Bellefonte, Pa., May 18, 1928.
WHOSE DAY?
The note held such a splendid se-
cret that Betty North wanted to share
it with Norma and her other girl
friends at the store. But still it was
a bit uncertain, and she decided that
not until after the staff meeting, and
the doubt became a certainty would
she tell anyone except her mother.
And the staff meeting was exactly a
week away.
After Betty had read the note six
times she tucked it carefully away in
her red leather purse and rearranged
her tinware for the ten o’clock sale.
On Wednesday mornings, at Wen -
dell’s store, there was always a sale
of tinware from ten until eleven
o'clock. “The sale,” Betty North said
laughingly to the floorwalker who
passed her table, “if not attended
with a rush is always the occasion
for a stampede.”
There were never any sales in the
book department at Wendell’s. Betty
smiled with that realization. But
there were story hours every after-
noon during the week—story hours
for children of varying ages. And it
was with these story hours and the
book department that the note was
concerned.
A hand tucked suddenly into Bet-
ty’s arm made her drop an egg beat-
er against a cake pan. The crash was
answered by a peal of laughter, Nor-
ma Bensinger’s variety. She followed
the laugh with some good-natured ad-
vice. “Sell all the noisy things today,
dear, so there will be nothing for me
to crash into when I come back to
visit you next time.”
Betty strangled a powerful impulse
to tell Norma about the note. It
would be quite pleasant to say, “I do
not think you’ll have to come far to
visit me after this week. Mr. War’
has written me one of his famous pro-
motion notes. At the staff meeting
next week he is going to recommend
me for a transfer to the book de-
partment. He wants me to help in
the story telling.”
Instead she smiled an alluring
smile and patted Norma’s hand. “You
should be glad I'm not in the china
department,” she said. “Otherwise
we’d be busy paying breakage bills
and neither of us could even dream
of a picnic next—"
“I came to talk about the picnic,”
Norma interrupted girlishly. “We
leave on the eight o’clock boat, in-
stead of the ten o’clock one. Miss
Haynes made a mistake in the time.
The girls want to visit the cave be-
fore lunch and then afterwards to go
horseback riding on the famous
blacks.”
Betty’s black eyes snapped in an-
ticipation of the day’s fun. “Oh, I
never was so glad of the approach
of Decoration Day in my life.” she
declared.
She watched Norma on her way out
of the basement. Afterward she
worked harder than ever with the
tinware on her table. She did hope
there would be a good crowd at this
morning’s sale. It would be 3 trag-
edy to have her sales slump now after
the note had come. On the strength
of those sales she had asked Mr.
Ward for the transfer.
Of course, she was qualified for it. |
She had graduated from high school
and had two terms in the library
school before her mother had discov- |
ered the shortage in their bank ac-!
count, and the neccessity for Betty’s
finding immediate work. The short-
age was of such dimensions that she
had taken the first place offered—a '
position as sales girl at a salary and |
special commission in the tinware de-
partment in Wendell’s big store.
How large that commission for
special sales had grown during her
three months in the department! The |
first good week had brought Mr. |
Ward to her department. He watched
her for half an hour before he made
any comments. Laconically he had
encouraged her. “You are full of pep |
and personality,” he had smiled:
slightly. “Always insist upon a com- |
mission as well as a salary, Miss!
North.”
This morning he walked through |
the tinware department while the sale
was on. He nodded encouragement
and helped the floor-walker straight- |
en out a line of shoppers.
Betty told her mother about it at
noon when she showed her the note.
“Some of the girls resent his coming
to the department when a sale is on,
but I like it,” she explained. “That
shows him whether we handle crowds
well.”
Mrs. North smoothed the note with
loving fingers. “I'm glad, dear,” her
smile was radiant, “not so much be-
cause it will mean more money for us,
but you will be handling your beloved
books and having a chance to make
good at story telling.”
With loving hands Betty rumpled
her mother’s hair. “I felt sure from
the beginning that I would be given
a chance there,” she laughed. “That
was one reason I made special friends
of the girls in the book department.
I wanted them to like me and they
do. Mother, I'm the only person out-
side their department whom they
asked to go on their Decoration Day
trip.”
“Perhaps they suspected you were
going to be put in their department,”
Mrs. North began.
“No,” Betty’s dusky head gave a
shake. “No one except Mr. Ward has
a suspicion of it. He will tell the
rest of them at the staff meeting but
not a day before.”
A little later they discussed the ex-
cursion—a trip by boat to a large
cave which Betty had never visited,
There was a log inn near by, at which
the excursionists would get dinner.
Besides, a farmer and stock raiser in
the same neighborhood was a cousin
of Miss Dorman, head of the book de-
partment. When she had written him
of their coming he had written back:
“I’ve a whole herd of big black
horses, all broken to ride. During the
afternoon I want your party to be my
guests. I'll give them a horseback
ride to the waterfall—one way there
both routes is beautiful.” [
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and another back. The scenery along
On her way to the store that noon,
Betty met an old soldier in blue tni-
form just a square away from Mem-
orial Hall, the building in which the
G. A. R. and the Legion, and all sim-
ilar organizations held their meet-
ings. He was custodian there and
Betty often saw him on her way to
and from work.
But today was the first time he had
ever spoken to her. And this noon
he was wanting an audience badly.
He told Betty about the camp fire
they were going to have on the fol-
lowing Thursday night. “Right out
on the commons in front of our hall,”
he added. We want to get people in-
terested so they will come to the big
Decoration Day parade and exercises
next Tuesday.”
He walked past his corner with her,
on down the street toward Wendell’s
store. He was out of patience with
the town people, he said. During the
war they had beeen very patriotic.
But now they had lapsed back into
their lethargic state again and for-
gotten they even had a country in
whose defense millions of men had
fought in the big wars. They had for-
gotten the men, too.
“They don’t donate their cars for
us to ride in during the parade,” he ;
“Some of the veterans :
was scornful.
had to walk last year. They don’t
come to see us parade,” he repeated.
partments
morning.
to help out during the
her work than anything else.
A flood of color rushed over Bet-
ty’s face. And her heart sank. If
she had been going to the picnic she
would have straightway turned her
back on that excursion to grant Mr.
Ward’s request. But she could not
turn down the service she had prom-
ised to her country—not even for
her work.
As Mr. Ward walked away Betty
wondered whether or not her pro-
motion would be affected by her re-
fusal to work on Decoration Day.
She had told Mr. Ward in a sincere
way she was sorry she couldn’t help
him. She had made an SHUBEEMAnS
she could not break. Then she ended,
“I am very sorry.”
Very stifly Mr. Ward bowed and
walked away. Betty was sure now
that he would withdraw his promise
to recommend her to the book depart-
ment.
She was more positive later that’
afternoon when he passed her tables
several times, on each occasion star-
! ing at her but not even speaking. “I'm
sorry,” she told herself, “quite sorry.
He doesn’t understand, but mother
will and won’t blame me though I lose
the promotion. She’s a soldier's
daughter and thinks the veterans
should have the service of the people
“The women don’t even come to make | one day a year.”
wreaths from the flowers we our-
selves buy for our comrades’ graves.” | with her.
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That evening Norma walked hoine
But even Norma seemed
Involuntarily Betty reached out her | changed to her. She didn’t chatter so
hand and stroked the old man’s arm.
Back in Lindendale, her home tow,
the school children, the club women,
the business men, and almost every-
body marched with the veterans to
the cemetery in which the soldiers’
graves were swathed with flowers. |
She had marched every year since she
could remember, until last year when
it had been impossible for her to go
back. And here, according to the old
man beside her, no one marched ex-
cept the veterans themselves.
Oh, yes, indeed, she felt sorry for
him.
“Come to our camp fire,” he invited
her at the corner before they reached
Wendell’s.
“Yes, indeed, I shall, thank you!” |
she smiled encouragement. :
you'll come to the hall next Tuesday
raorning and help work with the fiow-
ers,” his voice was full of hope.
“You'll be needed. There are so many
soldiers’ graves to be decorated and
so few to work. You can march in
the parade with the D. A. R. women.
Will you?”
The picnic! With a gasp Betty
realized that she could not tell him
about that.
“It’s a day of duty—not one for
pleasure,” he urged
much as she usually did, but stared at
Betty from time to time and seemed
to be in a deep study. At the gate
she said, “Your folks were Revolu-
tionary fighters with a grim purpose
—weren’t they, Betts?” She smiled
a little then.
made a fighter yourself had you lived
then!”
The next day the floorwalker ar
nounced that directly after the éiss-
ing time Mr, Wendell wished to talk
to all the employees on the main
floor. Such meetings were rare, oc-
curring only once or twice a year,
and the people around Betty were
busy all afternoon guessing what this
one would mean.
In the large group of more than
"two hundred employees, Betty stood
The old comrade received it. “Then
close to Norma, who still regarded
her in a curious way. She smiled
He had chosen her because |
he knew she was more interested in |
“And you would have’
| The Jury’s Acquittal of Harry F.
Sinclair.
To those who recall the remarkable
| Verdict of acquittal rendered by a
Washington jury in the cases of Al-
| bert B. Fall and Edward L. Doheny,
the similar decision as to Harry F.
| Sinclair’s guilt or innocence will not
be wholly surprising. Nor will it have
| any particular influence as effecting
, the views of the American people up-
i on this point. The authoritative pro-
nouncement upon the parts played by
I these three men in the leasing of the
I naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome
i and Elk Hills was given by the Su-
( preme Court of the United States fol-
lowing hardly less notable opinions
| expressed by Judges of the Circuit
| Court of Appeals and District Courts.
‘The language used by these jurists
was severe in the extreme in branding
the oil leases as fraudulent and begot-
i ten in corruption, and the fact that
i 12 residents of the District of Colum-
bia have expressed a contrary view
will not alter the facts in the case,
particularly as stated in the pains-
taking and lucid expositions of the
knavish transactions made by the Su-
preme Court. This must forever stand
as the most complete and impartial
summing up of the whole matter, and
the jury’s verdict is simply to be
viewed as one of those peculiar men-
tal aberrations which make the ad-
ministration of justice in this coun-
try so uncertain.
Apart from this phase of the case
it must be remembered that there
were certain developments which de-
barred the Government from present-
ing evidence it possessed as to three
important features of the oil lease
transactions. These may be summed
up as follows:
First, the granting of a severance
to Fall and the consequent trial of .
i Sinclair alone limited the scope of
' the trial by excluding acts of Fall
alone, which would have been admis-
sible if the two were being tried to-
gether.
Second, it was admitted that Sin-
clair had sent to Fall $233,000 in Lib-
erty bonds after procuring the Tea-
pot Dome lease, as was related by
Fall’s son-in-law. Thereby the de-
fense gained two points—it got be-
fore the jury the contention that this
sum was in payment for a share in
Fall’s ranch property, and it caused.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT
It is not so much what we do as what
we are that tells in this world.—Home
Chat.
Before hanging up the screens,
they should be brushed thoroughly
and the frames re-painted. All hinges
should be oiled thoroughly at the
same time.
Ice-tea stains can be removed from
linen by soaking the satin as soon as
possible in Javelle water and then
pouring boiling water through it.
Triangular, round and octagonal
shaped are new pillows. Taffeta and
satin scraps make lovely ones. Also
glazed chintz in small figured pat-
terns.
Spicy gingerbread, with raisins
and nuts, makes a nice dessert if it
is served very hot, with some thick
pudding sauce to which a little mint
has been added.
Forks are always placed at the left
of the plate, knives at the right and
the spoons to the right of the knives
in setting the table. Salad forks
should be placed to the left of the
dinner forks and oyster forks to the
right of the spoons. Butter knives
may be placed on the bread and but-
ter plates or to the right of th
spoons, oyster forks should be placed
to the right of the butter knives.
Very popular today are glass dish-
es. They come in all sorts of gay
colors and are so well made that they
will stand hot water or may even be
used as cooking utensils. One finds,
in the stores, glass teakettles and cof-
fee pots, and the large assortment
of glass baking dishes with which we
are familiar. One of the prettiest
, breakfast sets which I have seen for
Ia long time, was a set of small plates,
tea cups, cereal dishes, and all the
rest needed to set the table for the
‘first meal of the day, and all a dainty,
transparent green, very cool looking
for a breakfast in hot weather.
| Every woman in the world loves to
| clean the old surface. We despise
| cleaning brushes. We very frequently
| won’t wait for one coat to dry suffi-
| ciently before adding another. And
. we usually forget to stir the paint.
| But if we'd only take the time and
! effort to do it right there’s no deny-
|
slightly just as Mr. Wendell, the to be excluded as irrelevant the fact |ing the smartness and the charm a
stooped gray-haired president of the | that the bonds were derived from the : can of paint can bring into the home.
firm began talking.
“We're closing the store for Decor-
ation Day,” he said. “There will be
no invoicing nor repair work done on
that day. It is not a holiday,” he
said slowly, “for our benefit but a day
our country has set aside for the
honor of the men who fought for her.”
There was a profound silence while
every. one remembered that Mr. Wen-
And then Betty knew she would not . dell had beer a drummer boy in
tell him about the picnic.
Instead . the Civil war.
“Of course I'm march-
she made a half-promise. “I'm coming ing in the parade—have every year
to the camp fire, and I'll see what I there has been one,” he smiled, “but
can do about Decoration Day.”
Thoughtfully she walked the rest
of the way to the Wendell store. And
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the line of marchers was disgraceful-
ly short last year and I wondered—"
Mr. Ward finished for him, “If
profits of the direputable Continental
Trading Company deal.
Third, the Court ruled out testi-
mony that at about the time of the
leases Fall also received $100,000 in, ing a rich, lustrous surface which '
cash from Doheny. Obviously, this
incident would have helped the prose-
cution’s argument that Fall was cor-
rupted in both deals, but the decision | this is especially recommended for:
was that it could not be used against
Sinclair. In order to get the testi-
mony of Doheny’s son, who carried |
the money to Fall, the Government
nolle prossed a bribery indictment
. found against the young man; the
| only result, however, was to free him
{ from the charge, for he was not per-
as if planned by fate, she mat Norma most of Wendell’s employees couldn't | Mitted to tell the jury about the “lit-
directly inside the rest-room door.
Impulsively Betty told her about the
old soldier and his scornful speech.
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start a reform in this city by march-
ing in a body on Decoration Day and
helping in the proper celebration of
“I didn’t blame him,” she admitted. | the day.”
“I deserved everything he said. I
He followed with the story of what
was only sorry he couldnt tell the ! the custodian of Memorial Hall had
whole town exactly what he told me.” | said to one of Wendell’s employees
Norma was apprehensive.
miss the picnic. The girls would be
offended. They really would be hurt
and Miss Dorman, too.”
Betty shook her head. “Perhaps
hurt a iittle, Norma,” she challenged.
“But not exactly offended after they
{know my reason for missing the pic-
i nic.
Of course, I shall not tell them
she smiled whimsically.
5 “Butand of the camp fire which had been
you're not going to go there Decora- | held to arouse interest.
| tion Day, Betty,” she implored, “and tioned no names—simply told the
He men-
story and asked the workers to help
the veterans make a success of that
ay.
To a man they promised. Picnic
parties were broken up without a
word of regret, excursions ended, and
with a zeal which brought a gleam
; of happiness into Mr. Wendell’s face,
‘until afterwards, if I decide to go,” | plans for a sincere Decoration Day
“And to be ; were made.
Betty stood with scarlet
the least fraction patriotic; of course, | cheeks listening. Norma moved close
not tell them either, That would
sound as if I were preaching.”
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! dear, you will respect my wishes and ' to her.
“Yes, my lady, you started all this.”
she said proudly. “I couldn’t help tell-
She was rather sober all the after- | ing Miss Dorman and she promised
noon.
looked
Mrs. Ward, passing her counter, ; to keep it a secret. She would have
at her troubled face and asked | done so, too, had not Mr. Ward to
her if the sale had tired her more | her of your refusal to invoice on
than usual.
buy heavily,” she laughed.
That evening before she started : and here,” she waved her hand at the
home, Betty went to Miss Dorman employees, “you have the result.”
She smiled and shook | Decoration Day and asked if you were
her head. “I like sales when they going on our excursion.
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and told her that she could not go |
with the book department workers on '
their picnic. Miss Dorman was ex-
tremely polite, but Betty felt the
touch of coldness in her voice. Still
she tried to keep up her courage by
thinking that she too would have been
hurt were she in Miss Dorman’s place.
“Because she doesn’t understand,”
she urged.
But her smile grew twisted when
she walked away and the sparkle left
her eyes. She couldn’t even lure it
back when she journeyed down to
Memorial Hall and told the custodian
there that he could count on her as
cne of the Tuesday morning workers
and one of the Tuesday afternoon
marchers.
She was in a rather downhearted
mood that evening. Still she accom-
panied her mother to the camp fire.
But the sight of the loyal old men,
the sound of their singing and the
tenor of their camp stories, stirred
her to such enthusiasm that she for-
got the nicnic she was to miss and
the worry she had felt lest she would
not win the girls of the book depart-
ment back to her when she became
one of their number.
“Oh, if only everyone in town
would remember that Decoration Day
belongs to the soldiers,” she longed.
“Just one day, one little day out of
every year in return for all the days
they gave us. We are too selfish and
self-centered to give thm that.”
She and her mother talked late into
the night, wondering how the town
could be interested in the veterans
before next Decoration Day came
around. “Ill have a chance to inter-
est the children,” Betty was smiling
again. “Ill tell them stories. That
will be one of the beauties of going
to the book department, mother.”
But the next morning brought
doubt. Mr. Ward came to the tin-
ware tables with what he termed =
request. The store was going to do
some special invoicing Tuesday. He
told Betty that he was asking one of
the girls in each of the basement de-
Then she
d him the story I had told her
“But your part in the affair is a
secret to most of them,” Norma of-
fered comfort. “Still you should be
proud that you started a movement
like this one.”
Betty’s dusky eyes were brilliant as
she hurried out of the store and down
toward Memorial Hall. “I must tell
the custodian that there will be a
she thought. “And he can make an
host of workers Tuesday morning,
appeal to the school children for
flowers for the graves.”
Mounting the steps she smiled, re-
membering what Mr. Ward had told
her when she passed him on her way
out of the store. “Report to the book
department Monday morning, Miss
North,” he had smiled. “Mr. Wendell
has already passed on my recommen-
dation concerning you and he wants
you there next week.”
“So that I can begin telling stories
to the children right away,” she
smiled, “and there will be plenty of
paptroitic ones in my repertoire.”—
Reformatory Record.
State Police Check on 1482 Criminals.
The criminal identification bureau
of the Pennsylvania State Police co-
operating with all police departments
received 1482 fingerprints and photo-
graphs of persons charged with var-
ious crimes during the month of
March, 1928. Of this number 11 per
cent were identified as having pre-
vious criminal records.
Pennsylvania stands fourth in the
number of licensed air planes in op-
eration throughout the country. The
Aeronautics Branch of the Depart-
ment of Commerce has tabulated the
2,715 plnaes licensed and in the
Keystone state, 62 planes have been
licensed, 29 identified and awaiting
approval of licenses.
——The Watchman gives all the
news while it is news,
tle black satchel” and its substantial
| contents in currency.
| "It is charitable to suppose that the
legal technicalities here presented had
a large part in influencing the jury in
its verdict. In the estimation of the
American people, however, there will
remain no doubt as to the guilt of
Harry F. Sinclair in his dealings with
{ Albert B. Fall.—Phila. Record.
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Resoling Worn Shoes.
| The village shoemaker in the old
days was a substantial citizen of his
community, and besides repairing the
family shoes he frequently acted as
justice of the peace, alderman—and
sometimes he put in Sunday at
preaching. When the “shoe-machin-
ery trust” began turning out women’s
shoes with the soles sewed directly to
the upper, without an intervening
welt, the poor shoemaker around the
corner was unable to resole this kind
of a shoe. But a new method of re-
soling this type of shoe has been de-
veloped and more than 140,000 pairs
of women’s shoes are being resoled |
weekly by the new process which has !
been developed by a well known in-
dustrial firm which specializes in the |
tanning of sole leather. !
In repairing by this method, a flex- |
ible soling particularly adapted to the
work is cemented to the shoe with a
specially developed waterproof ce -
ment by means of a hydraulic press,
which molds the sole to the contour
of the shoe. This process eliminates
nails and stitches and permits the re-
pair shop to.resole shoes that hereto-
fore have been considered unrepair-
able. Shoes repaired by the new meth-
od, it is claimed, have none of the old
“alf-soled” appearance and, in addi-
tion, the solid comfort of a “well-
broken-in” shoe is retained.
The unusually satisfactory appear-
ance of the job is made possible by
the fact that, in using cement instead
of stitching, the thickness of the sole
can be graduated rather than having
to meet a certain width to permit
stitching. The cement in this process
is a waterproof, belting cement adap-
tation, developed for this specific pur-
pose by a nationally known chemical
industry.
While the utility of this process is
chiefly in the soling of the types of
women’s shoes manufactured today,
which defy resoling in any other way,
it has been found to be also the most
satisfactory method of repairing
men’s shoes.
Hysterical Women Get Blame for
Unseating of Prince of Wales.
Hysterical women who crowd at
the jumps at point-to-point meetings
at which the Prince of Wales rides
are blamed for many of his recent
falls.
“The thoughtless and unsporting
manner in which these women utter
shrill cries of welcome when the
Prince is about to take a jump are
the chief cause of his recent falls,”
said a member of a prominent hunt
committee.
“Horses are easily frightened, and
it is astonishing that the Prince is
able to manage his mounts so well in
the circumstances.”
| The new brushing lacquers are al- |
| most magical in their effect and are
jone of the best things for the novice
|to use. They dry very quickly, giv-
{ wears like iron. In the very quick
| drying preparations excellent results
| may be had by using a sprayer, and
wicker furniture or other pieces with
crevices.
pigment settles at the bottom and
you lose much of the effect. Use a
clean and a good brush, This is very
important. Hard brushes make good
i work impossible and cheap ones leave |
'a trail of hairs. There is a prepara-
: tion which costs 10 cents a box which
twill restore old brushes which have
' been neglected. It is a powder to be
dissolved in warm water, and one box
1 will restore two brushes. The thin-
‘ners which come with lacquer and
special paints will also clean brushes.
| The surface should be entirely
I clean. All wax and grease and oil
‘should be removed with turpentine.
Incidentally, turpentine will remove
: most paint spots which you may
make on walls or clothing. Most of
the thinners will also do this.
Rust spots, worn surfaces and old
scratches should be removed with
sandpaper and a good sandpapering
should be applied between coats. Two
or more coats are usually necessary
over surfaces which have been pre-
viously painted. Unfinished woods,
plaster and the like must have an un-
dercoat, and all indentations and the
small holes should be filled with plas-
tic wood before painting. The un-
| painted furniture which is now so
popular needs no preparation, but
two coats are necessary for best re-
sults. It is said that one coat put on
with a good soft brush will cover
better than two coats put on with a
poor brush.
Use the brush full. The panels of
a door should be done first. To do |
a chair turn it upside down on the
table, doing the lower part first, so
that you can hold it by the upper
part until the last. It is a new ana
delightful idea to paint the insides
vivid color, such as French blue, jade
green or brilliant orange.
A well-known firm gives a long list
of trimming suggestions. Among
them we note: Indian yellow trimmed
with black and orange, Chinese red
with black and gold, ivory with tur-
quoise and gold, sage gray ‘with cin-
namon brown and forest green,
French gray with rose and Italian
blue and rich blue with French gray
and orange.
Others may be easily obtained.
There are also suggestions for obtain-
ing unusual shades by mixing, but
unless you wish something greatly
out of the ordinary it may be pur-
chased.
Harlequin Marmalade.—Take one
large can of pineapple, three oranges,
1% pints of water, four cupfuls of
sugar, three tablespoonfuls of
blanched almonds. Wash the or-
anges and cut into small pieces, re-
moving the seeds; let stand in the
water over night, cook until tender,
then add the pineapple; simmer for
twenty minutes if the pineapple is
fresh, add the sugar, and cook half
an hour, adding the nuts ten minutes
Deters it has cooked the required
ime.
Spiced Prune Marmalade.— Take
one-half pound each of dried prunes,
peaches and apricots. Soak and sim-
mer until very tender; then put
through a sieve. Grate the peel from
an orange, add the juice and one-half
pound of seeded raisins, one and one-
fourth pounds of sugar and one-quar-
ter cupful of nutmeats. Chop or cut
fine the nutmeats and simmer all to-
gether until rich and thick. The mix-
ture may be cooked for ten minutés
before adding the sugar. Cook care-
fully as it burns very easily.
Always stir your paint well, as the
of drawers and cupboards in some
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FARM NOTES.
Treat sheep for stomach worms.
Forest fires cost $2,000,000 annu~
ally in timber lost.
Limestone, sweet clover and short
rotations are making sandy soil prof-
1table.
Onions, parsnips and parsley seed
| cannot be depended on to retain vi-
| tality more than a year.
! The daily feed of a 1,600-pound
horse at hard work should consist of
{20 to 24 pounds grain in three feeds
‘and the same amount of high quality
timothy or mixed hay divided into
two feeds.
It is well known by nurserymen and
orchardists that most fruits do not re-
produce varieties from seed; that
budding or some other form of vege-
tative propagation must therefore be:
used to multiply a given variety.
For the man who is in need of a
legume hay, but finds it impossible to
drain and sweeten his soil sufficiently
to grow alfalfa or ordinary clover the
alsike variety is most dependable. Al-
sike clover will make a substantial
growth on lands that are too wet and
sour for most other legumes. In cer-
| tain sections it is reported to produce
| almost as well as red clover, and bet--
ter than crimson or white. In the:
same amount of feed it contains more
protein than does red clover.
1
Nearly every farmer raises enough:
. popcorn for home use, but many
| seem to have difficulty in curing the
| finished product, and usually consid-
| er it a matter of luck. But if the:
! right procedure is taken, the curing:
is a simple process.
| Popcorn, unlike other corn, should
be allowed to remain on the stalks in
i the field until thoroughly ripe and
{ hard. It should then be cut and put
iin small shocks and a {wine tied
, around each shock near the top to.
i make it cone shaped; this will help.
shed the water and prevent molding.
| After about two weeks it should be:
-husked out and placed in an attic on:
a piece of chicken netting or screen:
: suspended from the roof so that rats:
"and mice will not have access to it.
Later in the season when cold:
weather comes and the corn has dried
thoroughly it should be removed to
a cold place if the attic is not very
cold. This step has a very import-
ant bearing on the popping quality of
' the corn.
Ornamental trees damaged in the
recent storm should be attended to
now if the work has not been done
already. All injured and broken
i branches should be removed com-
pletely with a clean cut close to the:
trunk of the tree. Where the sym-
metry of the tree is destroyed by loss:
of injured limbs other parts also can
be taken out to restore the propor-
tions.
i
When gathering cut flowers for the
home it is well to place the stems in:
water as soon as cut. This will in-
crease the lasting qualities of the
flowers.
There is no need for a farmer to
keep dairy cows without knowing the
value of each as a milk producer.
Membership in a cow testing associa~
tion costs less than the feed eaten by
a number of “boarder” cows which:
never pay their board.
Have you planted an abundant sup-
ply of leafy vegetables? Many of
these crops can be planted in May.
New Zealand spinach should be in
every home garden for the summer
supply of greens. Ut should be. plant-
ed by June 1. It is not too late to:
sow Swiss chard. Plantings of let-
tuce, kohl rabi, carrots, beets, and
radishes can be made this menth. for
summer use. Witloof chicory or
French endive should be planted:
about June 1. This crop will come in:
handy next winter when no othe
salad crops are available, say State
College vegetable gardeners.
Remove the roosters from the: lay-
ing flock as soon as the season for
producing hatching eggs is past, for
infertile eggs will keep longer and,
therefore, are more desirable in warm.
weather.
During the course of twelve months:
a high-laying hen will produce from:
18 to 25 or more pounds of eggs—or
, from four to seven or more times her-
own body weight, depending upon the
weight of the hen. And.it.is a.well-
known {act that eggs are high in per-
centage of protein. Logically, there-
fore, it follows that. laying hens must.
be fed a ration which is rich in pro-
tein if they are to turn out this
amount of protein-rich product and
still maintain the muscle, sinew and’
: blood in their own. bodies.
Home-grown grains, such as wheat,.
oats, barley and. corn, while they all’
contain a certain proportion of pro-
tein, all rank as -carbohydrate-rich
feeds, necessary to maintain body
flesh and provide heat and energy, but.
lacking in sufficient proportion of pro-
tein to meet the requirements of the
heavy production. Millfeeds, such as.
bran and shorts, contain proportion--
ately more protein than do whole
grains, but they, likewise, fail to sup-
ply the needed amount. If the ration
fed to laying hens contains these.
feeds only, without the addition of
some protein-rich supplement, the
feeder cannot. expect high egg pro-
duction; the hen simply cannot pro-
duce eggs, but can only turn the car-
bohydrates into surplus body fat.
Care used in the mating of poultry
and in. the. selection of hatching eggs:
will in a short time develop a flock
that produces practically no inferior
eggs, says L. M. Black, extension spe-
cialist in poultry husbandry, at the
college of agriculture of Rutgers uni-
versity.
Experiment has shown that certain
characters are transmitted to future:
layers through the egg. The pullet.
that is hatched from any particular
egg tends to lay the same type egg as
that from which she came. Success-
ful poultrymen take advantage of this
fact and! select. only typical, large,
uniformly. colored eggs when setting
the incubator. Since sires, too, exert:
an influence upon the type of egg laid
by the pullets, males selected for the
breeding pens are from ancestors that
were noted for their heavy production:
of large, uniformly colored and. shaped:
eggs.