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When the porch was remodeled, glass doors were placed at these en- trances; a. new floor was laid and painted a shade that (10% not easily show soil;_ the side and both ends were boarded up about two and a half feet and ceiled; window sash was set insuch a manner that half of them may be slid behind the others for vewtilation and coolness; galvan- ized screen~wired was used. The This porch opens off the kitchen and dining room; it has an entrance from the-front yard and one from near' the concrete-covered cistern. One of n‘y neighbors had an old porch that had been screened in years ago but it was worked over last spring and immensely improved. One improvement; that brings com- fort and joy to any home is a screened If any young housekeeper is offered old bedding by some relative who has kept house a. long time she can do“ nothing better than to renovate and wash and salvage it at the first oppor- tunity. Everything costs so much, nowadays that {a chest full of old soft' bedding for sickness is worth a great! deal. Never discard an old quilt or‘ comfort or spread or blanket as useâ€"W less, or use them for imn'img board-3| or dust bags or floor cloths as so many ‘ do, but wash and save and patch them ' for sickness and you will be glad hun-; dreds of times that in time of health, you prepared for just such emerg- encies by using material that at first sight seemed hopeless. ‘ flannel. When tacked with bright yam they were good enough for dm'fl'y wear, pavtioullarly in summer when Light crib covering is needed». After 3111 the best pieces had been wsed the scraps wetm gathered up and haid smoothfly on a piece of an 0111 feather bed tick and covetred with the same on top. This made an excellent mattrass cover and was tacked with about cord to hold The pieces in place. ’mm wool blankets were cum into as large sqwares as possible for the baby’s ’bed and a crochet ed-g’e made‘ of yam held the edigés in phace. The sheds were born inbo large pieces amd hemmed, sometimes turned and w‘h-ip-‘ pod togeflh'er, and sometimes left‘ just as big aquanes or pieces long-er than wide. The pfl'how ships were 0 and mde imao emergency for the small beds and the old pfibw ticks opened, hemmed and wadhed for mattress protectors. But the did lady took the best parts on? the thin spreads and placed them on a» stout piece of unbleached muslin stitching them evenly on the sewing machine back and forth. When done even the young matron owned that they would make crib spreads that would last a Number of years. The 011d places of the spreads that could not be used for anything also made neat kitchen towels, While the larger pieces made pads for the baby’s bed; filfled in with discarded pieces of the old cotton blmukets and mflced rather closvel‘y‘ with Ben silk. , 1 The ragged quilts were cut into small sqmames 120 be used in: illness and gum: Wtith fresh, new outing My Neighbor’s Screened Porch An oflld aunt visiting a busy young matn‘On spent her l'eq’sure time on a hot at old bedding that the young woman had- cast into the rag bag, There were pieces of old cotton and woo-Men blankets, ragged quilts, disâ€" carded pillow ticks, sheets with gap- ing holes, odd oomforrbs, soiled and "@396, and other evidences that the “99th? out" the bride had received a dozen or so years back was showing the efl'ec‘bs of chdrish feet and hands on the ma'tzeriala Like most brides she had started -in life with film sivlkoline bedlding, cem- broide pillow slips, spreads bought for style raflxer than wear, and all other punishable things which y0ung this defig‘ht to put in their hope‘ chests, so everything looked hopedess‘ ho her as her aunt went over it. 811'] About the Hausa Emergency Bedding. Wit flourishes where sex take mot. The voyage of Columbus which re- sulted In the discovery of America cost about $7,500 in terms of our pre- sent currency. beads while others are strung on heavy black silk cord. They are worn with the popular straight-Irina dn‘esses 10f nicotine and serge. Paint saves by protecting and at the same time it fosters self respect, through improving the appearance of our property. Farmers who doubt the value of Paint may gain enlighten- ment from the fact that bankers will loan from 10 to 50% more on land where farm buildings-are well painted and kept in good condiiion than on land where they are not. The bankers' action is based not merely on the simple idea that the farmer's house and barns are likely to Last longer through the use of a protective coating but. upon the truth that the man who uses Paint 'and Varnish gives clear evidence that he is wise and thrifty and. therefore, a good risk. ' Economic Value of Paint. The life and usefulness of practical- ly all buildings, farm machinery and implements can be prolonged by the application of suitable Paint or Var- nislh. It has been estimated that the loss suffered ‘yearly through the decay of wooden surfaces'ls tar in excess of the annual fire loss. The best ex- amples of the value of Paint as a pie sarvative are the many farm buildings still existing throughout the country which are over a century old and are still in splendid condition. It is actually true that wood will last in- definitely it kept well painted. Venetian Gil-dies. ~ Undeniany smart are the new Venetian bead girdles and belts. They are made of red, green, purple, tan and black wooden beads of various shapes and sizes. Some are strung in even row-s and finished at the ends with mussels made of the varicolored runners, Waste baskets, handkerch'ietfs, desk sets, dresser scrarfs, pin cushions and bed-room curtains. An attractive table runner of natui'ai‘coflou'ed crash is trimmed with blue, red and black drrawnain threads. The edges are ravelled and finished with hand tied fringe. . Drawn-in threads are more popular than ever. This trimming is used on luncheon cloth-s, napkins, d‘oilies, table Bran Muffins.â€"1 cup bran, V2 ’cup \‘V‘h’i-te flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1% teaspoons baking powder, 1 tablespoon butter or butter substitulbe, 1 cup milk, 1 egg. Mix and sift dlry ingTe-dients. Add egg slightly beaten, and Sugar. Ade milk and melted butter. Mix all well together. Bake in welll~greased muffin tints in a hot oven for about twenty- five minutes. Will make twelve muf- fins. Bran Doughnurbs.â€"â€"1% cups bram, 1% cups flour, 1 tablespoon butter or laid, 1 egg, 2 teaspoons bakinlg pow- der, 1,4. cup sugar, 54; cup milk, 1 tea- spoon salt. Cream butter and sugar. Aldld egvg well beabem Mix and sift dry ingredients and add to the fiwt mixture. Roll on floured board. Cut with doughnut cutter. Fry in very hot deep fat. This will make three dozen dowghnwts. There is also room at the other end for the sewing machine. If it is desir- ed, a heater may be instalfled and a winter “sun-parlor” made for winter enjoyment. The family feel amply re- paid for the necessary expenditure, Bran Griddle Cakesâ€"1 cup bran, 1 cwp flour, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 egg, My teaspoon bultter br butter substitute, 1/3 teaspoon salt, 1 cup milk. Mix dry ingredients, add egg slight-1y beatem, anld millk and butter. Beat thoroughly and bake on a hot griddle. Serve with butter and syrup. This Willi make twenty canke's. Bpam Porridgeâ€"1 cup of milek,1 cup of water, ’76. teas'pponfu] of saith, ‘74. cup oatmeal] (relied, or other cereal), 34 cup of bran. Place in double boiler and boil for a half hour. Serve wibh- sugar and milk, or sugar and butter. All water may ‘be used if desired. overhead is painted blue and the walls are white.' With bllxe-aIIdm'hite china, blue< bordered table cloth, blue-bird cm“ tains and a few flowering plants my neighbor enjoys a very attractive summer dining-porch. At one end is plenty of room for a sink and tables where many tasks may be performed away from the heat and confusion of the kitchen. Cost of Columbus’ Trip. Drawn-in Threads Bran Recipes. fails to A point of view too near the subject will always show a violent foreshort- enring of parts seen in perspective, es-‘ pecially if the View covers a wide‘ angle. If the camera is tilted, withâ€"‘ out making the correction that is to be obtained by the use of a swing; back, the vertical lines will be dis-' torted and, since they converge at the top, will create the impression thati the building is falling over backward, a defect frequently to be noticed in handâ€"camera snapshots. When a cam- era that has no swing adjustment is used distortion of that kind can be, prevented only by holding the insti'u-l mend: level when you make the ex-i posure, since the convergence of thel parallel vertical lines is caused by theiI fact that the sensitive plate or filmi is not parallel with the plane of the If there are deeply recessed pot-i tions, such as the side of a building1 under a wide veranda, it is sometimes difficult to get good detail in the shadows in a photograph taken im very bright sunshine, because thel contrast between the shadows and the‘ parts of the picture in the sunlight isf so great. In such a. case asflhat thebest way is to take the picture on 3} day when the lighting is softened byl haze or clouds. rays will slant across the surface of the building and bring out, by the high lights and the Shadows cast, all the details of projecting portionsl If two sides at right angles to each other are to be shown, the perspective ef- fect is much improved by choosing a time when one side is in shadow and the other in sunlight. me pUI‘C‘n anu doorway of a private‘ house, or a perspective view of a long veranda, sometimes has a more inti- mate, homelike quality than a picture of the whole house. The possibilities of such less formal architectural bits should not be overlooked. Having chosen your point of View, the next thing to determine is the. time of day when you cam get the, most pleasing effect of light and shadow. When all the parts are fully,! lighted, as is the case when the sun' is behind the observer, the effect will be flat and the detail poorly defined; but when the sun is at one side its rays will slant across the surface of‘ the building and bring out, by the; Since the character of the subjects as well as the strength of the light- ing varies so much, it is impossible to give accurate figures for exposure, but when you photograph a building of ordinary size you will be safe in allowing the same time as you would give to a landscape with a medium- (lark foreground, under similm'work- ing conditions of light, lens aperture, and so forth; and for close-up studies that show dark shadows you should give twice as much time unless the greater portion of the subject consists of a white surface in sunlight. In any case, you will need a full exposure to render properly the details in thei shadows. ' l Details, such as the facades and en- trances of public buildings, usually furnish good material; and a study of the porch and doorway of a private house, or a perspective view of a long veranda, sometimes has a more inti- mate, homelike quality than a picture of the whole house. The possibilities of such less formal architectural bits should not be overlooked. a vista of an attractive porbiom of the building beyond. If there afe trees near by, fire phétoZ grapher can often include them in such a way as to make them frame It is by no means mammary al- ways to show the whole of a building to give a. good idea of ibs character. In. fact, it is often better not to do it if u is impossible’ to include the whole from a good point of View, or if a typical portion can be singled out. The first thing is to find the point from which you can make the most attractive picture. The least desir- able position is one directly in front of a' building; avoid it if you cam. A position a little at one side is far bet- ter, foa- it gives perspective and over- comes the mechanically symmetrical aspect that a. full from: View presents. Whether you wish to photograph a famous building or a simple farmhouse, there is room for taste and skill in bringing out the character of the stub- ject 'in an effective and pleasing way. How to Photograph Buildings and the worst is yet to come He who watches the rear cannot safely guide his car. I The child who is allowed to choose ’what be m eat is very apt to be .undemourished. .Fix his plate dain- Itfly and put it before him, with the 5things he shouki eat upon it, and if {he never hears about preferences he will probabEy never make any. If newspaper advertising will do this for the manufacturer of a single item selling for the small cost of five cents how much more can it do for the local purveyors of general merchan- dise who are selling many items. some of them running into hundreds of dol- lars on a single sale? sanitary factor} doubled in size Wrigley’s chewing gum has started its fourteenth year of advertising in the Canadian newspapers. When they be- gan very few people used chewing gum. To-day, few people do not get the yu'oasuré and benefit of using Wrigley’s “after every meal." Regular consistent newspaper ad- vertising convinced the Canadian pub- lic that Wrigley's is good and good Because of the various colors that yau will meet with, such as red brick, brown stone, and the tints of sky and foliage, you shoul‘ use ortho- chl‘omatic plates; the doubleâ€"coated, nonhalation kind is the best. Newspaper Advertising Pays Dividends to Wrigley The best way to get good pthiotc» graphs of that kind is to use a plate camem'a pmvided with a swing- back amd a rising front, and to use it on a tripod. The proper way to handle such an instrument is to arrange the subject or; the focusing- screen, so as to include as much as you want of the upper portion of the building by rais- ing the lems front. If that does not prove to be sufficient, tilt the camera until the image is correctly placed, then move the swing adjustment until the back is again in a vertical posi- tion. You will have to refocus, beâ€" cause the axisof the lens is I110 longer at right angles to the sru'm‘faoe of the; plate, a'hsd to make up for the un- evenness of definition thus occasioned the image should be sharply focused in the centre of the field with .the lens Wide open and the aperture gradually reduced until the entire image is sharp. subject. of course the top of a tall Ibu‘il’dlflnlg cannot be ‘flliown mi'thourb pointing the lens upward, but the convergence can be reduced to the minimum ‘by choosing as distant a poinrt of view as possible; and if the camera has a rising from, raising fibre lems as far as it will go will make it pogsribbe to Show more of the upper part at! the subject Without tilting the camena. so much. It has built the modern factory at Torontoâ€"recently Iar fa which years. after the signs of the Zodiac, and changed their numbgr to twelve. Since the thirteenth month: was wiped out, any thirteenth thing was regarded as doomed to sufier a. simi- lar fate, and so a superstition arose which has lasted for thousands of Twelve was the most desirable num- ber among the ancients, for a variety of reasons, the chief of which was that title Zodiac contains twelve signs. They used to reckon the year by _1unar monthsâ€"the word "month" means a moon~cycleâ€"â€"of which there are thir- teen in tfinee hundred and sixty-five days. Later they called the months after the signs of the Zodiac, and changed their number to twelve. Since the thirteenth mount. was Some people hold that our objection to sitting thirteen at table has a. connection with the Last Supper. This may be true, but the superstitions ak- taohing to the number dates back far beyond the Christian era. But the- fact remains that if she had. in sinking, a clear, unobstructed course, the Titanic would reach the llawe-st depths of the ocean as surely as a pound weight would reach the bottom 'of a pat] of water. Therefore, there was nothing to pre- vent the Titanic sinking not only to the comparatively shallow bottom of that part of the Atlantic where the fearful collision with the iceberg on curred, but also to the bottmn of, say, that abysmal “deep” which is to be found some forty miles nor-Uh of the Philippines, 21 “deep” with a depth of over six miles‘ It should be home in mind that in these remarks no account is taken of the possibility of the Titanic having had its downward progress arrested by a jutting rock or submerged pla‘ teau. As a fact, however. water is only very slightly co‘mpmessible indeed. Even in those gréat “deeps” of the ocean the water,_volume for volume. is but little lheavier than that at the surface. v The Titanic “Mystery.” Regularly as the anniversary (April 14th, 1912) of the disaster of the Ti- tanic comes round, the old belief is re vivetl that the ill-fated vessel never reached the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. but remained suspemked some where about What is popularly des~ cribed as “midâ€"waters." Of course, there is not the slightest ground for such a belief. The idea un- derlying it seems to be that the water it so dense at a great depth, that a sunken vessel goes so far down. and, on reaching this: denser layer of water, can a-l-nvk no farther. You can get these pil-ls through any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Bro‘ckville, Ont. sciatic nerve is called sciatica. but the character of the pain and the nature ct the disease is the some. The cause is the same, and the remedy to be effective. must be the same. The pain of neuralgia, whether it takes the form of sciatica, or whether it affects the face and head, is caused by starved nerves. The blood. which nor~ mally carries nourishment to the nerves, for some reason no longer does so and the excruciating pain you feel is the cry of the nerves for food. The reason why the blood fails to properly nourish the nerves is usually because the blood itself is weak and thin. When you build up the thin blood with Dr, Williams' Pink Pins, you are attacking neuralgia, sciatica and him dred diseases at the root. The value of these pills in cases of this kind i: shown by the experience of Miss Beu- lah M. Fairweather, Cumberland Buy, N.S., who says: "A few years agq following an attack of measles, I was left in a. badly run down condition. l was weak and very nervous, and had no appetite. A doctor was called in and gave me medicine, but it did not help me. My blood was thin and my hands and my feet were always cth Then to add to my misery I was at tacked with neuralgia, from which i suffered greatly. I was reduced to a mere skeleton, and did not care whether I lived or not. I was in thix deplorable condition when I began tan lug Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. It was some time betore I could notice any benefit trorn the pills, but before a halt a dozen boxes were used there WM no doubt that they were helping me, Then I got six more boxes, and befort they were done, I was once more on joLylng good heal-till and am now strong and healthy. I shall always feel grate- ful for What the pills have done for me, and urge all weak people to give them a. trial." ' i NEURAWA names are giv certain nerVes in the effect tau used by Starved Nerves Due to Weak, Watery Blood. ople think of .e head or {ac Fatal Thirteen. le think of neuralgia as a mad or face, but neuralgia 11y nerve of me body. Dim AND SQEATECA L to it when it affects Thus neuralgia. of the :alled sciatica. but the ‘ pain and the nature the same. The cause pain may went