PRACTICAL ADVICE ABOUT
DIVERSIFIED FARMING
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BODICE FROM PARIS.
The latest bodice reported from
Pari3 is so startling that only actresses
have dared to wear it. It is a trans
parent garment, fitting like a glove,
and is worn over a flesh colored corse
let which just covers the staya and
leaves the neck, back and arms trans-!
parently pink. The most exagger
ated decollete gowns would be incon
spicuous beside it. New York Tri
bune. NEW FABRICS SOUGHT.
The wiser half of the feminine
world who like to keep up to date in
frocks or materials to make them of
are looking for fabrics of the newest
iesigns. A well seasoned woman of the
world, too, can tell at a glance if the
oods shown are this year's newest or
last year's latest, and with this knowl
edge her gowns will be in advance of
many a richer woman's, and probably
cannot be duplicated if she has ideas
to give her dressmaker as well. New
York Tribune.
A WOMAN POSTMASTER.
Miss Alice M. Robertson, of Mus
kogee, Okla., is the only woman in
the country at the head cf a post
office of the first class. The place is
worth between $2500 and $3000 a
year, and many politicians think it
is too profitable to be wasted on a
woman. These politicians are said to
have exerted their influence to have are also many stockings with em
ber displaced, but the rule to retain j broidered silk clocks. All hosiery Is
all postmasters with good records pre- . of a very sheer quality, this applying
vented their succeeding. She has
just been reappointed
four years. St. Louis
for another
Republican.
PINKS NOW FAVORITES ON HATS.
If there's anything in this ephe
meral world that changes more quick
ly than fashions in shapes of hats, it's
the fashions in flowers on hats. Witk-
Savory Eggs. This is one of the dishes a beginner can
learn to make easily. Boil hard six eggs; peel them and
chop the whites; put the yelks through the ricer. Put a
tablespoonful of butter in the hot chafing-dish and add a cup
of cream sauce made in advance (for this, rub smooth a
tablespccnful of melted butter with as much Hour and add
a cup of thin cream and half a teaspoonful of salt). Whsn
ths two are nearly binding put in half the egg whites, the
yolks, three tablespoonfuls cooked ham, minced fine, a half
teaspoonful of minced "onion cr four drops of juice, and a
dozen olives, cut up into large pieces. Have ready six pieces
cf hot buttered toast, and when the whole is hot and smooth
pour it on the toast; sprinkle with the rest of the whites;
shake a little paprika from a pepper-shaksr here and thera
over the dish. This goes well with cold meats. Harper's
Bazar.
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out any apparent cause, carnations and bronze leather will bring into re
are having vogue as torrid crowns for f quest hosiery in matching shades,
women's heads. Of course the wear- j Smoke gray suede will also emphasize
ing of the carnation in the button- ! the need of stockings in these dark
holes of alleged statesmen is an old gray tones. Hosiery in two color
story, and many men in Congress j plated styles in ribbed effects is quite
stick' to it. At dinners, dances and popular, particularly in men's lines,
receptions great bowls of carnations, l though some women are also using
of white, nlnk cr deeD red annear '. them.
where once American Beauty
shed their perfume. New
Press. . t
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; " POWER OF BEAUTY.
enemies in the days of the Puritans,
To love beauty, to strive to possess it
or to express it in art or literature
was to forsake one's duty to God and
to jeopardize one's immortal soul.
Now we are beginning to discover
the great truth which the old Greeks
knew so well. We are learning, not
only as individuals, but as a nation,
that beauty and duty are closely re
lated. We have come to realize that
the right love of beauty helps us to
eave our souls, not lose them.
Teachers, physicians and philan-
thropists are everywhere laying stress ;
upon the power of environment in the
development of character, in the heal
ing of disease and in the reforming
of criminals. We cannot understand
all the mysterious ways in which this
power works its miracles of transfor
mation; the subtle forces by which
beauty lifts the soul to a higher plane
are a part of the infinite.
"As a man thinketh ia his heart so
is he." And if we think on what we
see and we see beauty, shall we not
become more gracious, more serene,
more noble? For beauty is all of
these things. New Haven Register.
LUNCHEON INNOVATION.
The London papers report that the
wife of the Prime Minister recently
gave a luncheon to which women
came without their husbands and
men without their wives. For some
time it has been understood In Brit
ish society that an attractive woman
need not refuse an invitation merely
because her husband had another en
gagement, but this is said to have
been the first entertainment of any
importance at which no one but the
host and hostess had a legal partner
present, and the innovation appears
to have been received with much fa
vor. "Why," asks one writer, "should
a married pair always go out, two ana
two, like animate entering the ark?
Seeing they have the pleasure of each
otter's company year in and year cut,
at their own dinner tables, why must
they invariably go out together to sit
at other people's boards? They might
appreciate each other more if they
were oftener separated, and they
might be more entertaining to other
people. A great many people are
Btver at their best ia the presenca of
their immediate families. Men are
particularly apt to sit mute when
their lawful wives are sitting oppo
site them, and the meekest of wives
sometimes grow garrulous and amus
ing when not under the eyes of their
lords." New York Tribune.
STYLES IN HOSIERY.
Colored hosiery is enjoying a great
vogue at the Southern resorts, this
point being emphasized by the very
general use of the white costume and
tho white shoe, which bring3 into
strong contrast tho colored hosiery.
An interesting point, says the Dry
Goods Economist, i3 that this vogue
extends into men's fashions, as "well
as those for young girls and women.
In both instances there is an evident
desire to carry out a color scheme.
Thus a woman wearing a white cos
toume will perhaps have a hat, para
sol and hosiery in pink, blue or lav
ender. A man wearing white 32imel3
will have colored necktie and hose,
and possibly a faint line of color ia
his shirt.
The leading shades for men are re
seda green, rose color, wistaria and
dull blue, the tones being darker and
more neutral thail those worn by
women, which are usually of the more
delicate pastels.
In women's hosiery much self-colored
embroidery is used in small flo
ral or conventional designs. There
to men s hose as well as women s
Because of the use of colored ho
siery with white shoes it must not be
taken that white stockings are no
longer popular. Quite the reverse is
true. They will unquestionably be
worn in a very general way through
out the summer.
The marked revival for bronzed kid
j In children's hosiery practically
everything worn at Palm Beach was
(white and in sock style. No young
children wore stockings. It was only
after they had reached eight or tea
year3 of age that the leg3 were co
jered. Children old enough to attend
evening dancing parties wore silk
stockings ia white, pink and pale
blue, matching the ribbon accessories.
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There is greater simplicity in chil
dren's Clothes.
Woolen gloves that reach to the el-
bow are aa echo of tho short sleeve
reign.
In spite of continued predictions
against it, the lingerie waist still
holds its own.
Hatpins of dazzling designs and
workmanship embellish some of the
mcst e!aborat2 coiffures.
Skirts are fuller round, but tho
fulness is arranged to begin at the
knees, except where the stuffs are
filmy.
A few very wealthy and very luxu
rious women of Paris are wearing
wonderfully exquisite hand-painted
opera cloaks.
Many of the imported gowns are
trimmed with silk covered cord that
i very effective, since it cannot be
bought ia the shops.
Black still flourishes in aftc-rncoa
and evening costumes, taking prece
dence over all others. It reigns ia
laces, net, chiffon and velvet.
Point d'esprit, either ia silk or cot
ton, will be much used for young girls'
frocks. The material will be a favor
ite for class day or graduation gowns.
With the fabrics there are being
displayed hats and gloves along the
same lines, which speaks well for a
vogue of matehed-up costumes being
at hand.
A favorite -plume of the moment la
the tail feather of the peacock with
the stem stripped of every frond and
only the beautifully marked eyepiece
left at the tip.
Raffia has been worm Into extra
ordinarily smart bags and belts, the
straw often being oddly but delight
fully studded with semi-precious
stones, whose color shows attractive1
lujica the ssft sHi? of fa r'jvf.w
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SOAP FOR REMOVING- SPOTS.
Chip three-fourths of a bar of good
laundry soap into one or two gallons
of water; let stand overnight till dis
solved. Then add three ounces of
white sugar, two ounces of honey,
and one and a half ounces of turpen
tine, and boil together till it drops
off the end of a spoon. Remove from
the fire and let it cool. Then cut into
bars. This is an excellent soap for
cleaning men's clothing and washing
all woolen and cotton fabrics, as it re
stores the color. New York World
AN IMPROVISED CABINET.
A young woman recently utilized a
narrow space in her dining room, ber
tween a door and window, in a way
that was botn artistic- and useful.
She had a long strip of wood finished
to match the wood work of the roora
nailed to the wall from the picture
moulding to the floor.
The strip was about eighteen inches
wide and occupied the middle of the
wall space. On it were put at. irreg
ular intervals small brass hooks, such
as are used in china closets. Oa
these were hung pitchers of every de
scription, the owner being a collector.
New York Press.
CLEANING MAHOGANY.
Housewives do not realize the
value of soap and water on old ma
hogany. It cleans the wood as noth
ing else does. Take a bowl or a
bucket of warm water, into which has
been put a tablespoon or more of
olive oil and a few shavings of castile
soap. Use a soft sponge or a fresh
piece of cheesecloth. Wring it out in
the water, so that you will not injure
the carpet or the floor. Go iato all
the crevices of the carvings with
cheesecloth wrapped about a small
pointed stick. Be sure that every
piece of the wood is dried with fresh
cheesecloth or a bit of soft flannel.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
LITTLE ECONOMIES.
Powdered quicklime mixed with
white of egg and the whey of milk
and vinegar in equal parts, the whole
beaten well and slightly warmed,
makes an excellent cement for mend
ing broken china. Ware of all kinds,
from the coarsest kitchen utensils to
fine porcelain, can also be mended by
the same means.
Pieces of toilet soap ought never to
be thrown away, but should be melted
into a pulp with boiling water. When
this is of the consistency of soft soap
it may be poured into teacups to
harden, and fresh cakes made in this
way of what would otherwise be
wasted. These cakes can be utilized
for washing laces or small dress ac
cessories of lawn or muslin which are
lauidered at home. The cakes
should be left until the soap is hard
and thoroughly dry. Woman's Life.
FRESHENING STRAW HATS.
Light straw hats, which are the
worse for wear, yet which are not
worth sending to a professional
cleaner can be made to look nice and
white by covering the straw with a
thick paste of yellow cornmeal and
gasoline mixed. Let the paste stay
on -over night or until it is dry and
brush eff with a clean, stiff whisk.
If necessary, another coating of the
cornmeal can be applied.
Chip, Panama and Leghorn hats
can have soiled spots cleaned from
them by rubbing the surface with
crusts of bread. Use small pieces of
the bread and discard as soon as
soiled.
For dark colored or black straw
hats the best freshener is a thorough
brushing and a careful wiping with
alcohol. This is a much better treat
ment for a black hat than attempting
to give it new blackness by shoe pol
ish. New York Press.
Caper Sauce Make a drawn but
ter sauce and add two or three table
spoonfuls of French capers. Remove
from the fire and add a little lemoa
juice.
Tomato Sauce Boil tomatoes one
hour, season writh a little thyme, two
bay leaves, cayenne pepper, little cel
ery and onion. Then strain toma
toes. Put butter into saucepan, add
tablespoonful of flour, cup of cream
and the strained tomatoes. '
Apricot Shortcake Three cups of
sifted flour, three teaspoonfuls of bak
ing powder, one-half cup of butter
and lard mixed, a little salt, mixed
with milk. R.oll and bake in one
largo or two small pans in a quick
oven. Use stewed, dried apricot or
canned.
Beef Loaf One and one-half cups
of bread crumbs to two pounds of
ground meat or hamburger steak;
three level teaspoons salt, half a tea
spoon of pepper, or, if preferred, use
poultry seasoning to taste. Mix with
milk and water, as much as can be
used, and have it hold together.
Bake about an hour.
Lyonnai&e Tripe Cut the tripe in
to small pieces, boil twenty-five min
utes and drain. Fry one tablespoon
of chopped onion in one heaping ta
blespoonful of butter till yellow.
Add the tripe, one tablespoonful of
vinegar and one tablespoonful of
chopped parsley, salt and pepper to
taste. Simmer five minutes aad
Krve plf.iB cr on toast.
A BENEFACTRESS.
Maud Muller on a summer's day
Stood in the meadow raking hay,
And we have had from poet mea
A thousand parodies since then.
Methinks all the penile poet bund
Should all combine to raise a fund,
'Tis not enough to merely laud;
We owe a monument to Maud.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
NOT A FAIR TEST.
"Is he a young man of brains?
"I really caa't say. I've oaly met
him ia society." Judge,
NOT A WATERY SMILE.
Teacher "What is aa ocean?"
Johnny "A body of water neces
sitating battleships." New York Sua.
QUITE SO.
"Some say it's a mistake to mar
ry." "Well," commented Mrs. Sixthhub,
"to err is human." Washington Her
aid.
UNPLANNED.
Recruit "Please, Sergeant, I've
got a splinter ia my 'and."
Sergeant-Instructor "Wot yer
been doic'?. Strokin' yer 'ead?"
Puach.
HIS FATE.
"Married his stenographer, didn't
he?"
"Yes, and he's been short-handed
ever since." Puck.
THOSE WOMEN.
"Why do you have a full length
mirror in your room?"
"Well, I'm a woman, and I want
to see everything that's going on.".
Cleveland Leader.
SETTLED.
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I'llM
Friend "If your wife treats you
so shamefully why don't you get a
divorce?"
Mr. Henpeck "I did want to, but
she said 'no;' so, of course, that set
tied it." New York Telegram.
UNLUCKY.
"Took out another accident policy,
! did he?"
"Yes; but he ain't had a leg cut off
yit not even a arm broke!" At
laata Constitution.
PIANOS TUNED TO ORDER.
Tuner "I called to tune the
plane."
Lady "But I didn't send for yoV
Tuner "No, but the man next
door did." Cornell Widow.
MISCONSTRUED.
"It is dangerous to kiss a peroxide
blonde," remarked the scientist.
"His wife is a brunette," commen
ed an auditor who did not seem inif
pressed. Philadelphia Ledger.
GETTING RICH.
"Found a dollar yesterday."
"Lucky boy!"
"Not so lucky. In. stooping to pick
It up I dropped and broke my eye
glasses. " Kansa3 City Journal.
AN ADDED TRIMMING.
"Drat the cat!"
"What's the matter, girl?"
"Oh, the cat went to sleep on my
new hat, and I wore her downtown
and back." Louisville Courier-Jour
nal.
IN THE FUTURE.
Reporter "What was the cause of
the accident?"
Descending Passenger "Nobody
seems .to know. The captain seems
to think it was either a derelict or an
uncharted skyscraper." Puck.
OLD MAN SADLY DISAPPOINTED.
"Papa," wrrote the sweet girl, "I
have become infatuated with calis
thenics." "Well, daughter," replied the old
man, "if your heart's sot on him I
haven't a word to say, but I always
did hope you'd marry an American."
Houston Post.
PHILANTHROPIC.
Elderly Bachelor "Mrs. Burnside,
will you marry me?"
Attractive Widow "Mr. Wackford,
?.re you forgetting that I have six
children?"
Elderly Bachelor "Not at all. I
want to help you train up those
children blame 'em!" Chicago
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Inexpensive Filters For Farm Water.
One of the problems on the farm
is how to obtain an ample supply of
good, clear water. It is not so easy
to provide well or spring water with
a filter, but cistern water may be
easily purified by means of one or
more simple devices which may be
tt home construction. Much dirt in
the way of soot, leaves, dead Insects,
droppings from birds and pollen from
trees is washed into the cistern un
less some means are taken to pre
vent It. The simplest arrangement
is to have a movable sectioi in the
leader which can be turned to let
the rain wash the dirt onto tho
ground. Then after the roof Is
an. I
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Mg. 1 A Simple Brick Filter.
cleaned the balance of the rain can
go into the cistern. This is objec
tionable in that it needs to be looked
after during every rain, and fre
quently all the water will be lost.
The simplest form of filter is to
build a partition through the cistern,
laying up a soft brick wall in cement,
as shown ia Fig. 1. This will or
dinarily give satisfaction, if the im
purities which collect on the receiv
ing side of the wall are removed oc
casionally. Another and better form
of filter is shown in Fig. 2. In this
case the cut is supposed to repre
sent a hundred barrel cistern and a
filter of twenty-five barrels capacity.
They are built of either concrete or
brick, well- cemented on the inside.
The filter is flat bottomed and Is
half filled with charcoal, sand and
gravel in layers, the charcoal being
placed in the bottom. The leader
which comes from the roof should
enter the filter on only a slight angle.
The material in the filter will need
to be removed occasionally and re
placed with fresh charcoal, sand and
gravel.
When a cistern Is built It should
be water tight so as to prevent con-
Fig. 2 Charcoal aad Gravel Filter.
tamination from ground water during
the wet season, as well as to prevent
leakage of water that runs into it
from the roof, and if a well is to be
dug or drilled, it should be located
upoa higher ground than the house,
bara and outbuildings and some dis
tance from the latter. The principal
troubles that may be traced to an im
pure or contaminated water supply
are, as a rule, intestinal troubles, the
most dangerous being typhoid fever.
The most common as well as the most
dangerous contamination of the
drinking water comes from the cess
pool. Every precaution should bo
taken in locating the well to .place it
so as to prevent as nearly as may be
any possibility of contamination.
There are as many, if not more, of
the germ diseases that may be trans
mitted by water as by any other
means, and some of the diseases are
so uniformly transmitted by the water
supply that they are known as water
borne disease. Typhoid fever is such
a disease, as well as some of the
other forms of intestinal troubles. If
disease may be carried by water, it is
of the greatest importance that every
precaution should be taken to insure
a pure water supply.
A hasty examination of a water is
of very little benefit and may often
be entirely misleading. A water may
be clear, free from any sediment or
odor and may taste good, and still be
dangerous for drinking purposes. A
chemical analysis, supplemented when
necessary by a bacteriological exam
ination, is needed to determine the
quality of a given sample of water for
domestic purposes. One examination
is not always sufficient to decide the
fitness of the water, as contamination
13 more likely to take place at one
time of the year than another.
The amount of rainfall will influT
ence very considerably the bacterial
contents of water from shallow wells
or poorly constructed cisterns. Dur
ing the heavy spring rains the num-
SOME INTERESTING HINTS
Shear the sheep early.
Do not leave them out
in the
spring rains.
When a cow is a little off, never
put her milk in with the rest.
To milk a cow clean, and without
fretting her, is an act that should be
looked upon as an accamplishment.
If the young pigs should show
signs of looseness of the bowels, shut
off all feed to the sow but dry oatsj
i'iVf;&3"rV'4v Irk
ber of bacteria reaches an enormous
figure and decreases again as the dry
season progresses. All of the bacteria
that are found in the water are not
dangerous, but if drainage and other
conditions allow contamination frora
outside sources there is always an
opportunity for the introduction of
disease producing germs. Weekly
Witnss3.
Early Tomatoes.
Where one intends to grow toma
toes for early shipment it is very de
sirable to have little greenhouses to
start the plants. Eut a hotbed with
glass sashes will answer, though it is
far more inconvenient than a green
house. You should sow the seed tea
or twqlve weeks before it will be safe
to put the plants in the open ground.
Assuming that you can do this in
early April, you should sow the seed
In January. You should, in fact,
have two hotbeds, one a small one
in which to sow the seed, and another
made up a little later in which to
transplant them as soon as large
enough to haivlje; for plants left
crowded in ajiibed are of little
value, and a -small hotbed will start
plants enough for a Jarger one, and
for a still larger cold frame. The
more frequently the plants are,trans
planted before setting in the open
ground, the better and earlier will
the crop be.
Knowing how many plants you
want, you will need an ounce of seed
for every 2500 plants wanted. You
can start that many in a single sash,
three by six feet, and for each sash
you will want three sashes on the
second hotbed and eighteen sashe3 oa
the cold frame for the final trans
planting under glass. Sow the seed
in the first hotbed, and as soon as
well started and taking a rough leaf,
transplant them to the second hotbed
made up after the seed are sown in
the first one, and set the little plants
1600 to a sash and set them deeper
than they stood in the first one. Pro
tect the hotbeds in cold nights with
mats or pine straw. Do not allow the
hotbed to get too warm, but give air
every sunny day, and keep tho plant3
as hardy as possible.
After the middle of February and
the hard freezing is over you can
transplant them to the cold frame
four inches apart each way or about
160 to a sash. The frame should
have fine, rich soil, light and well
manured with old fine manure. Then
be ready to protect them from sudden
cold by covering the glass, but give
all the air practicable in all mild
weather, and finally strip off the sash
during every mild day, to get the
plants hardened to the outer air, and
for a number of days and nights be
fore setting them out leave the frame
open. I have treated them in this
way in Northern Maryland and had
them'so hardy that I set them in the
field in April, and had a white frost
on them without hurting them, and
got in .two weeks ahead of the Balti
more gardeners. Treated ia this way
you will have stout plants that will
lift with a mass of earth, and can be
transplanted to the field without
wilting.
Have a flat carrier made of light
boards, with two handles at each end.
Then take up the plants with a mass
of soil on each, with a trowel, and
set them on the carrier so that they
can easily be taken to the field with
out shaking the dirt off. All this in
volves trouble and expense, of course,
but it means getting the crop in
early, and such plants will be far bet
ter .than any left crowded in a hot
bed. It will pay to grow tomatoes if
you can get them in market early,
but it will not pay if you do not get
them till July.
Gather them as soon as they show
signs of turning and do not wait till
red all over. Wrap the early toma
toes in paper and ship in baskets and
carriers. On land such as you name
tomatoes will not need very heavy
manuring. Set them in-well pre
pared soil, and as soon as stad give
them about 500 pounds! of high
grade fertilizer alongside the rows,
and cultivate clean and level. If
frost threatens after you have them
out, bend them carefully down and
shovel the soil over them till after
the cold passes and .then uncover. It
pays well to have plenty of glass la
market gardening to gat ahead of
others. , If you have a greenhouse
you could sow the seed in shallow
boxes made by cutting starch or soap
boxes in two, and then could trans
plant to other boxes and finally ta
the frames. W. F. Massey.
Humus Supplied.
The use of legumes to supply hu
mus and nitrogen Is as important for
the trucker as the general farmer.
Fortunate the man who has a heavy
crop of crimson clover to turn under
now. It is just the thing for pota
toes, melons, cukes and corn. Farm
ers' Home Journal.
There is not a porr in Europe, and
few, if any, in the world, where the
matter of tides is of no consequence.
FOR THE STOCK-OWNER
for a day or two, and the, trouble will
usually disappear.
Dip the sheep immediately after
shearing, and again in about -three
weeks to destroy eggs aid all ticks
that may have escaped ajt the first
dipping.
Apply the Babcoek test and be
guided by its teaching and thou shait
have gold both to spend andj to lend.
Philadelphia Farm Journal