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• Heart and Nerves
Were So Bad
,
e• 'Mr. Themes Cox, R. R. Br% 1.,
-Godfrey, Out., writee:.—" I wae so bad
'With my heed and nerves I would have
to get up out of boa during the night
and. walk the floor, as I woula take
such bad -smothering spells, with my
heart, I would thiek that sometimes
would die before I got over them.
• After taking two boxes a
Milburn%
• Heart and Nerve
Pills
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Backache A Sure Sign
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By SARAHNORTON 41ork ji° under .41° :34,11 ot
' (1 11 eine in the back, or
eharp, quiek twieges, are waraiegs
plat, kidneys — wartiugs kianey
trouble,
For several •yeers before we were
married I taught school and had not
given the rouitry busmees much
theught or study. The tire', feyv years
of our married lifwe kept a flock
of mongrel hens. My husband, would
frequently say:
"These hens don't pay for the
grain they eat."
As with most fermers' Wives, the
chickens were my only source of pin
money, so I did not like to have them
criticized. Upon further investigating
the matter I was convinced that his
statement was only too true, so I de-
cided to make the chicken business
paying propositton or quit it alto-
gethee. ,
I clipped all the poultrar notes I
comd fled in the farm magazines and
supplied myself with pamphlets per -
taining to poultry from the agricul-
tural college, also some good poultry
books. With a colicky baby and • a
mischievous two-year-old to care for
It got better and am now as well aud
•as hearty as ever I was. .
Ndw, I would recommend Milburte•s
Veart and Nerve Pills -,to au who ars
bothered -in any way with their heart
or nerves, is I cannot say too much in
-.their praise."
Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills
have been on. the market for the past
32 years; see that you get them when'
• you ask for, them. •
Put up only by The T. Milburn Coe •
Limited, Toronto, Ont.
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Cabbage Maggots.
Among the root maggotsthat at-.
tack vegetable crops in Canada the
• :_dosersr-- cabbage maggot is one of the most
injurious. It attacks cabbage, cauli-
flower, radishes, turnips and rape,
and sometimes even celery, beets and
beans. A .pampin'et on root maggots
and •their control, distributed by the
Publications Branch, Department of
Agriculture, Ottawa, gives the meth-
ods of protection against this pest.
The adults are small flies, smaller and
more slender than the common house
fly, but resembling it, considerably. In
early spring they fly _close to the
ground and deposit small, white,
elongate eggs, which hatch in a few
days into small white maggots, which
at once 'burrow down into the soil,
enter the roots or bulbs and destroy
them. In Most sections of Canada
few eggs are laid before the middle
of May in a normal season, although
on the Pacific Coast they are gen-
erally raid considerably earlier.
According to •the pamphlet -the most
efficient method . of controlling the
tnaggots is the corrosive sublimate
is used to ten gallens of water. It
shoUld be applied liberally to the
stem and roots of each plant at week-
ly intervals from the fourth day
after egg laying has begun. At least
two treatments in the spring or early
'simmer are necessary, but throe are
tenerally advisable. •
Quick Hot Water Supply.
Ordinarily one can get no hot
water from a hot water boiler con-
• nected with a kitchen stove until the
entire tank has become heated. Here
• way to- get it as fast as it heats
In the coil inside the stove, which
means almost' as soon as the .kitchen
• fire is lighted.
`Cut the pipe that carries the hot
water from the stove to the outside
- boiler. Make this cut near the stove
• and insert a tee, into which screw a
faucet. It is necessary then only to
• turn this faucet to obtain the boiling
• water as fast as it heats. A plumber
will not charge much for making
this alteration; but any man who is
handy about such things will not find
Ft difficult to do -himself.
•
" Rhubarb may be a lowly vegetable,
it it cair brighten up 'the spring
menu wonderfully. Stewed rhubarb
and rhubarb pie should be used plent-
ifully during the spring months.
It has been.wisely said that it is
just as well for a poultrynian to
hold his temper es it it for an in-
cubator to hold its temperature.
'Get Rid Of The
Cough That Sticks
•
Soule olds and coughs seennhard to
shake off; stick right to you in spite
of everytkieg you do to get. rid of
them, but cannot;
These fir/0th° Idea that are danger -
008; the kind that weaken the lungs
the kind that allow serious lung troubles
to got a foothold in your system.
I did not }rnve xnuch
read-
ing, so would read while rocking the
baby.
The first question I had to decide
was what breed of hens to keep. For
these reasons I decided to keep the
Leghorns:
1. Five Leghorns can be efficiently
housed in the same amount of space
as three hens of the dual-purpose
type.
2. The Leghorns require less feed
per head than the larger breeds.
3. The Leghorns make a profitable
return for three or four laying years,
against two laying years for the
heavier breeds..
4. The Leghorn pullets commence
laying when about five months old,
instead of seven months for the pul-
lets of the dual-purpose type.
• SELECTED LEGHORNS
I chose the Single Comb White
Leghorns because they are larger and
showier than the Brown or I3uff Leg-.
horns.
I sold part of the flock I had at
that time to supply myself with
money to get started with the pure-
bred fowls.
We were living on a rented farm
that had no suitable place for run-
ning an incubator, and as my means
were limited I could not afford to
inve4t in an incubator and incubator
house,. so I decided to buy baby
chick's. I scanned the iribultry ad-
vertisements in the farm papers and
sent for several catalogifes. Finally
I ordered 150 purebred 'Single Comb
White Legliorh baby chicks from a
heavy egg -laying flock. They arrived
in good condition. •
I had neither brooder nor brooder
house, so had to contrive a home-
made fireless brooder. I lost about
one third of those chicks with white
diarrhea. I attributed- the loss to
chilling.. However, when fall came
I had about fifty of the finest pul-
lets hi the neighborhood, and for the
first time got eggs during the winter
months.
• The next spring we moved to a
farm -which had a good brooder house
and I purchased a heater and hover,
which is still giving. satisfactory re -
silts.
I take great care in feeding and
managing the growing stock, for a
stunted chick very seldonmakes a
profitable hen. ,
As our henhouee is small, and I
found from experience that crowd-
ing does not pay, I usually keep
about 150 hens. 1 ahn to raise
enough pullets each summer so that
I can sell most of the three-year-old
hens each fall. The culls are included
-in this bunch, as even the bestof
stock possesses some culls. -
I sent to the agrioultural college
and the Department of -.A.griculture
for pamphlets on culling hens,. and
also obtained what information I
could elsewhere. I studied it and
practiced it until I would not take
a back seat for any but the best pro-
fessional poultry cullers. I not only
give my hens a thorough culling each
fall but also watch them closely and
do some Gulling the year around. This
means quite a saving, as tile Slacker
hens cut down the profits.
In feeding I also practice economy.
I'd° not mean by this that I slight
the hens in the :east, but try to feed
well-balanced ration. I feed the
!Trains we an buy the cheapest, inak-
iii substitutos as the prices c arige,
and use my own tommon sense in
applying suggestions offered in vari-
ous articles on poultry feeding. The '
last year, with wheat and corn prices!
high, I have been feeding more oats,
for they can be bought for less per ,
pound. Care mint be taken in feed -
On the first appearance of a cough
or cold you shouldprocure a bottle of
Dr. Wood's
Norway
Pine , -
'A.:7 Cki
Syrup
zed you will find that after taking a
- few doses your cough or cold will have
disaepeared,
Ties preparation has beet oe the
arkot for the past 87 years, so when
th. keno new and untried remedy
is buy it you ere ace experimenting
tet eee that a!`Vii. get "Dr, Wood 's'
'lam you Ask for it ,
Pat up oeiy by The T. 'Milburn Coi
•tkulted, Tomato, Ont. •
ing oats, Light oats nearly all hu:1
should not be fed, I either soak the
oats tweuiyfour hoursbeforo f d
mg or boil theni filet. They leash
the boiled oats best and the boiling
roftens the hulls, so that the ehickens
have no trouble in digesting them, In
• the winter I .feed them'while they
, aro etill warm. To encourage exer-
else I 'feed a small amount of wheat
in straw litter and corn on the ear,
,1 keep a dry mash before my hens
at all tinies. It usually consists of
wheat middlings, commonly called
shorts, and the best grade of digester
tankage. 1 feed it in the proportioe
, of ten parts Shorts and one part
tankage, with the addition of a little
fine table salt.,
•INCREASE THE TANKAGE
When feeding core 1 increase the
amount of tankage. About three
times a week I moisten some of the
dry mash with a little water or milk
and feed it in the evening about an
hour before their regular feeding ,
time. I always do the feeding my-
self and always feed regularly.
My greatest problem is eupplyine,
the hens with green feed in the win-
ter time:I steam the leaves of alfalfa '
hay for them. This provides them
with succulence and is a source of
considerable protein. I feed potato!
Parings and some of the smaller po-
tatoes chopped fine. These must be ,
fed soon. after cutting, as they grow
talo and lose feeding value quickly.
In the, summer the chickens have free
range and do not lack for green feed.
• Plenty of fresh water and oyster
shell is kept before my chickens at
all times. Oceasionally, I buy a little
river sand which containa great
deal of gravel, and give them free
access to it.
One of the most common causes of
failure in the poultry business is
diseaee. PreventiOn is better than
cure, as a sick chicken very sialdora
gets well. Cleanliness is the best
prevention of disease. I keep the
poultry -house and yards clean by the
removal of manure and refu4.
I rid the henhouse of mites by
spraying occasionally with a strong
dip applied with a bucket spray
pump. By the use of old galvanized
washtubs, wash boilers, bushel . and
half -bushel measures for nests, and
boards Jane' posts with' very few
cracks and crevices for roosts, the
mites have fewer harboring places.
• For lice control I use the blue oint-
ment treatment twice a year. I keep
the feed troughs and drinking ves-
sels clean by frequent scrubbings. I
watch my flock closely, and if I notice
a droopy bird I isolate it at once.
II it shows symptoms'of a contagious
disease I kill it and give it a post-
mortem examination. I either burn
or bury the dead fowls.
Plasters and liniments will do the
hack no good, for they cannot reach
the kidneys whica cause the trouble.
SEPARATE THE PULLETS
ago
reach the kidneys themselves, as they
are a special remedy for the kidneys,
and the kidneys only. They banish all
the pains and aches by making the
• kidneys false out all the poisons from
the spawn.
Your druggist or dealer sells them;
put up only by The T, Milburn Co.,
t4mited, Toronto, Out.
Since buying baby chicks each
spring I do not keep male birds, thus
saving feed and housing room. I
sell most of the cockeiels at market
price when they weigh about two
pounds. The remainder I pen by
themselves and keep for fries. By
this method I reduce the feed bill
considerably and the hens and pullets
do much better when not molested by
the male birds. Also the inferttle
eggs* keep better during the hot
• Occasionally I find a broody hen
on the nest. I pen her in an •airy
cram, and feed her inn -heat -produc-
ing deed and plenty of fresh water.
Biddy soon decides to begin laying
again.
• The hens are inclined to be bossy
and the pullets timid, and I think
the pullets will lay better if housed
by themselves. I can accomplish this
by convertinwa vacant hog shed into
a henhouse and by using the two
buildings can -increase my flock to
about 200 birds this fall.
We purchased an SO -acre farm re-
cently, and, as soon as our finances
permit, intend to build a mOdern hen-
house large enough to accommodate
at least 300 hens.
We have no available market for
graded eggs, so I sell them at the
regular market price. This saves me
time and labor, which 1s a matter of
importance, as .1 have a multitude of
household duties to perform each
day,' besides caring fbr my ,chickens.
Instead of getting eggs only in the
spring and early summer, as 'I did
when T. kept mongrel hens, I now
have eggs to gather the, year around
and the income from my hens keeps
out family of five in food, clothing
and incidentals, .
What I have done any farmer's'
wire- could do. Why not make the
chicken business a prOfitabie busi-
ness? •a
Protecting Tomatoes from -
Disease. • .
The tomato plant is an .exception-
ally rank feeder and unless well sup -
SMART FOR THE SCHOOLGIRL
A very practical style of dress for
school wear is the model shown here.
Ample freedern for play is provided
by'the deep inverted plait in the front
of the skirt. A vestee of plain, con-
trasting -color material is set onto the
dress with three rows of machine
stitching. The same stitching outlines
the edge of the boyieh collar. The back
is plain and the C,ong sleeves are mark-
ed for a shorter length. Duro ging-
ham, linen, cotton, broadcloth, or
ured rayon would be suitable washable
materials for this frock, No. 1303,
which is in siies 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14
,rears. Size 8 years requires 2% yards
32 -inch materiakehort sleevei.
less materia1..!tlsrite-2a cents.
Our new Fashion Book contains
many stydes showing how to dress boys
and girls. Simplicity is the rule for
well-dressed children. Clothes of char-
acter and individuality for the junior
folks are hard to buy, but easy to
make with our patterns. A small am-
ount of money spent on good ma-
terials, cut on simple lines, will give
children the privilege of wearing
adorable things. Price of the book
10 cents the copy.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
• Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; -rap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Pattern Dept,
Wilson Publishing Co., .73 West Ade-
laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by
return mail.
To Fit a Coat Lining..
Put' on the coat wrong side out,
and over it the lining, •rIght side
out. Match the shoulder, under -arm
seams and armholes and pin closely
to the cloak. Smooth ail extra full-
ness in the hack to the center, lay it
in a pleat to the waistline and baste
until pressed. Turn in all the edges
and pin eveuly hi p:ace. Baste the
lining to the coat wherever pinned,
except around the armholes, which
should be left free.
Remove the coat, tack the shoul-
der and under -arm seams with coarse
thread, taking long, invisible stitches,
and blind -stitch the edges o the coat.
plied with plant -food will grow
feebly and become subject to disease. Does yspepsia
D
Sandy loam, well drained and -with a
plentiful application of well rotted
barnyard manure ploughed in, is the
best soil for tomato growing. Thero
are several diseases which cause con-,
siderable loss to. tomatoes. An im-
portant factor in the prevention of
these diseases is proper sanitation,
according to a bulletin on termite
I diseases distributed by the PubI'ca-
tion Branch, Department of Agricul-
ture Ottawa. Only strong, vigorous,
healthy Stock should be set out in the
field. All weak, sickly plants should
be destroyed as soon as noticed, be-
cause most of the -fungus • diseases,
such as . leaf spot, black rot, loaf
mould, late • blight, etc., are spread
from plant to pleat by means of
wind, rain and insects, All diseased
plant material should be destroyed so
that the refute from a crop wild not
be left to carry the disease over to
another year,
Some men a.ro easily discouraged,
Or indigestion
Cause You Distress, After Every Meal?
The sufferer from dyspepsia or in-
digestion who has to pick and choose
his food is the most miserable of all
mankind. Sven the little ho does eat
causes such torture,, and is digested so
iniperfectly that it does Inui little
good.
• What the dyspeptie needs is not
artificial digestants, but something that
will put the stomach right so that it
• will manufacture its own digestive
ferments.
Ote
takes grit to •sueceed.
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S. LESSON
Mayen, Jacob at Oethel, Gen„ chs. 27,
2aff.
and t°1• keep eTp"tt—heer are ;1111th, P itahceees,
whither theu goest.--eoen. 28; 15,
ANALYSIS
I. Isaac's Blessing and Jacob's De-
ceit, 27; 1-40.
II. Jaeob's Departure for Harare 27:
41 to 287,9,
111. Jacob's Vision at Bethel, 28;1Q-
22.
Introduction—sat alld Jacob re, -
present two widely *different types.
Esau is the more sensual, a creaturo
of appetite, seeking always the im-
mediate good, caxelees and improvi-
dent as regards the future. Jacob
is the =life spiritual, shrewd, provi-
dent, far-seeing, and ainbitious. '
ISAAC'S BLESSING AND
JACOB'S DECEIT, 27:1-40.
It Se8MS to have been a recognized
diatom, that the patriarch, before his
death, should bestow a blessing upon
his sons and successors. • The bless.;
Ing must have been regarded as hav-
ing peculiar value and importance,
and, perhaps, as designating the place
and rank which each shoild held
after his death. It may have been
that Isaac had not heard of, or had
disregarded, the selling of Esau's
birthright to Jacob, for he quite evi-
dently intended to give Esau the
greater blessing. The blessing, when
given, was regarded as irrevocable,
..and as prophetic Of the future.
IL . JACOB'S DEPARTURE FOR
• HARAN, 27:41 to28:9,.
Two reasons are given for Jacob's
departure: (1) that he may escape
she wrath of Esau, who has declared
his intention to kill him, and (2) that,
like his father, and -unlike Esau, he
may get a wife of his own kinsfolk.
The story of the blessing of Jacob in
28:1-4 is probably from a different
source from that told in chap. 27, and
supplements it. So also the brief
account 'of Jacob's journey in 28:5
is supplemented by the longer and
more detailed narrative in our print-
ed lesson.
III. JACOB'S VISION AT BETHEL,
28:10-22.
Toward Hagan would be in a gen-
eral northern direction. The distance
to be traveled would be between four
and five hundred miles. Whether
jamb had traveling companions or
not, we are not told.
• One of the stones, It is not an un-
common' thing for an Arab traveler
or tent -dweller to use a stone for
a pillow.
A. /adder. Near Beitin, a small
village on the site of the ancient
Bethel, there is a hill which rises in
steps, or terraces, of stone to its top.
It- may- be that this -shaped itself fir
Jacob's dream into a ladder, or stair-
way, rising up to heaven. Ryle (Cam-
bridge Bible) suggests , that it may
have "resembled the ascent to Baby-
lonian and Assyrian temples, in
which the shrine Or sanctuary on the
summit was reached by steps leading
through seven terraces." -
The angels of God (compare 32:1),
are sometinies described in the Old
Testament as an armed host watch-
ingover God's servants. See 2 Kings
6:17, Psalm 34:7, 68:17. Here they
are shown as holding communication
between earth and heaven.
The Lord stood above it and repeat-
ed the covenant promise made to
Abraham and to Isaac. To this
young man in his first loneliness, Con-
scious yet unrepentant of a great
wrong done to his brother, there
comes this gracious vision. God does
not abandon the wrongdoer. His
promise is, Behold, I am with thee.
God will yet lead him to repentance
and acknowledgement of the wrong.
His purpose through him for Israel
and for the world must be fulfilled.
The Lord is in this place. Jacob
is learning that the God whom he
serves, and who is watching over
him, though he knew it net, is not
confined to one place; but is in all
places the same. He, therefore, calls
this place Bethel, which means in He-
brew "Hots° of God." He sets up
the stone upon which -is head had
rested, and makes of it a sacred p11 -
tar, pouring oil upon it as an offer-
ing toJecGod.
Jacob
mooed
a yew. The yew
makes reference to God's promise
made to him in his dream. If God
will really be with him, and keep
him, and give him food and raiment,
and bring him back again in peace,
then he will ,recognize him as his
God, he .will make this place a sena-
tua.ry, and he will give to God a tenth
of all that he receives. There is a
flavor of bargaining in this vow,
characteristic of Jacob, but, never-
theless, there is recognition of the
leading and care of God and of his
own consemeent duty and obligation,
I CARE OF TABLE LINEN
MAKES ITS BEAUTY LAST
When laundering clothes, one of
the important things to be remem-
bered ftboet linen is that the flax,
of which it IS made, is a very pole.
nus material. Each thread in the
sloth is somewhat like a spenge in
that it will abeerle water very readily,
• but its pores are so mach mailer
Ithan those of the sponge that it is
riot easy to express all the water
I absorbed, and if the liquid is not per-
' featly clean, the tiny pores retein'the
minute particles that gave the water
its color,
LINEN MUST BE WASHED
ALONE
Linen is put through e. long, slaw,
tedious process at the bleachery,to
take from it everything that will
prevent its being • dazzlin.g white
ivben it is first spread upon our
tables. And for lack of sensible care
in just one washing,. all the gook
gained from the expeasive process
of bleaching niay go for nothing. Put
in with the rest ofo the soiled white
clothes in the family waeh, the por-
ous strands will soak up all the
dirty water they can absorb, and
what was formerly a spread of daz-
zling whitenese will emerge from,
the process clisa,ppointingly grimy
and unattraotive.
That is the reason why linen
should be washed by itself, in clean
suds, and rinsed in several clear
waters that have been used for noth-
ing else. If the cloth is very much
soiled, several dippinge beforehand,
each time in plenty of clear, fresh
water. in which borax has been dis-
• solved, will be a great help, but the
cloth should not be allowed to soak
even a short...time until the water in
• whieh it was dipped looks quite
clean, Then it is safe to leave the
cloth half an hoer or so in suffi-
cient fresh Water to cover it gen-
erously, and in which about a table-
spoonful of borax has been dissolved.
Wash quickly in fresh, clean suds,
WHEN MING OUT TO DRY.
! A linen tablecloth is best dried on
the grass in the sunshine. However,
it should never be allowed to become
drier than is necessary in order to
Iran it ideal.. If allowed to become
thoroughly dry, there form in this
material creases that become so set
that it is next to impossible to get
them Oat before the next washing.
So a linen cloth should be watched,
brought in when just right to iron,
and pressed immediately.
When linen meet be hung on a line
te dry, the best way is to bring two
corners of the cloth together arid
lay them over a wash cloth, or some
other thick, small Piece, on the line,
place a similar et -ii ver the coenera
and, with the elothes pin, fasten in
parto the fem. thicitneeses of ma-
terial. Repeat the process with the
other two corners of the cloth,
etretehing the edges so the linen will
wrinkle as little es peesible. Fasten
the folded edges sineilarly at one PT
two places between the, pins Already
in position to help relieve the strain
of the wet linen, at the corners.
BLEACHING LINEN
Freezing is one of the best methods
of bleaching linen in the winter, but
a frozen tablecloth roust be handled
very carefully. Folcling the material
when it is stiff from the cold will
snap in two many a the fibres and
so weaken others that the wear fit the
cloth will be considerably ehortened.
If a cloth freezee to the line, pour a
little hot water where necessary in
order to remove it,
The action of the sunshine on the
acid le buttermilk has long been
recognized as another excellent
bleach for linen. Our grandmothers
used to soak their homespun from
15 to 20 tirnefi in buttermilk, each
time spreading the heavy wet len.gths
out on the grass in the sunshine to
bleach. Lacking buttermilk, the
modern housewife sprinkles the cloth
well 'with water each time if; is arta
and leaves it to dry again in the
sunshine as many times as is con-
venient. The last time this is done,
she wrings the cloth out after int-
nsersing it in warm water—to get rid
of all wrinkles—then lets it dry
enough to be in a good condition for
ironing, and presses it immediately.
The expert really "presses," she
does not iron her linen. This is the
method by vvhich those country-
women overseas bring out all the
rich beauty of their linens and pre-
serve tbe rn,aterial so that lovely
tablecleths are handed down as heir-
looms from one generaan to an-
other. As everybody knows, it is
while the cleth is being washed and
ironed that it endures the most wear,
not while it lees in a drawer or is
even spread over the table. So those
women who treasure their linens
press them with long, even strokes
with a cold iron—something the
hustling woman finds it hard to do
•because it takes one well over an -
hour to do a small cloth by this
method. But the reward is an ap-
pearance in the linen that can be
obtained in no other way; as if it
were fresh from the loora, with the
Pattern standing out in. bold !relief
against the satin sheen of the rest of
the material.
WILD STRAWBERRIES
BY HELEN M. WHITNEY
Mabel and Line had quarreled. And the tears came info !duel's
Neither of them could quite tell eyes.
She raised herself Oil the bed, and
looked out of the open window to-
ward the fresh, green woods and
hills. As she did so, she caught a
glimpse of.Lina, with a basket in her
hand, walking slowly down the path
acmes the glade.
"She's going after the strawbeerice.
now," thought Mabel, sadly; and thou
she wondered if Line. would not give
her one—just one --of the bright scar-
• let berries, if she asked her.
"I'll watch till she comes back,"
thought Mabel, "ana get mother to go
out and ask her for one."
So Mabel lay, with her face toward
the window, watching the path by
which Line. would come on her way
home.
S'he watched for •a long time, but
last she fell asleep.
It was late in the afternoon when
she awoke, end the shadows thrown
by the tall trees had grown very long,
and were still stretching ott toward
the setting sun.
A cat -bled had perched on a hop -
vine, near the house, and was sing-
ing hi$ evening song. Mabel had
been dreaming about the strawber-
ries. Her dream was so vived she
almost fancied she could smell the
luscious fruit.M
"Mabel, are you awake?" asked
her 'nether.
And opening •her eyes, Mabel saw,
not only her mother, but Line!. Lina -,with sunburnt cheeks, and berry -
stained fingers, and in her hand a
-little -willow basket, heaping full of
ripe, scrodet strawberries!
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"I didn't eat a single one, Mabel,"
sh,e said, kissing the sick girl's cheek.,
"but saved 'em every one tor yeul"
Arid the' bl the pear -
tree
peeped out of her nest, and twit-
te ied soft' y to herself, as Line trip-
ped gaily through the clover, with
the empty baekte in her hand.
"Well, well; girls are not such bad
creatures after all," said Mrs. Jay
to herself, as she nestled dowri on to
her eggs again.
At least, that's what she thought,
I dare say, if she didn't 547., it!
Take a week or ten days to change
the care retina from NI/hole- milk to
Note thiet Every man knows his
own addrets, i/ not that at his cor-
respoeclerit, So never fail to put
your address in the upper left-hand
(sorter e-ery piece of matter mail -
how it happened, but the blue -jay,
who was sitting in a crotch of the
old pear -tree, peeped out of her nest
and heard Mabel say:
"You're a hateful girl, Lima May -
bee, and I shan't ever speak to you
again!"
"I don't want yeti to speak to me,"
said Line. "And I shan't tell you
where there's a big patch of wild
strawberries that I found yesterday.
Pre a -going to pick 'em all myself."
Mabel pulled her sun -bonnet over
her face and started aceoss thee till
clover to the house, and Lima pulled
her sun -bonnet over her face, and
went off through the orchard toward
her own home.
"Why, Line," said her mother, who
was chinning down at the spring -
house, "what's the matter? Wasn't
Mabel at home?"
"She was et home," seal Lina, sulk-
ily; "but she's a cross, hateful, dis-
agreeable thing, and says she'll never
speak to rne again." •
Mrs. Maybee laughed.
"I thought you girls would have a
quarrel before long," she said, mak-
ing her churn -dash fly again.
Mabel went sliewly along through
the tall clover. Her eheeks were flush-
ed and her eyes were brighter than
seemed quite natural. '
When dinner was ready she could
not eat anything, although her .fav-
orite
p p' table.
Her mother began to grow alarmed.
"The child, must be sick," she said,
"or she'would certainly eat her din -
So Mabel was put to bed, and be-
fore night sheetvas in a high fever.
The doctor eame, and, after looking
at her tongue and feeling of her
pu:se, he left some medicine and went
away.
and that is a large part of true re -I The medidne was very bitter, in-
li ion
• Feed your cows sea. Th e -dairy-
man ie Switzerland feeds a little salt
every day to each cow. This is good,
Giving !salt every day keeps stack
from overdrinkine, as they frequent-
ly do, when salted enlY once in a
week or tWe. 11 you are feeding a
mixed -grain feed, add 20. pound's of
'salt for. every ton. I found the
!simplest plan of "salting" to be a
big block ofe salt in the baretraieL
lEaeli animal ate at 'will and could
drink before or after. There are no
,thrifty animrds without ealt
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I t oe , but 41 hepedMabol, and by
t
1. next morning sho was much better,
though not able to sit up.
"What would you like to eat,
Mabel?" said her mother, when the
dinner was ready.
1 "Nothing, unless I could have some
•I sttawberries," said Mabel faintly.
! ''My dear child, I don't know where
We eould get strawberries," said her
mother; "but hero itt a nice litked
apple. Won't that do?"
' But, no; nothing would do. All
:Mabel wanted was strawbel ries.
"Lira knows where there are
plenty," she thought; "but she is go-
ing to gather them all for her elf."
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