Feminine Preference.
It is doubtful whether any woman
to-day would be particularly elated at
hearing herself vaguely labelled as
‘“‘charming,’”’ says Ladies’ Field. She
prefers to be known instead as ‘‘a
good sort.” The former to her mind
is an illusive term, signifying the ap-
proval of elderly relatives, while the
latter implies affectionate toleration
on the part of the eligible man.
Rs 3
To Be Pretty. i
If you are employed in an office or
factory, try to make it a point to
open the windows and thoroughly air
the room two or three times a day.
Stand straight, hold your shoulders
back, and give yourself a chance to be
a healthy woman.
Don’t be afraid of water. Drink
plenty of it, and take as many baths
as you can. Learn a few physical
culture exercises and practice them
night and morning, says Woman’s
Life.
This may all sound rather uninter-
esting to you, but if you follow these
few suggestions you will be healthier,
happier and better looking.
Don't Worry.
Be absorbed in a work of moment
to others, to the world, and our own
small, petty pygmy concerns lose
their overweening importance.
A young newspaper man home
from a night with a metropolitan
daily found his mother upset over
some domestic catastrophe. He sym-
pathized with her distress, but could
not take her tragedy to heart. “Why,
down at the office,” said he, “if we
made mistakes, 300,000 people would
be without their morning paper.
There are only half a dozen of us at
home here to suffer by this. Come,
you make too much of trifles.” So,
when we take the larger viewpoint,
our own tiny private personal pains
will pale away by contrast.
Dishes of Left Overs.
This is a family name for bits of
mutton, lamb, or veal which are too
ragged to be served in any other way.
They are first passed through a chop-
ping machine and then mixed with an
equal quantity of cold rice (boiled)
and seasoned with pepper, salt and
curry powder and: with a little
chopped parsley or celery if it ig at
band. Form into small cakes or
croquettes, using a raw egg to hold
them together, dip in egg, roll in
crumbs, and fry in deep lard. And
cold, cooked cereal can be used in-
stead of rice, although rice seems to
lend itself to curries with peculiar
appropriateness.—Mary Taylor Ross,
in Pictorial Review.
——
Pretty Wives Become Plain:
One reason why the average wom-
an wears out and grows old and
plain is that, through a mistaken idea
of duty, she lays out for herself at
the beginning of married life a
scheme of duty of which every hour
is filled with work.
This she follows religiously for
years, feeling that she has done her
duty. She, however, soon becomes
merely a machine. Can any woman
keep brightness, originality of
thought, or even good looks, with
such a life? And, without those
things, how can she keep her husband
and children full of loving admira-
tion? says Health.
Constant association with others of
her own age, with her children and
their friends, and an occasional
period of recreation, is what the
average woman requires to make her
attractive.
The Voice Culture.
To practice deep breathing, draw
in the air slowly, easily and fully.
When you have filled all your breath
in for a few seconds, then slowly and
steadily breathe out through the
-nose, and keep your lungs empty for
a few seconds before another inspira-
tion. The muscles of the body which
the will does not directly control, like
the heart and the respiratory organs,
work rhythmically. Therefore, in
breathing, do not gasp and hurry, and
change your pace every minute. To
practice the right method, hold your-
self, sitting or standing, in a natural,
“erect fashion, with your head raised,
throat free and arms hanging loosely.
Do not practice within an hour after
meals, and if you get dizzy it is a
sign that you should stop. = Mouth
breathing causes the nose to become {
eventually blocked up through dis-
use. This has its effect on the voice.
Resonance and intensity are lost be-
cause the sound which should or-
dinarily pass through the nose is
deadened.—Home Magazine.
Beautiful Complexions Acquired.
Exercise in the open air is one of
the things necessary to all those who
would have fine complexions, but this
alone is not sufficient. Air is good,
but we cannot live on air alone, If
the diet and digestion are bad, the
complexion will sufier, no matter how
much fresh air is taken.
One of the articles experience has
found useful for the complexion is
fruit. The juice of fruit and its laxa-
tive nature help to keep the system
clean internally and prevent the ac-
three hours
cumulation of worn-out matter,
which, “lodging’ in the skin, give it
an unwholesome appearance.
Some fruits ahe highly nourishing,
while others are appetizing, and near-
ly all are purifying. Grapes and ap-
ples are among the most nutritious
of fruits; grapes especially are easily
digested, and usually agree with even
the most delicate stomach.
Raw or baked apples with cream
are. excellent to most persons, while
ripe %peaches in their season are good
and easy of digestion.
Oranges, limes and lemons are rich
in acids, and of value in improving
the complexion. With many persons
a couple of oranges eaten before
breakfast furnisk a panacea for in-
activity of the bowels, which is one
the common causes of a muddy and
dingy complexion.
In eating fruit do nor swallow it
unmasticated, nor the large seeus or
skins. Generally it is better to take
fruit in the morning. Juicy fruit
often agrees best when taken two or
«.fter breakfast as a
drink. Sometimes, if eaten with po-
tatoes or vegetables it produces flatu-
lence, because it has to lie in the
stomach till these articles are digest-
ed. Also, stale fruit is not to be
eaten at any time.—New Haven Reg-
ister.
W—.
A School of Repose,
A school established for tne exe
press purpose of training girls in re-
pose is one of the striking ideas put
forth by Annie Payson Call in her
new book. After noting the different
part which athletics play in the man’s
and the woman’s college and the
relatively much greater nervous
strain under which the women work,
Miss Call goes on to develop this
idea:
‘“The greatest physical need for
women is a training to rest; not rest
in the sense of doing nothing, not re-
pose in the sense of insanity or in-
activity, but a restful activity of mind
and body, which means a vigorous,
wholesome nervous system that will
enable a woman to abandon herself
to her study, her work and her play
with a freedom and ease which are
too fast becoming, not a lost art, but
lost nature.”
This “rest” school would aim at
once to eliminate the ‘‘no-time”’
hurry, the next reform would be so
to arrange the daily work that there
would be a marked system in the al-
ternation of studies. A body and
mind, to be wholeseme, must be
trained to action and reaction, not
action and inaction.
The author would begin this work
with physical training, including a
training of the voice. Quiet, deep
breathing all through the class work,
exercises for suppleness, some of
them very rapid, followed by motions
for finer balance and for spring,
would constitute the chief physical
work necessary to train a woman to
rest. After she has acquired that,
she must learn ‘‘the normal use of
the real power as it grows. No wo-
man has the natural spirit of repose
who, finding she can attend to par-
ticulars with increasing facility,
crowds her life in general.”—New
York Tribune. :
ST
Ny iTS
NEWEST
FASHIONS.
Two inches from the ground is the
latest decree regarding the walking
skirt.
Taffeta bands edged with chiffon
ruches cross surplice fashion over
the vest of lace.
The heavy laces are preferred for
underwear just now, Cluny standing
in first place.
The natural colored linens are ex-
ceedingly fashionable as trimming
for the white linen suits.
One of the prettiest possible waists
to wear with a dark suit is that of
chiffon cloth matching in color.
If the dress is cut princess, it is
highly essential to its fit that the slip
beneath it should be princess, too.
The hat that is lifted at the side
is always becoming, and we are to
have many cf them the coming sea-
son.
One broad strip of silver mesh ap-
pears plain silver by any light but
one, when an exquisite violet design
is seen.
All manner cf flowers are repre-
sented in handsome necklaces by the
various colored stones, set in deli-
cate mountings of gold.
Beautiful imitations of fuchsias,
grapes and iris are wrought by the
manufacturing jeweler into lovely
necklaces and brooches.
Flowered ribbons have the widest
range of uses from edging the fancy
pin cushion to the dressing sacque,
and from forming girdles to boleros
and petticoat ruffles.
The low coiffure is especially
pretty for evening wear, and .more be
coming to a young woman than one
| In or beyond middle life.
DF HENDERSe |
BY T,
raw.
Subject: Jesus the Preacher.
. Brooklyn, N. Y. —Preaching at the
Irving Square Presbyterian Church,
on the theme ‘‘Jesus the Preacher,”
the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson,
pastor, took Mark 2:2, “And He
preached the Word unto them,” as
his text. He said:
The sharp line between preaching
and teaching is very hardly drawn.
The preacher who amounts to any-
thing at all ought to be a gcod teach-
er, instructor of men. It does not
necessarily follow conversely that a
gocd teacher will be as ready when
preaching is the need. But the preach-
er must be a teacher does he wish. far.
success in the sowing of the Gospel
seed. He whd> would be an influence
for and toward God must be able nct
only to declare to men what is the
way we should live that we may at-
tain to eternal life, but also he must
be able to unfold to mankind how
we may find the way and keep to its
middle on the march toward heaven.
But lest we drift from the theme
in hand, let us to the point. Jesus
was the greatest preacher the world
has ever seen, and He stands to-day
as the Master and the inspiration of
all those who would. tell His truth.
Gloricus as are the messages of the
prophets to their people and their
day, and rich as are the utterances
of the long line of spirit-filled men,
who have since Christ preached the
Gospel of God unty men, Jesus yet
holds the premier place as the might-
iest message-giver of ‘them all.
Let us fcr these minutes, while we
are here together, glance at several
salient qualities in the preaching of
Jesus which commend Him to us. Let
us not waste our time in speculation
over the scrt of gestures Christ may
have used or the oratorical powers
we may conceive Him to have pos-
sessed. Let us rather get down to
the kind of gospel He preached, and
to a consideration of those elements
of reaching-force in it, which have so
captured and held the attention and
the lives of men throughcut these
many years.
First and foremost Jesus preached
the Gospel—the good news to men—
that men could be saved frome sin
through the everlasting love of the
Father. Knowing that sin is the
deep and engrossing godless fact cf
life, and knowing also that the one
desire of men when at their best is
to escape from bondage to sin, Jesus
wasted no time over non-essentials,
secondary or inconsequential things;
but came straight to the point. Jesus
took no time to prove the existence of
God—Ie took that fact for granted.
Christ spent no moments to make it
clear that sin really does exist—that
too He felt tc be the consciousness
of every ncrmal man. Jesus asked
no man whether ¢r no he. was hun-
gering or thirsting for a sure salva-
tion from sin, but rather gave the
Gospel straight without question. Re-
pent and believe and follow. These
are three of the great wcrds that
Jesus sent to the hearts of men:
“Turn away from evil unto Ged and
humble yourself in His presence, ask-
ing pardon for your sins.” ‘Mine is
the revelation of the Father in ail
His fullness, which is able to lead
you out of death and bondage into
freedom, light and life.” “Fcllow
after Me, do as I do, act as I act, walk
as I walk, think as I think, love as I
love—ifor I walk in the similitude of
our Father—and then shall ye grow
from grace unto grace.” These are
three of the mighty words of Jesus
to sinning men. And they are the es-
sence of the Gospel. No philosophy
is deeper than the Gospel, no story
is more simple, no truth more full of
power. And it is because the Gospel
meets and administers to the deep-
est need of men that it is to-day as
ever the predominant influence in
our world. Because it shows hope of
escape from sin it lifts the criminal
unto Christ. Because it is so simple
and so. satisfying it touches the hearts
of little children yet unlearned in the
mysteries of life. A message of pro-
found and universal truth it chkal-
lenges the thinker and meets his
tests. To all men, and to all condi-
tions, ranks and abilities among men,
the good news has its application
and its mission. And it is because
the Gospel is the universal, deeply
simple, inspiring message that it is,
that it has such a hold over the
hearts of men.
In the second place, I would call
your attention to the fact that the
Gospel was definitely preached by
Jesus to the desperately poor, to the
downtrodden and the weary. In His
day the rich had all they needed and
more besides, and the effort was to
give them as much more as possible.
For the publican and the sinner, for
the oppressed and sick and the dis-
couraged no such care was taken.
They were allowed very largely to
shift for themselves. But Jesus over-
turned the system with His Gospel
and talked first to those whose need
was greatest. And ‘“‘the comimon peo-
ple heard Him gladly.”
In the third place Jesus went out
to the people with the Gospel. He
did not wait for them to come to
Him, but rather sought them out. It
made no difference to the Lord
whether men came to Him ' or He
‘went to them, whether He had one
man or five thousand to whom He
spake the truth, whether men came
by night or climbed up into the trees
in the broad glare of the hot Eastern
sun to see Him, whether they made
a clamor by the wayside cr just si-
lently and steathily touched the hem
of His garment. When men would
not come to the synagogues to hear
Him preach and teach—that is to say
‘to church—He went out into the
streets of the.gity and up on the hill-
sides and brought the word cf salva-
tion to them.
Now, to be sure, we have merely
touched upon a very few of the ele-
ments which are characteristic of the
preaching of Jesus. But so far as we
have gone the lessons from the
preaching of Jesus to the men of to-
‘day are unmistakably definite and
clear. And the lessons three are
these: First, we should preach the
Gospel; the simple story of salvation
from sin through the love of God in
Christ. Secondly, we should preach
that Gospel not only to those who
are rich, but to those aiso who are
poor, whose misery is crushing and
whose necessity is so urgent, whose
hearts are so scddened and whose
hope is almost gone. And lastly, we
should carry the message of salva-
tion out to where men are. If thew
will aot come into our churches—and
God knows many times it is more
our fault than theirs that they do not
come—then must we go out after
them and compel them to come in—
not first into church, but into the
kingdom. i
First, we should preach the Gospel.
“Tell me the old, old story,” is not
mere sehtiment set tec music. but the
outery of breaking and bleeding
hearts and souls that are ready and
eager to know the truth in Jesus
Christ. And fer my part, I, as a min;
ister of the Gospel, believe the call of
men should be answered. Answered
not with theoretical and doctrinal dis:
cussions, not with recitals of our
doubts and differences upon points
that are non-essential, but with that
simple and eternal truth upon which
our hearts are stayed and through
which the souls of men about us may
be saved. The mission of the church
is to bring the story of salvation un.
to humanity and I for my part am
very sorry for the Christian brother
whose soul is jarred into discord
rather than swung into harmony with
redemption’s glorious song when
those whom Christ has ccmmissioned
to preach His word call men to Jesugd
and ask them to take a stand foi
Christ. The Christian who ‘objects
to the methods of Jesus Christ needs
to go to His knees and get a new
baptism from above. :
Then. too. we must nreacH a uni-
versal.Gospel—a (Gospel that shall re.
lieve pocr men of restraint. And I.
for my part. will have neither part
nor communion with any congrega-
tion of God’s people, who would make.
clothes or cash a requisite to ‘opens
handed and free-hearted admission
to the house of God. And I think 1
voice the opinion of this househcld of
faith when I say that all men of what:
ever race, character or condition wha
wish tn hear the good news of God
unio eternal life throngh Jesus Christ
are we'como to this church. And the
more the Church of God reaches out
toward men of low degree and men
in sin. the faster will she grow in
grace and numbers, and the more
will she do the will of Him who hath
sealed her as His own.
And lastlv IT may say thatiwe ought
to do definite, energetic, widespread
nersonal and collective work for
Jesus. It is our dntv to go to men
Our command is not to hin them
come to us, but to go to bid them tc
come to Jesus. And this church and
every congregation of the church mil-
itant would do a far grander and
a more wonderfully: blessed work if
we would but go out to the peonle
and tell them the glad tidings that
they so much need to hear.
How Ged Can Help.
God is never at a loss for means
to protect His people. Sometimes the
means are surprisingly simple.
With 300 men, armed with trum:
pets and lanterns. Gideon drove a
vast army of Midianites and Amale-
kites out of the land of the children
of Israel. .
The youth David. armed with a
sling and a few pebbles, defeated and
killed the thoroughly armed giant
Goliath. 2
The prophet Elisha and his ser-
vant were alone at Dathan, when
they found themselves surrounded by
the army of the King of Syria. Bul
Elisha was not afraid. The Lord
smote the Syrians with blindness,
and they became harmless.
Felix of Ncla on one occasion
when being pursued by his enemies
hid in a deep, dark cave. - There he
rested until his pursuers had passed.
Coming to the cave, his enemies
looked in, but, seeing a cobweb svun
across the mouth cf the cave, they
concluded he could not be there, or
it would be broken. Felix heard
them speak of the web. Then he
philosophised: “With God, a spider’?
web becomes a stone wall, and with-
out God a stone wall becomes ‘a
spider’s web.”’—Reformed Church
Record.
The Conversion of Waste.
At the Engineering Exhibiticn jus
closed, considerable interest was
manifested in a product which has
proved to be of great commercia
value. As exhibited before being
ground into its final form, it resem
bles a collection of beautiful topa:
crystals, which shine brightly in the
light. It is another illustration o:
the scientific conversion of what was
once known as waste.” Thes¢
sparkling crystals are simply com
pounded of sand, coke, salt and saw
dust, subjected to a heat of 7500 de
grees Fahrenheit (an almost incred
ible degree of heat), with the resull
named. The scientific world is sup
plving the church with numerous il
lustrations of the ‘‘conversion’ o!
waste. Society, however, pays little
heed to the conversion of humar
waste, which it treats as hopeless
The Christian alone knows the secret
power which is capable of redeeminz
the most abandoned portions of hu:
manity, and claiming them for God
—London Christian.
What is Dying?
I am standing upon the seashore
A ship at my side spreads her white
sails to the morning breeze and starts
for the blue ocean. She is an objec!
of beauty and strength, and I stand
and watch her until, at length, sh:
hangs like a speck of white cloud just
where the sea and sky come down tc
mingle with each other. Then some
one at my side says: ‘‘There! she's
gone!” "Gone where? Gone from
my sight—that is all. She is just a:
large in mast and hull! and spar as
she was when she left my side, and
just as able to bear her load of living
freight to the place of her destina
tion. Her diminished size is in me—
and not in her.
And just at the moment when some
one at my side says: “There! She's
gone!” there are other eyes that are
watching her coming and other voice
ready to take up the glad shout
‘““There she comes!’ And that is—
dying.—Sunday-3chool Evangel.
Color of Fruit.
It matters little about the color of
fruit used in home consumption, but
market fruits must have good color,
as the eye is caught by it and this
leads to a more ready sale. Clear
air and sunshine are the first requi-
sites for producing color, and for this
reason the Connecticut hills are par-
ticularly adaptable to the needs of
the fruit raiser. Trees should be
open headed, well cultivated in the
early season and not at all later.
Proper fertilization is also an im-
portant factor.
Gypsy Moth Fight.
In his talk on injurious insects Dr.
W. E. Britton spoke at Hartford,
Conn., of the fight with the gypsy
moth over in Stonington, and advo-
cated that the Government use a few
thousands of dollars now to prevent
it from breaking out extensively,
rather than spend hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars later when the pest
has a good start. The San Jose scale,
he said, is always with us, and the
present mild winter might be ex-
pected to produce it in greater num-
bers this year. Spraying 1s the only
effective method of fighting this pest.
A Wonderful Cow.
Think of paying $8000 for a cow
with so distasteful a name as Rag
Apple! Bu: that is what Daniel W.
Field, a Brockton shoe manufacturer,
did recently. And he got back half
the price within a month from the
day of purchase, she having dropped
a calf which had already been sold
to a New York breeder for $4000.
Pontiac Rag Apple is the full name
of the cow, and she holds the second
highest record for milk and butter
produced of any one cow in the
world, with the bluest of Holstein-
Fresian blood in her veins. She has
a record of production that has
jumped from 279 to 309 quarts of
milk per week. At five cents a quart
for her milk she is netting her owner
an income of $2.20 per day; if turned
into butter the yield would be about
a quarter less than four pounds per
day!—Hartford Courant.
Keep a Few Sheep.
The farmer who does not keep at
least a small flock of sheep is losing
money every year, says Up-to-Date
Farming. Much of the feed consumed
by a flock of sheep would be other-
wise a total waste.
A few sheep should be found on
every farm. Good, comfortable sheds
that are large and roomy are a neces-
sity where sheep are to be wintered.
These need not be expensive, but
should be well ventilated, free from
drafts and situated on dry ground.
A large, open yard, apart from that
occupied by other animals, should be
provided for exercise. Too much con-
finement in overwarm or illy venti-
lated stables is fatal to success with
sheep. On the other hand, comforta-
ble quarters, regular and liberal feed-
ing, plenty of pure water and a suf-
fiency of salt will go far toward in-
suring their successful wintering and
a strong crop of lambs in the spring.
Value of Clover Hay.
All in all, we consider red clover
bay much superior to timothy, says
Farmer's Call. We do not know
what the chemical analysis shows.
We know what the cow, calf, steer,
sheep and horse have uniformly tes-
tified. It is easier to.spoil clover hay
in the making than it is timothy hay.
‘That is to be considered. It is im-
portant to cut the clover before it
gets too ripe. And timothy is not |
near so much damaged iu the swath |
or windrow by rain as is clover. But
in these days of wide-cut mowers, and
hay loaders and rickers and forks,
one can handle the clover with little
danger of damage. Of course if it
is very heavy one should use a tedder.
It seems that the Illinois Agricul-
tural Experiment Station has been
making tests to determine the rela-
tive value of timothy and clover, and
these results are reported: Tweaty
horses were put on feed. They cost
$185 each, on the average, at the
outset, and sold at $288.37, a profit
that looks decidedly attractive. In
this experiment, horses fed on corn,
oats and clover hay gatned 277
pounds each in ninety-two days. At
twenty cents this would mean $55.40,
and at the beginning of the experi-
ment a responsible horse dealer
offered the experiment station au-
thorities that price for all the gain
made. In the case of the lot fed on
the same ration, but with timothy
substituted for clover, the gain was
but 142 pounds, and. the timothy ra-
tion” cest more than clover.
Poultry Rations Recommended.
The Maine Experiment Station, rec-
ommends the following mixture for
laying hens: Two hundred pounds
wheat bran, 100 pounds middlings,
100 pounds gluten meal, 100 pounds |
linseed meal, 100 pounds cornmeal |
and 100 pounds beel scraps; this |
combination contains approximately
twenty-four per cent. protein, seven
per cent. fat, six per cent. ash, seven |
per cent. fibre and forty-six per cent. |
starchy matter, and would cost $1.50
a hundred, unmixed, at retail.
Professor Lindsay, of the Hatch
Experiment Station, has had good
success with a mixture made up as
follows: One hundred pounds corn-
meal, fifty pounds wheat bran, fifty
pounds flour middlings, fifty pounds
gluten feed and fifty pounds beef
scrap, it contains twenty-two per
cent. protein, six per cent. fat, five
per cent. ash, four per cent. fibre and
fifty-one per cent. starchy matter, and
costs $1.50 a hundred, unmixed, at
retail. The scrap may be omitted
and mixed in with the grains as often
as it is deemed necessary. Such mix-
tures may be fed either dry, or made
into a friable mash with skimmilk
or hot water, together with a little
salt. :
To the writer the proportion of
cornmeal seems too great in the
Lindsay formula, especially for
greedy fowl. This has been his ex-
perience, the hens getting fat and
lazy. The. Maine man comes nearer
to his idea of a well balancea ration,
although it is rated as containing
one per cent. more fat than the
former. This is easily overcome by
the greater bulk per pound by reason
of the bran. Either formula would
be benefited by the addition of one
per cent. cut clover.
Sweet Corn in June. :
You can have corn from the gar-
den in June—uot for market, of
course, but for family use—at a time
when the corn in your neighbor’s gar-
den is not yet coming out in tassel.
To do this plant “Peep o’ Day’ corn
about the middle of April in berry,
cups, flower pots, or in a box divided
off in partitions, making the ground
very rich with ashes, manure and
some complete fertilizer. Put in lots
of it, for where the ground is kept
moist there is no danger of burning
the roots. There should be’ nearly,
two quarts of earth to each hill.
To get sweet corn in June, first
plant Peep o’ Day indoors about
April 1, in a box partitioned off into
small compartments, or plant in
berry boxes or flower pots.
As soon as the corn begins to come
it, it must be set out of doors, or
it will get “spindly.” It must be
either brought in at night, or, better,
covered wtth a sash, which can be re-
moved on sunny days. With ‘Peep
o’ Day’ corn four plants can be left
to each hill, and from ten to fifty
hills, each yielding from six to ten
small but delicious ears to each hill,
can be started thus very easily, get-
ting ‘big enough to begin using the
last of June. Some gardeners dig a
hole in the garden, fill it with fresh
manure, pack it down, and thus to
some stakes driven in each corner
nail some old hoards on which can
be laid a storm sash taken from the
house. A sunny bay window would
answer as well—the corn must have
sun. When your neighbors are plant-
ing their corn set out the corn, taking
care not to disturb the roots. In case
of a late frost, the hills can be cov-
ered with newspapers, boxes or bas-
kets at night, taking care to put them
on at or before sundown.
Diseased Hoof.
Greasing is necessary for horses
which are much exposed to damp-
ness, and is as good for the sole and
frog as for the wall. It is applicable,
also, to feet which have to stand on
dry bedding. Feet which on account
of diseased conditions require to be
frequently soaked or poulticed ought
also to be greased. Bedding of peat
moss and fine sawdust, equal parts, is
most excellent. All these measures
may be advantageous if the feet are
properly shod.
Good shoeing is the essential pro-
phylaxy of hoof bound. We must
avoid all improper practices likely to
promote dessication and eontraction
of the foot, such as abuse of the rasp,
teco long application of the heated
shoe when fitting it to the foot, the
lowering of the heels, the excessive
paring of the frog or of the bars, the
bad fitting of the shoes, useless calks,
too many nails in the quarter or near
the heels—all these errors must be
carefully avoided. The foot, more-
over, must not be allowed to grow
too long. The shoeing should be re-
newed monthly, even if the shoe is
not worn, and lastly, the horse must
not be allowed too long periods of
inactivity.
It has been proposed to abolish the
custom of shoeing, but in the present
conditions and modes of using the
horse this is impossible. The feet
deprived of their accustomed protec-
tion would soon become painful, and
only by keeping the animal in the
country could the feet be suffered to
remain unshod.
Several modesof shoeing have been
invented to prevent contractions in
feet which are predisposed to them.
Some are undoubtedly beneficial, but
they must be used as are ordinary
shoeing and not reserved until the
access of the disease. Good shoeing
is often all that is required. It is
absolutely necessary to study the pose
of the limb and in preparing the fooi
to have it absolutely level, also the
shoe, and by all means try and pre-
serve the natural elasticity of -the
foot, not let it get too dry, or become
too soft, but endeavor to preserve a
proper equilibrium.—Chas. R. Wocd,
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Swiss Soldiers on Skis.
A detachment of French Alpine
Chasseurs has within the last few
days achieved a notable feat in trav-
ersing mountains on skis. The men
were stationed at the winter post of
Bourg Saint Maurice, and the foray
was carried out under the command
of Lieuts. Krug and Michal.
The party left Chapieux in the
morning, and in the evening haa
reached Albertville, after traversing
the peak of the Cormet de Roseland
and the Beaufort Valley. The dis-
tance covered was thirty miles. ==
Loudon Globe,