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• CHAPTER Xe--(Contal,) to a well -kept home now, Neva—
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eabok a-heve, Mis' Denby," lairs. I never' I can't weleonse him, at all.
Cobb began relsolutely, "Pm a Main
woman, mat I always speak right oat.
Anenalen your friend, too, and 1 ain't
goin' ter staud by and you made
to len% coming back. He doeen't
want to come back, 1'1's ashamed of
us, Baby,—aahamed of 'tes1",,,
Dorothy Elizabeth arouSectee m her
a fool of,, and not trY ter lift e betad nap and convulsively chad 3 a pair
tor help. There' e SOMechin' wren of -nervous Imnds, began to whimper
here. Li you don't know it; it's tinee TestleOly:
you did, If you do know it, and are "No, no, Baby; not of you," sobbed
eeteatryin' tee keep it from rne, You might Helen, frocking the child
efluet its well stop night now, and tuen forth en her WAIN, was the,41i,110:
round tmd tell me all about it„ As me he was ashamed (4.41,,Iftg0,011,1.•
c'.1 said before I'm your friend, and,— do, what ehall 1 ciprearees tete-
if it's wba 1 think it is—you'll need "And I thought -it was 'juSt-,
a friend, you poor little thing! Now, „paid," she went, on chalchiglea Sifter
what is it?" a moment's pause, "Iebhought it was
• lel:Sete/I shook her bead feebly. Her a vacation he wanted tie to take,
'-set went'from white to red, and back 'tam we—we got on each otheree.
cseen to .white. Still determined to neevos. Bit it wasn't, Baby,t-,ti
hei secret if possible, she made wasn't; and I see it now. HVa ashain-
Ave attempt to regain her old ed of me. He's always been ashamed
melees of manlier. of me, 'way back when Dr, Gleason
"Why, Mrs. Cobb, it's nothing— first carne—he was ashanied of, me
ething at alit" then, Baby. Ile was. I know he was.
"Isilithitr, isn't it?—when u man And now he wants to get away—quite
goes; kitie oft ter Alaska, and eendira away, and hevor come back. And he
h wife ten thousand dollars ter go calla it a vacation! And he says I'm
.softhowhetes •else in the opposite di- to have one, too, and I must tell hien
reetion! Maybe you think I don't all tebout it when he tomes down next
know what that means, But I do! week. Maybe he thinks I will. Maybe
And'he's tryin' to play a mean, snivel- he thinks I will!
in' trick cu ye, and I ain't gain' ter "We won't be here, Beby,—we won't
etand for it. never did like birn, We'll go sornewheve—somewhere—
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'with all his fine, lordly airs, sathinkin' anywhere!—before he gets here," she
hinfeell batter than anybody -else raved, burying hes face in the baby's
: What -walked the earth. But if 1 can neck and sobbing hysterically.
help . it, I ain't goin' ter see you (To be continued.) .
cheated out of your just deserts."
"Mrs. C.abb!" expostulated the dis-
mayed., dumfounded wife; but Mrs. PASSING OF THE GIANT BIRDS,
Cobb had yet more to say.
'I tell you they're rieh—them Den- The Last of the Really Sig Birds in
• ,bys be—rich as mud; and . as for Danger of Extermination.
pcikin' you off with a measly ten The really big birds seem doomed.
thousand dollars, theyehana —al -d
- • There -was the "roc" of Sindbad the
yea with a baby ter try ter bring up Sailor, which scientists have Identified
and edyereate. Tito idea of your
with a huge fowl, standing ten feet
st4Clift` for a sextet tion with only high, that certainly survived in Made,
ten thezisand—" . gascar (to which it was native) as late
"Separation!" interrupted Helen in- •
as the early middle ages. Arab natri-
clignantly, as soon as she could find ,gators,.voya'ging down the east coast
her voice, "It isn't a sepatatiota yiThy of Africa, saw it, alive, and brought
we never thought of such a thing;— back stories alma it that gave birth
not for—for always, the way you to 'Buell accounts as are given intthe
mean it." "Thousand and One Nights," A few
"What is it, then?" of its eggs, dug out ot clay banks, Elie
"Why, it's us -1
a 13-- • -!" preserved to this day.
it avdav
stammered Helen, still trying to cling Then there was the "giant mea" of
to the remnant of her secret. "He New Zealand; which, while, by no
said it was a playday—that I was to means as tall as the,"roc," was hsav-
go off and have a good time with ler, a fullsgrowei, specimen weighing
BabSe."
If if's just a iilayday, why didn't
he give it -to you ter take it tergether,
then? Tell me that!"
"Why, he—he's going with his
father."
"Ton bet" he is," retorted Mrs.
Cobb grimly. "And he's gran' ter
.keep with his father, too."
"What do you Mean?" Helen's lips
were very white.
'Mrs. Cabb gave an impatient ges-
,
thre.
• "Look a -here, child, do you think
Pin blind? Don't ye s'pose I know
(jaw you folks have been gettin' along
- tergethey?--eor, bather, nct
along tergether? Don't ye s'pose
know how he acts as if you wasn't
th,e sane breed o' cats -with him?",
-"Then you've seen—I mean, you
think he's—ashamed of ane?" faltered
Helen.
"Think it! I know it," snapped
eMrs. Cobb, ruthlessly freeing , her
mind, regardless of the very evident
st.-fferiag on her listener's face; "and
it's just made my blood boll. Time
an' again I've thought of speitkin' up
an' tellin' ye I jest wouldn't stand it,
if I was you. But I didn't. I ain't
no hand ter butt in where it don't con-
cern me. But ter see you so 'plumb
fooled with that ten thousand dollars
—I• jest can't stand at no longer.
had ter speak up. Turnin' you off
wibli a beggarly ten thousand dollars
—and them with all that money!
Bah!" •
"Bat, Mrs. Coieb,hnaybe he's coming
back," stammered Helen faintly, with
white lips.
Pellawl So maybe the small rise
in the wept termorrer," scoffed Mrs,
Cobb; nffut 1 alert pulling down my
winder elidos foe it yet: -No, he won't
cored 'back—ter yo.u, Mis' 'Denby."
"But he—ha cloirt say it's for—for
el the."
"Course he don't, Bat, ye see, he
links he's leetin' ye down easy—
a-sendin' ye that big cheque, an' -Winn"
ye tea take a playday. He don't want
ye ter seeped, yet, sin''rnakesa fuss,
Melt countin' on bein' miles away
when ye do wake up an' start some -
thin'. That's why I'm a-tallein' to ye
now—ter put ye wise ter things.
ain't gain' ter stand by an' see you
ban'fboozled. Now do you go an' put
on your things an' march up there
sereight. Pll take care .of the baby,
an' be glad to, ,if y.ou don't want ter
Ietive her, with. Bridget." e
"I go up there?" Helen's voice was
full of dismayed protest.
"Sure! You brace right ua to 'em,
antell 'em you've canght on ter their
little scheme, and 'Yeti ain't gain' ter
stand for no ,such non:sense, 11. bs
wants•ter git rid of you an' the baby,
all well an' good. That is, I'm takin'
it for granted that you wouldri't fight
it—the divorce, I mean."
"Divorce!" almost shrieked Helen.
"But that he's got ter treat ye fair
and squem, an' give ye somewheree
near what's due ye," event en Mte.
Cobb, without apparently noticing
Helen's horrified exclamation. "Now,
(lona cry; and, above all things, don't
let 'em think they've scared ye. Joest
brace right up an' tell 'em Whatke
what,"
"Oh, but Mee. Cobb, With
• a at:acing soh and a hysterical shake
of. her head, Helen tamed and fled
dont the hall to her own door. Once
inside her apattatiett he stumbled
ever to the crib cod caught the
Dof'et1ly Elizabeth MO tier feting,
"Oh, Baby, BOY, ib'N all over—till
ever," 0116 mooted, "I earn ever be
ditiiltilY gowned wife Weleoinirtg IILUI
Naval Officer as
C.P.$,Q. Manager
particularly interostims aleVal ser
Veer Mae belllcld Commandee Thomae
risheri who haft jilltt taken seeable new
appalatmeist in London' as Cement'
Manaaoh Of the Atlentlo Lilies of the
Canadian Pact%) (Mewl Serviees, ltd,
:Pie 'very breed 04 of 'valuable ncc
„Wong week in haval,-shipping and dip-
lometie Gimlets dotting the war WM-
ed by Commander Father specially at
him tor the onerous cluties ol direct
ina Me at bbs greatest passenger and
MOP:Vitae fleets in the world..
Commander Fisher wag horn In 131r-
mingbam In 1883, and underwent his
naval training at Dartmouth on th'e
old wooden battleship "IBritaania." He
spentjour years in China daring the
period of the Boxer Rebellion, and
Val0Fle1caving•paeseld all his examine-
Tfitretealth colore, he recelYed
tee tyattnild promotpen, and at the age
be.:teventY was Made a Lieutenant. He
afrired for some yoga in the Mediter-
ranean on HMS, Bacehente, hying
tho fins of the late Admiral Sir Bald-
WileaWalleer, Bart, and later on the
• sante , ship under Admiral Sir Henny
Jackami, the late Meat Sea J.ord, At.
tolta71115 qualified as a gannery spec-
ialiet Conti -slander Father served for
a short time on the staff of the
Director onTarget Practice. Later he
Joined ILM.S..leollerophon as Gunnery
Oflicer and when in 1912 IVlr. 'Winston
Churchill :introduced staff training In-
to, the Navy Commander Fisher was
one of the first batch of officers to
take the Stall course, ultimately being
selected to realign on as a lecturer -if
the Naval 'College at Portsmouth;
When war broke out he -meat to'sea-
with Admiral Sir .Alexander Bethel,
the then president of the War College,
as Flag Commander in the Reserve
Fleet. He was associated here with
the important work of safeguarding
the passage of the Expeditionary
Force to France, and was present at
the landing of a small force of Royal
Marines at Ostend In September, 1914,
With the termination of this work In
the winter of 1914_he joined the trade
Division of the Naval War Staff at the
Admiralty and was there in charge of
that part of the organization set up to
deal with questions relating to neutral
shipping. These were the early clays
of the blockade and neutral steamers
were doing their best •to evade the
Naval Patrols and carry supplies to
Germany via neutral ports, Com-
mander Fisher took a prominent part
iji devising and carrying alit the sys-
tem of supervising the movements and
cargoes, etc., to neutral vessels by
means of control over their supplies
of bunker coal at ports at home and
abroad. This system, when in full
working 'order, material/3, lightened
the arduous task of the cruisers ern-
ployed on bake:tide duty, because it
was one of the conditions that an
ships bound to or from counaries ade
1,000 pounds. Thereavere, w v
' jaeent ta Germany welould call velum
number of specimens of moa, some
bigger than others. A. striking char-
acteristic of -thd bird was its massive
legs. It was therefore sluggish, and,
not being able to fly, was soon exter-
mluated after the white man appeared
on the scene.
The last of the moas perished prob-
ably less than 200 years ago. Sharing
its fate, at about the same period, was
the dodo—a bird by no means com-
parable in size, yet a giant of its kind.
It was a huge species of pigeon, native
to the island of lvaturitius. Flightless,
stupid and helpless; it had the addi-
tional misfortune of being good to eat.
So it passed away.
We have still the °stria, but its
feathers have gone out of fashion and
it is disappearing. Were it not for
the fact that the French Government
maintains en ostrich preserve'of great
extent in Africa, . the species alight
anon become only a memory.
There is- in South America a giant
bird sometimes called the "American
ostrich," that is not really an ostrich
at all. It is the "rhea," most plentiful
iu 'Uruguay and Argentinaaand when
full grown attains a stature of five
feet, •
The rhea produces. feathers that
have long been an important article of
export from the countries to which it
is native. Dat at the present time it
Is seriously threatened with extermina-
tion. This Is especially a pity, Inas-
much as it is a gentle fowl, readily
tamed and might be profitably reared
under domestication. \
MAKING THE DESERT BLOOM.
Turning Into Account the Waste Areas
of Great Britain,
We have learned Airing the past
five years that there is hardly any land
in England which cannot be made pro-
ductive. But there are tens of thous -
ends Of acres in )Oogland which have
never been cultivated, great wastes
which are regarded as bad land,
Can these be made to grow crops?
Can they be turned to SNOW:it, and Exterminate These Misohlef-Makers
tartly for examination at a British
port.
Commander Isteter's services in this
matter have recently been recognized
by the award of a Call
In 1916 he was employed as techni-
cal representative in the various .ne-
gotiations for the use of neutral ship -
Ping by the Allies. This work was of
vital importance to France and Italy
and indirectly to this country also, in
maintaining supplies during the most
difficult part of the wax, hicIdentallY,
Coratnander Fisher gathered a valu-
able knowledge of the shipping in-
terests of Europe.
During this period Commander Fish-
er served on various Government Com-
mittees dealing with commercial and
shipping matters, including amongst
others the Coal Exports Committee
presided over by Sir Douglas Owen
and the Board or Trade Committee for
tba Conservation of Coal, presided
over 'by Sir William Marwood. It is
not without interest that the latter
Committee, on a motion by Command -
et Fisher, supporled by Sir Richard
Redmayne, passed a resolution which
ultimately led to the introduction of
the Daylight Saving Bill by the then
Home Secretary, Alt' , Herbert Samuel,
In the summer of 1917, soon after
the United States came into the war,
a liaison officer was appointed to link
the British Ministry of still -mil -1g with
the American shipping board. Sir
Thomas Hoyden was first chosen for
this important post and he was follow-
ed by Comme.ader Fisher, who filled
this difficult and responsible position
with marked success.
In Ainerica, Caminander Fisher had
an Opportunity of examining at -first
hand the shipping mar transport pro-
blems of the States and Canada 'and
in counection with his duties he visit-
ed all the principal ports on the At-
lantic seaboard, including the Cana-
dian ports of Montreal, Quebec and
Halifax,
PERIL IN BARBERRY BUSHES,
make us less and less dependent upon
outside sources for the "bread of Ina?"
Professor Somerville, of Oxford Una
aersity, bers been experimenting to
prove what netlonal advantage would
accrue from judicious expenditure of
capital on souls of the poorest land in
Ertgland. 1 -Te woelted almost entirely
with basic slag, tosether with the
natural manures of the stock on the
larid,
The„hual improved 100 per cent , and
after thine yore the lana' hail fed 80
per Cent more stock, end the etoek a-
men beeameanuell more valuable. Hle
first crop was oats, buehols to the
Imre, and wheat 12. leive YOS1'N alter
taking possession the remits were 01.1
gal 17 bushels respectively.
As ats indicatfea of the increased
yield after mu) year's farming on this
",bad land," the grain sales were $750,
anal/ six yearthey had risme to $8,205.
Mich results apeflic for themselvee,
and prove conclusively that there is
only a very 'smell proportion et land fa
England whittle is not eventually cap
able of fertility,
Cioah the Icarian and dry it well.
Thea Melt stIfilefeta liaratffille to covet
the bottom of the 'Pan about half an
You Will that hero a pail that
tratrf it ,reedily
6 elinrabu wibi COm .ratef and will not
1/066htd 'filsty r lettitye
From Wheat -Growing Districts.
"Now we go round the barberry
bush!"
Who has not played that childish
ganic? How malty generations of. chil-
dren have played it? For, undoubted-
ly, it is Very ancient.
The barberry hush is intimately con-
nected with leuropeen folk lore that
goectback to the prehistoric. Doubt-
less the, sentiment attaching to It is
largely accountable for the circuses-
etaneenhat curly settlers brought it to
this country,
130, gaff! science has newly put a,
liap on barberry Imslies. Tinny Elio, it
seems; Mischief-makers—at till events
isi wheatagrawing regions,
• The evorst.enemy of wheat Is a fun-
gous disease ealled "stem rust," for
the spores of which the barberry
serves as a "host," ThCly germiraite ori
the Math, and pass ou to the wheat in
spring, But far the berberrY's help
there woind be no serious epidemics
ot etein rust.
Hence, at the presort time, an effort
is being angle to extirpate the barber.
of in wheat.growIng regions.
In tile chronicle of the last five
years history stems to havailmeroWed
from descriptions of the primeval Da.
Ingo and aleione of the Last Judge
meat, It reacts like an apoettlypse,—
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What a Sight'
it is to see
Gitnt Freighters
Steam,Away—'
bound from Fort William and Port Arthur for
the teeming cities of the East.
This is but one of the many interesting things
•you see on this wonderful Great Lakes Cruise.
Have you just a week's vacation?
'This six-day cruise on Lakes Huron and Superior
was planned especially for You will find each
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hour of ever-changing interest. The thrilling
experience of passing through the Locks at Saule
Ste. Marie, thesday ashore at Canada's Twin CitieC
Fort William and Port Arthur, and the visit to our
northern terminus, rising on its wooded promontory
from the blue waters • of Superiorl—the city of
Duluth.
ULUTH and RETUIV
Six Day on the. Great. Lakel
But dors charming still to most of
us, is the daily life on shipboard.
Together, as one family, we travel
1,600 miles, together we spend six full
days -in that gay companionship of
relaxed and rested spirits,
SPECIAL FEATURES
Dancing—Music by full ship's
orchestra. Refreshments at its close.
"Northern Navigatcr"—Daily paper
with news brought in by wireless. A
;merry, chronicle, too, of life on ship-
board. Afternoon Tea—Served in
the Grand Saloon. Concerts—
Evers: afternoon and evening,. well
known artists rxs entertainers. Picnic
at faaltalieka Falls, in the country
near Port Arthur, all enjoy a reel-old-
fashibnerl picnic, Social Hostess—
HURONIC - HAM
NIC
Devotes her energies to the entertain-
ment of the ship's guests. Moon-
light Chorus—After the dancing
everybody joins in singing old-time
melodies, out on deck.
Round trip fare,
Sarnia to. Duluth
and return, includ-
ing meals and berth
One way fares on application.
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• NOR.ONIC
Three sailings weekly from Sarnia to Soo, Port Arthur, Fort William, and Duluth, leaving Sarnia Mondays, Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 6.10 pan. (Eastern Time).
For full information ask any Grand, Trunk Ticket Agent, the Company at Sarnia, or your local ticket or
tourist agent.
Write D. F. Geoghegan, Eastern Passenger Agent, Sarnia, Ont., for Cruise Booklet.
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Wonderful Soar Trip—through IMO
Wands and . Learroace River Rapids;
atop -over, if &ASH, at Toronto and
Montreal: then on to quaint Quebec
And the glorious Saguenay. Writafor
booklet "Niagera.to-the•Sea."
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Is Your Hard Work Necessary?
Sometimes I wonder if a great deal
of the sympathy we extend to over-
worked women isn't wasted. I do
not mean that there are no 'women
who are really forced to clo work
beyond their strength. For those I
have the truest sympathy. But the
women who groan the loudest, it
seems to me, are women who could
make their work fifty per cut, easier
if they so desired. I often think they
go out of their way to do 'unnecessary
things so that they can tell about it
anti beg for sympathy. They seem to
enjoy theanartyr role so hugely, I'm
alined positive they deliberately
overwork,
-I have in mind one farm woman
who for twenty-five years has carried
the water a distance of forty rods,
More than that, she has pumped at up
with an old wooden pump, hasn't even
lied windmill. Of course the water
had to be pumped for the stock in
the "Me way, but I'm not just now
concerned with the mtin'e part of the
story. Times have been none. too
prosperous for this couple, until the
war, Then war maces on their
epebiallty went away up and the
cheques they received were beyond
even their wildest Wiry.
At mice the husband wanted Co buy
a gas engine and install water in the
house. Ile caw a let-up on that tweeze
daily pumping of water for the stork,
and hisewile freed from the extra
work of carrying water. But the
wife Wanted tt aerial To be sure, she
was moaning ail the time about haw
hard she worked keeping up the rooms
oho already had. But the neighbeet
Across the road had a parlor and live
in • mon; both, evhile our heroine had
on y the !teeing room, Husband dwelt
on the delightof getting Water just
by turning a falafel:. Wife held feta
to the notion of having a Limiter to
ushee the preacher into when he col.
led, Husbaral sang the pietism of
Modern plutabilig and held forth on
the merits OE a whole bating, of water
to tplaA in, as 0141011st ct half On hi
it hada ou„)44,iftiiclity siIght. Wife
tarosa to heights of eloquence on the
necessity of leaving an extra room
for the baby grand piano she was hop-
ing to 'buy next year. Husband point-
ed out that she hadn't anything to
put into the parlor unless she took
everything out of the living room.
Wife explained patiently that she
meant to have new stuff. Husband
roared that furniture and rugs were
double their real value and lumber and
labor ditto. Wife clung like a bar-
nacle to the main issue, the absolute
necessity of having a parlor.
They have the parlor. Husband con-
tinues to pump water for the stock,
but from the. day when he gave the
carpenters themrder to atart buildiag
he has never carried a pail of -water
into the house. When the wife nsks
him if he can't help her that tittle bit
gal complains of how tired she is, he
politely suggests that she go into the
parlor, lie down on the davenport she
is going to get next year arid take
a nice reet,
Of coarse, Nils is an exceptional
case, but it is by no means a lone
Illustration of the fact that many of
the things women do are entirely un-
hocessavy, Therc'e the idea of litter-
tng mantels and piano with bric-a-bra&
and photographs. The custom certain-
ly adds nothing to the cvetistie atmoee
ahem of the room, lather, it detrnate
from it. One vase, a bit of pottery, a
avowing plant or ct bowl of flowers
give the touch we crave. But an ac-
etimalabkni of worthless trinkets make
the Piece a nightmare and add an
hoar to the dusting thne.
Ono Woman woke up to thmabetird-,
ity of overdoing by the action 05 her
twelvo-year-old boy. It was a home
when two maids lied been waployed
always until the war, When it becaniel
impossible to Reap more than one, gull
finally that oue departed. The 1110t1161',
delegated 10 the children the task ofi
Intepiag there Olen roome tidy.
• Tide particular boy had a latge col -I
tendon or photos of Metals and epele
he had visited stuck all over &tester
ciuud Beek and boolccaze.
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"Do these things have to be dust-
ed?" be inquired.
"Certainly," said his mother. "Nelly
dusted them every morning, and you
win have to do it, too. The dust set-
tles on them as much as it does, on
furniture, and it has to be taken off."
That morning the pictures disap-
peared from the dresser. The neat
day these from the desk were put
into a drawer. On the third day, two
remained, father's and mother's
photos on the bookcase. But on the
fourth day even those went into re-
tirement.
"I see you folks anyway, and it
seems kiosd of silly to keep your pic-
tures sticking around," he explained
cheerfully. "Betides it saves lots of
dusting."
The mother immediately took stoek
of her own rooms. To be sure, good
taste lied kept her from overloading
them, but there were still a good many
things which could be removed and
never missed, Ail the -furniture with
carving was relegated to the attic or
sold at good prices, Furniture aath
few lines and' no tufted uphoistery're-
placed ,the old sort, which meant so
many houttesa dey in keeping, clean.
The dining room, too, went through
a change, She discovered that it took
exactly fifteen minutes extra to entire-
ly clear the table, remove the silence,
cloth and pat on a. lacy Centroplece,'
So she compromised by leaving or
the tablecloth and placeng a small
doily and fdin dish on this. Every-
thing came off tho plate rail and went
into the ehlaa cabinet; and finally a
carpenter Oiled to the plate
Needlese to say, unnecessary csook-
ing followed unnecessary NI, ing.
1Pood experts told her that the lanaly
needed certain !food elements. fresh
fralt or vegetables,
eggs, fieh or oilier arotelase
sugar fete and mussel' matter. I Ito
family thought it 'bed to hetet eaaq
,,dad..cirar soups, plea, 'Prowl\ pasts
try, (hops mid stoke. She doodad'
that Plein bread wed tallier, Potatoes.;
vegetable -A In Imam plenty of mint
and egga, Mast that meshed
Watehime, fruit, Illi111114 yite mat, unil
ait ply peepeerd sweet Would ketm
itryheeltiralflour 1y 111 'no the illiunge
11.12:111gbNcilliiiii 1111r before clAil
her own work, has gotten through fin
six months with only the help given
her by her children, and so -fee has
not complained of overwork. She eeti-
mates that the anneceszary things she
hired maids to do have colt her in
the neighborhood of one thousand
dollars a year for fifteen years.
"That $15,000 dollars rightly placed
would insure my future and educate
my children if I should be left petite, -
less to -morrow," she says. "Believe
me, I shall spend no more money ht
future for things Ien better off with-
out,
Laundering Wasb-Silice anti aongeee.
Wash -silks and ponces 01' so
popular for making or waists, skiri
etc.., that the proper methoil of inlaid --
ening these materials should he mere
generally understood. That the ese-
fulness of such fabrics is greatly pro-
longed by proper .cnre :in laundering
is such a well known fast, the follow.
ing directions may prove of interest
to many readere.
Soak the since in wean water end
soapsuds for a few hours, then squeeze
rather than rub them to get out 1515
ssiucls dirt as possible in this first
water. Wring as dry ns possible ey
pressing with the .hands, To wash the
silks, have ready the warm water and
soapsucls—never hot water, as that ,is n.e.e.4.0*
ruinous to the finish of the abate.
t Squeeze the material through the
hands until the dirt is loosened, then
rine°, once in wenn water and once in
cold. The last riming watershould
contain some gun -arabic water, &seat
ci teaspoonitil to every quart of water.
This helps to restore some of the
dressing that Isis been washed away,
The ethic should then be pressed dry
between the hands rind rolled in cotton
elotas, Served tho silk out (hit, right
side ep ea the lamed. Place over it:
11 ONO 551 0100i4,01001, and run the
iron ,molsly over IL ao that It will,
tahsorh nvott of the moisture, remove
tho eloth tind then press 60 silk
emeoth. Abs -nye f ollow the watp
theende in ironing alike; otheeivisto the
Permeate info bound to be misehapem
The Nilt.N. should nava be Allowed
10 (Ir)' before Ironing; the ironing
should lie done fibovily after they ars.
rolled
111 the riollea
It never Was NO otpensivo to teed
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