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A mitten with thick palms is ex- cellent for lifting and carrying out ash pans, for the handles of these meptacis often have a way of being very hot and uncomfortable when taken directly from the stove. They A mitten makes an ideal oven holder; make it long so as to protect the wrist and arm from the heat if short-sleeved work dresses are habit- vally worn. A number of household tasks are[ more pleasantly and quickly done if the hand is slipped into a suitable mitten before commencing the work. 01' course the mitten should be kept in a convenient place. i From old flannel stitch up two mit-, tens, preferably having thumbs. Slip‘ these on when polishing the silver and see how much quicker and easier the not always welcome work goes than‘ when the polishing flannel is held in the hand. I Rule 6 is about bathing. In winter, take not less than two warm baths ‘a week; in summer, one every day, before retiring. If you are not sleep- ing well, fill the tub with water at 102 deg. F., get in for two minutes, then let it cool to 93 deg. and stay in half an hour. This rarely fails to induce sleep. Every night, strip ofl‘ your clothesâ€" in a. warm room, of courschand rub the body vigorously all over with a rough Turkish towel. It stimulates the blocd, frees the pores of collected matter and helps to make the com- plexion fresh and clear. ~ These are the rules for health, fol- low them, and see how much prettier you’ll look! The soaps, creams and lotions which best suit you,‘must not be overlooked. Toothpaste, talcum powder, and such other aid to the toilet as are required for your own particular needs will add to your comfort and appearance, but the foundation of all good looks is good health. Rule 5. Sleep eight hours at night, and if quite run down, two extra hours in the afternoon. Always sleep with the windows wide open. Rule 4. Take plenty of outdoor ex- ercise. Gardening is a wonderful help, so you can begin your home treatment when you get ready to start your next summer’s garden. Take walks in the open, climb hills. Rule 3. Knead the abdomen, if the bowels are sluggish, in order to stim- ulate their action. Rule 2. Eat health-giving foods. Fresh fruits, cooked fruits, graham bread, rice, oatmeal, potatoes, cauli- flower, carrots, greens and other fresh vegetables, salads, nuts, buttermilk, sweet milk, cream, eggs, bread, butter, broths, and meats which are roasted, broiled or stewed, not fried. These foods are listed with the most im- portant ones first. Such a diet will make the elimination of the body nor- mal, and perhaps make Rule 3 un- necessary. Refuse to worry. That’s Rule 1, the most important and the hardest. If you are too nervous to be able to control your mind, follow the rest of ,the treatment and the worries will seem less important as you feel bet- ter able to cope with them. Practice the following rules if you would have both good health and good looks: Many people claim that happiness is the greatest beautifier, and while I would not dispute its effect, I know that sometimes a sad face can be very beautiful. But admiration for “an interesting pallor” went out of style years ago. We now admire the glow of health, the natural glow, not that which is applied by a hare’s foot and a lipstick. Undoubtedly good health, cleanli- ness and happiness are the greatest beautifiers. We can not always attain all three, but as long as water and plain food are available, we can have the cleanliness of body (within and without) which is so necessary for good health. Good health is usually dependent on good habits, and so is by no means unattainable, while hap- piness is partly habit, partly depen- dent on good health, and can some- times be cultivated. These beautifiers must be supplemented by good sense, and that is a quality which none dare ignore. exne: furl? pupils receive EM! 3 monthly allowa éqming ewes; Allied otters THE GREATEST BEAUTI FIERS. MITTENS FOR HOUSEWORK Toronto Hospital for Incur- in__aml>latrlon with Bellevue and NURSES About the Hausa ISSU E No. 50â€"‘23. fluci'tion nurses. itals. New York City. a years‘ Course of Train- ; women. having the re. tion. and deslrous of be~ :cs. This Hosvltal has eight-hour system. The 9 uniforms of me School. .llowance and travelling md from New York. For 3M on apply to the l 4294. No school girl’s wardrobe is lcomplete without several middy Iblouses, and no garment is quite as ,comfortable. In drill, Indian head, flannel, khaki, linen and silk, this ‘ style will be very pleasing. The blouse may be finished with straight lower : edge, or with the now so popular “hip lband.” The plaited skirt is to be finished with a band or joined to an i under-waist. The Pattern is cut in 5 Sizes: 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. A 10-year size requires 2% yards for the blouse, and 1% yard for the skirt, of 36-inch material. About 500 species of plants are be very thin and finger-t carnivorous. Through modifiedleavesiceedingly painful. Tl they imprison their prey, which is growth gives the impres subsequently digested and absorbed. dent over the “moon” 0 Sundew, flytraps, pitcher-plants, â€"â€"â€"â€"¢-â€"â€" bladderworts, and butterworfs are There is no problem among the chief animal-eating plants. gence can't solve. A device that, can be carried in a tool kit and attached with a wrench has been invented to make an emerâ€" gency repair to a broken automobile axle. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 15c in silver or stamps, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. Allow two weeks for receipt of pattern. Now this plan of occupation not only kept her happy and interested but really instructed her in all the branches of household art. Realizing its possibilities, I am planning to make this form of play into a real developmentâ€"Alice A. Keen. She agreed readily and was eager to begin. So on Monday she washed out a few small pieces I gave her and ironed them on Tuesday. Wednesday she went to see a friend. For her Thursday’s sewing I cut out a square of lawn and showed her how to hem it nicely for a handkerchief, her first real lesson in needlecraft. Friday she helped me about my cleaning, really helped, and on Saturday, cooking day, I let her prepare a simple dish. On Sunday she went to Sunday school. Then she was anxious to begin the week all ‘o'ver again. EACH DAY’S WORK. My little seven-year-old daughter has a set of those pictures showing cute little maids doing their work for each day. Once when Betty was won- dering what to do, I suggested that every day she do some of the work that was intended for that particular day; just as the little girls in the pic- tures were doing. The women of a club coined quite a little sum of money from their sur- prise pumpkins. They cut the tops off a number of rather large pumpkins and scooped out the inside until no- thing but a thin rind remained. These were neatly lined with waxed paper and dainty luncheons packed carefully in them, using ham and chicken sand- wiches, small cakes of difl‘erent kinds, pickles, salads. nuts, fruit and home- made candies. No two pumpkins con- tained exactly similar luncheons, and in eaeh was put a little trinket or a toy. The tops were attached to the shells by means of green ribbons run through holes. These pumpkins were auctioned off at booths made out of cornstalks, and lit up with jackâ€"o’- lanterns. Long tables were provided on which to eat their lunches, and sweet milk, buttermilk and lemonade were served. Lots of people in the towns near by patronized this auction. A mitten included in the stove- cleaning outfit will protect the hand when dusting or shining the stove. also protect the hand from the aslheg which are quite likely to prove um- tating to the skin. A POPULAR “MIDDY” STYLE. SURPRISE PUMPKINS. as of plants are :gh modified leaves r prey, which is If you have a dangerous illness 9. plain straight ridge will show itself across your nails. Some weeks elapse before it is visible. because the growth of the nail is afiected at the root. which is invisible. But when it does show it takes many months before it grows to the top. These marks may remain for years, and the more acute the illness. the more prominent are the ridges. “We have recovered for London a work of the twelfth century, for the Church of St. Bartholomew the Great is the oldest church in London, dat- ing as it does from AD. 1123, and it is twelfth century throughout. It is older than Westminster Abbey, The curious thing is that there are thous- ands of Londoners who have never heard of it. There are many polnts of interest there." in the the ha it the All serious diseases and accidents are recorded on your finger-tips. Break your wrist toâ€"day and it will probably be 1925 before the resultant ridges have vanished from your nails. In this case, however, only the nails 0! the broken arm are affected. The other hand remains normal. assume “In excavating the Cloisters we had to remove about seven feet of earth from the floor. This depth of earth was partly due to the fact that Lon- don increases a foot in every 100 years, through falling dust and other causes. It may not Increase so fast in the future owing to the greater ease in removing dust from the asphalt roads. In the city of London many of the old buildings have sunk from 16 to 18 feet below the surface since the Reformation; Bow Church is 16 to 18 feet below the surface of the road. acrm Mr. E. A. Webb, the antiquary, who has been connected with this work for 38 years, working in conjunction with his brother, Sir Aston Webb, presi- dent of the Royal Academy, and the actual architect of the work of restora- tion, mentioned some of the more re- cent facts. “The excavations in the east walk of the Cloister are now prac- tically finished," he said. “The last of the secular encroachments was re- moved when we bought the freehold of the stables which were in the cloister. There had also been a black- smith’s forge in the north transept, schools in the north triforlum, and a fringe factory in the Lady Chapel pro- jecting 17 feet into the church. The excavations in the Cloisters at the Church of St. Bartholomew the Great in West Smithfield, are now practically finished, and all that re- mains to be done is to restore the vaulting of the east Cloister, There, new, the barren stubble meets the eye, And there the end of harvest days Is told; But granaries are heaped both wide and high, As crucibles that catch the finer gold v So sun and rain have wrought thelr yearly task. Have given of their bitter and their sweet; The earth. that yields us freely when we ask, Has left her summer fruitage at our feet, And now the trees and fields have earned their rest And may we read the message that is sent; When we have done our all, and done our best, We, too, may told our arms and be content. The orchard trees are hare; their lac- ing limbs Trace webllke patterns on the gray- ing sky; The northern winds creep through like murmured hymns Or sober chant that softly rise and dieâ€" And yet the ruddy apples that they bore ' Have caught and held the sunshine: and they bring The moms and nights of June to us once more And all the blossom breath of early sprlng. The fields are still; where once the wheat and corn Laughed in the gladness of the summer noon, And waved saluting banners to the morn And whispered softly in a twilight croonâ€" Nerv The Crowning of the Year. London’s Oldest Church. Nails That Tell Tales. with sc acr that ii growth 1 aflect ght Canadian Exhibits Ready at Empire Fair by April 1. The Department of Trade and Com- merce has received a cable stating the Canadian building at the British Em- pire Exhibition, \Vembly Park, will be completed February lst, and the ex- hibits in place April lst. The Cana- dian building is much further ad- animals." Heâ€"“Gosh, yes! I had two of ’em out to dinner last night.” High blood pressure is a condition we hear much about these days. It may be due in part to the strenuous life one leads in these hectic times, but over-indulgence of one kind or another makes the condition worse. High blood pressure means several things: (1) That the heart is beating too strong- ly; (2) that the blood vessel walls are thickened and inelastic; (3) that the person is obese or overweight. It may be caused by any or all of these con- ditions. Nature provides blood vessels that are large enough and smooth enough for blood to flow through without much friction. Every time the heart beats, the vessels being elastic, stretch like a rubber tube. As age advances, â€"â€"AND THE WORST [S YET TO COME Stock and Seed Judging â€" Two weeks)â€"Jauuary 8th - 19th. Poultry Raising â€" (Four Weeks -â€"- January 8th - February 2nd. Horticulture Courses: Fruit and Vegetable Growing-Jan- nary 215t â€" February 2nd. Floriculture and Landscape Garden- ingâ€"Feb. 4th - Feb. 16th. J. B. REYNOLDS, MA President Cow Sheâ€""I hope you are kind to dumb curse wdlmgw Dr, Come to the Lectures, Demonstrations and Practices nDa arch 14th Ontario Agricultural College 1924 â€"â€" SHORT COURSES â€" 1924 H EA LTH EDUCATION Provincial Board of‘Health, Ontarlo Middleton will be glad to answer questions on Publlc Health mat- ters through this column. Address him at Spadina House, Spadina. Crescent, Toronto. Dairy C )r Fact BY DR. J. J. MIDDLETON Jan. 19th Testing, agement Director of Extension my be Able and at the ~‘ There is no medicine that can hope Ito effect a Lure of this disease. It de- ‘pends on the patient‘s habits and the )way he lives From day to day. ethe elasticity diminishes, the walls ‘thicken and the inside width of the 'tube gets less. In consequence, the blood flow in the tubes is under too much ressure. There is an instru‘ lment or measuring blood pressure. fSymptorns which suggest the need of lthis examination are dizziness. cold extremities, albumin in the urine, in Eritable heart. The treatment is to pre- ‘vent constipation, and live temperate- ly in eating, drinking and in all other ways, avoid over-excitement or stimu- Ilation and take \plenty of rest and asleep. In one of the cemeteries near Paris a small lamp was kept burning unden an urn over a grave, and an inscrip-K tion on the gravestone ran thus, when translated into English: “Here lies Pierre Victor Fournier, inventor of the Everlasting Lamp, which consumes only one centime's worth of oil in one hour. He was a good father, son and husband. His inconsolable widow continues his business in the Rue aux Trois. Goods sent to all parts of the city. Do not mistake the opposite shop for this.” vanced than any of the others. Much difficulty has been met through lack 0! facilities for transporting supplies and materials to the grounds. Labor costs have been greater than anticipated, but it was felt it would be more econ. omical to go ahead and secure early completion than to be at the mercy of employees toward the opening of the exhibition, when all buildings would be necessarily completed at any costs. Both Australia and New Zealand ad- mit that Canada has stolen a. march on them and secured greater results. and accountsâ€"Feb. 42. Feb. 16. Market Mllk, Including Mechanical Refrigerationâ€"Feb. 18 - March 1. Condensed and Powdered Milkâ€"â€" March 3rd - March 16th. Ice-Cream, Including Mechanical Refrigerationâ€"March 17 - Mar. 28 Creamery and Cheesemaking Course, including Mechanical Re- frigerationâ€"Mar. 24 - Mar. 28. frigeration- Bee Keeping uary 8th â€" L Dra The Everlasting Lamp. A. M. PORTER, B.S.A ion Regist 0‘0 -:-v