATRIOTIC FEELINGS
‘| Seat the guests around the room
{and pass from one to another objects
; wrapped in red, white and blue pa-
| per. These objects. must be some-
i thing patriotic, such as a flag, Ply-
! mouth Rock, drum or hatchet. The
;one guessing the greatest number
i correctly should receive the prize.
i A patriotic cake will be found easy
to reproduce and makes a most pleas-
ing decoration for the cenier cof the
table at a Washington’s Birthday en-
tertainment or for the family dinner.
' Use your favorite cake recipe and
‘bake the mixture in four shallow
| square pans, each one smaller than
the last. The largest pan should
‘measure from eight to ten inches
across. Square tin pans of this kind
i can usually be bought at a “ten-cent”
store, if one does not have them.
When the cakes have been baked put
then one on top of the other, to form
a pyramid shape.
Cut a sqvare of cardboard slightly
larger than the base of :he cake. Ov-
er this piace a fancy doily and on top
| parafin paper. Use the cardboard as
a foundation on which to set the cake.
The parafin paper protects the doily
while the frosting is being done and
may be cut away close to the cake
when it is finished, The cardboard
offers an easy means of moving
the cake about without cracking the
frosting.
Frost the cake with any kind of
frosting desired, and apply two coats
to insure a smooth surface. Just as
the frosting begins to dry, the decor-
ating is done.
gelica and blanched almonds.
The almonds should be roasted un-
til a light brown. The angelica may
be purchased at any candy store. The
three cannon balls on top of the cake
supporting the flag are made of can-
died or preserved cherries. Four lit-
tle candies supported by tiny holders
give a finished touch.
EGG CREAM ON TOAST
Four eggs, four tablespoonfuls of
cream, four tablespoonfuls of stock,
salt, pepper. The eggs are thorough-
ly beaten, then stock and cream are
added and all ingredients mixed to-
gether well. Pour the mixtures into
a double boiler or any saucepan over
hot water, and stir until it reaches a
jelly-like consistency. Then season
and pour on toast.
HOLLOW HEARTED POPOVERS
If you like popovers for breakfast,
try these. Follow this rule exactly
and never add baking powder or more
flour. The batter must be thin. Beat
two eggs, without separating, until
they are creamy, add one cup of sweet
milk, half teaspoon salt and one cup
flour; beat until smooth. Strain and
half fill hot greased gem pans, then
bake for 25 minutes in a moderately
hot oven. The popovers will swell to
five times their original size in bulk
and will be hollow,
In arranging nourishing and inex-
pensive menus do not forget whole
hominy, dried lima beans, split peas,
dried corn and other dried vegetables
that can be made into soups or
creamed. ;
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; of the top. Fasten the lid. Shake
| the jar thoroughly until the whole
is well mixed. Set the jar aside and
allow the contents to settle. The sand
will go to the bottom. The clay and
loam will form a layer on top of the
sand. If more than three-eights of
an inch of clay or loam shows, the
sand is not clean enough for making
concrete. Either a new source of
sand must be found or the sand must
be washed to rid it of the surplus of
clay and loam. Farmers’ Bulletin
.1278-F, obtainable on application to
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture, Washington, D. C., gives di-
, rections for a simple arrangement for
, washing sand and gravel, as well as
other valuable suggestions relative to
{ plain concrete for farm use,
i Ten per cent of all the newly born
, calves, pigs, lambs, colts and chicks,
as well as other representatives of
the domestic animal family, die each
year as a result of the work of para-
sites, according to Dr. M. C. Hall,
chief parasitologist of the United
States Department of Agriculture..
Losses from parasites, he says, run:
into hundreds of millions of dollars.
annually.
Our livestock, from horses and cows
to chickens and pigeons, is attacked
internally and externally by parasites:
representing hundreds of species, the
horses alone having about 250 such:
enemies listed. The evidence indi-
cates, says Doctor Hall, that for the
most part these parasites are increas-
ing in numbers and importance and
are extending their distribution in the
United States. Several reasons for
this increasing spread are cited by
Doctor Hall, among which he em-
phasizes the change from range con~
ditions to modern pasture practice:
thereby increasing the densing of
stocking. Modern transportation fa-
cilities also aid in the distribution of
parasites over a wide range of coun-
try.
The co-operative efforts of the par-
asitologists, veterinarians, and stock-
men are controlling or defeating a:
small number but we are losing in
the battle with all the others. THe.
basic research on which. control mea-
sures must be based has: not.even been:
attempted for most. of these parasites.
The economic importance of animal
parasites over a wide range of coun-
and for that reason too little atten-
tion has been given: to their study..
{ From both the economic and scientific
standpoint animal parasites are im-
i portant and deserve mare attention.
‘and more men and money for their
investigation.
There is a growing interest in: the:
| planting of grapes in Iowa,. according:
. to information received from. the re-
ports of the Iowa Horticultural so--
. ciety. Recently, a man: was: in the of-
| fice of the society who was interested:
in planting a 200:acre vineyard in
southern Iowa, and am inquiry which:
was sent out by the extension service:
in regard to demonstration grape-
vines brought in: 75 inquiries.
“Proper pruning and cultivation will
greatly increase grape production,”
states R. S. Herrick, secretary of the:
Iowa Horticulturali society. “Mature
vines should be pruned on the long-
cane system as that will give greater
production than the short method.
Leave eight to ten buds on each of
four arms; each arm being wood that.
grew last year. Tie up the four arms
to the two-wire trellis so as to form a:
double cross.”
Many experimants point out that the:
right time to vaccinate a pig for chol-
era is when the animal is in good’
health. It is also a good plan to vac-
cinate early in the spring before the
pigs have been weaned and exposed to
the diseases: in. the hog lot.
One can permanently immunize pigs:
against cholera by vaccinating when
they are between twenty-four hours:
and two weeks old. It is also cheaper:
to vaccinate a two-weeks-old pig than:
one that is older, the cost being only
14 cents. It is also easier to handle
younger pigs and incase of death one
does not lose much because the in-
Yosiment in feed’ and care is not very
much.
If you have ne milk, feed young:
pigs in winter a mixture of two parts
of tankage, one part linseed meal and
one part chopped alfalfa, with their
corn.
If a concrete curb is built around a:
hog-feeding floor, the animals will be
prevented from pushing: the grain. off
the feeding: surfzce:.