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12 The Home Circle for Our Young People = Conducted by MRS. G. B. LINDSEY ICE CREAM @is one of the luxuries which everybody wants and everybody can have it, for it can be made for nine cents a quart by usins JELL-0 ICE CREAM POWDER Dissolve a package of Jell-O Ice Cream Pow der (cost 10 cents) in a quart of milk (cost, say 8 cents) and freeze it, and you have about two quarts of delicious ice cream. Five kinds of Jell-O Ice Cream Powder: Van illa, Strawberry, Lemon, Chocolate, and Un flavored. Each 10c. a package at any grocer’s. Send for our beautiful Recipe Book. THE GENESEE PURE FOOD CO., Le Roy, N.Y. THIS JT JEWEL ELGIN IN2SYEAR iOLD CASE OHLY FREE TRIAL Now—during thia Special Sale—is a splendid time to buy a fine Watch. We would like to send you this 17-Jewel Elgin in hand en graved 25-year gold case for your inspection. It sells regularly at $20.00. We save you nearly one half. If you answer this advertisement you can buy it for $12.75. NO MONEY DOWN MM hmkhw. cent. Not a penny. Merely give ub your name and address that we may send you this handsome Watch on approval. If after you receive it and want to oft Qft * MA||Tl| keep it, then you pay us only ' H In UN In If you don’t want to —MI keep It, send it back at our expense. You assume no risk whatever in deal* . ingwithus. You do not MMF'WK buy or pay a cent until we have placed the watch ■L&f Bfan in your hands for your 18-•? decision. We ask NO mW SECURITY, NO INTER- | MI EST. No red tape—just ft. pS.jlZJvKql« llhb common honesty among gteS KsSrESfftja jlji men. If this otter appeals to you write today for ffiCj. Our Big Free K watchs DARK! HARRISGOARM Diamond DVViI ■ I KANSAS city mo. HARRIS-GOAR CO. D.pt. 656 KANSAS CITY, MO. THE HOUSE THAT SELLS MOKE ELGIN WATCHES THAN ANY OTHER FIRM IN THE WORLD. CoroNA TYPEWRITER For Personal Use Here is a machine that solves the typewriter problem for the man who is his own stenog rapher. Light, compact and simple in construc tion, the Corona possesses all the “standard” J features that insure ease of operation and satis- - ■x(Q*h|| faction in results. Price $50.00 with case. Write for Corona Booklet and name of nearest agent. W' / IS Standard Typewriter Company Main St., Groton, N. Y. Like as a tale that has a joyous ending The raindy day is drawing to a close, Cloud upon cloud of blue and bronze are blending, The sky is rimmed with rose! The rain has ceased; the skies that noon saw ashen As gray as grief and sorry to the sight— Are splendid now; the winds tempes tous passion Has faded with the light! The sky has brightened like a human brow, Where Sorrow’s signs are suddenly erased The Wonderful Ant and Bee Mother as Studied by the Naturalist In their larval stage they are all precisely alike, both mothers and workers, and to any one of them is open the chance to become a mother ant. It all depends upon the kind of food which is supplied to the individ ual after a certain moment of its ex istence has passed. The queen bee never works, for she is surrounded from the moment of her selection by a crowd of workers whose business it is to look after her. All the worker wasps, however, die in the autumn, and the mother wasp must pass the winter in seclusion, waking in the early spring to attend to the duties of establishing a home. Day by day and week by week she labors on, until at last the earliest developed workers come to give her a well-merited season of rest. The ants, however, have still a dif ferent custom. During the middle of the summer they all remain quietly together in the parental home, the old mothers, the young males, and the younger queens, until some fine day the younger ones go away together. A few hours later the males may be found on the ground, killed by the un pitying workers, while some of the queens return to their natal nest to increase the already large number of mothers. Others of them do not re turn, but find places of refuge where ever they can, passing the winter as do the wasps, and setting up their own homes in the spring, and attending to all duties until the workers are pro duced to take this labor from them. The Golden Age for May 1, 1913 WHEN FAILS THE LIGHT. —Arthur Goodenough. By unexpected happiness and now No gloom thereon is traced! It is as tho’ the sun at day withdrew With all tranquility from his domain, Conscious, the while, beyond the far thest blue, That he will live again! So be my end; not with wild tears and wailing, And vain regrets for things undone —and done — But with calm faith, tho’ there the light is failing That somewhere shines the sun! The lot of the mother with an estab lished colony is an easy one, and they exist even as long as ten years, cared for tenderly by the workers of the nest. This is, in brief, the story of the ant. In his garden Janet has many colo nies of ants, and by giving them nice roofs of stone or tile, he has had the opportunity to lift this and study the habits of the creatures beneath it. The care of the young is one of the most striking features that he has been able to observe. There is, it seems, a daily displacement of the eggs and young that is very curious. There are cer tain of the workers who make this their special business, as Janet has as certained by spotting the ants with paint. The purpose of the change is to give the eggs or cocoons the very best chance possible for development. At night they are carried down into the lower galleries and chambers of the nest, so as to be sheltered from the chilly atmosphere of the night. In the morning, as soon as the tempera ture is sufficiently raised, they are brought up again into the higher gal leries. As the day goes on and the conditions change and the heat be comes stronger or the atmosphere dry er the precious burdens are carried about and deposited in those places which are best suited to them. Every one who has disturbed an ants’ nest has remarked the facility with which the creatures seize cocoons almost as large as themselves and carry them away; and this faculty betokens the constant practice in this kind of work, the moving of the young. Eggs, caterpillars, and cocoons are all equally important to the preserva tion of the colony, so all are cared for, and are moved about according to a regular system. This entails much work on the laborers. Then they have to keep the nest clean, to remove from it debris of all kinds, the cast-off coats of the caterpillars, the empty cocoons, the dead, and the dirt; they must at tend to the engineering portion of the enterprise and excavate new galleries and chambers, carrying out the soil a grain at a time; then they must look after the nourishment of the colony, and last of all, they must protect it from invaders and enemies. This makes for them a busy life, and num erous as they are, they have all plenty to do. THE PURPLE FINCH. By Mabel Osgood Wright. The family of Sparrows and Finch es, like that of the Warbler, Black birds and Orioles, offers such an in finite variety of species and disports so many contradictory fashions in the cut of beaks and tinting of plumage that when we have even a bowing acquaintance with it we feel that we really have entered the realm of bird knowledge. In addition to its rarity, family Fringillidae is the largest of all bird fa miles, numbering some five hundred and fifty species, that inhabit all parts of the world except Australia. The one point that binds them to gether which the untrained may dis cover is the stout bill, conical in shape with great power for seed-crush ing. For, first and last, all of the tribe are seed-eaters, and though in the nesting season much animal food is eaten by adults as well as fed to the young, and tree-buds and fruits arc also relished, the tribe of Finches and Sparrows can live well upon seeds —seeds of weeds, the seeds conceal ed between the scales of pine-cones and the pulp-enveloped seeds of wild fruits that are called berries. This ability to pick a living at any season of the year that the seeded weeds of waste fields and roadsides are uncovered makes what are called “permanent residents” of many species of Sparrows, and causes them, when they migrate, to still keep to a more restricted circle than their insect-eat ing brethren. Also, alas! this seed eating quality, coupled with beauty of plumage and voice, has made them favorite cage birds the world over. Happily, freedom has now come to them in this country, together with all our birds, and as far as the law may piotect them they are safe, though the latest reports say that small con signments of Mocking-birds and Cardi nals are still smuggled over seas by the way of Hamburg. Run over the list of prominent mem bers of the Fringillidae, or family of Finches and Sparrows. Call them by memory if you can; if not, take a book and look them up. The Sparrows are clad in shades of brown more or less streaked, and their dull colors protect them amid the grasses in which they feed and lodge. The birds of brighter plumage are ob liged to look out for themselves, as it were, and keep nearer the sky, where their colors are lost in the blaze of light. Colors of Finches. First to be remembered are the birds that wear more or less red —the Cardi nal, the Rose-breasted Grosbeak, the Redpolls, Crossbills, the Pine Gros beak and the Purple Finch (who is no more purple than he is blue or yellow.) Then come three birds who would seem original and striking in any fam ily—the Indigo Bunting, the southern Blue Grosbeak and the beautiful paint ed Bunting or Nonpareil, clad in blue, red and green plumes. Red and blue —then yellow must fol low as a natural sequence, to complete the primary colors. It is a fact, in the oral kingdom .that the three primary colors never exist naturally without artificial hybridization in one family; thus, there are red and yellow roses, but no blue; red and blue verbenas, but no yellow, and so on. In the Sparrow family, however, we have the three primary colors in all their purity—the American Goldfiinch