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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1917-7-12, Page 6. . . em.4 ,anzieucted;6y_m7,.4,76‘en,1cue. Mothers and daughters of all ages are cordially Ins/tett to write to thle departtnent. Initials only will be published with each •question and its answer as A means of identification, but full name and address must be' Oiven in each letter. write on one side of paper only. Answers will be 'mailed direct if stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. es Addrese all correspondence for this department to Mrs, Helen Law, 2co Woodbine Ave., Toronto. May :-1, it is /lot good form to Wear face veils in the evening. The only excuse for a veil at night is when one is motoring, 2. Siace Yotir friend has invited you to her party and asks you to bring a man with you, it would be quite proper to write to a man whom you knew well and ask him to go. Word the note this: My Dear Miss — is giving a little party next Friday evening and has asked me to bring a man with me. Would you care to go? If you can, let me hear as soon •as possible, and stop for me that evening at 7,45 o'clock. Very sincerely, May— . 3. To clean a straw sailor hat try the following: Dissolve one teaspoonful oxalie acid crystals in one cupful boiling water, and, after brushing the hat thoroughly to remove all dust, lay it on a flat sur- face and scrub with this solution, 'us- ing a small brush for the purpose. Work rapidly, beginning with the crown. rinse in cold water, wipe dry and dace on a flat cloth in the sun to dry, Do not let the hat become thor- oughly saturated with the water. Gardener:—Try cayenne pepper to rid cabbage heads of worms. Sprinkle the cabbage as soon as the worms ap- pear. A remedy for cutworms and onion grubs - is to mix the seed with sulphur before plantings This may be used with seed corn also. Mrs. C. L.:—To make an endless clothesline fasten two grooved wheels wherever you want your line and stretch a wire line around the wheel. As you hang up each piece of clothing you can turn the Wheel and thus mike room for the next piece directly in front of you. The clothes may be taken from the line by this same con- venient method, which saves many steps and is also a boon in case of rain. E. T. :—A widow when preparing for her second marriage should drop the name of her former husband and have her household linen marked with her maiden name. Linen procured after her marriage should be marked with the name of her second hushed. Frances:—The following are- sug- gestions for your Sunday school pic- nic. You can have the usual races, some of them for the younger folks, others for the older persons. Fight- ing for the flag is a particularly time- ly game for the younger boys and girls. You will need about a dozen medium-sized cotton flags of the in- expensive kind. One flag at a time Is placed upright in the ground and six girls or boys start in a race to obtain it. Give them some handicap. The boys can race with potato sacks, while the girls can aace blindfolded or running backward; or the boys might race crawling on. their hands and knees and the girls hopping on the foot. Another way to race ie to go as parteees, each holding onto the opposite ends of a clethespin. Of course, the flags captured by each are retained. Ringing the Victory Bell is another good game. Form an arch of three cross poles, rising considerably above the heads of the company. Im- bed the uprights in the earth and nail the crosspiece firmly on. Then de- corate the arch with red, white and blue bunting and from the top bar hang a large bell, The game con- sists in hitting this bell with balls which are provided, each player being given three or more throws in a round. The tape race is fun. Have as many lengths of tape as there will be players and have all ,the tapes about the same number 6f feet—ten or twelve—then provide several pairs of sharp scissors. Attach all the tapes to a fence. Four or six players may contest at once, according to the pairs of scissors available. The contestants hold the loose ends of the tapes, which they draw out taut. At the signal each player begins to split his tape up the center line with the scissors, the player arriving at the end -which is tied, winning the race. After each set has tried, match the winners for the final decision. This would be suit- able for the older guests. Another race consists in pushing four pebbles over a prescribed course with walking sticks. All lour must be rolled at once, each in turn. X. Y. Z.:—The engagement ring is put on over the wedding ring and thus guards it. The former is removed before the ceremony ]easing the fin- ger free. Then the 'bride slips back the engagement ring at her first op- portunity. W. B.: ---To restore the color of black kid, mix ink with the white of an egg and apply with a soft sponge. To clean white kid, dip a clean white flan- nel cloth in a little ammonia and rub lightly on a cake of white soap. Rub the soiled parts gently, changing the cloth as soon as it becomes soiled. To polish tan shoes, wash the shoes clean with a sponge and warm water. Wipe with a dry cloth and let dry. Then rub freely with the inside of a banana peel. Wipe carefully with a dry cloth and polish with cotton flannel. Patent leather shoes should not be "polished" in the strict sense of the word. Ap- ply a mixture of one part linseed oil to two parts cream to the shoes, rub- bing it well in with a soft flannel cloth. This will keep the leather soft and it will not crack as readily. Joe:—Even though you have not yet met,the bride, the present should be sentrto her. Wedding presents are never sent to the bridegroom. Tommy's Stamp Book. When through my book of stamps I look, What wondrous things I see! It's dearer than the storybook My mother reads to me. With great delight ten times a day I stop my play to glance " Upon these stamps of Paraguay, Greece, Italy and France. They beam on me in every hue That in a stamp is seen— Di crimson, lavender and blue, And cardinal and green. I look upon the book with pride To see its pages fill; And yet I am not satisfied, And shall not be until The postman pauses in his tramp, And in his outstretched hand I see a letter with the stamp They use in Fairyland. The Fairy of the Roses. Most people thought the Old lady who lived in the house that stood all by itself was very queer and very cross; but Alline said she was cross only because she had rhetunatism, and that if you could get her to tell a fairy story she would forget all about the pain, and be fust as pleasant as anything. „ "I'm going to her honse now-," said Alline, "for she promised she wonlcl tell me to -clay about the fairies of the roses." "Can you sae that rose tree ?" said the old lady, when Alline was com- fortably seated on a stool beside her. "Well, it is owned by a fairy who, like the old -woman who lived in a shoe, has more children than she knows what to do with. She is so dreadfully afraid of having anything happen to thena that she has shut each one up tight in a rosebitd.. There they will 8tay until they grow big enough and strong eneugh to burst the buds open, and then eech one will fly away." "And where Will they go' asked Alhne "'That I cannot say," answered the old lady; "there are so many of them, and they choose such, different places. They are also very fond of disguises— sometimes one might take them for butterflies, at other times for hum- ming birds. Often, when you can't see them at all, you can find out just about where they are by listening." , "Oh," cried Alline, "what do they say'" The old lady shook her head. "Who can tell what they say? If that were p ssible, mortals would perhaps be wiser than they are. You can often hear them either whispering among the leaves—though -There are some who will tell you it is only the wind— or singing by the brook a little tinkl- ing song." While the old lady and Alline were talking, a sudden shower that had come up passed .over, and the sun shone again in all its warm Lrightness. The birds began to sing, and in through thesweindow darted a hum- n.'..ng bird. It darted right -out again; hut not before the old lady and Alline had both seen it. "Alline," the old lady said, "a bud on my rose tree looked this morning as if it might be pushed open soon Go to the window and see if the fairy hasn't come out." Alline ran to the window. "I see a great white rose," she said. "That little humming bird must have been the fairy. Oh, I'm so glad We both saw it!" Sunlight for the Cellar. There is a mistaken idea that a house is warmer if the cellar is not under the entire building. The argu- ment is that there are no windows with crevices to let in the cold an That may be true concerning the cricks next to the frames, but without doubt there will be darnpriese where the ground has not been excavated, Then the first -floor joists are 'nearer to the frost in the earth in the winter. Set the first -story beams web up from the grade, not less than 24 inches from the soil. If there is a distance of 30 inches between it is still better. Excavate for a basement beneath the whole house, and do not be afraid to provide sufficient Windows. Thee° is nothing quite so dingy as that dark and damp space unclmi the house. The expenditure few dollaes would have made it light and cheerful. Do .not try to bar the eunlight. When birds drop over as if paralyz- ed, the trouble is heat proatratiort, caused by pressure on the brain. To prevent this, provide protection from the sun and avoid overcrowding; Pbirdd. b 001 andlann''' cold water to the he a At this time of the year hi•oody hens are in the majority and cause no little trouble to the attendant, While it is advisable for those who do not run incubators and brooders to set every broody during the entire summer, at the same time there will be many broodies that can not be utilized. How to rid them of the hatching fever has been the cause af many experiments by farmers and poultrymen. It is to be regretted that some of these methods are extremely cruel and should not be allowed, In one instance noted recently a hen was tied by the leg with a piece of rope to a post; in the other instance the hen was being immersed in a pail of water. In both these cases the hensbecame excited, and the theory is that in this excited state they forget their broediness. While that may be so to a certain eatent, it is equally trite that excitement often makes nervous, scary hens; ancl in the case of fat hens it is not uncom- mon to have them die from fright, or meet with some severe injury, A move humane treatment is to place them in separate coops without nests or in a flock where they are kept out- door the entire day and permitted to roost in a house only at night. Kindness should be an order that is never violated. Keep the summer chicks growing. Provide shade. Give the youngsters all the range possible. Exercise is the best tonic growing stock can have. This is considered a good month for caP°niz•hligS. There still 'a good market for young duckags and soft roasting rIvfls .breeding is finished, the males are best removed from the pens until after the ;molting season. .Tuly is the month in which sets, minks, 'possums and weasels do their most deadly work. Be on the look- out, When their presence is discov- ered dig after them; give them no quarter. Kindness is a cheap supplement to the fatten and produces big gains in milk flow. Keep the calf pails as clean as the milk pails. The cow giving the richest milk does not necessarily bring the biggest cream check. It is the total amount of fat produced that counts. Heavy milkers due to calve during July should be milked once or twice a day for a couple of weeks before calv- ing, if the udder is distended. This attention may prevent the loss of a valuable cow from milk -fever, or in- jury to the udder, which makes a cow almost worthless for milking. When the butter granules do not form after churning a reasonable time, try putting a small amount of table salt in the churn. A little warm wa- ter has the same effect of hastening the granules. • Too mach warm wa- ter makes soft butter. 1VIemory is rather an uncertain thing to depend on to identify the calves that are taken awayfrom their mothers and raised by hand. When the ,ques tion of ownership or paresitticse is raised, it is much more convincing to have each calf marked with a metal tag fasteridd to a strap around the calf's neek. Records are half the value of a geed herd. If you believe in good roads, pave the way over which the pig must travel to become pork. A small pen built close to the sow's pen, with a hole through which the pigs can pass and eat grain by them- selves, will encourage them to eat grain much sooner. Alfalfa is one of the Mt pastures for growing pigs. Sweet clover is one of the earliest pasture crops on which pigsThrive,ahnost as well as on alfalfa. Rape is a good forage crop which is ready_ six weeks after plant- ing. It can be sowed in the corn at the time of the last cultivation. Dead 'pigs at farrowing fime result from the sows climbing over a piece of two by four in the door of the hog, house,— The remedy is apparent— take out the cross piece. A small amount of soft coal for the hogs to eat is a good thing. Too much is constipat Mar‘ing a sow that can be or has been bred, is at this time comparable to killing the goose that laid the gold enegg. The meat supply of the country can be increased more quickly by ,means of the hog route .than by any other. - Pork production is cheaper with grain and green forage crops than with grain alone. Some grain is nec- essary for fattening hogs on pasture. Clover and alfalfa rank among the best crops for swine pasture. In Orchard, Field 'and Garden. If the strawberry bed is to bear fruit again next year it should be mowed and worked over soon after the fruiting season. Any red rust on blackcap or black- berry plants? If so, dig out and burn the diseased canes, roots and all. Toomuchhot sun causes picked blackberries to turn an undesirable reddish color. Hurry them into the packing -shed. The spring -set strawberry bed needs cultivating regularly and often. Your standing sign should be: "Weeds not allowed here." Treat surplus runners the same as weeds—for weeds they are. Some folks seem to think that a nice little fringe of growing sprouts about the base of an apple tree looks pretty. That may be their taste, but those sprouts are sucking life out of the tree. Out with them! After a rain and before a hard crust forms, is the ideal time to harrow an orchard. If there are any tent caterpillars on your trees, give them a quick singeing with a torch. A stony side -hill, sloping toward the north, taken out of an old cow pasture, is the best orchard we ever had. From time to time during the sum- mer go over young trees to guide their growth. If too many limbs are start- ing from a given point, they .may be thinned to the required number. If a rank iimb tends to fill the center or cross other limbs, it may be removed. If the strongest limbs alL grow in the same direction, thus giving a one- sided tree, they may be pinched back, thus encouraging other limbs' to, start on the opposite side. After the Lima bean vines have reached the top of the poles, they ought to be pinched off to insure spronger vines add a greater yield of beans. If weeds get the upper hand of you it is good-bye garden! • „, Seedbearingstops bloom. There- fore pick pansies, sweet peas, etc., re- gularly and often. Watch the sweet peas closely for aphis. Spray with soap and 'water or some tobacco preparation. See that the tomatoes are staked or kept off the ground. Some of the branches may be cut away. This will give largerefruits, but not so many. rate celery should now be set in the field. Celery needs a frggh moist soil. To this end the land should be plowed and thoroughly worked down -just be- fore setting the plants. The beds should be wet down before the plants are taken up. Shear the tops' and clip off'long roots.. If the weather is very hot and dry, water the plants as they are set. INTERNATIONAL LESSON,,,, ' JULY 15. Lesson III. Hezekiah, The Faithful King -2 Chron. 30. Golden Text—Heb. 11. 6. Verse 1-5. Invitation to the celebra- tion of the pas. over. Hezekiah—Son and successor of Aha.; the date of his accession in uncertain (2 Kings 18. 10, 13). Tentatively the years' of Ahaz may be given as 13. C. 735-728; those of Hezekiah B. C. 728-697. Israel— The people of the northern kingdom; Ephraim and Manasseh are represent- atives of the north. Passover—For the origin of this feast see last COM- ment on this lesson. Throughout the Old Testament it appears as a festival of thanksgiving for Jehovah's good- ness at the time of the exodus. Se- egond raonth---The proper thne was the fourteenth day of the fiest month, Nisan, but provision was made in the law for a celebration in the second month, by these vsho were unable to participate at the regular time (Num. 9. 0-12). During the first year of Hezeltiah the feast, could not be kept at the Tagtilar date because the temple was not ready (29. 17); moreover the priests were slow in purifying them- selves. Dan to Beersheba—The limits of the undivided kingdom. Dan in the far north, ,,Beeasheba in the ex- treme south (1 Chron. 21. 2). .Great numbers --All were under obligastion to observe the feast, but accordirfg to the Chronicler only a limited number had kept the law. 6-9. The proclamation. Children ot Israel—The context suggests that the author has .in mind only ,the people of the north, whom he considers apost- ates (13. 5-12): Remnant—Might be interpreted as Implying the fall of the northern kingdom in 722; but if the proclamation was sent in the first year of Hezelciali, and if he became king in 728, the reference can be only to the invasion of the north described in 2 Kings 15. 29'; 1 Chron, 5, 26, Kings— Tiglath-pilneser IV was king in 734; Shalmaneser V and Sargon were the conquerors of Samaria. Gracious— If they turn to Jehovah in repentance he will turn to bham in compassion and restore the felicity of former times. 10-13. Results of proclamation. There waS no general reSponse in the ',north; only a few heeded ilk,' exhorta- tion. One heart—There was an en- thueiatic response in the south. Un- leavened bread—The feast of passover anti the feast of unleavened bread are here identified, Originally they svere distinct: the passover originated as a nomadic feast celebrated in the' spring, the feast of unleavened bread as an agricultural feast celebrated' at the opening' of the harvest: Later both became associated with the exodua. Conducted by Professor Henry (4. Bell. The object of this department Is to place at the service of our,farm readers the advice of an acknowl. edged authority on all - subjects pertaining to soils and crops. Address all questions to Professor Henry G. Bell, In care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, To- ronto, and answers will appear In this column In the order in which they are received, As space is limited It is advisable where immediate reply is necessary that a stamped and addressed envelope be enclosed with tho question, when the answer will be mailed direct. Question—C. B.:—What is your opinion regarding summer-falloaing? On what does success depend? Answer:—Summer-fallowing is an efficient practice Of getting rid of troublesome weeds, if the soil is tilled sufficiently often so as to cut otf--the young weeds as they sprout. It also stores up moisture to a consid- erable extent and if the soil is fairly full af organic matter, it conserves plantfood for succeeding' crops. Success of summer -fallowing de-, pends upon working the surface of the ground sufficiently often to prevent the escape of moisture and to prevent the groWth of weeds which exhaust the moisture and plantfood of the soil. The ground should be plowed early in spring, disked and harrowed imme- diately after plowing, and harrowed and disked sufficiently often to keep rthe su face clean and open. QUestion—L. J.;—Can one pasture nen seeding for a while this summer and then turn the cattle out and cut a crop of clover seed? The wheat on this field was thin last year and while the clover came up evenly and made a splendid growth it was weedy in places and for that reason I do not want to cut it for hay. Answer:—It is possible to pasture new seeding if there is sufficient cloy- er`growth, granted that the soil is not .a heavy clay type. If the soil is heavy clay, pasturing with heavy stock will tend to tramp the soil together, stithat the clover setting will be smothered out. I am afraid you will find the weed seeds among the clover seed a greater detriment than the weeds in the hay. They certainly reduce the value of the seed. Cut- ting the crop for hay will do a lot to- wards killing out the wedds. Sheep become assets on thin, hilly land. , Don't expect to sell the increase of the flock for breeding stock until_ thor- oughly experienced in breeding. The smaller the flock the better the sheep will doe One sheep s.er acre is the limit and often that is too many. Pretty soon the gadfly will emerge from manure piles and begin to tor- ment; the sheep. Be ready for it. Smear the sheeps' noses with -tar. Don't keep sheen and horses in the same field. Some of the sheep are almost sure to be hurt when the learses run. Sheep detest odors in drinking wa- ter. If a tank is used for watering, clean it often. Mix enough sulphur with the salt to give it a yellowish tinge. Keep the salt boxes filled all the time A long-range gun is one moans of solving the dog problem and making sheep raising more profitable. Sheep are now doing- well. Wool never brought such prices. Baking -soda relieves the distress of - colic by getting rid of the gas. Poor teeth prevent a horse making full use of good feed. • It may be necessary to file the teeth down in old horses, so the grain can be properly ground. A mixture of equal parts of the tincture of iodine, turpentine and sul- phuric ether, applied once a day for several days, is said to be death to splints which are forming. As long as a horse can chew well, meal is a poor feed for him. It is eaten too fast and sticks in the horse's s throat. Give the animal a chance to usee his grinders. That is what they are for. Maybe you think you can save time by feeding the horse enough in the' morningeto last all day. That is a e good way to make a job for a horse - doctor. If the yearlings are slow to shed and seem to have little appetite, try doc- toring' them fos wornes. Mix three drams of powdered iron sulphate and three drams of gentian root. Use this dose twice a week if necessary. GIVE_ THE BOY HIS OWN ROOM The Possession of a Comfortable Room Where 'Be Can Keep His Treasures Will Do Much to Safeguard Your Boy in the Ffaven of Ills Home. Why is it that the boy of the house is usually sentenced (I use that last word deliberately and I believe apprb- priately) to the least desirable, most uninviting room in the house, not in- frequently two of them being packed in together for no reason than to save trouble caring for two rooms instead of one? Not only is the boy's room rather doubtfully located and a shoe box dimensions, but it has a ' sorry habit a being meagerly furnished or else crowded, being used as a sort of dumping ground for the cast-off furni- ture from the rest of the house. Any- thing seems good enough for Bill be- cause, mother reasons, he hardly knows one piece of furniture from an- otIrdr; has no conception of good or bad taste, nor is he appreciative of beauty. Isn't he? Perhaps he couldn't express it in so many words, but—oh, well, let's begin at the beginning. The thing a first importance is that „chap -should have a room of his own If possible. The kind of room and the location Are secondary matters...se., Some one has happily described one's own room as "a home within a home." It is more—a haven. The house may be seething, our loved ones may for the time misunderstand (and who so often misunderstood as the average boy?) but with closed door in our very own room we can breathe thankfully, "I'veshut my door and I am all alone, Here in my room all fragrant with my better self, * * * Outside, the strife and struggle and the strain; In here there's peace and quietude and strength," and come out with new poise for the living a life among others. And that is what a separate room means to a boy, too, thongh he would scorn to express it so poetieally. With his own room the boy will have an opportunity to -express hi a in- dividuality. He should be allowed to hang up posters, pictures of sport heroes, pennants and banners, and the many other tremendous trifles in which boyhood revels. Nearly every lad has a collection`ba colored stones, coins, butterflies, or something. This colleci,ion he should be allowed to keep in his own room, where, safe from 1in,4 sympathetic fingers, he may proudly keep it upon display upon a shelf or table pr in a little cabinet. It is his room remember' and he, should be al- lowed to keep his treasures in it, provided they are sanitary and that he keeps them in reasonable order. Pride in a room is the best incen- tive to orderliness. A boy cannot be expected to take pride in a shoddy or shabby room, wheie the furniture is totally unsuited or is of various woods and finishes And, therefore, unrelated. Did you ever know a boy who did not love to paint? If it is not possible to have matching furniture for his room, suggest to him that he first re- move the quarreling finishes from the variegated articles with somescommer- cial paint remover and then paint it all the same color. Pride? That boy will take a tremendous pride in his room. Just think of showing "the fellows" a room full of pretty furni- ture painted by himself! To makF order as easy as possible, the room should never be croWded. The essential pieces of furniture are a bed, single or in couch form if the room is small, a bureau or chiffonier, two easy chairs for himself and a possible guest, a desk, and a bookcase, if the youngster can be trusted not to get up and read in the middle of the night— as some have been known to do. Rather than an ugly old carpet or a shoddy rug, place one or two small rugs upon the painted floor. If the room happens to be large he should be allowed to keep other things in it be- sides those mentioned, but always with the stipulation that he keep a reason- able amount of order. A room screen iS fine for a fairly large room, as it an be made to partition off a corner fol- a study or den. It does seem that most mothers cannot help being annoyed by their sons' tastes in "art." The treasured posters are eyesores, the worshipped field heroes are an abomination, the pennants are dust -catchers. But please, oh, please, don't throw those things away or bundle them away out of sight! They do mean so much to a' boy, at least for a while. He will throw them away himself when they are ,outgrown. It is wise to give him really good pictures that he will like, such as Howard Pyle's colorful pirates, Remington'S superb Indians and cowboys, or the inspiring pie ture of' Sir Galahad. These are all well executed subjects after his own heaet, and soon, by coinparison he will see the tawcliness of his chosen prints, —It. S. cai •