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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.) back of the cloth, inside the garment— it's a satisfaction guarantee the mark of the genuine Stifel’s Indigo Cloth for over 75years tliat has never been successfully imitated. 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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. 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