HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-10-6, Page 6In The Old Clock's lIcart
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The wailer) W111 neva, gave a final
glans at lids• tables 'v'it0' their **ire
tiled high oil top .aret turned o lleave
the empty, dimly' lighted dining room
of •tho big sutulner hotel, fila work
was over for the slight and, he moved
Wearily: toward the swinging doors
that led to the regio,, of the kitchens,
his rubber soles their/414 softly as he
evened the floor. As lie passed the
2231110 nearest the door, the braze
sconce with its grey -au rasa shade
cat a thin ray of light that extended
to the end of the blare straight table
leg. Ile glanced down abs itll't• minded-
ly and the gleam of something bright
r
gt eye,
fit lie
and red the floor sari, t Y
a 1 ei on
(hienmens stooped over carefully, fav-
bring his rheumatic joints, and picked
up an. almond shaped, s•atactltly polish-
ed red stone. Ila straightened upslow-
ly and, standing directly under the
light, held the stone In tl,e palin of
lois hand, where it lay like a great
clear drop of blood.
A.•crafty look spread over hie weak
exceptionally small features and
glancing furtively around to make
surd that he was alone in the dining -
roam, he slipped the stone into the
pocket of his low-cut vest.
"Gawdl" he exclaimed, "wot if 'it
'wuz reall"
He extinguished the remaining
lights and, passing through the doors,
took a dirty straw hat from a peg
at his right. As he went through the
kitchen, the chef was to a heated eon-
vereetion with one of the kitchen boys,
and' neither heard his stuttered
1'g'night "
Crinimens walked down the steep
hill that led from the big hotel, his
left hand fingering the smooth cool
stone in his pocket. Over and over
again, the words, "wet if it wuz real!
wot if it wuz real!" chanted through
his mind. Once he thought he heard
et noise and paused to listen intently,
both hands held tight against his' vest.
If he were held up! But after' standing
alert and silent in the shadow of the
trees for a few minutes, he decided
ethet he inust have been mistaken, and
:o walked on as hurriedly as his stiff-
ened joints would 'permit.
What if the stone -should be a real
ruby! lie reasoned that everybody who
(lame to the hotel was rich; the wo-
men all wore grand jewelry. It must
have dropped from some woman's
ring or necklace as she sat at dinner.
Should, he return it and take a chance
on getting a reward? The more fool
him! Theist women wasn't lanolin' out
its more than a careless "titanic you."
C' t:ch him talon' it hack, He'd keep it
--hide St•- and altar the thing had
Wowed over, he'd sell ill There • was
stere than one way to get by with it.
Ifo kcnoiaed a-gu;. in tho city—
Hes reflections were cut short by his
arrival at Itis home, a small grey-
white cottage that huddled among the
bushes like a scared thing. As usual,
the lamp in the hall wee burning dim-
ly. His .wife, dog-tired niter a 'day
spent over .the wash, tub filled with
other people's clothes, had • gone to
heti, leaving hint tolock up the house
• and pub out the Imp.
Crimmens picked up the green -shad-
ed oil lamp and holding it carefully,
stealthily entered a .'bare, scantily
furnished roan that served as kitchen
and dining -room; Closing, the door
softly, he pbiced tho Itilup on the table
with its soiled red• sod• -white cloth,
drew... -up a battered wooden chair and
tatting the stone from his pocket, held
it under thc.light, Although he knew
nothing about jewels, both instinct and
reason told hits this .was valuable.
Where could he hide it? He glanced
around the room hi perplexity, hid
great luillcing shadow forming gro-
tesque shapes- as he turned this way
and that searching for a• hiding place:
On a sheif'in the corner stood an
old-fashioned square clock with bat=
tend' fa -cc. the lower hall painted .with
a brightly colored sunset. Crimmons
regarded the, cloak doubtfully as Ate
sharp staccato ticking knocked against
the listening_, silence of the room.
Crossing ...over to Aim shelf, he lifted
the clock"carefully, laid it face down
on the table .and .opened the._ back..The
coiled spring suggested a possibility:
Ile forced the stone way back in .the
ccil, usingthe blade of a penknife to
lodge it there securely and' out of
sight. Then lie replaced the clock, set
it going and gave a hast look about
the room before putting out the lamp.
lee :Tent of the, part Destiny. had
chile') for 111113 in the events that wore
to ,'lake up the history of the stone,
linmens made ready for bed: But
he wets far too excited to sleep, and
final:y, finding the heat of the. humid
edited more than euald be borne in
the etoily, luw-ec•iiin,;ed bedroom, he
tool; his wallow end wont out o:: the
fwt•ch where h.c settiod himself in a
*1.331.1'3- a1r'i hammock,
'b,:nn he slept heavily, the rumbling
of a rapidly approadhing bhundee.
sill;.lis winking •1133 impression 011 hie
consciousness. In the morning, his
wife found hint in the hatnrnock, dead;
The doctor said that the lightning had
struck 111111 as he lay there sleeping,
(rite:nuns wife, always discontent-
ed in the country, made immediate
plans to move to the' elle!, She sold
all the furniture, including the old
chick, to n second hand dealer, and
thus the stone passed out of the Crim -
rases' peel:meion.
Before Mrs, • Gr•immer's left she
11e -.'d Tumors of the loss, up at the
hotel, of •a'valuable jewel, and a notice
in the local paper nttrlteted her atten-
tion. •
"The loss of n beautiful. and costly
piece of rod aa`ebor, weighing ablaut
two carats," she read, "is reported by
Mr. T. Langdon: Laird. Mr, and Mrs.
Laird are staying at the A1teivant for
, the summer'. Mr. Laird found the
amber while travelling in Italy ani
had it set in a pendant for his wife.
It is estimated that the :atone is worth
f+o'awtiqqt4 r4.4
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1'i;otne soca Inns ov ythlnrs" Wife
ed Mrs, (Slfinelonth "1 kuppli8q solin1e
rich man o Wo, an will flnui it who
doesn't need no It2h{) anywayi
In the meantime,g
Q,aeolettlI and
furniture lealer earnsd oR rte went -
pea's clo t, to Ills musty o eh p in
the Perlciolhen Valley and there In an
obscure corner, dust -covered, it rested
telling no tales, while filer's •erere sent
by the pollee to pawnshops mkt jewel-
ry stores in neighboring cities.
In the same Perlciomen Valley, in
the drowsy, one -street village of Ar-
borville, lived Anthony Bersach anti
his sunny, golden -haired daughter.
Constance, Throe minutes' walk front
the little wooden station and up a
steep pale of 'stone steps, stood An-
thony's tiny reel brick shop and house,
with tits perlleinkle vine clanvbering
ale over the porch. Here, day after
day, in the little workshop at the front •
of the house, sat old Anthony, shoul-
ders bent, soft grey hair just 'touched
by tate sun that peeped over his shoul-
der with friendly interest,
Everything about Ar'U.ervile was
friendly. The friendly neighbors who
brought their queer old country clocics
for Anthony to mend, would stop for
a chat with him and ho would remove
the jeweler's gleags—which .gave him
such a ferocious look—from his eye,
and would pass the time of day hie
gaunt, rather wistful features bright-
ening to a friendly smile, his twinkly
brown eyes—which were quite the
friendliest eyes lit all friendly Arbor-
ville-•beaming with 'good nature and
kindliness.
Surrounded by his clocks Old An-
thony worked patiently and' happily,
day after day, and there, at twelve
o'clock, came Constance, Anthony's
daughter, a slender wispy bit of sun-
shine her light wavy hair caught back
in a loose knot, her in'own eyes rival-
ing the sun in bright happiness.
"Daddy," she said, as she stood in
the doorway, trying very hard to look
severe, the twinkle in her eyes. belying
every word, "must .I call yoti every
day at noon? Don't you know that
dinner is ready?"
Out came the jeweler's glass and,
with a little loug ,.C.onstaneo was nt
his side, her cool soft cheek against
his wrinkled face.
"And what hays you been doing this
morning?" asked. Anthony, as with
one arm over his daughter's shoulder,
they walked slowly through the nar-
row, dark hall into the sunny leiteben.
"Ob, working for a while," she
answered, "and sewing for a while
and then reading."
"But daughter," b.e remonstrated,
"don't you know I told you that you
must not do any work. That's what
Hannah is for. The doctor says you
are to rest" And Anthony's face
clouded, and a troubled' look drove
away all the beaming friendliness
from his epos.
For Anthony had a sorrow that was
weighing on him heavily, bringing a
greater droop to the shoulders that in
his youth had been broad and strong,
and accentuating the wistful expres-
sion of the friendly lined fete. Ce n -
stance, his daughter, his girl, was sick
and the doctor said that she must go
away.
Since her mother's death four years
before, when Constance was eighteen,
she had kept' house for her father and
they had lived happily together. She
sang gaily ea she dusted eind cleaned
and sewed and darned; and old An-
thony would pause in his/ work and
listed frith a smile as he heard her
bustling fdbout with the lilt of a merry
little song :en' her'lips,'Btit for some
time now there has 'been no bustling
abhht and 'dry' little singifig,' far al-
ways she seamed too tired to sing
and .often—too often—a shame little
cough would strike terror to An-
thony's 'heart.
"It is 'nothing- serious—yet;" the
doctor had said saieinnly. "Incipient
eases are not necessarily alarming if
they are taken in time. Six months
at the mountain sanitarium at Round' -
ens* and she should have no more
trouble."
"And how much," asked old Ae-
thony, tremblingly, "will that cost?"
"Olt," said the doctor casually, little
realizing the hopelessness that entered
Anthony's heart, "between five and
six hundred dollars,"
And that eves the sorrow that was
gnawing at Anthony's heart. Six
hundred dollars to him, might as well
be a million, for he had saved barely
a hundred dollars and neither he, nor
anyone he knew 111 Arborville had so
much money. So it was that day after
day, as he bent over his work, the
tick -tock of the clocks was no longer
a friendly accompaniment to his worlc,
but a mournful refrain that chanted
over and over again, "Six hundred dol-
lars, six hundred dollars."
Yet there was nothing to do but
wait and hope, for Anthony was poor
and had 'little prospect of getbing the
money,
Then one day, to Anthony came a
second-hand furniture' dealer, and with
hiih he brought a *Plate mahogany
clock with battered old face and vivid
sunset scene. "P11 let you have it .for
a dollar, Mr. Bersach," he said. "If
you fix it up you ,night be able to
sell it for' twb or three dollars. It's
right pretty," he added,
A.nthany, finding22 next to impos-
sible to refuse anybody anything,
bought the clock, the dealer saying
that he would stop for the money on
his way back. Anthony 'was not very
busy that afternoon, and so, deciding
to tape the'old clock apart to see if his
judgment had been right in the am-
ount of fixing it required ha tools -out
the works, and laying then', on lois
table, picked up a pair of pliers, As
he hold the weeks before 111m his eye
was caught by an unnatural gleans in
the .spitin�• tit tho left. Poking at it
gently with a email screwdriver, he
dislodged rho obstruction and out upon
the table dropped the 11llaeo of red
amber, where it gleamed in the sun-
light with friendly twinkle.
(To be concluded.)
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Accidents That Made History
"A burning hayrick was responsible
for starting me on my running career."
So declared Alfred Shrubb, the
world-famous runner.
Apart from sport, many things of
the greatest service to mankind -have
been discovered by accident. The
rubbing of a piece of amlt6r "evoked,"
to use Faraday's' words, "an invisible
agent which has done for mankind
far more woueereul things than the
genie of Aladdin did or could have
done for liim"; the up -forcing of the
lid of a kettle discovered the marvel-
lous power of steam, and the falling
of an apple demonstrated the law of
natural attraction. The swinging to
and Pro of a suspended lamp gave birth
to the application of the pendulum, to
which the precision- of modern as-
tronomy owes so much.
The manufacture of gunpowder was
discovered by accident. An Augus-
tinian monk, Berthold Schwartz, hav-
ing put a composition of sulphur and
saltpetre in a mortar, it tools fire, and
the stone that covered it was blown
off with great violence. The accident
led the chemist to think that it might
be Used to advantage in attacking
fortified places.
Seen in a Dream.
Leaden shot is attributed to a Bris•
tol plumber who, in 1783, dreamed
that be was out in a shower of molten
lead which fell in the form of spheri-
cal drops. His curiosity being
aroused, he went next day to the top
Of a church and poured some molten
lead into a vessel of water lying be-
low.
To his• great delight, be found that
the lead had.gatheredinto globular
balls, and at once he took out a patent.
One• day, about three hundred' years
ago, a poor optician wusi working in
his'Bli:op ln.the towmof •Middleburg, in
the Netherlands; when his little -girl,'
lied Spa ings' floated with aluminum
pt3na 111s of rust,,...'
who was amusing herself with the ob-
jects lying about, exclaimed, "Oh, see
how near the steeple comes!"
She was looking through two lenses,
one held close to her eye, the other at
arm's length, one being convex, the
other concave. The optician saw in
this a wonderful discovery, and he set
about massing use of his new know-
ledge of lenses. In this way the tele-
scope was invented.
Rontgen's Rays.
The discovery of saccharine, that
sweetening agent so much used as a
substitute ler sugar during the war,
reads like a romance.
Dr. Fahlberg had entered the Johns
Hopkins University in America to
study the chemistry of coal -tar deriva-
tives. After some mouths he noticed
au intensely sweet flavor upon his
bread and butter. Ile traced the
sweetness to his hands and his coat•
sleeves and it dawned upon him that
it must have been derived from one of
the new compounds lie had succeeded
in producing,
He hurried back to his laboratory
and tasted the contents of every vessel
with which he had been working. One
of the beakers contained saccharine, a
substance whose sweetness is three
hundred times greater than that of
cane sugar.
Professor Rontgen came upon his
marvellous X-rays quite by chance. He
was experimenttug in the dark with a
Crookes vocuum tube, which was
covered with some sort of cloth. A
strong electric current was passing
through it, while close by ,was some
prepared photographic paper, but no
camera. Next day he noticed several
likes on this paper. By restoring
everything to exactly the same con-
dition as on the preceding day, he was
able to asserted, the real origin of
these mysterious marks
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The Seasons.
Often we meet people who say that
they don't like summer, others who
don't like winter, occasionally some
who don't like autumn, and once in a
while spine one who doesn't like
/spring. . Seldom will anyone admit—
or boast—that he likes all the seasons
equally. And yet if a man were to
keep a record of the days in the year
that simply from the point of view of
weather end physical comfort ho en-
joyed, there would probably be no sea-
soe that would establish a decisive
claim to his favor. And it there were
any such, it would almost certainly
not be spring.
People are generally governed in
their likes or dislikes of, the seasons
by the extremes rather than by the
average ot . weather displayed. Per-
sons of cheerful and optimistic spirit
are likely to remomber,a season by its
shining days rather than by its stormy
once; and persons who are easily af-
fected by adverse circumstances take
their strongest Impressions of a sea-
son from those days when It is at its
worst, By that reasoning it might ap-
pear that to such persons all seasons
re equally bad, and that to the others
all are equally good. But intpressious
are relative; and anyone who shud-
ders and shivers in cold weather is
pretty sure to prefer Bummer, however
hot it may be, and one who really suf-
fers' from heat is likely to think that
winter is the best time of the year,
The law of compensation that Emer-
son preached applies in our ettitude
toward the seasons. If we did not
have foggy and windy and rainy days,
we should not appreciate nearly so
Much as we do suis lens and blue sky
and so€t' breezes. If we never looked
out into utter blackness of night, with
blasts of wind and snow beating
agaihst the panes, we should not look
up at moon and stirs and the silent
spaces of the heavens with quite the
same love of their beauty. Even the
most wonderful things in nature might
grow stale 'in our eyes if there_were
no contrast in the circumstances of
their appearance.
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88 - Afl YbNQ 1'4 TORQetTO
Progress. in Canada.
It is ahtloipaied thee American
to iiiilsteirelli i Will Pei for the Instal
latiart and upkeep of Onterios hlsh-
vraye o'a1etn. ','hid tri,ifld i3as lay
efet sed inafeellotele eines the Toren'.
to -f a:ton highway was built, and air
ready annual revenue tram thfe source
filtering through eerie -ail channels
runt• tato •rilllone of dollars, During
020 areeroxtntately 87,500 American
motor earn .crossed the border tiro On
tarlo,remainiul ear!0i1 pei1o1l, hug,
Ing from one hour 15 six months,
to In
The task,oL sp'0oding top toe ad g
t t ort of
r hto' 'weft rain it the sial t
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Montreal Wife be greatly helped by the
addition of the last •ot the Harbor
Commissioners/' Lour floating elevators.
The floating elevators now in opera-
tion
peration work fifteen hours a day, and
handle about 7,000 bulge/a/3 of grain, an
hour, or 420,000 bushels per day,
The Eastern Townships Smelting
and Refining Company has been incor-
porated under the levee of the Pro-
vince of 4luehea *Rh a capitalization
of two million dollars, the company
has options. on some desirable sites in
Sherbeook, Que., and expecte to have
the plant in operation thie tall. Ar
rangetnente have been made for the
molten tie handle the output of sever.
al of the largest producing properties
in this dlestriot, special attention being
paid to copper and asbestos
The demand tor engineers with bus.
nese training has led the Senate of
Queen's University to create a special
course of a year's work in commerce
for engineering graduates of Canadian
universities, The subjects to be
studied will include economics, busi-
ness finance and business law, econo-
mic geography, the financial organiza-
tion of society, marketing, accounting,
problems of Iabor, industrial manage -
stent, business statistics and business
policy. Among those who will deliver
lectures is E. W. Beatty, Chancellor of
Queen's and President of the C.P.R.
A report received at Montreal from
London, England, states that excellent
prices were obtained for a consign-
ment of 1.59 fat cattle from Ontario
which were pronounced the best
shown for some time at Merkland's
wharf, Glasgow. Steers fetched 30
to 256 109.; heifers, 233 10s. to 238;
and bulls, 246 10s.
The shark industry at Victoria, B.C.,
has changed hands for a third time,
and in each case operations have been
carried on on a larger scale. A twenty-
one day test was recently made in
which 357 sharks were caught, ever -
aging 225 pounds each. It has been
discovered there aro some very large
sharks weighing about 2,000 pounds
each which they intend to catch with
harpoons somewhat similar to those
used in whaling.
With the season fast drawing to a
close announcement has been made by
officials of the Edmonton Land Office
that the past spring and summer have
witnessed the staking of otI claims in
the Northwest Territories covering an
area of approximately 600,000 acres.
Recently the staking of oil claims hoe
been small In number.
Fine results are shown by the twen•
ty-seven soldier farmers who took up
land last year on the Poormau's Re/
serve, near Regina, Sask., under the
act of the Soldier Settlement Board.
The average farm unit is 308 ares,
purchased at an average ,price of
$11.25 per acre and hoard officials say
that $25 per acre would be a.low esti-
mate to place on 'the value of the 'Pro-
perty toiday. This means an increase
in tared value alone to these settlers of
aperoxlmately $3,500 each.
The Hay -Fever Weeds.
Adult sufferers from hay fever need
no warning to beware of the wind-
blown pollen of the ragweeds, but
children needlessly expose themselves
to infection from hay -fever plants and
so contract "colds" that could be
avoided. Children often pick the daisy
fleabane, the pclleu of which is noxi-
ous, Tho little daiselike iloavers are
about half an incl, in diameter and
have a greenish -yellow centre. Oc-
oasionally the petals are Lilac tinged,
and sometimes they are extremely
short or altogether absent. When a
child is old enough to play by itself,
it is old enough to learn the numerous
hay -fever weeds', most of which 'tie
wind pollinated Arid drays inconspicee
ous flowers., devoid of bright color or
scent, but forming pollen in great
quantities.
The Great War caused 70,000,000
men to be mobilized; of these 30,000,-
000 were wounded, and 9,000,000
killed.
Disconra3 ere nt Is a Disease
Tho tuomont you yleid to discourage-
ment all your mental faculties become
depressed, They lose power. There
1s no oo•ordinatien of effort among
them; consequehtly they fall to do
YIP/rows team work. 'Yo13r initiatlVO
is paraiyzod, your executive ability
strangled, Fou are lit pa 0011!111110,, 10
do anything e ffeetjvola , Yong wiltela
vtlentatity 15 pleated at a tremendous
4l„edvantege, and until this enemy le
drlYett otf o1 your 141s4, tleutralived
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eeetVben trials and 'troubles conte to
tie, when overwhelmed with sorrow,
when death comes into our home and
snatches away 3301110 dear 0110, It is
vary difiloplt to see through the storm,
to plorce tho biack gjoalti a 4 see the
healleg sun b011itltl theta, Struggling
with the sorrow of tl201 great 1os0
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0ou1d neper eynn 0121114 agnea,
.tilt, we know that time‘heals tlfe
deepest sorrows, that physical atttl
mental ills pass twee, and that the
itraOw sol` is the one that. adapts 114B1f
to taro stoma anti sultsitine ot life.—
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Salt Assists Swimmers.
Everyone who teas learned to swim
to an inland lake or river, and has
then plunged into the ocean, realizes
the added buoyancy and feeling of
freedom in the saltwater as compared
with fresh water.
Put it should be remembered that
there are two functions inseparable
from swimmilig. The first is to re,
plain afloat and the second is to move
forward. ' It • is in the first of these
that salt water has a groat advantage
over fresh water, far the effort of mov-
ing forward is the same in each case,
Tho buoyancy of salt water is due to
the fact that three-quarters of our
composition is water. T.he remaining
quarter is composed of bone and other
substances which are heavier than
water, and therefore tend to make us
sink.
• Owing to the salt in the ocean, fresh
water is lighter and our bodies there
fore sink more rapidly—a condition
which may be carried to such an ex-
treme that in some localities, faclud•
Mg the Dead Sea and the Great Salt
Lake of Utah, it is almost impossible
to sink, for the greater the amount of
salt the heavier the water and the
greater resistance to the force exert-
ed by any body pressing down upon it.
r
Fasltifbns That Are ilea'?
Thg simpler your re esgowns,
smrrte1thee' Will he tibia u
hhqo.
silhotistte stili keeps atrei 1if lied ntlm
fat' everyday seethes:. Its only change
is thee; 12 is lenges/, iaf course, there
are no'W details, lead these make the
frock look dttfel'enta When it tomes
to eveninh+ deesees, "especially for the
yy�ptiitttiger women, els bouffant effect is
'stem/aced, 31 h00 at 4421 chow the
straight efee fid with boat neck, and
full -flared skirt. In all the (tresses,
skirts aro longer and sloev.es, general-
ly Heseltine;' ate much wider,
ldothing illustrates better the vogue
for simplicity in dress than the sleeve-
less gown With its simple 'ale and
smart lines It 44(111 t 'rear out its
weleellio titre seedbed. Rot a bit of
Iti It ie here tide fall, and looking
its beet, You see it in the new twills,
such as piquetwill and twill cord, in
the euatreus dhavetyns and the Wiley
velveteenm, Sometimes you wear it
with a long-sleeved 'satin guinpe; and
then again with one of your summer
blouses freshened up •a bit.
A fine way to get a little more ser -
ice out of your sununer 'blouses Is to
wear then with a sleeveless dress. Per-
haps you have a blouse, says of cotton
voile, with .a becoming lace -trimmed
collar, and perhaps its only worn part
is in the sleeves. Hero is a 'suggestion
for making your sleeves as' good es
new: If the dower part of the sleeve
or the aunt is worn, cut it off and
add a straight :band of •cuff. To this
sew a turn -aback tuff of the voile, if
you can match it, or of white silk,
and edge with a little lace frill. S'ew
the turnback to the lower edge of the
band cuff. For early fall days you
might like to have the blouse with
three-quertor-lengbh sleeves. If so,
cut it off elbow -length, and finish with
either a circular or gathered flounce
about five inches deep..
A net guimpe reaching to the waist-
line, to which long satin sleeves are
attached, is a most useful dress ac-
cessory if you ere planning to have
a number of sleeveless dresses. Make
the sleeves one-piece, dart -fitted in the
back, and have different vestees to
snap on. It's wise to have one sof
satin matching sleeves in color. An-
other may be eroam net trimmed with
little ribbon frills, and still another
of eyelet embroidery in the smart
ochre shade.
Trimmings are not as bright as they
were last fall. Much ribbon is 'used
and the sire ribbon, which has the
shine of patent leather, is considered
very smart. Many dresses are trimmed
with bands of this ribbon in place of
straps of cloth. Braid is also used'.
A good-looking trimming to use at
the bottom of a skirt is made of disks
of very narrow braid finished with an
outline of French knobs. To make this
braid disk trimming, it is wise to
mark a •circle on the fabric before you
start- In'this way you are sure to
keep the disk just 'the size you want.
In sewing on the braid, start from
the outside and work to the centre.
Then sow through and through the
centre of , each strand. The French
knots may be done in 'heavy rope -size
sale floss or in mercerized embroidery
cotton. To get the smartest effect,
use black braid, and have your bright
color note only in the French knots.
tTo'change the effect of yobs/ sleeve-
less drees,,.you can wear it with difl'z
erent girdles, getil1t"peal and iblotises.
Ift your dreseeis dark; one of the new
lthk girdles in some bright shade
Would add an attractive color note.
These girdles eoaae •rte celluloid, and
are often in two colors --red and blue
is a favorite combination, also 'black
and white, cerise and purple, Heavy
silk cords are also used for girdles.
These are knotted at the side and
fihished with long fringed tassels,
Narrow girdles of the same fabric as
the dress are equally smart. Let me
tell you how to make them: In meas-
uring ;tour material, et t it twice the
width ybu want it 'when finished,
»lus the seams. Fold It lengthwise
through the centre, bringing the two
right sides of the material together.
Stitch the length ce the belt a seam's
width back from the raw edge. This
makes a belt which looks like a tube,
Your belt, of course, is now wrong
side out. To turn it, pin to one end a
large safety pin, and then use this as
you would a bodkin. To finish the
ends, turn in the raw edges of the belt
and slip -stitch.
eleesseeseees
then .dealn from alum. 'water. Cook
cueuflflsetle teen" minutes, a few at a
t1Yne, iu''oneequareer of the foliowieg
niixturo'bested eta the boiling jtoint,
and boil ten minutes: 1 gallon vinegar,
4 red peppers, 2 sticks cinnamon, 2
tablespoons allspice, 2 tablespoons
cloves,
Strain remaining liquor over piekice
which have been put in a stone jar,
• Renovating Neckties.
Neckties are often laid, aside wltetl'
they are only slightly worn, because
of the stains that come uppermost
when the tie is knotted in the usual
manner. Wrinkles are Oleo a reason'
for casting aside' a tie. It is net ester
possible to wash ties in soap and
water, for fear of the calors running,'
but dry dry-cleaning and pressing them
carefully they can be made like new:
For cleaning, take a quart jar out-,
doors and fill it half full of clean gaso-
line. Add a little piece of naphtha soap
anid a few drops of turpentine. Put
a soiled tie into the jar 'and screw on
the Cover, Stand the jar in a pail of
hot water to warns the gasoline. Then'
When the tie is thoroughly soaked in'
the solution shake the jar and unscrew
the cover, to let the gas escape. Ile -1
peat the shaking and opening of the
jar several tunes until the tie is clean,
then rinse it in clean, warm gasoline.
Pros the tie only after it is thorough-
ly dry and all the odor of gasoline
has left it.
To press a tie successfully the
stitches on the under side should be
cut, so that the ends, as far an they
flare, can be stretched out flat on the
ironing board•. Lay them on the board
with the right side down and draw the
wadding that lines the tie back out
of the way. Cover the ends with a
thin dainp -cloth and do the pressing
with a hot iron. Then dampen and
press the lining. Next replace the
lining and the ends of the tie and
sew them back into place. Finally,
lay the tie right side down and preps
the whole tie once more,
Ties will last much longer if they
are kept in a flat case long and wide
enough to hold the flared ends with-
out their being folded,
Moth's Clockwork Tongue.
Ott the underside of the head of any
butterfly or moth you will find a tiny
colt which looks like the hairspring of
a watch. This is the insect's tongue.
Though it looks quite small when
,rolled up, it can be uncoiled in a flash
into a'straigltt tube an inch or more in
length.
Watch a moth visiting flowers, and
you will soe how it 10 used, The insect
cutter reg t(ns hoYerltl in the air, or
lights' upon a past; tion tl323 t lgn0
ti
i .tens one 'Mal enl , an4 1
rlra � t a 9, d
t trust inr(e the, lnr401.010st reoosses Of
111(1pwor SP olttatn rho lon02 which
1s htciden teero, 4 few eiem e is are
2pe10t ill 51j11 1110, 1414 1114 240 0.11g1i9
21110.s hetet Inas/ Its Oeil and away
04 tit0 moth to seek an1111er flower.
t
b
The loqgtll , . ,t>l4 tR.1.1�I14.4,.ai', �'0
neva tide flo14o, visited Uy tihp *vol.
Iwi' k{)ld of hots,, Those which fend
on the papery of 9typ51t-yvl3j gins or
stooks requite only 0 Oliart 0112); but
a'Cong tongue ie needed by thio ioeates
which visit Oantorbury, bells or lilies,
Moro peop+ie die of e3tr'2ntb boat
Mian of extreme cold.
Making Pickles.
Pickling time is here and it is im-
portant that the best methods be
adopted. There are many systems be.
Aides yielding for preserving fruits
and vegetables .for home 150, These
include fermentation and salting, dry-
ing, steaming, and other systems.
Bulletin No. 93 of the Dominion Ex-
perimental Farms, describes the vari-
ous systems of pickling. Cucumber
pickle is one of the most popular. On
the ,natter of pickling cucumbers the
bulletin says:
Ripe Cucumber Pickle --Cut cucum-
bers in halves lengthwise. Cover with
alum water, allowing 2 teaspoons
powdered alum to each quart of water,
Heat gradually to boiling point, then
let stand on 'back of range two hours.
Remove from alum water and chill in
ice -water. Make a syrup by boiling
far five minutes two pounds of sugar,
the pint of vinegar with two table-
spoons each of whole cloves anti a
Pie);of 1t1Aamon tied in a piece of
,Musin, rld cucumbers. and cook ten
minutoe. Remove cucumber's to a stone
jar, eta pour over the syrup, Scall
whip three successive marllings and
retu'r 1g peur4Lyopel.
ttniipo Cyottt3l'tl}r Pi*le (Gherkil1s)
,,,,-Wipe fone
s/ti r4s dz1a11,
unria
on-
etfue)ex1 t f_t e one jar and ad
d
b C'll qsQdissolved in 2 quarts of
`being wad, lot' ddheao Ys.
Drain cuounbor fret .brine,
bring
brine to boiling point, pour over 00-
curebers; and age n lot stand throe
days; repeat, Drain, wipe cucumbers
and pour oval' ono Tallon boiling water
In which one tablespoon of slam has
Moen dissolved. Let stead Nix tours,
Building a Horde.
Let others build their palaces
Their stately marble halls,
And hang with silken tapestries
The cold, far-reaching walls.
But what to me their castles grand
With turret, tower and demo?
They may build for the eyes of the
world to see
• But I shall build a home.
Of hope and love and a holy faith
The watts of my haute must be,
Where Love will evermore keep watch
Over my own and Inc.
And here will be a haven safe
Where weary feet that roans
Will come back from the world to find
the place
Where I have built a home.
—Florence Jones Hadley.
Making Speech Visible.
A wonderful new invention called
the Lioretgraph enables one to stake
accurate tradinga'upon-permanent re-
oordla bf-the actual vibrations of sound
la arttouleted speech. The instrument
is worked by molar power,
When' a vowel. sound is uttered the •
room-' becomes full of vibrations, and
eabli different sound gives • vibrations
of a different shape. In. the presence
of the Llbretgi,aph a person saying
'Ah" wodl'd record upon, paper a woe.
ble, symmetrical lino. Th'e' principle
involved is similar to that•of the
phonograph, but, by means of delicate
mechanism, the effects of speech are
enlarged an enormous number o1
times.
It is believed that with this new in
venLion , aided by mathematical
fornmhe already in use, it will be pos•
s4ble ultimately to read and .translate
any foreign or unknown tongue 01
Which these lines are the record.
A Maxim of the Woods.
' The hunting 80128011 Is at hand, and
therefore it is time to recall the old
maxim of the woods. "If you got lest,
stay put," A night 1tt the open and
twenty-four hours without food need
not hurt anyone 1t he dons not use all
his energy in futile wanderiug and
shouting. The most conspicuous spot
available suggests itself as the place
to camp, and cemnion sense directs a
little smoky fire to guide the inevit-
able searchers, There is no need to
worry; if you follow nothing but the
rule you cannot be lost long, and your
rescuer's will not have to run down a
wild man at the 911x11,
Some Drawback.
Two tramps wore discussing the
ways and Menne of living in- this hard
wore without being laid up with
bodSly. exllaustime
"If it warnt sieh a long .way, all, Bill,
we might go to the South Sea Islands.
Cokernuts and bananas all over the
pisco for ms'
8111 ruminaitited." deeply for some Glue,
and. queried: "I suppose yer 'as to
pick 'e'er
"Yrs; o' 0031155."
"Ugh"' was tiro disgusted reply. "I
knew there'd bo some drorbeck,"
A Master Nand. •
Dora ---"Do you know, George two.
eased to 1110 its, night "
Flora—"YOs, tlotl$n't ha d0 it bend -
fully?"
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