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A Winter Evening. 80ft hands of white across a sunny skyâ€" And then the lowâ€"toned twilight creep- ing on, A neighboring roof deep etched with burdening snow; Hill, field, and tree beyond, Blending in one wide, gentle blur of WY; Brown shrubs and withered grasses wave aloft Their invitation to a passing feather- ed guest, While here and there, and here again Faint wisps of smoke curl upward, Telling once more the tale of little homes, Curtain Fabrics That Launder Well. Breathes there a woman with fing- ers pricked from the annual martyr- dom of curtain stretching who has not .v'ov. ed, year after year, to emancipabe herself forever from the thnaldom of drapery materials which refuse to hang to the queen‘s taste unless they emerge, straight and crisp, from cur- tain stretchers? Whither our hearth; A joyful feast, for love broods over it, Lending the snow-white lustre of his wings. , And now all things made ready, I will wait, An-d listen for the voice I know so well. â€"Louisé"'M.Grid1ey. Textile manufacturers, quick to tense the requirements of the modern housekeeper, have placed on the mar- ket fascinating fabrics in, various weaves which wash and iron as easily and successfully as handkerchief linen. These materials range, in design and texture, from the coarse filet nets, so frequently employed by interior decor- ators, to the sheerest film of lace suitable for closeâ€"fitting glass cur- tains. By careful shopping and wise selection the woman who must econ-. omize in time and energy can, there- fore, easily eliminate curtain ma- terials which must be stretched With- out detracting from either the beauty or suitability of her drapery fabrics. While it is possible to purchase ready- made curtains that will iron satisfac- torily, there is a decided advantage in buying goods by the yard, since the choice of materials is infinitely greater. So I will spread a table Among the materials one may al- ways be sure of are voile, marquisette, art' muslin, English casement cloth, printed linen, fine Swiss, silk gauze, Georgette crepe and the various speâ€" cial weaves made for the purpose by manufacturers who bestow upon them their own trade-marked names. It is quite impossible to iron the round-mesh nets that are so luring in the shops. While they stretch beauti- fully, they wriggle away from an iron most distractingly. Even some of the square mesh nets, which look perfectly innocent, have the same bad habit and should only be allowed to enter the family after a sample has been taken on probation. Although scrim and madras usually iron satisfactorily, occasionally one finds pieces that are disappointing. eThese exceptions to the rule, however, should not be al- lowed to give the respectable members cf these well known families a bad name or prejudice the buyer against these desirable materials. Oldâ€"fashioned lace curtains have made their exit from the majority of homes furnished in good taste. Their place has been taken largely by filet nets and similar materials suitable for glass curtains; also the closely woven fabrics of cotton, linen and silk, either alone or in pleasing combinations. Unless glass curtains are required to insure privacy or to soften window lines otherwise too harsh, these closer woven modern materials, used alone, will contribute sufficient beauty and dignity to any room. English casement cloth is perhaps the aristocrat among this class of drapery fwbrics. Deep 03m in color, fine of texture, and of a posuli-ar qual- ity that admits and intensifies light, it combines the advantages of draw- ing-room elegance with the utmost utilitarian quality demanded by dis- criminating housekeepers. Casement cloth washes and irons like a hand- kerchief. And it wears almost as well as unbleached muslin. We pay weekly and otfer stendy em- ployment selling our complete and ex- clusive lines of whole-root fresh-dug. lac-order trees and plants. Best stock and service. We teach and equlp you tree. A money-making opportunlty. Luke Brothem’ Nurserlu Montrcd Sheets, towels, table linen and knit underwmr may be darned by mschine neatly and strong. Use fifty thread 811‘ the, toil-worn hasten, them down and rest. About the House Dam on the Machine. SALESMEN here beside to sit for towels and 100 for table linen. Tie up machine foot so that it is about one-sixteenth inch from the feed. This allows the work to be drawn forward and back. Stitch [forward from a quarter of an inch outside the hole across open area to within a quarter- inch of the outside of the hole on the 4 other side. Continue until all the ispace is filled in with threads extend- ]ing one wayâ€"called “warp” threads. In .the same manner put in the cross or “woof” threads. I Cut the meat into pieces convenient for packing into fruit jars. Dip the lmoist hand into table salt, and tak- ing a piece of meat in the other ham-d wipe both sides with salt, leaving a very thin coating. Pack in jars as fast as salted, and on top put a piece pack method, boiling three hours. Do not allow any‘wate'r to enter the jam as this spoils the meat. The greatest care must be taken to see that all rub- bers are good, and there is no leakage after the cans are removed from the lboiler. In' these days of lowered prices for farm products anything which gives a farmer another crop is of importance. At the request of the British: Forestry Commission which bears the expense, ‘the Forestry Branch of the Depart- ment of the Interior is collecting the 4 seeds of Douglas fir, Sltka sprwce, and some other trees of the Pacific coast to j be shipped to Great Britain to be used 'in ref-oresting denuded areas there. The Forestry Branch has erected a seed-extracting plant in New VVestâ€" I mi‘n-s-ter, British Columbia, and the coil- ‘lection of the seed is done largely by Get a 10-cent box now. You men and women who can't get rfeeling rightâ€"who have headache. coated tongue, bad taste and foul breath. dizziness, can‘t sleep, are bili- ious, nervous and upset, bothered with a. sick, gassy, disordered stomach, or .Ihave a bad cold. Are you keeping your bowels clean with Cascarets, or merely forcing a passageway every few days with salts, cathartic pills or castor oil? Cascarets work while you sleep; cleanse the stomach of sour, fermenting food and foul gases; take the excess bile from liver and carry out of the system all the constipated poison in the bowels. A Cascaret physio tonight will straighten you out by morning. Foolish Frostingâ€"This is the new frosting farm women are using. Put seven-eights of a cup of granulated sugar, one unbeaten egg white and three tablespoons of boiling water into the top of the double boiler. Set at once over boiling water and beat steadily six minutes. If you have no double boiler, use any dish which will set over boiling water. The frosting will froth up and resemble the usual boiled frosting. WOULD [TOT BE WITHOUT BABY’S OWN TABLETS Once a mother has used Baby’s Own Tablets for her libtle ones she would not be without them. The Tablets are a perfect home remedy. They regu- late the bowels and stomach; drive out constipation and indigestion; break up colds and simple fever and make baby healthy and happy. Con- cerning them, Mrs. Noble A. Pye, Ecum Secum, N.S., writeszâ€"“I have found Baby's Own Tablets of great benefit for my children and I would not be without them." The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams’ Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. farmers, in the newer settled districts near the city. who bring in the cones in sacks to New Westminster market. It seemed rather odd to some to see farmers coming to market with sacks of cones instead of apples and pota. toes, but as the farmers receive $2 per sack for the cones, and as the Forestry Branch thus secures the seed required at a reasonable rate the innovation is ooneidened most satisfactory to all concerned. City ‘ ‘â€"“Are you sure that these eggs are strictly fresh ?” Farm boyâ€" “Yes, indeed. My father won’t let out has lay any other kind." A capitalist is a man who saves money and puts it to work. The thrifty man is always the independent man. A New Forest Industry. iascarets” Bilious if Sick, s, Headachy from the B have headache. taste and foul L‘t sleep, are bili- et, bothered with ered stomach, or \re you keeping ith Cascarets, or assageway every cathartic pills or Bowels Tim CAUSE 0M§6mcun§ Only in Rare Cases Does Back- ache Mean Kidney Trouble. Every muscle in the body needs constantly a supply of rich, red blood in proportion to the work it does. :I‘he muscles of the back are under a heavy strain and have but little rest. \Vhen the blood is thin they lack nourish- ment, and the result is a sensation of pain in those muscles. Some people think pain in the back means kidney trouble, but the best medical authori- ties agree that backache seldom or never has anything to do with the kid- never has anything nleys. Organic ki have progressed without developing This being the cas should always lead the sufferer to look to the condition of his blood. It will be found in most cases that the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills to build up the blood will stop the sensation of pain in the ill-nourished muscles of the back. How much better it is to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for the blood than to give way to unreason- able alarm about your kidneys. If you suspect your kidneys, any doctor can make tests in ten minutes that will set your fears at rest, or tell you the worst. But in any event to be per- fectly healthy you must keep the blood in good condition, and for this pur- pose no other medicine can equal Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. Our Great Dominion. Statistics show shipments of wheat and flour from the Columbia River and Puget Sound district of British Colum- bia to have been 54 per cent. greater during July, August, and September than during the same period last year. Shipments to the United Kingdom and Continental ports from the Pacific in September alone amounted to 7,843,- 000 bushels. One great change in the export grain business is the Large movement now being made to thle Orient. The Canadian system of taxation was made the subject of special study by member; of the United States House of Representatives and Senate who arrived at Ottawa on November 30th for the purpose. The party con~ sisted of about fifty members of Con- gress which spent three days studying under the guidance of the Department of Finance. The operation of the sales tax was made the subject of a special study. You can get these pills through any dealer in medicine, or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from 'I\he Dr. Williams’ Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. W. L. Clark, of the Pacific Steam- ship Company, at a meeting of the United States Shipping Board, made the assertion that thirty‘eight United States railroad lines were conrolled or influenced by Canada. It is reported that a. number of Canadian capitalists have under c011- siderat’ion the project of constructing a large elevator at Kobe, Japan. The movement of Canadian wheat which commenced this fall to Japan is reâ€" sponsible. So far 750,000 bushels have been booked to that country. New buildings and improvements to the extent of $325,000 have been com- pleted at the Brandon Manitoba, Ex- hibition grounds during the past year, according to a report of the directors. Construction has commenced on the addition to the Northwestern Elevator WGHIWr and the worst is yet to come to do w lney di a critical point pain in the back. pain in the back e sufferer to look is blood. It will ses that the use Pills to build up may point There appears to be a doubt in the mind of many of my correspondents as to what Public Health actuallyY means. At the heml oflthie column in which 'I wm'te articles on Public Health, questions on Public Health subjects are invited, and I shall be glad to answer such questions. But in many cases letters are receved from people asking me for suggestions re- Igarding treatment for some ailment garding treatment for some ailment they have and which they would like to get rid of. Now I desire to make it plain that I cannot answer questions of this sort. It would be useless for me to do so if I wanted to, for I have not seen the patient and could not diagnose their trouble from state- ments in a letter. Besides, treatment of disease is the particumar and special work of the family or local physician. He is the man on the spot and the right man to consult in cases where medical advice is desired. For instance, one woman writes that she enjoys my articles on Public Health and wants to know if I could tell her what to do for a “floating kid- ney.” In another case a moth-er writes to say that her baby had a heat rash and wishes to know What she should do for it, while just this morning I received a letter from an old gentle« man to say that he had fits and want- ed me to tell him what treatment he should adopt. Now, there are many similar letters teaching me which I need not relate Company’s plant at Fort William, Ont, and it is announced that the building will be completed next spring. The elevator addition will cost approxi- mately $700,000, consisting of 60 con- crete tanks, 22 feet in diameter and 95 feet in height, which will give the entire plant an aggregate capacity of more than 900,000 bushels. Cleaning machinery will be installed adapted to clean 8,000 bushels of grain an hour. More than two hundred exhibits of grain, grasses, elbvers and alfalfa from Alberta, from seed gnown from the In- ternational boundary as far north as the Peace River country, are being sent to the International Grain and Hay Show at Chicago. All of the seed has been gnown by farmers and the collection is considered unsurpassâ€" able. Reducing Time. It required eight hours to travel from Bergen to Stavanger, Norway, by boat, although they are only 100 miles apart, until an aerial passenger and mail service was established. The establishment of a finishing sta- tion in Belgium, Holland or France for finishing Canadian cattle prior to their being slaughtered and delivered as fresh beef to London and other Bri- tis'h centres is proposed by the Alberta Minister of Agriculture. In these countries a shortage of livestock and surplus of pasture is said to exist,'and these cattle could be brought to the pink of condition after undergoing the long voyage. Canadian grain would be shipped overseas for this purpose. Provincial Board of Health, Ontario Dr. Middleton will be glad to answer questions on Public Health mat- ters through this column. Ad‘dress him at Spadina House. Spadlns Crescent, Toronto. BY DR. J. J. MIDDLETON HEALTH EDUCATIGN here, but in every case I have to refer such cases to the physician. The work of a Public Health offi- cial deals largely with hygiene and preventive medicine, and by these terms I mean ways and means of pre- serving health and keeping the body and mind in full strength and vigor, and giving warnings of danger to health that will undoubtedly fol'low neglect of hygienic principles either in personal or community life. As regards the care and treatment of the sick, that is a'phase of medical work by itself, and the local physician is the man to deal with sickness in any community. Your drugglst sells a tiny bottle 0! “Freezone” for a few cents, suflicien’; to remove every hard corn, soft corn.’ or corn between the toes, and the 035' 11599. without soreness or irritation. The Public Health official is really a teacher and sanitarian. His work is preventive, rather than curativeâ€"â€" in fact about the only instance where Public Health officials undertake treatment is in the prevention or con- trol of communicable or infectious diseases when such diseases are a menace to the health of other people. Doesn't hurt a. bit! Drop a mu. “Freezone” on an aching corn. in.-‘ stantly that com stops hurting, than, shortly you lift it right 0:: with fingers" Truly! ing ture My advice to all those who write to me telling of their personal ailments is to see their doctor, because these ailments are not in the line of Public Health work. My purpose is especi- ally to keep people well, and to this end I shall be glad to answer any questions that may help anyone to remain in good health and preserve their full vigor and activity, and I shall try to give full publicity to those principles of hygiene that tend to maintain health and happiness and raise the general standard of living. The solution of problem No. 5, pub- lished last week, is as follows: White to move: W. B. W. 'B. 1 26-22 2â€"6 4 18-14 11-16‘ ‘2 22-17 3-8 5 24-20 - 3 27-24 8â€"12 I W‘hite Wins. Black to movei Solution of this posilcion will appear next week. Shelter-Belts and Soil Fertility. A blanket of four or five inches of snow over a prairie farm during win- ter and until early spring means a. large amount of moisture for the soil. The problem is to keep it there and not have it blown away by high Winds. This is where shelter-belts on the farm prove their value by prevent- ing drifting and thus retaining mois- Lift Off with Fingers No. 6â€"B1uack to 26-22 27-24 CHECKERSâ€"By Heck and fertility CORNS move, white to win '11 4 24â€"20 10-14 5 19-16 8-12 Black wins. %% W W