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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-07-19, Page 24. D, ]yleTAGGIA RT. H. P. Mc3'AS•1'Gl4 l' McTaggart art Bros. I GENERAL NANKING BUSI- NESS TR ANBACTRD. NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS 1SSTJED, INTEREST ALLOWED ON DI/ - POSITS. SAL1I NOTES 'UR• CHASED. H. T. SANCTI -- NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY ANCER, FINANCJIAL.,• REAL ESTATE AND FTRR INSUR- ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT- ING 14 FIRE INSU1RANC11 COMPANIES. UFYISION COUNT CFF*CS. CLINTON. W. URYDONII, BARRISTER. 6OLTCTTOE, . NOTt.RT PUBLIC, ETO. Office- Sloan Block-CLINTON 1t, Q. CAMERON S.C. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. CONVEYANCER. ETC. OUioe on Albert Street 000uped. I lir. Hooper. In Clinton on every Thursday, and on any day for which ap- pointmentet ate made. Office floors from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. A good vault in connection with the office.. - Office open every weekday. Mr. Hooper „wilt snake any appointments for Mr, • Cameron.. CHARLES B, HALL Conveyancer, -Notary Publish Commissioner, Eta, `BEAL ESTATE' and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licensee HURON STREET, - CLINTON DES. GUNN & GANDIER . Dr. W. Gunn, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., Edin. Dr. J. C. Gaudier, B.A., M.B. Office Hours: -1.30 to 3.30 p,m., 7,30 to 9.00 pan.- Sundays 12.30 to 1.80 p.m. Other hours by appointment only.. Office and Residence -Victoria St.. OR. C. A. THOMPSON PHSY1CIAN, SURGEON. ETC. Special attention ghee to diet teases of the Rye, Ear, Neu and Throat. Eyes carefully examined and suit- ebie glasses prescribed. Ocoee and residence: Sa doors•eest m2 the Commercial Hotel, Huron et, OEO1WR ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Enron. _- Correspondence promptly, answered: Immediate arrangements eau be made for Sale, Date at The News -Record, Clinton, Br ►y ailing Phone 13 ea 157. Charges moderate and satiafaotioe guaranteed, tPe'va made Would like It hot for to make quiteJ�it hot a few 1tGUU YJ55L for yon We've MYade it hot for a lot of folks who were looking for satisfactory coal, and if you will place your spring order with us, we would be pleased to give you the good coal and two thousand pounds to the ton. A. J. 11t;ll* way, Clinton A first-class bedroom suite for private sale, 0.0 well as other articles of furni- ture at Residence on Ontario St. The- MoKillop 1Vlutual Fire Insurance Company Head r Soffice, 'o // df Ntft` Ont. DIRECTORY : President, James Connolly, Goderich; Vice., James Evans, Beechwood; Sec. -Treasurer, Thos. E. Hays, Sea - forth. Directors: George McCartney, Sea - forth; D. F. McGregor, Seaforth; J. G. Grieve, Walton; Wm. Ring Sea - forth; M. McEwen, Clinton; Robert Ferries, Harlock; John Benneweir, Brodhagen; Jas. Connolly, Goderich. Agents: Alex Leitch, Clinton; J,W. Yeo, Goderich; Ed. Hinchley, Seaforth; W. Chesney, Egmondville; R. G. Jar- muth, Brodhagen. Any money to be paid in may be paid to Moorish Clothing Co,, or at Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Clinton, Parties desirieg to effect insurance or transact other business will be promptly attended td on application to any of the above officers addressed to their respective post office. Losses inspected by the director who Lives nearest the scene, �I: i kAAtgmtm -TIME TABLE. - Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follows: BUFFALO AND CODER/CH DIV. Going East, depart ti 7.88 tam, 2,58 p,m, Going West, ar. 11.10, dp, 11.17 a.m. " " fir, 5,53, dp, 6.45 pan, " " depart 11.18 p.m, LONDON, HURON d't BRUCE DIV, Going ;South, ar. 7,88, tip, 7.50 pat, " " depart 4.15 p.m, Going North, ar,,,10.80 dp, 11.10 a,m, Going North, depart 0,40 pails, Clinton News- Record CLINTON, ONTARIO; Terms of subaorlption-et per year, in advance; $1.60 may be elsal'ged if not se paid. No paper Moon. ttntied until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher, The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted oil the label. Advertiefng ;lutes Transient ad- verUeements, 10 cents per non- pareil line for first . insertion and 4 cents per fine for each subtle. quant insertion. Small advertise. ments notto exceed one inch, such as " Lost," " Strayed," or "Stolen," eto,, inserted once for 85 cents, and each subsequentin- eertion 10 cents,.. • Communlcatione intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompaniecr by the name of the writer. G. E. HAI,I,, Proprietor. Coil Manitoba �Q �1!! Oats To XIand Bran and Shorts Binder, Twilit White Seal Flour BUG FINISil Ready to use dry on y ur •potatoes. Try it:.. Grass and Clover seeds of all kinds always on hand. 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We can supply you at less than it would coat you to send direct. In remitting -please do • so .by Poet- otnoe Order, Postal Note, Express Order or Registered letter and address G. E. HALL, Publisher News -Record CLINTON, ONTARIO. ':Don't1etttnen too long, it will lead to chronic indigestion. In the meanwhile you suffer from miserable, sick headaches, ner- vousness, depres- sion and sallow 0omplexion,Justtry CHAMBERLAIN'5 STOMACH 8c LIVER TABLETS. They re- lieve fermentation, indigestion - gently but rarely cleanse the ey.tem and keep the stomach and liverin perfect running order, At ell &recites, 25c., or bo mail from 31 Chamberlain Medicine Co., Toronto Economy in feeding is efficiency in production, True worth in 'a bull is vindicated by the performance of his daughters at the pail and the showing of his sorts on the block, A large milk flow is not natural for a cow, but is an acquired charact- er. For that reason it is only by con- stantly selecting the best and.reject- ing the poorest ,that the characteristic can be retained; . Selection ,without testing is merely guessing. . No matter how good a showing a milker• mattes, she can dot be register, ed unless she is the offopring of a registered sire and dam. Many feeding experiments last win- ter, in which silage was made a major part of the ration while grain was used in limited amounts, show that a full feed of grain is not necessary to put a good finish on beef cattle. The use of caustic potash when the calves are a few days old makes the use of dehoreing clippers unnecessary later on. Before applying the pot- ash, clip the hair away from the but- tons on the calves' heads; moisten the stick of potash and rub it oh the spots until the places bleed slightly. If too niueh water is used, it may run down over the head, taking the hair off, or getting into the eyes where it causes. serious trouble. Describing Ulm. The squad' marched so poorly and went through their drill so badly that the captain shouted indignantly: "You knock-kneed, big -looted idiots, you are not worthy of being drilled by a cap- tain; What you want id' a rhinocer- ons to drill you, you wretched lot of donkeys!" Then, turning aside: "Now, lieutenant, you take Outgo of atom!" ' /la!) slat t INCRHASING HOG PRODUCTION By W. F. TAYLOR. Pork is scarce in the market, I do ;lot know how much the present sups ply might be increased without lower- ing the price to a point where it could not be produced withprofit, but I think we need not worry about any immedi- ate decline in price: Hogs are enrols, pigs are hard to find, feed le so high, and the demand for pork so strong that the temptation to cell every hog off the farm that the buyer will take is very great. breed Sows for Fall Litters. If we are going to increase the amount of pork in the country, two .or - three things must receive Attention, First, we must -breed our sows for fall litters. Of course, it will be too late i advice for early fall pigs before this atce can possibly be read. But vie may be situated so that we can take care of litters that come late, as I am sure that many of us are. It does not snakeso much difference tit hen pigs are farroweli, if they have Proper CasP. They may come along in mid -winter, _providing the .sow has a warm place, and the pigs have a chance to exercise. Of course, it 15 not desiajable to have pigs come later than Octob@r 1, though some of the best ones I hara•ever rail. ed have been farrowed later than that. After all, it is all in the care they re- ceive, though it is easier to give them' In purchasing feeds for the hogs, we that care in warm weather than in the should . watch for by-products more cold of winter. sharply than before. Products from Second,•ep'e should prepare to feed the breakfast food factories, salvage well the pigs that we keep. • To plant grains, middlings, and in fact anything a larger acreage than we can cultivate, that the hogs like, that we can afford to milk more cows than we 'can feed to .buy. . - properly, or to keep n larger number,Use the Self -feeder for Best Results. of pigs than we have the courage to: In the fourth place,.8 would feed the furnish grain for, is to increase with hogs from .a hopper feeder. It takes none of the products indicated, but but very little time to make one, and rather it has the effect to diminish the that will be saved many times over, supply. If we have twice as manta, in feeding before the summer closes, pigs on hand as we will feed liberally, and the feeder will still be as good as we might better sell half of them to new. Every experiment I have seen some one who will feeatthem, and thus proves that hogs will make more rapid, make sure that all of them will be and more economical gains when fed in ready for market at the earliest pos- this way, than when a man attempts sible date, to say to the hog, just how much is Feed Hogs.Liberally. , good for him, and Low often he shall eat. The pigs. we do keep should' be fed Lastly, I would not sell the hogs un- for rapid growth if we would really til they had attained to good weight, increase the sum of pork products, If 'unless the market looked bad, Every we have not,faith enough in the busi- time a small hog is marketed, a cagnc. ness to feed liberally, let us sell our to increase the supply of food is cut pigs to someone who has. ft is a'og. great mistaketo let a bunch of pigs If we feed too sl.ivly, then this live along, hungry as bears, growing would mot be good advice, for the hog just a little, but evidently preferring would be too old to grow economically to die if they only could, and waiting .before he attained the proper size. It for the corn to get ripe so that we can should always be remembered that it get something with which to fatten costs much more to put weight onto an them. ' old hug than a young, one.ifwe would in_ But you say, "Hold -on, do you ex- pect us to pay the present high prices crease the sum -of -pork in the country, for feed and give it to the hogs?" o_ even if we would maintain the.pres- Well, I am putting a sack full into the ent supply, we must first breed all the self -feeder as often as the hogs can sows we can; second, feed as liberally Make room for it, and the faster they as we can, and third, grow our hogs to Kitt, the' more I shall get for my work. a good size before we market them. If anyone who reads this doubts that, Thus, if we seek economical sources I ani right, let me ask hire if he ex- of feed supply, if we watch all the lit- pects that grain will be any cheaper tie details that make for success, if in next fall than it is now? Think for a short, we put a little of our better moment of our present wheat short- selves into this work, we shall get• our age. Consider the large amounts of pay in dollars, and we shall help to breadstuffs that must be sent to the feed a hungry world, and thus be good bottom of the ocean before Crman's soldiers though employing' only the submarine war can be arrested. Corn weapons of peace. cannot possibly be cheap next year,. Pork can not be produced in sufficient quantities to more than supply the de- mand at the present high priees, if, indeed, it can be grown fast enough to keep the amount up to the present supply, So I shall feed just all the ;figs will eat,,from the time they come ,into the world until they go to market, Utilize Pastures fol' Profit. In the third place,, We can use pas- tore in many wee economically. I do not believe it is wise to give the hogs very much good alfalfa meadow this summer, alfalfa is going to be needed next Winter for cow feed, Grain is going to be very high, People everywhere are thinking about beans and potatoes, and while I do not think they are going to overdo either, still it looks as though corn will be in great demand. But lands not otherwise oc- cupied can be pastured' by the hogs, and rape can be sown here and there, and now and then a man who is short of help may use the hogs to advantage in harvesting his corn. But in a general way, it seems to me that our good meadows, either clover or alfalfa, should be cut and the hay should be properly cured and stored for winter use, except so much as is needed to supplement the pastures, or to feed, for other reasons, on the farm. Ciabatei When chicks appear stupid, do not remain with the flock, wings droop, whitish discharge, they are troubled with white diarrhoea. - Medicinal treatment is of little avail. To prevent: Breed from strong healthy birds; proper care and feeding of chicks; keep chicksvigorous; disin- fect incubator and brooder; feed sour milk. A good poultryman is not very easily discouraged. Boiled oats, after draining off the water, can be mixed with bran and corn -meal to make a valuable egg food. Clover hay, cooked or steeped and mixed with bran and corn -meal, makes a grand breakfast for hens. Green stuff intended for mixing with the soft food should be cut iii half-inch lengths. Cow -peas are relished by poultry, and should be added to the diet at least twice a week. Squash or pump- kins, cooked and mixed in the mash, are good 'for growth, production and health. All kinds of roots can be fed raw or cooked. Common field peas are egg food. Peas contain a large amount of nitro- genous substances. The trouble with so many farm hens is that they do\not get enough grain during the summer months to make them produce a profitable number of eggs to pay fon their keep. Molting season is near at hand. This means a decrease in the egg crop. It is necessary at that time to have the fowjs properly fed and cared for, that they may pass through the ordeal safely. No two things about a farm go to- gether better than ,fruit trees , and chickens. Make them acquainted early. Put the newly -hatched brood in a coop under a tree and surround the whole with a circle of two -foot inch mesh poultry netting. It will stand alone in the form of a circle. The shade is good for the baby chicks. The chickens are good for the tree. As they grow, they will scratch the soil and thus cultivate and enrich it, besides destroying many insect en- emies. e. Keep on Cultivating. Constant tilage feeds growing crops, releasing the plant food which a is taken up by the growing ,plants. of All things being equal, crops that are frequently and properly cultivated will yield very much heavier than the same crops that are Cultivated only occa- sionally. TI -I R'I°IRNAL }DON'T" F4 "Don't shuffle your feet, Toni; you'll wear your boots out!" "Toni, don't wfigglo along that seat; you got en my nerves!" "Don't talk So lnuoll Pre writing!" "Don't sit there looks Mg' so sulky, or I'll whip youl" It may bardly , be believed, but heard the foregoing remarks made to e small boy within one:hl'lef half-hour, I couldn't help thinking what a hate- ful word "don't" was, nor Wondering if the child knew what he might be permitted to "do," The folly of the repetition of this Word "don't" lies in the fact that chip dren begin after a while to regard it as meaningless. Familiarity breeds contempt, and the significance is lost. It would be far }viler to"employ coun. ter -suggestions, if we could; only train ourselves to think quickly enough. It would spare children many tears, and the grown folks much irritation. "Do" is a much pleasanter word, and short- er into the bargain. "Don't touch the tea -table, Doris! Mother's expecting 'friends!" said a lady to her little girl. And then fol- lowed: "Don't play with your bricks in here; it will untidy the room!" And, later: "Don't kick up that rug! Some-, one will trip over it!" Now. these don'ts might have gone on until the visitors had arrived, but for the child's big sister, Who was in the' far corner of the room and had overheard her mother's' injunctions. "Come over here, Doris! There are some race pictures for you to -see!" she called. And the little one ran with glee, and was quickly amused until nurse came to take her to bed. Every time a parent says "don't" to a child, and fails to enforce obedi- ence to the order, she not only weak- ens her influence with the little one, but she is setting rebellious seeds, which may prove troublesome in the future. One -mother thotfght she was doing a eery clever thing b•y having a num- ber of rules, called "Don'ts," written up in her home. These rules, how- ever, were more honored in the breach than the observance, except when she happened to be specially irritable or worried. Then the unfortunate child who was caught breaing one of these "Don'ts" was severely punished. The victim and all the other children saw the injustice of the punishment, and children always resent injustice, .A Sunday -school teacher was once trying to -impress upon her class the importance of keeping the Command ments, and she said: "God always punishes children who do what He tells -them not to do!" One bright little boy chimed in: "Not always, teacher! I guess He's like mother sometimes -too busy to know whether we break them or not!" A hyper -sensitive child went to stay a few months with her maideh aunt while her parents were absent, The old lady was not used to children. She made good use of the word "don't" Then the child was taken ill, and in her feverish ravings, she cried again and again: .. "Don't say 'don't,' auntie! I promise you I won't!" Rather a mixed sentencer but the woman who was taken from her kit- chen -work to nurse the child under- stood what the trouble was, and when she got better tried to keep the child more with her. One day she found her pulling the wall -paper off; but 'instead of telling her not to do it, she said: "Oh, Miss Cissie, you wouldn't be- lieve what a lot of trouble it is to put wall -paper on! Just you come along with me this afternoon, and see the men how hard they have to work!" Then she took .her to see a friend who had the "decorators" in, and Cissie volunteered that she would never again pull off a piece of paper. Training children in this way may prove somewhat troublesome, and we know that every mother has not the time to spare; but the plan might be adopted in a number of our homes. Order Fertilizer Early. As a result of labor shortage and the heavy demand on transportation for the shipments• of munitions and other war supplies, to say nothing of the increase of ordinary business there has developed a very large shortage of freight cars and one of the great problems of the immediate future is the increasing of transportation facil- ities. Investigation has shown that the trouble can be to a certain extent remedied by shippers and consignees rranging to utilize the full capacity each car. If this is done the car - eying capacity of the railroads will be increased by at least ons -third. In the shipment of no other commodity has there been a greater wastage of car space than in shipments of fertil- iser The average order placed by the fertilizer agent lias been for a car of 21 tons. The standard box car is built to carry 50 tons. It may be loaded with a full 600 bags of fertil- izer instead of the customary 250. ga, and one car made to do the work Conserve The Fruit Crop Last semmer, many women did not put up their regular supply of home- made preserves; and bitterly they re- gretted it. They became scared at what they -called the high price of su- gar. When sugar reached 71/s cents a pound, they let the strawberries and cherries go by. When sugar sold at 8 cents and 814 cents, they permitted the luscious peaches, pears, plums and apples to rot on the, ground. But never again. This sutnmer will sea a genuine, old time revival in homemade preserving; because the women of Canada now realize what a foolish extravagance it was to do with- out preserves; especially when the in- creased cost of putting them up is in- finitesimal. As a matter of fact, every woman can prove, with her first lot of straw- borfies, that the increased cost of su- gar, is surprisingly small. Turning back the files of papers publishing market prices, we find that in 1012, 1018 and 1914, up to the out- break of war, the average price of granulated sugtu' was 51/ cents a pound, To -day, the best granulated sugar retails at 814 cents, This is an avoregc of 8 cents a pound for the whole of the ootmtr'y. A quart jar of preserved bel'a'ies or fruit, requites but half a pound of sugar; so' that the increased cost of ba preserving, due to the increased cost ole of sugar, is oply 114 cants a quart, compared with the cost of preserving ea before the war when sugar was un- m usually cheap. in Now is the time for the women of be Canada to come gallantly to the aid fa of the country, and help to conserve cl our food supplies, The fruit er•ap this fr year promises to be a record one, both ca in quality alms quantity. Foreign fe markets being closed because of the :it shortage 110 transportation, it rests al- most entirely with our homemakers as les to whether, this crop worth millions is t to be a seance of profit or a complete h" loss, c With the home pantries filled with c!u delicious jams, preserves and jellies; fu with these delicacies served for dessert mu instead of pies and cokes; enoi'mtlus wh quantities of wheat will be released 1 for the troops in Franca and Tot the • starving children in Belgium, an A careful consideration of the above the be th cit two , If farmers will give their orders fly enough, it.will allow agents to alce up full cars; This will auto- atically cut down by a half the nums r of freight cars needed to move the 11 tonnage. Since fertilizers are asses; as preferred :freight, it means eeing for other. uses one half of the is normally used for shippleg fall rtilizer-anti helping conditions by st that much. Full cars cannot be ordered out un - s the Partner is in sympathy with he movement. The !fertilizer trade as grown up around the minimum fir, The dealer's storage is are- ently limited to 15 or 20 toni8. If 11 cars are used by the dealer, he st have the help of the fanners o mtiet haul goods away without dc- ay. It is very important that the agent d the farmer .realize that in s pati&nal emergency full cars must used, l0arinces,,order early even ough it be inconvenient, to unload rs during the harvest season t'ood control is all right, but self- control is the best control of all and includes all other kinds:.,. facts,will show to the Canadian house- wife that sugar is not too •high for preserving profitably; that the increas- er cost of sugar has not inatctially lncreltsed. the cost of homernado pro- sorvesl enct that preserving is both An economy ants a patristic ectien,; BOMBARDMENT QIP RIIEitaS, The Cathedral; Mae Already Peen lilddled by 700 ,Shells, Systematic, wanton destruction 61 Rheims Cathedral, 'whleh is both a tragedy and a crime, still continues, Since the beginning of the war, it lros received between 000 and '100 shells, 'Phe streets behind the cathedral and on each side of it open into a square, while in front there are several, huge craters, about nine, ail made by ,880's, whish just missed their marls, On the west facade, which is protectedfrom direct hits, the weather gradually is flaking away the surafce, finishing the ruin begun by the :flames burning the scaffold. The state of the other three walls, with flying buttresses, pinnacles and windows, is even more deplorable. The bombardment for the last three months has done more damage than ail the other months of the war together. In the south,wall especially the roof of the choir is above a pile of rubbish which marks the sits of the high altar. There are wide, gaping chasms where shell after shell has enlarged the same openings, so that the wonder is with these places the fabric of the build- ing holds to'$ether. Virtually all the beautiful old glass is gone. The floor of the nave, which looks like a rough road, is thickly strewn with broken and twistedfragments of lead and chips of brilliant, colored glass and masses of stone and mortar, among which, at regular intervals, there are rows of neat little heaps of sifted earth and rubbish, from which .the workmen carefully have gleaned every atom of debris that can be used to piece together and repair the windows and stonework when the gigantic task of restoration is ta.i`ten in hand. The faith of these Frenchmen is a thing of wonder to every one. About the place is an old architect, who has worked on the cathedral all his life as caretaker. He can tell a story about each shell, WHY THEY HAVE GREEN BACKS The United States Bank .Notes Are Printed With Patented Ink. Why the United States bank notes are printed with green backs is not generally known, although there is a most excellent reason for it. The great drawback to paper currency is the likelihood of its being counter- feited, and therefore experts are con- stantly at work to contrive ways of making it impossible to copy such bills. Stacy J. Edson was the man who in 1857 invented the groan ink that Uncle Sam uses on his bank bills. The ink, which was patented, is anti-photb- graphic-that is, it cannot be photo- graphed, nor can counterfeiters in try- ing to get a facsimile of the notes move -it with alkalies. The secret of theingredients of the ink of course is carefully preserved. - A The Late Dinner. Young Wife -I'm afraid that din- ner will be late, dear. Young Hubby -How's that, &F- ling? Young Wife -Why, I ordered some macaroni, but when it came this morning I had to send it back, for every stem was empty. As soon as the corn is harvested sow rye or sow the rye in the standing corn. Rye can be sown later than winter wheat and the same fertilizer can be used. Rye can also be sown after buckwheat is harvested. Use three bushels of seed to the acre. Rye makes good chicken feed, • GET R19 OF HUMORS AND .AVOW SICKNES'S 1 Itimors in the blood cause inter nal derangements that affect the 'ivlrole system, as toll as pimples, ;roils and other eruptions, and are responsible for the readiness with wirioh many.peaple eantraot disease, For forty years Hood's Sarsapa- rills has been more successful than, any other medieine in expelling humors and removing their, onward and outward effects, Get Hood's, No other medicine acts like 1, * S oils'. The First Embroidery Class in th( World. The first embroidery class in the world was held one early, early morn. ing thousands, ohl thousands of years ago, under a huge mullein leaf! Way before sun -up the members" began to arrive, They tied their butterflies to the clover posts and fluttered down excit- edly upon the moss -green carpet, Fairies! of course, they were fairies! And who do you suppose ta-ight them to embroider? Why, Grandmother Spider! 'She brought out the wonderful web that she had spun and with the fairies fluttering and flying about her she showed them the &et stitches in em- broidery. She didn't use sills, though; she used skeins of mist, and when they had been worked in and out and over, and over they made the shining dew drops like the ones you have often seen trembling on the grass blades in the early morning. The fairies clapped their hands and danced with excitement and begged her to let them work some. But the old spider shook her head and sent them off to gather some tiny green leaves. Pretty soon every fairy head was bent over a leaf and the fairy needles were flying merrily. Next time you see a leaf with these delicate tracings upon it you'll know that some little fairy has 'been at work -perhaps, if you look very closely you will see her needle sticking in it. I hope so, for fairy needles are golden and very precious, I can tell you; Well, the fairies were so delighted with em.. broidery "that they came again and again to Grandmother Spider's class and she grew very fat and rich, I am told. And the fairies -why, the fairies set about embroidering everything in the world. The leaves and flowers, their silken coverlets, the great robe of the sea. Have you never seen the frost pictures on the window -panes in winter ? Well, that is fairy embroid- ery! Yes, the fairies learned to embroid- er from old Mother Spider and then the kind little creatures showed the human folk, the secret of it. They taught them to copy the flowers from the garden upon their centerpieces and doilies and upon their dark frocks, so that the glad out-of-door things could be found indoors, too. Wherever mortals are embroidering and especially where little girls are, there are always fairies! They hover about overhead, perch upon the needles and scissors and sometimes they steal the -thimbles away to use for honey pails. The Prince of Wales' Fund has now reached a total of £6,111,575. ,,. Of this sum 83,608,015 has been allocated to date for distribution of relief. ;our • . CoiiduciedbYehro.NeCen. Pr o Mothers and daughters of all ages are cordially invited to wilt() to this department. Initials only will be published with each question and its answer as a means of Identification, but,,full• name and address must ba given in each letter. Write on one side of paper only. Answers will be mailed direct if stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. Address all correspondence for thla department to Mrs, Helen Law, 235 Woodbine Ave„ Toronto. Grateful: -1, It is always the privilege of a bride to wear white with a wedding veil no matter how simple the ceremony or how early the hour, so you have your choice of white or a pretty silk going -away gown, Such things must really be decided by what best suits your own plans. 2. The bride provides the household litien and you would require six sheets, six pil- low -cases, three spreads, three table- cloths, one dozen napkins, one dozen lunch napkins, several centrepieces, two sets of six doilies, also kitchen towels and pantry towels, six each; three dishcloths, one or two pairs of blankets and a table pad. I do not think you could manage well with less, 8. A letter of appreciation should be written to one's hostess after return- ing from a visit, Anxious: -1. To remove spots on broadcloth try the following: Grind one and one-half ounces of pipe clay fine, mix with eighteen drops of alco- hol and the same quantity of spirits of turpentine, Moisten a little of the mixture with more alcohol and rub on the stains. When: dry remove with a woollen cloth. 2. Small swabs of antiseptic absorbent cotton -should be used to wash an infant's eyes. 3. The covers can be kept on a small child at night by the use of garter fastenings; one end should be fastened to the side of the crib and the outer end clasped to the corner of the covers. In this way they can be kept fltrly on, yet the rubber allows the child freedom enough to turn, 4. Cotton stockings are better for children's wear than lisle. P. H,:-1. Tho best remedy I know fat black tints is to fill a saucer with swbetened water, add one teaspoon of tartar emetic and set it where the ants come. 2. For filling cracks in floors, malce a 1111011 paste of linseed oil acid wheat flour. Use after first coat of paint and before the second has been applied. Student:• --1. The phrase "wearing the white flower of n Blameless life" is in the 'Dedication " to Tonnyeon'a "Idylls of the Bing" and occurs in a -1 tribute to the memory of the Prince Consort, 2. The two great rivers of Mesopotamia are the Tigris and the Euphrates. 3. The original meaning of "chiffon" is rags, A. B.: -It is said that a tablespoon- ful of ground pepper and two table- spoonfuls of brown sugar mixed with enough cream to make a smooth paste will kill flies. You might try it. K. L. J.: -Your phlox and holly - 'hocks are affected with, rust, a com- mon disease, The remedy is to spray with Bordeau mixture. To 4 quarts of water add 114 tablespoonfuls of quicklime and 1 tablespoonful of cop- per sulphate, Mix well, Perplexed: -1. A reply to an invita- tion to a home wedding, explaining why you cannot attend, is sent to those who issue it; in this case the parents of the bride, and the envelope should be addressed to them, The gift, with your card, is sent to the bride, 2. A shower is given by an. intimate friend of the bride -elect and may be given any time within a few weeks before the ceremony, and it is good form to ask only those who are .very close friends of the engaged girl, as to go outside and asic just acquaintances savors too Much of asking for gifts. Puzzled: -1. Do not pay any atter-. tion to remarks like these. No human Judgment can possibly be perfectly just. If the do what we consider right according to our beet knowledge we the safely leave the result to e, Higher Power, 2. It is not worth worrying about. If you think you would have a good time at the picnic, go by all imatrs, Housewife: -1, To ntalco mint begs for the lines: closet put into little silk bags a mixture made of a pound of dried Invender, an ounce of thyme, an ounce of mint, fie o1li0e of ground cloves and cutaway seeds and a table- spoonful of dry salt, 2, Food scientists toil us that corn meal is not "heating" and can therefore he used in summer. 1t is a duty at the present time to use more fern end save the wheat for out Allies over the seas,