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Freshening Up Your • Woollen
Clothing.
Serge or other woollen dresse
'which have become soiled or shabby
are freshened up in this manner,
Sponge the goods on the right sid
with ammonia water, one tablespoo
ammonia to each quart of water
Oare should be taken not to have th
solution too strong as some dyes turn o
purple r green in such a case
When the dress 'is entirely sponged
turn it wrong side 'out; lay a cloth
over it and press with a hot iron unti
dry.
Should your clothes wear shiny, i
is due to the oil which is more or lessn
present in all wool, and is made co.
spicuous by the friction incident to
the wear of the clothing. This ,is
especially true of hard -twisted wool
or worsteds, Sponging with hot vine-
gar c`u'ts. this oil and greatly improves
the looks of the garment. Or the nap
may be pulled up by pressing damp
crinoline on the goods until it dnies,
then pulling it off.
If there are t ,immings which can
be easily removed a serge dress may
be washed, provided you use soap
free from alkali or pure soap flakes.
The dress should be hung up until it
is partly dry', and then pressed on
the wrong side. Wrinkes -may be
steamed out by pressing ' n the wrong
side with a wet cloth un ''.er the iron,
Care of clothes from day to day is
more saving of garments than the
practice of letting them get soiled
and mussed and then using strenuous
cleaning and ironing processes. There-
fore, it is well to remove spots as'
soon as they occur, and the follow- i
ing formula for a cleansing fluid is!
an excellent one: Benzine, one pint;
chloroform, one -sixteenth of an
ounce; sulphuric ether, one -sixteenth
of an ounce; oil of wintergreen, one-)
eighth of an ounce; alcohol, one-
eighth of an ounce. This must never
be used near a fire, as it is highly JJ
inflammable, To avoid the ring so!
often Ieft by a cleansing agent, apply
the fluid to the clean surface, outside
the spot, then rub toward the centre
'where the spot is. When using the
old-time decoction of soap -bark, to
one ounce (costing about five cents)
add one quart of boiling water. Al-
lo* this to 'steep for a while, strain;
through a cloth, then add to the water
In which woollen clothes are washed.
The Child and the Dark.
There are some children, as every
mother knows, who are absolutely
terrified in the dark. They may not
be at alI cowardly children, but if you
notice, you will,,,find probably that the
fear is owing to one of two causes,
either they are specially imaginative
children, or they have been frightened
in some way which gives them an un-
natural terror of the darkness.. �
These two causes should be treated
in very different ways,
Take the ease of the imaginative
child. When one really thinks about
it, what is more natural than that
such a child- shoul(be afraid of the
darkness? The unknown has its fears
for most of us, and for the ,imagina-
tive most of all. And to a child, how
mvb
any things in this strange orld in n
which it finds itself are unknown. It
has to explore everything itself and 1
It never knows what will be the next , o
'surprise. The darkness must neees- h
sarily be mysterious to it. What may a
come out of the darkness to its bed-
side? Some strange, dreadful mon-
s ster like the scarecrow that fright-
ened it is in the field, or perhaps that
great spider that frightened Miss
e Muffett so much—it seemed to do it
on on purpose—or the three bears might
come all round the bed, for they
e' came all. round Little Goldie Locks'
bed; it said so in the story. Such
+thoughts are quite natural; and even
more terrifying ideas than these oc-
cur t� the imaginative child, for it is
I quite capable to drawing on that im-
t agination until it actually sees these
t i things and to add to the horror, by
hearing the scarecrow speak, or the
- bear's claws scratching on the floor;
the furniture of the room will take
the shape of strange creatures who
stand silently round watching unceas-
ingly; in fact, there is no end to tuch
night terrors when they once begin.
Now how can all this 'be ended?
The best thing a mother can do is to
welcome that imagination in the child
i as her ally, Let her try to plant in
' the child's mind the seeds of love and
trust.. Teach the little one to see the
good in everything. Don't let it fear
or despise ugliness and deformity, but
pity it, Let it understand that such
things as fire and water and darkness
are beautiful and useful and our
friends; that animals are here to be
loved and to love us, and that if they
scratch and bite it is generally be-
• cause they have been badly treated,
even lions and tigers do not kill for
• cruelty but for food. Along suck lines
the child's imagination will take tl?e
right attitude to things,o,and wonders
will have been accomplished,
For the same reason choose a
child's reading from the first along
these lines no fairy stories of cruelty
and horrors. Such stories are too
common—but beautiful fairy stones
of pretty fairies and good spirits and
IoveIy deeds. And above all, teach
it to Iove nature.
The case of the child who has been
frightened i's different. Though what
has been said of the imaginative
child does apply, it is not enough.
Find out what frightened the child
and put an end to that one fear at
once. It will probably be found that
someone told it some story for the.
very purpose of terrifying it, a pro-
ceeding which is nothing short of
criminal.
Household Hints,
Using Chicken Pat.—By using
chicken fat in cooking you can cut
down the ainount of fat you must buy
for that purpose. To prepare it, try
it out in a double boiler, or other ves-
sel set in hot water, until the fat just
melts away from the tissues and can
be poured off. This fat becomes
rancid easily and should be kept cool
and covered like butter and d used in a
very few days. Chicken fat, like
goose fat, may be used for shortening
in cakes, such as spice cake, where
the seasoning used will mask any
flavor which the fat might have. It
can also be used for frying the chic-
cen itself or other meats, and for
warming vegetables, etc,—Mrs. J. J.
('C.
China decorated with gilt should
ever be washed with water contain -
ng soda, for the soda will soon take
ff the gilding. Good white soap
ut into bits and put in moderately
of water, will answer the purpose
nd do no injury—Mrs. J. J, O'C,
Many who use gasoline for cleaning
spots on clothing dislike the "ring"
which it leaves around theplace
here the spot was. If a very little
ater is added to the gasoline no
arks will appear. -Mrs. E. T.
Last fall 1 picked ripe grapes,
eral different kinds, dipped the stem
of each in melted parafin, and packed
them in a wooden ,box between layers
of cotton batting, being careful not to
t the bunches touch, laid a news -
aper over top of box and set in a
ry, cool room. We had grapes to eat
n New Year's day, as nice as if they
ere just picked from the vine,—Mrs.
"SYRUP OF FIGS"
Frii CHILD'S LAXATIVE
Look at tongue! Remove poi4
sons from little stomach,;
liver and bowels
Accept "California"' Syrup of 1I!gt
onir--llsok for the name California on
the package, then you are sura your
tlil is having the boot and moot
rnaleao laxative
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rand ux l�ra
fit! bou•ele. Child"
tett loco its delicious fruity taste, Null
lllirections for child's do50 on each
`ittle, Give it
Without feint
t• linea httl 'Kota must SOY "California."'
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Keep Lamps *Shining Brightly.
A good many industrious and clean-
ly disposed housewives, like Aladdin
of old, believe in rubbing their metal
lamps. Aladdin got what he wished
for when he rubbed his glim producer,
but the housewife genne:raily gets, In
the course of time, what she doesn't
want; namely, a shabby appearing
lamp, for it doesn't take long to rub
the lacquer, off metal.
Lamps wouldn't be permitted to
remain shabby very long if house-
keepers knew how simple
p wa
process
s
It is to relacquer or re -enamel them.
Paint dealera, dt'ists and dealers.
in plumbing supplies tell the lacquers
and enetnels Its szfnall-quantity con-
tainers. Birection tor Appying 'usuniL.
conte with them.
INFLUENZA HAS
ER DANGERS
Particular Care Needed When
Patient . is Convalescent, Says
Expert.
The influenza codvalescent who has
apparently recovered frons the .disease
and is yet in a strangely weak and de-
pressed condition should be the object
of particular care, according to Dr.
Louis I. Harris, director of the Bureau
of Preventable Diseases of the New'
York Health Department. In the
opinion of D. Harris the after care
of -the influenza patient is meet im-
portant. 24he co-operation of the pa-
tient, coupled with the • willingness to
see that the weakness and •depression
are a part of the illness, though com-
ing after the disease itself has spent
its force, is, a big factor. in effecting a
complete return to full health. On the
other hand, the determination, -to ig-
nore this debilitated, condition and to
fight against it, will, Dr. Harris says,
frequently bring serious consequences
upon the patient.
After Effects Bad: -
"The subject of the after effects of
influenza," said Dr, Harris, "Is one of
particular interest to the scientist at
the present time.
"First, and perhaps the most mo-
mentous condition to be considered is
the striking depression, mental, nerv-
ous, and physical, complained of by
most patients. Those attacked by the
disease with moderate seysagity are al-
most always afflicted with this de-
pression, which should be recognized
and dealt with. Those who have had
mild cases of the epidemic are little
affected by depression, and their quick
return to health and strength gives
rise to the belief that influenza is
trivial, On the contrary, influenza in
its after effects is anything but tri-
vial, and calls for the application of
rules of common sense and sanitation
which are the fruit of years of ex-
perience,
"Tonic treatment, well chosen diet,
and great care in not, becoming over-
tired or allowing the body to be chilled
are necessary. Eggs may be eaten,
but not more than two a day, for the
average adult. Of course, it must -be
remembered that in many cases this
disease tends to direct its force
against the kidneys, awl therefore we
instruct patients to avoid eating a
great amount of meat, eggs, or beef
extracts, Eggs, soft boiled,
or beaten, reeve are advisable
ed, /lumber. The raw eggs 'should .al --
ways be well agitated before taking.
When Good Food is Bad..
• "With milk and eggs as a founda-
tion the patient should eat good nour-
ishing food, including meat, fish, and
vegetables, simply prepared. Frying,
for instance, is out of the question.
Good food, prepared In an unassimil-
able manner becomes bad food; es-
pecially is this to be noted in cases of
convalescence i:rom influenza, for the
disease often manifests itself in
vomiting, and in intestinal and gas-
tric disturbances, and it is important
not to weaken the digestive function
by the eating of poorly prepared food,
or even the best of food in ill-advised
quantities. The quantitative distribu-
tion of foodstuffs should be so adjust-
ed as not to overtax the stomach, but
the patient should eat generously and
frequently."
As a tonic to build up the blood and
stifnulate the shattered nerves, Die
Williams' Pink PiIIs are unsurpassed.
These pills actually make new, rich,
red blood, which reaches every organ
and every nerve in the body, improves
the appetite, strengthens digestion and
drives away the feeling of weariness.
and depression always following ,an
attack of la -grippe or influenza. Those
who give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a
fair trial will be amply repaid by the.
new health%and strength this '.enic
medicine always gives,
Gesture of the Tongue.
The tongue has a single gesture, and
everybody knows what it means. It
is thrust out to express contempt.
The little girl who "sticks out her
tongue" does not realize that her ac-
tion, so unladylike, harks back to the
prehistoric. It is undoubtedly a most
ancient mode of conveying the idea of
intensified disrespect. Everywhere in
the world, •among savage and civilized
peoples, the lingual gesure has the
same recognized significance,
, It Touched Her Heart.
• Naturally, when Ethel went on a
drat visit to some distant cousins In
the country, she didn't want to dis-
play her lack of knowledge of country
life. 8o she asked questions which
she thought "knowing," but which
nearly made her hosts laugh out loud.
One evening, just at dusk, as Ethel
stood at the open
door r a f the
farm,
m
house talking to one of the sons of the
family, there carne to tber i the low.
mournful note of a cow.
"Just• listezn to that poor co*," sigh-
ed liltltekw,>fenderly, "mewing for her
loot colts"
The Maple Trefie
e.
Hail tof the pride of the forest—hall
To the maple, tall and green!
It yields a treasure which neer shall
fail
While leaves on its boughs are seen
When the noon shines bright
Oil the wintry night,
And silvers the frozen snow,
And echo dwells
On the jingling bells,
As the si
le glts dart to and fro,
Then it brightens the mirth
Of the social hearth
With its red and cheery glow.
When the sne)yo of winter are melt-
ing fast,
And the sap begins to rise,
And the biting breath of the frozen
blast
Yields to the spring's soft sighs,
Then away to the woods,
For the 'maple goods
Shall unseal' its honeyed store,
And the boys and girls
With their sunny curls,
Bring their vessels brimming o'er
With the luscious flood,
Of the brave tree's blood,
Into caldrons deep to pour.
The blaze from the sugar -bush
gleams red;
Far down in the forest dark
A ruddy glow on the trees is shed,
That lights up their rugged bark;
And with merry shout (
The busy rout,
Watch the sap as it bubbles high;
And they talk of•the cheer
Of the coming year
And the jest and the song pass by;
And brave tales of -old
Round the fire are told,
That kindle youth's beaming eye.
Hurrah! for the sturdy maple tree!
Long may its green branches wave
In native strength, sublime and free,
Meet emblem for the brave.
May the nation's peace
With its growth increase,
And its words be widely spread;
For it lifts not in vain
To the sun and rain
Its tall, majestic head.
May it grace our soil,
And reward our toll,
While the nation's day is sped!
—Susannah Moodie.
Nature's- Trap.
• The most remarkable puddle in the
United States is a pool of asphalt six
miles, east of Los Angeles. Through
ages it has been a trap set by nature
'(;cif all kinds of luckless animals.
lillinefeet eiediameter aced solid
at the edges, while softer and stickier
toward the middle, it has irevitod ani-
mals (sometimes fleeing from bigger
ones, perhaps), to take a short out
across. A foot once caught, struggles
to escape were helpless.
Thus since very ancient times the
puddle has been a place of burial for
countless victims. Skeletons found
near the ,surface are those of present-
day animals native to California.
Deeper down are the remains of ani-
mals no longer known in that part of
the country. Deeper still are the
bones of animals not' now known on
the earth,and
yet deeper are those. 4f
creaturehitherto unknown in .any
ager
There are skeletons of elephants,
camels, mastodons and saber-toothed
tigers; huge cats, these last larger
and more powerful than the 13engaI
tiger of to -day, with teeth four tines•
longer than the distance the beast's
mouth could „open. It could not bite
with them, but used then for striking
its prey, teasing long gashes.
Among other osseous remains in the
asphalt pool are those of antelopes,
with spiral horns like South African
antelopes. There are even bones of
birds— eagles and condors—which
were doubtless attracted by animals
struggling in the trap. One species of
bird represented was of gigantic size,
its leg bones bigger than those of a
Miall.
The trap has offered valuable in-
struction to science, for never before
or elsewhere was there such an op-
portunity to study the evolution of
animal life in continuous series from
ancient times to the present,
Modern Roads in Morocco.
Under the French. regjne a system
of modern roads is being built hi kia.
rocco and the coast towns and prin-
cipal interior cities already are con-
nected.
zomacoucias 1
WINTER W'AMER
HARD Li d°L NES P . ��
Our Canadian winters are exceed
fngly hard on the health of little ones
The weather is often so severe tha
the mother cannot take the little ones
out for an airing. The consequence
is that baby is confined to overheated,
badly ventilated rooms; takes cold and
becomes cross and peevish, Baby's
Own Tablets should be given to keep
the little one healthy. They aro a
mild "laxative -which which regulate , the
stomach and bowels and thus prevent
colds. The Tablets are sold by medi-
cine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a
box from The Dr" "Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
Pro rens rn Aviation„
Carrying a grand piano by aeroplane
from a London store to a customer in
France was only a spectacular feat,
done for the advertisement. No one
thinks seriously of establishing an
aeroplane line to carry grand pianos;
but merchandise of many kinds is
transported across the Channel every
day by aeroplanes that run on a re-
gular schedule., A British aeroplane
company has received an offer of five
dollars an ounce to bring from Shang-
hai to London certain essences that
are used in manufacturing perfumes;
London papers are delivered in dis-
tant cities by aeroplanes; passenger
aeroplane lines are announced be-
tween New York and Atlantic City, be-
tween Los Angeles and San Diego and
between Calcutta and Simla—to men-
tion: no others; and tickets are al-
ready on sale for aeroplane trips from
London to Rio de .Janeiro.
Electric Heater for Bath. •
Featured by' three carbon plate
electrodes, an electric heater has
been invented for warming the water
in a bathtub.
Life -Giving Lymph.
• Everyone is aware that the has a
t heart, whose brininess it is to keep
the blood cireulatin
vital fluid moving g om them eart
through thebody in a saenhingly in-
terminable netwoxis of large.' and
smaller channels, and back again, to
- the heart.
The beating of the heart and the
undulation of the pulse are the out-
ward and visible signs of an inward
and very material 1nechallism .which
keeps us on the move from the cradle
to the grave. Our red ',corpuscles
hi the mass may be felt, and in some
regions, lin •certain lights, all/ but
seen, as they hurry about their vital
tasks of keeping our individual home -
fires burning. We are aware, in a
dine kind of way, that these busy lit-
tle red particles are at work night
and day keeping q,ur • tenement of
clay ventilated, ''chained, repaired,
cleaned, swept and garnished.
People who value their health
therefore keep a critical eye en the
state of their blood and its circula-
tion. To stimulate the latter they
take special''°"constitutionals," sys-
tematic exercise, and even surrepti-
tious "liveners." They watch and
even time their pulses, and are keen-
ly interested in the state of their
blood,'beeoming quite alarmed -when
they think it is "out or order."
But blood is not the only thing in
your body that has a circulation of
its own. There is another much less
blatantly advertised fluid, jn the ab-
sence of which you boulcl not live
twenty minutes, though. you should
have sufficient blood in your body to
keep two men on the move.
This quintessence of the familiar
crimson stream of life ,is known as
lymph. One of the' reasons why this
vitally essential fluid is not so gen-
erally known to, or so familiarly
YES! MAGICALLY! I spoken of by the public is that it lacks
CORNS 'LIFT 0111
WITH FINGERS
You simply say to the drug store
man, "Give me a quarter of an ounce
of freezone." This will cost very little
but is sufficient to remove every hard
Or soft corn from one's feet.
A few drops of this new ether cam,
pound' applied directly upon a tender,
aching corn should relieve the sore-
ness instantly, and soon the entire
corn, root and all, dries up and can be
lifted out with tho lingers.
This new way to fid one's feet of
corns was introduced by a Cincinnati
man, who says that, while freezone is
sticky, it dries in a moment, and site.
ply shrivels up the corn without in-
flaming or Oen irritating the sunrounding tissue or skin.
Don't let father die of infection or
lockjaw from whittling at his corns,
but clip this out and make him try it.
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\\ end more serious
\*co xtractid;ii
mean weather,
fie p otected.Take
from the first-sniffle—or sneeze. Stop it in
time and do not gamble with your
health. Used over 65 years in treating
coughs, colds and allied complaints.
Everybody buys Um Largo Slap GI
lentreel D. WATSON & CO., New York
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I have cured
hundreds of
cases, and all
ae" withoutpain,
chloroform, and
in nearly every
case, in one visit
'. '., to my office.
Write to MISS
.' Via" R. KNORR, 97
Joseph Street, Kitchener, Ont., 'one
of my recent patients. Ask her about
zny skill. (Enclose stamp for reply.)
elf you need my services, call or write,
Oiily an overnight trip from Ontario,
DR. P. SAA CARTER
Eye, Elite, G1eeo, Throat
23 YEARS 05 STATE STREET'
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removed' troth the body of the animal. To prevent the
trouble the'ytatine trust be done,
SPORN'S DISTEMPER DOMPbUND •
fil o bo•Fbi..--sure tate sick and prevent'tho 'oxppsed"
froto having the disease. Sold by your druggtpt.
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the flamboyant ahhd meretriciously at-
tractive color, as well as the fussy
and hilstling manner of its more
brazen rival;.
As a matter of fact, lymph is a
fine, subtle, clear, spirtuous fluid,
It is called the quintessence of the
blood becl.use it,passes out from the
blood vessels throu •h their walls,. and
permeates all the tissues of the body,
bathing their elements, and more
especially their living cells, which
Ihns lice like aquatic organisms. That
is to say, they live in a -fluid, and
their Ives and eintivities depend -on
interchanges between them and the
fluid,
The vital importance of the lymph
circulation will be better appreciated
when it is borne in mind that while
the average man has only thirteen or
fourteen pints of blood, 11e has not
less than thirty or forty 'pints of
Iymph to carry on with daily. This
lymph circulates, somewhat in the
same way as. the blood, under-
going certain changes in the
latter, and is finally poured again
into the blood -stream in the veins on
either side of the neck.
How, it may -be asked, is the Iymph
circulation carried off, without a
heart The human body it very in-
genious and adaptable. The heart is
practically a muscle, teed there are
scores of other muscles ready to act,
in a way', as its understudies," The
alternate contraction and •elaxation
of the ordinary Bodily muscles keep
this vital lymph -stream going -=and
this is only one of many reasons why
exercise is so essential to good health.
Other factors in keeping this circula-
tion going are the pressure under
which it passes feem the blood ves-
sels, and the movements made by the
.chest -walls in breathing.
The finer functions of the brain do
not seem to be performed through
the coarser blood supply so much as
they seen to be associated with the
formation and quality of the finer
lymph which is found in all the brain
cavities,
Easy Payments.
At one time Rudyard Kipling al-
ways paid his bills, no matter how
small they happened to be, with
cheques. After a while he discovered.
to his amazement that his bank ac-
count showed a much larger balance
than the stubs of his Chequebook war•
ranted: I11 fact, while he was draw-
ing cheques for small amounts almost
daily, his money in the bank did not
seem to dwindle In the least.
For a long time he was at a loss to
account for this astonishing fact until
he happened one day to visit an office,
the occupant of which was an en.
thllsiastte autograph collector. There
the author saw one gills own cloves
framed and hanging on the wal].
Thus the mystery was solved. It
appeared that the local shopkeepers
found that they could often get more
/or Iiipling's cheques by selling then%
to Oticograph hunters than they could
by cashing thein at the bank, and so,
although the author kept -ore drawing
h
cheques, his bank, balance romaiell'
almost intact,