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SUNDAY MORNING.
Milkin ' a Profit.
The surest way to make a profit is to
itsep down the cost. There should be no
hesitation in procuring that which is
needed, but waste should not be allow
ed. The cost may be lessened by doing
all the work at the prop r time and
by the use of the best implements.
D;irv St* ck.
The writer practices brushing t*9
cows daily. No tilth is allowed to re
main on their sides or tdders. It
causes discomfort to the cows, and it is
impossible to get-sweet milk or make
good butter if the cows are filthy. No
harsh words or loud talking should be
practised—all should be as quiet as
possible, if boisterous language is
used the cows will net give their us
ual supply of milk; this has been of
ten demonstrated. The stables should
be cleaned (daily and absorbents furn
ished liberally, so that all valuable ma
terial may be saved. All the little de
tails must be observed faithfully to bs
successful.—C. W. Kellogg, in the
Epitomist.
ltilns the Skim Milk Ca'f.
The rapid introduction of the hand
separator is the feature of the times
in the dairy Industry. It is largely
solving the question of getting good
skim milk for calf raising, as well as
having several other important ad
vantages. Warm. sw r eet skim milk,
separated within a few minutes after
being drawn from the cow, is in the
best possible condition for the calf,
snd by observing the points mentioned
in this bulletin, and as practised by
the most successful dairymen, little
trouble will be had in raising as good
alves as are raised in any way. The
majority of those producing cream or
butter tor sale insist on some means
ef raising the calf satisfactorily, and
the hand separator seems to till the
want better than any other system.
Importance of Keeping Pails Clean—
One of the most common causes of
sickness in hand raised calves is feed
ing from dirty pails or cans. Every
utensil which comes in contact with
milk to be used for feeding should be
kept clean and scalded as thoroughly
as though the food were to be used
for the owner's family. A good rule
is to keep the calf pails as clean as the
milk pails. In feeding grain, no more
should be fed than will be eaten up
clean. If grain is allowed to remain
in a trough it often becomes damp and
partly decayed, and may cause sick
ness just as a dirty pail will often do.
—Missouri Experiment Station, Bul
letin No. 57.
Clean Wafer for S\rin*.
The value of clean water for swine
cannot be appreciated by one who has
not tried both pure and impure drink
ing water with them. In swine raising
we have come to realize that rapid
growth on good, clean, sweet food
pays much better than raising them
slowly on filtay swill ar.d garbage.
Tho clover and hay fed uogs, topped
off with corn an.l skim-milk, pay bet
ter by far than any of tho swine ifaise 1
in the pen where filth and mire make
up their environment and taint all
their food. The hog may have a pret
ty good digestion, but it is possible
to injure it in time if we continue to
feed it with bad food. T.iat is practi
cally what has been done for years
past, and we have produced swine dis
eases, and, what is probably ,ess im
portant, slower growing hogs. To
make the animals continue growing in
a thrifty condition we must feed them
good, wholesome for, 1 under proper
sanitary surroundings.
Now. water plays a most important
part in the health of all animals. We
must take a certain amount of liquid
into the stomach to keep u in good
condition. The modern clover fed hog
and corn fattened pig do not get as
much liquid in their food as tne old
swill fed animal, and it is necessary
to supply the creatures with wtiler to
make up for the deficiency. Clean
water purifies the system and washes
out the stomach, tending to disinte
grate and carry away the solid matter
that may accumulate in the stomach,
impure, filthy water clogs the system
more, and often causes intestinal irri
tation. The hog will apparently drink
filthy water just as rcadi.y as pure
water, and this has ierl some to think
that it mattered little whether (.lean
or dirty drinking water was supplied.
But it is contrary to all tea'.lings of
sanitary science, and we have but to
examine two hogs raised on clean ar.d
filthy water to see the dlff rence.-Con
sumers of pork are becoming more
critical each year, and they can read
ily detect the flavor of inferior, filth
produced pork from clean, sweet,
wholesome melai. Massachusetts
Pioughman.
Profifab’e Dallying.
Usually it may be said that the most
profitable form of farm is that branch
which requires the strictest attention,
intelligence and hard work. This is
because comparatively few are willing
to pay the price for the success, anci
consequently the market is not over
stocked with the products. But there
are, of course, many ir. these difficult
branches of farming who do not make
hard work of them, nor do they make
a profitable success cf it.
There is no work on the farm that
should occupy the attention and in
telligence of the farmer more than
dairying, and. as a rove, this pays bet
ter profits than most others, but only
in proportion to the price paid. Some- 1
times dairying is not profitable, sim
ply because the man carries it on too
small a scale. In order to secure the
best results, the work should be on a
large scale, for then many conven
iences can be afforded which are net
possible on the small dairy. If one
is to select this branch of agriculture
for a living, he should have as many
cows as he can properly feed and han
dle.
There should boa definite relation
ship between the size c f the farm and
number of cows, but where land is
high and difficult to get. modern meth
ods of intensive farming should be fol
lowed to make the products as large
as possible from the land. Also it is
well on such farms to adopt winter
dairying. This pays the, best where
the farm is near a large market, and
where land i3 high priced. It is cheap
er to summer tha fows than to winter
them, but by making taem produce
well in winter, when milk, cheese ard
butter are at their highest, we get
large returns for the food.
One should make it a business then
to farm the land intensively through
the summer, mb king it. produce several
crops for winter feeding. One could
learn a few good points in this respect
frem the market gardeners near citiss,
who fertilize and cultivate their land
continually, so that two and some
times three heavy crops arc taken from
the farm in one season. By such
methods the dairyman who tried win
ter dairying could raise more food and
get more profits from his work- —E. P.
Smith, in American Cultivator. .
Science of I’lowiui;.
In all soils there is a large proportion
of the elements that enter Into the
growth of plants, but these substances
exist in forms which render them only
partially available for use. When the
| plow is allowed to go only to a certain
! depth every year the loss of fertility
j is in the first six inches of the soil,
j Below- this shallow depth is a mine of
wealth which is at the disposal of the
farmer if he will appropriate it to his
use. So steadily have farmers adhered
to the rule of farming that on some
farms the plow runs along the bottom
of the furrow as though passing and
tattling over stone. It is the hard
pan which creates this sound, and it
has been made hard by the farmer
himself, who has allowed his team to
trample every square foot of earth at
the bottom of each furrow year after
year while turning up the top soil. The
| subsoil or hard pan becomes harder
I every year, and consequently it be
| comes more and more impervious to
| water, air and warmth. The top soil
j alone is compelled to provide plant
food, although there is an abundance
below. The breaking of the ground
for a crop, which is considered but a
“matter of form” on the farm. Is really
the most important duty performed,
and the work should be done with
judgment and with the view of im
proving the soil conditions.
To turn up the cold subsoil certainly
is not, desirable, nor would it prove
beneficial at the start, but the work
should be domj gradually. If the plow
is sent dowiWnly half an inch deeper
each year the depth of the top soil will
Increase to four inches in eight years,
j While the soil from below will not
J add to the fertility of the top soil the
| first year, yet it will gradually change
in characteristics, and give up planl
food as readily as the; -op soil, for the
reason that by being reduced to a fine
condition the heat, air, moisture, acids,
and alkaline* exert chemical effects,
which change its composition entirely.
It also becomes capable of absorbing
the liquid fertilizer from the manure
which may be applied on the soil, as
the rains dissolve out the soluble mat
ter and carry it down. Where this
soluble fertilizer only reaches the
depth of the six inches of top soil it
now goes lower, saturating the half
inch of pulverized hard pan. assisting
to change it chemically and converting
it into rite same conditions as the top
soil. It is by gradually reaching down
■into the hard pan for more soil and
more plant food that the farmer de
rives the stored wealth beneath the
surface, and when the soli has been
mellowed to the depth of a foot by
thus encroaching on the hard pan it
will retain more moisture than former
ly, while the work of plowing will be
taster, as the land will turn over and
crumb.e more readily because of an
improvement in its mechanical con
dition.
There is also such a thing as put
ting the plants at work in improving
the soil. Every time the hard pan is
encroached upon it opens more for the
pencyaation of the roots and plants.
not refer to the tap roots
or ! -X St"- which sometimes endea
vor J '*9 hard pan to de
rive food, but to the roots that
feed in the surface soil. Instead of
being confined to a depth of six inch
es they will have seven or eight inch
es or more, according to the depth of
the hard pan invaded, and when the
crop is removed there will be a mass
of roots left in the soil, and to a great
er depth that; before, which is so muchfl
fertility remaining in the soil for the
next season. If the subsoil plow is
also used, in addition to plowing an
inch deeper, the hard pan will be brok
en up to a greater depth without turn
ing it to the surface, but the plowing
up of half an inch or an inch of the
subsoil, and adding it to the top soil,
exposes it more directly to the action
of iqoisture, air and warmth, and the
■farmer does not injure his top soil in
any manner. If air-slaked lime is ap
plied to the soil after it is plowed, and
the land is then well harrowed, es- j
pecsaliy in the fall season, it will prove
of much benefit to the land while the i
surface soil is being deepened, as it j
produces both a chemical effect and a
mechanical action, which hasten the
process of bringing the soil to tne de- j
s’ifci condition. —Philadelphia Record. '
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS
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I rlrci* Hub. '* I >•
A long roomy, canton flannel night
| gown, with a puckering string at the
! bottom, gives the baby's feet room to
| lack about and at the same time keeps
i them protected.
i
Woman Lumber JWor.
Mrs, Mary Coggins of California is
i successful woman lumber dealer. She
has established a box factory, of which
one of her sons is general manager,
while she signs the checks, off the
employes and holds the pursestrings
generally. Mrs. Coggins also helps in
the management of two sawmill* and
many thousands of acres of timber
land.
Worn by n llnyal Fvlde.
It is always interesting to know
' what, a royal bride has to wear. A Rus
sian grand duchess had made for her
in Paris recently for her trousseau an
evening gown of pink velvet, copied
by the couturier from a picture of
Queen Maria Leczinska. It was em
broidered by hand in 3ilver thread and
strass. Another was of ivory crepe de
! chine, with a stole of priceless Vene
tian guipure, pointed fichuwise at the
back. A sumptuous teagown was also
of white crepe de chine, with a stole of
chinchilla and encrustations of exqui
site Irish point. A dress for morning
wear was of clan plaid, bloused in
fiont. The neck was finished with
a fiat trimming of black satin, con
tinued down each side of the vestt
! was a frilled front of ivory tinted lace
between.
A Smart l&*incot.
A stuuning driving coat, rain-proof,
seen recently at a tally-ho party, was
of olive green covert cloth, cut with a
triple cape strapped on the edges with
a high up-standing crimson velvet col
lar. Over the edge of this collar there
was a strap of the cloth held down by
a large gun-metal button. The front
edge of the lowest cape was held down
in a similar manner by two buttons.
This simple uevice holds the cape in
place and prevents it from whipping
mound the cheeks of the pretty wearer.
The sleeves were full and gat.iered
into a band which fastened with a met
al button, * Within a few inches of the
wrist there was a curved strapping
on the sleeve. The coat, was lined
throughout with rich crimson taffeta.
A black picture hat of rough straw
formed an effective finishing touch to
the chic outfit.
An Animal alnter,M> > alnter , M M'nrii*!*.
Miss Margaret Collyer, the animal
painter, pupil of the late Lord Leigh
ton, and painter of the well-known pic
ture, “Some Are Born Great," repre
senting a toy terrier lying on a sable
cloak, is eclectic in her
choice of models. She dotes
on beagles and dachshunds
and Irish terriers, but within a few
years she has entertained and painted
from In her studio (ho following “po
sers:’’ A young fox that allowed the
dogs to hunt him at pleasure; nil Aus
tralian piping crow, famous for having
won the respect and friendship of a
certain bloodthirsty terrier; a toad
sent to the artist, to he painted in one
of her subject pictures, and the pet of
the studio for quite a long time: a
sheep from the Scotch Highland!', that,
grew into a particularly quiet model:
a Manx cat; a peculiarly ugly mongrel
puppy, originally “discovered” at the
pound and bought at once, on account
of his comic possibilities for a pic
ture; a calf, a goat and a Shetland
pony.
Women a Student* of Fnclinli.
The remarks of a distinguished
! American professor on women as stu
! dents of English literature as quoted
i in The Delineator will be interesting
j to instructors and students, both men
| and women. "In seminary work the
j papers of the women are always with
out exception superior to the men’s:
the best man’s paper never equalled
: the best woman’s paper. In fact, 1
; never had a really able paper from
; young men, except in three cases. I
think literature teaches that wherever
there is a spiritual element women
excel. So far as English literature
: goes, it is scarcely worth while to
| teach most men. When they come
j here very few can speak good English.
• Five hundred words constitute their
average vocabulary. A large propor
| tion of the men In the general courses
flounder about for years with no aim
or object beyond barely getting a di
ploma at the end, which amounts to
nothing. They think more of atheltics
than of literature; of sprawling in the
mud at football, and the mud seems to
strike in and affect their souls. Wom
en are far more serious. I should long
, ago have given up the post of English
literature if it had not been for the
interest shown by women who have
come to my classes.
Woinau I* a Mail Farrier.
Miss Heden Kramer, who has a ru
ral delivery route six miles from
Louisville, is the only woman carrier
of that class in Kentucky and one of |
the few in the United States. She j
entered upon the discharge of her new j
duties about three weeks ago. Until j
that time she was in charge of Shively !
pcstofflce, which is now abolished, i
Since the death of her father, five !
years ago, she has been the only sup- -
port of her widowed and invalid mo
ther. About this time she secured :
the appointment of postmistress of ’
the fourth-class office at Shively, which
i > not a salaried position, but pays ac- '
cording to the number of stamps can
celed at the office. This was not suffi
cient to support herself and mother, so
she secured the agency of several news
papers. These she distributes every
day by means of a horse and cart to
her subscribers, all of whom live with
in a radius of a few miles from Shive
ly. The knowledge she has thus ac
quired, not only of the roads and mails,
but of the people in that section of
the country, made her the logical can
didate for rural carrier.
A few days before starting on her
route Miss Kramer completed her car
rier uniform, which is of the regula
tion blue-gray color. The Postofiice
department is usually thorough in pro-
viding against every contingency that
raav arise in the administration of.the
service. It had not, however, decided
upon any particular pattern of uniform
for rural mail-carriers of the gentler
sex. So niss Kramer was forced tt,
provide herself with a pattern for her
uniform. —Chicago Chronicle.
A Woman* Holiday Afternoon.
An active minded woman was spend
ing her belated summer holiday re
cently in a country village where au
tumn fruit literally drugged the mar
ket to her utilltlarian soul the waste
of apples lying .leaped in bins or left
neglected under the trees were next to
sinful. She gained a ready permission
from her host to dispose of the apples
in any way.
The house stood somewhat retired,
but on a much frequented street —in
fact, the highway to the local baseball
ground. That afternoon the woman of
ideas placed a bushel basket at the
gateway and filled it peck by peck her
self with luscious, red cheeked apples
from the overflowing bins. Then above
the basket, she placed a eonspicuous
sign, “Help Yourself," and retreated,
stating herself on the screened piazza
to watch results.
It was a ball game afternoon. Pre
sently along came the members of the
local team, early, for practice. The
first comers scorned the invitation,
and the apples, and the woman in
waiting felt a sudden sense as if of
personal neglect. But the next three
did help themselves. Soon a small boy
appeared, with pockets—one. two,
three, four, fast as one could count,
the apples went iuto the pockets. Next
a carrlagcful of boys driving by
stopped for one to jymp out and get in
again, his hands full. Then two little
boys danced eagerly up to the basket,
clapping their hands with apprecia
tion, Some of the local inhabitants
stopped, with slow, herdlike looks, to
stare at tne sign. The village girls
over lfi years old walked by haughtily.
Two, women, with deprecating glances
around, indulged In an apple apiece.
As the contents of the basket dimin
ished new supplies were forthcoming.
No one took more than a half dozen
apples. Occasionally a group of boyr
would help themselves and scurry off
as if in fear of being pursued. Pret
tiest sight of all was a pink gowned
twe-year old baby, who trotted off
clutching a big apple the color of his
ruddy checks.
Two bushels and more of apples van
ished that afternoon, and the woman,
watching the passersby as they stared,
sniffed, appreciated or applauded her
sign, felt that she had enjoyed it all.
Incidentally, she learned afterward
that, an invalid across the way had
been vastly entertained. —New York
Tribune.
'V !^
Long chains of jet and crystal beads
are much In favor.
Basques of all lengths will be worn
this autumn and winter.
Moire antique is being revived for
dress and millinery wear.
Old-fashioned silks and satins will
be much worn this season.
White and black beaver are veiy
popular for the tricorne hat.
Velvet and silk ribbon will be used
lavishly as trimmings on doth dresses.
Simple hats arc only trimmed with
rosettes of moire silk, velvet or taffeta.
Panne is still in evidence, but now is
more relegated to millinery and trim
mings.
Colored sequins of all kinds are be
ing utilized as trimmings on evening
bodices.
Green, brown and new ruddy red are
about favorite tones for the early an-*
tumn.
Orchid colored cloth —a shade of red
—is used for some fetching fall cos
tumes.
Old Moulton is being revived for
bridal veils and wedding dress gar
niture.
Lace dresses are in vogue, and some
lovely Parisian rcoueis show panels of
-tainted panne.
Considerable vogue is predicted for
selaskin this winter both for long
coats and blouses.
Detachable revel’s are quite a fea
ture in caracul sable, squirrel and the
other favorites in fttr.
Narrow bands of satin with covered
buttons to match adorn some of the
new autumn costumes.
For church wear taffeta silk and
moire costumes in black, blue, brown
or violet shades are much worn.
Fine gold cords and tiny dujl gold
buttons, likewise fancy braids show
ing a glint of gold, arc much used for
trimmings.
On bodices of evening gowns pearl,
d'amond and gold trimmings are plen
tifully used, together with priceless
lace and carefully chosen skins of er
mine.
JO3 .l"j
A I'uninlinitMtl.
Little Miss Mabel
Hat at the iub.*\
Drumminc with fork an<! spoon.
Till her mother saitl, "Child,
1 shall reully ko wild
If you tlon’i; stop that fluttering soon. 11
But little Miss Mabel
Kept Up such a baOel
That, what Ol* you think happened next?
ller spoon ami li*r fork
\\er M*ut tu New York,
And Mabel was very much vt-x^d.
—Carolyn Wells, in Washington Star.
Where Mint (times Lroin,
You never would think it, would
you? but I'm told that flint is really
nothing more or less than sponge turned
to stone. Once the sponge grew at the
bottom of the sea, as ether sponges
grow now, but that was ages and ages
ago; and since that shrdl ushrdluu
ages and ages ago; and since then the
sponge, turned to flint, has lain cover
ed by rocks and earth of many kinds
piled thick above it. Seeji with a mic
roscope, flint shows the make of sponge
in its fibres; and sometimes you can
! see, bedded in it, the shells of the tiny
creatures on which the sponge had fed.
Now and then, inside a flint, will be
found bits of the sponge not yet
changed. The last proof settles it;
but. 1 may say it’s hard to believe, hard
as t.he flint almost. —St. Nicholas.
01(1
Next door to where we lived once,
there was a great big dog named Vic
tor. He was a handsome St. Bernard,
but so large and so good-natured, run
ning up to everybody and making
friends with all, that the neighbors
gave him a nickname, calling him “Old
Useless." They thought, he would be
no good, even for a watch dog, he took
everybody into his favor so readily.
So they would say;
“There goes ‘Old Useless,' or ask:
“Have you seen Useless this morn
ing?”
Some were even disposed to tie cross
with him and would give him a kick
and cry out :
"Get. away, Useless. You are no
good.”
It seemed as if the big dog would
understand for he would hang Ills
head and slink away as if he were
ashamed.
They said you could not depend on
him for anything, except to eat all he
could get, for he had an appetite so
fierce that you could never seem to
fill him up.
Ono man exclaimed:
“He isn't worth ball’ of what it takes
to feed him for six months.”
So Victor was liked well enough
because he was so kind, but all seem
ed to think it a waste of money to
have such a helpless, do-nothing crea
ture about.
But alter a certain night the opinion
Df people about Victor was greatly
changed.
He had been put into the shed in
the evening, its usual, and all the folks
had gone to bed and were sound asleep,
when the dog began to bark, in his
loud way, and so wildly that his mas
ter got up and found that the house
was on fire. The man sit pc on the
ground floor, and by the time he had
slipped on a few clothes he saw that
the upper part of the building was in
flames.
In an attic chamber a baby was
sleeping in the care of a young woman,
but the woman had run down stairs
when Victor began to bark and now
the baby was alone.
The flames were getting so hot that
no one dared go for the child, but Vic
tor heard it cry and sprang through
the smoke and fire and brought the
baby down alive and safe.
They thought, after that, that the
dog was a hero and no one called him
“Old Useless” any more, and they
spoke of him sometimes as “noble Vic
tor.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
A Dog;'* llur'l Luck.
This is a taie of dog hard luck. Bones
is the name of a canine resident of a
court running off Cherry street, near
Broad. The animal belongs to a family
that has a hard struggle to procure
enough food to keep life going, and
Bones, poor fellow, must get his meals,
when he eats, on the outside. From the
looks of Bones he is not a good grub
ber, for his ribs are painfully evident
through his coat of boavdyard fur.
However, yesterday Bones made a
ten strike just outside of the Terminal
Market. Hunger had driven him to the
depths, and while a weighty housewife
was looking for the other way the dog
stealthily filched from off an overflow
ing basket a package. Any one can
guess that the package Bones selected
contained something akin to meat.
Bones had been observed in his pur
loining, hut the two men who saw him
and his starving appearance concluded
not to give him i p to the law. but to
watch his future movements, as they
wondered how he would dispose of his
booty. The dog did not stop to look
around, eveidently realizing the result
of his criminality should he be caught,
but made a bee line in the direction of
his home. The package was so big and
Bones so little that, the animal had to
hold his head high in the air to keep
the. package clear of the ground.
The thief was followed to within a
hall block of his home, when (he pack
age broke and there rolled to the side
walk a fine soup bone. Bones had gone
on a few steps before he realized, by
the lightness of bis burden, that some
thing was wrong. He looked back and
saw the bone and also the two men
who were following him.
Being suspicious of the men, Bones
did note approach the bone at first, evi
dently fearing capture, but finally he
edged up to it and cautiously started
to drag it off. Without its paper cov
ering the prize was hard to manage,
but Bones at last got it up the court
wuere he belonged. He was seen to
go into the house, only to emerge in a
few seconds on a fast run, minus the
prize he had struggled home with.
Bones tore badk to the spot on the
street where he had dropped the soup
bone and ravenously smelled around
until he found a tiny bit of meat that
had fallen off the bone. This was eat
en by Bones with much relish, and
when last observed he was taking his
dessert in more smells. Neighbors who
had observed the dog spill the bone
and drag It home said the reason that
Bones came back for the smells was
that the people lo whom he belonged
had taken the bone away from him to
serve up at. their own poor table. As
Bones seems to be a knowing dog. it is
probable that he will not take his next
find home.—Philadelphia Record.
Wlmt the l’oiium Said.
One night, when the coon was abroad
and passed the possum with his noae
in the air and without speaking, the
latter called to him and said:
“Look here, now, you needn't hold
your nose so very high. You are a coon
to be sure, but I’m not so very far be
hind you. In fact, in some things I'm
way ahead."
"Id like to hear of them,” replied
the coon with a flirt of his tail.
"Oh, you would? Well, listen to this.
You’ve only got forty-two teeth, while
I’ve got fifty-six. Some of your teeth
are larger than mine, to be sure, but
I can crush any bone that you can. I’ve
also got five toes, and one of them is
as handy as a boy’s thumb. I can pick
up a stick in my paw, while you must
carry it in your mouth.”
“I’ve heard brag before today.”
”Aud so have I, but I’m talking
straight. I admire your long tail with
black rings around it, but it is of no
real use to you and is often full of dirt
and burrs. On the other hand, I can
hang to a limb by my tail for hours
at a time. In fact, I often go to sleep
that, way and I’ve never had a fall yet.”
"But look at the difference in our
food,” said the coon.
“Yes, there is some difference,” re
plied the possum, “but not much. 1
like fowls, mice, grasshoppers, bugs,
birds’ eggs, garter snakes, frogs and
crabs, and I often find something in the
farmer’s garden to my liking. I’m also
fond of persimmons and other wild
fruits, I’ll admit that you can run fas
ter than I can, and you are also a bet
ter fighter, but I’m not so slow after
all."
"You couldn’t fight a puppy dog three
months old.”
"But what would be the use? My fur
and skin are extra thick—much thick
er than yours—and if overtaken by a
dog or falling into the hands of a man
I play dead. A dog may throw me
around for an hour, or a man may hit
me a dozen whacks with a club, and
I’m not hurt in the least. I just play
dead until they have gone and then
sneak away. And let me tell you anoth
er thing. The fox is very cunning as
he sneaks about the farmyard at night,
but if you ask the farmer he’ll tell you
that 1 get more of his fowls than the
fox. I haven’t, got as keen a nose as
Reynard, and so I fall into the traps
oftener, but don’t *you forget that, if
there are any fat. pullets around I man
age to get my share of them. 1 picked
up a goose the other night which made
me three good meals.”
"But you don’t seem to have good
eyes," said tire coon, who felt bound
to find fault.
“Well my eyes might be better, and
that’s a fact,” replied the possum, “but
as I do not run' swiftly or travel long
distances I do not need eyes like yours
or the fox’s. I make up for it in hear
ing, though. I can hear the bark of a
dog or the shout of a man a good deal
further than you can. When you go
out you have to leave your young be
hind you, and the wild cat often finds
and destroys them. When I go out my
little ones go with me In my pouch or
cling to my back. Did you ever hear
of anyone eating coon meat?’
“1 can’t say that I have."
"And it is because it is so strong that
only a dog could eat it."
"I said 1 v/gs no fighter, but let me
tell you something. One day i climbed
to the top of a big elm tree to inspect
a hawk's nest. I had seen the hawks
come am} go, and knew that they had
a nest there. I found the nest in a
crotch, and while I was eating the two
eggs both hawks came home and pitch
ed into me. The fight lasted half an
hour, and I was badly bitten and
scratched, but. I beat those hawks off
and got down in safety; I bit one of
them so badly that he died within a
week. Could you have done any better
than that?
"I heard the farmer say that I had
done him a great, service, lor the sur
viving hawk flew away after her mate
died. Come, now, didn’t I do well?”
“But look at the difference in our
fur," said the coon, as he began mov
ing away.
"Yes, there is a difference, but don’t
you be too stuck up over that. Many a
furrier has made a rug or lap robe of
possum skins and sold them for real
wolf and at a big price, and w r hen my
skin is made into belts, eardcases, poc
ket-books or linings there is no wear
out to it. I’m not a coon, and I’m not
trying to pass for one, hut you just re
membor that no animal of your breed
has any call to put on style over me.
That’s all. you can now run along.”—
San Francisco Chronicle.
Eleven experts have worked for five
monti's on a Wilton carpet intended
for the drav.ing-room of a Condon
club.
NOVEMBER 30
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Nw Tnl>l boiutloiif.
Hand-painted ribbons make a pretty
table decoration for a change. A wide
white-satin ribbon is placed all along
the table at either side, bearing hand
painted designs at intervals. Hunting
scenes make the most effective designs,
with all the scenes placed in proper-or
der from start to finish. Designs from
the seasons are also very effective ar
ranged in this way, spring at one end
of the table and winter at the other.
For Wounds from ltuty XII.
Very often we read or hear of some
one who Las met with the accident of
having a rusty nail thruot into his foot
or hand, which frequently causes lock
jaw. A writer supplies the following
simple remedy, vouching for Us effi
cacy, and certainly it might be tested
without much trouble and ro danger
it is simply to smoke the wound, .or
any bruise or wound that is inflamed,
with burning woolen cloth. It is said
that in 20 minutes the smoke will take
the pain out of the worst of in
flammation arising from such a wound.
Uiei of GatoUme.
A woolen cloth dampened with gaso
lene will make the dirt disappear as if
by magic when used for cleaning por
celain sinks, bathtubs or marble wash
bowls.
Gasolene is also a sovereign remedy
for bugs. It can be literally poured
on the mattress, springs and bed with
out injuring the most delicate carpet,
and every bug will disappear.
The daintiest neckwear, which it is
impossible to wash, if left over night
in an air-tight vessel of gasolene, wilt
look fresh and new when carefully
dried. —Woman’s Home Companion.
Artistic Dining Doom.
The young society matron who
presides over a beautiful home,
has just had her dining room
fitted up in the most artis
tic fashion. Three-quarters of the wall
space is covered with a mahogany
walnscottlng. Above that deep red
burlap reaches to the ceiling molding.
A shelf extends all around the wain
scotting. Large plaques decorated
with Rembrandt heads In brown,
stand upon the shelf in company with
flagons decorated with heads or sprays
or geraniums in lighter red tones than
that of the burlap, and steins, showing
designs in heads, or poster effects in
brown an i red. The mantlepiece cov
ers the entire wail space, from the floor
to the “raftered” ceiling.—Broklya Ea
gle.
Tho nonflekeoper'ii Afternoon.
The housekeeper who is without
help is especially In need of rest and
recreation, says a writer in Good
Housekeeping. She should set apart
an afternoon, preferably in she middle
of the week, and on the same day each
week, for if not definitely fixed it will
too often be postponed. This leisure
time should be spent in rest and rec
reation, duty for ihe moment laid aside.
Of course when possible these after
noons should be literally "out” in the
fresh air and sunshine. On stormy
days, or when she is very tired, a long
nap or an interesting novel may re
fresh or amuse the weary worker. A
good story, read before an open fire,
is always enjoyable. But when pos
sible get away from home, for usually
change is the best rest. Believe me,
you will find this a wise plan. And
make your "afternoon out” as long
as you can.
L !>
CTJ o 9
Grape Catsup—Take five pounds of
grapes weighed after stemming; wash
and put la a porcelined-kettle and heat
slowly until soft; rub through a sieve
and return to the fire, with three
pounds of sugar, one pint of vinegar,
one teaspoonful each ol ground cinna
mon, allspice and black pepper; boil
for one hour and bottle v/nile hot. Thiis
is very good to serve with cold meats.
Curried Eggs—Boil six eggs.2o min
utes; cut in quarters or slices; cook
one teaspoon of minced onion in one
tablespoon or butter till soft and pale
yellow; add one level tablespoonful of
cornstarch mixed with one teaspoon
of curry powder; add gradually half
a cup each of milk, cream and strained
tomatoes; salt and pepper to taste;
stir until boiling and smooth, then add
eggs and serve hoi.
Mush Muffins—Two cupfuls of
brown cornmeal mush, two cupfuls of
milk, two tablespoons of sugar, flour
to make a drop batter; mix in the or
der given; add half a yeast cake dis
solved in a little lukewarm water and
beat five minutes; stand in a warm
place several hours; put muffin rings
on a well greased griddle and half fill
them with the batter; when raised and
brown, turn and brown the under side.
Marshmaliows—Half a pound of gum
arable dissolved in a pint of water.
Strain and add half a pound of sugar.
Place in a double boiler over the Are
and stir constantly until dissolved amt
it cooks to the consistency of honey.
Remove from the fire 'and add grad
ually to the well-beaten whites of four
tggs. Stir until the mixture will not
stick to the fingers. Flavor with va
nilla and pour into shallow tins lightly
dusted with cornstarch and powdered
sugar and rut in a warm place. When
firm enough cut into inch squares and
pack :r. boxes betr.esrr oiled paper.