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rossese Contaminating Influence
Which Only Hard Labor Can
laissipate.
Sex in occupation is not limited
to civilized society. It is much'
more common among primitive peo-
ple. The reason for this is not that.
men believe women are unable to
do the heavier work for they are
usually allowed these tasks, but it
as because they think the women
tsar and even defile their work.
Among certain Indian tribes there
ds an unwritten law which says wo-
men must keep away from every-
thing that belongs to the men's
sphere of action. Most of the Afri-
can tribes will not allow women to
come near anything that can con-
taminate their animals. The Be-
ehunaa are extremely lazy. They
will allow their women to lift the
heaviest loads without coming to
their rescue. The Kaffirs have tuch
- strong feeling in this matter that
they will not even allow their woe
men to come into their kraals for
fear of contaminating the ,cattle.
In the Marquesas Islands the wo-
men do most of the work while the
men spend their time making. ca—
noes. The women never touch them,
nor are they allowed.to ride in them
for fear of casting an evil spell. On
the other hand, in Nicaragua the
men do most of the work about the
House, while the women do most of
the trelning. They have a reputa-
tion foe driving far better bargains
than the men do, All the market-
ing' is done bythe women.
g If a
man even
enters
� a market he runs
the risk of getting a, good beating.
In New Caledonia it is consideered
unmanly for men to do any work.
They believe that is
WOMAN'S NATURAL SPHERE.
The women do the housework,
care for the children, raise the
crops, build their primitive houses,'
and make the household furnish-
ings. The men spend their time
lounging and smoking, and when
they get tired of that they go out
for a few week's hunt. After they
return they gorge themselves with
teed/ awhich the ' women :are
e pxee ed to perta 'e until the aerie-
-have finished. The. Samoans are
somewhat more energetic. They at-
tend to the farming and hunting,
but leave all other work to the wo-
men. However large the family,
and however much they need clothes
a Samoan would rather see his chil-
dren suffer from the cold than to
help . his wife do the weaving. It is
considered a degradation for a, man
to engage in any such work.
The men of British Guiana con-
sider their work limited to hunting
and war. They consider -the great-
est humiliation any man can suffer
is to help his wife with her work.
The story is told that on one occa-
sion there was a shortage of bread.
The men had to help the women
bake, but they were only forced to
Celt when starvation stared them in
the face and those who consented
were ever after called old women.
The Motus believed that ifthey
see the women while starting out to
fish or hunt, their work is sure to
result in failure. In some South
American tribes the men believe
that if the women even look on their
weapons
THEY LOSE T17F,IR STRENGTH.
The Zulus only allow- women who
have passed middle age to accom-
pany them to war, for they say they
have become like men, This feeling
of sex in 'occupation is carried into
the political and religious rites. The
Australian tribes and. Fijians drive
their women away and beat them if
they see them near any of their pub-
lic demonstrations.
In the Marquesas Islands, con-
eludes John Trainor, the political
and religious meetings are held on
what is known as hoolah-hoolah
ground, and the women never are
allowed near them. On the other
hand, they let their women carry
the logs and water and toil from
morning until night without ever
offering them any assistance. This
shows that the division of labor is
Trot based on the idea that the
heavier work naturally belongs to
Iowan, for in most primitive lands,
these tasks are usually handed over
to the women.
Buried hopes-requfxe deep graves.
The discretions that is the better
part of valor era sometimes merely
lack elf nerve,
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FRUIT DAINTIES.
Spiced Peaches.—Four pounds of
peaches, one cupful of vinegar. one
tablespoonful of cinnamon, one
tablespoonful of cloves, three
pounds of brown sugar, one tea-
spoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful
of salt, and one-eighth of a tea-
spoonful of red pepper. Boil the
sugar and the vinegar. Scald the
peaches, remove the skins and cook
in the syrup.- The spices in a bag
and cook with the peaches: When
the peaches are tender pour into
stone jars, reheat the syrup every
day for a week, pouring when boil-
ing over the peaches. All kinds of
small fruits may be spiced . in this
manner.
Huckleberry Pie.—Clean, pick
and wash one pint of huckleberries ;
then drain them. Beat the yolks.
of two eggs and four heaping table-
spoonfuls of sugar until light, add
one tablespoonful of milk, then the
drained berries. Line one pie plate
with rich pastry, pour on it the
berry mixture, put in the oven and
bake a light brown ; remove from
the oven, spread with a meringue
made of the whites of two eggs beat-
en stiff and four tablespoonfuls of
sugar added. Brown nicely. • The
whites can be beaten with the yolks
and sugar if preferred.
Bananas en Casserole.—Peel six
ripe bananas, scrape off the coarse
threads and cut the bananas in
halves, lengthwise, and the pieces
in halves, crosswise, Put the piec-
es into a casserole. Melt a small
glass of apple jelly in one cupful of
boiling
water
and pour
over the ba-
nanas, as, then squeeze ever them the',
juice of half an orange; cover the
dish and let it cook in a moderate
oven for half an hour. Serve from
the casserole as a sweet entree with
roast beef or mutton or with beef-
steak. •
Grapefruit Sherbet.—Six grape-
fruit, three cupfuls of sugar, two
cupfuls •of water, two tablespoon-
fuls of, powdered gelatin and the
whites of two eggs. Put the gela-
tin into a saucepan, add the water
and the strained juice of the grape-
fruit and bring to boiling point.
When cool freeze partially, add the
whites of the eggs beaten up and
finish„ freezing. .-;
Apple Fluff.—Two cupfuls uIs of grat-
ed sour apples, five tablespoonfuls
of powdered sugar, a quarter of a
teaspoonful of grated nutmeg and
three whites of eggs. Add the sugar
to the apples while grating them,
then add the nutmeg and the whites
stiffly beaten. Beat thoroughly for
ten minutes. Serve in dainty glas-
ses.
Pineapple Dainties.—Cook one
cupful of grated pineapple, one-
fourth of a cupful of sugar, the
grated rind and strained juice of
one lemon, a pinch of salt and two
yolks of eggs until thick, but do not
allow it to boil. Chill and fold in
half a cupful of stiffly beaten
cream. Spread between slices of
fresh or canned pineapple, decor-
ate with a star of whipped and
sweetened cream flavored with half
a teaspoonful of orange extract.
Put half of a walnut meat on the
top of each star of cream.
KITCHEN KINKS.
Elasticity is restored to rubber
by soaking it in one part ammonia
and two parts clear water until the
desired results are obtained. This
is specially true in the case of rings
or other articles that have become
stiff and brittle.
Keep a piece of sandpaper handy
to -the sink where the dishes are
washed. It will prove invaluable.
When a stubborn spot on a burned
kettle refuses to move through the
aid of a wire dishes
of sandpaper, It is
trig a gas stove. '.;)°a knife and" you cane ;
all grease or dried fol
to the corners.
Out sheets of tinf
under the flower vas
you will have no trou
dampness :affecting th,
ished furniture.
Every woman knows'
of feuding a favorite,
coat or ,corset ready
dry just as she,i is it
A clever�,l:pteitwife, h
thought :Tut a way to la
an article of clothing qua.
the garment and starch
but instead of hanging it
open air, lay flat on a .'v
Turkish towel,
Then, beginning at one
the towel and garment
as possible. If laid in a w
the towel will have absorb',
moisture in a very short
permit the garment to be
Before washingany pies
low furniture brush it the
so as to remove every par
dust. Otherwise no , amen
washing will get the furni
clean.
lel be carefully rinsed
are returned, perhaps
a feeling for cleanliness
bsolutc necessity, as the
les in all well-managed
thoroughly'scrubbed and
before refilling. If such
s of this practice as recent-
under observation are
hen thedriver of a dairy
bed out some milk bot
public drinking fountain
'fear. horses, refilled them
esed of them to other eus-
etimplaint should be made
ry
and, if this is not suf-
the board ief health,
DEAFNESS PREVENTABLE..
oil or Urges Treatment of Symp-
toms la 'Children.
Dr. MacLeod ,Yearsley, recently
the British Health Conference,
ibuted a valuable paper on
Prevention of Deafness in
ddren," in which he stated that
st of the cases of deafness
hich occurred after birth were
reventable.. He •ennumerated the
ommon causes of • deafness in
adults which were traceableto ne-
glect of the same in their childhood,
and urged that if the early symp-
toms of defective 'hearing were
checked there would be ` far fewer
cases of deafness among adults.
This is knowledge that cannot be
too widely .diffused, seeing that
deafness is said to be very preva-
lent just now among schoolboys.
• THE WAY .OUT:
Change of Food Brought Success
and Happiness. .
WASHING DISHES,-
The bacteriologist finds no 'kit-
chen clean enough and the ordia-
ary methods of washing dishes he
is likely to call a "smear."
Dishes have been tested to de-
termine the number of organisms
that remain on them after "ordin—
ary" washing as compared with
a method that requires an applica-
tion of hot water with the help of
soap or, better still, carbonate of
soda, a thorough rinsing in, hot
water, and wiping with a sterilized
cloth (that is, one which has been.
in bg
oilin watersinceitwass
u ed
before). By this latter method the
dishes were practically sterile,
while many organisms were left on
the dishes that were washed by the
"ordinary" method.
One might ask what harm will
they do. Oftentimes none, but if
the .bacteria are those which convey
disease, dirty dishes may be the
means of giving it to well persons.
But most of all, persons who are at
all thoughtful of suchthings do not
want any dirt which may be pre-
vented by good methods, simply be-
cause dirt in itself is sufficiently un-
pleasant. •
In washing milk utensils it is firs
neeessary to reingvc with
water all traces o f the milk ore
scalding water is used.B._` d'e of
the cream adhering to the si soap
is used also, but the greatest care
must be taken to remove eykrepeat-
ed rinsing every trace of 'Oalp- A
telltale flavor of soap in the morn-
ing- cream has more than puce re-
vealed careless halits rte the kit-
chen, and made it evident `that all
the soap was not renioyed' •in rins-
ing. The utensils must =: then be
dipped into absolutely boiling .wat-
er for a moment.
It is an important matter to wash
the milk bottle in which 'milk is now
commonly delivered to customers.
By this we refer to the washing of
the full bottle before it is opened.,.
It is safe to say that this is seldom
done. But notice the bottle as it
is brought into the kitchen, the
milkman grasping it with his hand
over the top.
These hands perhaps more often
than not have harnessed his horse,
have been grasping the reins all the,
morning, have opened and shut
doors, run along stair railings, have
perhaps wiped mouth or nose, and
yet the thoughtless housekeeper or.
cook, regarding the white cap as'
full security from the outer world,
pours out the milk over a veryi
dirty bottle brim.
Milk bottles should be put under)
the hot water spigot for a women,
and wiped dry with a clean cloth
before opening. r"
Most housewives agree that mit
An ambitious but delicate girl,
after failing to go through school
on account of nervousness' -
e vo sae '
u ss and h
y
.steria, found in" Grape -Nuts the
only thing that seemed to build her
up and furnish her the peace of
health.
"From infancy;" she:says, "I
have not been strong. Being ambi-
tious to learn: at any Dost I finally
got to the High School, but soon
had to abandon my. studies on ac-
count of nervous prostration and
hysteria:
"My food did not agree with me,
I grew 'thin and despondent. I
couldr not enjoy the simplest social
affair for I suffered constantly from
t nervousness in spite of all sorts of
This: wretched• condition
t on cones
tinned until I was twenty-five, when
I'became interested in the letters
of those who had cases like, mine
and who were getting well by eat-
ing Grape -Nuts..
"I had little faith but procured
aboxand after the first dish I ex-
perienced a peculiar satisfied feel-
ing that I had never gained from
any. ordinary food. I slept and.
rested better that night, and in a
few days began to grow stronger.
"I had a new feeling of peace
and restfulness. In afew weeks, to
my great joy, the headaches and
nervousness left me and life be-
came bright and hopeful. I re-
sumed my studies and later taught
ten months with ease—of course
using Grape -Nuts every day. It is
now four years since I began to use
Grape -Nuts, I am the mistress of a
happy home, and the old weakness
has never returned." Name given
by Canadian Postum Co., Windsor,
Ont.
"There's a reason." Read .the
little book, "The Road to Well-
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read' •the above letter?•A nevi one
appears from time to time. They are
genuine, true, and full of human interest.
CRUELTY TO RELATIVES.
e ///Aiwie.
Little Alice, whose parents were
well-to-do, and who: lived in a large
house with a dozen servants, had
teen invited out with . a tiny friend
,;whose people were not quite so
Qwell off.
All the name she- hada very good
eine, and enjoyed the visit greatly.
In the way home she told her mo -
tall hcr,about who ithad come to fetch her,
'.
"So you had a nice time, dear'?"
squired the fond mother.
"Oh, yes 1" replied the child.
Mut there • was one thing. °
"What was that?"
"Well, I hate to tell you about
; it semis so cruel, and you.
#itn't let. me go again."
mother promised that that
't happen.:.
used their own grand-
er a cook!" whispered the
a, tragic tone.
NOT AT HOME;
n (entering cell) -- "Your
ere asking to see you."
(in desperation)— 'Phew l
m; out.
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SOAP FOR THE LETTUCE.
Mrs. Newlywed•--"Glood gracious, Clotilda ? - Haven
that lettuce yet 1 And your maaster ready for his lune
give it to me 1 Where's the soap 1"
for a man to find out
, woman really' thinks of
eke her angry.
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mAKING SAFE INyESTmENTS
Practice in Ancient Egypt Suggest-
ed by First Century Note.
There has just been placed on
exhibition in the Graeco-Roman
gallery of the British. Museum, Lon-
don, England, a small letter which
dates back to the first •century A.
D. and which throws light upon the
medical profession of that period.
The letter is written upon a eheet
of papyrus about the size of a half
sheet .of ordinary note paper. The
writer was a certain Procleius, a
resident of Alexandria, the recipi-
ent being a drug merchant named
Pecysis at Oxyrhyncus in the Fay -
um. The` missive reads as follows:
ProcIeiva to his dearest Pecysis,
greeting!
Be so good as to sell at your risk
good quality of those. drugs which
my friend Sotos says that he has
need of, so that he may bring them
to Alexandria. a dries For ifyou do -other
wise and give him stale stuff, which
will not pass muster in Alexandria,
understand that you will have to
'settle with me in regard to the ex-
pe1ses.
Greet your family..
The letter was folded and sealed
with a clay seal and was indorsed
to Pecysis. It is conjectured that
he was one of those Greek mer-
chants who employed native. Egyp-
tians to gather samples for them
andprepare extracts and decoc-
tions which they supplied to the
doctors of Alexandria and ether
great cities.
The discoveryy of the letter affords
a
?a4eer r11u'-tra!teon: of ;the unchang-
ing character of life in the east.
Many drug sellers of precisely the
same character are to be found to-
day in. Akhmin, Girgeh, and other
towns of the Nile Valley.
The tone of the letter indicates
that the commercial standards of
the drugdealers of that city were
open to criticism.
TURN YOUR TIME INTO MONEY
There is a firm in Toronto who give hun-
dreds of •men and women an opportunity
to earn from $250.00 to $1,500.00 every year
with but little effort. This firm manufac.
tures reliable family remedies.. beautiful
toilet preparations and many necessary
household goods, such as baking powder,
washing compounds, stove, furniture and
metal polishes, in all over one hundred.
preparations that every home uses every
day. rust one person in each locality can
secure exclusive right free to distribute
these preparations to their neighbors.
They pay 100 per cent. commission to their
agents. Don't you think you better in-
crease your income? if so, write The
Rome Supply Co.. Dept. 20, Merrill Build-
ing, Toronto, Ont., for full particulars.
A small boy tries to practice eco-
nomy in the use of toilet soap.
•
You ten'e't keep a good man down;
likewise an upstart.
To a girl of sweet sixteen a love
letter looks like the advance agent
of a wedding feast.
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OUR SEPTEMBER LIST
OF
INVESTMENT
SECURITIES
now in press. We
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application.
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AN INTERESTING COMPARISON ,,OP
BONDS AND MORTGAGES.
The Experiences of Teo Men, One of
Whom Invested In Bonds and the Other.
in Mortgages—Bonds are Readily Negoti-
able, Mortgages are Not.
The articles contributed by "Inventor'
are for thesole purpose of guiding pros-
pective investors, and, if possible, of eat•'
ing them from losing money through
placing it in "wild -cat" enterprises. The
impartial and reliable character of •the
information may be relied upon. The •
writer of these articles and the publisher
of this paper have no interests to . serve
iu connection 'with thla matter other than
those of the reader.
(By "Investor.")
A few years ago—it was in the panto
year of 1907—a man possessed a mort-
gage which he wanted to sell and couldn't
—next tried to realize on it by using it
as collateral security at a bank for a
loan. Now, ander the Bank Act, banks
are wisely prevented from loaning 0
n
such fixed security as mortgages. You
see, a bank's business is essentially a
cash business, and its assets have to be.
such as may be readily turued into cash.'
They may, therefore, buy bonds or loan
on bonds or stocks, but not on mortgages.
So, of course, the bank couldn't loan this
man any money on the mortgage. At one
bank, however, be knew the general man-
ager, and knowing that the mortgage
was a good one and the man honest the
banker loaned him the money on his note,
taking hie verbal promise not to use the
mortgage without paying off the note.
That is one of the greatest drawbacks
to loaning money on a mortgage—it is so
difficult to sash it in if one requires the
money unexpectedly, or even to get a loan
on it,
During -the same year a man had some
bonds which he had bought as an in-
vestment. Now, 1907 war a year when, as
everyone will remember, money was ex-
ceedingly ,scarce. As a result' he had to
raise some money. and to do 1M he went
to his banker with the bonds. "Certainly"
said the banker. "WO can loan you tip
to 90 per cent. of the value of Cheese -
bonds"—they were bonds of fairly well-
known municipalities—"or you can; of
course, sell them and get about 98 per
cent of what they cost you,'
This man didn't want nearly 90 per
cent. of the value of the bonds, nor did
he particularly want to sell them, so he
borrowed what money he needed and put
up the bonds as security. So soon as the
stress was over he paid off his loan and
put his bonds back in his strong box.
Mortgages are, without doubt, a very
excellent foam of investment and one
which people with lots of money and with
no occasion to have to realize on them
at short 'notice may purchase if they use
Dare. They are, of course, in many ways
a nuisance because they involve a whole.
lot of attention to details. Insurance,
titles, valuation and upkeep are matters
which require more or less attention and
the beat legal advice is necessary in draw-
ing them up and searching the titles. But
for those with lots of time to attend to
such matters they are satisfactory.
On the other hand bonds, carefully
chosen, involve no more bother than the
cutting off of coupons every half year and
depositing them in the bank. Of course,
anyone buying bonds must look into the
matter very carefully. Bonds carrying
bonuses of common stock are necessarily
speculative •and should be avoided by
those who cannot afford to take chances.
On the other hand, in the case of indite -
trial bonds, the assets should amount to
at least twice the bonds issued and the
greater this proportion is ;,the better.
Earnings, too, should be over twice the
amount required for bond interest. If a
company issuing bonds has outstanding
shares on which it has 'been paying divi-
dends all the better, for the bond's inter-
est comes before the stockholders' divi-
dends, whether they own preferred or
common stock. A careful investor, how-
ever, will not May a bond of a company
which cannot show at least earnings for,
the pastst. three years which average well.
in excess of the amount required for bond
In municipals one need not be so excret-
ing. No villages and small towns be
avoided—one may buy with confidence.
GRAINS OF GOLD. -
A numerous class of females prac-
tically account uselessness an es-
sential element of ladyhood.-Dr.
Arnot.
Don't you go believing in sayings ;
they are all made by men for their
own advantage. --Thomas Hardy.
The noblest service comes from •
nameless hands, ,and the best ser-
vant does his work unseen. -0. W.
Ho.
Thlmesose with whom we can appar-
ently become well acquainted in a
few moments are generally the
most difficult to rightly know and
understand. ---Hawthorne.
The world - will never be in any •
manner of order or tranquility until
men are firmly convinced that con-
science, honor and credit are all in
our interest. -Steel.
A man's purpose' of life should
be like .a river, which was born of
a thousand little rills in the mourn-,
tains; and when at last it has
reached manhood in the plain, all
its mighty ,current flows changeless
to the sea.—H. W, Beecher. -
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