Bellefonte, Pa., October 25, 1829. A BALE OI' RAGS. When the Duke of Athens, one of the most wayfaring of ocean tramps, swung from Millwall docks into the river, rounded the Forelands, kept clear of Goodwin Sands and cleverly avoided numerous other marine traps and pitfalls on the route to |2ag the little south-coast harbor of New- haven where she had to take on more freight, the only passenger was Charles Rolingston, who was taking out a pack of hounds to his Wyoming ranch, with a view to finding out whether the coyotes of that region could run as straight as the foxes of WNorthampto re. But with the numerous bales of rags shipped at Newhaven came on board a mud-colored individual, in a great state of excitement, in whom Rolingston recognized as an old acquaintance, Jonathan Strange, the Lewes nag merchant. Rolingston had much difficulty in preventing his hounds from being buried beneath the musty and unsavory cargo, over the stowing of which Strange was making a great fuss. He had every bale ticketed, and nothing would suit him but that they should be stowed away in numerical order. like a child in a tidy fit over his toys. Jonathan was a many-sided per- sonage. He owned a few racers, was a licensed pawnbroker, and, the un- charitable said, a fence. But rags were his standby. Lewes was not large enough for his operations, and he had acquired control of the out- put of Brighton, Eastbourne and other watering places. Though of pure Sussex stock, he was one of the few gentiles who could patter Yiddish, his different occupations throwing him much among the us- ers of that jargon, and his affinity for them often stood him in good stead. He was full of narrative after the fourth gin and ginger. “Now,” he said to Rolingston, “I think I can do a bit of business in the States. It seems that they wear their clothes so long over there, or have such poor stuff to start with, that American rags are no use for making the better kinds of paper. Now, I have fine rags, beautiful, splendid.” That Strange was greatly inter- ested in rags seemed evident to Rol- ingston, for whenever he went below to look after his hounds he always found Jonathan admiring his smelling property. What with the ship smell, the kennel smell and the rag bouquet, it was no bed of roses below decks in the Duke of Athens. One calm afternoon, after many days, the tramp steamed slowly in- to the harbor of New York, and the rancher parted from the rag mer- chant, not expecting to see him again, unless they should sometime meet in old England. Jonathan Strange got his rags through the customs without diffi- culty, and, with the assistance of a Mr. Lewis Colquhoun, at once at- tended to the distribution of the bales. Here it was that the utility of the numbers appeared. There are a great many varieties of rags, and the samples were carefully graded, according to the purposes for which they were to be used. The bales numbered from 100 upward were | their English cannot be sent to various eastern points where | with they arrived in safety, and drop out of this story. Bales Nos. 1 to 50, inclusive, were linen rags of a very high quality and were consigned to a paper mill in San Francisco. Of course, this shipment would not pay for freight, but if these samples gave satisfaction, Strange intended to supply the mill by the ship-load by the way of Cape Horn. Bales Nos. 51 to 100 were carted up to the warehouse of Mr. Colquhoun, where they were to serve as specimens for the New York trade. They were all kinds—good, bad and indifferent. Colquhoun and Strange looked them rapidly over. “No. 91, I think you said it was?” remarked Colquhoun. “Yes,” answered Strange. “Should be linen.” “Linen it is,” “Help me drag it out and open it.” This was done and therags were spread out till it seemed as if they would cover acres. Jonathan was down on his knees among them, and Colquhoun was equally inter- ested. They appeared to be in search of something they could not | find. Suddenly Jonathan arose from his stooping attitude and eagerly examined the number painted on the hoop of the bail. “Good Lord !” replied Colquhoun. ! | carried back to Tie Siding through a short catechism, which was repeated with variations by every subsequent conductor. “You say the stuff in that car belongs to you. What is it?” “Rags.” “Rags? Oh rats! what did you want to do if you did get in? Here Strange explained that his rags were, or should be, very fine, handsome rags, but that one bale of much inferior stuff had been ship- ped by mistake, and being a sam- ple shipment, he wanted to get it out before arrival, so as not to dam- e his future trade. This was a trifie thin, but the best he had to offer. : ‘Well, I can’t let you in. The car is sealed and billed through. It'd cost me my job on the road.” To offer a large bribe was evi- dently inconsistent with his story. A small one was manifestly inade- quate. So Jonathan reconciled him- self to the prospect of chasing ca- booses in the middle of the night, living on doughnuts and rail-road station coffee, and enduring the joys of traveling by freight all the way to San Francisco. The conductors, seeing that he was no ordinary tramp, but one provided with good cigars and a frequent inexhaustible bottle, passed him on from one to another as a harmless crank, made mad by many rags. Thus he work- ed his weary way on to the Union Pacific, through Nebraska, where he already knew his car by make and shape without looking at the number —11038—past Cheyenne and over Sherman Summit, till the smoke of Laramie hung far below and dis- tant many miles, when— Smash, Smash, Bang, Brrrrrrrr. Neither more or less than a col- lision with the caboose of the pre- ceding train which had uncoupled itself and was stranded with a broken axle. Engineer and fireman had jumped, the crew of the help- less caboose were at a safe dis- tance, and the only person damaged to speak of was Strange, who was on a hand car, and, with serious concus- sion and a dislocated elbow, retired from active pursuit of his quest for the time. But car No. 11038 had been next to the engine, and, piled on top of it, was now a blaze. Tight- ly-packed rags, however, are not very inflammable, and only seven bales were severely scorched. The remaining 43 were soon put in an uninjured, car and sent on to their destination. While Strange was tossing anx- iously and feverishly on his cot in a six room “hotel” at Tie Siding kindly ministered to by a stout landlady, his fellow-traveler of the Duke of Athens was scarcely 10 miles distant down the hill, on his ranch. Two days after the freight smashup, there crawled into Roling- ston’s main yard a dilapidated team, dragging on four wheels a great mound of rubbish, upon which two men were perched. Before they had laboriously alighted Lucy Rolingston had already christened—if that word is allowable—one of them Jerusalem, because he was old and full of sorrows, and the other Nine- veh, because he was oiled and curl- ed, with greasy black ringlets cov- ering his ears, though he was on a rather small scale for an Assyrian bull. There was .no doubt from whence their ancestors had come. They themselves apparently were recently from middle Europe, and rendered justice to its quaintness. Nineveh did the talking, while Jeru- salem gazed with rapt and prophet- ic air at the ash-heap. Rolingston fancied however, that Jerusalem was really in command. Nineveh’s inquiries began with re- gard to scrap-iron and broken stoves, proceeding to bottles, for which he quoted to Rolingston a market- price of three cents per dozen, and wound up with old clothing. “Rags,” quoth Nineveh, “rags ish goot. Ve did great piz’nish mit rags at Tie Siding. Yes, sir, give us some more Tie Siding rags.” Jerusalem, at this point, cut the communication short by dropping a large piece of old iron on Nineveh’s foot, and the two junk merchants piled the Rolingston rubbish on top of their own and departed. Not many days afterward, Rol- ingston was at the railway station at Tie Siding and heard of an Eng- lishman who had been injured in a railroad accident, and had gone stark, staring mad. Of course he hunted him up, and of course it proved to be Jonathan Strange, who had then about recovered from his concussion, but was still suffering with his arm. He began to pour out his troubles to his compatriot, complaining that while he was he gasped, “we have sent 91 on to sensible the railroad people had San Francisco. This is 16, as you can see by the bar under the 6.” The two men stared hard at each other. “You must start West to- night,” asid Colquhoun, “and catch that car. East of Chicago they won't let you break the seals. Af- ter that they won't be so strict, and if it comes to the worst you must follow that bale clear up to the paper mill.” Strange reached Chicago ahead of the car of rags, but there his trib- ulations began. He found out that “Run along now, my good man,” which is potent with an Eng- lish railway “guard,” does not de- velop any extraordinary activity in an American ‘“conductor’—even of a freight—and that even a quarter does not, if accepted, elicit the same amount of servility as a six- pence. It was his first visit to America, and he was not enjoying | sold the debris of the freight wreck to a couple of peddlers, who had vanished, and with them seven bales of his rags. Then came the familar story about the linen-rags samples and the prospective San Francisco trade which Jonathan now mourned as ruined. “Strange,” said Rolingston, “I konw I am a fool, but I can’t swal- low that. What have you got in bale 917” Jonathan paused, and then an- swered hestitatingly, “Second-rate linen rags.” Rolingston sniffed, and reflected. On the station platform he had met Tom Virgil, a sheep-raiser, whose ranch was about three miles from his own. He had mentioned to Tom the sale of his old junk and learned that the peddlers were in negotia- tion for Virgil's whole wool clip, and had demonstrated their ability himself. As a result of his various to pay several thousands for it. breaks, the car eluded him at Chicago and went serenely on its western way. By dint of a good deal of activity and the assistance of an old engineer with compassion for a fellow-countryman in distress, he finally caught up with it at a little doghole of a place in Iowa. He was boldly clambering up the side of the car, determined to effect an entrance, when he was hauled down by the coat-tails and a new obstacle presented itself in the per- son of a freight conductor. ‘Say, old feller, you can’t ride in there !” St , Who was rapi acquir- tg. vistom, tad song, Tut bre thus io an ally, took him So the next day Rolingston drove Strange over to where the peddlers were camped, and he tackled them: “I lost seven bales of rags in the wreck at Tie Siding,” he said. “You bought them.” “” es.” “I would like to buy them back from you.” ‘My friend,” said Nineveh, “the railroad company will pay you full value for your loss. Those damag- ed bales no goot to you now; ve keep them.” Strange tried a variation of the good old story about the samples and the danger of lo his trade, but the Compassion ef s auditors was not noticeably excited. “Have ‘you opened any of the bales?” he | inquired, in desperation. Nineveh looked at Jerusalem, who solemnly nodded. Thus encouraged, Nineveh, repiled, “Yes, they vash very goot rags; but ve found some grit in one bale.” Jonathan now swore, implored, threatened and cajoled by turns, and Nineveh was beginning to spit and become abusive, when Strange burst into a stream of Yiddish. From that time on, could only judge the conversation by the tones and gestures of the the new medium of communication was having is effect. Jerusalem at once began to take am active part in the discussion, and Nineveh was soon almost as much a spec- tator as the rancher. Strange kept up the imploring tone for a while Jerusalem shaking his head vigor- ously. Then the two ragmen step- ped aside and held a consultation. Next, Jerusalem made a proposition to Strange, who hestitated and re- fused it. Another consultation, longer than the first, another prop- osition; a volley of questions from Strange, and then, evidently, agree- ment. The three men shook hands, and Rolingston drove Strange home to his ranch, where his guest sur- prised him by announcing that he must start for England that very night. Pumping failed to elicit any- thing satisfactory. “It is better for every one that you should not know what is up,” he said. “But I shall not forget your kindness, and some day, when it will do no harm, I will tell you about bale 91.” Ten yearrs later there came to the Wyoming rancher, through the hands of an English firm of solici- tors a little package and a letter. As civilized man—and a rancher is partially civilized—looks to the written word to explain the un- known, Rolingston first read the let- ter, which read thus: “Dear Sir:—pursuant to the in- structions of our late client, Jona- than Strange, recently deceased, we forward to you by International Ex- press Co., charges prepaid, a parcel to your address and we enclose herewith a sealed letter relating to it. Hoping you will favor us with an :acknowledgement of the receipt of the parcel and letter, we have the honor to remain, Your obedient servants, Jones, Welsh & Stratton.” The letter inclosed was from Strange himself and was as fol- lows: “As I promised you in 1916, I now take pen in hand, being about to execute my will and other important documents, to explain the occurence about which I was unable to enlighten you at the time. Finding that my rag business and other ventures were not going to make me a millionaire any too soon, I determined to have a little flutter with the U. S. custom house. I raised $125,000, bought diamonds and packed ’'em safe and sound in bale 91. had promised me $175,000 for parcel. How 91 went astray you know, and talk how I would I couldn't get the peddlers to shell out. The Yiddish saved me. beggars hung on to the stones, but offered to start me in rags and dia- Lord, what a backing they had! Since that I have been at it steady— diamonds, phenacetine and lots of other stuff—and never a custom house officer poked his blessed nose into one of my odoriferous bales. But unluckily I did, and one of ’em had more bacilli to the square inch than a culture tube, and that’s why I'm writing this. Wasn't it a beast- ly shame, when I was just getting enough together to retire at my ease? Well, the jig is up for me, but the small sample of my riches which you will get with this—dut paid, mind you—will look well, I'm sure, on your Lucy's hand, and will serve as a reminder to you of a day I have never forgotten, for it was the one on which you set me face to face with Jerusalem and Nineveh.” Charles Rolingston found the sample of riches to be a fine, large cut diamond, of the rare and valu- able blue-white color, in the center of a package contrived in the out- ward semblance of a minature bale of rags— From the Reformatory Record. MEN OUTNUMBER WOMEN SIX TO ONE AT “STATE” Reversing conditions that main- tain for the summer session at the Pennsylvania State College when there are many more women stu- dents than men, it is found that there are almost six men for every wo- man on the dampus for the fall term. Enrollment statistics show that of the 4056 undergraulates, 3447 are men and 609 are women. The School of Agriculture con- tinues to hold its place as one of the leaders, six of whom are women. Chemistry and Physics has 413 stu- dents, 13 of them women; the School of Enginering is again the largest in the college, with 1116 students, including six women in architecture. The School of Educational Arts has 920 students, including 133 women. The School of Mines and Metallurgy is the only one not invaded by wo- men this year, for it has 180 men. These enrollments set a new high record of attendance at Penn State, 130 in the graduate school setting the grand total at 4186. ——— le ————— ROAD INSTALLS OLUB SMOKER FOR LADIES ly on the stronghold of masculine privilege, have successfully stormed another important fortification. Though women for several years have invaded the railroad club cars, thereby nullifying the male right of free speech, until now they have been definitely classed as intruders, who generally smoked their smoke and hurried away. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, however, has tacitly admitted femi- nine capture of this strong-hold by establishing, on its Washington-New York line, a single.standard car di- vided into a smoking room, both fitted with comfortable chairs and seltees, library table and writing el Rolingston participants, but it was evident that monds as a regular trade, and Good | American women battering instant. | ' DUMB ANIMALS SUFFER IN FAULTY FREIGHT CAR. | Mr. Philip F. Shall, who resides at Cochranton, Penna. made a‘ trip "into our western States where he ; purchased thirty-five head of yearl- ing horses, which were loaded and consigned for railroad shipment to his home. | The shipment was unloaded, fed and watered in Wisconsin, where it is reported, the authorities of the railroad decided the car was over- crowded and the horses were shipped on to Cochranton in two cars. An- other unloading and feeding took place in Meadville, Penna., where in- formation reached Mr. Shall, of aw- ful conditions in the extra car load- led at Milwaukee, but without cor- recting these awful conditions, the | horses were shipped on to Cochran- ton, where the agent, Mr. Laskey was called into the case. The car used for this shipment had numerous spikes driven into the sides, apparently, for holding in place some preceding shipment of a dif- fernt nature. Two veterinaries ex- amined the horses, along with the agent and the owner, and six of them were ordered to be destroyed by the humane agent because of hopeless mutilation. Eyes were pierced and cut, and torn from the sockets; three horses had broken legs; and the sides of numerous horses were mutilated with long slits and piercings. Ap- parently, in instances of shifting the cars on the train, these horses were thrown back and forth, and the spikes cut deep slits, causing swell- ing. In some instances, the horses ‘legs seemed as thick as the weight of , an average man. In this awful condi- | tion, the horses were evidently re- loaded into the same car, without as much as taking concern to remove the spikes or relieve the awful condi- ; tions of suffering. It is quite likely that the horses with broken legs were not removed from the car for | feeding or watering, and therefore, ‘ remained in this serious agony with high temperature and without so i much as a drop of water to quench their thirst through a period of a number of days. The exact time involved in this shipment and available facts of con- , ditions at different points along the {road have not yet been determined. Neither has it yet been determined whether a messenger accompanied : this car, or who the individuals are {that can be held responsible, either FARM NOTES. —When poultrymen of western Pennsylvania visited the farm of Robort W. Lohr, in Somerset county, on their recent annual tour he ex- plains how 1,000 growing turkeys each week ate an acre of second growth clover. Placed in a yard enclosing about three-fourths of an acre, the birds satisfied their raven- ous appetite for greens by getting all the clover on the area in five days. —Growers are urged by entomol- ogists and plant pathologists of State College to take good care of spraying equipment. Such care in- cludes cleaning and oiling all work- ing parts, checking to find worn or broken parts so they can be replac- ed, and housing the sprayer. No wa- ter should be left in the sprayer, as freezing will cause injury. —Much of the injury to fruit trees from rabbbits and mice can be prevented by protecting the trees before the snow comes. The county agent can tell what measures to employ. —Leaf mold or other rich soil should be placed ina box and stored in the cellar before the ground freezes. This material will come in handy for repotting plants during the winter. Lawns should be cut until growth ceases but do not cut too short the last time. —This is just the time to lay plans for woodlot thinning work during the fall and winter. Let that riot of autumn colors henceforth cover all, straight, well-crowned, sound trees of good growth and use- ful kinds instead of “just trees.” —The education of the foal should not be postponed until it is desired to break him as a 3-year- old. Horse specialists of State Col- lege recommend teaching subordina- tion early to prevent the foal from becoming willful or headstrong. A foal responds quickly to kind and patient treatment applied early. —Use Barrel for Storage.—A large barrel, buried in a horizontal posi- tion in the side of a bank, makes a convenient place to store small amounts of root crops and cabbage. Soil and straw or leaves are used for covering the barrel. The barrel | representing the railroad or the head makes a convenient door for ' shipper. | The legal problems involved are | very complicated, but every effort (will be made to go into the matter , thoroughly to fix the responsibility and to prevent the repetition of | such an awful experience. | | THE LEAVES DIE TO ’ GIVE THE TREE LIFE. | The falling of autumn leaves is Colquhoun of New York | the annual sign that Mother Nature | the | has made provision to save her trees | from dying of thirst during the win. er. ! This explanation, which may serve The | to soothe the ruffled feelings of home * ; owners who are now busy raking up | the leaves, comes from Martin L. Davey, president of the Davey Tree | Expert Co. { “On the average tree there are | several acres of leaves—literally mil- lions of them,” Davey said. “Ever | leaf gives off water. But during the | winter the tree’s roots absorb very little moisture. Consequently if the leaves remained on the tree and con- | ‘tinued to tap the water supply, the i tree would die. So nature sentences the leaves to death. “The process used by nature to make the leaves fall is complicated. Weeks befoe the first frost she be- y | gins to extract from the leaves all the food substances which the leaves manufacture and which the tree needs, and gradually the leaves with- er. Simultaneously, a thin-walled layer of cells is formed at the base of the leaf where it is attached to the twig. This layer is a zone of weak- ness so that eventually the leaf falls of its own weight or is blown off by the wind. “The scar left by the falling of the leaf is well protected by nature. It immediately becomes covered with a substance which is practically water- proof. Since the bark of the tree also is almost impervious to water, the entire tree is practically bottled up for the winter.” Davey said that the long drought last summer was responsible for the early falling of the leaves in many sections of the country this fall. Na- ture hastened the leaf-dropping pro- cess, he said, so that the tree would not be robbed, through evaporation, of the sap vital for its existence. erm eecaseeee fees emer SYSTEM OF TAG NUMERALS Letters will be used in place of certain numerals in Pennsylvania au- tomobile licerse tags for 1930 after the 99,999 mark is passed. Twenty tags bearing only one letter each, such as A, B, C, but not I, O, Q, T, W, and X will be used on the pas- senger car license tags. In addition there will be 400 two-letter tags which will be issued without numer- als. The letter X will be used to des. ignate dealers’ tags. O will be used on the buses, taxis and automobile for hire tags. W is too wide and will not be used at all. I was taken out of the usuable list because it is con- fused with the numeral 1. No tag will have more than five numbers or a combination of more Wen five numbers and letters in 1 1930. emt | FARMERS KILL DEER I TO SAVE THEIR CROPS Following unprecedented slaughter of deer reported to have been de- stroying crops field officers of the . Game Commission have been direct- ! ed to investigate fully all such cases. During September 215 deer were re- ported killed by farmers as compar- ed with seventy-nine in the same month last year. Farmers who kill deer and fail to report each one are liable to the : same fine as an illegal nunter. Officers also have been instructed to report existence of salt licks near the borders of fields where farmers have been killing deer. this storage pit. —Shredding all corn or stover not ensiled helps to control the Euro- pean corn borer. Do not let any of the insects survive. —Approximately 4 per cent of the hogs on farms in the United States died of cholera last year, says the United States Department of "Agriculture. In round numbers the loss amounted to 2,250,000 hogs valued at approximately $29,393,000. 'Nine States each lost more than ; 100,000 head of hogs from the dis- ease. While the disease is highly conta- gious and is difficult to control, the losses have been much higher than they should be, since a preventive serum is available, say department experts. This serum, used before ‘animals get sick, combined with strict sanitation and thorough disin- fection after outbreaks, is the most i effective known control measure. | Dr. C. C. Lipp, a South Dakota . veterinarian, urges a thorough clean- up if it has not already been done. ! All accumulations of cobs must be | burned. Then remove the manure to ' fields where no hogs are allowed. . If possible, the lots should stand va- | cant during the winter. Plow all + yards early in the spring and give {the hogs new temporary pastures | for a time. Sprinkle the yards as ‘soon as they are clear with air- | slaked lime. | After yards have been clean- ed and disinfected the pens must be given similar treat- i ment. Scrape out all manure, | feed and dried accumulations witha ' hoe or spade. Then spray floors, ! troughs, walls and partitions witha | solution of sheep dip made by add- ing twelve tablespoonfuls of dip to each gallon of water. Use a spray pump if possible because it drives the disinfectant into the cracks and corners. Repeat the process at fre- quent intervals, allowing free circu- lation of air an: plenty of sunshine. After completiig the disinfecting the entire interior of the house should be thoroughly whitewashed. Such a cleaning is not expensive and greatly reduces the probability of cholera next year. Even though no disease has been present on the place during the past season such a process is well worth while. —“Geese subsist largely on grass during the growing season and are the closet of grazers,” says Alfred IR. Lee, author of Farmers’ Bulletin 767-F, “Goose Raising,” just pub- lished in a revised edition by the United States Department of Agri- culture. Geese grow to much heavier weights than chickens, but the price per pound on the markets is usually several cents less than for chickens. Some of the geese are sold from the farms to specialists in the fattening of the birds, and then go to market, large- lation creates a demand. The bulletin describes the principal breeds of geese found in the United States, the Toulouse, Emden, Afri- can, Chinese, Wild or Canadian and and Egyptian. It gives directions for housing, selections and mating, incubation, care and feeding of the stock for market. An acre of grass will supply nearly if not all the food for from four to twenty-five geese, with perhaps ten to an acre as an average. In the South some cotton growers keep geese for the sake of their aid in keeping down weeds in cotton fields. Farmers’ Bulletin 767-F may be obtained free upon request to the Department of Agriculture, Wash- ington, D. C. _ Pennsylvania farmers lose $3,- 000,000 worth of property annually in fires. This is the official Fire Pre- ly in the cities where foreign popu- Prevention Week but every week. should be observed as such. FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. Daily Thought. Man is a failure when he lets a day g¢ by without making someone happier anc more comfortable. OUR HALLOW-E’EN PARTY . —Almost as soon as we had fin ished celebrating the Fourth o July the children began to tall about a Hallowe'en party. We decid ed to ask nine of the most inti mate cronies. Early in October w: brought down the biggest pumpkis in the cornfield and the day befor Hallowe’en we went shopping fo the Party things needed. The vitations were writte on the backs of cardboard witche and left by hand at the differen houses. The dining room was turned ove to the children to decorate with th aid of crepe paper, black cats, pa per skeletons and other Hallowe'e: symbols from town. Then we wen down cellar and dressed up a witct We stuffed 4 pair of long whit gloves filled with tissue paper int the sleeves of an old black dress s that the hands showed. We drape the dress over a box topped by a inverted vegetable basket and set paper hat and mask on top, wit an orange paper fichu, a whit apron and a broom on which th witch appeared to lean. A little way off on an orang crate we set a tin cracker box wit a candle to shed a ray of light o our witch. Before her on the floc we laid kindling wood with orang paper. On the fire we set a larg cauldron. Around the ceHar we placed litt: Jack O'Lanterns. Each lantern ha a number on the back and unde each was tucked a slip of pape These slips looked perfectly plaj but on each was written an amusin fortune and the directions for ing some simple stunt. The wri ing was done by dipping a new pe nip into a strong solution of soc and water and letting it dry car fully. We then went back upstairs, tie several apples to strings and fa tened the ends to the top of a doo way, letting the apples swing in line with the children’s chins. The we washed a box of raisins and le them in a sieve to dry. Later we f led little candy bags with them. C a table in one corner we stood fa ors and mottoes, paper plates ax aprons, lolypops, candy bags and e tra napkins. The afternoon of the party v made peanut butter and jelly san wiches. Six of these with two ct cakes we did up in an orange pap napkin lined with oiled paper, tii bag fashion with black ribbon. V made a bag for each child, to¢ them down the cellar and deposit them in the witch's cauldron. Jack o'Lantern we made fra the great pumpkin, stood him ou side by the cellar door on ty orange crates wrapped in a shes and set his candle firmly inside. T lest thing to do before the witch began to arrive was to run out a: light Jack’s candle. With the stroke of seven the were three raps on our cellar dos answered from within by thr whirrs of a wachman’s rattle and jingling of a cowbell. Slowly t door opened just enough to adn a witch, a ghostly arm reached ¢ and a voice bade the witch ent turn three times slowly and th shriek. (The arm belonged to friend in sheet and mask.) This : itiation ceremony was followed w: each succeeding visitor, who w handed a bit of paper bearing number in the order of her entrar and directed to seek her fortune 1 der the lantern bearing her numb She must then take lantern and fi tune up to the dining-room and c« sult the sorceress (really Mother) In the room above an old wil was seated on the floor in one c ner behind a short orange canc The young witches were invited arrange themselves in a semi-cir and to present their fortune sl in numerical order. The sorcer would take a slip and hold it n enough her candle flame to me the writing turn brown so that I letters appeared as if by magic. The witches then took turns t ing to bite the apples on the strin . two minutes being allowed for e: try. The apples were washed with a clean wet cloth after turn. Bobbing for apples came next great bowl of cold water was pla ‘on a low table and each child : on a rubber bathing cap and ha« square of oilcloth pinned aro her. There were three apples in bowl and three ducks were allowe Before supper we played the penny-in-the-flour game with | bright new pennies. A cup © packed with flour into which a p ny had been dropped and then flour - was turned out on a pas board. Two children played a time, each wielding in turn a ta knife to cut away the flour. ! i player who moved the penny the game and the penny went her opponent. After the flour game they w all sent down to get their supj from the witch's cauldron. cocoa with generous dabsof ma: mallow whip awaited them w | they came upstairs to eat. ei —To clean baby’s nails use corner of a piece of writing pe folded in a square. To use scis roughens the nails. —Never turn electricity on or when you are standing on a we ‘even on a damp floor. | —C Clothes should be damper i an ironing machine than for i !ing by hand. —Lace, frills, intricate yokes, standing collars all relieve severity of the collar line. newest blouses have the most fi nine things imaginable, with b ties, pleated ruffles hemstitct and scarfs that show somebc imagination has been working ing the hot weather. caution and carefulness will pre many farm fires, say State Col agricultural engineers. :
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