HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-01-27, Page 2My Flower Money. I hands are but partially dry causes the
It is high time to make plan.; for It to chap and ro°.ighen, and no am -
the fast -approaching springtime. Let Dunt of ears will counteract careless -
me tell yliu how I earned money with mess_ on this point,
sny flower .garden. Through selling rile soap and }nater are good
flowers i earned enough money to buy cleans;ng agents, the stains which fol-
rny awn clothes, table linen, cartains law the paring of potatoes,acid
and cern
for the parlor and a sewing machine. fain fruits, require an acid for re-
for
had the dining room, hall and stair- lomat a piece of i nion, a slice of
way lined and papered. My bank ae-; somata, ora mixture of cornmeal and
count showed a balance of $300. . vinegar, ill remove these stains.
It was twelve miles by water from When grime has settled in the skin,
our farm to the city. A big left the
village, half a mile.away, every morn-
ing and returned every evening.
Many kinds of flowers bloomed in
our old-fashioned garden but few of
these were suitable for sale. For one
dollar I purchased nine email but
healthy violet plants which 1 carefully
planted in a protected spot. These
threw out many suckers. I kept the
surrounding ground well cultivated,
the suckers soon took root and within
two years I had large beds of fine,
pale blue violets. A few violets with
a spray d fern sold readily for ten
Bents.
Another plot of ground was plowed
and /slanted to chrysanthemums, In
August and September I removed
many of the small buds so that those
which bloomeder of fairly good
rub the hands thoroughly with vase -
Hue; rub as if using soap until the
vaseline is worked into all the inter-
stices of the skin, then wipe off with
a soft.cloth, which can be burned, and
wash the hands with warns water and
soap.
To prevent discoloration under the
fingernails, or in order to remove die -
colorations, draw the nails over a piece
of soap, so that the soap fills the space
between the flesh and the nails. A
soap containing sand Ls best for this
purpose.
An excellent lotion to be applied to
the hands combines equal parts of gly-
cerine, spirits of camphor and boiled
soft water. The healing effects of this
lotion will be appreciated when applied
to the cracks which sometimes occur
"The Land of Pretty Soo,'
I know a land where the streets .are
paved
With the things we meant ; to
achieve.
it is walled with the money we meant
to have saved,
And the pleasures for which we
grieve.
The kiwi. words unspoken, the Pre-
mises broken,
And many a coveted bocn,
Are stowed away there in .that land
aoniewhere—
The land of "Pretty Soon."
There are uncut jewels, of possible
fame,
Lying about in the dust,
And many a noble and lofty aim
Covered with mold and rust,
And, oh! this place, while it seems so
near,
Is farther away than the moon;
Though our purpose is fair, yet we
never get there—
The land of "Pretty Soon."
The road that 'leads to that mystic
land
Is strewed with pitiful Wrecks,
And the ships that .have ;sailed fors
shining' strand
Bear skeletons on their decks.
Is it farther at noon than it is at
dawn,
Olt let us beware of that land down
I arther at night than at noon;
there—
The land of "Pretty Soon."FRAGILE, PALE
on the ends of the fingers. Another is
w e good lotion calla for two parts each
size. of boiled, soft water and vinegar, and -
I planted my roses in rows. After
the spring bloom I trimmed thein back,; one part of glycerine.
had them plowed and kept free from When a le- ceriile preparation i_
found to be too drying for the skin,
weeds. As a result 1 always had e.� use one of•the greaseless or disappear -
t
fine fall bloom. ing creams. A cream of this sort can
From bulbs I raise double daffodils, he rubbed into the skin, leaving no
large clusters of single jonquils and trace on the surface, so that it can be
graceful, pale yellow narcissus. used during the day, as well as at
Friends gave nae bulbs and I bought night before retiring. The cream is
same. The beds for the bulbs were also absorbed into the roots of the
under -drained and prepared according Bars, counteracting the brittleness
to the iirstruciions given in my Sorel which causes the nails to break, and
magazine. ! making then soft and pliable. The
I sold dozens of bunches of white, nails can be kept in shape by means
pheasant -eyed pinks. By starting with of a flexible nail file, rough or uneven
only one package of seed within a year edges being easily filed down. Fre-
1 had three large beds of these frag- quem cutting of the flails is said to
rant flowers. thicken them; when cutting is neces-
My first step in selling my Sowers
sary, a pair of curved manicure scat -
was to secure a ticket at the Women's sors enables one to cut the nails v,-ith.
Exchange in the city where flowers
were ni g eatwtie maul ,>.Qne .q 'the. greater ease than when ordinary lot
v . ... ,� yr s l e used:. Feinted nails are not:
' `aoatarids ion `the Mail titeettesreetl'tik
adiudre the nails ehould be carefully
take the filled baskets to the Exchange rounded so they will conform with
and bring back the empty ones for a the ends of the fingers.
specified sum for each basket. I lined After filing the nails soak the finger -
large stick baskets with oilcloth to tips in warm, soapy water to soften
keep in the moisture, fastened up- the cuticle, then push this gently back.
rights to each corner and over these with the fiat end of an orange -wood
fitted a cover of strong homespun. stick which can be bought -.for the pur-
which tied underneath the basket, pose The halt -moon which appears
These covers protected the flowers at the base of the nails is considered
from the szin and the dust. I wrapped a Mark of beauty and, if this is to
•the sterns of each bunch in yet moss, show, the cuticle-nnust be lifted by
packed the !lunches in close together, , eiltl runndn •the stdelc (which h:
sprinkled them with water and tied deen previously dipped in" oil) under
the cover over. In this way the -flow- the cuticle. The pointed end of the
ers reached the Exchange as fresh asstick is ns
if just picked, After awhile my flow-
ers became so well known that people
would delay purchase till they arrived.
I had my housework to do, dairying
and the care of the poultry, so only a
dart of my time was devoted to the
flower •work.
It is having a system as well ;s
willingness to work hard, that enables
one to "put over" an extra piece of
work such as this. First, I had this
"plan of turning my flower and plant
friends into money, in nee maid. There,
I worked out the plan .and by orderly
Methods and keeping oi.erlaetingly at
it, found it wos nota great ha1•rlship
and most certainly i!iclucied much!
pleasure as well as cash gain.
•
Care of the /mantle.
A little tare and a. few ioiket re-
quisites will keep the hands in a pre-
sentable condition, no matte,." what
You* hon, e.hold tasks may be. Learn
first to protect tie hands. With the
aid of a dish -mop and a wire dish-
cloth, the hands need to be kept in the
dish water but a small part of the
time, 'while the dishes .:an be washed
quite as well and mulch more quickly
than when a dish -cloth only is used.
White canvas gloves Will afford the
fszotee.tion needed when working in the
,poultry house or about the fixes. Old,
loose gloves vend* worn when sweep-
. ing and dusting, and a paper bag
dr*awn over the hand be;fote blaelcing
the stove Is also protection.
Caileful drying of the hands is of
great importance, especially in cold
weather. '.1 exposure to the air when the
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a'lwaye prepared to give
you the highest :mica awl
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WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO
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leaning under file
nails. Sharply pointed instruments
scratch the nails and should not be
used for this purpose. A• bit of ab-
sorbent cotton wrapped around the end
of the stick and moistened with perox-
ide will remove stains from under the
nails and around the edges of the nails.
The n:ails should then be polished,
placing a Tittle polishing powder on a
huf£er which is to be rubbed gently
back and forth over each nail. Avoid
too much friction, as it heats the nails
and produces the very high polish
which is not admired. Wash the hands
in order to remove the polishing pow-
der, dry then. thoroughly and rub the
nails of each hand with the palm of
the other.
It will not be necessary to manicure
the nails so thoroughly ;oftener than
once in two weeks, but constant care
in washing and drying the hands, the
use'of the file and orange -wood stick
and the cream or lotion, are imederl to
keep them in good condition.
A Fuel Economy.
.
When the housewife needs t,:=lv a
small fire and but little heat, she
ahould keep a deep, short fire in the
firepet by filling most of the pot as
full of ashes; as she would or coal, but
filling ono -fourth, one-third or ane -
half the length et the firepot with
good. coal. Every time sthu cleans
out the 'Fire portion and putts on more
coal, she will need to put on more
aghee in ovder to keep the aches level
with the coal. In thea way she can
have a good, hot, deep, live fire all
the time, on which she can heat a utile
water or clo light cooking. She can
also hank i'uch a fire mics keep it low
just as easily as if there were a full
pat of coal. When a larger, fire is
mended, she ran push through the'grate
such a portion of ashes as will masse
the •desired space, fill this space with
good ear and the adjoining fire •wil ;
soon spread through the new cool.
'Chis method saves more tons oil • coal
its a year than all other methods Corn -
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The Melancholy State of Thous-
ands of ?Bloodless Children and
Young Girls.
How often do you hear the remark,
'She is very delicate?" How often it
means that some young woman is liv-
ing in misery, suffering from periods
of prostration, dizziness, loss of appe-
tite and disordered digestion. Head-
aches afflict her at intervals; pain in
the back and limbs follow any exer-
tion. She is never really well.
This fragile state of health, this
lack of vitality, calls for prompt treat-
ment, The blood must be nourished
and made strong enough to vitalize
the system that is so lacking in energy.
In such cases Dr. Williams' Pink Pills •
have proved remarkably Successful
making the new, rich, red blood nese
sary in restoring tone to the 'system.
Nies. L. M. Duncan, South Mountain,
Ont., tells of the wonderful benefit Dr,
Williams' Pink Pills made in the ease
of her young daughter. She says; "It
is only right. that I should let you
know of the good derived froin the use
of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills by our girl
of eleven years. She was always very
thin and not gaining in weight. Her
appetite was poor and she had no de-
sire for wholesome food. Finally w:e
decided to give her Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, After taking one box, she went
away on a three weeks' vacation, tak-
ing three boxes of pills with her, which
she took regularly while she was away.
When she returned home we were sur-
prised and delighted to see how well
she looked, and to find that she had
gained seven pounds in weight. She
had a much better color and her ap-
petite had unproved ,00 that she was
always ready for her meals. She con-
tinued using the pills until she had
taken seveu boxes, and the great im-
provement they made in her coudi-
tion was noticed by many around here,
1 tan only add that I believe Dr, Wil-
lian:t' Pink Pills are a splendid Inedi-.
cine."
Tlie best tune to begin taking Dr.
Williams Pink Pilin is the inomnent you
feel the least bit out of sorts. The
sooner you do so the sooner you will
regain your old time energy, You can
get these pills through any medicine
dealer or by mail at :ata routs a box or
six boxese for ee,00 fermi. The Dr.
\Vlllfanrs' Medicine no., d-iroeleville,
Ont. f
Neutral.
"But are yell a Briti: h -ba=it sub -
jeer ?" angrily demanded the ofineal at
the Pessport Office,
"My mother was uritis h -- began
the applicant.
-Yes, yee--- ."
'lint she married :t I+rcnnl:man e
• "Yes."
"In Italy."
"Yes; but where were you he=n?" r ,
"1 was bort 011 a ship flying Spanish
colors Millet .dire sees lying at anther
in Honolulu Harbor, but, my parents
died in Brazil when I wus only four
years old, and 1 wee adopted by a.
('1iiirasnan, who brought the n.p in lots-
Ite ''•: ..." began en pfficiul.'
'He's a bicnsnin' League of Nit
times!" exploded rte nflir'lel tvbrs had
firet spoken.
To Siam many women•are employed
in army workshops, in factories and
on the railways and roads,, where they
are paid the same rates as men for
equal Woi'k,
A short time ago the relaid price of
e Rose Tea (Crimson Label) wa.s re-
'Ind
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'I n ;£ 10 cents a pound.
Whenever conations permit, the price
will agile be reduced, but never t9 such
Mn extent as to !Deer the quality.
You will always fini the quilt; of
Red Rose Tea all you expect it to be
thesame good tea for over 25 years,
T. H. EsTAanooKsco„ Ltd.
Ste John Toronto Winnipeg
L on¢-" ea9 Ca 'car;; Edrnontnn.
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HEALTH EDUCATION.
Dr. Middleton will be glad to answer questions on Public Health mat.
DY DR. J. J. MIDDLETON,
Ontario Board of Health
ters through this column. A.ddreaas hint at the Parliament Bltlgs•,
Toronto.
I am writing this article to the boys
and girls, and more particularly to
you boys and girls who are going to
school from day to day, and who axe
being taught reading, writing, arith-
metic and other useful subjects that
wiII be of use to you all through life.
Now, to learn quickly and to make
progress at school you must be -in
good health, for you cannot go to
school every day if you do not feel
well, and so you get behind in your
class, and feel that you are keeping
the other children back, waiting for
you to catch up to them in your
studies.
There are several things that you
should do every day to keep well. They
do not take much time and in fact
are very necessary if you are going
to have good health.
Every boy and girl knows how bene-
ficial it Would be to carry out certain
health rules from day to day, but
sometimes there is nobody to tell just
what should be clone.
• Ierme are some health chores which
•I •
would like to see every boy"and girl
undertake to do every day. Copy out
the list and pin it somewhere where
you can see it. Then at night before
you go to bed put an X. before each
chore that you have done and see how
many you have missed out. If you
do not miss any of the chores you will
feel in better health, you will have a
better appetite, you will sleep better,
and you will study better. Besides
you will grow up to be a healthier elan
or woman than if you neglect to •carry
out these simple little rules.
Here they are:—
(1) I washed my hands before each
meal to -day.
(2)_ I washed not only my face, but
my ears and neck, and I cleaned my
finger hails.
(3) I tried, to keep•rny fingers, pen -
ells and everything that might he un-
clean out of my mouth and nose.
(4) I dram: a glass of water before
each meal and before going to bed, and
drank no tea, coffee or other injurious
drinks to -day.
(5) I brushed my teeth thoroughly
in the morning and in the evening
t.esday.
(6) I took ten or more slow, deep
breaths of fresh air to -day.
(7) I played out -doors or with win-
dows open•anore than thirty minutes
to -day.
(8) I was in bed ten hours or more
last night and kept my windows open.
(9) I tried to keep neat and cheer,.
ful constantly, and to be helpful to
others. •
(10) I tried to -day to situp , and
to -stand up straight, to • eat slowly,
and to attend to toilet and each need
of Icy body at its regular time.
Now, boys and girls, just copy out
these rules and try your best to -.do
thein every day. Get your father or
mother or big brother or sister to re-
mind you each night to niarlc off the
list of Health chores you have done
through the day. You will never re-
gret doing them and you'll thank nae
for telling you about then..
X -Rays Snapshots.
Remarkable progress has been
made in X-rays work owing to the dis-
covery of a new photographic plate
which is 25 times more rapid than any-
thing known hitherto.
This new plate makes it possible to
take radiographic pictures of the heart
lungs, or stomach, in a fraction of a
second with ordinary apparatus, and,
besides saving the patient and opera -
ter from the risk of exposure to the
X-rays, photographs can be taken of
organs of the living body so rapidly
that they appear perfectly distinct,
whereas with the longer exposures at
present required organs such as the
heart or lungs make movements which
bluer the image, rendering diagnosis
difficult,
Sufficient's Enough.
Little Tommy Brown was alway i in-
terested in his new little baby sister,
One day hie steed peering do`svn upon
it, whilst the nurse was singing it to
sleep.
"Nurse." he whispered at last, "she's
nearly unconscious, isn't•she?"
"Yes," nodded the nurse, and con-
tinued` eiuging the lullaby.
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makes up for the great loss le
of plantfood that leaches out ri
of manure before it reaches the xi
fields, by the addition of 50 lbs. rY
of Acid Phosphate to every load ;
of manure. la
S.esults of )hcperituente as follows:
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OF HUMANITY
VITAL STATISTICS CON-
CERN EVERY PERSON.
Registration of Births and
Deaths An Urgent Duty of
All Civilized Governments.
So iinportnnt in public health 'work,
in the prevention of sickness, ere vital
statistics—•figures touching znan from
birth through sickness and happiness
of life until death --.that they have
been called the "bookkeeping of
humanity.”
Vital statistic:: are to the health of-
ficer and physician what charts and
compass aro to the sailor. The regis-
tering of births and deaths form the
basis to intelligently combat di,ease.
First, in order to fight a disease physi-
cians and public Health officials must
first know where it exists and what
trend it has taken fn former tears. A
few years ago the typhoid fe=el• death
1 rate in Ford village, near Detroit,
readied the proportions of one death
, to every twenty-three families. i)e-
troit at the saitio tlnie had a typhoid
fever death rate of but one to every
G66 families. Mined with these static-
tits a sanitary survey was -made and it
was found tbiit the people in Ford
village were drinking water polluted
by Detroit sewage. It was thus pos-
sible to clean up some of the sources
and lower the death rate considerably.
Registration of birtlt5 and deaths is
one of the duties of every civilized -
government and is of importance not
only to the individuals themselves but
also to the entire public. Questions
of parentage, heredity, legitimacy
family identity. property rights, in-
heritance, aeal citizenshie acre decided
by such records. No child labor lues
can be of any value unleee it rests
upon a system of birth registration
and of birth certificate issued •by the
state. certificates which the c'hiltl or
parent can present at any time as
positive proof ef oral=: of birth and et
paternity.
Many intcreeting c enc are recorded
where bit•th certificates were absc.-
lately necessary in the affairs of some
personale" yet were lacking. Let us
cite two eases of this nature: ,lire,
a girl of twenty-four, without family,
was living in Montreal when e distant
yelative died and left her heir to
severall hundred thoii alzd °dollars. Iu
order to carafe into her inheritance it
was necessary to prove her identity
as an heir at law. Her birth was not
recorded in the county Where she was
born, and for a long time no one could
be found to establish the time of her
birth.. Naturally the papers made
much of the ease, Finally an olid ac-
quaintance of her family chanced to
read an account of the story and was
able to establish. her identity.
Without the records of births and
deaths, it is impossible to determine
the birth rate of a eonlnntnity, to esti-
mate the infant death rate, to find the
ratio between births and deaths, and
to ascertain ,at, what age and from
what cause the largest number of
people are dying. Without vital statis-
tics we might have gone along for
years without realizing that half Of
those deaths are preventable.
In order to make in»' Lair tennparf-
son regarding the heaitbfulness c -f two
cities, communities, or P4Ates, it is
necessary to keep icer et statigtles
for a considerable .en0 of time.
Through lack of adequate ": nd uniform
vital statistics laws in the ;rest it has
been impossible to make aa,stliing but
vague and general statements regard-
ing the relative healthfulnetse, or uu-
healthfulness, of different !areas ef the
country'. To attempt to carte, an eiod
ern health work, either -on the part of
a city or state without a vital r stir tics
bureau as part of the organiraselor. ?n
a.s hopeless and unsatisfactory, as en -
modern, as it would be to .attempt *s
carry on a fmodern business withtntt' an
accounting department.
A Little Knowledge.
'Young Anthony Giles, son of Farmer
Giles, upon: demobilization went tIt
one of the special. rchools.nrranged for
ex -Service men.
There he learnt ail the newest
"hints" about farinneg. -
Old Farmer Giles, some tinge after
his son returned to the fa=me, mei au
old friend, and together they discuss-
ed the boy's return.
"Did your boy lea.ru zinyhing at the
Farm School?" inquired biles' friend,
"Yes," answered Giles. "no learnt
a little too much for tis."
"How so?" • - •
"Sae cane back with a lot of new-
fangled notlous nbotit hew to ren a
farm, and seemed to think • the •old '
!louse -place wee a sort •of exlierlinextttel
affair, and. that file and 1hte hired :uteri
were jest the fellters to do the work."
"I axnilco," as paper Clothing is calls
• ed iii japan, is ntado el real .Japanese
paper Manufactured freed • mulberry,
bark. •