e Kitchen
s
confections so
teas are easily
hip the whites of
ound of pulverized
Add a tea-
n of tartar and beat
nutes.
ger, using a silver or
; Add a teaspoonful of
[4 $pful of pecan or wal-
nopped rather coarsely,
drop by the spoonful on
uttered, taking pains to
y are far enough apart to
ouching. Bake in an ex-
oderate oven.
Fruit Loaf
together a half pound each
sr and sugar, and, when soft
‘ooth, whip in six beaten eggs,
espoonful each of powdered cin-
n, nutmeg and cloves, a cup of
and a half pound each of cleaned
rants, seeded and chopped raisins
1 a quarter pound of shredded cit-
n—all these fruits being mixed and
rell dredged with flour. Last of all,
add a tablespoonful of brandy. Turn
into a greased loaf tin and bake in a
steady oven until done.
Ham Patties
One cup finely chopped cooked lean
ham, one-fourth cup fine bread-crumbs,
one tablespoon melted butter, one-half
cup hot milk, one eighth level teaspoon
paprika, salt if necessary, eggs, but-
tered crumbs.
Mix the ham and breadcrumbs
add the butter; then the hot milk and
paprika. Add salt if required. Mix
well and/ half fill ramekin dishes or
well-puitered individual tins. Break
the eggs carefully and slip one on to
each patty. Sprinkle with salt and
pepper and cover with buttered bread-
crumbs. Bake for eight minutes in a
hot oven and serve at once.
Cheese Balls
Whites of two eggs, two cupfuls
grated cheese, one-half level teaspoon-
ful salt, one-eighth level teaspoonful
paprika, fine sifted bread crumbs.
Beat the egg white until stiff; then
add the cheese, salt and paprika. Mix
well, shape into small ball the size
of an oaamary marble and roll in the
sad ¢ bs. Place in a frying bas-
ok in deep hot fat until a
yn.
and
ri
VERC ustard
kuls of milk, yolks of four
burth cup sugar, one-fourth
noonful salt, one teaspoonful
Le can peaches, slices of stale
~~
milk over hot water and
thickened and strain. Cool slightly
and add the vanilla. Arrange alter-
nate layers of cake and peaches, mois-
tening the cake slightly with the peach
syrup. Add the custard; chill, and
when ready to serve beat the whites
of the eggs stiff, add two level table-
spoonfuls sugar and pile lightly on
top.
Date Pudding
Make the usual rule for cottage pud-
ding and to this add one cup of dates,
stewed and put through the sieve,
beating them in a little at a time.
Steam instead of baking and serve
with foamy sauce,
Sweet potatoes contain more of the
various bodily nutriments than most
vegetables—sugar, starch and fat and
are therefore delectable even when
prepared in the simplest way-—plain,
baked or even boiled.
Sweet Potato Pone
4 cupfuls of hot, mashed sweet po-
tatoes
1 cupful of hot milk
1-2 cupful of butter
1 cupful of sugar
2 tablespoonfuls of ginger
1-2 teaspoonful of salt
1 orange.
Boil the sweet potatoes in their
skins, and while still hot remove the
skins and mash. Cream the butter
and sugar together, add potato, milk
and seasonings and the juice and
grated rind of orange . Beat thor-
oughly, pour into a buttered baking
dish and bake in a moderate oven for
one hour.
Sweet Potato Pie
1 1-2 cupfuls of hot mashed, sweet
potatoes
1-2 cupful of sugar
3-4 cupful of hot milk
2 tablespoonfuls of butter
Grated nutmeg, lemon juice
2 eggs.
Mash the boiled potatoes while hot
and add to them the beaten yolks of
eggs and the hot milk, sugar, grating
of nutmeg and a few drops of lemon
juice. Finally fold in the stiffly
beaten whites of eggs. Pour into the
pie crust and bake in a hot oven.
Stewed Sweet Potatoes
Boil the potatoes and when partly
tender remove and cut into cubes.
Mix in a bowl containing two table-
spoonfuls of melted butter, two cup-
fuls of milk, salt and pepper. Dredge
with two tablespoonfuls of flour and
cook in a double boiler for 20 minutes.
Sweet potatoes may be scalloped as
the white ones are, and a very de-
licious vegetable dish made by
mashing the sweets after boiling, add-
ing salt, pepper, butter and milk and
is
g bro beaten. mixed with
kugar and salt, and dffutéd with
cheese until brown.
Fight the Hessian Fly
The injury from Hessian fly is still
fresh in the mind of those whose crop
was injured by it this season. Loss
can be prevented or greatly reduced
by planting a trap crop early and
planting the seed for the crop on the
fly free date of your locality. For fur-
ther information write to the Bureau
of Plant Industry, Pennsylvania De-
partment of Agriculture, Harrisburg.
The Hollyhock Bush
Hollyhock rust greatly disfigures the
plants and sometimes even prevents
their producing good flowers. Very
good control of this disease can be
obtained by. picking up and burning
all diseased leaves. Allow none to re-
main on the ground over winter to in-
fect the foliage next year. As it
possible for the disease to carry over
winter on the leaves of young plants
near the ground, these should be ex-
amined and if infected removed and
burned.
As the disease tnfested “cheeses”
that round mallow that a
weed in many gardens these also must
be destroyed, so as not to spoil next
season’s crop of flowers.
The Corn Smut
Can Be Controlled
Corn smut reduces the yield of corn
by spoiling the This trouble
can be entirely avoided by burning all
smut, found. Do this before the sacks
burst because then the spores are be-
in gscattered for next year’s crop. Do
not feed stalks infested with disease
to cattle as the spore will get in the
manure and infect next year’s crop.
Do everything possible to prevent the
spread of this disease and get the
neighbors to do likewise so that the
community will be free from this dis-
ease,
is
leaves is
ears.
Crop Correspondents’ Notes
Armstrong—Hundreds of acres of
spring seeding of clover cut for hay.
Berks—Largest yield of potatoes
ever grown in this vicinity.
Clarion—Ninety per cent
will be cut after October 1.
Delaware—It takes
to buy a good apir of shoes.
crop of apples ever known.
Greene—Wool beginning to move
fifty cents.
Huntingdon—Formers lost fully
per cent of their oats on account
wet weather.
Pike—Apple crop very large and
of corn
Heaviest
at
50
of
of
tle of the hot milk. Stir until
far before they came to a delightful
[Esaghes a spHnkALE of grated
n Adventure
in the Woods
“0-0-0, what a wild looking wood.”
Laid Polly. “I wonder if any ogres or
"tigers live in it!”
Her cousin Agnes laughed.
“I'm afraid you won't find anything
as exciting as that in these woods,”
she said. ‘This is really not a bit wld
compared wth the forests higher up
on the mountains. I suppose it is dif-
ferent, rather, from a city park,
though.”
“l should say Polly replied,
glancing around at the big trees on
every side, whose great branches al-
lowed just little bits of sunlight to
come through te the mossy ground.
“But I like it. Aggie, it is so cool and
pleasant and it looks so adventure-
some whether it is or not. I wish there
were mountains in the city, too.”
Agnes launghed at Polly’s quaint
sh.
It is nice and cool and I wish I
1d share these mountains with
ybody in the world,” she saig,
rously. “Not this lunch, though,”
she added, opening the little basket
she carried. “Polly, we've been so
greedy on our way up here, I declare,
there isn’t much lunch left!”
“That's because we shared it with
the birds and the squirrels,” Polly re-
plied. “Just think how surprised the
little creatures will be when they look
out of their holes and nests and see a
nice bit of your mother’s good bread
waiting for them.”
«well, I hope they find all the
pieces,” Agnes sighed. “It would be a
shame if they didn’t when we could do
so well with it ourselves. Now we
shall have to do with a sandwich
apiece, these ginger snaps and this
pot of jam.”
“Um-m, that sounds good!” said the
cheerful Polly. “Though I hope you
are not vexed with me for being so
free with the lunch. I ate a lot of
the bread myself and I am really not
so awfully hungry now so you take
the two sandwiches.”
«1 shan’t,” Agnes replied, “and 1
guess I ate quite as much as you did
on: the way at that. You haven't a
bit of right aking all the blame. We
can fill ~with blackberries, there
area 1g ym around here.” |
«KH Polly clapped her
«t them first and have
nch. It will be a real
so,”
looked up in the same inquisitive man-
ner with which he had examined the
basket.
to a higher branch in a great hurry.
Bruin had hold of the lower branch
and was slowly pulling himself up!
ly.
Polly.
patch of brambly vines that glistened
all over with them.
“0-0-0, what stickers!” Polly cried,
and in the same breath. “What great,
big, magnificent, fit-for-a-Queen ber-
ries!”
What fun it was to pick and how
quickly the little basket filled up!
Agnes covered it with leaves and Polly
insisted on carrying it as they hurried
back to their camping place.
Agnes went first and just as she
came in sight of the spot she stopped
short with an exclamation. Polly
peeped over her cousin's shoulder and
dropped the basket of blackberries.
There sitting on the ground, enjoy-
ing the lunch immensely was—not an
ogre nor a tiger—but a big brown
bear! He was holding the jam pot
in his paws and licking it with great
relish. When he saw the two girls he
put down the pot and scrambled to his
feet.
“0-0-0!” cried Polly.
get up that tree! Here. I'll boost you,
Quick.”
Polly didn’t waste a second. She
ran te the tree Agnes pointed out and
caught hold of the lowest branch.
Agnes pushed her up and then with
Polly pulling, managed to get up be-
side her .
“Where is he?” Polly whispered.
“There,” said Agnes pointing to the
place where they had stood a moment
before and where Polly had dropped
the basket of berries. He was exam-
ining it in very solemn manner and
son began to help himself to the con-
tents.
“He might be eating us up this very
ninute,” Polly observed shiveringly.
‘Dear, dear, what shall we do now?
1 hope he can’t climb or that the lunch
was enough for him: Perhaps we had
better call for help. Somebody may
be around.”
“It might attract the bear’s attention
“It might attract the bear’s atten-
tion,” Agnes cautioned . “Perhaps he
doesn’t know where we are.”
Mr. Bruin put them right on this,
however, for after he had finished the
berries he went over to the tree and
Polly and Agnes scrambled
When they looked down again Mr.
“Let's call!” cried Agnes desperate-
“Help! Help! Help!”
“Help! Help! Police!” shouted
“Go ’way, bear! Shoo!”
The unwelcomed intruder paused as
nd |
prised at the sudden noise and
and Agnes shouted againas loud
| good quality.
Fire Blight Damage
Can Be Reduced
twig blight and fire
blight and the common names of a
serious disease of apple, pear and
puince trees. They are all caused by
the same organism, a bacteria.
Only preventive be
taken to hold this very serious disease
in check according to the officials in
the Bureau of Plant Industry, Penn-
sylvania Department of Agriculture.
In pear and quince trees cut out the
infected portion six inches or a foot
below the infection and sterilize the
wound with bichloride of mercury, 1
to 1000.
In apple trees the most effective
work against this disease is to delay
the dorman spray for San Jose scale
until the unfolding leaves are one-
quarter of an inch long—then spray
with concentrated lime sulphur wash
Pear blight,
measure can
half pint of Blak Leaf 40. Applied
at this time the aphids will be killed
—they are largely responsible for its
spread among the apple twigs.
Winter work in cutting= out all the
cankers which the disease overwinters
will be of great value.
Stefanson, the explorer, has leased
113,000 square miles of Baffin Island,
where he plans to raise reindeer on a
large scale.
A new type of protectionism, known
as “frontier control,” has come into
existence in Europe.
The expenses of the British govern-
ment since the beginning of the war
have been placed at more than $55,-
000,000,000.
To their relief simeone answered
and soon a swarthy looking man cane
into sight.
“Here, here, you come-a off from-a
da Seniorettas. You hear-a me, Gui-
sippe!” he shouted.
The ebar let himself down again
with a sigh and soon the man had a
collar around his neck.
“He no-a da hurt-a da Seniorettas.
He follow de crumbs da Seniorettas
drop in de wood.” So saying the man
led Guisippe away while the girls
climeb out of the tree.
“Well I never!” said Agnes. “And
he’s gone and eaten all our lunch and
the berries too!”
“Yes, but it was an edventure, and
I'd choose to go hungry to have one,”
said 25 resome Polly.
ALS laughed.
“Y{¥fca e my share of any more
they could.’ 3
eight calf-hides |
Style Hints From
_ the S
Our wanderings about town
each golden autumn day, reveal SW
ning frocks, faithfully interpretin
the ultra-fashionable tendencies of
the advancing season.
Youthful and full of that delight-
ful lithesome grace so evident in the
higher cost afternon modes now ap-
pearing on the Delaware avenue and
They are trimmed with
contrasting colored embroideries, gay
colored silks adding an effective note
of autumnal brightness to ‘their con-
servative simplicity. One beholds
long, lines, with novel treat-
ments, tunics, new neck lines
elsewhere,
slim
novel
and sleeves.
The flaring skirt
idea and with it
sleeve for winter
wool tricotine it
newest whims and
for the woman in quest
modish frock that will
service.
In one of our great shops I saw
two charming and distinctive models
one in the overblouse mode with
beading in black and red at the neck
The second model
the straight-line effect, exquisitely
beaded in self color.
Satin afternoon gowns, so lovely in
every detail, will be found, though
their chic and -harm cannot be
transferred to print scarcely. -
Developed in lustrous satin or crepe
meteor and showing the mew girlish
these fascinating little
gowns boast of a straight or flared
tunic with rows of tiny buttons and
pretty lace or ribbon ornamentations.
Something the
oriental patent leather embellishment,
as youthful as it is novel. For the
young school grl I found a taupe satin
with bouffant petal tunic, the novelty
roll collar smartly embroidered with
colored raffia. A girlish brown satin
model has the oriental skirt with che
novel accordion pleated ruffle at hem,
waist and sleeve.
For Milady's afternoon wear the
|oriental designs seem to predominate
{and Madam will have that in this
[black gown of kitten ear crepe with
lits air of simple elegance. Deep
| fringe of cut jet beads forms the col-
{1ar, which ends the short sleeves and
| edges a very smart tunic.
anything lovelier, I
you, than henna duvetyn used with
| French art on an embroidered frock
of navy blue, The lines are slim,
{ smart, grlish, and the sleeves are
attractive
the long
warmth. In fine
reflects fashion’s
fills a decided wont
of a really
give unusual
is an
we find
and sleeves. is
waist line,
extremely new is
Picture ask
| short.
Among the coats and wraps we find
Many are
imported
[some dignified new notes.
copies and adaptations of
| models and they carry an air of style
land chie, largely traceable to French
accentuate Ines
shoulder,
rinspiration. ~Some
[that swing from the
Spooks
obody home! That's queer. 1
nder if Aunt Annie got my letter or
ick pulled the old-fashioned door-
1 again and heard the faint gostly
ng of the bell inside, but that was
a Nobody at home and he was a
stranger in a strange city with mighty
money in his pocket and no-
wheer else to go. He had come East
visit aunt and uncle who had
(often invited him to come. So sure
indeed had he been of his welcome he
[had waited for a reply to his letter
announcing his coming.
“Gee! What'll I do now?” he said
himself, feeling in his pocket for
store of cash. It was very
i, but his hand closed on
A letter
1541
1ttie
to his
to
his scant
ont indeer
a letter and brought it out.
from his Aunt Annie.
“Dear Dick,” it read, “I wish you
would come and se us as we are al-
most your only relatives, and you
would be very welcome any time.
Please consider our home as your own
and don’t hesitate to come whenever
you can. Your loving Aunt Annie.
Dick read it over thoughtfully.
“That’s clear enough,” he said. “She
sure did invite me. I'm to consider
her home my own, she says. Well
then, I'll just walk in.”
The dor was locked, which seemed
odd to the country boy. Must be a
burglar hereabouts, he murmured.
“Maybe the key’s under the mat.” He
had heard that people put keys under
doormats and looking under, sure
enough he found a large key.
The next minute he had the
open and was peeping into a large
musty dim hall As he peeped a
queer scared-looking chap opened a
door opposite and peeped at him. Dick
jumped back in alarm and the stranger
jumped back too. Then Dick laughed.
The scared looking chap was his own
reflection in a large mirror.
After that he tried to look bold and
stepped into the hall. Just then the
house began to tremble—at least he
thought it did—and before he knew
what was what the front door slammed
shut just as if somebody had pushed it.
had pushed it.
“Whew!” whistled Dick. “If I be-
lieved in spooks I'd be plum nervous.”
His hand shook a little os he locked
the front door on the inside. Then
he began to tiptoe through the house
Why did he walk so carefully and
slowly as if the house were a church
or a graveyard He didn’t know, un-
less it was because this was such a
great gloomy dark old place that it
seemed to demand silence and awe.
“Wish somebody was here,”
Dick muttered. “I'm lonesome.”
He went first to the parlor, a long,
high, narrow, dark room full of large
{black furniture and oil paintings of
dreadful looking old folks staring
‘down from the walls. Dick didn’t like
lit so he tiptoed on to the dining room
8C
door
else
Care of Shoes
Careful poise of the body in walk-
ing prolongs the life of shoes. A
careless, slipshod gait wears shoes
unevenly, while an erect carriage
tends to keep the soles and heels level.
Shoes, even more than most other
articles of clothing, need to be aired
after wearing in order to prevent the
perspiration from rotting the lining.
i is a good plan to keep them on
shoe-trees or stuffed with tissue paper,
because in this way the wrinkles are
forced out and the original shape is
preserved. Wetting tends to spoil the
and to shorten
therefore,
A Que ui
In some small New York villages
the townfolk think that whenever
there is a thunderstorm, old Henry
Hudson and his men are playing Nine-
pins in the mountains. Many of you
have played nine-pins and know what
a noise the ball makes as it rolls along
and what a crash is caused when the
pins go tumbling down . Now, picture
to yourself a ball and a set of nine-
pins twenty times as large as the set
you play with and you will have a
small conception of the set used by
Hudson and his men, according to the
old superstition, when they go out to
play the game that makes the entire
mountain side shake with thunder.
Many of you are no doubt wonder-
{ing who the man is who would want
[to play nine-pins on the New York
during a thunder storm
and why the superstition has arisen
|in New York.
man who first
City. With a
he had set sail
of shoes
period service;
should be worn in bad
weather to protect the shoes. If shoes
do get wet, they should be very slowly
and carefully dried, for heat tends to
crack the leather. It is especially im-
portant to restore the shape of wet
shoes by shoe-trees or paper stuffing.
Kven with the careful drying,
moisture tends to rot the threads with
which a shoe is sewn, and “an ounce
of prevention worth a pound of
cure.”
appearance
their of
overshoes
Mountains
Henry Hudson was the
settled in New York
little company of men
from Holland to find
as did so many of the early explorers,
a short route to the South Sea Islands.
But his little craft, “The Half Moon,”
never reached the South «Jn
proof cloth tops afford excellent pro. | ST ember, 1603, the boat entered the
{river which now bears Hudson's name,
Wien only us 3itl t Ke boos [and although Hudson thought that he
e y a little protection is needed |, . WY reaching Pas
the slip-on or sandal, is comfortable | vg. 5 the by lo Feaching the Pa
and economical, for it covers the sole |New York, He planted the Dutch
of the shoe but leaves the heel free. | yap in the new land and called the
All types of rubber overshoes are now |city, which he settled, New Amster-
that they should be |qam, but later the name was changed
treated as carefully as the shoes they [ihe which all know—New
pretect. They should be kept away |york.
from great heat, and set “right side Stories of Hudson and his
up with care” to prevent their losin: tures along the Hudson River and m
shape. They should also be washed |{yo mountains spread about the coun-
or brushed so that the grit on them |{;v and many many years after the
may not wear down the surface. oad man had died the superstition
It is economy to keep two pairs of spread that he had never died at all,
shoes in use and wear them on alter-|phyt that he his from the
nate days; the thorough airing on |Half Moon hidden among the
shoe-trees or stuffed with paper keep: [caves and rocks of the mountains, and
them fresher and more shapely so that (that on warm summer nights they
each pair gives longer service. All |went to a chosen nook and there en-
shoes should be kept clean and well |joyed their favorite sport—Nine-pins.
brashed. Leather shoes may be rub-
bed with vaseline to ke<ep them soft,
and also to keep moisture from pass-
ing quicly through the leather.
Only good polishes should be used
In using paste polishes, a brush
preferable to a cloth, as it will force
the paste into all crevices. The shoes
should stand a few minutes after the
paste 1s applied; then they should be
brushed with a flat stiff brush and
end polished with a cloth or buffer, a
brush made of layers of cloth having
A glove made of
most
is
For walking in snow or deep mud,
arctics with rubber and water-
Seas
soles
tection as do also
never
SO
expensive
one you
adven-
and crew
were
The next time you hear any one say
this you will know why, and you will
remember that Henry Hudson is more
than a name; man who
discovered the Hudson River and set-
tled in New York in that far away
September, 1609.
To Mark Highways
From Chicago
so he was the
is
a napped surface.
sheepskin with the wool on, such as
is used for rubbing furniture, is also
very good for polishing shoes.
White canvas shoes are usually |
cleaned with one of the commercial |
preparations for this purpose. It |
water is used, no more than necessary |
to Los Angeles
Rapidly extending its endeavors for
the benefit of to both at
home and abroad, the Chicago Motor
Club has undertaken to mark the
highway from Chicago to Los Angeles
a
motorists
Starting at Chicago a special scout
[straight and soft; others drape them-
selves with Parisian grace and display
|
[but just as he stepped in to admire
the great big sideboard and the pie-
their
For warmth,
¢hould be applied on the shoes and |car in command of Charles P. Root
they must be cleaned on shoe-trees who directed the Elgin Road Race, will
or stuffed with paper to prevent the |cover a tentative route leading through
1 to 8, and to each 50 gallons add one- |
* | styles that may
| generous half-sleeves.
{comfort and beauty, you
|large crushable collars of
[terial or of French seal.
[refreshing new in style
| fashioned of Bolva, others of fine
| silvertone, velour or. broadcloth.
| Many are trimmed with seal or opos-
the
ma-
have
self
They are
some being
| sum.
The straight line, clinging styles
are artfully draped in the crepe like
| effects. The medium top coats of all
| wool polo and Normandy mixtures
|are fully silk lined and warmly inter
linea, and the same applies to the
wageger, belted styles in imported
The values in suits
I's
[Scotch tweeds.
| are truly staggering, and picture this
lone with its fashionable long coat,
lin heather mixture in gay green or
| reindeer, with seal as trimming on
| hte layback coilar and oddly pleated
| belt.
Slender lines are accentuated in
another model by narrow pleatngs,
and a tiny collar making this suit of
| oxford cloth very smart indeed. The
| cuff stitching is particularly new.
| To return, for a brief period,
|the afternoon gown, what is
| charming than the one-piece tailored
{dress wheh fills an important place
lin every woman's wardrobe? Satin of
quality, the fashionable de-
| mand just now, is developed in a chic
| youthful little frock of which the
| feature is the two-tiered skirt of deep
pointed accordion plaited frills,
| edged with moire ribbon; and in an-
{ other smart model of the Moyenage
effect, Moire ribbon is set on in hori
to
| superior
|
| zontal TOWS.
Art necklaces are being worn
| tensively in jade, lapis, tokay,
| phire, amethyst and rose or jet, com-
| bined with artistic metal designs.
The new velvet hats are soft, draped
be adjusted to the
suits each wearer.
artistic pin provide
eX-
sap-
|angle that best
Tucking and an
adornment.
Stray Comets,
Vagabonds of Heaven
The Harvard asfronomical observa-
tory announces the appearance of two
new comets in the skies.
Such celestial visitors are
interesting, if only for the reason that
there is so much ¢f mystery about
them. They emergd from the depths
of outer space, afd most of them
presently depart. ow and then there
is one that swingsAfor a while about
the sun in an liptical orbit, but
sooner or later it breaks up or takes
flight into a cosinic void, disappear-
always
adven this one,” she said.
ing forever.
more |
ture of pheasants hanging by
feet, he was startled by what sounded
| like somebody running lightly over the
floor. Pit-pat-pit-pat! The rug cronk-
fed over so slightly and then straight-
ened out again. That was all.
“pon’t like this dining room,” mut-
tered Dick, backing out. “I'm not so
orful hungry,anyway. Guess I'll go up-
stairs.”
The stairs were just as ceraky as
they looked and when he reached the
second floor and peeped into the first
pedroom a white-faced, pop-eyed fel-
[low peede at him. Of course, it was
only a mirror again but somehow Dick
| didn’t like that room, so he went to the
| ra%t one which had no long mirror in
it.
Here he put down his little travel-
ing bag and sitting down on the edge
bed he looked carefully
if expecting to find some-
easy at
glance. he looked the
old-fashioned highboy and
and sure as he was sitting there, the
thing went creak! click! clickity-click!
don’t believe in spooks,”
“if 1 did i'd said you was
of the big
around as
thing which was not to see
rs
big
First at
black
“Glad 1
said Dick.
haunted.”
He spoke in a whisper and turned
[his eyes away from the highboy. The
| pat upholstered old rocker by the win-
|dow was a cheerful sight. Dick had
| half a mind to sit in it and look out
suddenly it began
[the window when
| accord. Slowly
[to rock of its own
[back and forth, back and forth.
Dick starting
this house
cried
like
williker!
feet. “I
“Gee
to his don’t
a-tall!”
He grabbed up his bag and began
running down stairs. The carpet was
rather old on the stairs and Dick was
kind of hurrying and the first thing
he knew he tripped and began to roll
head over-heels down the steps. When
he reached the bottom he heard tap,
tap, arp, rap, and looking up he saw
face pressed against the ground
olass in the front door.
Who's there?’ called a voice. “Open
a
the door.”
“Uncle Jim!”
ling up.
This time his fingers shook so he
get the key into the
threshold stood Aunt
gasped Dick scramb-
could scarcely
lock. On the
Annie and Uncle Jim.
“Well,
“you were out so I just came in and
myself at explained
Dick!” they criea.
made home,”
(Dick.
“We're certainly glad to see you,”
| said Aunt Annie, “But you were mak-
ling such a racket you scared us.
[Come into the parlor and tell us how
all the folks are. Did you see the
lovely gportraits of your grandpa and
canvas from shrinking. If they are]
badly soiled, they may be washed with |
a that whiting, dried,
and if necessary treated with a coem- |
mercial All traces of the|
cleaner should be carefully wiped from
the edges of a colored sole; otherwise
the shoe will have a slovenly appear- |
ance. White and buckskin |
shces are cleaned in much the same |
soap contains
cleaner.
suede
general way, but with special clean-
ers made for the purpose. |
When conservation of space is not |
necessary, a small for holding
shoes may be added to the furnishings
of the bedroom; shoe bags hung
on the inside of the door
good. Pairs of bags in different colors
are very useful for packing shoes when
they keep the shoes from
being scratched, prevent from
coiling other articles, and make it |
rossible to sort out a particular pair |
quickly. |
Shoe repairing has become such an
art that shoes must be of very poor |
leather indeed if they will not stand
repairs. Run-down spoil the
shape of shoes and should be leveled |
at If the shoes of good
leather, well shaped, and well
it is worth while to have full soles
them
when the first
Shoes thus mended will out-
with ordinary
chest
or
closet are
traveling;
them
heels
once. are
made,
and new heels
set
hand sewed on
put wears
through.
those
half soles, and also have a much bet
rather than |
on
wear repaired
ter Brass
iron nails in the heels make less noise
appearance.
in walking. Rubber heels prevent jar-
walking and for this reason
per-
than
1ing in
are very comfortable; for some
sons they seem to wear longer
leather heels.
grandma and Aunt Harriet and Uncle
Joe?”
“Yes’m,” replied Dick.
As they all walked into the parlor
the began tremble and
grandpa's picture suddenly began to
slump down until it hung all askew.
“O pshaw!” Aunt
“Isn’t that Ever since |
they dug the long tunnel under the
city our house has been too spooky
for anything. You see, the trains pass |
almost directly under our house and |
every time one comes along it jars
us. Didn’t you find it rather spooky |
staying here alone?” {
house to
cried Annie. |
a nuisance
“I don’t take any stock in spooks,” |
'eplied Dick boldly.
But just the same he was mighty
glad to see real people.
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