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( 'V m <0i ii A jj :o: HOPEFUL FLOWER MAIDS Queon Alexandra attended a Man sion House fete In London. One of the diminutive flower maid ens was both pretty and plump, and, when her majesty stopped for an in stant to smile down upon her, what did she do but put up her wee mouth for a kiss, which she received. “Molly! ** gasped her astounded mother, after the distinguished visit¬ or had passed on, “how could you?” Molly gave good reason, I fought," said she, "it ud be interest¬ in' to tell my grandchillern. Har per’s Weekly. THE NEW WOMAN IN CANADA. "Woman in the Dominion of Can¬ ada,” said Lady Laurier, wife of the Liberal leader, "occupies the middle ground between the ultra claims of the United States and the conserva¬ tism of the mother countries, Al though they are admitted freely to share in all the advantages of the higher education, there is but one woman registered as a practicing lawyer in all of Canada. There are less that six medical practitioners, and the custom which prevails in some denominations in the United States and the older world of calling women to the pulpit never has been followed in the Dominion. The Civil Service is open to women, hut so far they have applied only for subqrdi nato positions. Canada takes special pride in her successful women farm¬ ers. Last year 15,000 women took complete charge of farms, and nearly all made them paying propositions. Fruit farms appeal strongly to Can¬ adian women, and they are among the most successful growers of the world. There is an apple farm near Montreal owned by three girls under twenty, all still completing their ed¬ ucation. Last year they picked and packed with their own hands 2200 barrels of apples. In the domain of religion, where women always shine, Canadians have not lagged, Two of the most successful and energetic ders of the Catholic church were founded by French Canadian wom en. Mlle. D’Youville founded the Grey Nuna'in 1747, and Mme. Game- ca. •* Queen’s Aspic. Put three-quarters of a pint of aspic jelly into a basin and add three tablespoonfuls of tomato 02 ia catsup and quarter of pint of stiff mayonnaise sauce, Al¬ OB TO a a & low this mixture to set in a round mold. Slice some tonrn O ft toes, an equal quantity of peeled cucumber and about half 3 >- the quantity of sliced cold potatoes which have been pre¬ (5 oil and vinegar and viously boiled. Dress with arrange =3 around the cold aspic. lin the Sisters of Providence. Mile. iMance was the foundress of the great Hospital Hotel Dieu of Montreal, and her sisters afterward assumed charge of the lepers of New Brunswick. "Canadian women still retain the primitive love of home, and no mod¬ ern tendency can shake their belief that the most valuable work lies along the lines of being a good wife and mother, and keeping the home¬ stead in immaculate order. Go through the rural districts and look through the open door of cottages, with their thatched roofs and half acre patch of garden. There will be seen the genuine Canadian life, and the homes of the rich are only the apothesis of the humble ones. The floor is yellow with many scrubbings, the stove is bright as new tin, and the best bed stands in stiff solemnity in frilled curtains and covers. House cleaning makes up the epochs of life, and every l’east.—Christmas, Easter, the family birthdays and familiar fes¬ tivals—are always preceded by a gen eral sweeping, dusting and scrubbing, It still is fashionable in Canada, be you rich or poor, plain or aristocratic, to be known in your community as a fine housekeeper.”—New York Press. A MODEL ARM. ' Anna Haverland, who died recent¬ ly near Dresden, was a well known tragedienne, possessed of a fine, w’ell proportioned figure, a handsome face, large eyes full of expression and a voice clear, sonorous and flexible. But it was her arm and its perfect shape that won for her historical and artistic interest, for it was the model for the imposing figure of Germania in the Niedenvald, who holds in her right hand the German Imperial Crown, while her left leans on a sword. This monument, says a Ger¬ man correspondent, is the work of Prof. Schilling, and it was a long time before he could find an arm worthy of becoming the piodel of that famous figure. One evening he was seated at the Court Theatre v ,^vhere Anna Haverland was playing “jfhus nelda.” Scarcely had the actress raised her arm with an imperious gesture than Schilling,, starting to his feet with a half suppressed-ejacula¬ tion, rushed from his box to the stage and as the curtain fell appeared be¬ fore her with a beaming face. Hers was the long looked for arm that was to bear the German Crown and grace ! the statue of Germania. Fortunate Anna! Beyond her little world she was unknown till the sculptor lmmor tallzed her arm. It Is almost as great a distinction as having no arms, Mm the Vonus of Milo. But stay! Perhaps those lost arms are now on Germania.—Boston Herald, WHAT ABOUT OUR GRANDMAS? Considerable pulpit energy is being wasted in consideration of the femi¬ nine style of dressing, and the hurt¬ ling of charges that It is indecent. The special grievance seems to lie in the waist known as “peek-a-boo >» and in the elbow sleeves favored in warm weather. These styles promote comfort, and therefore seem to con¬ cern alone the persons adopting them. The habit of attending to one’s own business is so excellent that it3 wider prevalence ought to be encour¬ aged. If these articles of wear are offensive to the unco guid what pangs would have torn them had they come into contact with the gowns of their sainted grandmothers! The grandmothers garbed them¬ selves in a manner exposing to the sunlight and the general view their shoulders, arms and chests. Over part of this exhibit they draped a scarf or a filmy pretext of lace. They also displayed their feet and ankles absolutely without a blush, ac¬ cepting as a fact the theory that the existence of the feet and ankles had been known and would be tolerated. Thus arrayed the belles of the six¬ ties, reviving a fashion of a genera¬ tion before, paraded the streets in the afternoon. Perhaps they were railed at for their temerity, but if so, they paid no heed, and the reformers of the day 'accomplished no more than the re¬ formers of the present are apt to do, this being a total of nothing. When men took to the shirtwaist the change was radical, but the men found it comfortable. The women had not the impertinence to rebuke them. To let the tastes of the women find unhampered expression would be only fair play, so long as this does not interfere with public rights. The out¬ | cry against the gigantic hat is on a different basis, for this hat is a nuisance.—Philadelphia Ledger, P retty ^JTiines r*' ~ Plaids are much worn and form some of the smartest suits. Long sleeves are invariable with the new tailored shirt waists. “Fruity brownish” tones is a term used to describe the new reds. Embroidery figures on stockings for afternoon and evening wear only. A spreading hat of thick grey beav¬ er is trimmed with three velvet heart¬ : ed roses. j J shoes with patent leather prominently vamps J an( j cloth tops will figure t hj S W i n t er . Button boots—as they are under j j s t otH i are considered the smarter for stree t wear. A knot of tulle matching that at the throat is used to tie the flowers worn at the belt. The fichu effect is employed exten¬ sively in the development of the back of the elaborate empire gowns. Various shades of brown and green hose are being shown for wear with heavy fall tan oxford ties. New fancy plaids include such combinations as browns and greens, deep peacock blues and slaty grays. Turbans range in size from medi¬ um to very large. The box shapes with protruding crowns are most in favor. Braid, both plain and in fancy weaves, will be much used for trim¬ ming. Touches of black satin, too, will be in favor. The dog collar of satin or narrow ribbon is worn over the collar of the lingerie waist and is a little newer than that of beads. While all other colors come and go, the navy blue suit of tailored fin¬ ish remains as a standard, and the girl who wears vt nearly always looks well dresqed. Many shirt waist sleeves are but ’toned from shoulder to waist—not al together for ornamental purposes, but largely because the buttons make the long sleeve much easier of ad justment. ........ . __________________________ PRACTICAL ADVICE ABOUT DIVERSIFIED FARMING ■ 4 + »♦ -» 4 4 444 - 'ttzxntzmttttxnttxxtnax Spurs For Ponltrymen. Do not let very fat old hens be un¬ necessarily exposed to the hot sun for want of shade and then wonder why they drop dead from apoplexy. Presumptlous ambition to raise many birds before success has been attained with few has wrecked many who might have done well with poul¬ try if they had started more cau¬ tiously. What poultry pick up on the wide range found on the farm and the good exercise they get when roaming about enable the farmer to raise poultry more cheaply than anybody else can. Some who think they would like to have oyster shells for their poultry, but who do not like to buy them, can pick up clam shells along streams and pound them up into something quite as good as the prepared oyster shells. The time is upon us when eggs are expected to he low in price. They are just as wholesome and nutritious now as when they are worth four times as much per dozen, hut the av¬ erage person begins to think he does not like eggs about the time their price falls. This is a queer freak of wide proportions, feeling that eggs are more desirable when they will sell for the most on the open market. Waterglass is the best medium for keeping eggs in good condition for some months that the farmer can use, but packing eggs in bran or salt is likely to be more convenient for the farmer. Either will keep eggs in fair condition for some time if the eggs are strictly fresh to begin with, but the salt or the bran should extend at least two inches beyond the eggs on all sides, the top and bottom included. While eggs are cheap those who wish to economize in the securing of food may feel that eggs are being used on the home table so much as to become tiresome. They should consider in how many ways eggs can be prepared for the table, and how different they will look and taste when prepared differently, When using meat that is not salted there is more or less danger that its con¬ dition will not be the best in hot weather, and digestive troubles may result. But if eggs are bad, it can be noticed before they are put on the table, and they are to that extent to be preferred. Apoplexy is more likely to appear among poultry in summer than at other seasons. Extreme heat may cause it. Its immediate cause is a rush of blood to the brain, when a blood vessel is burst. Over-eating or sudden fright may cause it also. If an affected fowl is taken in time treatment may help, but usually it is too late for treatment before the trou¬ ble is noticed. The treatment is bleeding from the under-side of the wing, but the bird should not be bled to death. A cool place where the fowl will be quiet should be used to keep the bird in after treatment. If it is desired to dust a large num¬ ber of chicks that, are at least as large as quails it may be quickly done by a simple arrangement that any intel¬ ligent man—and many women—can make at home. Use a barrel that lias two fairly good heads, cutting an opening in the end about eight by ten inches, and arrange hinges or buttons to fasten back the part that is removed. The chicks are put in the barrel through this hole, some in¬ sect killer is put in the barrel, and the barrel is rolled over the ground. The chicks will flutter and stir up the powder till it penetrates every part of their feathers. There should be a few holes bored in each end of the barrel to admit air and prevent the chicks from being smothered. With such an arrangement a dusting may be given at intervals of a week about three times, so as to kill lice that may hatch from time to time, and the work will be quickly and thor¬ oughly done. Rolling the barrel about a minute is enough.—Progres¬ sive Farmer. Feeding Beef Calves. A. G. P., Jeffersonton, writes: We have a bunch of pure bred Angus calves which we wish to keep growing and in nice shape to sell as breeders. They are five to six months old and weigh about 500 pounds. Have been running with the dam so far, but we will wean them and put them on grass in a week or two and want to feed, so they will suffer as little set¬ back as possible when the milk sup¬ ply is cut off. What grain ration would you suggest and how much? We are now feeding them four pounds per head per day of a mixture of eqvial parts of cracked corn, crushed oats and wheat bran. Answer: It is a very difficult mat¬ ter to wean calves that have been raised on the dam without their suf¬ fering any setback. The best oppor¬ tunity to do this is when-they are go¬ ing on grass which ' 'provides' 'them with a succulent, nutritious and eas¬ ily digested food, and one that keeps the digestive system in fine condition. Do not turn them on grass too soon, as young and watery grass is an un- satisfactory food, and particularly for young calves, You have acted wisely in teaching the calves to eat grain freely, and do not think of any sug¬ gestions that can be made for improv¬ ing the ration, though the whole grain can be fed with equally good if not better results than the crushed oats and corn, The mixture suggest ed is a very good one, indeed, and should be fed ab libitum, though care should be taken to see that the calves do not eat too much. It will be neces sary to continue the grain ration and keep them on the best pasture avail¬ able keep them from “going back. » to As to the amount of grain that should be fed per day, that must be determined by the individual feeder and by the individual capacity of the animals. The vigilant feeder can de¬ termine this point by watching the calves daily, A little oil or linseed meal might, be added to the ration with advantage, from one-quarter to one-half pound per day being suffi¬ cient. A tablespoonful of dried blood will also prove helpful at times. These condimental foods supply protein in considerable amounts, and have a toning effect on the system, generally speaking. Dried blood in particular has been found quite useful as a cor¬ rective for white scours, and this point should be guarded carefully if the calves are weaned suddenly and put immediately on grass, If the weaning process can be made gradu¬ ally and the calves taught to eat some bright hay and the grain ration suggested they are not so likely to suffer a setback as if they are cut off from the milk supply all at once.— Professor A. M. Soule. •> w. Plant Ensilage Com. When I was growing corn for the silo, and annually putting up 600 tons of it, I always planted my silage corn in July, for there it followed a crop of clover hay on the same land and, in the cultivation of the crop, clover seed were sown again, so that on that rich bottom land I generally got two tons or more of clover hay and twenty tons of corn silage every year. I was engaged in cleaning the bottoms of weeds and making manure for the hills, for with this annual treatment there was hardly any such thing as exhaustion of that bottom land where the soil was nearly ten feet deep, be¬ ing the accumulation on an old mill pond bottom where the stream had cut a deep channel. On any moist lowland of good fer¬ tility July is early enough to plant the ensilage corn. It then comes in at a comparatively leisure season, where a man grows no tobacco or cotton, and even the cotton will not be push¬ ing much early in September when the corn is ready.—W. F. Massey. Angora Goats. There are four points in favor of Angora goats: (1) They will im prove pasture by killing weeds and brush. (2) They yield fleeces of fair value. (3) The flock increases with reasonable rapidity. (4) They sup¬ ply the land with very good fertilizer and distribute it evenly, there being no large piles of it. Sheep are the only other animals that can compete with the goat in regard to point one and two; and, as for improving a pasture, particularly if it is has much brush in it, the she^p do not compete vere strongly. Raise Pure-Bred Cattle. If our farmers will raise pure-bred stock and feed liberally, judiciously and regularly, make and save their own fertilizers and raise stock enough to warrant slaughter houses to come into their midst, they will And a good paying market for good beef stock; otherwise raise, feed and ship in car. lots to New York, Baltimore or Chi¬ cago at profitable prices.—Progres¬ sive Farmer. When to Cut Alfalfa. There is one especial point that we wish to call attention to in cutting alfalfa. That is, pay no attention to the blossoming period, but look for the sprouting of the next growth at the root crown. If the sprouts for the next growth are out, cut the alf¬ alfa whether blossoms appear or not. If they are not out, do not cut it.— Hoard’s Dairyman. •/> Cabbage Worms. The treatment for cabbage worms is to dust the cabbage while the dew is on the plants with a mixture of eighty parts flour or lime to one part of Paris green. As far as my experi¬ ence goes it seems that heads in which worms have wmrked rather free’y show a decided tendency to rot during hot weather. Good For Seed. — Treating the seed of corn, okra, watermelons* and other seeds a coat of coal tar and then rolling them in dry ashes or dry earth will keep everything from disturbing them in the ground. — ---------- WILE RECORDS ON LAND. Electric Locomotive Makes the Best —Auto Comes Next. For convenience in ocpnparlng speeds made on land by various veh¬ icles as well as by horses and men the following table of mile records has been prepared by a writer in the Metropolitan: Electric locomotive, 27 seconds, 1903. Automobile, 28 1-2 seconds, 1906. Steam locomotive, 32 seconds, isf)3. Motor paced cycle, 1 minute 6 1-5 seconds, 1904. Bicycle, unpacod, 1 minute 49 2-5 .seconds, 1904. Running horse, 1 minute 35 1-2 seconds, 1890. Pacing horse, 1 minute 55 seconds, 1906. Trotting horse 1 minute, 58 1-2 sec¬ onds, 1905. Man skating, 2 minutes 36 seconds, 1896. Man running, 4 minutes 12 3-4 sec¬ onds, 1887. ?Ian walking, 6 minutes 23 seconds, 1890. It will he observed that the dif¬ ference between the locomotive and the automobile is trifling. For 100 miles the record of the steam locomo¬ tive is much better than that of the auto. However, both the electric lo eomotive and the auto may be ex uected to show further improvement, as their development is incomplete, while their steam brother has attain¬ ed about the limit. The horse rac¬ ing records added to the table were all made in recent years. Evidently we breed better and train better than before. FISH WITH A SAIL. Hoists or Lowers It at Will and Navi¬ gates Shallow South Pacific Waters. Few marine animals-seem at first glance to betray less intelligence than the jellyfish. Up with the tide and down with the tide, carried along by thisi or that current, moving with the eddy of a backwater hither and thith¬ er, the jellyfish has become almost a synonym for helplessness. Scientifically, of course, the popular idea of the jellyfish is wholly mis¬ taken; but it is perhaps only in tropical waters that he is found in the perfection of intelligence. In the South Pacific, around the islands of Polynesia, and as 'far south as the upper portion of the North Island o! New Zealand there is a jellyfish who not only knows where he wants to go but is even provided with a sail which he can and does hoist or low¬ er at will. The sail, like the rest of this curious animal, is almost trans¬ parent, hut unlike the body of the fish, which is of the usual gelatinous construction, the sail is a membrane almost as hard as shell. Roundabout the Ellice Group the navigating fish is often found with a sail measuring five inches across, and he navigatos the shallow island waters with the skill of a’Hooghly pilot, steering in and out of snaggy places and avoiding obstructions both above and below the surface with un¬ erring skill. Like his cousins in home waters this navigating jelly¬ fish has the power of stinging its natural enemies and its sting is fa¬ tal to fish and dangerous to man.— London Standard. y Butter 300 Years Old. After lying burled for three cen¬ turies a firkin containing one hun¬ dred-weight of butter has -been dug up in Fallagherane bog, County Ty¬ rone, Ireland, by a farmer. The hoops and staves of the firkin, which was twelve feet under ground, collapsed when lifted up, but the butter, of pale yellow color, is in a perfect state of preservation. CAUSE AND EFFECT. Good Digestion Follows Right Food. Indigestion and the attendant dis¬ comforts of mind and body are cer- I tain to follow continued use of impro¬ per food. Those who are still young and ro¬ that, bust are dropping likely to overlook will the fact a J| as water wear stone away at last, so will the use of ^ heavy, greasy, rich food finally cause loss of appetite and indigestion. Fortunately many are thoughtful, enough to study themselves and note the principle of Cause and Effect in their daily food. A N. Y. young wom¬ an writes her experience thus: “Some time ago I had a lot of trou¬ ble from indigestion, caused by too rich food. I got so I was unable to digest scarcely anything, and medi¬ cines seemed useless. “A friend advised me to try Grape Nuts food, praising it highly, and as a last resort I tried it. 1 am thank¬ ful to say that Grape-Nuts not only relieved me of my trouble, hut built me up and strengthened my digestive organs so that I can now eat anything I desire. But I stick to Grape-Nuts.” < ( There’s a Reason. »» Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to ville,” in plcgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time* They are genuine, true and full of hu¬ man Interest.