FARM NOTES, sro —————— REARS TT nS A a a FLOWER LADIES. { HOUSEHOLD IT WOULD 100K LIKE HOME —In- His PrAavER. —A small boy began | ed by Charming Little Children. Dip any of you little people ever play “Flower Ladies?” This was the way we played. We gathered roses with stems about two see in a minute ne bea itiful ladies, ures, lovely pink yveive petals, and any one ean that they then be with tall, slender Or Crimnsail 3 hittle gr satin or wi overskirts thorns &4 from the hed very Iv when stuck ground, Or iso were bits of but they were rathel stiff and un- nding these eally vB a very lnsi nific in the flows r ladies’ households I'he in whieh ladies lived I of the very simplest architecture; s of stick or blades of grass Inid Lin in squares to rooms wile, A green leaf mude a pretty and tiny flat pebbles furn itiful Chitiss, Then served Hently for a gm ble, HOH were ich stood up nice 1 thu stick; } De 1 wi they gente and ant part were danen houses the IRCIose “ mahogany ta chip i exe ana with 1 mud chocolate custards, in acorn-cups, and loaves of mud-bread the flower ladies hived luxuriously. ladies were divided { My sister's the surname Hed Grah with thick sand, into two nily always 'Y, and mine rSolfaterre the car families, bore was ¢ roses were had who were careful lest shonld get eir feet wet, 3 : 1 10VelY wy mud ples hie ¥ had res ] home ame } 08 were the sweet Ire 13] od st young ne, and the moss-» thorn-roses were ed aunts, called Jane or There » bush tha Ky slender w te bi Wis § ds, We OVYEer- or red satin great charm of this play wi everything could be swept in moment. There was no trouble of put- away playthings; and then every- was fresh and new each day. nsed roses, because had 1 all the but erocuses or daf- fodils or d and red clover 14 arly ns love ly flower ladies, — beth Bisland in St. Nicholas, HERE 18 A PUZZLE. The following 18 a very curious pnz- I'ry it all of you: at random AWAY wea 80H YEAar, make Fliza- ALRION 8) zle th on 6 bow vk word w.thin within the and select a the first ten lines, and tenth word from the er d of the line. Mark the word, Now double the number of the page and multiply the sum by 5. Then 20. Then add the numb have selected Multiply the sum by 10. Add the nuriber of the word line, From this sum substract 220, the remainder will indicate in the unit column the number of the word in the ten the column number of the line, and the remaining figures the ber of the page. i Beery CoLLoPs, a half of steak from the tender part of wer of the line you thiee inches square, The meat should be an inch thick. Roll them in flour and fry brown on both sides in hot drip. ping. lay in a stewpan, season with salt and pepper, and a chopped onion, and cover with brown gravy. Stew very slowly for two hours, They must never boil or bubble fast, but just sine mer. Dish the pieces of meat; cut a tablespoonful of butter in bits, roll them in flour, add to the gravy, boil up once and pour over the meat. This is a very good way of cooking an inferior piece of meat. The brown gravy must be made beforehand from some bones and trimmings of meat, If you have not these, add a pint of water to the pan in which the meat was fried, let it boil up and add the butter rolled in flour at the start, Jand but and will lose heavily action of ram--often make grass or small Drilling produces the larger yield and profit, ex- If vou have ConN may do well on hilly heavily as to planting e the ground. were | aded thirty bushels thie the were Batats) If On the two-l LO Wagons placed tect apart, us p ssible in a string, the string ol Wagon 8 would reach twe Ive times around the erlobe—300,000 miles! to so revolutionize the present corn fodder in the West as the new growing practice of cutling the fie corn close to the ground kernels are well glazed and putting the whole crop directly into the silo, either whole or cut into half-inch lengths, clean crop WHOLIS, can fhe and 1X load, or as nearly waste of but 0s S00n CAREFULLY be too often ail who have HaxprLe CoLts importance of this cannot or strongly urged upon charge of young colts, One of our best authorities, he Horseman, Says that after a colt has been foaled it is like plant—it and ¢ LI, Thousands of dollars are lost to horse owners and the country every year by the carelessness with which colts handled during the first siX months of their existence. Like plants, if they tunted in the start it very hard to ta rapid, healthy growth out of th rward, as it will show on them as long as they live. There is no danger of handling an A feeding the too early I'he dling r should as soon Especially should it be to the halter, The being needs care Or alg 8 is get em alte colt as it 18 foal accustomed interest whicl taken mn matte wk is beginning t y, and all engaged 3 1 t viel t oid study ¢ best «3 a simple devi HLIne: The Ik, branc ury is often done by submerged from view piant or tree ner bed attack il OF 164 in bark ot and AWare and the sickens before Cause + % Wie OW of the om es Vs iaf INISCHIe: SPRAYING fruit trees in blossom wil arsenical poisons 18 strongly conden by Professor A. J. Cook. It bees and the honey they are making, and Professor Cook thinks it may even poison people who eat honey made from the 1 He suggests ti jegislature should enact laws pun- ishi the spraying of trees in bloom with tine and imprisonment, h ned poisons HOSSOINS Sprays d. al ng building to hay of IN economical grain stacks ‘it will be place some rails, old boards, straw on the ground be- fore commencing the stack. In case we have a wet fall or your threshing is delayed there will not be muddy or rotten buts to go through Tne farmer who strays off habitually pastime loses interest in his work, forgets that it Ly sure degrees, leading a pinched and miserable life on land that might have supplied him and his with more than competence, AFTER the grain is harvested it is a pumber one Han to clean up the stack- yard ‘before beginning stacking, draw out all the manure, and if any old straw is left that can be used for bedding put that in as little space as possible, mend up the fences and have a plate ready for stackmaking by the time the grain is dry enough to draw in, To nAvE a plentiful supply of early greens next season sow turnips seed now and allow the turnips to grow and rewain in the ground during the win- ter. A slight covering of straw will protect thew, SCcnoonL LUNCHEONS, —[t i8 always by circumstances to take a lunch to school, but when on account of dist. ance, wet weather, or inability to walk it becomes necessary there should be a wise judgment as to the food and the way pared. If a child returns home at ime there is no necessity to supply any- recess, and a warn lupeh warm dish id and but- home, It may be simply a ackers; fer or 01 whatever it 18 it 8! be ready when the ¢l is a very litte hools and some margl Hats and while sible the lunch not disturbed by fault-finding. 18 a school grievance let it be I's time n should be left Jakes CHOns often wound thy from will some during A child often returns hool in the afternoon in far condition to study than when he left at session, however, the child must car- to be eaten during the there are several necessary: Flrst, should be light LO Carry It should fasten securely. There is a pretty but troublesome fashion just now of the lunch basket with ribbon, and the young girls in lasses vie with each other as given In case, hour, basket lunch easily and bows of older ¢ to the daintiness of arrangement, is very well in fine weather,but a strug- gle with an umbrella and a bundle of books and one of these fine affairs on a often proves fatal to the should be a basket contain a nap- nall glass for tf Arinlis Of drinking alway ible a 8 ¥ i $i iit pos wiler, because from the the fifty same ty others is he cups pro- ople will giv ney a lunch r. 4 huge SUppiy h basket; cloves al yd all - Boil minutes, hole a teaspoonful of ozen blades of mace. for five or siX ady to be poured over the two days, pour off the vin- deat it. and after two days the operation, Then let pickles stand one week, and once more heat the vinegar, be ready to tie up and set away. vera TEAL - . TOMATOES AND Porators,—Take gall ripe tomatoes, cut off the bottom, scoop out the see ds, and with a small knife pare off the thin skin without breaking the fruit; potatoes cut into tiny squares and mixed in a little mayonn sauce, turn them upside down on a bed of chopped let- tuce seasoned with oil and vinegar, - alse § Prepare the tomatoes in the same way as in the preceding recipes; shreds of anchovy and gherkins mixed in a little mayonnaise sauce, seasoned with a little chopped tarragon; dish them on a bed of chopped salad, To-Night apd To-Morrow Night, And each day and night during the week sat for the Throst and Lungs, acknowl edged to be the most successful remedy ever sold for the eure of Cooghs, Croup, Bronchitis, Whooping Congh, Asthma, and Consumption. Get a bottle to-day and keep it always in the house, sG you can check your cowl at once, Price poe and $1. Sample botties free, TOMATORS witht EGGS, — Skin and scoop out a sufficient number of small tomatoes, fill them with hard boiled eggs and anchovies cut in very small dice, mixed with a tablespoonful of chopped tarragon and chervil, with a very small quantity of chives, pepper, sal, salad oil, and vinegar, in the pro- portion of three tablespoonfuls of oil to one of vin ; turn each on to a slice of hard boiled oy dish in a circle, with picked watercress in the centre, {from Phiindet pli) Yes, my health is improving, but I think 1 grow more homesick every day! Neighbor And is there nothing we can do? Well fancy, I know it's only my would only send the girls out every He was the dunce of his class; was what they said of him, day the teacher put this question Ww | “How do you pronounce s-t-i-n- depends a good deal on refers 10 4 person ol was the reply. - THE that a bee ’ REPEALED LAW.—Tramp No. nibsey? Teaop No. 2.—Just got out of West- chester county, Why, culley, dat’s one deestricks in de summer. | Used to be; but they've repealed the | law what made ‘em muzzle their dogs. of our best | ————— — Ar ThE OBELISK.—Brown--These | aldermen, tobinson~—In what way? They are doubtful characters, brought here from abroad, That’s so. a — sald Mrs, Bumbleton to her “your grammar is very bad.” “In what respect? “You said ‘copyrighted’ talking about an article paper.’? “So 1 did.’ “1 should much schooling know that you « 9 “JOHN. " son, just now, in you saw in the with AS would any one you've hi ught to BAY "C« think ul pywni as ten, Ambiti. i I: NAME, wisi A NEw-FANGLED ous Daughter—1I hing more a ism. if -fact Mother i + tend to that do I could fix 3 bout this new science about } i - co mas Her Fortune wisdum, haz been dis- id eRe on tarred if they tar paper roofs at les {0 1emain Ciose Coal ne Cann’s Kidney Cure for Dropsy, Gravel, Diabetes, Bright's, Heart. 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