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Philosophy
E were amused to hear the praise a grocer paid to Gold Dust
ways. Of all the many cleaniq "stunts", he picked the Gold
Dust Twins at once, find,' he chuckled, "that they do
the work of many more than TWO.
At
House -Cleaning
Time
the sarne. Some seem
no sooner bought.
"With Gold Dust, all my people state, the work of cleaning house
goes great. It does so many clever tasks; it does, in fact, whatever
asked. From kitchen, through and through, to hall; upstairs and
down, the porch and all. Wirer.
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ever dust and dirt collect, it has a
marvelous effect.
"My customers are 'mostly wives, who
have to bargain all their lives; each penny
of the household fund, is counted, and the
wasteful shunned. For instance, take the
cleaning game; Not all the cleansers work
to merely rub for naught, and some give out,
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"A 'Home, Sweet Home' is one,
I say, wherein the Gold Dust
fellows play. Their work is fun to
them. They start at dawn, with
some magician's art and with the
sinking of the sun the last mean
job of work is done.
"Oh yes, I like to recommend, a product that will prove a friend.
Each Gold Dust customer declares that glass and cutlery and stairs,
and floors and dishes and the rest are cleaned by using it -the best.
If dirt be numbered with your sins, my preachment is
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• THE WINGUAll MIES, JUNE 18J 1914
A MODEL, MAIDEN.
A girl's education is most incomplete
unless she has learned:
Ta sew.
To cook,
To mend.
To be gentle,
To value time.
To dress neatly.
To keep a secret.
To avoid idleneas.
To be self-reliant.
To darn stockings.
To respect old age.
Tiel make good bread.
To keep a house tidy.
To be above gossiping.
To make home happy.
To control her temper.
To take care of the sick.
To take care of the baby.
To sweep down cobwebs.
To marry a man for his worth.
To read the very best of books.
To take plenty of active exercise.
To be a helpmate to her husband.
To keep clear of trashy literature.
To be light-hearted and fleet -footed.
To be a womanly woman under all
circumstances.
Uses a Soap."
Soap bought in quantities, a box or
two at a time perhaps, has chance to
dry before it is used and will thus go
much further than soap that is used
when only recently made.
Sometimes bits of soap are thrown in-
to the boiler on washing day. These do
not always entirely dissolve and are
likely to be lost. If the small bits are
placed, ingtead, in a cheesecloth bag,
what is not dissolved will be on hand for
next time.
This practice of some housekeepers
of dissolving their laundry soap before
placing it in the water:is the best as this
does away with bits of soap that might
cling to the linen and cause a scorched
place. This dissolved soap, or soap
jelly is excellent for washing flannels
and colored materials.
An excellent soap solution for house-
cleaning purposes can,be made by dis-
solving two ounces of shaved soap in
two quarts of water, using left over
bits in this way. After this is removed
from the fire add two tablespoons of
gtrong ammonialtThis can be kept in-
definitely if placed in bottles and cork-
ed.
DR. A. W. CHASE'S
CATARRH POWDER Cu
is sent direct to the diseased parts by the
Improved Blower, llea6 the ulcers,
clears the air passages, stops drop.
pings in the throat and permanent-
ly cures Catarrh and Hay Fever.
25c. a box; lolower free. Accept no
substitutes. All dealers or Edmonton.
Batts & CO. Limited, Toronto.
AWAY OUT IN THE COUNTRY.
Away out in the country, where there
is no ceaseless roar,
Where it's eight miles to the railroad
and it's three miles te the store,
There is hope and there is pleasure and
perhaps some maiffen there
Has contrived to make somebody think
her fairest of the fair.
Away out in the country, where the
fragrant lilacs blow
There are people who have• never seen
a moving picture show;
But they may not need your pity, though
• the thrills they have are few;
They may go to bed untroubled by such
cares as come to you.,.,
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Away out in the country, where the
woods are full of song
And the hens are cackling loudly and
few men are going wrong,
There are people who are never filled
with fear or discontent
When the grocer wants his money or
it's time to pay the renti
Away out in the country, where no
mobs disturb the peace
There are people who are happy, though
their neighbors' gains increase,
There are men and there are women
who believe that life is sweet,
Though they aren't busy spending all
on what they wear and eat.
E.Le' --S. E. Kiser.
THE?,WESTERN FAIR SEPT. 11th to
e'arAa 19th.
r The management of the Western Fair
London, Ontario, are sending out this
week: thousands of their Prize Lists,
Maps, Hangers, etc. Although they
were unfortnnate in the 'loss of -their
offices by fire, other quarters have been
promptly secured and the work of pre-
paring for the great Exhibition will be
carried on with greater zeal than ever.
$1500.00 in cash has been added to the
Prize Lists:this year, thus making it
very attractive, especially for Live
Stock Breeders and Exhibitors. Sev-
eral new sections have been added es-
pecially in the Horse Deparbrient
which should bring a large exhibit.
Prize L;sts, Entry Forms and all in-
formation regarding the Exhibition will
be promptly given on application to the
Secretary, A. M. Hunt, Lo»don, On-
tario.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Hare Always Bought
Dean the
Signature Of tete.
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LEMONADE.
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It is a helpful, soothing drink, when
flies are had and days aro hot; and
whether it is white or pink it always
seems to hit the spot. I drink it with
the lovely dames where. drugstore clinks
take in the kale; I drink it at the base-
ball games, at home I sip it by the pail.
Of all soft drinks it ia the best, and
every learned physician knows; it al-
ways soothes my savage breast, and
gives my war -bike soul repose. It takes
the fungus from my tongue, and kills
the toadstools in my throat; and I feel
brave and gey and young, when all m'y
innards are afloat; when they're afloat
in lemonade, rny head is clears my nerve
is strong; 1 face my duties unafraid, and
put up hay the whole day long. And
when the cool, grey morning breaks, I
do not see, beside my bed, a bunch of
hydra-headed snakes with pea-green
antlers on each head. I rise refreshed
so full of vim, andof aggressive•strength
so full, that when I've scng my morn-
ing hymn, I go outdoors and whip a
bull. Walt. Mason.
THE DUTY OF METHODISTS.
(The Christian Guardian.)
In the present Ontario election tteere
can be no legitimate doubt as to which
way the liquor trade vvill vote. It is
generally recognized, we think, that
the liquor trade will vote solidly against
Mr. Rowell. There may be a few ex-
ceptions, although we confess we have
heard of none; but we are reasonably
certain, unless all signs fail, that Mr.
Rowell will poll very few liquor votes.
The organized liquor trade, with all the
wealth it can command, with its mil-
lions of dollars, invested in breweries,
distillers, liquor shops and liquor -selling
hotels, will be thrown into the scale
against the rrian .who has dared to
pledge himself to "abolish the bar."
As to this fact we do not think there
can Ise any reasonable doubt.
eiWhat will Methodism do? Here we
have a political leader, a weil-known
Methodist worker, who has taken his
political life in his hand, and, at the
call of the Churthes themselves, has
thrown down the gauntlet to this im-
mensely wealthy and tremendously
powerful traffic. Shall we stand by
him or not? The politicians, who know
something of human nature, have no
doubt of the result in the case, i.e., if
the Churches do not give Mr. Rowell
most unexpected and unprecedented
support. The World of Toronto de-
clares that "Mr. Rowell loses at least
as many Liberal votes over this issue
as he gains Conservative," and probab-
ly most politicians will agree with this
statement and some Liberals are joining
with Conservatives in declaring that
Mr. Rowel/ has made a mistake.
But if there is any mistake the
Churches, and not Mr. Rowell, have
made it. We long ago voted out the
bar, so far .as great temperance gath-
ings and strong resolutions from all
kinds of Church assemblies could do it,
and the question is whether now, when
our votes will count, we are prepared
to say at the polls what we have been
saying for years in our churches and
our prayers.
The chief issue in this campaign is
not the Hydro -electric, nor workmen's
compensation, nor the development of
New Ontario; neither is it Sir James
Whitney nor Mr. Rowell; -it is simply
the issue to which the temperance
forces in Ontario committed themselves
years ago -the abolition of the licensed
bor. It is useless, and worse than use-
less, to argue that the shops will be
left, for we know, and the liquor men
know, that the vote which blots out the
bar will not long allow the shops to
survive.
We can afford possibly to forget par
ties and to forget men, but we cannot
afford to forget this one supreme issue,
and if any temperance voter is in doubt
as to his duty we would suggest that
he ask himself on which side the bar-
room and its habitues, and the whole
liquor trade in general, are ranging
themselves. We venture to say that it
is not on the side of the abolition of the
bar. Can we afford to vote on the
same side as the distillers, the brewers
and the liquor -sellers? We do not think
we can.
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
When incandescent mantles are used
the ceilings immediately above often
beeorne blackened, while the rest re-
mains quite clean. If whitewashed,
the place can be cleaned by being
rubbed over with a mixture of starch
and water of the consistency of cream.
A soft flannel cloth may be used. When
quite dry spread a newspaper under-
neath, and gently rub off the starch.
The black stain will come with it.
To keep a coffee-pot sweet put a
tablespoon of baking soda into it. Fill
it two-thirds full of water and let it
boil for an hour. Then rinse very tho-
roughly. If this is dorm about once a
week, the pot will always smell fresh
and clean.
A good remedy for a cough is to put
a lemort into balling water. l3oil it for
a quarter of an hour. Then press out
the tallp into a jar, removing the pips,
and mix it very thoroughly with a quar-
ter of a pound of honey. Take a tea-
spoonful tybeti required.
TORTURED WITH
RHEUMATISM
Could Not talk, Until "Fruit -
a -lives" Completely Cured Him
CHATTIAIVI, ONT., April 3rd. 1913.
"I mu a veteran of the Crimean War
and the Indian 'Mutiny, volunteering
from the Royal Artillery into the Royal
Engineers, and served under Lord
Roberts during the Indian Mutiny, and
am a pensioner of the British Govern-
ment. Fierce hand-to-hand fighting and
continual exposure, left nee a great suf-
ferer from Rheumatism, so omen so that
my legs swelled uponalting it impossible
for me to walk. My bowels were so cons-
tipated that I only had one passage a
week until I got to using "Fruit-a-eives''.
They cured me of both the Rheumatism
and Constipatiot. In my regular employ-
ment, I walk thirty miles a day and enjoy
perfect health. No more Rheumatism
or Constipation. You are at perfect lib-
erty to peblish this letter if it will be
advantageous to "Fruit-a-tives".
GORGE WALKER
Don't suffer with Rizeirmatism,
Sciatica, Lumbago or Neuralgia all this
winter. Take "Fruit-a-tives ' now and
be free of pain. eoc a box, 6 for ite..eo
or trial size, es. At all dealers or sent'
on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives
Limited. Ottawa.
THE HUMAN ELEMENT.
(Toronto Star.)
The Massey Hall meeting on Thursday
evening has probably led to the revision
and modification of some prophecies as
to the election of June 20. Prophecies
as to elections ,are admittedly risky.
We must admit that we were surprised
by the Ontario wave which defeated
reciprocity and swept the Laurier Gov-
ernment out of power in 1911, One of
our consolations is that some of our
Conservative eriends were equally sur-
prised. On the night before the election
a Conservative of immense experience
and tried sagacity said in private con-
versation that he expected that the
Government would have a majority of
twenty-five,
None of us, perhaps, realizes just
what goes on in the mind and heart of
the voter who, on election day, stands
in the little screened -off compartment,
absolutely free to judge and record his
judgment free from coaxing, persuasion,
personal influence of all kinds -in-
fluenced by nothing except what has
appealed to his reason, his heart, and
his conscience.
What will th it man do on Monday,
June the twenty-ninth? Take the case
of a temperance advocate, who for many
years has been pleading with public men
of both parties to abolish the bar. At
last a leader comes forward who says
definitely.that that is his policy, his in-
tention -that he is in public life for that
purpose. Here is the chance of a life-
time for a temperance advocate -a
chance which may not come again.
For if a clean, honest, earnest man who
comes forward with this as his chief aim
is defeated, what will be the effect upon
other public men? Naturally they will
consider public opinion. If they are not
as enthusiastic about temperance re-
form as Mr. Rowell they will say: "Why
should I sacrifice myself for something
which the people do not want?"
Tens of thousands or electors will be
faced on electioe day with the possibil-
ity of defeating -perhaps forever- a
measure for which they have worked
and hoped for a life -time. Who can
prophesy what they will do? What ex-
pert in the handling of votes can analyze
the minceend the heart of these voters
and say precisely what they will 'think
and feel in the little screened -off room
on the 29th of June, and where they will
mark the cross on the ballot? We are
face to face with a great human pro-
blem, in which th ose who know. the
human heart can help us more than the
electioneering experts.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTOR1A
Skin Trouble
on the Scalp
Skin Dried and Cracked and Hair Fell
Oute,eCurcd by Dr. Chase's Oint-
ment.
Eczema is amaoying ancl distressing
at any time, but doubly so when it
gets into the scalp and causes the hair
to fall out. Here is a grateful letter
from a lady who was cured by using
Dr. Chase's Ointment.
Mrs. Hector Currie, Tohermory,
Ont., writest--"I was cured of a dis-
rtgreeetio skin disease or the scalp
by using Dr. Chase's ointment. The
trouble started with itching and pain
In the seedy, thC skin would get dry
and emelt, and at tittles would bleed,
and the hair woula lan out, 1 tried
three doetors without benefit, and sue -
II red for three years. Reading in tbe
Milian:le about Dr. Chase's Ointment,
T. began its eve, and am now com-
pletely eured. The hair has grown
agate, and T am as well as I ever was.
You are at liberty to use this letter,
for 1 am geed to recommend SO OX.
tellent a treatmeut."
Dr. Chase's tnettment has no rival
a3a cure for itching elan disease,
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ik4107'
BREAKING ICE BARRIERS.
Dynamite and Little Tugs Lead the
Assault on the Croat: Lakes.
Up De oer great Mires wittier Wilde,
those sratere 10 0 Narrow(' grip for
several months, eubstalitlitlly puttleg
an end to well nigh all tradle, Out even
SO, it Is the releshm of certain ot the
big cur ferry rite:me-vs to maintoln
seal ethIng of au a ppro xi ai te se lied tile,
However, every uow and then the
gathering ice packs catch and bold
them despite the best the steitmers eau
do, awl it le only by using dynamite
that they thee emceed in breaking
through these frigla barriers. Occie
atonally it is a veritable battle be -
Moen titanic forces, und it takes cour-
age for, officers and crew to maintain
the struggle. Success is not alwaYs
the fruit of these strenuous efforts.
because It is still fresh in the minds
01 many bow gallant Captain McLeod
ane thirty others perished aboard the
Marquette when that ship foundered
In December, 1009.
Wnat strikes one most forcibly, if he
has seen winter conditions upon the
geeat lakes, is the manner ip which
little tugs are marl to break a passage
clear for large steamers when their big
kin are quite incapable of working
their own way through the ice, not-
withstanding their greater bulk and
far more powerful engines. The secret
Iles in the fact that the tugs are able
to roll about after poking their noses
Into the floe, and in this manner they
attack the ice in a direction where it
Is least capable of offering etrective
resistance. Instead of assaulting the
ice edge on where it is supported by
hundreds of yards -if not, indeed, by
several miles of solid pack -the small
craft bear down upon a thickness of so
many incites, and by sheer weight and
the rapid shifting of this by a rocking
motion, they force It asunder.
The big steamers upon the great
lakes, especially the large car ferries,
could do this very thing for themselves,
and do it upon a greater scale, if they
could be given the needful rolling mo-
tion, but the difflculty lies ill finding
a way to effect this.-Technieal World
Magazine.
FICKLE FORTUNE.
Romance of a Discredited Gold and
Copper Mine.
When the great mineral wealth of
this nation has been finally developed
a chronicler will write the "American
Arabian Nights of Mining." One of
the tales, all of which will be true, will
run somewhat as follows:
Once upon Retinae tlaere was a poor
inan of the name of Billy Harris, who
lived at Spokane, Wash. He was a
horseman, among other miscellaneous
activities, and had acquired a consid-
erable block of stock in a certain Lerol
Mining company, having taken most of
it in payment from those who owed
him money and who had no other as-
sets more tangible. This stock had
kicked about without a sponsor for
two years and was nominally quoted at
around 10 cents a share.
One day a friend came along with a
handsome stallion, and 1311Iy lookedeap-
on the animal with covetous eyes. Dick-
ering began and ended by his paying
over $5,000 of the stock for the stallion.
The seller, on sober reflection, became
dissatisfied with his bargala and
brought suit to recover the horse. He
wY. with a sigh, took back
hiosn'Sd B
taonk
canildl bade the animal a fond
farewell.
Eighteen mouths later Billy sold the
same stock for $250,000 and the re-
mainder of bis bolding,s for as much
again. The Leroi mine was taken over
by Whitaker Wright and an English
syndicate and produced $40,000,000 in
gold and copper. It is not on record
what the original owner of the stallion
said or thought -and perhaps it is just
as well. -Wall Street Journal.
Example of British Humor,
The late Lord Salisbury had a pretty
wit. At the beginning of the South
.African war both his private secre-
taries volunteered, and they were fol-
lowed, says the London Express, by
the Duke of Norfolk, who asked to be
allowed to resign his post of postmas-
ter general and go to the front. "I
suppose you may," said Lord Salis-
bury, "but I do hope Cross won't want
to go." Lord Crops was then lord
privy seal and was nearly eighty!
They Learn Early.
Bessie was sitting on the hotel ver-
anda one afternoon when another
child, gaudily dressed, began to parade
up and down before her, flirting her
fan and swishing her skirts airily.
Bessie stood it as long as she could,
but finally burst out:
"Dresses an' fans does not make
ladies."
"But they helps," the other flung
back over her shoulder as Oho saun-
tered away. -Delineator.
Source of His Love.
"Do you like your new mamma, Eters
"Yes; I like her awful much."
"That fs nice. Do you like het be-
cause she is pretty?"
"No. I like her 'cause i.,broke her
nicest vase yesterday and she blanaed
It on the maid," -judge.
Getting It AIL
"Whet can I bring you today, 'sir?'
41 hardly know. The doctor says I
must have carbohydrates and proteids,
and 1 watt something nitrogenous, I
think."
"Yes, Sir. now about an order of
hash?" -Pittsburgh Post,
Persistent Girl.
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Ethel -Have you heatal of leek's an.
• gagement to nteatior/ liarald-aDet
not Then Jack has finally suc-
ceeded? Dtbel-No, Succumbed, --Lon
don Tatier
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BURIED UNDER PAPERS.
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*Amnon Litter end Fire. Llf• In DO
Q4ulnirey'a'sPreteWs
exiirivaviL
paQ4 mrift
grew out or the morbid value he tlet
upon papers and their not being di*
turbed. Ile was in the habit et name.
mulating these until, itt bis owse,
words, he was "snowed up." MILO
meant that 'when mattere reached WW1
an extremity that there was 110E a
square inch of room on the tabie to
set a cup upon and 00 00ss1bilits el
1.Paiiillg his bed for the weight of pa-
pers gathered there; no enuir wieletz
eould be used for •its legitimate pur-
pose, and the track from the door to
the fireplace, always kept open (iota
tbe last, was completely obliterated iso
that he bad not even place in. which
to set his foot -then De Quincey Mee -
ed the door upon his paper treasures
and turned elsewhere. At Ms deitta
there were at least a half dozen siteh
places "papered" by him and being
maintained at no small expense.
Such a thing had been experienced
as his actually "paperieg" bis family
out or house, but in later years his
daughters !earned how to guard
agaiveteuch a contingency.
De Quiticey uenally vent the even-
ings with bis family. wife looked for-
ward to these houre with much pleas-
ure. Them the arrivalor the newspa-
per be would render the news in his
own quaint manner, questioning the
various thembers of the group about
bim and illuminating the various sub-
jects touehed upon with a wealth ot
memories, good stories or human ei-
periences until the happiest now of
real conversation sprang from tbe cir-
cumstances of the moment.
Ile was not a tranqtelizing compan-
ion for nervous persons to live with,
as those nights were the exceptions on
Willeh he did not set fire to something.
lt was a common occurrence for one
of his daughters to lOok up from her
work.and to say casually, "Papa, Your
hair is on firer to which be would re-
spond casually, "Is it, my love?" and a
band rubbing out the blaze was all the
notice taken.
On one occasion, when, the maid
rushed in to announce that Mr. de
Quincey's room was on fire, he hasteu-
ed to the rescue of his already "snow-
ed up" apartment, refusing all sug-
gestions that:water be poured upon his
treasured papers. Armed with a
heavy rug he disappeared into the
burning room determined to conquer
without water or perish in the atteropt,
while the members of his affrighted
household trembled for his safety out-
side the door, locked to prevent the
abhorred water from being poured in.
Presently, after occasional bursts of
smoke and a very strong' smell of fire,
all were assured that the danger was
over, the victor emerged triumphant-
ly from his fight with the flames, and
the dreaded element having been sub-
due
dfor the evening all retired in a
state of thankfulness. -Prom Caroline
Ticknor's "Hawthorne and His Pub-
lisher."
Fully Explained.
"When and why did James G. Blaine
get his sobriquet, the Plumed' Knight?"
asked the Boston Globe man, who
needn't think everybody has forgotten
that Blaine was a candidate for the
Republican nomination for president in
1816 and that Colonel Robert G. Inger-
soll in placing his name before the na-
tional convention Munched the sobri-
quet thus: "Like an armed warrior,
like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine
marched down the halls of the Amere,
can congress and threw his shining
lance full and fair against the brazen
forehead of every defamer of this
country and maligner of its hewer."
(Business of looking wise and patting
ourself on the cheste-Manchester
Union.
Woes of an Old Time Writer.
High among unconventional writers
stands William Prynne, a Loudon Jour-
nalise in the days when there were no
journals, days when a bulky pamphlet
took the place of a letter to one's fa-
vorite newspaper. Prynne published
about 200 of such pamphlets and Is
said to have averaged a sheet of print
a day throughout lais life. And he
worked in a guilt cap coming over his
eyes to shield them from the light and
stuck at his table all day, being served
with a roll and a pot of beer every
three hours. And he reaped the re-
ward of hie literary efforts In the
branding and pillory and ear cropping
that every political writer risked in
that age.
Honesty In Golf.
The sooner a boy, or a man for that
matter, learns to live up to the motto
"Honesty is the best policy" In golf;
as in other things, the better for him.
There is no garae which gives a com-
petitor a better opportunity to cheat.
But for that very reason there is no
game in which the cheat, when dis-
covered, as it usually is sooner or tater,
is looked upon with greater contempt.
-Francis Ouinaet in St. Nicholas.
Complicated.
"You must stop worrying and take a
holiday," said the SLUM practitioner.
"My dear doctor," replied the irrita-
ble patient, "it I could get My strain
tlito a thane that would permit ale te
take a holiday I'd be so relieved that
'wouldn't need one." -London Opinion.
Not Duo Vet,
"Does your wife ever nag you?" ask..
al the first walking gentleman.
"No," answoed the second. "We've
only been married a year. She Calid
it toe -ring tio far." --Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Imaginary evils soon become rood
ales b1 fuduig1 refiectiona on them,
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