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The Seaforth News, 1926-11-11, Page 6EI DING -O ""ITER WITH THCCHILDIEN PORA BABY GUEST.. them ug and eoentingthe change to ciompl'ete the transaction. Their spell- ing particularly has beets helped, as I have caught up words like "spinage, lettice soup oils, cantalope, segos., roaches."—M, P. D. GETTING READY FOR COMPANY. A busy mother in my neighborhood has 'learned to handle the problem of entertaining her young - daughter's. week -end guests in the very easiest mannee especially the "getting ready" part of it. At breakfast each child is given a slip of paper, on which is written the few small tasks allotted to 'them:' So, while the girls are mak- ing beds, dusting and preparing vege- tables,the boysare c-eaibing- the car and the verandah. In no time the work is all done and nobody gets fuss- ed or worried' or hurried.—W. A.' C. BABY'S SCRAPBOOK. My baby first began to enjoy her scrapbook when she was a little over a year old and now at the age of two and a half it is still a prime favorite.. Instead of the usual, collection of strange animals' and imaginative scenes that fill the books of older chil- dren I made it -up of pictures of our common household articles, animals and doings. There are pictures of an iron, a toothbrush, a stove, a comb and of some furniture and some utensils. The animals are the dog, cat, cow and horse that baby sees every day. Pic-. ures show ordinary people about their ordinary business of sweeping, cook- ing, driving and eating. I included several things` to eat which baby Out guest�r aoftt,i slp1 a and So am vans d the e :never was a place for a b iosin+dt even'if -1 pini had one. Many of our guests had small babies end•I did not know how to solve the diff;- eu:ty. A friend, who travels with her hue - band and who is used to being tucked into kitchenette apartments, come to nay rescue in such a unique. manner I believe others will be interested. When she and Ed and Junior came to ta.y three days at our ranch, T had that same sinking. heert I usually felt when I had no bed for the baby. I led her' to the guest room and she said, "I'll just fix Junior's drawer the itrst thing, so, that will be ready," From her suitcase she took a cotton pad that just fitted inside the dresser drawer: Over this she had '' drawn, i pillowcase fashion, a rubberized sheet, Then she put:a soft white blanket on the top. She used the middle drawer of my dresser andpulled it out about three-quarters of the way. Under the centre she shoved the straight -back Chair, which was exactly the right height. The dresser stood by the head of the bed, and here she had Junior,. right by her side, in a bed he couldn't possibly roll out of, - ( When site left 1 painted the inside; of that drawer plain white. I made a pad from an old blanket and put the waterproof pillowcase on it. The other blankets I made from a worn woolen one I had, and every guest with a t baby who has visited us since has wondered why she hadn't thought of that arrangement beforte—F. E. CALL FOR ME. Youngsters have a sociable fashion of calling for each other on the way to school, but I have found it, a habit to discourage. I now let my daughters depend for companionship on the schoolmates they chance to meet after they start off, instead of having a crony stop regularly. Some of our callers, having very early breakfasts themselves,• come when we were just -about to sit down to the table, and my daughters got jumpy and impatient to be off and, consequently, unable to eat! a preeer meal. Anther girl, with a tendency to tardiness, kept my eldest daughter nerve ;sly waiting for her in the mornings and often within a few sec- onds of being late with her. Other tithes one of my girls would linger for a friend who did not happen to be} going to school that day. Altogether, - it was an upsetting' practice, a constant irritation, and I had to discontinue these morning calls. -it'I.P.D. PRACTICAL HOME WORK. My school daughters are being help -1 ed in writing, spelling and arithmetic by way of our grocery -store order.! Before leaving„•home, the girl going with me takes the order down from dictation. While I shop elsewhere,' she goee to the grocer's and buys these things, affixing the prices, adding Storage of Vegetables on the Farm. ! knows well. I The book has helped her to learn to talk and to recognize the things in the little world in which she lives. When she is older'I shall make her a book of fairies and strange scenes and. unfamiliar animals with whiche to broaden her knowledge and stimulate her imagination, but at present her need is to know the everyday things around her.—M. I, Q. ' "PINNING IN" YOUNGSTERS. It is impossible sible to get a really good night's rest when you haveto get up several times to cover the children: Pinning them in was suggested, but I found that it hadito be done properly or they couldn't move freely and torn blankets and uncovered babies would be the result. I have found the follow- ing method to be very successful: Use the large safety pins and pin only through the heavy blanket and sheet next on top of the child, through the lower sheet and to a light pad which rests upon the heavier pad or mattress, Do not pin through the nightgown. Use a pin over each shoul- der, close enough to the neck to keep theist covered well; then another at each top corner' of the cover and one on each side opposite the knees. The child can move or turn easily, the corner pins keep the back covered ale ways and the blankets are not torn. That the quantity of feed which —F, L. T. chickens consume from day to day will often vary considerably is conimenly recognized, but until recently there has been little actual evidence to show just how much variation occurs. The results of one experiment show that although there is a rather steady increase in the quantity of feed' or milk that100i i chickens consume per day as they grow from one to nine weeks of age, there are frequent changes from day to day that are de- cidedly out of -line with the average for the week in which those days oc- cur.'. As an illustration„though the aver - re deep woods with a little path age daily feed consumed by 100 chicks nning through theist that led to a in the fifth week was a little over g rock. 2,400 grams, theyedropped from 2,540 On days Anna Bele loved to grams on one day to 1,450 grams on ke a — book, walk along the — the next. Similarly the milk consum th, and then settle herself cozily ed varied in that week all the way th her back against the — rock. from about 5,510 grams to 8,500 grains ere she would read and read in the for 100 chicks in one day. shadows of the --- trees, Variations of 25 per cent. in total One day as Anna Belle sat reading feed or milk consumption .from day to that -- place, she hada vary gay were not uncommon, showing that experience. First, all the words a chicken's appetite is- a distinctly the page of her book ran together variable quantity, and suggesting that ore her — eyes, and when she perhaps one of the reasons for differ' - ked up the trees were moving also. ences between poultrymen in their ria Belle could scarcely believe it, ability to gym chickens well is to be the trees all had faces. She could ' found in the success which they attain their --- eyes looking at her. in keeping the chickens steadily a ccs• — branches werc 'waving the business of consuni ng feed from ut like -- arms. day to day. nos Belle was not afraid. Even en ane of the tress reached down, k 'mid of her firstly with its - -- -FARMER BREAKS' INTO M-OVie8 eteteeeeeereeiteeeiteleeils The $100 wagon In question with Thomas Meighan up. Abler a man has used a farm wagon S of the scenes in thed�r Long Island on the wheat rancites• around Calgary studio. It had to be that 'particular g Y for five years and has left it outdoors wagon, hut the farmer didn't know thfs 'when he was asked it he :would. sell. "What would you do with a wagon like that in New York?” he asked, during the winters, it.ceases to be- come a thing of 'beauty. It may still be useful hut not ornamental. Treece of paint may still bo found, hut takes a long search. The wheels wo We. Some of the boards are crack but it works. it "We sometimes have to go down. to b the station to bring the actors' trunks up to the studio," the prop man ed, answered without a smile. h After two. days of diekering the t er farmer agreed to sell Use wagon. for w $100 and the earnest for $25. Later 1 he was overheard felling a neighbor ate how he had sold the outfit for $125 and r'a- had received $252' for fourteen :days work. POULTRY ON' THE FAM HEALTH -GIVING RAYS. The heal�tir-giving `et:era-violet rays ferably at ;night yeaow ' whole corn of'sun fight cannot penetrate ordinary during -N'o'vember December January the birds living' in a cvindow mass so house, behind glass windows, get none of the benefits of this desirable :ig'nt t•ay. :This'is also the case if the front of the poultry house is provided with muslin curtains .which are eloecd a considerable portion of the time, orl with shutters which allow ventilation but do not Get' in sunlight." How, then, ean'the birds be= protected during the coining winter days and yet obtain. every possible bit cf these light' rays? The best solution is to use in p•.•ac of the usual :materials •a type;ef wire cloth glass. .'Theregare• a number brands on the market. They .ere mad of fine -mesh wire cloth covered with a transparent gum or ge?atineus li quid which hardens upon exposure to air but remains in a yliable condition Ultra -violet rays pass through such wire -cloth glass ;eadt4y. ALFALFA IN THE MASH. Recent experiments conducted espe- cially in the study of certain vita- mines, more particularly Vitamins E which is related to fertility and .hate h- ebility, have shown that alfalfa, is one oft e richest sources' of this import= Furthermore, alfalfa is rich in min- a of 0 ant v taming: crals;: and doubtless has fax greater value in the ration than that-;.neasur- ed simply by its food -nutrients, al- hough l- oughitis equal pound for "pound on he average with wheat brant In the light of these recent investigations, it s an.,excellent practfee to include in the' mash et least 10' per cent. of alfalfa leaf steal or a good grade of ground alfalfa. WHOLE CORN AT NIGHT, Any method of feeding or handlings birds that will enable them to lay well and retain considerable yellow pig- ment is desirable, ear it is associated with the maintenance of weight, and ospecialey:with disease -resisting quail - Such weave figures in a dumb of scenes of Thomas' Melghan' ne pictune, "Tire Canadian," filmed as Calgary amid prairie country t versed by'the Canadian Pacific Bak i way. A'. prop man ;tired It and' -t horses from a farmer about 40 mil south of Calgary. For two weeks t farmer drove it from place to pl and reported for duty when call He received $18-a day for his seryl and was satisfied. At the. end of the second week prop man decided that tete wag would be necessary to complete so wo "The funny part of it," he explained, es "was that they -even had one of their he own me; drive the wagon for me. All ace I had to do was smoke." ed. ccs the on The driver was Thomas Meighan. Friend farmer will probable feel that hie has had more than his ;t money's worth waren he recognizes himself in the movie film screened in me his home town this winter. Recent experiment station. tests have shown the wisdom' of feeding the laying birds at least once a day,: pre - So she closed her — book and hur- ried along the — path toward her house. Anna Belle's mother listened to her — daughter's story. And all the time' she listened her —, eyes were smiling and the — dimples around her — mouth were smi:ing,•too. "And, mother, those — trees did really dance and dance, just the way we do in 5Iiss Millar's class: Oh, how I wish you could have seen them!" Anna Belle's mother laughed and gave the — child a — kiss. "Do you feel rested, — child, after your nap?" was all she said, A Chick's Appetite. as the weather grows colder to prevent freezing of the potatoes, STORING PUMPKINS. After becoming well -ripened, pump - ns may be carefully cut off at the em and stored in a comparatively arm, dry' room with plenty of ven- ation. They should be carefully' idled and not bruised, STORING GARBAGE. Danish Ballhead is a good variety ki for winter storage, on account of its et compact, hard heads. The cabbage to w', be stored should be sound and free from disease and injury. A good, uni- ha formly cool place around 38 deg. F., where a fair degree of humidity may be maintained, is desired. When cab- bage is kept inside it is best piled on slatted racks not more than two heads we deep. Outside, the crop is stored' in. ru various forms of pits and trenches. bi Sometimes, the heads are cut and stored in A -shaped pits as used for to pa wi Th The Tree People. (Write in your own adjectives.) Behind Anna Belle's house there roots, or the plants, roots and all, may be pulled and stored roots down in the shallow trenches. Around the bed a frame is built and banked up with earth, while over the top straw or other .material is piled. Ventilation should be provided in all pits, trenches and root cellars or store houses, CAULIFLOWER STORACE, tit 011 bef Cauliflower is not an easy crop to , loo store. Good sound heads with the1An leaves left on may be kept under pro-! but per cold storage conditions for several sea weeks. Many inarket gardeners store: a 11 quantities which are purled late in the :and Februar y—the time of extrmnely Item y productidn, The lat'gd supply of carotinoids lot Yellow pigment in the corn helps to retain the yellow in a birds betty Furthermore, the coin contains more carbohydrate units than 'most other singis feeds, and it hers to hold up body temperature and maintain wveight. The ',birds relish it. . They eat; largo quantities quickly and it re- mains in their crops .longer and lasts them better ,through the night than does cracked corn 3r sma'_Iei•giaino: Probably ane -quarter of the total grain ration can hest be fed as 'whole corn. TO. STOP EGG, EATING. The following suggestion for -break- ing up the habit of egg eating le by no mane original: with nae, But it has been offered as being. effective in near- ly all cases,. so I am passing, it on for what it is worth. It merely consists in putting a news•• paper in :the pen where the .birds can eat it. It is declared that this well stop the trouble immediately. Whether; thebirde think they are -eating shells, or whether something in the' ink supplies a substitute, I don't Egg eating is frequently a matter of habit resulting from an accidental breaking of an egg, in a nest; once the taste is acquired -it is easy to keep it .tip. This habit, however, is gener- ally confined to one or a few birds. Where it becomes general in the flock,' there is evidently some deficiency in the ration—poesibly some mineral de- ficiency. It has been claimed that cod liven oil will correct this deficiency, as will any good mineral mixture. Rush Work. Teacher—"When was Rome built?" Boy—"At night'-•- "Watt told you that?" "You did. You seld Rome wasn't built in a shay." TI -1E. CANADIAN HOMEMAKER I series .week./.1 arfie/ coverrny, PLANNING . BUILDING FINANCING' DECORATING . FURNISHING . 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She ate Marge dishes of it whenever it appeared. on the table, and sundry fragments salvaged £gins: the kitchen after the table was cleared She ate it bravely, persistently and hopefully, for, Jud- ith's life ambition was to have beauti- ful curlyhair' like Maraiin iVIgore, and Judith's mother had told lief• this tite wholb' question of curly hair was a matter of -eating' spinach. This •!sad been explained in eletail so many times that' Judith had quite, a mental picture of ;the hitter spinach 'juices working its way up to her ,head and wrinkling the hair inside 'so that it would 'grow out in curia: Omed'ay .after lunch, Maiabit of the coveted golden curls carne over to play„ with Judith. In the p Y. midst -of estab- dishing -a very nice home lu the back, . - yard, Judith suddenly paused and eyed Meralin speculatively, - "I know how your hall; got curly," "From y, she said. from eating spinach." "No, sir! We don't have,spinach 'at our house. My. daddy doesn't like. it," Then how did your hair get curly?" "It was born that way," answered 'Maraliti grandly,. • "Well, my mother told me that my hair will get curly` 'if I'eat: lots of spinach." Judith he'd up a.darlc wisp of her straight bobbed hair, arid said, "See, it curves a little on the ends)' "Pooh!" said Maralin, who was two years older, "that's nothing. And I dont believe it about the spinach," "I thinlr you're bold! : If you edon't believe it, we'll ask Teacher to -mor- row,. Then you :just wait and seed My Metter wouldn't tell a 'ie." Accordingly, next day after school, Mar alis, the .braver of the two, 'ap- proached Teacher. "Miss' Thomas," she said, "will'eat- ing spinach make your hair curly?" Miss Thomas looked down upon Mara:in's blond culls and smiled. ' Hantee" she said. And sten notic- ing Judith in the background, "but I think straight hair is very lovely on seine people." That day at lunch Judith 'pushed back her dish of spinach. "Mother," she accused, "I've found Put that'it isn't true.aboutspinach staking my hair curly, , Mother, it isn't true; it's—it's a lie!" 'Unexpect- edly, Jutlith Bevan to cry. - It took many days and much diplo- macy to form even a thin. covering of healing over Judith's wounded feel- ings. Naturally, the sharpest disap- pointmsent centred about the hair. .But beneath; tills was another Burt; an infantile sense of 'disillusionment re- garding Mother, who had broken her own c0 mrtyandment about tfiiing the truth. Being a child, Judith did not reason this .very, far, but being, a sera sitive child, she felt vague:, the in- justice of grown-up standards. Children's choice of food should .be guided by parents, but this should not mean - that truth mast be sacrificed. Tactful explanations of the natural benefits of healthful food will accom- plish satisfactory results for children who have confidence in their parent's Word. This. confidence is the most pre- cious bond- between' parent and child,. Protect it,. Test ofry Pasture. Fertilizers. With a view to Ascertaining the in- fluence of fertilizers on pastures tests have been conducted since,1929 at the redericton, N,B., Dominion' experi- mental station, with basic slag•, super phosphate, nitrate of soda, ground tmestone and ,mixtures of ground mestone and superphosphate. :The iiid, which grew a clop. of oats en 8, end has been:in pasture since, a limey clay .0vm, level- land fairly F 1" By Lawson & ialttle, Architects. -ii ^ T i l t . � far , .1 a (bee ler r 1 seller, . ica felt (exclusive r o.a• � nil � Sive. of the 1, i eco meat It.I±lachhon 3 city cont in a s six icons and tr bath room. este With .the architec direct. + t sell .cid- ,u 1 has much t i • se a sun- pore t tion regarding Lb;: plans and speclfl s t hick is about eight by twenty), and Gallons of Chi's housashould communi- is about twenty -flue teat 'b • tw to niform. A statement given in the epoit of the Superintendent (1411 C. Bailey) for 1925, shows Hiatt p;t i - tyre lands of this character o,',m ro t.i 1 The eeterier is French Colonial in dress Lawson & 'Little, 874. Beaver r 1 tnatacter, a p:easing effect being FIall egizere, Montreal, dull. 11; gained by the broad a•";...i tilted 1 eareS. The.basemeiet. wells are built of con-, crate, the cxter lcr walls and party' itacx z. n z ;walla being of concrete blocks and the <h fireplaces of pressed brick..- The ex - n i" torior 'el the .f to 1 vafinished1'• t s is i it ail is ugh . cast, the roofs being covered' c r ' ' a ' • ? t' season and not fully matured. Ther A plants are removed to a cool cellar or 1 w11 fraise, where they are stood close to-' Leo gether and the roots covered with bila - .eaves, she merely wondered what is made by the °filter In chaigs of the Fertilization of Tobacco. nth and set her high up among its A statement of considerable import moist sand or loam. When outdoor see frames are used, too much covering we early in the season with improperi vend:atien will cause heating and rot- eve ting of the heads. ;the STORING ONIONS.• g'Pa1 Slatted crate i are desirab:c: but any rie wee seethed which wi;•1 allow !lice air cir- she culatiou is good. The temperature of a the storage' room should be kept be- aim tween 83 deg. li', and 40 deg. P. and • R a dryatmosphere maintained. l jus s'ORINf eel:ewes. hav Potatoes may be successful:y stored had in cellars or pits. When cellars are T used thero should be provided plenty stoc of air circulation around the potatoes,1 A The ,temperature raeiga should be be- scrp tween'83 deg. F. and 40 deg. F. andmil the atmosphere should be just niediuhl moist. Bins should have a fat se, slat-Isaw tele! bottom end, if possible, large air ibex shafts through the pile of patatoes•IStra Fits should be constructed in a well -.;was drained location and made twelve to I tree sixteen inches deep_and ;four to five! whe wide, Plenty of ventilation should f :" he pr yided and yet sufficient covering snot uld happen neat. Tobacco Division of the Dominion Ex - Waving their -.—. branches, with periutentai 'farms (Mr. C. M. S'agg) ry---- leaf shaking, like drapery, when he says in his report for 1925 trees began to dance lowly and that the use of ,isle in tobacco •ferti_ cefully, and Anna Rees was car- i otiun' has in all eases lowered the c1 about through the air as if she yic' d and quality of th resulting crop a. on a Slow kind of roller coaster. et Farnham, Que. The use of com- alced it, She fest as if site' were me:•cial fertilizers in conjunction with — — bird Flying, er a --- cloud manure' gave an average yin d of two: tens in the --- sky. , hundred pends more per= ac:•e then leund and about the tree; danced, maciu atone S well as leaving a net t a,s if they were real, -1-' peop;o, profit of approximate:y twenty do:lars Inc; n --- time. Ara Bc'c just pe • acre more. It it'a1`so stated that d on tight and had a----- time, too. Last year's comparison of various hen, el' at once, the trees stood manures in tobacco: fertilisation gave k still, I higheet'yic:ds with sheep manure, fo:- nna Belle felt herself slipping)! Mowed by cow, peultry, horse and hog ping, down from the' — branch manures. The statement, however, is o the ground. Then, she fell; the added that since the sol: used in this rock hard against her back. She experiment was somewhat variable, the pages of her --- book before' the results seemed` are net considered eyes and the words all coming! reliable. The tend -hot bed has been ightso she could read them. She found at the Farnham station well s more surprised now that the —1 adapted to the product_on of vigorou- s were still than she, had been 'early seedlings. en•she hacl seen them dancing.____ I'M going tight borne to tell m y A onerous man I g doesn't. •iv her about it," she said to herself. mewls away,—C, e, e brei I • friss r ft cop. both phosphoric arid, and lime; that itnit s of soda apl,ied ander c071 - tion e of this experiment in 1928,•,ciid of incron. llc 7t y to fust- y its use, And Chet: when costvt nta- Griel is eilkcn 111)) tun i a then •ounc lirneeone nisi:- tl cheapest crceeelit yie u AAri slates that oth the n reit. S..:144' and rl ernhoa-- bete well le tolti we c,n.naio i 16 c nt ph"c,II'eric with Sthestosiatcs. gt ! i s in The ground floor on plan shows a ` :f •1) NTNG• aM• � I 1 K 5'sl Living room and a dining. roost the • I �.� �� b former being twelve by sixteen fest 11.0 12'•S" s;•3 t2 s 1 p r:- pe with a large fireplace, and with. doors' leading to tite dining room and kitchen.. The stairs. lead out of the 'entrance side of tit iving icons, tiie stairs to tite basement b :ttg under tit m . Theta is a ]sandy colt cupboard off the StalStall'landing, iOaeh of the throe bed roams cis the first floor Is provided with a cupboard and the bathroom is central- , , it located sena being over the kitchen is within easy reach et !tot water sup- ply anis mtiain,drainagesystem. The interior wcodworlc anti the stairs on the ground floor are of oak, the first floor of pine for paint finish. A hot water beating 'systeut is ln- stoLled, using a Standard type of boiler. The plumbing fixtures are iho built-in type, The cost of :cosh of the houses with a lot of about 401t, front- age IS $7,000, • Readers desiring further informa- : :.x�i arc_ ,r •„`. ,`. ,.= ' w:NC Ftwris,. 'Z i -+Svii PGR1H° ;' i 19'9". CroiJJ}SD--'I11.ocir. Stormy Words, Wifie fIiirry -lis going to ratu— I'saw lighten a011t0 41111e ago,". Htiltby . Why in thunder didn't Roil tnoutian it before?"