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In Woman’s Realm
Practical Sports Clothes Have Been Designed by the Leading Paris
ian Modistes, of Which This Skating Suit Is a Sample-
Bridesmaids’ Hats That Have the Sanction of
Recognized Leaders of Fashion.
There are plenty of practical sports
clothes for those who really take part
In winter pastimes, and there are Just
as many sports clothes de luxe for
those who dress with an eye to placing
themselves in harmony with their en
vironment. These are made to he
looked at and are marvels of adapta
tion of exquisite materials to sports
styles.
A skating suit, shown in the picture,
ts made for real service. It is a middy
Mouse of a special knitted material
In Scotch colorings, trimmed with a
plain knitted material. The plain
trimming matches the predominating
color in the middy, and the skirt is
made of the same plain cloth.
For real utility sports clothes, soft,
lightweight hut warm materials, like
SKATING SUIT, DESIGNED FOR SERVICE.
Jersey nud camel’s -linir cloth, are
most satisfactory. The sweater goes
without saying as the most important
feature in the sports outfit, and some of
the smartest ones have wide belts,
while practically all of them have
pockets. Matched sets include
sweater, cap, and scarf to match, or
sets of hat, scarf uud bag, or cap, scarf
and muff. The convertible scarf is
something new, In a long scarf which
may be made Into scarf and cap in one.
All sorts of sets are trimmed with
heavy yarns and worsteds in contrast
ing colors.
Eiderdown is a familiar material
that serves the purpose for making in
expensive sets. In white trimmed with
white yarn it makes a cap, scarf and
bag for the skates, of much distinction.
PRETTY HATS FOR BRIDESMAIDS.
The heavy yarn is used for overcasting
seams and edges and for tassels which
finish the scarf ends and decorate the
cap and bug.
These yarns are used in the same
way on hats and bags of silk for
sports wear. One of the handsomest
novelties Is’a set of hat and bag of
blue silk lined with gold. Blue and
gold yarn overcasts all the seams iu
the bug and in the crown of the hat.
The tassels, of the same yarns, are
fastened to the top of the hat and the
bottom of the bag with snap fasteners,
and may be removed so that the set
may be worn either side out. Mustard
colored fabrics look particularly well
with tassels of vari-colored worsteds.
Any month in the year is the best
of months for a wedding—if the bride
chooses it. An Indian summer setting,
or a snowclad little world as a back
ground, may seem a happier choice
than June when all the details of the
great event show a reckoning with
the season.
In the three hats shown in the illus
tration prevailing styles in picturesque
millinery give the bride a choice for
herself or for her maids, that cannot
go wrong. Each one of them repre
sents a type recognized as appropriate
in any season. The largest hat, with
wide, graceful brim, is of light gray
velvet faced with pale rose satin. The
ever-present metallic touch appears in
the lacing of silver cord across the
crown and in a heavier cord of silver
on the brim. Large, full-blown metal
lic roses, in pale rose color, harmo
nize beautifully with the gray velvet
and silver cord, for they have a sheen
of silver over their color. If the best
man, or some other good fellow, Is
not made captive by those rose-adorn
ed ropes of silver lie is a hardened and
hopeless bachelor.
Next appears an enticing poke bon
net, covered with olive green velvet.
It has a soft puffed crown and a brim
cut away at the back. There is a col
lar of gold ribbon finished with a bow.
at the back. On the front a little
basket is outlined in gold thread, filled
with tiny gay-colored silk flowers, set
tlart against the collar. A similar mod
el trimmed with narrower ribbon tied
in a simple bow at the front is a
shade more demure. It was worn at
a morning wedding by a maid In a
redingote dress of olive velvet carrying
a big bouquet of yellow chrysanthe
mums. No man beholding it could call
his soul his own.
The third hat is a shape of the hour
made of light-colored panne velvet
with an extension border of chiffon
about the brim. Rt cot-edged ribbon
and a brilliant fancy feather herald
it as strictly up to date.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
INSTRUCTIVE CANADIAN EGG EXPERIMENTS
ENGLISH PUREBRED WHITE LEGHORN FOWLS.
In an experiment conducted by the
Canada experiment farms to determine
the number of eggs that would be fer
tilized with one mating only, five fer
tilized eggs appeared to be the maxi
mum. In a fertility test following 12
hours’ mating it was apparent that
this method was more conducive to re
sults than the one mating only proved
to be. In trials to determine the in
crease of pen fertility after the intro
duction of the male, muximum fertil
ity, 100 per cent, was reached in a pul
let pen six days after mating, and oc
curred three times in a period of 21
days. The same fertility was reached
in a pen of old hens on the eleventh
day after introducing the male, but the
fertility increased more rapidly and
continued a great deal stronger in the
pullet pen than in the pen of old hens.
One male was also kept with 44 White
Leghorn liens. Though the percentage
of fertility was highest when only 50.8
per cent of the hens were laying, the
total hatch was only 33.3 per cent.
When 80.4 per cent of the pen were
laying, the total hatch was 48.1 per
cent and the fertility 87.7 per cent. In
other tests without mating again fer
tility could not be traced in eggs laid
after hens had been broody for any
length of time.
Cooling Eggs.
In an experiment to determine the
best method of cooling eggs in an in
cubator, the eggs in an incubator con
taining eight trays were cooled for
a mere turning 5, 10, 15 and 20-minute
LITTER IS IMPORTANT
Quite Essential in Well-Regulated
Poultry House.
" 1 “ ___________
No Excuse for Not Providing Fowls
With This Needed Article—Chopped
Straw Acts as Absorbent Un
der the Roosts.
It will not do to underestimate the
importance attached to litter in the
poultry business. It is even more es
sential in a well-regulated poultry
house than a carpet is iu the modem
farm home.
It does not take the place of a car
pet, but it answers as such for the
poultry and is more. It is a good thing
iu a poultry house, summer or win
ter.
We have been iu poultry houses
where litter was as scarce as icicles
on an autumn noonday, says a writer
iu an exchange. Such houses are usu
ally as bare of convenience as the
floor is bare of litter.
It pays to have a large quantity and
the supply should be liberal enough
so it can be changed at least once a
week. By this means the house may
he kept sweet and clean, and scratch
ing the litter will afford exercise so
much needed by fowls when kept in-
closed.
On every farm there is an abundance
of chaff and straw and there is nq
excuse for not providing the poultry
house with this needed article. ™
The best litter is chopped straw* It
acts as au absorbent under the roosts
and as a receptacle in other parts for
the grain that is thrown to the poultry.
In winter chickens should be made to
scratch for every graiu they obtain.
For every graiu they should give a
peck.
Chaff, buckwheat hulls, or almost
anything of that nature will answer
well for litter. We have seen poultry
houses littered with shredded fodder.
One more good thing about litter is
that it helps keep the feet of fowls
warm iu winter.
RETARDS WINTER EGG LAYING
Sudden Freezing of Hen’s Comb Will
Shut Off Egg Supply—Good Treat
ment Recommended.
Freezing of the hen’s comb will re
tard egg laying. Freezing of the feet
of both male and female means loss
of fertility in the spring. Often the
sudden freezing of the combs of hens
that have made a good start at laying
will shut off all laying by them for
the rest of the winter. Frozen or
nipped combs should be looked for
early and the comb dipped in ice-cold
water or packed with snow. Afterward
apply glycerin and some healing salve.
periods. The trays that gave the best
results were cooled as follows: First
week, five minutes in the afternoon;
second week, ten minutes in the after
noon ; and third week, 15 minutes in
the afternoon. Cooling one tray for
several hours proved detrimental.
In an experiment to determine the
profit on ducks hatched in incubators,
reared in brooders, and sold on the
local market at from ten to twelve
weeks old, 3.18 pounds of feed per
pound of gain were required, the aver
age weight at the end of ten days be
ing 4 pounds, 11.2 ounces per duck.
Value of Feeds.
The value for poultry feeding of
screenings, scalpings (chiefly broken
and shrunken wheat and the larger
weed seeds), wild buckwheat, “black
seeds” (lamb’s quarter, wild mustard,
and tumbling mustard), and each of
these three separately, was tested. The
presence of the black weed seeds in
the ration made it not only unpalata
ble, but unprofitable as well. Wild
buckwheat, however, made a very de
sirable feed. The mustards and lamb’s
quarter proved unpalatable and un
profitable. Some birds died, but in no
case did death result from “poison,”
but rather from malnutrition. In the
birds that suffered most severely, as
in the case of the mustards, upon re
turn to a normal ration the rebound
was very rapid. The mustards rather
than being poisonous seemed to have a
stimulating effect on the digestive or
gans.
WINTER EGG LAYING FOWLS
Beef Scrap, Cracked Corn, Cracked
Corn and Vegetables, Will Encour
age Runner Ducks.
The young Runner ducks should
he laying to some extent by now
if they have not made an earlier
beginning. Many people scoff at
the idea of ducks laying in the fall
and declare the Runner no exception
to the rule. This is only true of the
ducks in this breed that are given
neither laying care nor feed. If you
feed your Runner ducks beef scrap,
not great loads of it, but a table
•spoonful or two each day in a
mash of cracked corn, vegetables
cooked, and bran, the young Runners
will lay eggs early in the winter, per
haps not regularly, but enough to
pay before the regular spring laying
begins.
You cannot get winter eggs from
the hens unless you feed for them any
more than you can from the ducks. I
have known young turkeys to be
warmed and fed into laying a clutch of
eggs in January, says a writer in an
exchange. Never let any writer get
it into your head that just corn, or
one or two kinds of grain alone, will
produce ail the winter eggs you should
get, or that they will drink as much
as they need if there is a mere hole
cut in the ice of the water pan, or you
merely let them depend on snow. A
writer now and then argues this last,
but my experience is old. and it is
against such*- treatment for the lay
ing hens.
MISTAKE IN RAISING CHICKS
Where Forced to Pick Up Living They
Grow Slowly and Are Sometimes
Very Poor in Flesh.
It is a fact that nifle-tenths of the
farmers raising chicks fail to give
them enough to eat. After they have
reached that stage when they are able
to pick a mere living they are gener
ally forced to do so and consequently
grow very slowly and are sometimes
poor in flesh.
Two feeds of grain given at regular
hours will make a wonderful difference
in some flocks. Birds inclined to range
away at feeding time and thereby miss
this meal will soon be habitually there
abouts at feeding time, if regular.
MOULDY AND DECAYING FOOD
Kills and Injures More Young and Old
Stock Than Any Other Cause—
Poor Economy.
Mouldy, sour and decaying food kills
and injures more young and old stock
than almost any other cause. It Is
poor economy to have a few cents’
worth -of spoiled food and lose several
dollars’ worth of chickens from the
poisonous effects of the food.
A CHANGE OF MIND
By LOUISE OLIVER.
“Aieen 1”
“Yes, Hart!”
“I love you!”
I “I’m sorry, Hart. I'm afraid I’ve
known it, but it was too late to —to do
anything. I’m sorry, oh, so sorry.
Can’t we be just very good friends
as we’ve always been?”
He moved restlessly. “That's the
trouble. I’m just a person you’ve
grown used to and now you can’t as
sociate me with love. If I’d come
along a stranger and gone at it right
I believe I could have won you. Like
Clark Latshaw,” he added.
“Hart!”
* “I’m right more or less,” recklessly.
“You’ve been a different person since
he came and maybe you don’t know it,
little girl, but I said good-by to my
chances after I saw his valet and
French cur.”
“You’re saying horrid things—things
you’ve no right to say. 1 think we’d
better go back.”
“Forgive me, Aieen. I’m a brute.
It's all right, little girl. Forget what
I’ve said and forgive if you can. I
want you to be happy, that’s sure.
Only remember this, Aieen, if you ever
need me I’m ready for a home run ev
ery time. Promise!”
"I promise on one condition.”
“Yes?”
“That you'll do the same!”
“A man never needs help* from a
woman.”
“lie may. Promise any way. Re
member you’re m.v best friend, Hart.”
“All right. I promise.”
A few days later Aieen was return
ing from the lake to open the city
house for the family. With her on the
Pullman was Clark Latshaw, who
found that he was suddenly called to
New York on the same day.
Aieen had worried about Hart, and
iiis remark about Clark had set her
to thinking. Could it be possible that
she Did care for his money?
But an hour of conversation on the
train opened her eyes and it brought
relief. “No, it’s not his money I like,”
she decided, “It’s his mind. I’d no
idea he knew so much and could talk
of so many things.”
So she banished dull care and set
tled herself to enjoy the rest of the
ride.
Clark was calling her attention to
a cloud effect around a mountain
peak, like fluffy white plumes around
a purple-cocked hat, when the door of
the stateroom at the end of car opened
and they heard a baby cry.
A quick frown of annoyance crossed
Clark’s face. “I wish they’d shut that
door,” he said, as the wailing kept up
and showed no signs of diminishing.
“Boor little thing!” Aieen couldn’t
help saying. “It sounds like just a
little bit of a thing. I imagine it’s
hard traveling with babies!”
And then appeared the tiny offender
in the arms of a very red and wild
looking man.
“Hart!” cried Aieen in sympathetic
surprise, while a smile of annoyed
amusement appeared on Clark’s face.
Hart did not see them at first, but
started to pace the aisle with the fran
tic air of a person who, having done
all he can with the head, throws rea
son to the winds and uses his feet in
stead.
“Of all fool things!” declared Clark.
"Let him alone. Why doesn’t he take
it back and shut the door? Where’s
its mother?”
“I think it’s his sister’s baby. It’s
very new and I can’t understand!”
puzzled Aieen.
The cries were coming nearer. Aieen
sprang up and met the disturbers iu
tiie aisle on their return trip.
“Give me the baby, Hart,” she com
manded.
“No, thank you. I’ll not trouble you,”
lie said. Clark’s disapproving, half
mocking face nettled him, and it stung
him to see them together.
She held out her arms. “But you
promised,” she reminded him sweetly.
He thought an instant. “There are
times a man needs a woman’s help,”
came back to him. He dumped the
crying bundle of pink and white into
her arms with relief.
“It’s sister’s youngster. She’s sick
and they're sending the baby to a spe
cialist for something or other. Just
at train time his nurse had somebody
die and she couldn’t come. There was
nobody but me to bring him, so I
jumped in and came; but I don’t know
much about babies. It’s —it’s awfully
good of you.”
Aieen iu the instant before she took
the baby had a comprehensive glimpse
of the two men. Hurt —l»ig, boyish,
awkward and tousled and smelling
strongly of sour milk, but with it all
tenderness and pity iu his face for
the little mite he held; Clark—im
maculate, brilliant and his face set in
hard disapproving lines, petulant over
a spoiled day.
“I think I’ll have a cigar, if you will
excuse me,” begged the latter, as lie
retreated to the smoker.
Aieen soon had the baby quiet and
asleep in her arms in the stateroom.
Hart looked in to see if he could be of
any help.
“Yes, come in,” she said softly.
“What is it?” he whispered.
“Forget whut I said the other day,
Hart, and —”
“Yes—go on, Aieen, for heaven’s
sake!’
“Tell me what you did all over
again.”
“I love you," he breathed.
“And I love you. Hart, dearly.”
(Copyright. 1916. by the McClure New»-
paper Syndicate.)
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The daily average of accidents in
Pennsylvania industries was SlO for
the first eight months of ijtis year.
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Seasoned Stories.
“Yoil’ll have to take that young fel
low's experiences with a grain of salt.”
“Yes; I thought lie was too fresh.”
GOOD FOR HUNGRY CHILDREN
Children love Skinner's Macaroni
and Spaghetti because of its delicious
Vaste. It is good for them and you
can give them all they want. It is a
great builder of bone and muscle, and
does not make them nervous and irri
table like meat. The most economical
and nutritious food known. Made from .
the finest Durum wheat. Write Skin
ner Mfg. Co., Omaha, Nebr., for beau
tiful cook book. _ It is sent free to
mothers. —Adv.
Ginger, Pep, Punch and Kick.
A writer of rejected manuscripts
tells in the Contributors’ club of the
Atlantic Monthly some of the reasons
for ills lack of success. Ten years ago
his manuscripts were returned because
they did not “quite compel accept
ance;” a little later they “lack gin
ger;” then-editors wanted a little more
pep, please;” then his contributions
did not havestlie “punchand now the
long-suffering writer gets his offerings
back with the comment: "Excellent of
their kind, but we prefer stories with
more ‘kick’!” His letter to the Con
tributors’ club seems to have had all
the desirable elements which his ear
lier efforts lacked, for it was pub
lished ! —Outlook.
*
Practical Pair.
“Are the Jibways happily married?”
“Apparently so. At least, they are
not tiie sort of people who figure iu
problem plays.”
“No?”
“Mrs. Jibway belongs to so many
clubs that she never has time to figure
out whether jier soul is being starved
or not and Mr. Jibway is so absorbed
in business that he has long since for
gotten that he ever had a soul.” —Bir-
mingham Age-Herald.
Intentions Were Good.
Wife —I’ve been the making of you,
John. '
husband—l’d reciprocate, if I was a
modiste.—Town Topics.
The cheerful feeling you
possess after a drink of
something hot and flavory
should be only the beginning
of your satisfaction.
For this very reason more
and more people are turning
from coffee to
Instant Postum
A lessened tendency to such
annoyances as nervousness
and sleeplessness repays
them
A ten-day trial of this de
lightful, flavory hot drink has
assisted so many to health
and comfort that your friend,
the Postum drinker, will tell
you its well worth while.
“There’s a Reason”