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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-10-1, Page 2, Ui.L4NTEEIN YOUR PACK OF FRUIT C. There is nothing' that Will insPir(e the confidence tlee heying public in the eatelity of en article of eem- nieroe like the coufideneh ef the proe dem thet his product ia a good one. "yoler money back if you eav not eatisfied" carries weight with erg purcheeer, Nothing but a first-clase article can be backed by mob, a Pre- position with safety. And, a course, we frit growers are no exeeption to this general rule. If vie can guarantee that every apple innthe paelea,ge is just as represented it will certainly tend to popularize oar output, but we must be sure of the output first. The rest can be inacle to 'follow. There are about our essentials to the proposition as I see it if one is to make it a real success. In the first place one must grow good fruit. We may perlia.ps take thet for granted, though it is really the big end of the ieroposition,. If every apples in an extra fancy there is mighty little difficulty in getting rid of the crop. And looking at it from the other angle one can, of course guarantee the pack of a •lot of poor stuff, but there is no moneyein it • The second essential is to pack the fruit honestly. This ought to need no discussion. Hundreds of jokes have beem made at the expense of the man who puts little apples in the middle of the barrel; and thousands of articles and speeches have been written and made about honesty in packing apples. Yet one has only to step into any fruit market and ex- amine the packs which are there on sale to eee that as yet we freit grow- ers, as a class, have not arrived. Nothing would do more to put our fruit business on a sound footing than this single eimpIe matter of honest packing. The third point is that the fruit shall be so well packed that it will arrive at its destination in good con- dition. This requires real skill, and many a package of fruit teaves the home packing house honestly packed and in good condition, only to arrive SEARS. • ite destiPation so badly battered trensit theit it le ofdlittle valne. Ti.v0 KINDS OP GROWSUS. The story is told of a Nova Scotia; Apple geower who wandered down to', the °leeks in Halifax where a steamer , was loading with applee for the Eng -di lash markets, He was aceosted by the Dominion fruit inapector who was enl the job and, was examining a barrel of apples that he had 'opened-, I "George, what do you think of a man who would pet up such a barrel} tie that?" said the inspector. George looked in the lea,rrel, "Why, he's a rascal," said he. And then the in- spector turned over the head of the barrel and showed George his own. name. That saunas too good to be true, but we have the papers to prove it; cued there is no question that it would be a liberal education to most, of us if we could see our own, fruit opeaed up in the market. We oaght to take pains to do this occasionally. It would not only open our eyes to our own failings but would give us more charity for the commission man whom WO are se fond of abusing. Ancllas,tly, having done all this, we ought to get back of our pack and boost it. Here is another Nova Scotia story which enforces this point. A certain grower puts a printed slip into every barrel which he packs bearing this legend: Notice—This fruit was packed at the Riverside Fruit Farm, Middleton, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. Hav- ing large interests in growing orch- ards in the Annapolis Valley, I am desirous of having my brand known abroad for its invariable• both as to'quality of fruit and honesty of peoldrig. To insure this object I hereby guarantee the contents of this package to be the same from head to head and to be fairly represented by the face; and I further authorize my consignees to refund the money paid for the fruit of my packing which is proved not to be according to brand. That is the proper spirit and will revolutionize the fruit business. Why cannot more of us do the same thing? Profitable Age and Weight -of Cattle. Dealing with the most profitable age and weight ef cattle, the bulletin on "Beef Raising in Canada," pub- ' lishecl by the Dominion Dept. of Agriculture, remarks that the days of the heavy bullock are past and that the life of the steer is- gradually shortening. StiN the weighty ox will command a good price for the export trade, provided he is of .good beef formation and well fatted. Finish is what is looked for in the market and is as mueh appreciated in the bun• ellen' bullock of 1,100 pounds as in , the exporter weighing 1,500 pounds. Apropos of this remark in a recent Live Stock Branch market report is, worthy of observation. Packing houses are receiving large numbers of Wes- tern killers, it says, but are paying but little attention to any other, than finished cattle. Most of the finished beeves niarketed by up-to-date On- tario feeders are from twenty to thirty months old and weigh from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds. : - Skim Milk and its Substitutes in Pig Feeding. I In order to determine the relative value of digester tankage, skim -milk, and a combination of ecitral parts of tankage and oilcake meal as supple- ments to a grain ration in feeding growing pigs, and in finishing pigs for the market, an experiment was conducted at the Experimental Farm ata Rosthern, Saskatchewan. The lot fed skim -milk made the largest aver- age daily'gain during the period and gave an average profit of $5.39 per head over feed cost while the lots re- ceiving tankage, and oil meal and tankage gave $4,53 and $4.60 respec- tively. The results a the experiment chow that the addition of a protein supplement to the meal ration results both. in greater daily and more econ- omical gains. They also show that where skim -mine is not available throughout the year, tankage or a combination of oil meal and tankage melee good substitutes. iinFenor orrefmroomvinfgragstilaeinms atfetiedinals tsaubehle as ninon and georgette, glycerine is unequalled, as it may be used with- out fear of injuring the fabric. The glycerine should be dripped on to the stain from a cleen sponge, and after Remodeling Henhouses. There are certain principles of poultry -house construction that must be fairly closely followed for good re- sults, but it is not always necessary to spend a lot of money in order to have a good chicken house. Remodel- ing at comparatively little expense is frequently practical. On many farms it has been difficult to secure profitable winter -egg pro- duction because tha chicken house was so nerrow from frant to badc that it could tot be opened for ven- tilation without rnaldng it much too cold for the hens when on the roosts at night. Such houses are often high in front, with rather steep roofs, so it may be fairly easy to convert the high nar- row shed into a house of the semi - monitor type. A row of windows must be placed along the front wall of the shed, close to the top. A lean-to is then built on the front, or south, side so that it slopes to the south and makes the house deeper from front to hack by the width of the leanetonee A shed twelve feet deep may well have an additional eight feet of depth in the form of such a lean-to so that the hens will be roosting nearly twenty feet from the front of the house. Winter ventilation is accom- plished by leaving most of the front of the new part open at all times. The original front wall should be removed except for sufficient framing to support the roof and the row of windows at the top.—L. E.- C. ° Water for Dairy Cows. I once had a fine herd of Guernsey cows that were not only heavy eaters but heavy drinkers as well. Knowing that a cow is net a good milker un- less she is both a heavy eater and a heavy drinker, I made provision that this herd ehould get a plentifel supply of the best water. I had a fine well, so I installed an air -pressure pumping outfit and piped the water to the barn. • In front of the cow stalls in- the barn I constructeda cement feeding trough that Would hold Water, and left an op -ening at one end for. the !water to escape. Morning and even- ing the treughwas swept clean and ithe water let in, The cows seemed to delight in it. A.nd it wasn't long' before we noticed t that they responded bY giving' an STRAIGHT LINES FAVORED. Two fine plaits at the front of the kimono shoulders give a well -cut line to this one-piece frock of striped flannel, with long or short sleeves. A harrnonizieg tone in plain flannel fashions the tailored collar and the long sleeves which are gathered into a fitted band at the wrist. The front opens at the neck under a flat plait, and patch pockets have the stripe running crosswise. The diagram pic- tures the siin.ple design of the partly finished garment. No. 1197 is in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. Size 36 bust requires 314 yards of 40 -inch material. Price 20 cents. Home sewing brings nice clothes within the reach of all, and to follow the mode is delightful when it can be dere so easily and economically, by following the styles pictured in our new Fashion Book. A chart accom- panying each pattern shows the Ma- terial as it appears when cut out. Every detail- is explained so that the inexperienced sewer an make with- out difficulty an attractive dresa. Price of the book 10 cents the copy. HOW TO ORDER PATTERN. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns a3 you went, Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred;- wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Pettrn Dept., Wilson Puelishing, Co., 73 West A de. laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return • MarketingUnprofitable Apples. We fruit growers too often put on the market fruit which actually nets us a less, if we consider all the items of expense in placing it, in the hands of the consumer. Even for the grower who, as Pr. Baileyhput it, "doe p not grow his crop, but clfscovers it," there is still left the cost of ficking, packing, pack- ages, transportation and selling. It is, of course, understood just what kind of fruit we have in mind in. this discussion. We do not refer to really good stuff on which we are so unfortunate as to lose money. This is a misfor-e tune which through a combination of circumstances .may occasionally hap- pen even tethe best of us. - The mere fact that we are not making but losing money on the trans- action of seilmg our fruit is bad enough he itself and-onght toebe suf- ficient ,to prevent our keeping, up the practice. But this is not by any means the only *objection to it. Everyeanple or pkeh or plum that is put on the market of course influences the prise of that fruit end to a lese' extent of alt frdits; and thetype of fruit which we are. diShussing has. more damag- ing:influence that any. other kind be- causerit poor stuff, and when a Con- sumer gets any of it, his desire for - fruit is thereby diminished. Just what can and ought to be done about the matter is a question. probably not a matnr which laws can regulate. Education is probably the most holiefulline to work on, but the diffieulty there is that the type of grower who produces and sells this sort of fruit is not the one who sits on the froet seats at .fruit growers' meetings or who studies his own and his ,neighbor's practices r to see how he can improve, • One thing which we ought a2 of us 1 to resolve firmly is that we ourselves ill t ff di th t C S October 41 Peet Athens, Acts 17: 1644. Golden Text—in him we ilea, and move, and have our Acts 17; ga. ANALYSIS. • • GEtrMK veer:Ufa OONVESSEM NEED OP flOn 22-2' II O�P' S ANSWSR TII GO? O•P ,14S17$• CUR:se 04-34 I liereoppereeep_en Athens, St. Paul was face to fade with the world's highest traclitioes, arte literature, and phiheeophy, The glory of .Athens i,onfr, since faded,' but its intetlectual ernmence remained. Bet even the philosophieal leaders wen foend by Paul -to be unsymPae thatie, They ;regarded the misslonery as a 'mere picker up of straws, as an 'amateur in philosophy, that is, or sianssgaansidoo irrl tee t ottoit:reeirn•TtaLdneorelivezio.sfridanantouhilime. One day, howkseee, seeing an altar with thenscriptiiin "To An Unknown God," Pau,l felt that Goa had given him hie looint of contact and his mes sage. He gathers an audience, and announces to them that the Geld of Israel, the God and Father of Jesus Christ, alone answers the pathetically confessed need of the G•reek heart. I. THE oKEEN'WoRLD's CalsTPESsED NEED OF COD, 22-23. V., 22. The serinon is preached by Paul standing on the Areopagus or Hill of Mars, the rocky eminence to the West of the city, from which in ancient times the Council of the areopagus dispensed laws to the Ath- enians. Paul begibs by giving the Athenians credit for a deeply rel- igious turn of mind which makes them more than usually respectful of di- vine things. The words of the Author- ized Version, "Ye are too supersti- tious" should be rendered "You are more than others interested in things divine." St. ,,Paul's attitude to the Atheeian heart here is sympathetic, not condemnatory, V. 23. , The proof that the Athen- ians are more than usually religious has been found by Paul in the altar inscription To An Unknown God. No inscription bearing -this title has been discovered at Athens, but we know for a fad that they had inscriptions bearing the pleral dedication. To Un- known Gods, What Paul read in the inscription was not a mere polytheis- tic welcome to all gods that\ca.me, but a mute pathetic c nfession that the heathen soul wa's not satisfied, but was stretching out its arms towards the true Father -God of- whom they had never heard. - II. GOD'S ANSWEIV-12N4.-T34H.E GOSPE,L OF JESUS CHRIST, St. Paul now has his text, and in the first part of the sermon he de- ' clares that the God, who has been hitherto Unknown to the heathen , heart, is spiritual end one, the Cre- ator of -the world, the Giver of life, the lord of -the -tions, the kind, intimate Father einthe souls of nien (vs. 24-29). the second part, which is the 'specifically Christian part, he deelares ihat the God has revealed himself in Jests, arid calls men from sin and _heathen darkness to receive eternal life, vs. 30-31. It is this second part of the message which arouses opposition, vs. 32-34. ' V. 24., St. Paul points out th.at the Creator -Spirit, the God who made the world, is not to be thought of as locally fixed in any shrine or temple. He inhabits the whole world and there is no part of our life which is out - Side of his observation and interest. P lytheism did not put the whole of man's life under any of its deities, but assigned te-each a ezeall part of what concerns us .t 'fence, there was no dominant holy will to which man must make account for the whole of his actions and his life. V. 25. St. Paul shows that for the same reason the heathen religious rites .are meaningless. The true God does not need theofferings and -liba- tions which the heathen offer on their altars, for lee is himself' the Lord and Giver of Life. • V. 26. Moreover, it -enlist-net be thought that. one nation has one eat of gods, and anther nation has an other set. The one true God is Lord of ali nationsetand to him all peoples - are responsible. • Vs. 27-29. And. the existence of thie one true god - corresponds With the universal craving of the human heart for divine love. God has put an, in- stinct M human hearts' which makes us "restless until we 'find rest in him." We are all waitipg and groping for somethihg, and that soniething is God, who is our• Father, and far near- er to us -than we think. . St. Paul ap- peals to the evidence- of the Greeit poets themselves. The post Emmen...- ides confesses that in God "we live Eln move an ave our eing. 'id weeks before freezine weather—le " ° Snow -White Linen. I like snow-white linen, but I abhor commercial blea chin g compounds, having been told tizne and again, at home in France, where :the love of fine _linen amount e alinost to revel.- ence, that bleaches will onn, whiten g'• ' • dtnett"'"enartt trtdttnt""ltrttttttt7tneetnehneereetehoe ^ , 1TULIPS liAFFODIL,S For Callatant Suceposion.of Bloom Net SPriog• BY 14%. r. Roolcsivta, Theugh winter eomete enring Alot be far behind ---4f you plant hullo! • The grace and •the glory a spring gardensdaffodi,la that mate before tohfeM%,Yra'eltb•°Wtta;ebset' atinitdedt'—alc.'eatnhde w tui lni pd ss that—d`fer their morning Ann of heavenly vintage, frein the soil 'look 'p" -are net new flowers, They date beck far beyond the clays of Shakespeare and even. a old Omar. Yet there are comparatively few people who seem to realizethat, with our modern varieties,' at is eaey to have two solid mouths of bloom- with these glorious floviers and eearly a •enonth more a possibility. The conequence is that one seldom gees a spring" garden in which the pageant of the most gorgeous of eta spring flowers lasts more than a third or, at most, half as long as it should, In the garden of my boyhood days there were but two varieties of nar- cissus, Double Van Sion and the Poet's narcissus. And each spring, In the sane() place, we had a long bor der of red and yellove Duc Thal single early tulips. The latter were always weleorne not for their beauty • but for the sunny cheer which they brought in a flower-a:Cant season. The'Van Sion "daffodils," as we called therm were a p•erenniel dis- • appointment, leecause they always opened unevenly and partly greeli:::- as they de in mast parts of this country. • AN EVER -SATISFYING FLOWER., But the Poet's narcissus was a • bright spot in each spring's floVre.r pageant. I thought then and still think that there is no flower more perpetually. satisfying in its utter simplicity, perfect symmetry and wild .sgarnadce.fulness than the Peet's type of as a single specimen or by the thou - narcissus. it is one of the few flow- ers that is just as beautiful whethee It is not my ptirpose, however, to extol- any one flower; but rather to make as plain as possible how ten weeks or more of continuous beauty from bulbs may be enjoyed by select- ing suitable varieties. So far as gar- den culturais concerned, all the Dutch bulbs are pretty much alike. They are called Dutch bulbs, despite the fact that none of them is native to Holland, but because of the great skill which the Hollanders have developed in growing them commercially. The three essentials in achievirig success with tulips and narcissus are: First, get sound bulbs; second, put the soil in good condition before plant- ing; third, plant early. .. You can easily judge the quality of your bulbs when you buy them. They should be heavy and plump, so that there is little or no "give" when you press one with the thumb. If you take a knife end cut a b.ulb. in two vertically there should be no marked air spaces betwee.n the layers and a miniature flower bud, perfectly de- veloped, should show in the heart of the bulb. PLUMPING seerenexter BULBS. Occasionally the bulbs, while still appearing all right on the outside, have been so heated in curing' or in transit that.the flower is "blasted," and is easily .perceived to be black and decayed. Such bulbs Kill not Bowel. the first season after planting, although they may recover and be all right later on. If your bulbs should appear to be sightly dried out or shrunken when you receive them, it is a good pian to plump them -before planting, by cov- ering -them with moist soil or moist moss until you are ready to plant. Both tulips and narcissi will bloom tt the 'greet* ineprovenimet hae been•heade during the pa4 feW years. Golden SPar.has long been the moat . eYries116of'w tunillgileAtifbretidt; thbosr8nPelec% strong st,ems well above the foliage, znake it the one best _deep-yellW trumpet for the garden. A SIJOOSSSIONT. OP COLOR, While the nareissi•are still at their height, the multico:ored proceasion of tahned bdeoguiblgs. oTpehtle etha!lYsitselwrifles . Some of the best of the doubles are: Botile de Neige white; Mr, Van der Heed, pure ye:Ilow; Murillo, blush plek; Selva.tor Rosa, deep rose; Tea Rose, a unique yellow apricot; and Vturbaale, a bright scarlet. With the last of the early tulips come on the cottage or Meg -flowering tulips. Moon'Aght, a:wonderful, long, yellow flower is one a the earliest.' Mrs. Moon, of. deeper color, foliows close, after with Ingleiconibe' Pink. The Darwine and breeders, which close the tulip season, are the finest of all. - One of the.earliest Darwins is Wm, Copland. or Sweet Lavender, a rosy lavender, ,Another early is PrIde of Haarlem, immense in size and a bri iliant rosy scarlet, slightly scented• William Pitt, deep crimson; the R6V Ewbank, soft lavender; Madame Krelage a deep pink with a silvery edge, the buds looking Mee roses; Princess Elizabeth, a won'derful clear deep pink; and Farncombe Sanders, bright scarlet, comes next. Among the latest bloomers are some of the finest, such as Afterglow, an indescribable saffron orange shading into salmon at th.e edges of the petals; Clara Butt, a distinct °leer salmon pink, old but unserpassed; andrBaron de la Tonn‘aCe, another roselike deep pink, with lighter pink at the edges. - The following breeders are as fine as the best Darwans: Panorama, an orange mahogany and a great bloom- er, Yellow Perfection, • and Dom Pedro, rich brown. "What good 15 is an,70p School' The Health School, to country children? They have fresh air all the ,time." . The question is put to me in all serioueness by a school nurse who ha a been asked about open air schools n rural districts. I will agree with her sta.tement if she says, "They may have fresh. air al the thee." As a matter of fact, some country children pend many a winter day shut up in an overheated house which they hange: only for an underheated choolroom. But I will agree that country chitcheir shotild not need'open air schools in order to get fresh air. The great obstacle to open ate schools in rural districts is that the percentage of the school population needing them is not large enough to warrant the expense. Yet I do crave the advantages of the open air school for the country child of sub -standard health and I think they may be had with a little planning. Everyone who has studied the open air school knows that "fresh air" is but one of its ad- vantages. So far as that feature is I concerned the school that is well ven- tilated and does not raise its tempera- ture artificially above sixty-eight de- grees is doing we'el. The other im- portant things that make weak chil- i dren do so well in oeen air schools are 1. Rest, lying devvre at intervals during the day. 2. Extra nouriehment, composed , chiefly of Milk. I 3. Freedom from all mental corn- ' petition or strain. satisfactorily, if good bulbs are plantl My opinion is that this freedom' ed, in- almost any soil, but •light;, freeze strain is aseiraportant as any. loamy soil is to be preferred. If your !All of these features can he arranged soil is either heavy clay or sandy, add by a sympathetic, intelligent teacher", a generous amount Of commercial', and they ere worthwhile, even though .hunins or flerist's peat before plant- , no more than two or three pupils in ing. 'Wood ashes or even sifted mon, the, group need such care. An alcove ashes are also fine for either clay ,or or a small class room will do for a sandy' soils. rest room and failing in any other In sdclition, add plenty of coarse; arrangeraent a place screened, off boneteneal worked thoroughly into the from the one -room school, and used at soil. The sell where the bulbs are to the neon intermission would help. go should be thoroughleeforked up- andOpen air schools -are very -helpful to ptilvetiw.id so -that it will fit snugly sub -standard chlldree. If you Can - around them. Good drainage is es- not have them in the country try to • • sentMl. ' Early J) 14 is several ler s D • 0 I-1 Le ' I include their advantages in the regu- d d h be' " A , c roe,- . . . rrigo. the oet Aratus says,W other, p , e, too, are his offepring." Si. Paul' quot:es these seyings, and shows how foolish it is to mistake idolatry for a true worship of the divine being; Vs. 30, 31. T_hert St. Paul applies the Christian message of the redeem- ing love of God in Chriet. God par - h t f he the -d • • desirabte. e I A ernisunderstanding seems to bel general concerning the various tYpes of nereisei. • I All flowere of th's type are'narcissl,! and daffodils, correctly speaking, is just as inelusive a term, being but ' unhoped-for increase in yield Of Milk. W no o en n 6 ma ter. And ons •e pas eerore o ea synonyni for narciesi. Ile jonquils the threads to their detriment. it has been allowed a minute or two h 1 • • then we should seeto it that we carry but now in britt e. ca ,e or re- are 0 ging.e type of narciesi con -I to soak the mark should be rinsed --William Smieen_th` __en out the re -seem And perhaps he timetpentande, tile changed heart and life, spieuees e'eeeeiSe their .,,ary'Sw.eee in clear water Do not rub With • ' . -d . an . • obstinate or aid -standing stain it may ' British Columbia Town Buys r, thie may 'become a habit that will reach everybody.—P., C. S. Handy Clothes Bag. During my, housecleaning 1 drip- cOvered that old negligee Shirts make worIderfUI dust bags for the children's coats,' the men's coats and women's. eyelets. ' By replaeing the neckband with a bias fold thfcaigh -which a tape niay be run, and stitching up the. tails yeti have a complete dest protectoe. The eleeves may' be tied `att'the bot- tom. -• An occasional application of furni- tire polish helps to keep the wooden back et clothes brush or hair ,brash in cOndition, The bahieh, Must be perfectlY dry velieti treattnent is applied, f A view15 o connng ju gm•eri , ;: men be necessary to uee warm glycerine, * duet Tight Enough. • settOw'd seefget 13Vlie to epend mneh money et. you lest eight? I theight he trail' -too tight for that, 'ZXy(1.ear,te was just tight ellOtIgh," Graded Eggs. • Reelizing that the inarketing of eggs has arrived at the stage where the trading in of eggs at the local stote no longer Meets the ceoneerlic requiremen.ts of the HIClUStry, MOT, &ants of the town of Chilliwack, B. O., have decided to refuee to accept eggs in trade and instead eggs ave benig sent to one dealer who is in the poultry and egg bUSineSS. This dealer is aceentirig eggs for cash and nays on a graded basis. He and a feed Merchant buy all the eggs in this district whieh aie met shipped dieeet. td Vancouver and both DWI iriaintale,' that the purehasing of eggs in thie raannet ie nuteh fairer to both the farmers and dtelers. , mast 'appear before the judgment. eeat' of Christ, whom 'O•cel raised front the' dead that he might give eternal life to all wlie turn to hire. VS. 32-34. The announcement of the 'resurrection and of eternal life at once prevoleesescepticisra and eeet ridicule. St. Paul had t* tertt sor- rowfully away from A.thens.e But a neither of Athenians became cop - yens. St. Paul had not spoken al- together in vain. , . , If new silk eteekings ate Washed la very .16t water 11)4 e ore beimg Worri, they are less likely te ledder0 for the Washing toughene the silk. When next maleing tnuetard, try filiCt the' ilaver greatlY addirig teendreene.of salad ell 15 it ptovhd. ."..g!)'4.• , .." • • • •• • ' , • - , • .. :It. ' ,•„( 61. stent and bright ye.low flowers. The other narcissi, or daffoclilsnare cleezified as trenepet daffodils, in which the„t,rumpet or crown is an long Or longer than the petals; the incom- parabilis daffodile, in which the trum- pet is shorter than the petals, but at least a third as long; and the barrii and leedeli daffodils, in width the teurnpet is less than one-third as long as the petals or becomes merely a eup. a�o i15 liave p,egl.- 'teeing white' extals ,aed a shallow' ctoven or cup, margined et colored scailet or etimeon, The peetaz daffodils differ from Et11 the above by bearing their flowere a cluster _or butieh; several on each stein. 11 18 in the trteripetelloWered elasa So, according to old-time rulce, whenever white garments or clothes become yellowed; or whenever they are recalcitrant spots that one Would imagine nothing hut bleaching pow- ders or liquids could remove, I hang the Washed garments to dey in the sun. ' Then, ell day, they remain, and in the evening, when dry, I soak them again very the -roughly in plain cold water. • I do riot evrint them at all, but hang hem up again, all dripping with water, leaving thein overnight. It is truly amazing hew white they time become—really snow-white, S, Before applying polish to range or eooker remove all grease; Spots with a rag dipped in turpentine, ter a rad Of i4..,loth clipped in scot E14 -UE Or)TOBEit - W • ANIQUgh, aet40r. aseomated with the varied coleeing <)1 the change geingtheleradveursearennelt teu•a,essfeer9mitalsy aoifi tahlot3 t4,01,. jar. that is, ie my opinion, October's ttlfrte—yr, color, and that hue le Vane It may be that, because. poets have sting of "blue Oetober treather,"! have noticed how deep a blue the sky takes on when a clear October day davncs; a color that melees me believe no far-famed Italian sky could be a • truer blue, or more beautiful, Thoinas Carlyle, whom we do not ueually link with poetry, once wrote some verses about the dawning of another blue sky, and I think he rnust have had an October day in mind, be- cause they are such perfect days that ,i,taidipoesusseeleerass wicked to let one of theta DIVINE COLOR SCHEMES. If any of us had been taken into t the confines of the Creator, andetold that the general color scheme for the earth was tq be mostly green, with a tor) of blue, rind that on the under part of• green a showing Of many colors would be made, we.would hard- ly have given our approval of the plen, and probable, would heve -sug- gested some other scheme. Yet, like everything elSe from the hand of God, unspoiled by man, how beautiful '- are the colorings of.nature at a sea- sons, and how especially lavish the - display in the autumn. The &lenges come about so grader. ally t'hat for a time we are .herdly conscious of therm There are maple trees that I see now from my window, just as green as they were in August. yet I know that within a few days I shall begin to see something different about them. The leaves seem to be attached firmly to the branches, but let a rainy days come, with winds blowing and the grass and streets will be covered with fallen leaves. But the beautiful autumn coloring is still to conie, except where, on ----- higher lands, the breath of Jack Prost has aleeady been felt, "Autumn, -with her sunburnt caravan, Like a gypsy train with trapping gay, And tattooed colors of the Orient, Moving slow -footed through the dreamy hills." -e But it is the blueness a the October landscape and sky that appeals to -me, and I wonder if there is any color more generally liked than blue.,Poets have dwelt lovingly and lingeringly on the beauties of blue eyes, as well as blue skies; perhape because they rhymed; and blue and true seemed also to he analagous. Blue flowers 'aleo get praise, and to , me. they are the most attractive blexims in the garden—always excep - ing the roses, which hold a place,. wholly their own in my heart. Del- phiniums, especially those styled "BeNadonna," are particularly blue, and forget-me-nots and love -in -a -mist (each homely and pretty names) are a close second. Then there are the blue corn -flowers, the gentian; and • still others, although some,caled.blue in seedsmen's 'catalogues turn out to be -lavender; pretty, but not what you want among clumps of blue. Despite my love for blue, I know that it is a cold cotor, needing some- thing with it—unless, indeed, the b'eue flowers are planted in masses, n give -them character. White is the reat peacemaker among flowers, as a well- known writer on floral subjects said, and pink and yellow may be added, with good results. Autumn is to the year what com- ing age is to. life: a changing, an ebbing, a dimming of , the brighter things, even if they flame up for a short:time. It ,is a time of a little sadness; no one can deny it, and'much as we praise autumn, and exclaim at the beauty of tha world and of the weather, there is .runnipg through it all a chill of- the coming winter. It is a going -away, not a coming -back. . Yet there is'nothing taken away for whicheseme,compensation is not giVen. Spring is, yottng, and lovely; summer, more mature, but beautiful; and in autumn the beauty is still there with all the added store than spring„ and summer brought. Experience is worth a great deal, and one cannot have the balanced. judgment, the wideit mercy of later life, without giving tip. some- thing for it • , One grieves to see the charms that -- one holds dear Show clearer Time's encroaching, , day by day-- , A. halting step, a line,. a thread bf gray: 'And yet, as (medley one,' these signs They oanPliiyeairr:tir.nate that every year Has laid its store of -..riches at orie To dower one with menieritee to rer peat , • , Wheu or must step aside. ,froae • youtii's. evarrn cheer. ". :But each 'decade. has comforts of ita own--- , One would not have the power te recognize • * The kindred seerets in anotherneeyes,, ; 'Tad not one, through Iife'e wider ' knowledge grown Able to comprehend the heriterge That is Tinee'a eempeneetine gift to Age, , Tea shotild be kept in an airtight tfa '211 a cool place; Coffees should 'he Purchased in small 15fes, freshly Atound. t'sts:777t, •