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There .are 'three types of hosiery—
out goods, seamlessor "knot to fit,!'
and full fashioned.. The first is the
cheapest ;and poorest. The length is
knit and' the heel and toe served in
with a rather bulky seam, The seam-
less stocking is knit whole' and usual-
ly fits badly, losing its shape still
further in washing, although there
are several brands that are fairly well
shape.% and give.gdod service, . Itis
well fo buy an extra long foot in this
Cane•. • ,
Full-fashioned stockings have a
mane through the- entire. length, and.
are widened- out toward the -top by
means ef.ektra,stitches. These are the
hest made anal most . shapely stook-
ings.
As the • prices of hosiery advanced,
during the war, stockings seemed to
grow smaller, so that it is now ad -1
visable to select a size larger than
the one formerly worn. This preeau-
tion should always he observed in the
purchase. of silk stockings. Itis-well.
also to -buy, what is known as "out-�
sizes" which are larger around the
top
than the regular size. : Out -size
stockings were originally. intended for
•persens of more than ;average
weight; but slender -folks found that
stocking supporters did -not strain the
_wider taps as they did -these of•regu-
lar size, so more:and more shoppers
are asking for the out-siees.,
Lisle stockings, in both plain and
mercerized yarns, look well and give
better returns for the money than if
silk stockings were bought. Men have
never worn silk stncicings to the. ex-
tent that they now wear them; and
not since stockings were all of home
manufacture, •haee.they won'n: so many
made of wool, They have found that
wool' socks and these made of nixed
(cotton and wool) yarns give excel-
lent service and are very comfortable.
In between, we find many styles made
of cotton or Bele. As men's socks
are subjected to such hard wear, it is
well to buy only well-known or guar-
anteed brands that will give good
service.
Ribbed stockings are best -for chil-
dren, as they show darns less than
the Blain weaves. Some mothers con-
' fine tb,eir purchases - to ane brand,
finding it easier to match up .stack_
ings when an accident happens to one
of a pair. •'Men me also finding this
a good rule to fallow.
All etoekings wear longer if wash-
ed. before being worn, as the washing
tightens the threads,and makes them
firmer. Thesis especially tame of'silk
stockings: Ail,other waxy to prolong
the life "of ]tbsiery is to rinse• the
feet ofstooki'ngs each night, while
alit stockings •ase etrengthemed by
having the heels and •toes rubbed (in-
side) with. wale, •
Every housewife has her own meth-
od of washing stockings, but not
every one knows that stooldngs should
be hung on the line wrong side out
and in the shade, for sunlight turns
black stockings to a greenish shade.
Tan and brown stockings always fade,
and the color can be restored 'by
.washing them occasionally with a
brown soap dye. White silk stocic-
'ings are se affected by the light,
Which turns them yellow, that care-
ful people' wash and, dry them at
night. On the athero hand, white cot-
ton stockings are improved by the
sunlight.
All stockings should be marked,
not only to facilitate sorbing, but to
prove ownership. Woven names or
initials for each member of the fam-
ily are excellent not only for mark-
ing, but for mating the pairs,- and
are inexpensive when it is remember-
ed that the tapes on -which they are.
woven will outlast several pairs of
stockings. By. sewing the name or
initial in different positions' on each
pair, .stockings can be casily,..sorted
and. mated. Tapes can be; variously
sewed' en the front, back, or sides
of the hem, along the edge or an inch
.'or two'below it, and stockings are
mated by the position•of`the letter. -
It is also possible to mark the
stockings by using white darning
Icotton on black or tan stockings and
colored marking thread . on white
stockings. Mark in cross stitch, one
cross for mother, two for the eldest
daughter, three for the next eldest
and so on; and use the seine system
fox fathee and the bays.
Select darning cotton with care. If
I stockings are worth darning, the work
should be done with good yarn, for
the cheaper grades are harsh and the
colors awe likely to fade. Mercerized
'sotto -is (which does not.fade) is best
for silk and lisle hosiery.
There• are `various expedients for
preventing wear en stockings. • To
prevent their being torn by the hose
supporters, some wearers cut off the
tops of the old stockings and slip
thein under the stockings that are 'be-
ing worn. The best way to repair a
"run" or "ladder" is to fold the stock-
ing and overcast the ladder wibh.
closely set stitehes. When darning,
accommodate your thread to the tex-
ture of the stocking. • Two threads
will da for the sides of the foot where
the darn will rest over the joint, and
fol• all parts of stockings of fine
weave. Four threads will be needed
in darning stockings of heavier weave
and fax holes that come over the toes.
Darning is easi)y, done if a piece of
net is first basted over the hole. Draw
the thread through the meshes, skip-
ping every other mesh, leaving the
open meshes free for darning in the
opposite direction. No matter how
large the hole, it can be darned
evenly and in good shape, By darn-
ing diagonally across the holes in
beers or toes, the, darned places will
give with the stretch of the nose and
will, last -much -danger., Save the better
parts of the ebildren's stockings for
patching Image holes. As the ribs
Often vary, try to match the stoeldngs
as nearly as possible. A neat patch
set in at the knees, with the worn
parts cut put in square or oblong
shape and • neatly bevelled down
(without turning- in an edge), bales
fur better than a 'botchy, pxoaninent
dank, and takes less time,
When holes in tits heels are too big
to darn, 'cut oet the worn ,part entire-
ly, then with a crochet needle and
damling cotton or Saxony yarn go
round and round with double crochet
stitch, gradually ,dinianishi:ng the
stitolies until the hole has been com-
pletely filled. When the hole gets
,small enough, Slip your woodeht darn-
er into 'the' stocking so that you may
be able to get the right sbape to the
heel, 'This method is especially good
fax the bays' stockings,
The Handy Man.
There is an almost universal opin-
ion that every girl should be. brought
up to be oapable in the domestic ae'ts,
to be, in abort; a good housekeeper;
but it is generally deemed'of les's•,im-
poxtance that every boy should be
brought up to be a handy man about
the house. Even among the families
of those who lay moat stress upon the
value of education there are many
who do not regal'd incapacity to "fix
things" as a serious matter. If a
boy stands well in his classes at
school, his- parents are likely to ex-
cuse a certain incompetence on his
part in dealing with jobs that require
some practioal knowledge end manual
dexterity. They may evenfeel that
it is the natural attribute of one who
is destined to large intellectual
achievement. It is a foolish nation,'
of course,- but many .people are fool-
ish about their children.
Just as virtually every girl learns
mend broken furniture and set panes
of glass in broken windows, to thaw
frozen pipes and put in new washers
where faucets are dripping; and to
repair electric bells that are out of
order—to say nothing of "managing
the furnace"—and knowing how to
start a fire in the kitchen stove. In
short, the boy should qualify -himself
to became a householder just as his
sister qualifies ` herself to become a
housekeeper.
Keeping Potatoes From Sunburning.
Many housewives hare to .use San -
burned potatoes throughout the winter
and spring, as the result of a little
heedlessness. They wonder why their
potatoes turn dark when they are
cooked and are not more mealy and
palatable. Too much light in the cel-
lar is frequently the cause. Potatoes
may be injured by sunshine without
actually showing sunburn on the sur-
face. Often you can detect the slight
greenish binge just beneath the skin
when there are no outward signs of
it. It may be seen at times as a dis-
tinct layer of green cells immediately
below the outer skin.
In the ordinary cellar potatoes are
kept in too much light. The housewife
uses those from the top of the pile
and those exposes these beneath,
which in turn are subjected to the
unfavorable light rays. In that way
it is easy to be using sunburned po-
tatoes constantly without realizing it.
Potatoes that have been in a light
room or in line with the ,sunlight shin-
ing through•a cellar window for only
a very few days are seriously injured.
They are heavy and soggy, dark col-
ored and not uniform in texture when
cooked.
It is always adyisable to keep the
potato pile covered with gunny sacks,
canvas of some such material if the
cellar is at all light. It is still easier
to tack gunny sacks over the win-
dows.
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Dangers of Dry Air in Homes.
The air of our houses in the winter
time is drier than that of any desert.
This is not good for folks, one dis-
advantage of it being that the mucous
membrane which lined the nose pas-
sages and throat is kept too dry, and
liability to colds is increased.
To remedy the trouble resort is bad
to various expedients, such as keeping
a supply of water in receptacles at-
tached to the furnace in order that
it may moisten the air by its evapora-
tion. This helps, though inadequate
for the purpose.
There is no such thing as absolutely
dry air in pature. Alivays it contains
mare or less water, though a quantity
of it may be rendered entirely water -
free in the laboratory.
The percentage of water that air can
hold in. suspension depends upon the
temperature of the latter. In air at 70
degrees Fahrenheit there may be as
much as eight grains of water to the
cubic foot, but no more. It is then
"saturated."' This means that sixty
cubic feet of air would be required to
hold one pound of water.
But air at 10 degreen will hold M
suspension a little more than twenty-
six grains of water,
On the other hand, air at a tem-
perature 20 degrees below zero can
Bold less than one-fifth of' a grain of
water,
A glass of ice water in a warmroom
rapidly accumulates moisture on its
outside. This is because the air'iln-
mediately surrounding the glass is
cooled and thereby rende€"ed unable to
hold its water, which condenses upon
the surface of the glass.
The clouds in the slcy are composed
of tiny globules of widen Formerly it
was supposed they were hollow like
soap bubbles; else, it was argued, how
could they float?
Mines 'Lit by Candles.
The gold, diamond and other mines
of Smith •Africa are enormous con-
sumers of candles, According to the
commercial year book for 1920 of the
Johannesburg Clamber of Oonimeree,
these mines in the preceding twelve
months used 9,017,710 pounds of par•
rafin teleounco candies, The• bulk of
these, 8,218,307 pounds, was consumed
in trio gold mines of the Rend,
IH the coal Jellaba of the United
States, no dandies aro used, for fear
Of duet explosions; but o great many
of them aro burned in our notal
mines, Even in,.thc latter carbide
lamps are preferred, and these have
been replaced to sono extent by oleo.,
trio lamps foci froxn small storage bat-
teries, The hector/ le attached to the
miner's back at the waist, the cord
passing up behind and over his head
to the laws foxed above bis toroltoatj,
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By RAYMOND 5. SPEARS.
PART II, • `
Hour after hour LePage” held his
Course, running into the northwest;
then suddenly•he saw the clouds on
the 'horizon rise and sweep toward
dirk,
The storm was 'coming, but be was
more than halfway to Otter. Island.
The long white streamersraced
across the alcy, and a nionxeet later
out of the • west came the crowding
banks of wind and the sharp, driving
sleet.
LePage had only one thing to do
then, and that was to find shelter in-
stantlye He headed for shore and
scanned, the line for some openhlg
into which .he could make hie way.,
Directly ahead lay the' island at the
entrance .to Oiseau Bay, He raced
Tor it, and as the .wind struck hien and
drove the spray from the wave 'tops
he rounded the stones and rode a long
swell into the sheltered cove. Looking
back, he saw the waves that were
smashing against the island, and the
lake white with the breaking crests.
In, his boat there were only a few
bucketfuls of water. Ile had got so
far in safety.•
The storm might be a squall or a
gale, and the sleet might last an hour
or a week. He must. have shelter of
some kind. He followed the shore
line slowly, watching through the
sleet, for he knew that somewhere in
the bay there was a trapper's cabin.
Near a sandy beach he saw a blur
against the trees. Throwing over the
anchor, he worked the boat to the
shore and there made it fast by the.
stern so that it swung clear. LePage
found the cabin dry. On the floor
was driftwood for the stove, and
presently he was sitting beside a red-
hot firer listening to the roar of the
gale as it beat against his shelter.
All the rest of the afternoon the
wind howled; and then at sunset there
was an explosion in the western sky;
the sunshine burst through the storm
and spread a brilliant wave of danc-
ing light across the water. A ininute
later the sun.wept down and with it
the wind.
LePage immediately went to his
boat, cast off, started the motor and
headed out into the lake. It was a
black sea again; not a whitecap show-
ed except where the waves crashed
against the shore. It proved to be a
black night also, for not a star glim-
mered overhead, and no light broke
the darkness of the gloomy shore.
There was a shift in the running of
the waves, because the squall- had
come diagonally against the coast,
and the motor boat'now-moved quer-
, tering before the waves. For -a whale
the only sounds were the roar of the
surf and the steady purr of the en-
gine;'then from the shore LePage
heard the long hungry howl of the
wolves, and it made him think of the
man at the light.
passing wind to part, and the boat
descended into a rocking, dancing
calm of a lee where the • uning of the
motor was the closest sound• the
storm seemed to have passed by on
the other side, leaving only puffs of
breeze that circled- mid eddied,
"A. lee—a lee!" gasped Will Le-
Page, looking round in bewilderment.
The 'next instant he put the Wheel
hard over just in time to steer the
boat along a dark stone ledge against
which the backwash rose and fell, .
He reduced the motor to half speed
and tried to gather his wits• A min-
ute latex on the starboard side a dark
passage opened, He turned intoit
while the galepassed high over his
head, and the waves washed gently
under the bow.
Scarcely had he caught his breath
when he saw a yellow glow in the
snow to the starboard, and then he
knew. The storm had carried him
over the point of the rocks said had
swung him down in the lee of Otter
Island; this avas the harbor. It was
midnight or near morning; he Could
not tell which. The glow must be the
light, keeper's cottage, for the ship
Light was on the outside of the island.
In the comparative calm ho ran the
boat to the low dock and nrade fast.
Taking one of the 'boxes, he jumped
up to the walk, hurried to the cottage
and climbed the side steps. Without
stopping to rap he walked in,
Beside the stove, in which there
was a bright Are, sat a gaunt, inotio-n-
less man whom LePage scarcely
recognized. His chin rested on his
chest, and his arm hung by his side.
"Captain!" cried LePage. "Capt.
McDell!"
The man's shoulders stirred, and he
slowly lifted his head and opened his
eyes.
"Hello, cap'n!'.' said LaPage.• "I've
brought those supplies down,".
Capt. MeDell's head dropped for-
ward again, and LePage• crossed
quickly to bis side. On the -floor near
the table he noticed a -large wolfskin
from which a piece hall been cut; and
in a can of boiling water on the stove
he found the piece. The captain had
been preparing to eat it!
"The supplies!" be heard Capt. Me -
Dell mutter in a weak voice.
"Yes, I brought up some canned
soups and a dozen or more boxes of
pilot bread."
LaPage opened a can of soup with
a hatchet, smoothed the sharp edges
and handed it to the captain.
"This will taste good to you," he
said.
With trembling hands the captain
took it, and when he had tasted it he
looked up and then turned -his -head
away for fear the young man .should
notice what was in his eyes.
(The{ End.)
When the King Opens •
Parliament.
There are a pair of gates M London
that are kept permanently shut to
conveyances everyday of the year ex-
cept one. These gates lead out of
Dean's Yard. Westminster, into a lane
that runs straight down to the House
of Lords. They are only opened on
the day on which his Majesty the King
opens Parliament M person.
On that day his Majesty proceeds
from Buckingham Palace in a wonder-
ful old coach, drawn by jet-black
horses. Whilst the King is on. his way
Yeomen of the Guard still search the
vaults under the Houses of Parlia-
ment, to ensure the safety of the
monarch and his Ministers.
When the Sovereign reaches the
House of Lords guns are fired M St.
James' Park. The moment of arrival
le signalled by hand. Flag -signallers
stand on the towers of the Houses of
Parliament, and send their messages
to other signallers on Government of-
fices overlooking the park. From
thence it is conveyed to the troops be-
low.
Ministers await the arrival of the
King outside the House, and then take
up their pj3sition in the procession to
the Lords. Usually a large number of
peeresses attendas well.
Everybody stands, and it is "hats
off" for the Black Rod when be passes
down the central corridor on his way
to summons the Commons, who enter
a few minutes later at a rapid marsh
—their pace is always quick—to hear
the Iiing'a speech.
The King's Speech is prepared by
the Cabinet, and deals with the inter-
national situation, and reviews the
legislation it is intended to introduce
during the next Parliamentary year,
At intervals the boy glanced over
his shoulder, watching the dark hori-
zon for that terrible white line that
would herald a squall. For a few more
hours he went, on without a pause;
then suddenly ahead of him he
glimpsed a light; it could be none
other than Otter Island light staring
M the dark, Within the hour, then,
he would be under the lee 5 the bay.
The relief was so, great • that La -
Page began to • sing, and for a little
while as the light grew brighter and
brighter he sang at the top of his
voice. Then suddenly the light began
to fade little by little. It was blotted
out, only to appear againa moment
later and then go out again. LePage
sat up straighter, wondering what
was the matter. Over his shoulder
came a low whining sound, and he
glanced back the cold chills crept
down his spine. A puff of wind drift-
ed by, followed by a sharp spatter of
sleet.
Ile had ben steering a little to the
right of the light in order to pass
the point of the island, and he was
more than a anile offshore. The squall
was conning from the north, and the
sleet was turning into snow that was
softer but no less stinging. Before
he could think, the smother was upon
him; the long, shore line of breaking
waves disappeared, and the waves
themselves were lost to sight, veiled
in the howling, snow -bearing wind.
"They'll never know what became
of me!" LePage thought, in that first
gasp of error. "It's all rocks along
the shore here; I can't snake the har-
bor! I've got to run before it!"
It was a terrible sea; the wind did
not run true to the course of the
waves, but partly tressed them., On
the crests were the hissing, running
whitecaps, and down in the trough
there was a flutter of wind and the
cross -snapping of the short waves.
The motor was boxed in, and the
tarpaulin was spread over the cargo
in the pit. LePage eat in the bow
at the wheel, holding the course,
There was nothing else to do in that
gray -black welter. The waves came
M under the stern, lifted it until it
seemed that the boat was going over
and then pounded down on the stern
deck and splashed aboard.
Ile eased the wheel a bit and let
the boat run a little freer before the
gale and 'rather nearer the shore.
Every minute the waves jumped high-
er, and the whitecaps came over with
a harder pound and a wilder crash.
There was no false idea of danger
in Will LePage's. mind at that mom-
ent. He knew Lake Superior and
had seen its wrath before Ilis boat
was proving more seaworthy than 110
had ever dreamed it was, but the
water was washing round his feet
r with a rush
now, taming forward
1and swinging
h 1 the bow was dawn
when b�
back when the stern sank. &t any
moment a comber might break over
the rail and leave the boat water-
logged with a dead engine, That
would be the end,
The storm was screaming now; the
very lips of the waves seemed to vi-
brato with shrill whistling. Only the
White mist of the snow and the dark,
leaping water just ever the rocking
side of the boat were visible, Then
suddenlyLePage felt the boat rising
and risng, rolling up on a mountain.
ours wave, '
"rat's all overs" he gasped, for he
realized that when the wave broke
his boat must break with It and roll
over and over in the tumbling water
and tow.
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and, then, eliding and darting, oho
motor boat shot straight down it long
slave, There wail a roar of smashing
breakers 10 starboard and the wail pf
Mulching Wit, With
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Tho'Ounlling'0f en oltl'beet'tbat Mr.
balled A, Milts tails -about In bra beak
The grizzle, shows what a why antag-
onlitt Ybti will bare aalast yen if Voll
ever try to nfatah wits: with Old epi-
Afier easeiiig an hour or more with-
out seeing the bear, sane Mr. Mills,'
who was fallowing A grittily to study
his behavior, 1 olhnbad a cliff, hoping
to get a gihnpse at him kn somo ridge
aliead. I could see Illslineof traoks
eroseing a low ridge beyond sand felt
that lie might still be an hour or 00 in
the lead, But in descending the cliff
I chanced to look back along my trail,
Just at that moment the bear came out
of the woods belifad ine, 13e was
trailing me!
I da not know how he (Useovered
that I was following him, He may
have seen me oar scented hie, . At any
rate, instead of coming directly beak
and thus exposing himself, he had
very nearly carried out hie' well-plan-
ned surprise when I discovered him.
I found out afterwards that, leaving
Iris trail tax ahead of ine, he bad turn-
ed and walked back fn his own -foot-
prints for a distance, After trampling
this stretch a number of tithes he had,
leaped into sorubby timber and. made
off on the side' where hie tracks did
not show.
Ater discovering him on my trail I
went slowly alongas if unaware of his
presence. He followed within three
hundred feet of me. When I stopped
he stopped. He oceaeioually watched
me from behind bushes, a tree ea a
boulder.
I concluded to turn the tables on
him. After crossing a ridge where I
was for the moment out of his' sight,
I turned to the night and ran for near-
ly a mile. Then, . circling hack into
our old 'trail behind the bear, I travel-
led serenely along, imagining that be
was far ahead. I was suddenly start-
led to see his shadow move from be-
hind a boulder near the trail, only
three hundred feet ahead of•me! At
the place where I had left the trail to
circle behind him be had stopped and
apparently guessed my movements,
for, turning in his tracks', he had come
a abort distance back on the trail and
lain down behind the .boulder to wait
for. me.
• I Went on a few steps after discover-
ing him, and he moved to keep out of
sight. I edged toward a tall spruce,
which I planned to climb if he charged.
Pausing by the spruce, 1 could see his
silver-gray fur as he peered • at me
from behind the boulder. I concluded
finally that it was best not to follow
him farther. Going a short distance
down among the trees, I built a rous-
ing lire, Between it and the cliff I
spent the night, satisfied that I had
had adventure enough for one outing.
X -Ray Aids Customs I'fficials.
It le hard to see hew wo managed
to get along without the X-ray. Now-
adays it finds ao many employments,
most of them very necessary, Sur-
geons use the Xray to examine frac-
tures of bowie; dentists, to discover
hidden abscesses at the roots of teeth,
etc.
The newest use for the mysterious
ray, however, 15 to detect dodgers of
smugglers. 1'acleagee are examined for
contraband without dlaturbing the
wrappings; cakes of soap in which
diamonds may be concealed
are similarly inspected, and the cus-
toms officers do not hesitate to go so
far as to radiograph the shoos a wo-
man lids on her feet. She 1s not even
obliged to take thein off. There may
be a ring hiciclen in the heel of 0 neat
boot, or in the solo.
During the war the X-ray was used
Lo detect contraband in. bales of cot-
ton\ and other materiel shipped to
Europe, It did the work So well that
many maunfacturera and shippers
make it business of "ehadowgraphing"
articles in 'search of flaws,
Ono of the moat remarkable new
uses for the X-ray Is to detect the
presence of valuable pearls in mussels
and pearl oysters, This Is already
done commercially in Ceylon, Oysters
proved are thereby I 'oved not to con-
tain pearls aro restored Io the beds,
thus avoiding their needless desiruo-
tien, ,
A "duck of a man" often makes a.
goaae of a husband,
Motoring on a Wall.
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The "Phrenology" ic,aOnibug,
There bas recently been a marked
revival et the "p'hrenology" humbug,
and elxarlatans are Calming phoney by
oxaixxining people's "bumps" and draw-
ing' therefrom analytical eouchisiofis
in regard to their talent's and traits
of character.
,1'he,elevocer falters in this line ape-
oialize in the alleged study of physiog-
nomy as indicative of psyctile traits,
etc, This sort of thing "goes?' wondol•-
fully well, inasmuch as the avoragd
peretion is mush interested In his own.
fico and in what it may be eupposod
to express,
Physical anthropologists, however,•
are firm in asserting that there ie
nothing whatever in the idea. There
is no essential relation between the
features of a human individual and his.
character—boyoud, of course, the foot
that disposition and temperament may
and commonly do ed Modify the mus-
cular structure, especially about the
mouth, as to render the expression in-
dicative. Thele, for example, a $our
temper or a crafty habit of mind will
show ttaelf in a person's face more
and nxore as he grows older.
A prominent chin does not neces-
sarily signify firmness of character;
nor, when exaggerated, does k mean
brutality. Stbry-writers nowadays
teach us that eyes set "too close to.
gether" indicate slyness and mean:
nese. There is no more truth in that
idea than in the notion that a big nose.
suggests generosity.
Where beauty of feature is concern-
ed one might say that it depends fun-
damentally upon the shape of the skull
mask. A woman's skull is more light-
ly constructed than that of a man, and
even the texture -of its bones is more
delicate.
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Women! Use "Diamond -
Dyes. "
Dye Old Skirts, Dresses, Waists,
Costs, Stockings, Draperies,
Everything.
Each package of "Diamond Dyes'
contains easy directions for dyeing
any article of wool, silk, cotton, linen,
or mixed goods, Beware! Poor dye
streaks, spots, fades, and ruins ma-
terial by giving it a "dyed -look." Buy
"Diamond Dyee" only. Druggist has
Color Gard,
• The first motor vehicle introduced
into West China has caused a great
sensation, -
A mtseionary •residing in Szechuan,
returning from a holiday, took back
with him a motorcycle, the gift of
some friends in America. It is the
first thing on wheels seen west of
Hankow, and .the owner spends moat
of hie tine demonstrating its powers
to schools and civic bodies in the pro-
vincial capital.
This motor -cycle has given its own-
er more publicity than all the mission-
ary work he has done in the city.
There is a certain amount of thrill
in navigating the first motorcycle
through the narrow streets of a Chi-
nese city, and up to the present the
only comfortable place fax -driving has
been found to be the top of tho city
wail!
Baby Bombs.
"Baby" incendiary bombs, which
British aircraft used during the war,
were so small that a Handley -Page
aeroplane could carry 4,000 of then.
In six weeks 8,+,000 of these bombs
ware dropped on German Industrial
towns.
Perfume at' $80- an Ounce.'
Last year's harvest of Bulgarian
roses, on which the perfume manufac-
turers depend for attar of roses, was
one of the worst on record.
Consequently the price of the es-
sence has gone up considerably,
though it i9 not even now so high as
during the last two years of the war,
when the best attar sold in the Lon,
don markets et from $26 to $36 an
ounce.
The wholesale price just now is
round about $20 an ounce. Before the
war it was $7.60, Contrary to palmier
belief, however, attar of roses is by
no means the moat expensive scent on
the market.
Civet is worth wholesale just now
$26 an entree, and musk $80; ambergis,
which forms rho basis for nearly all
the beet quality scents, costs $60 an
ounce, These prices •reter, in the case
of perfumes, to the essential oils, one
or two drops of which will make quite
a decent -sized bottle of scent
Only dealers in precious stones car
ry more valuable steels in a small
space than the dealers in these highly -
concentrated, eesential oils. A safe in
the office of a firm of wholesale per-
fumers will frequently contain stock
worth $126,000.
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