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01-TAPTI)B, XX, mother. I am a )onely old man—e ee, anestic Equipment,
ours to
1+ ebruurY that Betty foittrd- her om- forty --I feel Si=dry! I want you, anda leo h
It was on a gray morning early in old, in spite of, the Tact that I'm barely It takes
only about six it
','ayes pacing the library front end T need you, and --notwithstanding Your bnld a fust olass winter residence h
to and Like gibe proverhiltl ea fni'fun, nnilaitering opinion of me, just ex- leelcitazo Land. Tho material, w.hfell
*hen he tweed and s}joke, she was Pressed --I believe I can make you Is suow, °este.nothing,
*tattled tit the look of his ince -a •'nippy, and your mother, too., ,she Brit the now must he carefully ee-
worn haggard look that told of sleep., shall have every comfort, and, you lasted, The batik that selves as a
lessness•—and of something else Chit , ehall'lave love and laughter and. eyni- quarry must have been formed by. a
she could not name. pathy and •interest, 1 promise yu. single stornt,',to be %efficiently solid
He ignored her conventional morn- now, isn't your heart softening justa
ing greeting, wee bit?, Won't you come!" and homogeneous. It must yield
"Mies Darling,1 want to speak to • "Why, of eours,o, I—appreciate your blocks of fine grain, yet soft enough to
w n p " be easily cut witll'saw'Ar now knife.
you;' leindness, Mr.• Denby, and" --Betty y
"Yes, Mr. Denby" ' chew a tremulous• breath and looked Two men do the work, one cutting
"Willou• come here to live --as my , wistfully into the man's pleading; eyes while the other builds. It is best, It
daughter?" i —"It would be lovely for -mother, practicable, to attack the sidle of a
"Will i—what?" The a)nazeinent wouldn't it? She wouldn't leave to steepift
dr, making parallel cuts a-na
in Betty's face was obviously genuine, worry any more, or—or—"'• lifting out the blacks as fast" as de -
."You aresurprised, o2 , m,'e ; and Burke Denby liftect an imperative tacked. The bloolds are three or four
no wonder.` I didn't exactly what you hand. Tie Mise lighted. He eprang
call 'break it gently, did I? And I to his feet and spoke with boses'n en -
forgot that you Haven't been thinks-.; thusiasm.
of this thing every minute for the '"Phe very thing, Miss Darling, I
last—er—month, as I have,' Won't want you to go home and bring your
you sit down, please." With an abrupt another back to luncheon with you.
gesture he motioned her .to a chair, Never mind the work," he went op, as
and dropped into one himself. "1 ca -1't he Saw her quick glanca toward his
of course, beat about the bush now, desk. "I dont' want to work. I couldn't
I want you to comehere to this'house —this morning. And 1 don't want you
and be a daughter to, me, W'ili you?" to. I want to -see your mother. I
"But, Mr. Denby!" want her to see me, and see If she
" 'This is so sudden!' Yes, I know," thinks she could give you to me as a
smiled the man grimly. "That's what doughter, and yet not lose you herself,
your face says, and no wonder. It may but come here with you to live."
Seem. sudden to you --but it is not at "But 1-I could tell her this 'to-
all so to nae. Believe me, I have given night,' stammered Betty, knowing
lit a great deal of thought. I have de- still that, in spite of herself, site was
bated jt—longer than you can guess. being swept quite off her feet by the
Arid let me tell you at once that of extraordinary enthusiasm of the eager
course I want your mother to come, man be -fore her.
too. That will set your mind at rest
on that point. .
"I don't wane -to wait tilt to -night.
-
'"But I-1 don't think yet that I I i, I want to see her now. Besides,"—
quite understani3," falteied the girl. � the e sconfddents airad m8alofwone whoawith
knows,
"in what eystand yet - It —wh has point is-gained,—"I want a maga-
you want `me. You se, I I have sine, and I forgot to ask you to get
it for. me last night. I want the i eb-
at
y dislkt ed lately
Denby�uHerrtchin ruary 'Research; So we'll just let it
came up with. the little determined lift go that Pre sending you to the sta-
tion newsstand for that. Incidentally,
you may come back around by your
mother's plaee and bring her with you..
There,. now surely you won't object to
—to running an errand for me!" he
finished triumphantly.
"No, I surely can't object to -to
running an errand for you," laughed
Betty;, as she rose to her feet, a pretty
color in her face: "Anel I -I'll try to
bring mother."
It's. the first time for years utast there It was in a tumult of excitement and
has been any sun—for me. But when indecision. that Betty hurried down the
you go, the sun goes. That's why I long Denby walk that February morn -
want you here all the time. Will you
come? Of course,' you understand I
mean adoption—legally. But r don't
'pant to dwell on that part, 1 want to luncheon -she who eo seldom went
you toiwent to come.- I want you to anywhere? It was a wonderful thing
behappy here. Won't you come?" —this proposal of -Mr. Denbei's. It
Betty- drew in her breath tremulous- meart, of course,— everything, if they
ly. For along minute her gaze search- accepted it, a complete metamorphosis
edthe man's face. • • of their whole lives and future. It
"Well, Miss -Bette'?" There was a could( not help meaning that. But
confident smile in his eyes. He had would they be happy there? Could
the air of a man who has made a eer . they be happy with a man like Mr.
taro somewhat dreaded move; but who
has no doubt as to the outcome.
I'm afraid I --can't, Mr. Denby."
"You—can't It
so like her mother.
With a jerk Burke Denby got to his
feet and resumed his nervous stride
up and down the room.
"My child,"—he turned squarely
about and faced her,—"I want you. I-
neetl you. This house has become no-
thing but a dreary old pile of horrors
to. me. You, by some sweet necro-
mancy of your own, have contrived to
make the sun shine into its windows.
ing. What would her mother say? How
would she take it? Would she con-
sent? Would she consent even to go
Denby? To be sure, he saidhe would
be willing to be—trained: (Betty's
face ddmpled into "a broad smile some-
what to the mystification ,of the man
Betty, in spite of her very real and she chanced to be meeting at the
serious concern and anxiety, almost
laughed at the absolute amazement on
the man's face. ,
"No, Mr. Denby."
"May I ask why?" There was the
'chill of ice in his voice. •-
Again Betty felt the almost hysteri-
-cal desire to laugh. Still her face was
very grave.
"You—I— In the end you would not.
want me, Mr. Denby," she faltered,
"because .I -I should not be happy
here?"
"May I ask why—that?"
There was no answer.
"Mies Darling, why wouldn't you be
happy here?"
Genuine distress came into Bejty's
face. •
"I would rather not say, Mr. the request. Instead she leaned over
Denby." • the counter and caught Betty's arm
"But Iprefer.that you should,"
I can't. You would think nue im-
pertinent.
"Not if I tell you to say it,Mies ; been watehin ev'ay day fur you. What
Betty. Why can't you be happhere?-: did I tell ye? Now I guess you'll say
You know very well that you would I know when I've seen a face before!
have everything that money could Now I know who you are. I see you
buy." with your mother at Martin's grocery
"But what I want is something—
money can't buy.."'
"What do you mean?"
No reply. knew then in a minute who you was,
"Miss Darling, whet do you mean?" ands uy I'd thought I'd seen ye some -
With a sudden fierce recklessness wheres. I hadn't not since you was a
the girl turned and faced hrirn, kid, though; but I knew yer another,
„ _ an' you've got her eyes. Yeu've Helen
' did lrlm aanduis minuteago.tthat—what
Tletway'Dtenby''e daughter. My, but I'm glad
ter see gel
you 11W -de of --of expecting everybody) Betty, plainly' distressed, had •been
•u+nd• ,everything to bend to your will attempting to pull her arm away from
and wishes. Oh, I know, its silly and the woman s grasp; but at the name a
• horrible and. everything for me to say look 01 relief crossed her face.
this, Bet you matte Inc do it. I told I "You are, mite mistaken, madam,"
you it was impertinent' Don't you she said coldly. "My mother's name
see? I'd have to have love and laugh- is not Helen Denby:'
ter and sympathy and interest and—, '+Brit I see her myself with my own
and all that around me, 1 couldn't' eyes child' Of course site's older
be happy here. This house jus like a lookie', but I'd swear on my dyin' bed
tomb, and " you—sometime- you ori; 'twos her. Ain't you Doroothy Eliza-
jolly and ,kind and—and fine. But. I'b}th?" -
'never know how you're going to het I Betty's eyes flew wide open;
Mr. Denby, I. --I couldn't live in such I "you—know—my—name?"
a pace, and mother couldn't either.' "There' I knew 'twos," triumphed
And I— .Oh, what have I said? , But the woman. "An' ter think of you
you made Inc' do it, you made mo do' cousin' back an' workin' fur yer father
it!"For one long. minute there was utter, like this, an'—"
silence in the room, Burke Denby, at 1 my' vvhat .
the library table, sat motionless, his It was the woman's tarn to open
wide eyes of amazement,'
hand shading his eyes.. Betty, in her' ape you mean to say you don't now
chair, wet het lips end swallowed con- Burke Denby is 'your father?"
vulsively, Her eyes were frightened'`f 'But he isn't my father! My father
—but her chin evrs high. 1 me nese''"
Suddenly he stirred. Hie 'rand no' "who said res?"
longer shaded his face. Betty, to her! Why, Mothsr-phut is—I mean—
amaeement, saw that his lips 'Vere sire never• said-- What cl0 youmean?
smiling, though his eyes,, elle kneewww, Tee can't be nay father. My mother's
vete moist.an n i -t IT el en DenlingI" Belts eves
"Betty, -my dear child, 7 thought b'e-nnok,ng nn effort to get away now.
fore that I •wanted you, .I know now S as, r deet, cluteheng the leo.I've got to have you " ' nae. .,.:t with her free hand.
Betty, as if the ereile were con- (Ts iss co i de 1.)
tegiolrs, found her own line twitching.
"What—do you mean'?" -
"I, mean that your fearless little
tirade was just what I needed, my
dear, I have expected everything anal
everybody to bend eo my will and
, wishes: I suapect that's 'what's been
the mattes', too, all the way up, l
thoifght once, long ago, I'd learned my
teener'. But it seems I haven't. Here
I am up to the same old tricks agtrius
Witt you come oriel--er•-•-tcdiut hie,
13etty? I will promise to be very
docile, '
Betty diel Iaugh this tints -•.:and the
tenelon snapped, "Train"—the vary
word with Which the had 'shocked hoe
ntoti,er waetde before(
" Seniously, nay clear,'!—the man's
face was very grave how, --"r want,
you to talk this thing over with yore loam s troubles aro,
moment.) But.would he be really kind
and loveable like this all the time? He
had been delightful once before—for
a few days. Whitt guaranty had they
that he would not again, at the first
provocation, fall back into his old
glum unbearableness?
But what would her mother say?
Well, she would soon know. She would
'get the magazine, then hurry home—
and find out.
It was between trains at the station,
and the waiting -room was deserted.
Betty hurriedly told the newsstand
woman what she wanted, and teied to
assume a forbidding aspect that would
discourage questions. But the wonian
made no move to get the magaz}ne.
She did not mem even to have heard
in a vise -like grip. tier face was
alight with joyous excitement.
Well, I am glad to see you! I've
last Sat'day night, add i tried ter get
to ye, but I lost -ye in the crowd. I
see you first, then -I see her, and I
feet long, two feet high and six to
eight inches thick.
Instead of laying then in parallel
courses !lice bricks, the blocks ate so
placed as td form a sliiral, inclined in-
ward to forma a dome-shaped,}) tructuuire,
with the culmination of the spiral In
the middle of the top, whet'e two or
three trl,tngula'r pieces are put iu to
lose th,e stole, This is a highly in-
genious method of building a dome
without the aid of a scaffold,
1'n orcler to reach high enough, the
builder stakes a snow bench inside, on
which he steps 'white finishing the up-
per part of the structure, Finally the
joints are made ;tight by ',teasing
snow mortar into them, the idea being
to prevent warm atr inside the house
from escaping. •
A Hemispfaere of. Snow,
When finished the house is ten or
twelve feet high" and twelve to fifteen
feet in diameter, and has the appear-
ance of a hemisphere of snow set on
ate flat side. A sort of entrance hall
is added outside, with a passage big
enough to crawl through, and on either
side of it cubbyholes for the storage
of barness, spare food, etc.
A window is cut in the wall of the
building and covered with seal's intes-
tines sewed together. Being trans-
lucent, they admit daylight or, as an
alternative, a slab of clear, fresh -water
ice may be set in the wall. This at -
fords fen excellent substitute for'gla`ss,
and can be counted on not to melt In.
that frigid latitude.
The house is lined with the skins
which form the covering of the sum-
-mer Eskinns dwelling, the object of
this arrangement being to prevent the
warm air inside from melting the
snow roof; for between the skins and
the wall there is always a layer of
oold air. At the top, for ventilation
and to provide a draft for the family
lamp, a suss'' hole is cut.
On the side of the -house opposite the
entrance„ (within) a broad snow bench
is built, with a long pale for ail edlge.
This is the family bed. Fora mattress
a thick layer o shrubs is spread upon
it and over these many deerskins.
Clothes, when taken off, are rolled up
and put under the skins for pillows.
Ono blanket of skins serves to covet
the wholo family.
It is very -.warm inside, for, in effect,
the snowhouse,is an inhabited oven. A
shallow semicircular dish of soap-
stone, with a wick of fat-saturatd
moss, serves as a lamp, deriving its
oil from the drippings 0,1 a piece of
seal blubber suspended near the flame.
Above the
is hung pot for
lamp g a
lot over the pot,ie a
-i and 'aloft, cook ng,
network of thongs containing articles
of clothing, put'thore to dry in the as-
cending warm air.
Importance of Lamp.
The lamp gives a brilliant and beau-
titul light; it cooks the food, it dries
the clothes, it heats the house, and,
not least important, it melts the -snow
.for drinking water. ` Water, and lots
-of it (for drinking, not for 'bathing)
is to the Eskimo the greatest of`lux-
urtes, for he lives in a couutry where,
What iie Wanted,
7.,itt-Ie Igen, who was very fond of
beoisttelc, passed his plate the other
night at diener for a second helping,
"Why,/ tee," said his tmelo, "yon
mustn't eat any more meat. Don't you.
know," he cotnieoled, "if you eat more
meat you might have a dream and tee
elephants and tigers and Bolts, And
scorpions and 'panthers cud----•"
Bort grinned delightedly,
"Climat another piece," he begged.
"T Want to sec all ofAhem iltibgs,".
You have no idea how big Li% alio,
Before ttrotiping Ater Stropping
Which blade is yours?
You shave with the
first blade—unless you
use an AutoStrop
Safety Razor.
Shaving causes a saw-
like.edge to farm on the
blade and the edge be-
comes dull. Stropping
re -aligns the edge and
brings the blade back
to' the original keenness.
That's why the
AutoStrop Razor has
such a large sale. Be-
cause men realize that
no razor can do good
world without constant
stropping.
Stf•opping -- shaving :"-•
cleaning are done with-
out removing the blade '
from the razor. '
'Razor -•- Strop — 12 blades --- SS
tiTOSTMiiiP gAtrzzarY igAi7,012 10 Limited
AutoSieop i3uIl ilesr 'i'ofo le, Conade
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,Discovered: A Household Convenience.
A.n indulgent aunt presented a
watch to one .e7 our young eons and to
the other .a flashlight. For thirteen
nights it w'as absolutely necessary for
those boys to ascertain the time seven
times between pied to bed and get-
ting en. Then the novelty wore off,
bout flesh and watch were tueneci:ovee
to mo with the remark, "here, Mother,
you take them nights, `they're awful
handy,"
The very first night that flash regie-
terecl me as a liim friend, but it had
only just ,begtui to thew he treason
fog its existence. It' -has proved just
the thing, so that we are thinking of.
getting another to ease up on the de -
Mends made for it,
Those who dlonbt ft as a sensible
Investment are referred to the follow-
ing ocoas'ions when it has played first
ai!dt lr
All nightly excursions to the wood
shed, coal bin, etc. - s'.
-Hunting up the baby-- chicles at
nightfall.
Dieharnessing the family horse after
dark,-
Reading the incubator thermometer.'
Hunting in dark closets for nfisteri
ous disappearances. 1
Examining sore throats in children'
04—wounds in animals. !
It has _ proved invaluable nights
when the children were ailing, g doin
away with. the necessity of a lamp,
often so annoying.
Mail: -order" houses quote these flash-
es for
lash-es-for very little; local merchants: for
a little more, but it"will•pay to indest
in one, wherever you :buy it.
Tested Recipes.
Apples the Base for Five Different
Jellies.—Cook a peck of tart, juicy round -wise, and place in a kettle,, with
apples until they are done, but not slices of fresh pork laud over them;
over -conked. Strain the joke and boil add salt, a dash of cayenne pepper,
down until it will jell with an equal; and water to cover them, and simmer
amount of sugar. Add lemon juice slowly for a while, When they are
and a little lemon extract if you wish tender sprinkle a bit of flour over
lemon jelly. Pineapple can be sliced them, and again cook elowly, until,
in with the apples for pineapple Ravor, when the neat "and parsnips are re-
In the same way strawberry, peach moved, there will be a rich gravy in
and quince flavors may be used, the kettle, to be eaten with them or
Mock Beef ' Steak.—Slice several `sepilrately, as desired.
large, Rin green, tomatoes abaut'ene-
hitlf inelx thick. „Scusop well, re 1 in
flour and drop in a ales greased frying
pan. When they are well browned on
one side, turn them over, being care-
ful not to break Ahem. Servo hot.
—Mrl�, 7ti I. D.
Beef Fricassee,—Purchase lu piece
of meat cut from the flank, weighing
between two and three Female. Sim-
mer the meat slowly in water to cover,
With two or three onions, and season-
ing of snit and pepper, until very
tender. Talk up the meat and eat in
one -inch pieces. Make a gravy with
the stook, and reheat the mcatn this.
Pour the whole over split belting
powderbiscuits, RS .4W1 chicken
ftleassee,—Mrs. M, M.
Savory Custard for the Invalid. --
Warm ono cupful of strong beef tea
or chicken broth, and to it add a beat-
en egg, a little salt and ,a dust _ of
white pepper. Pour into a buttered
Cup; sprinkle a little chopped parsley
over the top and set in a steamer ever
boiling water until the egg sets.—L.
M. T.
Celery t;roquet,tes—One cup of
mashed potato, three-fourths cup
finely sliced celery, one to one and a
half teaspoons butter, two tablespoons
chopped nuts, pinch of salt. Do not
cook celery, unix allingredients while
the potato, is hot, cool, shape, egg and
crumb. Stand in a cold 'place until
ready to bake. Bake in a quick oven
ten "minutes, or until croquettes are
brown.
Baked Squash,—Cut the squash in
pieces for serving. Remove the seeds
and stringy portion, brush with
molasses, and season with pepper and
salt. Bake until soft, add butter, and
serve at once in shell.
In Cooking Parsnips, slice. ,them
through most of the year, the normal
condition of H2O is that of a rook.
All the life of, the Eskimos may be
said to revolve about tate family lamp,
eyllcli makes it possible for them to.
dwell in an otherwise uninhabitable
region. They depend for their very
existence upon this household utensil,
The lamp is the recognized property
of the woman head of the family, and
when she dies it is buried with her,
. Happy Married ]Life of
Many . Celebrities.
"The reason why my long married
life has been so happy," said the late
Lady Tennyson, "is that my husband
Inas always been my lover. We are
far more` lovers to -clay than when we
married so very many years ago."
And this has been the happy experi-
ence of other wedded couples whose
courtship clays have laded long as
life itself.
Charles Kingsley called himself "an
old married man" ylien he wrote to
his wife from a solitary convalescent
holiday at the seaside. "This place is
perfect, but it seems a dream, and im-
perfect without you, I never before
felt thebein of aneliuess without
1 g
the beloved being whose every look
and word and motion are the keynotes
of my life. People talk of love eliding
at the altar—Fools!"
Tont Hood, to his 'last day, was the
passionate lover of the wife who in-
spired that sweetest of his songs, "I
love these, I love thee, 'tis all that I
can say," and to whom in his last year
he wrote; "Blass you, bless you, again
and again, my clear one, my only one,
my one as good as a thousand to your
old unitarian in love, T. H.
One of the last pictures we have of
Wordsworth is of "the old man walk-
ing in the garden with his wife. They
were both olti, and he was almost
blind; but they seemed like sweet-
hearts courting, they were so tender
and attentive' to each other." And
Nathaniel Hawthorne had lived many
Years ifi his "wedded paradise" when
he wrote, to his "Flower lent from
Heaven,' "Oh Phoebe, I want thee
much! Thou art the only person that
was ever necessary to tne. I am only
myself when thou art within my roach,
thou unspeakably -beloved! woman,'
Robert Browning •. never canto to
London without visiting the church
in which ile and lite wife, who was
"soul of hissoil, : woro made one,
without lcissing the paving -stones- in
front of fie door, And Steele's passion
for his wife found expression in such
burning words as these: "I love you
bettor than the light -of my eyes or the
life -blood in my heart. There are no
words to express the tenderness I
have for
Europe's loyal Jewels
Neiri3'i• perhaps in.the history of the
world have there been so many gems
„loose" as there are in the present day,
While the lioliticaipot boils in limes -Hi
royal treasures of Rucs.a, the jewels
of private individuals whose 'tomes
were invaded are to -day in the hands
of unknown persone in various parts
of the world. Pew of the piecloua
jewels of the European monarchs have
appeared on the market. •
Already the pollee of foretell coun-
tries aro troubled with reports 01
frauds . connected with these jewels.
Theimposterwho professes to have a
part of the "loose" loot is already ol-
fering to sell the treasures at a "ri-
diculously low price"' if the purchaser
will advance a certain sunt "as evi-
doiree of good faith." And the police
of the foreign countries are surprised
at the number of persons wluo are
caught In the little fradulent game.
The same fraud was practiaod when
treasures were reported lost in the
French Revolution, in the Peninsular
War and in the Franco-Prussian War
of 1871.
While the political pot boils Russia
with such intensity that an outsider
takes his life in his own hands to en-
ter the country, treasure seekers or
their agents aro aready browsing
around seeking the precious things
that may come cheap among the sack-
ers of the royal treasure houses.
Whispers have spread of the stealthy
passing of the wondrous gems con-
cealed in filthy rags in the vile drink-
ing dens of the criminal quarters of
Petrograd. The agents of jewel seeln
ers who •have ventured. into these
criminal haunts ter jewels stolen from
the treasure houses of Russia are
many. Decrees of death against the
thieves have failed to restore the
treasures.
Hair Tonic.
Baldness is a condition the threat of
which will frequently stir mon of oven
the mast dormant vanity. Hair tonics
have netted fortunes for their invent-
ors and there are countless remedies
of the old housewife, some of which,
such as the 'application of kerosene,
make the writer, at least, feel that the
decrease might be preferable to the
euro. The sea captain, John D. Whid-
den tells of in his "Ocean Life in the
Old Sailing -Ship Days," certainly dis-
covered to his sorrow one of the pos-
sible results of such a "cure."
Captain Hopkins was giving a dinner
to sante of the other ship captains and
their wives who were In the harbor of
Bahia at the sante time with hhn. As
the cabin of the captain's brig was
small, the table was laid under awn•
ings on .the top of the cabin. , The
guests arrived and dispersed about
under the awnings to enjoy themselves
until dinner was served. Captain Hop-
lcins, who Was a general favorite, after
a few minutes went below, "presum-
ably to put a few finishing touches to
his appearance," The captaict, who
was "a small man, with a quaint,
seamed, whiskerless face," was troub-
led about his us thinnhtg
haft after try-
ing
In all sorts of tonics some one had
told him that "kerosene o11, well rub-
bed in, would cause a healthy growth
when everything else had failed."
Captain Hopkins tried it and carne to
have great faith in it, "going around
with his tread glistening, and an odor
distilling from him like an oil derrick."
Down in his cabin, now, he proceeded
to give a fresh application of the kero-
sene,
Suddenly the people on deck were
startled by a yell, "and the next in-
stant the head of old Hopkins appear-
ed above the companionway, blazing
like a giant candle. The ladies
screamed, while one or two captains
caught up buckets and, dipping up salt
water over the brig's side, deluged the
captain's head, extinguishing hint in a
moment, btbt leaving him as bald as an
egg, e.ithpgh beyond a taw blisters he
was not seriously hurt," Captain Ilop-
kins, it turned out, had lighted .a lamp
and somehow brought the match in
contact with his heath
Every one makes mistakes ---we
wouldn't bo human if we didn't; but
the biggest mistake of all is to go on
repeating the same mistake over and
over. That's sheer stupidity;
Pot up hyacinths, tulips and narcis-
sus for winter flowers, Set the pots
away in a cool, dark cellar. Keep the
soil from becoming dry by applying
water aa needed. When the pots are
1011 of roots the plants can be bought
into light and heat.
Will The, Walrus Became Extinct?
Tate killing- of the walrus -had far
more than anything also to do with
Lilo peril of starvation which menaced
tiro very. existence of the Alaskan ills-
Icin%os only a few years ago, fiolndeer,
imported from Siberia, have saved 1
them, but to then' the lose of the gi-
gontic e llramtmanydreaclfulnlalininicfottuiie.mal is a
The walres is one of the most use•
fill creatures provided by a bountiful
Providence tor the benefit of ntankiud,
and'sfuce time immemorial it had been
the main depeitcleuoe 01 the -Eskimos
111 Alaska,
There aro today comparatively tow,
waltns left alive, and the prospect is
that before long Leis valuable vacates
swill ho virtually exterminated. Porn
sister slnisghtor hes reduced its num-
bers to ascii a point that there is no
longer Muds profit in Imntleg it for
uomiliei•eiol purposes-•.•-wltoreln lieeitho
only 'tope for its eusvlva!,
Hunters scold the beast for its Linke,
Bird Surgery.
One Sunday morning in the early
fall of 1017, says Mr. E. F, Kallot• in
the Zoological Society Bulletin, a little
boy brough me a full-grown cedar wax-
ing that he had rescued from a cat.
Its right wing hung down limply, but
a careful examination showed that the
injury was only. a flesh wound. The
bird seemed to realize its helpless con-
dition, and showed no fear; and when
I offeree' it some raspberries, it ate
then while perched on the boy's lin-
ger.
I carefully washed the wounded wing
with disinfectant and, after drying it
with cotton, dusted it over with aris-
tol. I then had my son hold the bird
while I carefully placed the wing in its
natural position and bound it with
lantern -slide binding tape, which cov-
ered the wing but_left the injured tis.
sues exposed. I placed the bird in a
box where it
promptly proceeded to
n its feathers. athers. e
It thrived on a diet of elderberries
and meal worms, and it seemed
pleased to be taken for an airing.
Strange to say, it made no attempt to
fly. After ten days the wound had
healed so well that I submerged) the
bird in warm water and removed the
binding tape. P- then set my patient
on a branch of a cedar tree in front
of the porch, where it satin the sun
shine for about an hour and then be-
gan -to preen its feathers. It worked
particularly on the wing that had ween
bandaged, and, to my astonishment, it
slew to the top of a shrub thirty feet
away without effort. Froin that time
until it flew away with a flock of cedar
waxwings I let it go and come at will.
British builders are constructing a
very large seaplane entirely out of
the lightweight alloy duralium
which are of very fine ivory; for its
hide, which' makes hist -rate leather,
and oven for its whiskers, which fur-
nish picks for opium •pipoe. To the
iilekinio it (or was) food, clothing,
'infuse, ntchslls (fi•mn bones and tithe)
and most other necessaries of life,
ellorithan half, it century ago ethe'a
wilualbra, responding to a commereial
demand for ivory, turned their atten-
tion to the walrus and prooteded to
wipe them out systematically; Some-
times as many as. 2,000 of the auimale
were slaughtered on a single cake 01
foo merely for their tusks, Thus to
day a walrus la hardly to be Emma in
waters whole the mette:mi i used to be
so nurnercus that thole btllcieviitgs
were beard above the Mar of filo
waves and the grinding or the ice flogs.
The pone; animals had no chance at
all, ilsueliy the method adopted wen
to ttppreaclu a herd of walrus on the
too, and after Pieties of the inert
alert balls from a .life dletanee with
rifles, slaughter the rest at leisuti'o,
ov 'lis
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Preparing For Entertaining.
She was very important and very
stout. Her• jewellery was very plentt• .
ful, and, although it was a hot day, she
wore her newest sables: she was
choosing the most ornate tea and din•,,
nor services the big London store had
to offer, for she had made up her mind
to figure as a Society hostess.
Therefore she was ordering every-
thing
verything by the dozen --plates, dishes,
spoons, forks, and so forth—and sud-
denly she caught sight of a pair of
sugar -tongs,
"What are those things?" she asked,
"Sugar -tongs, madam."
"Then send me four dozen of those."
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