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The Clinton News Record, 1920-3-25, Page 6Get a Packet, and Realize what Elm infusion of Reams Pure Fine Tea Tastes like B) :THEODORE EUl1„i,E sago Black, Green or Maxed r Never Solid in Bulk Is It Mischief? .It was exasperating. Little 'laugh - ler sat on the floor of the sewing room rurrounded by a litter of gay -colored Pieces of cloth from mother's piece bag; spools of silk and thread and twist unwound and tangled, colored outtons of every sire and shape; and glittering array of pins, needles and scissors. "Naughty girl!" said the little one's mother as she gathered up the dime tiered mass. "Yesterday you took all the tin plates and covers from the pan- try shelf, and the day before•you pull- ed the ribbons out of mother's bureau drawer. You're a naughty girl!" Little daughter's baby brow pucker- ed in a puzzled frown, her mouth drooped in hurt lines, and two big tears spilled from her blue eyes. "I'm not naughty!" little daughter cried; and she was right. To be naughty—to do wrong willfully—was furthest from her thought. When she balanced herself upon a step -ladder and carefully lifted off the saucepans, the plates, the cooky cutters and the bowls from her mother's immaculate shelves, and when she piled ribbons in a, colorful heap on her mother's bureau, or delved into the depths of piece bag, work -basket and button box, eh.e had but one impulse in mind, and it was not willful mischief but mere- ly the instinct to educate herself through her sense of tou.cb, As she fumbled with the scraps of velvet, linen, woollen or cambric and crumpled them in her eager little fin- gers, she was experiencing new sen- satiens—those of roughness, smooth- ness, softness and stiffness. The tele- graph wires at her nerves carried them to her brain, which registered them there and so helped her to thunk More clearly. 'Those fascinating, shiny tin uten- sils in the pantry had interested the little girl because of their, form. Some were round and sone' were square; some were thick and some were thin; some Were sleep and some were shal- low. As the child had taken each from its shelf, she•had run her Anger round its edge, felt of it, learned its form; and looking out of the pantry window from her perch on the step- ladder, she discovered, suddenly, that the garden gate was square, that the maple tree beside it had a curved con- tour, and that up in the sky hung a cloud that looked like a big, shallow bowl. 11 her mother had asked little daughter what she saw when she looked out of the window, and wiry she liked to handle the ribbous and the pans, she would not have been able to pot her answer Into words, But she did subconsciously resent—and so does every child—being. taken to task for trying to educate herself. Our houses are filled with toy motor launches, grotesque figures that when wound up go through their ordained motions, elaborate toy railway sys- tems and dolls whose clothes are sew- ed to their bodies; and in their instinc- tive efforts to educate their lingers children break and mar and tear and batter their playthings, not for the sake of mischief blit to get at the rout of things; to find out how they are made, mid so to educate their senses. that will serve t1 materials i t Tho lay i0 refluxate the 5008SS are so simple that their importance Is often over- looked. They are those playthings that give children an opportunity to handle and feel different farms and textures and to perceive'different colors. They include a roomy send box, zinc lined.; so that the sand may be dampened for moulding, many blocks of different shapes and sizes, picture puzzles, modeling clay, books with colored pictures, large colored crayons anti a hone blackboard, color- ed pencils, and paints, blunt scissors and stiff paper for cutting outlined paper dolls and animals, dolls' dishes of all kinds and shapes, a tool box for the boy and -a well-equipped sewing basket for the girl, Such -things are the ohila's first textbooks in the im- portant art of training the senses. From One Housekeeper to Another: To waeh raisins or other small befits put thein in a cormpopper shake in a pan of water. -Mrs. R. G. To take. the best possible care of your cook book, take a pane of win- dow glass, bind the edges will passe putout binding or even with paper or cloth, and when using the book, lay it open ou the table with the glass on Lop. The glass, being heavy, keeps the book open, does not obscure the print., and also serves to steep any spatters front the book I1. I, L, TO clean ternlshed silver apply. kerosene with either a mash or cloth. Club well, then rinse 1n scalding water and the tarnisbod pieces dill tante on fine and !listing, ulster.—Mrs. O'C. To euro a felon, a paste made of .jgtial )farts of lard, saltpetre and brim. ,,tone bollllcl do will bring relief in a rltott timer -41, A, ' Inuring tnndrdY Weather wife,, • ': Mute often become Very ';y4 beeeesary td resort to a j,r1ngeitt m.,,,-.• wee to keep there soft and shapely, (.lead Ott- eaten and stuff them with a... . nwspspers, '�o resta'e the softness to the leather ant thein with castor ell tlsr av1 eet 0111 xppiy utl With al sponge and rub it into the leather -thoroughly with the fingers,—Mrs, J. J. O'C. • After stuffing a fowl, do not sew up the opening, instead insert wooden toohpicks and with a piece of string or stout thread lace back and forth over the opening, When the bird is roasted slip out the toothpicks and with them the string; the opening will be closed and no unsightly marks left to tell how the trick was done: -Mrs. J. J. O'0. lfeep a wire teapot standard and place it in the bottom of the kettle be- fore putting in meat to boil. This will prevent the meat from sticking to the bottom of the kettle and burning. —Mrs. L. Id. T. Do not cover your bread tb steam the crust soft when you take it from the even; just rub a little butter over the top of the 'loaves, it will soften just as well and the bread will not mould nearly so quickly. --Mrs, D, D. 0. Shrink Cotton Goods. It always pays to shrink cotton ma- terial before making up. In fact, it is the only practical thing to -.do, It is hard enough to keep up with growing girls without having the material shrink. Put a largo handful of barrel salt in -a dishpan of cold water and lay the material in it without unfolding, Keep turning until it is thoroughly saturated, then allow it to remain for half an hour. Squeeze out as much water as possible by rolling in the hands, but do not wring. Hang on a broom stick, laid over the backs of two chairs, or outside on the clothes line in a shady spot. Do not string it along on the line, but keep it in the folds, though of course they eau be opened up a little. Keep turning from one side to the other until about half dry. Roll up for a few minutes and then iron with a moderately hot Iron. If the material gets too dry, sprinkle, roll up and leave until evenly dampen- ed again. It is really the steam that/ does the shrinking and unless ironed when quite dannp,. the shrinking pro- cess is net complete. That's the reny eon you often hear women say that gingham shrinks the second and third time. For white material, lay then in the dishpan (and he very sure there are no rust spots in it), pour boiling water over it and allow it to stand until the water is cold. Squeeze as dry as pos- sible and roll up in a heavy bath towel. Leave it for un hour and then iron with a real hot iron. If you fol- low these directions, you need never worry over a new garment shrinking the first time it is laundered. A Girl's First Name. Very soon in life you came Into one good legacy --- Your particular sweet nano. .. You can make it what you choose: 'Spoken, but an empty sound, Or a word made dear with use; Written, letters in a line -- Only that --or characters Brightly on the page asinine; Just a trifle hearts forget,— Or, in earth's old garden, sweet As the lasting mignonette. ,PART lY. Ilie voice sounded strange to. him in the quiet of the empty, snow-eov- ered country. He tpndged medheni- eally forward, his hands, thickly mit- tened and encased in leathern pull- overs, clumsily clutching the reins and whip—hath' awake and half asleep from the all-pervading stillness, the monotony, and the numbing cold, Prom the distance came the mouth- ful howl of a coyote. Jack fell into a kind of daydream, as his thoughts went idly backward, to that terrible night of his first winter on the prole+ le, when he had batched it, while set- ting up a home for Nether. .x „ m e P:ven as on the homesteads of his few and widely -separated neighbors, the little shack on the hillside of the prairie wilderness was, at that time, the sole evidence of human occupa- tion of his acres of solitude, As one of his nearest companions, a huge, uncouth Icelander, had crudely but truthfully expressed it, "no barn, no hay, no stock, no nothing." Leaving ‘town, on foot as usual, rather late one afternoon that winter, dusk fell while he had still a mile to go to reach his shack. It began to snow and a soft, fleecy, wvhite mistcame down, making it ,impossible to steer a straight course. Darkness very soon set in and for hours he wandered in the falling snow, follow- ed by a coyote, which had been at- tracted by the smell of the bacon he waft carrying home. How distinctly he remembered plunging again and again tin the•direction of those two gleeming, little' lights, shouting as loudly as possible—hoping to get rid of the brute before it should be joined perha s by others, whom they might collar, Ab, ' Cite whi . Ile we"ited the short length of Pale -wire, gnat most ox -drivers use, off the enc fix the whip lash and attempted to fix up the harltese with it, but the clum- sy, thick mittens hin'deeed him in his haste. • lie tore them off. Instantly his hands became so utterly 'numbed that he fund painfully to draw on the mit- tens again. Once mere he tried, forcing himself to be patient, and this time he succeeded 1111 closing the .collar so. that the ox could pull. • Off again! At last he was at tbe top of the hill, where he stopped to let the oxen get their. wind, 'before turning from the :road toward his homestead. But the little black ox was now nearly exhausted, ; and would not• start the load again. The pace 'at which Jack ked driven hint, the storm, the clutching'•' heavy sue}v, stud. at lest the ill-fitting collar, had done their work, and he refused to budge; Jack flogged the team and urged the beasts with shouts and encour- agements, but all in vain. He was straining at the wheel, trying 10.08 - fast the oxen a little when Ire slipped violently and lurched forward to the ground—leis head etriking a. large stone which protruded from the side of the road. (To be concludett). The Land of Fire. Tierra Del Fuego, as everypody knows, means Land of Fire. Where the fire originally came from nobody knows, for the natives have ne knowl- edge of any way to make it.- Thoy may have got it centuries ago from a volcano rush him for the meat. At last it Certain it is that they lake rnosi, made off, for he no longer caw the auxigtts care not to lose it. In the un - baleful eyes. Then the weather turned colder. If only ,it didn't der round dwellings (covered over freeze really hard and he could keep mot*ing until daylight, he thought, If weariness overcame him, he would soon freeze to death—how many such cases had he not heard of round about, that cruel winter! Every now and then he had stop- ped and shouted with all his might, every nerve strained to catch an ans- wering sound. Silence—complete, profoundest silence alone had re- warded his efforts. At last he had given it up and bad been quiet for . some time, when— what was that? Surely—yes—it was a shout—faint anti distant. He bad answered with all the force of his lungs and then had seen a light, to- ward which he had stumbled through the deep snow, bawling at the top of his voice: "I'm coming, I'm com- ing." friendly homesteaders soon placed him to warm himself before their stove, while he told his story. They had not liked to go to bed without first showing a Light, for they fancied they. had heard shouts •and seeing the thick night, felt that perhaps some one was actually lost in their neighborhood. They slept warm that night, for there had been three in a bed, or rather, bunk. 0 a 0 r Jack started suddenly from his re- verie. The trail! Dismay gripped him hard, as he realized that it was no longer beneath his feet. Before falling into his reverie he had had to keep pulling the oxen to make them stay on it and face he storm and-, where was it now? Great Scott! Where was it now? How long he had left it, he had not the faintest idea. A feverish search to windward soon discovered what Jaele thought must be the trail. Once more, he. started the stumbling oxen upon it, fervently praying that it might indeed be the right one. • "Come on, boys; we'll do it yet," he cried gaily to the oxen shortly after- ward, greatly cheered by some fami- liar signs close by, which were re- vealed by the momentary lifting of the curtain of snow. "If the wind doesn't change, but still keeps the trail faintly visible, we may manage it," he soliloquized, "but if not, the team will blunder on before the storm. They'll get stuck in the deep snow of some hollow and then—a three days' blizzard; Smith said—sometimes they do last that long, I know—well, it'll be good-bye, that's all.' He began to speculate what freez- Von can use it as you will: ing to death in bus blinding, whirling Hoard and hide—and waste its worth; shroud would be like, to think 'o£ Wisely spend—and have it still. Esther all alone—waiting, waiting for him, who would never conte again. The thought was agony and made him NEW DRESS FOR ®LD urge the oxen faster than ever, WITH DIAMOND DYES though prudence counseled patience. Women Can Put Bright, Rich Color .in Shabby, Faded Garments. Don't worry about perfect results. Use "Diamond Dyes," guaranteed to give a new, rich, fadeless color to any fabric, whether it be wool, silk, linen, cotton or mixed goods — dresses, blouses, stockings, skirts, children's coats, feathers, draperies. coverings, —everything! The Direction Book with each pack• age tells bow to diamond dye over any color. To match any material, have dealer show you "Diamond Dye" Color Card. with brush), which are their only habi- tations, there is always a fire, the em• hers of which are never allowed to become extinguished. Every one of their rude dugout canoes has In the middle a clay floor, on which a fire burns or smolders. At night those primitive people, in case of alarm, burn signal fires on-tlhe mountain tops, and in. the daytime the salve fires, supplied with green wood, send up columns of smoke which, be- ing made intermittent by smothering the column with a skin blanket at in- tervals, convey -messages in a sort of Morse code. This is the most atnclent of all means of distributing intelligence, and since prehistoric times has been employed in many parts of the world. Modern science has devised no more effective method of attracting attention and sending news over a wide extent of country. It is thought that these sig- nal beacons suggested to Magellan the name Tierra del Fuego. The natives are among the lowest of savages. They have no permanent homes, peeving from one place to an- other as often as the local food supply is exhausted Lind spenbiug much of their lives in their canoes. It is said that, when other provender is net'ob- tainable, they eat the old women, af- ter stifling them humanely in the smoke of a greenwood fire. The Hien da not average more than five feet in height, but are powerfully built; tate women ure equally muscu- lar. They have a singularly brutal ap- pearance, with no foreheads to speak of, their hair coming down nearly to the eyebrows. Both sexes go almost naked, a shin hung on the windward side, being considered a sufficient pro- tection even in the worst weather of that frigid latitude. Nevertheless, they have their special accomplishments. They possess amaz- ing skill ins throwing stones, flinging them with either hand and with great force and accuracy of aim. No other people in the • world equal them in ,marksmanship with that ancient in- strument of warfare, the sling. Their food is derived chiefly from the sea, and for the catching of fish they employ as helpers small clogs of a breed unknown anywhere else. The animals are white and woolly, with brownish spots, and remarkably intel- ligent, In recent years some of them have been exhibited at dog shows in the United States, though the Fnegans will rarely consent to sell them. When a shoal of fishes comes near shore the dogs swim out and surround Great 'coley hung from the poor them splashing and diving until they beasts eyelashes, noses and lips, and are driven Into a net or into a creels thick coats of snow covered their where the water is' shallow enough. to permit •the use of spear's. -Within the last few gears large areas in Ilio interior of Tierra del Fue- STRANGE FINDS IN AMAZON BASIN IS -INHABITED BY MANY SAVAGE TRIBES. 1 ' Probably the Most Primitive • People in the World at the Present Time. Traders, the advance agetnte of civllizatiom are etartin, t0 explore rcommercially a territory, covering hun- dreds of thousands of square miles, that is almost as totally unknown 'as if on another planet, It is the vast Wain of the Amazon, in South Ameri- ca., 'fhe chosenhome of the long-tailed monkeys and of many other interest - Ing forms et animal life, titis''reglon of peat rivers and virgin forests holds out a sea/active invitation to elle in- vestigative naturalist, while from the viewpoint of the anthropologist its human' Inhabitants , afford inexhaust- ible material for study. , The most numerous and most war -- like of the many native tribes of the upper Amason and its tributaries are the Mundurucus, each of whose settle- ments has its own military organiza- tion, with barracks in which the fight- ing men sleep, their arras at hand, al- ways ready for battle, The Muude'ucus are the most ex- pert feather -workers In tropical Ameri- ca, the warriors wearing beautiful gar; meet of birds' plumage, with rosettes of brilliant feathers on the forehead, or sometimes diade'lns of alligator scales. The "seoptres"..which the chiefs carry in their ceremonial dances are admirable works of art, being made by fastening upon a long wooden rod the white and yellow feathers from the breast of the toucan. At the top such a "sceptre' expands into a wide plume composed of. the long tail -feathers of macaws and tro- goes. 'l'o preserve it from injury, the wand of authority is kept in a cylludei• cal case when not required for use on feast days. As a part of the costume, a crescent-shaped breastplate of turtle shell, so thin as to give out a clear note when struck, is worn. backs; bet ,still they plugged bravely away. As for Jack himself, his hands were becoming so numb that he had frequently to change the reins from go' have been token up for sheep one hand to the other, While he flogs ranchos. Undoubtedly the final disap- ged the free hard against his thigh Pearce= of the natives cannot be long to restore some feeling to it. Itis postponed, for the white settlers com- eyes still served him, but the uncov- ered part of his face was a. mask ofmonly shoot then at sight --a drastic ice which he dared not touch ---a pull method which finds some excuse in at it soon showed him the uselessness the ferocious and treacherous (harem and painfulness of any attempt to re- move it, "The Flaxeonlbo'r: place at last, thank Heaven!" Jack could h;tally ter of these savages. Sorrnebody Said. make out enythh,g oi' the homestead, Scnebody said that it couldn't be of the chatty ole widow with several'done, grown-up eons, although ire knew But he with a. ehnclde replied,: I'hrt "maybe it couldn't" but; rte, would T • pr r ire the ' p o i rye 'www s of tile I ods 'tip; ili t '', dei cs or rpirbo take Body• le lsbe1 power enamel to �� it9 Z4 'irks lie ,e'-. sl l;thca Chinese Fighting Crickets. The Siamese Lighting lish ie not the only creature whose natural pugueelte is turned to account to satisfy tine re- prehensible passion of the Celestials for gambling. Crickets are popular throughout all China, not only for their song but for the agiiting matches in which they are eaCeyecl aga!nst.one another by enthusiastic gamblers who bet large sums oC money on the cham- pions of such contests, The London Field prints a letter from an English lady who lived for many years in Can- ton that describes such a "sportive gathering. • !.. As we approached the field where it took place, she writes, we saw crowds of men standing about some sheds erected an the spot. On entering the largest we saw a raised platform On which same nteu sat behind a counter, who weighed the crickets and the dol- lars, recorded bets, received the money laid, by both sides on each match, and paid the winner of each particular fight.. In the shed numbers of Wren had gathered, each holding in Itis hand a little round earthenware basin, covered with a cloth, which con- tained fighting crickets. We next entered one 01 the smaller mat sheds and stow] by a round table. Two mein had come in from the large tent, each having a little earthenware bowl in his band, and, after they had uncovered then and examined the two occupants to be stu'e that they were their own crickets, the chirping combatants were put into an earthen- ware bowl on the table. The two men held small feather pencils in their hands by which they stirred sip and enraged tbe belligerents, and the fight began. The crickets walk round and round the bowl at first, then rush at each other with such violence that they are often thrown an their backs. They fight generally with great spirit and often lose legs and wings in the con- test, but should one cricket run away from its opponent three tines in suc- cession the umpire declares it to he defeated. When they die, the success- ful crickets are placed in tiny silver coffins and are buried secretly by their owners on the hills, with the hope that the spirit of the departed insects will go into the bodies of the crickets formol in the same neighborhood. The breed of crickets at Peking is rather small, and the combats are generally over in a few minutes. At Shanghai and Canton the (Tickets aro niuclr larger a,nd stronger, and a fight may last half an hour. "Ordeal of the Gloves." Among the Mundurucus no youth is considered to have attained the dig- nity of manhood until he has endured the "ordeal of the gloves." In that country there Is a hind of ant, as big as a waste and quite a5 venomous; likewise another species, known as the "fire ant," whose bite feels like a red-hot needle piercing the flesh. Two bamboo tubes are closed at one end and into each of theta a number of these poisonous ants are put. Then the tubes, called "gloves" by courtesy, are tied upon the arms of. the young luau whose fortitude is to be tested, rend, weaehig thein, ho goes about the viliage dancing and singing. It he shows the slightest sign of distress he is pronouuced a failure and becomes an object of derision to the girls; but, if he endures the Agony without wino- ing, his promotion to the rank of war- rior is accomplished. All over that part of South America, the "blowgun" is the favored weapon of the chase. The stalk of a young 'palm, or a particular species, is taken, about ten feet in length, and split. in two lengthwise. the pith beteg re- moved. Tben the halves are secnrely bound together, providing an instru- ment of remarkable lightness with a smooth and polished bore. The pro- jectiles employed are made from the leaf-stallcs of another kind of palm, sherpenecl at the point and` wrapped about the middle with silk-cotton, ob- tained from a tree. The dart thumformed is introduced into the tube like a carriage, filling• the bore, so that a puff of breath sends it on its deadly mission. Like a rifle, the blowgun} has a foresight and a backsiglnt. The darts are made sharp as needles by scraping then be• tweet] the keen•edged, sawlike teeth. of the pirai fish; one-half of a piral jaw being customarily attached for this purpose to the hunter's quiver. Armed with this weapon, the aborig- inal marksman is able to hill off a dropping pelvis, g flock of birds-atPp wholep 3 one after another without alarming them. ' Such blowguns, when used in war or for the killing of tapirs and other large animals, are commonly provided with poisoned darts, She "eurari" poison employed for this pur- pose being widely known and manu- factured among the tribes of the upper Amazon mut tributary* rivers. Brilliant Dyes Adorn Natives. Science to -clay is not acquainted with the recipe for making "curers," the secret of its composition being 'landed down from generation to generation by the priests of the tribes. The basis of the mixture is supposed to be tin extract from a strychnine - producing plant, snake -poison, veno- mous ants and other unpleasant in- gredients being added. A slight wound front an arrow dipped in "cura•i" will kill tt Wren in a few minutes. When the llotoeudo husband is out of temper. with his wife he goes after her with a knife, and it is rare to see well that he had p tstied tenth (lose a married woman of the tribe who A Beautiful Recipe, to its fence, be .one does not boar scars of wounds thus Several hundred yards farther on A beautiful turning to God in prayer, lay the main road thnt 'divided his Who wouldn't say that till he tried. inflicted, From seeds and fruits these At the break of Clay, be it dull or fair; own farm into two parts, but to reach I people obtain seed ant dyes, with A beautiful word when a chance cc- it he had to torn full .face to the furyy So he buckled fight ill, with a trace c' which they adorn their bodids, n fFl.V01'- eurs, of the, blizzard, With bent. ]leant, «grin its fashion beteg to paint the face Instead of gossip that hurts and shire; staggering and panting desperately, on his fn.cc- --if be worried, be hid above the mouth bright red, the tipper A beautiful deed, not one or two, Jack at length gni; his -Warn to this it, hall of the body being stained black, But just as many as you can do; road, though several tunes he thought He sinrtect 110 sing ns he tackled the and a reel stripe. encircling cite waist. A beautiful thought in the mind to that they must unldnowingly 'hove ' thing A naked worrier thus dccoratect pre - keep, ci•oesed rt. 1'liaL couldn't bo done• -cud he diel swots a truly demoniacal appearance. Once or twice he even debated j(! Space fa not here available for even Where otluerwise evil and sin might about turnin baric to Flaxcombe's V1(00515 - - place. But k e trusty •oxen knew ry'11n1•d Xre mat - tent minds to tell you it tall- a Brief tt o Amazon tion of many other 1 boadtiildl smile! liowv it iteipf'x,h'il ,..,. "'--- ' lie', b ' done,- i tribes of the Amazon basin—as, for lu- w+, au roamed ins 1`^"�l• , the niautattos wvho cheers, And coaxes from other's their Crowng' and tears; A beautiful song in praise 01 Nims When the shadows M;I trtd the light grows A -;ria,..,, • 11 foll(i hid•, you'll find 1t a b•. "fur way, . ':i malts -••sand so erisy-a bc:..,;1fuI day! "The nearer you conte into relation with a person, Lite more neettasety tie tact and courtesy becnpiet--••Oliver Wendell Mimes. c„ w,uy u if their master didn't, and promptly turned on to it, And now, et last, the piolletr ly but surely began, to draw near his homestead. Suddenly something snapped. "1 -lel 1 tlpouglit something would give way hereabouts; exclaimed ,tack, savagely, as the bonne -strap of the black ox's collar parted' in twain at the tint increase of up -grade strain, "'Co be beaten and so nearly home!" to siriiVot'cs "-"but perhaps we're not. done yet.". ,With numb hands he searched, his. pockets for strap or cord with Which to lash to Ile open weave 30 -e ton There aro thousands to say ii meas iittub, i% • fatlur,•o; Thele aro tlionsands to point out to Yeti, one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you. lint just heckle in with a bit of a grin, Then taite off your coat and go to it; JutA,start in to sing as you tackle the thing That "cannot he (lone"- and you'll 40 111" Poverty like a grindsono sharpens wits, but energy must turn the handle, cloth out of the hair of slain enemies; or the ,Jiveros of tiro Marston, whose ever -trumpets are made from the skin of the tall of the giant am7adiilo, It may be said 10 a genot'el way Of all the savages of that vast region that they aro tine most primitive people in the world t'oeley—batwing possibly the ab• original bleeps of Australia and n Pow African Whet), ltalyas Lost Cattle, Italy has lost approximately 40 )rot' cent, of. its cattle. During the war it' Imitates necessary to sacrlflee a large percentage of its breeding and flaky ai}i'nnals •because of the great need of meat for army and civilian consump- tion, This destructive policy was fur- ther augmented during the trying' period of the influenza epidemic when. all restrictions were removed in order to combat the malady, In the invaded district of Venice many thousands et the best dairy and breeding animate were lost. Elbow grease is warranted nee to soil the hands. More families should have hone. grown fruit. Plan the fruit garden now, and place orders for nursery stock early. • te96a Be.d ce rev ear bid Ir RACE CATALOGUE showing our Salines of Bicycles ler M414 end Women, Boys and Girls. MOTOR CYCLES MOTOR ATTACHMENTS Tf:ea, Coaster Brakes, Wheels, Inner Tubr,q :;amps polls, Cyolometers, Saddles, rtgtip- mens en it'atts of Bicycles. You can buy your supplies from us at wholo.eie wricec. T. W. BOYD & SON, 87 Notre Acme Berets W.et. 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I, •_°,;•rang and Dying Is Properly Done at Parker's it mattes no difference where you live; parcels can be sent in by mall or express. The same care and atten- tion Is given the work ae though you lived in town. We will be gleamed to advice you on any question regarding Cleaning or Dyeing. WRITE US. 4 ar��r!)ye (� t 1 E.�Q1�84ed Clear ers &Dyers •79tyovng rSt, Toronto .• ; Everything for the Home Pictured and Described in this Book The pick of a big modern furniture torebook pnn•homo ftged 0 con- venient gn'olipinge. A valuable hand lug, HP *pages, with accurate illustrations and prima all (Meted, You should have it in your home for reference, Buying by the Burrou>hea Plan as Bait and our to vent home Portent terms ii.hhoutle Yoe to riipplingselect your annddobtain the best hank adeetint, The Book explains it all. Write for re free eop.DAY. We Pay trrP ation In�Onterld. to R 'oad runNITURE CO., LTD, Dept. 48, Queen St, West, Toronto. .;a94i4,44