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The Clinton News Record, 1920-12-9, Page 2G,. D, eleTAG('1A,IIT M, 11), AIc'TAGGART Mc a art 'Bros. --BANXi13RS-- A GENERAL BANKING BUM, - NESS TRANSACTED. , NOTES DISCOUN'itle, DRAFTS ISSUED, IN'1`,GREST ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS, SAL, NOTES PUB" CHASE D. - I3, T, RANCE -- NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSIJR- ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT. ING /,l 1+Ij,uo INSURANCE COMPANIES. DIVISION COURT OFFICE, CLINTON. " W. BRYDONIa, -BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC. Office_. Sloan Block —CLINTON Wt. J. C. GANDIER Office Hours: -1.80 to 3.80 pan., 7.80 to 9.00 p,m, Sundays• 12.30 to 1.80 Other hour;, by appointment only. Office and Residence—Victoria St, CITARLES 21.11ALE. Conveyancer, Notary Public. • Commissioner, Etc. SEAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licensee HURON. STREET, — CLINTON. • GEORGE ELLIOTT , Licensed Auctioneer for the County of I1uron. Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News-Roeorcl, Clinton, or by calling Phone 203. Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. T —TIME 'TABLE— Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follows: SUF2`ALO AND GODERICH DIV. Going east, depart 6.33 a.m. 2,62 p.m. Going Weat ar. 11.10, dp. 1I.15 a.m. ar. 6.08, dp. 6.47 p.m.. .: ar. 11.18 p.m. LONDON, HURON 8; 'BRUCE DIV. Going South, at-. 8.23, dp, 8.23 a.m. .4.15 p.m. Going Northdepart 6.40 p.m: 11,07, 11.11 a.m, The I[c .Inp Mutual Fire Insurance Company Ilead ofjfce, Seaforfli, Ont DIRECTORY : • President, Ja.'nos Connolly, Goderlcb; V.ice., James Evans; Beechwood; Sec. -Treasurer, Thor, E. hays, Sea - forth. Directors: George McCartney, Sea. forth; D. F. MoGregc•r, Seaforth; J, G. Grieve, Nantes; Wm. Rine, Sear forth; .M. McEwen, Clinton; Robert Ferries, Iiariock; John Benneweir. Brodhagen; Jas. Connolly, Goderich. Agents: Alex Leitch, Cituton; J. W. leo, Goderich; Ed. Hinchsey,-Seaforth; W. Chesney, Egmonaville; R. G. Jas- acuth, Brodhatlen. Any more t'• be paid :a may M raid to Moorish Cloths. L Co., Clinton, et at Cutt's Grocery, Goderkh. Parties desiri,g to effect insurrnea er transact other business will be promptly atteided to on application to any of the above officers addressted.te their respective pest office. 1,00404 impacted by the director who ilvet :.tercet the scene. Chntork -Nes ®Recap rd CLINTON, ONTARIO. Terms of suhacription-32.00 per year, in advance to Canadian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S, or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the publisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. Advertising rates—Transient 'dyer. tisements, 10 cents per nonpareil lino for first insertion stud 6 cents' per line for each subsequent inser- tion. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Leet," "Strayed," or "Stolen," etc., insert- ed once for 35 cents, and each soba,., quest insertion 16 cents, Communications intended for publico. tion must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. 22. HALL. Proprietor. M. E. CLARK, Editor, Constipation,. the bane of old ago is netto be cured • by harsh purga- tives; they urga-tives;they rather , aggravate the trouble. Ter a gentle,. but sure laxative, nee Chdmberlain'e Sumach and Liver Tablets. They stir nu the liver, tone the nerVea and freehon the etoreaoh and bowels jug like an internal bath. Woman's best friends O''ofi ggilrlhood to old sae, these little' red health re. eterors aro an nnfailin , � gaidetoanactivoliverancl b clean. healthy normal stomach. Take t+ Ito p Oba'iberlain s Stomaobt Tablet at night and the sour' ntoniheli and far. mentation. and the headaobe, hayaail gone sty inerning; All t mats, 20a,, or by Inn :fto,nt efeelltireet U Allem Seeped, Tatou Address communloatfons to Aoronomlat, 73 Adelal.de St, West, Toronto; ESSENTIALS FOR WXNTEli'=Lggs The problem of obtaining 'winter eggs centres in the seeking of condi- tions as near like spring as possible in tate winter laying.bou'se. The floor of the pommy house is the 'winter range of the ben and there 'she meet' end ewe:Miens conducive to health, anal food' for egg production, or she cannot lay, ' First, early -hatched pullets are 1)00essary for the best results, They Tire the best machine for turning out winter eggs, Then the ration must contain mime' food, This can he sup- plied by using beef scrap in the dry mash or by :feeding plenty of sour milk, Green food• is a tonic for the birds and needed to keep them in the right 'condition for laying. It oan'be supplied in the form of mangels, cut clover, eabbeges or sprouted oats, At 'the present price of oats, the mangels are the most economical as a source of green feed. If cabbages and mangels are used. the cabbages can be fed first as the rnangels keep the best, Charcoal, oyster shell's - end grit must be supplied in hoppers to help out in producing these spring condi- tions welch are needed, The char- coal is good for the digestive system when thebirds are eating heavily to obtain the ingredients. necessary to make egg's. The oyster, shells . fur- nish lime tomake strong egg shells. The grit is needed by the hen to grind her food:' There are' maney farm flocks that suffer during the winter for a lack 02 grit. A clean dry litter is important. There the farmer throws the scratch grain to make the birds exercise. The scratching for grain helps to keep then warts on cold winter days and tones up their physical being in the same' manner that they arc stimu- lated when scratching on the grassy range during the spring and sum- mer. Straw makes a good litter and it should be dryand deep, A sunny poultry house gives the litter a chance to keep dry. , A dark and damp poul- tey'house means that the litter will be damp and the birds will nee en- joy working for grain in such a mix- ture. Lice and mites cm thrive .even in the winter and must be controlled if winter eggs are expected. Colds' must be prevented by keeping the birds vigorous and isolating any in dividuals that show signs of cold by the oyes becoming swollen. The water supply should be wateb- ed in the whiter, . Geleetnieod pails. placed on Wooden ends make 0 cleats source oe glumly as they are not scratched full of litter. Empty them every night so they will not freeze over and spring a !Peak ...Q uinge the water -frequently enough to keep the pails free from ice.. Seine poultry- men give warmwater to the birds in the winter while .others use water .eh it 00317515 from the well. Both seem to have s meess 42 the water is clean end changed often enough so that the birds always have a fresh supply before' them, The best grain ration we have used in the winter •consists of equal parts of corn and wheat, When this is fed in a deep litter the birds will swarm after it and it is good for egg pro- duction to keep then scratching for a couple d 'hours every morning anti to send them to bed each night with full crops. Oats are a good egg feed, but the birds dome like oats as well as wheat. They will eat more oats if they are boiled or soaked over night and placed in the poultry house in galvanized perils. The amount of feed bo give 'poultry ill the. winter is only limited by the amount they -will eat. There ds -noth- ing gained by half -feeding the flock, as that places them in a condition where they are unable to pay.' for what they do eat, If they can not be made: -.profitable on full. rations they cannot be made to pay at all. The dry mash in a hopper insures a plentiful .supply of feed containing the elements of egg production. This is supplemented each day with the grain ration fed in the -litter and any table scraps which may be available. Then the birds are sure of enough to eat of a balanced ration and this means that they will not overeat of any one food and they will keep in healthful condition. If possible, separate the pullets from the hens in the laying house, It is essential for the best results as the ration for pullets that are forced for eggs is too fattening for old hens that are to take a rest so they will be in the right condition to lay hatch- ing eggs in the spring. In some large laying -houses a partition of poultry wire might be used to divide the pul- lets from the hens. Vigorous pullets oan stand Heavy feeding and pay for it and they should be given every chance to turn out winter, eggs so. that their winter feed bill will not be a loss to be charged against the' spring and summer profits. How Hail Insurance Works. Hail insurance is practical) only 01k Y e a terms in Eastern Canada, but in the The best winter quarters for sheep West it signifies something of vivid is a shed in a dry location partly open importance. Measures known as to the south, so that it affords ample Municipal Hail Insurance Acts are in air and the flock should have free force se each of the Prairie Prey - lenge of the, yard' continually—an 111085. These Acts provide a system old motto is "Never close a door of mutual insurance under which upon a sheep." rural municipalities can operate to They should be fed winter rations tax each other for the granting of after the ground freezes, as grass compensation to individuals for losses then has but little nourishing power. incurred by hail, which are often very Plenty of green ,feed either in the serious. How the system works out farm of rape, clean tprnip tops .0 and the extent to which it operate roots, is relished at this season and in Saskatchewan and Alberta are set only such hay as .will be eaten up • forth in the November number of The 'clean should .be given. The hay is Agricultural 'Gazette of Canada. Each best fed in racks. " Some shepherds claimant is entitled to receive not prefer a rack into which the sheep mere than five cents per acre for every can get lite head, others, includi.eg one per -,cent. of damage from hail ,the writer, prefer one with slats he has sustained. To some this may jilaeed just far enough apart to enable not . appear a very liberal provision, the sheep to enter its nose and pull but when it is understood that the the hay out, A 'little hay is pulled number of claims filed in. 1919 in out under foot in this way, 'but less Saskatchewan were 7,838 and that the is toasted than inhere the sheep get total indemnity paid amounted to a chance to get their heads in and $1,911,776 a different view will- ob- elus the whale lot. When sheep en- tains For one storm alone that pe- ter their heads into a rack they in- cured in July of the year referred to variably tear the wool along their claims amounting to $17100,000 were neck and spoil their appearance, as satisfied. In Alberta the total losses well as the neck wool. - far the sante year were $500,000 Whether or not some grain should against a valuation of $12,000,000 in - be fed during November, December sured. Besides the system under and January is .a question that must Government supervision there are 36 be decided by the sheep owner him- companies in Saskatchewan that ac - self. If the hay is young -cut, well sept hail insurance and that paid out cured and with plenty of clover and $1,760,000 in 1919 for losses caused the sheep are in good conddtion, grain by hail. is tmneeevsary. Succulent feed as - above nlentioned,ehould, however; be Interesting provided. After tops are done turnips Facts Regarding should be fed daily at the rate of from 2 to 4 pounds per head per day. As the winter passes a, grain unix ture of oats 8 parts, bran 2 parts and oil calve one part should be started, gradually increasing the daily allow- ante ep to from one to two pound's per head, and the turnips may be gradually decreased as there is a tendency for the lambs to develop ing of them from disease. It is no- rather large and weak if the turnip ticeable that the female instead of ration is heavy. However, some sheep giving birth to a latter of four or five men seem to have the best of luck at a time, as she does when free, with full feeding of four pounds of rarely produces more than two, the turnips per head per day. average for the farms in Prince Ed - While sheep will not perhaps drink ward Island being at the rate of one a great deal of water before lambing arra a half. Itatieietea fox ranehers, if they are getting roots and there is however, by care and improved snow available, yet it is a better plan methods elo succeed in securing an to see that they have access .to clean increase of three or even four per water every clay. Salt shou1c1 be pair, With a view to making this placed where access slay be bad t0 successmore general, under the it at all times. direction of Dr. Torrance, research As the -lambing, season approaches, work has been undertaken. Land and einem- wool around the udders should equipment have beenacquired, two be appal, away and a muster of in- scientific experts from the II devidual ,ens 4 .tat by6 feet in size Health of pens, Animals Branch employed, six pairs provided, where each ewe may be of foxes from the Island ranches fur - placed before or immediately after fleshed, and e Smell laboratory fitted lambing. This plan prevents the die- up for the studying of the diseases owning of lambs by the etve and en- and parasit0s that affect the animals, ables the attendant to give the ewe and lambs individual attention. When ' a ewe has twins she is very apt .to lase one of them if she as in the pen or yard with the flock. Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly' f mire, Fox liaising. . Some interesting facts regarding fox farming are forthcoming from the Veterinary Director General, Dr. Torrance. In an article in The Agri- cultural Gazette of Canada for No- vember he tables us that the main difficulty connecteti with the raising of foxes in captivity is the protect 'Avant makes life dreary is want of inotive,—George. Eliot. Vont farin business is being enou.:h g to keep year sot en the eaten. Oats yield the largest crop among the field crops grown in Oahadtr. Yield, 1919, 894,887,000 bushels; the • poWee, They are 'chief Miele, tgheat yield . 193 260400 btisitel Y > , i s. � heavy latJdownsrs and �lyeelthye, The first eoinmunity effort of Ne- braska .f•.arnters to make nee of elec- tzticity on their farins has just began in Howard County. Both the 'house- weee and :farmer will .seek to apply ol0etrical treatment to more and more of their tu.<lgory problems, Thresh- ing machines, windmills, and eorn shollere aro to be so operated, also wasi1ng machines and churns. The earners built the Mammies/ion lino themselves, at a •eost .of $7,000; Mel will pay. six Menta per kilowatt fox CANADA'S CHAMPION EGG -PRODUCER, • "Scotia's .Red Rose,".the single comb Rhode Island Red owned by 0; B. McMullen, Truro, N.S., which won the championship of the Dominion at the Annual Exhibition of the Colohoster Pet Stock Association, This hen. laid 227 eggs in twelve months. • GIFTS AND—GIFTS that she looked startlingly frail; but her eyes were ae. keen as ever. The tables beside her .was covered with gifts. Among them were at least two dozen handkerchiefs. "Your handkerchiefs are Ieveler," 'What,' asked -Alicia, "are you go- Aunt Hester said. "You always do ing to give Aunt Hester?" choose 'beautiful ones, child." h "Oh,' I never have to bother about "But do you always have so many?" her," Ethel answered. "I always give Ethel cried.4 all my aunts handkerchiefs. I get Aunt Hester's keen old eyes show - two dozen and divide them up among the aunts. It's such a relief to have so much off my mind on Christmas." "It must be a great surprise," Alicia commentecl dryly. dimEthelpled. frowned;; then hoz• face "Don't you think," sine suggested, "that there's a great deal more Christmas spirit in a.. gift that you don't worry oyer than in a gift that you trail round town to find, all the while bunting for something new and different? Sometimes you almost wish that thee wasn't a Christmas. And I always give nice handkerchiefs —you can't deny that." I can't see much Christmas r/frit in either," Alicia replied bluntly. "You work so lord to give something 'different' to Sybil Hunter, who doesn't need it, and then don't give "To a very large degree, produce half a thought to Aunt Hester, who tion is controlled by profits and the is old and shut .in and would so love ease of marketing the products, but some little surprise." sometimes, as in the live stock indue- "But you can't find things for old try, markets have to be created. people," Ethel protested impatiently. Canada was producing the fat hog "Indeed you can, if you try. And and for years had an outlet for the it's such a joy to do it. Do try this surplus product; but marketing con - year, Ethel." ditions changed and the industry im- "Well, perhaps," Ethel replied mediately faced rather a difficult lightly. "You're so funny, Alicia!" situation. A new market was the To give Ethel credit, she did mean solution. The Government was Mune- to try—but there were so many things diately seized of the situation and had to buy' that she did not have the tine! careful surveys and investigations So she sent Aunt Hester handker- made; educational eampaigns were chiefs, as usual, trying -to, still a pro- carried on, the type of hog raised in yoking memory by sending half a Eastern Canada was changed, and the dozen—and half a dozen handier- bacon industry as the know it to -day chiefs of real linen were indeed a came into being. Those who assisted gift this year, she said to herself, in the transformation realized how Perhaps it was that same provoking great were the difficulties and flow memory which made her find time to tremendous the possibilities. Time has run in to see Aunt Hester on Christ- proved to the satisfaction of Cana- mas Day. diens that the exportable surplus of .Aunt Hester greeted her warmly agricultural products must .meet, in Ethel realized with a stab of dismay so far as is possible, the standards ed her amusement. "Just about," she replied. "I often wonder whether people think that shut-ins have an extra allotment of noses- There, child, I'm ashamed, It is the thought that makes the gift, and I do appreciate them." "What clic): Alicia give you?" asked Ethel, Aunt Hester's face softened; "Alicia? She gave me that little vase with the rose; and her note says that. the gift is to be one rosebud a month. Isn't that exactly like Alicia —a lovely thing to look forward to all the year? It isn't money value— it's love value in her gifts." "I guess—it is," Ethel answered slowly; Making Markets. The Welfare of the Home Prevention or Cure? -By Margaret A. Bartlett. Mrs. Brown is one of the compare- acquaintances. Sometimes Mrs. Brown tively few wonpen who takes a cold feels almost ready to give up in her seriously. 'She believes that one can fight against the cold habit—almost, never tell where a cold is going to but never quite. She sees too many encs, nor into what it is going to turn. pale -faced, washed-out looking chile Even though the cold remain "just a dren about her, too many little boys 'cold," she doesn't believe in having and girls suffering from adenoids and one merely because everyone around enlarged tonsils, Which she feels sure had their' beginnings in constant colds and their consequent irritation of the throat and nose: she sees too many children with weak eyesight or im- paired' hearing as a result of some children's disease which had its begin- ning in "just a cold"; she sees too many running noses, and hears the outbursts from too many irritated hangs, to make her willing that her children shall acquire the habit by taking cold whieh these other chile dren have. Mrs. Brown feels, that she has worked out the problem of how to keep her family free from colds. The, only difficulty .she now encount- ers is' in keeping children who have call: they wonder why the whole fain- colds away without incurring • the fly doesn't "catch its death of cold": wrath of their parents. Folks around her believe colds to be a necessary evil, and of no great importance, un- less they "happen" to turn into pneu- monia, or measles, or diphtheria or more, rooms which have not been the- scarlet fever or some other such sena- oughly aired since the first freeze 'of our disease. They let their children the season. These neighbors and their run at large, go to school, and chureh, children hive colds from the begin- even when they are sick enough with nin•g of the'"closed season" till its a cold to be in a warns bed. And all end, and they marvel at the fortune the time these children are spreading which beeps the Brown family cold- cold germ's, giving heir cold to who- ever Will take it. 'her has one. Neither does she be- lieve in letting her children run about among people who have ''bad colds, thus exposing them to the cold germs, Her children are strong, healthy, robust. They sleep in unheated rooms with windows open wide, winter and summer. They eat only plain, nour- ishing foods ---good bread and butter and milk, fruits and -vegetables, well - cooked meat of the non -greasy var- iety—and thus never have indigestion. They play out of dooea in .all state of weather, and \lion they are in the house in winter, they are in rooms which are aired frequently and which are never overheated. Neighbors "hug the stove" when they come to they shiver in a temperature which in summer they would have called "very warm"—and go home and bake in,rooms heated to eighty degrees or less for month after month. Some there are who Ball Mrs. Brawn Mrs. Brown does not 'believe that a cold -crank. Although she is a very ie right. She tante signing the runi- sweet, gentle woman, one always icing at large oe children with colds, ready to do geed, and one who never till there ere many Mete, as I said speaks ill of neighbor ar acg110dntane0, before, eel) her a cold -crank, But do she has, nevertheless, many 1v1o.are You stet agree with'' her? If so, ace by no means her: friends, in the neigh- that yea children stay in their own boyhood, all on account of the way she yard when they have a mid; see if fele about ldolds. Oil several ocee8 yetican't solve the problem of m- elons she has ,sont children who have tlnu0us colds iby livisi the way the Brown fancily does, and by all 11Leflne do not be offended if someone who is trying to keep the cold habit at arm's longth from her :family sends htinne one of your children Who is slam -leg from a cold. You wouldn't speak ill of ti woman who droye a deadly rat- tlesnake from ha door»step, Neely, their•, be Angry at her if she turns :may et cold -carrier? There are niainy hundred more deaths` each year which corse as a result 'din' a common told than there are deaths resulting. fete xattleeeako hits% conte to play, home because they bore lnnmistalaabhe evidences of bad, eon- tagious colds. Time, 'by so doing, she once side-stepped the whooping -cough, and again kept lier children trent having s'aarlet fever. The tnobliors of the children sent home knew that, and yet they wore' angry at Mrs, Brown for not letting their 'children remain to play. It he hard, to 'kava'theee people am. eagdn'istic; it is deeid'edly ttnpleasant to know they ere tieing uneampliment dry terms air ilaseuesing her with other • laid down by the imps/rang nations, Meeeever, we have learned that it js Profitable to meet these dereeede wherever ecesih10, Canadian lateen lei in Great Britain, and even in tither tonntries, a standard 9ro61108, Tho Government's peil`t note ds to keep 'clear ell trade ebanneee, thus pro- viding the demand, while the reputa- tion already achieved +i»sures the pro- ducer a price eomparable Wale ye" ceived in any other niavrket,"—Dr, F. Tolmie, Minister of Agriculture. Acadia wee the part of Eastern Canada now known go Nova Scotia, ,Acedians eves the name given to the French settlers when Acadia was part of New France. A blind man states that he can tell.. most shops by their distiuetive scents, and that each street has its own particular echo or emend when the Pavement is tapped with a light Cane, HAVE YOU SCROFU .A Now Said to Bo as Often Acquired es Inherited, 18 is generally and chiefly indicated by eruptions and sores, but in ineny oases it enlarges the glands of the neelt, affects the internal argue, ra- nee/idly' the lungs, and ft neglected may develop into consumption. 1t ca11505 many troubles, and is aggravated by impure air, unwhole. some food, bad water, too much ll'.lt w .or cold and want of prober 01101' ea. 1100d's Sarsaparilla, 1he «i(elk it e Nutt has been used with ee mesh -satisfaction by three geuerntinns, fa wonderfully anc005sful in the treat- ment of scrofula: (live it a trial. • If a cathartic or laxative. i5 needed, take flood's 1'111,;, --there is 1iothii17 bettor ;For 11113ouene85 or'e07151ipatin:, Silver for- skins were r081118ly sold in London for $1,200 a piece. When Our "Big fikine Plays. Supervised PlayMust Still Be Genuine Play and 'Make the Player Glad. BY ORA A. CLEMENT. Professor Joseph Lee, discussing tit -tat -toe, train both -the eye and the the stages of childhood, characterizes mind and furnish endless amusement, the age between six and thirteen as Games like beast -bird -or -fish in whieb the Big -Injure -age, because the child a -player must think of an ansivez at that periled he many of his pre- while a linger is pointing he his face, dominant traits resembles an Indian develop concentration of mind. There brave to whom all the world is a are manly more games of this charas- hunting ground and who recognizes ter which children like and which are no master save his own will. Chin- especially valuable to the smaller dren of this age are full of vitality ones whose hands, tongues and eyes and energy -if they are not it should are not yet trained to respond quickly rd'deir will. theiberegarplayed atas thisai ageanger is supervisedsignal.If to Anotherthoutstanding characteristic and d!reeted, they receive a great of the Big Injun is his desire—shall ileal of invaluable training and edu I say his determination?—to excel. cation through i.t. "My dog can lick yours," "My dress Ii is possible to teach children is prettier than yours," "I can run many of the fundamental facts of faster than you," are commonplace life and to train then in many Cul-' challenges. From 12ias trait comes tural habits through the medium oftheir willingness to'enter contests of their play. The overworked teacher whatever sort. Very simplee contests ov mother need not feel that this, such as an egg hunt or a strife to means an. added burden. A very see who can get the most "hundreds" 1n spelling)are entered . with spirit, and sti!11 more enthusiasm is shown over more organized contests, Every competition carried on under estab= lished rules must be supervised if it slight amount of thought and prepara- tion -enables one to_ quite effectively direct children's play. Let no one imagine that super- vised play means calling a group of youngsters from their tiled pies by is to be successful, for children of saying: "Comm, children, let us do a this age will not observe rules. This folk dance. That is a nice clean play is not an indication of lax morals and it will be good exercise for our or of faulty training but only one of bodies." The reply the little bakers their age. They do not yet see the• would make to such an appeal is ease importance of rules and fair play— ilv imagined. I suspect that teachers their only object is to win. whose suggestions have been snubbed Mania for Collecting. onthe playground have made the Another almost universal charac- mistake of trying to inaugurate too teristic which may be turned to good great a change or of suggesting plays account is the child's mania for col - which did not appeal to the children. nesting. If a parent or teacher shows And why should children- accept tee interest and yes a Ealy suggestions, leadership of a new teacher before g° ggestions, she has proven her good fellowship) children may supplement their nature by playing thein' games with them study with very interesting collections colder their own -leadership? Chit- and classifications of stones, kinds of dren have to be won tactfully, If wood, leaves, grains, seeds, sacci pods, and other things. With the same in- •terest they will keep bird lists 'and weather charts. Children love growing things and animals, especially if they feel a sense of possession in then). A jar of minnows caught in the stream will interest them, and of course a cat or dog becomes a playmate. They love to watch seeds germinate and grow, and they probably get more in- struction and pleasure from a dozen beans planted by their own hands than front a potted plant which they must dandle carefully if at all. Same rural teachers have encouraged boys to do seed testing for the farmers and have performed a real service to the community by so doing, es well as furnishing the boys an ab- sorbing pastime. Even young chil- dren like tools. The child of ten to thirteen should be taught to use them. Boys will amuse themselves almost endlessly with a hammer,. saw, nails and plenty of old boxes. In rural schools where both boys and equip- ment are scarce, the three or four large boys may be encouraged to make shelves, book cases, sand tables for the little ones, end every teeters and swings outside. Girls also may be taught fascinating hand work. Basket weaving, stenciling, rug braiding are only a few of the pretty things a girl can do without taxing the, eyes with a needle ov crochet hook. Such work.:should be super- vised to some extent so that measure- ments and work shall be accurate end careful. Otherwise the attempt ends in failure and the child is discour- aged. If they are accustomed to it, chil- dren like dramatization, but the c'hi'ld of ten or more who has never played that way is often diffident and, shy about that form of makebelieve. Folk dancing and even 1va•0steine may be introduced if it can be regu- laxly supervised. Passing into the "Gang Ago." Children of thirteen and fourteen begin to show a disposition to than little "gangs" or circles. This indd- eates'the passage into another stage of play. If posedble, Boy Scout and Girl Guide organizations, Boys' and Girls' Clubs or some similar argent - eaten should be teemed to meet the new need. If the group is too small for these, some other little club should be brined, even if it has only three members, It is highly im1- p'ortant that at this ago the child's desire to belong to a soaiety of his own, be gratified, for in its conduct he will learn as he 8111 nowhere else, the lessons of loyalty and self-abnegae tion which prepare for good 018100n•• ship in his mature years. There aro many books on the market which give long lists of playa far ehi'lcbren and which will be found very enterestieg by parents or teach- ers who wish to prepare themselves to give more careful attention to their ehildren's amusements, rural homes, blessed is the large family circle, where a ",bunch" of brothers and sisters eau enjoy Houle play -times together, thus cultivating the spirit of loving follewehdp and WY piny, enseleisiines, patience and 4erbeareace, they want to do nothing but stand on the shady side of the school house and giggle, the teacher,can best gain their confidence by standing there with them and by telling the 'best story. No one need think of leading chil- dren id their play without first win- ning their confidence. One of the peculiarities of this age of .activity and mischief is that the childzen cannot think of enough things to clo, We constantly hear them say- ing, as they stand kicking stones, pinching one companion while they make faces at another: "Aw, what'll we do now?" It is in response to this query that the looking -on grown up may very tactfully and with proper humility, make suggestions. If the suggestions are well taken, the chil- dren will be disposed to listen next tend' something is proposed. The most noticeable thing about the child of this age is his growing body, and- the parent does not live who does not wish his child to develop a strong and well-proportioned forum and if left entirely to himself, he undoubt- edly would, as the savages do. But modern life interferes with his al- ways following his chosen pursuits. He spends several Hours a day bend- ing over his desk at school, 'he does chores at home and perhaps lifts too heavy loads—it is not unusual to see a child with a shambling, listless walk and with stooping shoulders and hollow chest. Such children should be given plays that tend to correct these faults. Games That Develop the Muscle. There is an almost unlimited num- ber of plays which meet the needs of the growing body. Running games, such as races, dere-base, prisoner's base, ,pull-away and last -couple -out have 'been pleated for ages and con- tinue popular. They all develop limbs and chest and also tend to straighten stooping shoulders. *rimes in which throwing is the prominent features are all the ball games, pitching quoits or horseshoes, bean bag, throwing darts or weighted feathers (a nail driven into the quill end of a .goose feather), tossing up parachutes made by tying the four corners of a piece of muslin to a weight, arncl many variations of. these, Throwing games need supervision in group pl<'iying on account of the dan- ger from missiles. There are many games based -upon milling and they are largely variations of tttg.of-war. Circle games, as chop -the -balance - chief, blind-nian''s-buff, Ruth -and - Jacob, aro especially good for gcotrp playing if the children will play them, There conies a time during the Big - /Wen age when they are taboo eta "baby games," and when that time cornea they may as well not be men- tioned again. Ono might ss web ask a boy, to dress in his' sister's dress as to joist in such games after 'lno Ice's ice leas outgrown them. Tho 0851005 develop with the melee Lund there aro massy games for both indoors and out which give really valuable training to the faculties. Vaniations of I -spy cultivate alert - nes of the 'eye, Loto, games 111 which letters are dealt out and each player watches for at group Which spell a word, blacleboard mite like 1'