FARM NOTES,
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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
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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.
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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 |
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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
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or drug
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A good pig should average about
eight or ten pounds gain daily from
birth to slaughter until 12 months old.
Rupture cure guaranteed by
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“wt
IAT.
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If liquid manure is used upon the
strawberries, wenk and often is belter
i
Dobbins’ Electrie
Hirst made in 1865 is just that article,
your grocer for it He has it, or will get it.
i AA
A Matamora (Mie h.) breeder re
cently sheared a ram that clipped 38}
pounds,
ie AMIS
Fraser Axle Grease,
One greasing with Frager Axle Grease
will last two weeks, all vithers two to three
days. Try it. It recelved first premium
at the Centennial and Paris Exposition,
————— OA
A cluster of small diamonds in a sap-
phire triangle is a rich and artistic ring
setting.
Eansi All Fria st free ny Dr. Kiine's Great
erve Nestorer, No Fils alier arm day's ase. Mar.
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held by tiny
narrow coral beads
Lon
orm a misses’ Baio of recent
links,
date,
America’s fnest—"Tansill's Punch” Cigar.
Face all things! Even adversity iz
polite tew a man’s face.
18 regular prayer
“NOW [ay —me’’-
stuck fast,
“Down,” said his mother, prompting.
Wie renpon Johnny started again with |
great alacnity and fluency: “Down came
a blackbird and nipped off her
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~aid then
nose,’
(ius writes a good
he not?’
A DisTiscrio
deal of poetry,
“Oh, no,
“Why! 1th hough t
me 80 himself,’
He
writes
rhyme.”
does
dig, He
he
doesn’t same;
Yerses
just the
any quantity of
[1 has alwaps been observed in publ
bodies that married men are
ters, They may
talk, much at
invariably
not have
chance to home,
have
observe and learn,
AN EXPLANATION,~ — Wanama-
ker says that the New York
unhealthy, that foul
+
basement,
May be they
lillie
post-office
is odors #3 ude
D,- keep the dead
THE
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ron
CHILDREN
BUFFERING
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OR
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Pains in the Chest or Sides,
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Bruises,
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