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EUEUAVINGDE'i10ES THAT COST. l.OT NiG,••-iTM
Water is a fuel saver! The inose a few days considerable fuel will be
trying of the hot• Bummer dfiyo are! found that may be put back on the
• those on which the air is filled with fire fromtinee to time, Some people
#moisture. The thermometer on such use it exclusively for banking the fires
Occasions may register only 75 degrees at; night, •
Out the heat nevertholeseseems in-•ouTstDa AIF .
eilee. The same qualityof heat hot-air`
lfn the case of a system, a
chaaracterizee greenhouses, great deal of fuel may be saved in
It is in recognition of the effect of the winter through the use of a cellar
humidity that manufacturers of fur- window in eounecttion with the outside -
jaws provide a water pan in con- air intake. On bitter cold days the
rection with hot-air heating systems. air often sweeps in through the intake
This pan should always be kept filled, and on up through the .furnace into
However, this water does little good the rooms iri so short a time that it
on cold days when the furnace holds does not have a chance to become
a brisk fire, The moisture it provides heated. On the other hand, if the
to the air is evaporated long before damper in the . intake is closed and
the air reaches the living rooms, only the air in the house used, the
The surest remedy for ,dry air is a circulation is apt to be poor ,and the
wide-mouthed receptacle for water in air soon becomes "close" by being
every room in the house. A pretty used over and over.
• jardiniere is excellent for the purpose. To ,avoid this, shut the damper in
Lacking jardinieres that are decor- the intake and open in the cellar a
ative in themselves, one can hang window as far as possible from the
under each register a small tin can water pipes sothey will not freeze.
that may be filled with water each This 'allows plenty of fresh air to
day. Be careful to see that the pail enter the house in such a manner as
cuts off as little • of the stream of hot. to insure good circulation, but instead
air as possible. if the ledge under the of trying,; he heat air of below -freezing
register is deep enough, a pint or .a 'temperature," air is employed which
quart fruit jar may be used instead has been warmed considerably by its
of a pail. The ieenount of water passage through the furnace room and
eyaporat•ed each day, is always sur- by contact with the warxh'' outside
prising. The moisture not only makes walls of the furnace,
More comfortable the occupants cif.the
Before retiring at night, it is ;a
douse but preserves the furniture.
SPRINKLING COAL AND ASHES.
good plan to give the house a thor-
ough 'ventilating and see that the out-
side intake is closed so the place need
Many people Have their coal thor- `'not be chilled by bitter=cold air enter
oughly sprinkled before itis dumped ing when the furnace fire is low. Also
into the bin.. This is done not only throw a small rug or crowd news -
because it lays the dust, but because papers down in front of each door to
a oertain amount of moisture in the bedrooms where windows are • kept
coal gives the gases .liberated by'. open through the night.. These pre -
the -burning fuel more of a chance to cautions will make the house much
throw off the maximum amount of more comfortable in the morning be -
heat. The fact that there is gas to fore the fire has had a chance to
be burned in the furnace is;something warm" it.
many people seem to lose sight of. HEATING WITH ELECTRIC FAN.
They are careful of gas and realize It is certainlyaggravatingto have
that .it gives heat when it comes to .a good fire in thefurnace and little.
them through pipes to their gas heat coming up into the rooms above,
stoves, but they stoke their furnaces as so often happens with a 'hot-air
as if they were burning only coal. !system when the wind is in the wrong
Another good use for water is in direction. With an electric fan one
connection with the removal of the can create an artificial circulation of
ashes from the furnace. For this' air that will raise the temperature of
purpose, it is an excellent idea to' the whole house in a very short time.
keep fastened to a convenient hose If two registers are on one pipe, close
bibb in the basement, a length of , the register in the room where the
hose :that,, will reach to the furnace; heat is least needed. Cut away the
and that has 'a nozzle that may be, top and bottom of a box that, stood on
adjusted tette spray if necessary. The end, will inclose the register. Set the
ashes may then be sprinkled there' fan inside the box, close to the regis-
oughly before they are taken from the iter, and run it at low speed. Direct
ash pit. Ashes so treated can be re- , the current of air toward the coldest
moved in such a manner as to effect a; part of the room. Unless such a box
saving in unburned coal. Thew the;
is used to cut off the cold air from
contents of the ash pit lightly; and by+being sucked in from the top and
shovelfuls, into a corner of the cellar.' sides of the fan, the breeze will b.e
- A little .practice will reveal a way to; cold instead of warm. If this device
do this se that the damp ashes form' can' be used in connection with the
a heap in thecorner and the unburnedi'longest pipe from the furnace wherecoal falls out on the fiber around the' oor circulation. is apt to be the rule,
bottom of the pile. ' After the ashes i, most often on 'the first floor, just so,'
have been disposed of in ,this way for much more heat will be available.
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yards 36 or 40 -inch, or 3te yards 54-
inch material. When making the
vestee muffs and lower section of con -
eta
trasting material, % yard additional
is required. Price 20 cents.
Our Fashion Book, illustrating the
newest and most practical styles, will.
be of interest to every home dress- I
maker. Price of• the book 10 cents
the copy.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
Write,, your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size ofsuch
patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Pattern Dept.,
Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade-
Iaide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by
return mail. -
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The man who says he loves his home
won't bank' it up with horse manure
to keep mit frost—if he means what
he says.
Scions for spring grafting—cut 'em
now. Pack them in moist sand or
SERVING THE KING
"Oh,, puffed. Puffety-Putt',
"MY!" blinked ' Blinkety-Blink.:
' "Yes!" pattered Patter -Pat.
The three little kittdes, not the ones
who lost their >riittens, but the three
little kittens of the Fluffy -Fluff fam-
ily, huddled together in a, corner of
the farm kitchen, discussing • their
'future.
"Yes," continued Patter -Pat, "that
is just what we should do, We are
old enough to serve the King."
Puffety-Puff puffed and iili.nitety-
Blink blinked at their brother who
had been earned Patter -Pat because
he always talked so fast 'and so much.
"And must we live in the, Palace?"
' asked Puffety-Puff.
"Of course," nodded Patter -Pet.
"We must journey to the Palace and
offer ourselves to the King for service.
The King will then give us_the work
for r which he thinks we are . best
suited."
' "But," blinked Blinkety-Blink,
"what will become of the farm if we
all should go?"
"The farm? We must not 'think
about it. Our duty is to serve the
King," answered Patter -Pat.
"But," insisted Blinkety-Blink, "we
can't let the farm take care of itself.
One of us must stay here"
"But I want to . serve 'the '.Icing,"
puffed Puffety-Puff.
"And it is our duty. Don'tyou
understand?" pattered Patter -Pat...
Blinkety-Blink blinked thought-
fully for several moments, and then
said: "I Want to serve the King, too,
yet I feel that it is my duty to stay
here and care for -•the farm, if you
two want to go to the Palace. The
crop feeds many a family, you,:know..
Will you explain•' about this to the
King when you reach the Palace?"
"Very well," pattered Patter -Pat.
"Very well," puffed Puffety-Puff.
So the two Iittle' kittens, Patter -Pat
and Puffety-Puff prepared for their
journey, and were very happy to
think that they would soon be at the'
Palace serving the King. Finally they
went away, leaving BlinketyeBlink all'
alone tocare for the'little farm:
. And as Blinkety-Blink worked, he.
thought: "Perhaps P11 be •serving the'
King, too, if I do my work well and'
Iove him in my. heart." This thought
made him very happy, and he forgot 1
that he was doing Patter -Pat's :wad;
Puffety-Puff's work too.
But Patter -Pat and : Puffety-Puff'i'
were not having • the easy time that
they had expected. They had "never
traveled before, and were always: los-1
ing their way, it seemed. And many
times they were forced to sit by the
wayside because the roads were rough!
and stony. At such times they were
sorry that'they had left the ' quiet,
peaceful farm.
After a long, Iong journey; they
spicd the towers of the Palace in the
distance. How happy they were! They
forgot that they were weary, and he-
gan to hasten their steps. Presently
they reached the Palace, but as they
were about to enter the gates, they
were stopped by a Guard.
"Who are you?" asked he. "What
do you want at the King's Palace'?' •
"We have come to offer ourselves
to, the King for service," answered
Patter -Pat
"But every place is filled," said the
Guard. "There are no places for you."
Patter -Pat and Puffety-Puff were
sadly disappointed. "But may we see.
the King?" they asked..
Puffety-Puff
You earn goon discover that for your-
selves,"
ourseives," answered the Guard,
Poor little Patter -.Pat! Poor little
Puffety-Puff! They had to go home,
And all the way home they wondered
how they could serve the King away
from the Palace. When at last the
two Kittle travelers reached their
home they found that Blinkety-Blink
was holding a celebration. There were
many neighbors present. And Patter -
Pat and Puffety-Puf wondered what
it was all about. But they didn't
wonder long. They soon learned that
Blinkety-Blink had been awarded a
medal for service by the King, when
he had stopped at the farm. to investi-
I gate.
� "Anda to think what we have miss-
ed!" sadly puffed Puffety-Puff,
"And we would have seen the King
and been rewarded if we had stayed
at home and done the work that we
had to do," sadly pattered Patter -Pat.
But Blinkety-Blink, who was very
happy in the thought that he had
served the . King by doing his duty,
comforted his brothers. "The Kingwill be round next year," be blinked.
Increase in Fruit Values.
As the Dominion Fruit Commis•.
sioner said in his address before the
Pomological and. Fruit -Growing; So-
ciety of Quebec the particulars he was
able to supply of progress in values
do net look like blue ruin for the
Canadian fruit industry. In some
provinces there has been a decrease in
the acreage devoted to fruit, but this
simply means that the old hit or miss
policy is disappearing and greater' at-
tention given to improvement in qual-
ity. Here is evidence of this furnish-
ed by the Commissioner, Mr. G. -E.
McIntosh: Prince Edward Island, less
acreage, value increase of crop 23.83
per cent.; New Brunswick, less
acreage, increase of orchard crop 81
per cent. and of small' fruits 106 per
cent.; Nova Scotia, increased value of
orchard crop 156 per cent, and of
small fruits 99 per cent; Quebec,
orchard crop increase in value 17.79
per. cent. and small fruits 12.98 per
cent.; Ontario, greatest reduction in;i
acreage of any province, increased
orchard value 72 per cent. -and small
fruits 159 per cent., and British Col-
umbia, where being the maiden fruit
province new orchards are coming
into bearing, increase in orchard
value 272 per cent.: and small fruits
299.70 per cent. Lie connection with
this phase -of the situation the Com-
missioner gave utterance to a maxim
that is well worthy of being taken to
heart. He said, "In the long run it is
as costly to grow poor fruit as to
grow good fruit and yields little of
that satisfaction which cannot be ex-
pressed in money." •
Wintering Work Horses. owns farmer who ns efficient work
horses naturally does not care to dis-
pose of them in the autumn even
though more than he can use in the
'winter. It then becomes a question of
how best they can be kept for several
months at the lowest cost. An ex-
periment conducted for five winters at
the Cap Rouge, Que., Experimental
Station with mares and geldings from
five to eighteen years of age showed
that•the animals did well on one pound
of mixed hay, one pound of oats straw,
and one pound of carrots or swede'
turnips for each hundred pounds of
their weight. Horses that are worked
hard in the autumn, remarks Dr.'
Langelier, the Superintendent, should
e brought up to their normal weight ,
gradually over two weeks before
hanging the feed. Two feedings a'
day are sufficient during the. winter,
and if the horses •are turned out for a
short while on fine days, or every day;
hen protected from the wind, they
will be
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Five Rule's to be Applied to Their Cu re,.
BY ELIZABETH CLEVELAND,
Neddy, at three, is possessed qt the
seven devils called, for convenience,
"tantrums." Whenever his world op-
poses him, when he can't go out, when
he must come in, when Mother goes•
to town without him, when brother
l teases him, when sister takes his ball,
when he doesn't want his, dinner, when
bedtime interrupts his play—his evil
spirits seize upon him and drive him
to cast himself upon the 'floor and
; kick and shriek with'fury.
When he does this, Mother some-
times drags him to hie feet with slaps
or sharp words, filling•the atmosphere
with retributive unpleasantness and
adding fear and personal resentment
to the unholy turmoil which is Neddy's
naughty state of mind.. Sometimes
Grandma and the aunties gather
about him with reasoning . (to which
he is in no state to listen), or coaxing
, which flatters his instinct for tyranny.
Somteimes brother and sister laugh
and point derisive Angers, sending
him into fresh paroxysms of rage.
Sometimes Father descends upon the
situation with, "P11 show you how to
manage this young man!" and vainly
tries by blows to conquer the savage
demonsg-a treatment ' which leaves
Neddy outwardly subdued but inward-
ly aflame with hatred..All these methods are as wrong as
wrong can be—wrong, because they
are stupid, 'unscientific, unsympath-
etic ' and ineffective.
If Neatly should show symptoms of
any bodily ill, the first thing an intelli-
gent doctor would do would be to try
and find out -and, if possible, remove
the cause of the trouble. In the same
way, the . intelligent grown-up should
realize that the first stepin curing
tantrums is to understand their cause.
What makes Neddy act this way?
What makes Neddy feel this way?
There umst be an answer,
"He's always had a frightful tem-
per," sighs Mother. "He inherits it
from his father's side of the family." i
Well, possibly, to some extent, but
that doesn't mean so much as we used + This is probably the most fatal mis-
to believe. There are several cases on take we can make. It may, indeed,
record in which a child's inherited get quick results, but it introduces the
temper suddenly ceases to. function ; very dangerous elements of fear and
when the child's environment is change repression, with their sinister and far
ed—cases enough to make us wonder reaching effects.
whether Neddy's tantrums are not] We have seen that anger is caused
caused less by inheritance from by interference with what the child
father's temper than by living with' wants. Our problem is to show the
father's temper. Anyway we can't child how to want what is worth while,
do anything now about. Neddy's in- how to form worthy purposes. When.
herited qualities so let us consider these purposes are interfered with,
what his environment has been. ( anger may be a virtue,
We know on good authority that he i So Rule Number Four, the really
came into this world equipped with' important and constructive rule in
the power to get angry, for science, dealing with tantrums, is to reach not
tells us that every normal baby is' merely the expression of anger but
capable of feeling anger from the" the feeling of anger, and try to direct
very first. We also know exactly it rightlya Of course we have to say,
was lifted from the water, she stiff-
ened her little body and screamed with
indignation. Never once did her mon?,
they, make the mistake of putting her
back into the water "just for a mo-
ment," Never once did her tantrum
accomplish its purpose,
Her mother did another wise thing,
which brings us to Rule Number
Three. At the first shriek, she wrap-
ped the baby in a warm bath towel,
deposited her safely on the floor and
left the room, returning the moment
the ' the
stopped. After a few
of these treatments the baby gave up
and allowed herself to be taken from
the water without screaming.
Tantrums require an audience.
They always are aimed at impressing
somebody- demanding attention. When
Margaret entered the nursery school
she was the victim of most terrific
tantrums. Whenever, she had one at
home, she became at once the centre
of an excited group, all scolding, coax- •
ing, arguing, all paying attention to
Ther. At school, her teacher merely
said, "If you're going to make a noise
like that, you'll disturb the other chil-
dren. I'll have to put you in a room
by yourself until you're quiet." This
simple treatment.was at once success-
ful,
Of course the more firmly rooted the
habit is, the Ionger it takes to break
it. One two-year-old screamed for an
hour on the first occasion he was kept
in a room alone with his mother until
he was fit to be a member of society.
But the second time he screamed only
fifteen minutes and never thereafter. •r
So Rule Number Three in the treat-
ment of tantrums is to refrain from
any flattering display of attention or
concern.
"But why not go a step farther?"
asks the practical and busy mother.
"Why not settle the thing the first
time by making the consequences so
unpleasant that the child will not dare '
to repeat it? Why not spank it out
of hint?"
what makes a baby angry and it is , "This conduct will not do. You can -
just the one thing that' makes us all not be allowed to behave this way in
angry interference.
When Neddy was taken from his whole group have to be considered.
mother's breast before he considered ; If you cannot control yourself so that
his dinner over, when his active little the group is not annoyed, you will
arms and legs were hampered by. have to be removed from the group
clothing, he screamed, clenched .his . until you can." But we must also
fists, grew red in the face, showed all say with even" more concern: "Now,
the familiar signs of "getting mad." let us see how you came to be so
Now that was the time to begin to be angry. Suppose Sister did take your
wise with him, but Mother thought bait? She is so little she didn't know
he was "too little to discipline." !She any better—" or "she knows better
did not well enough understand the than to take it without asking you
laws of habit -formation to know that and Mother must make her under -
every occasion when the baby accorn- stand that she isn't to do it any more.
plished his purposes by kicking and But after all, it isn't worth getting so
screaming, was fixing more firmly in mad about. Try to think of something
his mind the practical value of tan- else to play until Sister can find it for
trums. you. We all get in each other's way
Rule Number One for the treatment and have to learn not to take it too
of tantrums is to begin with Tantrum hard when our Iittle unimportant petty
Number One; and Rule Number Two personal projects are interfered with."
is to see to it that baby. does not get , Or, "Yes, indeed, dear, I don't blame
the thing he screams for.
!you for being mad at Henry for kick -
Eleanor began to develop tantrums ing his puppy. It makes me mad, too,
at five months old. She greatly en- to think of it. Such a cunning puppy
joyed her bath and objected vigorously and such'a mean, cruel boy! But we
to being dried and dressed. When she won't get anywhere by just
.. --- . into a passion. We've got to• do some-
thing, We've got to see that that
puppy is taken care of. Let's save
all our energy for that."
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Fun for Home Evenings.
If you know how to play jolly games
and have the knack of making others
enjoy them, the evenings the family.
spend at home will always be remem-
bered. Friends will get the habit of
dropping in when they hear of your
good times, and they will never•iniss
party trimmings.
Sing Tag will start old and young
to laughing. The players move about
the room, and when the tagger apt.
preaches they are saved by starting a
'song, provided they sing something no
one else is singing at the time. Until
you have tried it you cannot know
how hard it is to start a time when
others are being sung all around you.
No player is allowed to use the same'
dine twice but must start another
each time he is in danger. He can
sing one that has been used by some•
one else if it is not being sung at the
time. Many tunes will be laughably
off key, as the catcher dashes about
suddenly setting off the players.
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Interest in one'sweek is really'a
1,04cure—Mr. Clement Jeffrey.
WORLD GRAIN
With the grain movement in the
West at its peak, a world record in
grain Marketing ' was reached on
Th'uesday, November 1:9, when 3,447,-
624 bushels of all grains were niaTket-
ed on Canadian Pacific Railway lines
iu Western Canada, On November 20,
3,559,000 busli'ele, 'wore marketed dur-
ing the twenty-four hours, bettering.
even the world record of the day be-
fore; The nearest approach to these
figures occurred in the banner year
the' part),' finished frock, and No, sawdust and,store in a cool place (not 1915, when on October 18 of 'that year
1106 is hi sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and freeing) over winter. f3,406,000 bushels were Marketed.
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MARKETING REGORO ON RAIRIEs
These stupendous figures mean that North Bend to Vancouver,
the C.P.R. handled approximately 81 Toronto to Napanee,
bushels of grain every -second during
the ''forty-eight hours of that petted.
If old-fashioned methods were pre-
vailing, it would take forty thousand
farmers'- waggons to haul the grain
aorosk the prairies. If thaee teams
were placed . endto end they woiifd
formi'.an unbroken line frons Winnipeg
to Braitdom, or from Fort William to
Schreiber, or from. Regina to Saska-
toon, or from Calgary to Field, or from seconds;
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from
Prom August 1 to November 20,
1925, inclusive. 148,078,445 bushels of
all grains' were marketed at Stations
'adjacent to Canadian Pacific Railway.
lines as Compared with 109,051,136
bushels far the same period last year,
an increase of about 35 per cent. Load-.1'ings show a similar increase over Mgt
year. One housatnd care a day left f
Winnipeg each day during the present
month a, car every seventy-five