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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-08-15, Page 6By Agronomist. , This Department Is for the use of our farm readers who want the advice of an expert on any question regarding soil, seed, crops, eto, If your question , la of sufficient general Interest, it will be answered through this column. if stamped and addressed envelope Is enclosed with your letter, a complete answer will be mailed to you, Address Agronomist, care ofeWilson Publishing Co., Ltd., 73 Adelaide St, W. Toronto, Save the Soil. Never before in the history of Canadian agriculture has there boeit any such a tendency toward the de- pletion of soil fertility. Thousands of £nrmers in our richest agricultural regions who were at one time growers of good cattle, sheep and hogs are be, conning soil robbers. The high price of grain is tempting thein to sell in- stead of feed out the crops. One may build up his bank account by that profess for a few years, only to find that he has- really been selling his farm by the wagon -load. Every eansideretion present and prospective, points to the importance of maintain - leg and increasing the fertility of the land, and this to just the reason why every farmer in Canada whose land will support live stock ought to find some way of utilizing good animals In his system of farming. The farms on uhieh some sort of live stock may not profitably be maintained are few and far between. The high price of grain has not continued long enough to enable any- one to measure its full effects,- nor have we any means of determining whether the conditions which are hold- ing the price of grains to their present level will continue long enough for the full effects to be realized. One ef- fect. however, is plain, that it is checking the movement toward crop rorat.un, stock feeding and maintain - lag the fertility of the soil. Should this continue for years to eome, we' fear that this terrific waste of fertil- ity that is going on will not only con-! ttime but actually increase. It 1, going to take a number of pears to measure the effect of this drifting away from live stock on the' land. It has been with the utmost difficulty, even when grain Was bringing moderate prices, that farm ere could be persuaded to change from growing grain for the market to stock farming.. Nor is this to be wonder- ed at; for the growing of cattle, sheep and hogs is an entirely different type, of farming. It is an easy matter t,' develop a profitable system of grain farming on productive land, but: it requires exceedingly good judgment' to make live stock yield maximum re- turns. And when a man has once drifted away from live stock it ie all the more difficult for him to take up the work where he left off. ,Another question arises: What is going to he the result of the present generation of farmers drifting away from live stock farming on the future generations of farmers? The dif- ficulty of teaching the coming gener- ation how to care far live stock is sure to hold back the development of the industry for many years, There- fore, grain must be grown until the fernier is affected by reduced fertility and consequent declining yields. Then when the tide does turn, as It even- tually must turn, there is going to be a mighty problem of restoring the wasted fertility and a mighty hunger for knowledge of live stock feeding and soil management, One thing is certain, that unless there is a complete change in our methods of farming, grain will never be as cheap as it has been in former years. There are too many de- mands for it besides feeding it to live stock. In fact, there are only two ways of increasing grain production; one by increasing soil fertility; the other by better methods of culture. Both of which are educational pro- cesses and necessarily slow. Live stock raising is the best ins surance against an improverished agriculture, Those who have studied the problem know that this is true, Do not increase your acreage of grain crops, but improve your methods. Grow fewer acres and more bushels to the acre. Do not steep too muoh live stack but use better blood and give them better care. Do not break up good pastures and put them in grain because they offer a profitable rotation of crops and become a soil robber and a price chaser. The scales are sure to turn in favor of the live stock grower, and as live stock can- not be increased rapidly there is sure to be some good years ahead. It is. claimed that hogs are an exception to this rule, that they can be increased very rapidly, but, even with hogs, when the supply of breeding stock! becomes reduced it requires two or three years for production to get back on a normal footing. leffrt et tei "I would like to know how to do good farming without sheep," says Mia George McKerrow, of Wiscon-' ale, one of the best and most widely; known sheep breeders of American. "Why?" he continued. "Because my sheep use up the wastes of the farm., They clean up the grass, weeds, brush, and gleanings, and in so doing turn' into cash what otherwise would be lost." "Sheep," he says, "make the most ceonamical gains of any kind of live ) stock because they e'ean up the oats rod ends. They are particularly' useful on the farm in the fall of the year, for they turn into mutton the things -hat otherwise would not be used. At the same time they save the feed stuffs that would be given them if they did not have access to these other things." Atter harvest, Mr. McKerrow's sheep are turned into the oat fields for a few hours the first day; an hour or two longer the second day; and the time gradually increased until at the end of a week they have complete possession of the fields. The lambs are permitted to enter the corn before it is cut and they clean up on the weeds and lower corn plant leaves. Lambs do not pull down the lower ears of corn as do the sheep. Roots are grown for the cattle and sheep on Mr. McKerrow's place, and after the larger roots are hauled into storage for winter use, the sheep are turned into the field and eat the smaller ones that remain. Both the sheep and lambs are turned into the aftermath 1 o the meadows and this brings them :into winter quarters in good condi- ' tion. Another profitable practice on this farm is that of plowing up fields that become weedy after harvest. These fields are sown to rape and turnips, and later the sheep are turned in, They eat the rape and turnip tops with relish and will later hollow the meat from the turnip, leaving but a shell, Mr. McKerrow has found that a frequent change of pasture is bene- ficial to the sheep. A thirty -six-inch woven wire fence in twenty -rod lengths is moved about, thus prevent- ing the too short cropping of the grass, and furthermore reducing the internal parasite plague to a mini- mum. Water is also an important consideration, and ewes particularly sho..ld have water the same as dairy COWS. "I would not go so far as to say that there should be some sheep on every farm," declares Mr. McKerrow, "for peculiar conditions might not ake it practical, but I do believe that there should be sheep on the vast ma- jority of farms in this country. They turn waste into cash. The sort of saving that the good housewife is making in her kitchen can be practic- ed with corresponding effectiveness by the use of sheep on the farm. sx, .1-147, 14,1 Partners who ship their wool direct to us get better prices than farmers who Dell to the general store. ASF( ANAP FAr MERI who has sol hia wool both ways, and note what he says— orbetter still, write ns for our prices; they will show yon how much you lose by selling to the General Store, We pay the highest prices of any firm inihecouatr and are thelargest tvool dealers is Canada. payment is re - vaned the same day wool is received, MOIR; yourwool today --you will be more than pleased if you do, and are assured of a square deal 13•0111 us, 2 u.. an,i c.^ Lac. H. v, ANDREWS 13 CHURCH ST., TORONTO Grass clippings are an excellent green feed for chickens, The back yard poultry flock of a family often lacks sufficient green feed with a consequent reduction of egg and meat pi eduction. With the easy avail- ability of lawn clippings the poultry- man can always have green feed through the summer for his chickens. The flock can be fad daily as much of the green clippings as they will eat. If any continued bowel trouble shows, the amount should be reduced. The remainder of the clippings can be al- lowed to dry and fed moistened dur- ing the time between latvn cuttings. Amounts In excess can be dried for winter use. Dried grass clippings are a good green food for winter, They can he dried and stored in sacks. These died clippings, moistened and fed to the flock, are a very fair sub- stitute for the succulent green feeds of summer. Pay More and Eat Less. "One could eat two meals in succes- sion very easily in London, and leave the table slightly minus the self-sat- isfied feeling to be got by unrestricted eating in any American Cafe," writes Raymond B. Bolton, a newspaper cor- respondent, "In addition one has to pay more on the average for a mewl hero then in the United Stator or Canosln,;n' .. fUtitlY rOLDwUp$ ,LOUT OUT AND 1tOID QN 00Tr(D UN It'll CO AND BORROW MOTHERS MUFF, THINK THE FUR IS JUST THE SiUF 1.0 MAKE A TAIL DRUM MAJOR'S HAT. WE HAVE NO DRUM -BUT WHAT OF THAT. To Blast Big Stumps. About the first work I did with dynamite was to tackle a big field of stumps. For this I used a 40 per cent, grade, which is about the proper thing to use for stump -blasting on ordinary soils, I find that on low, boggy ground, where the stumps are very large and tough, it is more economical to use a higher grade of dynamite, such as 50 or 60 per cent., placing it under the stump and firing electrically by a blasting machine. All very large tough stumps over three feet in diameter, such as: oaks, hickory, and elm, should be blasted only by this method. The distributed charges will then all go off together, and the combined effect of the several charges so dis- tributed will give a much better blast than putting the entire charge in one hole bored directly under the stump. A few months ago a neighbor of mine excavated a ditch through a low bottom field of his which was very much subjected to overflow. In the digging of this ditch he encountered several large willow stumps which were at least one hundred years old but still in a pretty sound state of preservation, Knowing that I was accustomed to using dynamite, he called upon• me to ,blast out these stumps standing in tater, for it was too wet and boggy to get them other- wise. I find that blasting for tree -plant- ing, either for fruit or shade trees, is ono of the most profitable ways of using dynamite.—R. W. Getting Even "Yes," remarked a conceitedyoung bachelor, "I have the greatest admir- ation for the fair sex, but I never ex - pest to marry—oh, dear nol" "Indeed!" remarked a lady. "Then I am to understand that you not only admire women, but you have a sin- cere regard for them as well," a One of the most important things in the operation of u dairy is the cleaning of the dairy utensils, They 1' - must be cleaned and rinsed th• ()uglily immediately after being used; this will prevent the water in the milk front evaporating and the solid matter sticking fast to the utensils. If it Is found impossible to wash the utensils at once, it will be a good plan to rinse them in lukewarm wa- ter so that the greater part of the milk will be removed before It has had a chance to stick fast to the pall or cow. clot water should never be ueed until the milky substances have been removed with the lukewarm water first, as the hot water will coagulate the casein in the mills so that it sticks to the pail and will therefore require a great amount of washing before it can all be remov- ed from the vessel. After thoroughly rinsing the uten- sIle in the lrilcewat•m water, they should be thoroughly washed in hot water, using some good brand of alkali washing powder. There are many good washing powders to be found on the market that will answer the purpose and make this part of the dairy work easier each day, Soaps or powders that contain grease as a part of their composition will not make a satisfactory brand of soap or powder to use in this work and not nearly as good as a genuine alkali powder. It is a good plan also to have on hand several good sbiff brushes that are adaptable to cleaning the various utensils used daily. If steam is in- stalled it can be used very effectively in sterilizing the utensils, but of course this is not always installed and it is necessary therefore, to fol- low out the rinsing and washing pro- cess, as I have described. Never wipe the utensils after washing them in the hot water, The heat impart- ed by the steam or hot water will make the utensils dry very quickly. They should be placed upsidedown on the racks so no' dust or dirt will get on the inside of them. This is just as important as the cleaning process. Never put covers or lids on the cans or pails, but give them free access to air and sunlight at all times. This keeps them bright, clean and sanitary. Camera Used to Candle Eggs. Bad eggs are unfailingly detected by the camera. This has been dem- onstrated in France, where experi- ments are being conducted with a photographic egg -testing• apparatus, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. The idea of utilizing the camera in- stead of the human eye for candling is a new one. So far it has not been carried past the laboratory stage, but its commercial utilization at present, it is of more than passing interest. Eggs are held in a half dozen oval holes provided in a metal plate. Their large ends point toward a common centre. While intense light is passed through them, they are photographed. A powerful lens is used and an ex- posure ranging upward to three minu- tes is made. The result is a picture that shows the size of the air chamb- ers in the eggs. A Patriotic Urge Colonel Grimbattle—Why so gay? You were in deep mourning the last time I saw you. The Widow Lookabout—I was. But since the soldiers began to rendezvous here I've been called to the colors. GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX By Andrew F. Currtor, M.D. Dr. Currier will answer all signed letters pretatning to Health. If your Question is of general interest it will be answered through these columns; if not, it will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope is en- closed. Dr. Currier will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis. Address Dr. Andrew F. Currier, care of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, Remedies for Nervous Diseases. the material causing them is used up, and then die out, This is so for instance, with soma of the nervous diseases of childhood and early life, St. Vitus' dance and enters. Medicines are sometimes given in this disease and sometimes seen helps ful, though I would not recommend the patent medicines advertised to cure it. If a child with this dis- ease has good food, plenty of sleep, sunlight and outdoor exercise, is clean in his habits, and is kept free from excitement, he will get well in nine cases out of ten without a drop of medicine. Epilepsy may disappear after a few years with good 'hygienic care, though I stn aware that frequently it does not, It is so benefited by careful reg- ulation of the diet and habits, and I ark free to say there are sante power- fol medicines now used for it which are apparently of great value. It may be too early to say wheth• er they will. cure it permanently or not, they are not likely to cure those cases in which the cause of the dis- ease remnli?s, for instance pressure upon the brain by a depressed por- tion of the skull. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS E. P, Two years ago, my husband, who is forty-five yearn old, began to have epileptic fits, and now he has at least ttvo every week. We have not yet been able to find any help for him, Answer ---If you will send a stamp- ed and addressed envelope, .I will be very gibs to send you an article on Epilepsy, which your may read. In no class of diseases are medi- cines more hopeless and useless, so far as cure is concerned, than in those which involve the brain and spinal cord and the nerves proceeding from them. I don't mean that medicines are powerless to relieve some of their symptoms, but I do not know of any that will cure them, when once well established, any more than they can cure cancer. Neither do I include in this sweep- ing statement the milder forms of neuralgia which are often relieved and cured for the time at any rate, by external or internal remedies. In a great many cases it is a waste of good money to buy medicines, and to expect them to euro disease will almost surely be disappointing, ' Three medicines and perhaps four the world could not well do without, opium to relieve pain, quinine to cure malarial poisoning, mercury to cure syphilis, and salicylic acid to cure rheumatism. We could manage to get along if most of the others were dumped into the sea. More than thirty thousand different proprietary medicines aro made in North America; who would be foolish enough to imagine that they would do what they are advertised to do for these who buy and take thein. If the money spent for them were used in buying good simple food, bow much better everybody, would be, ex- cept, of course, the patent medicine makers. Soule nervous ie leases am self 1.;nttecl, they barn 'like a candle until FALL SETTING OF STRA BERRIES Heretofore our preferenve has been spring setting of strawberry plants over fall set, I could never see what was to be gained by fall setting as ordinarily practiced. Late August and early September le the season usually employed fur this, To be sure, when weather ami soil emndi- tiotrs are favorable, and good plants set, quite a fair growth will be made both in root and crown, growth suf- ficient to mature as fair crop of bete ries if allowed to '.fruit. But if pee- mitted to free; the ftret season an in- terior stand of young plants roust necessarily result. The cultural con- ditions required, is each instance aro Altogether incompatible, The object or purpose sought In each ease is wholly unlike. Then, too, 1 'lig'ured that spring set plants make all the growth neeossarY under proper conditions of soil and culture, hence, what was the use of endeavoring to establish tho new plantation at a season when favorable weather conditions were so touch more problematical, Another thing, the labor of creating a fine mellow foot pasturage with plant.) occupy- ing the ground, would be greatly aug- mented. Indeed, I figured that to place a piece of ground in as excellent a condition as 18 possible when larger, deeper working tools may be used, is practically out of the question; hence, sizing the (natter up in the light of the experience I then had, I decided that the fall setting of strawberry plants had nothing to offer us, But for some time back I have been looking at the proposition in the light , of greater experience and can now see how, if fall setting can be made sac- ! cessful, the plan offers one very decid- ed advantage to us, viz„ the setting of the plants will come at a season when other work is far less pressing. With a large amount of work of this sort to be done in the spring some of it must necessarily be neglected; hence, any plan or system that promises to relieve the pressure of work at this time is worth a fair trial. As time passed the attractiveness of the plan increased until L decided to try tho plan out. So this fall an acre of new bed has been set as an experi- ment. Conditions of soil and weth- er were not ideal. If the plan is a success this time, it will be possible to make late fall setting successful under average fall weather conditions, so it seems to me. To begin with, the ground used was he peas this summer. As the rain- fall has been deficient since pea har- vest the ground was not moisture - saturated as may be secured under ordinary spring conditions. For sev- eral weeks after pea harvest the soil remained almost dust dry. Then a shower carne to moisten the soil down about five ineho% when the ground was plowed and floated down with a plank drag. Other sltewsrs follow- ed in a week Or e() of autfielerat thug• r l A t Ctia'PTION Odd OUR FATHER By Maude Dennie See. i One benutiful night 1n Ai.reet we nitude to moisten the surface so that gave an Informal reception to eta• a fairly good .;mil plant b.*d was fathers, We lied often entertained secured, A ehower enure just ais the"our mothers and our hr'othirn find our work of eettiter was begun; ;lust en- boy friends; we had given a farewell uugh to crust. the surface when the party for one 01! the girls who was Wooden was weal to re-establish the lr.avlag; anti 000 haul :had our little loose sui•taco. This loose surface fancywork meets;" but this event i cont( dried out,that it bothered wile unique and we pitinttsd most lov- some in setting,- for additional work ingly one hopefully,. I believe, tor wee imide neeea ,try that noire of this these afleut, l:irully, long-neglec ad dry soil got next to the rent:i.:I'hen,' fathers of ours. too, the job was more or lees unpleaa-1 At lust some of the fathers, scouted ant BR a fresh breeze blew the dry the idea when we begat) talking about pnrtkles into our face,. l it at home, Most ofthem are laon!- Juat how Che experiment will turnworking men and unused to social out, future developments only can re -•i functions, They were perfectly veal, Only light ;Rowers have fell., -ing we should have a good time, hal on since the setting was finished. To no objection to- our girls' meetings prevent crusting and consequent lose and tried to accommodate us about a of soil mnlsture, tate weeder has been pony to ride or a horse to drive used to re-emate a loose surface. Bo.' whenever ebat were possible; Rut it cause of the deficient rainfall it maywas a busy season, they were occupi- be nocessal•y to reset quite a number " ml with providing for our material of plants, This will be clone as seen' needs—or extrnvagaait teethe, as tits as It becomes clear that the plants 1 case may be ---and "running around first set are not starting out vigor nights" was to then clearly a waste misty. of time. Of course, k is not expected that As the time drew near, our respec- planta set this late in the season will Live anxieties were more or lass re- make much growth in the short time lleved, At noon on the vary last day, before freezing weather sets in, This ,I overheard some, instructions to the Li not expected. Neither is it neves boys about the night chores, and an sary to the success of the plan. All injunction nut to use the best driving that is required is that the plants got horses that day; I saw Father get out their root system established and he the new buggy and I noticed mother ready to do business next spring, It will be imperatively necessary to supply winter protection to these fall set plants. They wouldn't be worth to the door, I felt very proud of my shucks if not fully protected from the I handsome dignified father. injurious results of exposure to -win- I I wonder if girls in the city know ter's frost and sunshine, and the heav- l what that buggy ride in the country ' ing action upon the soil of "Sugar was like? There was misty starlight Weather." One of my helpers said,' over the dewy fields, scents of woodsy when I cautioned him against gettinglthings, sounds of insects in the grass, the plants too deep: "But just wait and long low shadowy strips of trees till the frost gets in its work." Ourlfar-away on the edge of the plains. reply was to the effect that it would And as we drove, we saw a big full never do to let frost get in its work.'moon slip up from the forked top of an old oak silhouetted against the sky. Then there was the unaccustom- ed but pleasant chat with Father him- self. IL• touches us deeply in one of those infrequent hours of comradeship, to realize—and with what startling, Popularity. It is possible for a person to be undeservedly popular. His popular- ity may not be due to good qualities, but to wealth or other advantages. Many people honor a person for sel- fish reasons. They think it pays them to have his good will. A humble person may after all have as many real friends as an honored one. The friends of the former are generally true, being friendly because of admiration for him and not because they are seek- ing worldly favor. He knows who his true friends are, but the other doesn't. When an apparently popu- lar man fails in a financial or any other way which reduces him to a humble position he soon finds who his true friends are.,, Unless he is a very bad character, one with only a few friends is herr erally a man of better principle than is one with only a few enemies. The former usually doesn't seek popu- larity, but the later generally does. It is easy for anybody to become popular if he has the advantages. When a person has only a few ene- mies they generally have good rea- sons for being such. It is found that many a popular man will be very generous in his dealings with people he wants for friends but unmerciful when dealing with those whose friend- ship he doesn't desire. One per- son may truthfully say of another that he may have acted good with nearly everybody else but that he act- ed meanly with him. Individual Churns. The cream -gathering truck stopped the weekly or daily churning for us, and the idea of table butter became a question. The memory had that fixed before they asked us for our cream, The nice -looking, high-class cream- ery butter wrapped in tissue paper and packed in ice, right to our door every time they came for our cream, was their answer. We tried it. Fresh and clean as it was, it did not fill the want for good country butter. It la out of the question to make a churning each week with the big churn, and pack it down until used. We have e gallon and a half gime churn which we bought at our hard - Wiled store for a small amount two years ago, tele ettough ago to lcnow that our investment is i ?iti.Qooss and that it is the real way for the Teeni- er to have butter upon his teethe This sterilized glass churn is cap- able of making clean butter, and it is operated easily,—G. W. B. Corks if steeped in paraffin mil for a few hours will drake exeelient tire - lighters rt 1,1, , Matting 'tie best tie and laying ant rtot shirt he seldom wears! And then when he drove the dashing team up The plants must be fully protected against such harmful agencies. Whatever may be the outcome it is certain that ane feature of advantage will be a success; we will have a start of a week with our spring work. E's- tablishing the new strawberry bed in spring, coming as it does right painful regret sometimes we do re - along with so much other similar aline it—how few and precious those work, adds largely to the strenuous heart to -heart talks are and how little life of the season. If this job can of our attention and understanding be transferred from this busy titns to we give to these best of chums, these a season more convenient, a very do- elderly men of experience whose only cided advantage will be gained, thought is for our happiness and loll - After all due care and protection, being, spring growth may show up plants It was remarkable what splendid not starting out with full vigor. These indifference these fathers displayed may easily be replaced with plants at first, and how every man invited. from the propagating bed and a full who was physically able, finally found stand made secure.—M, N. Edgerton. his way, half -apologetically, half -in- dulgently, into the group of other "Country of Mlne." Country or mine, that gave me birth, Land of the maple and the pine, What richer gift has this, round earth Than those raft, fruitful flelde of thine? Like sheets of gold thy harvests run, Glowing beneath the August sun; Thy white peaks, soar, Thy cataracts roar, Thy forests stretch from shore to shore; Untamed, thy northern prairies lie Under an open, boundless sky; Yet ono thing more our hearts ltn- plore— That greatness may not pass thee byt —Helena Coleman, ;' The Farmer's. Office. Farmers are not slow in recogniz- ing the value of an article or method for the improvement of their business, so they are buying typewriters and other office conveniences, and they're using 'em, too. The typewriter is especially useful, as it writes letters in a standard way that indelibly stamps the sender as a business man. For the sake of the letter alone the typewriter is well worth owning; but it has other uses which help prove its value. Carbon copies of all letters written can easily and conveniently be made by inserting a sheet of carbon paper and a "second sheet" under each letter written. Car- bon copies are accepted as evidence in the courts, Card index records San be printed by the typewriter; also bills, loose-leaf records, eta. Tho firet cost may be a bugbear to many. This is a needless fear, as a good rebuilt typewriter can be pure chased for about $25 or $30, The repair expense is usually very slight if the typewriter is oiled occa- sionally and used with reasonable care, It will be necessary to pure chase a hew ribbon once or twice a year, depending on the amount of writing done; but this is a very small item Of expense, To Conserve Fish Wastes. The Canada Food Board has been advised: sly Messrs. Ernest Scott & Company, engineers, Fall River, Mass, that they aro • prepared to install equipment in Canada for the redue.- tion of fish and fish waste to fish meal, fertilizer, oil and glycerine. Consid- erable onsid- era le aesearcle has been conducted along this line by private parties and various branches of the Government Canada, but great quantities of the material at'4 still being wastocsl, 5-- -.. "An easy jqb will suit me." "How about wiedhng the clocks every week?" "I might malts that do. But what's the matter with tearing the leaves oil' the calendars every month?" apologetic, indulgent men. The decorations were all yellow wild flowers, great stalks of sunflowers massed against the walls and huge jars of golden -rod everywhere we could find a place for them. The paper napkins were hand -painted with the club name, Kolah, which means friend, and a spray of yellow bloom. And there were plenty of good things to eat. However, the feature of the even - Ing proved to be the little contest with which we had planned to tease them. This is the way it wa^,,zi\ny- ed: Gradually and unobtrusively We began to leave the room until not •a--._. girl remained. Then someone pass- ed slips containing a list of questions, the answers to be filled in by our father guests, The questions read thus: How much do you notice your daughter? Do you know - 1. The color and material of the dress she is wearing this evening? 3. The size of her gloves? 2, Its kyle or the way it is made? 4. Her style of halydress? 5. What ornaments she is wearing? 6. Her favorite flowers, books and musio?—and that beside being her Daddy, you are her truest admirer, her fleet friend, and the man she loves best? "Just what is the main object of the club?" someone asked as we were getting ready to go home. "Oh, just to get people acquaint. d --'," ono of the girls began careless( ; "But that isn't all," I protested and felt donfusedly that as leader I should be able to verbalize, in a breath, all our ideals and lofty motives. "That may be a very greet and beautiful, mission in life, you know--• just getl;ing"people acquainted," our philosopher -guest said quietly, And it is, is it not? Bridges. ' _ee. ; Greater than any bridge of stone, Arnow; whatever waters thrown.; Greater than any heaving bridge e pf Otte eoreee the ridge on ridge Of roaring »eat yea, granter still ese that strong bridge which from tine wilt Of patriot soul to patriot soul '''as Doth bear us to our ehining goal— The unseen bridge of Liberty, Linieing all hearts that would be free, Wearing Black. Black as a color of mourning has been discarded in Europe during the war because it had a depressing effect on the whole civilian population and also proved a serious financial gotten to the poor and a positive min aoe to •tile national interests in that it diverted l(Vrk►neu and material from strictly 'iteeoasary channels Into etreame that fed only the luxury of war,