The Clinton News Record, 1920-7-8, Page 6A Vacuum Cleaner
or a Harrow.
By NJ;tLIE HYD,Z,lt GATES,
PART 1.
Itseemed to Mar Loomis as if
e y
'never in all• the 'twenty-seven years
of her life had she ever' wanted any-
thing so emelt as she wanted a vegetate
(loaner, Site had sent for several on-
culars, which set forth' in glowing
terms what wontterful things they,
were capable . of doing. She fairly
gloated over the.pietures of the at-
tractive, elaborately gowned young
ladies, with their hair curled so beau-
etifuAr, who smiled so happily as they
lworketl their cleaners. She • left. the
(circulars .around where Ben couldn't
lbelp but see them, and she talked
!wouldn't
on every occasion, But he just
wouldn't get interested.,
"Forty dollars seems such' tt lot,
Mary," -Ile would say, -"when. we have
just got to have a harrow. I can't go.
on borrowing your father's forever,
and you know as well es I do that the
old bee can't be repaired any more:
On the day that the Missionary
Circle met. with het' she had worked
..herself'up` to the pitch Where she al-
most hated Ben for what she termed
dais unfairness. But there was no time
to brood over it, there was so much
to do to get 'ready.
First of all, she took the children
out under the apple tree so that they
wouldn't be under her feet as she
worked. And then there was . the
breakfast dishes to be washed, cinna-
mon buns and drop cakes and apple
tarts to be made, the house straightens
ed up, dinner to get, the dinner dishes'
to wash and herself and the children
to dress by 2 o'clock, the time the
circle would begin to arrive.
And Mary felt tired even before she
started. It seemed to her that in all
her life she had never been •Tested.
When she was a girl, the eldest of the
Osburnes, the ill health of her mother
had caused too much of the work to
fall on Mary's slender shoulders. In
the months before she was married the
used to think what a sweet relief it
would be to have only Ben and herself
for whom to work, But it had involv-
ed Much toll on h•er part to turn the
bare new house into a comfortable
home 'on a few dollars,'and then there
had been Ben'sillness and soon the
two babies had come, leaving less rest
than ever for Mary. The thought of
the vacuum cleaner grew as she work-
ed intoan obsession. If she didn't
have the •sweepin-• to bother with
every week, how vastly much easier
the housework would be.
' She left the sink where she was
washing the 'dishes and walked wear-
ily- over to the window to see if the
babies were still all right, As she did
her eye caught sight of her younger
sister, Janey Osburne, cocaina into
the yard. She saw her stup and take
up in turn each child for a hug and
then come to the kitchen door.
Mary looked up half -tenderly, half-
envionsly at the soft, fresh pink of
Jersey's cheeks. '
"Taney," she told her, "it's dear of
you to come and help nuc out,.for I'm
so tired I'm juste. wreck."-
"Nonsense!" said Janey, that dimple.
of hers appearing in one cheek.
"You're no wreck at all; you're a.per-
fectly strong female, and here is your
sister, 'that's as strong as two oxen,
come to do the hardest part of the
work. Now what do you want me to
do first?"
It seemed to Mary that Janey Fairly
wheedled the work into getting done:
She sang and she laughed, and.every-
thing her hand touchedturned out
well,.the cinnamoh buns were snow
white -and i,s light' as a feather; the
apple tarts would inelt away- as one
ate them into a delicious appiey sweet -
nese. On the' othei hand, although
Mary's`.repbtation as a cook was a
proud. one, the drop cakes she made
treat morning were flat, heavy, Iifeless
things:
"I'm too tired to do anything right,"
she -said to herself. "If I hadn't gotten
all tired out with the sweeping yester-
day--" •
Aloud she said to Janey,- "11 you
can possibly help it don't let Mrs. Gib-
son have any`' of these drop` cakes.
Gel; her filled up on something else be-
fore you puss•them. .1 don'tcare so
much about the others because they
don't brag the way she does about
their housekeeping. You'll -remember,
won't you ?"v
"Sure," responded Janey. "What
next?" •
"Let's see." Mary looked .around
die room and pondered, "Oh 1 would
you mind 'sweeping up the downstairs
again? I went ovor the whole house
yesterday, but the. babies have been
playing around since, end yet% know
what 1VIrs. Gibson is like; her eyes are
microscopes.' •
Janey seized the broom as gayly as
If it had been a parasel-and went about
the sweeping,
"The, sweeping is the worst part -of
'housekeeping,",Mary announced as
she started to make the neing.for the
"It's' these- earpt te, Janey cakedele
to har front the •next retint. "Bare
floors With a rag or two aren't •half
the trouble."
Mary puckered her brews in a little
frown of annoyance. Those' carpets
were a sore point with her; in her first
glow of enthusiasm for her new home
she had bought them with•money that
was needed elsewhere; and she hated
to be reminded of ft,
"It isn't the carpet," she denied ir-
ritably; "It's these old-fashioned
roome, T wish I had a vacuum
eleanet."
Jenny opened her eyes wide and
Wondered. •
A minute later, dustingthe living
room table, she found the answer. to
her wondering in the circulsir that
was lying' there, She looked it over
with clieaproval and. then Stuck it hes
tween the pages •of the family Bible,
"Stay there," elm•thole it umtcordlally'
under her breath ° Stay there, where
You won't do any harm," •
Ilvefi with Jane 's
dayfor
y help it was a
aidthe
Mary, and when at last
yen o il•
t tit l tm f m
ra es wor et u
g
Were
f q� n
fid eYer tliht s
ef,
y e nod rest! for he
rrF0al of the .miss1onesy eitcle and
ItLary haddreesotl herself and the clmiI-
ren in then hest White dresses, utile
arparet's inquisitive fingers found e
owl of jam and left unniistalcable
'aces of it on her mother's dress and own, When Mary discovered it,
t seemed. the loot straw, There was
tamely time to slip a clean dress elm
largeret, and as fol herself it was
the only white drdss elle owned,
Just then Mrs, Gibson and •. her
aughter Fiossio arrived In their antes
obiie, and after she had greeted
Om Mary managed to elle out lute n'
the kitchen and try to wipe off the
climbs of jam with a damp cloth, •
But all afternoon she was unconm
fortnbly conscious of those da•ead-ful
drop cakes and the way in which Mrs.
Gibson's near-sighted, critical eyes
kept wencteriitg . around the living
room.
It seemed to her tired mind, there-
fore, almost a personal insult when
the talk turned to housekeeping,
"It does seen' to ate," said' Mrs,
Gibson, "that nowadays, with all these
modern improvements, that there's+no
excuse for housework„being anything
but a pleasure. Why, I can •remeiyber
tivhen f mould no more have done my
work without a hired girl than ilea
And that was before Matilda was mar-
ried, too. And now there's only ane
and Flossie to do the work, and there
isn't a.day but, what we have plenty
of time to take an auto ride; and I
don't get tired a mite the way 1 used
to, Who's got the fifty thread?”
Mrs. Dillon missed 'it to her,
Mrs. Gibson threaded, her needle
and went on with her quilting and her
talk, "I think these new butter pans
that make butter all by themselves
at•night is the most comfort."
"Oh, I don't, mother," interposed
Flossie. "I don't think there's any-
thing so muchcomfort as the bread
mixer and.the electric iron."
"Well, I dolt' know," Mrs. Gibson
replied. "1..guess one thing is about
as much comfort as another, But I
'don't see how I ever got along in this
wide world without a fireless cooicer
and a cream separator and an electric
washing machine.
"And a big refrigerator in the
house," put in Flossie. "My land!
When I think of all the trips I used
to mnake to the spring house!"
Mary couldn't stand It and tried to
Steer the conversation into another di-
rection, into the alluring channels of
babies or the county fair ar the un-
converted heathen, but she tried in
vain, for it seemed fastened hopelessly
on the shoals of housekeeping,
Old Grandlna Anderson was keenly
interested in the new butter pans.
Mrs -White and her two daughters
wanted to know if you really could
bake cakes in a fireless cooker,
"Indeed you can," Mrs. Gibson
solemnly asserted, and rested- her
plump figure back in her rocking
chair that the might discuss it the
better. "And for my part I can't see
why every housekeeper doesn't have a
fireless cooker and every single other
labor saver there is." •
The rest of the women there knew
well enough why, but none of then
said it aloud.
Mary had stood all she could, and
there was a flush in her cheeks as she
replied: "There is .only •ono of those
things that I would care to have, and
that's a vacuum cleaner."
Mrs. Gibeon.gave a gasp of aston-
ishment, "You don't mean to say you
haven't got one. A delicate woman
like you! "• Why I should think your
husband would make you get one to.
save your strength. It's queer he
dont."
A hot wave of indignation swept
over Mary. This was more than she
would stand; insinuations that Ben
wasn't good to her. Impulsively as a
child, regardless of truth, she flung at
Mrs. Gibson a convincing retort. 'My
husband," she said proudly, "has al-
ready ordered one for, tee."
Then when it was out she wondered
whatever made her say it. And what
couldshe do? She couldn't turn
around and deny it in the same breath.
Anyhow, they'd all forget it pretty
soon. Anyhow, maybe Ben had order-
ed it after all.
She had not foreseen, the storm of
interest that the statment would
arouse. Everyone wanted to know
what make it was and when it would
conte. Everyone who did not already
possess one, it seemed, was on the
point of purchasing and wanted to
know all about Mary's.
It was too late now to retreat, and
Mary, avoiding Janey's eyes, plunged
bravely ahead, She couldn't tell just
when it would cone (truthfully in-
deed) without asking Ben, but she
was sure that it was the best on the.
market, for it never got out of order
and was so simple that a child could
work it. "The circular is here some.
where," 'she said, and made a futile
search to fled it for them.
Janey did not help her in the search,
"Just as soon as it comes I want to
see it," Mrs. Gibson declared, "be-
cause our Matilda is going to get one
and . she may like your kind better
than ours,"
"I want to see it, too," said Mrs.
Dillon, and so did Grandma Ander-
son and Mrs. White and her two
daughters, and the Cutningitasm. girls
and Miss- Canning and Mrs, Port,
Mary promn!sed them .every one to
Tet them know when it arrived. And
there . was panic in lier heart. Sup-
pose Ben heard what she had been
telling?. •What would he- think of
her?' Or, armee still, suppose he
didn't get her one after all?
(Concluded in next issue.)
Wise Men Say.—
';'hat 11 you would earn' more you.
must learn more.
That.learn tmo•o
That to go far, it will help to start
early eae'l 'ageing.
That soume men never recognize an-
opportunity unless it is labelled, •
Thai wise amen, er0 usually like
sponges: they seek to absorb all they
05111, '
Titat` podert5' !e 510 disgrace, brit
there Is ' -precious little eiso that can
be said ver it,
That time roan who quarrels with his
bread and battet is likely to dhna on
"scraps.
That trying; to do business without
advertising le like Leeman winking at a,
girl in the clarir.:
That yesterday fs da d -
far of • 11;
-morrow does not eX` t—
tomorrow is don,t wor-
ry; to -day 15 !mere—use it!
That In. the assurance of strength
there lo strength, and ,they aro the
Weakest, however strong, who have 150
tattle in themselves or their powers,
That not one really great mars has
acltleved greatness except by conilimg
over' the path Of thorns, hardships, dis'
appointments, and heartaches,
That inost of oat failures aro duo to
neglect of simple' principles, We per,
elet,in the clothe to get Omitting for
nothing, to make meogress without
g in effort
Oki Time Skippers
"'Tile old-time Peg -tisk Mattering ;nee
were trltined to' the service in the so1'-
vieb lteelt, Their leeeons were C11ote,
Pr duty Prem the rank of enbinbeY to
that of master.", Such a school was
likely to• turn out men, of efliciommoy,
but not of extensive loathing. `.!'here
are teeny interesting stories told of
Por• example, there . was the mars
who mould neither read nor write, but
who could take iiia vessel without eds..
take from port to port, The lights on
the coast were hie Only books, and his
one intellectual oxefreise, consisted In
calcelating the set of the ebb and the
flood,
When steamers, were flint ordered
to carry red and green' eldeligsts,
with a high white light hung forward,
an old sea captain caw the mysterious
colored circles.coniing down upon him,
He did not understand•thls new thing,
and his faeuJtIes•beeanre confused, He
shouted "!lard starboard, We'll be
iutb a drugshop!"
Another master Who. happened to
have a leisure moping went to hear a
popular lecture on astronofny. ire
was much troubled by what he heard,
and explained .his perplexity. with
great feeling, "The man told the lot
of ns," he said; "that the. world turned
round and round, but I cannot under.
s.tan51''how that ma be: 'L'lle Hattot'a
Rock hoe been therm over slate Teal'
rernembot,'"
pus. snippet who could read =dense
a chert was-'dlapatoimod to Rotterdam,
Atter getting over the. bar .and well
away to the east, be produsoil his
charts NM made a learned inspeotion;
but the charta' had been a lotlg time in
the locker, and eircumetances cone
bleed to Ma4'nt him extremely. • 1.1e
went up on deck and called out 10 hie
mate: "Put her about; the rats have
eaten holland l" • •
Ono oil captain bored away timrottgh
a fog for Several days under the Im-
pt•oesion•that he was'g.oing north frcmn
Liverpool, Aftera long bine a vessel
came pant and the lost captain in.
quired: "Are we Sotng right for the
Castle toot?"
The stranger made answer; "What
Castle foot?"
Whereupon (the incensed skipper
said; "'There to only one Castle foot:
Tynentoutlr Castle,",
The answer was discouraging: 'If
you go as you are going, you'll be at
Newfoundland in a very short tine."'
The old hero felt his way bade and
after many days and much hailing, of
passing slept lie sighted St, Abb's
Head: He then said, with pride;"Alt,
here's England! I thought I would
fetch her."
Snow-Blind-`iin a" Mountahll
Peak.
A sudden attack of snow blindness
is bad enough' on the trail, but to be.
stricken alone on a high mountain is
doubly terrible. Mr. Enos A. Mills
-desctibea such :an 'experience in- hi
book The Adventures of a Nature
Guide. "As 'I climbed out of the
dwarfed woods at timber tine in the
Rocky-Mountainsand started across
the Summit," he writes, "tire sun glare
warned me of the danger of snow
blindneits; But. the wild attractions of
the heightsluredme on, and I lingered.
to look down into•canons and examine
the mtmagnificent snow 'cornices. In
hurrying across the pass I felt scorch-.
ing pains, and at the summit My eyes
became too painful to endure the light.
When I closed them they swelled so
that 1 could not open them. I was
blind on the summit of the Continental
Divide.
"I must have wandered far from the
direct course to timber line, for I
traveled more than twice as long as.
it should have taken me before I
reached the timber line. Feeling my
way from tree to tree, I at last found
a blaze; but 1 soon lost the line in
the woods, and finally my staff found
no bottom and warned me that I was
at a jumping-off place. Night was
coming on, but darkness did not mat-
ter. My light had failed at noon.
Going back along my trail, I avoided
the cliff and made my way to the bot-
tom of a canon."
There the blinded man ascertained
the points of the compass by a thick
grove of spruces on the walls that
faced north, and made his way down
the floor of the canon, Ile ,broke
through into running water, lost a
snowshoe, recovered it with the great-
est difficulty, clambered over a snow -
slide and finally stopped to make a
fire and dry his chilled limbs. -
In the morning he smelled smoke
and set out to find it. - Hemade his
way down the mountain side .hour
after hour until mid-afternoon or later
he suddenly smelled an ancient corral.
He at last found a cabin and shouted,
but there was no'an-siver. Discover-
ing that a board was nailed across
the door, he'broke in said started a fire
in the stove. Then'he dropped hand-
fuls of snow on the stove and steamed
his aching eyes. Leaning his back
against the. wall he fell asleep, awoke
in the night, started the fire anew and
again slept.
"It must have been near noon when
I finally woke," he continues. "Going
to the door, I stood and listened. Sev-
eral shouts evoked echoes, 1 filthily
decided• to try to find the roadway
leading away front the cabin and, ad-
justing' my snowshoes, started down
through the woods. 1 found a road
through thick woods and readily fol.
lowed it. When I emerged front the
woods I knew by the pungent aspen,
smoke that' I must be near a human
habitation, As I stood listening a
little girl curiously asked, "Are you
going to stay here to -night?' '!
• London's "Zee,"
•
The London Zoological Society oc•
Oupies ground in Regent's Park nmea-
surfing 34 acres, for Which it pays
0;308 per year; the estimated value of
.the land commercially is over £100,=
000 a year. -•
' Canada • has 1,050 niewspapet's and
n1a aziees,
Seen in the Sand.
There is a tremeudoue fascination
In telling fortunes— likewise in having
your fortune told; •
All travellers ;bound `East, idamce ap
their minds to have their fortunes
told by one'or other of the dtvinations
known; to tate Arab or the Egyptians,•
••A very old, but little ;mown, method
of telling fortunes at the Pyramids, is
by what is called "Send divining."
The Arab,. who is usually the for-
tune-teller, decoys his client into some
secluded corner. It is of no use to re-
fuse him, -for he begins by telling,
something which Ila knowe will
arouse your curiosity.
You make a heap of sand in a cor-
ner of the stones, similar to a pyra-
mid, then you are bidden to flatten out
your handiwork, and choose one of the
imprints of either your fingers or your
thumb. When you have done this, the
Arab goes off Into a trance, beginning
to chant in e. low voice.
This goes on _for several minutes,
until, with a quick jerk of the head,
he brings himself hack to the life of
this world. He then makes several
passes over your sand, and 'utters
some apparent prayers; he com-
mences to tell your fortune, always
starting front the chosen imprint- of
your finger,
You get a remarkably correct fore-
cast of coming events, The method
remains a mystery, hut it is generally
thought that the Arab has the gift of
second sight, and this faculty, aided
by the supposed mystery concerning
your choice, which, according to the
astrologer, has some fatal nieauing—
that some hidden power controlled
your hand when you machethe mark in
the sand hill.
All astonishingly correct fortune is
exchanged for your piece of silver.
Song of the League of
Nations.
f come to a sad, weary world,
It from the scourge of war to free;
Upon my argent flag unfurl'd
There shines the legend, Liberty.
Come,,gather, 0 earth's nations all,
Your 'squabbling and your hating
•
cease!
05, gather round ole, great and small,
For l aur come to safeguard Peace.
I come to teach a nobler thought,
To -`light man's path with brighter
ray,
And help him lova as love he ought,
The harbinger of a new day.
Ah, end, ye peoples, end your strife
And into plowshares your swords
beat
Come, teeth ye of a larger tile
And Peace in brotherhood's naive
greet.
—Wilfred Arthur Bunter,
Stopped the Train.
A train has been actually pulled up
by grasshoppers! This happened in
Australia. An afternoon train from
Bendigo was "stuck up" by these tiny
Jumpers. But they were in billions,
crawlhmg.slx incites deep on the metals.
The wheels of the engine slew my-
riads, and the line became coated with
a sort of grasshopper -paste, and the
wheels refused to bite, The train
managed to struggle on tin it met an
incline and Hien it gave up the john,
Eventually the er'ont half of the train
went on wihout its tall, and returned
for the other half later,
The Germans Are Not Penitent.
Cytiical disA 0!nt entmune
up
the
Germans' frame 05 Mind toward them-
selves—writes, In ';The Leedom!, Daily
Mall," G. Ward Price, a noted English
jourua1i55t, just back from Germany --
disappointment that they had. Called.'
You will search Germany in vale, he
says—eve11 110W when all is known—
for any` ernee r01 repentance. Their
ideals are the salvo as they ever; were
—only adapted, ander oonstraiftt, Lo
their altered circumstances. Their
exaggerated egotism, entire leek of
sympathy with ail nation but 11105''
own, and fatal abseece of a sons(, of •
heeler rental» rinebangod, •
're visiting Englishmen the present
mood
..of moat Geemiti seams
as-
tmm!shittY u 1Eivisiia, Woe nation
that, In the war feenglit anis cudnrod
with•Imdoeb.lod courago and tenauity.
this le true to a eurpm'Ieing (legroq,
Mane Germnatts sham to find an un.
iaturat •anti vindictive satisfaction In
gloating ovor the complete downfall
of 'their own colnmtl'y, More -remark.
able
remitrlc-
atble still, they do this not only among
themselves, but oven to nrembors or
Allied natione. •
If things had gone the other way,
and German ;mincers wore hely Onto'
torofl in the 'Corin; Wali!, eau ono
imaging iuly Englishman saying to,
one of thein;
"This countr'y'S [intoned. Our So-
cialists Bove ruined' us.' I've no, ltse
for. the• place any more, • 1 want to
getout of it and never 061110 back,"
"Yet Germans often tack to English-
men wit11 this cynical. contempt of
their Own tallow countrymen. The
soldiers maintain that they were
"stabbed in the back" by the• 1'evolu.
Goa at itmno; thecivilians say that
the soldiers were cleinorn.lised iuto.de-,
feat by Allied pr•opa.ganea; that the
generals and General Staff tried to
run everything, although, .outside
thele own lobs., they were SDm111eteJy
lttcompetent; .that Wteir statesmen
were the lastwvord 1n inefficiency,
German patriotismri, one might' con-
clude from Iii
is was in,
the main
a
hitt
t g 1 em b
p sed by authority, 'When
Gm old atrnetnl'a of authority broke
tip what hail look, cl to bestone proved
to be plessor,
1 say that Gei'it ans make iuire these ro•
tnal'lis to lenglfshme51, `•1 don't tliiilk
they tailli ie lrm'anleulnen Tike that, lily
owe 'Moline i5 that they don't tenet
revenge on us—yet, 'Tiley' hops first
to Bettie aceoliets with the French,
'When Cieeninny his filled out her
enfeebled body age!» young Violin -
men will do well to•set their affairs ih
oi'tae11, 'far mealier • war; .will be hi
eight,
The
Hit of
the
'S'e15 o1T
For
the
Foirrreer'e
Boy
Mothers.
When I get tired, as maims do,
Of stopping at an eager call
To hold a kite or watch a ball
Or tie again a'little alms,
Before i speak the word :that stings
• I think of one, a woman fair,
Who told me once her great despair
Was missing joy such service brings,
When I get tired as mother's moat
01 duties piling each on each,
So much to bear, so math to teach,
So hard the task of being just.
I tip the balane°, favoring then
The children, thinking of a day
When I shall -mita them at their.
play
Because they walk the ways of men,
When I get tired, es mothers will,
So long' as children bless the earth,
T try to share their hopes, their
mirth,
To keep a young heart in the still
For sometime, when I. sit alone
I shall be glad I chose aright
Caught every moment's fond
delight
And found my pleasure in their own,
Canning Without Sugar,
The first and perhaps the simplest
method is to can fruits in water in-
stead of in a sugar syrup. If we can
our fruits this way, we expect to have
sugar to sweeten them when we use
them. Any fruit may be very success-
fully canned in water without sugar
by the Cold Pack Method,
In canning without sugar, the fruit
must be as fresh as possible. Cull,
atom and seed the fruit; clean it by
placing in a strainer and pouring cold
water over. Pack the product care-
fully in hot jars or tin cans until full.
Use a tablespoon, wooden ladle or
table knife for packing purposes.
Pour boiling water over fruit in the
hot jar, Partially seat glass jars.
Completely seal tin cans. Place in
the Cannes and, if using a hot water
canner, sterilize for 30 minutes, After
sterilizing, remove jars, finish seal,
test for leaks and wrap in paper to
prevent bleaching.
In canning strawberries and other
delicate soft fruit, the time of steril-
ization may be reduced to 20 minutes,
If the fruit is to be used for jams,
marmalades or butters, pack into the
jars tightly by crushing and add little
or no water, process the same as be-
fore and store away until sugar be-
comes more plentiful and reasonable
in price,
If the fruit is to be used for jellies,
boil it in an open kettle until soft
strain carefully and fill jars with the
fruit juice. Partially seal time jars
and process the same as if canning
the fruit. Store these unsweetened
fruit juices until sugar is available,
when the jelly eau be made, If pre-
ferred, fruits may be nixed before
extracting juices.
Good and Bad habits of Eating.
Probably nothing has so much to do
with a child's health as what it eats
and when and holy it eats it. Many
of the disorders of childhood can be
traced directly to unsuitable food,
eating between meals and overindul-
gence in sweets. One of the most
injurious habits of childhood is eating
between nmeals. Children are tempted
to spend their pennies for' cakes,
doughnuts, candies and pickles. They
eat them between meals and so de-
stroy their appetites for their regu-
lar
egular meals.
Just how long a child will keep well
under such conditions depends upon
the care it receives in•other respects;
sooner' or later its digestion will be-
come impaired, and it will have bad
dreams, lose sleep and become thin
and pale. It is stich a child whose
bowels become unhealthy and who, on
account of being run down, becomes
susceptible to colds and more serious
contagious diseases.
Milk, instead of water, is often
given to children between meals. It
is one of the best of foods, but it
should be given only at mealtime, If
taken between meals, it will cause
constipation and indigestion, and will
destroy the appetite for regular meals,
Fruits, also, shonld be eaten only at
mealtime,' preferably at breakfast or
dinner.
When children begin to have their
heals with their parents at the fam-
ily table some training in the art of
eating is usually needed,.Children clo
not naturally chew their food thor-
oughly' and unless taught to do so are
likely to form the habit of washing
down half -chewed food with amillteor
water. Meats should be cut very fine
and vegetables well cooked,
It is never wise to ask a child what
it would like to eat. Time child's choice
is,•governed solely by its desires, and
its desires are capricious. ' The best
way Is to piece before. the child at
every meal some wholesome food that
it should be m-iaquiL'ed to, eat before it
has its simple dessert or fruit.
• A common source of anxiety to a
mother is the ah!ld's apparent loss of
appetite, and the mistake is often
made of urging the child to. eat, or
tempting the appetite with sweets
or specially prepared food. It is a
bad practice, for the child is likely to
acquire from It a•tasto for such things
and to refuse the plainer and more
nutritious foods.
Most healthy child'msen who have
plenty of outdoor Life and are not al-
lowed ow d to eat between meals Heals a•
me
humpy eneugh to eqt wiry WiiOIcaom55
food that is placedi before them, if
they refuse it, do not itrgo them, but
also do not allow them tb leave whole-
some food aiid eat the dessert, Clive
them nothing but water until the next
mealtime, when the healthy' appetite
will usually assert itself,
Iiy training of that lcind,Mot only
can children be taught what is whole-
some and nutritious but they ;Will.
gradually forme a lilting for shelrle,
substantial, food that will last them
all their lives. On the other hand,
unless sonic gentle Ilramess is ,bsi:mnlit ,
to bear, there is ;danger that ch ldren
will form lakes and dislikes in regard
to food that may become a source of
annoyance and humllilmtion,
It' should els( be remembered that
early home training in right living io
the foundation of the child's education,
and that no amount of later training
can entirely make up' for the lack
of. it.
• Tiie,1Iordsvare Shop.
"Well, all I can say, Merle Coles,
is that I think you• are one ,big fool."
"I get two dollars a weak more than
You do," Merte•''responded doggedly.
"Yes, and - what good does it do
you?" Vi retorted; "Look at the way
you dress! Oh,' of course, you dress
all right for a hardware shop, but
that's exactly it. What do you see
'all day long' exbept °bolts and screws
and varnishes and the kind of people
who buy thein?' You can't deny that
I can at least see lovely things; and
the people—it's like -the whole society
page before your eyes every day. And
the people you meet M the store, and
the dances; I've got a date every
night next week,"
"I'mn not sure how much that's
worth while," Merle said slowly.
She never had said just that before,
and Vi whirled upon her in mingled
astgnishment and indignation,
"Merle Coles! 'Not worth while!'
What in the world is worth while?"
"I mean," -Merle worked it out
slowly, trying to put• it so that Vi
would understand,—"I feel as if I had
a real place there, Mr. Ben and Mr.
Joe depend upon ine. It wouldn't be
just exactly the- same to them if any
other cashier came in; and lots of the
customers know me, too. I feel as if
it were my corner of the world, some-
how," '
"Well, believe me," Vi retorted,
"you'll only have to stay there about
six months snoreat this rate and
you'll be settled for the •rest of your
life! Regular old maid factories—
that is what places like yours are!"
Vi turned away : without saying
good-bye, and Merle went on to her
room. The last words stung, Merle
did not want to grow old-maidish, but
she had been with the Duties eight
years, and there was truth in what Vi
said; she would probably go on like
that the rest of her life. She was
tired of seeing, nothing but nails and
You avant hlna good and healthy,
You Vuuk,ltin, big nue strong,
'I'lien' give him n pare wool jersey,
Mane by his frlend»ab.tpng.
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'He's the best boy in the laud,
and he 11 nlwnye be bright and
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varnishes—not a pretty thing or a bit
of color in the whole shop
•"I believe I—will," she resolved.
The next moment she took back her
resolution.
"No, I won't—at least, not yeti 1
won't go because I'm beaten!"
For two days Merle, did some hard
thinking, which had several results.
One was a warm scarlet tie for her
white tailored blouse; another, a vase
with a single crimson rose for her
desk; e third a copy of a lovely sea
photograph, which she put on the wall
behind her desk, It,was curious how
excited she felt over her little adven-
ture, as if something was going to
happen. Before noon something had
happened three times. Three people
had spoken of the rose, One old lady
said, "I felt cross when I came in, but
your lovely corner has taken it away,
my dear."
Merle smiled happily to herself. No,
she was not going to a department
store. She was going to put the color
into life right where she was,
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