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Nearly everyone •has
ripping,toaring headaches
at times. Disordered stoke-
ach-slaintiehliver does it.
Cheer U, 1 here's the real
relief -Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets.
They. mit the stomach and bowels richt,
AU druggists, 25e,, or be mall from 9
Chamberlain Medicine Co., Toronto
Between nine rind twelve yeaee of
ago, a child expends seiee3 allergy .M
ptoportion to its weight than at tiny
other period in its life. -Prof, Steong,
Kindness and meek may be Ian-
guagee that every and inderstandif,
but n universal language would be A
big help toward univereal brothetbood,
Imo perm etegliggeo teas given to the
oreginal frt1iwbftait ofi Americo, abota
1.400 by Columbus' wee thooght he had
reached India, •
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#81,ddc060 corntnuniestiono to Aorononeet, 73 Adelaide St, West, Termite
Adyantogeg and Profits of Systepiatic
Crop Rotations.
The chief advantages of systematic
crop roieileel MaY be briefly &toted as
follows:
1. elelFation ostematizes thefeline
work. There is ti definite portion of,
land prepared for each Rine of ceop
.CIT each year and the areas of the
erope grown remain constant. Farm
work le snore economically ,and
ciently conducted as a result,
2.. In a •syetemetie rotateen eeph
crop or season is handled in auch a
mahner arid is of each a nature es to
be the .proper preparatioa for the ern)
which follows, This resulte in in-
ereased average yields anti greater
effieietcy. •
8. The centeol of weeds, plant dis-
eases anti insects is fecilitated by crop
rotation, ae frequent change of type
of crop interferes with their multi-
plication and all good rotations pro-
vide regular recurrent times' for m
clean-up,
4, Any benefits from soil -enriching
crops or toil -improving methods are
distributed uniformly over a whole
eaten by a good rotation.
5. Frequent crop change avoids the
soil depletion incident to constarit.one-
crop farming.
A geed rotation ehould include at
least one of each of the following:
1. Cash crops, i.e., crops readily
convertible into cash and such as are
likely to be reasonably ,sure of success
and profit in the territory. concerned.
e. Cleaning and moisture -storing
crop or fallow, a regularly reeuering
Period in the rotation' which provides
suitable opportunity for weed eradica-
tion and the accumulation of soil
moisture.
3. Forage crop. All •the best crop
rotations assume live stock as an in-
tegral part of the farm system and
forage crops must be grown to nourish
them. Where conditions make live-
stock raising impossible, any perman-
ent rotation must provide a substitute
in the form of green manures.
4. Leguminous crop. No perman-
ent system of agriculture has been
built up anywhere that does not in-
clude in its rotation at least one of
the nitrogen -storing group of plants.
Some of the most striking foots in
regard to crop sequence that have
emerged from crop rotation work are:
1. The great value of cern as a pre-
patation for grain erop.s.
2. The • seeding for grasses and
goers should follow corn or summer
fallow. The more intervening grain
crops there are, the greater the chance
of failure.
8. Wheat is the most profitable crop
after fallow or corn.
4. Coarse grains are more profit-
able than wheat as second crop meter
fallow or corn.
5. Wheat makes a satisfactory
nurse crop for grasses.
G. Field roots are much less effective
than corn as a preparatory -crop for
grain and sunflowers somewhat less
though better than roots.
. Rereading With the Tractor.
The tractor has .proved its worth
in the hay field M many ways. The
steady gait at which it travels makes
it valuable in pulling the wagon and
leader, eteadiness being -necessary for
beet results and to prevent excessive
wear on the mechanism oe the loader.
A Wagonload -of hay with a loader
attached and in operation is a con-
sideralaa load for the average two -
horse team. Lest year we used two
wagons, ene being loaded while the
other was being unloaded. The load-
ing was done with the tractor, and
the unloading with a hay hoist driven
by a small kerosene engine. The
horses were used on the lighter tasks
of pulling the mowing mechiee mai
eideidelivery. rake, Tee tractor was
driven by one men, while the unlQad-
ing 'done by another, tbe two
elmeging pleoes for Oee man
slid the unloading am the heist pulled
the fork beck, Some ;nee arang0 the
treater controls so' that tt Mel' be
driven from the load like A team oe
hone, 0± eourse'some traetoms are
MOTO eaSily adapted for this the
others, „
The tractor die not week mit as
well foss pulling the mowing machine
as it did for the heavier job. No
doubt, with peeper hitch and two mow.
ing Machineit would' have be more
Profitable, The greetese diffieulty in
the way woe thet eves men were nem,
eery where the bey WaS tangled or
down, which s freetteetly the case
where the hay grows more than two
tons to the acre. Some tractors are
well adapted -to the; job, however, be-
ing arrauged to drive from the mow-
inganechine seat.
. .
In the Alfalfa Field.
Because tho hired man has gene
with the buffalo and the wild pigeeeffi
the farmer of to -day must inveetigate
every means for better econ,orny of
labor in his harvesting methods.
• The gath.ering of alfalfa, because of
the number of meetings per season,
offers 4 fertile field for the saving of
labor. Mee° one has several acres
of alfalfa, it is good practice to cut
well a enc -foot mower. It is not
necessary to delay cutting until the
dew bits dried off, as this cuts into
the day's work, fot the time before
entering the field 'is usually lost. Cut
enough each morning to provide work
for. the following day .
When the grass has reached the
point where the "twist" test shines
it is sufficiently dry, it should be
raked. A side delivery rake that has
a raking width of two swaths is best.
Be sure to turn over the entire two
swaths, or else there will be damp
hay under the windrow. The side-
deliyery rake gives a small loose win-
drow, allowing free air circulation. In
good drying weather the raking can
be dente late in the afternoon of the
day the grass is cut.
After lying ie the windrow until the
next oftersioon, the hay should be
loaded. A loader will save labor, and
it should be delivered at once t� the
barn or stack. All of the above Work
can be done by one man, with the help
of one boy to drive the team, if an
efficient loader is used. '
If the barn has an open floor and
plenty of ventilation, and the stack is
built on rails that permit air circula-
tion, the hay resulting will --be very
sweet, and no leaves will be lost dur-
ing the process of curing. .
Power Harvesting Pays. '
If you own a tractor, do not heti-
tate to use it to draw your grain bind-
er, thus relieving your horses of one
of the hardest tasks of the summer
seasop.. In attaching the binder to a
tractor et is usually better to attach
the stub tongue considerably off centre,
setting the tractor away from the
grain. Teis allows more room at the
careers for square turning, and with a
quick -turn fore truck an absolutely
square turn men be made without
stopping the forward motion of the
tractor or leaving uncut grain. Nearly
all Modern tractors have _extension
steering and -throttle control attach-
ments that permit the operator to Mee
onethe binder seet and drive both trac-
tor anti machine.
The greater speed obtained by use
of the tractor, however, coupled with'
the saving of horeeflesh, justifies the.
use of an operator On both binder and
tractor.
.16
• An Endless Journey.
When a boy or girl in the country
starts out for a trip of any Rind, he
or she has a definite place to go and
likes to get there. But in the darkness
of night among the stars the moon
travels endlessly around the earth
while the earth is seeking its 'endless
journey around the sun.
. In eeeptie eimeethe matte is jest a
lietle incir than one quarter the size
of the earth. There is no other planet
of the viler system having a moon to
nearly its own size, though there are
many moons of othermlariets that ate
as large or larger than our satellite.
The telescope shows that Jupiter,
the greet world that is about eleven
times the size of the earth, has moons
all larger than our moon. The small-
est of the foul' visible satellites of
Jupiter is almost the size oe the
earth's satellite, while Jupiter's larg-
est moon is more than one-half the
size of the earth.
There lo great difference between
the sizes of the planets and their
moons, but tbe greatest difference is
that between the size of the planets
of the solar system and that oi the
sun himself. It would talce 109 earths
in a row to stretch across the gigantic
disk of the sun. Nearly 400 mooed in
a row mould be needed for the same.
exhibition, • Yet, when we zee the
moon pees across the disk of the sun
at the time of a total eclipse, the disk
of the moon seems about the size of
that of the sun and just barely ,eovers
'el) the latter:
Well, that is iviitit one might call a
true coincidence. If the moon iwore
teethes: from the earth it would -seem
smaller; and if the dietance of the stet
remained the same'the lunar disk
would be too small to cover the eolar
disk at the time of an eclipse,
Sometimes velien the earte i eleeest
to the sun, thus slightly inereaeing
the apparent laze of the soles: desk,
and when the snoop is earthed from
• the etude thee Malang it seem
er, the disk of tee moon is slot Irmo
enough to cover thati of the Min and
tea eclipse is said to 'be Antedate All
ennu1u 16 n "ring," arel the eclipse
was; called annular because at the iame
of its central phase, when the shatieW
Of the 1130011 18 eimetly 111 the centre
of the sun, a bright r:ng of iight too
-dazzling to lieolc at with the unpro-
tected eye surrounds the black disk
of our satellite. Were the moon still
farther away, the ring would be thick-
er arid the little planet would make a
transit instead of an eclipse.
Both Mei:eery And Venus make
transits when thy ease directly be-
tween the earth and the sun acroas the
line of sight. then 'they appear as
small 'black dots silhouetted against
the huge fiery solse disk.
In her endless journey around the
earth the nsoon .sometimes goes
Through our shacloev. That is what
makes an eclipse of the moon. When
the earth's dim of atmosphere is very
deer along the edge that casts the
sha,dow, the vays of the sun are re-
fracted ante the dense black shadow
and tee ileac of the moon is colored
cepper-red or criamon, almost tes. tints
of sunset. •
Spare the Nests!
Is it a nest? It isa nest! See, 'mei the
• branches -hidden,
The light beeeze rocks ith with their
gold the sunbeams make it glad.
Oh, know you what 'a nest is? It is
that which most Feu ebetish-
Whitt laughs with you in ham:mess,
and mums when you are sad.
Ie it a Imme? It is a home -pure love'
most holy refuge, e
There to the birds together, warmth!
and sweet eleep night brings, [
The forest boughs are tossing, the sky
grows dark -no matter/
Being so greati the Lord above takes
CaTO d tiny things.
These palaces among its leaves the
woodland ehades end eheltere;
They are its fairest othament, when in
spring's gala dreseed.
The bird that theough the fielde of
einem flies 'freely in the sunlight
Enowe that be hes a nook wherein to
fold his wings and .reit.
Tile nests are slahme of Peace and
love-cleae, holy sanctuaries,
Wicked the bands that tear them down
with wantomiesS jestsf
Aly.know you not diet it thie orid
no sadder sight can geed 119
Than dry and withered blossoms, or
• shattered, ruined nests
etiemeaminegerre•
What An Irriga. tion System
Did for My Qarden.
A aniPle of yells ago, when we
bought, eur eleetrie lighting awl
pumping oetfat the nnm Who SOld 11
to us mentioned among other things
Diet it would irrigate our vegetable
garden. fiewever, T tint this down as
a • talking Paint which would "listen
well on paper," but wouldn't amount
.10 ttrneb in Actual practice.
But after we installed our pumping
plant I got a letter from the ireiga-
tion oomPonY explaining how I could
put in a couple of lines of p)pe over
my vegeteble garden it a Very mai-
erate expens5 thati would supply
the water I wanted, at any time, by
merely turning 5 valye, and so I de-
cided tot to '
•
I muse say; after using for tivo
years this mechanical Watering sYs-
tem, theb the claims whieh were made
for it were net eiseggerated. The re-
suite:tie hare ibeen able to get have
been simply inarveloas. For a great
many years we have prided onrselves
as having as good a garden as is
grown in the section but it is no •ex-
ag,geration to sey that our vegetable
crops average at least twice whab. they
did before. Furthermore, We ean plant
at any time witheht waiting for rain,
-and get immediate, germination, aud
keep every Crop- growing rigia
straight through without any cheek
until the day it iS harvested. Thus.
we are able to get in a good many
more erops each year than if we trust-
ed to the weather men for our rain
su,pply. • 7 -
* Counting both the increase in -the
crops and the gain in the number of
of 'crops, we get at least 800 per cent.
mere from our garden space than we
used to, and the quality of the stuff
measures up better too.
We put in two lines of irrigation
pipe, each 200 feet long. These lines
Ming complete, made up with a special
irrigating nozzle every three feet, and
a special union on the end of each
fitted With a strainer to keep any
sediment feem getting into the line
and clogging up the nozzles. They
aleo have short handles, making it
possible to turn the line from one side
to the other. Through the little noz-
zles inserted in the pipe the water
is thrown in tiny streams to a dis-
tance of 25 feet. These little streams
break up in the air so that the water
falls to the ground tn tiny drops like
o ,fine gentle rain which will net Paok
the gin or boat (lava even the small-
est plant, Ao 659 51111 , our rows in
,the 801120 directien as the lines of piPe,
We cen water e narrov strip the entire
length Of the garden aey time we
want to, Thia is eepocielly handy
when sve aro setting out Plants, just
after sowing eeed in dry .weather, or
just after hoeing or eultivating 9115
crop as eon tie the weeds have had
a Clan= to die in the sun,• "
All we bad to do to pet thie system
in wee to rim an MO pipe -from the
balm to the garden, 'a distnnee of nbout
800 eeet, end put in two Tem of cedar
poste '50 feet apart to soppert the
irrigation line. The feed line front
the barn to the garden, was ally a
foot or eo under the iround,s we
ture the ivater and dradn it "out be-
for,e cold weather, •
Willie we groW eur7egetables Prim-
arily tor our own use, we bare always
sold a ;few, andmince baying the irri-
gation we have had tWell mbig surplus
that Ise bave sold quitea lot, espe-
cially thiring mideummer, when ell the
rest a the gordees around here are
more oe less dried, op, The summer
folk§ from a good many miles arotind
come th us 'because they know that
they eau get nice, fresh, (steep things.
Our "man machine" is something of a
curiosity, and they like to stop, and
see how it works. Altogether, I sup-
pose, we have sold enough vegetables
topay ftoberoeueettilwn4olinveosrofinirtrillgoattiwono
l)r we
years since we have had them, in ad-
dition to having more and better vege-
tables for eurselves.
Why does the woodsman alwaYs
break in two a match after use? Be-
cause the heliit• prompts the thought
"Be careful!" It require e handling the
bet end, and if the match is not ex-
tinguished the half which burns on the
ground is not Ekely to generate
enough heat to start a brush es: forest
fire, •
To clean white paint dissolve a piece
of ammonia about the size. of a walnut
in half .a pailful of water, and rub the
paint carefully with a sponge. Dry
with a clean soft duster.
Fill burnt saucepans with salt and
water. Leave for a few hours, then
bring slowly to :the boil. The hunt
particles will come off without any dif-
ficulty.
When You Make Your Farm Look Better
• You Make it Worth More
The first thing to do in making the
plan for beautifying the home grounds
is to study the arrangement of the
necessary .objeets and the planting ma-
terials as you would study a picture,
Consider each tree, shrub, or flower,
its habits of growth, the size to \teach
it will grow, and its location, before
giving it a place in the home -grounds
picture.
Every form has its own individual-
ity, just as every person has. On one
farm the backbone of a plan for beau-
tify•ing the twine ma•yiee two or three
old trees. •Posetbellities suchhs'
are worth hundreds of (loners to the
new horne site. Compare with it the
staring, dreary loneliness of the lava
from 'place all the timber has been
cut, leaving the house bleak and
ugly, Another one may have an espe-
cially..beautiful view of lake, hill, or
river; then the farmstead can be so
planned that this view is emphasized.
The bou.se is the central feature of
the farmstead picture. Give it the
peominence it requires, and make all
ether features secondary to it. Lo-
cate the house well back from the
road, Piece it so that it will be free
from odors of farm buildings. Never'
dwarf its size by placing larger build-
ings nearer the• road. Walks and
drives, necessary lines of travel to the
hofise, and outbuildings are seldom ob-
jects of beauty, so make them as in-
conspicuous as possible, Place them
atthe sides of the lawns so they vill
not divide what would otherwise be
one unbroken sweep of grass.
The entrance drive gives hospitalay
to the farmstead picture. It should
lead with pleasing 'curve and easy
grade to the house and farm buildings.
should be inconspicuoes. It is well
to provide a space in which to turn
almond
On small areas, walks ehould be
straight unless there be a good rum
son for snaking them curved. On
larger areas corned walks and driees,
if reasonably direct, are more Notic-
ing. Remember, when you put in
walks and drives, that too many walks
spoil the plan. They cut up the lawn,
make et harder to mow, and use good
money that miget have been seenle
in making the place beautiful rather I
than cluttered.. it pos.sible, make each,
walk serve more than one purposed
That means that the features of the
grounds must themselves be well
pieced with respect to each other. The
barn and other outbuildings, when
framed with trees anti partly eereen-
ad vete *albs, may often be made
interesting features of the home -
grounds picture.
Gerdeie and orchard should be lo-
cated conveniently, but not so that
they detract from the farmateael pic-
ture. The home orchard may be placed
between the barnyard iind the high-
way, whore it will frame the farm
buildings' rind wean the imattraetive
barnyard.
Tee eicithee yard is never an object
of beauty. It should • be completely
screened ei•ther by lattice et shrubbery
from the road oe walk. It may often
be made a children's playground, with
the exception of one day in the week,
if a movable elothes reel is tieed.
The laWn is the foreground of the
home-grauicis Picture. Have it Mega
enough te give ,privacy mid expanse,
There is, Shnsihly elide!, a reaction
against the old custom of building the
farmhouse away from the road, eo
that 1001 0131151 or Medi of any world,
wicebt her own farm world, ever
reached the busy •honsetviSe. On the
other hand,the fermhoeite ts beet,
placed far enough front thse road te
escape the dime ansi noiee which ante -
mobile bevel has •intreducecl bite
rural life, 12 it ie not so eeetunateler
placed, proper plangpg and arrange
-
meet of the lawn can do a great deal
toward avoiding a crowded, town -
like look. On the farm the picture
of the home grounde should be digni-
fied and restful.
Keep the lawn free from flower
beds, iron monuments, cueious stones,
or impeoperly located plants which
would deetroy the picture. Plant na-
tive shrubs which will attract the
birds to the home grounds, and plant
hardy shrubs which will harmonize
with the -other features of the land -
seeps.
Trees furnish the fraxne and back-
ground for the home -grounds picture.
Plant permanent long-lived trees.
Place them at the sides •of the house
and lawn to frame the views, and to
screen unisghtly objects. Plant them
at the rear of the heas,e to give a
background against evbich tbe house
niay be se,en. Plant them along the
roadside for shade and comfort, for
the passer-by. Plant a shelter ben
of trees to the weet and north of your
buildings, for protection from mild
wsnter vends. Plant trees which will
be useful on the farm in future years
when lirleber iz scarce.
Shrubs are the harmonizing ele-
ments in the home -grounds picture.
Group them at the earners and angles
of the house to make it appearsa part
of the grounds. Plant masses of
shrubs along the boundaries to give
interest and year-round beauty. Use
them to screen unsightly objects, and
to snake Walks and drives less pronii-
nent. Plant the mote refined -grow -
"ng varieties about the honse, and the
courser ones, such 50 sumachs,. elders,
and blackhaws, at the borders where
they will be seen at a greater dis-
tance. Plant high -growing shrubs at
the corners of the house and the wider
portions of the border beds. Plant
low -growing ihrebe in front of the
higher ones, so there will be one con-
timucius maze of foliage, Do net seat -
tee a greet variety of plants in one
bed, but us•e several of one or two
varieties to secure unity and a messed
efeeet. Avoid planting shrubs in
straight lines.
Vines give individuality to the home -
grounds picture. Plant them near the
vereadah for shade and beauty.
may be uteri to cover walks out-
houset, ahd fence). eTemtbern th con-
ceal architecture/ defeete, or to screen
the clothes yard teem the mine view.
Pcranniel flowers give variety and
coicer to the home ground's. Plant
them agamet the shrubbery borders,
not in the centre of. the lawn. Plata
imme of the naive wild flowers. which
bloom in late summer and autumn,
this is one 11150111 of peeserving the
native flowers of t11e. woods and fields
o that futuro generatiens may know
them, Wild asters, goldenrod, beneset,
violets, wild phlox, and ninny of the
ferns are .±166517 eao to transplant,
and likely to thrive if given 13 rod
garden soil end congenial conditions.
Armee' flow -era ore especially ueeftil
in the lionie-grounde pictere 10 fill in
the "growing years" of the permanent
elanerigs. to make the meet of the
OflnUal flowers, at the least expendi-
ture of time and effort, they should
be planted according to some definite
solteme. Per instance a botder of
yellow, gold, enh
d witO 1057 be ueee
ee cib11013esidee of the front •eteps; or
blue, 'ARO; O101d pink may be chosen.
A mixed border, earefully eeleaece,
using the tearlet runner heal as st
background, with larkspurs text, then
peteniem end then alyssum, is worth
trying, Cosmos, gaillerdia or blanket
flower, ealliopsis, and eweet alyssum
make a yellow border that wilt be in
bloat ell ,stunittor, By using ierkspur
instead ot.gaillardia, and verbete,
'steal 0± ealliapsis, a different celor
effect is obtained,
1 THE INFLUENCL qv
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Parenthood imposes both privilege
and opportunity. Only to the extent
that permits realize this am they fill -
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i°nse teor tell; i
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is A 1505111 ±05001 his example. A eilent
teacher, "
Because to child is truldful and im-
pressionable the great Me Canna be
taken to surround him with the right
environment, Tlie influence of his
home and associates is readily (Recov-
ered by. watching any child. Haviny
few experi.ences of hie -own, lie natur-
ally imitates whatever he hears or
sees. A certain little glad tee learn-
ed to courtesy when introeuced to her
elders, Tliie form of salutation so
tmlireseed her little couain of eix thet
she immediately adopted it and wlelen
a week a younger sister and brother
of two -were attempting that accom-
plishment with more or less success,
It is generrally through the indolence,
negligeree and eel-eel:Imes ignorance
of the parent that the child is not
given the riche start in life. Honeety,
and exhaustless patience, keen insight
and trustweethinees are neeessary in
the person who is responsible for bis
training.
The older child finds bis ideals in
the great characters of history and
literature; to the young child Father
Mother, and other intimates are the
ideal, the very embodiment of what is
best and he follows the pattern set
before lam,
If on one occasion a mother makes
a promise and ful•fills it and at an-
other time and without explanation to
the and fails to do so, how can he be
expected to trust her? If one day
she punishes her child for carelessness
or some other childish misdemeanor
and the next day overlooks the same
offence because she is busy with some
important household task or is visit-
ing with a neighbor, how can the child
"believe in a truth and justice.that are
eternal?" Surely the same results
should follow the same acts. Small
wonder that some children are 'ca-
pricious or rebellious!
A certain mother who 'was much
surprised that her small daughter lied
very frequently and seemingly with-
out cause, would have been filled with
shame had she recalled how often she
had said to her maid in the child's
hearing, "Tell Mrs. Blank that I am
not at home to -day."
The right home training is the
greatest force for morality. The char-
acter of the individual is determined
by the way in which it is begun.
Were the right influence, example
and environment given to all children
there would be no need ±or aeforma-
tories; a verbal pledge would be as
binding as a written one and the name
of th,e profiteer would not be ripen
every tongue.
"Sow a thought, 5559 an act,
Sow an act, reap a habit,
Sow a habit, reap a character,"
is an old adagewhich contains a
wholesome truth.
For the Child Guest.
I shall nevey forget the nmsery that
the small son of n miller caused lne
one afternoon. He wanted to take
clown everything from the mantel -
shelf. He rushed through booke, ten -e-
h -1g the pages; he insisted on playing
horse with a brass lion of St. Marks,
and finally teased to go home till his
mother in sheer desperation was glad
to go.
After my callers left I thought the
whole matter over and decided that I
would never have another experience
like that, I also :felt that I was in a
measure to blame. Why should not
O child guest have something to inter-
est him? I made out a list of eisnple
toys and the next day I went to town
for My emergency guest box. Once
my mind was concentrated on the
prohlein, I saw how foolish I had been
net to prepare something for the en-
joyment of a child guest before.
Surely my eniergency shelf of good
things to eat was always in readiness
for the grown -taps, and now I felt it
was my pleasant duty to make some
little Audrey or Adrian happy in
calling time.
At the toy shop I bought a strong
but inexpensive doll. That week I
made some pretty but firmly made
clothes for the doll, est little Audrey
could have the pleasure of taking them
off and putting them on as many times
as she pleased. I also bought a little
bed, and it did not take long to make
SICK KIDNEYS
MAKE LAME BACKS
Cause broken, unrefreshing sleep,
and 10 Tntkny eASOS..tiltit til'ed feeling
flint makes 166 so hard to got up in
Um morning, They aleo 001180 10110
oe appettte, lack cre el -William and
other troubles,
Hood's Barsaparilla contains the
medicinal herbs, barks, roots, etc.,
that strengthen and tone these or -
gaps, and relieve their ordinary ail -
merits, Take it, •
And 111 you need a laxative take
Hood 's Pills, -they work right.
--Age
some bedclothes, Tien I found a little
folding table and a set of JainMOSO
dishes, If the child wished her doll to
have e tea party, I resolved to furnish
a glass of milk and soma animal
crackers for the feast. I named the
doll Delight, and told the little guest
that I hoped she would prove a de-
light to her and to us all, and such was
always the case,
Sometimes a little girl is more fond
of cut-outs than thesis of a real doll,
I purchased some blunt scithors and
put in an envelope some paper dolls
and told little Audrey that if she cut
out the dolls carefully she could take
them home with ber. It takes time to
cut carefully, and I •always found that
the child was meet happy to take
eomething home with her. -
Now there are other children who
love to draw, and I found an inex-
pensive book which had animals and
; dolls to be colored. The little box of
' crayons cost but a feve emits, but the
pleasure derived from this outfit was
out of proportion to the cost, I am
certain all ebild lovers have learned,
that a busy child is a happy one, SD
the entire problem was easily selved
by keeping little hands busy, After
all these toys had been played -with
it was time to go home, and it was
always a happy little girl who bade
me good-bye and asiced if she might
come again. Then the Blue Box wee
put beck in the guest chamber closet
for the next little visitor.
When it happened that my little
guest was a boy I got out a Red Box.
I was happy to find that there were
many toys for a boy -which were not
expensive. A good box of butlaing
blocks giveG a boy Much pleasure. An
iron train of cars mid a box of tin
soldiers have endless possibilities in
therm Little Xdrian can play war and
send the soldiers from Halifax to Van-
couver. It is not difficult to procure
cut-outs of soldiers of different na-
tions. Let Adrian take home with hint
all the soldiers he cuts out carefully.
Some boys love to paste. I always
have on hand many old picture pos-
tale. I use a wench anti cut a small
hole in an upper corner of the card
and thread a tape needle with strong
narrow ribbon. When the cards have
been pasted back to back, so the writ-
ing will not show, they can be strung •
on the ribbon and the little boy can
take them home Nate him. There are
many toys' that can be substituted
for those I have mentioned.
This list will do for a start ansi
will mean that you have a contentedmainem
little guest. It seems no more than
fair to a child to ,prepare entertain -
'Meet for it according to the age. As
toys get broken or soiled it is an easy
matter to replace them with a differ-
•ent set, so if the same child calls
a.gain a new interest will be awakened.
How often eve hear people say, "I do
like Mrs. Blank so much, but when
she takes her smell boy calling with
her I am in torment." The little
secret of a busy and a happy child is
one not everybody knows:
Let us hope that in each spare
chamber, tucked up on the top shelf
of the closet, will be a big Blue ,and
an equally large Red box for all the
little boys and girls who go visiting
with their mammas.
The Goal.
That thou mayst pray for teens, thy
fees are given,
Teat thou mayst look to God, I
bring thee pain,
I bring thee cares that thou mayst
look to Heaven!
I bring thee fretful friends that thou
inayst train
Thy soul to patience. What thou
deemest gain
Whet closest weetithine chains
around thy soul
I rend from thine 'own bleeding heart
in twain,
That he who, bought may have thy
spirit wboie,
Spurs that may givo thee pain, but
urge thee to the goal.
'
Welfare of the Home
Artificial Feeding of Infants.
Si:adages in every country demon-
strate that: from seven to ten times os
many bottle-fed babies die as those
naturally fed, This is more particu-
larly the case during the summer
months. In such couraries as Sweden,
Japan, Alaska and Greeeland, where
mertality is extremely low, artificial
feeding is almost unknown. It is about
twenty-five years now since e• wave
of optisnime spread timough the world
enicerrs ng artificial feeding of infants,
Many foods were coneocted and offend
for sale, only to be all too rapidly
seized upon. The indifferent, unthink-
ing mothers, anxious to be relieved of
the inaternel nursing„ seemed happy to
hsve found at last a subatitute which
wen said to be even mere efficient then
mother's milk,
Dowever, mortality ficeuree have at
last enlightened the world and re-
imaled the fact, as alreedy painted °tit,
that the mortality is almost ten times
greater amongst those that are arti-
ficially fed, than those that are fed
at the breast. 111105 eur thernieee been
teller elemonetratecinhat the ability to
resist climate 111 aey form depends
largely en the form of nouriolunent
Una the young 11.25111 receives, The
artificially fed child has very much
loWer resistance, and io, therefore,
very ntuch more susceptible ta ell
forms of disease. It is s regrettable
fact that hi this young canary, aim-
paratively wealthy, there lo tueli an
41)v:illness' 01114111 pelmentago of mean
ees nursing their children, and this is
more particularly striking when we
contrast the foimign-born with the
well-to-do in our cities. Take, for in-
stance, in Toronto, 'among the foreign.
born, -we find in a survey 5.3 per cent,
of them still nursing tbeer babies at
the end of three months, with only 54
per cent. of the well-totdo people oe
the Anglo-Saxon ease he Toronto nurs-
ing theie infants, At the end of six
months, seventy-seven per cent, of the
foreigners and only 40 per sent. of
our own Mothers, anti at the end of
nine months, 50 per cent. of the for-
eigners and, only 21. per cent, of our
own mothees, ate sail nursieg,
FIMM this table 11 15 quite apparent
Viet one.third to one-half of our moth-
ers are not nureing their infants. Even
116 foeeign countries, in the past few
years,. the pereentage of nut.sing
mothees bas Increased from 50 to 75
per cent. AS the result of educational
measures, Surely the conditions re-
vealed by dame figures should eause
the mothers of Canada to Mite more
sereously their responeibilitiess! The
mother that can nurse her child and
for social reasons refuses to do se, is
net 'deserving of beingailled a seedier.
Iturtherincem, 11 18 extrereely import-
ant that the babies be net weaned too
nV£11 if the mother has not
suffielent :Cully to satisfy the
she rigitz'd retain what she can and
ant by modified cow's milk,
us el..1 by her -filthily physicipti,