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Zurich Herald, 1919-06-27, Page 2Helpliag 1Daughter Dress Correctly, I keeps. Circulation of the air. is When a new dress is to be made, therefore an important feature, and for daughter it isso much easier to: the walls of the ice -box are insulated go"4ihead and buy",, the cloth and' so that the cold air will be leapt in. select the pattern one's eelf than to, It is necessary for the ice to melt co-operate daughter regarding it, i in order to .chill the air properly. As that. more often than not the dress! the melting goes on the refrigerator i is made regardless o£ the wearer s is chilled and the food absorbs the cold Thus while ice in a wishes in the matter. °.:try farm cold.'wrapping in g girls become so used to wearing what ' ncwso t er -or flannel will undoubted - ever mother makes or v eys, relying' 1y keep it from meiting, -it defeats so absolutely on mother':, taste to be; the purpose of the refrigerator, and correct, that when they leave borne; withholds the cold from the food. A steady melting must go on, and the and are thrown on their. own res..; . s ponsildlity, they find that they know: modern refrigerator is built to keep nothing about cost of materials, 'the melting to a necessary minimum, suitability of colors or correctness of, although precautions should be taken style. Too many times they spend; to see that the ice -box does not stint' their money on cheap, gaudy things, where the sun's rays strike it. Nor or else wear .dowdy, unbecoming should it stance near the fire. clothe,. Cord air falls and warm air rises, n Fart of every girl's training should 1 ad the coldest place below the ice ice i, consist in learning the lesson of nstead of above. Milk, butter and clothee, and the first steps along that; foodstuffs which really absorb mois- • line should be taken as soon in the' ture should therefore be placed so little girI's life as she can under-) that the cold air reaches them direct from the ice passing from them to stand the most _akin of instructions. , those foods like melons and onions If you are making school dressEs,; �;bleb give off odors. get samples of different materials; _ and ask daughter to choose that which Do Not Permit Faultfinding at the she would like. Doubtless she will] Table. make e wrong choice, selecting the most unsuitable. But don't laugh atj To have a comment made on dishes her; don't make her ashamed. En -1 at the table, as too much or too little deavnr to show her 1 er error in a. seasoning, ete., is a habit into which way ::he can understand. Get her to' many families unconsciously fall. It tell you what qualities, in her opinion, i is very trying to the housewife, and a school dress should have. Of course, I besides has a tendency to make the you know•it should wear well, wash; food appear less inviting, and gives well and not show soil too easily, and; a depressing effect, as all fault -find - not be readily torn; but she may ing does. never have thought of those things. One mother noticed that this habit Let each sample, then, be analyzed to; was growing an her children, and de - meet those requirements. I termined that some way must be When the. suitable material has; found to stop it. She called a family been selected, attention should be; meeting and told them that she did turned to the cloth's suitability to the; her best to have the food and table child in question. The color must be ! just as nice as she could, and that one in which she looks well and the `they should do their part and be kind pattern appropriate for her age. By ! and polite, keep still about any dish suggestion, display and study famil-' they did not especially like. She iarize her with these requirements,! emphasized the fact that criticism at and you will develop in her a taste! the table was not good manners. for simple, well made clothes she) She told them that if they had would be far less apt to have were' anything special to criticize they she continually wearing ,dresses with could come to her alone after the no thought as to why they were of meal and she would be glad to listen such a solar or material or cut in' to the complaint. But strange to say, such a way. •J being forbidden to criticize at the Though the desirability of simple: table, the children made very few scut be impressed upon her, do not private comments. confound simpleness with plainness.' Frain that time on the mother was A simply cut dress finished at neck i careful not to criticize any dish her - and sleeves with a bit of lace, or; self, and did not allow it done by the brightened by contrasting materiale others, She was watchful, however, in banding or piping, is attractive,' that every thing was well cooked, and but a plain dress, absolutely devoid; the habit of fault-finding at the table of all "finishing touches" is actually homely, and in all but the poorest of families, wholly unnecessary. Teach the value of these simple means of finishing a dress. Contrast the sev- erely plain dress with the slightly -trimmed one. Also, when opportun- ity presents itself, point out the mis- tak of overtrimming. A dress half covered with lace and ribbons and ornamental buttons is not only in bad taste, but is generally mere cheap display. If daughter lends a hand at the trashing and ironing she will learn before beginning to fill. Use a light even more about the materials her can with a well-placed spout to pour dresses are made of, and will quickly oil from. see why the dainty little party dress would never do for school wear, and why, also, mother desires her to wear soft crepe underwear in sum- mer in preference to that which re- quires starching and ironing. It takes time, of course, to teach these things, and there are but few farm mothers whose time is not lirn- ited; yet other things can better be slighted than the opportunity of teaching your daughter all you know and can learn about the why and wherefore of the clothes she wears. When she grows up and finds work away from home, you will forget the dust that showed on your chairs, the stove that needed blacking, and the niany other duties neglected, to seek her opinion and work with her on her clothes, in the satisfaction you have of seeing her on her home -visits wise- ly, becomingly, yet economically dressed. in that family has entirely ceased. Oil Lamps. Our house is lighted by oil lamps and the work I hate most is cleaning the lamps. I have made it as easy as possible in the following way: Turn the wick low before blowing out the light so it won't smoke so much. Trim wicks and wipe burners every day, so they won't smoke and black the burners. Set all the lamps in a row, open, Wipe lamps with paper. Wet a sheet of newspaper and rap- idly wash all the chimneys, setting them on the stove. Take off before too hot and wipe with newspaper. Everything can ae done rapidly in this way and larlme and chimneys will shine. Summer -1919. After months of aching pain— Spring again! Flowering fields and birds a -wing; Budding trees and summer rain, And my heart that slugs and sings— Lad is home again Refrigerators Preserve Food. The principle of scientific food pre- servation involved in a modern house- hold refrigerator is not always under- stood by housewives. All that is necessary to preserve food is to keep it at a dry temperature low enough to protect it from micro-organisms or bacteria, which want to consume it as food just as we do, but which if allowed to work quickly render it Un- fit for human consumption. These bacteria lie dormant when the air is kept cold and dry, but they grow rapidly in water, hence it is necessary to keep the .air in a refrig- erator from becoming moist. The drier the air the better the food With the Fingers! Says Corns Lift Out Without Any Pain t Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or any kind of a corn can shortly be lifted right out with the fingers if you will apply directly upon the corn a few drops of freezone, says a Cincinnati authority. It is claimed that at small cost one can get a quarter of an ounce of free- zone at any drug store, which is sum - dent to rid 'one's feet of every cora or callus without pain or soreness or the danger of infection. This new drug Is an ether compound, .and while sticky, dries the moment it is applied and does not inflame or even irritate the surrounding tisane, This announcement will interest many women here, for it is said that the present high -heel footwear ie put, ting corns on practically every womapoo wounds.—Ralph Connor. WARM:PRAiSE FROM BRITAIN. The Motherland Expresses Profound Appreciation of Canada's Effort in Food Production. Something that should have lin- portant bearing on trade relations be- tween the Motherland and Canada, whose opportuneness the Canadian Trade. Commission impresses upon our business comm pity, is, the British Public's warm appreciation of what was done by the Dominion iii the war. The'very name of Canada appears to strike a chord of sympathy, aid to arouse a desire for closer association. It would be putting a 'somewhat ig- noble and mercenary construction on this to state that it simply opens a new era forbusiness connections across the ocean,'' Yet so curious is the Anglo-Saxon race to which ,rye , ee. long that it is exactly this feature which would appeal most to the prac- tical British mind as the only consist- sent form in which the national senti- ment could be expressed. More food- stuffs and still more produce of our vast farm lands could be sent to Great Britain where the consuming public learned in wartime to know that in times of stress food from under "the Old Flag" may always be relic u upon. On their part they are . doing all pos- t sible by granting a government pre- ference as well es fostering private predilection for all goods froni within the Empire. If proof were wanted it would be found in the cordiality of the remarks recently published broadcast in Eng- lish. and Scottish newspapers of the British Food Controller, the Right 1 Honorable George 11. Roberts. M,P. (by the way, one of the finest tylye,.,of the democratic, self-made labor ;nen in the British Parliament). • Mr. Roberts, after ret»»rking that Canada had not found it necessary to adopt compulsory rationing in its food con- trol methods, said: "The measures adopted in Canada to increase production incl conserve food, combined with the fact that the Bri- tish Government was able to keep the sea route clear, unacle it possible for Great Britain and her allies to over- come what was their greatest enemy, insufficiency of food. In 1918 the sit- uation was very critical and food be- came as important a problem, as that of munitions. For example, in Decem- ber, 1917, France held supplies of wheat and flour sufficient only to meet the needs of its civilian populatioi 'for •about three days. It has b iy Privilege to become acquainte 'th the measures adopted by Caned-, ar- ticularly during the is e,two yea the war, and - I uir6w ;r diflici that had to be encounter ti d"th remarkable efficiency achieved. Prd duction was thoroughly organized, and having regard to its enormow terri- tory, itsclimate, diverse conditions of , the few crowded towns and the sparse settlements, the achievements of Can- ada in furnishing food supplies at the gravest period of the war, have won for the Dominion an admission of deep obligation and profound apprecia- tion." An instance of the readiness and ef- fectiveness of Canadian assistance, Mr. Roberts added, was in respect to butter. When the stock of butter in Great Britain fell abnormally and it was impossible to maintain the small weekly ration of one ounce a head, the Food Ministry was able to secure the whole butter output of Canadian creameries for six weeks, which meant the addition of 634 million lbs. to the available supplies. "Although the Canadian Govern- ment did not hesitate to apply com- pulsory powers where necessary, it is interesting to observe that a great part of the splendid results ensued from propagandist appeals to the patriotism of the people. Producers were thereby stimulated to greater ef- fort and consumers were induced to adopt voluntary rationing and so in- crease the surpluses available for ex- port." n To a Water Lily. Thy beauty, fragrance, grace and purity Are unsurpassed in the domain of flowers, So lavish is the Artist, whose fine powers Have here their climax. In thy es- sence, He Interprets and reveals the mystery Of loveliness, which all the studious hours Of man's aesthetic quest hi Nature's bowers Cannot discern, though plied continual- ly. Fair mirror of the workmanship of God, Reflect His likeness to our human, sight, Not seen directly. since it was too bright For Amram's son, who held the magic rod O'er the rubescent sea, and for us, too, Dail we shall, some day, be clothed anew, The religion of the soldier is ' not built up with dogma, Dogma does little for the man facing death or for the wounded undergoing the cruellest MURDERED BY MICROBES. Over Twelve Million Deeths Resulted Through "Flu" Epidemic, It is estimated that up to the pre- sent, over twelve million deaths have resulted from the greatest and worst of influenza epidemics. An appalling death. roll to be sure,. but although the number of cases has been so gigantic, the percentage of deaths is not estimated to be more than seven or eight per cent. It must also be' borne in mind that- white races suffer less than black. - Fifty per cent. of the inhabitants of Northern Labrador perished during the winter from an epidemic of "flu." One village, with a populaltion of over 200, was wiped out, while at another— Bebron—only a few of the two Hun- dred inhabitants were left to tend the sick and dispose of the bodies of the dead, medical aid being unobtainable. In some South African kraals the deaths have numbered forty per cent. of the cases. In England they are hardly three per cent. The greatest mortality from any disease at the present time is from cholera, of which there is an epidemic in Bombay. Ono in every two cases is fatal. Smallpox among unvaccinated races is deadly in forty- cases in a hundred. In Samoa smallpox broke out in the village of Hapaa, and killed one bun -1 dyed out of four hundred. It was fol- ; lowed by tuberculosis, and at the end of twelve months there were only' two survivors left, In tete Pacific Islands measels is ter- ribly destructive, whilst in Madagas- car, during a recent epidemic, 30 per cent. of those who caught measles 1 died. At its worst, scarlet fever kills ten per cent. Typhoid fever is much less to be feared nowadays than was the case twenty years ago. In the Soudan, in 1884, a very large proportion 0'f our forces contracted it, and thirty-nine per cent. of all cases proved fatal. On ''the Nile, in 1898, when Kitchener smashed the power of the Malicli, ty- phoid proved fatal to twenty-eight per hundred, and the average was much the same in the South African War. The mortality from typhoid is now down to seventeen per cent. of cases, but inoculation appears likely to put an end altogether to this much -dread- ed disease. MAN WHO FOUND LILAC. Frenchman Introduced Widespread Shrub to Europe. There' are men who in a lesser spnerehave been givers of gifts which are enjoyed by millions, though their own names may have slipped out of the memory of the world. Such a pian was Ogler Ghiselin de Busbecq. He was born in the pleas- ant town of Comines, in Flanders, now half French, half Belgian, with the River Lys between, almost four hun- dred years ago and educated in that university at Louvian which now, alas, is laid low. Bushecq was a collector, and, when he was sent by the Emper- or Ferdinand as Ambassador to the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, on his return brought manuscript and coins and plants home to Vienna. And among these plants was the lilac. 1/ % I NTER EST on DE BENTU Absolute Security. Interest payable half yearly. The Great West Permanent Loan Company. Toronto Office 20 King St, West, To poison grasshoppers mix one pound of Paris green or one and one- half pounds of white .arsenic, twenty- five pounds of sawdust, two quarts of cheap feeding molasses, six cut-up lemons or oranges, and one or two gallons of 'water. Sow mixture broadcast. F INVEST YOUR MONEY In an i i —uf Shod d Ask your LUMBER DEALER For Plans and Prices. STAND UP TO EVERY TEST Test them for quality and workmanship test thorn for speed and milea ,e—test their sturdy service and easy riding—and you will find Dominion Tires "Un- questionably The Boot Tires Made". Sold by the Leading Dealers RUBBER 'SYSTGh1 rr. ik1M 1'111- II •ti .i,dr tit 0 Get r,;•ig er Pft to Crop Authorities will tell you that spraying is as import- aalt as plowing and cultivating. Spraying saves your crop of- healthy, full-sized potatoes that will command top-notch prices. Theedwell-timed use of g MUNRO'S PURE PARIS GREEN will keep your plants free 9f bugs and give Nature the chance she asks to produce good sound tubers, and lots of thein. Don't experiment with new-fangled "bug powders." Use the old reliable Munro's Pure Paris Green, that is sure and deadly in its action and never harms the plants. Ask for Munro's by name, and make sure you get it. • At hardware, drug, grocery and general stores. Manufactured 'by MUNR05 PARIS6REEN linT) POISON IIIin 11 11y ?TRICTLY PURE 1 kGovemensitog 1104011.111 CARTHUR,1RWIItL! MONTREAL Manufacturers, Exporters and. Importers, Crow,l Diamond Paints, Chemicals, Dye Stuffs and Tanners Supplies, Health 1:p Teetli .Healthy. ")- Clean -looking teeth are the :most refreshingly wholesome attribute of beauty anyone can possess, No ani- ount of loveliness can overcome the effect of teeth that show hick of care and brushing. C1eanliress of the mouth and teeth is the first aid to beauty. In addition to the oi•.linarYcarr of your teeth you should have them cleaned "professionally," that is, by a dentist, twice a year. Your tooth brushes must be soft enough not to irritate your gums. The brushes should be changed often, and should be kept thoroughly clean, Your teeth should he brushed in' an up and down dircetian, not across, After thoroughly bre hi . • the front of your teeth in tni.a way open your mouth and brush the grinding sur- faces. Lastly, brush the ineide of the teeth next to the t ni r.e---this is really the most important part of your teeth to keep cleat and healthy. After brushing 3 ur teeth thor- oughly your whole m n:tla el}ould be rinsed out wit}, cold cater fo which can be added a Iittie bicarhonate of soda, lime water, salt or boric aril. The slow and thcraag1i chewing of your food' helps to l• tee the ;..eta in condition. It isn't always ceireenicnt to brush your teeth after each 1112.., but if the habit is once formed ,:1 rinsing out the mouth with mater as soon after' eating as possible it will greatly help nature to keep yo:i: rioith clean. The aeids of orengel.Icnione, apples and other freit, while cleans. ing to the teeth in the i u , es.s of chewing,. should alv.a s be t j..:.e.l out of, the mouth after if.e fruit i; fin- ished, You should use a geed t:: ash peer - der or paste at beet t ceery dey. A cheap and agrembla. tee,'; powder, cne that can be used i ia::tieall;• as often as needed, i s.le uC preci- pitated chalk and a fes- drops of peppermint for flavor. Another powder that requires Iittie :are in the prcpnr:ttion and ie effe, - tive as a cleaner is compost l of the following ingredients: Gum camphor ounee Precipitated chane: ...21e ounces Orris root (powd'd) .4 I le, ounces Castile soap- (po :I'd) 1 grain The camphor should be pulverized and the ingredients mixed together. Add a few drops of oil of peppermint to flavor. The occasional use of charcoal powder is very whitening to the teeth. An excellent charcoal powder is prepared as follows: Pulverized charcoal 50 grants Red cinchona bark (p'w'd) . 50 grams Carbonate of magnesia a grates Pulverized camphor b grams The excessive eating of candy is extremely bad for the teeth. If you persist in partaking of tin over - amount of sugar, which causes hyper- acidity of the mouth, and the decay of your teeth, you should follow the eating of these sweets with an alka- loid wash that will neutralize the 'cid. Bicarbonate of soda and warns water in equal parts is a simple and excellent remedy. If you rinse your mouth with this after eating candy or indulging in other sweets much of the harmful effect on your teeth will be prevented. QUEER TRADES IN PARIS. One Woman Raised Ant Eggs to Fat- ten Young Pheasants. All manner of queer trades flourish in Paris. Some -Parisians devote them- selves to the raising of bird food. At one time the inhabitants of a certain ., quarter were attacked by an inexplic- able irritation of the skin. All up and down one street people were scratch- ing themselves from morning to night, and this lasted till the dweilers in that quarter looked almost like a colony of lepers. Finally the authorities looked into the platter and discovered that the doings of a certain Meen'selle Marie were the cause of the difficulty. She was a breeder of ants, or, more strictly speaking, a raiser of ants' eggs for the fattening • of young pheasants. When the police visited her establish, rent they encountered a woman of a most forbidding aspect. Iter face and hands were as completely tanned as if they had undergone dressing by a skilled curries'. The work had been done by the bites of the ants, against the attacks of which she had protect- ed the rest of her person by wearing a close suit of leather, Thus protect- ed she slept in perfect security, sur- rounded by sacks full of her living merchandise. The visit of the police seemed to her an outrage; but, say what she would, Main-solle Marie was compelled • to transport her boarding establish - went out of the city. It appeared that she had correspondents its many parts of France and received daily consign- ments, She was proud of her busi- ness, or profession, as site called it, • and found a ready market for all the eggs she could :furnish.