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For February festivities that take
place on or near the fourteenth of the
month, there are this year a host of
charming novelties. The old-fash-
loned valentines are, of course, out of
date for everybody but children, yet
the sentiment of the day still lingers
In the hearts and darts and paste-
board Cupids used on the new candy-
boxes. What, for instance, could be
A prettier remembrance for any young
man to give his “best girl,” or even
& young woman for whom he had no
particular regard but to whose family
he was indebted for invitations to
dinner or tea, dances or other func- |
tions of the season, than one of these |
candy-boxes? Two different styles |
are shown on this page—one covered
with bright-red paper and decorated
with a big bow of red ribbon, having
in the centre Cupid himself, with his
bow and arrows; the other simpler,
but just as effective, covered with
white crepe paper and decorated with
a gilt arrow plerced through two |
hearts. If these boxes are wanted
for souvenirs at luncheons or parties
they can easily be made at home by
a clever girl, for the crepe paper is |
very simple to manipulate. The heart- |
shaped pasteboard boxes can be
bought ready-made at most stationery
stores, and the hearts and arrows cut
out of red and gold paper respec-
tively, declares McCall's Magazine.
Even easier to make is the little
round box shown at the top of the
left-hand corner of this group. Any
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CANDY: BOX. BF WHITE CREPE BADER
"DECORATED WITH HEARTS
AND ARROWS
A ROVEL
IKE-cneam on
CHARLOTTE-RUSSE DOX
of paste, and a twist of baby ribbon. |
The white ice cream basket is made |
in exactly the same way, with the
substitution of white paper for red |
and a little pasteboard Cupid stuck !
on the handle in place of the heart
and arrow. The favors for a valen-
tine dance, children’s party or cotil- |
lon are simply fancy paper hearts |
fastened on slender sticks, wound ;
with paper and decorated with ribbon |
streamers. The candle shade makes |
a most effective table decoration. It |
is of white paper, decorated with |
red hearts and gold arrows, and the |
top and bottom of the shade are fin- |
ished with twists of the paper touched !
up with gold paint.
St. Valentine's Day was originally |
the day dedicated to the incoming of |
The Romans kept it in honor
of Pan and Juno, and the festival, |
which lasted several days, was called
“Lupercalia.” The early Christian |
this much-abused feast, very adroitly
reconstituted the old practice of the
lottery of lovers’ names. In place of |
ens, whose appellations, written on |
slips of paper, were drawn by the |
young people of the time, the church |
substituted the names of the saints. |
The idea had its own beauty, and the |
notion of dedication waa thus pre-
served in a more spiritual sense than |
in the old Roman festival. This feast, |
and not the existence of the real St. |
Valentine, is the origin of the gallant |
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a foundation for this. It is covered
with white crepe paper and a big red
heart pasted In the centre. It adds
to the appearance if the edges of the
paint, as shown in our illustration.
For serving refreshments at a val-
effective than heart and arrow
can be so easily and quickly made.
Buy some rather thin bright-red
pasteboard at a stationery store, and
also a sheet of white pasteboard.
Then get some of the ordinary pleated
lotte russe, bisquit glace, ete.
arrow is cut out of the white paste-
board, painted gold or covered with
gllt paper and pasted across the large
heart that has just been cut from the
red pasteboard. A circle is then cut
out of the heart, through arrow and
all, the ice cream box inserted in the
opening and held in place with a little
paste,
The paper baskets can be even
more quickly made, the foundation
being the same sort of pleated paper
case. In making the red paper basket,
this is given a handle formed of
wire, with red crepe paper twisted
around it and a heart and arrow
pasted at the top. The paper itself
is simply covered with a frill of red
paper, held in place by just a touch
14th of February is intended to com-
memorate.
Some St. Valentine “Don'ts.”
Remember that you want to enjoy
the St. Valentine party as well as
your guests; therefore observe these :
rules: !
Don't fret and worry every hour of
the preceding day until you are ner |
vous and sensitive to everything that |
Don’t rush your games too close on |
each other's heels. Young people !
Don’t seem to be making an effort |
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That Little Valentine Boy.
His other name is Cupid. ‘That is |
what the old Romans called him
He had still another name given him |
by the early Greeks, Eros. But what. |
ever he may be called, he is the same
Jolly little sprite that you paint, draw |
or paste on your valentines as the |
love fairy.
He looks very harmless with his
chubby-baby cheeks and his loving |
eyes. But look at him closely and |
you will find in those eyes sparks of
mischief glinting through the love,
like points of mica in a quartz rock.
PIGS AND CONCRETE,
I should like to hear from some
of your readers in regard to concrete
floors for pig pens. All our pens have
old must lle on it.
of our young pigs got lame, and as
they grew their legs got crooked.
They continued lame until
ner.
matism 1
over with
and he seems to
with plenty of
sanitary place for pigs to lie on; but
I know from observation that in cold
weather pigs partly themselves
with théir beddin
the floor. Will pigs get
concrete floors that are well
T. M. L. Monmouth County,
floors for pig pens
wood,
have talked the matter
owner of
hink concrete
the only
the the place,
floors
ing
bed: are
cover
$ 1
g and lie directly on
i
1 rheumatism
from 1
bedded?
N. J. [Concrete
are much
but not more
are kept tight Ce
very cold and must
bedded
will be more or
sort mentioned,
ed rheumatism
tion for a pig
with a twodnch pil
sleeping
place by
should be
be eanlly
for replacing when
try Gentleman
more durable than
sanit
fine
The ideal
pen flo
Ank
place
80 constructie
removed
POULTRY OUTLOOK
Poultry fool of all ki:
{ly advanced In price for the
‘
has stead
pas
three or four years, but that is no
reason for killing if your tock at
th {
i838 Beason of the
afford to kes
present price
cannot
at the
will
poultry eggs |
same proportion
keeping poultry is
before, notwithstar
al food expense
mature fowl,
find that the
and
raise
strain
the surplus
market, the pri
same
the
on the poc)
will In most
food
parket age and
ing
ns a to
prices to people that want
keep them yourself for s
market with eggs. and at
prices of
profit in keeping
any of your promisi
market, they
layers. —Am, Poultry Journal
sand fey
15604 Re
the pul
b
have
age, and you
profit, either
eggs there is a handsome
Do not kill
ng pull
them
els
valuable
are {oo
INDIGESTION IN CALVES
Dr. David Roberts, Wisconsin State
Veterinarian, says: stion
occur from many costive-
hess, a too liberal supply of milk;
the furnishing of the
long after calving to
young calf; allowing the calf
the first milk of a cow
been hunted, driven by
“Indige
causes, as
milk of a cow
has road,
quickly
feeding from a
by hunger, it
clogs the stomach;
pall milk that
is fermented and spolled;
wholesome food:
The licking of hair from
its forma-
the stomach will
ing pens,
themselves or others and
tion into balls in
Is———
BLACKHEAD DISEASE,
Investigation of the black head dis
ease has been continued at the Rhode
issued,
but after reading it through the fact
is evident that by no means all is
A Modern Custom.
Frequently it happens that the
modern valentine is sent by men as an
expression of courtesy or to show ap-
preclation of social favors received.
For this purpose a pot of growing
flowers, a daintily bound volume, a
basket of glaced or tropical fruit or
bon-bons in elaborate receptacles of
satin, porcelain or crystal, are all
welcome tokens to most women, who
gracefully accept them in the same
spirit in which they wore sent.
In Shakespeare's Day.
In Shakespeare's time there was a |
practice of greeting the person met
by saying, “Good morning, "tis Val
entine’s Day,” and the one who made
the salutation first was entitled to a
present. At this time the element of
choice appears to have joined forces
with chance, for it Is written that
divers young persons contrived to ac. |
cidentally see each other before they :
saw anybody else on the morning of
8t. Valentine's Day. i
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under all precautions and changes of
method losses from this cause were
ed to point to the source of the dis.
ease from some cause after the birds
were hatched. It was shown that
by removing the turkey eggs three or
four days before hatching, washing
cent, alcohol, finishing incubation in
the machine, and keeping the poults
board floor and keeping them away
from ordinary fowls, losses from
blackhead disease were reduced from
80 per cent. to about 15 to 20 per
cent. It is thought that the discase
may be conveyed by common fowls
and prove fatal to the turkeys while
not necessarily fatal to other fowls;
but the precise way in which the tur
keys catch the disease does not seem
to be settled -—American Cultivator.
COST OF SILOING.
Figures have been gathered by the
Department of Agriculture from some
thirtyone farms with reference to
: Rvs
— Cy Soh
radep
the time and labor consumed In put
ting up silage and the cost per ton
In estimating the cost of filling a
rate of 15 cents an hour was
made for men and the same for 8
team of horses. Engine hire was rat
g:neer, twine at 111-2 cents a pound
coal at $5 a ton; and gasoline at 13
cents a gallon, Ten con
sidered a work cost of
» storage, as determ!
tigation, varied
on the varigus farms.
yield
hours
The
ned by
were
day's
average per acre was
and the average cost per ton ¢
t4 cents. The rage amount
uge cut was 49
and the
nut! ing
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GOOD TREATMENT PAYS
Kindness to a
gentiment; it is sound
wall
Weil
horse isn't merely
business
that is
and better work than
neglected fed or abused
the win
I0Na
are
properly used
of this kind and
its cost fn
Farmers’
IMPROVES SOIL
soll In
ele
the
sahil
uable
does not
who oon
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Were
WHAT OT 3 lE DOING
The pleasantine and healthful
ness of the jife of the scientific farm
The
farm in
er should nphasized
of the superintendent of the
largely
niroduction
Yolves a very
of rap
the teleph rural deliv
one,
ery, many of the advantages former
iy available only in cities and towns
farmer.
large estate
: for the
of high ial ability. Thus the
superintendent of a farm may look
get to a pleasant
wholesome, profitable and useful life
Colman’s Rural World
are now shared
management of a
ishes opporty
by the
furn
{ton exercise
fo ard from the oul
FARM NOTES
Scatter cracked corn and wheat
over feed yard, so they will
have to exercise in getting it; for
fowls that exercise are more healthy
end lay better, Give them occasion
ally cooked meal, mixed with chopped
onions, pulverized egg shells, a little
charcoal and sulphur.
Chickens like to scratch and every
poultry yard should be well supplied
with chaff and gravel
Fowls should have a moderately
warm place to roost in cold weather,
attention to these details in the care
of poultry will bring good results,
We have reliable information to
is paid to cleanliness of hen houses
and drinking vessels, chickens usual
ly have cholera, croup and vermin.
Keep the hennery clean. The inside
walls, perches, etc, should be thon
oughly whitewashed every spring and
fall. The floors should be swept out
occasionally and sand, sulphur and
unsiacked lime plentifully springled
about,
Keap drinking vessels clean, and
supplied with cold, fresh water twice
daily. If troubled with roup, put two
teaspoonfuls of sulphur and four
tablespoonfuls of unslacked lime to
each gallon of water.
If troubled with vermin, grease
well under wings, and lightly on the
head, with kerosene mixed with cook:
ing oll—onethird kerosene to two
thirds oll; then turn chickens out
close hennery tightly and spray nests,
and every nook and corner thorough.
ly, with benzine, or gasoline. Keep
closed some time, then open doors
and windows, and air well before time
for chickens to go to roost. —From the
“Care of Chickens” in the Indiana
Farmer,
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While walking on the trestle of
the Erie Rallroad at Riverside, N. J.,
forty feet above the Passale River,
twelve-year-old Edward Berger missed
his footing and fell between the ties,
striking the framework in his
descent to the ley water.
As the boy fell Chris Naumann, of
44% Main street, with a friend, Peter
Brueck, started across the trestle on
their way from Hawthorne to Pater-
gon. They saw the boy struggling in
the river and Naumann ran to the
nearest pler and clambered down the
steel work. At the base of the pler,
which is barely wide enough for a
foothold, Naumann took off his over-
coat and threw one end to the boy,
who was clinging to a cake of ice.
The boy caught the coat and Nau-
mann hauled him to the pler. He
exhausted and unable to help
and Naumann, who is big
and muscular, put the boy on his
broad back and started up to the top
of the trestle. He had first instruct-
steel
was
Naumann
trestle and
ing reached the top of
had started to walk
An which Brueck
express, saw
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Naumann
ing himself to a tie with the other.
The express roared above them,
his friend's escape.
enough to tell the story of the boy's
double peril and Naumann's galian-
try. The boy recovered enough to
tell it himself,
SHADOW-TAGQG.
Shadow-tag is a good game for
the early morning or late afternoon,
‘when the shadows are long and
clear. It may be played in any clear
space where there are one or two
trees, or a house, to afford shadows,
For the shadows are the “gozl”
where the plavers are safe, and the
child who is “it,” instead of tagging
the others, tries to step on their shad-
ows as they run from one shade to
another, It is great fun, for unless
you are careful your shadow is apt
to bob up unexpectedly and will be
stepped on before you know it. We
played ‘“‘shadow-tag” very success
fully on a roof garden, where two
sheds gave us the necessary shade
and an open space of gun in between
made the shadows of tlhe runners
very distinct.
In cold weather, when you need
to exercise, and don't know exactly
what to play, it is a good idea to ron
races and let one of the children find
prizes for the races. The prizes may
be anything she finds at hand—the
more ridiculous the better——but it
makes the race more interesting to
have them, particularly if they are
presented with a speech. It is well
to let all the players have prizes,
though of course the winter recerves
the first prize~Ellzabeth Webb, in
the Washington Star.
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Church, Boston, England, are 365
steps, corresponding to the days in
the year; the church has twelve pil
lars, fifty-two windows, and seven
doors, representing the
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