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l n .l: - i I ' of putting up and taking down stov 13nd the job of polishing stoves three with the best. or four times a season. And the fur-f gee being in the basement, when my. should be bored by listening to music l ‘ llctv 1 Lightened My Housework. i raised on a farm, and lived . W "a my parents until I wasftwenty- ‘091- years of age, always. doing my 1!. i‘L of farm work in the house and ’t“ of doors. But after I was mar- ..L'Avbou‘t the HOUSE: o"- l, and in a home of my own. the‘ #- ks seemed to be greater;_f01' every :3 b was to be done by me. And, ‘us '5': trig people starting our, \Ve‘tried to, makefand save. all we could, and I wuld getme"h?ousework 'all d’one'up ir order and help outside as much as 1 could. " In a few years I had two children, jand ’children surely do add to a moth- Ler’s work. I have always done all my ‘wn washing, ’ironing, and cooking, fixing the big dinners for eighteen or twenty men when our wheat 'was “meshed. Then as the winter months \ me on, and our school would start, i always boarded the teacher. Of ‘ se, this made extra work in cook- and washing and ironing, as I al- . ya did their work right in with ~ ine. I have often seen my housework all .io ‘be put in shape, about 150 little l i b n... 'trouble of cleaning and filling six or eight lamps every day done away with,«and all I have to do when I am ready for a light at night is to step to the wall, press the button, and have my nice, bright. electric light just like my neighbor in the city. i ' Our Clothing. The temperature of our bodies is regulated to some extent by the clothes We wear. .Ce'litaiii 'kinds of clothes prevent loss of heat more than others. Soft, clean woollen garments have the property of containing large amounts of still air enmeshed in their fibres. .This practically non-moving -‘air Fforiii-s a good non-conductor of heat. The amount of the body cover: ed, the number of layers of wool or similar woven cloth used, and the cleanliness of the clothing, influence the heat loss. Soiled clothing retains less still air, wet clothing retains al- most none. Heat loss in the last case is very great. Wet feet particularly should not be neglected, as they some times are. Gold, wet feethave-a di- rect predisposing influence upon the mcks to be turned (“gin Ehejr placetsifidevelopment of inflammation of the fed, and 35g®d_smed; garden m' air: passages (“catching cold"). 0 hoed out in the early morning, and " When it is warm We desire to in- thought that farm women were just: crease the heat loss. This is favored worked to death. ’ could-do all mywork and not have ' Work to hard, and accomplish more n the.‘ long run. hath and closets.~ These rooms were hanged so as to eliminate .a lot of , _We put a basement ’ 5Now 'I ‘ ave my. cannedfruit in there instead of the yard. “mace, and every room is heated the‘furnacé. This'saves methe work s-band builds the fires all the litter is in one place and I thus havempch by wearing loose garments, made of I kept flue up format ei.g,ht_yem-S,Lti_~ghtly wo‘ven nonâ€"air containing cot- hnd was thinking and planning anditfm mammal- “Ht-31,1 this time to fix a way where. and worn open around the meek and They should be clean 'upper chest. Moving sair striking the [upper-chest causes a feeling of well being and aids in the body regulation ‘ We' had .a house 'with only dour, .of,h°?1§ Produ‘ctun and heal 1055' looms, 3.0.,deoided, to build; I selected ' "(h‘p'lan I Lllad‘eight rooms, with; ; Cultivating Musical Taste. 1 The saying, f‘there is no accounting in a‘dirt house in‘th'e back partz 68‘ Let us see to it that they are familiar less sweeping to do. i MY IiVinfl'oroom in the 01d hrouse hadI test of years. In selecting music, re- tg be swept every time there was, member that just as the child’s body good brought‘in and a fire built, and, and mind develop through the various my living-mom stays cleaner Went three times a week than it did‘ when swept three times a day. This Was several steps saved. In this new house. my beds are up- } stairs, and I am crowded with extra ‘work on some mornings I can leave my fbed-nmking till in the afternoon. So with the new house and more room Jay work seemed to lighten consider- a’bl'sh . Then, in a few more years, my hus- band bought an electricalight plant, (1 installed it himself. This was a eat saving, as labor along that line very high. Now I have all the CARTOON Trainer John Bullâ€"“Now, my boy, don't rush things- J‘for -'tastes§” contains rather more falsehood than truth. Taste is very largely accounted forby habit. The child whose musical experience is lim- ited to trashy song's, accumpanied by an ill-tuned instrument, cannot be ex- In this basement W6 Put a hut-air; pected to‘ appreciate the fine music by artistically rendered. Children, even more than adults,‘ love the familiar. This does not mean that children which they are too undeveloped to enjoy. Let the younger ones sing the beautiful songs that have stood the stages through which the human race has passed, so his music taste will also tread in the footsteps of the race. Children are especially fond of the tones of the xylophone, flute, harp and violin, these instruments being direct descendants of p the first musical in- struments invented by our remote anâ€" cestors. Excellent phonograph re- cords of these instruments can be obtained. ’ Young children like simple melodies, strong nhyvthm, plenty of dramatic color and action. They enjoy the old dances, minuebs, gavottes, the lullaibies and the spirit- ed niarches of various nations. take the advice of an old handâ€"- i - orchestra, but do not fail to give them But shrieks in despair at the strength i And As children ' develop they win[ understandand enjoy rthe more comâ€" 1 plex and subtle music of‘a“ more ad- l ' {Vance-dag; Let them hear really fine muSic, let‘the‘m listen to somegreat in their own homes the Works of the masters, that these may have in later years the dear familiarity of long- lovod friend‘s. No parent, if-it is at all possible, can afford to miss the joy of playing to his children, but the} player-piano and phonograph, while they will not replace hand playing, are most powerful aids in cultivating mus- ical taste in children. Proper, Food. An engine depends upon steam for its driving power. We use food in~ stead of coal to obtain our energy. Working, breathing, thinking, keep- ing our bodies at the right temper- ature, eating, digesting our foodâ€"Jail require some of the energy we create each day. The maintenance of bodily warmthâ€"the kind of work We (loâ€"â€" the growth of the body and the repair of the worn tissue require foods of various kinds and of varying quanti- ties. Perfect nutrition depends upon 1' " an adequate supply of energy to the ' body in every kind of circumstance. ,- A variety of foods is desirable. Well i cooked foods served in clean, whole- some surnoundings aid proper diges- tion. The foods which should always be included in the meals of the day are: Butter, milk (properly pasteurized), yolk of eggs. or the essential containâ€" ed in them in a different form. Bread, spinach, or. other leafy vege- tables. Uncooked fresh fruit; some-uncook- ed vegetables, tomatoes, etc. Meats may be added, but are not as essential as it was at one time thought. Beans, peas, corn and other grains are more efficient power pro- viders than beets, carrots, \parsnips, ' and otherfiflbersmor roots. Grains, roots and meats will not by them- selves provide a sufficient diet. Cerâ€" tain‘ essentials contained in milk and its products, eggs and leafy vege- tables are indispensable and even suf- ficient if combined with frfih' fruits and bread. ‘ A substance thousands of times more valuable than gold, costing over two and a half million dollars an ounce, which cures diseases, yet is so dangerous that contact with it may most precious gift, and the discovery in the world. Mme. Currie, French scientist, dis- covered this wonderful metal twenty- six years ago. Radium looks like tooth powder, yet $10,000 worth could be held in a tiny tube. It is obtained from pitch~blende, a velvety black mineral which was looked upon as Waste once uranium had been extracted from it. In her search for fresh fields to conquer, Mme. Curie made an analysis of a ton of this “waste” and, upon separating all the minerals in it, dis- covered radium. The cost of radium is so high be- cause of the labor involved in produc- ing it. To get one gramme, 5,000 tons of one have to be hand-picked and sorted down to 500 tons, and this in turn has to be chemically treated to produce the tiny quantity of the pre- cious substance. In the last twenty-six years only six ounces of radium have been pro- duced. The principal radium mines are in Czechoâ€"Slovakia, which produce four grammes yearly, and in the Un- ited States, where the annual yield is thirty-five grammes. There are thousands of The Old Oaken Bucket. “Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet,” Weary farmwives stoop and dip, Rise, and make another trip. Sink a well and put in plumbing; Speed the day that’s coming When the bucket to the shore “Shall be liftedâ€"nevermore.” o o The North Wind. The South Wind is sleeping, The North, full of wrath. With his locks white with snow Which he shakes in his path, Fast over the mountains is hurrying south, And his breath flies before, Like a fog from his mouth. See! over the meadows all barren and bare, How the snow it falls thick as he shakes his white hair; And here on the mountain, and there on the plain, The trees are all clothed with white flowers again. uses The lake in the valley, the brook in the, field, ~ Are stirred with his wrath, and help- lessly yield. ' And o'er their firm surface li'e marches , in pride . And hangs his white cloak on the tall mountain side. but its great boon is the treatment of cancer and ulcers. Its tremendous heat Then over the billo’ws"1he rushes in radium- g 1‘66; of the sea: At the north he is Lord of the ocean and strand, But here his dominion is stopped with the land. Why has the familiardiminutire of- the christian name John been attached to so many things? There is the1 "Jack" of cards, the jack in the game! of bowls. the jack which is a piece of armor, the jack whichis a leather bot- tle, the jack which is a machine for lifting weights, and there is the Union ' Jack which is the pride of the great- He roars through the alleys, he storms at the locks, Ho shrieks down the chimney; each doorway he blocks; Them-up in the steeple, the great bell he shakes est Empire the sun ever shone upon! And laughs at the terror his wild rush But We are only beginning. There; awakee. is Jacka-dandy. who is Sllly coxcomb, and Now, over the graveyard he mournful- 1y goes, hides all solution, and Jackanapes, who is usâ€"b ually in these days on inipertirent lit- tle boy, and Jack-in-theâ€"Grcen, the M;in Day sweep, and Juck-of-all-timles, who. I the graves with the Whitest of snowsâ€" No one he neglects, be it pauper pr King. . though, turning his hand to anything, And whispers, “.Jie warm till the com- . EXCE‘1S in nothing. and Jack'Of-both- 1118 Of Spring." ' ’sides, who tries to run with the hare and hunt with the bounds, and Jack- in office, an upstart who presumes on his official position to give himself airs. Then .we say “Every mandack" when we mean everybody, and we say “Jack is as good as his master” when we mean the proletariat, and Jack Tar when Womean every seaman atloat,, â€"E. Frank Hayes. W5 The ordinary person’s lungs con-i tain 76,000,000 air cells. The ageâ€"old custom of the Japan- ese of sitting down on their folded‘ legs on a cushion or mattress is going out of fashion. All the sc sols are _ using chairs and benches of the West» and when u'tfgesza prdfiteer in his em style. Public gathering places now I Roms-Royce wé‘say “Jack will never have benches, even the Buddhist tcm- ' be 'a gentleman," and in saying it, we" pies, and in many families chairs and do real Jack an injustice. There is‘ tables are in regular use. , Cheap Jack. and Jack Ketch, and Jack-‘ .m'm WORST-IS YET scin in; History mean deathâ€"such is radium, nature's» done of the most remarkable womenl in burning out cancers. [with results that have since i l l l l I The problem was overcome by en-f .t.-. TO COME Wifâ€" of adium diseovery of the curative quality 01 radium. A professor carried a tube containing a little radium in his pockeg for three weeks and then discovere he had a bad burn on the skin. Sud<I denly the idea occurred to him that radiium Would be better than caustic It was tried, astonishq, ed the World. The difficulty in the use of radium! was that it might harm the healthy, as well as the diseased parts and per-i haps cause the patient’s death. closing the radium in a metal tube, about an eighth of_ an inch thick which! absorbs the tiny particles thrown off! by the substance and allows only the, invisible Xâ€"rays to pass. For the actual treatment a suffi-T cient num'berof tubes are wrapped upi in a surgical gauze or stuck into a‘ piece of dentist’s moulding-wax, so as to keep the tubes from direct con- tact with the skin, and the whole pack- age is strapped over the tumor, In treating some cancers, for instance in the tongue, it is difficult to keep the radium in place for the necessary number of hours, so another method is! used. Radium gives ofl" a gas which is col» lected in small steel or glass needlesi Those needles can be stuck into that tumors and left there as long as nec-i essary. The light of radium burns without‘ I replenishment for two thousand years i l I y i straw. and Jack Bra ' _ to: and during that period less than fifty which radqum can be put-in luminiz-1 per cent. will have decayed. ing watches, gunsights, and so onâ€"-' Since i is shooting of small particles, What becomes of radium after its fire h s died out? This magic stone of the, provides this curative power. The: scientists changes from the most Costâ€"l metal shoots out thousands upon thouâ€"f ly metal into the bases‘tâ€"â€"it becomesl sands of particles 8. second, but these} lead! are so small that in hundreds of years? hardly any change is noticeable in the V der, freeze it and melt it, but J these operations It was an accident that led to theE slightest degree with its activity. We can hammer radium into pow-. none of interferes in th _ g. and Jack Frost. In the favorite fairy tales there is “Jack and the Beanstock," who is al-l ways in evidence in pantomimes, and‘. “Jack and Jill,” which the learned in( these matters say represents in the form of a nursery rhyme the complete 1 fusion of Saxon and Norman, and "Jack the Giant Killer" who had the invisible coat. the cap oi oi dom, the show of speed, and the all-conquering sword and Jack Horne: who er," “sat in a corn. and "The House that Jack Built,‘ Jack Sprat who could not eat fat, and Jack-aâ€"dreams, as Hamlet calls } and Jackâ€"inâ€"the box, which is a child.s himself, a man of inaction and irre-itoy, There is, too. the term Jack-ass, sometimes applied to an animal and sometimes to a human, and Jack-hare, and Boot-jack, and Jack-(law, and Jack- 'boots, and Jackâ€"plane, and Jack-towel, and last, but not least, there is Jack Robinsonâ€"the volatile gentleman who is gone before you can pronounce his name! â€"-â€"â€"~â€"«:~â€"â€"- A thickness of nine feet of vegeta- tion is required to m-akevone foot of coal. {EM-“MW Any coward can fight a battle hvhbn hu's sure of winning; but give 11123 tie man who has pluck ’ ‘to' fight when he's sure of 105- , ing.»George Elliott. _ â€"_ . 24......M.‘