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soft gray of th may be used to lar color sche evergreen or, if with artificial bouquet fit to 5 home. In many local everlasting grow sue 1s wuung to go to a little trouble. Whereas the city sister must go out and buy hers, the country woman may find material to make as attractive ones in the woods and hedgerows. One of the prettiest I ever saw was made of the common milkweed. After the pod has shed its seed, or is about to do so, the plant should. be cut, takm ing mostof the stalk, which afterwardj may be discarded if found'too long.) The plants should then be hung, heads? downward, in a cool dark place to dry. When “the last. I‘OSC 0f summer is: WINTER BOUQUETS. Even though Mrs. Farmer neglected to plant her everlastings, or straw flowers, last spring. she need not have to go without her winter bouquet if she is willing to go to a little trouble. on a man’s ambition so much as desir- ing to get the best for those he loves. I want my son to marry because I love my sex, and I want to present to some girl the best gift on earthâ€"a good husband.” “And so, while he is young and cap- able of loving and inspiring love, I de- sire to see him marry. Nothing brings out all that is best and strongest in a man as does having a Wife and chilâ€" dren dependent on him. Nothing spurs “My son loves me. We are unusual- ly companionable. I am an old and experienced housekeeper. Doubtless I make him far more comfortable than his young wife will. But I am not foolish enough to think that my home is really home for him, or that a mother’s love takes the place of a wife’s love. than a fiend if I kept him from the sweetness of a wife’s love and com- panionship, and the joy of feeling his baby’s arms about his neck. “And I’ve known more than one whining old woman who kept a bach- elor son dancing attendance upon her, and who told you how it would have killed her for her son to marry; how She made him promise he would never leave her; how she broke off a love, affair that he had in his youth, and how she knew he was so much hap- pier With her than he would have been with a‘wife, because no wife would have been as particular about cooking him the things he wanted as she was. “Personally, I feel that I could do no more wicked thing than keep my son from marrying. He is, to begin with,_a born family man, the sort ofl man who could never be happy living in clubs, playing cards, and listening to men’s gossip for a lifetime. He must have his own home, his own Wife and children, and I would be worse “I know there are mothers who think that their children belong to them body and soul, and that they have a perfect right to exact any sac- rifice of them. I have known talented Women who have been balked in their ambitions by tyrannical and exacting mothers, and I have seen prettfgirls grow into faded old maids nursing neurotic mothers who would not em- ploy an attendant. “Nonsénsé,” replied the mother. “I did my duty to my child, but am I a female Shylock to exact a pound of flesh in payment for having taken care of him while he was young and helpless? “You went without everything your- self, but your boy was always fed and clothed, and by hook or crook you put him through school. Now he forsakes you for a pretty girl. I say his duty is to you. He has no right to marry as long _as you live." “Children are ungrateful creatures,” said the first woman, bitterly. “We spend our lives toiling and sacrificing for them, and as soon as they are big enough they leave us. I remember when your husband died, we wondered how you would get along. Well, you did, by working your fingers to the bone. “Willing and glad," replied the mother, “for I want my son to be happy." “What!” c}ied the first woman. “Do you mean to tell me that you are will- ing to give up your only child to an- other woman ?” The mother laughed. “I am not an object of pity,” she said; “I am a sub- jec‘tfifor congratulation.” “My dear," said one woman to an- Other, “I hear your son is going to be married. Your poor heart must be broken.” THE SECRET OF TRUE MOTHER- LOVE. nany localities a plant known as sting grows wild. This may be in the same manner as milk- al'nd, ‘when the time comes to HOT About the House if that ' 1 green grace : ter c part of the summer ’11 When Mary Antin was a little girl in Russia she was sent by her mother Who kept a shop to deliver a package .of tea to a customer. It was her first limportant: errandâ€"so we learn from . her autobiography, which the Atlantic Monthly printsâ€"and, like most chilâ€" dren irI shch cir. filled with a sens Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 15c in silver or stamps, ‘ny the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Allow two weeks for receipt of patterns. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small, 34-36; Medium, 38-40; Large, 42-44; Extra Large, 46-48 inches bust meas- ure. A Medium size requires 4% yards of 36â€"inch material. 4030. Percale with facings of linen is here depicted. Black sateen w1th cretonne would be attractive, as would also crepe with trimming of a con- trasting color or with rick rack for a finish. “THERE IS NO Do not neglect to gather an armful of pussy willows or catkins next spring. Dried before they become too ripe, they will keep several seasons, if a new supply is not to be had. The cat-tail, which grows profusely in marshy places, is another good one. It must be cut before fully ripe to in- sure against its shedding, and died according to the rule for the others. A, coat of clear varnish or shellac is further guarantee against shedding; and detracts nothing from its attrac- tiveness. with green. The blossoms are small, borne in clusters, and if dyed blue re- semble thé fringed gentian or wild aster of summer time. make the bouquet, may be dipped in a solution of good dye to make it any desired shade. Dry again and combine AND THE WORST IS YE T TO COME A NEAT AND SERVICEABLE APRON. CouN 7y "'B-NW CA» Recess , which the Atlantic md, like most chilâ€" lmstances, she was of her dignity and WORSE TEA.” Au'vnqkmns MU 51' SAVE _ “When a rough voice cried, ‘Shoot . not, hoy! Ho, shoot not, Edward, ’tis a. boy!" Thomas Campbell, who wrote such "fine things as “Ye Mariners of Eng- land” and “The Battle of the Baltic," lperpetrated an awful line on one oc- casion. Here is the full verse. The first two lines will pass: “One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbeped years of pain; Such was the thl‘ob and the mutual sob 0f the knight embracing Jane.” This is almost as bad as James Thompson’s historic line: “0 Sovphon- is‘ba! Sop-houisba, O!" or Browning’s ldreadful line: “HK5 care the cropful ; bird." At. the time of the armistice 100,000 Belgian houses had been destroyed or rendered uninhabitable. Of these, 71,- 383 have now been rebuilt and re- stored and made serviceable. hand.” But pnobably the prize for a bad line would have been awarded to Sir Wa'l- t‘er Scott, who wrote: “When a rough voice cried, ‘Shoot It is said that even Homer descend- ed occasionally to plain prose in the middle of great poetry, and there is not a poet who has not followed his example. Tennyson came a cropper when he began a poem with the imâ€" mortal line:â€" “I stood on a tower in the wet.” ‘Vordswonth, although one of the greatest of English poets, wrote a lot of prosly stuff. He was responsible for many lines like the following: .“The taller followed with his hat in As the candles had to be lighted, the wax would run down and mingle with the frosting, and this would not do at all. Having some marshmallows in the house, I used these for holders, and they answered the purpose very well. With cake coloring I marked the face on _each marshmallow, placing the candle in the mouth, much to the amusement of my little sonâ€"Mrs. HOLDERS FOR BIRTHDAY CANDLES.- I am anxious to tell the readers of my recent discovery. Perhaps some of you have made a similar one. Last Thursday was my little son, Jerry’s, seventh birthday. To hold the family custom, he must have a birthday cake with candles. When I came to make the cake I found I had the candles but no candle holders. Nothing in my life ever hurt me more than the woman’s answer to my argument. She laughed; she simply laughed. But even before she had con- trolled herself sufficiently to talk I understood that I had spoken like a fool and had lost for my mother a customer. importance. As it proved she was more dignified than diplomatic. It was, she writes, a good-sized ex- pedition for me to make alone, and I lwas not a little pleased with myself when I delivered my package of tea safe and intact into the hands of my customer. But the customer was not pleased at all. She sniffed and sniffed; she‘ pinched the tea; she shook it all out on a table. “Na, take it back,” she said in disgust; “this is not the tea I always buy. It’s a poorer quality.” I knew that the woman was mis- taken. So I spoke up manfully. “Oh, no,” I said; “ this is the tea my mother always sends you. There is no worse tea.” Poets at Their Worst. Building Up CouNT Have you ever wondered how many books there are in existence? On the average, two hundred thousand vol- umes are published each year through- out the world, and, as- eight and a half million books appeared last cen- tury, one can obtain a fairly good idea of the size of the world’s book-:hop. Adding together the number of vol- umes published in each century since printing was invented, the astonishing' total of sixty millions is reached. The amount of energy, time, paper, and printer’s ink which have gone to pro- duce all these books is incalculahle. The action of the mineral on the human tissues was quite unknown and unsuspected until one day Professor Becquerel, a. famous French scientist, incautiously put a tube of radium in his waistcoat pocket. Fourteen days afterwards he noticed on his skin a sort of rash, which quick- 1y developed into inflammation of the affected part. Experiments were car- ried out, with the result that radium One of the strangest. chapters in the history of the miracle mine‘ral, as rad- lum has been célled, is the story of how it came to play its great part In the treatment of disease. Seen in the dark a speck of radium glows fiercely enough to be visible yards away, and it glows for years at the same intensity. Radium has been tested in liquid air, far below freezing point, and in super-heated furnaces, without in any way being affected by these extremes of temperature. An- other littleknown fact is that it throws off enough heat to bring its own weight of water to boilingâ€"point every hour for two or three thousand years! One of the results of the new cam< paign against cancer will be that we shall learn much more of the nature and possibilities of radium, the mys- terious mineral discovered twenty-five years ago by M. and Mme. Curie. Comparatively few people have seen radium, and possibly fewer still would recognize it at sight. Radium is usual- ly kept in a special kind of glass tube, in which are fixed a tiny screen, a piece of talc, and a minute magnify- ing glass. The radium rests on the tale, and looks like a tiny yellow smear no bigger than an ordinary full- stop. A speck of radium this size may be worth anything up to $75,000. ; The World’s Book-Shop. great many of each worth mo Mineral That Works Mimics the ations In conversation with the writer, Sir William Bragg, of London University. stated that there are reasons for be lieving that large deposits of radium- bearing ore exist deep in the earth in hitherto unexplored parts of the world. and that these supplies may soon be tapped. At present the price of NHL ium is roughly $1,000,000 an ounce. Up to the time or M. and Mme. Curle'e discovery, pitch-blende, the jet black mineral in which radium is found, was regarded as being almost valueless. One mining company in the United Kingdom actually paid large sums to have the residue of its pitch-blend supplies, from which an- other mineral has been extracted, carted away to the destructor. It was estimated that the firm In question lost nearly $100,000 in radium. Some of the most promising de~ posits of radium-beaming ores have lately given out, leading to a search, so far not very encouraging, In other parts of the world. Canada and South America, as well as Russrla, Portugal, and Cuba, have been scoured for sup- plies, with a success far short of ex- pe‘ctations. Many striking cures have been 6!- fected. Ulcerous growths disappear before the rays, while such diseases as gout, rheumatism, neurasthenia, and affections of the joints are dis- persed with equal certainty. Radium rays transform weak body cells into strong, vigorous ones, which not only resist disease, but help the whole con»- stitution to resist it. One question that is exercising the minds of scientists just now is wheth- er there will be a radium famine. rays, of which there are several varie- ties, opened up a. new era in medical practice. Do you keep a scrapbook?” No, my husband and I try to get 11;: Without fighting” Do not put Rinso direct from the package into the tub. Mix half a package of Rinso in a little cool water until it is like cream. Then add two quarts of boiling water, and when the froth sub. sides. you will have a clean amber-coloured liquid. Add this liquid to the wash tub. until you get the big lasting Rinso suds. Then soak the clothes clean. Progress in Alaska R i n s 0 liquid first Make the g reat S'tr. the supervision Stat Kan at Eskl‘ xty