— MOTHER FOR HIS BROOD “8B (® by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) {WNU Service.) , TANLEY WICKERSHAM was one of those widowers, youngish, well-to-do, well set up, over whom mothers with marriageable daughters, and the daughters them- selves sighed, in spite of the fact that Wickersham was the father of four children (one of them already begin. ning in his father's business), the others scarcely more than tots After the death of his wife, Wicke ersham broke up the beautiful home they had occupied during the period of a happy marriage, and moved with his orphaned family to a large and comfortable suite in a family hotel, where he Installed two governesses and a mald to look after the two little boys, aged seven and eight,” and a baby still crawling. About once or twice a week, as a treat to his children, Wickersham dined with his family down in the public dining room. The youngsters loved this, never seeming to tire of the sense of novelty afforded them by the bright lights, music and gayety of the hotel restaurant, The eldest boy, Jonathan, also took part In these oc- ecagions, He was a sleek young fel low, well set up, vigorous, just out of college. The two men, father and son, were a presentable pair, Sympathetic dowaffers and mar- riageable daughters and widows, too, looked with tender eyes upon the ple. ture of this little family, The gray- halred, handsome and rather tired faced father, ails good looking twenty- year-old son, the three lovely children and the governesses. A prospe rous type of family, bereft of the grace of a woman at its head. Th thing ineffably pathetic about the Mt- tle boys and the prattling baby, to say nothing of the eldest boy and the handsome widower. Wickersham ent, that is, he fact that his children, one of them, selves, an sonal consideration. He tired, too harried, ere wis some mes never lost was a iculous par- sight of the each and every were entities unto them- d as such, his per- Was never too deserved harassed with to N sten too the tril ema as attention to complication. son he heeded eration that was and child, as man te Jonathan did not to his father his g of the of the spirit. Wickershan ceeded In fo wr lend serious t husiness adult soul, 3 FO iT fe Tr hi hing he in self and his boy an ideal camaraderie It was this characteristic of tl} tle family which used to excel terest and ad of the family-hotel on th when the Wickersh group in the publi e dir little precoci- ous, conversing so seriously with their father, who In turn replied, debated and discussed, Jonathan Wick. ersham had a way of talking to his father, as If he were some one with whom he was on amiable and rather reserved terrss. There was absolutely no family bickering: no undue in- timacies; no sharp reproofs Except for the fundamental faet that It was a family without a wife and a mother at its head, here was an Ideal brood. It seemed strange, as the years moved on, that a man of Wickersham's social and financial importance had not remarried. The dowagers wagged among themselves over this fact and she marriageable daughters and the marriageable widows yearned. It was along about the time that the baby was four years old, that a Miss Felice Daly and her mother moved to the hotel, and as fortune would have it, occupied a small table adjoining that occupied by the Wickershams, An acquaintance was struck up In much the fashion that hotel acquaint- ances occur, and it came about grad- ually that young Wickersham and the brunette and quite demurely lovely Felice, began a friendship. There was nothing unusual In that, however. Young Jonathan was at that period of his life when his heart re. sponded more quickly than his mind, His fickleness was a standing Joke between him and his father, Girls had come into his young life and girls had gone out of It again. More than once he had poured forth what seemed to him the pangs of a love affair which was to be the final and outstanding one In his life, and more than once had confessed to his father that the flame had flickered and died. With Felice it was different only to this extent. She was a girl of un- usual sensitiveness, combined with a quiet besuty also that made her seem a creature under glass, as it were, She was the sort of girl who had been educated in a French convent and had lived abroad with her mother for the greater part of her life. The American “flapper” was a new and astonishing creature to her, She had none of her technique, none of her characteristics, As Jonathan confided to his father, {there was something of a lily about estab tween € te the in- iration of the occupan ose occasions dined In a listened Felice, so aloof she was, so calm, so white, so patient, The Wickersham children adored her, clamored for her to join them at table and at thelr pames, No, Felice was not quite the run-of- the-mill type of girl so far as Jon- athan was concerned. She puzzled him, she quieted him, she was, as he put it to Wickersham, a sedative. It was this quality In the girl that seemed to fascinate the boy most, The same age as Jonathan, she had nevertheless, an adult manper with him, She let his youthful enthusiasms beat up around her like a plunging surf; she listened quietly and just as quietly, advised. There was nothing reckless, imptisive, or of the juvenile about Felice. Whether he was in love with her or not, certainly she had inspired in Jonathan something of awe, For the first time the boy was a bit hesitant in confiding in his fa- ther; not go much because he feared lack of sympathy; on the contrary, Felice was probably closer to his fa- ther's ideal for him than any girl Jonathan had yet known. But the difficulty was that Jonathan was too confused to gather his thoughts. For a little while, it had seemed to him that here, at last, was the “grand passion.” Felice was the sort of girl to shed a quiet and pearly kind of radiance over the lives of those about her. Her beautiful old mother, who wore precious lace and cameos, was part of rare tranquility and breed- ing that was Felice's background, The trouble with Jonathan was, that as he came to see more and more of Felice, he found himself admiring her more than he loved her, It was finally Wickersham who ap- proached his son about the matter of Felice, as the two young people came more and more to go about together. “Jonathan, where do you stand with Felice? “Hang it, father, 1 wish “It's about did, can't string along with a Felice, as you have with the others. “1 understand that, father. You're right. This much I know: I admire her more than any girl 1 known.” “You love her?” “If I knew, I wonldn't be along this way.” “It's up to you to soon.” “You're . The week arched on. It was Wich in approached his gon, “I don't want son, but I won't with Felice In “You mean It's uj “Exactly.” “You'r right. My the I knew.” son, Yon girl like time you " have even find kersham who 1 to seem to barge in, have this way.” ide?” y to me Lo « uncertainty has i't love girl to love and wit} her outright toward him,” squarely ir you st asked “1 feel ing Wi “as a mother” “Will you be motl he sald, meeting her squarely eye. There is a fair at the head of the e Wickers! now, she sal kershiam er to him, like personality ' ham famll Predicts Big Changes in Weathet Forecasting which challenges the basie of meteorology, on which the ing Is based, is present. Abbot wvidence theory art of forecast ed by Secretary C. G. Smithsonian Institution. Meteorologists have hi bee Heved that weather (which is defined as the departures from regularity in climate) depends principally on the irregularities of the earth's surface, and, like rough water in a stream over f rocky bed, is essentially unpredict able for any considerable time in ad- vance, of the therto Doctor Abhot presents evidence to show “that weather, on the contrary, is caused chiefly by the frequent In- terventions of actual changes of the emission of radiation within the sun itself.” These changes in solar radi ation are periodic and promise to be predicted long In advance, Weather appears to respond directly ® them, although there are modifica. tions due to loeal conditions. The net conclusion fs that long range weather forecasting ls possible and even prob able. The evidence from which Doctor Ab- bot draws these momentous conclu slons consists of the daily measure ments of solar radiation made by the observatory of the Smithsonian Inst! tution at Montezuma, Chile, from 1021 to the present. From this gréat number of observa: tions Doctor Abbot hag selected 111 in. stances In which the solar constant showed a continuous rise for five con secutive days, and 106 instances In which the solar constant showed a con tinuous fall for five consecutive days He then plotted the mean temperature and barometric pressure at Washing ton, D. OC, for the periods assoelated with these rises and falls of the solar constant, In every instance the curves of tem. perature and barometic pressure cor responding respectively to rising and to falling solar radiation showed a marked opposition to each other. That is, when the sun's radiation increased, the temperature and barometric pres sure at Washington pursued an oppo site course to that which they followed after falling radiation, Hay Making Now Modern Science Curing in Windrow_ Saves Labor Required for Cocking. Even In moving with it, haying, the world keeps and one might as well keep is the epinion of H. B, Hart- wig of the New York State College of Agriculture, who says that there 18 no need for the present-day farmer to make hay the way his grandfather did. Many successful farmers have found that to cure hay in the wind- row saves from 10 to 40 per cent of the labor required by cocking. This saving makes it possible to get more hay in between rains, Swath-curing clover or alfalfa sacrifices too many leaves and bleaches the hay too much. Method of Hay Making. Professor Hartwig recommends the following method of hay-making. Cut only after the dew or rain is off, Hay dries more quickly while standing, and molds that make hay dusty do not get started. Allow the hay to wilt in the gwath but do not allow wilting te con- tinue until raking will knock off the leaves. One-half hour to two hours of bright sunshine should be plenty. Next put it in a loose windrow with n side-dellvery rake, The better side- delivery rake is the left-hand type, because when driven (after the first round) in the same direction In which the the largest number of stems are turned out and the most leaves turned In where they will not dry too rapidly and shatter off. Re member that the leaves carry about 60 per cent of the protein. The right- hand rake may be used If the hay Is cut In lands Begin at the middle with the right-hand rake and work in a direction to the course of the mower, Give Half.Turn, the hay in the upper portion windrow {is 3 give the half-turn with the outer gide delivery rake, so as Mower goes, of posite When of the windrow a end of the to bring up for curing that portion a8 nes In cans repeat thi procedure as Avold the ted- » hay loader up when of rains ns Is necessary, der to save leaves, used to take th the the form may uy carries no n ture In iin or dew, moisture » Spontaneous © ion, to Worm Infestation the small intes- females produce nute eges. which ire scattered over the ground with the Roundworms live in mss to the hen to the he lungs, larger. After a time they work t! way up to the throat and then heart wim there to where they become much er are journey re after that in the in Smail ‘ntestine, This curious about ten days, and about two months uch more susceplibie to in- are older protection for ab out fi Ary meas ures are necessary to keep out Infesta- tion of roundworms. pigs are m festation with pnes, and worms than require spec war months, Sanit Apple Tree Borer Does Much Harm in Orchards It is rare, indeed, that a young or- chard comes into behring without con- giderable loss of trees due to the ap- ple tree borer, unless fhe orchard is regularly and earefully Inspected to locate the borers and to make ble tis destruction. Presence of borers is usually cated by a bit of frass about the of the tree on the ground, Inspection month or two through the growing season will be advisable, If you should find any bor- ers In the orchard it may be necessary to cut along the burrow a considerable distance before the borer is found, but such injury will do less damage than the borer will If allowed to continue his work. possi. indi- hase every Avoid Egg Eating Vice by Keeping Birds Busy Egg eating is a vice which seldom develops among birds that are kept occupied and have proper feed and range. Often when the birds are con: fined owing to bad weather, they may become Inactive and the trouble starts. The remedy is to get the birds on range if possible. Supply ample oyster shell and bene, deepen the lit- ter and darken the nests, See that the rations are correct. Gather the eggs frequently for a few days. Some recommend the feeding of milk for a few days. Anything that will get the birds’ attention on other matters will help remedy the situation. Place for Calf It seems to be taken for granted that calves a couple of months old and up can graze a good part of their living If on good pasture. This Is a mistake, A calf Is not equipped to geaze its living until eight or nine months, It Is all right to run the enlves in a shady orchard but they will grow faster if fed skim milk and grain in proper quantities and have good hay as well, Perhaps the ideal plan is to have the ealves in the stable during the heat of the day, Increase ‘Moisture by Summer Fallow Winter Wheat Is an Ideal Crop to Follow With, (By A. L. clalist, College.) Summer fallow In wheat production acts as a moisture storing measure for the following wheat crop. Winter wheat Is an ideal crop to follow fallow, for fallowing the ground stores the moisture deeply in the soll, and the winter wheat roots ‘have the ability to feed at least six feet deep, which is almost the possi ble depth of moisture storage with one year of fallow, Summer fallow not only stores moisture but gives an opportunity for the wheat farmer to turn under the accumulation of straw and thorough- ly decay it before the next crop is planted; an essential practice for maintaining soll humus and fertility. A year of fallow will give time for some insoluble plant foods to change their form, become soluble and avails able to the plant. This is probably the principal reason for the hold- over effect of fallow that is indicated 80 clearly In experimental work nat the Hays experiment station, At this station wheat on early fall listing the third year after fallow has aver- aged 23.9 bushels, which is 3.7 bush- els more than early fall listing with continuous wheat, Clapp, Extension Crops Spee Kansas State Agricultural . ; “ . Anemia Among Suckling 3 ore ‘a ’ Des rany Pigs Can Be Prevented Last year the Wisconsin experiment station told us that lack of iron and copper In the sow's milk caused ane- mia in suckling pigs, and that feeling these two minerals In ble com- pounds to the pigs would prevent the disease In the preliminary fron and copper were fed gays the Prairie Farmer, We told that feeding 1d of iron (ferric grams of copper once i a week will Drugg and tel guita estigations once daily * fire now sul] i sulphate) disense, {copper prevent the thes uch to Hoe 1 to give g the iy quantities of the ists can tke solutions i" you h it has been tion con % of iy will pre. corn sirup solu. 15.57 grams of liter of wa- 55.06 after then the opper to the teat hinking ric citrate to a boil, sirup to F elusy Lo Favor Small Container for Market ‘Tom atoes OER grovwa «at deal on the & are sold that vege eouthern farms for 10- toes when ling for £1.50 The reasons { ig to het. advantage ar Straight iit king fruits (if you grant the tomato is a fruit) the 20.pound ex small ones Pp. Another tomatoes In divided by cor rugated paper, so there is less damage in hauling to market. A paper liner in the straf will help the price, sided bask« ia thing. the two lavers of the smaller basket are ght-gided basket {00, Swine Feeding Tests In Missouri swine feeding tests last year the addition of alfalfa meal to a corn and tankage ration Increased the rate and economy of gains, 11 pounds of alfalfa meal replacing approxi- mately 32 pounds of corn and 4 pounds of tankage. Adding small amounts of cottonseed meal or jin. seed meal and alfalfa meal increased slightly the rate of gain and decreased the feed required per unit of gain an compared to tankage alone, but large amounts of cottonseed meal had the opposite effect. A A T0-colony aplary 1s equivalent to about forty acres of land in both la- bor and income. Te ® 0» Based on past experience, profit In growing cucumbers depends primarily on the control of insect and disease pests, . 8 » By using a preservative treatment of creosote practically any common woodlot tree can be made to serve as an fence post for 20 years, * - * Timothy may be seeded as late as the middle of September, or even later in some sections, with a fairly good chance of coming through a for. mal winter and producing a good drop of hay next year. .- o ® Well composited barnyard manure is one of the best fertilizers for a garden, This fertilizer is somewhat lacking in phosphorus and the addi tion of a phosphate fertilizer has the property of causing earlier ripeging and maturity, Town in Mourning for Death of Killer Whale | Eden, a little fishing town in New | South Wales, is in mourning because | the body of a fish has been washed | ashore. It was that of “Old Tom,” king of the local pack of killer whales, which he ruled for more | than 100 years. 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